, 1h45 Directed byTed Kotcheff OriginUSA GenresDrama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure ThemesPolitique, Political films ActorsGene Hackman, Fred Ward, Patrick Swayze, Reb Brown, Tim Thomerson, Robert Stack Roles Mrs. MacGregor Rating62% Taking place in the early 1980s and set in the context of the Vietnam War POW/MIA issue, retired Marine Colonel Jason Rhodes (Gene Hackman) is obsessed with finding his son Frank, listed as "Missing In Action" since 1972. After ten years of searching Southeast Asia and turning up several leads, Rhodes believes that Frank is still alive and being kept in Laos as a prisoner of war.
, 2h5 OriginUSA GenresDrama, Musical, Romance ThemesFilms about music and musicians, Musical films, Piano ActorsRichard Dreyfuss, Amy Irving, Lee Remick, Sam Wanamaker, Joseph Cali, Priscilla Pointer Roles Mrs. Dietrich Rating66% Paul Dietrich is an extremely gifted but disillusioned classical pianist running out of time to prove himself. He logically knows it is time to give up his attempts to enter piano competitions and instead accept a salaried position as a music teacher. Paul also needs to help his mother and his seriously ill father, but he decides to travel to San Francisco for an international piano competition. Doing so could cost him his job waiting for him in Chicago; nevertheless, he wants to try his luck for the last time before passing the age limit to compete.
, 2h24 Directed byJohn Schlesinger OriginUSA GenresDrama, Thriller ThemesFilms about films ActorsWilliam Atherton, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, Donald Sutherland, Geraldine Page, Lelia Goldoni Roles Alice Estee Rating68% A cynical and gothic look at Hollywood during the late 1930s, The Day of the Locust tells the tales of residents of the dilapidated San Bernardino Arms: Faye Greener, a trashy aspiring actress with limited talent, and her father Harry, a washed-up vaudevillian reduced to working as a door-to-door salesman; sexually repressed accountant Homer Simpson, who desperately loves Faye, and East Coast WASP Tod Hackett, an aspiring artist employed by the production department of a major studio, who also fancies Faye.