The Next Best Thing (
2000) | IMDb:
4.7
A comedy-drama about best friends - one a straight woman, Abbie, the other a gay man, Robert - who decide to have a child together. Five years later, Abbie falls in love with a straight man and wants to move away with her and Robert's little boy Sam, and a nasty custody battle ensues.
Directed by:
John Schlesinger
Eye for an Eye (
1996) | IMDb:
6.2
It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court in Los Angeles fails to convict Robert Doob, the monster who raped and murdered her 17-year-old daughter.
Starring:
Sally Field
,
Kiefer Sutherland
,
Ed Harris
,
Beverly D'Angelo
,
Charlayne Woodard
,
Joe Mantegna
Pacific Heights (
1990) | IMDb:
6.4
A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.
Starring:
Melanie Griffith
,
Matthew Modine
,
Michael Keaton
,
Mako
,
Nobu McCarthy
,
Laurie Metcalf
The Believers (
1987) | IMDb:
6.1
Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two youths.
Starring:
Martin Sheen
,
Helen Shaver
,
Harley Cross
,
Robert Loggia
,
Elizabeth Wilson
,
Harris Yulin
Honky Tonk Freeway (
1981) | IMDb:
5.2
Ticlaw, a small town in Florida, has only one attraction: a safari park. The government constructs a freeway that passes near Ticlaw, but decides not to put an exit into the town. The people of Ticlaw, leaded by its Mayor, will do anything in order to convince the governor to alter the project.
Starring:
Beau Bridges
,
Beverly D'Angelo
,
David Rasche
,
Paul Jabara
,
Howard Hesseman
,
Teri Garr
Directed by:
John Schlesinger
Marathon Man (
1976) | IMDb:
7.4
A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.
Starring:
Dustin Hoffman
,
Laurence Olivier
,
Roy Scheider
,
William Devane
,
Marthe Keller
,
Fritz Weaver
Directed by:
John Schlesinger
Midnight Cowboy (
1969) | IMDb:
7.8
Joe Buck is a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy New York City women; he finds a companion in Enrico "Ratso" Rizzo, an ailing swindler with a bum leg and a quixotic fantasy of escaping to Florida.
Starring:
Jon Voight
,
Dustin Hoffman
,
Sylvia Miles
,
John McGiver
,
Brenda Vaccaro
,
Barnard Hughes