Jeff Bridges plays Matthew Scudder, an LA sheriff who loses his job due to his
inability to stay away from booze. While attending an AA meeting, Scudder is invited to attend a party, where he meets the beauteous Sunny (Alexandra ...
Paul Schrader's directorial debut examines the trials of Detroit autoworkers living at the mercy of
a heartless corporation and a corrupt union. Surviving from paycheck to paycheck, Checker Cab assembly linemen Zeke (Richard Pryor), Jerry (Harvey Keitel), and Smokey (Yaphet ...
Director David Lynch crafted this hallucinogenic mystery-thriller that probes beneath the cheerful surface of suburban
America to discover sadomasochistic violence, corruption, drug abuse, crime and perversion. Kyle Maclachlan stars as Jeffrey Beaumont, a square-jawed young man who returns to his ...
A tough-talking teen attempts to uncover his ex-girlfriend's killer in director Rian Johnson's hard-boiled high-school
noir, told in the style of a Dashiell Hammett mystery. An outsider by nature, Brendan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is forced to penetrate the elaborate ranks of ...
China Moon is a slick noir thriller, nice to look at, well-acted and directed, but
ultimately predictable, even to its surprise ending. Kyle Bodine (Ed Harris) falls in love with Rachel Munro (Madeleine Stowe), the unhappily married wife of a ...
Alex Proyas (The Crow) directed this noir-styled futuristic thriller, scripted by Proyas, Lem Dobbs (Kafka),
and David S. Goyer (The Puppet Masters). Separated from his wife Emma (Jennifer Connelly), amnesiac John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) awakens alone in a strange hotel ...
Peter Greenaway's first fiction feature (after the mock-documentary The Falls) made him immediately famous and
was named one of the most original films of the 1980s by British critics. The action is set in the director's beloved 17th century. Ambitious ...
The Indian Runner, Sean Penn's debut film as director (he also wrote the script, based
on the Bruce Springsteen song Highway Patrolman) is a brooding tale of two brothers -- one peaceful and sedate, the other violent and aggressive -- ...
