Known for Directing
Filmography
29 films


As Good as It Gets
1997 · 2h 19m
country: United States
A misanthropic author, a single mother and waitress, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.


Spy Hard
1996 · 1h 21m
country: United States
The evil Gen. Rancor has his sights set on world domination, and only one man can stop him: Dick Steele, also known as Agent WD-40. Rancor needs to obtain a computer circuit for the missile that he is planning to fire, so Steele teams up with Veronique Ukrinsky, a KGB agent whose father designed the chip. Together they try to locate the evil mastermind's headquarters, where Veronique's father and several other hostages are being held.


Virtuosity
1995 · 1h 46m
country: United States
The Law Enforcement Technology Advancement Centre (LETAC) has developed SID version 6.7: a Sadistic, Intelligent, and Dangerous virtual reality entity which is synthesized from the personalities of more than 150 serial killers, and only one man can stop him.


Street Fighter
1994 · 1h 42m
country: Australia
Colonel Guile and various other martial arts heroes fight against the tyranny of dictator M. Bison and his cohorts.


Fire in the Sky
1993 · 1h 49m
country: United States
After clearing brush for the government, a group of men return to town claiming their friend was abducted. Despite no apparent motive or evidence of foul play, no-one believes their story and his disappearance is treated as murder.


Say Anything...
1989 · 1h 40m
country: United States
Average student and eternal optimist Lloyd Dobler seeks to capture the heart of Diane Court, a beautiful but unattainable valedictorian classmate. He surprises just about everyone - including himself - when she returns the sentiment. However, Diane's divorced, over-protective father soon begins to disapprove of the match, and Lloyd realises that it's going to take more than just the power of love to conquer all.


Little Nikita
1988 · 1h 38m
country: United States
An FBI agent works to uncover an all-American family as Soviet sleeper agents, and gets caught up in friendship with their oblivious teenage son.


SpaceCamp
1986 · 1h 47m
country: United States
Andie Bergstrom, an astronaut eagerly awaiting her first trip to space, runs a summer camp for teenagers with her NASA-employed husband, Zach. One night during an engine test, Andie and four teenage campers are accidentally shot into space. Together, the group -- which includes Kathryn, a pilot-in-training, and Tish, a ditz with a perfect memory -- must work together to operate the spacecraft and return home.


Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
1985 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Officer Carey Mahoney and his cohorts have finally graduated from the Police Academy and are about to hit the streets on their first assignment. Question is, are they ready to do battle with a band of graffiti-tagging terrorists? Time will tell, but don't sell short this cheerful band of doltish boys in blue.


Kids Don't Tell
1985 · 1h 40m
country: United States
When a documentary-maker begins to make a film about child sexual abuse, the subject begins to eat into him and affect his relationship with those around him, particularly his wife.


Max Dugan Returns
1983 · 1h 38m
country: United States
An English teacher and struggling single mother has her life disrupted when the father who abandoned her as a child comes back into her life.


Personal Best
1982 · 2h 4m
country: United States
Young sprinter Chris Cahill is having difficulty reaching her potential as an athlete, until she meets established track star Tory Skinner. As Tory and her coach help Chris with her training, the two women form friendship that evolves into a romantic relationship. Their intimacy, however, becomes complicated when Chris' improvement causes them to be competitors for the Olympic team.


Stir Crazy
1980 · 1h 51m
country: United States
New Yorkers Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe have no jobs and no prospects, so they decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, landing jobs wearing woodpecker costumes to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a bank robbery, they no longer have to worry about employment — they're sent to prison.


Foolin' Around
1980 · 1h 51m
country: United States
A working-class boy falls for a girl from a wealthy family, and must compete for her with a rich boy who also wants her.


Raise the Titanic
1980 · 1h 55m
country: United Kingdom
To obtain a supply of a rare mineral, a ship raising operation is conducted for the only known source, the Titanic.


Apocalypse Now
1979 · 2h 27m
country: United States
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.


Logan's Run
1976 · 1h 58m
country: United States
In the 23rd century, inhabitants of a domed city freely experience all of life's pleasures — but no one is allowed to live past 30. Citizens can try for a chance at being "renewed" in a civic ceremony on their 30th birthday. Escape is the only other option.


Lipstick
1976 · 1h 29m
country: United States
A top fashion model seeks justice after getting sexually assaulted by her teenage sister's obsessive music teacher.


The Killer Elite
1975 · 2h 2m
country: United States
Mike Locken is one of the principal members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the CIA, and while on a case for them one of his friends turns on him and shoots him in the elbow and knee. His assignment, to protect someone, goes down in flames. He is nearly crippled, but with braces is able to again become mobile. For revenge as much as anything else, Mike goes after his ex-friend.


Peeper
1975 · 1h 27m
country: United States
A detective is hired to locate a girl adopted 30 years earlier whose birth father wants to bequeath her his fortune.


Fear on Trial
1975 · 1h 40m
country: United States
The story of John Henry Faulk, a radio/TV personality of the 1950s, who was blacklisted during the McCarthy era. Faulk sued the organization that was behind the blacklisting, and the resultant trial, and Faulk's victory, helped to put an end to the blacklisting period.


Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins
1975 · 1h 31m
country: United States
Hapless driving instructor and former Gunnery Sergeant Rafferty, living in squalor near Hollywood, California, doesn't put up too much of a fight when two ladies hitch a ride and attempt to kidnap him in their attempt to get to New Orleans; while initially put off, Rafferty finds he's charmed by the kooky pair of misfits and the three of them drive to Las Vegas, Nevada and later Tucson, Arizona, where their bond eventually unravels.


Young Frankenstein
1974 · 1h 46m
country: United States
A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.


Black Eye
1974 · 1h 38m
country: United States
An ex-police officer operating a private detective business comes face to face with a syndicate-backed dope ring.


Deliverance
1972 · 1h 49m
country: United States
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's turned into one huge lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a river-rafting trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.


The Other
1972 · 1h 48m
country: United States
A series of gruesome accidents plague a small American farming community in the summer of 1935, encircling two identical twin brothers and their family.


Silent Running
1972 · 1h 29m
country: United States
After the entire flora goes extinct, ecologist Lowell maintains a greenhouse aboard a space station for the future with his android companions. However, he rebels after being ordered to destroy the greenhouse in favor of carrying cargo, a decision that puts him at odds with everyone but his mechanical companions.


The Christian Licorice Store
1971 · 1h 25m
country: United States
A tennis champ falls in with the Hollywood crowd, finds himself being corrupted by the life in the fast lane.


The Beguiled
1971 · 1h 45m
country: United States
Offbeat Civil War drama in which a wounded Yankee soldier, after finding refuge in an isolated girls' school in the South towards the end of the war, becomes the object of the young women's sexual fantasies. The soldier manipulates the situation for his own gratification, but when he refuses to completely comply with the girls' wishes, they make it very difficult for him to leave.