Richard Portnow Movies

A mother in Queens, New York, outraged when she discovers that her son is a drug addict, becomes an undercover agent for the DEA to clean up the drug...

Terrorists threaten to launch a missile armed with deadly disease at Europe. A special unit is put together to stop them.

Perfume creator Satin Chau is about to reveal her new designer scent, 'Puppy,' when she is cruelly struck down by a rare condition called anosmia,...

The Hollowheads are a strange, futuristic family that live in a Jetsons type world complete with many cool gadgets. Henry is hoping for a promotion...

When his son is kidnapped a man has to face his past demons in speaking to a Mafia don about it.

On the day in 1965 that the Pope visits New York and masses of people line the streets in adulation, Artie, a zookeeper living in Sunnyside, Queens,...

A filmmaker picks a "real" subject to shoot, and when she sees Guy on the street, she latches onto him. At first, Guy is enraged that someone is just...

Ray investigates the murder of a psychiatrist.

A time bomb is ticking in a small regional postal facility and his name is Oren Starks (Brad Garrett). Oren fits the profile of a new breed of...

Four young gamblers come up with a plan to get out of debt with a fixed game.

Type A insurance fraud investigator Nick Stillman has his life extended by a heart transplant, only to be dismayed to discover that his donor was...

Alan is a gambler desperate to erase the huge sports debt he owes to a cruel but quirky Chicago mobster.

Inspired by Neil Simon's early career experience as a junior writer for Your Show of Shows, the play focuses on Sid Caesar/Jackie Gleason-like Max...

Sparks and bullets fly when a Wall Street yuppie must steer a Brooklyn mob crew legit before a beautiful FBI agent can build RICO indictments against...

"The Indian" is a touching drama about a negligent father who must face the son he abandoned years earlier, and the emotional wreckage he caused, in...

A beautiful woman seduces and tricks a hitman in order to save her own skin.

Ambitious young woman wants to get into TV news. She borrows a small camera from a friend and obtains incriminating pictures that two former East...

On his last night on the job, an unsuspecting LA cab driver gets roped into helping a wealthy investment banker cover up a brutal crime.

A New York detective and a victim's colleague hunt a killer who preys on single women.

A big-city lawyer is called home to defend a local man accused of murder. Based on the Spoon River Anthology