A cleancut college boy is catapulted into an alluring, erotic murder mystery involving a disturbed nightclub singer (Rossellini) and a drug-addicted sadist (Hopper).
A young Briton whose unconquerable spirit soars high above the harsh confines of a Japanese internment camp during World War II. Through his eyes we see the fascination and horror of war. And we see a child's hold onto childhood weaken as his struggle to survive grows fiercer.
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow Marine recruits from their brutal basic training to the bloody street fighting set in 1968 Hue, Vietnam.
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider whom takes the youth under his wing.
My Rating
8.9
IMDb Rating
7.2 (19,575 votes)
War of the Roses, The (1989)
Once in a lifetime comes a motion picture that makes you feel like falling in love all over again. This is not that movie.
In this blackest of comedies, a perfect 18-year marriage suddenly becomes unglued and the gleefully evil Barbara (Kathleen Turner) and Oliver (Michael) Rose single-mindedly inflict as much misery as possible on each other.
Based on a true story, the acclaimed film follows the young Kovic from a zealous teen who eagerly volunteers for the Vietnam War, to an embittered veteran paralyzed from the mid-chest down.
My Rating
9.5
IMDb Rating
7.1 (19,748 votes)
Cape Fear (1991)
There is nothing in the dark that isn't there in the light. Except fear.
Fourteen years after being imprisoned, vicious psychopath Max Cady (Robert De Niro) emerges with a single-minded mission: to seek revenge on his attorney Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte).
Billy Hoyle (Woody Harrelson) and Sidney Deane (Wesley Snipes) are an unlikely pair of basketball hustlers. They team up to con their way across the courts of Los Angeles.
A rare film experience that draws the viewer closer to the natural world and its species. Face to face encounters with creatures large and small reveal the breadth of this living world.