The best Dick O'Neill’s drama movies

Dick O'Neill

Dick O'Neill

29/08/1928- 17/11/1998
Today we present the best Dick O'Neill’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Dick O'Neill’s movies.
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The Mosquito Coast

The Mosquito Coast
6.6/10
Allie Fox, an American inventor exhausted by the perceived danger and degradation of modern society, decides to escape with his wife and children to Belize. In the jungle, he tries with mad determination to create a utopian community with disastrous results.

The Front Page

The Front Page
7.3/10
A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn’t like the idea one bit.

Turk 182!

Turk 182!
6/10
After New York City firefighter Terry Lynch is unable to receive any compensation for an injury incurred during the off-duty rescue of a young girl, he grows suicidal. Furious, his brother Jimmy attempts to have Mayor Tyler intervene, but the corrupt politician instead denounces Terry as a drunk. Determined to get justice, Terry begins a graffiti campaign of embarrassing slogans mocking the mayor, which soon captivates the city.

Prizzi's Honor

Prizzi's Honor
6.7/10
Charley Partanna is a hitman who works for the Prizzis, one of the richest crime families in the US. When he sees Irene Walker, it's love at first sight. But he soon finds that she, too, is a killer for hire. Charley can overlook his suspicions, but he can't turn off his heart. And the couple must remember that even if they love each other, the Prizzis love only money.

The Buddy Holly Story

The Buddy Holly Story
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 18/05/1978
  • Character: Sol Gittler
A film about the life and career of the early rock and roll star.

Pretty Poison

Pretty Poison
7/10
A young man gets in over his head when he convinces a small-town girl he's a secret agent.

Hustling

Hustling
5.8/10
Based on Gail Sheehy's book, this film chronicles how a reporter for a New York City magazine decided to investigate the city's prostitution industry to find out just who was making all the money. What she found out caused a firestorm of controversy--that many of the city's richest and most powerful families and corporations benefited directly and indirectly from the illegal sex business.

Perfect Gentlemen

Perfect Gentlemen
6.5/10
Women whose husbands are incarcerated decide to band together to rob a hotel safe.

The American Clock

The American Clock
6.3/10
Moe, Rose and Lee Baumler are members of an upper class family who find the world completely changed when they lose everything in the stock market crash of 1929. Lee, a college-age young man, who now faces no possibility of entering college, decides to go on the road to see what is happening to the rest of the country.

The Mugger

The Mugger
5.9/10
A police shrink tries to identify and capture an elusive mugger that scars his female victims before stealing their purse.

Passion Flower

Passion Flower
5/10
The movers and shakers in Singapore get involved in behind-the-scenes political and business activities, romantic entanglements, and murder. Nicol Williamson plays the wealthiest man in Southeast Asia. Barbara Hershey is his married antagonistic daughter who starts an affair with an ambitious American banker (Bruce Boxleitner) and who also seems to have the attention of her father.

There Must Be a Pony

There Must Be a Pony
5.5/10
  • Genre: DramaTV Movie
  • Release: 05/10/1986
  • Character: Chief Investigator Roy Clymer
Marguerite Sydney is a celebrated Hollywood star attempting a comeback after a stay in a mental hospital, as well as trying to re-establish a relationship with her teenage son, and risking a romance with a mysterious stranger.

Highway Heartbreaker

Highway Heartbreaker
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 29/03/1992
  • Character: Alex's Father
Slick amoral con man Mickey is out to fleece attractive women. But three of them join forces to bring him to justice.

A Touch of Scandal

A Touch of Scandal
5.4/10
Katherine Gilvey is a comely councilwoman, whose campaign for Attorney General is being managed by her ambitious, but cold-hearted husband Benjamin, which takes a turn when photographs surface of her liasion with a male prostitute, who used to be a law client of hers, and has now turned up dead. Also is a note telling her to withdraw from the campaign or the photos will be made public. Investigating on her own, Katherine's suspects to the idenity of the blackmailer are: a shadowy power broker, a charismatic minister, an activist priest, or even her own husband.

Some of My Best Friends Are...

Some of My Best Friends Are...
5.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/10/1971
  • Character: Tim Holland
It's Christmas Eve 1971 in Manhattan's Greenwich Village and the regulars of the local gay bar "The Blue Jay" are celebrating. Not much has changed since Stonewall and its not all "Peace on Earth. Good Will to Men" but the times are a changin.

The UFO Incident

The UFO Incident
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaTV Movie
  • Release: 20/10/1975
  • Character: General James Davison
In the early 1960s, an interracial couple undergo hypnosis, which unlocks memories of a forgotten event on a lonely road. Soon they believe they were abducted by extraterrestrials.

To the Shores of Hell

To the Shores of Hell
5.1/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 15/03/1966
  • Character: Maj. Fred Howard
A Marine officer leads a rescue mission through the Vietnamese jungle to rescue his brother, a doctor who has been taken prisoner by the Viet Cong.

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