A landmark road film, Easy Rider chronicles the search for freedom by two motorcycle-riding drop-outs as they journey between California and New Orleans.

Drifters Wyatt (Peter Fonda) and Billy (Dennis Hopper) meet up with alcoholic lawyer, George (Jack Nicholson) in a southern jail. George gets them out and then joins them on their liberating journey.

The film features a stellar soundtrack, which includes: Steppenwolf, The Byrds, The Band, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Little Eva and The Electric Prunes.

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A restless musician learns you can never go home again when he visits his family for the first time in three years.

A brilliant-but-unhappy concert pianist, Robert Dupea (Jack Nicholson) has given up music to work as an oil rigger in California. Informed by his sister that their father has had two strokes, Dupea heads home to Seattle, accompanied by his pregnant girlfriend, Rayette (Karen Black). Leaving her at a motel, Dupea visits the family homestead, only to fall for his brother's fiancée, Catherine (Susan Anspach). After a brief affair, an angry and alienated Dupea leaves with Rayette, only to abandon her at a gas station, as he hitches a ride to Alaska to begin a new life. Nominated for four 1970 Oscars®, including Best Picture and Actor.

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Jack Nicholson's directorial debut is about basketball, draft dodging and sleeping with professors' wives. The longhaired star of an Ohio College Team, can't decide if he wants to turn pro or join his radical roommate, in bringing about a revolution. In the meantime, he's content to carry on an affair with a faculty wife.

Hector (William Tepper) is a star basketball player for the College basketball team he plays for, the Leopards. His girlfriend, Olive (Karen Black), doesn't know whether to stay with him or leave him. And his friend, Gabriel (Michael Margotta), who may have dropped out from school and become a protestor, wants desperately not to get drafted for Vietnam.

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In a hippie-life fantasy that takes place inside the mind of a young woman (Tuesday Weld), cult favorite Henry Jaglom makes his directorial debut with this commentary on life’s painful challenges.

When Weld finds her loneliness and isolation too difficult to bear, she slips into the safety and comfort of her memories of childhood meetings with an old man (Orson Welles). As the present becomes impossible for her to face, she finally finds solace in vividly reliving her old feelings as she slips away forever to the aging man of her past.

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A film that captures all the sadness of an American dream gone wrong. A man concocts impossible get-rich-quick schemes and insists on trying them out on his brother and girlfriend.

A Philadelphia radio personality, David (Jack Nicholson) has a tendency to mix fact and fiction in his talks, such as in a story about his "dead" grandfather (Charles LaVine). When his older brother, Jason (Bruce Dern), is jailed on a robbery charge, David is summoned to Atlantic City.

Upon his release from jail, Jason introduces David to his companions, the aging Sally (Ellen Burstyn) and her stepdaughter, Jessica (Julia Anne Robinson). While Jason talks of building a gambling casino on Waikiki Beach, David is sure that it's just another of his fantastic schemes, but stays on to see what happens anyway.

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Two sailors are selected to escort a young emotionally withdrawn recruit from their West Virginia base to a prison in Massachusetts for stealing from the polio charity box. Won over by the young recruit's bumbling ways and the difficulty of his plight, the two hardened sailors show him a good time before his long stay in the brig.

But when Meadows tries to escape during a picnic in snow-covered Boston Common, he’s subdued and beaten by Buddusky. Bruised and battered, he’s finally turned over to the authorities in Portsmouth and, their detail completed, Buddusky and Mulhall realize they are just as much prisoners of their world as Meadows now is of his.

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An action-packed detective thriller set in Los Angeles during the thirties.

J.J. Gittes (Jack Nicholson), a sophisticated, cynical detective is hired by Noah Cross (John Huston), a powerful Los Angeles millionaire, to keep an eye on his daughter's husband, Hollis Mulwray, (Darrell Zwerling), Water Commissioner of Los Angeles. Gittes, a former investigator for the D.A.'s office, now makes a living obtaining photographic evidence for divorce suits. He meets, and eventually gets involved with Cross's daughter, Evelyn Mulwray (Faye Dunaway), an elegant, mysterious socialite. Gittes puts information together after the death of Hollis Mulwray, and finds himself in a situation both perilous and criminal. It is up to him to unravel this suspense filled mystery.

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To dodge the 1920s Mann Act barring the transport of women across state lines for "immoral purposes," not-yet-divorced Nicky (Warren Beatty) has felonious buddy Oscar (Jack Nicholson) marry Nicky's runaway heiress sweetheart Freddy (Stockard Channing) so they can all escape New York for Los Angeles. The three set up house together, but trouble starts brewing when odd man out Oscar decides to get Nicky's attention by exercising his rights as a husband to Freddy. Exasperated with being stuck in the middle of the bickering pair, Freddy threatens to donate her impending inheritance to charity, inciting Oscar and Nicky to hatch a plan to bump her off and keep the money. But Freddy just will not die, prompting the three to reconsider the whole arrangement.

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The life of a journalist takes some abrupt turns when he exchanges identities with a dead man.

Antonioni’s landmark 1975 drama stars a young Jack Nicholson as David Locke, a journalist who arrives at a desert hotel in a North African country to report on the guerrilla freedom fighters there. After discovering the dead body of the only other resident of his hotel, a man named Robertson (Charles Mulvehill), Locke decides to exchange identities with the dead man. He switches their passports and clothes, and informs the hotel desk that Locke’s body has been found. The new Robertson decides to keep some of the old Robertson’s appointments, traveling to Munich and meeting with representatives of the guerrillas, where he learns he is an arms dealer. He takes up with a strange young woman (Maria Schneider) as his new life leads him into places and encounters much more dangerous than he had bargained for.

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Two-time Academy Award-winner Jack Nicholson is the director and star of "The Two Jakes," the film in which Nicholson again plays detective Jake Gittes, the character he originated in "Chinatown." Nicholson stars in the film with Harvey Keitel, Meg Tilly, and Madeleine stowe.

In this '40s-era Los Angeles mystery, Gittes investigates a killing and discovers some puzzling connections to a deadly course of events from his past.

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