The Pelican Brief (1993) more movies like this

directed by Alan J. Pakula
featuring Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard, John Heard, Tony Goldwyn

Embroiled in an affair with Thomas Callahan (Sam Shephard), her alcoholic professor, precocious 24-year-old Tulane University law student Darby Shaw (Julia Roberts) writes up an insightful theory about the recent murder of two Supreme Court justices, one of whom, Abraham Rosenberg (Hume Cronyn), served as Callahan's mentor. When Callahan shares ...

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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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Sophie's Choice (1982) more movies like this

directed by Alan J. Pakula
featuring Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol, Rita Karin, Stephen D. Newman

The year is 1947. Aspiring southern author Stingo (Peter MacNichol) heads to New York to seek his fortune. Moving into a dingy Brooklyn boarding house, Stingo strikes up a friendship with research chemist Nathan Landau (Kevin Kline) and Nathan's girlfriend, Polish refugee Sophie Zawistowska (Oscar-winner Meryl Streep). There is something ...

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The Devil's Own (1997) more movies like this

directed by Alan J. Pakula
featuring Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, Margaret Colin, Rubén Blades, Treat Williams

A policeman plays Good Samaritan to a visitor from Ireland, only to discover that he has a potentially deadly secret. Belfast-born Frankie McGuire (Brad Pitt) saw his father gunned down by enemy soldiers at the age of eight, and when he grew up he joined the Irish Republican Army, determined that one day his father's death would be avenged. An ...

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Presumed Innocent (1990) more movies like this

directed by Alan J. Pakula
featuring Harrison Ford, Brian Dennehy, Raul Julia, Bonnie Bedelia, Paul Winfield

Rusty Sabich (Harrison Ford) is a bland, oppressed man who burns with a quiet, corrosive intensity that can flare uncontrollably. A Philadelphia prosecutor, Sabich's fire seems to have one outlet: his job. He loves prosecuting people. Otherwise, his life is dead-ended. He has a loveless marriage to a neurotic woman (Bonnie Bedelia) and an ...

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Orphans (1987) more movies like this

directed by Alan J. Pakula
featuring Albert Finney, Matthew Modine, Kevin Anderson, John Kellogg, Anthony Heald

Two brothers kidnap a boozy gangster and try to hold him for ransom in this psychological thriller. Harold (Albert Finney) is lured from a saloon by Treat (Matthew Modine) to their squalid tenement. He and his reclusive and agoraphobic brother, Phillip (Kevin Anderson), have no idea Harold is a mobster, only that he looks prosperous. Harold is ...

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The Sterile Cuckoo (1969) more movies like this

directed by Alan J. Pakula
featuring Liza Minnelli, Wendell Burton, Tim McIntire, Elizabeth Harrower, Austin Green

Liza Minnelli is Pookie Adams, a relentlessly kooky coed in The Sterile Cuckoo. The film's focus, however, is on Wendell Burton (likewise making his first screen appearance) as reserved young college student Jerry. He is actively pursued by the unpredictable Pookie, who helps him to survive his first months in school. Gradually, however, it is ...

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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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Klute (1971) more movies like this

directed by Alan J. Pakula
featuring Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider, Dorothy Tristan

The first part of his "paranoia trilogy," Alan J. Pakula's 1971 thriller details the troubled life of a Manhattan prostitute stalked by one of her tricks. Investigating the disappearance of his friend Tom Gruneman (Robert Milli), rural Pennsylvania private eye John Klute (Donald Sutherland) follows a lead provided by Gruneman's associate Peter ...

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The Parallax View (1974) more movies like this

directed by Alan J. Pakula
featuring Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels, Paula Prentiss, Anthony Zerbe

While the Watergate scandal filled the headlines, Alan J. Pakula's 1974 thriller took its inspiration from the conspiracy theories surrounding the Kennedy assassination. Journalist Joe Frady (Warren Beatty) misses witnessing the assassination of a senator at Seattle's Space Needle, but his newswoman former girlfriend Lee Carter (Paula Prentiss) ...

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See You in the Morning (1989) more movies like this

directed by Alan J. Pakula
featuring Jeff Bridges, Alice Krige, Farrah Fawcett, Drew Barrymore, Lukas Haas

This film is a somewhat contrived pairing of two divorcees who are giving it a second go. They're up against considerable odds, however, because the children of each are not too pleased with their new "parent." Jeff Bridges stars as the husband and Alice Krige plays his second wife. All Movie Guide

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Consenting Adults (1992) more movies like this

directed by Alan J. Pakula
featuring Kevin Kline, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Kevin Spacey, Rebecca Miller, Forest Whitaker

Composer Richard Parker (Kevin Kline) and his wife Priscilla (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) live an ordinary suburban life until they meet their new neighbors Eddy (Kevin Spacey) and Kay (Rebecca Miller). The two couples become friends until some mate-swapping is suggested by the men. The plot takes a nasty turn, however, when Richard sleeps with ...

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Starting Over (1979) more movies like this

directed by Alan J. Pakula
featuring Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh, Candice Bergen, Charles Durning, Frances Sternhagen

Scripted by James L. Brooks from Dan Wakefield's novel, Alan J. Pakula's romantic comedy follows the tribulations of a freshly divorced man as he looks for love with a wary single woman. Phil Potter (Burt Reynolds sans mustache) can't quite believe it when his aspiring songbird wife Jessica (Candice Bergen) kicks him out to realize her career ...

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Rollover (1981) more movies like this

directed by Alan J. Pakula
featuring Jane Fonda, Kris Kristofferson, Hume Cronyn, Josef Sommer, Bob Gunton

Alan J. Pakula directs the political thriller Rollover, produced by leading lady Jane Fonda's production company, IPC Films. Featuring a racist plot and negative stereotypes about the Arab world, this film reflected the American fear of the Middle East prevalent in the early '80s. Fonda stars as former film star Lee Winters, who inherits a ...

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Dream Lover (1986) more movies like this

directed by Alan J. Pakula
featuring Kristy McNichol, Ben Masters, Paul Shenar, Justin Deas, John McMartin

Director Alan J. Pakula does the best anyone can with this complicated tale of what happens when the dream state and the waking state are confused and intermingled. While at home alone one day, Kathy Gardner (Kristy McNichol) defends herself against an intruder by stabbing him in the back. Now when she tries to sleep she keeps on having nightmares ...

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