David Shire Movies

Network television executive Gavin hopes to reunite celebrated Hollywood stars Piper Grayson, Kate Westbourne, and Addie Holden in a TV special after...

Harker Flet and compatriots Timothy X. Nolan and Katy, along with three other men, steal $40,000 in money and jewelry from a California train in the...

A mother and daughter spend a night together after the daughter reveals that she will kill herself by the end of it.

Based on a true operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The airplane...

Two hopelessly out of their class con-men attempt to pull off the largest bank heist of the 19th century — by gaining the enmity of the most...

Kidnappers making a ransom demand dial a wrong number and reach a struggling actor instead. He decides to cut himself in for some of the money.

Based on the true life story that took place in the 1970s, this movie follows the murder of Susan Reinert and her two children in Upper Merion...

A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the...

After losing her husband and baby daughter to a fire, Daphne Fields raises her deaf son while beginning a writing career. Hollywood loves her...

This western began in 1812 when the settlers tried to take away more and more territories from the indians. Tecumseh, who is the leader of the...

Stewart and Neil Woodman plot to have their parents murdered.

An AIDS-stricken woman becomes a leader in the struggle to educate people about the disease and its prevention.

A couple of bumbling 1920s hustlers attempt to obtain the fortune of an heiress. Nothing will stop them, not even murder.

A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.

Quincy Drew and Jason O’Rourke, a pair of friends and con men—the former white, the latter a Northern-born free Black man— travel...

A sixty-something mother and her two adult sons cope and move onward following the death of their larger-than-life father/husband.

An English teacher and struggling single mother has her life disrupted when the father who abandoned her as a child comes back into her life.

This film concerns a writer of mystery stories who bases his villain on a criminal, played by Malcolm McDowell, who is incarcerated in prison....

Kansas, 1910. Widowed farmer Jacob Witting finds that taking care of both his farm and two children, Anna and Caleb, is too difficult to handle...

The story of a mother driven to reach the heights of superstardom at the cost of abandoning her only child.