List of the best Alan King movies: Memories of Me(1988), Author! Author!(1982), Night and the City(1992), The Infiltrator(1995), Enemies, a Love Story(1989), The Anderson Tapes(1971), The Helen Morgan Story(1957), Casino(1995), The Girl He Left Behind(1956), Bye Bye Braverman(1968), Hit the Deck(1955), Sunshine State(2002) ... ...
Comedy
USA
1988
103 Minutes
Billy Crystal Alan King JoBeth Williams Janet Carroll David Ackroyd Phil Fondacaro Robert Pastorelli Mark L. Taylor
surgeon father son extra fiancée actor amusing lighthearted heartwarming tender new york city los angeles california hospital movie set family heart attack reconciliation father/son relationship film industry
On his girlfriend's insistence, a disgruntled man tries to make peace with his high-spirited, street-smart and often irritatingly careless father, a failed actor who never quit his dream to be a success.
Comedy
USA
1982
110 Minutes
Kreplich
Al Pacino Diane Cannon Tuesday Weld Alan King Bob Dishy Bob Elliott Ray Goulding Eric Gurry Elva Josephson
playwright wife movie star producer stepfather son witty heartwarming playful new york city theater family home family dysfunction divorce single parents broadway writing new romance transformation sacrifice
While facing the stress of his play being produced on Broadway, a playwright deals with having to raise his son, his stepdaughters, and his stepsons.
Crime, Drama
USA
1992
98 Minutes
Ira 'Boom Boom' Grossman
Robert De Niro Jessica Lange Cliff Gorman Alan King Jack Warden Eli Wallach Barry Primus Gene Kirkwood Ignazio Spalla
lawyer promoter waitress loan shark bar owner boxer intense thrilling new york city scam affair betrayal lawsuit boxing rivalry revenge forbidden love 1990s
The story about a cheating and incompetent lawyer (Harry Fabian) who suddenly gets obsessed on becoming a boxing promoter.
Drama
USA
1995
93 Minutes
Rabbi Hier
Oliver Platt Arliss Howard Peter Riegert Alan King Michael Byrne Julian Glover Tony Haygarth Anne Reid
journalist neo-nazi teen boy young man racist impostor dark frightening gripping germany refugee camp café investigative journalism undercover operations new identity nazism hate group espionage pursuit quest
After being rescued and brought to an island, a man discovers that its inhabitants are experimental animals being turned into strange-looking humans, all of it the work of a visionary doctor.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1989
119 Minutes
Rabbi Lembeck
Ron Silver Anjelica Huston Lena Olin Margaret Sophie Stein Alan King Judith Malina Rita Karin Phil Leeds Elya Baskin Paul Mazursky Marie-Adele Lemieux
survivor servant wife husband sad bleak melodramatic new york city apartment synagogue holocaust marriage immigration adultery judaism deception forbidden love sacrifice escape 1940s
A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1971
98 Minutes
Pat Angelo
Sean Connery Diane Cannon Martin Balsam Ralph Meeker Alan King Christopher Walken Val Avery Richard Williams Garrett Morris Stan Gottlieb Paul Benjamin
burglar ex-girlfriend mafia boss psychopath henchman gripping thrilling suspenseful crafty new york city apartment building crime surveillance robbery dangerous assignment fall temptation pursuit 1970s
After Duke Anderson is released from prison after ten years for taking the rap for a scion of a Mafia family, he cashes in a debt of honor with the mob to bankroll a caper.
Biography
USA
1957
118 Minutes
Benny Weaver
Ann Blyth Paul Newman Richard Carlson Gene Evans Alan King Cara Williams Virginia Vincent Walter Woolf King Dorothy Green Edward Platt Warren Douglas
singer broadway producer broadway star bootlegger boyfriend alcoholic bleak melodramatic brooding broadway theater hospital new york city chicago nightclub carnival musical performance rise to stardom alcoholism romance helen morgan
Torch singer Helen Morgan rises from sordid beginnings to fame and fortune only to lose it all to alcohol and poor personal choices.
Crime, Drama
USA|France
1995
177 Minutes
Andy Stone
Robert De Niro Sharon Stone Joe Pesci James Woods Don Rickles Alan King Kevin Pollak L.Q. Jones Dick Smothers Frank Vincent Joe Bob Briggs
mobster henchman wife ex-lover politician con artist confident gritty las vegas casino hotel restaurant office gambling corruption mafia crime rise fall 1980s
A tale of greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two best friends: a mafia enforcer and a casino executive compete against each other over a gambling empire, and over a fast-living and fast-loving socialite.
Comedy
USA
1956
103 Minutes
Maguire
Tab Hunter Natalie Wood Jessie Royce Landis Jim Backus Murray Hamilton Alan King James Garner David Janssen Jack Arnold Wilfred Knapp Les Johnson
student army recruit society matron girlfriend army officer sergeant melodramatic patriotic lighthearted brooding army camp barracks monterey, calif. college basic training relationships discipline separation maturing growing up
Privileged college student Andy Shaeffer is a mama's boy who flunks out of school and is drafted by the army where he becomes a real man, to the astonishment of everyone.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1968
94 Minutes
George Segal Jack Warden Joseph Wiseman Jessica Walter Phyllis Newman Sorrell Booke Zohra Lampert Anthony Holland Susan Wyler Lieb Lensky Alan King
writer poet book critic intellectual widow cab driver witty offbeat gritty emotional manhattan, n.y. greenwich village brooklyn, n.y. synagogue cemetery death friendship jewish culture grief aging
Four Jewish intellectuals carpool to the funeral of their old friend Leslie Braverman, who died suddenly at age 41.
Musical
USA
1955
112 Minutes
Jane Powell Tony Martin Debbie Reynolds Walter Pidgeon Vic Damone Gene Raymond Ann Miller Russ Tamblyn J. Carrol Naish Kay Armen Richard Anderson
Sailor Danny Xavier Smith and two other gobs try to save his sister Susan's virtue. She wants to get a role in the show "Hit the Deck". After wrecking the producers hotel suite, they land ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
2002
141 Minutes
Edie Falco Angela Bassett Jane Alexander Ralph Waite James McDaniel Timothy Hutton Mary Alice Bill Cobbs Mary Steenburgen Alex Lewis Gordon Clapp
hotel owner ex-husband boyfriend actress mother troubled youth intricate engaging florida island hotel resort race relationships family business land grab returning home love rescue
A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estate development.