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Rollerball
1975 • Science Fiction • Action
In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the…
Why matched: genres Science Fiction, Action
St. Ives
1976 • Thriller • Crime • Action
A dabbler-in-crime and his assistant hire an ex-police reporter to recover some stolen papers.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Crime
Murder by Phone
1982 • Thriller • Mystery • Science Fiction
A disgruntled phone company employee develops a device whereby those answering a phone can be murdered, and it's up to Nat Bridger to stop the killer.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Mystery
The Paper Chase
1973 • Drama
A first-year law student struggles with balancing his coursework and his relationship with the daughter of a stern professor.
Why matched: genres Drama
The Winds of War
1983 • War & Politics • Drama
Set against the backdrop of world events that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Victor "Pug" Henry is a career naval officer who, along with his family, learns…
Why matched: genres War & Politics, Drama
Ghost Story
1981 • Drama • Thriller • Horror
Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year-old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley's twin sons dies in a bizarre accident, the…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Three Days of the Condor
1975 • Thriller • Mystery
When bookish CIA researcher Joe Turner finds all his co-workers dead, he, together with a woman he has kidnapped, must work together to outwit those responsible until he determi…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Mystery
Bright Lights, Big City
1988 • Drama • Romance
A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Wholly Moses
1980 • Comedy
Harvey and Zoey, two tourists in Israel, discover an ancient scroll about Herschel, the man who was almost Moses. Herschel receives the command from God to free his people from…
Why matched: genres Comedy
The Fog
1980 • Horror
Strange things begin to occur as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark…
Why matched: genres Horror
Another Woman
1988 • Drama
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…
Why matched: genres Drama
The Cheap Detective
1978 • Mystery • Crime • Comedy
A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress—his partner's…
Why matched: genres Mystery, Crime
Scrooged
1988 • Drama • Comedy • Fantasy
Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after firing a staff member on Chri…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
My Bodyguard
1980 • Drama • Comedy • Family
Clifford Peache, an easygoing teenager, is finding less than easy to fit in at his new high school, where a tough-talking bully terrorizes his classmates and extorts their lunch…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Ill Met by Moonlight
1957 • Adventure • War • Action
Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.
Why matched: genres Adventure, War
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014 • Documentary
The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent creator: a musical prodigy, an excellent painter, a master of theater and ra…
Why matched: genres Documentary
Seven Days in May
1964 • Drama • Thriller
A U.S. Marine Corps colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
1988 • Crime • Comedy
When the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin investigates events following the shooting of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.
Why matched: genres Crime, Comedy