Brief Encounter (1945)
David Lean's 1945 British middle-class adultery drama. Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard.
1940sDavid Lean's 1945 British middle-class adultery drama. Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard.
1970sAlan Parker's 1978 Turkish prison drama. Brad Davis as American imprisoned for hashish.
2000s
1930sMervyn LeRoy's 1932 chain gang drama. Paul Muni plays James Allen.
1990sTim Robbins' 1995 death row drama. Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon Best Actress.
2010sDamien Chazelle's 2016 Hollywood musical. Almost won Best Picture before envelope correction.
1950sKubrick's 1956 racetrack robbery. Non-linear structure that became Tarantino's vocabulary.
1970sScorsese's 1973 breakthrough. Harvey Keitel and De Niro as Little Italy hustlers.
1980sBrian De Palma's 1987 Eliot Ness biopic. Costner, Connery, De Niro as Capone.
1950sJules Dassin's 1955 French heist. Thirty-two-minute silent jewelry heist sequence.
1930sWilliam Wellman's 1931 pre-code gangster classic. Wellman's 1931 American gangster film.
1940sRaoul Walsh's 1949 noir gangster. Cagney as psychopathic mama's boy Cody Jarrett.
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