Michael Murphy Movies

Breaking the Surface is about the tough times Greg Louganis had on his way to becoming one of the world's top Olympic divers.

A suburban wife begins to resent the pressures she sees society putting on her as a wife and mother, and leaves her family to find the meaning of her...

An American diplomat's wife meets an Italian vintner at an embassy soirée. He sees her as more than just her "husband's hostess". Her husband...

March 10, 1981. An insane and obsessive young man named John Hinckley Jr. attempts to kill U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Rushed to a nearby hospital...

Twelve miles above the Pacific Ocean, an errant missile strikes a state of the art passenger jet. The flight crew is crippled or dead. Now, defying...

Leon Bronstein is not your average Montreal West high school student. For one thing, none of his peers can claim to be the reincarnation of early...

A fictional confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the Strait of Hormuz, the gateway to the Persian Gulf. The narrative of...

When the prominent citizens of a small town discover that the officers of the local bank have been embezzling money from it, they decide to rob the...

The real-life struggle to contain the environmental and financial damage caused to Alaska by the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez is dramatized.

A spoiled young rich girl rebels against her parents by becoming a call girl. However, one night she arrives at a hotel for a "rendezvous" with a...

Cash Bentley and his wife Louise lead an average upper-middle-class life in suburbia, with a nice home and two fine children. But Cash grows...

From PBS and American Experience - Using scientific accounts, diaries, photographs and letters, this film reveals how poor planning, personality...

Tony Petrocelli, a bright young lawyer practicing in the rich cattle town of Baker, becomes embroiled in a murder case.

A dedicated teacher tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative school.

Perhaps at first glance, the filmography of Silvio Narizzano appears unremarkable. Thanks to his sleeper hit Georgy Girl (1966), he's known largely...

In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of building tunnels under New York City's Hudson and East...

Daisy Lowendahl is a best-selling suspense novelist who finds herself at her isolated beach house with a local young fan who knows almost everything...

Documentary with several of director Robert Altman's longtime collaborators, as they discuss making the film McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), the style...

An experimental filmmaker takes a job as a driver for a foul-mouthed child actor and his ambitious stage mother.

The story about a young man who washes up on a deserted island and discovers that John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe are alive and well and living in...