Movie Listings by Genre

Director: George Kaczender    More Info
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Lee Majors, Valerie Perrine, Saul Rubinek, Alexandra Stewart, Antony Parr, George Touliatos, Michael Kirby, Gary Reineke, Hugh Webster

 Political campaign manager Ted Quinn (Robert Mitchum) plots to use subliminal television messages to brainwash potential voters in his candidate's favor. First, Quinn buys an ad agency and then plants the messages in the ads. After the suspicious suicide of one of the agency's employees, the Creative Director of the agency, Phillip (Lee Majors), uncovers the plot and finds his own life in danger.

Director: Paul Schrader    More Info
Starring: Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Hector Elizondo, Nina Van Pallandt, K Callan, Macdonald Carey, Bill Duke, Brian Davies, Carole Cook, David Cryer

 Male hooker Julian Kay (Richard Gere) provides his services among the Beverly Hills matrons. When an ex-client is murdered, Julian is in big trouble. He is framed for the murder and becomes the prime suspect. The one person who can help is Michelle (Lauren Hutton) with whom he is enjoying an intense relationship, but she is married to Senator Charles Stratton (Brian Davies). Will Michelle's love for Julian be the answer to his problems?

Director: John Berry    More Info
Starring: Peter Strauss, Richard Kiley, Barbara Hershey, Janis Paige, Seymour Cassel, Scott Colomby, Murray Matheson, Peter MacLean, Billy Jayne, Douglas Dirkson

 This remake of the 1946 film stars Peter Strauss as the murdered mobster who makes a deal with the devil for another chance at life.

Director: Louis Malle    More Info
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid, Michel Piccoli, Hollis McLaren, Robert Joy, Al Waxman, Robert Goulet, Wallace Shawn, Angus MacInnes

 Struggling, Atlantic City casino worker Sally (Susan Sarandon) becomes a partner with aging gangster Lou (Burt Lancaster) in a plot to make some easy money through the selling of drugs. Big problems arise when her estranged husband (Robert Joy) is killed, and the Mafia targets Sally. Lou steps in and saves Sally and, at the same time, proves to himself that he still has gangster skills. The film was nominated for several Oscars including Best Picture, Actor (Lancaster), Actress (Sarandon), and Director.

Director: Nicolas Roeg    More Info
Starring: Art Garfunkel, Theresa Russell, Harvey Keitel, Denholm Elliott, Daniel Massey, Dana Gillespie

 Milena Flaherty (Theresa Russell) is admitted to a Viennese hospital apparently suffering from a drug overdose, but police Inspector Netusil (Harvey Keitel) is suspicious and investigates her relationship with Alex Linden (Art Garfunkel).

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder    More Info
Starring: Gunter Lamprecht, Hanna Schygulla, Barbara Sukowa, Gottfried John, Helmut Griem, Udo Kier, Ivan Desny, Hark Bohm, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Karin Baal

 World War I Berlin is the backdrop of Alfred Doblin's 1929 novel. Presented as 14 individual episodes, the story follows the life of an ex-convict who tries to live an honorable existence but finds problems at every turn in the Berlin environment during the rise of Nazism.

Director: Harry Falk    More Info
Starring: Lesley Ann Warren, Michael Sarrazin, Eddie Albert, Hope Lange, Paul Rudd, Dorian Harewood, Martha Scott, Paul Shenar, Allyn Ann McLerie, Jenny Agutter

 This three-part, TV miniseries based on Lonnie Coleman's novel spans the era from 1827 to the end of the century and revolves around the changing fortunes of two Georgia families before, during, and after the Civil War.

Director: John Laing    More Info
Starring: David Hemmings, John Hargreaves, Martyn Sanderson, Grant Tilly, Diana Rowan, Ian Watkin, Terence Cooper, Bruno Lawrence, Marshall Napier, John Bach

 Based on an actual murder case, this story involves Inspector Bruce Hutton's (David Hemmings) efforts–including planting evidence–to convict an innocent farmer, Arthur Allan Thomas (John Hargreaves), of murder.

Director: Harold Becker    More Info
Starring: Robert Foxworth, Paula Prentiss, James Woods, Harry Dean Stanton, Barbara Babcock, John Hancock, Christopher Lloyd, Michael Dudikoff, Pat Corley, Judy Landers

 Joseph Wambaugh's screenplay provides good entertainment as he, once again, presents a police story. This time around, two cops, Valmikov (Robert Foxworth) and Natalie Zimmermann (Paula Prentiss), fall for each other while pursuing a dognapper.

Director: Bruce Beresford    More Info
Starring: Edward Woodward, Jack Thompson, John Waters, Bryan Brown, Charles "Bud" Tingwell, Rod Mullinar, Vincent Ball, Terence Donovan, Ray Meagher, Chris Haywood

 In this Australian film, which uses the 1901 Boer War as its setting, three officers are tried for the revenge execution of Boer prisoners and a German missionary. The film examines the moral responsibilities of military men who are simply following orders. Well worth seeing.

Director: Stuart Rosenberg    More Info
Starring: Robert Redford, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Alexander, Murray Hamilton, David Keith, Morgan Freeman, Matt Clark, Tim McIntire, Val Avery, M. Emmet Walsh

 Henry Brubaker is a prison reformer who is the new warden at a prison. When he looks into problems at his prison, he finds that the entire system is corrupt. During his relentless search for truth, he threatens the jobs of his supervisors and is fired.

Director: J. Lee Thompson    More Info
Starring: Charles Bronson, Jason Robards, Dominique Sanda, Fernando Rey, Simon MacCorkindale, Camilla Sparv, Denny Miller, Gilbert Roland, James Booth, Jorge Russek

 Bar owner Giff Hoyt (Charles Bronson) watches as misfits flit in and out of his bar–including a former Nazi, Gunther Beckdorff (Jason Robards), and beautiful, but mysterious Marie Claire Allesandri (Dominique Sanda). "Casablanca" this isn't.

Director: Tinto Brass    More Info
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Teresa Ann Savoy, Helen Mirren, Peter O'Toole, John Steiner, Guido Mannari, John Gielgud

 Explicit sex and violence are employed in this Penthouse production about the rise and fall of Roman Emperor Caligula (Malcolm McDowell).

Director: Robert Kaylor    More Info
Starring: Gary Busey, Jodie Foster, Robbie Robertson, Meg Foster, Kenneth McMillan, Elisha Cook Jr., Tim Thomerson, John Lehne, Bert Remsen, Bill McKinney

 This semi-documentary is an insightful look at carnival life through the experiences of young Donna (Jodie Foster) who quits her waitress job to join the carnival, which is passing through her town.

Director: Ian Barry    More Info
Starring: Steve Bisley, Arna-Maria Winchester, Ross Thompson, Ralph Cotterill, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Lorna Lesley, Richard Moir, Patrick Ward, Laurie Moran, Michael Long

 After a nuclear plant worker is exposed to a large dose of radiation, workers and an innocent couple must contend with the consequences. Is that bearded mechanic Mel Gibson?

Director: John Korty    More Info
Starring: Michael Learned, John Houseman, Ramon Bieri, Ruth Nelson, Valerie Curtin, James Cromwell, David Knell, Calvin Levels, Beah Richards, Barbara Tarbuck

 After her divorce, Zoe Jensen (Michael Learned) relocates to San Francisco to start a new life. She joins the church choir but has conflicts with tough, old choirmaster Ephraim Adams (John Houseman). Pressures rise as the choir practices for the big Christmas show, and the problems of other choir members– including Ephraim–are revealed.

Director: Federico Fellini    More Info
Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Prucnal, Bernice Stegers, Ettore Manni, Jole Silvani, Donatella Damiani

 After trailing an attractive woman passenger when she leaves the train, Snaporaz (Marcello Mastroianni) ends up at a hotel where he finds himself in the middle of a feminist conference.

Director: Don Medford    More Info
Starring: Robert Conrad, Erin Gray, Red West, Daphne Reid, Ed O'Bradovich, David Raynr, Ricky Paul Goldin, Alex Paez, Radames Torres, Louis Carello

 Robert Conrad plays a former professional football player who is now paralyzed from a Vietnam War injury. When he is hired to coach a team of correctional facility teenagers, he learns lessons that get him over his own problems while helping the boys.

Director: Joel Oliansky    More Info
Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Lee Remick, Amy Irving, Sam Wanamaker, James Sikking, Joseph Cali, Philip Sterling, Priscilla Pointer, Ty Henderson

 This is a good story of the romance that blossoms between two classical pianists: Paul (Richard Dreyfuss) and Heidi (Amy Irving).

Director: William Friedkin    More Info
Starring: Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, Karen Allen, Richard Cox, Don Scardino, Joe Spinell, Barton Heyman, Gene Davis, Allan Miller, Ed O'Neill

 Steve Burns (Al Pacino) is an officer for the NYPD who goes undercover by dressing in leather and chains in the S & M subculture to catch a sadistic homosexual killer. In the process, Burns becomes obsessed with the man (Richard Cox) he is trailing.

Director: Enzo G. Castellari    More Info
Starring: Franco Nero, Sybil Danning, William Berger, Carlo Gabriel Sparanero, Mickey Knox, Ennio Girolami, Massimo Vanni, Romano Puppo, Licinia Lentini, Mario Maranzana

 "Double Cross" is the name of the game that San Francisco ex-cop Larry "Cobra" Staziani (Franco Nero) finally discovers after he is hired to track down the ruthless drug kingpin who heads a narcotics ring in Genoa, Italy.

Director: Peter Collinson    More Info
Starring: William Holden, Rick Schroder, Jack Thompson, Olivia Hamnett, Alwyn Kurts, Redmond Phillips, Tony Barry

 Orphaned by the death of his parents (Jack Thompson and Olivia Hamnett) in a camping accident, Shawn Daley (Ricky Schroder) is rescued by a hermit, Patrick Foley (William Holden), who teaches him the art of survival in the Australian outback.

Director: David Lynch    More Info
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller, Freddie Jones, Michael Elphick, Hannah Gordon, Helen Ryan, John Standing

 In the 1800s, John Merrick "The Elephant Man" (John Hurt) suffered from neurofibromatosis, a terribly disfiguring disease and has spent most of his life as a carnival freak. He is befriended by Dr. Frederick Treves (Anthony Hopkins) who sees more in Merrick than his outward appearance. Treves brings Merrick to the hospital where he works, and, for a short time, Merrick gains human dignity. But, Treves begins to question his own motivations after the press learns about Merrick's hospital stay and exploits him. The film received eight Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Actor (John Hurt), and Director.

Director: Alan Parker    More Info
Starring: Irene Cara, Lee Curreri, Laura Dean, Antonia Franceschi, Boyd Gaines, Anne Meara, Barry Miller, Debbie Allen, Joanna Merlin, Eddie Barth

 This story focuses on students–Coco (Irene Cara), Doris (Maureen Teefy), Montgomery (Paul McCrane), Raul (Barry Miller), and Bruno (Lee Curreri)–at New York High School for the Performing Arts. From auditions through ensuing years at school, they cope with their teenage problems and keep up with academics in their own unique ways as they work through training that may lead to stardom. The film won Academy Awards for Best Musical Score and Song ("Fame").

Director: Don Taylor    More Info
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross, James Farentino, Ron O'Neal, Charles Durning, Victor Mohica, Soon-Tek Oh, James C. Lawrence, Joe Lowry

 The nuclear aircraft carrier U.S.S. Nimitz is time-warped from 1980 back to 6 December, 1941. Captain Matthew Yelland (Kirk Douglas) is faced with the dilemma of altering history by interfering with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Senator Samuel Chapman (Charles Durning) has his ideas about the course of action, while Warren Lasky (Martin Sheen) is very concerned about possible outcomes and their effect on the future. Time is running out, and a decision must be made.