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Actor · 1942

Harrison Ford

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13:00: average
91 min: in total

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Working Girl

Mike Nichols · 1988

Working Girl (1988), directed by Mike Nichols, follows Tess McGill, a Staten Island secretary with a night-school business degree, as she navigates corporate Manhattan. After being fired from one brokerage, she lands a job with Katharine Parker at Petty Marsh — only to discover her boss intends to steal her idea for a radio-network acquisition. When Katharine breaks her leg, Tess steps in, borrows her wardrobe, and executes the deal herself. Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, and Sigourney Weaver anchor a tightly written, visually controlled film that treats ambition as procedural, not mythical — and success as earned, narrow, and reversible.

Blade Runner

Ridley Scott · 1982

Ridley Scott's 1982 science fiction film, adapted from Philip K. Dick's novel, sends former police officer Rick Deckard after a group of fugitive synthetic humans, or replicants, hiding in a decaying future Los Angeles. Shot by Jordan Cronenweth with a score by Vangelis, it underperformed on release and split critics over its pacing, only to be reissued in seven different versions and become one of the defining works of neo-noir and cyberpunk cinema.

Blade Runner 2049

Denis Villeneuve · 2017

Thirty-five years after Ridley Scott's original, Denis Villeneuve's sequel sends replicant blade runner K into a discovery that threatens the order between humans and the synthetics who serve them, with Harrison Ford's Deckard drawn back into the search. Visually enormous and emotionally patient, it won over critics but not, relative to its cost, box offices.

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Steven Spielberg · 1981

Steven Spielberg's 1981 adventure sends archaeologist Indiana Jones after the Ark of the Covenant, racing Nazi treasure hunters across three continents. Financed by Lucasfilm rather than a studio, built from a George Lucas story and a Lawrence Kasdan script, it swept the technical Academy Awards and became the year's biggest earner despite tracking that predicted it would be overshadowed.

Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope

George Lucas · 1977

George Lucas's 1977 space opera sends farm boy Luke Skywalker into a rebellion against the Galactic Empire after he acquires stolen plans for a planet-destroying superweapon, teaming with smuggler Han Solo, Princess Leia and Jedi master Obi-Wan Kenobi. Made for $11 million after multiple studios turned the project down, it became a surprise blockbuster, grossing $775 million across its releases, winning six Academy Awards, and establishing the modern template for franchise filmmaking.

Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back

Irvin Kershner · 1980

Irvin Kershner's 1980 sequel sends the Rebel Alliance into retreat as the Galactic Empire hunts them down, splitting Luke Skywalker's training under Jedi master Yoda from Han Solo and Princess Leia's flight from Darth Vader's forces. Written by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan from George Lucas's story outline, it went well over its original $8 million budget to a reported $30.5 million, became the year's highest-grossing film, and is now widely regarded as the strongest entry in the Star Wars series.

The Conversation

Francis Ford Coppola · 1974

Gene Hackman plays a wiretap specialist convinced his latest recording documents a murder he's enabling, in Coppola's Palme d'Or-winning thriller that arrived just months before Watergate made its premise feel prophetic rather than speculative.