Movies by Jack Nicholson
As part of the cast:
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Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (2011)
Cast: Roger Corman, Jonathan Demme, Robert De Niro …
Directed by: Alex Stapleton
B-movie maestro Roger Corman is celebrated in this star-packed documentary. While trafficking in movies featuring lots of blood, violence and nudity, Corman nonetheless managed to tackle…
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How Do You Know (2010)
Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, Owen Wilson …
Directed by: James L. Brooks
Feeling spurned after being cut from the national team due to her age, newly single softball player Lisa finds herself in the middle of a heated love triangle, as a professional baseball…
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RiffTrax: The Little Shop of Horrors (2009)
Cast: Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett …
Directed by: Roger Corman
Hosts Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett -- formerly of "Mystery Science Theater 3000" -- take aim at B-movie legend Roger Corman's infamous black comedy about a down-and-out…
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The Bucket List (2007)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, Sean Hayes …
Directed by: Rob Reiner
When corporate mogul Edward Cole and mechanic Carter Chambers wind up in the same hospital room, the two terminally ill men bust out of the cancer ward with a plan to experience life to the…
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The Departed (2006)
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson …
Directed by: Martin Scorsese
To take down Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done the same thing. While an undercover cop curries…
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Anger Management (2003)
Cast: Adam Sandler, Jack Nicholson, Marisa Tomei …
Directed by: Peter Segal
After a dispute on an airplane, gentle businessman Dave Buznik finds himself in anger management counseling. But when his therapist -- who seems to have his own anger issues -- moves into…
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A Decade Under the Influence (2003)
Cast: Francis Ford Coppola, William Friedkin, Julie Christie …
Directed by: Ted Demme, Richard LaGravenese
This documentary explores American cinema in the 1970s, a decade often described as the best years in film. What results is an ode to the art form, one that pays homage to the "auteurs" that…
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Something's Gotta Give (2003)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Keanu Reeves, Diane Keaton …
Directed by: Nancy Meyers
Still sexy at 60, Harry Sanborn is having the time of his life, wining, dining and bedding women half his age. But when he agrees to go to the Hamptons with his girlfriend, their getaway goes…
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About Schmidt (2002)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney …
Directed by: Alexander Payne
When insurance actuary Warren Schmidt (Jack Nicholson) retires and his wife dies, he looks for life's meaning on a road trip to his daughter's (Hope Davis) upcoming wedding to a…
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The Terror / The Little Shop of Horrors (2002)
Cast: Jackie Joseph, Boris Karloff, Jonathan Haze …
Directed by: Roger Corman
Helmed by B-movie king Roger Corman, this pair of classic 1960s chillers features a young Jack Nicholson. In The Terror, Nicholson plays a Napoleonic soldier looking into eerie events at a…
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The Pledge (2001)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Dale Dickey, Benicio Del Toro …
Directed by: Sean Penn
Homicide detective Jerry Black (Jack Nicholson) is on the eve of retirement when he gets a call that changes everything. A young girl has been murdered, and Black takes the case, promising…
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Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001)
Cast: Woody Allen, Alex Cox, Peter Ustinov …
Directed by: Jan Harlan
Stanley Kubrick's frequent collaborator and brother-in-law, Jan Harlan, offers a fascinating inside look at the genius behind such films as 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange,…
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Camera (2000)
Cast: Carol Alt, Angie Everhart, Rebecca Broussard …
Directed by: Richard Martini
Told from the viewpoint of a video camera, this film follows the main character as the camera is bounced around and handed off several times, with new characters and situations popping up at…
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As Good as It Gets (1997)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear …
Directed by: James L. Brooks
Chronic grouch and acerbic author Melvin Udall lives in an obsessive-compulsive fog, rigidly following his daily routine -- till he's reluctantly drawn into the lives of stressed-out…
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Mars Attacks! (1996)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening …
Directed by: Tim Burton
Tim Burton directs an all-star cast in this outlandishly funny spoof of 1950s-era sci-fi flicks, featuring bulbous-headed Martians come to Earth hell-bent on world domination and destroying…
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The Evening Star (1996)
Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Bill Paxton, Juliette Lewis …
Directed by: Robert Harling
Thirteen years after losing her only child to cancer, Aurora Greenway struggles to keep her late daughter's splintering family together. With one grandson in jail and the other nearly…
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Blood & Wine (1996)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Jennifer Lopez, Stephen Dorff …
Directed by: Bob Rafelson
A desperate man risks everything to save his flagging business in director Bob Rafelson's noir thriller. Deeply in debt and at odds with his wife (Judy Davis) and stepson, Alex Gates…
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The Crossing Guard (1995)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, David Morse, Anjelica Huston …
Directed by: Sean Penn
When Freddy and Mary Gale lose their daughter in a drunk-driving accident, Freddy is bent on revenge and intent on punishing the driver who ruined his life -- telling him he has just three…
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Wolf (1994)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Spader …
Directed by: Mike Nichols
Bitten by a wolf in the Vermont wilderness, genteel book editor Will Randall acquires an aggressive new edge after he's demoted at work. No longer meek and mellow, Randall sets out to…
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A Few Good Men (1992)
Cast: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore …
Directed by: Rob Reiner
When cocky military lawyer Lt. Daniel Kaffee and his co-counsel, Lt. Cmdr. JoAnne Galloway, are assigned to a murder case, their investigation uncovers a hazing ritual that could implicate…
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Hoffa (1992)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Armand Assante …
Directed by: Danny DeVito
Jack Nicholson stars as infamous Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa in this biopic that traces Hoffa's rise through labor's ranks to create the most powerful union in the country and posits…
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Man Trouble (1992)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Ellen Barkin, Harry Dean Stanton …
Directed by: Bob Rafelson
Harry Bliss (Jack Nicholson) is a dog trainer stuck in a miserable marriage. When creditors start hounding him for money he doesn't have, he's sure his life is falling apart. That…
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The Two Jakes (1990)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Meg Tilly …
Directed by: Jack Nicholson
World War II is over, and an older, wiser Jake Gittes still works divorce cases in this sequel to Chinatown. Developer Jake Berman asks Gittes to get proof that Berman's wife is cheating…
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Batman (1989)
Cast: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger …
Directed by: Tim Burton
In Tim Burton's hands, this comic book character taps into his brooding side, and Gotham's underbelly writhes in its vices. Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton) starts to make a name for…
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Broadcast News (1987)
Cast: William Hurt, Albert Brooks, Holly Hunter …
Directed by: James L. Brooks
In James L. Brooks's Oscar-nominated romantic comedy, three ambitious workaholics are set loose in a network TV newsroom, where their professional and personal lives become hopelessly…
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The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon …
Directed by: George Miller
In this scandalously sexy, eye-popping feast, three bored friends (Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer and Susan Sarandon) can't resist the devilish charms of the new man in town (Jack Nicholson).…
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Ironweed (1987)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Carroll Baker …
Directed by: Hector Babenco
Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep star in this moody Depression-era drama about Francis Phelan, a former pro baseball player haunted by his past and now living the squalid life of a nomadic…
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Heartburn (1986)
Cast: Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels …
Directed by: Mike Nichols
New York writer Rachel Samstat (Meryl Streep) falls in love with political columnist Mark Forman (Jack Nicholson), and the two marry despite her reservations. The wedded bliss comes to an end…
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Prizzi's Honor (1985)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Kathleen Turner, Anjelica Huston …
Directed by: John Huston
Jack Nicholson stars as dim-bulb Mafia hit man Charley Partanna, who falls hard for sultry freelance killer-for-hire Irene Walker (Kathleen Turner). But the lovebirds are facing double…
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Terms of Endearment (1983)
Cast: Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson …
Directed by: James L. Brooks
James L. Brooks directs this Academy Award-winning drama that follows widowed Aurora (Shirley MacLaine) and her daughter, Emma (Debra Winger), through the years as they support each other…
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The Border (1982)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Perrine …
Directed by: Tony Richardson
Border patrol guard Charlie Smith (Jack Nicholson) is plagued by a guilty conscience when, after moving to El Paso with his wife, he goes on the take and helps to smuggle aliens across the…
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The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Jessica Lange, John Colicos …
Directed by: Bob Rafelson
This remake of John Garfield's classic film noir goes where 1940s Hollywood feared to tread: into the realm of explicit sex. Jack Nicholson is a drifter who falls hard for Cora Papadakis…
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Reds (1981)
Cast: Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann …
Directed by: Warren Beatty
Radical journalist and socialist John Reed (Warren Beatty), along with his paramour, protofeminist Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton), gets swept up in the world-changing spirit, euphoria and…
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The Shining (1980)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd …
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Aspiring novelist Jack Torrance accepts a position as the off-season custodian at an elegant but eerie hotel so he can write undisturbed. But shortly after Jack, his wife and his young son…
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Goin' South (1978)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd …
Directed by: Jack Nicholson
Jack Nicholson directs and stars in this peculiar comedic Western as Henry Lloyd Moon, a n'er-do-well drifter caught by a posse while trying to escape to Mexico, who is then forced to…
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The Last Tycoon (1976)
Cast: Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum …
Directed by: Elia Kazan
Based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished novel about Hollywood and its denizens, this Elia Kazan-helmed drama tells the tale of Monroe Stahr (Robert De Niro), a 1930s studio head driven…
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The Missouri Breaks (1976)
Cast: Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid …
Directed by: Arthur Penn
Laid-back rustler Tom Logan (Jack Nicholson) and his gang buy a ranch next to their new target: rich landowner Braxton (John McLiam). While Logan courts his neighbor's daughter (Kathleen…
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield …
Directed by: Milos Forman
While serving time for insanity at a state mental hospital, implacable rabble-rouser Randle Patrick McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) inspires his fellow patients to rebel against the authoritarian…
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Tommy (1975)
Cast: Roger Daltrey, Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed …
Directed by: Ken Russell
The Who made history with this campy cult classic -- the first-ever filmed "rock opera" -- which tells the tale of Tommy (Roger Daltrey), a boy who loses the ability to hear, speak and see…
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The Passenger (1975)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre …
Directed by: Michelangelo Antonioni
In director Michelangelo Antonioni's gripping drama, correspondent David Locke (Jack Nicholson) -- on assignment to cover an insurrection in North Africa -- stumbles upon the corpse of…
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Chinatown (1974)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston …
Directed by: Roman Polanski
With a suspicious, porcelain-skinned femme fatale (Faye Dunaway) bankrolling his snooping, private eye J.J. Gittes (Jack Nicholson) uncovers intricate dirty dealings in the Los Angeles…
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The Last Detail (1973)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Otis Young, Randy Quaid …
Directed by: Hal Ashby
In this classic 1970s road movie, Officers Buddusky (Jack Nicholson) and Mulhall (Otis Young) must escort a young sailor (Randy Quaid) to a New England military prison, where the 18-year-old…
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The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Bruce Dern, Ellen Burstyn …
Directed by: Bob Rafelson
Uptight deejay David Staebler (Jack Nicholson) travels to Atlantic City, N.J., to learn more about an outlandish, get-rich-quick scheme cooked up by his manic brother, Jason (Bruce Dern).…
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Carnal Knowledge (1971)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Ann-Margret, Art Garfunkel …
Directed by: Mike Nichols
Mike Nichols directs a sterling cast in this trailblazing film, which chronicles the sexual mores and escapades of two college pals -- loathsome misogynist Jonathan (Jack Nicholson) and shy,…
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A Safe Place (1971)
Cast: Tuesday Weld, Orson Welles, Jack Nicholson …
Directed by: Henry Jaglom
Ping-ponging between past and present, fantasy and reality, Henry Jaglom's hallucinatory drama stars Tuesday Weld as a delicate young woman whose ethereal sensibilities send her…
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Five Easy Pieces (1970)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Susan Anspach …
Directed by: Bob Rafelson
In director Bob Rafelson's penetrating character study, a promising concert pianist (Jack Nicholson) chucks it all to work on a California oil rig but returns home to confront the…
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On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)
Cast: Barbra Streisand, Yves Montand, Bob Newhart …
Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Director Vincente Minnelli's fantastical musical centers on the past-life experiences of a brash New Yorker (Barbra Streisand), who speaks as a woman living in early-19th-century England…
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Easy Rider (1969)
Cast: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson …
Directed by: Dennis Hopper
With cash from a cocaine sale, two freewheeling hippies hop on their motorcycles and ride across America toward New Orleans, clashing with rednecks and picking up a boozy lawyer along the way…
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The Shooting (1967)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Warren Oates, Will Hutchins …
Directed by: Monte Hellman
Featuring an early career performance by Jack Nicholson, this cryptic Western centers on a pair of cowboys (Warren Oates, Will Hutchins) who agree to escort a mysterious revenge-seeking woman…
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Psych-Out / The Trip (1967)
Cast: Peter Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Bruce Dern …
Directed by: Roger Corman, Richard Rush
Talk about trippy! In Psych Out, a deaf girl (Susan Strasberg) comes to California at the height of the "Flower Power" era looking for her brother, who sent her a postcard that said "God is…
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Hells Angels on Wheels (1967)
Cast: Adam Roarke, Jack Nicholson, Sabrina Scharf …
Directed by: Richard Rush
This intriguing 1960s drama features Jack Nicholson (in an early starring role) as a young gas station attendant who begins to live life on the wild side when he joins a pack of Hell's…
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Ride in the Whirlwind (1965)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Cameron Mitchell, Millie Perkins …
Directed by: Monte Hellman
Inspired by frontier-era journals, Jack Nicholson wrote and stars in this offbeat Western. Cowboy Wes (Nicholson) and his pals Vern (Cameron Mitchell) and Otis (Tom Filer) unknowingly camp in…
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Back Door to Hell (1964)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Jimmy Rogers, John Hackett …
Directed by: Monte Hellman
Shortly before a U.S. assault on the Philippines, three American commandos find themselves on a risky scouting expedition in this gripping World War II drama. Led by Lt. Craig (Jimmie…
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The Terror (1963)
Cast: Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, Sandra Knight …
Directed by: Roger Corman
Lt. Andre Duvalier (played by a very young Jack Nicholson) is an officer in Napoleon's army. When he pursues a mysterious woman into the castle of an elderly baron (Boris Karloff), he…
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The Raven (1963)
Cast: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff …
Directed by: Roger Corman
Roger Corman directs this hoot of a film featuring Dr. Erasmus Craven (Vincent Price), a washed-up sorcerer who turns a talking raven back into a man and learns that his presumed-dead wife is…
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Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
Cast: Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles …
Directed by: Roger Corman
Down-on-his-luck plant-shop employee Seymour (Jonathan Haze) thinks he's got it made when he develops a new Venus flytrap hybrid. Not so fast, Seymour: Turns out, the plant has not only…
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Jack Nicholson: Cult Classics (1960)
Cast: Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles …
Directed by: Roger Corman, Richard Rush
L.A.'s No. 1 Lakers fan -- Jack Nicholson -- stars in a clutch of cult classics that have had audiences shuddering (and howling with laughter) for years. In Little Shop of Horrors,…
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Biker Babylon / Rebel Rousers / The Wild Ride (1960)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Harry Dean Stanton, Cameron Mitchell …
Directed by: Harvey Berman, Martin B. Cohen, Harry Kerwin …
Bike enthusiasts will dig this nostalgic look back at hog-wild times that pairs Biker Babylon -- a rarely seen "bike-u-mentary" from the 1960s -- with a double feature of films starring a…
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Too Soon to Love / Unwed Mother (1958)
Cast: Billie Bird, Norma Moore, Jack Nicholson …
Directed by: Richard Rush, Walter Doniger
Troubled teens face adult issues in this vintage double bill. Featuring Jack Nicholson in an early film role, Too Soon to Love follows star-crossed couple Cathy Taylor (Jennifer West) and Jim…
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The Cry Baby Killer (1958)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Harry Lauter, Brett Halsey …
Directed by: Roger Corman
When a pair of juvenile delinquents hassle his girl (Carolyn Mitchell), troubled teen Jimmy Wallace (Jack Nicholson) goes after them in this film that marks the screen debut for Nicholson…
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Tales of Frankenstein / The Terror: Double Feature (1954)
Cast: Raymond Greenleaf, Don Megowan, Helen Westcott …
Directed by: Michael Carreras, Curt Siodmak, Roger Corman …
In the first half of this double bill, Helen Westcott stars as the grief-stricken widow of a recently deceased sculptor whose brain the mysterious Dr. Frankenstein (Anton Diffring) uses to…
As a director:
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The Two Jakes (1990)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Meg Tilly …
Directed by: Jack Nicholson
World War II is over, and an older, wiser Jake Gittes still works divorce cases in this sequel to Chinatown. Developer Jake Berman asks Gittes to get proof that Berman's wife is cheating…
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Goin' South (1978)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd …
Directed by: Jack Nicholson
Jack Nicholson directs and stars in this peculiar comedic Western as Henry Lloyd Moon, a n'er-do-well drifter caught by a posse while trying to escape to Mexico, who is then forced to…
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Drive, He Said (1971)
Cast: William Tepper, Karen Black, Henry Jaglom …
Directed by: Jack Nicholson
Set at a Vietnam-era Ohio university, Jack Nicholson's directorial debut stars William Tepper as a basketball jock who finds plenty of distraction off the courts bedding a…