Limbo (
1999) | IMDb:
7
Traumatized by a fishing boat accident many years before, Joe Gastineau has given up his hopes for a life beyond the odd jobs he takes to support himself. That quickly changes when nomadic club singer Donna de Angelo and her troubled teen-age daughter enter Joe’s life. Both mother and daughter fall for Joe, increasing the friction between them. The tension continues to build when Joe invites them on a pleasure cruise up the Alaskan coast, discovering too late that the trip may cost them their lives.
Life with Mikey (
1993) | IMDb:
5.6
Michael Chapman, a former child TV star, runs a struggling talent agency specilizing in child acts. When a young girl off the street puts on a real performance after he catches her picking his pocket, he may have just found the next big thing.
Starring:
Michael J. Fox
,
Christina Vidal
,
Nathan Lane
,
Victor Garber
,
David Krumholtz
,
Cyndi Lauper
Directed by:
James Lapine
Quick Change (
1990) | IMDb:
6.8
With the aid of his girlfriend, Phyllis Potter, and best friend, Loomis, Grimm enters a Manhattan bank dressed as a clown, creates a hostage situation and executes a flawless robbery. The only thing left for the trio to do is make their getaway out of the city and to the airport. It sounds simple enough, but it seems that fate deserts them immediately after the bank heist. One mishap after another conspires to keep these robbers from reaching freedom.
Parents (
1989) | IMDb:
6.1
Michael is a young boy living in a typical 1950s suburbanite home... except for his bizarre and horrific nightmares, and continued unease around his parents. Young Michael begins to suspect his parents are cooking more than just hamburgers on the grill outside, but has trouble explaining his fears to his new-found friend Sheila, or the school's social worker.
Starring:
Randy Quaid
,
Mary Beth Hurt
,
Sandy Dennis
,
Bryan Madorsky
,
Juno Mills-Cockell
,
Kathryn Grody
Directed by:
Bob Balaban
Another Woman (
1988) | IMDb:
7.2
Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she hears a young woman tell that she finds it harder and harder to bear her life, Marion starts to reflect on her own life. After a series of events she comes to understand how her unemotional attitude towards the people around her affected them and herself.
Reds (
1981) | IMDb:
7.3
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant.
Starring:
Warren Beatty
,
Diane Keaton
,
Edward Herrmann
,
Jerzy Kosiński
,
Jack Nicholson
,
Paul Sorvino
Whose Life Is It Anyway? (
1981) | IMDb:
7.3
Ken Harrison is an artist that lives to make sculptures. One day he is involved in a car accident, and is paralyzed from his neck down. All he can do is talk and move his head, and he wants to die. Whilst he is in hospital he makes friends with some of the staff, and they support him when he goes to trial to be allowed to die.
Starring:
Richard Dreyfuss
,
John Cassavetes
,
Christine Lahti
,
Bob Balaban
,
Kenneth McMillan
,
Kaki Hunter
Directed by:
John Badham
Produced by:
The Rose (
1979) | IMDb:
6.9
Rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster's romantic relationships and mental health are continuously imperilled by the demands of life on the road.
Starring:
Bette Midler
,
Alan Bates
,
Frederic Forrest
,
Harry Dean Stanton
,
Barry Primus
,
David Keith
Directed by:
Mark Rydell
Rich Kids (
1979) | IMDb:
6.5
Two 12-year-olds, the products of Upper West Side broken homes, struggle to make sense of their parents lives and their own adolescent feelings.
The Big Fix (
1978) | IMDb:
6.4
Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political smear campaign and he sets out to find out who is responsible, with deadly results.
Starring:
Richard Dreyfuss
,
Susan Anspach
,
Bonnie Bedelia
,
John Lithgow
,
F. Murray Abraham
,
Ron Rifkin
The Fortune (
1975) | IMDb:
5.7
Two bumbling hustlers in the 1920s attempt to gain the fortune of an heiress. Nothing will stop them, not even murder.
Starring:
Stockard Channing
,
Jack Nicholson
,
Warren Beatty
,
Ian Wolfe
,
Rose Michtom
,
Brian Avery