While everyone knows you can't fight City Hall, there are those who, for whatever reason, can't resist the challenge. Three slightly disturbed psychiatric patients decide to take on the government. What ensues includes car chases, a ferry boat hijacking, strip-teases and lots of fun!

The Day of the Locust

1975

English

6.9

♡ 11

63%

75%

Action

actress

based on novel or book

John Schlesinger Director

Billy Barty as Abe

David Ladd as Apprentice

Paul Stewart as Helverston

Norman Leavitt as Mr. Odlesh

Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with his neighbor Faye Greener, an aspiring actress who prefers the life that Homer Simpson, a lone accountant, can offer her.

The Cobweb

1955

English

6.3

♡ 3

67%

Vincente Minnelli Director

Paul Stewart as Dr. Otto Wolff

Kay E. Kuter as Patient

Marjorie Bennett as Sadie

Susan Strasberg as Sue Brett

Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes – but drapes are the least of their problems.

Edge of Doom

1950

English

6.3

♡ 3

28%

Mark Robson Director

Douglas Fowley as 2nd Detective

Paul Stewart as Mr. Craig

Ellen Corby as Mrs. Jeanette Moore

Jean Inness as Mrs. Lally

A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues.

Champion

1949

English

7.3

♡ 4

94%

woman between two men

Mark Robson Director

Paul Dubov as Gangster

Marilyn Maxwell as Grace

Paul Stewart as Haley

Forbes Murray as Speaker at Benefit

An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.

Loan Shark

1952

English

6.4

♡ 1

15%

Seymour Friedman Director

George Raft as Joe Gargen

Paul Stewart as Lou Donelli

John Roy as Police Officer

Lawrence Dobkin as Walter Kerr

A vicious loan shark ring has been preying on factory workers. When several workers at a tire factory suffer violence at the hands of the loan sharkers, a union leader and the factory owner try to recruit ex-con Joe Gargan to infiltrate to the gang. At first Joe does not want to get involved, but changes his mind when his brother-in-law dies at the hands of a savage loan shark hood. Joe works his way into the mob, but in order to keep his cover, Joe can't tell anyone what he is up to. This results in him being disowned by his sister and girl friend.

Tempest

1982

English

6.4

♡ 20

55%

73%

Action

architect

based on play or musical

shakespeare in modern dress

Paul Mazursky Director

Susan Sarandon as Aretha Tomalin

Cynthia Harris as Cynthia

Raul Julia as Kalibanos

Paul Stewart as Phillip's Father

A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in for a spiritual exile on a remote Greek island where he hopes to conjure meaning into his life - trying the patience of his new girlfriend and angst-ridden teenage daughter.

Chicago Syndicate

1955

English

6.5

♡ 3

29%

Fred F. Sears Director

Paul Stewart as Arnold 'Arnie' Valent

Abbe Lane as Connie Peters

William Challee as Dolan - a Thug

Carl Sklover as Reporter on Murder Scene

An ex-military accountant is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the mob in Chicago in an attempt to break open the rackets. To complicate his job, two women stand in his way, each with their own agenda.

The Window

1949

English

7.4

♡ 10

100%

parent child relationship

police

Thriller

Ted Tetzlaff Director

Arthur Kennedy as Ed Woodry

Paul Stewart as Joe Kellerson

Richard Benedict as Murdered Seaman

Bobby Driscoll as Tommy

An imaginative boy who frequently makes things up witnesses a murder, but can't get his parents or the police to believe him. The only people taking him seriously are the killers - who live upstairs, know that he saw what they did, and are out to permanently silence him.

The Bad and the Beautiful

1952

English

7.7

♡ 19

80%

Vincente Minnelli Director

Barbara Billingsley as Evelyn Lucien - Costumer

Gloria Grahame as Rosemary

Paul Stewart as Syd

Ned Glass as Wardrobe Man

Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.

A Child Is Waiting

1963

English

7.2

♡ 13

92%

John Cassavetes Director

Butch Patrick as Boy Playing Football

Paul Stewart as Goodman

John Marley as Holland

Barbara Pepper as Miss Brown

Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for intellectually disabled children. Jean Hansen, a former music teacher anxious to give her life some meaning, joins the staff of the hospital. Jean, who tries to shelter the children with her love, suspiciously regards Dr. Clark's stern training methods. She becomes emotionally involved with 12-year-old Reuben Widdicombe, who has been abandoned by his divorced parents.

Not One Shall Die

5.3

David Lowell Rich Director

Abraham Sofaer as David Lessing

Frank DeKova as Egyptian official

Paul Stewart as Kellerman

Agnes Moorehead as Mrs. Lessing

A short film by the United Jewish Appeal, directed by David Lowell Rich and starring Guy Madison, Felicia Farr and Agnes Moorehead, made by the core crew of many Columbia noirs, including cinematographer Burnett Guffey, art director Cary Odell, editor Al Clark, set decorator Frank Tuttle, and composer Morris Stoloff.

F for Fake

1973

French

7.7

♡ 18

88%

Orson Welles Director

Laurence Harvey as Himself

Don Ameche as Himself

Paul Stewart as Himself - Special Participant

Joseph Cotten as Himself - Special Participant

Documents the lives of infamous fakers Elmyr de Hory and Clifford Irving. De Hory, who later committed suicide to avoid more prison time, made his name by selling forged works of art by painters like Picasso and Matisse. Irving was infamous for writing a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes. Welles moves between documentary and fiction as he examines the fundamental elements of fraud and the people who commit fraud at the expense of others.

Opening Night

1977

English

7.8

♡ 14

96%

John Cassavetes Director

Paul Stewart as David Samuels

Zohra Lampert as Dorothy Victor

Peter Falk as Peter Falk

Seymour Cassel as Seymour Cassel

Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her latest play, concerning a woman distraught about aging. One night a car kills one of Myrtle's fans who is chasing her limousine in an attempt to get the star's attention. Myrtle internalizes the accident and goes on a spiritual quest, but fails to finds the answers she is after. As opening night inches closer and closer, fragile Myrtle must find a way to make the show go on.

Appointment with Danger

1950

English

6.5

♡ 1

Lewis Allen Director

Jan Sterling as Dodie

Paul Stewart as Earl Boettiger

Murray Alper as Goddard's Taxi Driver

Frank Hagney as Motorcycle Cop

Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered a U.S. postal detective.

Revenge of the Pink Panther

1978

English

6.6

♡ 57

84%

Blake Edwards Director

Aileen Lewis as Attendee at Clouseau's Memorial Service

Michael Bell as Claude Russo

John G. Heller as Douvier's Boardmember

Paul Stewart as Julio Scallini

Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles Dreyfus—believe when a dead body is discovered in Clouseau's car after being shot off the road. Naturally, Clouseau knows differently and, taking advantage of not being alive, sets out to discover why an attempt was made on his life.

S.O.B.

1981

English

6.4

♡ 9

81%

Blake Edwards Director

Rosanna Arquette as Babs

John Pleshette as Capitol Studios Vice-President

Richard Mulligan as Felix Farmer

Paul Stewart as Harry Sandler

A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.

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Edge of Doom

Champion

Loan Shark

Tempest

Chicago Syndicate

The Window

The Bad and the Beautiful

A Child Is Waiting

Not One Shall Die

F for Fake

Opening Night

Appointment with Danger

Revenge of the Pink Panther

S.O.B.