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The Bourne Supremacy

The Bourne Supremacy (2004) more movies like this

directed by Paul Greengrass
featuring Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Brian Cox, Julia Stiles, Karl Urban, Gabriel Mann, Joan Allen

The second chapter in the "Bourne Trilogy," based on Robert Ludlum's best-selling espionage novels, reaches the screen in this sequel to the 2002 thriller The Bourne Identity. Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) has abandoned his life as a CIA assassin and has been traveling beneath the agency's radar, eventually reconnecting with Marie Kreutz (Franka ...

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Face/Off

Face/Off (1997) more movies like this

directed by John Woo
featuring John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, Alessandro Nivola, Gina Gershon, Dominique Swain

The third of John Woo's American-made feature films, Face/Off stars John Travolta as Sean Archer, an FBI agent obsessed with capturing Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage), a criminal genius who years before killed Archer's son while trying to assassinate the agent. Archer's single-minded pursuit of Troy has caused serious harm to his marriage, but Archer ...

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The Crucible

The Crucible (1996) more movies like this

directed by Nicholas Hytner
featuring Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen, Bruce Davison

When Arthur Miller's play The Crucible was first staged in 1953, it was widely acclaimed as a metaphor for the recklessness of Joseph McCarthy and his spurious crusade against communism. In its 1996 screen adaptation (scripted by Miller), the tone has been adjusted somewhat and plays as a warning against the dangers of political and religious ...

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Peggy Sue Got Married

Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) more movies like this

directed by Francis Ford Coppola
featuring Kathleen Turner, Nicolas Cage, Barry Miller, Catherine Hicks, Joan Allen, Kevin J. O'Connor, Maureen O'Sullivan, Helen Hunt, Jim Carrey, John Carradine

During her 25th high school class reunion, middle-aged Peggy Sue (Kathleen Turner) tries to forget her marital problems with husband Charlie (Nicolas Cage) by renewing old friendships. Wondering if she made the right decisions in her life, Peggy Sue gets a chance to try again when, zapped into a time warp, she finds herself a teenager back in 1960 ...

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Tucker: The Man and His Dream

Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) more movies like this

directed by Francis Ford Coppola
featuring Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Martin Landau, Frederic Forrest, Dean Stockwell

History tells us that would-be automobile mogul Preston Tucker was a silver-tongued con man, who misappropriated his investors' money and played fast and loose with ethics and legalities in the pursuit of his dream. Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola isn't buying this: to hear Coppola tell it, Tucker was "Mr. Smith Goes to Detroit," a sincere ...

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The Ice Storm

The Ice Storm (1997) more movies like this

directed by Ang Lee
featuring Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci, Elijah Wood

Set on Thanksgiving weekend of 1973, The Ice Storm looks into the lives of a wealthy Connecticut family who are calm and civil on the outside, but whose lives are quietly falling into chaos. Sixteen-year-old Paul Hood (Tobey Maguire) is home for the holidays from prep school; he'd just as soon have stayed at school, given the usual level of ...

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Searching for Bobby Fischer

Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993) more movies like this

directed by Steven Zaillian
featuring Joe Mantegna, Max Pomeranc, Joan Allen, Ben Kingsley, Laurence Fishburne

Searching for Bobby Fischer was inspired by the life of chess prodigy Josh Waitzkin, as written by his father Fred Waitzkin. Josh (Max Pomeranc) is a "regular kid" who begins evincing signs of being a genius at chess. His father (Joe Mantegna) encourages this, hoping that it won't fundamentally change his son's healthy outlook on life. But Josh is ...

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Manhunter

Manhunter (1986) more movies like this

directed by Michael Mann
featuring William L. Petersen, Kim Greist, Joan Allen, Brian Cox, Dennis Farina

Red Dragon, the Thomas Harris novel that introduced serial killer Hannibal Lecter to the world, was adapted for the screen by Michael Mann as Manhunter. Ace criminal profiler Will Graham (William Petersen) is very good at his job because he has the ability to make himself think like the killers he tracks. Will has been in retirement since catching ...

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The Mists of Avalon

The Mists of Avalon (2001) more movies like this

directed by Uli Edel
featuring Anjelica Huston, Julianna Margulies, Joan Allen, Samantha Mathis, Caroline Goodall

This three-hour miniseries adapts Marion Zimmer Bradley's feminist recasting of the Arthurian mythos into a big-budget cable television event. In ancient England, Christianity is spreading and the Saxons are invading. It's up to Viviane (Anjelica Huston) -- Lady of the Lake and high priestess of the kingdom's ancient pagan religion -- to make sure ...

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Pleasantville

Pleasantville (1998) more movies like this

directed by Gary Ross
featuring Tobey Maguire, Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, William H. Macy, J.T. Walsh

Gary Ross, Oscar nominated for his Dave and Big screenplays, made his directorial debut with this comedy. The cheerful '50s TV sitcom "Pleasantville" is revived in the '90s for a loyal cable audience. One devoted fan is shy suburban teen David Wagner (Tobey Maguire), who has an almost obsessive interest in the series. Living with his divorced ...

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The Contender

The Contender (2000) more movies like this

directed by Rod Lurie
featuring Joan Allen, Gary Oldman, Jeff Bridges, Sam Elliott, Christian Slater

The hard-ball gamesmanship and casual character assassination of American politics sets the stage for this thriller from writer and director Rod Lurie. When the Vice President of the United States unexpectedly dies, all eyes in Washington D.C. are on President Jackson Evans (Jeff Bridges) as he chooses a new VP. Sen. Jack Hathaway (William ...

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The Upside of Anger (2005) more movies like this

directed by Mike Binder
featuring Joan Allen, Kevin Costner, Erika Christensen, Evan Rachel Wood, Keri Russell

Two friends wonder if there might be more between them when their lives both take a left turn in this romantic comedy. Terry (Joan Allen) is a middle-aged housewife and mother of four teenaged daughters and gets the shock of her life when her husband, without a word of warning, leaves them behind, presumably to move to Sweden with his secretary. ...

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Ethan Frome (1992) more movies like this

directed by John Madden
featuring Liam Neeson, Patricia Arquette, Joan Allen, Tate Donovan, Katharine Houghton

Ethan Frome is an adaptation of Edith Wharton's 1911 novella . Set in Massachusetts in the late-19th century, the film relates the sad story of reclusive farmer Ethan Frome (Liam Neeson). Considering himself too homely for romance, he enters into a loveless marriage with the wealthy but spiteful Zeena (Joan Allen). Things become nearly unendurable ...

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Nixon (1995) more movies like this

directed by Oliver Stone
featuring Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe, Ed Harris, Bob Hoskins

Oliver Stone, the most outspokenly political American filmmaker of the 1980s and '90s, directs this epic-length biography of Richard Nixon, the 37th President of the U.S., who was re-elected by a landslide in 1972, only to resign in disgrace two years later. Taking a non-linear approach, Nixon jumps back and forth between many different periods ...

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In Country (1989) more movies like this

directed by Norman Jewison
featuring Bruce Willis, Emily Lloyd, Joan Allen, Kevin Anderson, John Terry

Norman Jewison directed this subdued character study of the effect of the Vietnam War on a small-town Kentucky family -- based on the novel by Bobbi Ann Mason. The film centers upon 17-year-old Samantha (Emily Lloyd) who lives in Hopewell, Kentucky with her Uncle Emmett (Bruce Willis), a quiet, laid-back veteran of Vietnam suffering from post ...

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Off the Map (2005) more movies like this

directed by Campbell Scott
featuring Joan Allen, Valentina D'Angelis, Sam Elliott, J.K. Simmons, Jim True-Frost

Campbell Scott directed this offbeat comedy drama about a free-thinking family who find themselves confronted by the more regimented outside world. Bo Groden (Valentina d'Angelis) is an 11-year-old girl growing up as part of a decidedly eccentric family in a small town in New Mexico. Bo's father, Charley (Sam Elliott), has fallen into a deep ...

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It's The Rage (1999) more movies like this

directed by James D. Stern
featuring Joan Allen, Andre Braugher, Josh Brolin, Jeff Daniels, Robert Forster

Director James D. Stern debuts with this darkly comedic, archly ironic look at America's obsession with guns. The film opens with Helen and Warren Harding (Joan Allen and Jeff Daniels) awaking one night to the sounds of their suburban trophy getting broken into. Warren grabs his trusty handgun and blows away the intruder, only to complain about ...

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When the Sky Falls (2000) more movies like this

directed by John MacKenzie
featuring Joan Allen, Patrick Bergin, Liam Cunningham, Kevin McNally, Jimmy Smallhorne

In this crime drama adapted from a true story, Sinead Hamilton (Joan Allen) is a public relations agent turned journalist who is appalled at the corruption and drug trafficking in her native Dublin; determined to do something about it and make the city a safer place in which to bring up her son, Hamilton begins a series of investigative pieces ...

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Without Warning: The James Brady Story (1991) more movies like this

directed by Michael Toshiyuki Uno
featuring Beau Bridges, Joan Allen, David Strathairn, Christopher Bell, Bryan Clark

In the made-for-cable film Without Warning: The James Brady Story, Beau Bridges stars in the true-life story of the Ronald Reagan press secretary who was critically wounded in the 1981 assassination attempt on Reagan by John Hinckley. Brady was left crippled by the shooting, and the film follows his recuperation process, as well as his fight for ...

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Yes (2005) more movies like this

directed by Sally Potter
featuring Joan Allen, Simon Abkarian, Sam Neill, Shirley Henderson, Sheila Hancock

Filmmaker Sally Potter directed this artful meditation on the dynamics of the romantic and sexual relationship. She (Joan Allen) is an intelligent and gifted genetic scientist of Irish-American heritage who feels smothered in her marriage to a British politician (Sam Neill). While dining at a friend's house, She meets He (Simon Abkarian), a ...

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