William Friedkin Movies
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- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsSonny BonoCherSonny & CherSonny and Cher spoof many Hollywood classic movie scenes.Sonny and Cher's only movie together, a minor, self-referential flick in which they play themselves, represents the feature debut of William Friedkin, who four year later won the Oscar for The French Connection
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsRobert ShawPatrick MageeSydney TaflerThe down-at-heel lodger in a seaside boarding house is menaced by two mysterious strangers, who eventually take him away.
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsJason RobardsBritt EklandNorman WisdomA naive young Amish woman runs away from her home in Pennsylvania to New York City, where she hopes to act in religious stage plays but ends up performing in Burlesque theatre.It truly captures the spirit of an entire way of life that no longer exists.
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsKenneth NelsonPeter WhiteLeonard FreyTempers fray and true selves are revealed when a heterosexual accidentally intrudes on a homosexual party.A movie that needs to finally be acknowledged -- unsullied -- for the groundbreaking status that it deserves.
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsGene HackmanRoy ScheiderFernando ReyA pair of NYPD detectives in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles, but stopping them and capturing their leaders proves an elusive goal.Realistic, fast-paced and uncommonly smart, The French Connection is bolstered by stellar performances by Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider, not to mention William Friedkin's thrilling production.
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsEllen BurstynMax von SydowLinda BlairWhen a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.The Exorcist rides its supernatural theme to magical effect, with remarkable special effects and an eerie atmosphere, resulting in one of the scariest films of all time.
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsRoy ScheiderBruno CremerFrancisco RabalFour unfortunate men from different parts of the globe agree to risk their lives transporting gallons of nitroglycerin across dangerous Latin American jungle.William Friedkin's Sorcerer is a painstaking, admirable, but mostly distant and uninvolving suspenser based on the French classic The Wages of Fear.
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsPeter FalkPeter BoyleAllen GarfieldA fictional retelling of the infamous Boston Brink's Company robbery on January 17th, 1950, of $2.7M, which cost the American taxpayers $29M to apprehend the culprits, with only $58,000 recovered.
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsAl PacinoPaul SorvinoKaren AllenA police officer goes undercover in the underground S&M gay subculture of New York City to catch a serial killer who is preying on gay men.What we're left with is a movie without the courage to declare itself.
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsChevy ChaseSigourney WeaverGregory HinesSmall-time arms dealer Eddie Muntz visits South America to sell weapons to the revolutionaries and winds up negotiating the sale of an experimental plane to the nation's dictator.A bomb should have wiped out all the prints of this loser.
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsWilliam PetersenWillem DafoeJohn PankowA fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.The film isn't just about cops and robbers, but about two systems of doing business, and how one of the systems finds a way to change itself in order to defeat the other.
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsJoe CorteseJack YoungbloodSteve JamesA special government organization known as the C.A.T. Squad is formed to deal with terrorists.
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsMichael BiehnAlex McArthurNicholas CampbellAlex is an outwardly normal man who goes on killing and mutilating sprees. When he is finally captured and brought to trial, the district attorney is torn between his own liberal ideals on guilt and the crimes the accused is being tried.This is not a movie about murder so much as a movie about insanity -- as it applies to murder in modern American criminal courts. Friedkin plays with two decks and is happy to stack them both.
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsJoe CorteseJack YoungbloodSteve JamesAfter a plutonium bust, The C.A.T squad traces the smuggling operation to South-African radicals.
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsJenny SeagroveDwier BrownCarey LowellA young couple with a newborn son don't realize that their new nanny is a magical Druid sacrificing infants to an evil tree.Friedkin here seems strangely determined to squander his talent; lots of wasted opportunities.
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsNick NolteMary McDonnellJ.T. WalshA college basketball coach is forced to break the rules in order to get the players he needs to stay competitive.Not even an unsentimental basketball fan like director William Friedkin can wash away all the corn syrup.
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsDavid CarusoLinda FiorentinoChazz PalminteriA bright assistant D.A. investigates a gruesome hatchet murder and hides a clue he found at the crime scene. Under professional threats and an attempt on his life, he goes on heartbroken because evidence point to the woman he still loves.Writer Joe Eszterhas's follow-up to his Showgirls fiasco is every bit as hopeless, and this time he takes some good actors down with him.
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsJack LemmonGeorge C. ScottHume CronynTwelve men must decide the fate of one when one juror objects to the jury's decision.Nowhere near the original, but still worthy of high praise.
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsTommy Lee JonesSamuel L. JacksonGuy PearceAn attorney defends an officer on trial for ordering his troops to fire on civilians after they stormed a U.S. embassy in a Middle Eastern country.The script is unconvincing and the courtroom action is unegaging.
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsTommy Lee JonesBenicio Del ToroConnie NielsenAn FBI deep-woods tracker attempts to capture a trained assassin who has made a sport of hunting humans.An all too familiar chase movie that's not worth the talents involved.
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsAshley JuddMichael ShannonHarry Connick Jr.An unhinged war veteran holes up with a lonely woman in a spooky Oklahoma motel room. The line between reality and delusion is blurred as they discover a bug infestation.Disappointing resolution aside, Bug uses its claustrophobic setting and cinéma vérité camerawork to tense, impressive effect.
- DirectorWilliam FriedkinStarsMatthew McConaugheyEmile HirschJuno TempleWhen a debt puts a young man's life in danger, he turns to putting a hit out on his evil mother in order to collect the insurance.Violent, darkly comic, and full of strong performances, Killer Joe proves William Friedkin hasn't lost his touch, even if the plot may be too lurid for some.
