List of the best Mike Nichols movies: The Graduate(1967), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?(1966), Everything Is Copy(2015), The Birdcage(1996), Catch-22(1970), Charlie Wilson's War(2007), Carnal Knowledge(1971), Gilda Live(1980), Working Girl(1988), Postcards From the Edge(1990), The Designated Mourner(1997), The Day of the Dolphin(1973) ... ...
Comedy, Drama
USA
1967
105 Minutes
Director
Dustin Hoffman Anne Bancroft Katharine Ross William Daniels Murray Hamilton Elizabeth Wilson Brian Avery Walter Brooke Norman Fell Alice Ghostley Buck Henry
college graduate lawyer college student sexy woman amusing sad witty california hotel campus family home wedding may-december romance post-college aimless youth new love growing up love temptation 1960s
A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
Drama
USA
1966
129 Minutes
Director
Elizabeth Taylor Richard Burton George Segal Sandy Dennis Agnes Flanagan Frank Flanagan
professor wife teacher alcoholic bleak brash disturbing new england family home college nightclub abuse alcoholism marriage infidelity parenthood rivalry wretched excess 1960s
A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use their young houseguests to fuel anguish and emotional pain towards each other over the course of a distressing night.
Documentary
USA
2015
89 Minutes
filmmaker writer tom hanks steven spielberg meryl streep creative emotional engaging fascinating united states life documentaries work biography discovery 21st century
A look at the life and work of writer/filmmaker Nora Ephron.
Gay & Lesbian, Comedy
USA
1996
119 Minutes
Director
Robin Williams Gene Hackman Nathan Lane Dianne Wiest Hank Azaria Christine Baranski Dan Futterman Calista Flockhart Tom McGowan
club owner drag queen senator fiancée housekeeper son hysterical frenetic outlandish tense miami nightclub house family honor tolerance stereotypes cross-dressing homosexuality engagement transformation
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's right-wing moralistic parents.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1970
121 Minutes
Director
Alan Arkin Martin Balsam Richard Benjamin Art Garfunkel Jack Gilford Bob Newhart Anthony Perkins Paula Prentiss Martin Sheen Jon Voight Orson Welles
captain pilot soldier lieutenant doctor witty amusing profound island mediterranean sea war zone horrors of war bombing aviation disillusionment insanity world war ii escape discovery 1940s
A man is trying desperately to be certified insane during World War II, so he can stop flying missions.
Comedy, Drama
USA|Germany
2007
102 Minutes
Director
Tom Hanks Julia Roberts Philip Seymour Hoffman Amy Adams Ned Beatty Emily Blunt Om Puri Ken Stott John Slattery Denis O'Hare Judy Tylor
charlie wilson socialite cia agent military officer powerful amusing hedonistic texas afghanistan cold war scandal military historical events terrorism quest 1980s
A drama based on a Texas congressman Charlie Wilson's covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets have some unforeseen and long-reaching effects.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1971
96 Minutes
Director
Jack Nicholson Art Garfunkel Ann-Margret Candice Bergen Rita Moreno Cynthia O'Neal Carol Kane
good guy ladies' man girlfriend wife cool witty offbeat new york city amherst, mass. college apartment sex marriage love love triangle friendship growing up love 1960s
Chronicling the lifelong sexual development of two men who meet and befriend one another in college.
Comedy
USA
1980
90 Minutes
Director
Gilda Radner Don Novello Diana Grasselli Miriam Valle Maria Vidal Paul Shaffer Bob Christianson Nils Nichols John Caruso Howard Shore G.E. Smith
A filmed version of the Broadway show starring comedienne Gilda Radner, complete with the characters she made famous on the TV show "Saturday Night Live."
Romance
USA
1988
113 Minutes
Director
Melanie Griffith Harrison Ford Sigourney Weaver Alec Baldwin Joan Cusack Philip Bosco Nora Dunn Oliver Platt James Lally Kevin Spacey Robert Easton
secretary boss executive boyfriend friend witty suspenseful amusing wall street new york city office party corporate culture workplace romance ambition deception betrayal impersonation rise love
When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss' job.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1990
101 Minutes
Director
Meryl Streep Shirley MacLaine Dennis Quaid Gene Hackman Richard Dreyfuss Rob Reiner Mary Wickes Conrad Bain Annette Bening Simon Callow Gary Morton
actress mother director celebrity alcoholic quirky witty endearing hollywood, calif. hospital house show business drugs rehabilitation mother/daughter relationship fame discovery rivalry transformation 1990s
A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she is forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.
Drama
UK
1997
94 Minutes
Jack
writer poet wife government official father bleak dark disheartening dystopia household prison father/daughter relationship censorship fascism revolution execution violence fall sacrifice unknown era
Jack and Judy are husband and wife, and Howard is Judys father. They live in some fictional undemocratic and repressive country, and tell us a story about their lives, mostly from Jack's ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Adventure
USA
1973
104 Minutes
Director
George C. Scott Trish Van Devere Paul Sorvino Fritz Weaver Jon Korkes Edward Herrmann Leslie Charleson John David Carson Victoria Racimo John Dehner Severn Darden
marine biologist wife dolphin undercover agent uneasy touching suspenseful ocean florida keys pool press conference assassination shady dealings marine life dolphins animal tricks discovery pursuit 1970s
A marine biologist teaches his dolphins to communicate in English but shady characters plan to kidnap the trained mammals for a more sinister purpose.
Drama
USA
1986
108 Minutes
Director
Meryl Streep Jack Nicholson Maureen Stapleton Jeff Daniels Stockard Channing Richard Masur Catherine O'Hara Steven Hill Milos Forman Mamie Gummer Karen Akers
food critic columnist daughter journalist cheeky emotional sad new york city washington, d.c. marriage pregnancy infidelity home repairs sex commitment fall love transformation sacrifice 1980s
She's a magazine writer who gives up her career for love and family. He's a playboy newspaper columnist who can't quite give up his old tricks. And if that combination doesn't give a relationship Heartburn, nothing will.
Comedy
USA
1975
88 Minutes
Director
Jack Nicholson Warren Beatty Stockard Channing Florence Stanley Richard B. Shull Tom Newman John Fiedler Scatman Crothers Dub Taylor Ian Wolfe Rose Michtom
heiress husband wife friend con artist cheeky madcap winsome train los angeles beach airplane marriage wealth travel adultery inheritance schemes love rivalry
Two bumbling hustlers in the 1920s attempt to gain the fortune of an heiress. Nothing will stop them, not even murder.
Comedy
USA
2000
104 Minutes
Director
Garry Shandling Annette Bening Greg Kinnear Ben Kingsley Linda Fiorentino John Goodman Richard Jenkins Caroline Aaron Judy Greer Nora Dunn Ann Cusack
alien woman banker friend candidate hilarious offbeat witty phoenix restroom wedding alien landing seduction repopulation sex relationships pregnancy quest discovery 2000s
A human-looking alien from a highly advanced but emotionless all-male society is sent to Earth to impregnate a woman and bring the child back to their planet. The alien ends up falling in love there. A suspicious F.A.A. Agent targets him.
Drama
2001
99 Minutes
Director
Emma Thompson Christopher Lloyd Eileen Atkins Audra McDonald Jonathan M. Woodward Harold Pinter Raffaello Degruttola Miquel Brown
professor doctor patient student mentor nurse emotional gripping tender hospital death poetry cancer medical experiments meaning of life religion quest transformation 2000s
A bright and demanding professor (Emma Thompson) reassesses her life after finding out she has terminal ovarian cancer.