Michael Higgins Movies

State and Main

68/100

A movie crew invades a small town whose residents are all too ready to give up their values for showbiz glitz.

Wanda

71/100

Wanda, a lonely housewife, drifts through mining country until she meets a petty thief who takes her in.

The Local Stigmatic

63/100

Two symbiotic sociopaths play obscurely deviant mind games with each other while engaging in perversely brutal acts of violence against victims apparently chosen at random.

Paul's Case

82/100

Lost in a world of fantasy, young working-class Paul dreams of escaping his dreary existence in turn-of-the-century Pittsburgh...

On Valentine's Day

60/100

On Valentine's Day is the central film in Horton Foote's semi-autobiographical trilogy that also includes Courtship and 1918. It is a nearly verbatim retelling of his stage play and the sets and costumes.

Edge of Fury

63/100

A psychopathic young beachcomber pretends to befriend a mother and two daughters living at their summer home.

Rashomon

70/100

A looser adaptation of the same story that Kurosawa covered in his classic. Every player in the story has their own version of how a crime played out.

Terror in the City

66/100

Roadside Picnic

Two friends spend their time consumed in the forgotten moments of the everyday that underpin touristic adventure. It is in these moments that we see reflected the flat and banal nature of real life.

Death Play

Low-budget mystery centers on a murder committed during the premier of a Broadway show.