This film was a touchstone of the late 1960s, when it was seen as an antiwar allegory for a world in which madness seemed to reign. Of course, that would probably be true whenever this movie was shown, wouldn't it? Directed by Philippe de Broca and set during World War I, King of Hearts stars Alan Bates as a Scottish soldier separated from his unit in France. He wanders into a small French ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Jacques Balutin, Alan Bates, Jackie Blanchot, Robert Blome, Pierre Brasseur

This time-capsule film from 1971 is a perfect example of having one's cake and eating it, too. Written and directed by filmmaker Tom Laughlin--and starring him in the title role--Billy Jack concerns a half-white, half-Indian karate expert who protects a free school built on principles of pacifism by kicking hell out of pesky rednecks. The story actually embraces that tension between Billy ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor, Clark Howat, Julie Webb, David Roya
Directed By: T. C. Frank

Saturday Night Fever is one of those movies that comes along and seems to change the cultural temperature in a flash. After the movie's release in 1977, disco ruled the dance floors, and a blow-dried member of a TV-sitcom ensemble became the hottest star in the country. For all that, the story is conventional: a 19-year-old Italian-American from Brooklyn, Tony Manero (John Travolta), works ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Barry Miller, Joseph Cali, Paul Pape
Directed By: John Badham

Lured by their dreams of fame and fortune, three ambitious young women enter the world of show business and discover how easy it is to sink into a celebrity nightmare of ego, alcohol and 'pills' - the beloved "dolls." A prim New Englander (Barbara Parkins) unexpectedly skyrockets from her job as secretary in a talent agency to a glamorous TV model. A determined singer (Patty Duke) finds that ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: Barbara Parkins, Patty Duke, Paul Burke, Sharon Tate, Tony Scotti
Directed By: Mark Robson

Most horror films exist in a fantasy movie-world safely removed from our existence, populated by zombie-like killers and psychopathic madmen. The power of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is its chilling placement in the mundane existence of everyday life. Michael Rooker plays Henry not as a raving psychopath but as the frumpy guy next door, a drifter who takes out his frustrations on ...

Manufacturer: Mpi Home Video
Starring: Michael Rooker, Tracy Arnold, Tom Towles, Mary Demas, Anne Bartoletti
Directed By: John McNaughton

After World War II, writer-director Liliana Cavani interviewed a Nazi-concentration camp survivor who had been involved in a sadomasochistic relationship with a brutal guard. That interview was the inspiration for this perverse and explicit cult classic

Manufacturer: Homevision
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy, Gabriele Ferzetti, Giuseppe Addobbati
Directed By: Liliana Cavani

Still one of American cinema's most powerful, daring filmmaking debuts, Terrence Malick's Badlands is a quirky, visionary psychological and social enigma masquerading as a simple lovers-on-the-lam flick. Inspired by the 1958 murders in the cold, stark badlands of South Dakota by Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate, the film's plot, on the surface, is similar to that of other ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Dona Baldwin, Ramon Bieri, Ben Bravo, John Carter (IV), Charles Fitzpatrick

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Richard Gere, Valérie Kaprisky, Art Metrano, John P. Ryan, William Tepper
Directed By: Jim McBride

"A truly literate and sophisticated film spectacle...by perhaps the greatest of all film artists" (Saturday Review), this Oscar(r)-nominated* masterpiece by Federico Fellini, the director of such world-renowned classics, as La Dolce Vita, La Strada and 8 1/2, isa "fabulous trip into a totally decadent civilization" (Playboy) delivering "a brilliant visual fantasy...unlike anything we have seen" ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born, Salvo Randone, Mario Romagnoli
Directed By: Federico Fellini

When Goldie Hawn recommended Elizabeth Berkley for a small role in First Wives Club, she publicly stated that Berkley deserved the opportunity to redeem herself after starring in the ridiculous Showgirls. That says it all: this sleazy, stupid movie, which mixes soft pornography with the clichés of backstage dramas, is the kind of project an aspiring actress would have to put well ...

Manufacturer: MGM/United Artists
Starring: Gina Gershon