Soundtrack: Jerry Goldsmith

Direction Ridley Scott

Cast Sigourney Weaver · John Hurt · Yaphet Kotto · Tom Skerritt

Plot When commercial towing vehicle Nostromo, heading back to Earth, intercepts an SoS signal from a nearby unexplored planet, the crew are under obligation to investigate. After a bad landing on...

Direction Rod Serling · John Brahm · Douglas Heyes · Buzz Kulik

Cast Rod Serling · Burgess Meredith · Vaughn Taylor · Jack Klugman

Plot TV series (1959-1964). 5 Seasons. 156 Episodes. Rod Serling's seminal anthology series focused on ordinary folks who suddenly found themselves in extraordinary, usually supernatural, situations. The stories would typically end...

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Jack Nicholson · Faye Dunaway · John Huston · Perry Lopez

Plot It is set during a heat wave in 1930s Los Angeles, whose residents are suffering from a water shortage as a result of an ongoing drought. Private investigator Jake Gittes...

Direction Curtis Hanson

Cast Guy Pearce · Russell Crowe · Kevin Spacey · Kim Basinger

Plot Take strong performances, an involved story and period atmosphere, then throw in sex, violence, corruption and politics to make one hell of a crime drama. It’s the early ‘50s. Hopefuls...

Direction Franklin J. Schaffner

Cast Steve McQueen · Dustin Hoffman · Victor Jory · Don Gordon

Plot Based on the true story of Henri Charriere, also known as Papillon, which is French for 'butterfly' (the character even sports a large tattoo of a butterfly. A petty criminal,...

Direction Franklin J. Schaffner

Cast Charlton Heston · Roddy McDowall · Kim Hunter · Maurice Evans

Plot Complex sociological themes run through this science-fiction classic, about three astronauts marooned on a futuristic planet where apes rule and humans are slaves... The stunned trio discovers that these highly...

Direction John Frankenheimer

Cast Kirk Douglas · Ava Gardner · Burt Lancaster · Fredric March

Plot At the height of the cold war, a weakened President and a popular four-star general face off in a battle for control of the US government. President Jordan Lyman has...

Direction Richard Donner

Cast Gregory Peck · Lee Remick · David Warner · Billie Whitelaw

Plot Robert and Katherine Thorn seem to have it all. He is the US Ambassador to Italy and they want for nothing in their lives, except one thing: they do not...

Direction David Miller

Cast Kirk Douglas · Gena Rowlands · Walter Matthau · Michael Kane

Plot In order to free his best friend Bondi, Jack Burns lets himself be imprisoned only to find out that Bondi does not want to escape. Thus Burns breaks out on...

Direction Guy Green

Cast Elizabeth Hartman · Sidney Poitier · Shelley Winters · Wallace Ford

Plot A young blind woman, living with her prostitute mother and sheltered inside most of her life, meets a black man, who, resisting family pressures, falls in love with her, puts...

Direction Franklin J. Schaffner

Cast George C. Scott · Karl Malden · Stephen Young · Michael Bates

Plot "Patton" is a three-dimensional bronze bust of World War II field general George S. Patton (George C. Scott) who wrote poetry, fired pistols at strafing fighter planes, and loved America...

Direction Sam Peckinpah

Cast Jason Robards · Stella Stevens · David Warner · L.Q. Jones

Plot Penniless Arizona bum Cable Hogue (Jason Robards Jr.) is dry-gulched and left to die by false friends Bowen and Taggart (Strother Martin and L.Q. Jones). In a miraculous bit of...

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Paul Newman · Edward G. Robinson · Elke Sommer · Anna Lee

Direction Herschel Daugherty · John Brahm · Ida Lupino

Cast Boris Karloff · Richard Peel · Henry Daniell · David Frankham

Plot Anthology series hosted by Boris Karloff that originally told ordinary tales of crime and mystery, but later became a showcase for gothic horror stories, many of which were based on...

Direction Richard Fleischer · Kinji Fukasaku · Toshio Masuda

Cast Martin Balsam · Sô Yamamura · Joseph Cotten · Tatsuya Mihashi

Plot In 1941 the Japanese are at odds with the United States on a number of issues which they are attempting to resolve via their Washington embassy. In case this diplomacy...

Direction John Frankenheimer

Cast Rock Hudson · Salome Jens · John Randolph · Will Geer

Plot Arthur Hamilton is a middle aged New York banker living in Scarsdale. He's married with a grown daughter he rarely sees anymore. He is generally disengaged from everything in his...

Direction Joe Dante

Cast Burgess Meredith · Kathleen Quinlan · Jeremy Licht · Kevin McCarthy

Plot After seeing how he's bothered by a group of men, a teacher gives a lift to a little boy. Once they arrive to his house, she discovers that his family...

Direction John Brahm

Cast Vera Miles · Martin Milner · Joseph Hamilton · Naomi Stevens

Plot Millicent Barnes is waiting in the bus station waiting for her bus to Cortland to arrive. The weather outside is dreadful and the bus is over half an hour late...

Direction Alvin Ganzer

Cast Inger Stevens · Adam Williams · Lew Gallo · Leonard Strong

Plot Nan Adams is driving across country from Manhattan to Los Angeles. Apart from a blown tire, the trip has been more or less uneventful. That is until she begins to...

Direction Robert Mulligan

Cast Chris Udvarnoky · Martin Udvarnoky · Uta Hagen · Diana Muldaur

Plot The story takes place on a small Connecticut farm in the summer of 1935 and concerns a luckless family that finds itself further plagued by a violent series of mysterious...