Screenplay: Robert Altman

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Madeleine Stowe · Julianne Moore · Jennifer Jason Leigh · Tim Robbins

Plot Robert Altman interweaves the different everyday stories of Los Angeles who are seemingly unconnected to each other. Based on stories by Raymond Carver, Short Cuts follows 22 Los Angeles residents...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Sissy Spacek · Shelley Duvall · Janice Rule · Ruth Nelson

Plot In a dusty, under-populated California resort town, Pinky Rose (Sissy Spacek), a naive and impressionable Southern waif begins her life as a nursing home attendant. There, Pinky finds her role...

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 Robert Altman

Cast Carol Burnett · Paul Dooley · Amy Stryker · Mia Farrow

Plot Altman returns to the narrative strategy of Nashville, using a massive cast and a complex web of subplots to probe the flaws and fissures in modern America as made evident...

Direction Richard Fleischer

Cast Lawrence Tierney · Priscilla Lane · Phillip Reed · June Clayworth

Plot Homicide detective Mike Carter is tossed off the police force for insubordination and violating regulations. He reluctantly takes a job as bodyguard to Mrs. Gene Dysen, the owner of a...

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 Robert Altman

Cast Jennifer Jason Leigh · Harry Belafonte · Miranda Richardson · Dermot Mulroney

Plot Robert Altman's jazz-scored film explores themes of love, crime, race, and politics in 1930's Kansas City. When Blondie O'Hara's husband, a petty thief, is captured by Seldom Seen and held...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Keith Carradine · Shelley Duvall · Louise Fletcher · Bert Remsen

Plot Two convicts break out of Mississippi State Penitentiary in 1936 to join a third on a long spree of bank robbing, their special talent and claim to fame. The youngest...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Carol Burnett · Lauren Bacall · Glenda Jackson · James Garner

Plot A parody and satire of the U.S. political scene of the time, HealtH is set at a health food convention at a Florida luxury hotel, where a powerful political organization...

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

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

Plot 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),...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Paul Newman · Burt Lancaster · Geraldine Chaplin · Harvey Keitel

Plot Buffalo Bill (Paul Newman) plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow, and Chief Sitting Bull has agreed to appear in it. However, Sitting Bull has his own hidden...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Tom Laughlin · Peter Miller · Richard Bakalyan · Rosemary Howard

Plot Scotty White (age 19) must stop 'going steady' with Janice Wilson (age 16) when Janice's parents intervene. Frustrated, idle and without Janice's restraining influence, Scotty encounters Cholly and his band...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Paul Dooley · Marta Heflin · Titos Vandis · Belita Moreno

Plot A repressed, middle-aged divorced U.S. Greek meets a young singer through a dating service and becomes smitten.

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Paul Newman · Vittorio Gassman · Fernando Rey · Bibi Andersson

Plot During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called "Quintet." For one small group, this obsession is not enough; they play the...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Julia Roberts · Tim Robbins · Sophia Loren · Marcello Mastroianni

Plot A fashion show in Paris draws the usual bunch of people; designers, reporters, models, magazine editors, photographers. Lots of unconnected stories which all revolve around this show, and an all-star...

Direction James Sheldon · Alfred E. Green · Gerald Mayer · Robert Altman

Cast Marvin Miller · Paul Frees · Roy Gordon · Tido Fedderson

Plot In this hit 1950's TV series, a millionaire indulges himself giving away one million dollars apiece to persons that he has never met.