Scarface (1932)
Howard Hawks's 1932 pre-Code Chicago gangster classic. Paul Muni as the Capone-adjacent Tony Camonte.
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1950sWhere the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
Otto Preminger's 1950 film noir with Dana Andrews. Detective accidentally kills suspect, then an innocent man is blamed.
1990sPhenomenon (1996)
Jon Turteltaub's 1996 Northern California drama. John Travolta as ordinary mechanic with accelerating capabilities.
1990sPayback (1999)
Brian Helgeland's 1999 Mel Gibson crime thriller. Maria Bello plays Rosie, a prostitute and former Porter associate.
2000sAmerican Gangster (2007)
Ridley Scott's 2007 Frank Lucas biopic. Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe in parallel protagonist tracks.
2020sNo Time to Die (2021)
No Time to Die is the final entry in Daniel Craig's James Bond tenure and one of the most divisive Bond films in the franchise's sixty-year history. Cary Joji Fukunaga directed.
1990sThe Trench (1999)
The Trench is William Boyd's first and only film as director. He is better known as a novelist.
2000sIn Bruges (2008)
In Bruges is Martin McDonagh's first feature and one of the great films of its decade. Colin Farrell plays Ray, an Irish hitman who has just botched his first job and accidentally killed a child.
2000sPasschendaele (2008)
The project was inspired by stories his grandfather told him about fighting in the mud of Belgium. Gross plays Sergeant Michael Dunne, a Canadian veteran of Vimy Ridge sent home with combat fatigue.
2000sThe Red Baron (2008)
The Red Baron is a German-produced biopic about Manfred von Richthofen filmed in English with German actors. That sentence describes most of what is right.
1980sGallipoli (1981)
Gallipoli is one of the great anti-war films and one of the great Australian films. Mel Gibson and Mark Lee play Frank Dunne and Archy Hamilton, two young men from Western Australia who enlist in the Light Horse for different…
2000sAdmiral (2008)
Admiral is a Russian biopic about Aleksandr Kolchak, the Imperial Navy admiral who became Supreme Ruler of Russia during the civil war and was executed in 1920 by a Bolshevik tribunal. Kolchak commands a minelayer that catches a German cruiser.