A Deadly Vision / Murder in Mind (1997)
Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A waitress who has psychic visions of murders before they happen is asked by a police detective to help find a serial killer.
Starring: Kristin Davis, Matthew Settle, Peter Boyle, James McDaniel, Matt Ross, Deirdre O'Connell, Ellen Burstyn
Director: Bill Norton
Solar Crisis (1990)
Sci-Fi | Thriller
A huge Solar flare is predicted to fry Earth. Astronauts must fly to the sun to drop a talking bomb (Freddy) at the right time so the flare will point somewhere else. Giant IXL Corp C.E.O. Teague thinks the flare won't happen and wants the mission to fail so he can buy the planet cheaply while the scare lasts. Employee Haas prepares a surprise for the astronauts. While daddy Steve Kelso commands the space ship where temperatures rise, granddaddy Admiral Skeet Kelso is searching the desert for grandson Mike who's gone A.W.O.L. to say goodbye to his dad but who inadvertently crossed the path of the men from IXL after meeting desert-dweller Travis.
Starring: Tim Matheson, Charlton Heston, Peter Boyle, Annabel Schofield, Corin Nemec, Tetsuya Bessho, Jack Palance
Director: Richard C. Sarafian
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
Crime | Drama
After his last crime has him looking at a long prison sentence for repeat offenses, a low level Boston gangster decides to snitch on his friends to avoid jail time.
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle, Richard Jordan, Steven Keats, Alex Rocco, Joe Santos
Director: Peter Yates
F.I.S.T / F.I.S.T. (1978)
Drama
The charismatic Johnny Kovak joins the Cleveland chapter of a labor union in the 1930s and rises through the organization. As his power grows, his methods become more volatile, and a senator mounts a campaign to investigate his potential ties to the Mafia.
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle, Melinda Dillon, David Huffman, Kevin Conway
Director: Norman Jewison
Hardcore (1979)
Drama | Thriller
A deeply religious Midwestern businessman ventures into the sordid underworld of pornography in California to look for his runaway teenage daughter who is making porno films.
Starring: George C. Scott, Peter Boyle, Dick Sargent, Season Hubley, Gary Graham, Larry Block
Director: Paul Schrader
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979)
Action | Adventure
A monstrous tidal wave has left the luxury liner Poseidon capsized mid-ocean and its few survivors struggling to reach safety in an upside-down world. But THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE was only the thrilling start. You must go BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE to complete the white-knuckle suspense. Under producer/director Irwin Allen, Michael Caine and Sally Field head an all-star cast caught in the crippled craft's flaming corridors and bursting bulwarks. Tug skipper Caine, first mate Karl Malden and passenger Field enter the foundering vessel hoping for salvage rights, miraculously finding more survivors. But others have come aboard, led by sinister Dr. Stefan Svevo (Telly Savalas). He wants a priceless cargo of plutonium – and will kill for his plunder!
Starring: Michael Caine, Sally Field, Telly Savalas, Peter Boyle, Jack Warden, Shirley Knight
Director: Irwin Allen
Medium Cool (1969)
Drama
The time: 1968. The place: Chicago, setting of the Democratic National Convention and a hotbed of political and social change. As protesters and police face off in the streets, fate brings together an unlikely pair: John (Robert Forster), a dispassionate TV news cameraman, and Eileen (Verna Bloom), a warmhearted Appalachian raising her son in a Chicago ghetto.
Starring: Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill, Peter Boyle, Peter Bonerz
Director: Haskell Wexler
Where the Buffalo Roam (1980)
Biography | Comedy
The deranged adventures of Gonzo journalist Hunter Thompson and his attorney Oscar Acosta, referred to in the movie as "Laslow". Thompson attempts to cover the Super Bowl and the 1972 Presidential election in his typical drug-crazed state, but it continually and comically sidetracked by his even more twisted friend Laslow. Allegedly based on actual events.
Starring: Peter Boyle, Bill Murray, Bruno Kirby, Rene Auberjonois, R.G. Armstrong
Director: Art Linson
Taxi Driver (1976)
Crime | Drama
Paul Schrader's gritty screenplay depicts the ever-deepening alienation of Vietnam Veteran Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro in a tour-de-force performance), a psychotic cab driver who obsessively cruises the mean streets of Manhattan.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Peter Boyle, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Jodie Foster
Director: Martin Scorsese
While You Were Sleeping (1995)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Lucy has to work on Christmas at a Chicago train station as a token collector because she has no family to go to. When she spots her dream lover, Peter, getting mugged at the station, she rescues him and brings him to a hospital, but Peter goes into a coma. Peter's family thinks that Lucy is Peter's fiancee, and welcomes her into the family.
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman, Peter Gallagher, Peter Boyle, Jack Warden, Glynis Johns
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Monster's Ball (2001)
Drama | Romance
Hank, an embittered prison guard, lives with his aging racist father, Buck, and his own twenty something son, Sonny. Hank and Sonny work for the local prison where they are preparing the electric chair for a black inmate. After the man is executed, Hank falls in love with Letitia, the inmate's widow. This emotionally charged affair forces Hank to re-evaluate how deeply prison work and his father's infectious hatred have affected his soul.
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Heath Ledger, Halle Berry, Peter Boyle, Sean Combs
Director: Marc Forster
The Santa Clause (1994)
Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Scott Calvin accidentally causes Santa Claus to fall to his death from his roof on Christmas Eve. When Scott and his young son, Charlie, finish the late St. Nick's deliveries, they go to the North Pole where Scott learns he must become the new Santa and convince those he loves that he is indeed Father Christmas.
Starring: Tim Allen, Judge Reinhold, Eric Lloyd, David Krumholtz, Wendy Crewson, Peter Boyle
Director: John Pasquin
Outland (1981)
Action | Crime | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Law and order on the wild frontier: 600 million miles from home. Io. The innermost moon of Jupiter. Into this terrible tomorrowland walks Federal District Marshall William T. O'Niel, alone in the pursuit if truth.
Starring: Sean Connery, Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen, Clarke Peters, Steven Berkoff
Director: Peter Hyams
The Shadow (1994)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
In 30's New York City, the Shadow battles his nemesis, Shiwan Khan, who is building an atomic bomb.
Starring: Alec Baldwin, John Lone, Penelope Ann Miller, Peter Boyle, Ian McKellen, Tim Curry, Jonathan Winters, Sab Shimono
Director: Russell Mulcahy
