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- DirectorFrank PerryStarsJane ConnellWilliam DanielsJames FrawleyStaff and students at a rural school react to a warning of an imminent nuclear attack, not knowing whether it is real or a mistake.
- DirectorArthur PennStarsWarren BeattyFaye DunawayMichael J. PollardBored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.
- DirectorPaul NewmanStarsJoanne WoodwardJames OlsonKate HarringtonRachel is a lonely school teacher who lives with her mother. When a man from the big city asks her out, she starts thinking about where she wants her life to go.
- DirectorHoward MorrisStarsJackie GleasonEstelle ParsonsTed BessellThe Hollander family's European vacation is interrupted when their plane is forced to land in Vulgaria. The Hollanders leave the plane to take pictures which results in accusations of spying. Chased by Vulgarian soldiers, they take refuge in the American Embassy under the protection of the absent ambassador's hapless son.
- DirectorAlan HandleyStarsRobert RyanGeorge GrizzardHelen HayesHildy Johnson wants to quit the newspaper business; his unscrupulous editor, Walter Burns, will do anything to get him to stay. Things come to a head when Earl Williams escapes from jail on the eve of his execution.
- DirectorMelvin Van PeeblesStarsGodfrey CambridgeEstelle ParsonsHoward CaineJeff Gerber, a racist white man, wakes up one morning to discover that he has become black.
- DirectorGilbert CatesStarsMelvyn DouglasGene HackmanDorothy StickneyA man living in the towering shadow of his aging father finds it difficult to start a new chapter in his life by marrying his girlfriend and moving to California.
- DirectorJohn FrankenheimerStarsGregory PeckTuesday WeldEstelle ParsonsHenry Tawes, a middle-aged sheriff in a rural Tennessee town, is usually the first man to criticize others for their bad behavior. Miserable in his marriage, Henry falls in love with teenage Alma, who is the daughter of local criminal.
- DirectorRobert WiseStarsPeter FondaLindsay WagnerEstelle ParsonsEvan Bonner is an army deserter who returns home to deal with the fallout of his actions. He becomes distracted when he meets attractive model Diedre McCluskey, thinking he's fallen in love.
- DirectorPaul WendkosStarsDennis WeaverEstelle ParsonsKristoffer TaboriA family's outing turns out badly as they are terrorized by a gang of young thugs.
- DirectorDaniel PetrieStarsMarjoe GortnerSlim PickensDavid HuddlestonA young gunslinger on the lam impersonates a preacher, brings hope to his parishioners and law-and-order to a town terrorized by a strongman's bunch.
- DirectorPeter YatesStarsBarbra StreisandMichael SarrazinEstelle ParsonsA housewife tries to finance her cab-driving husband's education.
- DirectorJohn G. AvildsenBruce MalmuthRobert McCartyStarsIrwin CoreyPat PaulsenDeborah LoomisThree vignettes about a man who buys a weird doll, a writer who is visited by his muse and a kidnapper with very odd demands who holds a VIP.
- DirectorRichard A. CollaStarsJames Earl JonesEstelle ParsonsBarnard HughesIn the early 1960s, a married couple undergo hypnosis, which unlocks memories of a forgotten event on a lonely road. Soon they believe they were abducted by extraterrestrials.
- DirectorCharles S. DubinStarsWilliam ShatnerLynn CarlinOssie DavisInspired by Stanley Milgram's obedience research, psych professor Stephen Turner studies why people follow orders and hurt others. He is alarmed to see how much pain the students can be goaded to inflict in the name of science.
- CreatorGwen BagniPaul DubovStarsLeslie UggamsOlivia ColeLouis Gossett Jr.Behind the scenes at the White House during eight administrations, as told by the people who work there.
- DirectorJohn J. DesmondStarsFrank ConverseRichard CottrellCharlie StavolaIrish insurgents guard their British prisoners-of-war in a remote farmstead. Gradually the opposing soldiers come to respect, even like each other. This greatly worries Frank Callahan, the Irish leader, because his prisoners may have to be killed in reprisal if the British execute two IRA soldiers as they threaten.
- DirectorJonathan KaplanStarsRalph WaiteJulie BovassoJerry ZaksBased on the real-life ordeal of Baltimore priest Bernard Pagano, who was fingered by a witness as a holdup man. During a lineup, several other witnesses confirm this.
- DirectorJoyce ChopraStarsDiane KeatonCarol KaneKathryn GrodyThree life-long friends work the bars in 1980's Atlantic City performing the songs of the 60's girl groups in this self-indulgent comedy.
- DirectorDenise McKennaStarsTeresa BowmanDavid BruhnRandy BurrOn a small summer island, May and her grandson Bomber count the days. May's son, Bomber's father, is on Death Row. At Dawn, on September 1st, he will be executed. May retreats from this sad reality into a collection of postcards from happier days. Her son had been a thoughtful tourist once, who wrote of a mysterious desert tribe, The Blue Men, he sought but never found. Left to his own devices, Bomber, 13, roams the beach town with Edith, a punk teen-philosopher who is enthralled with the boy and his sad situation. Based on the award-winning short story by Joy Williams, THE BLUE MEN portrays a small family struggling to face, accept and endure their unusual tragedy.
- DirectorWarren BeattyStarsWarren BeattyMadonnaAl PacinoThe comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy Caprice's united mob.
- DirectorHelen WhitneyStarsM. Cochise AndersonDan ButlerHeather ColemanEveryday Heroes is the true story of racial conflicts in Deer River, Minnesota, in 1985. Racism runs rampant between the whites and the native Ojibwe Americans, including within the school's faculty and students. Various situations intertwine: a promising high school art student dreams of art school but is turned the other way by a guidance counselor, a white family forbids their eight-year-old daughter to play with native students, white teachers fight for the integrity of their students while others fight back. While many of the characters have been fictionalized, four faculty members remain true to life.
- DirectorJoan Micklin SilverStarsSissy SpacekAidan QuinnEstelle ParsonsThe story of Sherri Finkbine, a woman who sought a medically recommended abortion and endured a firestorm of public controversy about her decision.
- DirectorBob ClarkStarsDarren McGavinDavid StrathairnFelton PerryThis film is based on Arthur Miller's recollection of the events of the 1930s Depression. John Rubinstein, Mary McDonnell, and Loren Dean are all members of an upper class family who find the world completely changed when they lose everything in the Stock Market crash. Dean, a college-aged young man, now faces no possibility of entering college, and decides to go on the road to see what is happening with the rest of the country.