Soundtrack: Jack Nitzsche

Direction Milos Forman

Cast Jack Nicholson · Louise Fletcher · Brad Dourif · William Redfield

Plot A misbehaved con named McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), who shirks authority, finds himself in an asylum after faking insanity to get out of work detail in prison. The troublemaker soon finds...

Direction William Friedkin

Cast Linda Blair · Max von Sydow · Ellen Burstyn · Jason Miller

Plot Linda Blair plays Regan, a 12-year-old girl possessed by the devil. After exhausting all the options of science, psychology, and medicine, Regan's mother (Ellen Burstyn) realizes the supernatural nature of...

Direction Rob Reiner

Cast Wil Wheaton · River Phoenix · Corey Feldman · Jerry O'Connell

Plot STAND BY ME is the story of four kids on the precipice of early adulthood who embark upon a quest. Theres Gordie (Wil Wheaton), the intelligent, creative one with the...

Direction Paul Schrader

Cast Richard Pryor · Harvey Keitel · Yaphet Kotto · Ed Begley Jr.

Plot Three workers, Zeke, Jerry and Smokey, are working at a car plant and they are fed-up with the conditions. It dawns on them that their workers' union is doing them...

Direction Paul Schrader

Cast George C. Scott · Peter Boyle · Season Hubley · Dick Sargent

Plot Jake Van Dorn is businessman from American heartland who shares strong Calvinist convictions with most of his countrymen. His teenage daughter is missing from the trip in L.A. and Van...

Direction Sean Penn

Cast Viggo Mortensen · David Morse · Dennis Hopper · Valeria Golino

Plot Sean Penn makes an arresting directorial debut with this intense character drama inspired in equal parts by the stark, folksy, early-'80s recordings of singer/songwriter Bruce Springsteen (the film is loosely...

Direction William Friedkin

Cast Al Pacino · Paul Sorvino · Karen Allen · Richard Cox

Plot Sexual thriller with Al Pacino as a young cop who must go undercover as a gay 'cruiser' in New York City. There's a homicidal homophobe on the streets, brutally killing...

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 Nicolas Roeg · Donald Cammell

Cast James Fox · Mick Jagger · Anita Pallenberg · Michèle Breton

Plot Chas is a mafia performer, a hit-man who tortures his victims with artistic originality. When he runs into difficulties with his capo, he is forced to go into hiding. He...

Direction John Carpenter

Cast Jeff Bridges · Karen Allen · Charles Martin Smith · Richard Jaeckel

Plot A race of alien energy beings encounter the Voyager II probe, which contains a message welcoming anybody that finds the probe to come and visit Earth. Taking mankind at its...

Direction Taylor Hackford

Cast Richard Gere · Debra Winger · Louis Gossett Jr. · David Caruso

Plot Zack Mayo (Richard Gere) has nothing--the son of an alcoholic, indifferent military father, hes grown up in the Philippines living on top of a brothel. But after college he decides...

Direction David S. Ward

Cast Nick Nolte · Debra Winger · Audra Lindley · Frank McRae

Plot Doc (Nick Nolte) is a self-employed marine biologist who lives by the ocean and interacts with the neighborhood denizens, trying to conceal a troubled past. Across from Doc's digs stands...

Direction Ivan Passer

Cast Jeff Bridges · John Heard · Lisa Eichhorn · Ann Dusenberry

Plot Passer's taut and complex thriller has a trio of social misfits stalking a possible murderer for their own muddled purposes. Heard lends poignancy to the role of a crippled Vietnam...

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Jessica Lange · Tommy Lee Jones · Powers Boothe · Carrie Snodgress

Plot Jessica Lange stars as army wife Carly Marshall in Tony Richardson's last film, set in the early 1960s. Carly, a very beautiful woman, spices up the drabness of military life...

Direction John Byrum

Cast Nick Nolte · Sissy Spacek · John Heard · Ray Sharkey

Plot Staring Nick Nolte, in postwar America, a time of short hair, and McCarthyism. Heart beat is about three unconventional people who thumbed their noses at those conventional times. Based on...

Direction Richard Benjamin

Cast Cher · Winona Ryder · Bob Hoskins · Christina Ricci

Direction John Byrum

Cast Bill Murray · Theresa Russell · Denholm Elliott · Catherine Hicks

Plot Based on William Somerset Maugham's novel, THE RAZOR'S EDGE follows a young man's search for identity. After experiencing WWI, veteran Larry Darrell (Bill Murray) seeks spiritual peace and recovery. After...

Direction Tony Scott

Cast Kevin Costner · Anthony Quinn · Madeleine Stowe · Tomas Milian

Plot Kevin Costner plays an ex-pilot who visits the posh Mexican estate of an old associate (Anthony Quinn) "Tibey" Mendes, for a bit of R & R. Tibey has turned into...

Direction Adrian Lyne

Cast Kim Basinger · Mickey Rourke · Margaret Whitton · Christine Baranski

Plot Set against the dazzling backdrop of Manhattan, 9 1/2 Weeks spans the length of the affair between Elizabeth, a beautiful art dealer, and John, the wealthy Wall Street executive who...

Direction Dennis Hopper

Cast Don Johnson · Virginia Madsen · Jennifer Connelly · Charles Martin Smith

Plot When the drifter Harry Madox reaches a small town in Texas, he gets a job as used car salesman with the dealer George Harshaw and settles down in a hotel...