I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016)
Horror | Thriller
A young nurse takes care of elderly author who lives in a haunted house.
Starring: Ruth Wilson, Paula Prentiss, Lucy Boynton, Bob Balaban, Brad Milne, Erin Boyes
Director: Oz Perkins
Dead Bang (1989)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
A fact-based action thriller about a dedicated L.A. homicide detective who, while investigating a routine murder, stumbles upon a frightening national conspiracy.
Starring: Don Johnson, Penelope Ann Miller, William Forsythe, Bob Balaban, Frank Military, Tate Donovan
Director: John Frankenheimer
My Boyfriend's Back (1993)
Comedy | Fantasy | Horror | Romance
Teenager Johnny Dingle will do anything to keep his date with the hottest girl in school – even come back from the grave.
Starring: Andrew Lowery, Traci Lind, Edward Herrmann, Jay O. Sanders, Matthew Fox, Paul Dooley
Director: Bob Balaban
The Late Shift (1996)
Comedy | Drama | Talk-Show
Based on the non-fiction best-seller of the same name, film is a dramatization of the rivalry between Jay Leno and David Letterman to be the successor of Johnny Carson as the host of "The Tonight Show".
Starring: Kathy Bates, John Michael Higgins, Daniel Roebuck, Bob Balaban, Ed Begley Jr., Peter Jurasik
Director: Betty Thomas
Ghost World (2001)
Comedy | Drama
Enid and Rebecca are social outsiders who, after graduating from high school, play a mean prank on a middle-aged geek.
Starring: Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, Steve Buscemi, Brad Renfro, Illeana Douglas, Bob Balaban
Director: Terry Zwigoff
The Monuments Men (2014)
Biography | Drama | War
In a race against time, a crew of art historians and museum curators unite to recover renown works of art stolen by Nazis before Hitler destroys them.
Starring: Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett, George Clooney, John Goodman, Bill Murray, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville
Director: George Clooney
Recount (2008)
Drama | History
A chronicle of the weeks after the 2000 U.S. presidential election and the subsequent recounts in Florida.
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Bob Balaban, Ed Begley Jr., Laura Dern, John Hurt, Denis Leary, Bruce McGill, Tom Wilkinson, Bruce Altman
Director: Jay Roach
Thin Ice / The Convincer (2011)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
An insurance agent looking for a way out of frigid Wisconsin is blackmailed by an unstable locksmith in the theft of a rare violin that belongs to a retired farmer.
Starring: Greg Kinnear, Billy Crudup, Lea Thompson, Alan Arkin, David Harbour, Bob Balaban
Director: Jill Sprecher
The Majestic (2001)
Drama
Set in 1951, an unjustly blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident and loses loses his memory. Due to a remarkable resemblance, the residents of a small town mistake him for a local war hero presumed dead.
Starring: Jim Carrey, Bob Balaban, Jeffrey DeMunn, Hal Holbrook, Laurie Holden, Martin Landau, Brent Briscoe
Director: Frank Darabont
Lady in the Water (2006)
Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep (Giamatti) rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world.
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jeffrey Wright, Bob Balaban, Sarita Choudhury
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Best in Show (2000)
Comedy
A colorful array of characters competes at a national dog show.
Starring: Eugene Levy, Fred Willard, Catherine O'Hara, Parker Posey, Bob Balaban, Will Sasso
Director: Christopher Guest
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the 1960s, as a young boy and girl fall in love they are moved to run away together. Various factions of the town mobilize to search for them and the town is turned upside down — which might not be such a bad thing.
Starring: Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, Jason Schwartzman, Bob Balaban
Director: Wes Anderson
2010: The Year We Make Contact / 2010 (1984)
Adventure | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A new time, a new odyssey, a new chance to confront enigmas arising from the daring Jupiter mission of 2001. Crew members aboard the Leonov will rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery. And their fate will rest on the silicon shoulders of the computer they reawaken, HAL-9000.
Starring: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, Keir Dullea, Douglas Rain
Director: Peter Hyams
Jakob the Liar (1999)
Comedy | Drama | War
In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out near curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto. Jakob uses the chance to spread hope throughout the ghetto by continuing to tell favorable tales of information from "his secret radio." Jakob, however, has a real secret in that he is hiding a young Jewish girl who escaped from a camp transport train. A rather uplifting and slightly humorous film about World War II Jewish Ghetto life.
Starring: Robin Williams, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Bob Balaban, Alan Arkin, Éva Igó, István Bálint
Director: Peter Kassovitz
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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