Harry Dean Stanton’s Typical Vibe
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Harry Dean Stanton has 35 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 2010s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Alien.
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Paris, Texas
1984 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Max · Included

Inland Empire
2006 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Max · Included

Lucky
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 22%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Pretty in Pink
1986 · Movie · Actor
Top 39%AMC+ · Included

Wise Blood
1979 · Movie · Actor
Top 48%Max · Included

Red Dawn
1984 · Movie · Actor
Top 51%Prime Video · Included
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.
Dir. Ridley Scott · With Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright

A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
Dir. Wim Wenders · With Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell

Nerdy high schooler Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to her former glory. As the car changes, so does Arnie, whose newfound confidence turns to arrogance behind the wheel of his exotic beauty. Arnie's girlfriend Leigh and best friend Dennis reach out to him, only to be met by a Fury like no other.
Dir. John Carpenter · With Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.
Dir. Stuart Rosenberg · With Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Luke Askew

When actress Nikki Grace gets the lead role in a cursed film, her world becomes more and more surreal, blending realities and ideas of infidelity, reincarnation, and supernatural forces.
Dir. David Lynch · With Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons, Justin Theroux

In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a walled prison where brutal prisoners roam free. After the US president crash-lands inside, war hero Snake Plissken has 24 hours to bring him back.
Dir. John Carpenter · With Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine
Follows the journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off-the-map desert town. He finds himself at the precipice of life, thrust into a journey of self-exploration.
Dir. John Carroll Lynch · With Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Ron Livingston

Kevin, an intelligent guy helps out Maxwell to improve his reading skills. In return, Kevin wants Maxwell to take him out places since he is not authorized to go out. Being the social outcasts of the town, Kevin and Maxwell come to realize that they are similar to each other and accept that they are "freaks" and nothing will stop them.
Dir. Peter Chelsom · With Sharon Stone, Elden Henson, Kieran Culkin

After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by the rules. He soon finds himself back in jail at the hands of a power-hungry parole officer.
Dir. Ulu Grosbard · With Dustin Hoffman, Theresa Russell, Gary Busey

Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a team of hitmen to cut the lovers’ surreal honeymoon short.
Dir. David Lynch · With Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe

A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '64 Chevy.
Dir. Alex Cox · With Emilio Estevez, Harry Dean Stanton, Tracey Walter

Andie is an outcast, hanging out either with her older boss, who owns the record store where she works, or her quirky high school classmate Duckie, who has a crush on her. When one of the rich and popular kids at school, Blane, asks Andie out, it seems too good to be true. As Andie starts falling for Blane, she begins to realize that dating someone from a different social sphere is not easy.
Dir. Howard Deutch · With Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy, Jon Cryer

A driver and mechanic drag racing for money cross paths with a female hitchhiker and a drifter who challenges them to a cross-country race.
Dir. Monte Hellman · With James Taylor, Warren Oates, Dennis Wilson

A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.
Dir. John Huston · With Brad Dourif, Dan Shor, Amy Wright

Maverick Navy Lieutenant Commander Tom Dodge will never be a textbook officer, but he's a brilliant seaman who's always wanted to command a nuclear submarine — he's been given one last chance to clean up his record. Unfortunately, Admiral Graham, his nemesis, would rather sink the fleet than give Dodge his own boat. So, Graham stacks the deck against him and assigns Dodge to the Stingray, a diesel-powered WW2 submarine that can barely keep afloat. To make matters worse, Dodge's crew is a collection of maladjusted, mistake-prone misfits. Then, he's tagged the "enemy" in a crucial war game, and ordered to take on the U.S. Navy's best.
Dir. David S. Ward · With Kelsey Grammer, Lauren Holly, Rob Schneider

Johnny Truelove likes to see himself as tough. He's the son of an underworld figure and a drug dealer. Johnny also likes to get tough when things don't go his way. When Jake Mazursky fails to pay up for Johnny, things get worse for the Mazursky family, as Johnny and his 'gang' kidnap Jake's 15 year old brother and hold him hostage.
Dir. Nick Cassavetes · With Emile Hirsch, Bruce Willis, Amanda Seyfried

It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town—and their country—from invading Soviet forces.
Dir. John Milius · With Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, C. Thomas Howell

Private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by ex-con Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend, a former lounge dancer. While also investigating the murder of a client and the theft of a jade necklace, Marlowe becomes entangled with seductress Helen Grayle and discovers a web of dark secrets that are better left hidden.
Dir. Dick Richards · With Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland

Rock-and-roll singer Mary Rose Foster's romantic relationships and mental health are continuously imperilled by the demands of life on the road.
Dir. Mark Rydell · With Bette Midler, Alan Bates, Frederic Forrest

After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Federal law they sort out several other mobsters, while Dillinger's bank robbing exploits make him something of a folk hero. Escaping from jail he finds Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson have joined the gang and pretty soon he is Public Enemy Number One. Now the G-men really are after him.
Dir. John Milius · With Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Michelle Phillips

When vigilante land baron David Braxton hangs one of the best friends of cattle rustler Tom Logan, Logan's gang decides to get even by purchasing a small farm next to Braxton's ranch. From there the rustlers begin stealing horses, using the farm as a front for their operation. Determined to stop the thefts at any cost, Braxton retains the services of eccentric sharpshooter Robert E. Lee Clayton, who begins ruthlessly taking down Logan's gang.
Dir. Arthur Penn · With Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid
Three cowboys, mistaken for members of an outlaw gang, are relentlessly pursued by a posse.
Dir. Monte Hellman · With Cameron Mitchell, Jack Nicholson, Millie Perkins

A sheltered young high society woman joins the US Army on a whim and finds herself in a more difficult situation than she ever expected.
Dir. Howard Zieff · With Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, Armand Assante

A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.
Dir. Sally Potter · With Christina Ricci, Johnny Depp, Cate Blanchett
In a future world where the disease has been finally defeated and everything can be sold, even the crude spectacle of death, the rare case of a dying woman becomes the morbid theme of a revolutionary reality show, broadcast through the curious eyes of a peculiar camera.
Dir. Bertrand Tavernier · With Romy Schneider, Harvey Keitel, Harry Dean Stanton

When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging Western town of Dirt, the theater-loving lizard suddenly finds himself the newly appointed sheriff. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, Rango is forced to play his new role to the hilt and uncover the truth behind a looming water crisis—before his act catches up with him.
Dir. Gore Verbinski · With Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Ned Beatty

Bobby Kellar has a crush on Lainie Diamond, girlfriend of school jerk Joel. Coleman is working on an experiment which will help him move into a place where Dreams are reality. When an accident occurs Coleman finds himself in Bobby's body and can only contact Bobby in his dreams.
Dir. Marc Rocco · With Jason Robards, Corey Feldman, Piper Laurie
When an EPA representative is murdered in a small Appalachian community, EPA undercover agent Jack Taggart is sent in—posing as a handyman working with a Christian relief agency—to determine what happened.
Dir. Félix Alcalá · With Steven Seagal, Marg Helgenberger, Stephen Lang
Ginny Grainger, a young mother, rediscovers the joy and beauty of Christmas, thanks to the unshakable faith of her six-year-old daughter Abbie and Gideon, Ginny's very own guardian angel.
Dir. Phillip Borsos · With Mary Steenburgen, Gary Basaraba, Elisabeth Harnois

Humouristic reconstruction of the 1995 scandal when two British lads were accused of having faked a documentary from the Roswell incident in 1947.
Dir. Jonny Campbell · With Declan Donnelly, Anthony McPartlin, Bill Pullman
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