Cinematography: Haskell Wexler

Direction Milos Forman

Cast Jack Nicholson · Louise Fletcher · Brad Dourif · William Redfield

Plot A misbehaved con named McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), who shirks authority, finds himself in an asylum after faking insanity to get out of work detail in prison. The troublemaker soon finds...

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Stathis Giallelis · Frank Wolff · Harry Davis · Elena Karam

Plot Based on the early life of Kazan's Greek-immigrant uncle, the film tells the story of the struggles of Stavros Topouzoglou in emigrating to America. First of all, he goes to...

Direction Mike Nichols

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Richard Burton · Sandy Dennis · George Segal

Plot Turning the underbelly of bourgeois academia into a microcosm of human relationships in all their arduous complexities, Mike Nichols' auspicious debut feature is a harrowing descent into the private lives...

Direction Norman Jewison

Cast Sidney Poitier · Rod Steiger · Warren Oates · Lee Grant

Plot When a prominent local businessman is found murdered in the tiny southern town of Sparta, Mississippi, Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) gets picked up at the train station as a potential...

Direction Francis Ford Coppola

Cast Gene Hackman · John Cazale · Allen Garfield · Cindy Williams

Plot 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...

Direction Joseph Strick · Ben Maddow · Sidney Meyers

Cast Barbara Baxley · Gary Merrill · Herschel Bernardi · Jean Hidey

Plot The Savage Eye is a "dramatized documentary" film that superposes a dramatic narration of the life of a divorced woman with documentary camera footage of an unspecified 1950s city.

Direction John Sayles

Cast Chris Cooper · James Earl Jones · Mary McDonnell · Will Oldham

Plot It is 1920 and the mining towns of West Virginia are owned and operated by the coal companies. The men are paid by the tonnage of coal they can load,...

Direction Hal Ashby

Cast David Carradine · Ronny Cox · Melinda Dillon · Gail Strickland

Plot This film is an excellent biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, and discovered the...

Direction Hal Ashby

Cast Jon Voight · Jane Fonda · Bruce Dern · Robert Carradine

Plot Sally Bender is the wife of a Captain in the United States Army. He is sent over to Vietnam, and Sally is alone. With nothing else to do, she decides...

Direction Joe Layton

Cast Richard Pryor

Plot One of comedian Richard Pryor's live performances caught on film. Pryor talks about most of his standard subjects, including rascism and the differences between blacks and whites, along with talking...

Direction Franklin J. Schaffner

Cast Henry Fonda · Cliff Robertson · Edie Adams · Margaret Leighton

Plot Intellectual William Russell and down-to-earth Joe Cantwell are front runners for a party nomination that will almost certainly mean the Presidency. Cantwell is prepared to use anything to achieve his...

Direction John Sayles

Cast Mick Lally · Eileen Colgan · John Lynch · Jeni Courtney

Plot 10-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a...

Direction John Sayles

Cast Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio · David Strathairn · Vanessa Martinez · Kris Kristofferson

Plot Unconventional narrative about the interactions amongst a group of people in a small town in Alaska, each of whom has guards a secret.

Direction Haskell Wexler

Cast Robert Forster · Verna Bloom · Peter Bonerz · Marianna Hill

Plot TV news camera find himself becoming personally involved in the Violence which erupts around the 1968 Democratic Convention.

Direction Norman Jewison

Cast Steve McQueen · Faye Dunaway · Paul Burke · Jack Weston

Plot Four men pull off a daring daytime robbery at a bank, dump the money in a trash can and go their separate ways. Thomas Crown (McQueen), a successful, wealthy businessman...

Direction Billy Crystal

Cast Barry Pepper · Thomas Jane · Anthony Michael Hall · Richard Masur

Plot Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle race to break Babe Ruth's single-season home run record.

Direction Irvin Kershner

Cast Don Murray · Keir Dullea · Larry Gates · Logan Ramsey

Plot Based on the life of Fr. Charles Clark, a minister to street gangs.

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Robert Morse · Anjanette Comer · Jonathan Winters · Dana Andrews

Plot A clash of cultures is under way when a young British poet must come to California to preside over the burial of his Hollywood star uncle. He encounters a tawdry...

Direction John Sayles

Cast Chris Cooper · Richard Dreyfuss · Daryl Hannah · Maria Bello

Plot Set against the backdrop of a mythic “New West,” SILVER CITY follows grammatically-challenged, “user-friendly” candidate Dicky Pilager (Chris Cooper), scapegrace scion of Colorado’s venerable Senator Jud Pilager (Michael Murphy), during...

Direction Dennis Hopper

Cast Sean Penn · Robert Duvall · Maria Conchita Alonso · Randy Brooks

Plot A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of L.A. about to explode in violence in this look at the gang...