Sleepers (1996)
1996 Barry Levinson drama with Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt, Kevin Bacon. Hell's Kitchen friends face their abusers in court.
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1990sThe Devil’s Advocate (1997)
The Devil's Advocate is Taylor Hackford's 1997 American supernatural legal thriller adapting Andrew Neiderman's 1990 novel. The work is one of the principal supernatural legal thrillers ever produced and one of the strongest Pacino late-career performances.
2010sFirst Reformed (2017)
Schrader's 2017 religious drama. Ethan Hawke as a Protestant minister losing his faith over climate despair.
1970sThe Conformist (1970)
Bertolucci's 1970 political thriller. Trintignant as a man trying to become normal under fascism.
1920sThe Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Dreyer's 1928 silent French religious drama. Considered by many the greatest performance ever filmed.
2000sThe Departed (2006)
Scorsese's 2006 Boston crime thriller. Two moles, one in the mob, one in the police.
2000sKingdom of Heaven (2005)
Kingdom of Heaven is two different films. The theatrical cut is a confused 144-minute medieval action movie that critics dismissed and audiences ignored.
2010sBlack Death (2010)
Black Death is a small British medieval horror film that wants to be a serious meditation on faith and plague and mostly succeeds. Sean Bean plays Ulric, a knight commissioned by the church to investigate a village in the marshes…
1940sSergeant York (1941)
Sergeant York is a propaganda film that happens to also be a great film. The film came out in July 1941, five months before Pearl Harbor, and it pushed America toward war.
1990sThe Prophecy (1995) Review
The Prophecy is one of the most underappreciated theological horror films of the 1990s and one of Christopher Walken's most committed performances. It grossed approximately sixteen million dollars in its initial theatrical release on a production budget of approximately eight…
1970sMonty Python’s Life of Brian (1979) Review
The Monty Python troupe consisted of Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin. Brian's mother Mandy reveals that his father was actually a Roman soldier instead of the family's claimed Jewish parentage.
1990sThe Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) Review
The Hunchback of Notre Dame is one of the darkest films Disney has ever released and one of the most thematically ambitious animated features in the studi. Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise directed.