|
Amazing Stories: The Movie IV (1995)
Character: (archive footage)
Four tales are compiled from the popular television series. After a death row inmate (Patrick Swayze) is struck by lightning, he discovers he's received the Christ-like ability to heal others, prompting a race to save him from the electric chair. An author (Sam Waterston) is haunted by an apparition in mirrors. A psychic (Gregory Hines) reads the mind of a serial killer but doesn't know which member of his audience the thoughts come from. A painter (Harvey Keitel) mourns his wife's death.
|
|
|
Vanessa in the Garden (1985)
Character: Vanessa Sullivan
When a brilliant young artist's beloved wife dies in a carriage wreck, the grief-stricken husband is possessed with an incredible plan to bring her back through his art.
|
|
|
|
|
Death Game (1977)
Character: Agatha Jackson
George Manning is a well-to-do businessman, husband, and father. While his family is away on his birthday, he invites a pair of rain-soaked young women into his house to wait out an evening thunderstorm. The two girls seduce Manning and ultimately kidnap and torture him in his own home.
|
|
|
The Shadow of Chikara (1977)
Character: Drusilla Wilcox
Two former Confederate captains try to remove diamonds hidden in the Arkansas mountains, but a native spirit guards the sacred site against intruders.
|
|
|
A Reflection of Fear (1973)
Character: Marguerite
A young girl lives with her mother and grandmother. One day her estranged father returns home with a female companion he introduces as his fiance. Soon the girl finds herself in the midst of strange goings-on, which evolve into a web of crime and murder.
|
|
|
The Second Coming of Suzanne (1974)
Character: Suzanne
Jared Martin plays an aspiring film maker obsessed with the idea of Christ as a woman, and tries to film his vision with Sondra Locke as his subject. 'Based' on a song by Leonard Cohen.
|
|
|
Ray Meets Helen (2018)
Character: Helen
Two lonely strangers who are struggling in life cross paths with each other under unusual circumstances and get a chance to start over.
|
|
|
The Clean and Narrow (2000)
Character: Betsy Brand
An ex-convict tries to make an honest living and take care of his girlfriend and her mentally slow brother.
|
|
|
Every Which Way but Loose (1978)
Character: Lynn Halsey-Taylor
Philo Beddoe is your regular, easygoing, truck-driving guy. He's also the best bar-room brawler west of the Rockies. And he lives with a 165-pound orangutan named Clyde. Like other guys, Philo finally falls in love - with a flighty singer who leads him on a screwball chase across the American Southwest. Nothing's in the way except a motorcycle gang, some cops, and legendary brawler Tank Murdock.
|
|
|
Cover Me Babe (1970)
Character: Melisse
Student filmmaker lets nothing stand in the way of his getting a studio contract.
|
|
|
Friendships, Secrets and Lies (1979)
Character: Jessie Dunne
Six former sorority sisters are suspected of murder when a baby's skeleton is found in the ruins of the sorority house.
|
|
|
Willard (1971)
Character: Joan Simms
A social misfit, Willard is made fun of by his co-workers, and squeezed out of the company started by his deceased father by his boss. His only friends are a couple of rats he raised at home, Ben and Socrates. However, when one of them is killed at work, he goes on a rampage using his rats to attack those who have been tormenting him.
|
|
|
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Character: Laura Lee
After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected.
|
|
|
Any Which Way You Can (1980)
Character: Lynn Halsey-Taylor
Philo takes part in a bare knuckle fight - as he does - to make some more money than he can earn from his car repair business. He decides to retire from fighting, but when the Mafia come along and arrange another fight, he is pushed into it. A motorcycle gang and an orangutan called Clyde all add to the 'fun'.
|
|
|
Sudden Impact (1983)
Character: Jennifer Spencer
When a young rape victim takes justice into her own hands and becomes a serial killer, it's up to Dirty Harry Callahan, on suspension from the SFPD, to bring her to justice.
|
|
|
The Gauntlet (1977)
Character: Gus Mally
Phoenix cop Ben Shockley is well on his way to becoming a derelict when he is assigned to transport a witness from Las Vegas. The witness turns out to be a belligerent prostitute with mob ties—and incriminating information regarding a high-ranking figure.
|
|
|
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
Character: Margaret "Mick" Kelly
Singer is a deaf-mute whose small world brings him in contact with a young girl, Mick, who cherishes a seemingly hopeless dream of becoming a concert pianist. At first hostile, Mick soon becomes friends with Singer, hoping to enlarge his small world. Three other central characters come to Singer for help also, each of them seeing in him a powerful force.
|
|
|
Bronco Billy (1980)
Character: Antoinette Lily
An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luck and waning interest.
|
|
|
Ratboy (1986)
Character: Nikki Morrison
A failed window dresser exploits a being with rat-like features in an effort to make money.
|
|
|
Clint Eastwood, la dernière légende (2022)
Character: Self (archive footage)
The portrait of the last cowboy Hollywood legend dives into the 65 years of an extraordinary career in Hollywood, highlighted iconic films like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, as well as Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River and Gran Torino all the way to Cry Macho in 2021. It is no small task to cover more than 60 years of cinema history, especially when it is trying to surveyed with such breadth and diversity: TV star, international star, controversial icon, contested director, filmmaker with a capital F, Eastwood has been through it all, experienced it all, and it is first of all this romantic trajectory, this true American pastoral that the documentary wants to tell with all the passion it possibly can.
|
|
|
The Prophet's Game (2000)
Character: Adele Highsmith
Moving from city to city, The Prophet lures unsuspecting contestants into solving the riddles it supplies. If the contestants are wrong, somebody dies and somebody is famous.
|
|
