When one of his patients is found murdered, psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice is visited by the investigating officer but refuses to give up any information. He's then visited by the patient's mistress, Brooke Reynolds, whom he quickly falls for despite her being a likely murder suspect. As the police pressure on him intensifies, Rice decides to attempt solving the case on his own and soon discovers that someone is trying to kill him as well.

The Late Show

1977

English

6.8

♡ 7

95%

78%

Action

Comedy

los angeles, california

Robert Benton Director

Howard Duff as Harry Regan

Joanna Cassidy as Laura Birdwell

Lily Tomlin as Margo Sterling

Eugene Roche as Ron Birdwell

Over-the-hill gumshoe in Los Angeles seeks to avenge the killing of an old pal, another detective who was involved in a case concerning a murdered broad, stolen stamps, a nickel-plated handgun, a cheating dolly, and a kidnapped pussycat.

Places in the Heart

1984

English

7.4

♡ 10

89%

Robert Benton Director

Sally Field as Edna Spalding

Bert Remsen as Tee Tot Hightower

Amy Madigan as Viola Kelsey

Ed Harris as Wayne Lomax

In 1935 rural Texas, recently widowed Edna Spaulding struggles to survive with two small children, a farm to run, and very little money in the bank - not to mention a deadly tornado and the unwelcome presence of the Ku Klux Klan. Edna is aided by her beautician sister, Margaret; a blind boarder, Mr. Will; and a would-be thief, Moze, who decides to teach Edna how to plant and harvest cotton.

Feast of Love

2007

English

6.5

♡ 32

40%

55%

Action

adultery

based on novel or book

Robert Benton Director

Billy Burke as David Watson

Radha Mitchell as Diana Croce

Morgan Freeman as Harry Stevenson

Stana Katic as Jenny

A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon. It is described as an exploration of the magical, mysterious and sometimes painful incarnations of love.

Nobody's Fool

1994

English

7.3

♡ 28

91%

Robert Benton Director

Bruce Willis as Carl Roebuck

Pruitt Taylor Vince as Rub Squeers

Paul Newman as Sully

Melanie Griffith as Toby Roebuck

A rascally nearing-retirement man juggles a workers' compensation suit while secretly working for his nemesis and flirting with his nemesis' young wife. As his estranged son returns, he faces new family responsibilities, while a banker plots to evict him from his home.

Bad Company

1972

English

6.9

♡ 6

84%

Robert Benton Director

David Huddleston as Big Joe

Raymond Guth as Jackson

Jeff Bridges as Jake Rumsey

John Savage as Loney

After Drew Dixon, an upright young man, is sent west by his religious family to avoid being drafted into the Civil War, he drifts across the land with a loose confederation of young vagrants.

Twilight

1998

English

♡ 20

61%

Robert Benton Director

John Spencer as Capt. Phil Egan

Susan Sarandon as Catherine Ames

Giancarlo Esposito as Reuben Escobar

Lewis Arquette as Water Pistol Man

A retired detective accepts a simple task, unaware that it will tear open old, forgotten, but deadly wounds.

Kramer vs. Kramer

1979

English

7.8

♡ 73

90%

husband wife relationship

marriage

Romance

Robert Benton Director

Meryl Streep as Joanna Kramer

Howard Duff as John Shaunessy

JoBeth Williams as Phyllis Bernard

Dustin Hoffman as Ted Kramer

Ted Kramer is a career man for whom his work comes before his family. His wife Joanna cannot take this anymore, so she decides to leave him. Ted is now faced with the tasks of housekeeping and taking care of himself and their young son Billy.

Billy Bathgate

1991

English

5.9

♡ 10

36%

Robert Benton Director

Bruce Willis as Bo Weinberg

Nicole Kidman as Drew Preston

Steve Buscemi as Irving

Stanley Tucci as Lucky Luciano

In the year 1935, a teen named Billy Bathgate finds first love while becoming the protégé of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz.

The Human Stain

2003

English

6.2

♡ 24

41%

Robert Benton Director

Anthony Hopkins as Coleman Silk

Stella Hopkins as Faculty Committee Member

Nicole Kidman as Faunia Farley

Jeff Perry as Tennis Player

Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about the events with his friend and colleague Nathan Zuckerman, who in the process discovers a dark secret Silk has hidden his whole life. All the while, Silk engages in an affair with Faunia Farley, a younger woman whose tormented past threatens to unravel the layers of deception Silk has constructed.

Nadine

1987

English

5.5

♡ 7

55%

Robert Benton Director

Kim Basinger as Nadine Hightower

John William Galt as Officer Lloyd

Gwen Verdon as Vera

Jeff Bridges as Vernon Hightower

Hairdresser Nadine Hightower wants to retrieve the risqué photos she once posed for, but when she visits the photographer at his office, he's murdered by an intruder. Nadine talks her estranged husband, Vernon, into going along when she returns to the office, where they stumble across plans for a less than legal construction project. But when Vernon tries to turn the documents into a cash windfall, he and Nadine are pursued by goons with guns.

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Still of the Night

The Late Show

Places in the Heart

Feast of Love

Nobody's Fool

Bad Company

Twilight

Kramer vs. Kramer

Billy Bathgate

The Human Stain

Nadine