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Alan Wolf Arkin (March 26, 1934 – June 29, 2023) was an American actor, director, musician and singer. He was known for starring in such films as Wait Until Dark, The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, Minions: The Rise of Gru, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Catch-22, The In-Laws, Edward Scissorhands, Glengarry Glen Ross, Marley & Me, ... more

Alan Wolf Arkin (March 26, 1934 – June 29, 2023) was an American actor, director, musician and singer. He was known for starring in such films as Wait Until Dark, The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, Minions: The Rise of Gru, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Catch-22, The In-Laws, Edward Scissorhands, Glengarry Glen Ross, Marley & Me, Argo and Little Miss Sunshine, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 2006. He was the father of actors Adam Arkin, Anthony Arkin, and Matthew Arkin.

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Edward Scissorhands
(1990)
Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.
Runtime:
105 min
Director:
Tim Burton
Cast:
Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Alan Arkin, Anthony Michael Hall
7.9
90%
74
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Little Miss Sunshine
(2006)
Comedy, Drama
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
Runtime:
102 min
Director:
Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Cast:
Abigail Breslin, Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Toni Collette, Steve Carell
7.8
91%
80
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Argo
(2012)
Drama, Thriller
As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.
Runtime:
120 min
Director:
Ben Affleck
Cast:
Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, John Goodman, Victor Garber
7.7
96%
86
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Gattaca
(1997)
Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Thriller
In a future society in the era of indefinite eugenics, humans are set on a life course depending on their DNA. Young Vincent Freeman is born with a condition that would prevent him from space travel, yet is determined to infiltrate the GATTACA space program.
Runtime:
106 min
Director:
Andrew Niccol
Cast:
Ethan Hawke, Jude Law, Gore Vidal, Uma Thurman, Alan Arkin
7.8
83%
64
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Glengarry Glen Ross
(1992)
Crime, Drama, Mystery
When an office full of Chicago real estate salesmen is given the news that all but the top two will be fired at the end of the week, the atmosphere begins to heat up. Shelley Levene, who has a sick daughter, does everything in his power to get better leads from his boss, John Williamson, but to no avail. When his coworker Dave Moss com...
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
James Foley
Cast:
Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Alec Baldwin, Alan Arkin, Ed Harris
7.7
95%
82
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Marley & Me
(2008)
Comedy, Family
A newly married couple who, in the process of starting a family, learn many of life's important lessons from their trouble-loving retriever, Marley. Packed with plenty of laughs to lighten the load, the film explores the highs and lows of marriage, maturity and confronting one's own mortality, as seen through the lens of family life wi...
Runtime:
115 min
Director:
David Frankel
Cast:
Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Eric Dane, Kathleen Turner, Alan Arkin
7.1
63%
53
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Grosse Pointe Blank
(1997)
Action, Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Martin Blank is a hitman for hire. When he starts to develop a conscience, he botches a couple of routine jobs. On the advice of his secretary and his psychiatrist, he decides to attend his ten-year high school reunion in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.
Runtime:
107 min
Director:
George Armitage
Cast:
John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Dan Aykroyd, Joan Cusack, Alan Arkin
7.3
81%
76
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The Muppets
(2011)
Comedy, Family, Music
When Kermit the Frog and the Muppets learn that their beloved theater is slated for demolition, a sympathetic human, Gary, and his puppet brother, Walter, swoop in to help the gang put on a show and raise the $10 million they need to save the day.
Runtime:
103 min
Director:
James Bobin
Cast:
Amy Adams, Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Zach Galifianakis
7.1
96%
75
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Get Smart
(2008)
Action, Comedy, Thriller
When the identities of secret agents from Control are compromised, the Chief promotes hapless but eager analyst Maxwell Smart and teams him with stylish, capable Agent 99, the only spy whose cover remains intact. Can they work together to thwart the evil plans of KAOS and its crafty operative?
Runtime:
110 min
Director:
Peter Segal
Cast:
Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, Dwayne Johnson, Alan Arkin, Terence Stamp
6.5
51%
54
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Wait Until Dark
(1967)
Crime, Horror, Thriller
After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat has followed Hendrix back to his place to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his ...
Runtime:
108 min
Director:
Terence Young
Cast:
Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., Jack Weston
7.8
96%
81
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Sunshine Cleaning
(2008)
Comedy, Drama
A single mother and her slacker sister find an unexpected way to turn their lives around in the off-beat dramatic comedy. In order to raise the tuition to send her young son to private school the mom starts an unusual business – a biohazard removal/crime scene clean-up service.
Runtime:
102 min
Director:
Christine Jeffs
Cast:
Amy Adams, Emily Blunt, Alan Arkin, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Alan Arkin
6.8
74%
61
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Rendition
(2007)
Drama, Thriller
When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside the US.
Runtime:
120 min
Director:
Gavin Hood
Cast:
Omar Metwally, Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Moa Khouas, Zineb Oukach
6.8
47%
55
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The Change-Up
(2011)
Comedy
Dave is a married man with two kids and a loving wife, and Mitch is a single man who is at the prime of his sexual life. One fateful night while Mitch and Dave are peeing in a fountain when lightning strikes, they switch bodies.
Runtime:
112 min
Director:
David Dobkin
Cast:
Olivia Wilde, Ryan Reynolds, Jason Bateman, Leslie Mann, Mircea Monroe
6.3
25%
39
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Minions: The Rise of Gru
(2022)
Animation, Comedy, Family
A fanboy of a supervillain supergroup known as the Vicious 6, Gru hatches a plan to become evil enough to join them, with the backup of his followers, the Minions.
Runtime:
87 min
Cast:
Steve Carell, Pierre Coffin, Pierre Coffin, Pierre Coffin, Pierre Coffin
6.5
69%
56
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Going in Style
(2017)
Comedy, Crime
Desperate to pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, three lifelong pals risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.
Runtime:
96 min
Director:
Zach Braff
Cast:
Morgan Freeman, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Michael Caine, Alan Arkin
6.6
90%
50
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City Island
(2009)
Comedy, Drama
The Rizzos, a family who doesn't share their habits, aspirations, and careers with one another, find their delicate web of lies disturbed by the arrival of a young ex-con brought home by Vince, the patriarch of the family, who is a corrections officer in real life, and a hopeful actor in private.
Runtime:
104 min
Director:
Raymond De Felitta
Cast:
Andy García, Alan Arkin, Dominik García-Lorido, Emily Mortimer, Ezra Miller
7.4
81%
66
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Million Dollar Arm
(2014)
Drama
In a last-ditch effort to save his career, sports agent JB Bernstein dreams up a wild game plan to find Major League Baseball’s next great pitcher from a pool of cricket players in India. He soon discovers two young men who can throw a fastball but know nothing about the game of baseball. Or America. It’s an incredible and touching jou...
Runtime:
124 min
Director:
Craig Gillespie
Cast:
Jon Hamm, Bill Paxton, Lake Bell, Suraj Sharma, Aasif Mandvi
7.0
63%
56
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The Last Unicorn
(1982)
Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy
From a riddle-speaking butterfly, a unicorn learns that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all the others having been herded away by the Red Bull. The unicorn sets out to discover the truth behind the butterfly's words. She is eventually joined on her quest by Schmendrick, a second-rate magician, and Molly Grue, a now middle-aged ...
Runtime:
92 min
Director:
Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr.
Cast:
Alan Arkin, Jeff Bridges, Mia Farrow, Tammy Grimes, Angela Lansbury
7.4
73%
70
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The Rocketeer
(1991)
Action, Adventure, Family, Science Fiction
A stunt pilot comes across a prototype jetpack that gives him the ability to fly. However, evil forces of the world also want this jetpack at any cost.
Runtime:
108 min
Director:
Joe Johnston
Cast:
Billy Campbell, Jennifer Connelly, Alan Arkin, Timothy Dalton, Paul Sorvino
6.5
66%
61
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Dumbo
(2019)
Adventure, Family, Fantasy
A young elephant, whose oversized ears enable him to fly, helps save a struggling circus, but when the circus plans a new venture, Dumbo and his friends discover dark secrets beneath its shiny veneer.
Runtime:
112 min
Director:
Tim Burton
Cast:
Colin Farrell, Eva Green, Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Sandy Martin
6.3
46%
51
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Stand Up Guys
(2012)
Action, Comedy, Thriller
After serving 28 years in prison for accidentally killing the son of a crime boss, newly paroled gangster Val reunites with his former partners in crime, Doc and Hirsch, for a night on the town. As the three men revisit old haunts, reflect on their glory days and try to make up for lost time, one wrestles with a terrible quandary: Doc ...
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Fisher Stevens
Cast:
Alan Arkin, Julianna Margulies, Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, Katheryn Winnick
6.5
37%
41
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Grudge Match
(2013)
Comedy
A pair of aging boxing rivals are coaxed out of retirement to fight one final bout -- 30 years after their last match.
Runtime:
113 min
Director:
Peter Segal
Cast:
Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone, Alan Arkin, Jon Bernthal, Kevin Hart
6.4
29%
35
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Catch-22
(1970)
Comedy, Drama, War
A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a crazy situation.
Runtime:
121 min
Director:
Mike Nichols
Cast:
Alan Arkin, Alan Arkin, Martin Balsam, Martin Balsam, Richard Benjamin
7.1
79%
70
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So I Married an Axe Murderer
(1993)
Comedy, Crime, Romance
Just after a bad breakup, Charlie MacKenzie falls for lovely butcher Harriet Michaels and introduces her to his parents. But, as voracious consumers of sensational tabloids, his parents soon come to suspect that Harriet is actually a notorious serial killer -- "Mrs. X" -- wanted in connection with a string of bizarre honeymoon killings...
Runtime:
93 min
Director:
Thomas Schlamme
Cast:
Mike Myers, Nancy Travis, Anthony LaPaglia, Amanda Plummer, Brenda Fricker
6.5
51%
54
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The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
(2013)
Comedy
After breaking up with his longtime stage partner, a famous but jaded Vegas magician fights for relevance when a new, "hip" street magician appears on the scene.
Runtime:
100 min
5.9
36%
44
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Firewall
(2006)
Action, Crime, Thriller
State-of-the-art security system creator, Jack Stanfield has cemented his reputation as a man who's thought of everything. But when a criminal finds a way into Jack's personal life, everything Jack holds dear is suddenly at stake.
Runtime:
105 min
Director:
Richard Loncraine
Cast:
Harrison Ford, Paul Bettany, Virginia Madsen, Carly Schroeder, Jimmy Bennett
5.8
18%
45
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America's Sweethearts
(2001)
Comedy, Romance
In the midst of a nasty public breakup of married movie stars, a studio publicist scrambles to put a cap on the escalating situation as the couple's latest film has found it's only print kidnapped by the director.
Runtime:
102 min
Director:
Joe Roth
Cast:
Julia Roberts, Billy Crystal, Catherine Zeta-Jones, John Cusack, Hank Azaria
5.7
32%
44
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Jakob the Liar
(1999)
Comedy, Drama, History
In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that th...
Runtime:
120 min
Director:
Peter Kassovitz
Cast:
Robin Williams, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Éva Igó, István Bálint
6.5
29%
40
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Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
(2001)
Drama
The lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a housecleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability.
Runtime:
104 min
Director:
Jill Sprecher
Cast:
John Turturro, Clea DuVall, Matthew McConaughey, Amy Irving, Alan Arkin
7.0
83%
74
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Escape from Sobibor
(1987)
Drama, TV Movie, Thriller, War
The true story of WWII's notorious Sobibor Nazi death camp, where a courageous inmate orchestrates and leads the escape of over 300 prisoners.
Runtime:
143 min
Director:
Jack Gold
Cast:
Alan Arkin, Joanna Pacula, Rutger Hauer, Hartmut Becker, Hartmut Becker
7.4
N/A
N/A
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Slums of Beverly Hills
(1998)
Comedy, Drama
In 1976, a lower-middle-class teenager struggles to cope living with her neurotic family of nomads on the outskirts of Beverly Hills.
Runtime:
91 min
Director:
Tamara Jenkins
Cast:
Natasha Lyonne, Alan Arkin, Marisa Tomei, Eli Marienthal, Mena Suvari
6.6
81%
69
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The In-Laws
(1979)
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery
In preparation for his daughter's wedding, dentist Sheldon Kornpett meets Vince Ricardo, the groom's father. Vince, a manic fellow who claims to be a government agent, then proceeds to drag Sheldon into a series of chases and misadventures from New York to Central America.
Runtime:
103 min
Director:
Arthur Hiller
Cast:
Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Penny Peyser, Ed Begley Jr., David Paymer
7.3
88%
69
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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
(2009)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
After her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in a period of reflection and finds herself heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown.
Runtime:
98 min
Director:
Rebecca Miller
Cast:
Robin Wright, Robin Wright, Alan Arkin, Keanu Reeves, Julianne Moore
6.4
70%
49
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The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!
(1966)
Comedy, War
When a Soviet submarine gets stuck on a sandbar off the coast of a New England island, its commander orders his second-in-command, Lieutenant Rozanov, to get them moving again before there is an international incident. Rozanov seeks assistance from the island locals, including the police chief and a vacationing television writer, while...
Runtime:
126 min
Director:
Norman Jewison
Cast:
Carl Reiner, Eva Marie Saint, Alan Arkin, Brian Keith, Paul Ford
7.1
84%
N/A
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Love the Coopers
(2015)
Comedy, Drama, Family
When four generations of the Cooper clan come together for their annual Christmas Eve celebration, a series of unexpected visitors and unlikely events turn the night upside down, leading them all toward a surprising rediscovery of family bonds and the spirit of the holiday.
Runtime:
107 min
Director:
Jessie Nelson
Cast:
Olivia Wilde, Amanda Seyfried, Marisa Tomei, Diane Keaton, John Goodman
5.7
18%
31
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Four Days in September
(1997)
Drama, History, Thriller
Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties. Cesare, however, is wounded and captured during a bank hold up. Fernando then decides to kidnap the American ambassador in Brazil and ask for the release of fifteen political prisoners in exchang...
Runtime:
110 min
Director:
Bruno Barreto
Cast:
Alan Arkin, Fernanda Torres, Pedro Cardoso, Luiz Fernando Guimarães, Cláudia Abreu
7.4
59%
N/A
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Mother Night
(1996)
Drama, History
An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real role in the war.
Runtime:
114 min
Director:
Keith Gordon
Cast:
Nick Nolte, Sheryl Lee, Alan Arkin, Kirsten Dunst, Bernard Behrens
7.1
63%
N/A
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Noel
(2004)
Drama, Romance
Christmas Eve in New York, and the lonely divorced publisher, Rose Collins, needs a miracle to improve the health of her mother, interned in a hospital with Alzheimers. She feels sorry for another patient and meets his visitor. Meanwhile, Nina Vasquez breaks her engagement with her beloved fiancé Mike due to his suffocating jealousy, b...
Runtime:
96 min
Director:
Chazz Palminteri
Cast:
Susan Sarandon, Alan Arkin, Paul Walker, Penélope Cruz, John Doman
6.3
29%
29
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
(1968)
Drama
Singer is a deaf-mute whose small world brings him in contact with a young girl, Mick, who cherishes a seemingly hopeless dream of becoming a concert pianist. At first hostile, Mick soon becomes friends with Singer, hoping to enlarge his small world. Three other central characters come to Singer for help also, each of them seeing in hi...
Runtime:
123 min
Director:
Robert Ellis Miller
Cast:
Sondra Locke, Alan Arkin, Sondra Locke, Laurinda Barrett, Stacy Keach
7.6
100%
N/A
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Havana
(1990)
Drama, Romance
An American professional gambler named Jack Weil decides to visit Havana, Cuba to gamble. On the boat to Havana, he meets Roberta Duran, the wife of a revolutionary, Arturo. Shortly after their arrival, Arturo is taken away by the secret police, and Roberta is captured and tortured. Jack frees her, but she continues to support the revo...
Runtime:
144 min
Director:
Sydney Pollack
Cast:
Robert Redford, Lena Olin, Alan Arkin, Tomas Milian, Daniel Davis
6.1
28%
N/A