A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress—his partner's wife.

Witness to the Mob

1998

English

6.7

♡ 3

60%

Thaddeus O'Sullivan Director

Peter McRobbie as George Pape

Abe Vigoda as Paul Castellano

Lenny Venito as Sal DiMaggio

Tony Sirico as Tommy Gambino

Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano was mafiosi. He started out as a soldier, but his talent for murder, including the slayings of his best friends, his wife's brother and his own boss, Paul Castellano, saw him rise to under-boss in the Gambino crime family. However, betrayals within the family saw him break the code of silence and became the highest ranking member of the mob to turn into a rat - 'a rat in a suit,- assisting the government to finally put away the Teflon Don, John Gotti.

The Don Is Dead

1973

English

6.2

♡ 10

60%

Richard Fleischer Director

Victor Argo as Augie the Horse

Abe Vigoda as Don Talusso

Jerry Gatlin as Hood

Frederic Forrest as Tony Fargo

After his mistress is murdered, a Mafia leader goes after the killer with a bloody vengeance. Soon after the hunt begins, a gang war ensues.

Love Is All There Is

1996

English

5.0

♡ 10

47%

Joseph Bologna Director

Angelina Jolie as Gina

Adrian Martinez as High School Dancer

Abe Vigoda as Rudy

Lainie Kazan as Sadie

The Malacicis, a hard-working Italian family recently immigrated from Florence, open a fancy restaurant in the Bronx, N.Y., drawing the ire of another clan. Mike and Sadie Capomezzo, equally hard-working Sicilian caterers from the area, find they cannot stand Piero and Maria Malacici. But things get complicated when the Malacicis' daughter, Gina, and the Capomezzos' son, Rosario, fall in love.

Newman's Law

1974

English

6.2

♡ 4

96%

Action

Crime

drugs

international drug ring

lapd

police

Thriller

Richard T. Heffron Director

Marlene Clark as Edie

Richard Bull as Immigration Man

Abe Vigoda as John Dellanzia

Eugene Roche as Reardon

LAPD Officer Newman has not gotten the reputation of a straight arrow by avoiding conflict when fighting for right. In this police drama, his honesty is put to the test when he and his partner discover an international drug ring involving some of the department's highest ranking officers.

Plain Clothes

1988

English

6.2

♡ 9

61%

teacher student relationship

undercover cop

woman director

Martha Coolidge Director

Seymour Cassel as Ed Malmburg

Peter Dobson as Kyle Kerns

Abe Vigoda as Mr. Wiseman

Arliss Howard as Nick Dunbar

To prove his brother's innocence, undercover officer Nick enrolls in high school again, dealing with crushes, bullies, humiliations, popularity swings, and quirky teachers and staff to find the real murderer.

Joe Versus the Volcano

1990

English

5.9

♡ 29

65%

dying man's last fling

John Patrick Shanley Director

Abe Vigoda as Chief of the Waponis

Tom Hanks as Joe

Dan Hedaya as Mr. Waturi

Nikky Smedley as The Boswell Sisters

Hypochondriac Joe Banks finds out he has six months to live, quits his dead end job, musters the courage to ask his co-worker out on a date, and is then hired to jump into a volcano by a mysterious visitor.

Sugar Hill

1994

English

5.8

♡ 15

20%

harlem, new york city

mafia

Thriller

Leon Ichaso Director

Bryan Clark as Dean

Brian Donahue as Doorman at nightclub

Abe Vigoda as Gus Molino

Wesley Snipes as Roemello Skuggs

In the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the Mafia steps in when a drug dealer quits his partner and brother to lead a straight life with his girlfriend.

Prancer

1989

English

6.5

♡ 19

68%

struggling to make ends meet

veterinarian

John D. Hancock Director

Mark Rolston as Herb Drier

Sam Elliott as John Riggs

Cloris Leachman as Mrs. McFarland

Abe Vigoda as Orel Benton

Jessica, the daughter of an impoverished apple farmer, still believes in Santa Claus. So when she comes across a reindeer with an injured leg, it makes perfect sense to her to assume that it is Prancer, who had fallen from a Christmas display in town. She hides the reindeer in her barn and feeds it cookies, until she can return it to Santa. Her father finds the reindeer an decides to sell it to the butcher, not for venison chops, but as an advertising display.

Farce of the Penguins

4.1

Bob Saget Director

Whoopi Goldberg as Helen

Samuel L. Jackson as Narrator

Abe Vigoda as Penguin from Boca

Jonathan Silverman as Seal Critics

In this spoof of "March of the Penguins," nature footage of penguins near the South Pole gets a soundtrack of human voices. Carl and Jimmy, best friends, walk 70 miles to the mating grounds where the female penguins wait. The huddled masses of females - especially Melissa and Vicki - talk about males, mating, and what might happen this year. Carl, Jimmy, and the other males make the long trek talking about food, fornication and flatulence. Until this year, Carl's sex life has been dismal, but he falls hard for Melissa. She seems to like him. A crisis develops when Jimmy comes upon something soft in the dark. Can friends forgive? Does parenthood await Carl and Melissa?

Good Burger

1997

English

5.8

♡ 43

33%

Brian Robbins Director

Wendy Worthington as Demented Hills Nurse

Linda Cardellini as Heather

Abe Vigoda as Otis

Kim Delgado as Police Officer

Two L.A. teens with summer jobs at Good Burger try to save their small restaurant when a corporate giant burger franchise moves in across the street.

That Guy Dick Miller

2014

English

7.4

♡ 7

82%

Elijah Drenner Director

Belinda Balaski as Herself

Steve Carver as Himself

Corey Feldman as Himself

Abe Vigoda as Self

Documentary about veteran character actor Dick Miller, whose career in and outside of Hollywood has spanned almost 200 films across six decades, featuring a diverse range of interviews with directors, co-stars, and contemporaries.

Look Who's Talking

1989

English

5.9

♡ 42

56%

Amy Heckerling Director

Abe Vigoda as Grandpa

John Travolta as James

Joan Rivers as Julie

Bruce Willis as Mikey

Mollie is a single working mother who's out to find the perfect father for her child. Her baby, Mikey, prefers James, a cab driver turned babysitter who has what it takes to make them both happy. But Mollie won't even consider James. It's going to take all the tricks a baby can think of to bring them together before it's too late.

Crime Spree

2003

English

6.4

♡ 5

Brad Mirman Director

Abe Vigoda as Angelo Giancarlo

Richard Bohringer as Bastaldi

Gérard Depardieu as Daniel Foray

Harvey Keitel as Frankie Zammeti

An out-of-town heist becomes a nightmare for a crew of French burglars when they mistakenly rob the head of the Chicago mafia. Unaccustomed to the ways of the American underworld, it is not long before they have the mafia, the FBI and a couple of street gangs on their backs as they attempt to make their way back to Paris.

Jury Duty

1995

English

4.3

♡ 16

John Fortenberry Director

Sean Whalen as Carl Wayne Bishop

Abe Vigoda as Judge Powell

Tia Carrere as Monica

Jay Kogen as Russell's Assistant

When jobless Tommy Collins discovers that sequestered jurors earn free room and board as well as $5-a-day, he gets himself assigned to a jury in a murder trial. Once there, he does everything he can to prolong the trial and deliberations and make the sequestration more comfortable for himself.

The Stuff

1985

English

5.9

♡ 38

68%

Larry Cohen Director

Garrett Morris as 'Chocolate Chip' Charlie W. Hobbs

Tammy Grimes as Special Guest Star in Stuff Commercial

Abe Vigoda as Special Guest Star in Stuff Commercial

Patrick Dempsey as Underground Stuff Buyer #2

Amalgamated Dairies hires David Rutherford, an FBI man turned industrial saboteur, to investigate a popular new product called “the Stuff,” a new dessert product that is blowing ice cream sales out of the water. Nobody knows how it’s made or what’s in it, but people are lining up to buy it. It's got a delicious flavor to die for!

The Godfather

1972

English

9.2

♡ 1001

97%

98%

Action

based on novel or book

Francis Ford Coppola Director

Rudy Bond as Cuneo

Diane Keaton as Kay Adams

Al Pacino as Michael Corleone

Abe Vigoda as Tessio

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.

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That Guy Dick Miller

Look Who's Talking

Crime Spree

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