Cinematography: Victor J. Kemper

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Al Pacino · John Cazale · Charles Durning · Carol Kane

Plot Based upon a real-life story that happened in the early seventies in which the Chase Manhattan Bank in Flatbush, Brooklyn, was held siege by a gay bank robber determined to...

Direction Elaine May

Cast Peter Falk · John Cassavetes · Ned Beatty · Rose Arrick

Plot In the mob you trust no one. Not even your best friend.

Direction John Cassavetes

Cast Ben Gazzara · Peter Falk · John Cassavetes · Jenny Runacre

Plot A common friend's sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives and ultimately leave together. But mindless enthusiasm for regained freedom will be short-lived.

Direction Norman Jewison

Cast Al Pacino · Jack Warden · John Forsythe · Lee Strasberg

Plot Arthur Kirkland, an idealistic defense attorney in Baltimore, cares about his clients and visits his aging grandfather, who put him through law school, every week. Things aren't going well for...

Direction Peter Yates

Cast Robert Mitchum · Peter Boyle · Richard Jordan · Steven Keats

Plot In one of the best performances of his legendary career, Robert Mitchum plays small-time gunrunner Eddie “Fingers” Coyle in Peter Yates’s adaptation of George V. Higgins’s acclaimed novel The Friends...

Direction Karel Reisz

Cast James Caan · Paul Sorvino · Lauren Hutton · Morris Carnovsky

Plot Alex Freed is a literature professor. He has the gambling vice. When he has lost all his money, he borrows from his girlfriend, then his mother and finally some bad...

Direction George Roy Hill

Cast Paul Newman · Michael Ontkean · Lindsay Crouse · Jennifer Warren

Plot A rougher version of George Roy Hill's pet theme of men as overaged adolescents, SLAP SHOT stars Paul Newman as Reggie Dunlop, the venerable player-coach of the Charlestown Chiefs, a...

Direction Alan Alda

Cast Alan Alda · Carol Burnett · Sandy Dennis · Rita Moreno

Plot In Alan Alda's directorial debut, three very close-knit upper middle-class couples take a vacation together, which turns out to be a bittersweet exploration of not only their friendship, but divorce...

Direction Michael Ritchie

Cast Robert Redford · Peter Boyle · Melvyn Douglas · Don Porter

Plot Bill McKay (Robert Redford) is an idealistic young lawyer and son of a famous governor who is pressured into running for the United States Senate against the popular incumbent, with...

Direction Michael Crichton

Cast Michael Douglas · Geneviève Bujold · Richard Widmark · Ed Harris

Plot Something is awry at Boston General Hospital. Dr. Wheeler's (Genevieve Bujold) friend Nancy goes in for a routine procedure, but never comes out of the anesthesia and slips into a...

Direction Elia Kazan

Cast Robert De Niro · Robert Mitchum · Theresa Russell · Ingrid Boulting

Plot F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.

Direction Don Taylor

Cast Kirk Douglas · Martin Sheen · Katharine Ross · James Farentino

Plot The US aircraft carrier Nimitz under Captain Matthew Yelland departs from Pearl Harbor on manoeuvres. But then the Nimitz is caught in a mysterious storm that appears out of nowhere...

Direction Jonathan Lynn

Cast Eileen Brennan · Tim Curry · Madeline Kahn · Christopher Lloyd

Plot Undoubtedly the first movie in history to have played in theaters with three different endings (depending on which theater you attended), Clue is a silly whodunit based on the familiar...

Direction Arthur Hiller

Cast George C. Scott · Diana Rigg · Barnard Hughes · Nancy Marchand

Plot Herbert Block (George C. Scott) is chief of medicine in a major teaching hospital. His wife has left him, he is impotent and his children have both disowned him. He...

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Marsha Mason · John Beck · Susan Swift

Plot All Bill and Janet Templeton wish for is a quiet, peaceful life with their 11-yr-old daughter Ivy. But their dreams turn to nightmares as Ivy is besieged first by ghoulish...

Direction Carl Reiner

Cast Steve Martin · Bernadette Peters · Catlin Adams · Mabel King

Plot Navin Johnson, a none-too-bright white boy raised by a family of black sharecroppers, somehow manages to reach adulthood without ever discovering he was adopted. His parents finally tell him the...

Direction Richard Attenborough

Cast Anthony Hopkins · Ann-Margret · Burgess Meredith · Ed Lauter

Plot An eerie, terrifying story scripted by William Goldman from his own novel boasts Anthony Hopkins as a ventriloquist whose foul-mouthed dummy, Fats, begins to assert his own personality, leading Hopkins...

Direction Arthur Hiller

Cast Al Pacino · Dyan Cannon · Tuesday Weld · Bob Dishy

Plot Playwright Travalian feels pulled limb from limb these days. He has a Broadway play in rehearsal and they want rewrites. His tramp wife is leaving him, leaving him as well...

Direction Harold Ramis

Cast Chevy Chase · Beverly D'Angelo · Imogene Coca · Randy Quaid

Plot The first Vacation movie introduces us to the all-American Griswold family, father Clark (Chevy Chase), mother Ellen (Beverly D'Angelo), son Rusty (future Hughes staple Anthony Michael Hall), and daughter Audrey...

Direction Carl Reiner

Cast John Denver · George Burns · Teri Garr · Donald Pleasence

Plot Jerry, a assistant grocery manager (John Denver) is approached by God to help spread his message. Reluctant at first, Jerry finally ends up in a court case involving the slander...