Ironweed (1987)
Drama
An alcoholic drifter spends Halloween in his home town of Albany, New York after returning there for the first time in decades.
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Carroll Baker, Michael O'Keefe, Fred Gwynne, Diane Venora
Director: Hector Babenco
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller
The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Jessica Lange, John Colicos, Michael Lerner, John P. Ryan, Anjelica Huston
Director: Bob Rafelson
The Pledge (2001)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A retiring police detective pledges to catch the killer of a young child.
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Aaron Eckhart, Helen Mirren, Robin Wright, Vanessa Redgrave, Sam Shepard
Director: Sean Penn
The Two Jakes / Chinatown II (1990)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance
The sequel to Chinatown (1974) finds J.J. "Jake" Gittes investigating adultery and murder, and the money that comes from oil.
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Meg Tilly, Madeleine Stowe, Eli Wallach, Rubén Blades
Director: Jack Nicholson
The Shining (1980)
Drama | Horror
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers, Barry Nelson, Philip Stone
Director: Stanley Kubrick
The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
Comedy | Fantasy | Horror
Three single women in a picturesque village have their wishes granted, at a cost, when a mysterious and flamboyant man arrives in their lives.
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan Sarandon, Michelle Pfeiffer, Veronica Cartwright, Richard Jenkins
Director: George Miller
The Passenger / Professione: reporter (1975)
Drama | Thriller
A frustrated war correspondent, unable to find the war he's been asked to cover, takes the risky path of co-opting the I.D. of a dead arms dealer acquaintance.
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Steven Berkoff, Ian Hendry, Jenny Runacre, Ambroise Bia, José María Caffarel
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
The Last Detail (1973)
Comedy | Drama
Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison but decide to show him one last good time along the way.
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid, Clifton James, Carol Kane, Michael Moriarty, Luana Anders
Director: Hal Ashby
A Few Good Men (1992)
Drama | Thriller
Neo military lawyer Kaffee defends Marines accused of murder; they contend they were acting under orders.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon, Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Pollak
Director: Rob Reiner
Chinatown (1974)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Set in drought-ridden '30s L.A., a divorce specializing private detective gets his nose rearranged after sticking it into the connivings of a family-loving mogul and his mysterious daughter.
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, John Hillerman, Darrell Zwerling
Director: Roman Polanski
The Crossing Guard (1995)
Drama
Freddie Gale is a seedy jeweler who has sworn to kill the drunk driver who killed his little girl.
Starring: Jack Nicholson, David Morse, Anjelica Huston, Robin Wright, John Savage, Piper Laurie
Director: Sean Penn
Carnal Knowledge (1971)
Drama
The film traces the sexual and emotional confusion of two men from their Amherst College days in the fifties through the Kennedy sixties…
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Candice Bergen, Ann-Margret, Rita Moreno, Carol Kane, Art Garfunkel
Director: Mike Nichols
The Border (1982)
Crime | Drama
A corrupt border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Perrine, Warren Oates
Director: Tony Richardson
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970)
Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
Daisy Gamble, an unusual woman who hears phones before they ring, and does wonders with her flowers, wants to quit smoking to please her fiancé, Warren. She goes to a doctor of hypnosis to do it. But once she's under, her doctor finds out that she can regress into past lives and different personalities, and he finds himself falling in love with one of them.
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Yves Montand, Bob Newhart, Larry Blyden, Simon Oakland, Jack Nicholson
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Goin' South (1978)
Comedy | Western
Henry Moon is captured for a capital offense by a posse when his horse quits while trying to escape to Mexico. He finds that there is a post-Civil War law in the small town that any single or widowed woman can save him from the gallows by marrying him. Julia Tate needs a man to help her work her mine and marries him. The sheriff makes it very clear to Moon what the consequences of his leaving Julia will be. The two begin to try to form a relationship based on necessity in which they have nothing in common.
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd, John Belushi, Veronica Cartwright, Richard Bradford
Director: Jack Nicholson
Heartburn (1986)
Comedy | Drama
An autobiographical look at the breakup of Ephron's marriage to Carl "All the President's Men" Bernstein that was also a best-selling novel. The Ephron character, Rachel is a food writer at a New York magazine who meets Washington columnist Mark at a wedding and ends up falling in love with him despite her reservations about marriage. They buy a house, have a daughter, and Rachel thinks they are living happily ever after until she discovers that Mark is having an affair while she is waddling around with a second pregnancy.
Starring: Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels, Maureen Stapleton, Stockard Channing, Richard Masur
Director: Mike Nichols
About Schmidt (2002)
Comedy | Drama
Upon retirement, a man embarks on a journey to his estranged daughter's wedding only to discover more about himself and life than he ever expected.
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Kathy Bates, Hope Davis, Dermot Mulroney, June Squibb, Howard Hesseman
Director: Alexander Payne
Terms of Endearment (1983)
Comedy | Drama
Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on living and find joy.
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels, Danny DeVito, John Lithgow
Director: James L. Brooks
Wolf (1994)
Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Romance | Thriller
When a mild-mannered, middle-aged book editor (Jack Nicholson) gets bitten by a wolf, it gives him a shot of confidence over younger colleagues, highly tuned senses and a few new lycanthropic appetites. Like a clever New Yorker cartoon, this urbane horror film satirizes middle age in New York's cutthroat social and business worlds.
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Spader, Kate Nelligan, Richard Jenkins, Christopher Plummer
Director: Mike Nichols
Easy Rider (1969)
Drama
After scoring cocaine in Mexico, then re-selling it in California, two bikers set off on a cross- country trek to New Orleans.
Starring: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson, Karen Black, Luana Anders, Luke Askew
Director: Dennis Hopper
