List of the best Jonathan Kaplan movies: Over the Edge(1979), Truck Turner(1974), Heart Like a Wheel(1983), White Line Fever(1975), Project X(1987), Immediate Family(1989), Mr. Billion(1977), The Slams(1973), Night Call Nurses(1972), Death Ride to Osaka(1983), Student Teachers(1973) ... ...
Drama
USA
1979
95 Minutes
Director
Michael Kramer Pamela Ludwig Matt Dillon Vincent Spano Tom Fergus Andy Romano Ellen Geer Lane Smith Harry Northrup
teen boy teen girl sheriff car dealer wife teacher shocking intense suburbia colorado school recreation center troubled youth juvenile crime vandalism first love police brutality growing up revenge 1970s
A group of bored teenagers rebel against authority in the community of New Granada after the death of one of their own.
Action
USA
1974
91 Minutes
Director
Isaac Hayes Yaphet Kotto Alan Weeks Annazette Chase Sam Laws Nichelle Nichols Scatman Crothers Paul Harris Earl Maynard Annik Borel
bounty hunter pimp madam prostitute assassin partner cool unrestrained gutsy brash los angeles estate bar roof pool vengeance prostitution on the run accidental death contract killing
Blaxploitation film about a former professional football player who becomes a bounty hunter in Los Angeles.
Biography
USA
1983
113 Minutes
Director
Bonnie Bedelia Beau Bridges Leo Rossi Hoyt Axton Bill McKinney Anthony Edwards Dean-Paul Martin Paul Bartel Dick Miller Terence Knox
housewife mechanic race car driver uplifting inspiring racetrack upstate new york house garage sexism car racing gender identity sports ambition competition underdog transformation rise 1980s
Shirley Muldowney is determined to be a top-fuel drag racer, although no woman has ever raced them before. Despite the high risks of this kind of racing and the burden it places on her ... See full summary »
Action
Canada|USA
1975
92 Minutes
Director
Jan-Michael Vincent Kay Lenz Slim Pickens L.Q. Jones Don Porter Sam Laws Johnny Ray McGhee Leigh French R. G. Armstrong Martin Kove Jamie Anderson
In the 1970s Arizona, a young married man becomes an independent long-haul driver and he risks his life fighting the corruption in the local long-haul trucking industry.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1987
108 Minutes
Director
Matthew Broderick Helen Hunt William Sadler Johnny Ray McGhee Jonathan Stark Robin Gammell Stephen Lang Jean Smart Dick Miller
pilot graduate student chimpanzee scientist military officer engaging heartwarming suspenseful everglades air force base airplane animal cruelty radiation scientific experiments military secrets animal rights research discovery rescue rivalry
An Air Force pilot joins a top secret military experiment involving chimps, but begins to suspect there might be something more to the mysterious "Project X".
Comedy, Drama
USA|Canada
1989
100 Minutes
Director
Glenn Close James Woods Mary Stuart Masterson Kevin Dillon Linda Darlow Jane Greer Jessica James Mimi Kennedy Charles Levin Harrison Mohr Matthew Moore
husband wife teen girl boyfriend mother father heartwarming mellow emotional house hospital united states adoption teen pregnancy relationships infertility indecisiveness parenthood sacrifice growing up
Linda and Michael, married for ten years, desperately want a baby and turn to an adoption agency which introduces them to Lucy, a teenage girl expecting her first baby. The three agree that... See full summary »
Comedy
USA
1977
91 Minutes
Director
mechanic assistant private investigator kidnapper billionaire heir amusing madcap lighthearted united states highway bar san francisco new york city inheritance death greed road trip sabotage corporate ladder
When an American billionaire dies, his poor Italian nephew inherits everything, provided he can arrive in the USA to claim his inheritance before the deadline but the corporate lawyer-executor tries to steal the inheritance.
Action
1973
97 Minutes
Director
Jim Brown Judy Pace Roland "Bob" Harris Paul E. Harris Frank de Kova Ted Cassidy Frenchia Guizon John Dennis Jac Emel Quinn Redeker Betty Cole
Rival prison factions surround a Los Angeles convict (Jim Brown) who has $1.5 million stashed on the outside.
Mystery & Thriller
1972
75 Minutes
Director
Patricia T. Byrne Alana Collins Mittie Lawrence Clint Kimbrough Felton Perry Stack Pierce Bobby Hall Martin Ashe
Nurses (Patricia T. Byrne, Alana Collins, Mittie Lawrence) work the night shift in a psychiatric clinic where anything goes.
Drama
1983
100 Minutes
Director
Jennifer Jason Leigh Ann Jillian Tom Byrd Carolyn Seymour Richard Narita Soon-Teck Oh Philip Charles MacKenzie Leslie Wing-Pomeroy John Hancock
The yakuza force an American singer (Jennifer Jason Leigh), lured to a Tokyo nightclub, into white slavery.
Comedy, Drama
1973
79 Minutes
Director
James Millhollin Brooke Mills Dick Miller
Three beautiful young women striving to obtain their teaching credentials help students rebel against stuffy administrators.