Jack Nicholson

Jack Nicholson’s debut. He plays a teenager who opens the film laid-low in an alley after his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend’s gang jumps him. After a friend helps him back to his feet, Nicholson confronts the gang at their dive restaurant hangout. A scuffle ensues. One of the gang has a gun. Nicholson grabs the gun. The gang grab for Nicholson. Shots fire.

Recently turned into a raven, a magician (Peter Lorre) talks a fellow magician (Vincent Price) into helping him exact revenge on the magician (Boris Karloff) responsible.

A young French soldier (Jack Nicholson) pursues a mysterious woman to a Baron’s (Boris Karloff) castle.

Two anti-establishment bikers (Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper) set out on a cross-country trip to Mardi Gras after completing a drug deal.

Two friends (Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkel) struggle with relationships through two decades.

In 1937 Los Angeles, a private detective (Jack Nicholson) working a simple adultery case uncovers a massive conspiracy protected by murder.

In the 1920s, two men (Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson) plot to extort the father of an heiress (Stockard Channing), leading them to consider murder.

David Mamet’s screenwriting debut. Not a remake of the 1946 Lana Turner film, but another adaptation of James M. Cain’s novel. Jack Nicholson plays Frank, an opportunistic drifter who hires on at a rural luncheonette with his eye on the owner’s wife Cora, played by Jessica Lange. The two begin a torrid affair and soon they’re plotting to off her husband. Spoilers follow.

A woman (Debra Winger) deals with a struggling marriage and an overprotective mother (Shirley MacLaine).

Jack Nicholson plays a mobster who falls into a chemical vat and emerges with white skin, green hair, and a rictus grin. Renaming himself Joker, he sets out to remake Gotham City in his image, but encounters resistance from Batman, played by Michael Keaton.

The rise and fall of union leader Jimmy Hoffa (Jack Nicholson) as seen through the eyes of one of his longtime associates (Danny DeVito).

Mars Attacks! could have been awful but settles for mediocre.

An obsessive-compulsive author forms unlikely relationships with a waitress and a gay painter.