Cinematography: Vilmos Zsigmond

Direction Michael Cimino

Cast Robert De Niro · Christopher Walken · Meryl Streep · John Savage

Plot It follows a group of steelworker pals from a Pennsylvania blast furnace to the cool hunting grounds of the Alleghenies to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. This war conflict will...

Direction Steven Spielberg

Cast Richard Dreyfuss · Teri Garr · Melinda Dillon · François Truffaut

Plot Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) becomes obsessed with meeting extraterrestrials after encountering a UFO on an abandoned road one night. Against the wishes of his wife (Teri Garr) and children, Neary,...

Direction John Boorman

Cast Jon Voight · Burt Reynolds · Ned Beatty · Ronny Cox

Plot They left their troubles at the office. Left the wives and kids behind. Four men bound for the wilderness. It was the weekend they hoped for, a great adventure -...

Direction Jerry Schatzberg

Cast Al Pacino · Gene Hackman · Dorothy Tristan · Ann Wedgeworth

Plot Max is an ex-con who's been saving money to open a car wash in Pittsburgh. Lionel is a sailor who's returning home to the midwest to see the child born...

Direction Michael Cimino

Cast Kris Kristofferson · Isabelle Huppert · Christopher Walken · Jeff Bridges

Plot Michael Cimino's bleak anti-western based on events in 1890s Wyoming. Sheriff James Averill attempts to protect immigrant farmers from wealthy cattle interests, and also clashes with a hired gun, Nathan...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Elliott Gould · Sterling Hayden · Nina Van Pallandt · Mark Rydell

Plot Private eye Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) is certain that his friend Terry Lennox (Jim Bouton) isn't a wife-killer, even after the cops throw Marlowe in jail for not cooperating with...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Warren Beatty · Julie Christie · Rene Auberjonois · William Devane

Plot Set in winter in the Old West. Charismatic but dumb John McCabe arrives in a young Pacific Northwest town to set up a whorehouse/tavern. The shrewd Mrs. Miller, a professional...

Direction Brian De Palma

Cast John Travolta · Nancy Allen · John Lithgow · Dennis Franz

Plot A movie sound recordist accidentally records the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently finds himself in danger.

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Radha Mitchell · Will Ferrell · Amanda Peet · Chloë Sevigny

Plot Melinda and Melinda combines romantic comedy and drama in a way that Woody Allen, unique among filmmakers, likes to contrast. It takes place in Manhattan and chronicles a pair of...

Direction Peter Fonda

Cast Peter Fonda · Warren Oates · Verna Bloom · Robert Pratt

Plot Peter Fonda's superb yet little-seen directorial debut subverts the machismo of the Western genre with a quiet, understated tale of relationships and loyalty in the Wild West. Fonda stars as...

Direction Brian De Palma

Cast Cliff Robertson · Geneviève Bujold · John Lithgow · Sylvia Williams

Plot Successful New Orleans businessman Michael Courtland's (Cliff Robertson) tenth wedding anniversary celebration ends tragically when his wife Elizabeth (Genevieve Bujoid) and their 9-year-old daughter, Amy, have been kidnapped. In an...

Direction Mark Rydell

Cast James Caan · Marsha Mason · Eli Wallach · Kirk Calloway

Plot A lonely Navy sailor (James Caan) falls in love with a hooker (Marsha Mason) and becomes a surrogate father figure for her son during an extended liberty due to his...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Susannah York · Rene Auberjonois · Marcel Bozzuffi · Hugh Millais

Plot A man and his wife visit their weekend cottage located in a scenic but isolated corner of the countrytside. The man is in good spirits but has his mind on...

Direction Irwin Winkler

Cast Kevin Kline · Kristin Scott Thomas · Hayden Christensen · Mary Steenburgen

Plot 45 year-old architech, George Monroe (Kevin Kline), looses his job and has four months to live. He decides to spend this vital time with his 16 year-old son and build...

Direction Willard Carroll

Cast Gillian Anderson · Ellen Burstyn · Sean Connery · Anthony Edwards

Plot Eleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in L.A. Paul produces Hannah's TV cooking show, and they must move beyond gentle barbs when she wants to know about...

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Ewan McGregor · Colin Farrell · Tom Wilkinson · Hayley Atwell

Plot Cassandra’s Dream is the story of two brothers, their problems (blind ambition and compulsive gambling), their family, their women, their romance, passion and their chasing of dreams which end in...

Direction James Landis

Cast Arch Hall Jr. · Richard Alden · Marilyn Manning · Don Russell

Plot Three people driving into Los Angeles for a Dodgers game have car trouble and pull off into an old wrecking yard where they are held at bay by a bloodthirsty...

Direction Mark Rydell

Cast Bette Midler · Alan Bates · Frederic Forrest · Harry Dean Stanton

Plot Bette Midler stars as Rose in this somber drama loosely based on the life of the late Janis Joplin. She plays an ill-fated singer who succumbs to the pressures of...

Direction Sean Penn

Cast Jack Nicholson · David Morse · Anjelica Huston · Robin Wright

Plot Freddie Gale is a seedy jeweler who has sworn to kill the drunk driver who killed his little girl. After a hit-and-run takes the life of a man's daughter, breaking...

Direction Richard Donner

Cast Mel Gibson · Jodie Foster · James Garner · James Coburn

Plot Bret Maverick is a superb professional poker gambler, as handy with the handgun as he handles the cards, but also a master at avoiding violence by deception. Like all great...