The Yards (
2000) | IMDb:
6.4
In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. When Leo Handler gets out of prison, he finds his aunt married to Frank Olchin, one of the big contractors; he's battling with a minority-owned firm for contracts.
Starring:
Mark Wahlberg
,
Joaquin Phoenix
,
Charlize Theron
,
James Caan
,
Ellen Burstyn
,
Faye Dunaway
Dead Man Walking (
1995) | IMDb:
7.5
A death row inmate turns for spiritual guidance to a local nun in the days leading up to his scheduled execution for the murders of a young couple.
Starring:
Susan Sarandon
,
Sean Penn
,
Robert Prosky
,
Raymond J. Barry
,
R. Lee Ermey
,
Celia Weston
Smoke (
1995) | IMDb:
7.4
Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short-term housemate. Still grieving over his wife's murder, Paul is moved by both Rashid's quest to reconnect with his father and Auggie's discovery that a woman who might be his daughter is about to give birth.
Starring:
Harvey Keitel
,
William Hurt
,
Stockard Channing
,
Harold Perrineau
,
Forest Whitaker
,
Giancarlo Esposito
Money for Nothing (
1993) | IMDb:
5.7
When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run. After all, he says, finders keepers. He turns to his ex-girlfriend Monica, who works in an investment firm, for advice, before turning to the mob for help laundering the money. While Joey makes plans to leave the country, however, a detective is following his ever-warmer trail in order to recover the cash.
Starring:
John Cusack
,
Debi Mazar
,
Michael Madsen
,
Benicio del Toro
,
Michael Rapaport
,
Philip Seymour Hoffman