Dick (
1999) | IMDb:
6.2
Two high school girls wander off during a class trip to the White House and meet President Richard Nixon. They become the official dog walkers for Nixon's dog Checkers, and become his secret advisors during the Watergate scandal.
Starring:
Kirsten Dunst
,
Michelle Williams
,
Dan Hedaya
,
Will Ferrell
,
Bruce McCulloch
,
Teri Garr
The Long Kiss Goodnight (
1996) | IMDb:
6.8
Samantha Caine is a small-town schoolteacher and mom with no memory of her life before washing up on a beach eight years ago. After a car accident and a violent home invasion trigger flashes of her past, she discovers she used to be a deadly CIA assassin. Teaming up with a wisecracking private investigator, Mitch, she uncovers a secret government plot to stage a terrorist attack in Niagara Falls. When her daughter is kidnapped, Samantha must return to her old ways to stop the attack, rescue her child, and take down the people who tried to erase her.
Nick of Time (
1995) | IMDb:
6.3
An ordinary man is suddenly forced into a plot to kill a politician in exchange for his kidnapped daughter's freedom.
Starring:
Johnny Depp
,
Courtney Chase
,
Charles S. Dutton
,
Christopher Walken
,
Roma Maffia
,
Peter Strauss
Canadian Bacon (
1995) | IMDb:
5.9
The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war with Canada.
Directed by:
Michael Moore
Ed Wood (
1994) | IMDb:
7.8
The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless B-movies without ever becoming famous or successful.
Starring:
Johnny Depp
,
Martin Landau
,
Sarah Jessica Parker
,
Patricia Arquette
,
Jeffrey Jones
,
Bill Murray
Clifford (
1994) | IMDb:
5.4
When his brother asks him to look after his young son, Clifford, Martin Daniels agrees, taking the boy into his home and introducing him to his future wife, Sarah. Clifford is fixated on the idea of visiting a famed theme park, and Martin, an engineer who helped build the park, makes plans to take him. But, when Clifford reveals himself to be a first-rate brat, his uncle goes bonkers, and a loony inter-generational standoff ensues.
Starring:
Martin Short
,
Charles Grodin
,
Mary Steenburgen
,
Dabney Coleman
,
Richard Kind
,
Jennifer Savidge
The War of the Roses (
1989) | IMDb:
6.8
Barbara and Oliver Rose live happily as a married couple. When Barbara starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver and likes what she sees, the two begin a campaign to force each other to leave their house, with their divorce lawyer D'Amato caught in the middle.
Starring:
Michael Douglas
,
Kathleen Turner
,
Danny DeVito
,
Marianne Sägebrecht
,
Sean Astin
,
Heather Fairfield
The Formula (
1980) | IMDb:
5.6
While investigating the death of a friend and fellow cop, Los Angeles police officer Barney Caine stumbles across evidence that Nazis created a synthetic alternative to gasoline during World War II. This revelation has the potential to end the established global oil industry, making the formula a very valuable and dangerous piece of information. Eventually, Caine must contend with oil tycoon Adam Steiffel, who clearly has his own agenda regarding the formula.
Starring:
George C. Scott
,
Marlon Brando
,
Marthe Keller
,
John Gielgud
,
G. D. Spradlin
,
Beatrice Straight
Directed by:
John G. Avildsen
Apocalypse Now (
1979) | IMDb:
8.4
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
Starring:
Martin Sheen
,
Frederic Forrest
,
Albert Hall
,
Laurence Fishburne
,
Sam Bottoms
,
Marlon Brando
MacArthur (
1977) | IMDb:
6.5
The film portrays MacArthur's life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after he had been removed from his Korean War command by President Truman for insubordination, and is recounted in flashback as he visits West Point.
The Godfather Part II (
1974) | IMDb:
9
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Monte Walsh (
1970) | IMDb:
7
Monte Walsh is an aging cowboy facing the ending days of the Wild West era. As barbed wire and railways steadily eliminate the need for the cowboy, Monte and his friends are left with fewer and fewer options. New work opportunities are available to them, but the freedom of the open prarie is what they long for. Eventually, they all must say goodbye to the lives they knew, and try to make a new start.
Directed by:
William A. Fraker
Zabriskie Point (
1970) | IMDb:
6.9
Anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark, who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot, accidentally encounter each other in Death Valley and soon begin an unrestrained romance.
Starring:
Mark Frechette
,
Daria Halprin
,
Paul Fix
,
G. D. Spradlin
,
Bill Garaway
,
Kathleen Cleaver
Tora! Tora! Tora! (
1970) | IMDb:
7.5
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words used by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.
Starring:
Martin Balsam
,
Sō Yamamura
,
Joseph Cotten
,
Tatsuya Mihashi
,
E.G. Marshall
,
James Whitmore