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Once Upon a Time in the West

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) more movies like this

directed by Sergio Leone
featuring Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale, Henry Fonda, Jason Robards, Jr., Gabriele Ferzetti

In Sergio Leone's epic Western, shot partly in Monument Valley, a revenge story becomes an epic contemplation of the Western past. To get his hands on prime railroad land in Sweetwater, crippled railroad baron Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti) hires killers, led by blue-eyed sadist Frank (Henry Fonda), who wipe out property owner Brett McBain (Frank ...

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia (1993) more movies like this

directed by Jonathan Demme
featuring Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards, Jr., Mary Steenburgen, Antonio Banderas, Ron Vawter, Joanne Woodward

At the time of its release, Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia was the first big-budget Hollywood film to tackle the medical, political, and social issues of AIDS. Tom Hanks, in his first Academy Award-winning performance, plays Andrew Beckett, a talented lawyer at a stodgy Philadelphia law firm. The homosexual Andrew has contracted AIDS but fears ...

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Enemy of the State

Enemy of the State (1998) more movies like this

directed by Tony Scott
featuring Jason Robards, Jr., Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Lisa Bonet, Regina King

The action producing-directing team of Jerry Bruckheimer and Tony Scott is back with another thrill-a-minute ride called Enemy of the State. Taking its "innocent man accidentally caught up in political corruption" story from such films as Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation, Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Sydney Pollack's ...

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Parenthood

Parenthood (1989) more movies like this

directed by Ron Howard
featuring Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen, Dianne Wiest, Jason Robards, Jr., Rick Moranis

This feel-good ensemble comedy tracks a quartet of suburban siblings and their families over the course of a single summer. Hardworking Gil Buckman (Steve Martin) and his stay-at-home wife, Karen (Mary Steeenburgen), have just a few months to help their oldest son, Kevin (Jasen Fisher), overcome his high-strung behavior problems before he'll be ...

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All the President's Men

All the President's Men (1976) more movies like this

directed by Alan J. Pakula
featuring Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook, Jason Robards, Jr.

Conspiracy film specialist Alan J. Pakula turned journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's best-selling account of their Watergate investigation into one of the hit films of Bicentennial year 1976. While researching a story about a botched 1972 burglary of Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate apartment complex, green Washington Post ...

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A Thousand Acres

A Thousand Acres (1997) more movies like this

directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse
featuring Michelle Pfeiffer, Jessica Lange, Jason Robards, Jr., Jennifer Jason Leigh, Colin Firth

A feminist farm belt version of William Shakespeare's King Lear, this film is based on Jane Smiley's novel about an aging farmer and his three daughters. The Lear-like farmer, Larry Cook (Jason Robards), decides to divide up his thousand-acre farm among his three daughters, but he disinherits his youngest, Caroline (Jennifer Jason Leigh), an ...

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Something Wicked This Way Comes

Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983) more movies like this

directed by Jack Clayton
featuring Jason Robards, Jr., Jonathan Pryce, Diane Ladd, Pam Grier, Royal Dano

After a carnival comes to Green Town, the good citizens are compelled to follow their deepest desires, caught under the spell of the malevolent Dr. Dark (Jonathan Pryce) who can grant those desires on one condition: that the grantees will forever join his freak show. Dr. Dark is after two young boys from the town in particular, while others in the ...

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Julia

Julia (1977) more movies like this

directed by Fred Zinnemann
featuring Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards, Jr., Maximilian Schell, Hal Holbrook

The film traces the lifelong relationship between playwright Lillian Hellman and Julia, a wealthy girl who turns her back on her upbringing to follow her ideals. In the 1930s, while the adult Hellman (Jane Fonda) struggles to establish herself as a playwright with the help of her lover, Dashiell Hammett (Jason Robards), Julia (Vanessa Redgrave) ...

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Magnolia

Magnolia (1999) more movies like this

directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
featuring Jason Robards, Jr., Julianne Moore, Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, John C. Reilly, William H. Macy

Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson followed his critical and commercial breakthrough Boogie Nights with this wildly ambitious story of lives intertwining on a single day in California's San Fernando Valley. Earl Partridge (Jason Robards), a successful producer of television game shows, left his wife when she contracted cancer to marry the ...

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A Boy and His Dog

A Boy and His Dog (1975) more movies like this

directed by L.Q. Jones
featuring Don Johnson, Susanne Benton, Tiger, Tim McIntire, Jason Robards, Jr.

Based on the novella by Harlan Ellison, A Boy and His Dog is set in a post-apocalyptic future where canned goods are used as currency and where entertainment often consists of old porn reels. Vic (Don Johnson) is a violent, illiterate scavenger, principally interested in getting laid. He communicates telepathically with his deceptively cute ...

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The Good Mother (1988) more movies like this

directed by Leonard Nimoy
featuring Diane Keaton, Liam Neeson, Jason Robards, Jr., Ralph Bellamy, Teresa Wright

Anna Dunlap (Diane Keaton) is a divorced mother living is Boston with her 6-year-old daughter Molly (Asia Viera). She supports herself and her daughter by working part time in a lab and teaching piano. Her ex-husband Brian (James Naughton) is a Washington lawyer who has since remarried. Anna meets Leo Cutter (Liam Neeson) and she and the Irish ...

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The Day After (1983) more movies like this

directed by Nicholas Meyer
featuring Jason Robards, Jr., JoBeth Williams, Steve Guttenberg, John Cullum, John Lithgow, Amy Madigan

A peaceful Midwestern city attempts to recover after it is destroyed by a nuclear missile strike in this powerful and deeply disturbing testament to the folly of pro-military hawks who believed that annihilation was a justifiable means of attaining power and control. The Day After originally aired on network television. At the end of the broadcast ...

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Julius Caesar (1970) more movies like this

directed by Stuart Burge
featuring Charlton Heston, Jason Robards, Jr., John Gielgud, Richard Johnson, Robert Vaughn

Except for the omission of several passages in the original play, this 1970 adaptation of Julius Caesar faithfully retells Shakespeare's account of events surrounding the assassination of Caesar in 44 B.C. The film begins when Caesar John Gielgud is at the height of his power after conquering Pompey "the Great" in a civil war. Important senators ...

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Dream a Little Dream (1989) more movies like this

directed by Marc Rocco
featuring Corey Feldman, Meredith Salenger, Jason Robards, Jr., Piper Laurie, Harry Dean Stanton

In 1987-88, a quartet of films with the same basic body-switching premise deluged theaters: Like Father, Like Son (1987), Big (1988), Vice Versa (1988), and 18 Again (1988). One year later, Dream a Little Dream (1989) followed suit. Coleman Ettinger (Jason Robards) is forever scolding the local high school students who use his yard as a shortcut ...

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The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993) more movies like this

directed by Stephen Sommers
featuring Elijah Wood, Courtney Vance, Robbie Coltrane, Jason Robards, Jr., Ron Perlman

This eighth adaptation of the timeless Mark Twain novel casts Elijah Wood as Huckleberry Finn, the half-literate son of a drunk who runs away from home and follows the Mississippi River with an escaped slave named Jim (Courtney S. Vance). Along the way, the duo encounter adventures with colorful characters like The King (Jason Robards) and the ...

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Long Day's Journey into Night (1962) more movies like this

directed by Sidney Lumet
featuring Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards, Jr., Dean Stockwell, Jeanne Barr

Playwright Eugene O'Neill sold Random House the text of his intensely autobiographical 1941 play on the proviso that the play not be produced during O'Neill's lifetime. Two years after the playwright's death in 1953, the play was given its first Broadway staging and won a Pulitzer Prize. Set in 1912 New England, the story takes place in the summer ...

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A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966) more movies like this

directed by Fielder Cook
featuring Henry Fonda, Joanne Woodward, Jason Robards, Jr., Charles Bickford, Burgess Meredith, Kevin McCarthy, Paul Ford, Chester Conklin, Mae Clarke

The action in A Big Hand for the Little Lady centers around a high-stake poker game. The participants include some of the wealthiest men in the West (among them Jason Robards Jr., Kevin McCarthy, Charles Bickford and Paul Ford). Into this rarefied atmosphere trudges impoverished farmer Henry Fonda, who despite the protests of his wife Joanne ...

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Melvin and Howard (1980) more movies like this

directed by Jonathan Demme
featuring Paul Le Mat, Jason Robards, Jr., Mary Steenburgen, Jack Kehoe, Michael J. Pollard, Dabney Coleman, Pamela Reed

Jonathan Demme's breakthrough movie featured the shaggy energy and affection for marginal American eccentrics that marked his earlier Citizens Band (1977) and such later films as Something Wild (1986) and Married to the Mob (1988). Melvin Dummar (Paul LeMat) is a barely-getting-by Nevada milkman. One day in the early 1970s, while driving down a ...

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Max Dugan Returns (1983) more movies like this

directed by Herbert Ross
featuring Marsha Mason, Jason Robards, Jr., Donald Sutherland, Matthew Broderick, Dody Goodman

Max Dugan (Jason Robards Jr.) is an elderly ne'er-do-well whose tenuous mob connections have made him persona non grata with his daughter Marsha Mason. Struggling to raise her restless son Matthew Broderick on her own, Mason is none too pleased when Max returns to the family fold with yet another portfolio of get-rich-quick schemes. Forced to ...

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Hour of the Gun (1967) more movies like this

directed by John Sturges
featuring James Garner, Jason Robards, Jr., Robert Ryan, Albert Salmi, Charles Aidman

John Sturges directed this sequel to his Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, which is more of a melancholy character study than an action Western. The Edward Anhalt screenplay (based on Douglas D. Martin's Tombstone's Epitaph) traces Wyatt Earp's (James Garner) moral decline from a lawman with high ideals to a mean-spirited vigilante bent on personal ...

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The Enemy Within (1994) more movies like this

directed by Jonathan Darby
featuring Forest Whitaker, Sam Waterston, Dana Delany, Jason Robards, Jr., Josef Sommer

An attempt to overthrow the President of the United States is the subject of this made-for-cable conspiracy-thriller. Forest Whitaker stars as Colonel Mackenzie Casey, a loyal member of President Foster's (Sam Waterston) inner circle. When Casey discovers a plot by his superior (Jason Robards) to stage a coup during military exercises, he teams up ...

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Raise the Titanic (1980) more movies like this

directed by Jerry Jameson
featuring Jason Robards, Jr., Richard Jordan, Alec Guinness, David Selby, Anne Archer

This box-office bomb is about some schemers' hell-bent efforts to raise the fated vessel from its murky grave when they suspect that there's a fortune in radioactive cargo aboard. To add a little excitement, a bunch of Russians decide they want to get there first. All Movie Guide

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Quick Change (1990) more movies like this

directed by Bill Murray, Howard Franklin
featuring Bill Murray, Geena Davis, Randy Quaid, Jason Robards, Jr., Bob Elliott

Bill Murray co-directed (along with Howard Franklin) this mixture of The Out-of-Towners and After Hours, concerning Grimm (Bill Murray), a frustrated city planner who is fed up with the corruption and venality of New York City. Getting together a couple of accomplices -- Phyllis (Geena Davis), who admires Grimm for his audacity, and Loomis (Randy ...

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Comes a Horseman (1978) more movies like this

directed by Alan J. Pakula
featuring James Caan, Jane Fonda, Jason Robards, Jr., George Grizzard, Richard Farnsworth

Old man Ewing (Jason Robards) owns a ranch right next to the ranch of Ella (Jane Fonda). This is a source of two problems: Ewing wants to gobble up most of the land around the two ranches and also wants Ella's ranch; secondly, when Ella was too young to know better, she went to bed with the man, which, many years later, she considers to have been ...

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Ken Burns' America: Empire of the Air - The Men Who Made Radio (1991) more movies like this

directed by Ken Burns
featuring Jason Robards, Jr.

Adapted from Tom Lewis' best-selling book, this documentary by premier historic filmmaker Ken Burns examines the legendary figures who took the small-scale hobby of radio and turned it into a major industry -- not to mention a revolutionary force for social change. Empire of the Air recreates the compelling drama through the stories of three ...

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