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Harvey Keitel

Harvey Keitel (born May 13, 1939) is an American actor known for his portrayal of morally ambiguous and "tough guy" characters. He rose to prominence during the New Hollywood movement, and has held a long-running association with director Martin Scorsese, starring in six of his films: Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), Mean Streets (1973), A... more

Harvey Keitel (born May 13, 1939) is an American actor known for his portrayal of morally ambiguous and "tough guy" characters. He rose to prominence during the New Hollywood movement, and has held a long-running association with director Martin Scorsese, starring in six of his films: Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), Mean Streets (1973), Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), Taxi Driver (1976), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and The Irishman (2019).

Keitel received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination for his portrayal of Mickey Cohen in Bugsy (1991). He won the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Piano (1993). Other films include Blue Collar (1978), Thelma & Louise (1991), Reservoir Dogs (1992), Bad Lieutenant (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), From Dusk till Dawn (1996), Holy Smoke! (1998), Cop Land (1997), and Youth (2015).

He has acted in the Wes Anderson films Moonrise Kingdom (2012), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and Isle of Dogs (2018). He played FBI Agent Peter Sadusky in both National Treasure (2004), and National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2006) and reprised his role in the Disney+ series National Treasure: Edge of History (2022). From 1995 to 2017, he was a co-president of the Actors Studio, alongside Al Pacino and Ellen Burstyn.

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Pulp Fiction
(1994)
Crime, Thriller
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
Runtime:
154 min
Director:
Quentin Tarantino
Cast:
Tim Roth, Samuel L. Jackson, Amanda Plummer, Laura Lovelace, John Travolta
8.9
92%
94
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Inglourious Basterds
(2009)
Action, Drama, Thriller, War
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris whic...
Runtime:
153 min
Director:
Quentin Tarantino
Cast:
Brad Pitt, Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Christoph Waltz
8.3
89%
69
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Reservoir Dogs
(1992)
Crime, Thriller
A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White, newcomer Mr. Orange, psychopathic parolee Mr. Blonde, bickering weasel Mr. Pink and Nice Guy Eddie -- unravel.
Runtime:
99 min
Director:
Quentin Tarantino
Cast:
Harvey Keitel, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen
8.3
92%
79
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Taxi Driver
(1976)
Crime, Drama
A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feed his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.
Runtime:
114 min
Director:
Martin Scorsese
Cast:
Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Jodie Foster, Harvey Keitel
8.2
96%
94
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The Grand Budapest Hotel
(2014)
Comedy, Drama
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals tha...
Runtime:
100 min
8.1
92%
88
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Moonrise Kingdom
(2012)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned u...
Runtime:
94 min
7.8
N/A
84
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Isle of Dogs
(2018)
Adventure, Animation, Comedy
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island that's a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet.
Runtime:
101 min
Director:
Wes Anderson
Cast:
Bryan Cranston, Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Edward Norton, Bill Murray
7.9
90%
82
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Thelma & Louise
(1991)
Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Whilst on a short weekend getaway, Louise shoots a man who had tried to rape Thelma. Due to the incriminating circumstances, they make a run for it and thus a cross country chase ensues for the two fugitives. Along the way, both women rediscover the strength of their friendship and surprising aspects of their personalities and self-str...
Runtime:
130 min
Director:
Ridley Scott
Cast:
Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon, Harvey Keitel
7.5
85%
88
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From Dusk Till Dawn
(1996)
Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Seth Gecko and his younger brother Richard are on the run after a bloody bank robbery in Texas. They escape across the border into Mexico and will be home-free the next morning, when they pay off the local kingpin. They just have to survive 'from dusk till dawn' at the rendezvous point, which turns out to be a Hell of a strip joint.
Runtime:
108 min
Director:
Robert Rodriguez
Cast:
George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis, Ernest Liu
7.2
62%
48
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Red Dragon
(2002)
Horror
Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one who can help Graham track down a new serial killer.
Runtime:
124 min
Director:
Brett Ratner
Cast:
Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes, Harvey Keitel, Emily Watson
7.2
68%
60
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The Piano
(1993)
Drama, Romance
After a long voyage from Scotland, pianist Ada McGrath and her young daughter, Flora, are left with all their belongings, including a piano, on a New Zealand beach. Ada, who has been mute since childhood, has been sold into marriage to a local man named Alisdair Stewart. Making little attempt to warm up to Alisdair, Ada soon becomes in...
Runtime:
121 min
Director:
Jane Campion
Cast:
Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin, Tungia Baker
7.6
91%
89
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National Treasure
(2004)
Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Gates, search for a chest of riches rumored to have been stashed away by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin during the Revolutionary War. The chest's whereabouts may lie in secret clues embedded in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, and Gates is...
Runtime:
131 min
Director:
Jon Turteltaub
Cast:
Nicolas Cage, Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Sean Bean, Jon Voight
6.9
46%
39
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Mean Streets
(1973)
Crime, Drama
A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.
Runtime:
112 min
Director:
Martin Scorsese
Cast:
Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro, David Proval, Amy Robinson, Richard Romanus
7.2
96%
96
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The Last Temptation of Christ
(1988)
Drama
Jesus, a humble Judean carpenter beginning to see that he is the son of God, is drawn into revolutionary action against the Roman occupiers by Judas -- despite his protestations that love, not violence, is the path to salvation. The burden of being the savior of mankind torments Jesus throughout his life, leading him to doubt.
Runtime:
164 min
Director:
Martin Scorsese
Cast:
Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey, David Bowie
7.5
81%
80
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Youth
(2015)
Comedy, Drama
Two lifelong friends bond whilst vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena, Mick is intent on finishing the screenplay for what may be his last important film for his muse Brenda. And where will inspiration lead...
Runtime:
125 min
Director:
Paolo Sorrentino
Cast:
Michael Caine, Rachel Weisz, Harvey Keitel, Paul Dano, Jane Fonda
7.3
74%
64
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Cop Land
(1997)
Action, Crime, Drama
Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he’s long admired. Yet something ugly is taking place behind the town’s peaceful facade. And when Freddy uncovers a massive, deadly conspiracy among these local residents, he is forced to tak...
Runtime:
104 min
Director:
James Mangold
Cast:
Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel, Ray Liotta, Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro
6.9
76%
64
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National Treasure: Book of Secrets
(2007)
Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Benjamin Franklin Gates and Dr. Abigail Chase re-team with Riley Poole and, now armed with a stack of long-lost pages from John Wilkes Booth's diary, Ben must follow a clue left there to prove his ancestor's innocence in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
Runtime:
124 min
Director:
Jon Turteltaub
Cast:
Nicolas Cage, Jon Voight, Harvey Keitel, Ed Harris, Diane Kruger
6.5
36%
48
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Get Shorty
(1995)
Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent by his boss, the psychopathic "Bones" Barboni, to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the romantic sparks fly. After pitching his own life story as a movie idea, Chili learns that being a mob...
Runtime:
105 min
Director:
Barry Sonnenfeld
Cast:
John Travolta, Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, Danny DeVito, Dennis Farina
6.9
88%
82
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Smoke
(1995)
Comedy, Drama
Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short-term housemate. Still grieving over his wife's murder, Paul is moved by both Rashid's quest to reconnect with his father and Auggie's di...
Runtime:
112 min
Director:
Wayne Wang
Cast:
Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Giancarlo Esposito, José Zúñiga, Stephen Gevedon
7.4
93%
70
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U-571
(2000)
Action, Drama, Thriller, War
In the midst of World War II, the battle under the sea rages and the Nazis have the upper hand as the Allies are unable to crack their war codes. However, after a wrecked U-boat sends out an SOS signal, the Allies realise this is their chance to seize the 'enigma coding machine'.
Runtime:
116 min
Director:
Jonathan Mostow
Cast:
Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Jon Bon Jovi, David Keith
6.6
67%
62
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Sister Act
(1992)
Comedy, Music
A Reno singer witnesses a mob murder and the cops stash her in a nunnery to protect her from the mob's hitmen. The mother superior does not trust her, and takes steps to limit her influence on the other nuns. Eventually the singer rescues the failing choir and begins helping with community projects, which gets her an interview on TV—an...
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Emile Ardolino
Cast:
Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith, Kathy Najimy, Wendy Makkena, Mary Wickes
6.5
74%
51
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Bad Lieutenant
(1992)
Crime, Drama
While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.
Runtime:
96 min
Director:
Abel Ferrara
Cast:
Harvey Keitel, Harvey Keitel, Brian McElroy, Victor Argo, Frankie Acciarito
7.1
77%
70
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The Duellists
(1977)
Drama, War
In 1800, as Napoleon Bonaparte rises to power in France, a rivalry erupts between Armand and Gabriel, two lieutenants in the French Army, over a perceived insult. For over a decade, they engage in a series of duels amidst larger conflicts, including the failed French invasion of Russia in 1812, and shifts in the political and social sy...
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Ridley Scott
Cast:
Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Albert Finney, Robert Stephens, Tom Conti
7.4
92%
70
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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
(1974)
Drama, Romance
After her husband dies, Alice and her son, Tommy, leave their small New Mexico town for California, where Alice hopes to make a new life for herself as a singer. Money problems force them to settle in Arizona instead, where Alice takes a job as waitress in a small diner.
Runtime:
112 min
Director:
Martin Scorsese
Cast:
Ellen Burstyn, Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson, Alfred Lutter, Alfred Lutter
7.3
88%
78
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Bugsy
(1991)
Crime, Drama, Mystery
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 gamb...
Runtime:
134 min
Director:
Barry Levinson
Cast:
Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel, Ben Kingsley, Elliott Gould
6.8
84%
80
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Rising Sun
(1993)
Action, Drama, Thriller
When a prostitute is found dead in a Los Angeles skyscraper occupied by a large Japanese corporation, detectives John Conner and Web Smith are called in to investigate. Although Conner has previous experience working in Japan, cultural differences make their progress difficult until a security disc showing the murder turns up. Close sc...
Runtime:
125 min
Director:
Philip Kaufman
Cast:
Sean Connery, Wesley Snipes, Harvey Keitel, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Kevin Anderson
6.3
33%
56
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Clockers
(1995)
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike’s older brother turns himself in as the killer. Det. Rocco Klein doesn’t buy the story, however, setting out to find the truth, and it seems that all the fingers...
Runtime:
128 min
Director:
Spike Lee
Cast:
Harvey Keitel, John Turturro, Delroy Lindo, Mekhi Phifer, Isaiah Washington
6.9
72%
71
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Arthur and the Invisibles
(2006)
Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy
Arthur is a spirited ten-year old whose parents are away looking for work, whose eccentric grandfather has been missing for several years, and who lives with his grandmother in a country house that, in two days, will be repossessed, torn down, and turned into a block of flats unless Arthur's grandfather returns to sign some papers and ...
Runtime:
94 min
Director:
Luc Besson
Cast:
Freddie Highmore, Freddie Highmore, Mia Farrow, Madonna, Ron Crawford
6.0
22%
39
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Be Cool
(2005)
Comedy, Crime
Disenchanted with the movie industry, Chili Palmer tries the music industry, meeting and romancing a widow of a music executive along the way.
Runtime:
118 min
Director:
F. Gary Gray
Cast:
John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Vince Vaughn, Cedric the Entertainer, André 3000
5.6
30%
37
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Little Fockers
(2010)
Comedy, Romance
It has taken 10 years, two little Fockers with wife Pam and countless hurdles for Greg to finally get in with his tightly wound father-in-law, Jack. After the cash-strapped dad takes a job moonlighting for a drug company, Jack's suspicions about his favorite male nurse come roaring back. When Greg and Pam's entire clan descends for the...
Runtime:
98 min
Director:
Paul Weitz
Cast:
Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand
5.5
10%
27
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Point of No Return
(1993)
Action, Crime, Thriller
Hardened criminal Maggie Hayward's consistent violence, even in police custody, ends in the execution chamber. However, top-secret US government agent 'Bob' arranges a staged death, so Maggie can be elaborately trained as a phantom killer and subdued into obedience.
Runtime:
108 min
Director:
John Badham
Cast:
Bridget Fonda, Bridget Fonda, Gabriel Byrne, Dermot Mulroney, Miguel Ferrer
6.1
52%
53
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Little Nicky
(2000)
Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
After the lord of darkness decides he will not cede his throne to any of his three sons, the two most powerful of them escape to Earth to create a kingdom for themselves. This action closes the portal filtering sinful souls to Hell and causes Satan to wither away. He must send his most weak but beloved son, Little Nicky, to Earth to re...
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Steven Brill
Cast:
Adam Sandler, Patricia Arquette, Harvey Keitel, Rhys Ifans, Tom 'Tiny' Lister Jr.
5.3
21%
38
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The Grey Zone
(2001)
Drama, War
A Nazi doctor—along with the Sonderkomando, Jews who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow Jews—find themselves in a moral grey zone.
Runtime:
108 min
Director:
Tim Blake Nelson
Cast:
David Arquette, Daniel Benzali, Steve Buscemi, Harvey Keitel, Natasha Lyonne
7.0
69%
58
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The Congress
(2013)
Animation, Drama, Science Fiction
An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.
Runtime:
122 min
Director:
Ari Folman
Cast:
Robin Wright, Paul Giamatti, Harvey Keitel, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Danny Huston
6.5
74%
63
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Blue Collar
(1978)
Crime, Drama
Fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial hardships on each man's end, three auto assembly line workers hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters.
Runtime:
114 min
Director:
Paul Schrader
Cast:
Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto, Ed Begley Jr., Harry Bellaver
7.5
98%
77
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Ulysses' Gaze
(1995)
Drama, History, War
"A," a Greek filmmaker living in exile in the United States, returns to his native Ptolemas to attend a special screening of one of his extremely controversial films. But A's real interest lies elsewhere--the mythical reels of the very first film shot by the Manakia brothers, who, at the dawn of the age of cinema, tirelessly criss-cros...
Runtime:
169 min
Director:
Theo Angelopoulos
Cast:
Harvey Keitel, Erland Josephson, Erland Josephson, Maia Morgenstern, Maia Morgenstern
7.7
31%
N/A
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Blue in the Face
(1995)
Comedy
Auggie runs a small tobacco shop in Brooklyn, New York. The whole neighborhood comes to visit him to buy cigarettes and have some small talk. During the movie Lou Reed tries to explain why he has to have a cut on his health insurance bill if he keeps smoking and Madonna acts as a Singing Telegram.
Runtime:
83 min
Director:
Wayne Wang, Paul Auster
Cast:
Lou Reed, Michael J. Fox, Roseanne Barr, Mel Gorham, Jim Jarmusch
6.7
43%
54
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Falling in Love
(1984)
Drama, Romance
During shopping for Christmas, Frank and Molly run into each other. This fleeting short moment will start to change their lives, when they recognize each other months later in the train home and have a good time together. Although both are married and Frank has two little kids, they meet more and more often, their friendship becoming t...
Runtime:
102 min
Director:
Ulu Grosbard
Cast:
Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Harvey Keitel, Jane Kaczmarek, George Martin
6.5
64%
N/A
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Holy Smoke
(1999)
Comedy, Drama
While on a journey of discovery in exotic India, beautiful young Ruth Barron falls under the influence of a charismatic religious guru. Her desperate parents then hire PJ Waters, a macho cult de-programmer who confronts Ruth in a remote desert hideaway. But PJ quickly learns that he's met his match in the sexy, intelligent and iron-wil...
Runtime:
115 min
Director:
Jane Campion
Cast:
Kate Winslet, Harvey Keitel, Julie Hamilton, Sophie Lee, Dan Wyllie
5.9
45%
57
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Bad Timing
(1980)
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Alex Linden is a psychiatrist living in Vienna who meets Milena Flaherty though a mutual friend. Though Alex is quite a bit older than Milena, he's attracted to her young, carefree spirit. Despite the fact that Milena is already married, their friendship quickly turns into a deeply passionate love affair that threatens to overtake them...
Runtime:
123 min
Director:
Nicolas Roeg
Cast:
Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel, Denholm Elliott, Daniel Massey
7.1
50%
N/A