
August 29, 1935 · 90 years old
William David Friedkin (August 29, 1935 – August 7, 2023) was an American film, television and opera director, producer, and screenwriter who was closely identified with the "New Hollywood" movement of the 1970s. Beginning his career in documentaries in the early 1960s, he is best known for his crim…

When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.

A pair of NYPD detectives in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles, but stopping them and capturing their leaders proves an elusive goal.

When a debt puts a young man's life in danger, he turns to putting a hit out on his evil mother in order to collect the insurance.

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.

An FBI deep-woods tracker attempts to capture a trained assassin who has made a sport of hunting humans.

An attorney defends an officer on trial for ordering his troops to fire on civilians after they stormed a U.S. embassy in a Middle Eastern country.

A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.

An unhinged war veteran holes up with a lonely woman in a spooky Oklahoma motel room. The line between reality and delusion is blurred as they discover a bug infestation.

Four unfortunate men from different parts of the globe agree to risk their lives transporting gallons of nitroglycerin across dangerous Latin American jungle.

A New York police officer goes undercover on the rough-trade beat to find a serial killer who is targeting homosexual men.

A college basketball coach is forced to break the rules in order to get the players he needs to stay competitive.

A bright assistant D.A. investigates a gruesome hatchet murder and hides a clue he found at the crime scene. Under professional threats and an attempt on his life, he goes on heartbroken because evidence point to the woman he stil...

Young married couple Phillip and Kate Sterling, who have a newborn son named Jake, don't realize that their new nanny Camilla is a magical Druid who sacrifices infants to an evil tree.

Tempers fray and true selves are revealed when a heterosexual accidentally intrudes on a homosexual party.

Follows a naval officer who stands trial for mutiny after taking command from a ship captain he felt was acting in an unstable way, putting both the ship and its crew in danger.

Small-time arms dealer Eddie Muntz visits South America to sell weapons to the revolutionaries and winds up negotiating the sale of an experimental plane to the nation's dictator.

Father Gabriele Amorth performs his ninth exorcism on an Italian woman.

Alex is an outwardly normal man who goes on killing and mutilating sprees. When he is finally captured and brought to trial, the district attorney is torn between his own liberal ideals on guilt and the crimes the accused is being...

A naive young Amish woman runs away from her home in Pennsylvania to New York City, where she hopes to act in religious stage plays but ends up performing in Burlesque theatre.

In this documentary, the hotshot director of The Exorcist (1973) and The French Connection (1971), now 83 years old, is interviewed about his career, and a number of his colleagues and admirers weigh in with reminiscences and trib...