The Life of David Gale (
2003) | IMDb:
7.5
A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
Angela's Ashes (
1999) | IMDb:
7.3
An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.
Starring:
Emily Watson
,
Robert Carlyle
,
Joe Breen
,
Michael Legge
,
Ciarán Owens
,
Ronnie Masterson
Directed by:
Alan Parker
Evita (
1996) | IMDb:
6.3
The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, a B-movie Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president and dictator Juan Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.
The Road to Wellville (
1994) | IMDb:
5.9
An unhappy young couple visit the infamous Kellogg spa in Battle Creek, Michigan while a young hustler tries get into the breakfast-cereal business and compete against John Kellogg's corn flakes.
Starring:
Anthony Hopkins
,
Bridget Fonda
,
Matthew Broderick
,
John Cusack
,
Dana Carvey
,
Michael Lerner
The Commitments (
1991) | IMDb:
7.6
Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singers: things slowly start to click when he finds three fine-voiced females virtually in his back yard, a lead singer (Deco) at a wedding, and, responding to his ad, an aging trumpet player, Joey "The Lips" Fagan.
Starring:
Robert Arkins
,
Michael Aherne
,
Angeline Ball
,
Maria Doyle Kennedy
,
Dave Finnegan
,
Bronagh Gallagher
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
Birdy (
1984) | IMDb:
7.2
Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam War. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and has been sent to a mental hospital. Can his friend help him pull through?
Pink Floyd: The Wall (
1982) | IMDb:
8
A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
Starring:
Bob Geldof
,
Christine Hargreaves
,
James Laurenson
,
Eleanor David
,
Kevin McKeon
,
Bob Hoskins
Fame (
1980) | IMDb:
6.6
A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.
Midnight Express (
1978) | IMDb:
7.5
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".
Directed by:
Alan Parker