Directed by Robert Redford • 1980 • United States
Starring Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch
Winner of four Academy Awards—including best picture, director, and adapted screenplay—Robert Redford’s directorial debut, based on the novel by Judith Guest, is an intense and moving examination of a family torn apart by tension and tragedy. Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore star as the upper-middle-class couple whose “ordinary” existence is irrevocably shattered by the death of their oldest son in a boating accident. Struggling against suicide and guilt, the couple’s younger son (an Oscar-winning Timothy Hutton) begins therapy sessions with an empathetic psychiatrist (Judd Hirsch), who becomes the family’s lifeline to survival.
Directed by Charles Vidor • 1939 • United States
Starring Chester Morris, Ralph Bellamy, Ann Dvorak
One of the very first Hollywood films that could be described as a noir, this brisk psychological thriller stars Chester Morris as an inmate who escapes from prison and hides out in the home of a ...
Directed by Lewis Allen • 1944 • United States
Starring Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp
A pair of siblings from London (Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey) purchase a surprisingly affordable, lonely cliff-top house in Cornwall, only to discover that it actually carries a ghostly price—and soon t...
Directed by James Whale • 1932 • United States
Starring Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton
Director James Whale (FRANKENSTEIN) turned J. B. Priestley’s novel “Benighted” into a nerve-jangling tale that became the template for all spooky-house chillers to come. Stranded travelers stu...
