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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) is producer/director Frank Capra's classic comedy-drama, and considered by many to be his greatest achievement in film (and reminiscent of his earlier film, Mr.

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 ...

Horror Films are unsettling films designed to frighten and panic, cause dread and alarm, and to invoke our hidden worst fears, often in a terrifying, shocking finale, while captivating and ...

The American Film Institute in Los Angeles, California, in mid-June 2000 selected America's 100 Funniest Movies with a blue-ribbon panel or "jury" of more than 1,800 leaders of the American movie ...