Donald SutherlandFilmography

Astro Boy

Actors: Freddie Highmore, Kristen Bell, Nicolas Cage, Bill Nighy, Nathan Lane, Donald Sutherland, Eugene Levy

Synopsis: A young robot with incredible powers, super strength, and the purest spirit on the planet discovers the joys of being human while embarking on a worldwide journey to discover his true potential in this animated update of Osamu Tezuka's classic anime story. Astro Boy (Freddie Highmore) is a young Read More

Trumbo

Actors: Joan Allen, Brian Dennehy, Michael Douglas, Paul Giamatti, Nathan Lane

Synopsis: A documentary adaptation of the popular regional theatrical monologue -- in which such heavyweights as Paul Newman, Nathan Lane, and Joe Mantegna essayed the lead on various occasions -- Trumbo recounts the life and times of legendary Hollywood scribe-turned-HUAC scapegoat Dalton Trumbo. As with Read More

Fool's Gold

Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Kate Hudson, Donald Sutherland, Alexis Dziena, Ewen Bremner

Synopsis: How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days co-stars Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey re-team on the big screen for this adventurous tale about a treasure-hunting couple whose eight-year quest for the ultimate prize has left them flat broke and fresh out of gas. Ben "Finn" Finnegan (McConaughey) is a treasure Read More

National Geographic: Stonehenge Decoded

Actors: Donald Sutherland

Synopsis: This National Geographic documentary attempts to trace the origins of the world famous Stonehenge. The filmmakers utilize special effects in order to reconstruct the building of the structures, and to show how they most likely looked at the tine of their completion. Historians analyze who built Read More

Dirty Sexy Money: Season 02

Actors: Peter Krause, Donald Sutherland, William Baldwin, Natalie Zea, Glenn Fitzgerald

Fierce People

Actors: Diane Lane, Donald Sutherland, Anton Yelchin, Chris Evans, Kristen Stewart

Synopsis: Actor-turned-director and producer Griffin Dunne (Practical Magic, Addicted to Love) teams up with scenarist Dirk Wittenborn for the slice-of-life ensemble drama Fierce People. As summer encroaches, 16-year-old Manhattanite Finn Earl (Anton Yelchin) would love nothing more than to trek off to Read More

Reign Over Me

Actors: Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Jada Pinkett Smith, Liv Tyler, Saffron Burrows

Synopsis: A chance run-in with an old college roommate becomes the catalyst for healing in writer/director Mike Binder's tale of friendship and understanding in post-9/11 New York. When the Twin Towers went down on that fateful morning in 2001, Charlie Fineman (Adam Sandler) lost everything that he had to Read More

Jolene

Actors: Jessica Chastain, Dermot Mulroney, Donald Sutherland, Michael Vartan, Chazz Palminteri

Synopsis: Author E.L. Doctorow's acclaimed short story Jolene: A Life gets the big screen treatment in Mrs. Palfrey at the Clairemont's director Dan Ireland's independent drama about life on the road. Jolene (Jessica Chastain) is a red-haired wanderer who isn't content to call one place home for any Read More

NFL: America's Game - 2006 Indianapolis Colts - Super Bowl XLI

Actors: Donald Sutherland

Dirty Sexy Money: Season 01

Actors: Peter Krause, Donald Sutherland, William Baldwin, Natalie Zea, Glenn Fitzgerald

NFL: America's Game - 1966 Green Bay Packers - Super Bowl I

Actors: Donald Sutherland

Puffball

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Kelly Reilly, Miranda Richardson, Samantha Morton, Rita Tushingham, William Houston

Synopsis: Don't Look Now director Nicholas Roeg steps back behind the camera for the first time in fifteen years to weave this macabre tale of a young architect who finds her unborn child in danger after moving deep into the Irish countryside. Liffrey (Kelly Reilly) has had enough of the big city, and now Read More

NFL: America's Game - 1991 Washington Redskins - Super Bowl XXVI

Actors: Donald Sutherland

Aurora Borealis

Actors: Joshua Jackson, Donald Sutherland, Juliette Lewis, Louise Fletcher, Zack Ward

Synopsis: Duncan (Joshua Jackson), a depressed twentysomething living in a rundown section of Minneapolis, has just lost another job. He has another source of income, letting his brother use his apartment for extramarital trysts. On a rare visit to his grandparents, Ronald (Donald Sutherland) and Ruth (Louise Fletcher Read More

An American Haunting

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Sissy Spacek, Rachel Hurd-Wood, James D'Arcy, Matthew Marsh

Synopsis: The wind whispers ominous warnings of death before a malevolent entity arrives to claim the life of a young girl as director Courtney Solomon brings author Brent Monahan's chilling, fact-based tale of supernatural murder to the screen in this tale of terror starring Donald Sutherland and Sissy Read More

American Gun

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Marcia Gay Harden, Linda Cardellini, Tony Goldwyn

Synopsis: Three stories of how America's obsession with firearms impacts its citizens are explored in this independent drama. Carl Wilk (Donald Sutherland) runs a gun shop in Virginia that has been owned and operated by his family for generations. Carl sees the shop as his family's legacy without paying Read More

Ask the Dust

Actors: Colin Farrell, Salma Hayek, Donald Sutherland, Eileen Atkins, Idina Menzel

Synopsis: Adapted from a novel by John Fante, Robert Towne's Ask the Dust stars Colin Farrell as Arturo Bandini, a young writer who comes to Los Angeles during the Great Depression in order to write a novel. As the film opens, he is down to his last nickel and decides to spend it on coffee in a diner. He is Read More

Land of the Blind

Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Donald Sutherland, Tom Hollander, Mark Warren, Lara Flynn Boyle

Synopsis: The debut film by director Robert Edwards, Land of the Blind, is a political satire starring Ralph Fiennes as a military man who helps overthrow his government. He does so at the urging of a political prisoner, played by Donald Sutherland, who has been outspoken about the corruption of the current Read More

Pride & Prejudice

Actors: Keira Knightley, Matthew MacFadyen, Brenda Blethyn, Donald Sutherland, Tom Hollander, Rosamund Pike, Jena Malone, Judi Dench

Synopsis: Jane Austen's perennially popular story of the game of love among the British upper classes returns to the screen in this polished film adaptation. The Bennets (Brenda Blethyn and Donald Sutherland) are the parents of five daughters near the close of the 18th century. Comfortable within their Read More

Commander in Chief [TV Series]

Actors: Geena Davis, Donald Sutherland

Synopsis: Rumor has it that this weekly, hour-long ABC series about America's first woman president was conceived in anticipation of Hillary Rodham Clinton's likely 2008 presidential bid. Whatever the case, Geena Davis starred as Mackenzie Allen, the politically unaffiliated vice president of popular Read More

Human Trafficking

Actors: Mira Sorvino, Donald Sutherland, Robert Carlyle

Synopsis: For naïve audiences under the impression that sexual slavery is a thing of the past, director Christian Duguay's Golden Globe-nominated tale of the multi-billion-dollar modern slavery industry proves that even in the 21st century, human life can still be measured in dollars. Four girls from across Read More

Baltic Storm

Actors: Greta Scacchi, Jürgen Prochnow, Donald Sutherland, Dieter Laser, Juergen Schormagel

Synopsis: In an era when at-sea disasters have grown increasingly rare thanks to "foolproof" naval technology, the September 28, 1994 wreck of the ferry boat M/S Estonia raised more than a few eyebrows. En route from Talinn to Stockholm, via the Baltic Sea, the craft capsized and 852 civilians never reached Read More

Frankenstein

Actors: Luke Goss, Alec Newman, Julie Delpy, William Hurt, Donald Sutherland

Synopsis: Kevin Connor directs William Hurt, Donald Sutherland, and Julie Delpy in this adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The film follows the storyline of the book closely. Dr. Victor Frankenstein creates a man from the parts of different corpses, and the creature turns out to be superior to his Read More

Salem's Lot

Actors: Rob Lowe, Andre Braugher, Donald Sutherland, Samantha Mathis, Rutger Hauer, James Cromwell

Synopsis: In this TV adaptation of the Stephen King novel, a journalist with traumatic memories of his haunted childhood returns to find his hometown being infiltrated by vampires. As a boy in Jerusalem's Lot, ME, Ben Mears (Rob Lowe) took a dare and broke into a local mansion called the Marsten House. Read More

Cold Mountain

Actors: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Eileen Atkins, Brendan Gleeson, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Charles Frazier, Anthony Minghella's star-studded Cold Mountain is a sweeping tale set in the final days of the American Civil War. Jude Law stars as Inman, a young soldier who, despite an injury, is struggling to make his way home to Cold Mountain, NC, where his beloved Ada (Nicole Kidman Read More

The Italian Job

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron, Edward Norton, Seth Green, Jason Statham

Synopsis: A team of high-class thieves avenge their mentor's death -- with the help of his own daughter -- in this big-budget remake of the 1969 British caper classic. The Italian Job stars Mark Wahlberg as Charlie, the mastermind of a daring Venice heist overseen by John (Donald Sutherland), a lifelong Read More

Fellini: I'm a Born Liar

Synopsis: Federico Fellini was one of the leading figures of the international cinema in the 1960s, whose dreamlike images and indelible characters made La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, and Juliet of the Spirits among the most acclaimed films of that era. Fellini himself was a character as unique as any he created for Read More

Big Shot's Funeral

Synopsis: An American movie maker famous for living large wants to die in his own unique manner -- which turns out to be harder to pull off than anyone expected -- in this offbeat comedy from Chinese director Feng Xiaogang. Don Tyler (Donald Sutherland) is a well-known American filmmaker who has come to Read More

Piazza delle Cinque Lunes

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Giancarlo Giannini, Stefania Rocca, Greg Wise, Aisha Cerami

Path to War

Actors: Michael Gambon

Synopsis: Inspired by author Robert A. Caro's massive biography of President Lyndon Baines Johnson, the made-for-cable Path to War retraces the world-shaking events occurring between LBJ's jubilant inaugural in 1965 and his tired, dispirited decision not to seek another presidential term in 1968. At the Read More

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

Actors: Ming-Na Wen, Alec Baldwin, Ving Rhames, Steve Buscemi, Peri Gilpin, Donald Sutherland, James Woods

Synopsis: The first feature-length motion picture to use computer-generated imagery to create not only effects, props, and environments but also the human cast members themselves, this lavish science-fiction adventure follows closely on the heels of another video game-based film, Tomb Raider (2001). Ming-Na Read More

Queen Victoria's Empire, Part 2: Passage to India

Uprising

Actors: Leelee Sobieski, Hank Azaria, David Schwimmer, Jon Voight, Donald Sutherland

Synopsis: Uprising is based on the true story of the Jewish Fighting Organization, a courageous band of youthful Polish guerrillas and freedom fighters who refused to knuckle under to the Nazis during World War II. Led by schoolteacher Mordechai Anielewicz (Hank Azaria), the organization comes into being as Read More

Queen Victoria's Empire [TV Documentary Series]

Queen Victoria's Empire, Part 1: Engines of Change

Queen Victoria's Empire, Part 4: The Scramble for Africa

Queen Victoria's Empire, Part 3: The Moral Crusade

The Art of War

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Anne Archer, Maury Chaykin, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Donald Sutherland, Michael Biehn

Synopsis: A spy who has convinced much of the world he doesn't exist now must prove that he does in order to save thousands of lives in this thriller. After the assassination of Wu (James Hong), China's ambassador to the United Nations, in the midst of negotiations on a trade pact, FBI agent Neil Shaw (Wesley Snipes Read More

Space Cowboys

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, James Garner, James Cromwell, Marcia Gay Harden

Synopsis: In this adventure drama, four men passed over by the space program get one last chance to be heroes and live out their dreams. Frank Corvin (Clint Eastwood), Hawk Hawkins (Tommy Lee Jones), Jerry O'Neill (Donald Sutherland), and Tank Sullivan (James Garner) were top pilots within an elite Air Read More

Panic

Actors: William H. Macy, John Ritter, Neve Campbell, Donald Sutherland, Tracey Ullman

Synopsis: A middle-aged man finds love in the last place he was looking -- his psychiatrist's waiting room -- in this dark comedy drama. Alex (William H. Macy) is a man in his mid-forties who is having something of a midlife crisis; he's unhappy with his life; his marriage to Martha (Tracey Ullman) is going Read More

Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Gene Hackman, Meryl Streep, Forest Whitaker

Synopsis: A documentary about the iconic career of actor and filmmaker Clint Eastwood, Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows traces its subject's work from his earliest days in Hollywood to his award-winning (and career-salvaging) films of the 1990s. Directed by Bruce Ricker, who also made the lauded jazz Read More

Virus

Actors: Jamie Lee Curtis, William Baldwin, Donald Sutherland, Joanna Pacula, Marshall Bell

Synopsis: When the salvage tug Sea Star is caught unprepared in a violent storm, it slowly sinks, and the crew, led by Captain Everton (Donald Sutherland), wander upon another ship for refuge. The ship, apparently deserted, turns out to be a Russian research vessel loaded with high-tech electronics. The Sea Read More

Instinct

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Donald Sutherland, Maura Tierney, George Dzundza

Synopsis: A man who leaves humanity behind to live with animals returns to society under unpleasant circumstances, but with valuable lessons about human and animal relationships. Anthony Hopkins stars as Ethan Powell, a noted anthropologist studying the behavior of mountain gorillas in Rwanda. The longer Read More

The Hunley

Actors: Armand Assante, Donald Sutherland, Alex Jennings, Christopher Bauer, Gerry Becker

Synopsis: The true story of the world's first submarine and its maritime usage by the Confederacy during the U.S. Civil War. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Behind the Mask

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Bradley Whitford, Matthew Fox

Synopsis: The made-for-TV Behind the Mask is the true story of Dr. Bob Shushan, a workaholic who disdains any sort of private life--and neglects his family in the process--the better to help his patients at the British Columbian Centre for the Mentally and Physically Disabled. When Shushan suffers a heart Read More

Without Limits

Actors: Billy Crudup, Donald Sutherland, Monica Potter, Jeremy Sisto, Matthew Lillard

Synopsis: One of two filmed biographies of late track star Steve Prefontaine to be produced in the late '90s, Without Limits comes from director Robert Towne, who previously took a stab at the track-star drama with his directorial debut, 1982's Personal Best. Billy Crudup stars as the ill-fated athlete who Read More

Fallen

Actors: Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland, Embeth Davidtz, James Gandolfini

Synopsis: Directed by Gregory Hoblit (Primal Fear), Fallen is a blend of the police drama and supernatural thriller genres. Homicide detective John Hobbes (Denzel Washington) narrates, taking the audience back to "the time I almost died." This sets a flashback in motion, beginning at the prison cell of Read More

Free Money

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Mira Sorvino, Marlon Brando, Charlie Sheen, Thomas Haden Church

Synopsis: The Swede (Marlon Brando), a prison warden, rules his family and his prison with an iron hand in one of the coldest parts of North Dakota. When an inmate dies under mysterious circumstances, however, the FBI sends in agent Karen Polarski (Mira Sorvino) to investigate. On the home front, the Read More

Great Books: Gulliver's Travels

Synopsis: The Great Books video series presented by the Discovery Channel introduces literary classics to students and readers, telling the stories with the help of clips from feature films and other dramatically acted scenes. Interviews with scholars provide information about the authors, the historical Read More

The Assignment

Actors: Aidan Quinn, Donald Sutherland, Ben Kingsley, Claudia Ferri, Celine Bonnier, Liliana Komorowska

Synopsis: In this drama, a naval officer named Annibal Ramirez (Aidan Quinn) is vacationing in Israel when he's arrested and questioned by Israeli agents, led by Amos (Ben Kingsley). Unknown to Annibal, he bears a striking resemblance to Carlos Sanchez (also played by Aidan Quinn), a famous and feared Read More

Shadow Conspiracy

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Donald Sutherland, Theodore Bikel, Linda Hamilton

Synopsis: Presidential advisor Bobby Bishop (Charlie Sheen) is hunted by an unknown assailant in this political thriller. With the help of Chief-of-Staff Jake Conrad (Donald Sutherland) and the newspaper journalist Amanda (Linda Hamilton), he uncovers an assassination plot to kill the President and his Read More

Natural Enemy

Actors: Donald Sutherland, William McNamara, Lesley Ann Warren, Joe Pantoliano, Tia Carrere

Synopsis: In this low-budget thriller, which was released directly to video, Donald Sutherland stars as a Ted Robards, a small-time stockbroker who allows promising young Harvard alumnus Jeremy (William McNamara) to move into his home and help run his firm. While pretending to build up the business, Jeremy Read More

The Living Edens: Bhutan - The Last Shangri-La

Synopsis: The Living Edens: Bhutan, The Last Shangri-La, a documentary, transports viewers to Bhutan, home to a small Buddhist kingdom, and a place in which time is said to stand still. Pocketed between Tibet and India, Bhutan is often referred to as the jewel of the Himalayas. To the north of the kingdom Read More

A Time to Kill

Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Samuel L. Jackson, Sandra Bullock, Kevin Spacey, Brenda Fricker

Synopsis: Carl Lee Hailey (Samuel L. Jackson) takes the law into his own hands after the legal system fails to adequately punish the men who brutally raped and beat his daughter, leaving her for dead. Normally, a distraught father could count on some judicial sympathy in those circumstances. Unfortunately Read More

AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards: Clint Eastwood

Hollow Point

Actors: Thomas Ian Griffith, Tia Carrere, Donald Sutherland, John Lithgow, David Hemblen

Synopsis: Tempered with action and adventure, this romantic comedy centers on a pair of rivalrous government agents from different agencies who are forced to team up to stop a wicked crime lord. The FBI agent is a beautiful sexy woman while the handsome DEA agent oozes machismo. Both of their employers are Read More

Outbreak

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Spacey, Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Synopsis: A handful of scientists struggle to prevent the destruction of a small town -- and possibly the entire country -- in this suspense drama. In the mid-1960s, a deadly virus is discovered in Zaire that wipes out an entire village in 24 hours. Government researchers are brought in to investigate, but Read More

Citizen X

Actors: Stephen Rea, Donald Sutherland

Synopsis: Stephen Rea stars as a relentless Russian investigator in this made-for-cable thriller. Based on an actual case, this taut film tells the story of Burakov (Rea), a Russian forensic pathologist assigned to track down a brutal serial killer who is targeting young drifters. The nature of the Read More

Disclosure

Actors: Michael Douglas, Demi Moore, Donald Sutherland, Caroline Goodall, Dylan Baker

Synopsis: Michael Douglas runs afoul of a treacherous supervisor in this film version of Michael Crichton's novel. Douglas plays Tom Sanders, an executive at DigiCom, a leading computer software firm. DigiCom is about to launch a new virtual reality-based data storage system that is expected to Read More

The Lifeforce Experiment

Actors: Donald Sutherland

Synopsis: Donald Sutherland stars as a mad scientist in this made-for-television sci-fi thriller. CIA agent Jessica Saunders (Mimi Kuzyk) has been assigned to work in the lab of scientist Dr. Maclean (Sutherland) to gather information. Maclean is doing experiments that seem fascinating and harmless, but Read More

The Puppet Masters

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Eric Thal, Julie Warner, Keith David, Will Patton

Synopsis: Robert A. Heinlein's 1951 novel The Puppet Masters comes to the screen 43 years later. Sharp-eyed viewers will recognize similarities to Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but Heinlein's book came first. Parasitic space aliens invade the Midwest, taking over the bodies of humans and manipulating Read More

Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

Actors: Diane Lane, Donald Sutherland, Cicely Tyson

Synopsis: Originally a television mini-series, this drama chronicles the painful and lively reminiscences of a 100 year old woman. Much of the story centers on her tumultuous marriage to a Civil War vet. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Benefit of the Doubt

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Amy Irving, Rider Strong, Christopher McDonald, Graham Greene

Synopsis: In this suspense thriller, a woman wonders if she can trust her memory when her father returns from prison a very different man from the violent psychopath she remembers. Karen (Amy Irving) is a single mother who twenty years ago delivered the testimony that put her father Frank (Donald Read More

The Mighty River

Younger and Younger

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Lolita Davidovich, Brendan Fraser, Julie Delpy, Sally Kellerman

Synopsis: Jonathan Younger (Donald Sutherland) runs his offbeat storage facility as if it were an odd amalgam of a nightclub for the rich and famous and a pied a terre for The Addams Family. He greets each customer and potential customer with the flair and sinister graciousness of Bela Lugosi at the door of Read More

Six Degrees of Separation

Actors: Stockard Channing, Will Smith, Donald Sutherland, Ian McKellen, Mary Beth Hurt

Synopsis: Two socialites find their view of the world changed when a young man takes advantage of their preconceptions in this thoughtful comedy-drama. Flan and Ouisa Kittredge (Donald Sutherland and Stockard Channing) are a married couple who have built highly successful careers as art dealers catering to Read More

Red Hot

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Balthazar Getty, Carla Gugino

Synopsis: In this drama set in the mid-1950s, Alexi (Balthazar Getty) is a typical teenager who loves rock & roll. Unfortunately, he lives in the U.S.S.R., where rock music is looked at as a degenerate fad of the decadent West. Luckily, Alexi's Uncle Dimitri (Armin Mueller-Stahl) is a music salesman who Read More

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Actors: Kristy Swanson, Donald Sutherland, Rutger Hauer, Paul Reubens, Luke Perry

Synopsis: The idea of fusing teen sex-comedy and horror genres into a boffo box-office bonanza seems like classic braindead Hollywood-think... but somehow, beyond all reason, the makers of this film manage to pull it off. Much of the credit goes to director Fran Rubel Kuzui (Tokyo Pop) who chooses wisely to Read More

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power - Our Plan

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power - Crude Diplomacy

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power - Power to the Producers

Synopsis: This program is part of a four-volume, eight-episode documentary series about the oil industry, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Daniel Yergin and narrated by Donald Sutherland. ~ Alice Duncan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power - War and Oil

The Railway Station Man

Actors: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, John Lynch, Frank MacCusker, Mark Tandy

Synopsis: The first theatrical feature for director Michael White, The Railway Station Man is based on the novel by Jennifer Johnston and tells the story of an Irish woman, played by Julie Christie, recently widowed when her husband is killed by the IRA. As she slowly attempts to recover from the tragedy Read More

Shadow of the Wolf

Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips, Toshiro Mifune, Jennifer Tilly, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Donald Sutherland

Synopsis: Based on a best-selling novel, this drama, set amongst a remote Eskimo tribe in 1935, was -- at the time it was produced -- the most expensive Canadian motion picture ever made, with a budget of $31 million. Lou Diamond Phillips stars as Agaguk, the rebellious son of tribal leader Kroomak (Toshiro Mifune Read More

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power - The Tinderbox

The Setting Sun

Actors: Masaya Kato

Synopsis: Directed by Akira Tomono, this lavish historical epic was a celebration of Nikkatsu studio's 80th year anniversary. Set during the run up to World War II, the film centers on Tatsuma Kaya (Masaya Kato), a brooding secret agent for the Japanese Imperial Army. His mission is to gather funds for Read More

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power - The New Order of Oil

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power - Empires of Oil

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power - The Black Giant

JFK

Actors: Kevin Costner, Sissy Spacek, Joe Pesci, Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Oldman

Synopsis: The November 22, 1963, assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy shocked the nation and the world. The brisk investigation of that murder conducted under the guidance of Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren distressed many observers, even though subsequent careful investigations have been Read More

Backdraft

Actors: Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro, Donald Sutherland, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Synopsis: The sons of a Chicago fireman who gave his life in the performance of his duties, firefighting brothers Kurt Russell and William Baldwin carry their lifelong sibling rivalry into their work. Russell is convinced that Baldwin hasn't got what it takes to remain in the fire department. Baldwin is Read More

Eminent Domain

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Anne Archer, Jodhi May, Paul Freeman, Anthony Bate

Synopsis: Polish bureaucrat Jozef Burski (Donald Sutherland) all but loses his reason for living when he is "downsized" by his government. Reduced to non-person status, Burski reaches out to his friends for moral support, but they turn their backs on him. Worse still, he doesn't know why he's been targeted Read More

Schrei Aus Stein

Actors: Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Mathilda May, Stefan Glowacz, Brad Dourif, Donald Sutherland, Al Waxman

Synopsis: Werner Herzog's cinema of obsession (Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo) has always owed some of its emotional expressionism to the post-World War I genre of German mountain films (The Blue Light, The White Hell of Pitz-Palu), in which German mountain climbers are compelled to scale the Read More

Long Road Home

Actors: Mark Harmon

Synopsis: The Long Road Home evokes memories of The Grapes of Wrath, though it doesn't quite reach the same heights as the earlier film. Mark Harmon heads up a family of migrant workers, toiling in California's San Joaquin Valley in 1937. Harmon's brood is obliged to face down not only the Depression but Read More

Quicksand: No Escape

Synopsis: In this made-for-cable thriller, the idyllic life of an upstanding architect is nearly destroyed when his partner attempts to corrupt a city official. When murder ensues, the architect must evade the prying eye of a sleazeball detective. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Buster's Bedroom

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Geraldine Chaplin, Valentina Cortese, Amanda Ooms

Synopsis: At one time, even the great Buster Keaton was a regular visitor of the mental health, alcoholic rehabilitation-center system. Since main-character Micha is obsessed with Keaton and everything that has to do with him, it is appropriate that after trying to pull a stunt on the public highways in Read More

A Dry White Season

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Winston Ntshona, Zakes Mokae, Jürgen Prochnow, Susan Sarandon, Marlon Brando

Synopsis: Schoolteacher Ben du Toit (Donald Sutherland) has been insulated all his life from the horrors of apartheid in his native South Africa. Perhaps he really didn't want to know. When the son of his black gardener is arrested and beaten as a result of a schoolboy protest in Soweto, at first he Read More

Lock Up

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Donald Sutherland, John Amos, Sonny Landham, Tom Sizemore

Synopsis: Sylvester Stallone is a tough but essentially decent convict in a relatively humane prison. He's on such good terms with the authorities that he's occasionally allowed a weekend furlough. This idyllic situation ends abruptly when he's transferred to a nasty prison run by sadistic warden Donald Sutherland Read More

Lost Angels

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Adam Horowitz, Amy Locane, Don Bloomfield, Celia Weston

Synopsis: Adam Horovitz, of Beastie Boys fame, plays a troublesome teen who is shipped off by his wealthy parents to an institute for "problem" youths. This is the sort of place where any sign of rebellion is dealt with in draconian fashion. The strapped-down Horovitz tells his life story to psychiatrist Donald Sutherland Read More

Bethune: The Making of a Hero

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Helen Mirren, Helen Shaver, Colm Feore, Harrison Liu, James Pax, Anouk Aimée

Synopsis: Having previously essayed the role of real-life Canadian physician/political activist Norman Bethune in a 1977 TV movie, Donald Sutherland returns to the role in the 1989 theatrical feature Bethune: The Making of a Hero. Over a period of several decades, Dr. Bethune grows increasingly disenchanted Read More

Apprentice to Murder

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Chad Lowe, Mia Sara, Knut Husebö, Rutanya Alda

Synopsis: We're told that Apprentice to Murder is a true story. If so, we'll steer clear of the film's Pennsylvania Dutch locale in the future. A series of murders occur in a sleepy community, and suspicion immediately falls on the local "character": a self-styled faithhealer and mystic. Donald Sutherland Read More

Portrait of an Artist: Paul Gauguin - The Savage Dream

Synopsis: Gauguin's own words, with the voice of Donald Sutherland, relates the artistic and personal journey of French Post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin. Co-produced by the National Gallery of Art, The Savage Dream explores Gauguin's obsessive search for the "savage" simple life, which led him to the Read More

The Rosary Murders

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Charles Durning, Josef Sommer, Belinda Bauer, James Murtaugh

Synopsis: A Detroit priest (Donald Sutherland) is trying to help solve a crime spree that has resulted in a horrible series of slayings of area priests and nuns. When he hears the murderer's admission of guilt (while giving confession) he is torn between honoring the vows of privacy and secrecy afforded Read More

The Trouble with Spies

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Ned Beatty, Ruth Gordon, Lucy Gutteridge, Michael Hordern

Synopsis: Appleton Porter (Donald Sutherland) is an inept international secret agent sent by the U.S. to the island of Ibiza in this uneven spy comedy. His mission is to secure the secret recipe for a truth serum to use on enemy agents. Appleton miraculously avoids being killed on several occasions as Read More

The Wolf at the Door

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Jean Yanne, Fanny Bastien, Sofie Gråbøl, Max von Sydow, Merete Voldstedlund

Synopsis: This drama looks into the life of French painter Paul Gauguin. Donald Sutherland plays Gauguin as he struggles through a few years in the 1890s in Montmartre after he has come back from his first stay in Tahiti. His new and radical painting style is not amenable to easy acceptance, as witnessed by August Strindberg Read More

Revolution

Actors: Al Pacino, Donald Sutherland, Nastassja Kinski, Joan Plowright, Steven Berkoff

Synopsis: This period drama about the American Revolution has an overlay of rhetoric that thwarts the action, flattening out the story about a man and his loved ones caught up in the events of the time. Tom Dobb (Al Pacino) falls in love with Daisy McConnahay (Nastassja Kinski), an aristocrat who deserts Read More

Heaven Help Us

Actors: Donald Sutherland, John Heard, Andrew McCarthy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Kevin Dillon

Synopsis: Charles Purpura scribed this semi-autobiographical tale about his experiences in a Brooklyn Catholic school of 1965. The film focuses on several Catholic school boys who get into ever increasing amounts of trouble with the presiding priests of the Catholic school, St. Basil's. Andrew McCarthy Read More

Savage and Beautiful

Ordeal by Innocence

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Christopher Plummer, Ian McShane, Sarah Miles, Diana Quick

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Agatha Christie and set in the late 1950s, this unevenly told film starts when Dr. Arthur Calgary (Donald Sutherland) comes back to England after two years on an Antarctic expedition and discovers that the man he is searching for has been executed for murder. At the beginning Read More

Crackers

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Jack Warden, Sean Penn, Wallace Shawn, Larry Riley

Synopsis: A remake of Pigeon by Mario Monicelli, but set on the streets of San Francisco in a contemporary America instead of Italy in the '50s, this comedy about a conspiratorial heist of a greedy pawnbroker has excellent acting and good light fun but not much in the way of character motivation. Weslake (Donald Sutherland Read More

Max Dugan Returns

Actors: Marsha Mason, Jason Robards, Jr., Donald Sutherland, Matthew Broderick, Dody Goodman

Synopsis: Max Dugan (Jason Robards Jr.) is an elderly ne'er-do-well whose tenuous mob connections have made him persona non grata with his daughter Marsha Mason. Struggling to raise her restless son Matthew Broderick on her own, Mason is none too pleased when Max returns to the family fold with yet another Read More

The Winter of Our Discontent

Synopsis: Michael de Guzman scripted this prettified TV-movie adaptation of John Steinbeck's gloomy 1961 novel The Winter of Our Discontent. Donald Sutherland stars as Ethan Hawkley, a solid citizen loved and respected by his family and by the citizens of his town. Ethan's loyalty and ethics will be tested Read More

A War Story

Actors: Donald Sutherland

Synopsis: Without either a nationalistic or political cast, this documentary looks at the suffering caused by the nature of war itself. Written, produced, and directed by Anne Wheeler, the film tells the story of her father, Dr. Ben Wheeler, and his captivity during World War II. The doctor was first taken Read More

Eye of the Needle

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, Ian Bannen, Christopher Cazenove

Synopsis: Having already been seen spying for the Nazis in 1979's The Eagle Has Landed, Donald Sutherland once more infiltrates wartime England on behalf of Der Fuhrer in Eye of the Needle. Willing to kill even the most innocent of bystanders to complete his task, Sutherland manages to remain in Britain Read More

Gas

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Susan Anspach, Howie Mandel, Sterling Hayden, Sandee Currie

Synopsis: When the money-hungry Duke Stuyvesant (Sterling Hayden) orchestrates a phony gas shortage, chaos ensues in a small Midwestern town. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Threshold

Actors: Donald Sutherland, John Marley, Sharon Acker, Mare Winningham, Jeff Goldblum

Synopsis: Donald Sutherland plays a brilliant surgeon who becomes a media celebrity after performing an artificial-heart transplant. Jeff Goldblum, inventor of the ersatz heart, likewise basks in the glow of sudden fame. The only person to have reservations about the procedure is heart recipient Mare Winningham Read More

MLB: Baseball's Hall of Fame

North China Commune

Synopsis: This informative documentary is the result of a cultural exchange between mainland China and Canada. The Canadians, led by director Tony Ianzelo and journalist Boyce Richardson chose to record life at a commune about four hours south of Beijing. For one month they filmed the activities, the Read More

Ordinary People

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Timothy Hutton, Elizabeth McGovern

Synopsis: Robert Redford's directorial debut ended up the 1980 Oscar winner for Best Picture. It is a simple but painfully emotional story of the disintegration of a "perfect" family. Teenager Conrad (Timothy Hutton) lives under a cloud of guilt after his brother drowns after their boat capsizes in Lake Read More

Bear Island

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Vanessa Redgrave, Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Barbara Parkins

Synopsis: Up on Bear Island -- somewhere off the northeast American coast -- a U.S. meteorological team discovers German submarines stashed with gold. Though the plot is difficult to follow, it does involve murder and a certain amount of intrigue, though many have felt that this movie version of the Read More

Nothing Personal

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Suzanne Somers, Lawrence Z. Dane, Roscoe Lee Browne, Dabney Coleman

Synopsis: Flawed and problematic, this romantic comedy is about Abigail Adams (Suzanne Somers), a sexy, talented, and dedicated lawyer, her new client Prof. Roger Keller (Donald Sutherland), and their fight to save baby seals from slaughter. The issue was a hot one, but the film as a whole does not rise to Read More

A Man, a Woman, and a Bank

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Paul Mazursky, Allen Magicovsky, Leigh Hamilton

Synopsis: In this crime comedy, Donald Sutherland and Paul Mazursky play Reese and Norman, two charming computer whizzes who tie into a bank under construction, and arrange to withdraw a huge sum of money without being caught. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

Murder by Decree

Actors: Christopher Plummer, James Mason, Donald Sutherland, Geneviève Bujold, David Hemmings

Synopsis: The murders by the infamous British criminal, Jack the Ripper, catch the attention of Sherlock Holmes (Christopher Plummer), but he does not receive the expected call from Scotland Yard because he is being purposefully excluded from the investigation. Instead, Robert Lees (Donald Sutherland), a Read More

The Great Train Robbery

Actors: Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Lesley-Anne Down, Wayne Sleep, Michael Elphick, Malcolm Terris

Synopsis: Not a remake of the landmark 1903 Edwin S. Porter film, The Great Train Robbery is a dramatization of the famous first hold-up of a moving train in 1855 England. The conspirators in this undertaking are Edward Pierce (Sean Connery), Agar (Donald Sutherland) and Clean Willy (Wayne Sleep). Pierce is Read More

National Lampoon's Animal House

Actors: John Belushi, Tim Matheson, John Vernon, Verna Bloom, Tom Hulce, Stephen Furst

Synopsis: Director John Landis put himself on the map with this low-budget, fabulously successful comedy, which made a then-astounding 62 million dollars and started a slew of careers for its cast in the process. National Lampoon's Animal House is set in 1962 on the campus of Faber College in Faber, PA. The Read More

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, Veronica Cartwright, Jeff Goldblum

Synopsis: This remake of the 1956 horror classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers moves the action from small-town USA to 1970s San Francisco and replaces at least part of the original's psychological horror with special effects. Spores rain forth, unseen, from outer space, and soon strange flowers begin Read More

Bethune

Synopsis: This is the true story of Dr. Norman Bethune, the Canadian doctor who tended to the needs of Mao Tse Tung's army during the communist takeover of China. Bethune's motives, most of which he preferred to keep to himself, have intrigued many filmmakers of humanistic or liberal inclinations. This Read More

The Kentucky Fried Movie

Actors: Donald Sutherland, George Lazenby, Henry Gibson, Bill Bixby, Tony Dow

Synopsis: Comedy writers David and Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams of Airplane and The Naked Gun fame got their start at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, when they formed a theatrical group known as The Kentucky Fried Theater. The Kentucky Fried Movie is based on the KFT's gag-filled theatrical skits. Read More

The Disappearance

Actors: Donald Sutherland

Synopsis: Following up 1975's Golden Bear-winning Overlord, director Stuart Cooper delivered this 1977 psychological thriller starring Donald Sutherland as contract killer Jay Mallory. When his wife goes missing, Mallory finds that his distress is starting to affect his work. The plot thickens when he Read More

Les Liens de Sang

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Stéphane Audran, Micheline Lanctôt, Lisa Langlois, Laurent Malet, Aude Landry, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: Making a rare visit to Canada, Claude Chabrol cowrote and directed the low-pressure psychological melodrama Blood Relatives (Les Liens de sang). Donald Sutherland and Donald Pleasence head the cast in this story of the aftermath of a brutal murder. The victim, a 17-year-old girl, was apparently Read More

Il Casanova di Fellini

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Tina Aumont, Cicely Browne, Olimpia Carlisi, Adele Angela Lojodice

Synopsis: Fellini's Casanova is played by Donald Sutherland. The film takes great pains to debunk the myth of the Great Lover by presenting him as an ordinary human being swept up in extraordinary circumstances. This Casanova breezes through his various political and amorous adventures with an air of bored Read More

1900

Actors: Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Burt Lancaster, Sterling Hayden, Donald Sutherland, Dominique Sanda

Synopsis: Bernardo Bertolucci's 255-minute 1900 was a gargantuan undertaking, requiring the resources of three European countries and a trio of American movie studios. Set in the Italian town of Parma, the film's continuity backtracks from Liberation Day in 1945 to the occasion of composer/patriot Giuseppe Verdi Read More

The Eagle Has Landed

Actors: Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter, Donald Pleasence

Synopsis: John Sturges directed this taut adaptation of Jack Higgins' suspense novel about an attempted kidnapping of Winston Churchill by the German high command during World War II. When it is discovered that in November 1943 Winston Churchill is scheduled to spend a weekend in a country home in Norfolk Read More

The Day of the Locust

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, Burgess Meredith, William Atherton, Geraldine Page

Synopsis: The Day of the Locust is anything but a cheerful, light look at Hollywood in the '30s. It recreates both the town as well as the filmmaking world around which much of the town revolved with devastating accuracy. The movie tells the twin tales of talentless wannabe actress Faye Greener (Karen Read More

The Shadow Catcher

Actors: Donald Sutherland

Synopsis: Shadow Catcher documents the multi-faceted career of Edward S. Curtis, a photographer, filmmaker and anthropologist who devoted 34 years of his life to capturing the lives of Native Americans on film. Curtis lived with the indigenous tribes he documented, and actively participated in the Read More

Der Richter und sein Henker

Actors: Jon Voight, Jacqueline Bisset, Martin Ritt, Robert Shaw, Helmut Qualtinger

Synopsis: Actor Maximillian Schell functioned as coproducer and director of End of the Game. Conversely, director Martin Ritt is the leading actor in this existentialist crime story. Ritt plays Hans Barlach, a Swiss police inspector who has spent 30 years trying to pin the murder of the woman he loved on Read More

S*P*Y*S

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Zouzou, Joss Ackland, Shane Rimmer

Synopsis: In 1974, flanked by such filmic monuments to paranoia and corruption as Chinatown and The Parallax View, Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland tried to re-create the screwball nonchalance of their earlier M*A*S*H performances in this lightweight spy spoof, directed by Irvin Kershner. Gould and Sutherland Read More

Lady Ice

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Jennifer O'Neill, Robert Duvall, Patrick Magee, Eric Braeden

Synopsis: In this stylish caper drama, Andy Hammond (Donald Sutherland) is a detective working with an insurance company who is investigating the theft of $3 million in diamonds. While Andy is initially eager to crack the case and bring the burglars to justice, his attitudes begin to shift when he meets Read More

Dan Candy's Law

Synopsis: When a Canadian Mountie is killed by an Indian, his partner tracks down the man to avenge the death. The film is also known as Alien Thunder. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Don't Look Now

Actors: Julie Christie, Donald Sutherland, Hilary Mason, Clelia Matania, Massimo Serato

Synopsis: A married couple is haunted by a series of mysterious occurrences after the death of their young daughter in this enigmatic chiller. Based on a story by Daphne du Maurier, whose works inspired Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca and The Birds, the film centers on Laura and John Baxter (Donald Sutherland Read More

Steelyard Blues

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Peter Boyle, Garry Goodrow, Howard Hesseman

Synopsis: In this counter-culture caper comedy, directed by Alan Myerson (whose work with The Committee and Second City gives the film a quirky sketch comedy freshness), Donald Sutherland plays Veldini, a sad-eyed demolition-derby driver, serving time for larceny. He also possesses a millennial desire to Read More

F.T.A.

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In 1971, Jane Fonda and a group of fellow activist performers and musicians (including actor Donald Sutherland, musician Holly Near, and writer and comedian Paul Mooney) put together a satirical revue to perform at coffeehouses and parks near U.S. Army bases for the entertainment of G.I.'s who had Read More

Little Murders

Actors: Elliott Gould, Marcia Rodd, Vincent Gardenia, Elizabeth Wilson, Donald Sutherland

Synopsis: Actor Alan Arkin has an impressive film directorial debut with Little Murders, Jules Feiffer's bitter and moving satire (originally produced as an off-Broadway play). Elliot Gould (who also co-produced the film) plays Alfred Chamberlain -- a one time successful photographer who is now down on his Read More

Johnny Got His Gun

Actors: Timothy Bottoms

Synopsis: The author of the famous late 1930's antiwar book Johnny Got His Gun wrote and directed this film adaptation. It concerns a nameless young soldier (Timothy Bottoms) in a veteran's hospital in the World War I period. The young man has had his face blown off, he is without the use of any of his Read More

Klute

Actors: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider, Dorothy Tristan

Synopsis: The first part of his "paranoia trilogy," Alan J. Pakula's 1971 thriller details the troubled life of a Manhattan prostitute stalked by one of her tricks. Investigating the disappearance of his friend Tom Gruneman (Robert Milli), rural Pennsylvania private eye John Klute (Donald Sutherland) Read More

Kelly's Heroes

Actors: Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O'Connor, Donald Sutherland

Synopsis: Like M*A*S*H and Catch-22, both released the same year, this military comedy takes place in an earlier war but is really a thinly disguised treatise on the modern-day insanity and avariciousness then unfolding in Vietnam. Clint Eastwood stars as Kelly, a former lieutenant whose illusions about the Read More

Start the Revolution Without Me

Actors: Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland, Hugh Griffith, Billie Whitelaw

Synopsis: Two French peasants are mistaken for a pair of aristocratic nobles in this historical situation comedy. Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland play the dual roles. Happy to be taken for nobles, the pair soon runs to escape the guillotine in the wake of the French Revolution's blood purge of the upper Read More

The Act of the Heart

Actors: Geneviève Bujold, Donald Sutherland, Monique Leyrac, Bill Mitchell, Suzanne Langlois

Synopsis: A woman is led to the edge of madness as she wrestles between her spiritual life and her romantic longings in this unusual drama. Martha Hayes (Genevieve Bujold) is a young woman who was raised in a small rural community. A deeply committed Christian, Hayes moves to Montreal, where she earns a Read More

Alex in Wonderland

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Ellen Burstyn, Meg Mazursky, Glenna Sergent

Synopsis: Made on the heels of Paul Mazursky's Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, this cinematic experiment is one of the director's more personal films. With a big tip-'o-the-hat to Fellini's 8 1/2 (to make sure no one misses the references to the film, Federico Fellini appears in a cameo), Alex in Wonderland Read More

M*A*S*H

Actors: Elliott Gould, Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt, Sally Kellerman, Jo Ann Pflug, Robert Duvall, Roger Bowen, Gary Burghoff

Synopsis: Although he was not the first choice to direct it, the hit black comedy MASH established Robert Altman as one of the leading figures of Hollywood's 1970s generation of innovative and irreverent young filmmakers. Scripted by Hollywood veteran Ring Lardner, Jr., this war comedy details the exploits Read More

The Suntan Mob

Synopsis: In this drama, a publisher convinces a moll to help him prove that the mafia is controlling a tiny island. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Split

Actors: Jim Brown, Diahann Carroll, Julie Harris, Ernest Borgnine, Gene Hackman

Synopsis: A pair of crooks conspire to rob the ticket booth at the Los Angeles Coliseum during a Rams game. Before they can perform the heist, the two must find precisely the right henchmen to join them. Each potential gang member must undergo a rigorous test of skill. Thanks to care and precise planning Read More

Sebastian

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Nigel Davenport, Ronald Fraser, John Gielgud, Margaret Johnston

Synopsis: Sebastian (Dirk Bogarde) is an undisciplined mathematics genius who works in the "cipher bureau" of the British government. While cracking enemy codes, Sebastian finds time to romance co-worker Susannah York. The film dwells upon Sebastian's rather lax morals (even by 1968 standards), culminating Read More

The Sunshine Patriot

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Cliff Robertson

Synopsis: Cliff Robertson essays a dual role in the made-for-TV Sunshine Patriot. He portrays a top secret agent as well as an American businessmen; both Robertsons are currently behind the Iron Curtain, both on "business." In order to evade a team of assassins and to smuggle valuable microfilm to the Good Read More

Oedipus the King

Actors: Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, Lilli Palmer, Richard Johnson, Cyril Cusack

Synopsis: The classic Greek tragedy by Sophocles stars Christopher Plummer as the psychologically tortured Oedipus. The successful monarch begins his downward slide after he discovers he has murdered his father and had children with his own mother. Oedipus is called on to avenge the death of the previous Read More

Joanna

Actors: Geneviève Waïte, Christian Doermer, Donald Sutherland, Calvin Lockhart, Glenna Forster-Jones

Synopsis: Forgotten 20th Century Fox starlet Geneviève Waïte and forgotten "trendy" director Michael Sarne teamed for the eminently forgettable Joanna. Waïte stars as the title character, a swinging London art student who uses up men like other people use Kleenex. Her carefree lifestyle comes to an end when Read More

Interlude

Actors: Oskar Werner, Barbara Ferris, Virginia Maskell, Donald Sutherland, Nora Swinburne

Synopsis: Stefan Zelter (Oskar Werner) is a classical orchestra conductor who is sued for libel after statements made in a newspaper interview. He finds himself blacklisted and out of work and leaves his wife Antonia (Virginia Maskell) to be with the reporter Sally (Barbara Ferris). His wife nobly tells him Read More

Avengers: The Superlative Seven

Synopsis: Invited to an airborne costume party, Steed and six other guests find themselves stranded on a desert island. The castaways then learn that there's a highly trained assassin in their midst. As the festivities degenerate into a campy replay of Ten Little Indians, Emma tries to figure out a means of Read More

Billion Dollar Brain

Actors: Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Françoise Dorléac, Oscar Homolka, Ed Begley, Sr.

Synopsis: Harry Palmer (Michael Caine), the reluctant secret agent from The Ipcress File (1965) and Funeral in Berlin (1966) -- both (like the source for this movie) based on novels by Len Deighton -- is back again in Ken Russell's Billion Dollar Brain. Having left Britain's espionage service, Palmer is Read More

The Dirty Dozen

Actors: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, George Kennedy, Richard Jaeckel

Synopsis: Director Robert Aldrich took what he considered a hopelessly old-fashioned script by Lukas Heller and Nunnally Johnson and fashioned The Dirty Dozen into one of MGM's biggest moneymakers of the 1960s--and the sixth highest-grossing film in the studio's history. Lee Marvin plays Major Reisman Read More

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

Actors: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Roy Castle, Donald Sutherland, Neil McCallum

Synopsis: Not to be confused with David Hewitt's abominable Dr. Terror's Gallery of Horrors (AKA The Blood Suckers), this clever horror omnibus is one of the better early anthologies from Amicus Productions, thanks to Freddie Francis' stylish direction and a tongue-in-cheek approach from writer Milton Subotsky Read More

The Bedford Incident

Actors: Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, James MacArthur, Martin Balsam, Wally Cox, Donald Sutherland

Synopsis: The Bedford Incident was an attempt by Columbia Pictures -- which had previously made Dr. Strangelove and released Fail-Safe -- to tap the well of public anxiety surrounding nuclear weapons and the Cold War one more time. Reporter Ben Munceford (Sidney Poitier) is allowed aboard a navy ship on Read More

Die! Die! My Darling!

Actors: Tallulah Bankhead, Stefanie Powers, Peter Vaughan, Maurice Kaufmann, Yootha Joyce, Donald Sutherland

Synopsis: This Hammer film production is a surprisingly frightening horror thriller and a hoot-fest for lovers of over-the-top acting. Young Pat Carroll (Stefanie Powers) goes to the home of her dead fiancé to meet his beloved mother, Mrs. Trefoile (Tallulah Bankhead). There, she discovers that Mrs. Read More

Il Castello dei Morti Vivi

Synopsis: A traveling circus visits the Gothic abode of the evil Count Drago (Christopher Lee), whose pastimes include experimenting on various animals with his potions and formulas. Naturally, he's no longer content to stop there, and the visitors become unwilling participants in the next horrific Read More

Promise Her Anything

Actors: Warren Beatty, Leslie Caron, Keenan Wynn, Hermione Gingold

Synopsis: A woman has to choose between the rich man she wants and the bohemian type who loves her in this comedy. Michele O'Brien (Leslie Caron) is a young widow raising a baby in Greenwich Village. She's decided that her child needs a father, and she determines that her best bet as a prospective mate is Read More

Great Books: Catch-22

Great Books: Art of War

Great Books: Frankenstein - The Making of the Monster

Great Books: Dracula

Great Books: Don Quixote

Great Books: Freud's Interpretation of Dreams

Great Books: Crime and Punishment

Great Books: The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Great Books: Pride and Prejudice

Great Books: The Grapes of Wrath

Great Books: The Naked and the Dead

Great Books: The Great Gatsby

Great Books: Plato's Republic

Great Books: Lord of the Flies

Great Books: Le Morte D'Arthur - The Legend of the King

Great Books: Madame Bovary

Great Books: One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

Great Books: Native Son

Synopsis: Richard Wright had already won a Guggenheim Fellowship before he wrote Native Son, published in 1940. It received critical acclaim, appearing as a Book-of-the-Month selection, but perhaps most importantly, it had a profound impact on the racial perceptions of the times. Great Books: Native Son Read More

Great Books: The Odyssey

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Great Books: 1984

Great Books: Great Expectations

Great Books: Gallileo's Dialogue

Great Books: Huckleberry Finn

Great Books: Alice in Wonderland

Great Books: The Red Badge of Courage

Great Books: The Prince

Great Books: Walden

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