The best Graham Jarvis’s drama movies

Graham Jarvis

Graham Jarvis

25/08/1930- 16/04/2003
Today we present the best Graham Jarvis’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 Graham Jarvis’s movies.
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Misery

Misery
7.8/10
Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also dangerously unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged, and at her mercy.

Silkwood

Silkwood
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 14/12/1983
  • Character: Doctor at Union Meeting
The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.

Mr. Mom

Mr. Mom
6.6/10
Jack and Caroline are a couple making a decent living When Jack suddenly loses his job. They agree that he should stay at home and look after the house while Caroline works. It's just that he's never done it before, and really doesn't have a clue...

Parents

Parents
6.1/10
Michael is a young boy living in a typical 1950s suburbanite home... except for his bizarre and horrific nightmares, and continued unease around his parents. Young Michael begins to suspect his parents are cooking more than just hamburgers on the grill outside, but has trouble explaining his fears to his new-found friend Sheila, or the school's social worker.

The Organization

The Organization
6/10
After a group of young revolutionaries break into a company's corporate headquarters and steal $5,000,000 worth of heroin to keep it off the street, they call on San Francisco Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs for assistance.

R.P.M.

R.P.M.
5.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/09/1970
  • Character: Police Chief Henry J. Thatcher
R.P.M. stands for (political) revolutions per minute. Anthony Quinn plays a liberal college professor at a west coast college during the hedy days of campus activism in the late 1960s. Radical students take over the college, the president resigns, and Quinn's character, who has always been a champion of student activism, is appointed president. As the students continue to push the envelope of revolution, Quinn's character is faced with the challenge of restoring order or abetting the descent into anarchy.

Alice's Restaurant

Alice's Restaurant
6.2/10
After getting kicked out of college, Arlo decides to visit his friend Alice for Thanksgiving dinner. After dinner is over, Arlo volunteers to take the trash to the dump, but finds it closed for the holiday, so he just dumps the trash in the bottom of a ravine. This act of littering gets him arrested, and sends him on a bizarre journey that ends with him in front of the draft board.

Trial by Jury

Trial by Jury
5.4/10
Valerie is a juror in the trail of a mob boss. When her young son's life is threatened, she has no option other than to see that justice isn't done.

Russian Roulette

Russian Roulette
5.6/10
An RCMP officer is ordered to discreetly take a Russian immigrant into custody in advance of a state visit by the Soviet premier. When the prisoner is kidnapped, the officer is drawn into a complicated assassination scheme.

Weekend Warriors

Weekend Warriors
4.3/10
In 1961, with war looming in Berlin, an Air National Guard unit of actors, journalists and studio personnel is up for military academy consideration.

Pigs vs. Freaks

Pigs vs. Freaks
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 07/06/1984
  • Character: Commander Oliver Krebs
In a small town, the hippie faction often clashes with the mainstream. To settle their differences, the hippie "freaks" take on the town police "pigs" in a football game. On opposing sides of the fence are Frank, the police sergeant, and his son Neal. Also at odds are Neal and one time friend Doug, a returned Vietnam Vet who has joined the police force, who is also protective of his younger sister who prefers the hippie element. To make things even more intense, Mickey South, who has fled to Canada to avoid the war, returns to play for the Freaks football team. Tensions mount and all are challenged as the climax of the film approaches.

The Traveling Executioner

The Traveling Executioner
6.3/10
Jonas Candide performs his job as state executioner in early 20th century Mississippi like a combination preacher and carnival barker, persuading condemned men to accept their deaths before electrocuting them on his electric chair. After he's assigned his first woman to execute, however, Jonas' sense of purpose is shaken.

Middle Age Crazy

Middle Age Crazy
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 25/07/1980
  • Character: J.D.
A married man is turning forty and that's when the midlife crisis hits ...

Do You Know the Muffin Man?

Do You Know the Muffin Man?
5.6/10
  • Genre: DramaTV Movie
  • Release: 22/10/1989
  • Character: Judge Allen
Roger Dollison, a police officer, and his wife, Kendra, are living the American dream. They have two children, Teddy and Sandy, a lovely home, and a dog named Rex. What they know and how they live as a family is irreparably changed one day when it is discovered that a classmate of Teddy's is the apparent victim of sexual abuse and molestation at the respected neighborhood daycare center. Like all other parents, the Dollisons are tormented — "we should have known, we should have seen" — but their devastation is complete when Teddy tells his own story, one he promised his abusers he would never tell.

End of the Road

End of the Road
6.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 10/02/1970
  • Character: Dr. Carter
After a catatonic episode on a railway station platform, Jacob Horner is taken to "The Farm"...

The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope

The Witches of Salem: The Horror and the Hope
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1972
A bizarre series of events focused on young women in the village of Salem causes paranoia in the late 1600s. It ends with the lynching of the accused and subsequent releases from jail. Dark and gritty, but not frightening.

The Sports Pages

The Sports Pages
5.7/10
Dr. Lionel Waddems (Bob Newhart), a golf fanatic. is put on trial for killing his golf partner (Played by Kelsey Grammer). The movie follows the trial in the news and features interviews by people who knew the men. It is based on 2 short stories "How Doc Waddems Finally Broke 100" and "The Heidi Bowl".

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