Michael Murphy Movies

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

Spanning twenty-four hours, HEIGHTS follows five New Yorkers challenged to choose their destiny before the sun comes up the next day.

A slightly self absorbed yuppie takes in his parents including his senile father, after their home burns down. But his personal and professional life...

Brewster is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome. He has a dream: to take flight within the confines...

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

The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.

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

In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing...

A gambler and a prostitute become thriving business partners in a remote Old West mining town until a large corporation arrives on the scene.

Drawing upon a vast and richly visual archive and featuring a host of performers, historians and aficionados, this four-hour mini-series follows the...

Neil Shaw is both agent and weapon - a critical line of defense for the Secretary General of the United Nations. He does not even officially exist....

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

A student will do anything to become part of the "in-crowd" at the exclusive school she attends in New York.

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 cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.

In the 1950s and early '60s, a small band of high-altitude pioneers exposed themselves to the extreme forces of the space age long before NASA's...

Arizona ants mock the food chain on their way to a desert lab to get two scientists and a woman.

In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just...

A pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable workings of 1930s Kansas City.

The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.