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The Sting (Blu-ray) (1973)

8.3/10
Director: George Roy Hill
Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston, Eileen B...

Two small-time Chicago con-men try to put 'the sting' on a high-roller from N.Y.C. after he has one of their pals killed. Classic entertainment featur... Read more

The Sting (1973)

8.3/10
Director: George Roy Hill
Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston, Eileen B...

Two small-time Chicago con-men try to put 'the sting' on a high-roller from N.Y.C. after he has one of their pals killed. Classic entertainment featur... Read more

Dog Day Afternoon ( Blu-ray ) (1975)

8/10
Director: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Al Pacino, Charles Durning, Chris Sarandon, James Broderick, John Cazale

A man (Al Pacino) stages a bank robbery so that his homosexual lover can pay for a sex-change operation. He bungles the robbery and is caught up in a... Read more

Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

8/10
Director: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Al Pacino, John Cazale, James Broderick, Charles Durning, Chris Sarandon, Carol...

Incredible-but-true story of a loser who holds up a Brooklyn bank to raise money for his lover's sex-change operation, and sees simple heist snowball... Read more

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

7.8/10
Director: Joel Coen
Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh, George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, Charles D...

A wonderful, whimsical graft of Homer's "The Odyssey" telling the tale of three chain gang escapees in 1930s Mississippi. George Clooney is the slick... Read more

O Brother, Where Art Thou? ( Blu-ray ) (2000)

7.8/10
Director: Joel Coen
Starring: George Clooney, Charles Durning, John Goodman, Holly Hunter, Jennifer Jason Leig...

A wonderful, whimsical graft of Homer's "The Odyssey" telling the tale of three chain gang escapees in 1930s Mississippi. George Clooney is the slick... Read more

Steven Spielberg Presents Amazing Stories: The Complete Series (1985)

7.6/10
Director: Various
Starring: Charlie Sheen, John Lithgow, Kevin Costner, Kiefer Sutherland, Tim Robbins, Char...

Truly amazing, fantastical, funny, and odd, and sometimes scary, sad, and endearing stories are portrayed. Many famous actors, actresses, and director... Read more

Tootsie ( Blu-ray ) (1982)

7.4/10
Director: Sydney Pollack
Starring: Bill Murray, Charles Durning, Dabney Coleman, Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis, Jessi...

Dustin Hoffman plays an unemployed actor who dons women's clothing and becomes a great success in a popular tv soap opera. He also falls in love with... Read more

Tootsie (1982)

7.4/10
Director: Sydney Pollack
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Bill Murray, Geena Davis, Dabney Colem...

Dustin Hoffman plays an unemployed actor who dons women's clothing and becomes a great success in a popular tv soap opera. He also falls in love with... Read more

The Front Page (1974)

7.4/10
Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon, Vincent Gardenia, David Wayne, Alle...

BIlly Wilder's sharp remake of the classic 'His Girl Friday' (in turn a remake of a 1931 film, based on a play from 1928!) stars Jack Lemmon as ace re... Read more

Death Of A Salesman (1985)

7.3/10
Director: Volker Schlondorff
Starring: Charles Durning, Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, Kate Reid, Stephen Lang

A uniquely haunting theatrical production of Arthur Miller's dark and surreallistic parable on the fallout of the American dream. Dustin Hoffman stars... Read more

The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

7.3/10
Director: Joel Coen
Starring: Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newman, Charles Durning, John Mahoney

The Coen Brothers' extravagant, dazzling comedy of invention features dynamite performances from Tim Robbins as the fall guy and Jennifer Jason Leigh... Read more

The Hudsucker Proxy ( Blu-ray ) (1994)

7.3/10
Director: Joel Coen
Starring: Charles Durning, Jennifer Jason Leigh, John Mahoney, Paul Newman, Tim Robbins

The Coen Brothers' extravagant, dazzling comedy of invention features dynamite performances from Tim Robbins as the fall guy and Jennifer Jason Leigh... Read more

The Music of Chance (1993)

7.2/10
Director: Philip Haas
Starring: Mandy Patinkin, James Spader, M Emmet Walsh, Charles Durning, Joel Grey, Samanth...

The feature debut of documentary filmmaker Philip Haas (Money Man) is an adaptation of Paul Auster's allegorical novel. Mandy Patinkin plays a drifter... Read more

The Grass Harp (1995)

7.1/10
Director: Charles Matthau
Starring: Joe Don Baker, Nell Carter, Charles Durning, Edward Furlong, Piper Laurie, Jack...

After his mother dies, eleven-year old Collin Fenwick (Edward Furlong) comes to live with his father's maiden cousins, the wealthy, avaricious, and co... Read more

To Be Or Not To Be (1983)

6.8/10
Director: Alan Johnson
Starring: Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Charles Durning

Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft are Polish actors who foil the Nazis at the outbreak of WW II. Charles Durning's Gestapo officer alone is worth the price... Read more

Breakheart Pass (1975)

6.8/10
Director: Tom Gries
Starring: Ben Johnson, Charles Bronson, Charles Durning, Ed Lauter, Jill Ireland, Richard...

Posing as a fugitive from justice, frontier undercover agent John Deakin (Charles Bronson) boards a train to go after a ruthless gang of outlaws. Ingr... Read more

The Last Supper (1995)

6.8/10
Director: Stacy Title
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Ron Eldard, Annabeth Gish, Courtney B Vance, Bill Paxton, Nora Dun...

Darkly comic satire in which five liberal graduate students share their weekly dinner together with a racist red neck who threatens them. After they k... Read more

The Final Countdown (1980)

6.7/10
Director: Don Taylor
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross, James Farentino, Ron O'Neal, Charles...

The crew of the U.S.S. Nimitz, a state-of-the-art aircraft carrier, encounter a mysterious electrical storm off the coast of Hawaii sending them back... Read more

When A Stranger Calls (1979)

6.5/10
Director: Fred Walton
Starring: Carol Kane, Charles Durning, Colleen Dewhurst

A crazed killer who was incarcerated seven years earlier when he murdered two children and terrorised their babysitter, escapes from his asylum with t... Read more

Mother Ghost (2002)

6.5/10
Director: Rich Thorne
Starring: Kevin Pollak, Joe Mantegna, Garry Marshall, Dana Delany, Charles Durning, James...

Believing himself recovered from his mother's death, Keith (Mark Thompson) is gobsmacked by the inexplicable appearance of his mother's jewellery - th... Read more

Starting Over (1979)

6.4/10
Director: Alan J Pakula
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, Candice Bergen, Charles Durning, Frances Sternhag...

Burt Reynolds is an attractive middle-aged man who suffers a crisis of confidence when ditched by his ambitious singer wife (Candice Bergen), until he... Read more

True Confessions (1981)

6.4/10
Director: Ulu Grosbard
Starring: Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Burgess Meredith, Charles Durning, Ed Flanders, C...

In 1940's Los Angeles, Monsignor Desmond Spellacy (Robert De Niro), a rising star in the Catholic Church hierarchy, has a talent for fundraising that... Read more

Good Dick (2008)

6.4/10
Director: Marianna Palka
Starring: Charles Durning, Tom Arnold, Jason Ritter, Mark Webber, Martin Starr, Marianna P...

Night after night, a troubled and lonely young woman visits her local video store to check out their selection of erotic films. In spite of her introv... Read more

Sharky's Machine (1981)

6.3/10
Director: Burt Reynolds
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Vittorio Gassman, Brian Keith, Charles Durning, Earl Holliman, Be...

Burt Reynolds stars in and directs this atmospheric, volatile action thriller about an Atlanta cop whose gung-ho tactics on a narcotics case gets him... Read more

Tough Guys (1986)

6.2/10
Director: Jeff Kanew
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Charles Durning, Eli Wallach

Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas teamed a fifth time for this action-packed adventure. The two screen legends play ex-cons, released after 30 years in... Read more

The Hindenburg (1975)

6.2/10
Director: Robert Wise
Starring: George C Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton, Roy Thinnes, Gig Young, Burgess...

The interior of the doomed airship was meticulously recreated by director Robert Wise, unfortunately the same careful attention was not paid to the sc... Read more

A Bunch of Amateurs (2008)

6.1/10
Director: Andy Cadiff
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Imelda Staunton, Derek Jacobi, Samantha Bond, Charles Durning

Fading Hollywood action star Jefferson Steel (Burt Reynolds) gets talked into doing King Lear in Stratford - not the famous one, but instead a sleepy... Read more

Sisters (1973)

6/10
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning

Director/co-writer Brian De Palma's first foray into Hitchcockian screen suspense in a bloody thriller. Reporter Jennifer Salt witnesses Margot Kidder... Read more

Sisters (Blu-ray) (1973)

6/10
Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning

Director/co-writer Brian De Palma's first foray into Hitchcockian screen suspense in a bloody thriller. Reporter Jennifer Salt witnesses Margot Kidder... Read more

The Rosary Murders (1987)

5.7/10
Director: Fred Walton
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Charles Durning, Belinda Bauer

Slow, but interesting, tale of a parish priest (Donald Sutherland) who hears the confession of a serial killer preying on priests and nuns, and finds... Read more

The Man With One Red Shoe (1985)

5.7/10
Director: Stan Dragoti
Starring: Tom Hanks, Dabney Coleman, Charles Durning, Lori Singer

Why does Richard Drew (Tom Hanks), eccentric violinist and American bachelor, step off a plane in Washington, DC wearing one red shoe? The CIA wants t... Read more

Harry And Walter Go To New York (Blu-ray) (1976)

5.4/10
Director: Mark Rydell
Starring: James Caan, Elliott Gould, Michael Caine, Diane Keaton, Charles Durning, Lesley...

In 1892, two vaudevillians and petty con artists get involved, together with the most notorious bank robber, in a New York City bank heist. Read more

Two of a Kind (1983)

4.8/10
Director: John Herzfeld
Starring: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Charles Durning

God rests the fate of the world on the unwitting John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, who must prove that they are good. Unfortunately, he's just hel... Read more

V.I. Warshawski (1991)

4.8/10
Director: Jeff Kanew
Starring: Kathleen Turner, Jay O Sanders, Charles Durning

Kathleen Turner stars as V.I. Warshawski, a tough-talking sexy private eye who knows how to use her two most lethal weapons - powerful charm and all t... Read more

Brenda Starr (1989)

4.7/10
Director: Robert Ellis Miller
Starring: Brooke Shields, Timothy Dalton, Diana Scarwid, Jeffrey Tambor, Charles Durning

A comic book artist struggling with his "Brenda Starr" strip decides to draw himself into it when his comic book character is disappointed and leaves... Read more

Stephen King's Desperation (2006)

Director: Mick Garris
Starring: Tom Skerritt, Steven Weber, Annabeth Gish, Charles Durning, Matt Frewer, Henry T...

En route to Lake Tahoe for a much-anticiapted vacation, the family of writer Ralph Carver (Matt Frewer) are arrested by the local sheriff (Ron Perlman... Read more

The Mel Brooks Collection: Volume 1 - High Anxiety / Life Stinks / To Be or Not To Be / History of the World Part 1 (1981)

Director: Alan Johnson, Mel Brooks
Starring: Billy Barty, Ron Carey, Barbara Harris, Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman, Cloris Lea...

Four classic films from comic genius Mel Brooks. 'High Anxiety' - Dr Robert Thorndyke is the newly appointed director of the psychoneurosis institute... Read more

The Galton and Simpson Playhouse (1977)

Director: Duncan Wood
Starring: Anton Diffring, Arthur Lowe, Charles Gray, Freddie Jones, Leonard Rossiter, Mona...

British comedy writing maestros Ray Galton and Alan Simpson ('Hancock's Half Hour', 'Steptoe and Son') created the 'Playhouse' series in the late Seve... Read more