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An American Haunting (2006)
Based on the true
events of the only case in US History where a spirit
caused the death of a man.
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Land of the Blind (2006)
A soldier (Fiennes)
recounts his relationship with a famous political
prisoner (Sutherland) attempting to overthrow their
country's totalitarian government.
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The Four Saints (2005)
Jean-Pierre Isbouts
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Ask the Dust (2005)
In the Robert
Towne-directed adaptation of John Fante's Depression
Era novel, Hayek will play the fiery Mexican beauty
Camilla who hopes to rise above her station by
marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by
meeting Arturo Bandini (Farrell), a first-generation
Italian hoping to land a writing career and a
blue-eyed blonde on his arm.
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American Gun (2005)
Seemingly disparate
portraits of people -- among them a single mother, a
high school principal, and an ace student --
Distinctly American -- all affected by the
proliferation of guns in American society.
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Fierce
People (2005)
A 15-year-old kid,
tired of the bohemian lifestyle his mother leads, gets
a chance to see what life is like for the privileged
when she is hired to be the personal masseuse to an
elderly millionaire.
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Pride
and Prejudice (2005)
An opinionated young
woman and an arrogant, aristocrat overcome their
initial antipathy and various other social obstacles
to fall in love. Based on the novel by Jane Austen.
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Frankenstein
(2003)
In this remake of Mary
Shelley's classic novel, a scientist gets in over his
head, creating a monster with a mind of his own.
Directed by Kevin Connor, this remake features
exquisite cinematography. FRANKENSTEIN sticks pretty
closely to the original plot laid out in Shelley's
story. The film stars Luke Goss as the monster, and
Julie Delpy (BEFORE SUNRISE, BEFORE SUNSET, AN
AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN PARIS) as Dr. Frankenstein's
wife. Watch for outstanding performances by Donald
Sutherland and William Hurt.
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Cold
Mountain (2003)
Directed by Academy
Award®-winner Anthony Minghella ("The English
Patient", "The Talented Mr. Ripley")
and based on Charles Frazier's best-selling Civil War
novel of the same name, COLD MOUNTAIN tells the story
of Inman (Jude Law), a wounded confederate soldier who
is on a perilous journey home to his mountain
community, hoping to reunite with his pre-war
sweetheart, Ada (Nicole Kidman). In his absence, Ada
struggles to survive, and revive her father's farm
with the help of intrepid young drifter Ruby (Renee
Zellweger).
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The
Italian Job (2003)
A band of thieves, led
by Charlie Croker (Wahlberg), pulls off the ultimate
heist by rigging the stoplights of the city of Los
Angeles so that they can drive right out of the city
with a carful of gold (in a safe that they're stealing
back after Croker's double-crossing ex-partner, played
by Edward Norton, stole it from Croker first), with
nothing but green lights, while everyone else gets red
lights, thus keeping the roads plugged with the
largest traffic jam in L.A. history, and the police
from pursuing them.
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Fellini:
I'm a Born Liar (2003)
This documentary
analyzes the life and career of famed Italian director
Federico Fellini (1920-1993) (8 1/2, Amarcord, La
Dolce Vita, Nights of Cabiria) through interviews with
those who worked with him, scenes from his films (some
of which are previously unreleased), and interviews
with the late director himself conducted by Damian
Pettigrew in which he discusses the role of the artist
in society, and how his films fit into that world
view.
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Big
Shot's Funeral (2003)
This is the story of
what happens when a famous director (Sutherland)
travels to China to film a historical epic about the
last emperor of the Qing Dynasty. As the title
suggests, there's also something about the director's
planned funeral. Specifically, as he's about to die,
his crew discover that he doesn't the money to pay for
it, so they concoct a scheme to use "product
endorsements" of the funeral by major companies.
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Final
Fantasy: the Spirits Within (2001)
Using computer
animation to create an imaginary futuristic world,
FINAL FANTASY: THE SPIRITS WITHIN, based on the
popular series of video games, transports viewers to
the year 2065. The earth is overrun with evil aliens
who are determined to destroy the planet and
obliterate humankind. Only one woman, Dr. Aki Ross
(Ming-Na) can devise a plan to defeat the aliens, but
she is dying from a fatal disease.
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The
Art of War (2000)
THE ART OF WAR is a
suspense-filled action thrill ride. Shaw (Wesley
Snipes) is part of a top-secret team working for the
United Nations, solving crises and helping maintain
world peace. On a new mission involving security for a
high-stakes trade pact between China and the United
States, the Chinese ambassador is assassinated and
Shaw is framed for the crime. Shaw must learn who
framed him and why--in the process fighting off
Chinese Triad gangsters, high-tech assassins, and the
FBI. The only people who help Shaw are a beautiful
Chinese translator (Marie Matiko) and a skeptical
agent (Maury Chaykin). In addition to saving himself,
Shaw has to race to keep the trade deal from
collapsing and the United Nations from being
humiliated and weakened. A tense techno-spy thriller,
THE ART OF WAR boasts strong performances from Chaykin
and Michael Biehn. Snipes gives a memorable portrayal
as Shaw (half James Bond and half Shaft) with his own
unique combination of martial arts expertise and
secret agent charisma. Filmed largely in Montreal by
Canadian director Christian Duguay (SCREAMERS, THE
ASSIGNMENT), THE ART OF WAR is an exciting film with
good fight sequences and a fast pace.
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Space
Cowboys (2000)
A retired Air Force
pilot--passed up by NASA when he was young--is
recruited to retrieve a malfunctioning satellite
launched years before. He is the only person with the
expertise to fix the satellite, but will only agree to
the mission if he can take his three friends with him.
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Panic
(2000)
Midlife crises are a
normal event for many forty-plus American males, and
Alex (Bill Macy) seems no different from the average.
He is going through a very difficult time. He has a
marriage that's been through the normal ups and downs
but is now struggling, a young son who he's devoted to
but worried about, and a particularly stressful job:
he works for his father in the family business...and
kills people for a living. More than the specific
tensions that this particular occupation brings with
it, Alex is tired of hiding what he does from his wife
and child and wants to leave the profession. Feeling
tormented, he seeks the services of a good therapist
to unload his burdens but finds unexpected solace in
the waiting room, where he meets Sarah (Neve
Campbell). She's manic, confused, and at loose ends;
he's repressed and trapped in domestic and career
turmoil, but somehow this odd couple manages to
connect, and each one makes the other feel like life's
worth living. With the potential for an affair looming
on the horizon but an increasingly problematic
professional life, Alex is caught in a difficult
family bind whose resolution will not be easy.
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Free
Money (1999)
Prison warden the
Swede strikes fear in the heart of everyone,
especially his sons-in-law Bud (Sheen) and Larry
(Church). When the boys come across a money train
carrying millions of unmarked bills to be destroyed,
and the only obstacle between them and untold riches
is the Swede himself, they must weigh their
options...Oddball low-key comedy with an all-star
cast.
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Instinct
(1999)
Theo Caulder (Gooding,
Jr.) is an ambitious psychiatric who has been asked by
his mentor Ben Hillard (Sutherland) to evaluate the
case of legendary anthropologist and primatologist
Ethan Powell (Hopkins). Powell- a highly educated man
who holds an ominous secret in his past- is currently
being held captive in a maximum security prison for
the critically insane. In an attempt to understand the
actions of this headline-gripping madman, Caulder
elicits the aid of Powell's estranged daughter, Lyn.
Risking his career and his life, Caulder's ambition
drives him to find the truth, regardless of the cost.
Both men become psychologically connected as their
relationship changes from psychiartrist and prisoner
to student and teacher.
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Virus
(1999)
In this techo-thriller
produced by Gale Anne Hurd and directed by
Oscar-winning visual effects wizard John Bruno, the
crew of an ocean-going tugboat find refuge in the eye
of a typhoon aboard a top secret Soviet research
vessel - only to discover that the Russians have been
annihilated by an alien life form, which regards
humans as a virus that must be eliminated.
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Without
Limits (1998)
Robert Towne's bio-pic
about the legendary long-distance runner Steve
Prefontaine. The picture follows Pre's Oregon
upbringing, through his days at Oregon University
(where he met and worked with famed running coach Bill
Bowerman), through the Munich Olympics. Sadly, his
career was cut short at the age of twenty-four when he
was killed in a car accident, adding to the myth of
this talented, inspired athlete.
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Fallen
(1998)
After capturing and
prosecuting a brutal serial killer, detective John
Hobbes is puzzled by a string of bizarre murders that
seem to suggest that the killer is alive--or at least
somehow present on Earth. With the help of a beautiful
theosophist and his stalwart partner, Hobbes realizes
that the killer's spirit is being transferred between
the bodies it possesses--and that it may be impossible
to stop him now.
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The
Hunley (1997)
The true story of the
USS Hunley, the manually propelled submarine, during
the siege of Charleston in 1864. The Hunley, the first
submersible to sink and enemy boat during wartime, was
powered by 8 men who died in the process. This is
their story.
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Natural
Enemy (1997)
Ted Robards (Donald
Sutherland) is thrilled with his new business partner
Jeremy (William McNamara), until he realizes a
terrible secret. Jeremy is the son of Ted's second
wife, given up for adoption at birth. His adoptive
family abused him in horrific ways, and the now
psychopathic son has returned for revenge on his
biological mother!
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The
Assignment (1997)
A CIA agent obsessed
with apprehending infamous international terrorist
Carlos "The Jackal" deploys a U.S. Navy
man--who resembles Carlos exactly--in his scheme to
discredit the legendary mercenary in the eyes of his
employers. A complex psychological suspenser elevated
above the bulging ranks of spy thrillers by its deep
characterization and the dual role for Quinn.
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Hollow
Point (1996)
A sexy FBI agent and
an intense DEA operative reluctantly join forces in
the race to catch a crime boss before his demented
assassin gets them in his sights.
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The
Shadow Conspiracy (1996)
A trusted advisor to
the U.S. President finds himself the target of a
dangerous assassin whose employers are the instigators
of a plot to bring the government to its knees. A tale
of political intrigue and deceit.
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A
Time to Kill (1996)
In a small southern
town in the 1960s, a black man awaits trial for
murdering the two rednecks who viciously raped his
10-year-old daughter. A young, idealistic white lawyer
takes up the father's defense, and the incendiary case
becomes a firestorm of racism and controversy, ripping
the town apart. Based on John Grisham's bestselling
first novel.
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Younger
& Younger (1995)
When his dowdy wife
has a heart attack after witnessing one too many of
his infidelities, a man is haunted by the ghost of his
wife, which appears younger and more attractive with
each visitation.
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Outbreak
(1995)
In director Wolfgang
Petersen's fast-paced, intelligently written thriller,
Dustin Hoffman plays Col. Sam Daniels, an expert on
infectious diseases who is called in to study the
outbreak of a deadly illness in Zaire. He finds a
virus that spreads so quickly it could wipe out an
entire nation in just a few weeks, and he believes
that it might have spread to the United States. With
the help of his ex-wife (Rene Russo), who works at the
Centers for Disease Control, Daniels tracks the virus
to the quiet seaside town of Cedar Creek, California.
His superiors' reticence to help begins to raise
questions in Daniels's mind, and he must find a cure
before a panicky U.S. army general decides to kill the
town's populace in order to save the world. The
all-star cast includes Hoffman, Russo, Kevin Spacey,
Donald Sutherland, Morgan Freeman, and Cuba Gooding,
Jr.
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Citizen
X (1994)
Based on a true story
and the book "The Killer Department" by
Robert Cullen, CITIZEN X is the tale of the Soviet
Union's eight year pursuit of a bloodthirsty serial
killer who claimed the lives of 52 people (mostly
teenage girls) between 1982 and 1990. A brilliant
forensics expert (Rea) may hold the clues needed to
finally apprehend the killer, but could they stop him
before he strikes again? Sutherland won the Golden
Globe for Supporting Role Best Performance by an Actor
in a Motion Picture Made for TV in 1996 and the Emmy
for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Special in 1995.
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The
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All (1994)
This heartwarming
drama uses an interview/ flashback structure to
chronicle the life of a Confederate captain's wife,
from their early courtship through the present day.
Based on the novel by Alan Gurganus.
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Disclosure
(1994)
Based on Michael
Crichton's controversial bestseller, a powerful woman
at a computer software company jeapordizes a man's
career when he spurns her sexual advances.
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The
Puppet Masters (1994)
In this chilling
sci-fi tale, slightly updated from author Robert A.
Heinlein's book, government officials are sent to Iowa
to investigate an alien landing. They discover alien
beings are taking over the brains of their human
hosts. Their task: devise a way to stop the invaders
before they spread too far, without killing the
innocent humans.
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Six
Degrees of Separation (1993)
Fifth Avenue socialite
Ouisa Kittredge (Stockard Channing) and her purveyor
of high-art husband Flan (Donald Sutherland), are
pedigree parents of "two at Harvard and one at
Groton." But the privileged insular world
inhabited by the Kittredge family, as well as their
public status as distinguished arbiters of culture,
makes them easy prey for a consummate con-artist like
Paul (Will Smith). One night, he mysteriously shows up
at their front door - injured and bleeding- claiming
to be Sidney Poitier's son and a close college crony
of the Kittredges' Ivy League progeny. Impressing
Ouisa and Flan with his articulate literary
expositions, Paul proves to be a sharp-witted, learned
young man with epicurean taste and surprising culinary
skill. His highbrow facade is so charmingly
persuasive, Paul soon has the Kittredges loaning him
money, putting him up for the night and taking
satisfaction in his appraisal of their posh lifestyle.
Much to the Kittredge's shock Paul is revealed to be a
highly persuasive con-man, who has charmed his way
into many upper-crust homes along the upper East side
with his wit and insider knowledge. As Paul's plot
unravels he becomes an urban legend of the upper
crust, a witty anecdote to banter about at cocktail
parties. However, he has a profound effect on the many
individuals who encounter him, linking them in their
shared experience. This film version of John Guare's
highly successful stage play features remarkable
ensemble acting and incredibly witty dialogue with an
insider's ear for the excesses and delights of upper
crust Manhattan.
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Dr.
Bethune (1993)
The story of the life
of Canadian Doctor Norman Bethune who became a hero in
China during Mao Tse-Tung's long march to revolution.
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Benefit
of the Doubt (1993)
Karen (Amy Irving) is
forced to face the father (Donald Sutherland) who she
helped to convict 20 years earlier for the murder of
her mother. Upon his parole from prison, Frank still
maintains his innocence and tries to restore his
relationship with his suspicious daughter. Her memory
is blurred by time now, and emotions don't make it
easier to give him the benefit of the doubt.
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Shadow
of the Wolf (1993)
A young proud Eskimo
hunter flees the rigid code of tribal life and his
oppressive father with a young girl from his village.
Tragedy strikes when he is accused of killing a white
fur trader and must prove his innocence before he is
killed by the white man.
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Quicksand:
No Escape (1992)
A hard-working
architect is pulled into intrigue when his wife hires
a private investigator to make sure he's just working
late. The private eye sees an opportunity to frame him
for a murder instead.
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The
Railway Station Man (1992)
A widowed artist and
an eccentric American find a blossoming romance
against the political turmoil of present-day Ireland.
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The
Setting Sun (1992)
THE SETTING SUN
recounts the epic romance between a soldier (Masaya
Kato) and a rebel leader (Diane Lane) during the 1930s
Sino-Japanese opium wars.
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Buffy
the Vampire Slayer (1992)
A fully accessorized
L.A. high school cheerleader is informed by a
mysterious stranger that she is destined to battle
vampires. Soon she's wreaking havoc on a local chapter
of bloodsuckers. But when the top vampire vows
revenge, it totally fouls up her social schedule.
Forerunner to the popular television series.
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J.F.K.
(1991)
Covers the period from
1963 to 1968; Produced and released in 1991.
Oliver Stone's self-proclaimed "countermyth,"
JFK mocks the doubtful veracity of the Warren
Commission's findings on the Kennedy assassination and
summarizes some of the myriad theories that have been
proposed in its contest. Focusing on the investigation
by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison (Kevin
Costner) into the activities of the FBI and other
government agencies as well as their attempted
cover-ups, Stone weaves fact and speculation into a
compelling argument for the reopening of the case
files. Garrison begins to investigate local links to
the assassination, including Clay Shaw (Tommy Lee
Jones), David Ferrie (Joe Pesci), Guy Bannister (Ed
Asner), Perry Russo (Kevin Bacon), and Lee Harvey
Oswald (Gary Oldman). When the accounts of Ferrie,
Russo, and others almost invariably diverge from the
FBI versions of events, Garrison begins to suspect a
cover-up. Widening his net, he interviews many of the
original assassination witnesses and again finds
little that coincides with the government's record.
Combining interviews with an analysis of the physical
evidence, Garrison's team posits the existence of a
conspiracy to kill the president. A mysterious Col. X
(Donald Sutherland) implies the orchestration of the
conspiracy at the highest levels of government, and
Garrison is ready to go to trial. Stone deploys video,
different film stocks shot at varying speeds, and a
dizzying style of montage while harnessing the talents
of a large and extraordinary cast to create a film of
undeniable power and excitement.
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Backdraft
(1991)
Two feuding brothers
carry on a heroic family tradition in the Chicago Fire
Department. Before the smoke clears, love affairs are
rekindled and lives are shattered as the brothers
fight to resolve their differences and solve a
puzzling series of arson attacks, each ignited by
explosive phenomena known as backdrafts.
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Eminent
Domain (1991)
Based on true events,
the story of the number six man in the Polish
Politburo and his wife, as they struggle to maintain
their love and trust under the watchful eye of the
communist regime.
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A
Dry White Season (1989)
A prominent white
school teacher living in South Africa and accepting
the apartheid system, finds his life shattered when
his black gardener is killed after trying to
investigate his son's death. He hires a lawyer to help
him expose the injustices of the government. Academy
Award Nominations: Best Supporting Actor--Marlon
Brando.
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Lock
Up (1989)
man with six months
left to serve in a prison sentence is moved from a
minimum security site to a maximum security facility
under the sadistic hand of a warden with a personal
vendetta against him. He must risk it all to stand up
to the plot of torture and degradation the warden has
created.
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Lost
Angels (1989)
Tim Doolan (Adam
Horovitz) hates his parents. His father (Graham Beckel)
is an absentee ex-cop, and his mother (Celia Weston)
is a simpering upper middle class socialite who has
recently remarried and can't understand her alienated
and destructive son. A rich Los Angeles teen lost in a
world of gang violence, drugs, and despair, Tim, along
with his half brother, Andy (Don Bloomfield), parties
all night at local clubs and belongs to a wealthy
white gang that attempts to be as tough and streetwise
as neighboring Latino gangs. His sole comfort comes
from Cheryl (Amy Locane), a troubled, beautiful girl
he admires from afar. One night, after a nasty gang
fight, Tim goes to Cheryl's house and finds her ready
and willing to party. However, the night ends abruptly
when Cheryl drives her mother's car into the family
pool. Tim and Cheryl wake up in the morning to the Los
Angeles police and their unforgiving parents. Whisked
away to juvenile detention, Tim is then placed in a
high-security sanitarium where rich kids are left to
figure out their problems in group therapy, abandoned
by their frustrated and busy parents. Tim reacts to
the sanitarium with rage and aggression until he meets
Dr. Loftis (Donald Sutherland), a stern but liberal
therapist who is willing to help and listen. With the
support of Loftis, Tim finally begins to realize his
own sense of self-worth. Director Hugh Hudson's honest
portrait of troubled teens is simultaneously dark and
uplifting, with gritty and intense performances from
its young cast. Veteran actor Sutherland is
captivating in his complex and challenging role.
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Apprentice
to Murder (1988)
A small, beautiful
Pennsylvania Dutch community is rocked by a series of
murders implicating a local mystic.
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The
Trouble With Spies (1987)
Appleton Porter
(Donald Sutherland) is one of the most inept agents
ever to work for the British Intelligence Service.
Suspecting that the Russians are developing a viscous
truth serum in Ibiza, the British send Porter to
investigate. Checking into a conspicuous resort hotel,
Porter doesn’t realize he’s practically sitting on
the Russian’s base of operation. As he looks for
leads, he befriends hotel guests Harry Lewis (Ned
Beatty) and Mrs. Awkright (Ruth Gordon) and of course
overlooks their obvious attempts to kill him. Entirely
off track, Porter faces near-death at every turn. The
only thing that can save his life and help him steal
the Russian serum: his clumsiness.
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The
Rosary Murders (1987)
A renegade
priest-turned-detective is faced with the mysterious
serial killings of priests and nuns where the
trademark of the murderer is the black rosary he
leaves behind.
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The
Wolf at the Door (1987)
The struggles of
artist Paul Gauguin are brought to life in this true
depiction of the middle period of the artist's life.
He is forced to overcome poverty, win acceptance for
his work and resolve his relationships with the women
in his life.
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Revolution
(1985)
Director Hugh Hudson's
REVOLUTION is a tale of the tumultuous American
Revolution that vividly traces the war, from its
violent beginnings in 1776, to the bloody and bitter
victory in 1781 at Yorktown, as seen through the eyes
of one footsoldier. Al Pacino stars as Tom Dobb, a
simple, illiterate trapper who is swept into the war
when his beloved son, Ned (Dexter Fletcher), joins the
independence army. In an effort to protect his son,
Tom joins up as well, and the father and son
experience the brutal first battles together. What
begins as a war that Dobb wants no part of, becomes a
true fight for freedom when his son is captured and
tortured by the British army. In rescuing his young
son and nursing him back to health, Tom learns the
precious price of freedom and takes up the fight with
determination and bravery. He is aided in his mission
by Daisy McConnahay (Nastassja Kinski), a young rebel
from a family of upper crust New York Tories who joins
the fight with idealistic hope and undaunting passion.
Daisy follows the troops, offering food and comfort as
they fight for freedom, becoming a spirited member of
the rebel party. The hardships that the men face on
the front are shown with unblinking accuracy. As the
colonial farmers and tradesmen battle for their new
land, the great spirit of the rebel army is captured
in a rousing tribute to their unwavering fight for
freedom.
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Heaven
Help Us (1984)
St. Basil, a strict
Catholic school for boys, stands as a fortress against
the hedonistic 1960's. But the Brothers of St. Basil
have their work cut out for them with their latest
batch of sex-crazed, rebellious students. Between the
comic moments filled with boyish shenanigans, this
film offers realistic glimpses of the vibrancy of 1965
Brooklyn and into the parochial school system.
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Ordeal
by Innocence (1984)
After returning from a
trip to the Antarctica, a researcher discovers that an
innocent man who hitched a ride with him before he
left was executed for a murder he didn't commit. The
murder was committed while the man was riding in the
researcher's automobile. Based on an Agatha Christie
mystery.
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Crackers
(1984)
When a group of
eccentric San Francisco neighbors decide to turn to a
life of crime, the result is that they commit more
bungles than burglaries.
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Max
Dugan Returns (1983)
Nora McPhee (Marsha
Mason), a single mom raising a teenage son (Matthew
Broderick), is barely able to make ends meet. Things
change when Nora's estranged dad, Max Dugan (Jason
Roberts), suddenly reenters her life, offering her a
suitcase full of money in exchange for a renewed
relationship with her and his grandson. This becomes a
moral dilemma for Nora, because she has suspicions
about the money's origins, as do some gangsters, and
her new policeman boyfriend (Donald Sutherland).
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Threshold
(1982)
A dedicated, highly
skilled surgeon performs a daring artificial heart
transplant against the express orders of hospital
authorities. His courageous decision, which results in
medical history, leads to unexpected complications.
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Eye
of the Needle (1981)
A German spy washes up
on a small island off the British coast and is taken
in by a lonely woman whose husband was paralyzed years
ago and hardly speaks to her. Her desire for sex is
immediately apparent to the equally lonely spy
(Sutherland), who quickly seduces the wife and begins
to plot his escape from the island so that he can
report back to Germany with news about the impending
D-Day invasion. Based on the best seller by Ken
Follett, EYE OF THE NEEDLE was helmed by the director
of RETURN OF THE JEDI and features an incredibly icy
performance by Sutherland.
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Bear
Island (1980)
International spies
converge on a remote Arctic island to recover an
intact Nazi U-boat buried in the ice. Inside the boat
lies a terrible secret - one worth dying for.
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Nothing
Personal (1980)
A college professor
plagued with a difficult legal problem solicits the
assistance of a beautiful female lawyer. She happily
takes his case.
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Ordinary
People (1980)
Devastated by the loss
of their older son, well-to-do suburban couple Calvin
(Donald Sutherland) and Beth (Mary Tyler Moore) are
trying to rebuild their lives after their younger son,
Conrad (Timothy Hutton), attempts suicide. While Beth,
who always favored the elder son, retreats into an
icy, emotionless shell, Calvin tries to draw Conrad
back into the family and into life as a teenager.
Conrad sings in the choir and returns to the swim
team, but both his brother's death and his own
experiences traumatize him. Conrad reluctantly begins
therapy sessions with Berger (Judd Hirsch), which
allow him some respite from the unbearable grief and
guilt he carries with him. As Conrad makes strides,
Calvin realizes that he no longer knows his wife and
is both saddened and angered by how seemingly
emotionless she has become. A classic portrait of
family life in the face of tragedy, Robert Redford’s
award-winning directorial debut is moving and thought
provoking. Based on the novel by Judith Guest, the
film features the debuts of Timothy Hutton and
Elizabeth McGovern as well as breakthrough
performances from Mary Tyler Moore and Donald
Sutherland.
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The
Great Train Robbery (1979)
Michael Crichton's
most accomplished directorial effort, THE GREAT TRAIN
ROBBERY is a stylish thriller based on his
best-selling book about the first robbery to take
place aboard a moving train. Set in 1855 England,
Edward Pierce (Sean Connery) is a master thief with
the ambitious goal of stealing a shipment of gold bars
en route to the Crimea. Conspiring with his beautiful
mistress, Miriam (Lesley-Anne Down), and England's
greatest locksmith, Agar (Donald Sutherland), Pierce
sets out on a quest to copy each of four keys needed
to open the train's vault, keys that are kept and
guarded by different parties. Giving a smooth
performance reminiscent of his James Bond role,
Connery infuses Pierce with a disarming confidence as
he seduces his way through the upper-class environment
of the key holders, who seem to have their own
low-brow weaknesses. From the decadent parties and
mansions of the wealthy to the brothels and dog fights
of the underclass, THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY is a
historical tour de force that culminates in the
suspenseful, dangerous climax of this true story.
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A
Man, a Woman and a Bank (1979)
Donald Sutherland
stars in this comic caper as Reese Halperin, an
amateur thief who manages to neatly remove
4-million-dollars in unmarked bills from a bank vault.
However, what he doesn't know is that a beautiful
woman (Adams) took his picture while he was committing
the crime, and she's out for a piece of the action.
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Murder
by Decree (1979)
Christopher Plummer
and James Mason take on the roles of Sherlock Holmes
and Dr. Watson in this entertaining mystery-thriller.
The famous sleuth and his loyal sidekick try to figure
out the identity of Jack the Ripper and stop the
madman's killing spree once and for all. In the
process, they uncover a conspiracy involving the
Freemasons and members of the royal family.
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Blood
Relatives (1978)
A homicide
investigator must bring all his faculties to this
case. A family that has grown too close must pay the
price of sin when the most intimate act becomes an act
of murder.
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Invasion
of the Body Snatchers (1978)
In this remake of the
1956 cult classic, terror slowly and silently strikes
San Francisco as the city is mysteriously covered by
alien spores that produce strangely beautiful flowers.
Unbeknownst to the people, the flowers are the bearers
of alien pods that make a spiderlike webbing that
captures their victims as they sleep and replicates
their human form. Although they still look human, the
victims are transformed into emotionless creatures by
a strange race of aliens out to consume and control
humanity--and only four people are left to stop them.
Donald Sutherland stars as Matthew Bennel, a
Department of Health inspector whose close friend and
coworker Elizabeth Driscoll (Brooke Adams) is
overwhelmed by fear and paranoia when she begins to
suspect her boyfriend, Geoffrey (Art Hindle), of no
longer being human. Together, with their friends Jack
(Jeff Goldblum) and Nancy (Veronica Cartwright), they
are out to stop the bizarre alien invasion before they
fall victim to the alien pods. Leonard Nimoy costars
as Dr. David Kibner, a guru psychiatrist who might not
be whom he seems. This haunting parable of human
paranoia is a creepy glimpse of a city overrun with
robotlike yuppies threatening to wipe out all of
humankind. Sutherland gives a knockout performance as
the leader of the last four humans left in San
Francisco in this terrific blend of B-movie science
fiction and modern terror.
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National
Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
Unable to gain
acceptance at the snootier fraternities they= pledge,
the Deltas, a a motley crew of misfits and sociopaths
bent on= disrupting the well-starched status quo,
engage in various illegalities= that land them in hot
water with both the stern college dean and the=
neighboring jock fraternity. Their exploits eventually
cause them to be= placed on double-secret probation,
until finally, they are kicked out of= school and, as
the dean reminds them, newly eligible for the Vietnam=
draft.
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The
Disappearance (1977)
A hired assassin
discovers an ironic link between his new target and
the disappearance of his wife. Fine acting and
direction.
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The
Eagle Has Landed (1977)
John Sturges's
adaptation of Jack Higgins's best-selling suspense
novel stars Michael Caine as Nazi Col. Kurt Steiner.
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that
Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country
estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious scheme to
kidnap the prime minister and spirit him to Germany
for enforced negotiations with Der Fhrer.
Heinrich Himmler (Donald Pleasence) assigns Col. Max
Radl (Robert Duvall) to mastermind the operaton. He
enlists the aid of Steiner, who has been imprisoned
for subordination and is awaiting sentence, by
offering him a chance to save his life. Liam Devlin
(Donald Sutherland), an IRA lifer who hates the
British, also signs on for the mission. Steiner and
his commando team parachute into the small village of
Sudley disguised as Polish soldiers and appear to the
populace to be paratroopers running through exercises.
As they await the arrival of Churchill, one of the
commandos rescues a boy from drowning in a nearby
river, inadvertently revealing his Nazi colors in the
process. Steiner realizes that some changes will have
to made in his timetable. THE EAGLE HAS LANDED is an
enjoyable Alistair MacLean-like mission impossible,
ably served by Sturges and a stellar cast.
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Kentucky
Fried Movie (1977)
A movie that helped
plant the seeds of Saturday Night Live and gave the
Zucker brothers a foot in Hollywood's door, this
long-revered television and movie satire combines sex
and bathroom humor with timeless sight gags and
slapstick. The uproarious film spoofs everything from
television commercials, movie trailers, porn, and pop
culture in general in a series of hysterical sketches.
Infamous sketches include "Cleopatra
Schwartz," a blaxploitation spoof featuring a
sexy Amazon married to a rabbi; and the extended kung
fu film parody "A Fistful of Yen." Raunchy
humor and hysterical commentary on the media are
served up with reckless abandon by the likes of Bill
Bixby, Henry Gibson, George Lazenby, and Donald
Sutherland, among countless others.
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1900
(1976)
Tracing 45 years in
the lives of two men born just after the turn of the
century, Bertolucci's four-hour-plus epic dramatizes
the class politics that tore Italy apart. Alfredo
(Robert De Niro) is a wealthy padrone who finds
himself aligned with the fascists, while his boyhood
friend and double, Olmo (Gerard Depardieu), is a
peasant-turned-socialist agitator. Their friendship,
lives, and loves are strained past all limits by the
brutality, prejudice, and warfare that erupt all
around them.
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The
Day of the Locust (1975)
Based on Nathanael
West's satirical novel, John Schlesinger's THE DAY OF
THE LOCUST is an absorbing look at the desperate
characters who populate the Hollywood film industry.
Idealistic young set designer Tod Hackett (William
Atherton) travels to 1930s-era Hollywood to find fame
and fortune but encounters a dismal world of broken
people, shattered dreams, and phoney healers pandering
to the lost. He soon falls in love with aspiring
actress Faye Greener (Karen Black), a cruel,
manipulative woman who lives with her drunken father
(Burgess Meredith, in an Oscar-nominated performance)
and loves the strange man-child Homer Simpson (Donald
Sutherland). Their passions collide at a disastrous
Hollywood premiere that remains one of the most
horrifying and tragic climaxes in film history.
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Don't
Look Now (1974)
Nicolas Roeg's third
film--after the brash PERFORMANCE (1970) and
meditative WALKABOUT (1971)--is a haunting thriller
that confirmed the director's status as a true
visionary. Based on a story by Daphne Du Maurier,
DON'T LOOK NOW follows a grieving English couple to
Venice, where the past continues to plague them. John
Baxter (Donald Sutherland) and his wife Laura (Julie
Christie) are in mourning for their young daughter,
who drowned tragically near their home. John takes a
job in Venice so that the couple can leave the past
behind, but, unfortunately, the past is not easily
forgotten. While John begins to see unsettling visions
of a young girl in a red coat running through the
Venice streets, Laura learns from an elderly psychic
that her husband is in grave danger. What follows is
an eerie, erotic mystery that builds to a shockingly
horrific climax.
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S.P.Y.S
(1974)
The CIA has mistakenly
killed two KGB agents. The Russians, now seeking
revenge, target the bumbling duo of Griff and Brulard.
To add to their woes, they let a prominent Russian
defector get kidnapped. soon they are targeted for
elimination from both the KGB and their own side as
well.
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Dan
Candy's Law (1973)
Based on a true story,
DAN CANDY'S LAW stars Donald Sutherland as a Canadian
officer who embarks on a yearlong search for an Indian
fugitive. Ravaged by hunger, a Cree Indian named
Almighty Voice (Gordon Tootoosis) is arrested for
stealing government livestock. He escapes, but is soon
being sought out for a murder. Over the course of the
next year, both men are driven by their longing for
justice. Part action film, part western, DAN CANDY'S
LAW is a testament to the human fight for survival.
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Lady
Ice (1973)
In Chicago, a gang of
jewel thieves, led by the beautiful Paula Booth
(Jennifer O'Neill), steals $3 million in diamonds. So
insurance detective Andy Hammond (Donald Sutherland)
sets out to capture the criminals and the goods. The
trail leads to Miami, where Paula's father, a dealer
of "hot" gems, resides. But when Andy
catches up with sexy Paula, diamonds aren't the only
things he desires...
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