The Long Goodbye (1973)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Private investigator Philip Marlowe helps a friend out of a jam, but in doing so gets implicated in his wife's murder.
Starring: Elliott Gould, Sterling Hayden, Nina van Pallandt, Mark Rydell, Henry Gibson, David Arkin
Director: Robert Altman
Beyond Therapy (1987)
Comedy
A few unusual characters and their unconventional therapists cross paths resulting in hilarious interactions.
Starring: Julie Hagerty, Jeff Goldblum, Glenda Jackson, Tom Conti, Christopher Guest, Geneviève Page
Director: Robert Altman
Nashville (1975)
Comedy | Drama | Music
Over the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention.
Starring: Lily Tomlin, Keith Carradine, Barbara Harris, Ronee Blakley, Henry Gibson, Geraldine Chaplin
Director: Robert Altman
Popeye (1980)
Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
The adventures of the famous sailor man and his friends in the seaside town of Sweethaven.
Starring: Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Ray Walston, Paul Dooley, Richard Libertini, Donald Moffat
Director: Robert Altman
Images (1972)
Drama | Horror
Schizophrenic housewife, engulfed by terrorizing apparitions, kills off each, unknowing if these demons are merely figments of her hallucinatory imagination or part of reality.
Starring: Susannah York, Rene Auberjonois, Marcel Bozzuffi, Hugh Millais, Cathryn Harrison, Barbara Baxley
Director: Robert Altman
Gosford Park (2001)
Comedy | Drama | Mystery
The lives of upstairs guests and downstairs servants at a party in 1932 in a country house in England as they investigate a murder involving one of them.
Starring: Maggie Smith, Ryan Phillippe, Michael Gambon, Kristin Scott Thomas, Camilla Rutherford, Charles Dance
Director: Robert Altman
Cookie's Fortune (1999)
Comedy | Drama
Cookie's Fortune unfolds over an eventful Easter weekend in the small town of Holly Springs, Mississippi. The town residents are peaceful, kind folk — with the exception of Camille Dixon — a pushy theatre director with an incredibly shy younger sister, Cora, whose estranged daughter Emma has just returned to town. On the heels of her latest play, Camille is shocked to discover that her Aunt Jewel Mae "Cookie" Orcutt has committed suicide. Terrified at the thought of how this will tarnish the family name, she eats the suicide note to make it look like a burglary. This set-up leads the police to one main suspect, Willis Richland, who also happens to be Cookie's best friend.
Starring: Glenn Close, Julianne Moore, Liv Tyler, Patricia Neal, Charles S. Dutton, Courtney B. Vance
Director: Robert Altman
The Player (1992)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
"Movies. Now more than ever!" That's the motto of the movie studio where fast-tracking exec Griffin Bell works. But rumor has it a power play could push Bell out. And a rejected writer who's sending anonymous death threats could push him under.
Starring: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher, Vincent D'Onofrio
Director: Robert Altman
That Cold Day in the Park (1969)
Drama
A rich but lonely woman, Frances Austen, one day invites a boy from a nearby park to her apartment and offers to let him live there.
Starring: Sandy Dennis, Michael Burns, Susanne Benton, David Garfield, Luana Anders, Edward Greenhalgh
Director: Robert Altman
California Split (1974)
Comedy | Drama
California Split details the haphazard lives of two compulsive gamblers searching for that ever-elusive big score.
Starring: Elliott Gould, Michael Murphy, Gwen Welles, Edward Walsh, Bert Remsen, Jeff Goldblum
Director: Robert Altman
MASH / M.A.S.H. (1970)
Comedy | Drama | War
One of the world's most acclaimed comedies, M*A*S*H focuses on three Korean War Army surgeons brilliantly brought to life by Donald Sutherland, Tom Skerritt and Elliott Gould. Though highly skilled and deeply dedicated, they adopt a hilarious, lunatic lifestyle as an antidote to the tragedies of their Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, and in the process infuriate Army bureaucrats. Robert Duvall, Gary Burghoff and Sally Kellerman co-star as a sanctimonious Major, an other-worldly corporal, and a self-righteous yet lusty nurse.
Starring: Robert Duvall, Tom Skerritt, Elliott Gould, Sally Kellerman, Joann Pflug, Donald Sutherland
Director: Robert Altman
Quintet (1979)
Mystery | Romance | Sci-Fi
In the distant future the world is in the grip of another ice age. A city originally built to house five million people is now in its death throes as the relentlessly advancing glacier is slowly crushing the metropolis's steel infrastructure. The relatively few surviving fur-clothed inhabitants, perhaps thousands, perhaps only hundreds, drift aimlessly in their grim, drab world, awaiting their inevitable fate as they try to survive from day to day with scavenged firewood and a minimal diet. Their only solaces are booza, an alcoholic drink distilled from moss, and Quintet, a seemingly innocuous board game for six players. The only other surviving mammals are roving packs of hungry mastiffs which roam the city's corridors and quickly dispose of the remains of the dead. Newly arrived from the south is Essex with his pregnant wife Vivia, seeking shelter in the doomed city only to find it populated by people middle-aged or older. They had supported themselves by hunting seals, but now that the last of the aquatic mammals have been killed off, they seek shelter in the apartment of Essex's brother, a renowned Quintet player. The new arrivals quickly learn that the game has a more sinister side.
Starring: Paul Newman, Vittorio Gassman, Fernando Rey, Bibi Andersson, Brigitte Fossey
Director: Robert Altman
Secret Honor (1984)
Drama
In this speculative one-man drama, we see former President Richard Milhous Nixon alone in his study, dictating his thoughts into a tape recorder. His only company are a four-screen closed-circuit TV setup, the portraits on the walls, a bottle of Chivas Regal – and a loaded pistol. At times addressing an imaginary judge in a court of public opinion, at other times speaking to an aide named Roberto, and sometimes just talking to himself, the former chief executive reflects, in a series of meandering monologues, on his humble Quaker upbringing, his school days, his family and a political career that reached all the way to the White House. Nixon rails at his treatment by the likes of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the "goddam Kennedys," J. Edgar Hoover, Henry Kissinger, Jews, liberals, the media, "East Coast shits," among others, as he leads up to the "true" reasons for the Watergate scandal that resulted in his resignation – an act he regards as one of "secret honor."
Starring: Philip Baker Hall
Director: Robert Altman
Dr. T & the Women (2000)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
Dr. Sullivan Travis "Dr. T." is a wealthy Dallas gynecologist for some of the wealthiest women in Texas who finds his idealist life beginning to fall apart starting when his wife, Kate, suffers a nervous breakdown and is commited to the state mental hospital. Dr. T's eldest daughter, Dee Dee, is planing to go through with her approaching wedding despite the secret that she is a lesbian and romantically involved with Marilyn, the maid of honor. Dr T's youngest daughter, Connie, is a conspiracy theorist freak who has her own agenda to everything, while Dr. T's loyal secretary, Carolyn, has romantic feelings for him, which are not mutual. Dr. T's sister-in-law, Peggy, meddles in every situation she stumbles into, while one woman, Bree, a golf instructor, is the only one who offers him any comfort and salvation.
Starring: Richard Gere, Helen Hunt, Farrah Fawcett, Laura Dern, Shelley Long, Tara Reid, Kate Hudson, Liv Tyler
Director: Robert Altman
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A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
Comedy | Drama | Music
"A Prairie Home Companion", hosted by humorist Garrison Keillor, is a down home radio variety show recorded and performed live in front of an audience in a theater in St. Paul, Minnesota. A show from another era, "A Prairie Home Companion" has been canceled. The regulars are performing on the last show, including Dusty & Lefty, singing/guitar playing cowboys with a risqué sense of humor, and the Johnson Girls, a sister singing duo of Rhonda and Yolanda who have a penchant for talking over each other. As the show goes on, the regulars, backstage, talk about their lives in relation to the show. Other goings-on include Yolanda and others trying to convince her shy somber daughter, Lola, to sing on this last show. As all this goes on, a mysterious woman in a white trench coat who is on a mission wanders around the theater, while the show's dim security guard, Guy Noir, who usually has nothing to do security-wise, follows.
Starring: Lily Tomlin, Meryl Streep, Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Garrison Keillor, Kevin Kline, Lindsay Lohan, Virginia Madsen, John C. Reilly, Maya Rudolph, L.Q. Jones, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, Marylouise Burke
Director: Robert Altman
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Ready to Wear / Prêt-à-Porter (1994)
Comedy | Drama
A fashion show in Paris draws the usual bunch of people; designers, reporters, models, magazine editors, photographers. Lots of unconnected stories which all revolve around this show, and an all-star cast.
Starring: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Kim Basinger, Anouk Aimée, Lili Taylor, Rupert Everett, Forest Whitaker, Michel Blanc
Director: Robert Altman
Vincent & Theo / Van Gogh (1990)
Biography | Drama
The familiar tragic story of Vincent van Gogh is broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. The movie also provides a nice view of the locations which Vincent painted.
Starring: Tim Roth, Paul Rhys
Director: Robert Altman
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
Drama | Western
A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.
Starring: Julie Christie, Warren Beatty, Rene Auberjonois, William Devane, John Schuck, Shelley Duvall
Director: Robert Altman
3 Women (1977)
Drama
Two nurses with contrasting backgrounds become friends and move into an apartment together. A third woman, a mural artist, also inhabits the building.
Starring: Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Janice Rule, Robert Fortier
Director: Robert Altman
