Raging Bull (1980)
Scorsese's 1980 boxing biopic of Jake LaMotta. Black-and-white, Schoonmaker-cut, De Niro at 60 pounds heavier.
CaliforniaScorsese's 1980 boxing biopic of Jake LaMotta. Black-and-white, Schoonmaker-cut, De Niro at 60 pounds heavier.
CaliforniaTom Cruise psychological thriller. Substantial ambitions, uneven execution.
British ColumbiaUwe Boll's 2013 post-financial-crisis vigilante film. Dominic Purcell as a security guard ruined by Wall Street.
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New YorkRidley Scott's 2007 Frank Lucas biopic. Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe in parallel protagonist tracks.
New YorkJerry Zucker's 1990 supernatural romance. The pottery scene, the subway ghost.
New York
New YorkOtto Preminger's 1950 film noir with Dana Andrews. Detective accidentally kills suspect then frames innocent man.
New JerseyEd Solomon wrote, loosely adapted from Lowell Cunningham's Aircel/Malibu comic. The film made approximately five hundred and ninety million dollars worldwide on a ninety million dollar budget.
CaliforniaDean Devlin co-wrote with Emmerich. The film established Will Smith as the dominant summer blockbuster star of the late 1990s, set up Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin's career-long partnership producing disaster spectacles, and refined the destruction-of-iconic-landmarks visual template that subsequent…
New YorkEscape from New York is John Carpenter's dystopian action film and one of the foundational works of 1980s post-apocalyptic cinema. Carpenter directed and co-wrote with Nick Castle.
New YorkOcean's Eight is the all-female spinoff of Steven Soderbergh's Ocean's Eleven (2001) trilogy. Ross and Olivia Milch wrote.
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