Search results for "Robert Altman"
Aria

Aria

Aria
IMDb: 5.7
96

Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound, and is an…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
A Perfect Couple

A Perfect Couple

A Perfect Couple
IMDb: 5.9
110

Offbeat but endearing romantic comedy about unlikely match-up (by computer dating) of straitlaced Dooley, under the thumb of overbearing father, and singer Heflin, whose life is wrapped up with her…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
O.C. and Stiggs

O.C. and Stiggs

O.C. and Stiggs
IMDb: 5.3
109

O.C. and Stiggs aren’t your average unhappy teenagers. They not only despise their suburban surroundings, they plot against it. They seek revenge against the middle class Schwab family, who embody…

Genre: Comedy
Quintet

Quintet

Quintet
IMDb: 5.1
118

During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called Quintet. For one small group, this obsession is not enough. They play the…

Popeye

Popeye

Popeye
IMDb: 5.3
114

Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who’s searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore and winds up rooming at the Oyl household,…

The Company

The Company

The Company
IMDb: 6.3
112

Ensemble drama centered around a group of ballet dancers, with a focus on one young dancer who’s poised to become a principal performer.

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Countdown

Countdown

Countdown
IMDb: 6
101

Desperate to land a man on the moon before Russia does, NASA hastily preps a would-be spaceman for a mission that would leave him alone in a lunar shelter for…

A Prairie Home Companion

A Prairie Home Companion

A Prairie Home Companion
IMDb: 6.7
105

A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America’s most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren, and a host…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Gosford Park

Gosford Park

Gosford Park
IMDb: 7.2
131

In 1930’s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, each one of these…

Dr. T & the Women

Dr. T & the Women

Dr. T & the Women
IMDb: 4.6
121

A successful Texas gynecologist finds himself amid a bevy of women and their problems – his wife’s breakdown, his daughter’s fake marriage, his other daughter’s conspiracy theories, and his secretary’s…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Kansas City

Kansas City

Kansas City
IMDb: 6.3
116

Robert Altman’s story is a riff on race, class, and power cross-cuts between the two kidnappings and the background of corrupt politics and virtuoso jazz music. It all takes place…

Short Cuts

Short Cuts

Short Cuts
IMDb: 7.7
187

Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Player

The Player

The Player
IMDb: 7.5
124

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected – but which one?

Vincent & Theo

Vincent & Theo

Vincent & Theo
IMDb: 6.9
138

The tragic story of Vincent van Gogh broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. Based on the letters written between the two.

Genre: Drama
Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
IMDb: 7.2
109

The Disciples of James Dean meet up on the anniversary of his death and mull over their lives in the present and in flashback, revealing the truth behind their complicated…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Images

Images

Images
IMDb: 7.1
101

Schizophrenic housewife, engulfed by terrorizing apparitions, kills off each, unknowing if these demons are merely figments of her hallucinatory imagination or part of reality.

Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Brewster McCloud

Brewster McCloud

Brewster McCloud
IMDb: 7
105

Brewster is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome. He has a dream: to take flight within the confines of the stadium. Brewster…

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
McCabe & Mrs. Miller

McCabe & Mrs. Miller

McCabe & Mrs. Miller
IMDb: 7.7
120

A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.

Genre: Drama, Western
M*A*S*H

M*A*S*H

M*A*S*H
IMDb: 7.5
116

The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
A Wedding

A Wedding

A Wedding
IMDb: 7.1
125

Muffin’s wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn’t too sure of the ceremony, only the families actually turn up as the Corelli…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
California Split

California Split

California Split
IMDb: 7.2
108

Carefree single guy Charlie Waters rooms with two lovely prostitutes, Barbara Miller and Susan Peters, and lives to gamble. Along with his glum betting buddy, Bill Denny, Charlie sets out…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Streamers

Streamers

Streamers
IMDb: 6.5
118

Four young recruits about to be sent to Vietnam confront their prejudicial feelings toward one another when it’s learned one of them is homosexual.

Genre: Drama
Beyond Therapy

Beyond Therapy

Beyond Therapy
IMDb: 4.8
93

Manhattanites Bruce and Prudence are each looking for a meaningful romantic relationship and have been encouraged by their psychiatrists to find someone through the personal ads. Their first meeting is…

Genre: Comedy
Nashville

Nashville

Nashville
IMDb: 7.7
160

The intersecting stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress— connect to the music business in Nashville, Tennessee.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Cookie’s Fortune

Cookie’s Fortune

Cookie’s Fortune
IMDb: 6.9
118

Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman’s death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.

3 Women

3 Women

3 Women
IMDb: 7.8
124

An awkward young teen working at a spa becomes overly attached to her fellow worker, a lonely outcast. They hang out at a bar owned by a strange pregnant artist…

Genre: Drama, Mystery
The Long Goodbye

The Long Goodbye

The Long Goodbye
IMDb: 7.6
112

Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
That Cold Day in the Park

That Cold Day in the Park

That Cold Day in the Park
IMDb: 7
113

Frances Austen, whose well-appointed apartment overlooks a park in Vancouver, one cold day, observes a rain-soaked young man on a park bench whom she assumes is homeless. Hoping to repress…

Genre: Drama
The Delinquents

The Delinquents

The Delinquents
IMDb: 5.6
72

A frustrated young man, separated from his younger girlfriend, gets involved in a juvenile gang.

Genre: Drama
Thieves Like Us

Thieves Like Us

Thieves Like Us
IMDb: 7
123

Bowie, a youthful convicted murderer, and bank robbers Chicamaw and T-Dub escape from a Mississippi chain gang in the 1930s. They hole up with a gas station attendant and continue…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Fool for Love

Fool for Love

Fool for Love
IMDb: 6.1
106

A woman is waiting in a motel for her boyfriend, when an old flame turns up and tries to take her back to the life she is trying to leave…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson
IMDb: 6.1
123

Buffalo Bill plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow, and Chief Sitting Bull has agreed to appear in it. However, Sitting Bull has his own hidden agenda, involving…

Genre: Comedy, Western
Secret Honor

Secret Honor

Secret Honor
IMDb: 7.3
90

In his New Jersey study, Richard Nixon retraces the missteps of his political career, attempting to absolve himself of responsibility for Watergate and lambasting President Gerald Ford’s decision to pardon…

Genre: Drama
The Gingerbread Man

The Gingerbread Man

The Gingerbread Man
IMDb: 5.7
114

Savannah lawyer Rick Magruder is at a party celebrating his courtroom victory defending a cop killer when a member of the catering staff, Mallory Doss, discovers her car has been…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Prêt-à-Porter

Prêt-à-Porter

Prêt-à-Porter
IMDb: 5.2
133

Paris Fashion Week draws the usual bunch of people; designers, reporters, models, magazine editors, photographers. Follows the various storylines of these characters, centering around a murder investigation of a prominent…

Genre: Comedy, Drama