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- DirectorPeter YatesStarsCliff RichardLauri PetersMelvyn HayesFour bus mechanics and a stowaway travel Europe as a hotel, picking up singers. In Athens, the stowaway's mother has them arrested for kidnapping but then accepts her daughter's love for a mechanic and they vacation in Greece.
- DirectorPeter YatesStarsEric SykesGeorge ColeJulia FosterIn between inventing odd devices, the very eccentric Groomkirby family decides to re-enact a murder and trial in their living room.
- DirectorPeter YatesStarsStanley BakerJoanna PettetJames BoothA group of British criminals plan the robbery of the Royal Mail train on the Glasgow-London route.
- DirectorPeter YatesStarsSteve McQueenJacqueline BissetRobert VaughnA nonconformist San Francisco cop is determined to find the underworld kingpin who killed the witness under his protection.Steve McQueen is cool as ice in this thrilling police procedural that also happens to contain the arguably greatest car chase ever.
- DirectorPeter YatesStarsDustin HoffmanMia FarrowMichael TolanJohn and Mary meet in a singles bar, sleep together, and spend the next day getting to know each other.John and Mary is supposed to be a contemporary movie, I guess, and yet it's curiously out of touch.
- DirectorPeter YatesStarsPeter O'TooleSiân PhillipsPhilippe NoiretA lone survivor from a British naval ship is obsessed with getting revenge on a German U-boat crew that massacred his shipmates in the water.
- DirectorPeter YatesStarsRobert RedfordGeorge SegalRon LeibmanDortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it...All of the stuff is good, and it's only the movie's tendency to repeat itself and to stop for unnecessary scenes of character development that keep it from being a classically pure - which is to say, totally devious - caper movie.
- DirectorPeter YatesStarsRobert MitchumPeter BoyleRichard JordanAfter 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.The Friends of Eddie Coyle sees Robert Mitchum in transformative late-career mode in a gritty and credible character study.
- DirectorPeter YatesStarsBarbra StreisandMichael SarrazinEstelle ParsonsA housewife tries to finance her cab-driving husband's education.Never scores the belly laughs it desires.
- DirectorPeter YatesStarsBill CosbyRaquel WelchHarvey KeitelCompetition between privately owned Los Angeles, California ambulance companies is played for humor.It can't decide whether to be slapstick or hard-boiled, winds up not being much of either and has the most improbable love scene since Nelson Eddy yodeled for Jeanette Macdonald.
- DirectorPeter YatesStarsJacqueline BissetNick NolteDick Anthony WilliamsIn Bermuda, two amateur treasure-hunting divers have a run-in with local criminals when they inadvertently discover the secret cargo of a World War II shipwreck.The only thing deep about this thriller is the big budget.
- DirectorPeter YatesStarsDennis ChristopherDennis QuaidDaniel SternA working-class Indiana teen obsessed with the Italian cycling team vies for the affections of a college girl while searching for life goals with his friends.At once a touching, funny coming-of-age story and a compelling sports film, Breaking Away is a delightful treat.
- DirectorPeter YatesStarsWilliam HurtSigourney WeaverChristopher PlummerA janitor who claims he's seen a murder becomes romantically involved with the glamorous TV reporter covering the story.Every scene develops characters. And they're developed in such offbeat fidelity to the way people do behave that we get all the more involved in the mystery, just because, for once, we halfway believe it could really be happening.
- DirectorPeter YatesStarsKen MarshallLysette AnthonyFreddie JonesA prince and a fellowship of companions set out to rescue his bride from a fortress of alien invaders who have arrived on their home planet, Krull.Dreadful.
- DirectorPeter YatesStarsAlbert FinneyTom CourtenayEdward FoxPersonal assistant Norman struggles to get deteriorating veteran actor Sir through a difficult performance of King Lear.On the surface, the movie is a wonderful collection of theatrical lore, detail, and superstition.
- DirectorPeter YatesStarsKate NelliganJohn MalkovichLinda HuntA mother's love for her children leads to a son's revenge for her death in this dramatic thriller that begins during the Greek civil war.The movie's fatal flaw, however, is to ever show us Eleni in the first place.
- DirectorPeter YatesStarsCherDennis QuaidLiam NeesonWhen a homeless man is accused of murdering a Justice Department file clerk, a public defender is tasked with mounting his legal defense.The closing revelations made me rethink the whole plot, and made it look less like a case of jury-tampering than audience-tampering.
- DirectorPeter YatesStarsKelly McGillisJeff DanielsMandy PatinkinIn 1950s America, an FBI agent and a blacklist victim uncover a plot to smuggle Nazi war criminals into the country.As thriller plots go, “The House on Carroll Street” is fairly old-fashioned, which is one of its merits.
- DirectorPeter YatesStarsTom SelleckF. Murray AbrahamLaila RobinsA man is framed by two corrupt cops for drugs. After he gets out of prison, he comes after them."An Innocent Man" has all the elements to put us through an emotional wringer, but the movie never works up any enthusiasm for them.
- DirectorPeter YatesStarsPenelope Ann MillerTim DalyLouis JourdanAn auctioneer's daughter and a rich buyer's emissary fall for each other while trying to keep a rare wine out of the hands of evil doers.
- DirectorPeter YatesStarsPeter FalkD.B. SweeneyJulianne MooreAn elderly yet young-at-heart man moves in with his grandson and both their lives turn upside-down.The pieces were in place for a nice little story, but by trying to do too much with it, "Roommates" overshoots the runway.
- DirectorPeter YatesStarsAlbert FinneyMatt KeeslarVictoria SmurfitIn a small village on the border of Northern Ireland and The Republic of Ireland, the relationship between a short tempered policeman and his rebellious son becomes even more strenuous when the young man falls for a "wrong" girl.
- DirectorPeter YatesStarsJames SpaderPolly WalkerMichael CaineA man buys a house on Manhattan, uninhabited for decades - except the ghosts of the previous owner and his wife. They meddle in his love life.