Screenplay: Joe Eszterhas

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Jessica Lange · Armin Mueller-Stahl · Frederic Forrest · Lukas Haas

Plot Hungarian immigrant Mike Laszlo (Armin Mueller-Stahl) has done well for himself since arriving in the USA nearly 50 years ago. He is particularly proud of his daughter, Ann, a successful...

Direction Paul Verhoeven

Cast Michael Douglas · Sharon Stone · George Dzundza · Jeanne Tripplehorn

Plot The take-no-prisoners sex thriller from 1992 now stands as a milestone in the career of screenwriter Joe Eszterhas, but in the hands of director Paul Verhoeven Basic Instinct is an...

Direction Krisztina Goda

Cast Iván Fenyö · Kata Dobó · Sándor Csányi · Károly Gesztesi

Plot At the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, the Hungarian water polo team faces off against the Russians in what will become known as one of the bloodiest matches in the...

Direction Norman Jewison

Cast Sylvester Stallone · Rod Steiger · Peter Boyle · Melinda Dillon

Plot Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become...

Direction Costa-Gavras

Cast Tom Berenger · Debra Winger · John Heard · John Mahoney

Plot Set in a small town in Nebraska, Debra Winger and Tom Berenger star in a powerful and provocative tale of betrayal about an FBI agent who falls for a murder...

Direction Adrian Lyne

Cast Jennifer Beals · Michael Nouri · Lilia Skala · Sunny Johnson

Plot Young woman Alex (Jennifer Beals) strives to achieve success as a classical dancer, but economic forces require her to work as a welder by day and an exotic dancer by...

Direction Richard Marquand

Cast Glenn Close · Jeff Bridges · Peter Coyote · Robert Loggia

Plot After a wealthy socialite is found brutally murdered, her manipulative husband becomes the prime suspect. An attractive attorney takes his case, and their relationship quickly evolves into what on the...

Direction Guy Ferland

Cast Kevin Bacon · Brad Renfro · Maximilian Schell · Calista Flockhart

Plot An immigrant teenager named Karchy (Brad Renfro) circumnavigates the social strictures of 1950s Cleveland by scamming his way into the good graces of local hotshot D.J. Billy Magic (Kevin Bacon),...

Direction William Friedkin

Cast Linda Fiorentino · David Caruso · Chazz Palminteri · Angie Everhart

Plot San Francisco District Attorney David Corelli faces a potential conflict of interest when he learns that the prime suspect in the murder is psychologist Katrina Gavin, an old flame who...

Direction Robert Mandel

Cast Ricky Busker · Darius McCrary · Jerzy Skolimowski · Robert Prosky

Plot Following the death of his father, suburbanite Obie runs away from home and winds up on Chicago's South Side. After being mugged, he befriends con artist Scam. The two then...

Direction Richard Marquand

Cast Fiona Flanagan · Rupert Everett · Bob Dylan · Julian Glover

Plot A reclusive musician, once a huge rock star, takes a young female protegee. While on a tour she meets a younger, more popular rocker and switches her loyalties.

Direction Robert Harmon

Cast Jean-Claude Van Damme · Rosanna Arquette · Joss Ackland · Kieran Culkin

Plot Escaped convict Sam Gillen single handedly takes on ruthless developers determined to evict Clydie - a widow with two young children. Nobody knows who Sam is.

Direction Paul Verhoeven

Cast Elizabeth Berkley · Kyle MacLachlan · Gina Gershon · Glenn Plummer

Plot High-strung, statuesque Nomi Mallone (Elizabeth Berkely) is determined to be a dancer in Las Vegas, whatever it takes--but she starts out as a stripper. Through her seamstress roommate (Gina Ravera),...

Direction Arthur Hiller

Cast Ryan O'Neal · Richard Jeni · Eric Idle · Coolio

Plot Subtitled An Alan Smithee Film (referring to a long-standing pseudonym for a director who disowns a film), this 1998 satire is notable chiefly for having the same thing happen in...

Direction Michael Caton-Jones

Cast Sharon Stone · David Morrissey · Charlotte Rampling · David Thewlis

Plot Novelist Catherine Tramell is once again in trouble with the law, and Scotland Yard appoints psychiatrist Dr. Andrew Glass to evaluate her. Though, like Detective Nick Curran before him, Glass...

Direction Phillip Noyce

Cast Sharon Stone · William Baldwin · Tom Berenger · Martin Landau

Plot A young woman (Sharon Stone) rents an apartment in one of New York's luxurious Sliver buildings. After meeting two handsome neighbors she believes she has found the perfect home--but someone...

Direction David Leland

Cast Jeff Daniels · Melanie Mayron · Michael Tucker · Kathleen York

Plot Ray is a man obsessed with his own mortality. When Ray's best friend dies of a heart attack, Ray is convinced that all of his aches and pains are an...