Brainstorm (
1983) | IMDb:
6.4
Two brilliant research scientists have invented a device capable of recording and playing back sensory experiences only to have devastating results when one of them records their own death.
Starring:
Christopher Walken
,
Natalie Wood
,
Louise Fletcher
,
Cliff Robertson
,
Jordan Christopher
,
Donald Hotton
Willie and Phil (
1980) | IMDb:
5.9
Life imitates art when two Manhattanites — pompous teacher Willie and quiet photographer Phil — become friends after a thought-provoking screening of "Jules et Jim," Truffaut's classic film about a decades-long ménage à trois. Soon, the men meet Jeanette, a sexually liberated southern transplant who promptly falls for both of them. Frustrated passions curdle into jealousy as Jeanette entertains love affairs with each in the ensuing years.
Directed by:
Paul Mazursky
Meteor (
1979) | IMDb:
5
After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it hits it will cause an incredible catastrophe which will probably extinguish mankind. To stop the meteor NASA wants to use the illegal nuclear weapon satellite "Hercules" but discovers soon that it doesn't have enough firepower. Their only chance to save the world is to join forces with the USSR who have also launched such an illegal satellite. But will both governments agree?
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (
1969) | IMDb:
6.7
After returning to Los Angeles from a group therapy session, documentary filmmaker Bob Sanders and his wife, Carol, find themselves becoming vigilante couples counselors, offering unsolicited advice to their best friends, Ted and Alice Henderson. Not wanting to be rude, the Hendersons play along, but some latent sexual tension among the four soon comes bubbling to the surface, and long-buried desires don't stay buried for long.
Penelope (
1966) | IMDb:
6.2
When Penelope gets married to banker James Elcott, she finds him too preoccupied with work to pay much attention to her, so she robs his bank in disguise. After she confesses to her psychiatrist, Greg Mannix, he offers to return the money for her, as he is secretly in love with her. However, he abandons the money when the police approach. Penelope becomes determined to admit to the crime, but neither James nor the police believe her story.
This Property Is Condemned (
1966) | IMDb:
7
Owen Legate, a railroad official, comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down the local railway - the town's main income. But Owen unexpectedly finds love with Dodson's flirt and main attraction, Alva Starr.
Inside Daisy Clover (
1965) | IMDb:
6.1
A girl on the road to stardom fights the dehumanizing effects of Hollywood life.
Starring:
Natalie Wood
,
Christopher Plummer
,
Robert Redford
,
Ruth Gordon
,
Roddy McDowall
,
Katharine Bard
The Great Race (
1965) | IMDb:
7.2
Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie's arch-rival, the mustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to the finish line in a car of Fate's own invention.
Love with the Proper Stranger (
1963) | IMDb:
7.3
Angie Rossini, an innocent New York City sales clerk from a repressive Italian-American family, engages in a short-lived affair with a handsome jazz musician named Rocky Papasano. When Angie becomes pregnant, she tracks down Rocky hoping he'll pay for her abortion.
Starring:
Natalie Wood
,
Steve McQueen
,
Edie Adams
,
Herschel Bernardi
,
Anne Hegira
,
Harvey Lembeck
Directed by:
Robert Mulligan
Gypsy (
1962) | IMDb:
7.1
Rose Hovick lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention to her elder, less obviously talented, daughter Louise. However, having her headlining as a stripper at Minsky's Burlesque is not what she initially has in mind.
Directed by:
Mervyn LeRoy
Produced by:
Mervyn LeRoy
West Side Story (
1961) | IMDb:
7.6
In the slums of the upper West Side of Manhattan, tensions are high as a gang of Polish-Americans compete against a gang of recently immigrated Puerto Ricans, but this doesn't stop two romantics from each gang falling in love.
Starring:
Natalie Wood
,
Richard Beymer
,
Rita Moreno
,
George Chakiris
,
Russ Tamblyn
,
Simon Oakland
Marjorie Morningstar (
1958) | IMDb:
6.2
While working as a counselor at a summer camp, college-student Marjorie Morgenstern falls for 32-year-old Noel Airman, a would-be dramatist working at a nearby summer theater. Like Marjorie, he is an upper-middle-class New York Jew, but has fallen away from his roots, and Marjorie's parents object among other things to his lack of a suitable profession. Noel himself warns Marjorie repeatedly that she's much too naive and conventional for him, but they nonetheless fall in love.
Starring:
Gene Kelly
,
Natalie Wood
,
Claire Trevor
,
Everett Sloane
,
Martin Milner
,
Carolyn Jones
The Searchers (
1956) | IMDb:
7.8
As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.
Directed by:
John Ford
The Silver Chalice (
1954) | IMDb:
4.6
A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the faces of the disciples and Jesus himself. He travels to Jerusalem and eventually to Rome to complete the task. Meanwhile, a nefarious interloper is trying to convince the crowds that he is the new Messiah by using nothing more than cheap parlor tricks.
Starring:
Virginia Mayo
,
Pier Angeli
,
Jack Palance
,
Paul Newman
,
Walter Hampden
,
Joseph Wiseman