Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the movie more marketable, they attempt to recruit a number of big name stars to appear, while the studio's creditors attempt to thwart them.

Blaze

1989

English

6.0

♡ 4

75%

49%

Action

based on memoir or autobiography

Ron Shelton Director

Eloy Casados as Antoine

Paul Newman as Earl Long

Gailard Sartain as LaGrange

Jerry Hardin as Thibodeaux

A middle-aged Louisiana governor falls in love with a young stripper, which jeopardizes his political career and the radical policies which have made him a controversial figure.

The Hustler

1961

English

7.9

♡ 32

94%

92%

Action

alcohol

based on novel or book

Robert Rossen Director

Paul Newman as Eddie Felson

Murray Hamilton as Findley

Paul Stevens as Maître d' at fancy restaurant

Charles McDaniel as Reservation Clerk at Louisville Hotel

Fast Eddie Felson is a small-time pool hustler with a lot of talent but a self-destructive attitude. His bravado causes him to challenge the legendary Minnesota Fats to a high-stakes match.

Sometimes a Great Notion

1971

English

6.9

♡ 2

mouth to mouth resuscitation

Paul Newman Director

Roy Poole as Draeger

Roy Jenson as Elwood

Paul Newman as Hank

Michael Sarrazin as Leeland

Hank Stamper and his father, Henry, own and operate the family business by cutting and shipping logs in Oregon. The town is furious when they continue working despite the town going broke and the other loggers go on strike ordering the Stampers to stop, however Hank continues to push his family on cutting more trees. Hank's wife wishes he would stop and hopes that they can spend more time together. When Hank's half brother Leland comes to work for them, more trouble starts.

When Time Ran Out...

1980

English

4.6

♡ 9

James Goldstone Director

Edward Albert as Brian

Paul Newman as Hank Anderson

Jacqueline Bisset as Kay Kirby

Darrell Larson as Webster's Assistant

An active volcano threatens a south Pacific island resort and its guests as a power struggle ensues between the property's developer and a drilling foreman.

The Secret War of Harry Frigg

1968

English

6.3

♡ 5

40%

Jack Smight Director

Norman Fell as Captain Stanley

John Williams as General Mayhew

Paul Newman as Harry Frigg

Richard X. Slattery as M.P. Sergeant

When 5 allied generals are captured in Italy in WWII, it is a propaganda nightmare for the allies. The generals are all 1 star and refuse to take orders from each other in order to plan an escape. Harry Frigg is a private who has escaped from the guard house dozens of times. He is promoted to Major General and ordered to get the generals out once he is captured. Harry is willing to escape, but then he meets the countess...

Fort Apache the Bronx

1981

English

6.7

♡ 10

Daniel Petrie Director

Daryl Edwards as Black Rookie

Rachel Ticotin as Isabella

Paul Newman as Murphy

Kim Delgado as Suspect #1

From the sight of a police officer this movie depicts the life in New York's infamous South Bronx. In the center is "Fort Apache", as the officers call their police station, which really seems like an outpost in enemy's country. The story follows officer Murphy, who seems to be a tuff cynic, but in truth he's a moralist with a sense for justice.

The Age of Anxiety

2012

English

7.1

♡ 2

Documentary

Scott Harper Director

Patricia Pearson as Author: 'A Brief History of Anxiety...Yours and Mine'

Paul Newman as Self

Arthur Kleiman as Self - Medical Anthropolgist, Harvard University

Mazen Kheierbek as Self - Post Doctoral Fellow, Neuroscience, Columbia University

The Age of Anxiety is a film that delves into a crisis in motion according to the World Health Organization, disorders related to dread are the most prevalent mental illnesses on the globe at the moment. Is this a disease of modernity? Or is our highly competitive and material culture itself undermining our nerves? The Age of Anxiety explores these questions, while also investigating the role that pharmaceutical companies and even the psychiatric profession play in this phenomenon. Is our anxiety fueling an industry that in turn is profiting from and exploiting our dread in a vicious and self-perpetuating cycle?

Absence of Malice

1981

English

6.9

♡ 18

82%

Sydney Pollack Director

John Harkins as Davidek

Paul Newman as Gallagher

Luther Adler as Malderone

Sally Field as Megan

Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his crime was allegedly committed—but it involves an innocent party. When he tells Carter the truth and the newspaper runs it, tragedy follows, forcing Carter to face up to the responsibilities of her job when she is confronted by Gallagher.

The Verdict

1982

English

7.7

♡ 36

88%

Action

affectation

boston, massachusetts

Sidney Lumet Director

Colin Stinton as Billy

Edward Binns as Bishop Brophy

Bruce Willis as Courtroom Observer

Paul Newman as Frank Galvin

Frank Galvin is a down-on-his-luck lawyer and reduced to drinking and ambulance chasing, when a former associate reminds him of his obligations in a medical malpractice suit by serving it to Galvin on a silver platter—all parties are willing to settle out of court. Blundering his way through the preliminaries, Galvin suddenly realizes that the case should actually go to court—to punish the guilty, to get a decent settlement for his clients... and to restore his standing as a lawyer.

The Color of Money

1986

English

7.0

♡ 60

87%

Martin Scorsese Director

Forest Whitaker as Amos

Paul Newman as Fast Eddie Felson

Ron Dean as Guy in Crowd

Tom Cruise as Vincent Lauria

Former pool hustler "Fast Eddie" Felson decides he wants to return to the game by taking a pupil. He meets talented but green Vincent Lauria and proposes a partnership. As they tour pool halls, Eddie teaches Vincent the tricks of scamming, but he eventually grows frustrated with Vincent's showboat antics, leading to an argument and a falling-out. Eddie takes up playing again and soon crosses paths with Vincent as an opponent.

The Sting

1973

English

8.2

♡ 73

93%

George Roy Hill Director

Paul Newman as

Sally Kirkland as Crystal

Dana Elcar as F.B.I. Agent Polk

Byron Morrow as Mr. Jameson from Chicago

A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster.

The MacKintosh Man

1973

English

6.3

♡ 5

58%

43%

spy

Thriller

John Huston Director

Roland Culver as Judge

Aileen Lewis as Member of Parliament

Paul Newman as Rearden

Ian Bannen as Slade

A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang...

Harper

1966

English

6.8

♡ 15

95%

73%

Action

adultery

based on novel or book

Crime

Drama

husband wife relationship

Jack Smight Director

Robert Wagner as Allan Taggert

Paul Newman as Lew Harper

Roy Jenson as Puddler

Sheb Wooley as Puddler

Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring.

Torn Curtain

1966

English

6.6

♡ 25

63%

Alfred Hitchcock Director

Gene Roth as Guard in Post Office

Hansjörg Felmy as Heinrich Gerhard

Paul Newman as Professor Michael Armstrong

Paul Sorensen as Swedish Immigration Officer

During the Cold War, an American scientist appears to defect to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the formula for a resin solution—but the plan goes awry when his fiancee, unaware of his motivation, follows him across the border.

Sweet Bird of Youth

1962

English

7.1

♡ 16

74%

72%

Action

based on play or musical

Richard Brooks Director

Paul Newman as Chance Wayne

Madeleine Sherwood as Miss Lucy

Dorothy Konrad as Mrs. Maribelle Norris

Corey Allen as Scotty

Gigolo and drifter Chance Wayne returns to his hometown as the companion of a faded movie star, Alexandra Del Lago, whom he hopes to use to help him break into the movies. Chance runs into trouble when he finds his ex-girlfriend, the daughter of the local politician Tom "Boss" Finley, who more or less forced him to leave his daughter and the town many years ago.

Into the West

1992

English

7.0

♡ 8

75%

Mike Newell Director

Paul Newman as Butch Cassidy

Brendan Gleeson as Inspector Bolger

Gabriel Byrne as Papa Reilly

Jim Norton as Superintendant O'Mara

Accused of a crime they didn't commit, two city kids and a magical horse are about to become the coolest outlaws ever to ride Into The West.

Hud

1963

English

7.8

♡ 18

86%

89%

Action

alcoholism

based on novel or book

Martin Ritt Director

John Indrisano as Barroom Brawler

Paul Newman as Hud Bannon

Val Avery as Jose

John Roy as Show Spectator

Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for kicks with no regard for the consequences. There is bitter conflict between the callous Hud and his stern and highly principled father, Homer. Hud's nephew Lon admires Hud's cheating ways, though he soon becomes too aware of Hud's reckless amorality to bear him anymore. In the world of the takers and the taken, Hud is a winner. He's a cheat, but, he explains, "I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner."

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Absence of Malice

The Verdict

The Color of Money

The Sting

The MacKintosh Man

Harper

Torn Curtain

Sweet Bird of Youth

Into the West

Hud