Eureka

Loosely inspired by the real-life murder of tycoon Sir Harry Oakes, Nicolas Roeg’s fever-dream epic begins in the frozen goldfields of the 1920s Yukon, where prospector Jack McCann (Gene Hackman) strikes it unimaginably rich, then leaps two decades ahead to his private Caribbean island, where wealth has curdled into paranoia. Pressured by mobsters, exploited by his own family, and stalked by a sense of dread, McCann comes undone in a story that channels Citizen Kane as much as it anticipates There Will Be Blood. With a staggering cast that includes Rutger Hauer, Mickey Rourke, Joe Pesci, and Joe Spinell, alongside Roeg’s signature shifts in tone and tempo, Eureka is a visionary descent into frontier capitalism and a fracturing psyche—anchored at every turn by Hackman’s blistering, haunted performance.