Directed by Francis Ford Coppola • 1974 • United States
Starring Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield
The ultimate Watergate-era paranoia thriller, Francis Ford Coppola’s cold-sweat neonoir stars Gene Hackman as Harry Caul, an obsessive audio-surveillance expert who has been hired to track and secretly record a young couple. When he uncovers a violent murder plot during the course of his investigation, Harry finds himself drawn into a terrifying web of suspicion and steadily mounting dread. Masterfully wringing tension from its intricate sound design, THE CONVERSATION is a tour de force of psychological suspense as well as a hauntingly prescient vision of life in an age of mass surveillance.
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Scarecrow
Directed by Jerry Schatzberg • 1973 • United States
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Eureka
Directed by Nicolas Roeg • 1983 • United Kingdom, United States
Starring Gene Hackman, Theresa Russell, Rutger HauerA typically hallucinatory, fascinatingly fractured work of grandiose mythmaking from Nicolas Roeg, EUREKA was roundly ignored upon its release, but in its strangeness and sheer au...
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No Way Out
Directed by Roger Donaldson • 1987 • United States
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