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Blade Runner

Blade Runner (1982) more movies like this

directed by Ridley Scott
featuring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh, Daryl Hannah

A blend of science fiction and noir detective fiction, Blade Runner (1982) was a box office and critical bust upon its initial exhibition, but its unique postmodern production design became hugely influential within the sci-fi genre, and the film gained a significant cult following that increased its stature. Harrison Ford stars as Rick Deckard, a ...

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Racing Stripes

Racing Stripes (2005) more movies like this

directed by Frederick Du Chau
featuring Hayden Panettiere, Bruce Greenwood, M. Emmet Walsh, Wendie Malick, Frankie Muniz

A horse of a different pattern becomes a spoiler in a high-stakes race in the family-friendly comedy-drama. Nolan Walsh (Bruce Greenwood) is a farmer who once earned his living training racehorses before his wife was killed in an accident while riding, which led him to leave the racing game. Nolan tends to his farm and looks after his daughter ...

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Clean and Sober

Clean and Sober (1988) more movies like this

directed by Glenn Gordon Caron
featuring Michael Keaton, Kathy Baker, Morgan Freeman, M. Emmet Walsh, Brian Benben, Tate Donovan

The directorial debut of Glenn Gordon Caron, the creator of the television series Moonlighting (1985-89), this intense, gritty drama was received as one of the best-ever cinematic treatments of substance abuse. Michael Keaton stars as Daryl Poynter, a hustling, successful Philadelphia real estate agent who has become addicted to cocaine. He's ...

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Back to School

Back to School (1986) more movies like this

directed by Alan Metter
featuring Rodney Dangerfield, Sally Kellerman, Burt Young, Keith Gordon, M. Emmet Walsh, Robert Downey, Jr.

Self-made wealthy guy Rodney Dangerfield decides he needs a better education--and also to spend some time away from his cheating new wife. Dangerfield joins his son Keith Gordon at college. Dad hopes to gain his son's respect (isn't that always Dangerfield's motivation?), while son tries to fit in with his snobbish and brutish fellow students. ...

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Blood Simple

Blood Simple (1984) more movies like this

directed by Joel Coen
featuring John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, M. Emmet Walsh, Samm-Art Williams

In the first film of brothers Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, M. Emmett Walsh plays Visser, an unscrupulous private eye hired by Texas bar owner Marty (Dan Hedaya) to murder Marty's faithless wife Abby (Frances McDormand) and her paramour, Ray (John Getz), one of Marty's employees. But Visser is no more up-front with Marty than with anyone else; he ...

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Christmas in the Clouds

Christmas in the Clouds (2005) more movies like this

directed by Kate Montgomery
featuring Timothy Vahle, MariAna Tosca, Sam Vlahos, Graham Greene, M. Emmet Walsh

Ray (Tim Vahle) has just returned from college to run a Native-American ski lodge. A laid-back place where employees' children play in the lobby and the handyman has a habit of macking on guests, the lodge isn't exactly four-star travel guide material. So when Ray learns that a travel guide representative is coming to make an inspection, he makes ...

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The Mighty Quinn

The Mighty Quinn (1989) more movies like this

directed by Carl Schenkel
featuring Denzel Washington, Robert Townsend, James Fox, Mimi Rogers, M. Emmet Walsh

Xavier Quinn (Denzel Washington) is police chief of a tiny Caribbean island. Quinn's efforts to straddle the fence between the local blacks and the moneyed whites have lost him the respect of both groups. When a murder is committed, Quinn suspects that the killer is Maubee (Robert Townsend), a notoriously elusive criminal who has become a folk ...

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Narrow Margin

Narrow Margin (1990) more movies like this

directed by Peter Hyams
featuring Gene Hackman, Anne Archer, James B. Sikking, J.T. Walsh, M. Emmet Walsh

Narrow Margin directed by Peter Hyams and loosely based on the classic film noir of the same title, tells the story of a resourceful District Attorney who must return a witness to San Francisco alive so she can testify in a trial. Carol (Anne Archer) is in the bathroom of the hotel room of her blind date when he is murdered by mobsters for ...

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Critters

Critters (1986) more movies like this

directed by Stephen Herek
featuring Dee Wallace, M. Emmet Walsh, Billy Green Bush, Scott Grimes, Nadine Van Der Velde

Critters, an amusing horror comedy directed byStephen Herek, is the story of a family menaced by eight basketball sized creatures from outer space who arrive at their Kansas farm in search of food. Helen Brown (Dee Wallace Stone) and Brad (Scott Grimes), owners of the farm find themselves held hostage as the creatures roll, jump and bounce around ...

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Missing in Action

Missing in Action (1984) more movies like this

directed by Joseph Zito
featuring Chuck Norris, M. Emmet Walsh, Lenore Kasdorf, James Hong, David Tress, Pierrino Mascarino

One of a string of Ramboesque films dashed off in the '80s, Missing in Action is yet another entry that attempts to exploit the lingering public bitterness over the outcome of the war in Vietnam. Colonel Braddock (karate champion Chuck Norris) travels to Vietnam on a mission to recover lost POWs. A former POW himself, Braddock has the saavy and ...

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Straight Time (1978) more movies like this

directed by Ulu Grosbard
featuring Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Gary Busey, Harry Dean Stanton, M. Emmet Walsh

Paroled criminal Max Dembo (Dustin Hoffman) is compelled to withstand the calculated cruelties of slimy parole officer Earl Frank (M. Emmet Walsh). The more Max tries to go straight, the more he is defeated by circumstance or hectored by the sadistic Frank. It becomes clear after a while that neither Max nor his fellow ex-cons will be able to ...

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Retroactive (1997) more movies like this

directed by Louis Morneau
featuring James Belushi, Kylie Travis, Shannon Whirry, Frank Whaley, M. Emmet Walsh

Science fiction crime thriller from Louis Morneau, genre director and graduate of the Roger Corman school of filmmaking. Kylie Travis stars as Karen, a psychiatrist and former hostage negotiator with the Chicago Police Department. After a negotiation gone lethally wrong, Karen has quit and returned home to Texas, where her car breaks down on the ...

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Red Scorpion (1989) more movies like this

directed by Joseph Zito
featuring Dolph Lundgren, M. Emmet Walsh, Al White, T.P. McKenna, Carmen Argenziano

Dolph Lundgren stars in this controversial action film directed by Joseph Zito (Missing in Action). The beefy Swede plays Soviet KGB agent Lt. Nikolai, who is sent to Africa with orders to eliminate a black rebel. Eventually, Nikolai begins to side with the locals, has a red scorpion tattooed on his chest by a shaman, and helps fight against the ...

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White Sands (1992) more movies like this

directed by Roger Donaldson
featuring Willem Dafoe, Mickey Rourke, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Samuel L. Jackson, M. Emmet Walsh

A suicide found in the desert with 500,000 dollars cash stuffed in a briefcase makes Sheriff Ray Dolezal (Willem Dafoe) curious. What was the dead man up to? Sensing that if he follows the money, he'll find crime at the end of the trail, Dolezal assumes his identity. He soon discovers the dead man was a paid informant for an FBI agent (Samuel L. ...

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Broken Vows (1987) more movies like this

directed by Jud Taylor
featuring Tommy Lee Jones, Annette O'Toole, M. Emmet Walsh, Milo O'Shea, David Groh

This drama explores the inner turmoil of a parish priest who begins to question his beliefs and his celibacy after he becomes mixed up with the girlfriend of a murder victim. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Killer Image (1992) more movies like this

directed by David Winning
featuring M. Emmet Walsh, John Pyper-Ferguson, Michael Ironside, Barbra Gajewskia

When a photographer is murdered, he is somehow able to capture the killer on film; when the negatives end up in the hands of the deceased's brother, the killer is soon after another victim. Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide

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Wilder Napalm (1993) more movies like this

directed by Glenn Gordon Caron
featuring Debra Winger, Dennis Quaid, Arliss Howard, M. Emmet Walsh, Jim Varney

After a childhood spat drove brothers Wilder (Arliss Howard) and Wallace (Dennis Quaid) apart, they went their separate ways, until a chance meeting brought them back together again. Gifted with a psychic ability to spark fires, Wallace supresses his gift, marries the lovely Vida (Debra Winger), and attempts to lead a normal life. However, he runs ...

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Dead Badge (1994) more movies like this

directed by Douglas Barr
featuring Brian Wimmer, M. Emmet Walsh, Yaphet Kotto, James B. Sikking, Olympia Dukakis

In this police drama, a police detective must wear the badge previously owned by a deceased colleague. Following a terrifying shoot-out, the shaken gumshoe begins investigating the circumstances surrounding the slain officer's demise. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Jack of Hearts (1999) more movies like this

directed by Serge Rodnunsky
featuring Nick Mancuso, M. Emmet Walsh, Ben Gazzara, Lucky Vanous

A cop looking for a chance to redeem himself comes up against a man who has built a fortune out of corruption in this thriller. Roy Murcant (Nick Mancuso) is a free-wheeling entrepreneur who has built a multi-million dollar empire on the Las Vegas strip with his own two hands. But not everyone in newly corporate Las Vegas is convinced Murcant is ...

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Killing Jar (1997) more movies like this

directed by Evan Crooke
featuring Brett Cullen, Tamlyn Tomita, Wes Studi, Brion James, M. Emmet Walsh

A man's past comes back to haunt him -- literally -- in this thriller. After surviving a traumatic auto accident that took the life of a close friend and injured his brother, young Michael Sanford was sent off to a boarding school and didn't see his hometown in California's Sonoma Valley for close to two decades until he returned after the death ...

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Raw Courage (1984) more movies like this

directed by Robert L. Rosen
featuring Ronny Cox, Lois Chiles, Art Hindle, M. Emmet Walsh, Tim Maier

Three ultra-marathoners are on a 72-mile race in the New Mexico desert when they encounter a group of weekend-warrior survivalist types who want to "play with the little runner boys." The runners are in the race of their lives when the demented trigger boys won't leave them alone in this Deliverance descendant. All Movie Guide

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Scandalous (1984) more movies like this

directed by Rob Cohen
featuring Robert Hays, John Gielgud, Pamela Stephenson, Jim Dale, M. Emmet Walsh

In this superficial interpretation of an intended suspense story and comedy, Robert Hays plays a TV anchor man on a flight to London who is duped by his attractive co-passenger (Pamela Stephenson) into thinking he is onto secret spying activities. After the plane lands, the newsman is unexpectedly accused of murdering his own wife. By the time ...

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The Naked Truth (1992) more movies like this

In this broad comedy, two buddies named Frank, with more ambition than sense, are en route to Hollywood in hopes of breaking into the movie business when they accidentally witness a Mafia execution. Before they know it, they're witnesses in a criminal case the FBI is preparing against the Mob, and the two Franks are suddenly being chased by Mafia ...

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Relative Fear (1994) more movies like this

directed by Georges Mihalka
featuring Darlanne Fluegel, Martin Neufeld, M. Emmet Walsh, Matthew Dupuis, James Brolin

This Canadian thriller features a cute little kid who kills. Connie and Linda give birth simultaneously in the same hospital. A mix up with the babies occur. Linda, after the baby, Adam, hits her, feels something is wrong. Indeed, the babe's real mother is a homicidal maniac and her illness seems to be genetic. Four years pass and Adam has grown ...

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The Music of Chance (1993) more movies like this

directed by Philip Haas
featuring James Spader, Mandy Patinkin, M. Emmet Walsh, Charles Durning, Joel Grey

Documentary filmmaker Philip Haas made his dramatic feature film debut with The Music of Chance, adapted from Paul Auster's terse, existential novel. The film follows the plight of two hapless drifters -- Jim Nashe (Mandy Patinkin), who is escaping family and responsibility with an inheritance and a red BMW, and Jack Pozzi (James Spader), a down ...

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