In director Jim McBride's romantic, neo-noir crime and romantic mystery-thriller - it told about a suspected deadly drug war in the "Big Easy" city of New Orleans, LA between Mafia mobsters and ...

In director Hal Ashby's last and very under-rated film - the R-rated edgy, unconventional and believable police-crime thriller and neo-noir boasted a screenplay co-written by Oliver Stone and adapted ...

This infantile-minded comedy sequel from director Steve Oedekerk - Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995) - followed after Jim Carrey's earlier first hit Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994); the year ...

Following her role in Butterfly (1982), Pia Zadora also starred in director Peter Sasdy's trashy The Lonely Lady (1983). It was an adaptation of a Harold Robbins novel by Ellen Shepard, about "the ...

Italian director Marco Ferreri's erotic drama and compelling love story was adapted from German/American beat poet Charles Bukowski's short story The Most Beautiful Woman in Town, found in his 1972 ...

Director Edward Zwick's R-rated romantic comedy-drama (his directorial debut film) was based on David Mamet's 1974 play "Sexual Perversity in Chicago." It starred two celebrated members of Hollywood's ...

Directed by co-writer Abram Room, this comedic, modern love-triangle silent film drama was considered a Soviet version of Ernst Lubitsch's Design For Living (1933), and had hints of Francois ...

It's A Wonderful Life (1946), originally made for Liberty Films, is one of the most popular and heartwarming films ever made by director Frank Capra. Frank Capra regarded this film as his own personal ...

The Manchurian Candidate (1962) is director-producer John Frankenheimer's prophetically tragic, chilling, brilliant, blackish (film-noirish) Cold War thriller about brain-washing, conspiracy, the ...

Foundations of the Prolific Film Industry: Films really blossomed in the 1920s, expanding upon the foundations of film from earlier years. Most US film production at the start of the decade occurred ...

The Deer Hunter (1978) is storywriter/producer/director Michael Cimino's epic about war and friendship - and only his second film (following Thunderbolt and Lightfoot ...

The 400 Nominated Films (for the 10th Anniversary Edition) were feature-length fictional movies produced between 1912 and 1996 with newly-eligible films from 1996 to 2006.