Movies by Bruce Dern
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Choose (2011)
Cast: Katheryn Winnick, Kevin Pollak, Nicholas Tucci …
Directed by: Marcus Graves
Believing that the murderer might somehow be tied to her mother's suicide, grad student Fiona teams with her detective father to find a serial killer whose ghastly modus operandi…
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Inside Out (2011)
Cast: Triple H, Michael Rapaport, Parker Posey …
Directed by: Artie Mandelberg
Released from prison after 13 years, parolee Arlo Jayne is determined to start a business and stay on the right side of the law. But his plans are soon short-circuited when his best friend…
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Twixt (2011)
Cast: Val Kilmer, Bruce Dern, Elle Fanning …
Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
In this gothic horror film from Francis Ford Coppola, a has-been writer becomes embroiled in a murder mystery during a stop on his book tour. The ghost of a girl appears in his dream and…
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The Lightkeepers (2009)
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Blythe Danner, Mamie Gummer …
Directed by: Daniel Adams
Richard Dreyfuss stars as solitary lighthouse keeper Seth Atkins, who no longer thinks he needs women until well-kept Ruth (Mamie Gummer) and her housekeeper, Mrs. Bascom (Blythe Danner),…
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American Cowslip: A Redneck Comedy (2009)
Cast: Val Kilmer, Cloris Leachman, Ronnie Gene Blevins …
Directed by: Mark David
This black comedy tells the tale of drug addict and all-around loser Ethan Inglebrink (Ronnie Gene Blevins), whose heroin habit and devotion to gardening take up most of his time. When Ethan…
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Swamp Devil (2008)
Cast: Bruce Dern, Cindy Sampson, Nicolas Wright …
Directed by: David Winning
Upon returning to her Southern hometown, Melanie (Cindy Sampson) learns that her father, Howard (Bruce Dern), is wanted for murder and on the run. As she tries to prove Howard's…
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The Cake Eaters (2007)
Cast: Kristen Stewart, Aaron Stanford, Bruce Dern …
Directed by: Mary Stuart Masterson
When aspiring musician Guy Kimbrough (Jayce Bartok) returns to his family home in upstate New York, his arrival shakes up his father, Easy (Bruce Dern), and brother Beagle (Aaron Stanford),…
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The Golden Boys (2007)
Cast: David Carradine, Rip Torn, Bruce Dern …
Directed by: Daniel Adams
Desperate for a housekeeper, three crotchety Cape Cod sea captains and housemates decide that one of them must sacrifice his own bachelor bliss and take a mail-order bride, a woman who will…
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The Astronaut Farmer (2006)
Cast: Billy Bob Thornton, Bruce Willis, Bruce Dern …
Directed by: Michael Polish
A NASA astronaut in training (Billy Bob Thornton) must shelve his dreams of intergalactic travel to save his failing family farm until, one day, inspiration strikes, and he decides to build a…
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Believe in Me (2006)
Cast: Jeffrey Donovan, Bruce Dern, Samantha Mathis …
Directed by: Robert Collector
After accepting a job to coach high school basketball, Clay Driscoll (Jeffrey Donovan) is disappointed to discover he's been assigned to the girls' team. But the harder he works his…
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Walker Payne (2006)
Cast: Jason Patric, Drea de Matteo, Sam Shepard …
Directed by: Matt Williams
Out of work and in need of cash in order to keep his two young daughters, ex-con Walker Payne (Jason Patric) is approached by vagabond gambler Syrus (Sam Shepard), who tries to convince him…
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Down in the Valley (2005)
Cast: Edward Norton, Evan Rachel Wood, David Morse …
Directed by: David Jacobson
Harlan (Oscar nominee Edward Norton), a swaggering stranger who's convinced he's a cowboy, looks like a knight in shining armor to a rebellious teen named Tobe (Evan Rachel Wood), a…
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The Hard Easy (2005)
Cast: Gary Busey, Bruce Dern, Henry Thomas …
Directed by: Ari Ryan
Paul Weston (Henry Thomas) and his crew have the perfect jewel heist planned. Every detail has been organized, every contingency prepared for ... except one: Roger Hargitay (David Boreanaz)…
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A Decade Under the Influence (2003)
Cast: Francis Ford Coppola, William Friedkin, Julie Christie …
Directed by: Ted Demme, Richard LaGravenese
This documentary explores American cinema in the 1970s, a decade often described as the best years in film. What results is an ode to the art form, one that pays homage to the "auteurs" that…
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Monster (2003)
Cast: Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci, Bruce Dern …
Directed by: Patty Jenkins
Charlize Theron took home the Best Actress Oscar for her electrifying performance as Aileen Wuornos, an emotionally scarred highway hooker who shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her and…
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Hard Ground (2003)
Cast: Burt Reynolds, Bruce Dern, Amy Jo Johnson …
Directed by: Frank Q. Dobbs
This Hallmark-produced television Western stars Burt Reynolds as John McKay, a bounty hunter who's wrongly arrested and sentenced to life in prison, only to be unwillingly involved in a…
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Milwaukee, Minnesota (2003)
Cast: Troy Garity, Alison Folland, Randy Quaid …
Directed by: Allan Mindel
Milwaukee's champion ice fisherman, Albert (Troy Garity), isn't sure which way to turn when his controlling mother suddenly dies, leaving her paranoid son to fend for himself. Known…
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The Glass House (2001)
Cast: Leelee Sobieski, Diane Lane, Stellan Skarsgård …
Directed by: Daniel Sackheim
After the untimely death of her parents, Ruby (Leelee Sobieski) and her brother (Trevor Morgan) move in with family friends (Diane Lane and Stellan Skarsgård). But how could Ruby know…
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Madison (2001)
Cast: James Caviezel, Roger Wolski, Bruce Dern …
Directed by: William Bindley
Based on a true story, this action-packed drama follows hydroplane boat racer Jim McCormick (Jim Caviezel) as he prepares for the 1971 Gold Cup championship, which is to be hosted in his…
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All the Pretty Horses (2000)
Cast: Matt Damon, Henry Thomas, Penélope Cruz …
Directed by: Billy Bob Thornton
With dreams of steady ranch work and a better life, John (Matt Damon) and Lacey (Henry Thomas) travel on horseback across the Rio Grande into Mexico, where they stumble upon a loose-cannon…
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The Haunting (1999)
Cast: Liam Neeson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Owen Wilson …
Directed by: Jan De Bont
In director Jan de Bont's remake of the original spine-tingling haunted house adventure, Dr. David Marrow (Liam Neeson) invites Nell Vance (Lili Taylor) and Theo (Catherine Zeta-Jones)…
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One Last Score (1999)
Cast: Matthew Modine, John Hurt, Kevin J. O'Connor …
Directed by: Matthew Avery Modine
Ex-con Johnnie Cooper (Matthew Modine, who also directed and wrote the script) wants to go straight after his prison stint, so he's happy to accept the job his parole officer (David…
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Hard Time: The Premonition (1999)
Cast: Burt Reynolds, Charles Durning, Bruce Dern …
Directed by: David S. Cass Sr.
Logan McQueen (Burt Reynolds) is one of the toughest cops around. So, when Miami becomes the target of a series of terrorist bombings, Logan is immediately brought in. Desperately looking for…
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Last Man Standing (1996)
Cast: Bruce Willis, Bruce Dern, William Sanderson …
Directed by: Walter Hill
John Smith (Bruce Willis) is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two Prohibition-era gangs. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances from one to another,…
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Down Periscope (1996)
Cast: Kelsey Grammer, Lauren Holly, Rob Schneider …
Directed by: David S. Ward
Bumbling Navy lieutenant Tom Dodge (Kelsey Grammer) has been given one last chance to clean up his record. But Admiral Graham, his nemesis, assigns Dodge to the Stingray, a submarine that can…
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Wild Bill (1995)
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Ellen Barkin, John Hurt …
Directed by: Walter Hill
In old age, James Hickock (Jeff Bridges) reflects on the events that transformed him into the Western legend Wild Bill. Reliving his life, he remembers those (including John Hurt and Ellen…
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Carolina Skeletons (1992)
Cast: Bruce Dern, Bill Cobbs, Louis Gossett Jr. …
Directed by: John Erman
When he was a boy, James Bragg (Louis Gossett Jr.) witnessed his brother's trial -- and later execution -- for a false double-murder charge. Now a retired Green Beret, Bragg returns home…
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Diggstown (1992)
Cast: James Woods, Heather Graham, Louis Gossett Jr. …
Directed by: Michael Ritchie
Ex-con Caine and his partner Fitz cook up a plan to take a rich man for all he's worth. The guys try to loop aging boxer Honey Ray Palmer in on the action -- yet, having been duped by…
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After Dark My Sweet (1990)
Cast: Jason Patric, Rocky Giordani, Rachel Ward …
Directed by: James Foley
When a couple of conniving lowlifes (Rachel Ward, Bruce Dern) hatch a plot to kidnap the scion of a wealthy local family, they pick the wrong man to carry out the job: Kid Collie (Jason…
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The Burbs (1989)
Cast: Tom Hanks, Bruce Dern, Carrie Fisher …
Directed by: Joe Dante
When secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson (Tom Hanks) and his friends (Bruce Dern and Rick Ducommun) let their paranoia get the best of them as they start to…
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1969 (1988)
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Kiefer Sutherland, Bruce Dern …
Directed by: Ernest Thompson
Two college buddies and their families deal with the sad consequences of the Vietnam War. The two small-town teenagers learn through love, death and war what friendship and freedom mean in…
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The Big Town (1987)
Cast: Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Tommy Lee Jones …
Directed by: Ben Bolt
In this drama set in 1957 Chicago, J.C. Cullen (Matt Dillon) is a small-town gambler who heads to the Windy City to hit it big. Far from making the fortune he set out to find, he instead…
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On the Edge (1985)
Cast: Bruce Dern, Pam Grier, Bill Bailey …
Directed by: Rob Nilsson
Aging distance runner Wes Holman (Bruce Dern) can no longer participate in American events thanks to a violation of his amateur status 20 years earlier. Convinced he's still fit enough…
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That Championship Season (1982)
Cast: Bruce Dern, Stacy Keach, Robert Mitchum …
Directed by: Jason Miller
Following the 25th anniversary of their "big game," members of a high school basketball team reunite to hash over old times and learn just how far each has fallen from their glory days. In…
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Harry Tracy (1982)
Cast: Bruce Dern, Helen Shaver, Michael C. Gwynne …
Directed by: William A. Graham
Based on the story of real-life train robber Harry Tracy (Bruce Dern), this Western follows the legendary outlaw who, after pulling off a series of heists, heads to Oregon to meet the woman…
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Coming Home (1978)
Cast: Jane Fonda, Jon Voight, Bruce Dern …
Directed by: Hal Ashby
While her husband is in Vietnam, Sally Hyde (Jane Fonda) volunteers at a veteran's clinic, where she encounters embittered paraplegic Luke Martin (Jon Voight). Feeling progressively…
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The Driver (1978)
Cast: Ryan O'Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Adjani …
Directed by: Walter Hill
The Driver (Ryan O'Neal) is the best getaway man in the business. The Detective (Bruce Dern) is the ruthless lawman determined to arrest the Driver. The Player (Isabelle Adjani) is the…
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Family Plot (1976)
Cast: Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris …
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock's final film (at age 76) is an easygoing suspense mystery. An atypically heroic Bruce Dern (who was in Hitch's Marnie 12 years earlier) plays a cabbie who teams…
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Black Sunday (1976)
Cast: Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller …
Directed by: John Frankenheimer
America's Super Bowl comes under terrorist fire in this John Frankenheimer thriller. A band of renegade Arabs calling themselves Black September and led by a man named Fasil (Bekim…
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
Cast: Bruce Dern, Madeline Kahn, Art Carney …
Directed by: Michael Winner
When a desperate studio head (Art Carney) decides to make a mongrel dog into a movie star, the pooch's wild success spells opportunity for a would-be starlet (Madeline Kahn) and a…
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Posse (1975)
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Bruce Dern, Bo Hopkins …
Directed by: Kirk Douglas
Taking on triple duties as producer, director and star, Kirk Douglas plays a flinty federal marshal with big political aspirations -- and capturing notorious bandit Jack Strawhorn (Bruce…
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Smile (1975)
Cast: Bruce Dern, Barbara Feldon, Michael Kidd …
Directed by: Michael Ritchie
This sharp-witted satire stars Barbara Feldon as Brenda DiCarlo, an icy taskmaster and former beauty pageant contestant charged with coordinating the final round of the Young American Miss…
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The Great Gatsby (1974)
Cast: Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern …
Directed by: Jack Clayton
Nominated for two Academy Awards in 1974, this movie brings to life F. Scott Fitzgerald's wrenching novel. Mia Farrow stars as Daisy Buchanan, the object of mysterious millionaire Jay…
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The Laughing Policeman (1974)
Cast: Walter Matthau, Bruce Dern, Louis Gossett Jr. …
Directed by: Stuart Rosenberg
A serial killer pursues innocent bus riders in the city of San Francisco, and his spree culminates in the brazen murder of an entire busload of people. The horrific incident gets the…
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The Cowboys (1972)
Cast: John Wayne, Bruce Dern, Colleen Dewhurst …
Directed by: Mark Rydell
John Wayne is Wil Andersen, an aging rancher who can't find local cowboys to run his cattle drive. His solution: Hire schoolboys, who will be forced to become men fast when they're…
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The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn …
Directed by: Bob Rafelson
Uptight deejay David Staebler (Jack Nicholson) travels to Atlantic City, N.J., to learn more about an outlandish, get-rich-quick scheme cooked up by his manic brother, Jason (Bruce Dern).…
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Silent Running (1971)
Cast: Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin …
Directed by: Douglas Trumbull
In a ruined future in which huge, orbiting spaceships preserve the last remaining trees from pollution and overcrowding on Earth, everyman botanist Freeman Lowell (Bruce Dern) receives an…
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The Incredible Two Headed Transplant / The Thing with Two Heads (1971)
Cast: Bruce Dern, Ray Milland, Casey Kasem …
Directed by: Lee Frost, Anthony M. Lanza
Two heads are better than one in this pair of horror classics featuring mad scientists whose experiments go awry. First, Dr. Roger Gerard (Bruce Dern) attaches a killer's head onto a…
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The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant (1971)
Cast: Bruce Dern, Pat Priest, Casey Kasem …
Directed by: Anthony M. Lanza
When a psychotic killer is mortally wounded while burglarizing his home, demented Dr. Girard (Bruce Dern) seizes the chance to graft the criminal's head onto the full-grown body of his…
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Drive, He Said (1971)
Cast: William Tepper, Karen Black, Henry Jaglom …
Directed by: Jack Nicholson
Set at a Vietnam-era Ohio university, Jack Nicholson's directorial debut stars William Tepper as a basketball jock who finds plenty of distraction off the courts bedding a…
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Bloody Mama (1970)
Cast: Shelley Winters, Pat Hingle, Don Stroud …
Directed by: Roger Corman
Shelley Winters stars in Roger Corman's Depression-era gangster drama as Ma Barker, who leads her family on a crime spree. Loosely based on the real Barker gang, Corman's film…
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They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
Cast: Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York …
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
A Depression-era dance marathon with a large cash prize brings out the worst in its desperate contestants in director Sydney Pollack's powerful drama starring Jane Fonda, Michael…
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Angel Unchained / Cycle Savages: Double Feature (1969)
Cast: Bruce Dern, Chris Robinson, Melody Patterson …
Directed by: Bill Brame, Lee Madden
Prepare to peel out! In Angel Unchained, a peace-loving hippie (Don Stroud) goes chrome to chrome against redneck cowboy motorcyclists who hate what he represents. Tyne Daley (from TV's…
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Castle Keep (1969)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Patrick O'Neal, Jean-Pierre Aumont …
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack directs an all-star cast (Burt Lancaster, Peter Falk, Bruce Dern, Jean-Pierre Aumont and Patrick O'Neal) in an allegorical tale about an American military squad that,…
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The Cycle Savages (1969)
Cast: Bruce Dern, Melody Patterson, Chris Robinson …
Directed by: Bill Brame
Infuriated that an artist (Chris Robinson) has been observing him and drawing pictures of his activities, volatile motorcycle gang leader Keeg (Bruce Dern) storms off to find the unwitting…
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Hang 'Em High (1968)
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Inger Stevens, Ed Begley …
Directed by: Ted Post
Jed survives a hanging, vowing revenge on the lynch mob that left him dangling. To carry out his vengeance, he returns to his former job as a lawman. Before long, he's caught up with his…
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Support Your Local Sheriff (1968)
Cast: James Garner, Joan Hackett, Walter Brennan …
Directed by: Burt Kennedy
James Garner stars in this Wild West parody as a sharpshooting drifter who stumbles upon the lawless gold rush town of Calendar and winds up appointed as the new sheriff. With memorable…
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Will Penny (1968)
Cast: Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence …
Directed by: Tom Gries
Charlton Heston's the titular aging cowboy who's also a loner and an illiterate. When he meets the possible love of his life, it's a moment of truth. Will he take a chance on…
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Psych-Out / The Trip (1967)
Cast: Peter Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Bruce Dern …
Directed by: Roger Corman, Richard Rush
Talk about trippy! In Psych Out, a deaf girl (Susan Strasberg) comes to California at the height of the "Flower Power" era looking for her brother, who sent her a postcard that said "God is…
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Waterhole #3 (1967)
Cast: James Coburn, Carroll O'Connor, Margaret Blye …
Directed by: William A. Graham
Gambler Lewton Cole (James Coburn) makes the biggest bet of his life when, armed with nothing but a dubious map and a "borrowed" horse, he sets out to unearth a cache of valuables buried…
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The Wild Angels (1966)
Cast: Peter Fonda, Nancy Sinatra, Bruce Dern …
Directed by: Roger Corman
When someone steals Hells Angels member Loser's bike, Loser (Bruce Dern) asks his buddy Blues (Peter Fonda) and his other pals to help him get the bike back -- and get the guys who stole…
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Marnie (1964)
Cast: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker …
Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock
Blonde ice princess and habitual thief Marnie Edgar (Tippi Hedren) uses her looks to gain the confidence of Philadelphia playboy Mark Rutland (Sean Connery), who begins to fall for her only…
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Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
Cast: Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten …
Directed by: Robert Aldrich
After her betrothed died from multiple ax wounds 40 years ago, everyone in town thought Charlotte Hollis (Bette Davis) was guilty. But with no evidence to convict her, she walked. Since that…
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The Young Racers / The Wild Angels (1963)
Cast: Mark Damon, William Campbell, Luana Anders …
Directed by: Roger Corman
Roger Corman directs this pair of high-octane dramas. Featuring plenty of action on real Grand Prix racetracks, The Young Racers tells a tale of fast cars and faster lifestyles as a jilted…