When smooth P.I. Jake Gittes is tricked into taking a case tailing an unfaithful husband he finds he may have bitten off more than he can chew. The more he investigates the case the more corruption, greed and violence he finds. ... more about Chinatown
Sonny Crawford (Timothy Bottoms) and Duane Jackson (Jeff Bridges) are two young boys trying to find where they belong in the world as everyone leaves their sleepy Texas town for the big cities. On their journey they have love affairs with the town sweetheart and an older married woman. ... more about Last Picture Show
After a traumatizing incident with a serial killer and a series of nightmares, Karen checks herself into an institution for observation. While there her colleagues follow up with the killer and discover he is not dead and she is in danger. ... more about Howling
A new Disc Jockey is shipped from Crete to Vietnam to bring humor to Armed Forces Radio. He turns the studio on it's ear and becomes wildly popular with the troops but runs afoul of the middle management who think he isn't G.I. enough. ... more about Good Morning
After the death of her lover, Wilma takes over his bootlegging business, but without much success. She soon meets up with bank robber Fred, who convinces her and her daughters to join him for his next big heist. ... more about Big Bad Mama
Adapted from the novel, "Addie Pray" (1971) by Joe David Brown, PAPER MOON is the story of Moses Pray and Addie Loggins. With scenery reminiscent of "The Grapes of Wrath," the film is set in the depression-era Midwestern region of the United States. ... more about Paper Moon
Based on John Steinbeck's 1937 classic tale of two travelling companions, George and Lennie, who wander the country during the Depression, dreaming of a better life for themselves. Then, just as heaven is within their grasp, it is inevitably yanked away. ... more about Of Mice and Men
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumption to be the key associate to a visiting labor union organizer. ... more about Norma Rae
A down and out cynical detective teams up with a down and out ex-quarterback to try and solve a murder case involving a pro football team and a politician. ... more about Last Boy Scout
When Waring Hudsucker, head of hugely successful Hudsucker Industries, commits suicide, his board of directors, led by Sidney Mussberger, comes up with a brilliant plan to make a lot of money: appoint a moron to run the company. ... more about Hudsucker Proxy
A Vietnam vet blinded in the war uses his samurai fighting skills and a concealed sword stick to help protect the son of a dead comrade from a crime organisation. ... more about Blind Fury
Mitch is a middle aged big-city radio ads salesman. He and his friends Ed and Phil are having mid-life crisis. They decide the best birthday gift is to go on a two week holiday in the wild west driving cattle from New Mexico to Colorado. ... more about City Slickers
This is a telling of the Jessica Savitch story, the newswoman who, in the 1970's, became the "First Woman Anchor". Sally/Tally is taken under the wing of Warren in a Miami newsroom and becomes a news star on TV. ... more about Up Close & Personal
A group of men who were clearing bush for the government arrive back in town, claiming that their friend was abducted by aliens. ... more about Fire in the Sky
When the new Warden comes in disguised as an inmate, he sees first hand all the corruption and scams the guards and prison officials and running. ... more about Brubaker
To be a Pet Detective, you have to understand both the criminals and animals. Ace Ventura goes even further... He behaves like a criminal animal. ... more about Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
A Florida con man uses the passing of the long time Congressman from his district who he just happens to share a name with, to get elected to his version of paradise, Congress, where the money flows from lobbyists. ... more about Distinguished Gentleman
Josie, the daughter of the town's wealthiest businessman, faces problems at home and wishes to leave home, but is disorientated. ... more about Career Opportunities
Bobby and Rose, two youngsters who are in love, have to run away from home when they are falsely accused to have committed a robbery and an assassination. ... more about Aloha
Valentine Casey is a Marshal in the desolate Tucson territory of the early 1900's. On Christmas Eve, his outlaw family pays him a disturbing visit. He must confront the sins of his past. He and his partner, U.S. ... more about South of Heaven
This war drama (which prefigures the later "Full Metal Jacket") follows the lives of five young Marine inductees from their training in boot camp in 1967 through a tour in Vietnam in 1968 that quickly devolves into a hellish nightmare. ... more about Boys in Company C
A group of doctors in a veteran's hospital must contend with their hopeless situation: too many patients and not enough beds. The main cause of their problems is bureaucratic belt-tightening by the hospital administrators. ... more about Article 99
Ruth Loomis (Jill Clayburg) becomes the first woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court. A staunch conservative, she immediatly runs into conflict with Dan Snow (Walter Matthau), the high court's resident liberal. ... more about First Monday in October
Harry Johnson's aunt is a rich eccentric with an extensive collection of military memorabilia, who also happens to be in a fight with the IRS. When she dies of a heart attack, Harry blames her death on the IRS and takes up the fight himself. ... more about Harry's War
A federal agent whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose is determined to destroy the drug ring that supplied her. He recruits various people whose lives have been torn apart by the drug trade and trains them. ... more about Hit!
Feeling lonely and neglected by her overworked husband, Roxy, a Depression-era farm wife, is drawn into an ill-advised affair with Jack, their hired hand. ... more about Summer Heat