Cast: Michael Higgins
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Michael Higgins. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 30
An Enemy of the People
1978 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction George Schaefer
Cast Steve McQueen · Bibi Andersson · Charles Durning · Richard Dysart
Synopsis A scientist stands against an entire town when he discovers their medicinal spa is polluted.
7.4
345 votes
7.4
345 votes
The Conversation
1974 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Francis Ford Coppola
Cast Gene Hackman · John Cazale · Allen Garfield · Cindy Williams
Synopsis Harry Caul is a nationally known expert on surveillance. The Director of a large company has hired him to record the conversations of two of the Director's employees. Some years previous, Harry's work directly led to the murder of three...
7.3
17K votes
7.3
17K votes
Rumble Fish
1983 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Francis Ford Coppola
Cast Matt Dillon · Mickey Rourke · Diane Lane · Dennis Hopper
Synopsis Rusty James (Matt Dillon) is an up-and-coming street hoodlum, lamenting the salad days of the gangs when his older brother (Mickey Rourke), The Motorcycle Boy, ran things as President of the Packers. Before disappearing two months earlier, Motorcycle Boy outlawed...
7.3
16K votes
7.3
16K votes
Angel Heart
1987 · Movie · 113 min. · United States
Direction Alan Parker
Cast Mickey Rourke · Robert De Niro · Charlotte Rampling · Lisa Bonet
Synopsis New York City gumshoe hired by a dark stranger named Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro) to find an aging blues singer. Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) follows clues from the ominous ghettos of Harlem to the witchy backwoods of Louisiana, where...
7.1
20K votes
7.1
20K votes
Wanda
1970 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Barbara Loden
Cast Barbara Loden · Michael Higgins · Dorothy Shupenes · Valerie Mamches
Synopsis Actress/filmmaker Barbara Loden both directs and stars in the stark little character study Wanda. She plays a girl from a remote mining town, timidly searching for security and love. After several desultory and abusive relationships, Wanda is "saved" by Dennis,...
7.0
546 votes
7.0
546 votes
The Arrangement
1969 · Movie · 120 min. · United States
Direction Elia Kazan
Cast Kirk Douglas · Faye Dunaway · Deborah Kerr · Richard Boone
Synopsis Eddie is a very rich man who has everything he wants; money, family, success. But a car crash is all that needs to make him reconsider the life he leads. Searching for the happiness he lost, he remembers his one...
6.6
1K votes
6.6
1K votes
State and Main
2000 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction David Mamet
Cast Alec Baldwin · Sarah Jessica Parker · William H. Macy · Philip Seymour Hoffman
Synopsis Echoing the themes of Living in Oblivion and Irma Vep, David Mamet's seventh feature centers on the havoc wrought on the inhabitants of a small town by a troubled film production. After its leading man's propensity for teenage girls gets...
6.5
3K votes
6.5
3K votes
School Ties
1992 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Robert Mandel
Cast Brendan Fraser · Matt Damon · Chris O'Donnell · Ben Affleck
Synopsis A Jewish boy goes to an elite prep school in the 1950's and hides his religion until a jealous bigot forces it out in the open.
6.2
2K votes
6.2
2K votes
The Black Stallion
1979 · Movie · 118 min. · United States
Direction Carroll Ballard
Cast Kelly Reno · Mickey Rooney · Teri Garr · Clarence Muse
Synopsis While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion that is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When the ship tragically sinks both he and the horse survive only...
6.2
1K votes
6.2
1K votes
Maleficent
2014 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Robert Stromberg
Cast Angelina Jolie · Elle Fanning · Juno Temple · Sharlto Copley
Synopsis The "Sleeping Beauty" tale is told from the perspective of the villainous Maleficent and looks at the events that hardened her heart and drove her to curse young Princess Aurora.
6.0
39K votes
6.0
39K votes
Ice Castles
2010 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Donald Wrye
Cast Henry Czerny · Gillian Ferrier · Taylor Firth · Michael Higgins
Synopsis Alexis Winston is a young girl who dreams of becoming a champion figure skater. While practicing, Alexis suffers a terrible accident that takes her sight and threatens to destroy her dreams. In the midst of feeling sorry for herself she...
5.4
329 votes
5.4
329 votes
The Seduction of Joe Tynan
1979 · Movie · 107 min. · United States
Direction Jerry Schatzberg
Cast Alan Alda · Barbara Harris · Meryl Streep · Melvyn Douglas
Synopsis Respected liberal Senator Joe Tynan is asked to to lead the opposition to a Supreme Court appointment. It means losing an old friend and fudging principles to make the necessary deals, as well as further straining his already part-time family...
5.3
94 votes
5.3
94 votes
Seven Minutes in Heaven
1985 · Movie · 80 min. · United States
Direction Linda Feferman
Cast Jennifer Connelly · Byron Thames · Maddie Corman · Alan Boyce
Synopsis Natalie Becker is staying at home studying and working on an essay to meet the president while her father is away. Jeffrey Moran, a childhood friend (whom her father does not know) is having trouble with his stepfather, Jeremy, who...
5.3
40 votes
5.3
40 votes
The Local Stigmatic
1990 · Movie · 56 min. · United States
Direction David F. Wheeler
Cast Al Pacino · Paul Guilfoyle · Joseph Maher · Michael Higgins
Synopsis Two symbiotic sociopaths play obscurely deviant mind games with each other while engaging in perversely brutal acts of violence against victims apparently chosen at random.
5.0
52 votes
5.0
52 votes
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
2009 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Marc Lawrence
Cast Hugh Grant · Sarah Jessica Parker · Sam Elliott · Mary Steenburgen
Synopsis Meryl and Paul Morgan (Sarah Jessica Parker and Hugh Grant) are a highly successful Manhattan couple whose almost-perfect lives have only one notable failure—their dissolving marriage. But the turmoil of their romantic lives is nothing compared to what they are...
4.2
7K votes
4.2
7K votes
Born Beautiful (TV)
1982 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Harvey Hart
Cast Erin Gray · Lori Singer · Ed Marinaro · Polly Bergen
Synopsis This is the story of Betsy a model who is nearly 30. Now in the world of modeling that is considered to be the age of retirement. She then sets out to see what else she can do and at...
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Nobody's Child (TV)
1986 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Lee Grant
Cast Marlo Thomas · Ray Baker · Caroline Kava · Anna Maria Horsford
Synopsis Fact-based drama about the life of Marie Balter, who spent most of her young life in mental institutions. At age 16, she first attempted suicide and the next 20 years she spent in and out of the institutions. At last,...
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Kent State (TV)
1981 · Movie · 180 min. · United States
Direction James Goldstone
Cast Jane Fleiss · Charley Lang · Talia Balsam · Keith Gordon
Synopsis Based on the true story of the student protests at Kent State University in Ohio. This film focuses on the four students who were killed when the National Guard attempted to quell the riots that began on May 4, 1970,...
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The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story (TV)
1983 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Delbert Mann
Cast Lee Remick · Angela Lansbury · Polly Holliday · Joe Warren
Synopsis After experiencing several stressful situations within a short time, Janet Broderick becomes ill. Falling into a deep sleep, she dreams of returning to her hometown, taking her children with her to meet her deceased loved ones. Perhaps, during a Christmas...
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Edge of Fury
1958 · Movie · 77 min. · United States
Direction Robert J. Gurney Jr. · Irving Lerner
Cast Michael Higgins · Lois Holmes · Jean Allison · Doris Fesette
Synopsis A psychopathic young beachcomber pretends to befriend a mother and two daughters living at their summer home.
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