James Tolkan
Fiery, forceful and intimidating character actor James Tolkan carved out a nice little niche for himself in both movies and television alike as a formidable portrayer of fierce and flinty hard-boiled tough guy types. James Stewart Tolkan was born on June 20, 1931 in Calumet,... Read full bio →
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Top Gun
1986
Bone Tomahawk
Four men set out in the Wild West to rescue a group of captives from cannibalistic cave dwellers.
Heavens Fall
Successful New York attorney Sam Leibowitz travels to the South in 1933 to defend nine young black men accused of raping two women on an Alabama freight train.
Underworld
A crook sets out to get revenge on the thugs who hurt his father in this bloody noir-style crime drama. After being released from prison, Johnny Crown goes after Frank, one of the mobsters involved in a series of Father's Day killings.
Robo Warriors
The year is 2036 and Earth has been invaded: hope lies with the last Robo Warrior - a towering fighting machine.
Boiling Point
A pair of sociopath killers take on the police and the mob in order to make one last big score.
Problem Child 2
Junior and his father, Ben, move from Cold River to Mortville. Junior becomes threatened by Ben's desire to date again and find a new mother for Junior, and sabotages each of his dates.
Dick Tracy
All Tess Trueheart wants is to settle down to a quiet life with her boyfriend, detective Dick Tracy. But there's something pretty rotten going on in town, with someone pretty rotten behind it, and Tracy has his hands full with the likes of villain Big Boy Caprice and with the almost irresistible Breathless Mahoney.
Back to the Future Part III
The final installment of amusing time-traveling trilogy Back to the Future sends Marty and his scientist friend Doc Brown back in time to the Old West in the year 1885. Things are rosy until Marty must somehow travel in time to prevent Doc from being shot dead.
Second Sight
Four-time Emmy Award-winner John Larroquette and Bronson Pinchot star as a private investigator and a super-psychic who operate a paranormal detective agency in this wild comedy.
Family Business
Jessie is an aging career criminal who has been in more jails, fights, schemes, and lineups than just about anyone else. His son Vito, while currently on the straight and narrow, has had a fairly shady past and is indeed no stranger to illegal activity.
Back to the Future Part II
Back to the Future 2 is the second and most complicated film of the series. The film has alternate dimensions, time-traveling mishaps, and a disrupted future caused by Marty Mcfly’s accidental alteration of past events. An exhilarating story with exciting special effects make this a fun movie to watch.
Masters of the Universe
When the evil Skeletor finds a mysterious power called the Cosmic Key, he becomes nearly invincible, seizing Castle Grayskull and the surrounding city.
Made in Heaven
Deceased drifter Mike arrives in Heaven and quickly falls for newborn soul Annie, soon to start her assignment on Earth. When Annie leaves, Mike follows.
Top Gun
For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and co-pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw, being accepted into an elite training school for fighter pilots is a dream come true. But a tragedy, as well as personal demons, will threaten Pete's dreams of becoming an ace pilot.
Armed and Dangerous
After policeman Frank Dooley is framed for theft and loses his job on the force, he joins a security guard agency and teams up with inept former defense lawyer Norman Kane. When the two botch a job guarding a local warehouse, they begin to uncover corruption within the company and their union.
Back to the Future
The first film of the trilogy as teenager Marty Mcfly travels back in time with help from his friend and time machine inventor Dr. Brown. Marty travels from 1985 back to 1955 running into people he knows like his parents. When it’s time to go back to the future Marty runs into a few unforeseen problems and time is running out.
The River
Farming family battles severe storms, a bank threatening to reposses their farm, and other hard times in a battle to save and hold on to their farm.
WarGames
David is a high school student with a talent for computers and gaming. His harmless intentions of hacking into the computer system to play a new unreleased video game result in a threat of a real nuclear war, after he un-intentionally connnects to a military supercomputer. An American thriller about the fear of a nuclear war from the early 1980’s.
Hanky Panky
An architect is drawn into a web of government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him.
Wolfen
A New York cop investigates a series of brutal deaths that resemble animal attacks.
Prince of the City
New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the police department, as long as he will not have to turn in any close friends. In doing so, Ciello uncovers a conspiracy within the force to smuggle drugs to street informants
The Amityville Horror
George and Kathy Lutz, a newly married couple with three children, movie into their beautiful new house in Amityville, New York, only to discover the house already has demonic inhabitants.
Love and Death
In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.
The Werewolf of Washington
After being unknowingly inflicted with the bite of a werewolf while on a visit to Europe, White House press secretary Jack Whittier begins to turn into a deadly beast by night, terrorizing Washington D.C. and presenting a very deadly threat to the President.
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
An aging hood is about to go back to prison. Hoping to escape his fate, he supplies information on stolen guns to the feds, while simultaneously supplying arms to his bank robbing chums.
Serpico
The true story about an honest New York cop who blew the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.
They Might Be Giants
Every hero has a weakness, and Sherlock Holmes' weakness was Moriarty. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson solve mysteries and search for Moriarty in 1970s New York City. The fact that Sherlock Holmes is a psychotic paranoid and Dr. Watson is a female psychiatrist fascinated by his case is almost beside the point.
Stiletto
A rich, jet-setting playboy has a secret life: he's also a professional Mafia hitman. When he decides it's time to retire from that life, he finds that his former employers don't like the idea that someone who knows so much about them won't be under their control anymore, and decide to send their own hitmen to eliminate him.