Martin Landau
Biography: Martin Landau |
Saturnine character actor Martin Landau was a staff cartoonist for the New York Daily News before switching to acting. In 1955, his career got off to a promising beginning, when out of 2,000 applicants, only he and one other actor (Steve McQueen) were... more
Find videos of Martin LandauFree Martin Landau videos
Cast: Jennifer Connelly Christopher Plummer Tim Burton Elijah Wood John C. Reilly
Tags: Fantasy Adventure Science Fiction Sci-Fi Adventure
Length: 79min
Academy Award-nominated for his groundbreaking animated short of the same name, filmmaker Shane Acker makes his feature directorial debut with this expanded version of his acclaimed post-apocalyptic fable. In a world parallel to our own, the worst has...
Cast: Ellen Burstyn Martin Landau Elizabeth Banks Nik Fackler Adam Scott
Tags: Romantic Comedy Romance Holiday Film
Length: min
Martin Landau and Ellen Burstyn topline the debut of writer/director Nik Fackler in Lovely Still, a whimsical omance tale that follows an elderly grocery-store bagger (Landau) who experiences his first pangs of love in the form of Burstyn. Elizabeth...
Cast: John Daly Martin Landau Steven Mackintosh Judy Parfitt Caroline Carver
Tags: Period Film
Length: 119min
In this drama set in Eastern Europe in 1944, (Martin Landau) plays Josef Krauzenberg, a wealthy Hungarian Jewish business owner who, despite his fortune, finds his life hanging in the balance as the Nazi "final solution" is being enacted throughout...
Cast: Martin Landau Dana Janklowicz-Mann Amir Mann
Tags: History Military & War Social History Race & Ethnicity
Length: 97min
In the late 1930s, as the Nazis tightened their grip on Europe and the fate of Germany's Jewish population began to look increasingly grim, many Jews began seeking refuge wherever they could find it. However, with Europe no longer safe and passage to...
Cast: Tom Hanks Bill Murray Tim Robbins Mary Kay Place Martin Landau
Tags: Children's Fantasy Fantasy Adventure Family
Length: 94min
Monster House director Gil Kenan takes the helm for this children's fantasy about two young heroes who attempt to solve an ancient mystery in time to prevent their underground city from being swallowed by darkness. The City of Ember was built over 200...
Cast: Ben Gazzara Charles Durning Louise Fletcher Martin Landau Matthew Modine
Length: 93min
A crime caper that gaily spoofs such antecedents as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and nods its head more than a few times to the work of Quentin Tarantino, Very Mean Men opens in a bar, where a bartender (Matthew Modine) finds himself serving...
Cast: Michael Caine John Irvin Martin Landau Frances Barber Andy Serkis
Tags: Crime Thriller Thriller
Length: 98min
A minor-league criminal suddenly finds himself in deep trouble in this thriller. Billy "Shiner" Simpson (Michael Caine) is a man who has spent much of his life making a living by skirting the law, but he thinks he may finally have a legitimate path to...
Cast: Anne Bancroft Hal Holbrook Natasha Richardson Martin Landau Bruce Greenwood
Length: 240min
An American journalist takes on the dangerous responsibility of rescuing nearly a thousand refugees from a Nazi concentration camp in this two-part made-for-TV movie based on a true story. In the early days of America's involvement in World War II,...
Cast: Jim Carrey Frank Darabont Martin Landau Paul Mazursky Bob Balaban
Tags: Period Film Americana Drama
Length: 152min
Director Frank Darabont created this Frank Capra-inspired drama based on a screenplay by his friend and one-time schoolmate Michael Sloane. Jim Carrey stars as Pete Appleton, a screenwriter in the Hollywood of the 1950s. Pete's on top of the world...
Cast: Alan Bates Jacqueline Bisset Kevin Connor David Warner Christopher Lee
Tags: Religious Epic Drama
Length: 189min
A kind of "best-of" account of the books of Genesis and Exodus, this two-part NBC miniseries aired in November 2000. Part One, set in the desert, covers the stories of Abraham (Martin Landau), Sarah (Jacqueline Bisset), Isaac (Sean Pertwee), Rebeccah...
Portions of Content Provided by All Movie Guide ®, a trademark of All Media Guide, LLC.© 2009 All Media Guide, LLC.