Cyril Cusack

A deadpan young man obsessed with death meets an eccentric septuagenarian who teaches him to live life to the fullest.

Dir. Hal Ashby · With Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles

An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.

Dir. Fred Zinnemann · With Edward Fox, Terence Alexander, Michel Auclair

No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of 5, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. With the help of his steely mother — and no shortage of grit and determination — Christy overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet and author.

Dir. Jim Sheridan · With Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan

Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist political beliefs.

Dir. Giuliano Montaldo · With Gian Maria Volonté, Riccardo Cucciolla, Cyril Cusack

Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

Dir. Carol Reed · With James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack

Italy, 16th century. Petruchio, a choleric, lying and poor rural landowner from Verona, arrives in Padua in search of fortune and a wife, while Baptista, a wealthy merchant, announces that he will not allow Bianca, his youngest daughter, to marry until the temperamental and unruly Katherina, his eldest daughter, does.

Dir. Franco Zeffirelli · With Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Natasha Pyne

In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as “firemen,” to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to question the morality of his vocation…

Dir. François Truffaut · With Julie Christie, Oskar Werner, Cyril Cusack

A young free-spirited Irish woman from an affluent Protestant family spontaneously befriends a street-smart commoner cheated by her family’s hostile land takeovers. They escape to America, ready to take advantage of the 19th century Oklahoma land rush.

Dir. Ron Howard · With Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Thomas Gibson

The "Trinity" crew makes another modern era film. Plata and Salud are pilots ditching aircraft for insurance money. They wind up crashing for real in the jungles of South America. The plot involves "Mr. Big", who is buying the diamonds from the miners for much too little, and has thugs who keep the price down. Of course, Plata and Salud side with the miners

Dir. Giuseppe Colizzi · With Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Reinhard Kolldehoff

British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.

Dir. Martin Ritt · With Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Oskar Werner

Winston Smith is a government employee whose job involves the rewriting of history in a manner that casts his fictional country's leaders in a charitable light. His trysts with Julia provide his only measure of enjoyment, but lawmakers frown on the relationship -- and in this closely monitored society, there is no escape from Big Brother.

Dir. Michael Radford · With John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton

A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute.

Dir. Ulu Grosbard · With Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Charles Durning