The best William Hickey’s drama movies

William Hickey

William Hickey

19/09/1927- 29/06/1997
Today we present the best William Hickey’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 William Hickey’s movies.
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The Name of the Rose

The Name of the Rose
7.7/10
14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence – which is considerable.

Wise Blood

Wise Blood
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 24/10/1979
  • Character: Preacher
A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.

Pink Cadillac

Pink Cadillac
5.3/10
A bounty hunter helps out the wife of a bail-jumper after her child is kidnapped by neo-Nazi types.

The Sentinel

The Sentinel
6.3/10
A commitment-shy New York fashion model moves into an old brownstone apartment, meets her weird neighbours and discovers she’s sitting on the gateway to Hell.

Forget Paris

Forget Paris
6.5/10
Mickey Gordon is a basketball referee who travels to France to bury his father. Ellen Andrews is an American living in Paris who works for the airline he flies on. They meet and fall in love, but their relationship goes through many difficult patches.

Sea of Love

Sea of Love
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 15/09/1989
  • Character: Frank Keller Sr.
Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from another part of town to investigate a series of murders linked by the lonely hearts columns he finds he is getting seriously and possibly dangerously involved with Helen, one of the main suspects.

Bright Lights, Big City

Bright Lights, Big City
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/04/1988
  • Character: Ferret Man
A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.

Little Big Man

Little Big Man
7.5/10
Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.

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.

Mikey and Nicky

Mikey and Nicky
7.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 21/12/1976
  • Character: Sid Fine
In Philadelphia, a small-time bookie who stole mob money is in hiding and he begs a childhood friend to help him evade the hit-man who's on his trail.

The Boston Strangler

The Boston Strangler
7.1/10
Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon.

Sons

Sons
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/01/1990
  • Character: Roger
A comedy drama that played the festival circuit before vanishing without trace. Forsythe, Sweeney and Miranda are the trio of stepbrothers accompanying paralysed father Fuller on a jaunt to Normandy, where the old boy saw combat and romantic action during the war. Jennifer Beals, a regular in husband Rockwell's movies, plays a transvestite.

92 in the Shade

92 in the Shade
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 22/08/1975
  • Character: Mr. Skelton
A young drifter returns to his home in Key West, Florida and attempts to open a fishing charter business, provoking a dangerous feud with a rival fishing sea captain.

A Hatful of Rain

A Hatful of Rain
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 17/07/1957
  • Character: Apples
A Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.

A Stranger Is Watching

A Stranger Is Watching
5.3/10
Three years after Steve Peterson's wife, Nina, was murdered in front of their 11 year old daughter Julie, she and his new girlfriend Sharon Martin are kidnapped by the same killer, the psychotic Artie Taggart. Imprisoning them in a bunker below Grand Central Station, he throws the police into a race against time to save the girls and catch the killer.

A Hobo's Christmas

A Hobo's Christmas
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaTV Movie
  • Release: 20/10/1987
  • Character: Cincinnati Harold
A hobo played by Barnard Hughes decides it's time to go home. Drifting from place to place, Hughes finds himself in his hometown of Salt Lake City at Christmas time. Here he hopes to close old wounds and be reunited with his unforgiving son played by Gerald McRaney, and get to know the grandchildren he has never met. McRaney, still resenting the fact that Hughes ran out on his family 25 years earlier, gives his father only one day with his grandkids; after that, he's expected to leave and never come back. All the while Hughes' friends warn him that his son and the past are memories that are best left alone, and should leave, but he has to find out for himself.

The Telephone Book

The Telephone Book
6.6/10
A sexually voracious young woman receives a dirty phone call from a stranger; so satisfied by the experience, she sets out to find him somewhere in New York City.

Happy Birthday, Wanda June

Happy Birthday, Wanda June
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 09/12/1971
  • Character: Looseleaf Harper
A hunter back from years in the Amazon finds his wife and life changed.

Any Man's Death

Any Man's Death
4.4/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 10/05/1990
  • Character: Erich Schiller / Ernst Bauricke
When a photo-journalist vanishes while covering an African civil war, a roll of film holds the only clues to his disappearance. Following the trail found in the photos, a veteran reporter finds himself in the middle of events as they escalate into war, leaving him with two deadly and disastrous options...

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