The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) more movies like this

directed by Peter Weir
featuring Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver, Linda Hunt, Michael Murphy, Bill Kerr

Mel Gibson stars in this period political thriller directed by Peter Weir. Set in Indonesia during the 1965 coup against President Sukarno, the film stars Gibson as Guy Hamilton, an Australian wire-service reporter covering the scene. Whenever Hamilton becomes too glib or indifferent for his own good, he is brought back to earth by his "conscience ...

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Manhattan (1979) more movies like this

directed by Woody Allen
featuring Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy, Mariel Hemingway, Meryl Streep

On the heels of Annie Hall, the Oscar-winning romantic comedy that rocketed Woody Allen to the front ranks of American filmmakers, Manhattan continued Allen's romantic obsessions in a slightly darker, more pessimistic vein. Allen stars as Isaac Davis, a TV comedy writer sick of the pap he is forced to churn out and harboring dreams of being the ...

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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974) more movies like this

directed by John Korty
featuring Cicely Tyson, Barbara Chaney, Richard Dysart, Katherine Helmond, Michael Murphy

Cicely Tyson ages from 19 to 110 in the role of Jane Pittman, a fictional African-American woman whose life began in slavery and ended at the inception of the Civil Rights Movement. Northern journalist Quentin Lerner (Michael Murphy) travels to the racially polarized south of 1962 to interview Ms. Pittman for a potential book. Her life unfolds in ...

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Cloak and Dagger (1984) more movies like this

directed by Richard Franklin
featuring Henry Thomas, Dabney Coleman, Michael Murphy, Christina Nigra, John McIntire

Juvenile actor Henry Thomas, late of E.T., is the star of Cloak and Dagger. Given to telling whoppers, Thomas finds himself in a boy-who-cried-wolf dilemma when he overhears two spies plotting to smuggle valuable info out of the US. When he can't get his own father Dabney Coleman to believe him, Thomas turns disconsolately to a computer game ...

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Mesmerized (1986) more movies like this

directed by Michael Laughlin
featuring Jodie Foster, John Lithgow, Michael Murphy, Harry Andrews, Dan Shor

This psychodrama is set in New Zealand during the 1880s and is based on the true story of an orphaned 18-year-old who marries a cruel, much-older man. He constantly abuses her and keeps her under his thumb until she snaps and using hypnotism, kills him. Later she is tried in court. Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Salvador (1986) more movies like this

directed by Oliver Stone
featuring James Woods, James Belushi, Michael Murphy, John Savage, Elpidia Carrillo

While Salvador wasn't Oliver Stone's first film (a pair of offbeat horror stories preceded it), it defined his style of fiercely dramatic, politically oriented filmmaking, staked out his territory as one of the major directors of the 1980s and 1990s, and remains one of his strongest works to date. Veteran photojournalist Richard Boyle (James Woods ...

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An Unmarried Woman (1978) more movies like this

directed by Paul Mazursky
featuring Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy, Cliff Gorman, Pat Quinn

A New York wife learns about the satisfactions of single life in this landmark 1970s "woman's film." Unlike her dysfunctional friends, vibrant Erica (Jill Clayburgh) seems to have it all: a nice Upper East Side home, a well-adjusted teenage daughter (Lisa Lucas), a job at a Soho art gallery, and a loving husband, Martin (Michael Murphy). Erica ...

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Kansas City (1996) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Miranda Richardson, Harry Belafonte, Michael Murphy, Dermot Mulroney

The jazz world of 1930s Kansas City serves as the backdrop for an offbeat story of kidnapping, political corruption, and organized crime in director Robert Altman's loving but unsentimental look at his childhood hometown. The film's intricate story is triggered by petty thief Johnny O'Hara (Dermot Mulroney), who aims for a big score by trying to ...

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The Front (1976) more movies like this

directed by Martin Ritt
featuring Woody Allen, Zero Mostel, Herschel Bernardi, Michael Murphy, Andrea Marcovicci

The McCarthy-era "witch hunts" in the entertainment industry set the stage for this comedy drama set in the 1950s. Howard Prince (Woody Allen) is a cashier at a corner bar who works as a small-time bookie on the side, with little success. One day, Howard's old friend Alfred Miller (Michael Murphy), a successful television writer, makes a business ...

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Shocker (1989) more movies like this

directed by Wes Craven
featuring Michael Murphy, Peter Berg, Mitch Pileggi, Cami Cooper, Heather Langenkamp, Richard Brooks

Wes Craven's Shocker takes media manipulation to a new level in this story of an evil force emitted from television sets that has the power to kill. The film centers on high school athlete Jonathan Parker (Peter Berg). His estranged father is homicide detective Don Parker (Michael Murphy), who has been working on capturing an elusive serial killer ...

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Brewster McCloud (1970) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Bud Cort, Sally Kellerman, Michael Murphy, William Windom, Shelley Duvall

A boy yearns to fly in Robert Altman's whimsical youthquake parable. With the aid of seraphic Louise (Sally Kellerman), owlish Brewster (Bud Cort) constructs a pair of human-size wings in his Houston Astrodome nest to realize his dream. Meanwhile, conservative creeps, including a witchy "Star-Spangled Banner"-belting crone (Margaret Hamilton) and ...

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Count Yorga, Vampire (1970) more movies like this

directed by Bob Kelljan
featuring Robert Quarry, Roger Perry, Michael Murphy, Michael Macready, Judith Lang

Centuries old Count Yorga (Robert Quarry) is a vampire that is given a ride to his gloomy mansion in the woods by Paul (Michael Murphy) and Donna (Judith Lang) in their Volkswagon van. On the way out of the woods, the vehicle becomes stuck in the mud, but the duo refuses to return to the creepy house. After the two make love, Donna is bitten by ...

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Julia Child! America's Favorite Chef (2004) more movies like this

Julia Child may well have introduced more Americans to classic European cuisine than anyone else; as the author of Mastering the Art of French Cooking and host of the long-running public television series The French Chef, Child's playful sense of humor and no-nonsense approach to the nuts and bolts of fine food made her a favorite of food snobs ...

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American Experience: Transcontinental Railroad (2003) more movies like this

directed by Mark Zwonitzer, Michael Chin
featuring Michael Murphy

Documentary filmmakers offer a fascinating look at one of the most spectacular engineering feats of the 19th Century as the story of the Transcontinental Railroad comes to life in a film that's sure to appeal to historians and railroad enthusiasts alike. As legions of tireless workers toiled for six years to realize the vision of shady ...

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Footsteps (2003) more movies like this

directed by John Badham
featuring Candice Bergen, Bryan Brown, Michael Murphy, Bug Hall

Adapted from an unproduced play by Ira Levin (Rosemary's Baby, et al.), the made-for-TV Footsteps stars Candice Bergen as Daisy Lowenthal, a best-selling suspense novelist who has recently "killed off" her most popular fictional character -- and who is recovering from a nervous breakdown. Determined to confront and conquer one of her most dreaded ...

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Strange Behavior (1981) more movies like this

directed by Michael Laughlin
featuring Michael Murphy, Louise Fletcher, Dan Shor, Fiona Lewis, Arthur Dignam

Dead Kids, aka Strange Behavior, is a creepy exercise from director Michael Laughlin--who conceived this as part one of an abortive "Strange Trilogy" which also included 1983's Strange Invaders. Although lensed in New Zealand, the film is set in a sleepy American town, in which a series of gory murders committed by local teenagers are linked to a ...

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Tanner on Tanner [TV Series] (2004) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Michael Murphy, Cynthia Nixon

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The Class of Miss MacMichael (1978) more movies like this

directed by Silvio Narizzano
featuring Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, Michael Murphy, Rosalind Cash, John Standing

Miss MacMichael (Glenda Jackson) is a dedicated teacher. She needs to be, because her students are delinquents who are barely one step away from prison. She has a boyfriend, Martin (Michael Murphy) who would love to take her away from the chaos and heartbreak of the classroom by marrying her, but she doesn't want to leave. Her efforts to connect ...

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Tanner '88 [TV Series] (1988) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Michael Murphy, Pamela Reed, Cynthia Nixon

Written by Garry Trudeau and directed by Robert Altman, this is an amusingly vicious squint at the American electoral process. Michael Murphy plays Jack Tanner, Democratic Presidential nominee. Also featured are Cynthia Nixon as Jack's teenage daughter Alex, and Pamela Reed as campaign manager T. J. Cavanaugh. Despite the mocking nature of the ...

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