The Man in the Shadows

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

Runtime

2h 27m

Director

Francis Ford Coppola

Cast

Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Frederic Forrest

Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their l...

Runtime

1h 31m

Director

Wes Craven

Cast

Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, John Saxon

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

Runtime

2h 14m

Director

David Lynch

Cast

Patricia Arquette, Bill Pullman, Balthazar Getty

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.

Runtime

2h 25m

Director

Martin Scorsese

Cast

Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci

Retired from active duty, and training recruits for the Impossible Mission Force, agent Ethan Hunt faces the toughest foe of his career: Owen Davian, an international broker of arms and information, who's as cunning as he is ruthless. Davian emerges to threaten Hunt and all that he holds dear – including the woman Hunt loves.

Runtime

2h 6m

Director

J.J. Abrams

Cast

Tom Cruise, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ving Rhames