List of the best Joseph Sargent movies: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three(1974), Colossus: The Forbin Project(1969), White Lightning(1973), Nightmares(1983), Coast to Coast(1980), The Karen Carpenter Story(1989), There Must Be a Pony(1986), Hustling(1975), Sybil(2008), A Lesson Before Dying(1999), Caroline?(1990), Miss Evers' Boys(1997) ... ...
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama, Action
USA
1974
104 Minutes
Director
Walter Matthau Robert Shaw Martin Balsam Héctor Elizondo Earl Hindman James Broderick Dick O'Neill Lee Wallace Tom Pedi Beatrice Winde Jerry Stiller
criminal police officer negotiator hostage mayor cheeky chilling gritty suspenseful brash new york city subway hijacking crime city life pursuit rescue 1970s
In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
Sci-Fi
USA
1969
100 Minutes
Director
Eric Braeden Susan Clark Gordon Pinsent William Schallert Leonid Rostoff Georg Stanford Brown Willard Sage Alex Rodine Martin Brooks Marion Ross Dolph Sweet
scientist president computer russian politician tense bleak rocky mountains laboratory russia technology missiles man vs. machine cold war artificial intelligence nuclear attack discovery 1960s
Thinking this will prevent war, the US government gives an impenetrable supercomputer total control over launching nuclear missiles. But what the computer does with the power is unimaginable to its creators.
Action
USA
1973
101 Minutes
Director
Burt Reynolds Jennifer Billingsley Ned Beatty Bo Hopkins Matt Clark Louise Latham Diane Ladd R. G. Armstrong Conlan Carter Dabbs Greer Lincoln Demyan
moonshiner sheriff corrupt cop prosecutor criminal thrilling frenetic arkansas prison small town hideout police corruption murder bootlegging chase undercover operations redemption pursuit quest revenge
An ex con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.
Horror
USA
1983
99 Minutes
Director
Tina Herazo Emilio Estevez Lance Henriksen Mariclare Costello Louis Giambalvo Moon Zappa Tony Plana Timothy Scott Anthony James Robin Gammell Rose Marie Campos
Anthology of four horror tales with a supernatural twist based on urban legends.
Romance
USA
1980
95 Minutes
Director
Diane Cannon Robert Blake Quinn Redeker Michael Lerner Maxine Stuart Bill Lucking Ellen Gerstein Patricia Conklin David Moody Rozelle Gayle Martin Beck
A wealthy neurotic woman escapes from a New York mental asylum, and hitches a ride back to California with a moody down-on-his-luck cowboy trucker. They fall in love with each other while on the run from bounty hunters and a repo man.
Biography
USA
1989
97 Minutes
Director
A suave hit man becomes paranoid when he discovers blackmailers have photographed his latest murders.
Drama
1986
100 Minutes
Director
Elizabeth Taylor Robert Wagner James Coco William Windom Edward Winter Ken Olin Chad Lowe
A Hollywood actress (Elizabeth Taylor) recovers from a breakdown, finds TV work and begins a romance with a stranger (Robert Wagner).
Drama
1975
96 Minutes
Director
Lee Remick Jill Clayburgh Monte Markham Alex Rocco Melanie Mayron Beverly Hope Atkinson Dick O'Neill Burt Young Paul Benedict John Sylvester White Allan Miller
prostitute pimp reporter cop intense gritty brutal new york city street prostitution journalism corruption crime discovery 1970s
An investigative reporter sets out to expose the real money-makers in the Manhattan prostitution business.
Drama
2008
89 Minutes
Director
Jessica Lange Tammy Blanchard JoBeth Williams Ron White Allison Murray Fabrizio Filippo Brian Downey Bill Carr Gary Levert Linda Carvey Liam McNamara
A woman (Tammy Blanchard) who has 16 distinct personalities describes her abusive past to a psychiatrist (Jessica Lange).
Drama
1999
101 Minutes
Director
Don Cheadle Cicely Tyson Mekhi Phifer Irma P. Hall Brent Jennings Lisa Arrindell Anderson Frank Taylor Stuart Culpepper Patty Mack Elijah Kelley Wynton Yates
schoolteacher young man lawyer woman reverend sheriff bleak emotional deep south prison school false accusations prejudice race relations friendship incarceration underdog discovery 1940s
A caring teacher (Don Cheadle) tries to inspire strength and dignity in an innocent black man (Mekhi Phifer) condemned to death in 1940s Louisiana.
Mystery & Thriller
1990
97 Minutes
Director
Stephanie Zimbalist Pamela Reed George Grizzard Patricia Neal Dorothy McGuire Shawn Phelan Jenny Jacobs
daughter stepbrother stepsister father grandmother second wife suspenseful engaging melodramatic house library presumed dead inheritance disability suspicion wealth discovery rivalry 1950s
Long thought dead, a woman (Stephanie Zimbalist) returns to her family -- just in time for an inheritance.
Drama
1997
118 Minutes
Director
Alfre Woodard Laurence Fishburne Craig Sheffer Joe Morton Obba Babatundé E.G. Marshall Ossie Davis Von Coulter
nurse patient senator doctor farmer emotional uneasy shocking hospital courtroom alabama farm tuskegee study syphilis eunice evers conspiracy sacrifice 1970s
A nurse (Alfre Woodard) becomes involved in a government experiment to withhold treatment for syphilis from a group of black patients.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Adventure
1987
89 Minutes
Director
Lorraine Gary Lance Guest Mario Van Peebles Karen Young Michael Caine Judith Barsi Lynn Whitfield Mitchell Anderson
widow mother son love interest friend shark frightening suspenseful amity island coast bahamas ocean shark attack man vs. beast family hunting mourning survival revenge pursuit
A huge white shark harasses a New England widow (Lorraine Gary) and her marine-biologist son (Lance Guest) in the Bahamas.
Drama
2004
117 Minutes
Director
Alan Rickman Yasiin Bey Mary Stuart Masterson Gabrielle Union Kyra Sedgwick Charles S. Dutton Merritt Wever Clayton LeBouef
surgeon janitor administrator assistant doctor moving powerful inspiring nashville, tenn. baltimore laboratory hospital college hotel research racism medicine surgery pioneering quest
While contending with racism during the '30s and '40s, lab technician (Mos Def) Vivien Thomas works with Dr. Alfred Blalock (Alan Rickman) to improve surgical techniques.
Drama
2008
96 Minutes
Director
Jeff Daniels Marlee Matlin Ed Waterstreet Phyllis Frelich Sonya Walger David Oyelowo Noah Valencia Rosemary Forsyth Bradford English Lily Knight Jack Laufer
A man (Jeff Daniels) wants to restore his son's (Noah Valencia) hearing with surgery, but his deaf wife (Marlee Matlin) opposes the plan.
Drama, Biography
2005
117 Minutes
Director
Kenneth Branagh Cynthia Nixon Jane Alexander Kathy Bates Tim Blake Nelson David Paymer Matt O'Leary Matt Malloy
politician eleanor roosevelt physical therapist mother manager patient emotional inspiring warm springs, ga. spa household franklin delano roosevelt polio paralysis politics determination rehabilitation quest fall rise
Stricken with polio at the age of 39, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Kenneth Branagh) seeks refuge and treatment at a health spa in Georgia.
Drama
1970
75 Minutes
Director
Sally Field Eleanor Parker Jackie Cooper Lane Bradbury David Carradine
A teenage runaway (Sally Field) tries life as a hippie, then comes home to her parents (Eleanor Parker, Jackie Cooper) and sister.
Drama
1991
100 Minutes
Director
In 1980 the Institute for Historical Review dares Mel Mermelstein (Leonard Nimoy), a survivor of the Auschwitz death camp, to prove the existence of the Holocaust.
Drama
2003
120 Minutes
Director
Christine Lahti Bruce Davison Jonathan Cake Jolyon Baker Jessica Beitchman Oliver Cotton Michelle Fine Zoie Palmer Maria Ricossa Ingrid Veninger Emma Wellbelove
After surviving the Holocaust, Dr. Gisella Perl (Christine Lahti) recounts her story of helping fellow Jews in a concentration camp.