Gene Hackman
82) Extreme Measures
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Dr. Guy Luthan did everything right, but it turned out wrong. A patient under his care at New York's Gramercy Hospital mysteriously died, and now Luthan wants to know why. However, when he looks for postmortem details, he finds no body...and no records. Hugh Grant plays Luthan in Extreme Measures, "one of the most effective paranoid suspense movies since The Fugitive" (Chicago Tribune). Gene Hackman and Sarah Jessica Parker costar in this mystery...
83) No Way Out
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In a fit of rage, Secretary of Defense David Brice (Gene Hackman) murders his mistress (Sean Young). To keep a lid on the scandal, Brice's loyal aide (Will Patton) creates the perfect cover-up: he "invents" a more enticing killer - a Russian spy - and then enlists Naval Commander Tom Farrell (Costner) to find him. But as a chilling twist of fate would have it, Farrell also has a strong connection to the victim... and now all the clues he's been hired...
84) Power
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It depicts how calculated and dehumanized the political process has become. The film shows the maneuverings of political candidates as they try to get elected, and the people hired to sell them to the public, the media consultants.
85) Loose cannons
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A 1990 comedy about a hard-nosed cop and his schizophrenic partner who have to solve a baffling murder that leads all the way back to Hitler!
86) Hawaii
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The story of Hawai'i from the arrival of the first missionaries in 1820. The white man came with the intention of bringing God to the natives, but in doing so brought disease and destruction. Much research was conducted to give the film an authentic look at life during the time depicted. Filmed in part on the islands of Oahu, Hawai'i at Makua Beach where the Lahaina village was reconstructed.
88) Lucky lady
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Gene Hackman and Burt Reynolds are a couple of bootleggers who hook up with a vampy cabaret singer (Liza Minnelli) for a rum-running operation. Released theatrically in 1975, Minnelli earned a Golden Globe nod for her performance as the nightclub entertainer who can't decide between her two booze-smuggling beaus.
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A complicated father-son relationship resurfaces after a mother's death. The kindhearted son has devoted his life to winning the affection of his stubborn and opinionated father. His efforts to care for him are met with hostility and rebuff. Eventually, the father breaks down and shares his true feelings with his son.
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The Firm: A brilliant and ambitious Harvard Law grad joins a small, prosperous law firm in Memphis, and is soon confronted by FBI agents with evidence of corruption and murder within the firm. Vanilla Sky: Young, handsome and wealthy, publishing tycoon David Aames can have anything his heart desires. But still he feels his life is incomplete. David meets the woman of his dreams and believes he may have found the missing piece.
91) First To Fight
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U.S. Marines are dug in and ready in First to Fight, a World War II saga that takes its title from the Marine Hymn, its battle savvy from the techical guidance of a Marine veteran of Saipan and Iwo Jima–and its power from a script by Star Trek veteran Gene L. Coon, himself a Marine sergeant during World War II and the Korean War.
Jack Connell (Chad Everett) survives overwhelming battle action on Guadalcanal. Yet his toughest test lies ahead. After...
92) Twilight
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Screen legend Paul Newman heads a luminous cast in this acclaimed whodunit packed with stars and suspense.
93) Marooned
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After completing a daring mission in space, the three-man spaceship orbits the Earth preparing for re-entry. But a retro-rocket misfires, and the crew are marooned in space. They are trapped in a cramped metal vessel with no power-- outside there is no air and no heat.
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To make the world safe for nuclear arms merchants, Lex Luthor creates a new super being to challenge Superman: the radiation-charged Nuclear Man. The two foes clash in an explosive extravaganza that sees Superman saving the Statue of Liberty, pluging a volcanic eruption at Mount Etna and rebuilding the demolished Great Wall of China.
96) Loose cannons
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Comedy about a hard-nosed cop and his schizophrenic partner who have to solve a baffling murder that leads all the way back to Hitler!
97) Another Woman
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A 50-year-old professor of philosophy deludes herself into thinking she's got a very good life. Suddenly, through some strange, almost magical events, it all becomes unraveled.
98) The Birdcage
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Robin Williams, Gene Hackman, Nathan Lane and Dianne Wiest lead the laughs in this wild comedy that insists you don't have to be a woman to be a mother.
100) French connection II
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Gene Hackman returns in the role of hard-hitting detective Popoeye Doyle who travels to Marseilles in prusuit of the heroin dealers who he hit, but failed to kill in New York.