Olympia Dukakis Movies

Joe Papp, the founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival and, subsequently, The Public Theater—arguably the most important theatre in North...

A parody of film genres composed of three shorts, spoofing personal growth films, glossy soap operas, and police stories.

Olympia Dukakis and Rose Gregorio play Greek-American women in their 70s who create stories to avoid the realities of growing older.

A period drama/thriller about a surveyor and his fiancée who arrive in a remote Malaysian trading post and encounter a closed-fisted ivory...

Ostracized at her posh new uptown school and shaken by the death of her beloved grandmother, a 10-year-old downtown girl finds an unlikely mentor in...

Manhattan prosecutor Nick is charged with looking into the untimely death of city resident Matt, a musician who had AIDS. As she questions Matt's...

When Dot's granddaughter puts her into a nursing home, Stella stages a breakout, and takes Dot to Canada so they can get married. They pick up a...

Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth term. He also oversees plans for the D-Day...

Mime performances by the Japanese-born artist Yass Hakoshima, interspersed with video images reflecting his Japanese heritage

After her husband loses his job, Marianne moves from Beverly Hills to a nightmare New York City. She hires ditzy psychic Reva to redecorate her...

A dying widow plays matchmaker to her 32-year-old unmarried son and sets him up with a nurse that she meets.

A 75-year old widow struggles with being a burden to those she loves. Though determined not to rely on her children, she is forced to move in with...

Documentary highlighting the development of the screenplay into a film with the desired cast. It also describes the closeness among Italian families,...

Leopold De Angeli is a talented playwright, but like many scribes he fancies the drink a little too much. In the hopes of saving Leopold's life, his...

After a cop dies, his shield goes back on duty. They call it a "dead badge" - a way to honor a fallen officer. Badge #2424 used to belong to Many...

A rich, jet-setting playboy has a secret life: he's also a professional Mafia hitman. When he decides it's time to retire from that life, he finds...

Charlie's War is the story of Charlotte Lewis, a woman who is experiencing serious emotional and mental turmoil brought about by nightmares of...

A quirky and inspirational documentary film on the philosophical approach to the life and work of character actor, Austin Pendleton.

Two 12-year-olds, the products of Upper West Side broken homes, struggle to make sense of their parents lives and their own adolescent feelings.

An eccentric woman meets an equally odd man at a group therapy session and they begin a relationship.