Cast: Buck Henry

Direction Mike Nichols

Cast Dustin Hoffman · Anne Bancroft · Katharine Ross · William Daniels

Synopsis In the mid-1960s, Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman), a confused college graduate, is pulled in myriad directions by his wealthy family, friends, and associates just days after receiving his degree. Seduced by alcoholic and a neurotic Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft), an...

Direction John Cassavetes

Cast Gena Rowlands · Buck Henry · John Adames · Julie Carmen

Synopsis Jack Dawn and his family are eliminated by the mob, because he was their accountant and was feeding information to the FBI. However his six-year-old Puerto Rican son, Phil, escapes with Gloria, a neighbor who was a former girlfriend of...

Direction Chuck Workman

Cast Orson Welles · Jeanne Moreau · Peter Brook · Costa-Gavras

Synopsis Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles looks at the remarkable genius of Orson Welles on the eve of his centenary - the enigma of his career as a Hollywood star, a Hollywood director (for some a Hollywood...

Direction Bruce Pittman

Cast Sean Astin · Christopher Plummer · Eugene Levy · Miranda de Pencier

Synopsis In a distant future, egalitarianism has created a truly equal state. The cost? The sacrifice of everything great about humankind. The question: is peace worth the price?

Direction Milos Forman

Cast Lynn Carlin · Buck Henry · Georgia Engel · Tony Harvey

Direction Gus Van Sant

Cast Nicole Kidman · Matt Dillon · Joaquin Phoenix · Alison Folland

Synopsis Suzanne Stone is an aspiring TV personality who will do anything to be in the spotlight...

Direction Mike Nichols

Cast Alan Arkin · Orson Welles · Jon Voight · Anthony Perkins

Synopsis A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way cope with a crazy situation. Catch-22 is a parody of a "military mentality" and of a bureaucratic...

Direction Warren Beatty · Buck Henry

Cast Warren Beatty · Julie Christie · Jack Warden · Dyan Cannon

Synopsis When L.A. Rams quarterback Joe Pendleton (Warren Beatty) is plucked from Earth too soon by an overzealous angel, he is sent back to Earth in another, older body. He struggles to regain his old spot in the line-up while straightening...

Direction Albert Brooks

Cast Meryl Streep · Albert Brooks · Rip Torn · Lee Grant

Synopsis In an afterlife resembling the present-day US, people must prove their worth by showing in court how they have demonstrated courage. Yuppie Daniel Miller is killed in a car accident and goes to Judgment City, a waiting room for the...

Direction Paul Bartel

Cast Paul Bartel · Mary Woronov · Robert Beltran · Susan Saiger

Direction Stephen Hopkins

Cast Mimi Rogers · Jennifer Rubin · Kathy Ireland · Buck Henry

Synopsis Life hasn't been easy for model Helen. She is getting older and her dreams of hitting the big time are drying out. So when she finally gets the chance to take part in a beauty contest, she is determined to...

Direction Donald Petrie

Cast Jack Lemmon · Walter Matthau · Ann-Margret · Daryl Hannah

Synopsis John and Max are elderly men living next door to each other. They're continuously arguing and insulting each other, and have been this way for over 50 years. One day, Ariel, moves into the street. Both men are attracted to...

Direction Nicolas Roeg

Cast David Bowie · Rip Torn · Candy Clark · Buck Henry

Synopsis An alien being travels to Earth in human form with a plan to bring water to his own dying planet. Once on Earth, the superintelligent space traveler begins making the social and financial climbs necessary for his plot to succeed....

Direction Robert Altman · Bruce Beresford · Jean-Luc Godard · Derek Jarman

Cast Theresa Russell · Jacques Neuville · Buck Henry · Elizabeth Hurley

Synopsis Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound (Vivaldi, Bach, Wagner), and is an interpretation of the particular aria.

Direction Margaret Whitton

Cast Rachel Nichols · Jackson Hurst · Anjanette Comer · Linda Emond

Synopsis A lonely highway patrolman teams up with a gorgeous librarian to find the owner of a verbose parrot, and together the pair embarks on a most unusual adventure.

Direction Tom DiCillo

Cast Matthew Modine · Daryl Hannah · Catherine Keener · Kathleen Turner

Synopsis Joe and Mary have been living together in Manhattan for six years. Joe is an actor, who has no agent and no thesping credits, but whose ambitions are very high. He works as a waiter at a cafe. Mary works...

Direction Richard Shepard

Cast Rosanna Arquette · David Bowie · Eszter Balint · Buck Henry

Direction Peter Yates

Cast James Spader · Michael Caine · Maggie Smith · Polly Walker

Synopsis Stevenson Lowe (James Spader) and his girlfriend, Julia (Polly Walker), move into a brownstone haunted by an old unhappily married couple (Michael Caine and Maggie Smith). The young woman is hungry for marriage, but he doesn't want to say "I...

Direction Gus Van Sant

Cast Uma Thurman · Keanu Reeves · Angie Dickinson · John Hurt

Synopsis Sissy Hankshaw is born with enormous thumbs that help her hitchhiking through the US from a young age. She becomes a model in advertising and her NY agent 'the Countess' sends her to his ranch in CA to shoot a...

Direction David Greenwalt · Aaron Russo

Cast Eric Roberts · Cheech Marin · Julie Hagerty · Robert Carradine

Synopsis In the 1960s, two hippies go off into the jungle to evade the FBI. When they come back to New York in the 1980s, their fellow hippie friends have become rich yuppies.