17 Movies Starring Elliott Gould

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1970-01-16

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

105 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (3677 Reviews)

Director:

Paul Mazursky

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Paul Mazursky

Larry Tucker

Fullplot:

Documentary film-maker Bob Saunders and his wife Carol attend a group therapy session that serves as the backdrop for the opening scenes of the film. Returning to their Los Angeles home, the newly "enlightened" couple chastise their closest friends, Ted and Alice, for not coming to grips with their true feelings. Bob insists that everyone "feel" rather than intellectualize their emotions, and Carol pronounces "that's beautiful" after anyone says anything even remotely personal. Ted and Alice humor their friends, but it is obvious that there is a good-natured sexual tension at work within the foursome.

MASH

MASH

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1970-03-01

Languages:

English, Japanese, Korean

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

116 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (52071 Reviews)

Director:

Robert Altman

Cast:

Writer:

Richard Hooker (from the novel by)

Ring Lardner Jr. (screenplay)

Fullplot:

The personnel at the 4077 MASH unit deal with the horrors of the Korean War and the stresses faced in surgery by whatever means. The tone at the MASH is established by recent arrivals, surgeons Captains 'Hawkeye' Pierce, 'Duke' Forrest, and 'Trapper' John McIntyre - the latter who Hawkeye knows he's met somewhere, but Trapper who won't divulge where - whose antics can be best described as non-regulation, and in the negative words of one of their fellow MASH-ers: unmilitary. The unit's commanding officer, Colonel Henry Blake, doesn't care about this behavior as long as it doesn't affect him, and as long as they do their job and do it well, which they do. Their behavior does extremely bother fellow surgeon, Major Frank Burns, and recently arrived head nurse, Major Margaret Houlihan, who obtains the nickname 'Hot Lips' based on information they glean about her through underhanded means. Beyond their battles with Frank and Hot Lips, Hawkeye, Duke and/or Trapper help unit dentist Painless with a personal crisis, try to figure out if Hot Lips is a true blond, travel to Japan for a work and what they hope is a recreational trip, and hope to win big on a football bet against another unit in which they on the surface are the underdogs.

The Touch

The Touch

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1971-07-14

Languages:

English, Swedish

Countries:

Sweden, USA

Runtime:

115 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (656 Reviews)

Director:

Ingmar Bergman

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

A seemingly happy Swedish housewife and mother begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist who is working near her home. But he is an emotionally scarred man, a Jewish survivor from a concentration camp who found refuge in the U.S.,and, consequently, their relationship will be painfully difficult.

Little Murders

Little Murders

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1971-02-09

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

110 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (1704 Reviews)

Director:

Alan Arkin

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Jules Feiffer (play)

Jules Feiffer (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A girl brings home her latest boyfriend to meet her parents. This is done against the background of random shootings that had just begun in NYC at the time the play was written. How the family's failings are magnified by the social confusion of the times is the crux of the plot.

The Long Goodbye

The Long Goodbye

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1973-03-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (16663 Reviews)

Director:

Robert Altman

Cast:

Writer:

Leigh Brackett (screenplay)

Raymond Chandler (novel)

Fullplot:

In the middle of the night, private eye Philip Marlowe drives his friend Terry Lennox to the Mexican border. When Marlowe returns home police are waiting for him and learns that Terry's wife Sylvia has been killed. He's arrested as an accessory but released after a few days and is told the case is closed since Terry Lennox has seemingly committed suicide in Mexico. Marlowe is visited by mobster Marty Augustine who wants to know what happened to the $350,000 Lennox was supposed to deliver for him. Meanwhile, Marlowe is hired by Eileen Wade to find her husband Roger who has a habit of disappearing when he wants to dry out but she can't find him in any any of his usual haunts. He finds him at Dr. Veringer's clinic and brings him. It soon becomes obvious to Marlowe that Terry's death, the Wades and Augustine are all somehow interconnected. Figuring out just what those connections are however will be anything but easy.

California Split

California Split

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1974-08-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

108 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (3312 Reviews)

Director:

Robert Altman

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Fullplot:

A down on his luck gambler links up with free spirit Elliot Gould at first to have some fun on, but then gets into debt when Gould takes an unscheduled trip to Tijuana. As a final act of desperation, he pawns most of his possessions and goes to Reno for the poker game of a lifetime. A film set mainly in casinos and races, as the two win and lose (but mainly win), get robbed, and get blind drunk.

Whiffs

Whiffs

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1976-10-06

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

91 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

4.4 (116 Reviews)

Director:

Ted Post

Genres:

ComedyCrime

Fullplot:

A private applies to be a test subject for the military's new chemical weapons program. After many tests he decides to use his knowledge on chemical warfare to rob banks. He will need a partner, though.

Capricorn One

Capricorn One

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1978-06-02

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, UK

Runtime:

123 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (15089 Reviews)

Director:

Peter Hyams

Fullplot:

Charles Brubaker is the astronaut leading NASA's first manned mission to Mars. Seconds before the launch, the entire team is pulled from the capsule and the rocket leaves earth unmanned much to Brubaker's anger. The head of the programme explains that the life support system was faulty and that NASA can't afford the publicity of a scratched mission. The plan is to fake the Mars landing and keep the astronauts at a remote base until the mission is over, but then investigative journalist Robert Caulfield starts to suspect something.

The Silent Partner

The Silent Partner

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1979-03-30

Languages:

English

Countries:

Canada

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (2939 Reviews)

Director:

Daryl Duke

Cast:

Writer:

Curtis Hanson (screenplay)

Anders Bodelsen (novel)

Fullplot:

This is an imaginative plot, yet one with which the viewer can readily identify. A bank teller is held up at gun point in his bank. Luckily for him he receives a clue that this is going to occur and diverts most of the cash into his own safety deposit box, leaving only a nominal amount for the crook. The ruse works well, but for the fact that the crook resents the fact that he has been outsmarted. There ensues a terrific battle of wits involving the clever but basically "moral" teller, and the cunning and totally uninhibited bank robber, which involves several other people in ways which cannot be revealed here.

The Last Flight of Noah's Ark

The Last Flight of Noah's Ark

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1980-06-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

97 min

Rated:

G

IMDB Ratings:

5.7 (761 Reviews)

Director:

Charles Jarrott

Cast:

Writer:

Ernest K. Gann (story)

Steven W. Carabatsos (screenplay)

Sandy Glass (screenplay)

George Arthur Bloom (screenplay)

Fullplot:

When Noah Dugan agrees to fly missionary Bernadette Lafleur and her cargo of animals to a remote island, its only because he is on the run from a couple of bookies. What neither of them know is that two of Miss Lafleur's young students have stowed away with the animals & Miss Lafleur's transistor radio has interfered with the plane's instruments and they're all now miles off course. After a forced landing on a remote island, Dugan, Bernadette, Bobby and Julie discover that they are not alone. Together with two Japanese soldiers who have been stranded on the island since WWII, they must turn the plane into a seaworthy boat if they are ever to make it home. When Bobby and Julie insist that they cannot leave the animals behind, the converted plane truly becomes a second Noah's Ark

The Naked Face

The Naked Face

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1984-06-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

103 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

5.3 (654 Reviews)

Director:

Bryan Forbes

Cast:

Writer:

Bryan Forbes

Sidney Sheldon (novel)

Fullplot:

Chicago psychiatrist Judd Stevens (Roger Moore) is suspected of murdering one of his patients when the man turns up stabbed to death in the middle of the city. After repeated attempts to convince cops Rod Steiger and Elliott Gould of his innocence, Dr.Stevens is forced to go after the real villains himself, and he finds himself up against one of the city's most notorious Mafia kingpins.

The Telephone

The Telephone

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1988-01-22

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

96 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

4.4 (677 Reviews)

Director:

Rip Torn

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Harry Nilsson (screenplay)

Terry Southern (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A crazy out of work actress, Vashti Blue, spends all her time in her small apartment with her pet owl and her telephone, which she uses to try and solve all her problems with life.

Frog

Frog

Basic Info:

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

54 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.9 (186 Reviews)

Director:

David Grossman

Fullplot:

A kid experimenting with frogs finds that one of the subjects can actually speak.

Frog

Frog

Basic Info:

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

54 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.9 (186 Reviews)

Director:

David Grossman

Fullplot:

A kid experimenting with frogs finds that one of the subjects can actually speak.

Saving Sarah Cain

Saving Sarah Cain

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-08-19

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

103 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

(1184 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Brian Bird (screenplay)

Cindy Kelley (screenplay)

Beverly Lewis (novel)

Fullplot:

When Sarah Cain, a self-involved big-city newspaper columnist, travels to Pennsylvania for the funeral of her Amish sister, she soon discovers that she is the legal guardian of her five Amish nieces and nephews. Rather than choose to move to Lancaster County to finish raising them there herself, or let them be separated by the foster care system, Sarah decides to take them with her back to Portland where she believes she can make a new life for them. However, she soon realizes that the modern world has forced them to compromise who they are, and that she has moved them there for all the wrong reasons - a motive which is soon exposed - because secrets can really never be kept secret. In order to find her own redemption, she knows she must make a choice to give them back their lives in Amish Country. And whether she remains part of their lives will have a lot to do with how much she has grown to love them.

Dorfman in Love

Dorfman in Love

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-03-22

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

92 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (844 Reviews)

Director:

Brad Leong

Fullplot:

Unknowingly trapped in her role as caretaker of her unappreciative family, a young single woman desperately needs to get her own life. When she volunteers to cat sit at her unrequited love's downtown L.A loft, her world, as she knows it, changes forever.

Altman

Altman

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-11-04

Languages:

English

Countries:

Canada

Runtime:

96 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (649 Reviews)

Director:

Ron Mann

Genres:

Documentary

Fullplot:

A look at the life and work of American filmmaker Robert Altman.

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