M. Emmet Walsh — Actor (45)
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Red Alert (1977) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Red Alert
director: William Hale actor: William Devane / Michael Brandon …
other title: Red Alert - Allarme rosso / Großalarm …
A computer at a nuclear power plant malfunctions and receives erroneous information of a radiation leak. It seals off the compound, trapping the crew inside.
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End of the Road (1970) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
End of the Road
director: Aram Avakian actor: Stacy Keach / James Earl Jones …
other title: Der Weg in den Abgrund
Moments after receiving his graduate diploma, Jacob waits at a train station. The future lies ahead, but life abruptly intervenes. Images flash in Jacob's mind: of war, injustice, assassination, protest, the entire spectrum of 1960s angst and anger - sending Jacob into a catatonic state. What follows during his bizarre rehab and its aftermath will be another form of madness.
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Cold Turkey (1971) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Cold Turkey
director: Norman Lear actor: Dick Van Dyke / Pippa Scott …
other title: Uma Cidade Contra o Vício / Der 25 Millionen Dollar Preis …
Reverend Brooks leads his small Iowa town in a contest to stop smoking for a month. But some tobacco executives don't want them to win, and try everything they can to make them smoke. If townspeople don't go nuts from wanting a cigarette, or kill each other from irritation and frustration, they will win a huge prize.
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Kid Blue (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Kid Blue
director: James Frawley actor: Dennis Hopper / Warren Oates …
other title: Kid Blue no nació para la horca
Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dime Box and takes on a variety of menial jobs. He's befriended by Reese Ford and his wife Molly, but before long Molly has seduced Bickford. Only with the arrival of Bickford's former girlfriend Janet Conforto is it revealed that Bickford is actually the notorious train robber Kid Blue. Humiliated by a scandal arising from his affair with his friend's wife, Bickford gives up on going straight and plots a crime.
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The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Prisoner of Second Avenue
director: Melvin Frank actor: Jack Lemmon / Anne Bancroft …
other title: Prigioniero della seconda strada / Das Nervenbündel …
Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.
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Superdome (1978) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Superdome
director: Jerry Jameson actor: David Janssen / Edie Adams …
It's the biggest event of the year — the Super Bowl! But the star players for the Cougars, gathered in New Orleans for the big game, are preoccupied with some serious off-the-field issues. Dave Walecki's marriage to his wife Nancy is falling apart, while Jim McCauley is involved in a shady deal with a management firm that could destroy his career. But that's nothing compared to the real drama. There's an assassin killing off many of the team's personnel (as well as their chances of winning)!
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The Gambler (1974) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Gambler
director: Karel Reisz actor: James Caan / Paul Sorvino …
other title: 40.000 dollari per non morire / Spieler ohne Skrupel …
New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.
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Alice's Restaurant (1969) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Alice's Restaurant
director: Arthur Penn actor: Arlo Guthrie / Patricia Quinn …
other title: El restaurante de Alicia / Alice’s Restaurant
After getting kicked out of college, Arlo decides to visit his friend Alice for Thanksgiving dinner. After dinner is over, Arlo volunteers to take the trash to the dump but finds it closed for the holiday, so he dumps the trash in the bottom of a ravine. This act of littering gets him arrested and sends him on a bizarre journey.
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The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power (2015) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
director: Mike Elliott actor: Victor Webster / Ellen Hollman …
other title: Il Re Scorpione 4 - La conquista del potere / O Rei Escorpião: A Busca do Poder …
When he is betrayed by a trusted friend, Mathayus must marshal all his strength and cunning to outwit a formidable opponent who will stop at nothing to unlock a supreme ancient power.
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The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
director: Peter Hedges actor: Jennifer Garner / Joel Edgerton …
other title: L'incredibile vita di Timothy Green / A Extraordinária Vida de Timothy Green …
A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon, a child is born, though Timothy Green is not all that he appears.
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Bound for Glory (1976) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB Douban
Bound for Glory
director: Hal Ashby actor: David Carradine / Ronny Cox …
other title: Questa terra è la mia terra / Esta Terra é Minha Terra …
A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, discovering the suffering and strength of America's working class.
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Narrow Margin (1990) [Movie] IMDb WikiData
Narrow Margin
director: Peter Hyams actor: Gene Hackman / Anne Archer …
other title: Rischio totale / På et hængende hår …
An L.A. District Attorney attempts to take an unwilling murder witness back to the United States to testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically attempting to escape two deadly hitmen sent to silence her, they board a Vancouver-bound train only to discover that the killers are onboard with them. For the next 20 hours, as the train hurls through the beautiful but isolated Canadian wilderness, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues in which their ability to tell friend from foe is a matter of life and death.
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Slap Shot (1977) [Movie] IMDb WikiData
Slap Shot
director: George Roy Hill actor: Paul Newman / Strother Martin …
other title: Colpo secco / Vale Tudo …
To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.
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Missing in Action (1984) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB Douban WikiData
Missing in Action
director: Joseph Zito actor: Chuck Norris / M. Emmet Walsh …
other title: Rombo di tuono / Missing In Action: To Døgn I Helvede …
American servicemen are still being held captive in Vietnam and it's up to one man to bring them home in this blistering, fast-paced action/adventure starring martial arts superstar Chuck Norris. Following a daring escape from a Vietnamese POW camp, Special Forces Colonel James Braddock (Norris) is on a mission to locate and save remaining MIAs.
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The Mimic (2021) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Mimic
director: Thomas F. Mazziotti actor: Thomas Sadoski / Jake Robinson …
Based on a true story, ‘the Narrator’ is befriended by his young new neighbor, after he joins the local newspaper team. Obsessed with the idea that ‘the Kid’ may be a sociopath, ‘the Narrator’ goes to extreme lengths to uncover the truth about him. After unsettling rendezvous, the truth he finds is anything but what he expected.
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The Milagro Beanfield War (1988) [Movie] IMDb
The Milagro Beanfield War
director: Robert Redford actor: Rubén Blades / Richard Bradford …
other title: Milagro / Milagro - Der Krieg im Bohnenfeld …
The accidental breakdown of an irrigation valve launches a hot confrontation between the mainly Latino farmers in a tiny New Mexico town and the real estate developers and politicians determined to acquire their land for a golf resort.
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The Jerk (1979) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Jerk
director: Carl Reiner actor: Steve Martin / Bernadette Peters …
other title: Lo straccione / Hvem sa' fjols? …
After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson sets off on a hilarious misadventure that takes him from rags to riches and back again. The slaphappy jerk strikes it rich, but life in the fast lane isn't all it's cracked up to be and, in the end, all that really matters to Johnson is his true love.