Brokedown Palace (
1999) | IMDb:
6.4
Best friends Alice and Darlene take a trip to Thailand after graduating high school. In Thailand, they meet a captivating Australian man, who calls himself Nick Parks. Darlene is particularly smitten with Nick and convinces Alice to take Nick up on his offer to treat the two of them to what amounts to a day trip to Hong Kong. In the airport, the girls are seized by the police and shocked to discover that one of their bags contains heroin.
Starring:
Claire Danes
,
Kate Beckinsale
,
Bill Pullman
,
Jacqueline Kim
,
Lou Diamond Phillips
,
Daniel Lapaine
Yes, Giorgio (
1982) | IMDb:
3.7
A famous opera singer, Giorgio Fini, loses his voice during an American tour. He goes to a female throat specialist, Pamela Taylor, whom he falls in love with.
Starring:
Luciano Pavarotti
,
Kathryn Harrold
,
Eddie Albert
,
Paola Borboni
,
James Hong
,
Beulah Quo
Directed by:
Franklin J. Schaffner
MacArthur (
1977) | IMDb:
6.5
The film portrays MacArthur's life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after he had been removed from his Korean War command by President Truman for insubordination, and is recounted in flashback as he visits West Point.
Chinatown (
1974) | IMDb:
8.2
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together.
The Sand Pebbles (
1966) | IMDb:
7.5
Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat USS San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the 'rice-bowl' system which runs the ship and the uneasy symbiosis between Chinese and foreigner on the river. Hostility towards the gunboat's presence reaches a climax when the boat must crash through a river-boom and rescue missionaries upriver at China Light Mission.
Starring:
Steve McQueen
,
Richard Attenborough
,
Richard Crenna
,
Candice Bergen
,
Mako
,
Larry Gates
Gypsy (
1962) | IMDb:
7.1
Rose Hovick lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention to her elder, less obviously talented, daughter Louise. However, having her headlining as a stripper at Minsky's Burlesque is not what she initially has in mind.
Directed by:
Mervyn LeRoy
Produced by:
Mervyn LeRoy