Soundtrack: Bill Conti

Direction Taylor Hackford

Cast Damian Chapa · Jesse Borrego · Benjamin Bratt · Enrique Castillo

Plot Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the...

Direction Richard T. Heffron

Cast Patrick Swayze · James Read · Lesley-Anne Down · Wendy Kilbourne

Plot TV miniseries (1985,1986,1994). 15 Episodes. Based on John Jakes best selling novel this is the story of the friendship between two youngs, George Hazard (James Read) and Orry Main (Patrick...

Direction John G. Avildsen

Cast Sylvester Stallone · Talia Shire · Burt Young · Carl Weathers

Plot Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) is a down-on-his-luck Philadelphia southpaw who works at a meat-packing factory while fighting at a local club. Hes given the chance of a lifetime when the...

Direction Vittorio De Sica

Cast Dominique Sanda · Lino Capolicchio · Helmut Berger · Romolo Valli

Plot In the late 1930s, in Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Contini are one of the leading families, wealthy, aristocratic, urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather a...

Direction Paul Mazursky

Cast Lenny Baker · Shelley Winters · Ellen Greene · Lois Smith

Plot An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953. He struggles to come to terms...

Direction Philip Kaufman

Cast Scott Glenn · Ed Harris · Barbara Hershey · Dennis Quaid

Plot Deep in the desert during the 1950s, army test pilots courageously fought to break the sound barrier. These maverick men would stop at nothing to achieve winning speed. Led by...

Direction John Cassavetes

Cast Gena Rowlands · Buck Henry · John Adames · Julie Carmen

Plot Jack Dawn and his family are eliminated by the mob, because he was their accountant and was feeding information to the FBI. However his six-year-old Puerto Rican son, Phil, escapes...

Direction Paul Mazursky

Cast Art Carney · Ellen Burstyn · Chief Dan George · Geraldine Fitzgerald

Plot Harry is a retired teacher in his 70s living in the Upper West Side of New York City where his late wife and he raised his children--where he's lived all...

Direction Rick Rosenthal

Cast Sean Penn · Reni Santoni · Jim Moody · Eric Gurry

Plot Teenage tough guy Mick O'Brien is a delinquent whose crimes eventually land him in a juvenile correctional facility. There, he soon becomes the head honcho amongst the JD's, but his...

Direction John Huston

Cast Sylvester Stallone · Michael Caine · Max von Sydow · Daniel Massey

Plot A group of P.O.W.s at a German prison camp agree to compete against Nazi soccer players in this World War II drama set in 1943 Occupied Europe. German Major Karl...

Direction Paul Mazursky

Cast Jill Clayburgh · Alan Bates · Michael Murphy · Cliff Gorman

Plot Erica seemingly has the perfect life until her husband informs her he's leaving her for another woman. With help from a therapist and a supportive group of friends, she recovers...

Direction Sylvester Stallone

Cast Sylvester Stallone · Carl Weathers · Talia Shire · Burgess Meredith

Plot In the aftermath of his celebrated match with World Heavyweight Champion Apollo Creed, Rocky Balboa enjoys his success, and the money he earned from the match, which was declared a...

Direction Paul Mazursky

Cast George Segal · Susan Anspach · Kris Kristofferson · Marsha Mason

Plot Lawyer Stephen Blume, specialized in divorces, lives a paradoxical situation when, having his own marriage break up, is still in love with his ex-wife.

Direction James L. Brooks

Cast William Hurt · Holly Hunter · Albert Brooks · Jack Nicholson

Plot In James L. Brooks’ quirky, romantic comedy, three ambitious workaholics are set loose in a network TV newsroom where their professional and personal lives become hopelessly cross-wired. Tom (William Hurt)...

Direction John G. Avildsen

Cast Morgan Freeman · Beverly Todd · Robert Guillaume · Alan North

Plot Lean On Me is based on a true story of a principal in a New Jersey high school, Eastside High. The Principal, Joe Clark, is hired in 1983 to run...

Direction William Dear

Cast Clifton Collins Jr. · Cheech Marin · Moises Arias · Jake T. Austin

Plot Based on a true story. In 1957 a rag-tag, shoeless, poor group of kids from Monterrey, Mexico shocked the world by winning 13 games in a row and the Little...

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 John G. Avildsen

Cast Ralph Macchio · Pat Morita · Elisabeth Shue · William Zabka

Plot Daniel Larusso and his mother move from New Jersy to California. She has a wonderful new job but Daniel discovers that a dark haired Italian boy with a Jersey accent...

Direction Mike Hodges

Cast Mickey Rourke · Bob Hoskins · Liam Neeson · Alan Bates

Plot Martin Fallon is an IRA bomber who tries to blow up a troop truck but instead kills a bus load of school children. He loses heart and quits the movement...

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...