William Atherton Movies

A short, unhappy affair with a married man leads a dedicated schoolteacher into the alcohol-and-drug fueled underworld of singles’ bars, where...

After many years Pooch returns to his neighbourhood. To Big Boy, his best friend, Pooch is valuable asset in his plans of becoming local crime lord....

Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean and Clovis Poplin lose their baby to the state of Texas and resolve to do whatever it takes to get him back....

Hollywood, 1930s. Tod Hackett, a young painter who tries to make his way as an art director in the lurid world of film industry, gets infatuated with...

A young couple from Milwaukee moves into the fabled, high-society Malibu beach community and becomes involved with the lives of the various people...

In the 1960s a young woman works at NASA as an animal trainer responsible for the chimpanzee who will go into space.

The wife of a research geneticist agrees to the experimental procedure of a 'test-tube baby' by having her fetus brought to full term in a glass jar...

TV special worth watching if only for the incongruous interviews with Wayne Newton, Wayne Gretzky, Kareem Abdul Jabar, Rudolph Giuliani, Mike Ditka,...

A small town sheriff who's investigating a murder at the local diner ends up finding more than he bargained for in the town and in himself.

A psychiatrist tries to put her life back together after a violent attack by seeking to repair the life of a new patient, but he has his own...

An Oregon woman vanishes. In her wake remains a single black rose & a note reading gone but not forgotten. Now a man stands accused: a private eye...

A misguided museum guard who loses his job and then tries to get it back at gunpoint is thrown into the fierce world of ratings-driven TV gone mad.

An acclaimed stage performer, Dorothy still struggled with the challenge of her color, in a time that wouldn't let some stars in by the front door....

A naive French reporter is sent to an African town to cover a sensational news story, unaware that it has been faked by an international news giant...

When Kelsey remarries, her struggle to get custody of her daughter from her first marriage is complicated by her current husband being black.

John Huston directs this film giving relevance and life to the hallowed buildings and ground making up Independence National Historical Park. Through...

Five ex-soldiers go to a small town in Oregon to help a friend investigate the murder of his brother.

A young woman's dreams become real-life nightmares after a mysterious stranger comes into her life.

A married woman and her lover plot to kill her husband to make off with the insurance money. However, their attempt to murder him using poisonous...

A down-on-his-luck film director sets fire to his home so he can collect the insurance money and fund his new movie. But crime apparently does pay,...