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 ...

In writer/director Spike Lee's R-rated, Rashomon-like comedy/drama, a low-budget independent film - it was his first feature-length film - a black and white feminist comedy marked by abundant female ...

In the next scene set in the middle of the night, the headlights of Officer Wood's police vehicle illuminated Tibbs - still determined to solve the case, and standing outside the police department ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Shawshank Redemption (1994) is an impressive, engrossing piece of film-making from director/screenwriter Frank Darabont who adapted horror master Stephen King's 1982 novella Rita Hayworth and ...

The Sound of Music (1965) was an exceptionally successful film in the mid-1960s - at the time of its release, it surpassed Gone With the Wind (1939) as the number one box office hit of all time. It ...

The mid-to-late 70s and early 80s inaugurated a period of low-brow, teasy, R-rated sexy, US-made teen comedies (horror films not usually included) with gratuitous nudity, mindlessly weak plots, and ...

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