Bullets Over Broadway (
1994) | IMDb:
7.4
After young playwright, David Shayne obtains funding for his play from gangster Nick Valenti, Nick's girlfriend Olive miraculously lands the role of a psychiatrist—but not only is she a bimbo who could never pass for a psychiatrist—she's a dreadful actress. David puts up with the leading man who is a compulsive eater, the grand dame who wants her part jazzed up, and Olive's interfering hitman/bodyguard—but, eventually he must decide whether art or life is more important.
Starring:
John Cusack
,
Chazz Palminteri
,
Dianne Wiest
,
Jennifer Tilly
,
Mary-Louise Parker
,
Tracey Ullman
Homicide (
1991) | IMDb:
6.9
A Jewish homicide detective investigates a seemingly minor murder and falls in with a Zionist group as a result.
Starring:
Joe Mantegna
,
William H. Macy
,
Vincent Guastaferro
,
J.J. Johnston
,
Jack Wallace
,
Lionel Mark Smith
Directed by:
David Mamet
Troma's War (
1988) | IMDb:
5.4
A small group of typical Tromaville citizens find themselves in the path of a terrorist army controlled by the power elite...
Starring:
Carolyn Beauchamp
,
Sean Bowen
,
Rick Washburn
,
Patrick Weathers
,
Jessica Dublin
,
Steven Crossley
Produced by:
Mississippi Burning (
1988) | IMDb:
7.8
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.
Starring:
Gene Hackman
,
Willem Dafoe
,
Frances McDormand
,
Brad Dourif
,
R. Lee Ermey
,
Gailard Sartain
Angel Heart (
1987) | IMDb:
7.2
A down-and-out Brooklyn detective is hired to track down a singer on an odyssey that will take him through the desperate streets of Harlem, the smoke-filled jazz clubs of New Orleans, and the swamps of Louisiana and its seedy underworld of voodoo.
Starring:
Mickey Rourke
,
Robert De Niro
,
Lisa Bonet
,
Charlotte Rampling
,
Stocker Fontelieu
,
Brownie McGhee
The Cotton Club (
1984) | IMDb:
6.5
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.