In writer/director J.S. Cardone's neo-noirish, adventure crime-thriller about a road-trip, with themes of robbery, deceit, adultery, confused identities, and sexual situations in the desert - and a ...

In co-writer/director John Dahl's visually-stylistic neo-noir crime drama-thriller - the sleeper film (rated R mostly for graphic violence) was Dahl's debut feature film. He would go on to direct two ...

Greatest Opening Film Lines and Quotes: These are many of the best-known opening lines, fade-ins, and first words of dialogue heard throughout cinematic history - the initial opening words of films ...

North by Northwest (1959) is a suspenseful, classic Alfred Hitchcock caper thriller. The box-office hit film is one of the most entertaining movies ever made and one of Hitchcock's most famous ...

Other Early Classic Horror Films: Together, Lugosi and Karloff also starred in three films together, the best being their first film - Edgar Ulmer's The Black Cat (1934) (based on an Edgar Allen Poe ...

The Deer Hunter (1978) is storywriter/producer/director Michael Cimino's epic about war and friendship - and only his second film (following Thunderbolt and Lightfoot ...

To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) is a much-loved, critically-acclaimed, classic trial film. It exhibits a dramatic tour-de-force of acting, a portrayal of childhood innocence (told from a matured adult ...

The mid-to-late 70s and early 80s inaugurated a period of low-brow, teasy, R-rated sexy, US-made teen comedies (horror films not usually included) with gratuitous nudity, mindlessly weak plots, and ...

A controversial, explicitly racist, but landmark American film masterpiece - these all describe ground-breaking producer/director D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915). The domestic ...

Each movie had to "embody that rock spirit of artful defiance," and each director was limited to only one movie. "Corruption and political coverups in 1930s Los Angeles are the hooks on which Polanski ...

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The American Film Institute in Los Angeles, California, in mid-June 2000 selected America's 100 Funniest Movies with a blue-ribbon panel or "jury" of more than 1,800 leaders of the American movie ...