Controversy and acclaim surrounded Alan Parker's fact-based look at racism in the turbulent American South of the early '60s. The headline-grabbing murders of three civil rights workers in a small... more
Four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Director, and Supporting Actor, went to director/star Clint Eastwood's superb revisionist western about a Will Munny, a former gunslinger who now scrapes... more
Richard Attenborough directs this spectacular World War II saga chronicling Operation Market Garden, a daring Allied scheme to end the fighting by invading Germany and destroying the Third Reich's... more
Based on the best-selling roman a clef novel by Carrie Fisher (who also wrote the screenplay), director Mike Nichols' wickedly funny seriocomedy stars Meryl Streep as Suzanne Vale, an actress fresh... more
Smash hit reworking of the classic French comedy "La Cage Aux Folles" stars Robin Williams and Nathan Lane as lovers Armand and Albert, who operate a Miami gay nightclub where Albert is the drag... more
They're young, they're in love, they rob banks! Arthur Penn's dramatic (if not totally accurate) depiction of the famed '30s criminal pair ushered in a new era in screen realism. Warren Beatty, Faye... more
A New Year's Eve party on a luxury ocean liner is literally turned upside-down when a tidal wave capsizes the ship. Led by a determined preacher (Gene Hackman), a small group of survivors attempts to... more
Tightly wound suspenser starring Will Smith as a labor lawyer who finds himself in the middle of a web of espionage when he accidentally comes into possession of a videotape featuring the... more
Young lawyer Adam Hall (Chris O'Donnell), trying to learn the secrets in his family's past while serving the cause of justice, takes up the case of his grandfather, death row inmate Sam Cayhall (Gene... more
John Travolta stars as Chili Palmer, a slick loan shark from Miami whose search for a dry cleaner who took $300,000 in mob money leads him to Hollywood and debt-ridden "B" movie producer Harry Zimm... more
Sophia Loren, Ava Gardner, Richard Harris, Burt Lancaster, Martin Sheen, and O.J. Simpson star as passengers on board a speeding trans-European train that has been contaminated with an infectious... more
Rousing football romp, inspired by the 1987 NFL strike, in which washed-up coach Gene Hackman recruits a colorful assortment of has-been and never-were players to take to the gridiron for the pro... more
Five Oscars, including Best Picture, Director, and Actor, were awarded to William Friedkin's fast-moving cop drama based on Robin Moore’s book about a series of drug operations in the 1960s. Gene... more
As renegade forces seize control of nuclear weapons in Russia, the submarine USS Alabama sails into dangerous waters. Tensions rise when communications with the Pentagon are lost, prompting a... more
A domestic drama in Western guise, this gorgeously photographed film is set in California's Big Sur Mountains, where cold-hearted rancher Zandy Allan (Gene Hackman) sends for a mail-order wife (Liv... more
Prohibition-era rum-runners Gene Hackman and Burt Reynolds partner with cabaret singer Liza Minnelli after her smuggler husband is killed, seizing a golden opportunity to enrich themselves by way of... more
Francis Ford Coppola's intense study of Harry Caul (Gene Hackman), a surveillance expert who tapes a conversation shared by a young couple in San Francisco's Union Square. As Caul comes to believe... more
Top-notch political suspenser directed by and starring Clint Eastwood as veteran burglar Luther Whitney, whose last job takes him to the home of the mistress of the President of the United States.... more
Filmed at the height of the Vietnam War, this action-filled WWII drama stars Chad Everett as a decorated Marine whose plans to settle down with wife Marilyn Devin are derailed when he is driven by a... more
Director Sam Raimi's off-the-wall, darkly funny sagebrush drama stars Sharon Stone as "the Lady," a lovely and lethal gunslinger who enters a frontier town's deadly quick-draw competition as part of... more
Director/co-writer Lawrence Kasdan and star Kevin Costner's modernist take on the life of the legendary Old West lawman follows Earp's tumultuous life, from his days as a farmer and buffalo hunter to... more
Ex-football player and L.A. private eye Harry Moseby (Gene Hackman) thought it’d be business as usual when a onetime actress retained him to track down her runaway teenage daughter (Melanie Griffith,... more
When his wife is kidnapped while vacationing in Paris, ex-CIA agent Gene Hackman must put aside his strained relationship with son Matt Dillon as the two embark on a desperate trek across Europe in... more
A meat-packing plant in Kansas City is the setting for a mob showdown in this violent action thriller that manages to spoof some of the conventions of its genre at the same time. Gene Hackman, Lee... more