The best Louis Guss’s movies

Louis Guss

Louis Guss

04/01/1918- 29/09/2008
Today we present the best Louis Guss’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Louis Guss’s movies.
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The Godfather

The Godfather
9.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 14/03/1972
  • Character: Don Zaluchi
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.

Highlander

Highlander
7/10
He fought his first battle on the Scottish Highlands in 1536. He will fight his greatest battle on the streets of New York City in 1986. His name is Connor MacLeod. He is immortal.

Moonstruck

Moonstruck
7.2/10
No sooner does Italian-American widow Loretta accept a marriage proposal from her doltish boyfriend, Johnny, than she finds herself falling for his younger brother, Ronny. She tries to resist, but Ronny lost his hand in an accident he blames on his brother, and has no scruples about aggressively pursuing her while Johnny is out of the country. As Loretta falls deeper in love, she comes to learn that she's not the only one in her family with a secret romance.

The Yards

The Yards
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 20/10/2000
  • Character: Nathan Grodner
In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. When Leo Handler gets out of prison, he finds his aunt married to Frank Olchin, one of the big contractors; he's battling with a minority-owned firm for contracts.

Night Falls on Manhattan

Night Falls on Manhattan
6.6/10
A newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner.

Fun with Dick and Jane

Fun with Dick and Jane
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 18/03/1977
  • Character: Phone Co. Customer
When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.

Harry and Tonto

Harry and Tonto
7.3/10
Harry is a retired teacher in his 70s living in the Upper West Side of New York City where his late wife and he raised his children--where he's lived all his life. When the building he lives in is torn down to make way for a parking garage, Harry and his beloved cat Tonto begin a journey across the United States, visiting his children, seeing a world he never seemed to have the time to see before, making new friends, and saying goodbye to old friends.

No Deposit, No Return

No Deposit, No Return
6.3/10
Two rich children devise a way to escape their grandfather and visit their mother. Unfortunately for two hapless safe crackers, they become part of the plan.

Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/12/1976
  • Character: Dinsdale
Going from a lawyer to a writer, and then to a film director, is the career path on which we find the bashful Leo Harrigan. But Leo has problems as well, such as being hopelessly smitten with his leading lady, who chooses to reward his attentions by getting herself hitched to Harrigan's vulgar leading man, Buck Greenaway!

Slaves of New York

Slaves of New York
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/03/1989
  • Character: Vardig
Meet the denizens of New York City: artists, prostitutes, saints, and seers. All are aspiring toward either fame or oblivion, and hoping for love and acceptance. Instead they find high rents, faithless partners, and dead-end careers.

Willie and Phil

Willie and Phil
5.9/10
Life imitates art when two Manhattanites — pompous teacher Willie and quiet photographer Phil — become friends after a thought-provoking screening of "Jules et Jim," Truffaut's classic film about a decades-long ménage à trois. Soon, the men meet Jeanette, a sexually liberated southern transplant who promptly falls for both of them. Frustrated passions curdle into jealousy as Jeanette entertains love affairs with each in the ensuing years.

Lepke

Lepke
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1975
  • Character: Max Rubin
Tony Curtis stars as the feared leader of "Murder Incorporated" in this underworld drama based on the life of Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. Lepke began his criminal career as a petty thief in his teens; a stretch in prison taught him the finer points of life on the wrong side of the law. After getting out of jail, Lepke and his pal Gurrah Shapiro (Warren Berlinger) join a gang who hire themselves out as strikebreakers, and the vicious but clever Lepke soon rises through the ranks.

The Super Cops

The Super Cops
6.6/10
The true story of two New York City cops. Greenberg & Hantz fought the system, became detectives and were known on the streets as "Batman & Robin".

Sno-Line

Sno-Line
6.1/10
A New York City district attorney secretly runs a cocaine-smuggling ring in Texas. When the mob tries to move in on his operation, he goes down there to try to stop them.

Original Sin

Original Sin
4.8/10
When his son is kidnapped a man has to face his past demons in speaking to a Mafia don about it.

The Cemetery Club

The Cemetery Club
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/02/1993
  • Character: Ed Bonfigliano
The story of three Pittsburgh widows who meet every year to visit their husband's graves and talk about perspectives in their lives.

The Counterfeit Contessa

The Counterfeit Contessa
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 04/04/1994
  • Character: Anthony Nardino
Gina Nardino, a young saleswoman at the food counter of a posh department store, falls hard for a society stud, and, through a series of accidents, impresses him by taking on the false identity of an Italian contessa. But the masquerade begins to get out of hand when the stud's brother sees through her disguise...and likes what he sees.

Ready for the People

Ready for the People
In a barroom fight over Connie Zelenko, Eddie Dickinson is badly wounded and Connie's boyfriend is killed. Witnesses claim Dickinson is the killer, but he maintains his innocence despite public prosecutor Murray Brock's advice that he plead guilty and take a life-imprisonment sentence rather than risk capital punishment. When Connie comes out of hiding, she confirms the other witnesses' stories, but Brock believes Dickinson is innocent. Dickinson sticks to his story at his trial but receives the death sentence. In the death house, Dickinson continues to maintain his innocence, but after the execution of the sentence, Brock receives a letter from Dickinson confessing to the murder.

The Third Girl from the Left

The Third Girl from the Left
6.3/10
A chorus girl comes to the realization that she is not getting any younger and that her longtime relationship with a nightclub singer is going nowhere. She finds herself attracted to an unassuming but attentive--and much younger--delivery boy.

Terror on the 40th Floor

Terror on the 40th Floor
4.7/10
A number of business people, keeping the Christmas Eve office party going longer than was originally intended, are beset by a fire that starts in the basement of their office building and creeps up at them from floor to floor.

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