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The Cake Eaters (2007) Mary Stuart Masterson, Elizabeth Ashley, Jayce Bartok, Bruce Dern
‘The Cake Eaters’ is a quirky, small town, ensemble drama that explores the lives of two interconnected Read More »
Black Sunday (1977) John Frankenheimer, Robert Shaw, Bruce Dern, Marthe Keller
Terrorist organization Black September is planning an attack on the United States. Read More »
The Laughing Policeman (1973) Stuart Rosenberg, Walter Matthau, Bruce Dern, Louis Gossett Jr.
A policeman is among the victims when the passengers of a late-night bus are machine-gunned. Read More »
Silent Running (1972) Douglas Trumbull, Bruce Dern, Cliff Potts, Ron Rifkin
In a future Earth barren of all flora and fauna, the planet’s ecosystems exist only in large pods attached to spacecraft. Read More »
World Gone Wild (1987) Lee H. Katzin, Bruce Dern, Michael Paré, Catherine Mary Stewart
In the nuclear ravaged wasteland of Earth 2087 water is as precious as life itself. Read More »
Posse (1975) Kirk Douglas, Bruce Dern, Bo Hopkins
A tough marshal with political ambitions leads an elite posse to capture a notorious criminal. Read More »
The Trip (1967) Roger Corman, Peter Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Bruce Dern, Drama
Paul Groves (Peter Fonda), a television commercial director, is in the midst of a personality crisis. Read More »
Smile (1975) Michael Ritchie, Bruce Dern, Barbara Feldon, Michael Kidd, Comedy
It’s time again for California’s “Young American Miss” beauty pageant, the biggest event of the year for Big Bob Freelander and Brenda DiCarlo, who give their all to put on a successful pageant. Read More »
That Championship Season (1982) Jason Miller, Bruce Dern, Stacy Keach, Robert Mitchum, Drama
It started as a friendly meeting between 4 old buddies with their basketball coach and ended up in revealing the truth about their relationship. Read More »
Diggstown (1992) Michael Ritchie, James Woods, Louis Gossett Jr., Bruce Dern, Drama, Sport
Gabriel Caine has just been released from prison when he sets up a bet with a business man. Read More »
On the Edge (1986) Rob Nilsson, Bruce Dern, Bill Bailey, Pam Grier, Drama, Sport
In one final attempt to achieve victory, an aging professional runner is training vigorously for a very tough marathon race. Read More »
Family Plot (1976) Alfred Hitchcock, Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, Comedy, Thriller
The trickster Madam Blanche Tyler lures the elder millionaire Julia Rainbird that believes she is a spiritualist. After a séance, she discovers that Julia is tormented by her past, when she forced her sister and single mother Harriet to deliver her baby for adoption to avoid a family scandal. Julia promises the small fortune of ten thousand-dollar to Blanche if she finds her nephew and heir of her fortune using her phony powers. Blanche asks her boyfriend George Lumley, who is an unemployed actor working as cab driver, to investigate the whereabouts of Julia’s nephew. Meanwhile, the greedy jeweler and collector Arthur Adamson kidnaps wealthy people with his girlfriend Fran to increase his collection of diamonds with the ransom. When George concludes that Arthur Adamson might be the heir of Julia Rainbird, the reckless Blanche gets in trouble with the kidnappers.
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The Twist / Folies bourgeoises (1976) Claude Chabrol, Bruce Dern, Stéphane Audran, Sydne Rome, Comedy
French New Wave director Claude Chabrol steps away from his usual style of mysteries and psychological dramas for the sex comedy Folies Bourgeoises, based on the novel Le Malheur Fou by Lucie Faure. Bruce Dern is the American writer William Brandels and Stephane Audran is his French socialite wife, Claire Brandels. The story follows the confusion of the infidelities of the wealthy upper class.
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