One True Thing (1998)
Drama
A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.
Starring: Meryl Streep, Renée Zellweger, William Hurt, Tom Everett Scott, Lauren Graham, Nicky Katt
Director: Carl Franklin
Neverwas (2005)
Drama | Fantasy | Mystery
A well-educated psychiatrist leaves an academic career to work at an institution where his father, a novelist, lived before writing a renowned children's book.
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Ian McKellen, Brittany Murphy, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, William Hurt
Director: Joshua Michael Stern
Days and Nights / The Seagull (2014)
Comedy | Drama
Reckless desire wreaks havoc over Memorial Day weekend as a family confronts the volatile and fragile nature of love. Inspired by Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull," set in rural New England in 1984.
Starring: Christian Camargo, Katie Holmes, William Hurt, Allison Janney, Cherry Jones, Russell Means, Ben Whishaw, Michael Nyqvist, Jean Reno
Director: Christian Camargo
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Into the Wild (2007)
Adventure | Biography | Drama
Into The Wild is inspired by the true story of Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch), a young man who abandons his life of comfort to pursue the freedom of life on the road, a quest that leads him to the Alaskan wilderness and the ultimate challenge of his life. Screenplay and directed by Sean Penn and featuring an all-star cast including William Hurt, Marcia Gay Harden, Vince Vaughn, Catherine Keener and Hal Halbrook, Into The Wild is "as stirring, entertaining and steadfastly thrilling as it is beautiful." (Joe Morgenstern, The Wall Street Journal).
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, Jena Malone, Catherine Keener, Vince Vaughn
Director: Sean Penn
Frankenstein (2004)
Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Another adaption of Mary Shelley's novel about a scientist who brings life to a creature fashioned from corpses and various body parts.
Starring: Luke Goss, Alec Newman, Julie Delpy, Nicole Lewis, Monika Hilmerová, Donald Sutherland, William Hurt, Tomas Mastalir
Director: Kevin Connor
The Accidental Tourist (1988)
Drama | Romance
An emotionally distant writer of travel guides must carry on with his life after his son is killed and his marriage crumbles.
Starring: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Geena Davis, Ed Begley, Bill Pullman, David Ogden Stiers
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Bonnie and Clyde: Dead and Alive / Bonnie and Clyde (2013)
Biography | Crime | Drama
Based on the true story of Clyde Barrow, a charismatic convicted armed robber who sweeps Bonnie Parker, an impressionable, petite, small-town waitress, off her feet, and the two embark on one one of most infamous bank-robbing sprees in history.
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Holliday Grainger, Sarah Hyland, Elizabeth Reaser, Lane Garrison, Dale Dickey, Austin Hébert, Jack Thompson, Holly Hunter, William Hurt
Director: Bruce Beresford
The River Why (2010)
Drama | Romance
Young Gus Orviston, a fishing prodigy, leaves the family where he feels smothered by the ceaseless competition of his mother and father, and takes up residence in a cabin near the Oregon river where he can fish all day. But his plan becomes more complicated as Gus meets new people who challenge him to expand his world, including Titus, an amateur philosopher, and Eddy, a beautiful and elusive young woman with fishing skills to match Gus's.
Starring: Zach Gilford, Amber Heard, William Hurt, Kathleen Quinlan, Dallas Roberts, William Devane
Director: Matthew Leutwyler
Smoke (1995)
Comedy | Drama
The plot of this movie, like smoke itself, drifts and swirls ethereally. Characters and subplots are deftly woven into a tapestry of stories and pictures which only slowly emerges to our view. This film tries to convince us that reality doesn't matter so much as aesthetic satisfaction. In Auggie's New York smoke shop, day by day passes, seemingly unchanging until he teaches us to notice the little details of life. Paul Benjamin, a disheartened and broken writer, has a brush with death that is pivotal and sets up an unlikely series of events that afford him a novel glimpse into the life on the street which he saw, but did not truly perceive, every day. Finally, it's Auggie's turn to spin a tale….
Starring: Giancarlo Esposito, Jose Zuniga, Stephen Gevedon, Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Jared Harris
Director: Wayne Wang, Paul Auster
The Host (2013)
Action | Adventure | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
When an unseen enemy threatens mankind by taking over their bodies and erasing their memories, Melanie will risk everything to protect the people she cares most about, proving that love can conquer all in a dangerous new world.
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Diane Kruger, William Hurt, Max Irons, Rachel Roberts, Marcus Lyle Brown
Director: Andrew Niccol
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Late Bloomers / 3 fois 20 ans (2011)
Drama
The struggles of Mary and her husband adjusting to retirement.
Starring: William Hurt, Isabella Rossellini, Doreen Mantle, Kate Ashfield, Aidan McArdle, Arta Dobroshi
Director: Julie Gavras
The Village / M. Night Shyamalan's The Village (2004)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
An isolated, tight-knit community lives in mortal fear of an oppressive evil inhabiting the forbidden forest just beyond their tiny village. So frightening that no one ventures into the woods … until one villager dares to face the unknown.
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Bryce Dallas Howard, William Hurt, Sigourney Weaver, Adrien Brody, Judy Greer
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Mr. Brooks (2007)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Consider Mr. Brooks. A successful businessman. A generous philanthropist. A loving father and devoted husband. Seemingly, he's perfect. But Mr. Brooks has a secret – he is an insatiable serial killer, so lethally clever that no one has ever suspected him – until now. Earl Brooks is a man who has managed to keep his two incompatible worlds from intersecting by controlling his cunning, wicked alter ego Marshall. But now, as Mr. Brooks succumbs to one last murderous urge, an amateur photographer witnesses the crime. Suddenly Brooks finds himself entangled in the dark agenda of an opportunistic bystander, as well as hunted by the unorthodox and tenacious detective Tracy Atwood. Can Mr. Brooks outsmart his adversaries and conceal his shocking double life from his wife and daughter or will someone expose his crimes and his identity once and for all?
Starring: Kevin Costner, Demi Moore, Dane Cook, William Hurt, Marg Helgenberger, Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Director: Bruce A. Evans
Hellgate / Shadows (2011)
Thriller
A western businessman, his Thai wife and son experience a horrible accident while visiting Bangkok. In the aftermath, they find there is a shadow world between life and death where endless darkness lies.
Starring: Cary Elwes, William Hurt
Director: John Penney
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The Yellow Handkerchief (2008)
Drama | Romance
One lazy afternoon in a backwater Louisiana town, Martine takes a leap into an unfamiliar convertible. The driver, Gordy, an awkward young itinerant who eyed her in the diner earlier, isn't displeased to find this pretty sylph in his front seat. Soon they meet Brett, a laconic, humble man just released from prison. Martine isn't keen on going solo with Gordy, and now it's raining cats and dogs, so she invites Brett along, and the unlikely trio sets out, each person unsure of the destination. What ensues is a journey through the lush green byways of rural Louisiana and into the depths of these characters' souls.
Starring: William Hurt, Maria Bello, Kristen Stewart, Eddie Redmayne
Director: Udayan Prasad
Changing Lanes (2002)
Drama | Thriller
Modern society draws lines between right and wrong, good and evil, rage and redemption. A moment of self absorption and a spark of anger will cause the two men to cross them. As the battle of wills escalates, both lives are changes forever. Samuel L. Jackson and Ben Affleck star in a provocative and gripping drama that exposes the best and worst in all of us.
Starring: Ben Affleck, Samuel L. Jackson, Toni Collette, Sydney Pollack, William Hurt
Director: Roger Michell
Altered States (1980)
Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
An American researching different states of consciousness with the aid of mind altering drugs and an isolation chamber begins to experience disturbing physical changes in his body that point toward an evolutionary regression.
Starring: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Drew Barrymore, John Larroquette
Director: Ken Russell
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Syriana (2005)
Drama | Thriller
Big oil means big money. Very big money. And that fact unleashes corruption that stretches from Houston to Washington to the Mideast and ensnares industrialists, princes, spies, politicos, oilfield laborers and terrorists in a deadly, deceptive web of move and countermove. This lightning-paced, whip-smart action thriller grips your mind and nerves with an intensity that doesn't let go for an instant.
Starring: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright, Chris Cooper, William Hurt
Director: Stephen Gaghan
Too Big to Fail (2011)
Drama
A close look behind the scenes, between late March and mid-October, 2008: we follow Richard Fuld's benighted attempt to save Lehman Brothers; conversations among Hank Paulson (the Secretary of the Treasury), Ben Bernanke (chair of the Federal Reserve), and Tim Geithner (president of the New York Fed) as they seek a private solution for Lehman's; and, back-channel negotiations among Paulson, Warren Buffet, investment bankers, a British regulator, and members of Congress as almost all work to save the U.S. economy. By the end, with the no-strings bailout arranged, modest confidence restored on Wall Street, and a meltdown averted, Paulson wonders if banks will lend.
Starring: James Woods, John Heard, William Hurt, Edward Asner, Billy Crudup, Paul Giamatti, Topher Grace, Cynthia Nixon, Bill Pullman, Tony Shalhoub
Director: Curtis Hanson
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Gorky Park (1983)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
An investigator on the Moscow police force relentlessly pursues the solution to a triple homicide which occurred in Moscow's Gorky Park. He finds that no one really wants him to solve the crime because it is just the tip of a complex conspiracy which involves the highest levels of the Moscow city government.
Starring: William Hurt, Lee Marvin, Brian Dennehy, Ian Bannen, Joanna Pacula
Director: Michael Apted
