Richard C. Sarafian
Also Known As: Richard Sarafian, Alan Smithee
Biography: Richard Caspar Sarafian (April 28, 1930 – September 18, 2013) was an American television and film director and actor. He compiled a versatile career that spanned over five decades as a director, actor, and writer. Sarafian is best known as the director of the 1971 film Vanishing Point.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: April 28, 1930
Age: 95 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 18, 2013
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Bugsy
Overview: New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives him his big idea.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-10
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Gunmen
Overview: A New York DEA agent springs an outlaw from jail to lead him to stolen money in South America.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-05-21
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Masked and Anonymous
Overview: A nation wracked with civil war and social unrest anticipates a giant charity concert, organized by deceptive promoter Uncle Sweetheart, who plans on raking in huge sums for himself from the event. Headlining is legendary musician Jack Fate, whose prison time is cut short with Sweetheart's help. Meanwhile, journalist Tom Friend investigates the corrupt concert and sets out to unmask the truth to the public.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-25
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Street Justice
Overview: A forgotten CIA agent escapes after 12 years and returns to his corrupt New Jersey hometown.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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The Crossing Guard
Overview: Unable to move on from the loss of his daughter, Freddy, now a shell of the person he was before, swears to kill the man responsible for her death.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-26
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Gotti
Overview: John Gotti, the head of a small New York mafia crew breaks a few of the old family rules. He rises to become the head of the Gambino family and the most well-known mafia boss in America. Life is good, but suspicion creeps in, and greed, rule-breaking and his high public profile all threaten to topple him.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-08-17
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Bulworth
Overview: A suicidally disillusioned liberal politician puts a contract out on himself and takes the opportunity to be bluntly honest with his voters by affecting the rhythms and speech of hip-hop music and culture.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-15
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Ruby
Overview: Fact and fiction are combined in this story about Jack Ruby and a stripper, Candy Cane, and how they become involved in a conspiracy to kill J.F.K.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-27
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Alien Predators
Overview: Three young friends who are on vacation in Spain and a NASA scientist must join forces to save themselves and the rest of the world from an alien menace.
Genres: Drama Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-05
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Liberty
Overview: Drama about how the Statue of Liberty came to be erected in New York Harbor in the early 1880s and the people responsible for its creation.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-06-23
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Miami Hustle
Overview: Marsha, a con artist with a conscience, has agreed to take on an unusual scheme in order to pay off a debt to a lawyer who helped out her brother. An elderly millionaire is about to die, and the entire fortune has been willed to a stripper named Jean, who is unaware of the windfall awaiting her. Marsha's task is to get to know Jean well enough that she can impersonate her at the reading of the will and take the inheritance for herself. Taking a job at the same strip club, the pair soon bond, but will Marsha's feelings for her new friend outweigh her need to help pay off her brother's debt?
Genres: Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-21
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Don Juan DeMarco
Overview: John Arnold DeMarco is a man who believes he is Don Juan, the greatest lover in the world. Clad in a cape and mask, DeMarco undergoes psychiatric treatment with Dr. Jack Mickler to cure him of his apparent delusion. But the psychiatric sessions have an unexpected effect on the psychiatric staff and, most profoundly, Dr Mickler, who rekindles the romance in his complacent marriage.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-10-12
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Long Time Gone
Overview: A "world-class screw-up" private eye finds his world and his attention changed when he is reunited with his estranged 11-year old son.
Genres: Action TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-23
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Bound
Overview: Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is immediately attracted to her.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-13
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Blue Streak
Overview: Miles Logan is a jewel thief who just hit the big time by stealing a huge diamond. However, after two years in jail, he comes to find out that he hid the diamond in a police building that was being built at the time of the robbery. In an attempt to regain his diamond, he poses as an LAPD detective.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-17
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Hitters
Overview: A respected civic leader is caught between two rival underworld crime families on the verge of war.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-01
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The Road Killers
Overview: After a young boy is almost runover by a maniac on a highway, a re-encounter and confrontation by the boy's father with the driver sets off conflicts with a car full of maniacs.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-07
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Blink of an Eye
Overview: Tommy is a 28-year-old man who escaped his hellish childhood by murdering his abusive father. After a prison stint, Tommy's work release program gives him a shot at a new life when he is placed as a cook at St. Michael's School in L.A, There he meets Guillermo, a neighborhood kid who is committed to keeping him out of trouble, and Sophia, a schoolteacher who educates him in a subject he knows nothing about--love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-09-16
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Songwriter
Overview: Doc Jenkins may be one of country music's most beloved stars, but his private life is a wreck. He's split up with his longtime partner, Blackie Buck, a country outlaw with a heart of gold. Doc's singer-wife, Honey Carder, has thrown him out of the house. And now he's gotten involved with a sleazy music manager, Rodeo Rocky, who's out to steal his material. Teaming up with Blackie, Doc takes drastic measures to win back his family and reclaim his songs.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-14
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Dr. Dolittle 2
Overview: A group of beavers ask Dr. Dolittle to save their habitat from loggers. The only hope is to get the forest preserved because it's the home of a protected bear, but there's a problem: the bear's the only bear in the forest, so she can't reproduce. Undaunted, Dolittle persuades a circus bear to help out, but he has to teach him not just the ways of the wild, but the wiles of lady bears too.
Genres: Comedy Family Romance Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-06-22
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