Primrose Path

Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.

Runtime

2h 5m

Director

Billy Wilder

Cast

Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray

On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will each become part of a dazzling multiplicity of plots, but one story.

Runtime

3h 9m

Director

Paul Thomas Anderson

Cast

Tom Cruise, Philip Baker Hall, William H. Macy

A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

Runtime

2h 8m

Director

Alfred Hitchcock

Cast

James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes

Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of two girls; and Jack Jordan, a born-again ex-con, are brought together by a terrible accident that changes their lives.

Runtime

2h 4m

Director

Alejandro González Iñárritu

Cast

Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benicio del Toro

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.

Runtime

3h 1m

Director

Kevin Costner

Cast

Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant

An ex-con finds his plan to go straight foiled by a loan shark who manipulates his target into taking on one last heist.

Runtime

1h 23m

Director

Risa Bramon Garcia

Cast

Donald Sutherland, Rebecca Romijn, Russell Peters