David Shire Movies

A small-town sheriff is confronted with the deaths of local senior citizens and strange goings-on in his town.

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

Inspired by the explosive sex-for-sale scandal that rocked Manhattan in 1984, the infamous Sydney Biddle Barrows, a driven young socialite, opens an...

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.

As America recovers from the Civil War, one man tries to put the pieces of his life back together but finds himself fighting a new battle on the...

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

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...

Following a mysterious suicide at Niagara Falls, a low-rent detective unravels a conspiracy to build a revolutionary invention by enigmatic...

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

Two men who have been friends since childhood find themselves on opposite ends of the law.

Set in the heart of America in the 1930s. Walter Osgood (Louis Gosset Jr) is the only black man left in the town of High Lonesome that has been...

Unusual relationships, a feminist awakening and a career in art history mark a baby boomer's life, ages 16 through 46.

A rich student's fiancee has her face destroyed by a car accident, and refuses to return to him fearing the loss of his love.

When her marriage falls apart, a psychiatrist seeks out those of her former boyfriends who left the biggest impact on her life, mostly in a bad way.

Two hoplessly out of their class con-men attempt to pull off the largest bank heist of the l9th century—by gaining the enmity of the most...

Bob returns home for his mother’s funeral knowing that he must fulfill a promise made 30 years earlier—to care for his younger brother...

Mara McAndrew's marriage is falling apart. Her husband, Donnie, a Vietnam veteran, suffers troubling flashbacks about the war, leaving him...

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

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

Michelle Sanderson (Ally Sheedy) is a woman who seems to have everything -- great looks, a promising career, a large circle of friends. But the one...