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Gosford Park

Gosford Park (2001) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jeremy Northam, Bob Balaban, Alan Bates, Richard E. Grant, Helen Mirren, Eileen Atkins, Emily Watson

Maverick American filmmaker Robert Altman takes a witty and absorbing look at the foibles of the British class system in this intelligent murder mystery set in the early '30s. Sir William McCordle (Michael Gambon) and his wife Lady Sylvia (Kristin Scott Thomas) are a pair of wealthy British socialites who have invited a variety of friends, ...

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M*A*S*H

M*A*S*H (1970) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Jo Ann Pflug, Robert Duvall, Roger Bowen, Gary Burghoff

Although he was not the first choice to direct it, the hit black comedy MASH established Robert Altman as one of the leading figures of Hollywood's 1970s generation of innovative and irreverent young filmmakers. Scripted by Hollywood veteran Ring Lardner, Jr., this war comedy details the exploits of military doctors and nurses at a Mobile Army ...

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Popeye

Popeye (1980) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Ray Walston, Paul L. Smith, Paul Dooley

Based on the long-running comic strip created by E.C. Segar (and less on the animated cartoons created by Max Fleischer, which were decidedly different in tone and approach), Popeye follows the sailor man with the mighty arms (played by Robin Williams in his first major film role) as he arrives in the seaside community of Sweethaven in search of ...

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McCabe & Mrs. Miller

McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, René Auberjonois, William Devane, Shelley Duvall, John Schuck, Corey John Fischer

Memorably described by Pauline Kael as "a beautiful pipe dream of a movie," Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs. Miller reimagines the American West as a muddy frontier filled with hustlers, opportunists, and corporate sharks -- a turn-of-the-century model for a 1971 America mired in violence and lies. John McCabe (Warren Beatty) wanders into the turn-of ...

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Vincent and Theo

Vincent and Theo (1990) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Tim Roth, Paul Rhys, Jip Wijngaarden, Kitty Courbois, Johanna ter Steege, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Vladimir Yordanoff

The relationship between the obsessive, brilliant painter Vincent Van Gogh and his more practical brother Theo is at the center of director Robert Altman's well-received biography, originally produced as a miniseries for European television. Now universally acknowledged as masterpieces, Vincent Van Gogh's works were ignored in his lifetime, ...

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The Gingerbread Man

The Gingerbread Man (1998) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Kenneth Branagh, Embeth Davidtz, Robert Downey, Jr., Daryl Hannah, Tom Berenger

Robert Altman directed this John Grisham tale that begins at a party where Savannah attorney Rick Magruder (Kenneth Branagh) celebrates his successful defense of a man who shot a local cop. The partygoers include his ex-wife Leeanne (Famke Janssen), the mother of his two children; his law partner Lois Harlan (Daryl Hannah); and caterer Mallory ...

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The Player

The Player (1992) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher

Robert Altman takes a scalpel to Hollywood ethics in the 1990s (or the lack thereof) in his acidic satire The Player, adapted from Michael Tolkin's novel. (Tolkin also wrote the screenplay.) The film concerns a sleek and smooth Hollywood studio executive who starts receiving death threats from a disgruntled writer because he has committed the ...

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Nashville

Nashville (1975) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Henry Gibson, Barbara Baxley, Ned Beatty, Karen Black, Ronee Blakely, Lily Tomlin, Keith Carradine, Geraldine Chaplin

Following 24 characters through 5 days in the country music capital, Robert Altman's 1975 epic presents a complexly textured portrayal (and critique) of American obsessions with celebrity and power. Among the various stars, aspirants, hangers-on, observers, and media folk are politically ambitious country icon Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson) and his ...

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A Prairie Home Companion

A Prairie Home Companion (2006) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Garrison Keillor, Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, Kevin Kline, Lindsay Lohan, John C. Reilly, Woody Harrelson, Virginia Madsen, Maya Rudolph

Acclaimed filmmaker Robert Altman (Short Cuts, Nashville) brings National Public Radio stalwart Garrison Keillor's long-running radio program to vivid life on the big screen in a intricately woven backstage fable centering on the final performance of a fictionalized version of his variety show. As if the result of some strange mass-media fluke, ...

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The Long Goodbye

The Long Goodbye (1973) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Elliott Gould, Nina Van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden, Henry Gibson, Mark Rydell

"It's OK with me...." Applying his deconstructive eye to the "film noir" tradition, Robert Altman updated Raymond Chandler in his 1973 version of Chandler's novel, The Long Goodbye. Smart-aleck, cat-loving private eye Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) is certain that his friend Terry Lennox (Jim Bouton) isn't a wife-killer, even after the cops throw ...

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Prêt-à-Porter (1994) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Kim Basinger

This large, sprawling comedy directed by Robert Altman concerns a variety of romantic and personal intrigues that intersect against the backdrop of Paris's annual "Pret-a-Porter" fashion extravaganza. With 31 principal characters and a number of cameos from well known models, designers, actors and actresses, there's far too much going on to ...

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Cookie's Fortune (1999) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Glenn Close, Julianne Moore, Liv Tyler, Chris O'Donnell, Charles S. Dutton

Robert Altman directed this bittersweet ensemble piece about an eccentric and entangled group of family and friends living in the Deep South. Jewel Mae "Cookie" Orcutt (Patricia Neal) is the widowed matriarch of a small-town Mississippi family, which includes her nieces Camille (Glenn Close), a pretentious would-be artist staging an amateur ...

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Beyond Therapy (1987) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Julie Hagerty, Jeff Goldblum, Glenda Jackson, Tom Conti, Christopher Guest

Based on the play by Christopher Durang, Robert Altman's Beyond Therapy is a comedy set in New York City but filmed in Paris, where Altman was living at the time. Arrogant Bruce (Jeff Goldblum) grows bored with his live-in lover, Bob (Christopher Guest), so he looks for a change by placing an ad in the personals. He meets neurotic Prudence (Julie ...

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Short Cuts (1993) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Andie MacDowell, Bruce Davison, Tim Robbins, Chris Penn, Julianne Moore, Anne Archer, Matthew Modine, Fred Ward, Jack Lemmon, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Lili Taylor, Robert Downey, Jr., Madeleine Stowe, Lily Tomlin, Tom Waits, Frances McDormand, Peter Gallagher, Annie Ross, Lori Singer, Lyle Lovett, Buck Henry, Huey Lewis

Based on stories by Raymond Carver, Short Cuts follows 22 Los Angeles residents whose lives intersect over the course of a few days. Ann and Howard Finnegan (Andie MacDowell and Bruce Davison) are preparing for their son Casey's birthday party when the boy is injured in an auto accident and falls into a coma. Meanwhile, Andy (Lyle Lovett), a baker ...

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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 James Dean Story (1957) more movies like this

directed by George W. George, Robert Altman

A cut above the usual cheesy paste-up "tribute", The James Dean Story is imbued with a modicum of style thanks to fledgling film-director Robert Altman. Most of the film consists of clips from Dean's three starring pictures (East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause and Giant), with tantalizing glimpses of his pre-star career. One such glimpse, a ...

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Dr. T & The Women (2000) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Richard Gere, Helen Hunt, Farrah Fawcett, Laura Dern, Shelley Long

Director Robert Altman reteams with Cookie's Fortune scribe Anne Rapp for this tale of a Dallas gynecologist and the parade of anxious patients, haggard family members, and potential love interests who come his way. Richard Gere plays the titular role of Dr. Sullivan Travis, a calm, successful, and much sought-after ob-gyn who witnesses his ...

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Fool for Love (1985) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Sam Shepard, Kim Basinger, Harry Dean Stanton, Randy Quaid, Martha Crawford

Though there are several actors in Fool for Love, two share the majority of screen time: Sam Shepard as Eddie, and Kim Basinger as May. May toils away at a fleabag motel; Eddie is her former love, long absent. Unexpectedly re-entering May's life, Eddie picks up where he left off, and soon the couple is alternately bickering violently and making ...

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Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Sandy Dennis, Cher, Karen Black, Sudie Bond, Marta Heflin

Robert Altman directed this low-budget film version of the play by Ed Graczyk, also directed by Altman on Broadway with the same cast. The film takes place in the small Texas town of McCarthy in 1975. Inside of a five-and-dime store, a reunion is planned for the members of a local 1950s James Dean fan club. An odd assortment of women arrive, ...

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Thieves Like Us (1974) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Howard Warner, Josephine Bennett, Lloyd Jones, Walter Cooper, Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, John Schuck, Bert Remsen, Louise Fletcher

Released in the same 12-month span as Terrence Malick's Badlands (1973) and Steven Spielberg's The Sugarland Express (1974), Robert Altman's Thieves Like Us (1974) also tells a story of doomed outlaws in love. Depression-era criminals T-Dub (Bert Remsen), Chicamaw (John Schuck), and Bowie (Keith Carradine) band together to rob banks after escaping ...

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The Company (2003) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Neve Campbell, Malcolm McDowell, James Franco, Barbara Robertson, William Dick, Joffrey Ballet

Robert Altman directs the musical drama The Company from an original story by actress Neve Campbell, based on her own experiences with The National Ballet of Canada. At the center of the ensemble cast is the young dancer Ry (Campbell), a rising star with the Joffrey Ballet of Chicago. She struggles with the demands of being a dancer while ...

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O.C. and Stiggs (1987) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Daniel Jenkins, Neil Barry, Paul Dooley, Jane Curtin, Jon Cryer, Ray Walston

In what can only be described as a dramatic change of pace, Robert Altman directed this raunchy teen comedy based on the antics of two characters featured in a series of stories published in the National Lampoon. Oliver Cromwell Ogilvie (Daniel Jenkins), aka O.C., and his buddy Mark Stiggs (Neil Barry), are a pair of misfit teenagers whose ...

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Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Paul Newman, Joel Grey, Kevin McCarthy, Harvey Keitel, Allan Nicholls

"Truth is whatever gets the loudest applause." Debunking western myths even more than he did in McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971), Robert Altman's Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976) sardonically explores the gap between western history and legend in show biz-obsessed America. Megalomaniac "Buffalo Bill" Cody (Paul ...

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Images (1972) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Susannah York, René Auberjonois, Marcel Bozzuffi, Hugh Millais, Cathryn Harrison

A woman walks a razor's edge between reality and madness in this impressionistic drama written and directed by Robert Altman. Cathryn (Susannah York) is a woman who begins to suspect that her marriage to Hugh (René Auberjonois) is falling apart after receiving a mysterious phone call from a friend who tells her Hugh has been having an affair. ...

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Secret Honor (1984) more movies like this

directed by Robert Altman
featuring Philip Baker Hall

After resigning in disgrace, Richard Nixon (Philip Baker Hall) sits at a desk in his study late at night, dictating his memoirs. Taking one drink, then another, he rants about Eisenhower, Castro, Khruschchev, Kissinger, the Kennedys, and any number of other people, some real, some imagined, finally cohering into a remarkable explanation of why his ...

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