Out of the Past (1947)
Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas. Out of the Past is Jacques Tourneur's 1947 American film noir adapting Daniel Mainwaring's novel Build My Gallows High under the author's Geoffrey Homes pseudonym.
1940sRobert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas. Out of the Past is Jacques Tourneur's 1947 American film noir adapting Daniel Mainwaring's novel Build My Gallows High under the author's Geoffrey Homes pseudonym.
1940sRobert Siodmak's 1946 Hemingway adaptation. The murder happens in the first ten minutes.
2020sRidley Scott's 2021 fourteenth-century rape trial drama. Damon, Driver, Affleck, Comer.
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2000sMichel Gondry's 2004 memory erasure romance. Practical effects, beach erosion.
1990sAnthony Minghella's 1996 wartime romance epic. Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas.
1980sSergio Leone's 1984 final film. New York Jewish gangsters across five decades.
1990sMike Newell's 1997 undercover FBI drama. Donnie Brasco is Mike Newell's 1997 American crime drama.
1980sRob Reiner's 1986 Stephen King novella adaptation. Phoenix, Wheaton, Feldman, O'Connell.
1990sPenny Marshall's 1990 Oliver Sacks biopic. Robin Williams as the doctor, De Niro as encephalitic patient.
1980sBernardo Bertolucci's 1987 Pu Yi biopic. First Western film granted Forbidden City access.
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