Martin Landau — Actor (70)

Movie

Echoes That Remain (1991)
Echoes That Remain WikiData IMDb TMDB
Echoes That Remain combines hundreds of rare archival photos and previously unseen film footage with live action sequences shot on location at the sites of former Jewish communities in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Romania. The film's production team spent over a year of research in archives around the world collecting film footage and photographs to help dramatize the folk stories, parables, and anecdotes. Playing an important role in the film are a series of evocative images from the famed photo biographer of Eastern European shtetl life, the late Roman Vishniac.

Movie

Trial by Terror (1983)
Trial by Terror IMDb TMDB
A couple moves into a new home and find success and happiness, but soon their dream becomes a nightmare when they hear chilling voices in the night, vandalous attacks and a faceless, nameless menace threatens to destroy them. The law won't help, and when an intruder is shot and killed, their ordeal has just begun.

Movie

Savage! (1973)
Savage! WikiData IMDb TMDB
other title: 萨维奇 / Watch Dog …
A television reporter uncovers a compromising photograph of a Supreme Court nominee, only for the woman in the picture to die under mysterious circumstances. As he investigates, he’s drawn into a web of political intrigue and media manipulation. Originally conceived as a TV series pilot, the 1973 thriller aired as a standalone film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Martin Landau.

Movie

An Existential Affair (2006)
An Existential Affair IMDb TMDB
The story of two lovers, a woman and a Young Republican, who meet in hotel rooms over the 1990s to explore their sexual prowess. Only when they venture out of 'the box' does reality start to tear at the fabric of their private, existential affair. Nothing stays the same. They marry. Guess what happens next?

Movie

A Fighting Chance (2016)
A Fighting Chance IMDb TMDB
In order to get his family back, Frank must transform internally and overcome his fear instilled in him by his father since childhood. And in the process of his turbulent spiritual journey and self-discovery, he creates a Martial Arts "Transformational Training Method: H.I.G.H. K.E.Y. F.I.T.N.E.S.S. which in turn he utilizes to lead and metamorphosize an inner-city High School Karate team from last place to first place in the state. These teenagers get to realize their unlimited God-given potential to overcome barriers and break down their limited beliefs and become positive contributors to society.

Movie

Ed Wood: Making Bela (2004)
Ed Wood: Making Bela IMDb TMDB
actor: Martin Landau / Rick Baker …
Martin Landau talks about how he portrayed Bela Lugosi in the movie. He mentions the similarities between Lugosi and his own career, and how he worked on the Hungarian accent. Rick Baker, who won an Oscar for the make-up effects, discusses how he approached transforming Landau into Lugosi, and how much he wanted to do the project.

Movie

Very Mean Men (2000)
Very Mean Men WikiData IMDb TMDB
A bartender wants rid of an obnoxious drunk but not until the drunk has left a decent tip. So the bartender tells the story of two mobster families, the Minetti's who work out of an Italian restaurant in the East San Fernando Valley, and the Mulroney's who work out of an Irish pub in the West San Fernando Valley. Mob war breaks out when one of the Minetti "boys" stiffs Big Paddy's daughter on her tip. We soon see why these hoods are called very mean men

Movie

Eye of the Stranger (1993)
Eye of the Stranger IMDb TMDB
A stranger comes into town and causes a stir when he stands up for the townfolk, in the face of the intimidation tactics from Mayor Howard Baines. The scheming mayor wants to buy up all the local properties, and has hired two thugs to help 'persuade' the owners to sell.

Movie

Without Ward (2022)
Without Ward WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Sci-Fi Romantic Independent film WITHOUT WARD takes place in the future where a one-world government; Contractualism, controls everything. A notable inventor, Ward (Martin Landau), creates a drug which allows people to literally live in their wildest dreams. Over the next 20 years, 50% of the world's population ends up on the drug, while the Union of United Esquires, lawyers with guns that act as the worlds police force by fulfilling and enforcing contracts, take care of them.

TV

In the Beginning (2000)
In the Beginning IMDb TMDB
other title: Am Anfang / Au commencement, la terre promise …
In the Beginning is a 2-part biblical television miniseries directed by Kevin Connor. It stars Martin Landau and Jacqueline Bisset and it premiered on NBC on November 12, 2000.

Movie

Abe & Phil's Last Poker Game (2018)
Abe & Phil's Last Poker Game WikiData IMDb TMDB
other title: 더 라스트 포커 게임 / 亞伯和菲爾最後的撲克遊戲 …
Dr. Abe Mandelbaum has just moved into a retirement home. After forming an unlikely friendship with a womanizing gambler, their relationship is tested when they each try to convince a mysterious nurse that they are her long-lost father.

Movie

Empire State (1987)
Empire State WikiData IMDb TMDB
In the docklands of East London stands the Empire State, a nightclub full of magic and mystery. Designed like an ocean liner, it's become a battle ground where anything can happen. In the midst of the action, a young boy stows aboard to search for his friend who has disappeared in the entrails of the club.

Movie

Run If You Can (1988)
Run If You Can IMDb TMDB
other title: Run If You Can! ...oder Du bist das nächste Opfer / Corre si puedes
A young woman accidentally sees snuff films through a satellite dish aberration and alerts the police, who are already looking for a serial killer.

Movie

Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's (1998)
Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's WikiData IMDb TMDB
In 1995, Chasen's closed its doors after 60 years of serving chili to movie stars and visiting dignitaries, Presidents and the Pope. During its two final weeks, Chasen regulars (actors and producers), staff, and management sat for interviews. There's an Oscar party for 1500, footage and photos of famous diners, and time with Tommy Gallagher, the ebullient head waiter until retirement in 1994, his son Patrick, catering head Raymond Bilbool, general manager Ronnie Clint, hat check girl Val Schwab, ladies' room attendant Onetta Johnson, and foreign- born waiters, including Jaime. When he started in 1970, like other Latins, he wasn't allowed out of the kitchen. It's a family farewell.