A Place Called Today

Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.

Runtime

1h 54m

Director

Martin Scorsese

Cast

Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd

A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.

Runtime

2h 29m

Director

Joel Schumacher

Cast

Matthew McConaughey, Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pursue education beyond high school.

Runtime

2h 3m

Director

Richard LaGravenese

Cast

Hilary Swank, Patrick Dempsey, Scott Glenn

The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.

Runtime

1h 40m

Director

Bernard Rose

Cast

Virginia Madsen, Tony Todd, Xander Berkeley

African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that of another man, he joins forces with Gillespie to track down the real killer. Their investigation takes them throug...

Runtime

1h 49m

Director

Norman Jewison

Cast

Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates