Bite the Bullet
Genres: Action, Adventure, Western
Year: 1975
Country: USA
Director: Richard Brooks
Starring: Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, James Coburn, Robert Donner, Sally Kirkland, Ian Bannen, Ben Johnson
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At the beginning of the 20th century, a newspaper organizes an endurance horse race : 700 miles to run in a few days. 9 adventurers are competing, among them a woman, Miss Jones, a Mexican, an Englishman, a young cow-boy, an old one and two friends, Sam Clayton and Luke Matthews. All those individualists will learn to respect each other.
The Conversation
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Year: 1974
Country: USA
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Harrison Ford, Gene Hackman, Michael Higgins, Cindy Williams, Teri Garr, Frederic Forrest, Allen Garfield
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A paranoid and personally-secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.
Target
Genres: Action, Thriller, Drama
Year: 1985
Country: USA
Director: Arthur Penn
Starring: Josef Sommer, Gene Hackman, Matt Dillon, Gayle Hunnicutt, Randy Moore, Ilona Grübel, Tomas Hnevsa
Available Quality: Hi Def
Chris Lloyd does NOT get along with his father Walter. Walter is too careful, cautious, and boring to Chris, and never tries anything new, and Chris had to live by the same standards when he was growing up. But when his mother is kidnapped while in Europe, to Chris's confusion, Walter suddenly turns into a man of action. Just who is his father anyway.
French Connection II
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Year: 1975
Country: USA
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Gene Hackman, Ed Lauter, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson, Charles Millot, Jean-Pierre Castaldi, Cathleen Nesbitt
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New York narcotics detective Popeye Doyle follows the trail of the French connection smuggling ring to France where he teams up with the gendarmes to hunt down the ringleader.
Mississippi Burning
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Year: 1988
Country: USA
Director: Alan Parker
Starring: Stephen Tobolowsky, Michael Rooker, Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, R. Lee Ermey, Brad Dourif, Frankie Faison
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Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe star in this well-intentioned and largely successful civil rights-era thriller. Mississippi Burning, using the real-life 1964 disappearance of three civil rights workers as its inspiration, tells the story of two FBI men (Hackman and Dafoe, entertainingly called "Hoover Boys" by the locals) who come in to try to solve the crime. Hackman is a former small-town Mississippi sheriff himself, while Dafoe is a by-the-numbers young hotshot. Yes, there is some tension between the two. The movie has an interesting fatalism, as all the FBI's best efforts incite more and more violence, which becomes disturbing--the film's m...
Superman II
Genres: Action, Adventure, Romance
Year: 2004
Country: UK
Director: Richard Donner
Starring: E.G. Marshall, Susannah York, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper, Sarah Douglas
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This time, the Man of Steel has his hands full with a trio of super-powered villains who escape from their Phantom Zone prison (remember the weird flying diamond-shaped mirror that scooped them up from the planet Krypton?) and land on Earth, where all three have powers to rival Superman's own. How does it all come out? With a fabulous duel above the streets of Metropolis, and a startling plot twist that neatly ties in Superman's explosive past. Arch-criminal Lex Luthor plays both ends gleefully against the middle in hopes of a modest reward: Australia.
Superman (1978)
Genres: Action, Thriller, Adventure
Year: 1978
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Director: Richard Donner
Starring: Marlon Brando, Susannah York, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper, Margot Kidder
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Unable to convince the ruling council of Krypton that their world will destroy itself soon, scientist Jor-El takes drastic measures to preserve the Kryptonian race: He sends his infant son Kal-El to Earth. There, gaining great powers under Earth's yellow sun, he will become a champion of truth and justice. Raised by the Kents, an elderly farm couple, Clark Kent learns that his abilities must be used for good. The adult Clark travels to Metropolis, where he becomes a mild-mannered reporter for the Daily Planet...and a caped wonder whose amazing feats stun the city: Superman! Meanwhile, Lex Luthor, the world's greatest criminal mind, is plottin...
The Firm (1993)
Year: 1993
Country: USA
Director: Sydney Pollack
Starring: Jerry Hardin, Tom Cruise, Gary Busey, Gene Hackman, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Ed Harris, David Strathairn
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Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murdered. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan...
Absolute Power
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Year: 1997
Country: USA
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Dennis Haysbert, Laura Linney, E.G. Marshall, Richard Jenkins, Gene Hackman, Mark Margolis
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Based on the novel by David Baldacci, Absolute Power is about the ruthlessness of people in power. The President believes that everything he does is beyond reproach, including an affair or two. That leads to murder and everyone around him is involved. There is only one witness, a thief named Luther Whitney. They are sure he'll talk, but when? The Secret Service is determined to keep him quiet, but catching a thief isn't always easy.
First to Fight
Year: 1967
Country: USA
Director: Christian Nyby
Starring: Chad Everett, Gene Hackman, Dean Jagger, Claude Akins, Norman Alden, Ken Swofford, Bobs Watson
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Jack is the sole survivor of a Japanese attack on his squad at Guadalcanal. Because of his heroism and the fact that he is still alive, he becomes a Medal of Honor hero. He returns to train new recruits for the Marines and falls for a girl named Peggy. When training and marriage leave him with an empty feeling, he decides on a transfer back to the front lines. Soon he will find that marriage and life will change his outlook on the grueling battles that lie ahead.
Get Shorty
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Year: 1995
Country: USA
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Starring: Jon Gries, Gene Hackman, Delroy Lindo, Danny DeVito, Miguel Sandoval, Jacob Vargas, Dennis Farina
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Some guys get all the luck, whether they like it or not. Chili Palmer happens to be in Hollywood collecting a gambling debt when he's struck by lightning (not literally). Called a natural for the movie business, he's snagged up by a producer. The rest is history.
The French Connection
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Year: 1971
Country: USA
Director: William Friedkin
Starring: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Sonny Grosso, Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco, Marcel Bozzuffi, Bill Hickman
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Popeye Doyle and Buddy Russo get wind of a big shipment of Heroin and begin a tail of the suspects, and their French Connection, two French nationals who are the european link. As money troubles begin for the hoods they decide to kill Popeye and Buddy to give them enough room to bring in the Heroin. A combination of police procedural and action/car chase.
No Way Out
Genres: Action, Thriller, Drama
Year: 1987
Country: USA
Director: Roger Donaldson
Starring: Marshall Bell, Gene Hackman, Nicholas Worth, George Dzundza, Kevin Costner, Will Patton, Fred Dalton Thompson
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Tom Farrell is a navy officer who gets posted at the Pentagon and is to report to the secretary of defense David Brice. He starts an affair with Susan Atwell not knowing that she is Brice's mistress. When Susan is found dead, Tom is assigned to the case of finding the killer who is believed to be a KGB mole! Tom could soon become a suspect when a Polaroid negative of him was found at Susan's place. He now has only a few hours to find the killer before the computer regenerates the photo.
The Quick and the Dead
Genres: Action, Adventure, Western
Year: 1995
Country: USA, Japan
Director: Sam Raimi
Starring: Mark Boone Junior, Gene Hackman, Keith David, Kevin Conway, Pat Hingle, Sharon Stone, Russell Crowe
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Ellen, an unknown female gunslinger rides into a small, dingy and depressing prairie town with a secret as to her reason for showing up. Shortly after her arrival, a local preacher, Cort, is thrown through the saloon doors while townfolk are signing up for a gun competition. The pot is a huge sum of money and the only rule: that you follow the rules of the man that set up the contest, Herod. Herod is also the owner, leader, and "ruler" of the town. Seems he's arranged this little gun-show-off so that the preacher (who use to be an outlaw and rode with Herod) will have to fight again. Cort refuses to ever use a gun to kill again and Herod, ack...
Eureka
Genres: Drama
Year: 1983
Country: USA, UK
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Starring: Joe Pesci, Rutger Hauer, Gene Hackman, Ed Lauter, Joe Spinell, Mickey Rourke, Theresa Russell
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Arctic prospector Jack McCann, after fifteen years of solitary searching, becomes one of the world's wealthiest men when he literally falls into a mountain of gold in 1925. Years later, in 1945, he lives in luxury on a Caribbean island that he owns. But his wealth brings him no peace of mind as he copes with Helen, his bored, alcoholic wife; Tracy, his dear, but headstrong, daughter who has married a dissolute, philandering social-climber; and Miami mobsters who want his island to build a casino. His life is entangled with the obsessions of those around him with greed, power, and debauchery against a background of occult symbolism.
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Genres: Documentary, Biography, Short
Year: 2009
Country: USA
Director: Richard Shepard
Starring: Steve Buscemi, Gene Hackman, Carol Kane, Al Pacino, Olympia Dukakis, Robert De Niro, Philip Seymour Hoffman
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John Cazale was in only five films - The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather, Part Two, Dog Day Afternoon, and The Deer Hunter - each was nominated for Best Picture. Yet today most people don't even know his name. I KNEW IT WAS YOU is a fresh tour through movies that defined a generation.
Night Moves
Year: 1975
Country: USA
Director: Arthur Penn
Starring: Gene Hackman, Harris Yulin, John Crawford, Melanie Griffith, Dennis Dugan, James Woods, Kenneth Mars
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Former footballer and present private detective Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case, as an aging Hollywood actress whose only major roles came thanks to being married to a studio mogul wants Moseby to find and return her stepdaughter. Harry travels to Florida to find her, but he begins to see a connection with the runaway girl, the world of Hollywood stuntmen, and a suspicious mechanic when an unsolved murder comes to light.
The Hunting Party (1971)
Genres: Action, Drama, Western
Year: 1971
Country: UK
Director: Don Medford
Starring: Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Mitch Ryan, Ronald Howard, G.D. Spradlin, Simon Oakland, Bernard Kay
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The rich and ruthless rancher Brandt Ruger keeps his beautiful young wife Melissa like a part of his property, subdued to his will. But one day she's kidnapped by the famous outlaw Frank Calder - just to teach him reading, so he tells her. Calder doesn't know or care who's wife she is. He takes care of her well, and eventually Melissa falls in love with him. But Ruger feels humiliated. Full of hate, he sets out to kill him - and Melissa too, if necessary. Together with his friends and the newest technology in guns, which carry 800 yards, he initiates a battue on Calder and his gang.
Another Woman
Genres: Drama
Year: 1988
Country: USA
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Gene Hackman, Blythe Danner, Harris Yulin, Ian Holm, Frances Conroy, Philip Bosco, Mia Farrow
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Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his office. When she hears a young woman tell that she finds it harder and harder to bear her life, Marion starts to reflect on her own life. After a series of events she comes to understand how her unemotional attitude towards the people around her affected them and herself.
Marooned
Genres: Thriller, Adventure, Drama
Year: 1969
Country: USA
Director: John Sturges
Starring: Richard Crenna, Lee Grant, Gene Hackman, David Janssen, Gregory Peck, Nancy Kovack, George Gaynes
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After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to earth only to find their rockets wont fire. After initially thinking they might have to abandon them in orbit, NASA decides to launch a daring rescue. Their plans are complicated by a Hurricane headed towards the launch site and a shrinking air supply in the astronauts capsule.