Curated category
Universal Pictures films
- Psycho (1960 film)Psycho, the 1960 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, opens on a specific Friday: December the Eleventh, in Phoenix, Arizona.
- First Man (film)In early 2003, actor-director Clint Eastwood and production people at the Warner Bros. studio bought the film rights to James R.
- The Other Boleyn Girl (2008 film)In the year 1527, King Henry VIII of England stood before his brother's widow, Catherine of Aragon. Their marriage had produced no male heir to secure the…
- Jaws (film)Jaws, the 1975 thriller directed by Steven Spielberg, begins with a simple and terrifying image: a young woman swimming alone at night, and then something…
- The Beguiled (1971 film)The Beguiled arrived in theaters on the 28th of May 1971, a film so strange and unsettling that Universal Pictures struggled to figure out what to do with it.
- Apollo 13 (film)Apollo 13, the 1995 film directed by Ron Howard, opens on the night of the 20th of July, 1969, with astronaut Jim Lovell watching Neil Armstrong take his…
- Hamlet (1948 film)Laurence Olivier stood at the helm of a massive production in 1947, transforming from celebrated actor into director for his second film.
- Anne of the Thousand DaysThe year 1948 marked the Broadway premiere of Maxwell Anderson's play at the Shubert Theatre. H. C. Potter directed a production that ran for 288…
- Ex Machina (film)Alex Garland held a computer in his hands when he was eleven years old. That machine felt like it had its own mind to the young boy.
- Shenandoah (film)Shenandoah, the 1965 film starring James Stewart, opens on a Virginia farm in 1864 where a stubborn patriarch named Charlie Anderson has done everything in…
- American GraffitiGeorge Lucas sat in a Modesto, California diner during the early 1960s and watched teenagers cruise Main Street. He later explained that cruising was gone by…
- Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (film)Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the 1978 film directed by Michael Schultz, arrived carrying one of the most audacious bets in Hollywood history.
- Conan the Barbarian (1982 film)Conan the Barbarian arrived in North American theaters on the 14th of May 1982, opening in 1,400 theaters simultaneously.
- Session 9Session 9 is a 2001 psychological horror film set inside a real abandoned psychiatric hospital, and nearly everything terrifying about it was already there…