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Ellery Queen: Adventures 5 - 12 (1975)

8.4/10
Starring: David Wayne, Dean Stockwell, Dina Merrill, Eva Gabor, Eve Arden, Jim Backus, Jim...

Long before "Murder, She Wrote", "Ellery Queen" was entertaining viewers with the exact same crime format: a mysterious murder, a long list of clues,... Read more

Unforgiven ( Blu-ray ) (1992)

8.2/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris

Revisionist western that has Clint Eastwood as a one-time mad killer, long since reformed, who comes reluctantly out of 'retirement' to make one more... Read more

Unforgiven (1992)

8.2/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Richard Harris, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman, Clint Eastwood

Revisionist western that has Clint Eastwood as a one-time mad killer, long since reformed, who comes reluctantly out of 'retirement' to make one more... Read more

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

7.9/10
Director: Arthur Penn
Starring: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J Pollard, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, G...

Bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow probably didn't deserve the cinematic immortality guaranteed by this masterwork directed by Arthur Penn, b... Read more

Bonnie and Clyde ( Blu-ray ) (1967)

7.9/10
Director: Arthur Penn
Starring: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Gene Hackman, Michael J Pollard, Gene Wilder, Estel...

Bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow probably didn't deserve the cinematic immortality guaranteed by this masterwork directed by Arthur Penn, b... Read more

The Conversation (1974)

7.9/10
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Teri Garr, John Cazale, Harrison Ford, Gene Hackman, Frederic Forrest, Cindy Wil...

Gene Hackman is brilliant as Harry Caul, the surveillance man who becomes the object of surveillance himself. Coppola's great achievement is evoking a... Read more

The French Connection (1971)

7.8/10
Director: William Friedkin
Starring: Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey

Gene Hackman is an unorthodox New York narcotics cop in his Oscar winning performance. He and his partner (Roy Scheider) are investigating the flow of... Read more

The Conversation (Blu-ray) (1974)

7.8/10
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Teri Garr, John Cazale, Harrison Ford, Gene Hackman, Frederic Forrest, Cindy Wil...

Gene Hackman is brilliant as Harry Caul, the surveillance man who becomes the object of surveillance himself. Coppola's great achievement is evoking a... Read more

Mississippi Burning (1988)

7.8/10
Director: Alan Parker
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Brad Dourif, Gene Hackman, Frances McDormand, R Lee Ermey, Gailard...

The civil rights struggle, as interpreted by Alan Parker, received seven Oscar nominations and one award (Best Cinematography). Gene Hackman and Wille... Read more

French Connection II (1975)

7.6/10
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Bernard Fresson, Fernando Rey, Gene Hackman, Cathleen Nesbitt

'French Connection II' (1975, 119 mins) - While tracking down a drug lord in Marseilles, "Popeye" Doyle (Hackman reprising his Oscar-winning role) is... Read more

Eureka (1981)

7.6/10
Director: Nicolas Roeg
Starring: Gene Hackman, Joe Pesci, Mickey Rourke, Rutger Hauer, Theresa Russell

Gene Hackman, Rutger Hauer, Mickey Rourke and Theresa Russell star in a compelling drama of human emotion from director Nicolas Roeg ("Performance").... Read more

The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

7.6/10
Director: Wes Anderson
Starring: Gene Hackman, Danny Glover, Anjelica Huston, Bill Murray, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben S...

Gene Hackman is Royal Tenenbaum, a once prominent New York lawyer who fakes a terminal illness in order to reunite with estranged wife Anjelica Huston... Read more

Another Woman (1988)

7.4/10
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Betty Buckley, Blythe Danner, David Ogden Stiers, Gena Rowlands, Gene Hackman, H...

When an accomplished philosophy professor turns fifty, she feels compelled to take emotional stock of herself and embarks on a personal odyssey of sel... Read more

A Bridge Too Far (1977)

7.4/10
Director: Richard Attenborough
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Robert Redford, James Caan, Edward Fo...

In September 1944, flush with the success after the Normandy invasion, the Allies confidently launched Operation Market Garden, a bold plan to drop 35... Read more

Scarecrow (1973)

7.3/10
Director: Jerry Schatzberg
Starring: Gene Hackman, Al Pacino, Dorothy Tristan

Two towering performances by Al Pacino and Gene Hackman dominate this unusual but fascinating buddy film with Pacino and Hackman as drifters who team... Read more

Crimson Tide (1995)

7.3/10
Director: Tony Scott
Starring: Denzel Washington, Gene Hackman, George Dzundza, Viggo Mortensen, James Gandolfi...

As renegade forces seize control of nuclear weapons in Russia, the submarine USS Alabama sails into dangerous waters. Tensions rise when communication... Read more

Superman ( Blu-ray ) (1978)

7.3/10
Director: Richard Donner
Starring: Marlon Brando, Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Valerie Perrine,...

Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman! Christopher Reeve stars as the Man of Steel, who must thwart notorious criminal masterm... Read more

Superman (Special Edition) (1978)

7.3/10
Director: Richard Donner
Starring: Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Ned Beatty, Valer...

Christopher Reeve is the Man of Steel in this epic adventure of the famed hero of comic books, TV, the Broadway stage, as well as the big screen. From... Read more

Superman (1978)

7.3/10
Director: Richard Donner
Starring: Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Ned Beatty, Valer...

Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman! Christopher Reeve stars as the Man of Steel, who must thwart notorious criminal masterm... Read more

Enemy Of The State (1998)

7.3/10
Director: Tony Scott
Starring: Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Regina King, Loren Dean, Jake Busey, Barry...

Will Smith is on the run from dangerous, secretive forces who believe he is carrying essential, covert information. Gene Hackman plays the contact who... Read more

Night Moves (1975)

7.2/10
Director: Arthur Penn
Starring: Susan Clark, Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, James Woods, Melanie Griffith

A dark and disturbing detective study with Gene Hackman superb as the private eye trying to solve a baffling mystery. An underrated psychological susp... Read more

No Way Out (1987)

7.1/10
Director: Roger Donaldson
Starring: Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman, Sean Young, Will Patton

A gripping, sexy and surprising suspense thriller about a Naval hero who accepts a position with the Secretary of Defence, only to find out that not o... Read more

Under Fire (1983)

7.1/10
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Starring: Joanna Cassidy, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Nick Nolte, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ric...

Nick Nolte, Gene Hackman and Joanna Cassidy are three American journalists in war-ravaged Nicaragua in 1979, struggling to maintain their objectivity... Read more

Runaway Jury (2003)

7.1/10
Director: Gary Fleder
Starring: John Cusack, Gene Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, Rachel Weisz, Bruce Davison, Bruce Mc...

This intense adaptation of John Grisham's thriller boasts John Cusack as a juror on a high-profile civil case in New Orleans in which the widow of a m... Read more

The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

7.1/10
Director: Ronald Neame
Starring: Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Gene Hackman, Roddy McDowall, Shelley Winters, Car...

A massive ocean liner is at sea on New Year's Eve when just after midnight a freak wave smacks into her side, flipping her upside down in the freezing... Read more

Lilith (1964)

7/10
Director: Robert Rossen
Starring: Warren Beatty, Jean Seberg, Peter Fonda, Kim Hunter, Gene Hackman, Jessica Walte...

A haunting psychological drama, adapted from J.R. Salamanca's controversial novel, about a young trainee therapist (Warren Beatty) whose love for a be... Read more

The Birdcage (1996)

7/10
Director: Mike Nichols
Starring: Christine Baranski, Dianne Wiest, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane, Robin Williams, Cal...

This American version of 'La Cage Aux Folles' features the performances of Robin Williams, Nathan Lane and Gene Hackman. About a gay couple who must '... Read more

Get Shorty (1995)

6.9/10
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Starring: Danny DeVito, Gene Hackman, Rene Russo, John Travolta, Dennis Farina, Delroy Lin...

A clever black comedy about Chili Palmer (John Travolta), a collector for the mob who after being sent to LA on a mission, hooks up with a slick, grad... Read more

Prime Cut (1972)

6.8/10
Director: Michael Ritchie
Starring: Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Sissy Spacek

Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, and a young Sissy Spacek star in a rough and tumble, misanthropic crime thriller with an unmistakably '70's feel. Marvin pla... Read more

Bite the Bullet (1975)

6.8/10
Director: Richard Brooks
Starring: Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, James Coburn

An excellent cast, featuring Gene Hackman, Ben Johnson, and James Coburn, highlights this entertaining Western as a disparate group of riders assemble... Read more

Superman II (1980)

6.8/10
Director: Richard Lester
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder

The Man of Steel is back, Metropolis is in trouble as three super-villans threaten destruction, and Lois Lane marries Clark Kent, only to find him a s... Read more

The Firm (1993)

6.8/10
Director: Sydney Pollack
Starring: Tom Cruise, Gene Hackman, Jeanne Tripplehorn

Tom Cruise is the Harvard grad lured to the small Memphis law firm with promises of a cheap mortgage and a flash new car who soon discovers that his b... Read more

Superman II (Special Edition) (1980)

6.8/10
Director: Richard Donner, Richard Lester
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Margot Kidder, Marlon Brando, Terence Stamp, Sa...

The Man of Steel is back, Metropolis is in trouble as three super-villans threaten destruction, and Lois Lane marries Clark Kent, only to find him a s... Read more

Absolute Power (1996)

6.7/10
Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Scott Glenn, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Judy Davis,...

About a career thief and ex-con (Clint Eastwood) who says a woman's death was caused by the President of the United States. Ed Harris and Gene Hackman... Read more

Wyatt Earp (1994)

6.7/10
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Starring: Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Jeff Fahey, Mark Harmon, Michael Mads...

This epic-length biography shows how fate and circumstance turned the fabled Earp into a hardened and heartless man who killed in the name of law and... Read more

Wyatt Earp ( Blu-ray ) (1994)

6.7/10
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Starring: Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Jeff Fahey, Mark Harmon, Michael Mads...

This epic-length biography shows how fate and circumstance turned the fabled Earp into a hardened and heartless man who killed in the name of law and... Read more

Antz (1998)

6.6/10
Director: Eric Darnell, Tim Johnson
Starring: Voices Of, Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Sylvester Stallone

In an ant colony a neurotic worker named Z (voiced by Woody Allen) sets out to, with the help of his soldier buddy Weaver (Sylvester Stallone) prove h... Read more

Narrow Margin (1990)

6.6/10
Director: Peter Hyams
Starring: Gene Hackman, Anne Archer, James B Sikking, J T Walsh, M Emmet Walsh

Gene Hackman is superb as an assistant D.A. guarding an important murder witness (Anne Archer) on an eventful train ride through the Canadian Rockies.... Read more

Downhill Racer (1969)

6.5/10
Director: Michael Ritchie
Starring: Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv

Robert Redford stars as David Chappellet, a hot-shot skier, who gains entry onto the American Olympic team, in director Michael Ritchies' directorial... Read more

Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)

6.5/10
Director: Walter Hill
Starring: Jason Patric, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, Wes Studi

A magnificent looking chronicle of the US Army's attempt to subjugate the great Apache warrior Geronimo with a strong performance by Wes Studi in the... Read more

Heist (2001)

6.5/10
Director: David Mamet
Starring: Gene Hackman, Danny DeVito, Sam Rockwell, Ricky Jay, Rebecca Pidgeon, Delroy Lin...

In this caper film from writer/director David Mamet, Gene Hackman is a New England shipbuilder who doubles as an expert thief, who's looking to retire... Read more

The Hunting Party (1971)

6.5/10
Director: Don Medford
Starring: Candice Bergen, Gene Hackman, L Q Jones, Mitchell Ryan, Oliver Reed, Simon Oakla...

To cattle baron Brandt Ruger (Gene Hackman), his beautiful wife Melissa (Candice Bergen) is just one of his possessions. So when notorious bandit Fran... Read more

The Rhinemann Exchange (1977)

6.5/10
Director: Burt Kennedy
Starring: Claude Akins, John Huston, Jose Ferrer, Larry Hagman, Lauren Hutton, Rene Auberj...

Based on Robert Ludlum's ("The Bourne Identity") gripping novel of wartime espionage and double-dealing, this TV mini-series follows U.S. intelligence... Read more

Class Action (1991)

6.4/10
Director: Michael Apted
Starring: Gene Hackman, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Gene Hackman plays a dedicated attorney who on behalf of an injured motorist takes a powerful corporation to court - with his daughter Mary Elizabeth... Read more

Bat 21 (1988)

6.4/10
Director: Peter Markle
Starring: Gene Hackman, Danny Glover, Jerry Reed

A good actioner about an Airforce Colonel (Gene Hackman), used to being behind a desk, who is shot down behind enemy lines in dangerous territory, and... Read more

March or Die (1976)

6.4/10
Director: Dick Richards
Starring: Gene Hackman, Terence Hill, Max von Sydow

The story of how a detail from the French Foreign Legion is sent off to protect an archaeological expedition threatened by the local Arab tribesmen. T... Read more

Behind Enemy Lines (2001)

6.4/10
Director: John Moore
Starring: Owen Wilson, Gene Hackman, Joaquim de Almeida, David Keith

Navy air navigator Owen Wilson gets the chance to prove his expertise by getting the call from Admiral Gene Hackman to join fellow pilot Gabriel Macht... Read more

The Package (1989)

6.4/10
Director: Andrew Davis
Starring: Dennis Franz, Gene Hackman, John Heard, Pam Grier, Tommy Lee Jones

A thriller involving political assassination and intrigue, is an excellent action feature using a familiar theme and providing good performances by th... Read more

Behind Enemy Lines ( Blu-ray ) (2001)

6.4/10
Director: John Moore
Starring: David Keith, Gene Hackman, Joaquim de Almeida, Olek Krupa, Owen Wilson

Navy air navigator Owen Wilson gets the chance to prove his expertise by getting the call from Admiral Gene Hackman to join fellow pilot Gabriel Macht... Read more

Uncommon Valor (1983)

6.4/10
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Starring: Gene Hackman, Fred Ward, Reb Brown, Randall Tex Cobb, Patrick Swayze, Harold Syl...

Gene Hackman portrays Colonel Jason Rhodes, a man obsessed, in this powerful, action-packed adventure. For over ten years, Rhodes has been living a ni... Read more

The Quick and the Dead (1995)

6.4/10
Director: Sam Raimi
Starring: Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Roberts Blossom, K...

From the director of the Evil Dead trilogy comes this underrated homage to the Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns of yore. A deglamorized Stone (who copr... Read more

The Quick and the Dead (Blu-ray) (1995)

6.4/10
Director: Sam Raimi
Starring: Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Roberts Blossom, K...

From the director of the Evil Dead trilogy comes this underrated homage to the Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns of yore. A deglamorized Stone (who copr... Read more

Heartbreakers (2001)

6.2/10
Director: David Mirkin
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Gene Hackman, Jason Lee, Ray Liotta, Jef...

Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt are a mother/daughter con-artist team who use their charms to trick money out of wealthy men in divorce sett... Read more

Extreme Measures (1996)

6.1/10
Director: Michael Apted
Starring: Hugh Grant, Gene Hackman, Sarah Jessica Parker, David Morse

Hugh Grant plays an emergency room doctor puzzled by a homeless man's bizarre symptoms. Subsequent investigation eventually leads to a revered surgeon... Read more

The Mexican (2001)

6.1/10
Director: Gore Verbinski
Starring: Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, James Gandolfini, Bob Balaban, Gene Hackman

Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts actually spend very little screen time together in this low-key road comedy which sees Pitt pursuing a legendary pistol, t... Read more

The Chamber (1996)

6/10
Director: James Foley
Starring: Chris O'Donnell, Gene Hackman, Faye Dunaway

Chris O'Donnell plays a young lawyer who attempts to get a stay of execution for this grandfather (Gene Hackman), a racist KKK member and convicted mu... Read more

Twilight (1997)

5.9/10
Director: Robert Benton
Starring: Paul Newman, Gene Hackman, Susan Sarandon

An aging gumshoe finds himself embroiled in a romantic triangle and waist-deep in murder and intrigue when he does a favour for an old friend. This wi... Read more

All Night Long (1981)

5.9/10
Director: Jean-Claude Tramont
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Dennis Quaid, Diane Ladd, Gene Hackman

Screen legends Gene Hackman and Barbra Streisand star in this offbeat comedy that proves a man can lose everything and still love happily ever after.... Read more

Banning (1967)

5.9/10
Director: Ron Winston
Starring: Robert Wagner, Anjanette Comer, Jill St John, Guy Stockwell, James Farentino, Su...

A hustling golf pro takes a golf instructor job at an exclusive country club where the owner and his son in law are fleecing the wealthy guests by usi... Read more

Under Suspicion (1999)

5.8/10
Director: Stephen Hopkins
Starring: Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Thomas Jane, Monica Bellucci

Powerhouse performances highlight this intense thriller featuring Gene Hackman as a prominent attorney working in Puerto Rico who is interrogated by l... Read more

Marooned (1969)

5.8/10
Director: John Sturges
Starring: Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, James Franciscus, Gene Hackman

Science-fiction drama about a three-man team of American astronauts who after a daring mission in space are stranded in orbit 200 miles above the Eart... Read more

The Big Bus (1976)

5.6/10
Director: James Frawley
Starring: Joseph Bologna, Stockard Channing, John Beck, Rene Auberjonois, Ned Beatty, Jose...

A wonderful spoof of disaster films, "The Big Bus" is about the world's first nuclear-powered bus - a 75-ton monster on 32 enormous wheels - and its m... Read more

Welcome to Mooseport (2003)

5.2/10
Director: Donald Petrie
Starring: Gene Hackman, Ray Romano, Marcia Gay Harden, Maura Tierney, Christine Baranski,...

In his live-action screen debut (following his vocal stint in "Ice Age"), Ray Romano plays a hardware store owner who plans to run for mayor of his ho... Read more

Loose Cannons (1990)

4.8/10
Director: Bob Clark
Starring: Gene Hackman, Dan Aykroyd, Dom DeLuise, Ronny Cox

Gene Hackman is a cop who's lost his patience and Dan Aykroyd is a patient who's lost his mind in this mad-cap classic about the unlikeliest crime-fig... Read more

Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)

3.7/10
Director: Sidney J Furie
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure, Jon Cryer, Sam Wan...

The Man of Steel (Christopher Reeve) soars again vowing to end the global arms race by "stealing" the world's missiles and hurling them into space. Me... Read more

Hoosiers / Bull Durham (1986)

Director: David Anspaugh
Starring: Gene Hackman, Barbara Hershey, Dennis Hopper

A sports movie double feature. "Hoosiers" (110 mins) Aka "Best Shot" - Acclaimed drama of a high school basketball teams' long-shot attempt to ascend... Read more

The Domino Principle (1976)

Director: Stanley Kramer
Starring: Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Richard Widmark, Mickey Rooney, Edward Albert, Eli...

Stanley Kramer directed this paranoid thriller involving a murderer who is inexplicably released from prison by a mysterious organization. Gene Hackma... Read more

The French Connection / French Connection II ( Blu-ray ) (1971)

Director: John Frankenheimer, William Friedkin
Starring: Bernard Fresson, Fernando Rey, Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco, Marce...

'The French Connection' (1971, 103 mins) - New York City detectives "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman) and Buddy Russo (Roy Scheider) hope to break a narco... Read more

The Mel Brooks Collection: Volume 2 - The Twelve Chairs / Young Frankenstein / Silent Movie (1976)

Director: Mel Brooks
Starring: Peter Boyle, Diana Coupland, Marty Feldman, Teri Garr, Gene Hackman, Madeline Ka...

Three classic films from comic genius Mel Brooks. 'The Twelve Chairs' - Derived from a Russian folk tale, Mel Brooks' fast-paced farce stars Ron Mood... Read more