List of the best Michael Higgins movies: On Valentine's Day(1986), The Favor(2006), The Conversation(1974), An Enemy of the People(1978), Forced March(1989), Angel Heart(1987), Off the Black(2006), The Seduction of Joe Tynan(1979), Desperate Characters(1971), Rumble Fish(1983) ... ...
Other, Drama
USA
1986
106 Minutes
Hallie Foote William Converse-Roberts Michael Higgins Richard Jenkins Jeanne McCarthy Steven Hill Irma P. Hall Rochelle Oliver Matthew Broderick Carol Goodheart Horton Foote Jr.
On Valentine's Day is the central film in Horton Foote's semi-autobiographical trilogy that also includes Courtship and 1918. It is a nearly verbatim retelling of his stage play and the sets and costumes.
Drama
Mexico|USA
2006
110 Minutes
Frank Wood Ryan Donowho Isidra Vega Paige Turco Michael Higgins Laura Breckenridge Wally Dunn Sterling K. Brown Jesse Kelly
photographer girlfriend single mother teen boy teen girl father figure dark emotional suburbia family home mother/child relationship death teen angst new love foster care drugs growing up transformation 2000s
Lawrence (played by Frank Wood), a photographer living on his own in New Jersey, rekindles a relationship with his old flame Caroline (played by Paige Turco) shortly before she dies in an ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1974
113 Minutes
Gene Hackman John Cazale Frederic Forrest Allen Goorwitz Cindy Williams Michael Higgins Elizabeth MacRae Teri Garr Harrison Ford Mark Wheeler Robert Shields
eavesdropper co-worker wealthy man assistant wife lover dark gripping san francisco park apartment office surveillance deception murder mystery pursuit 1970s
A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
Drama
USA
1978
103 Minutes
Steve McQueen Charles Durning Bibi Andersson Richard Dysart Michael Cristofer Michael Higgins Eric Christmas Robin Pearson Rose Richard Bradford John Levin Ham Larsen
doctor mayor brother wife intense bleak small town family home pollution corruption greed discovery underdog victorian era
A scientist stands against an entire town when he discovers their medicinal spa is polluted.
Drama
1989
104 Minutes
Chris Sarandon Renée Soutendijk John Seitz Josef Sommer Larry Golden Michael Higgins Alan Goodson Hans Jakob
A former TV star (Chris Sarandon) makes a Holocaust movie about a Hungarian poet in a Nazi death march.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
UK|Canada|USA
1987
113 Minutes
Mickey Rourke Robert De Niro Lisa Bonet Charlotte Rampling Stocker Fontelieu Brownie McGhee Michael Higgins Charles Gordone Kathleen Wilhoite
private investigator singer daughter satan magician dark gripping suspenseful new york city new orleans hotel racetrack mystery murder secret detective voodoo investigation mystery pursuit
A private investigator is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cyphre to track down a singer named Johnny Favorite. But the investigation takes an unexpected and somber turn.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2006
90 Minutes
Nick Nolte Trevor Morgan Sonia Feigelson Rosemarie DeWitt Sally Kirkland Timothy Hutton Michael Higgins Noah Fleiss Marlyne Afflack Whitney Bashor James Ponsoldt
alcoholic student friend father emotional melodramatic endearing cemetery inner city house disillusionment death family dysfunction father/son relationship loneliness illness discovery transformation 2000s
An aging, disillusioned alcoholic (Nolte) gets a younger friend (Morgan) and wants him to pose as his son at a school reunion.
Drama
USA
1979
107 Minutes
Alan Alda Barbara Harris Meryl Streep Rip Torn Melvyn Douglas Charles Kimbrough Carrie Nye Michael Higgins Blanche Baker Adam Ross Maureen Anderman
senator wife attorney politician pretty woman secretary emotional uneasy washington, d.c. office household supreme court politics idealism infidelity ambition morality love transformation temptation
Respected liberal Senator Joe Tynan is asked to lead the opposition to a Supreme Court appointment. It means losing an old friend and fudging principles to make the necessary deals, as well... See full summary »
Drama
USA|UK
1971
91 Minutes
Shirley MacLaine Kenneth Mars Gerald S. O'Loughlin Sada Thompson Jack Somack Chris Gampel Mary Alan Hokanson Robert Bauer Carol Kane Michael Higgins Michael McAloney
housewife lawyer old friend activist police chief emotional disheartening brooklyn, n.y. row house cottage depression weekend getaway middle age urban crime failing marriage wretched excess transformation 1970s
Marriage of a midlife, middle-class, childless couple is in a rut. Sophie has become depressed, frigid and slightly paranoid and Otto is stuck in optimistic denial. Things escalate at their summer cottage, but no one dares call it quits.
Drama
USA
1983
94 Minutes
Matt Dillon Mickey Rourke Diane Lane Dennis Hopper Diana Scarwid Vincent Spano Nicolas Cage Chris Penn Laurence Fishburne William Smith Michael Higgins
tough guy girlfriend brother father friend police officer bleak tender gritty emotional new york state bar pool hall small town adolescence violence family small-town life alcoholism troubled youth
Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days when gang warfare was going on.