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The Man Who Captured Eichmann

The Man Who Captured Eichmann (1996) more movies like this

directed by William A. Graham
featuring Robert Duvall, Arliss Howard, Jeffrey Tambor, Jack Laufer, Nicholas Surovy

In the spirit of such earlier efforts as Operation Eichmann and House on Garibaldi Street, this meticulously crafted cable movie recounts the 1960 mission by the Israeli secret service to kidnap Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann from his hiding place in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Although Israel will ultimately subject Eichmann to a scrupulously fair ...

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Amistad

Amistad (1997) more movies like this

directed by Steven Spielberg
featuring Arliss Howard, Jeremy Northam, Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Matthew McConaughey, Nigel Hawthorne, Djimon Hounsou

This Steven Spielberg-directed exploration into a long-ago episode in African-American history recounts the trial that followed the 1839 rebellion aboard the Spanish slave ship Amistad and captures the complex political maneuverings set in motion by the event. Filmed in New England and Puerto Rico, the 152-minute drama opens with a pre-credit ...

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Old Man

Old Man (1997) more movies like this

directed by John Kent Harrison
featuring Jeanne Tripplehorn, Arliss Howard

One of the most frequently dramatized of all William Faulkner stories, Old Man is based on a section of Faulkner's 1939 novel The Wild Palms. Set during the cataclysmic 1927 Mississippi river flood, the story revolves around the curious relationship between prison convict J.J.Taylor (Arliss Howard) and a young, pregnant woman named Addie (Jeanne ...

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You Know My Name

You Know My Name (1999) more movies like this

directed by John Kent Harrison
featuring Sam Elliott, Arliss Howard, Carolyn McCormick, James Gammon, R. Lee Ermey

Produced for U.S. cable outlet TNT, You Know My Name is based on the colorful true story of Bill Tilghman, who went from Wild West lawman to Hollywood filmmaker to lawman again. Tilghman, played by Sam Elliott, was once an associate of Wyatt Earp and had run-ins with such famous outlaws as Cattle Annie and Little Britches. After retiring from law ...

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A Map of the World

A Map of the World (1999) more movies like this

directed by Scott Elliott
featuring Sigourney Weaver, Julianne Moore, David Strathairn, Ron Lea, Arliss Howard

In this contemporary drama, Sigourney Weaver plays a woman out of her element and at the end of her rope. Alice Goodwin is a wife and mother who finds that the pressures of her life are starting to become more than she can bear. Alice works part-time as a school nurse while her husband Howard (David Strathairn) runs the family farm; they both look ...

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Men Don't Leave

Men Don't Leave (1990) more movies like this

directed by Paul Brickman
featuring Jessica Lange, Chris O'Donnell, Arliss Howard, Kathy Bates, Joan Cusack, Charlie Korsmo

Weighed down by her late husband's debts, widow Beth Macauley (Jessica Lange) is compelled to sell her home and move to a less costly locale. She relocates in Baltimore with her resentful sons Chris (Chris O'Donnell) and Matt (Charlie Korsmo) and takes a job at a ramshackle gourmet food store managed by Lisa Coleman (Kathy Bates). Men Don't Leave ...

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Plain Clothes

Plain Clothes (1988) more movies like this

directed by Martha Coolidge
featuring Arliss Howard, Suzy Amis, George Wendt, Diane Ladd, Seymour Cassel

Arliss Howard plays a baby-faced undercover cop, posing as a high school student. Howard is investigating the murder of a teacher, a task made difficult when his own brother (Loren Dean) becomes the primary suspect. Meanwhile, the ersatz student falls in love with Alexandre Powers, the daughter of the school's gym instructor. Before long, Howard ...

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Big Bad Love

Big Bad Love (2002) more movies like this

directed by Arliss Howard
featuring Arliss Howard, Debra Winger, Paul Le Mat, Rosanna Arquette, Angie Dickinson

Actor Arliss Howard made his debut as a director with this emotional drama adapted from a handful of short stories by Larry Brown. Barlow (Arliss Howard) is a deeply troubled Vietnam veteran who has been chasing a career as a writer, with little success; when he isn't struggling with his typewriter, he's usually drinking, and his wild mood swings ...

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Crisscross

Crisscross (1992) more movies like this

directed by Chris Menges
featuring Goldie Hawn, Arliss Howard, James Gammon, David Arnott, Keith Carradine

Goldie Hawn makes a change of pace in this downbeat drama about a mother' sacrifice for her family, and her son's attempts to save her from herself. When John Cross (Keith Carradine) returns home to Key West, Florida in 1969 after a tour of duty as a fighter pilot in Viet Nam, he's an emotionally shattered man; he begins drinking heavily and, in ...

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The Lesser Evil

The Lesser Evil (1998) more movies like this

directed by David MacKay
featuring Arliss Howard, Colm Feore, David Paymer, Tony Goldwyn

David Mackay directed this drama about the secrets of four friends. Missouri lumberman Derek (Colm Feore) reunites his high school pals -- lawyer George (David Paymer), priest Ivan (Arliss Howard), and police officer Frank (Tony Goldwyn) -- who were all involved in past violent deaths and cover-ups. The film double-tracks their stories as it ...

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The Infiltrator

The Infiltrator (1995) more movies like this

directed by John MacKenzie
featuring Oliver Platt, Arliss Howard, Alan King, Peter Riegert, Anthony Haygarth

The frightening underworld of neo-Nazism is the subject of this made-for-television drama. Oliver Platt stars as Yaron Svoray, an American journalist who goes to Germany to do a story on neo-Nazis. He gets mistakenly branded a sympathizer of the cause but uses his new status as a way to uncover secret information about the members and their ...

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Ruby

Ruby (1992) more movies like this

directed by John MacKenzie
featuring Danny Aiello, Sherilyn Fenn, Arliss Howard, Tobin Bell, David Duchovny

Here's a fictionalized account of Jack Ruby's perspective of the events leading up to his assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald. Danny Aiello appears convincingly as the nightclub-owner Ruby who (according to this telling) points the finger at an FBI conspiracy as the force behind the Kennedy assassination. The film includes some actual footage from ...

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Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture

Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture (1990) more movies like this

directed by Frank Pierson
featuring Arliss Howard, Roy Scheider

Based on Doug Magee's novel Slow Coming Dark, the made-for-cable Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture is about a photojournalist (Roy Scheider) who is hired by a man (Arliss Howard) convicted of killing a policeman to photograph his execution. As the execution grows nearer, the photographer uncovers evidence that suggests the convicted man is ...

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Word of Honor (2003) more movies like this

directed by Robert Markowitz
featuring Don Johnson, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Sharon Lawrence, John Heard, Arliss Howard

A man is called by the military to defend himself against long-ago charges of criminal misconduct in this made-for-cable drama based on a novel by Nelson DeMille. Ben Tyson (Don Johnson) has done well for himself 30 years after his tour of duty in Vietnam -- he's a successful businessman and happily married to a beautiful woman, Marcy (Sharon ...

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Tales of Erotica (1994) more movies like this

directed by Bob Rafelson, Charles Zalien, Derrick Boatner, Ken Russell, Mani Kaul, Melvin Van Peebles, Nancy Stone, Paul Cox, Susan Seidelman
featuring Arliss Howard, Cynda Williams, Kathleen Wilhoite, John Toles-Bey, Mira Sorvino

This German film consists of six separate vignettes each created by a different international director, each challenged to create brief erotic scenarios. The first, named "Wet," was directed by Bob Rafelson and involves an encounter between a bathroom fixtures salesman and a customer who comes after hours to sample the hot tubs. The next, "The ...

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Wilder Napalm (1993) more movies like this

directed by Glenn Gordon Caron
featuring Debra Winger, Dennis Quaid, Arliss Howard, M. Emmet Walsh, Jim Varney

After a childhood spat drove brothers Wilder (Arliss Howard) and Wallace (Dennis Quaid) apart, they went their separate ways, until a chance meeting brought them back together again. Gifted with a psychic ability to spark fires, Wallace supresses his gift, marries the lovely Vida (Debra Winger), and attempts to lead a normal life. However, he runs ...

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Dandelion (2005) more movies like this

directed by Mark Milgard
featuring Vincent Kartheiser, Taryn Manning, Arliss Howard, Mare Winningham, Blake Heron

Independent filmmaker Mark Milgard makes his feature debut with the coming-of-age drama Dandelion, filmed on-location in Idaho. TV star Vincent Kartheiser plays Mason Mullich, a quiet sensitive boy living in a small town. His mother, Layla (Mare Winningham), is already overworked when his factory worker father, Luke (Arliss Howard), decides to run ...

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Door to Door (1984) more movies like this

directed by Patrick Bailey
featuring Ron Leibman, Arliss Howard, Jane Kaczmarek, Alan Austin

A light, light, light comedy with no depth below the surface, this TV-oriented story is about a smooth-talking salesman who ostensibly peddles vacuum cleaners but is really a con man out to get money. The con artist/salesman Larry (Ron Leibman) meets Leon (Arliss Howard), an honest salesman who is making no money at all, and teaches him how to ...

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The Song of the Lark (2000) more movies like this

directed by Karen Arthur
featuring Alison Elliott, Maximilian Schell, Tony Goldwyn, Arliss Howard

Acclaimed author Willa Cather offers a moving tale of an artist's self-discovery in a semi-autobiographical tale concerning a young woman from rural Colorado who moves to the big city to seek her fortune as a world-famous opera star. Originally aired as part of PBS' popular Masterpiece Theatre series, The Song of the Lark details the passion of ...

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Beyond the Call (1996) more movies like this

directed by Tony Bill
featuring Sissy Spacek, David Strathairn, Arliss Howard, Janet Wright, Lindsay Murrell

In this well-wrought, moving drama from Hallmark Productions, a wife and mother puts her home life on the line when she launches a campaign to keep her ex-boyfriend, a convicted killer, off death row. Pam O'Brien (Sissy Spacek) loved Russell Gates (David Strathairn) in high school, but afterwards, he went to Vietnam and she carried on with her ...

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