92 in the Shade 1975  R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Thomas McGuane
Cast: Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Margot Kidder, Burgess Meredith, Harry Dean Stanton, Sylvia Miles, Elizabeth Ashley, William Hickey, Louise Latham, Joe Spinell
Set in Key West, this is the film adaptation of Thomas McGuane's novel about competition between captains of fishing boats.
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Critical Condition 1987   R, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Michael Apted
Cast: Richard Pryor, Rachel Ticotin, Ruben Blades, Joe Mantegna, Bob Dishy, Sylvia Miles, Joe Dallesandro, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Garrett Morris, Bob Saget
Richard Pryor plays a hustler who, after his arrest, must prove he is insane in order to avoid prison. While at a mental hospital for evaluation, he finds himself left in charge. Could be better–a lot better. 1 User Review
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| | crazy funny | slaphap 06/14/2007 | | hillarious |
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 Crossing Delancey 1988 PG, 97 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joan Micklin
Cast: Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, Sylvia Miles, Reizl Bozyk, Jeroen Krabbe, Amy Wright, George Martin, Kathleen Wilhoite, John Bedford Lloyd, Rosemary Harris
A Jewish girl (Amy Irving) meets many interesting people through her job in a bookstore. Unfortunately, she believes the men she meets are attracted to her mind and not her beauty. A matchmaker sets her up with a man (Peter Riegert) who turns out to be perfect, but she doesn't appreciate him at first.
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Evil Under the Sun 1982  PG, 102 min.
Genre: Mystery / Drama / Thriller
Director: Guy Hamilton
Cast: Peter Ustinov, Colin Blakely, Jane Birkin, Nicholas Clay, Maggie Smith, Roddy McDowall, Sylvia Miles, James Mason, Denis Quilley, Diana Rigg, Emily Hone, John Alderson, Paul Antrim, Richard Vernon, Barbara Hicks
In this Agatha Christie story, a famous actress, Arlena Marshall (Diana Rigg), is murdered while visiting an idyllic beach resort, and detective Hercules Poirot (Peter Ustinov) investigates. Suspects include Arlena's biographer Rex (Roddy McDowall), Broadway producers Odell and Myra Gardener (James Mason and Sylvia Miles), Arlena's husband Kenneth (Denis Quilley), Kenneth's lover Daphne (Maggie Smith), millionaire Sir Horace Blatt (Colin Blakely), Arlena's lover Patrick (Nicholas Clay), and Patrick's wife Christine (Jane Birkin). Poirot has his work cut out for him when he learns more about the suspects–all of whom had motives to kill Arlena.
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Farewell, My Lovely 1975  R, 95 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Dick Richards
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Sylvia Miles, Jack O'Halloran, Sylvester Stallone, Anthony Zerbe, Harry Dean Stanton, Walter McGinn, Joe Spinell
Philip Marlowe (Robert Mitchum) employs his expertise as a private detective to find ex-convict Moose Malloy's (Jack O'Halloran) old girlfriend. During the search Marlowe runs into murder, blackmail, and prostitution. Based on Raymond Chandler's book, this is also a remake of the 1944 film and is nearly as good as that classic.
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The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday 1976   PG, 102 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Don Taylor
Cast: Lee Marvin, Oliver Reed, Robert Culp, Elizabeth Ashley, Kay Lenz, Strother Martin, Sylvia Miles, Howard Platt
A bizarre group of misfits plot to get rich quick while two of their members, Sam (Lee Marvin) and prostitute Thursday (Kay Lenz), fall in love.
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The Last Movie 1971  R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Chinchero
Director: Dennis Hopper
Cast: Dennis Hopper, Stella Garcia, Samuel Fuller, Sylvia Miles, Julie Adams, Rod Cameron, Peter Fonda, Roy Engel, Kris Kristofferson, John Phillip Law
This movie lacks the finesse to deliver its message about moviemaking's effect on the location site of a Peruvian village. Kristofferson's debut.
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 Midnight Cowboy 1969  R, 113 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Schlesinger
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro, Barnard Hughes, Ruth White, Jennifer Salt, Bob Balaban, Paul Benjamin
New York's 42nd Street is the setting for this great movie about a hick, Joe Buck (Jon Voight), from Texas who comes to the big city to find work as a male prostitute, teams up with petty thief Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman), and gets out-hustled in the process. The film depicts the seedy side of America and does it so well that it won three Academy Awards for Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay. Additionally, Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight were nominated for Best Actor, and Sylvia Miles was nominated for Best Supporting Actress. 1 User Review
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| | sam 08/05/2007 | it was a classic movie which had two fine actors nominated for the oscar who in
normal years deserved to win it the proof of the pudding is to this day it stands out the preformances of jon voight and dustin hoffman were overwhelming they both later won oscars and had great careers as actors it won best picture which it deserved |
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Parrish 1961 N/R, 138 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Delmer Daves
Cast: Troy Donahue, Claudette Colbert, Karl Malden, Dean Jagger, Connie Stevens, Diane McBain, Sharon Hugueny, Dub Taylor, Hampton Fancher, Sylvia Miles, David Knapp, Saundra Edwards, Bibi Osterwald, Hayden Rorke, Madeleine Sherwood
In this soap opera of a story set in the Connecticut River Valley, Parrish McLean (Troy Donahue) lives with his mother, Ellen (Claudette Colbert), and enjoys the reputation of "Ladies' Man." But, when Ellen marries tobacco czar Judd Raike (Karl Malden), Judd determines to turn Parrish into a businessman and teach him the tobacco business from the ground up.
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The Sentinel 1977 R, 93 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Michael Winner
Cast: Chris Sarandon, Cristina Raines, Martin Balsam, John Carradine, Jose Ferrer, Ava Gardner, Arthur Kennedy, Burgess Meredith, Eli Wallach, Tom Berenger, Sylvia Miles, Deborah Raffin, Christopher Walken, Jerry Orbach, Beverly D'Angelo
Fashion model Alison Parker (Cristina Raines) rents an apartment in Brooklyn Heights, moves in, and becomes involved in a world of mysterious noises and a very strange neighbor, Father Francis Matthew Halloran (John Carradine) who is a blind priest. Alison's fiance Michael (Chris Sarandon) investigates and finds that previous tenants were murderers and that Alison's apartment building is situated at the entrance to Hell. Have evil forces chosen Alison for a specific purpose?
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She-Devil 1989 PG-13, 99 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Susan Seidelman
Cast: Meryl Streep, Roseanne, Ed Begley Jr., Linda Hunt, Sylvia Miles, A Martinez, Bryan Larkin, Mary Louise Wilson, Maria Pitillo, Jack Gilpin
Taken from Fay Weldon's novel, "The Life and Loves of a She-Devil," this movie is about a frumpy housewife (Roseanne) who plots to upset her husband's (Ed Begley Jr.) affair with a self-centered romance novelist (Meryl Streep).
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Spike of Bensonhurst 1988 R, 101 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Paul Morrissey
Cast: Ernest Borgnine, Sasha Mitchell, Anne DeSalvo, Sylvia Miles, Geraldine Smith, Talisa Soto, Antonia Rey, Rick Aviles, Christopher Anthony Young, Maria Pitillo
A young boxer, Spike Fumo (Sasha Mitchell), tries to gain success in the ring, but involvement with the Mafia brings on personal problems.
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Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol 1991 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Chuck Workman
Cast: Andy Warhol, Holly Woodlawn, Dennis Hopper, Ultra Violet, Tom Wolfe, Sylvia Miles, Irving Blum, Paul Warhola, Fran Lebowitz, Shelley Winters
Using interviews and pieces of art, Chuck Workman examines the artistry of Andy Warhol's work.
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Violent Midnight 1964 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
aka: Psychomania
Director: Richard Hilliard
Cast: Lee Philips, Shepperd Strudwick, Jean Hale, Lorraine Rogers, Margot Hartman, Kaye Elhardt, James Farentino, Dick Van Patten, Sheila Forbes, Sylvia Miles, Day Tuttle, Mike Keene
A string of murders at a girls' college in Connecticut results in nude-woman artist Freeman (Lee Philips) becoming the prime suspect after one of his models turns up dead. But military veteran Freeman is determined to clear his name.
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 Wall Street 1987 R, 126 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Oliver Stone
Cast: Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen, Daryl Hannah, Terence Stamp, Sean Young, Sylvia Miles, James Spader, Hal Holbrook, Saul Rubinek, Tamara Tunie, Franklin Cover, Chuck Pfeiffer, John C. McGinley, James Karen
Ruthless financier Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) primes rookie stockbroker Bud Fox (Charlie Sheen) for an evil, backstabbing career in the world of high finance. Bud's life becomes high powered, and he moves into an upscale apartment and gets a beautiful girlfriend Darien (Daryl Hannah). All goes well–until Gekko instructs Bud to undermine Blue Star airlines where Bud's father Carl (Martin Sheen) is a union leader. The plan is to break down the company and steal retirement funds. This is too much for Bud to handle, and he ends up helping the authorities catch Gekko in illegal practices. Michael Douglas won an Academy Award for Best Actor.
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| 1. 92 in the Shade (1975)
2. Critical Condition (1987)
3. Crossing Delancey (1988)
4. Evil Under the Sun (1982)
5. Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
6. The Funhouse (1981)
7. The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday (1976)
8. The Last Movie (1971)
aka: Chinchero
9. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
10. Parrish (1961)
11. The Sentinel (1977)
12. She-Devil (1989)
13. Spike of Bensonhurst (1988)
14. Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol (1991)
15. Violent Midnight (1964)
aka: Psychomania
16. Wall Street (1987)
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