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Scott Wilson
Actor 1942 - 2018

Scott Wilson

Thomasville, Georgia, USA

Scott Wilson (March 29, 1942 – October 6, 2018) was an American film and television actor. Wilson has more than 50 film credits from the 1960s to the 2010s, including In the Heat of the Night, In Cold Blood, The Great Gatsby, Dead Man Walking, Pearl Harbor, and Junebug.In... Read full bio →

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Hostiles

Hostiles

Scott Cooper 2017 2h 14m 6.6

A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.

Radio Free Albemuth

Radio Free Albemuth

John Alan Simon 2010 1h 50m

Record store clerk Nick Brady begins to experience strange visions from an entity he calls VALIS that cause him to uproot his family and move to Los Angeles where he becomes a successful music company executive. Nick finds himself drawn into a dangerous political-mystical conspiracy of cosmic proportions.

The Heartbreak Kid

The Heartbreak Kid

Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly 2007 1h 56m 5.1

The story centers on a man who is convinced that he has finally met the right girl and marries too quickly. While on his honeymoon and in the process of discovering that his new bride is a nightmare, he meets the girl of his dreams

Big Stan

Big Stan

Rob Schneider 2007 1h 49m 5.4

A weak and nebbishy con man panics when he learns he's going to prison for fraud. He hires a mysterious martial arts guru, who transforms him into a kung fu expert who can fight off inmates who want to hurt him--and love him.

Gwoemul

Gwoemul

Bong Joon Ho 2006 2h 7.7

A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han River after toxic waste was dumped in it, prompting her family into a frantic search for her.

Come Early Morning

Come Early Morning

Joey Lauren Adams 2006 1h 37m

A thirty-something southern woman searches for love, despite the burdens she carries with her.

Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon

Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon

Scott Glosserman 2006 1h 31m 7.1

The next great psycho horror slasher has given a documentary crew exclusive access to his life as he plans his reign of terror over the sleepy town of Glen Echo, all the while deconstructing the conventions and archetypes of the horror genre for them.

Junebug

Junebug

Phil Morrison 2005 1h 46m 7.0

A dealer in "outsider" art travels from Chicago to North Carolina to meet her new in-laws, challenging the equilibrium of this middle class Southern home.

The Last Samurai

The Last Samurai

Edward Zwick 2003 2h 34m 7.4

Adventure drama starring Tom Cruise as a disillusioned civil war veteran named Captain Nathan Algren. The depressive Algren is reluctantly a misson from the Japanese Emperor to kill a rebellious Samurai. Yet he is so fascinated by the knowledge and life of the Samurai that he cannot go on with his mission.

Monster

Monster

Patty Jenkins 2003 1h 49m 7.5

Monster is a film about a lesbian prostitute serial killer of men named Aileen Wournous who on the 9th of October of 2002 was executed for the murder of seven men. Played by South African actress Charlize Theron and co-starring Christina Ricci as her girlfriend.

Coastlines

Coastlines

Victor Nuñez 2002 1h 50m

An ex-con returns to his Florida hometown after three years and becomes involved with the wife of his best friend, the local Sheriff.

The Animal

The Animal

Luke Greenfield 2001 1h 23m 5.4

After receiving organ transplants from various animal donors, a man finds himself taking on the traits of those animals.

Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor

Michael Bay 2001 3h 3m 5.9

Pearl Harbor is a fictional enriched film from 2001 about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, during the Second World War.

The Way of the Gun

The Way of the Gun

Christopher McQuarrie 2000 1h 59m 7.1

Two petty if violent criminals kidnap a girl being paid 1.000.000$ to be a surrogate mother. As the baby is for a gangster the pair's demand for money sees several henchmen and assorted other ruthless characters head after them to Mexico. Bullets rather than talking are always going to settle this one

The Jack Bull

The Jack Bull

John Badham 1999 1h 56m

When the law fails to punish a fellow rancher that has abused his horses, a Wyoming horse trader sacrifices it all in a quest for justice.

Clay Pigeons

Clay Pigeons

David Dobkin 1998 1h 44m 7.0

Clay is a young man in a small town who witnesses his friend, Earl, kill himself because of the ongoing affair that Clay was having with the man's wife, Amanda. Feeling guilty, Clay now resists the widow when she presses him to continue with the affair.

G.I. Jane

G.I. Jane

Ridley Scott 1997 2h 5m 5.8

A female Senator succeeds in enrolling a woman into Combined Reconnaissance Team training where everyone expects her to fail.

Tall Tale

Tall Tale

Jeremiah S. Chechik 1995 1h 38m

A young boy draws on the inspiration of legendary western characters to find the strength to fight an evil land baron in the old west who wants to steal his family's farm and destroy their idyllic community.

Judge Dredd

Judge Dredd

Danny Cannon 1995 1h 36m 6.0

In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his murderous counterpart escapes.

Dead Man Walking

Dead Man Walking

Tim Robbins 1995 2h 2m 8.0

A justice drama based on a true story about a man on death row who in his last days forms a strong relationship with a nun who teaches him forgiveness and gives him spirituality as she accompanies him to his execution. Susan Sarandon won an Oscar for best female actress for her convincing partial of Sister Helen Prejean.

Geronimo: An American Legend

Geronimo: An American Legend

Walter Hill 1993 1h 55m 6.0

The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of corn farmers. One in particular, Geronimo, is restless.

Flesh and Bone

Flesh and Bone

Steve Kloves 1993 2h 6m 6.5

Some thirty years after Arlis witnesses his father murdering a family, he runs into Kay, who happens to be the family's baby who was spared. Kay and Arlis suspect nothing about each other, but when his father returns, old wounds are reopened.

Pure Luck

Pure Luck

Nadia Tass 1991 1h 36m 6.5

The daughter of a wealthy businessman has disappeared in Mexico, and all the efforts to find her have been unsuccessful. A psychologist, knowing that the girl has an ultra bad luck, persuades her father to send to Mexico one of his employees, an accountant with super bad luck, to find her.

Young Guns II

Young Guns II

Geoff Murphy 1990 1h 44m 6.2

Only three of the original five "young guns" -- Billy the Kid (Emilio Estevez), Jose Chavez y Chavez (Lou Diamond Phillips), and Doc Scurlock (Kiefer Sutherland) -- return in Young Guns, Part 2, which is the story of Billy the Kid and his race to safety in Old Mexico while being trailed by a group of government agents led by Pat Garrett

The Exorcist III

The Exorcist III

William Peter Blatty 1990 1h 50m 6.5

On the fifteenth anniversary of the exorcism that claimed Father Damien Karras' life, Police Lieutenant Kinderman's world is once again shattered when a boy is found decapitated and savagely crucified.

Johnny Handsome

Johnny Handsome

Walter Hill 1989 1h 34m 7.0

A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.

Malone

Malone

Harley Cokeliss 1987 1h 32m 3.0

Erstwhile C.I.A. assassin Richard Malone hopes for a tranquil retirement in the placid Pacific Northwest, but what he gets is a rumble with a right-wing extremist plotting a secret revolution. Adapted from the novel "Shotgun," by William Wingate.

The Aviator

The Aviator

George T. Miller 1985 1h 36m 8.5

A 1920s mail pilot and a rich man's daughter crash-land on a mountain full of hungry wolves.

Rok spokojnego slonca

Rok spokojnego slonca

Krzysztof Zanussi 1984 1h 50m

Shortly after World War II an American soldier (Norman) and a Polish refugee (Emilia) fall in love. Eventually he will return to the U.S. and both expect that she will soon follow him with her mother. Emilia's mother is sick, but will recover with the right medicine. But the mother, and not Emilia, knows that there will only be one ticket...

The Right Stuff

The Right Stuff

Philip Kaufman 1983 3h 13m 8.1

At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history brings momentous challenges.

The Ninth Configuration

The Ninth Configuration

William Peter Blatty 1980 1h 58m 7.8

A new commanding officer arrives at a remote castle serving as an insane asylum for crazy and AWOL U.S. Army soldiers where he attempts to rehabilitate them by allowing them to live out their crazy fantasies while combating his own long-suppressed insanity.

The Passover Plot

The Passover Plot

Michael Campus 1976 1h 48m

Yeshua of Nazareth carefully plans his own crucifixion — and subsequent resurrection — to strengthen his political position against the Roman occupation of Palestine.

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

Jack Clayton 1974 2h 24m 6.9
Lolly-Madonna XXX

Lolly-Madonna XXX

Richard C. Sarafian 1973 1h 43m

In the early 1970s, a young woman passing through rural Tennessee unintentionally gets caught in a feud between two local neighboring clans, the Feathers and the Gutshalls.

The New Centurions

The New Centurions

Richard Fleischer 1972 1h 43m 8.0

An idealistic rookie cop joins the LAPD to make ends meet while finishing law school, and is indoctrinated by a seasoned veteran. As time goes on, he loses his ambitions and family as police work becomes his entire life.

The Grissom Gang

The Grissom Gang

Robert Aldrich 1971 2h 8m 7.3

Violent crime caper set in 1930s Kansas in which a gang kidnap an heiress and attempt to recover a ransom. However, the scheme is jeopardised when the leader falls in love with their beautiful captive.

The Gypsy Moths

The Gypsy Moths

John Frankenheimer 1969 1h 47m 8.3

Three skydivers and their travelling thrill show barnstorm through a small midwestern town one Fourth of July weekend.

Castle Keep

Castle Keep

Sydney Pollack 1969 1h 45m 8.5

During the Battle of the Bulge, an anachronistic count shelters a ragtag squad of Americans in his isolated castle hoping they will defend it against the advancing Germans.

In the Heat of the Night

In the Heat of the Night

Norman Jewison 1967 1h 49m 7.5

An African American detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racist southern town

In Cold Blood

In Cold Blood

Richard Brooks 1967 2h 14m 8.8

In Cold Blood is a 1967 film based on Truman Capote's book of the same name. Richard Brooks prepared the adaptation and directed the film. Some scenes were filmed on the locations of the original events, in Garden City and Holcomb, Kansas including the Clutter residence, the site of the murders.

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