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Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) more movies like this

directed by Philip Kaufman
featuring Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, Veronica Cartwright, Jeff Goldblum

This remake of the 1956 horror classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers moves the action from small-town USA to 1970s San Francisco and replaces at least part of the original's psychological horror with special effects. Spores rain forth, unseen, from outer space, and soon strange flowers begin popping up all over the city. After bringing one of ...

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Alien

Alien (1979) more movies like this

directed by Ridley Scott
featuring Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Yaphet Kotto, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm

"In space, no one can hear you scream." A close encounter of the third kind becomes a Jaws-style nightmare when an alien invades a spacecraft in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic. On the way home from a mission for the Company, the Nostromo's crew is woken up from hibernation by the ship's Mother computer to answer a distress signal from a ...

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The Witches of Eastwick

The Witches of Eastwick (1987) more movies like this

directed by George Miller
featuring Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, Veronica Cartwright

The Witches of Eastwick, a memorable comedy with a dark edge, is based upon a novel by John Updike. On Thursday nights three female friends -- Alex (Cher), Sukie (Michelle Pfeiffer), and Jane (Susan Sarandon) -- meet to chug martinis, learn Chinese aphrodisiac cooking and lament the scarcity of eligible men. As they sit around, they fantasize ...

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The Birds

The Birds (1963) more movies like this

directed by Alfred Hitchcock
featuring Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, Veronica Cartwright, Ethel Griffies

The story begins as an innocuous romantic triangle involving wealthy, spoiled Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren), handsome Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor), and schoolteacher Annie Hayworth (Suzanne Pleshette). The human story begins in a San Francisco pet shop and culminates at the home of Mitch's mother (Jessica Tandy) at Bodega Bay, where the characters' ...

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Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones

Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980) more movies like this

directed by William A. Graham
featuring Powers Boothe, Veronica Cartwright, Rosalind Cash, Brad Dourif, Randy Quaid

This two-part TV movie was, of course, sparked by the November 1978 mass suicide of 913 people at the South American religious "colony" of Jonestown. The catalyst for this tragedy was cult-leader Reverend Jim Jones (played by Powers Boothe, who won an Emmy for his performance), head of the so-called People's Temple. The film traces the life of ...

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Flight of the Navigator

Flight of the Navigator (1986) more movies like this

directed by Randal Kleiser
featuring Joey Cramer, Veronica Cartwright, Cliff De Young, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matt Adler

The year is 1978: 12-year-old Joey Cramer, playing in the woods near his home, is knocked unconscious. He awakens and heads home, only to find strangers living there. He also finds that the year is 1986, and that he's been officially missing for eight years. NASA officials determine that Cramer was abducted by aliens during his blackout, and hope ...

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Goin' South

Goin' South (1978) more movies like this

directed by Jack Nicholson
featuring Jack Nicholson, Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd, John Belushi, Veronica Cartwright

Sentenced to hang in a backwater western town, horse thief Henry Moon (Jack Nicholson) is saved when frontierswoman Julia Tate (Mary Steenburgen) agrees to marry him. Taking advantage of the town law that prohibits the execution of married men, Moon follows Tate back to her ranch, planning all the while to escape at the first possible opportunity. ...

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Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh

Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995) more movies like this

directed by Bill Condon
featuring Tony Todd, Kelly Rowan, Timothy Carhart, Veronica Cartwright, William O'Leary

This sequel to director Bernard Rose's superb, metaphorical Candyman is a more straightforward Gothic horror project, discarding any association with the events of the previous film (which was based on the short story "The Forbidden" by horror surrealist Clive Barker) aside from the title entity, played again by the imposing Tony Todd. A ...

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Inserts

Inserts (1975) more movies like this

directed by John Byrum
featuring Richard Dreyfuss, Jessica Harper, Stephen Davies, Veronica Cartwright, Bob Hoskins

Writer/director John Byrum filmed this bizarre and controversial period picture on one massive set. It takes place in the 1930s, and stars Richard Dreyfuss as Boy Wonder, a once-great Hollywood director, who spends all of his time in decrepitude in his rococo mansion (which will soon be leveled and replaced by a major highway), half-soused, ...

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Sparkler

Sparkler (1997) more movies like this

directed by Darren Stein
featuring Park Overall, Veronica Cartwright, Jamie Kennedy, Steven Petrarca, Freddie Prinze, Jr.

Melba (Park Overall) lives in a trailer park in Victorville, California and is on a run of bad luck. Her husband Flint (Don Harvey) runs out on her when she catches him with a girlfriend. Her mother Sherri (Grace Zabriskie) connects her to a phone psychic, who tells her to watch for three kings who will change her life. In a bar, she runs into ...

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Bernice Bobs Her Hair (1976) more movies like this

directed by Joan Micklin Silver
featuring Shelley Duvall, Bud Cort, Dennis Christopher, Gary Springer, Henry Fonda, Lane Binkley, Polly Holliday, Veronica Cartwright, Patrick Reynolds

Many observers consider the 60-minute Bernice Bobs Her Hair to be the best-ever filmed adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Bernice (Shelley Duvall), a shy retiring girl of the Roaring 20s, yearns to be popular. On the advice of her flapper cousin Marjorie (Veronica Cartwright), Bernice cuts her unfashionable long hair into a short bob, begins ...

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Straight-Jacket (2004) more movies like this

directed by Richard Day
featuring Matt Letscher, Carrie Preston, Veronica Cartwright, Adam Greer

An actor trying to keep the truth about his love life under wraps discovers feelings he doesn't want to hide in this frothy comedy. It's the mid-'50s, and Guy Stone (Matt Letscher) is a very successful movie star. Tall, good-looking, and boyishly charming, Stone has a reputation as a ladies' man with a very active love life. However, the truth is ...

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Dead in the Water (1991) more movies like this

directed by Bill Condon
featuring Bryan Brown, Teri Hatcher, Veronica Cartwright

Made for cable TV, this thriller finds a lawyer (Bryan Brown) plotting the murder of his wealthy wife so he can make off with his secretary. The wrong person ends up dead, however, and he finds himself accused of the crime. John Bush, All Movie Guide

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A Son's Promise (1990) more movies like this

directed by John Korty
featuring Rick Schroder, Donald Moffat, Veronica Cartwright, Stephen Dorff, Andrew Lowery

The promise made by 15-year-old Georgia boy Ricky Schroder is to his dying mother (Veronica Cartwright). Schroder vows that he'll keep his parentless family--all seven brothers--together, no matter what. He keeps his word, through starvation, deprivation and natural disaster. It says in the ads that the made-for-TV A Son's Promise was based on a ...

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The Last Man on Planet Earth (1999) more movies like this

directed by Les Landau
featuring Cliff De Young, Veronica Cartwright, Julie Bowen, Tamlyn Tomita

Women are in charge of a futuristic society were almost all of the globe's male population have been decimated due to biological warfare. In hopes of restocking the population, so to speak, a top scientist creates a new type of male genetically unable to commit acts of violence. All Movie Guide

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My Man Adam (1986) more movies like this

directed by Roger Simon
featuring Raphael Sbarge, Page Hannah, Veronica Cartwright, Dave Thomas

Adam Swit (Raphael Sbarge) is hounded by his consumer parents in their plush L.A. home, beset by his sexually deprived sister, and faces agony at school at the hands of the tougher kids. In order to escape his troubles, he daydreams about a fantastic young woman. Lo and behold, a dead-ringer for his dream woman shows up at school one day as a ...

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Dingle, Barry (2005) more movies like this

directed by Barry Shurchin
featuring Barry Shurchin, Veronica Cartwright, Nicole Sullivan, Lukas Haas

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Wisdom (1986) more movies like this

directed by Emilio Estevez
featuring Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, William Allen Young

In this film, an old felony conviction comes back to haunt the young, ambitious John Wisdom (Emilio Estevez) as he applies and is turned down for a number of jobs. Frustrated by his attempts to make a legitimate living, John and his girlfriend, Karen (Demi Moore), set out to commit a series of bank robberies, using the money to ease the plight of ...

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Valentino Returns (1989) more movies like this

directed by Peter Hoffman
featuring Barry Tubb, Frederic Forrest, Veronica Cartwright, Jenny Wright

Set in the '50s, this drama follows the turbulent life of the Gibbs family. While Patricia (Veronica Cartwright) and Sonny (Frederic Forrest) are struggling with their recent separation, their lonely teenage son, Wayne (Barry Tubb), is finally able to purchase his dream car, a pink Cadillac; he names it "Valentino Returns," hoping to capture the ...

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False Identity (1990) more movies like this

directed by James Keach
featuring Stacy Keach, Geneviève Bujold, Tobin Bell, Mike Champion, Veronica Cartwright

Waylaid and left for dead by an enemy agent, U.S. intelligence officer Harlan Erickkson (Stacy Keach) awakens with amnesia. Because his assailant had switched clothes and identification with him, Erickkson now believes that he's the enemy spy. The authorities think so too, and lock up Erickkson for nearly 20 years. Upon his release, Erickkson, ...

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