Peter Falk — Actor (48)
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The Lost World (2001) [TV] TMDB
The Lost World
director: Stuart Orme actor: Bob Hoskins / James Fox …
Professor Challenger, on an expedition to South America, shoots an animal that he claims is a pre-historic pterosaur. On his return to England, his fellow Professor, Summerlee, and most of the scientific establishment dismiss it as a hoax. However, an ambitious hunter and womaniser John Roxton and journalist Edward Malone are prepared to undertake the mission to find the truth.
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Corky Romano (2001) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Corky Romano
director: Rob Pritts actor: Chris Kattan / Vinessa Shaw …
other title: Corky Romano... agente di seconda mano / Mister Undercover …
Corky Romano is a bumbling, simpleton, veterinarian and the youngest, outcast son of an aging gangster, named Pops Romano, who calls upon Corky to infiltrate the local FBI and retrieve and destroy evidence being used to incriminate Pops for racketeering charges.
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Wilder Days (2003) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Wilder Days
director: David Mickey Evans actor: Peter Falk / Tim Daly …
other title: Wilde Tage
Quixotic old codger James "Pop Up" Morse (Peter Falk) enjoys spinning colorful yarns for his 11-year-old grandson, Chris (Josh Hutcherson). But the boy's uptight, no-nonsense dad, John (Tim Daly), disdains Pop Up's fantasy world. Believing that John is stifling his son's imagination, Pop Up bolts from his nursing home and sets out on an adventurous cross-country road trip with Chris (sans John's permission) in this made-for-TV family drama.
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Checking Out (2006) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Checking Out
director: Jeff Hare actor: Peter Falk / Laura San Giacomo …
other title: Checking out - Alles nach meinen Regeln
A feisty octogenarian on the verge of his ninetieth birthday invites his three grown children to his upcoming birthday celebration with the explicit understanding that when the festivities end, so does his life.
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When Angels Come to Town (2004) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
When Angels Come to Town
director: Andy Wolk actor: Peter Falk / Tammy Blanchard …
other title: Quando gli angeli scendono in città / Ein Engel in der Stadt …
Max, an angel in exile, walks around the United States to help humans. In a small town in Maine, he meets a young woman without a family named Sally. As she struggles to get custody of her younger brother, Max immediately believes that his new mission is to help Sally. But Jo, a strict angel, is sent to explain to his colleague that this is not exactly what is expected of him. Indeed, Max's mission is not to help Sally, but Karl, the manager of a small factory of Christmas decorations. His business is barely surviving because its traditional products do not meet the success of yesteryear. First bored, Max notices that Karl knows Sally ...
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Finding John Christmas (2003) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Finding John Christmas
director: Andy Wolk actor: Valerie Bertinelli / David Cubitt …
other title: Wer ist John Christmas? / À la recherche de John Christmas
When a photojournalist photographs a mysterious stranger performing an act of bravery, the act quickly becomes headline news and the town dubs the stranger John Christmas. After seeing the photo, Kathleen McAllister becomes convinced that the mysterious stranger is in fact her long-lost brother Hank. With the town's help, Kathleen and Noah set about to find the stranger's true identity with the help Max, a Christmas angel.
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A Town Without Christmas (2001) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
A Town Without Christmas
director: Andy Wolk actor: Patricia Heaton / Rick Roberts …
other title: Una città senza Natale / Une ville sans Noël
In the small town of Seacliff, Wash., a child's letter to Santa Claus captures the nation's attention. When the little boy, Chris, writes that he wishes to leave this world so he will no longer be a burden to his divorcing parents, a race begins to find him before he harms himself.
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The Thing About My Folks (2005) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Thing About My Folks
director: Raymond De Felitta actor: Peter Falk / Paul Reiser …
other title: Ricomincio da me / Coisas de Família …
Ben's dad Sam shows up one night with a note from Ben's mother (Sam's wife of 46 years), that she has left. While Ben's wife and his three sisters try to find her, Ben takes Sam on a day trip to see a farmhouse that's for sale. The day trip turns into a road trip while dad and son explore their past, their relationship, and why Sam's wife might have left him. The road trip includes fishing, drinking, playing pool, sleeping under the stars, and frank discussion. Anger simmers close at hand, as do love and hope. Where Sam's wife is - and why she left - leads to the movie's resolution.
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Luv (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Luv
director: Clive Donner actor: Jack Lemmon / Peter Falk …
other title: Luv vuol dire amore? / Versuch's doch mal mit meiner Frau …
Depressed by the direction his life is taking, Harry decides to take his own life by jumping off the Manhattan Bridge. At the last minute he's stopped by old friend Milt Manville, a successful stock broker. Milt, however, is facing his own problem: he has fallen out of love with his argumentative wife, Ellen. In a misguided effort to solve both of their problems, he introduces Ellen to Harry, hoping the two will fall in love.
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Roommates (1995) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Roommates
director: Peter Yates actor: Peter Falk / D. B. Sweeney …
other title: Un adorabile testardo / Companheiros de Quarto …
An elderly, yet young-at-heart man, moves in with his grandson, and both their lives turn upside-down.
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A Storm in Summer (2000) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
A Storm in Summer
director: Robert Wise actor: Peter Falk / Andrew McCarthy …
other title: A Storm in Summer - Temporale d'estate / Sommer der Freundschaft
Set in 1969, Abel Shaddick, a crotchety deli owner, has a grudge against virtually everyone in his upstate New York town of Fairview, particularly against his slacker nephew Stanley who lives behind the shop. Without telling his uncle, Stanley agrees to put up a needy city kid for the summer as part of a charity program run by rich debutante Gloria. Abel immediately vetoes the plan, but it is too late. The kid, young Herman Washington, is already on his way...
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Wind Across the Everglades (1958) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Wind Across the Everglades
director: Nicholas Ray actor: Burl Ives / Christopher Plummer …
other title: Il paradiso dei barbari / Sumpf unter den Füßen …
Set in the early 20th century, the film follows a game warden who arrives in Florida to enforce conservation laws. He soon finds himself pitted against Cottonmouth, the leader of a fierce group of bird poachers.
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Too Many Thieves (1966) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Too Many Thieves
director: Abner Biberman actor: Peter Falk / Britt Ekland …
other title: El filo de un cuchillo / Règlement au couteau …
When some priceless Macedonian treasures are swiped, lawyer Falk arrives to get to the bottom of things. Compiled from the series "Trials of O'Brien" episodes "The Greatest Game Parts 1 & 2".
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Griffin and Phoenix (1976) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Griffin and Phoenix
director: Daryl Duke actor: Peter Falk / Jill Clayburgh …
other title: Quando passi da queste parti... / Siempre hay tiempo para amar …
Griffin has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Instead of quietly facing his death, he decides to have fun in the time remaining. At a college class on death, he meets Phoenix, who has terminal leukemia.
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Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Robin and the 7 Hoods
director: Gordon Douglas actor: Frank Sinatra / Dean Martin …
other title: I 4 di Chicago / Os Sete Ladrões da Cidade …
Set in Prohibition era Chicago, bootlegger Robbo and his cronies refuse to pay the greedy Guy Gisborne a cut of their profits after Guy shoots mob boss Big Jim and takes over. When Big Jim's daughter, Marian, gives Robbo a large sum, believing he has avenged her father's death, the gangster donates to an orphanage, cementing his reputation as a softhearted hood.