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1. 48 Hrs. (1982)
R | 96 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him in order to track down a killer.
Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole, Frank McRae
Votes: 85,161 | Gross: $78.87M
2. Ripley Under Ground (2005)
101 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Professional swindler hides the death of a famous artist in order to earn money by selling pictures on his own behalf.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Barry Pepper, Jacinda Barrett, Ian Hart, Claire Forlani
Votes: 2,778
3. Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
James Bond sets out to stop a media mogul's plan to induce war between China and the UK in order to obtain exclusive global media coverage.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher
Votes: 204,577 | Gross: $125.33M
4. Straw Dogs (1971)
R | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.
Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T.P. McKenna
Votes: 64,452
5. Another 48 Hrs. (1990)
R | 95 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Jack Cates once again enlists the aid of ex-con Reggie Hammond - this time to take down The Iceman, a ruthless drug lord operating in the San Francisco bay area.
Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Nick Nolte, Brion James, Kevin Tighe
Votes: 44,473 | Gross: $80.82M
6. On Golden Pond (1981)
PG | 109 min | Drama
Norman is a curmudgeon with an estranged relationship with his daughter Chelsea. At Golden Pond, he and his wife nevertheless agree to care for Billy, the son of Chelsea's new boyfriend, and a most unexpected relationship blooms.
Director: Mark Rydell | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, Doug McKeon
Votes: 34,812 | Gross: $119.29M
7. Air America (1990)
R | 113 min | Action, Comedy, War
A young pilot finds himself recruited unwittingly into a covert and corrupt CIA airlift operation in Laos during the Vietnam conflict.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Mel Gibson, Robert Downey Jr., Nancy Travis, Ken Jenkins
Votes: 30,509 | Gross: $31.05M
8. The Getaway (1972)
PG | 123 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A recently-released ex-con and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes awry.
Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Sally Struthers
Votes: 35,652 | Gross: $36.73M
9. The Lion in Winter (1968)
PG | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History
1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. When he allows his imprisoned wife Eleanor of Aquitaine out for a Christmas visit, they all variously plot to force him into a decision.
Director: Anthony Harvey | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, John Castle
Votes: 34,185 | Gross: $22.28M
10. The 6th Day (2000)
PG-13 | 123 min | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A man meets a clone of himself and stumbles into a grand conspiracy about clones taking over the world.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Rapaport, Tony Goldwyn, Michael Rooker
Votes: 127,835 | Gross: $34.60M
11. Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary, Music
A collection of expertly photographed phenomena with no conventional plot. The footage focuses on the relationship between nature, humanity, and technology.
Director: Godfrey Reggio | Stars: Edward Asner, Pat Benatar, Jerry Brown, Johnny Carson
Votes: 41,417 | Gross: $1.72M
12. Turner & Hooch (1989)
PG | 97 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A detective must adopt a rambunctious dog in order to help him find a killer.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Tom Hanks, Mare Winningham, Craig T. Nelson, Reginald VelJohnson
Votes: 76,277 | Gross: $71.08M
13. Shoot to Kill (1988)
R | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
An F.B.I. Agent teams up with a tracker to pursue a murderer after he vanishes into the mountains and infiltrates a hiking group.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Tom Berenger, Kirstie Alley, Clancy Brown
Votes: 14,923 | Gross: $29.30M
14. Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
R | 122 min | Biography, Drama, Western
Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.
Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Richard Jaeckel, Katy Jurado
Votes: 21,068 | Gross: $0.95M
15. Hard Times (1975)
PG | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Sport
The saga of a drifter who turns to illicit bare-knuckle boxing in Depression-era New Orleans.
Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Jill Ireland, Strother Martin
Votes: 12,086 | Gross: $8.72M
16. A Street Cat Named Bob (2016)
Not Rated | 103 min | Biography, Drama, Family
The true feel-good story of how James Bowen, a busker and recovering drug addict, has his life transformed when he meets a stray ginger cat. Based on the international best selling book.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Luke Treadaway, Bob the Cat, Ruta Gedmintas, Joanne Froggatt
Votes: 33,646 | Gross: $0.04M
17. Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992)
PG-13 | 87 min | Action, Comedy
A tough police sergeant's overbearing mother comes to visit him and begins to meddle in his life and career.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Estelle Getty, JoBeth Williams, Roger Rees
Votes: 44,718 | Gross: $28.41M
18. And the Band Played On (1993 TV Movie)
PG | 141 min | Drama, History
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic, and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Matthew Modine, Alan Alda, Patrick Bauchau, Nathalie Baye
Votes: 10,993
19. Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (1985)
PG | 95 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
A paleontologist and her husband discover a mother and baby brontosaurus in Africa, and try to protect them from a group of hunters intent on capturing the dinosaurs.
Director: Bill Norton | Stars: William Katt, Sean Young, Patrick McGoohan, Julian Fellowes
Votes: 3,505 | Gross: $14.97M
20. The Beach House (2018 TV Movie)
TV-G | 92 min | Drama
Caretta "Cara" Rutledge tries to move beyond a difficult past but is forced to grapple with history head-on when she returns to fix the family beach house.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Minka Kelly, Andie MacDowell, Chad Michael Murray, Makenzie Vega
Votes: 2,389
21. The Gambler (1974)
R | 111 min | Crime, Drama
Axel Freed is a literature professor. He has the gambling vice. When he has lost all of his money, he borrows from his girlfriend, then his mother, and finally some bad guys that chase him. Despite all of this, he cannot stop gambling.
Director: Karel Reisz | Stars: James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton, Morris Carnovsky
Votes: 6,556 | Gross: $1.31M
22. Under Fire (1983)
R | 128 min | Drama, War
Three journalists in a romantic triangle are involved in political intrigue during the last days of the corrupt Somoza regime in Nicaragua before it falls to a popular revolution in 1979.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Nick Nolte, Ed Harris, Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy
Votes: 8,502 | Gross: $5.70M
23. Human Experiments (1979)
R | 86 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A demented prison doctor performs gruesome shock therapy experiments on inmates.
Director: Gregory Goodell | Stars: Linda Haynes, Geoffrey Lewis, Ellen Travolta, Lurene Tuttle
Votes: 878
24. Terror Train (1980)
R | 97 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Three years after a prank went terribly awry, the six college students responsible are targeted by a masked killer at a New Year's Eve party aboard a moving train.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Ben Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hart Bochner, David Copperfield
Votes: 13,831
25. The Best of Times (1986)
PG-13 | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Robin Williams, Kurt Russell, Pamela Reed, Holly Palance
Votes: 8,185 | Gross: $7.79M
26. Georgy Girl (1966)
Approved | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A traditional girl (Lynn Redgrave) resists the advances of a swinger (James Mason) who wants her as his mistress in 1960s London.
Director: Silvio Narizzano | Stars: James Mason, Alan Bates, Lynn Redgrave, Charlotte Rampling
Votes: 4,241 | Gross: $16.87M
27. Who'll Stop the Rain (1978)
R | 126 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A Vietnam veteran gets conned into helping an old Marine friend smuggle drugs into the country but ends up having to go on the run with his friend's wife when the deal goes sour.
Director: Karel Reisz | Stars: Nick Nolte, Tuesday Weld, Michael Moriarty, Anthony Zerbe
Votes: 3,282
28. Funeral in Berlin (1966)
Not Rated | 102 min | Thriller
Sent to East Berlin to retrieve a Communist defector, British spy Harry Palmer suspects the situation is not what his superiors believe it to be.
Director: Guy Hamilton | Stars: Michael Caine, Oscar Homolka, Paul Hubschmid, Eva Renzi
Votes: 7,769
29. The Bang Bang Club (2010)
R | 106 min | Biography, Drama, History
A drama based on the true-life experiences of four combat photographers capturing the final days of apartheid in South Africa.
Director: Steven Silver | Stars: Ryan Phillippe, Malin Akerman, Taylor Kitsch, Neels van Jaarsveld
Votes: 11,522
30. Shake Hands with the Devil (2007)
R | 112 min | Drama, History, War
The story of General Romeo Dallaire's frustrated efforts to stop the madness of the Rwandan Genocide, despite the complete indifference of his superiors.
Directors: Jennifer Capraru, Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Roy Dupuis, Owen Sejake, James Gallanders, Michel Ange Nzojibwami
Votes: 3,695
31. The Children of Huang Shi (2008)
R | 125 min | Drama, War
About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh
Votes: 9,980 | Gross: $1.03M
32. The Matthew Shepard Story (2002 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 88 min | Drama
Openly gay college student Matthew Shepard (Shane Meier) was murdered in an act of a hate crime with a senseless violence and such cruelty that attracted global attention. His death has changed the whole world forever.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Stockard Channing, Shane Meier, Wendy Crewson, Kristen Thomson
Votes: 1,583
33. Mesmer (1994)
Not Rated | 107 min | Biography, Drama
A biography of the 18-century Viennese physician Franz Anton Mesmer, who used unorthodox healing practices based on his theory of "animal magnetism."
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Donal Donnelly, David Burke, Peter Dvorsky, Alan Rickman
Votes: 1,130
34. The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981)
PG | 100 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
D.B. Cooper parachutes with his stolen money and proceeds to contact his wife. Meanwhile, his former army sergeant, who now works as an insurance investigator, manages to identify him and decides to track him down.
Directors: Roger Spottiswoode, Buzz Kulik | Stars: Robert Duvall, Treat Williams, Kathryn Harrold, Ed Flanders
Votes: 1,420 | Gross: $3.70M
35. Ripley's Believe It or Not! (1982–1986)
60 min | Documentary, Family, History
Strange occurrences, odd historical facts and unusual artistic and social activities are explored.
Stars: Jack Palance, Holly Palance, Cathie Shirriff, Marie Osmond
Votes: 499
36. The Renegades (1982 TV Movie)
120 min | Drama, Crime, Mystery
In this drama, undercover investigators are recruited from the streets to prevent arms smugglers from getting their weapons to street gangs.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Patrick Swayze, Philip Casnoff, Randy Brooks, Cheryl Paris
Votes: 140
37. The Journey Home (II) (2014)
PG | 98 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A young boy attempts to reunite an abandoned polar bear cub with its mother in northern Canada.
Directors: Roger Spottiswoode, Brando Quilici | Stars: Dakota Goyo, Goran Visnjic, Bridget Moynahan, Duane Murray
Votes: 978
38. Hiroshima (1995 TV Movie)
PG | 190 min | Drama, War
The grisly events leading to the first attack with a nuclear weapon.
Directors: Koreyoshi Kurahara, Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Lynne Adams, Wesley Addy, Allen Altman, Bernard Behrens
Votes: 984
39. The Last Innocent Man (1987 TV Movie)
Unrated | 109 min | Thriller
Harry is tired of getting murderers off in court and quits. He has a relation with Jenny. She wants him to defend her separated husband. He allegedly murdered a cop posing as hooker.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Ed Harris, Roxanne Hart, David Suchet, Bruce McGill
Votes: 388
40. In Search of Gregory (1969)
M/PG | 90 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Young Catherine Morelli (Julie Christie), who lives in Rome, goes to Geneva to find romance at her father's wedding. There she begins a nearly nymphomaniacal pursuit of a mystery-fantasy man called Gregory (Michael Sarrazin).
Director: Peter Wood | Stars: Julie Christie, John Hurt, Michael Sarrazin, Paola Pitagora
Votes: 286
41. Noriega: God's Favorite (2000 TV Movie)
120 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The story of Panamanian general Manuel Antonio 'Tony' Noriega, whose meteoric career, from utter poverty, as a soldier and CIA informant who also served as source to various other powers ... See full summary »
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Bob Hoskins, Jeffrey DeMunn, Rosa Blasi, Luis Avalos
Votes: 527
42. Ice Bound (2003 TV Movie)
89 min | Drama
One woman's strength and courage under the most extreme weather conditions.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Susan Sarandon, Aidan Devine, Cynthia Mace, Paulino Nunes
Votes: 600
43. Stamping Ground (1971)
R | 83 min | Documentary, Music
Documentary of a 1970 rock concert held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Directors: Hans Jürgen Pohland, George Sluizer | Stars: Marty Balin, Skip Battin, Marc Bolan, The Byrds
Votes: 222
44. Murder Live! (1997 TV Movie)
96 min | Drama, Thriller
Frank takes Pia Postman hostage on live TV, threatening to execute her after she accepts the blame for his daughter's suicide.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Marg Helgenberger, David Morse, Christine Estabrook, Lauren Tom
Votes: 317
45. Either Side of Midnight (2021)
87 min | Drama
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Adam Kantor, Allison Strong, Rajesh Nahar, Natalie Paul
Votes: 10
46. Third Degree Burn (1989 TV Movie)
100 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Scott Weston is a private investigator who is supposedly hired by a rich businessman to determine whether or not his beautiful wife is fooling around behind his back. During the course of ... See full summary »
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Treat Williams, Virginia Madsen, Richard Masur, CCH Pounder
Votes: 447
47. Spinning Boris (2003 TV Movie)
R | 112 min | Comedy, Drama
Russian political elite hires American consultants to help with President Yeltsin's re-election campaign when his approval rating is down to single digits.
Director: Roger Spottiswoode | Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Anthony LaPaglia, Liev Schreiber, Boris Lee Krutonog
Votes: 1,313
48. Prince Street (1997)
60 min | Drama
The members of the NYPD Intelligence Division live double lives as they work undercover most of the time, trying to catch the most dangerous criminals in the city. They share their time ... See full summary »
Stars: Sam Rockwell, Mariska Hargitay, Mark Margolis, Joe Morton
Votes: 35
49. The Mikado (1967)
122 min | Musical
In a mythical Japan, Ko-Ko, a cheap tailor, has been appointed Lord High Executioner and must find someone to execute before the arrival of the ruling Mikado. He lights upon Nanki-Poo, a ... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Burge | Stars: Donald Adams, Philip Potter, John Reed, Kenneth Sandford
Votes: 102
50. Beyond Right and Wrong: Stories of Justice and Forgiveness (2012)
Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary, War
"Beyond Right & Wrong" looks at areas of conflict around the world and asks what it takes to forgive, and what it takes to ask for forgiveness under the most difficult of circumstances. ... See full summary »
Directors: Lekha Singh, Roger Spottiswoode
Votes: 46