The Killer (1989)
John Woo's 1989 Hong Kong heroic bloodshed film. Chow Yun-fat as a hitman trying to retire.
1980sJohn Woo's 1989 Hong Kong heroic bloodshed film. Chow Yun-fat as a hitman trying to retire.
2000sKim Jee-woon's 2005 Korean crime drama. Lee Byung-hun as a hotel enforcer one mistake from death.
1970sEustache's 1973 French three-and-a-half-hour relationship drama. Post-1968 disillusionment captured in continuous long takes.
1950sWilder's 1950 Hollywood gothic. Sunset Boulevard is the Billy Wilder film noir that became Hollywood's most lacerating film about itself.
2010sSpike Jonze's 2013 near-future drama. Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson as voice.
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1990sSam Mendes's 1999 suburban satire. Kevin Spacey as a midlife-crisis dad, Annette Bening as the wife.
2010sUnder the Skin is one of the most uncompromising science fiction films of the 2010s and one of the most divisive. Walter Campbell co-wrote with Glazer, loosely adapting Michel Faber's 2000 novel.
2000sCarrey plays Carl Allen, a Bank of America loan officer in Los Angeles whose life has shrunk into avoidance after his divorce. The premise is the structure.
2010sFriends with Benefits is one of two romantic comedies released in 2011 with the same premise. Mila Kunis plays Jamie, a corporate.
2010sJim Field Smith directed in his feature debut. The film made approximately fifty million dollars worldwide on a twenty million dollar budget.
1990sNora Ephron had been one of the most accomplished American romantic comedy writers and directors of the late twentieth century. The play had been previously adapted as The Shop Around the Corner in 1940 starring James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan,…
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