Released Date:
1987-06-03
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
119 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(204181 Reviews)
Director:
Brian De PalmaOscar Fraley (suggested by book)
Eliot Ness (suggested by book)
David Mamet
Federal agent Elliot Ness assembles a personal team of mob fighters to bring Chicago crime boss Al Capone to justice using unconventional means during the mob wars of the 1920s. This fictionalized account of the arrest of Al Capone is heavy on style and gunfire. The end shootout combines a baby carriage and stairs with a nod to Eisenstein's _The Battleship Potemkin_.
Released Date:
1989-09-22
Languages:
English, Japanese
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
125 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (36629 Reviews)
Director:
Ridley ScottTwo New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. In Japan, however, he manages to escape. As they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game the Japanese way.
Released Date:
1990-12-26
Languages:
English, Italian, German, Latin
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
162 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (238028 Reviews)
Director:
Francis Ford CoppolaIn the final instalment of the Godfather Trilogy, an aging Don Michael Corleone seeks to legitimize his crime family's interests and remove himself from the violent underworld but is kept back by the ambitions of the young. While he attempts to link the Corleone's finances with the Vatican, Michael must deal with the machinations of a hungrier gangster seeking to upset the existing Mafioso order and a young protoge's love affair with his daughter.
Released Date:
1991-08-30
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
107 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(21125 Reviews)
Director:
Kenneth BranaghMike Church is a Los Angeles private detective who specializes in finding missing persons. He takes on the case of a mystery woman whom he calls Grace. She is suffering from amnesia and has no memories of her own. She keeps having nightmares involving the murder of a pianist, Margaret, by her husband Roman Strauss in the late 1940s. In an attempt to solve the mystery about these nightmares, Church seeks the help of Madson who is an antiques dealer with the gift of hypnosis. The hypnosis sessions will soon begin to reveal some surprises.
Released Date:
1992-11-06
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
124 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (11491 Reviews)
Director:
Bruce RobinsonA big-city cop from L.A. moves to a small-town police force and immediately finds himself investigating a murder. Using theories rejected by his colleagues, the cop, John Berlin, meets a young blind woman named Helena, who he is attracted to. Meanwhile, a serial killer is on the loose and only John knows it.
Released Date:
1994-05-13
Languages:
English, Vietnamese
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
126 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (15911 Reviews)
Director:
Luis MandokiAn airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addictions threaten her life and their daughter's safety. While the woman enters detox, her husband must face the truth of his enabling behavior.
Released Date:
1995-12-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
115 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (21287 Reviews)
Director:
Gary FlederJimmy the Saint's business is videotaping the terminally-ill, so that they will be around to give 'Afterlife Advice' to their survivors. He hasn't been doing too well lately and has had to turn to loan-sharks to accomodate his failing business, as well as his expensive personal tastes. When an evil gangster-overlord buys up his note and demands a favor of Jimmy, in exchange for the interest that he can't afford, Jimmy capitulates. Jimmy is to scare someone for the gangster-overlord--really rough them up. Without giving too much away (spoiler), the scene goes down badly and Jimmy and his crew all end up with contracts on their heads for their trouble.
Released Date:
1997-09-12
Languages:
English, Spanish
Countries:
Spain, France, USA, Puerto Rico
Runtime:
114 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (801 Reviews)
Director:
Marcos ZurinagaIan Gibson (books)
Marcos Zurinaga (screenplay)
Juan Antonio Ramos (screenplay)
Neil Cohen (screenplay)
A journalist (Esai Morales) starts an investigation into the disappearance of famed poet and political agitator, Garcia Lorca (Andy Garcia), who disappeared in the early days of the Spanish Civil War in the the 1930's.
Released Date:
1997-09-12
Languages:
English, Spanish
Countries:
Spain, France, USA, Puerto Rico
Runtime:
114 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (806 Reviews)
Director:
Marcos ZurinagaIan Gibson (books)
Marcos Zurinaga (screenplay)
Juan Antonio Ramos (screenplay)
Neil Cohen (screenplay)
A journalist (Esai Morales) starts an investigation into the disappearance of famed poet and political agitator, Garcia Lorca (Andy Garcia), who disappeared in the early days of the Spanish Civil War in the the 1930's.
Released Date:
1998-01-30
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
100 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(13381 Reviews)
Director:
Barbet SchroederSan Francisco police officer Frank Connor is in a frantic search for a compatible bone marrow donor for his gravely ill son. There's only one catch: the potential donor is convicted multiple murderer Peter McCabe who sees a trip to the hospital as the perfect opportunity to get what he wants most: freedom. With McCabe's escape, the entire hospital becomes a battleground and Connor must pursue and, ironically, protect the deadly fugitive who is his son's only hope for survival.
Released Date:
1997-08-27
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
130 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (7731 Reviews)
Director:
Bill DukeThe film focuses on the war of two gangs in 1930s Harlem for the control of illegal gaming - one headed by black strategic godfather Bumpy Johnson and another by white ruthless hothead Dutch Schultz. Negotiations proposed by white syndicate boss Lucky Luciano never get under way, blood flows and Johnson gets jailed. When Johnson is paroled, he gets the work of enforcer for mighty Stephanie "The Queen" St. Clair. She is also jailed for racketeering and when she leaves she makes him promise "no violence".
Released Date:
1997-09-12
Languages:
English, Spanish
Countries:
Spain, France, USA, Puerto Rico
Runtime:
114 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (806 Reviews)
Director:
Marcos ZurinagaIan Gibson (books)
Marcos Zurinaga (screenplay)
Juan Antonio Ramos (screenplay)
Neil Cohen (screenplay)
A journalist (Esai Morales) starts an investigation into the disappearance of famed poet and political agitator, Garcia Lorca (Andy Garcia), who disappeared in the early days of the Spanish Civil War in the the 1930's.
Released Date:
1997-05-16
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
113 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (4847 Reviews)
Director:
Sidney LumetRobert Daley (novel)
Sidney Lumet (screenplay)
Sean Casey is the newest member of the district attorneys office and he is close to uncovering a police scandal that might involve his father Liam, who works for the NYPD. Then his father is critically wounded in a stake-out, Sean is chosen to prosecute the case.
Released Date:
1999-02-26
Languages:
English
Countries:
France, USA
Runtime:
115 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.5 (1636 Reviews)
Director:
Richard WenkGary is a charming guy, but Linda is tired of his grand plans and schemes. All of which have gone down the drain. Gary is a 'scalper'. Together with his friends and his 'Guardian Angel', Benny, he buys tickets to events and sells them off at highly increased prices. This doesn't really make him rich and proves to be more difficult than usual when a new guy gets into town, strong-arming all of Gary's sources. But then the gift of heaven arrives. The Pope is coming for a visit. Gary wants to make a lot of money on this so he can finally get one of his (more decent) plans for Linda off the ground and really work on a lasting relationship with her.
Released Date:
2000-11-18
Languages:
English, Spanish
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
120 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (948 Reviews)
Director:
Joseph SargentStory of the world-renowned trumpet player.
Released Date:
2000-11-18
Languages:
English, Spanish
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
120 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (952 Reviews)
Director:
Joseph SargentStory of the world-renowned trumpet player.
Released Date:
2001-09-14
Languages:
English
Countries:
Canada, USA
Runtime:
111 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (5134 Reviews)
Director:
Tom McLoughlinChristopher Murphey (story)
Miguel Tejada-Flores (screenplay)
Scott Williams (screenplay)
Michael Hunter's lovely, beloved 17 year-old son Kyle committed suicide, although he was in therapy for depression. This ruins Michael's marriage, his daughter Shelly moves in with her mother. He stops treating patients in order to write and teach Psychotherapy, until many years later when a student gets him fascinated by the case of Thomas 'Tommy' Caffey. He was about to be released at his 18th birthday from the closed 'boys school' he was placed into after his father, Joseph, was put into jail for beating his adulterous mother to death. Michael feels that Tommy carries a big chip on his shoulder, ignores that Shelly fell for him at first sight, but is mesmerized by Tommy's resemblance (purposefully enhanced) to Kyle. There is also a revealing meeting with Tommy's dad in jail.
Released Date:
2004-02-27
Languages:
English, Italian, Spanish
Countries:
Germany, USA
Runtime:
97 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.2 (16211 Reviews)
Director:
Philip KaufmanJessica Shepard is an on the rise police officer of San Francisco's esteemed police department, after having solved a big case about a serial killer. Her mentor John Mills is proud of Jessica as a father would be of his daughter, since Mills was the partner of Jessica's late father. With a newly established promotion, Jessica finds that she might once again have to prove herself in a department that takes no prisoners. Not to mention a new partner named Mike Delmarco, who might be Jessica's next closest thing to a confidant. However, a man has been found dead and the two officers are brought into the investigation. What they find is a surprise when the dead in question was a man Jessica slept with, he being part of a list of one night stands that Jessica has engaged in. Now under suspicion and a terrible drinking problem gnawing at her, Jessica will have to prove to her superiors and to her skeptical partner that she's not the one behind the murders and Mills is one of the few people standing behind her. This is a story about a woman trying to find the perpetrator of these horrible crimes, before she herself might end as one of them.
Released Date:
2004-09-29
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK, Germany, Romania, France, Italy
Runtime:
128 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (7639 Reviews)
Director:
Mick DavisSet in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful Catholic girl. The couple has an illegitimate child, and Jeanne's bigoted parents send the baby to a faraway convent to be raised by nuns. Modigliani is distraught and needs money to rescue and raise his child. The answer arrives in the shape of Paris' annual art competition. Prize money and a guaranteed career await the winner. Neither Modigliani, nor his dearest friend and rival Picasso have ever entered the competition, believing that it is beneath true artists like themselves. But push comes to shove with the welfare of his child on the line, and Modigliani signs up for the competition in a drunken and drug-induced tirade. Picasso follows suit and all of Paris is aflutter with excitement at who will win. With the balance of his relationship with Jeanne on the line, Modigliani tackles this work with the hopes of creating a masterpiece, and knows that all the artists of Paris are doing the same.
Released Date:
2009-10-16
Languages:
English, French, Cantonese, Gujarati, Yiddish
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
103 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (37661 Reviews)
Hu Hong (segment)
Yao Meng (segment)
Israel Horovitz (adaptation)
Suketu Mehta (segment)
Shunji Iwai (segment)
Israel Horovitz (adaptation)
Olivier Lècot (segment)
Jeff Nathanson (segment)
Xan Cassavetes (segment)
Stephen Winter (segment)
Anthony Minghella (segment)
Natalie Portman (segment)
Fatih Akin (segment)
Joshua Marston (segment)
Hall Powell (transitions "Randy Balsmeyer")
Israel Horovitz (transitions "Randy Balsmeyer")
James C. Strouse (transitions "Randy Balsmeyer")
Emmanuel Benbihy (concept)
Tristan Carnè (premise)
Ten vignettes in New York City: a pickpocket meets his match; a young Hasidic woman, on the eve of her marriage, reveals herself to an Indian businessman; a writer tries a pick-up line; an artist seeks a model; a composer needs to read; two women connect; a man takes a child to Central Park; lovers meet; a couple takes a walk on their anniversary; a kid goes to the prom with a girl in a wheelchair; a retired singer contemplates suicide. There are eight million stories in the naked city: these have been ten of them.
Released Date:
2009-02-06
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
92 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
5.5 (30058 Reviews)
Director:
Harald ZwartScott Neustadter (screenplay)
Michael H. Weber (screenplay)
Steve Martin (screenplay)
Scott Neustadter (story)
Michael H. Weber (story)
Maurice Richlin (characters)
Blake Edwards (characters)
After having been rewarded for solving the mystery of the Pink Panther Diamond, inspector Jacques Clouseau has been assigned to minor tasks by his boss inspector Dreyfus so as not to have him in his way anymore. Unfortunately, the famous diamond has once again been stolen as have many other artifacts in a series of burglaries around the world. His past success will enable inspector Clouseau to be part of the dream team comprised of the greatest detectives of the affected countries, where he will be able to display his numerous talents across the world.
Released Date:
2010-04-30
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
104 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (26263 Reviews)
Director:
Raymond De FelittaThe Rizzos, a family who doesn't share their habits, aspirations, and careers with one another, find their delicate web of lies disturbed by the arrival of a young ex-con (Strait) brought home by Vince (Garcia), the patriarch of the family, who is a corrections officer in real life, and a hopeful actor in private.
Released Date:
2014-01-31
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
99 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (5079 Reviews)
Director:
Adam RodgersTwo parents fall in love over the course of a single day while playing hooky from their children's college tour.
Released Date:
2013-04-12
Languages:
English, Portuguese
Countries:
Brazil, USA
Runtime:
85 min
IMDB Ratings:
5.5 (1274 Reviews)
Director:
Marcio GarciaAngie, a young Brazilian artist, abandons her old life and embarks on a journey around the country. Running from her past, and searching for her foundation in life, Angie finds not only herself but love in its many forms.
Released Date:
2013-12-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
96 min
Rated:
TV-PG
IMDB Ratings:
(690 Reviews)
Director:
John Kent HarrisonTo the folks in Conway, South Carolina, Duncan Mayor is a very cranky guy. To "my sweet girl" - his wife, Suzy - he's a doting pussycat. But Suzy is just home from the hospital and cared for 24/7 by nurse Natalie, whom Duncan tries his best to ignore. Duncan decides the best medicine Suzy could possibly have - and a Christmas present she'll never forget -- is a ride on a real Ferris wheel, set up in their own back yard. Why a Ferris wheel? Because it was while riding one many moons ago that Duncan asked Suzy to marry him. Where to find a 45-foot-high used Ferris wheel? Duncan strikes gold in an abandoned amusement park, presided over by a lonely ex-carnival worker -- Henry. Assembling the mechanical monstrosity is not exactly a one-man job. Duncan gets a crucial assist from Tommy, a former student of Suzy's, who is deeply in her debt. He's become a successful landscape designer after a troubled youth; it was Suzy who set him straight. Meanwhile, the neighbors are not amused; especially prim and proper Gayle Matthews. She's entered her garden in an upscale magazine's "Christmas Showcase" contest. The interest of the contest's judges witnessing the atrocity next door is more than Gayle can bear. Fortunately, her brother is the local sheriff - and there are zoning laws to prevent this kind of thing, aren't there?
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