Charles Durning

A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster.

Dir. George Roy Hill · With Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw

Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly turns sour and escalates into a hostage situation and stand-off with the police. As Sonny's motives for the robbery are slowly revealed and things become more complicated, the heist turns into a media circus.

Dir. Sidney Lumet · With Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning

In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.

Dir. Joel Coen · With George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson

When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego—Dorothy Michaels—in order to land a part in a daytime drama, he unwittingly becomes a feminist icon and ends up in a romantic pickle.

Dir. Sydney Pollack · With Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr

Ruthless Chicago newspaper editor Walter Burns resorts to dubious motives in order to get top reporter Hildy Johnson to cover one more big crime story before retirement.

Dir. Billy Wilder · With Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon

A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.

Dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen · With Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newman

The Muppets gather to watch their newly-finished big-budget rich-and-famous feature film: a talent agent persuades Kermit the Frog to leave the swamp to pursue a career in Hollywood. On his way there, he meets a bear, a pig, a whatever (his future muppet crew), and some special celebrity guest stars, while being chased by the desperate owner of a frog-leg restaurant!

Dir. James Frawley · With Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson

Inquisitive journalist Grace Collier is horrified when she witnesses her neighbor, fashion model Danielle Breton, violently murder a man. Panicking, she calls the police. But when the detective arrives at the scene and finds nothing amiss, Grace is forced to take matters into her own hands. Her first move is to recruit private investigator Joseph Larch, who helps her to uncover a secret about Danielle's past that has them both seeing double.

Dir. Brian De Palma · With Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning

Bubba, an intellectually disabled man, is falsely accused of attacking a young girl. Disguised as a scarecrow, he hides in a cornfield, only to be hunted down and shot by four vigilante men. After they are acquitted due to lack of evidence, the men find themselves being stalked one by one.

Dir. Frank De Felitta · With Charles Durning, Larry Drake, Robert F. Lyons

When a devious plot separates CIA agent Peter Sandza from his son, Robin, the distraught father manages to see through the ruse. Taken because of his psychic abilities, Robin is being held by Ben Childress, who is studying people with supernatural powers in hopes of developing their talents as weapons. Soon Peter pairs up with Gillian, a teen who has telekinesis, to find and rescue Robin.

Dir. Brian De Palma · With Kirk Douglas, Amy Irving, John Cassavetes

At the height of the frontier era, a train races through the Rocky Mountains on a classified mission to a remote army post. But one by one the passengers are being murdered, and their only hope is the mysterious John Deakin, who's being transported to face trial for murder.

Dir. Tom Gries · With Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna

A bad Polish actor is just trying to make a living when Poland is invaded by the Germans in World War II. His wife has the habit of entertaining young Polish officers while he's on stage, which is also a source of depression to him. When one of her officers comes back on a Secret Mission, the actor takes charge and comes up with a plan for them to escape.

Dir. Alan Johnson · With Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Tim Matheson

A student babysitter has her evening disturbed when the phone rings. So begins a series of increasingly terrifying and threatening calls that lead to a shocking revelation.

Dir. Fred Walton · With Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Colleen Dewhurst

A group of idealistic but frustrated liberals succumb to the temptation of murdering right-wing pundits for their political beliefs.

Dir. Stacy Title · With Cameron Diaz, Ron Eldard, Annabeth Gish

Willy Loman, an aging, failing salesman, struggles to accept reality and his failure to achieve the American Dream.

Dir. Volker Schlöndorff · With Dustin Hoffman, Kate Reid, John Malkovich

Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one morning when overwhelmed Jack is left unexpectedly with Maggie and forgets that Melanie was to take her to school. As a result, both children miss their school field trip and are stuck with the parents. The two adults project their negative stereotypes of ex-spouses on each other, but end up needing to rely on each other to watch the children as each must save his job. Humor is added by Sammy's propensity for lodging objects in his nose and Maggie's tendency to wander.

Dir. Michael Hoffman · With Michelle Pfeiffer, George Clooney, Mae Whitman

Vietnam vet Jon Rubin returns to New York and rents a rundown flat in Greenwich Village. It is in this flat that he begins to film, 'Peeping Tom' style, the people in the apartment across the street. His obsession with making films leads him to fall in with a radical 'Black Power' group, which in turn leads him to carry out a bizarre act of urban terrorism.

Dir. Brian De Palma · With Robert De Niro, Jennifer Salt, Allen Garfield

The residents of a small Vermont town don't know what hit them when a beleaguered Hollywood film crew brings a chaotic shoot to their quaint village.

Dir. David Mamet · With Alec Baldwin, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Charles Durning

After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces spending the holiday with her unhinged family.

Dir. Jodie Foster · With Holly Hunter, Robert Downey Jr., Anne Bancroft

When a Conservative TV crusader threatens to shut down beloved brothel The Chicken Ranch, proprietress Miss Mona Stangley and her girls won't go down without a fight.

Dir. Colin Higgins · With Burt Reynolds, Dolly Parton, Dom DeLuise

During routine manoeuvres near Hawaii in 1980, the aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is caught in a strange vortex-like storm, throwing the ship back in time to 1941—mere hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Dir. Don Taylor · With Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross

Harry Doyle and Archie Lang are two old-time train robbers, who held up a train in 1956 and have been incarcerated for thirty years. After serving their time, they are released from jail and have to adjust to a new life of freedom. and soon realize that they still have the pizzazz when, picking up their prison checks at a bank, they foil a robbery attempt.

Dir. Jeff Kanew · With Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Charles Durning

An obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch him.

Dir. James B. Harris · With James Woods, Lesley Ann Warren, Charles Durning

Albert Einstein helps a young man who's in love with Einstein's niece to catch her attention by pretending temporarily to be a great physicist.

Dir. Fred Schepisi · With Tim Robbins, Meg Ryan, Walter Matthau

Police officer Tom Sharky gets busted back to working vice, where he happens upon a scandalous conspiracy involving a local politician. Sharky's new 'machine' gathers evidence while Sharky falls in love with a woman he has never met.

Dir. Burt Reynolds · With Burt Reynolds, Rachel Ward, Henry Silva

God has had enough of the bad behavior and attitude of humankind, and has decided to start it all over. It is up to a struggling inventor and a bank teller, both with very amateur criminal minds, to save the world by falling in love.

Dir. John Herzfeld · With John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Charles Durning

Colonel Franz Ritter, a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security. As he races against the clock to uncover a possible saboteur aboard the doomed zeppelin he finds that any of the passengers and crew could be the culprit.

Dir. Robert Wise · With George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton

A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.

Dir. Ulu Grosbard · With Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Charles Durning

A man is mistaken as a spy by the CIA when he arrives at the airport with one red shoe.

Dir. Stan Dragoti · With Tom Hanks, Dabney Coleman, Lori Singer

According to a high school's lore, the "Dirty Deeds" are a daunting list of dares almost no student has ever completed. To win the student body's respect and get noticed by his crush, senior Zach is determined to finish the list in the allotted 24-hour time period. As the school's bullying jocks try to thwart him at every turn, Zach embarks on a wild journey, highlighted by beer swilling, grand theft auto and the snagging of an ex-homecoming queen's bra.

Dir. David Kendall · With Milo Ventimiglia, Lacey Chabert, Zoe Saldaña