Warrior is a 2011 American sports drama film directed by Gavin O'Connor and written by O'Connor; Cliff Dorfman; and Anthony Tambakis; It stars Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton as two estranged brothers whose entrance into a mixed martial arts tournament makes them come to [...]
The Elephant Man is a 1980 British-American historical drama film about Joseph Merrick (whom the script calls John Merrick); a severely deformed man in late 19th century London; The film was directed by David Lynch and stars John Hurt; Anthony Hopkins; Anne Bancroft; John Gielgud; Wendy Hiller; Michael [...]
No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American neo-Western crime thriller film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel of the same name. A cat and mouse thriller starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin, it follows a [...]
My Father and My Son (Turkish: Babam ve Oğlum) is a 2005 Turkish drama film written and directed by Çağan Irmak about a family torn apart by the 1980 Turkish coup d'état. The film which went on nationwide release on 18 November 2005 became one [...]
Dial M for Murder is a 1954 American crime mystery film directed by Alfred Hitchcock; starring Ray Milland; Grace Kelly; Robert Cummings; and John Williams; Both the screenplay and the successful stage play on which it was based were written by English playwright Frederick Knott; The play premiered in [...]
There Will Be Blood is a 2007 American epic drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson loosely based on the novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair. It stars Daniel Day-Lewis as a silver miner-turned-oilman on a ruthless quest for wealth during Southern California's oil boom of the late [...]
Chinatown is a 1974 American neo-noir mystery film directed by Roman Polanski from a screenplay by Robert Towne; starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway; The film was inspired by the California Water Wars; a series of disputes over southern California water at the beginning of the 20th century; [...]
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a 2017 drama film written, directed, and produced by Martin McDonagh and starring Frances McDormand as a Missouri woman who rents three billboards to call attention to her daughter's unsolved rape and murder. Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Abbie Cornish, John Hawkes, and Peter [...]
Casino is a 1995 American epic crime film directed by Martin Scorsese; produced by Barbara De Fina and distributed by Universal Pictures. It starred Robert De Niro; Sharon Stone; and Joe Pesci. The film is based on the nonfiction book Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas by Nicholas Pileggi, who [...]
Raging Bull is a 1980 American biographical sports drama film directed by Martin Scorsese; produced by Robert Chartoff and Irwin Winkler and adapted by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin from Jake LaMotta's memoir Raging Bull: My Story. The film, distributed by United Artists; stars Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta; an Italian-American middleweight boxer whose self-destructive [...]
