A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in his own country.

A Family Thing

1996

English

7.1

♡ 7

73%

Richard Pearce Director

Mary Jackson as Carrie

Robert Duvall as Earl Pilcher Jr.

Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa

Michael Beach as Virgil

Earl Pilcher Jr. runs an equipment rental outfit in Arkansas, lives with his wife and kids and parents, and rarely takes off his gimme cap. His mother dies, leaving a letter explaining he's not her natural son, but the son of a Black woman who died in childbirth; plus, he has a half brother Ray, in Chicago, she wants him to visit. Earl makes the trip, initially receiving a cold welcome from Ray and Ray's son, Virgil. His birth mother's sister, Aunt T., an aged and blind matriarch, takes Earl in tow and insists that the family open up to him.

Wild Rovers

1971

English

6.5

♡ 3

60%

Blake Edwards Director

Tom Skerritt as John Buckman

Joe Don Baker as Paul Buckman

Mary Jackson as Sada's Mother

Karl Malden as Walter Buckman

Ross Bodine and Frank Post are cowhands on Walt Buckman's R-Bar-R ranch. Bodine is older and broods a bit about how he will get along when he's too old to cowboy. Post is young and rambunctious and ambitious for a better life than wrangling cows. When one of their fellow cowboys is killed in a corral accident, Post suggests a way into a better life for himself and his friend: robbing a bank. Bodine reluctantly joins in the plan and the two contrive to rob the local bank. They make good their escape initially, but Walt Buckman and his two sons, John and Paul, are incensed at this betrayal by their own trusted employees. John and Paul set out to bring Bodine and Post to justice.

Fun with Dick and Jane

1977

English

6.4

♡ 8

57%

Ted Kotcheff Director

Ed McMahon as Charlie Blanchard

Mary Jackson as Jane's Mother

Harry Holcombe as Pharmacist

Louis Guss as Phone Co. Customer

When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.

Skinned Alive

1990

English

3.8

♡ 2

Jon Killough Director

Mike Shea as Chip - The Delivery Man

Mary Jackson as Crawldaddy

James L. Edwards as The Walkman Victim

Barbara Katz-Norrod as Whinnie

Crawldaddy and her two kids are travelling across the country on the search for victims. The dysfunctional family has the disturbing habit of skinning people alive before killing them. When their van breaks down, they are put up by a friendly couple.

Kid Blue

1973

English

6.2

♡ 3

50%

James Frawley Director

Lee Purcell as Molly Ford

Mary Jackson as Mrs. Evans

Warren Oates as Reese Ford

Richard Rust as Train Robber #2

Bickford Waner, an apparently naive young man from Fort Worth, arrives in the tiny Texas town of Dime Box and takes on a variety of menial jobs. He's befriended by Reese Ford and his wife Molly, but before long Molly has seduced Bickford. Only with the arrival of Bickford's former girlfriend Janet Conforto is it revealed that Bickford is actually the notorious train robber Kid Blue. Humiliated by a scandal arising from his affair with his friend's wife, Bickford gives up on going straight and plots a crime.

Leap of Faith

1992

English

6.2

♡ 15

64%

Richard Pearce Director

Lukas Haas as Boyd

Mary Jackson as Emma Schlarp

M.C. Gainey as Tiny

Liam Neeson as Will

Jonas Nightengale is a fraudulent Christian faith healer who makes a living travelling around America holding revival meetings and conducting 'miracles' with the help of his friend and manager, Jane, and their entourage.

Targets

1968

English

7.3

♡ 17

89%

Peter Bogdanovich Director

Jack Nicholson as Actor in Horror Movie

Mary Jackson as Charlotte Thompson

Sandra Knight as Helene / Ilsa

Monte Landis as Marshall Smith

An aging horror-movie icon's fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles.

Big Top Pee-wee

1988

English

5.1

♡ 12

35%

relationship problems

Romance

traveling circus

travelling circus

Randal Kleiser Director

Benicio Del Toro as Duke the Dog-Faced Boy

Valeria Golino as Gina Piccolapupula

Mary Jackson as Mrs. Dill

Frances Bay as Mrs. Haynes

Paul Reubens stars as Pee-wee Herman in his second full-length film about a farmer who joins the circus after a storm drops a big tent in his front yard. Pee-wee, along with an outlandish cast of animals and circus performers, puts on the best show ever.

The Waltons: A Decade of the Waltons

1980

English

7.5

♡ 4

Drama

Family

Philip Leacock Director

Ronnie Claire Edwards as Corabeth Walton Godsey

Mary Jackson as Emily Baldwin

Ellen Corby as Esther Walton

Judy Norton as Mary Ellen Walton

A docudrama of the classic series. Almost like another episode of the series as a photo album presented to Grandma as a present spurs memories, presented via flashbacks from the series' first eight seasons. Waltons creator Earl Hamner recounts bringing his life to television.

The Exorcist III

1990

English

6.5

♡ 65

58%

religion and supernatural

suspicion of murder

Thriller

William Peter Blatty Director

Samuel L. Jackson as Dream Blind Man

Mary Jackson as Mrs. Clelia

Jason Miller as Patient X

Don Gordon as Ryan

On the fifteenth anniversary of the exorcism that claimed Father Damien Karras' life, Police Lieutenant Kinderman's world is once again shattered when a boy is found decapitated and savagely crucified.

Friendly Persuasion

1956

English

7.3

♡ 11

73%

81%

Action

based on novel or book

William Wyler Director

Ron Nyman as Carnival Patron

Norman Leavitt as Clem - Looter

Mary Jackson as Country Woman

Edna Skinner as Opal Hudspeth

The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the rules of their religion in everyday life but when Southern troops pass the area they are in real trouble. Should they fight, despite their peaceful attitude?

Audrey Rose

1977

English

5.8

♡ 13

57%

43%

Action

based on novel or book

Robert Wise Director

John Beck as Bill Templeton

Anthony Hopkins as Elliot Hoover

Mary Jackson as Mother Veronica

Richard Lawson as Policeman #1

A man is convinced that 11-year old girl, Ivy, is the reincarnation of his own daughter Audrey Rose, who died in a fiery car accident, along with his wife, two minutes before Ivy was born.