Five Essential Gene Hackman Movies

This might just be the best submarine movie ever made. Loosely based on real events from the Cuban Missile Crisis, the film sees Denzel Washington’s First Officer Ron Hunter locked in a tense and claustrophobic battle with his superior, the cigar-toting Captain Frank Ramsay (Hackman), when the latter plans to enact a nuclear strike on a Russian sub without confirming orders from higher up. When his authority is questioned, Ramsay goes full Mad King—Hackman’s Cold War King Lear is frankly…