Known for Acting
Michael Emmet Walsh (March 22, 1935 – March 19, 2024) was an American character actor who has appeared in over 200 films and television series, including supporting roles in dozens of major studio features of the 1970s and 1980s. He starred in Blood Simple (1984), the Coen Brothers' first film for which he won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead. He also appeared in The Jerk (1979), Ordinary People (1980), Blade Runner (1982), Wild Wild West (1999), and The Iron Giant (1999). His final films included Knives Out (2019) and Brothers (2024).
Born
March 22, 1935
Died
March 19, 2024 (age 88)
Birthplace
Ogdensburg, New York, USA
Filmography
168 films, 54 shows


Green and Gold
2025 · 1h 35m · US
With American farms disappearing, a fourth-generation dairy farmer and his granddaughter fight to preserve their way of life. Facing foreclosure, they wager everything on their beloved Green Bay Packers in a Hail-Mary effort to save their little chunk of dirt.


Brothers
2024 · 1h 29m · US
A reformed criminal's attempt at going straight is derailed when he reunites with his sanity-testing twin brother on a road trip for the score of a lifetime. Dodging bullets, the law, and an overbearing mother along the way, they must heal their severed family bond before they end up killing each other.


Outlaw Posse
2024 · 1h 48m · UK
1908. Chief returns from years of hiding in Mexico to claim stolen reparations gold hidden in the hills of Montana but is chased by Angel, whose rationale to the gold leaves a trail of dead bodies.


Dotty and Soul
2023 · 1h 28m · US
Ethan Cox is poised to sell his self-driving car company when his problematic Halloween costume goes viral, nearly ending his career. Desperate to figure out a way forward, he hires a 71-year-old woman to pose as his company's figurehead.


A Little White Lie
2023 · 1h 41m · US
A handyman living in New York City is mistaken for a famous and famously reclusive writer and brought to a university where he is to deliver a keynote address.


The Immaculate Room
2022 · 1h 32m · US
Mike and Kate, a young couple, get the once-in-a lifetime chance to win a cool five million dollars. The challenge: Live for 50 days in a blank space. Sticking it out for thirty days, and the five million are theirs. How difficult can it be?


The Mimic
2021 · 1h 21m
Based on a true story, ‘the Narrator’ is befriended by his young new neighbor, after he joins the local newspaper team. Obsessed with the idea that ‘the Kid’ may be a sociopath, ‘the Narrator’ goes to extreme lengths to uncover the truth about him. After unsettling rendezvous, the truth he finds is anything but what he expected.


Knives Out
2019 · 2h 11m · US
When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan's untimely death.


South of Bix
2019 · 14m
Molly returns home to say goodbye to her dying grandfather, from whom she's been estranged.


Raising Buchanan
2019 · 1h 45m
A desperate woman steals the corpse of former US president James Buchanan, hoping to net a large ransom. Complications arise when it seems no one is particularly interested in getting him back.


Faith, Hope & Love
2019 · 1h 46m · US
Faith, a recent divorcee, enters a dance contest to save her dance studio, where she meets Jimmy and starts rediscovering her faith and dreams.


Sorry, Not Sorry
2019 · 8m · US
A couple's oneupmanship reaches unbelievable heights after a man eats his wife's plums.


Change in the Air
2018 · 1h 34m · US
A peaceful community is forever changed when a mysterious young woman moves in. As the quirky locals embrace her, their lives soon improve. But, they can't help notice that their strange new neighbor has a secret.


Toto
2018 · 17m · US
The career of an embittered former horror star who longs for his glory days comes gruesomely full circle.


Shifting Gears
2018 · 1h 42m · US
Tom, an over-worked husband and father, abandons his dead-end job to follow his dream of owning his own business. The only problem: he invested everything in a mechanic shop that has a lien in favor of his arch enemy and must now enter a dirt track race to win the prize money and save his family from ruin.


Boiling Pot
2015 · 1h 35m · US
On a college campus in modern America, ideas that have long been neglected as "issues of the past" emerge as racial tensions and frictions grow between different student groups.


The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power
2015 · 1h 45m · US
When he is betrayed by a trusted friend, Mathayus must marshal all his strength and cunning to outwit a formidable opponent who will stop at nothing to unlock a supreme ancient power.


Calvary
2014 · 1h 41m · IE
After being threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.


Love Sick Love
2012 · 1h 23m
Dori and Norman, two stunning and sophisticated serial daters, are destined to endure a terrifying journey through perfect couple-hood: Valentine's, Easter, Halloween, Christmas and New Year. Except with psychopath Dori, it all needs to take place over one weekend deep in the isolated countryside far from help. "Love Sick Love" is a complex and suspenseful journey into the darker side of love.


Arthur Newman
2012 · 1h 33m · US
A story of a man who fakes his own death and assumes a new identity in order to escape his life, who then moves in with a woman who is also trying to leave her past behind.


The Odd Life of Timothy Green
2012 · 1h 45m · US
A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon, a child is born, though Timothy Green is not all that he appears.


Sam Steele and the Junior Detective Agency
2011 · 1h 27m · US
13-year-old Sam Steele Jr. forms his own private detective agency to emulate his father, Des Moines detective Sam Steele, and helps track down a jewel thief.


Chasing 3000
2010 · 1h 55m · US
As the 1972 baseball season draws to a close and star player Roberto Clemente prepares to knock hit number 3,000 out of the park, two brothers -- one of whom is afflicted with muscular dystrophy -- make the drive from Los Angeles to Pittsburgh in hopes of witnessing sports history in the making. Based on a true story, Chasing 3000 is directed by Gregory J. Lanesey and features Ray Liotta.


The Assignment
2010 · 1h 28m · US
After acceptance to a prestigious music school, Eliza's world is rocked when she discovers a shocking mystery about her family.


Youth in Revolt
2009 · 1h 29m · US
As a fan of Albert Camus and Jean-Luc Godard, teenage Nick Twisp is definitely out of his element when his mother and her boyfriend move the family to a trailer park. When a pretty neighbor named Sheeni plays records by French crooners, it's love at first sight for frustrated and inexperienced Nick. Learning that she is dating someone, Nick launches a hilarious quest to find his way into Sheeni's heart -- and bed.


Don McKay
2009 · 1h 27m · US
Everything appears off-kilter when a man returns to his hometown after 25 years to visit his former lover.


Haunted Echoes
2008 · 1h 37m · US
Laura (Sean Young) and Guy (David Starzyk) are devastated by grief when their 8-year-old daughter, Kimberly, is murdered. Hoping to repair their tattered marriage, they move to a quiet town to remodel an old mansion, but weird things start to happen in this eerie ghost story. Laura is convinced that they are being visited Kimberly's spirit, and Guy ultimately believes her, but is it really their daughter who is urging them to seek vengeance?


Your Name Here
2008 · 1h 46m · US
The lines between reality and perception blur in this comic journey into the life and mind (literally!) of one of sci-fi's most brilliant authors. Paranoid conspiracies of the highest order, drug-fueled interdimensional shifts, and 1970's pop culture combine for the mind-bending adventure of the century.
A True Character
A True Character
2008 · 11m · US
M. Emmet Walsh discusses his memories of making Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat and his career in film.


Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
2007 · 3h 34m · US
The definitive 3½-hour documentary about the troubled creation and enduring legacy of the science fiction classic 'Blade Runner', culled from 80 interviews and hours of never-before-seen outtakes and lost footage.


Big Stan
2007 · 1h 49m · US
A weak con man panics when he learns he's going to prison for fraud. He hires a mysterious martial arts guru who helps transform him into a martial arts expert who can fight off inmates who want to hurt or love him.


Man in the Chair
2007 · 1h 47m · US
The story of an aspiring young filmmaker's encounter with a grumpy fount of movie lore.


Greener Mountains
2005
Greener Mountains is a family friendly, coming-of-age story about finding your place in the world.


Racing Stripes
2005 · 1h 42m · US
Shattered illusions are hard to repair -- especially for a good-hearted zebra named Stripes who's spent his life on a Kentucky farm amidst the sorely mistaken notion that he's a debonair thoroughbred. Once he faces the fact that his stark stripes mark him as different, he decides he'll race anyway. And with help from the young girl who raised him, he just might end up in the winner's circle.


Christmas with the Kranks
2004 · 1h 39m · US
When their only daughter Blair leaves the family nest, Luther and Nora Krank decide to book an island cruise to beat the yuletide blues and just skip the holidays. But their decision to boycott tradition has the whole neighborhood in an uproar, and when Blair calls on Christmas Eve to announce a surprise visit with her new fiancée, the Kranks have just twelve hours to perform a miracle and pull themselves and their neighbors together to throw the best celebration ever!


Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales
2003 · 50m · US
Comedy special spotlighting Tracey Ullman’s larger than life character Ruby Romaine from HBO's Tracey Takes On (1996–1999). After an illustrious career, veteran Hollywood makeup artist Ruby has decided to call it quits. Or has she? In her makeup trailer, Ruby tells a series of hilarious tales and explains why she reconsidered her retirement. With Debbie Reynolds, Jane Kaczmarek.


Baggage
2003 · 1h 30m
A drama about how to let go of our emotional "baggage" and start living in the moment.


Snow Dogs
2002 · 1h 39m · CA
When a Miami dentist inherits a team of sled dogs, he's got to learn the trade or lose his pack to a crusty mountain man.


Eyeball Eddie
2001 · 29m · US
"Eyeball Eddie" is the story of the stormy relationship between a prosthetic glass eye and the insecure boy stuck behind it. What follows is a dark comedy about the price of popularity. In the world of high-school wrestling, there is only the strong and the weak.


Christmas in the Clouds
2001 · 1h 36m · US
A classic comedy of mistaken identity and romance set during the holiday season at a ski resort that is owned and operated by a Native American Nation. Shot on location at The Sundance Resort in Utah, this is the first contemporary romantic comedy to feature an almost entirely American Indian cast. The film was featured at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.


Poor White Trash
2000 · 1h 26m · US
Mike and Lenny are two buddies who dream of getting out of the trailer park. Out of desperation they resort to burglary as a means of financing Mike's college education. Their dream is jeopardized one summer day when their ploy to shoplift Near Beer begins a crime spree and a series of mishaps during which they are threatened with jail.


Jack of Hearts
2000 · 1h 33m
A cop looking for a chance to redeem himself comes up against a man who has built a fortune out of corruption.


On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
2000 · 52m · UK
This is the rare UK Channel 4 documentary about Blade Runner, giving insights into it's history with interviews of Ridley Scott, the writers and nearly all the cast. Interviews with production staff, including Ridley, give details into the creative process and turmoil during preproduction. Stories from Paul M. Sammon and Fancher provide insight into Philip K. Dick and the origins of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Interweaved are cast interviews with the notable exceptions of Harrison Ford and Sean Young. Through these interviews we get a sense of how difficult and frustrating the film was to make as a result of an exacting director without allies and hot, wet, smoggy conditions; which added to the high pressure atmosphere everyone increasingly felt as the film went over budget. There is also a tour of some locations, most notably the Bradbury Building and the Warner Brothers backlot that was the LA 2019 streets, which look very different from Ridley's dark version.


Random Hearts
1999 · 2h 13m · DE
After losing their spouses in a plane crash, an internal affairs cop and a congresswoman find each other's keys in each other's loved ones' possessions and discover that the two were having an affair.


Monster!
1999 · US
Tragedy strikes a small town's monster movie festival when the monster featured in the films comes to life.


The Iron Giant
1999 · 1h 26m · US
In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-old boy and ultimately finds its humanity by unselfishly saving people from their own fears and prejudices.


Me and Will
1999 · 1h 41m
Two women with a passion for motorcycles meet while going through rehab. When they discover they've both longed to ride Captain America's red, white, and blue chopper from Easy Rider, they escape the rehab clinic and hit the highway in search of their dream bike.


Wild Wild West
1999 · 1h 46m · US
Legless Southern inventor Dr. Arliss Loveless plans to rekindle the Civil War by assassinating President Ulysses S. Grant. Only two men can stop him: gunfighter James West and master-of-disguise and inventor Artemus Gordon. The two must team up to thwart Loveless' plans.


Nightmare in Big Sky Country
1998 · 1h 26m · US
A Montana judge has to protect her family from a militia group after she challenges their leader.


Men in White
1998 · 1h 23m · US
National Lampoon's Men in White is a straight-to-television satirical parody of contemporary science fiction movies, mainly spoofing Men in Black and Independence Day. It debuted in 1998 on the Fox Family Channel.
Erasable You
Erasable You
1998 · 1h 25m · US
A man hires an assassin to kill his money-grabbing first wife.


Chairman of the Board
1998 · 1h 35m · US
Surfer Edison isn't able to make ends meet with his inventions or his lifestyle. But then he meets billionaire Armand McMillian, who takes a shine to the young bum — so much so that he leaves his invention company to him upon his death. Unfortunately, Armand's nephew, Bradford, only gets a surfboard. While Edison manages to run the company successfully, with the help of pretty Natalie, Bradford conspires to take him down.


Twilight
1998 · 1h 34m · US
A retired detective accepts a simple task, unaware that it will tear open old, forgotten, but deadly wounds.


My Best Friend's Wedding
1997 · 1h 45m · US
When she receives word that her longtime platonic pal Michael O'Neal is getting married to debutante Kimberly Wallace, food critic Julianne Potter realizes her true feelings for Michael -- and sets out to sabotage the wedding.


The Killing Jar
1997 · 1h 41m · US
Michael Sanford and his wife move to his old town so he can take over the family business. However, gruesome murders of children start to happen. Meanwhile, Michael starts to become slowly insane, after he may have witnessed one of the murders and reports it to the police. Is he the murderer, or is it something of his past?


Retroactive
1997 · 1h 31m · US
A psychiatrist makes multiple trips through time to save a woman that was murdered by her brutal husband.


Albino Alligator
1997 · 1h 37m · US
While escaping from a foiled robbery attempt, three thieves find themselves surrounded by police at a New Orleans bar--only they're not the people the police are searching for.


Romeo + Juliet
1996 · 2h · AU
In this contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed. Though the film is visually modern, the bard's dialogue remains.


The Lottery
1996 · 1h 32m · US
Returning to his small hometown of Icara, Maine, a man discovers its horrible secret -- a bizarre, clandestine ritual that led to his mother's early death and his father's insanity.


A Time to Kill
1996 · 2h 29m · US
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.


Portraits of a Killer
1996 · 1h 33m
An attorney takes the lawyer/client relationship too seriously. She ends up falling for her client, a very charming photographer who has been charged with a multiple murder. She wants to believe he is innocent but she cannot deny her suspicions.


Criminal Hearts
1996 · 1h 32m · US
An aspiring actress hits the highway through the American Southwest looking to confront her cheating boyfriend when she picks up a charming, small-time robber on the run after hitting gas stations linked to a drug money laundering operation. Their spontaneous road trip quickly ignites into a high-stakes Bonnie-and-Clyde-style adventure as the pair gets tangled in a web of federal corruption involving crooked FBI agents.


Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home
1995 · 1h 35m · FR
Jesse becomes reunited with Willy three years after the whale's jump to freedom as the teenager tries to rescue the killer whale and other orcas from an oil spill.


From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
1995 · 1h 32m · US
Two runaway kids hide in a museum. Once they are locked inside overnight, they try to solve a mystery about a statue supposedly carved by Michaelangelo, known as "The Angel". Will they solve the mystery in time?


Panther
1995 · 2h 4m · UK
In this sprawling, fictionalized history of the Black Panthers, 1960s Oakland becomes a war zone as the Panthers battle for the right to exist.


Dead Badge
1995 · 1h 35m · US
After a cop dies, his shield goes back on duty. They call it a "dead badge" - a way to honor a fallen officer. Badge #2424 used to belong to Many Torres - a cop who died of a heroin O.D. Now it belongs to Dan Sampson... and it's haunting him.


Relative Fear
1994 · 1h 30m · CA
Linda and Peter Pratman's son Adam is autistic, but they still love him and hope that he'll at least start talking some day. However he's teased and abused by the kids of the neighborhood and his grandpa . When several people around Adam die an unexpected death, his parents start to suspect Adam - is he just simulating to be so ignorant about his environment?


Probable Cause
1994 · 1h 30m · CA
A series of cop murders plagues the city. The remaining officers on the force are increasingly worried as the deaths increase with no leads. As the department's finest must solve the case before the killer strikes again.


The Glass Shield
1994 · 1h 50m · US
J.J. is a rookie in the Sheriff's Department and the first black officer at that station. Racial tensions run high in the department as some of J.J.'s fellow officers resent his presence. His only real friend is the other new trooper, the first female officer to work there, who also suffers similar discrimination in the otherwise all-white male work environment. When J.J. becomes increasingly aware of police corruption during the murder trial of Teddy Woods, whom he helped to arrest, he faces difficult decisions and puts himself into grave personal danger in the service of justice.


Camp Nowhere
1994 · 1h 36m · US
Morris "Mud" Himmel has a problem. His parents desperately want to send him away to summer camp. He hates going to summer camp, and would do anything to get out of it. Talking to his friends, he realizes that they are all facing the same sentence: a boring summer camp. Together with his friends, he hatches a plan to trick all the parents into sending them to a camp of their own design.


Cops & Robbersons
1994 · 1h 33m · US
When the police discover that a mob hitman has moved in next door to the Robbersons, they set up a stakeout in the Robbersons' home. Hard-nosed, tough-as-nails Jake Stone and his young partner Tony Moore are assigned to the stakeout, but now it is a question of whether Jake can last long enough to capture the bad guys. The Robbersons want to help, and by doing so, drive Jake crazy.
Madness of Method
Madness of Method
1994 · 16m
Starring Spin City's Richard Kind and veteran character actor M. Emmet Walsh, this award-winning short film tells the story of an actor seeking the guidance of an acting coach who has gone mad.


Bitter Harvest
1993 · 1h 38m · US
Travis has just buried his father, when Kelly, an attractive hitchhiker walks into his life. At the same time, another attractive blonde, Jolene, starts taking an interest in Travis. Both women are secretly after something.


Wilder Napalm
1993 · 1h 49m · US
Wilder and Wallace are brothers and pyrokinetics. Ever since childhood they've been able to start fires with their minds but following a tragedy in which they accidentally killed a man, the brothers have grown up very differently. Wilder has become a regular 9-5 workaday joe but Wallace performs his feats with a traveling circus. When the circus comes to Wilder's home town Wallace starts coming on strong to Wilder's wife, Vida who, ironically, is a slight pyromaniac.


The Music of Chance
1993 · 1h 38m · US
Two men face the consequences of gambling after playing with men beyond their league.


Four Eyes and Six-Guns
1992 · 1h 32m · US
Ernest Albright opens his eyeglass store in what he thinks is a thriving community, but soon discovers that his store is just a shabby shack in Tombstone, Arizona. The town's Doom Brothers are trouble for everybody including Wyatt Earp, the sheriff. Ernest uses his own special brand of short-sighted shooting to help Wyatt rid the town of its worst citizens and live in peace.


The Naked Truth
1992 · 1h 32m · US
Two friends, both named Frank, accidentally obtain a suitcase at the airport. It contains incriminating evidence against a mafia boss, who sends his Terminator-like lackie to find them. The Franks hide by impersonating make-up women for a beauty pageant. While in drag, the mafioso falls in love with one of the Franks.


Equinox
1992 · 1h 50m · US
Estranged twins Henry and Freddy navigate their drastically different lives— one a troubled bookworm, the other a hardened criminal. As a young writer uncovers their royal lineage and inheritance, the brothers’ fate intertwines in unexpected ways.


Wild Card
1992 · 1h 35m · US
Thriller about a former preacher, now a professional gambler, who heads down New Mexico way to visit an old buddy, only for him to be killed. It is not long before the Preacher is uncovering a hotbed of corruption and murder in the seemingly peaceful town, aptly named Farewell.


White Sands
1992 · 1h 41m · US
A small southwestern town sheriff finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and $500,000. He impersonates the man and stumbles into an FBI investigation.


Killer Image
1992 · 1h 34m · CA
When Max Oliver learns his photographer brother has been killed, he suspects it was no random murder. And when he finds his brothers' last photos of a powerful senator and a prostitute, Max gets a clear picture of a deadly political cover-up. Seeking to expose his brother's killer, Max enters a murderous game of cat and mouse, stalked by a cold-blooded assassin who has Max dead in his sights.


Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat
1991 · 1h 44m · US
Reclusive vampires lounge in a lonely American town. They wear sunscreen to protect themselves. A descendant of Van Helsing arrives with hilarious consequences.
Silverfox
Silverfox
1991 · 55m
Unsold series pilot about a former secret service agent, turned government spy, who can't seem to retire. Cases always keep coming his way to solve.


Fourth Story
1991 · 1h 32m · US
Valerie's husband Darryl leaves for work as usual, but never returns. She hires private eye Shepard to find him. Soon he discovers that David had a second identity and obviously doesn't want to be found. But since Shepard is strongly attracted to the pretty Valerie, he investigates further and gets involved more than professionally.


The Flash
1990 · 1h 34m · US
A laboratory accident endows a police scientist with the ability to move at superhuman speed which he uses to battle a menacing gang as a superhero.


Narrow Margin
1990 · 1h 37m · US
An L.A. District Attorney attempts to take an unwilling murder witness back to the United States to testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically attempting to escape two deadly hitmen sent to silence her, they board a Vancouver-bound train only to discover that the killers are onboard with them. For the next 20 hours, as the train hurls through the beautiful but isolated Canadian wilderness, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues in which their ability to tell friend from foe is a matter of life and death.


Chattahoochee
1990 · 1h 38m · US
In 1955 Florida, a Korean vet has a breakdown and is incarcerated in a "maximum security" mental health prison, where patients are abused.


Love and Lies
1990 · 1h 37m · US
Fact-based story of real-life detective Kim Paris who was assigned to work undercover to find the murderers of an elderly couple who were shot in their beds. The chief suspect (Gallagher) is a charming man who once lived with the daughter of the couple. In acting in her undercover role, she gets too close to the suspect and the two start falling in love.


Catch Me... If You Can
1989 · 1h 46m · US
A hotshot teenage car racer persuades the class president of a small Minnesota high school to gamble on illegal car races to raise money for their school which is facing closure.


Thunderground
1989 · 1h 32m · CA
A con-artist meets a tough fighter and sees him as her ticket to a better life. The two make an agreement and head off to New Orleans to arrange a match with "the man" - the mysterious king of bare-knuckled boxing. There are no rules for this fight...one man wins when the other dies.


The Mighty Quinn
1989 · 1h 38m · US
Police chief Xavier Quinn investigates the gruesome murder of Donald Pater, one of the wealthiest residents on a Caribbean island. He was found decapitated in his Jacuzzi. Although the local political establishment, especially crooked Governor Chalk, insists that small-time thief Maubee is responsible, Xavier has his doubts. This view is complicated by the police chief's personal history with Maubee: The men have been friends since childhood.


Red Scorpion
1988 · 1h 45m · NA
A Soviet commando is sent to eliminate a rebel leader in Africa. Soon he finds himself doubting his mission.


War Party
1988 · 1h 37m · US
One hundred years after the Battle of Milk River, both sides agree to reenact it. The cavalry are supposed to shoot blanks & the Indians weren't supposed to fight back....


Clean and Sober
1988 · 2h 4m · US
Hotshot real estate salesman Daryl has a bad cocaine habit. After embezzling his company's money, he wakes up next to a girl who overdosed. To hide from the police, he checks into a rehabilitation program guaranteeing anonymity. Under the mentorship of counselor Craig, Daryl accepts that he has a substance abuse problem. As he falls in love with fellow patient Charlie, Daryl begins committing to a newly sober life.


Sunset
1988 · 1h 47m · IT
Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.


The Milagro Beanfield War
1988 · 1h 57m · US
The accidental breakdown of an irrigation valve launches a hot confrontation between the mainly Latino farmers in a tiny New Mexico town and the real estate developers and politicians determined to acquire their land for a golf resort.


No Man's Land
1987 · 1h 46m · US
A rookie cop goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of car thieves led by smooth and charming Ted. The rookie becomes too involved and starts to enjoy the thrill and lifestyle of the game, and becomes romanticly involved with the leaders sister.


Harry and the Hendersons
1987 · 1h 50m · US
Returning from a hunting trip in the forest, the Henderson family's car hits an animal in the road. At first they fear it was a man, but when they examine the "body" they find it's a "bigfoot". They think it's dead so they decide to take it home (there could be some money in this). As you guessed, it isn't dead. Far from being the ferocious monster they fear "Harry" to be, he's a friendly giant.


Murder Ordained
1987 · 3h 5m · US
This is the story of a minister who's feeling unhappy in his marriage who then has an affair with a church employee, who is also married, and who also has affairs, and whose husband is unwilling to divorce her. One day the minister's wife is found dead, in what appears to be an auto accident, but the highway patrolman who investigated the accident doesn't think that it's an accident but doesn't have enough evidence to justify an investigation. Later, when the woman's husband is killed an investigation begins.


Raising Arizona
1987 · 1h 34m · US
When a childless couple—an ex-con and an ex-cop—take one of a wealthy family’s quintuplets to raise as their own, their lives grow more complicated than anticipated.


The Abduction of Kari Swenson
1987 · 1h 36m · US
Based on the shocking true story of Olympic medalist Kari Swenson who was abducted by two "Mountain Men" while jogging in the foothills of the Rockies in Montana.


Broken Vows
1987 · 1h 35m · CA
When Father Joseph Hennessey visits the home of one of his parishioners to offer last rights,he becomes embroiled in a plot which ultimately shakes his faith to its very foundation. Intrigued by the dying man's mention of "Nim," and fascinated by the man's saintly demeanor, Father Joseph's curiosity is redoubled when a beautiful young woman enters his church to question the young priest about the deceased man. Father Joseph and the woman, whom he discovers to be the "Nim" in question, embark upon an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the man's death.


Hero in the Family
1986 · 2h · US
A teenage son of an astronaut tries to help his father after he and a chimpanzee switch brains as the result of a space flight mis-hap in which the boy must protect the "chimp" in which his...


Back to School
1986 · 1h 36m · US
Self-made millionaire Thornton Melon decides to get a better education and enrolls at his son Jason's college. While Jason tries to fit in with his fellow students, Thornton struggles to gain his son's respect, giving way to hilarious antics.


The Deliberate Stranger
1986 · 3h 5m · US
Based on a true story, this film depicts the life of Ted Bundy, the serial killer. In 1974, after having murdered several young women, he leaves Seattle for Utah, where he is a law student and where other girls disappear. It takes the cooperation of a number of police forces to work efficiently on this case. Soon, but not soon enough, the police eliminate endless possibilities and close in on him. Bundy is tried in the media and his good-boy attitude brings him sympathy but also the hatred of many.


Resting Place
1986 · 1h 40m · US
A television movie set in Rockville, Georgia, in 1972. Major Kendall Laird, a Survival Assistance Officer, arrives in this sleepy little town with the body of Lieutenant Dwyte Johnson, a Vietnam war hero. It's Laird's job to help Johnson's parents bury their son. But since the dead hero was black, his parents are turned away by the white racists who maintain the town's "all-white" cemetery.


Critters
1986 · 1h 26m · UK
Carnivorous aliens arrive unannounced at a Kansas family farm; two intergalactic bounty hunters soon follow, determined to blow them off the planet.


Wildcats
1986 · 1h 46m · US
High school track coach Molly McGrath knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet. When a football coach's position becomes vacant, she applies for the job, despite snickers from fellow staff members and her former husband.


The Best of Times
1986 · 1h 44m · US
A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.


The Right of the People
1986 · 1h 40m · US
The Second Amendment of the Constitution forms the basis of this drama that follows the crusade of a lawyer to allow citizens to carry handguns. He launched his fight after his wife and daughter were killed during a robbery.


The Adventures of Con Sawyer and Hucklemary Finn
1985 · 30m
Two pre-teenaged girls attempted to thwart a robbery.


Fletch
1985 · 1h 38m · US
When investigative reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher goes undercover to write a piece on the drug trade at a local beach, he's approached by wealthy businessman Alan Stanwyk, who offers him $50,000 to murder him. With sarcastic wit and a knack for disguises, Fletch sets out to uncover Stanwyk's story.


Blood Simple
1985 · 1h 37m · US
The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.


Courage
1984 · 1h 30m · US
Three marathon runners on a seventy-two mile run through the deserts of New Mexico are pursued by right-wing survivalist militants who call themselves "The Citizen's Brigade".


Missing in Action
1984 · 1h 41m · US
American servicemen are still being held captive in Vietnam and it's up to one man to bring them home in this blistering, fast-paced action/adventure starring martial arts superstar Chuck Norris. Following a daring escape from a Vietnamese POW camp, Special Forces Colonel James Braddock (Norris) is on a mission to locate and save remaining MIAs.


Grandview, U.S.A.
1984 · 1h 37m · US
Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceanography. He meets Michelle "Mike" Cody and is attracted to her. She runs the local Demolition Derby place. Ernie "Slam" Webster is one of the drivers in the derby whose wife is cheating on him and wants to later on be with Mike. Tim falls for Mike and a big love triangle is about to happen.


The Outlaws
1984 · 1h 44m
Eugene Griswold is an average, suburban nine-to-five guy tired of working long hours for his income. Then Eugene gets mixed up in his inventor friend Stanley Flynn's get-rich-quick scheme which lands them both in prison and eventually leads to a series of misadventures when they are caught up in a bizarre prison breakout made by other prisoners which they are blamed for mastermining it and now must run from the law.


The Pope of Greenwich Village
1984 · 2h 1m · US
Charlie and his troublesome cousin Paulie decide to steal $150,000 in order to back a "sure thing" race horse that Paulie has inside information on. The aftermath of the robbery gets them into serious trouble with the local Mafia boss and the corrupt New York City police department.


Scandalous
1984 · 1h 32m · UK
An investigative reporter following an espionage story goes to London and gets involved with murder, scam artists and rock concerts.


Silkwood
1983 · 2h 11m · US
Like most of the people in her town, Karen Silkwood works at the local nuclear plant producing highly radioactive plutonium. Exposed one day to a lethal dose of radiation, Karen faces the blank walls of corporate indifference and denial. As her illness increases, her protest grows louder and she becomes an obvious danger to the powers that be.


Night Partners
1983 · 1h 40m · US
Elizabeth and Lauren are two Bakersfield housewives who volunteer to help the local police by working with crime victims to help catch criminals.


The Woman Who Willed a Miracle
1983 · 45m · US
Based on the true story of May Lemke. Her adopted son Leslie was born with cerebral palsy. May teaches him basic survival skills through the years. In his teens, he suddenly manifests an ability to play classical music on the piano.


Blade Runner
1982 · 1h 58m · US
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.


The Escape Artist
1982 · 1h 34m · US
The young and self-confident Danny bluffs at the local police-station that he will escape from prison within an hour. What follows is a flashback showing his childhood with his uncle and aunt, who are 'vaudeville'-artists themselves.


Fast-Walking
1982 · 1h 55m · US
A dirty corrections officer gets involved in a murder plot involving one of the inmates.


Cannery Row
1982 · 2h · US
Doc, who has just moved to Cannery Row, realizes that the only entertainment is the brothel. There he meets the spunky Suzy and they fall in love, giving them both a renewed chance at life.


Reds
1981 · 3h 15m · US
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.


Back Roads
1981 · 1h 34m · US
A prostitute and a drifter find themselves bound together as they make their way through the rural South, doing what they have to do to survive.


Hellinger's Law
1981 · 1h 40m · US
A flamboyant criminal lawyer named Nick Hellinger takes on the case of a syndicate's accountant (actually a Justice Department agent who has infiltrated the mob) accused of murdering a local TV newscaster.


High Noon, Part II: The Return of Will Kane
1980 · 1h 36m · US
Former Marshal Will Kane and his Amish bride, Amy, return to Hadleyville a year after he resigned and find the town in the grip of a bounty-hunting marshal and his two trigger-happy deputies.


Ordinary People
1980 · 2h 4m · US
Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having difficulty being supportive to Conrad. Calvin is trapped between the two trying to hold the family together.


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


Brubaker
1980 · 2h 11m · US
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.


City in Fear
1980 · 2h 16m · US
A psycho-on-the-loose story, about a burned-out newspaper columnist and his circulation-hungry publisher who wants him to turn the killer into Page One news.


Skag
1980 · 2h 18m · US
Pete "Skag" Skagska is a 56-year-old union foreman of a Pittsburgh steel mill until a crippling stroke forces him to stay home and try to put his life back together and deal with family problems.


The Gift
1979 · 1h 40m · US
A sailor on Christmas leave visits his boozing, one-legged father and dreamer mother in 1950s Brooklyn.


The Jerk
1979 · 1h 34m · US
After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson sets off on a hilarious misadventure that takes him from rags to riches and back again. The slaphappy jerk strikes it rich, but life in the fast lane isn't all it's cracked up to be and, in the end, all that really matters to Johnson is his true love.


The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
1979 · 1h 42m · US
The Pittsburgh basketball team is hopeless. Maybe with the aid of an astrologer, and some new astrologically compatible players, they can become winners.


Dear Detective
1979 · 1h 38m · US
A female homicide detective is assigned to solve the murders of a series of local officials.


No Other Love
1979 · 1h 37m · US
A young marginally intellectually-disabled girl and boy meet, plan to marry, and convince the world that they are entitled to a life of their own -- despite attempts by the girl's parents to separate them.


Straight Time
1978 · 1h 54m · US
After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by the rules. He soon finds himself back in jail at the hands of a power-hungry parole officer.


A Question of Guilt
1978 · 1h 44m · US
A swinging divorcée is prejudged by a police detective and accused of killing her child.


Superdome
1978 · 1h 37m · US
It's the biggest event of the year — the Super Bowl! But the star players for the Cougars, gathered in New Orleans for the big game, are preoccupied with some serious off-the-field issues. Dave Walecki's marriage to his wife Nancy is falling apart, while Jim McCauley is involved in a shady deal with a management firm that could destroy his career. But that's nothing compared to the real drama. There's an assassin killing off many of the team's personnel (as well as their chances of winning)!


Red Alert
1977 · 1h 35m · US
A computer at a nuclear power plant malfunctions and receives erroneous information of a radiation leak. It seals off the compound, trapping the crew inside.


Airport '77
1977 · 1h 54m · US
Flight 23 has crashed in the Bermuda Triangle after a hijacking gone wrong. Now the surviving passengers must brave panic, slow leaks, oxygen depletion, and more while attempting a daring plan, all while 200 feet underwater.


Slap Shot
1977 · 2h 3m · US
To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition.


Nickelodeon
1976 · 2h 6m · UK
In the silent film era, attorney Leo Harrigan and gunslinger Buck Greenway are hired to stop an illegal film production. However, they soon team up with the filmmakers and become important players in the show business industry. Leo learns he has a talent for directing, and Buck's cowboy persona quickly earns him leading-man status — but both men fall for beautiful starlet Kathleen Cooke, leading to a heated personal rivalry.


Mikey and Nicky
1976 · 1h 46m · US
Nick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mob boss wants him killed. Terrified, he calls Mikey, his friend since childhood and a fellow gangster. So begins a long night…


Bound for Glory
1976 · 2h 28m · US
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 America's working class.


The Invasion of Johnson County
1976 · 1h 40m · US
A free-spirited Bostonian recently arrived in the West teams up with a crusty Wyoming cowboy to stop a land baron's attempts to drive out a group of small ranchers and take over their property.


Crime Club
1975 · 1h 14m
A Washington DC club comprises specialists who band together to combat crime.


The Prisoner of Second Avenue
1975 · 1h 38m · US
Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.


At Long Last Love
1975 · 2h 5m · US
Four socialites unexpectedly clash: heiress Brooke Carter runs into gambler Johnny Spanish at the race track while playboy Michael O. Pritchard nearly runs into stage star Kitty O'Kelly with his car. Backstage at Kitty's show, it turns out she and Brooke are old friends who attended public school together. The foursome do the town, accompanied by Brooke's companion Elizabeth, who throws herself at Michael's butler and chauffeur Rodney James.


Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic
1975 · 1h 36m · US
Finding herself unable to cope with the divorce of her parents and the stress of daily life, 15-year-old Sarah Travis starts drinking in secret. At first, alcohol provides comfort and release. Then it sends her life spiraling out of control.


The Gambler
1974 · 1h 52m · US
New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.


Serpico
1973 · 2h 9m · US
New York cop Frank Serpico blows the whistle on the rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.


Kid Blue
1973 · 1h 40m · US
Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dime Box and takes on a variety of menial jobs. He's befriended by Reese Ford and his wife Molly, but before long Molly has seduced Bickford. Only with the arrival of Bickford's former girlfriend Janet Conforto is it revealed that Bickford is actually the notorious train robber Kid Blue. Humiliated by a scandal arising from his affair with his friend's wife, Bickford gives up on going straight and plots a crime.


Get to Know Your Rabbit
1972 · 1h 31m · US
A young businessman goes to a magic expert to learn hardness and skill with his cynical and greedy collaborators. He becomes a very good tap dancer, but will he be able to get free of his old boss?


What's Up, Doc?
1972 · 1h 34m · US
The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.


They Might Be Giants
1971 · 1h 38m · US
After the death of his wife, retired judge Justin Playfair creates a fantasy world for himself in which he is the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes, even dressing like the character. Out of concern for Justin's money more than his health, his brother Blevins puts him under the care of psychiatrist Dr. Mildred Watson. As Dr. Watson grows fond of Justin, she begins to play along with his theories, eventually becoming an assistant in his investigations.


Escape from the Planet of the Apes
1971 · 1h 38m · US
The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until the apes attempt to escape.


Cold Turkey
1971 · 1h 39m · US
Reverend Brooks leads his small Iowa town in a contest to stop smoking for a month. But some tobacco executives don't want them to win, and try everything they can to make them smoke. If townspeople don't go nuts from wanting a cigarette, or kill each other from irritation and frustration, they will win a huge prize.


Little Big Man
1970 · 2h 19m · US
Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.


The Traveling Executioner
1970 · 1h 35m · US
Jonas Candide performs his job as state executioner in early 20th century Mississippi like a combination preacher and carnival barker, persuading condemned men to accept their deaths before electrocuting them on his electric chair. After he's assigned his first woman to execute, however, Jonas' sense of purpose is shaken.


End of the Road
1970 · 1h 50m · US
Moments after receiving his graduate diploma, Jacob waits at a train station. The future lies ahead, but life abruptly intervenes. Images flash in Jacob's mind: of war, injustice, assassination, protest, the entire spectrum of 1960s angst and anger - sending Jacob into a catatonic state. What follows during his bizarre rehab and its aftermath will be another form of madness.


Alice's Restaurant
1969 · 1h 51m · US
After getting kicked out of college, Arlo decides to visit his friend Alice for Thanksgiving dinner. After dinner is over, Arlo volunteers to take the trash to the dump but finds it closed for the holiday, so he dumps the trash in the bottom of a ravine. This act of littering gets him arrested and sends him on a bizarre journey.


Stiletto
1969 · 1h 38m · US
A rich, jet-setting playboy has a secret life: he's also a professional Mafia hitman. When he decides it's time to retire from that life, he finds that his former employers don't like the idea that someone who knows so much about them won't be under their control anymore, and decide to send their own hitmen to eliminate him.


Midnight Cowboy
1969 · 1h 53m · US
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.