List of the best George Roy Hill movies: The Sting(1973), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid(1969), A Little Romance(1979), Slap Shot(1977), The World According to Garp(1982), Thoroughly Modern Millie(1967), Slaughterhouse Five(1972), The Great Waldo Pepper(1975), The World of Henry Orient(1964), Hawaii(1966), Funny Farm(1988) ... ...
Comedy, Drama
USA
1973
129 Minutes
Director
Paul Newman Robert Redford Robert Shaw Charles Durning Ray Walston Eileen Brennan Harold Gould John Heffernan Dana Elcar Jack Kehoe Dimitra Arliss
con artist mentor gangster amusing witty engaging chicago deception shady dealings revenge scams gambling revenge quest underdog 1930s
Two grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.
Action, Western
USA
1969
110 Minutes
Director
Paul Newman Robert Redford Katharine Ross Strother Martin Henry Jones Jeff Corey George Furth Cloris Leachman Ted Cassidy Kenneth Mars Donnelly Rhodes
outlaw gunslinger teacher amusing wild thrilling gutsy wild west train bolivia wyoming brothel saloon butch cassidy the sundance kid robbery adventure escape 1890s
Wyoming, early 1900s. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are the leaders of a band of outlaws. After a train robbery goes wrong they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. Their solution - escape to Bolivia.
Romance
France|USA
1979
108 Minutes
Director
Laurence Olivier Diane Lane Thelonious Bernard Arthur Hill Sally Kellerman David Dukes Andrew Duncan
teen girl teen boy pickpocket mother stepfather director moving amusing paris film set street family home racetrack first love running away filmmaking teen angst mother/daughter relationship growing up love
An American teenager living in Paris meets and falls in love with a local.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1977
123 Minutes
Director
Paul Newman Michael Ontkean Lindsay Crouse Strother Martin Jennifer Warren Jerry Houser Andrew Duncan Jeff Carlson Dave Hanson Yvon Barrette Allan Nichols
coach hockey player wife manager radio personality unrestrained hilarious offbeat small town hockey rink locker room charlestown hockey unemployment violence alcoholism sports underdog transformation 1970s
A failing ice hockey team finds success with outrageously violent hockey goonery.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1982
136 Minutes
Director
Robin Williams Glenn Close Mary Beth Hurt John Lithgow Hume Cronyn Jessica Tandy Swoosie Kurtz James McCall Peter Michael Goetz George Ede Mark Soper
nurse author wife transsexual child quirky amusing sad school household writing feminism gender bias sex growing up 1970s
A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1967
138 Minutes
Director
Julie Andrews Mary Tyler Moore Carol Channing James Fox Beatrice Lillie John Gavin Lisabeth Hush Jack Soo Noriyuki "Pat" Morita Philip Ahn Cavada Humphrey
secretary orphan salesman boss manager kidnapper madcap campy lighthearted new york city hotel long island, n.y. chinatown skyscraper love triangle employment kidnapping wealth transformation love
Millie Dillmount comes to town in the roaring twenties to encounter flappers, sexuality, and white slavers.
Sci-Fi
USA
1972
104 Minutes
Director
Michael Sacks Ron Leibman Valerie Perrine Eugene Roche Sharon Gans Roberts Blossom Sorrell Booke Kevin Conway Gary Waynesmith John Dehner Stan Gottlieb
optometrist prisoner of war alien actress soldier wife creative fascinating intricate amusing emotional dresden, germany ilium, n.y. tralfamadore prison camp zoo mental institution time travel horrors of war alien abduction
Billy Pilgrim has mysteriously become unstuck in time. He goes on an uncontrollable trip back and forth from his birth in New York to life on a distant planet and back again to the horrors of the 1945 fire-bombing of Dresden.
Adventure, Drama
USA
1975
107 Minutes
Director
Robert Redford Bo Svenson Bo Brundin Susan Sarandon Geoffrey Lewis Edward Herrmann Philip Bruns Roderick Cook Kelly Jean Peters Margot Kidder Scott Newman
pilot celebrity friend filmmaker inspiring lighthearted midwest airplane hollywood, calif. air force show business aviation rivalry daunting task fame adventure pursuit rise 1930s
After WW1, an ex-pilot takes up barn-storming and chance-meets a former German ace fighter pilot with whom he co-stars in Hollywood war movies depicting aerial dog-fights.
Comedy
USA
1964
106 Minutes
Director
Peter Sellers Tippy Walker Merrie Spaeth Paula Prentiss Angela Lansbury Phyllis Thaxter Tom Bosley Bibi Osterwald John Fiedler
pianist housewife young girl divorcée cheery amusing playful new york city central park apartment first love best friends infatuation infidelity growing up 1960s
A mischievous, adventuresome fourteen-year-old girl and her best friend begin following an eccentric concert pianist around New York City after she develops a crush on him.
Drama
USA
1966
181 Minutes
Director
Julie Andrews Max von Sydow Richard Harris Torin Thatcher Gene Hackman Carroll O'Connor Jocelyne LaGarde John Cullum George Rose Michael Constantine Ted Nobriga
minister wife native ex-lover sailor emotional gripping powerful ship hawaii connecticut love triangle culture clash native people imperialism religious conversion discovery quest adventure fall
An American missionary and his wife travel to the exotic island kingdom of Hawaii, intent on converting the natives. But the clash between the two cultures is too great and instead of understanding there comes tragedy.
Comedy
USA
1988
103 Minutes
Director
Chevy Chase Madolyn Smith Kevin O'Morrison Joseph Maher Jack Gilpin Brad Sullivan MacIntyre Dixon
sportswriter author sheriff mayor editor wife amusing tense madcap redbud, vt. farm small town small-town life jealousy daunting task writer's block relocation farming rivalry quest
A couple swap city life for the country, but their picturesque new hometown turns out to be just a little bit different to what they were expecting.