List of the best Philip Kaufman movies: The Right Stuff(1983), Invasion of the Body Snatchers(1978), The Wanderers(1979), Quills(2000), The Unbearable Lightness of Being(1988), The White Dawn(1974), Goldstein(1964), Twisted(2004), Fearless Frank(1967), Algren(2014) ... ...
Drama
USA
1983
193 Minutes
Director
Sam Shepard Scott Glenn Ed Harris Dennis Quaid Fred Ward Barbara Hershey Kim Stanley Veronica Cartwright Jane Dornacker
astronaut wife john glenn alan shepard chuck yeager inspiring emotional california outer space spacecraft outer space nasa space travel courage technology discovery adventure rise quest 1960s
The story of the original Mercury 7 astronauts and their macho, seat-of-the-pants approach to the space program.
Sci-Fi
USA
1978
115 Minutes
Director
Donald Sutherland Brooke Adams Leonard Nimoy Veronica Cartwright Jeff Goldblum Art Hindle Lelia Goldoni Kevin McCarthy
government official biologist writer psychiatrist police detective thrilling emotional san francisco woods abandoned building apartment bathhouse street alien invasion identity love mystery escape metamorphosis 1970s
When strange seeds drift to earth from space, mysterious pods begin to grow and invade San Francisco, California, where they replicate the residents into emotionless automatons one body at a time.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1979
113 Minutes
Director
Ken Wahl John Friedrich Karen Allen Toni Kalem Alan Rosenberg Linda Manz Erland van Lidth de Jeude Olympia Dukakis
gang member teen boy teen girl leader gritty unrestrained touching quirky bronx, n.y. street high school gangs teenage rebellion love coming of age growing up rivalry adventure 1960s
The Wanderers is a teenage, Italian gang in Bronx, NYC, 1963. They have their confrontations with other gangs. Drugs and weapons are uncool. Adult life awaits them.
Drama
UK|Germany|USA
2000
123 Minutes
Director
Geoffrey Rush Kate Winslet Joaquin Phoenix Michael Caine Billie Whitelaw Patrick Malahide Amelia Warner Jane Menelaus Stephen Moyer
love interest doctor worker government official priest marquis de sade dark witty passionate france insane asylum imprisonment torture writing seduction sex murder temptation fall 18th century
In a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.
Drama
Sweden|USA
1988
171 Minutes
Director
Daniel Day-Lewis Juliette Binoche Lena Olin Derek de Lint Erland Josephson Pavel Landovský Donald Moffat Daniel Olbrychski Stellan Skarsgård
surgeon photographer artist professor unrestrained sultry tense prague geneva countryside polyamory prague spring warsaw pact love triangle invasion discovery escape temptation 1960s
In 1968, a Czech doctor with an active sex life meets a woman who wants monogamy, and then the Soviet invasion further disrupts their lives.
Adventure
USA|Canada
1974
110 Minutes
Director
whaler sailor cabin boy eskimo young girl officer gritty bleak gripping arctic island ship cultural differences assimilation eskimo culture hunting gambling drinking love wretched excess
In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an Eskimo tribe but frictions arise when the three start misbehaving.
Comedy
USA
1964
75 Minutes
Director
Lou Gilbert Ellen Madison Thomas Erhart Ben Carruthers Charles Fischer Severn Darden Anthony Holland
A modern-day interpretation of the story of Elijah, a prophet who supposedly heralded the end of time.
Mystery & Thriller
Germany|USA
2004
96 Minutes
Director
Ashley Judd Samuel L. Jackson Andy Garcia David Strathairn Russell Wong Camryn Manheim Mark Pellegrino Titus Welliver D.W. Moffett Richard T. Jones Leland Orser
police detective mentor partner doctor lieutenant serial killer crafty suspenseful thrilling chilling san francisco docks household police station big city investigation murder promotion one-night stand mental breakdown
Jessica, whose father killed her mother and committed suicide, is a police officer. While investigating a murder, she finds herself in the center of her own investigation, when her former lovers start being murdered.
Fantasy, Comedy
1967
83 Minutes
Director
Jon Voight Monique van Vooren Joan Darling Severn Darden Lou Gilbert Ben Carruthers Nelson Algren David Fisher Anthony Holland Ken Nordine
Slain by Chicago gangsters, country boy Frank (Jon Voight) comes back as a caped superhero with a bad clone, False Frank.
Biography
2014
85 Minutes
Russell Banks Billy Corgan Denise DeClue Philip Kaufman William Friedkin Barry Gifford