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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975 • Drama
A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, dom…
Why matched: genres Drama
In the Heat of the Night
1967 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibb…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
The Conversation
1974 • Drama • Mystery • Crime
A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
Why matched: genres Drama, Mystery
Colors
1988 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of Los Angeles, where the gang culture is enforced by the colors the membe…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Limbo
1999 • Drama • Thriller • Adventure
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 w…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Matewan
1987 • Drama • History
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Cloth…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966 • Drama
A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the middle-aged couple unload o…
Why matched: genres Drama
The Babe
1992 • Drama
A chronicle of Babe Ruth's phenomenal story--from his hard knock beginnings at a Baltimore orphanage, to his meteoric rise to baseball superstardom and his poignant retirement f…
Why matched: genres Drama
Mulholland Falls
1996 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Coming Home
1978 • Drama • Romance • War
In 1968 California, a Marine officer's wife falls in love with a former high school classmate who suffered a paralyzing combat injury in the war.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
The Thomas Crown Affair
1968 • Romance • Crime
Young businessman Thomas Crown is bored and decides to plan a robbery and assigns a professional agent with the right information to the job. However, Crown is soon betrayed yet…
Why matched: genres Romance, Crime
Bound for Glory
1976 • Music • Drama
A biography of Woody Guthrie, one of America's greatest folk singers. He left his dust-devastated Texas home in the 1930s to find work, discovering the suffering and strength of…
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
Three Fugitives
1989 • Crime • Comedy
On his first day after being released from jail for 14 armed bank robberies, Lucas finds himself caught up in someone else's robbery. Perry has decided to hold up the local bank…
Why matched: genres Crime, Comedy
Faces
1968 • Drama
Middle-aged suburban husband Richard abruptly tells his wife, Maria, that he wants a divorce. As Richard takes up with a younger woman, Maria enjoys a night on the town with her…
Why matched: genres Drama
Medium Cool
1969 • Drama
John Cassellis is the toughest TV news reporter around. After extensively reporting about violence and racial tensions in poor communities, he discovers that his network is help…
Why matched: genres Drama
The Loved One
1965 • Comedy
Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whispering Glades funeral parlou…
Why matched: genres Comedy
The Man Who Loved Women
1983 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
A womanizing sculptor seeks help from a psychiatrist to cure him of his obsession with women.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
61*
2001 • Drama • History • TV Movie
In 1961, Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle played for the New York Yankees. One, Mantle, was universally loved, while the other, Maris, was universally hated. Both men started off w…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Canadian Bacon
1995 • Comedy
The U.S. President, low in the opinion polls, gets talked into raising his popularity by trying to start a cold war with Canada.
Why matched: genres Comedy
Other People's Money
1991 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
When a corporate raider threatens a hostile takeover of a 'mom and pop' company, the patriarch of the company enlists the help of his wife's attractive daughter—who is a lawyer—…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance