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Nancy Allen has 11 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 1990s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Carrie.
Recurring themes

Looker
1981
Science Fiction · Thriller

Runaway
1984
Science Fiction · Thriller

Phenomena
1985
Horror · Thriller

Firestarter
1984
Horror · Science Fiction

Bad Influence
1990
Thriller

Black Widow
1987
Thriller

D.O.A.
1988
Mystery · Thriller

Altered States
1980
Horror · Science Fiction

Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from her classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Sissy Spacek, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving

In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed confrontation with crime lord Boddicker so they can use his body to support their untested RoboCop prototype. But when RoboCop learns of the company's nefarious plans, he turns on his masters.
Dir. Paul Verhoeven · With Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy

After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police thinks she is the murderer, the real killer is intent on silencing her only witness.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Nancy Allen, Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson

While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow

Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison, but decide to show him one last good time along the way.
Dir. Hal Ashby · With Jack Nicholson, Otis Young, Randy Quaid

If they miss The Beatles' first appearance in the U.S.A., they will hate themselves for the rest of their lives - so four young girls from New Jersey set off even though they don't have tickets for the show! The journey is full of surprises and misfortunes but the young ladies are determined to reach their idols.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Nancy Allen, Bobby Di Cicco, Marc McClure

Based on an "actual event" that took place in 1943. About a US Navy Destroyer Escort that disappeared from the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, and sent two men 40 years into the future to 1984.
Dir. Stewart Raffill · With Michael Paré, Nancy Allen, Eric Christmas

After a successful deployment of the RoboCop Law Enforcement unit, OCP sees its goal of urban pacification come closer and closer, but as this develops, a new narcotic known as "Nuke" invades the streets led by God-delirious leader Cane. As this menace grows, it may prove to be too much for Murphy to handle. OCP tries to replicate the success of the first unit, but ends up with failed prototypes with suicidal issues... until Dr. Faxx, a scientist straying away from OCP's path, uses Cane as the new subject for the RoboCop 2 project, a living God.
Dir. Irvin Kershner · With Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Tom Noonan

Carol Anne has been sent to live with her Aunt and Uncle in an effort to hide her from the clutches of the ghostly Reverend Kane, but he tracks her down and terrorises her in her relatives' appartment in a tall glass building. Will he finally achieve his target and capture Carol Anne again, or will Tangina be able, yet again, to thwart him?
Dir. Gary Sherman · With Tom Skerritt, Nancy Allen, Heather O'Rourke

as Rachel Colby
A girl called Hannah goes back to her hometown (Gatlin) to find her mother but on the way she picks up a strange man who fore-shadows her life with a passage from the bible. When she gets there she wakes up Isaac from a coma he has been in for 19 years. Isaac is awake and wants to fulfil the final prophecy.
Dir. Kari Skogland · With Nancy Allen, Natalie Ramsey, Paul Popowich
The mega corporation Omni Consumer Products is still bent on creating their pet project, Delta City, to replace the rotting city of Detroit. Unfortunately, the inhabitants of the area have no intention of abandoning their homes simply for desires of the company. To this end, OCP have decided to force them to leave by employing a ruthless mercenary army to attack and harass them. An underground resistance begins and in this fight, RoboCop must decide where his loyalties lie.
Dir. Fred Dekker · With Robert John Burke, Nancy Allen, Rip Torn
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