Road House (1989)
Action | Thriller
A bouncer hired to clean up the baddest honkytonk in a Missouri town. Armed with a black belt in karate and a Ph.D. in philosophy, Patrick Swayze sets out to tame the Double Deuce for its owner.
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Kelly Lynch, Sam Elliott, Ben Gazzara, Marshall R. Teague, Julie Michaels
Director: Rowdy Herrington
To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)
Comedy | Drama
Three drag queens travel cross-country until their car breaks down, leaving them stranded in a small town.
Starring: Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, John Leguizamo, Stockard Channing, Blythe Danner, Arliss Howard
Director: Beeban Kidron
Ghost (1990)
Drama | Fantasy | Romance | Thriller
After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn, Rick Aviles, Vincent Schiavelli
Director: Jerry Zucker
Dirty Dancing (1987)
Drama | Music | Romance
Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle.
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach, Cynthia Rhodes, Jack Weston, Jane Brucker
Director: Emile Ardolino
Black Dog (1998)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
An ex-con takes a job driving a truck cross country. What he doesn't know is that the truck is filled with illegal weapons and now he must fight to survive and save his family.
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Meat Loaf, Randy Travis, Gabriel Casseus, Brian Kelly, Graham Beckel
Director: Kevin Hooks
Tall Tale / Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventures of Pecos Bill (1995)
Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Western
A young boy draws inspiration from the tall tales of Pecos Bill, John Henry, and Paul Bunyon to fight against a evil land baron in the old west.
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Oliver Platt, Roger Aaron Brown, Nick Stahl, Scott Glenn, Stephen Lang
Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik
Waking Up in Reno (2002)
Comedy | Romance
A romantic comedy about two trashy couples traveling to Reno to see a monster truck show.
Starring: Natasha Richardson, Billy Bob Thornton, Patrick Swayze, Charlize Theron, Holmes Osborne, Penélope Cruz
Director: Jordan Brady
Uncommon Valor (1983)
Action | Drama | Thriller | War
A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese. Supported his father (a retired military man himself) and a rich businessman whose son was also a POW, the group engages in a dangerous and violent adventure trying to rescue the POWs and at the same time re-direct their lives.
Starring: Gene Hackman, Patrick Swayze, Fred Ward, Randall Cobb, Harold Sylvester, Robert Stack
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Next of Kin (1989)
Action | Crime | Thriller
A southern boy goes to Chicago where he becomes a cop and finds himself in the middle of a plot involving a vengeance-seeking Appalachian relative.
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Liam Neeson, Adam Baldwin, Helen Hunt, Andreas Katsulas, Bill Paxton
Director: John Irvin
Red Dawn (1984)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller
In the heartland of the United States of America, Russian and Cuban paratroopers begin to drop outside while classes go on in the high school. When the soldiers begin killing everyone in sight, local teens take to the hills to avoid the new totalitarian regime established in their little town and, as we later learn, throughout the world. As country folk, they are well familiarized with survival tactics and hunting, which allows them to carry out sophisticated acts of military sabotage, upsetting the balance of power in town with their guerilla warfare.
Starring: Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Charlie Sheen, Darren Dalton, Jennifer Grey
Director: John Milius
The Outsiders (1983)
Crime | Drama
Coming-of-age drama about teenagers growing up in the 1950s Midwest. The youngest of three orphaned brothers gets into trouble with the law after he and his "greaser" friend are attacked at a park by the rich "socs."
Starring: C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Tom Cruise, Diane Lane, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Leif Garrett
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
City of Joy / La cité de la joie (1992)
Drama
Hazari Pal lives in a small village in Bihar, India, with his dad, mom, wife, Kamla, daughter, Amrita, and two sons, Shambhu and Manooj. As the Pal are unable to repay the loan they had taken years ago from a moneylender, their land and property are auctioned, and they are rendered homeless. Hazari and his family re-locate to Calcutta with hopes of starting life anew, save some money and go back to Bihar, as well as get Amrita married. Things do not go as planned, as they lose their entire savings to a con-man, Gangooly, who took their money as rent by pretending to be a landlord. Then Hazari gets an opportunity to take up driving a rickshaw manually through a local godfather, Ghatak. He gets to meet a American, Dr. Max Lowe, and together they strike up a friendship along with a local social worker, Joan Bethel. Misunderstandings crop up between Joan and the Godfather, resulting in the shutting down of their shanty medical clinic…
Starring: Patrick Swayze, Pauline Collins, Om Puri
Director: Roland Joffé
The Fox and the Hound 2 (2006)
Adventure | Animation | Family
A young fox named Tod and a bloodhound named Copper are the best of friends. When Copper bemoans the fact that he can't seem to do anything right, Tod reassures him that eventually he'll find something at which he excels and invites him to the fair. Opportunity knocks when a vocal dog group called "The Singing Strays" looses its lead singer Dixie, and Copper discovers that he's a really good singer. Unfortunately, Copper's newly discovered fame leaves Tod feeling jealous and abandoned and threatens to destroy the pair's close friendship.
Starring: Reba McEntire, Patrick Swayze, Jonah Bobo, Harrison Fahn
Director: Jim Kammerud
