Sweet and Lowdown (
1999) | IMDb:
7.2
In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.
Starring:
Sean Penn
,
Samantha Morton
,
Anthony LaPaglia
,
Uma Thurman
,
James Urbaniak
,
John Waters
Celebrity (
1998) | IMDb:
6.3
The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and dives into a new job as an entertainment journalist. His assignments take him to the swankiest corners of Manhattan, but as he jumps from one lavish party to another and engages in numerous empty romances, he starts to doubt the worth of his work. Meanwhile, top TV producer Tony falls for Robin and introduces her to the world of celebrity.
Starring:
Kenneth Branagh
,
Judy Davis
,
Joe Mantegna
,
Leonardo DiCaprio
,
Charlize Theron
,
Winona Ryder
Deconstructing Harry (
1997) | IMDb:
7.3
Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.
Starring:
Woody Allen
,
Judy Davis
,
Stephanie Roth Haberle
,
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
,
Lynn Cohen
,
Richard Benjamin
Arizona Dream (
1993) | IMDb:
7.2
An Inuit hunter races his sled home with a fresh-caught halibut. This fish pervades the entire film, in real and imaginary form. Meanwhile, Axel tags fish in New York as a naturalist's gofer. He's happy there, but a messenger arrives to bring him to Arizona for his uncle's wedding. It's a ruse to get Axel into the family business. In Arizona, Axel meets two odd women: vivacious, needy, and plagued by neuroses and familial discord. He gets romantically involved with one, while the other, rich but depressed, plays accordion tunes to a gaggle of pet turtles.
Starring:
Johnny Depp
,
Jerry Lewis
,
Faye Dunaway
,
Lili Taylor
,
Vincent Gallo
,
Paulina Porizkova
Silkwood (
1983) | IMDb:
7.1
The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.