Eleni

Peter Yates

Nick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for this. He wants to know why his mother was killed in WWII. In a parallel plot line we see Nick as a young boy and his family as they struggle to survive in the occupied Greek hillside. The plot lines converge as Nick's investigations bring him closer to the answers.


The Deep

Peter Yates

A young American couple discover a rumored sunken World War II munitions ship while skin diving off the coast of Bermuda. Among the relics they find a cache of drugs recently stashed there, and before they know it they are embroiled in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with the gangsters who stashed it.


Breaking Away

Peter Yates

This charming, Academy Award winner (1979, Screenplay) cycles high on comedy as four friends come to terms with life after high school. When top-notch cyclist Dave (Dennis Christopher) learns that the world's bicycling champions are always Italian, he attempts to turn himself into an Italian, driving his parents (Barbara Barrie, Paul Dooley) crazy. But everything changes after he meets the Italian racing team - an encounter that ultimately leads him and his friends to challenge the local college boys in the town's annual bike race.


Roommates

Peter Yates

Inspired by a true story, Rocky Holeczek is a uniquely vibrant man, who at the age of 107, is the oldest employed baker in Pittsburgh. His roommate is his grandson, Michael, a 35-year-old surgeon whom he has raised since childhood -- and continues to guide into manhood. Their saga spans over 30 years, beginning when Rocky is 75 years old. During the course of their life together, Michael's world expands to include a wife, children, an overly attentive mother-in-law and a busy career in medicine. Through all the changes, one thing between them remains constant: Rocky's determination to stick around for as long as it takes to teach Michael what he needs to know about living.


An Innocent Man

Peter Yates

Tom Selleck turns in a riveting performance as Jimmie Rainwood, an average citizen whose life becomes a living nightmare when he's framed by a pair of crooked cops and sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. With his life torn apart, Rainwood swears revenge, vowing to fight back and deliver justice to the dishonest cops who set him up -- no matter what the price! Ultimately, Rainwood risks everything to recapture his normal life, and prove once and for all that he is an innocent man!


The House On Carroll Street

Peter Yates

In the era of Joe McCarthy, a young woman under government investigation inadvertantly discovers a scandal involving fugitive Nazis and a Senate committee counsel.


The Run of the Country

Peter Yates & Toby Yates

Five-time Academy Award-nominee Albert Finney ("Traffic," "Erin Brockovitch") stars in this moving Irish love story about a bullying widowed cop and his fed-up son who runs away and finds love in the arms of a woman from Northern Ireland. Things become more complicated when the woman becomes pregnant. From the Academy Award-nominated director of "Breaking Away," "The Dresser" and "The Deep," Peter Yates.


Curtain Call

Peter Yates

Stevenson Lowe’s (James Spader) girlfriend Julia wants to get married. But all thoughts of proposing are quickly scared out of him by a couple of grouchy ghosts who have the marriage from hell. They are Max and Lilly Gale (ACADEMY AWARD winners Michael Caine and Maggie Smith), the original residents of Stevenson’s newly purchased brownstone. They have no intention of leaving to make room for the young couple. When Julia decides she's waited long enough for a proposal, she leaves Stevenson and his crazy ghost stories behind. True love gets a spirited test as Stevenson’s afterlife houseguests try to reunite the young lovers.


Year of the Comet

Peter Yates

Young and feisty Margaret Harwood has been sent to Scotland on a business assignment for her wine merchant father. While taking inventory in the cellar of an old Scottish estate, Margaret finds an almost priceless bottle of wine that was bottled in 1811 during the appearance of the Great Comet. When Margaret tells her father of the discovery, he sends his somewhat unprofessional assistant, Oliver Plexico (Timothy Daly) to be her bodyguard for the rest of the trip. While the two butt heads at first, they realize that they must work together to keep their precious treasure safe from the greedy hands of others.


Murphy's War

Peter Yates

Irish merchant seaman Murphy (Peter O'Toole) is the sole survivor of a World War II German U-boat attack in tropical waters. Picked up by a French oil engineer, he is taken to a native village hospital. Upon recovering, he learns about a downed seaplane which he repairs and learns to fly. His plan: a personal vengeance on the submarine by destroying it with homemade Molotov cocktails. Murphy is drawn into a relentless struggle against the German boat; it is his private war.


Bullitt

Peter Yates

Action star Steve McQueen ("The Getaway," "The Magnificent Seven") is at his dynamic best as a San Francisco cop assigned to guard a star witness who soon ends up dead. The definitive detective thriller, featuring one of the screen's greatest car chases and razor-sharp Oscar-winning editing. Co-starring Jacqueline Bisset ("Rich and Famous," "Murder on the Orient Express"), Academy Award-nominee Robert Vaughn ("The Magnificent Seven," "The Towering Inferno") and Academy Award-winner Robert Duvall ("A Civil Action," "The Godfather"). Recently selected by the prestigious American Film Institute as one of the 400 greatest American films of all time.


For Pete's Sake

Peter Yates

Barbra Streisand stars in this wacky screwball comedy that follows the antics of a big-mouthed Brooklyn housewife who is desperate to send her cab-driving husband, Pete, back to college. Betting on an unreliable tip, Streisand borrows money from a loan shark to buy pork belly futures.


The Dresser

Peter Yates

The lives and relationships of those within a British traditional touring stage company provide the backdrop for THE DRESSER, a compelling study of the intense relationship between the leader of the company and his dresser. Sir (Albert Finney), a grandiloquent old man of the theater, has given his soul to his career, but his tyrannical rule over the company is now beginning to crack under the strain of age and illness and he prepares for his two hundred twenty-seventh performance of King Lear.


Suspect

Peter Yates

No matter the cost, no matter the danger. They will find the truth. A Supreme Court Justice takes his own life. A woman is found dead, the victim of a grisly murder. A homeless Vietnam vet stands accused. Kathleen Riley (Cher) is an overworked Washington, D.C. public defender who needs a vacation. Instead, she is assigned another case. But this is no ordinary crime with no ordinary criminal. Lobbyist, Eddie Sanger (Dennis Quaid), gets saddled with jury duty just when a critical bill is coming up for vote. While on jury duty, Eddie discovers evidence critical to Kathleen's case and contacts her outside the courtroom - a violation of the law. Bizarre evidence leads Kathleen on a dangerous trail from Washington's seamy underbelly to the highest levels of government. And the closer she gets to the answers, the more her life is in danger. Cher and Dennis Quaid take the law into their own hands in the daring suspense thriller where everything is revealed in court... except the truth.


Krull

Peter Yates

In a fantasy adventure, set in a world peopled by creatures of myth and magic, a prince embarks on a quest to find the magical Glaive and then rescues his young bride. Colwyn (Ken Marshall) is the leader of a mythical sword-and-sorcery group in pursuit of "the Beast" that has kidnaped his fiance, Lyssa (Lysette Anthony).