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Midnight Express
1978 • Drama • Crime
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has t…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
Mississippi Burning
1988 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Angel Heart
1987 • Mystery • Horror
A down-and-out Brooklyn detective is hired to track down a singer on an odyssey that will take him through the desperate streets of Harlem, the smoke-filled jazz clubs of New Or…
Why matched: genres Mystery, Horror
Pink Floyd: The Wall
1982 • Music • Drama
A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
Evita
1996 • Drama • History
The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, an Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president Juan Perón, and the most beloved and hated woma…
Why matched: genres Drama, History
Fame
1980 • Music • Drama
A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
The Commitments
1991 • Music • Drama • Comedy
Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians and singe…
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
The Road to Wellville
1994 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
An unhappy young couple visit the infamous Kellogg spa in Battle Creek, Michigan while a young hustler tries get into the breakfast-cereal business and compete against John Kell…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
The Life of David Gale
2003 • Drama • Thriller • Crime
A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Birdy
1984 • Drama • War
Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam War. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and has been sent to a mental ho…
Why matched: genres Drama, War
Angela's Ashes
1999 • Drama
An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as th…
Why matched: genres Drama
Bugsy Malone
1976 • Music • Drama • Comedy
New York, 1929, a war rages between two rival gangsters, Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. Dan is in possession of a new and deadly weapon, the dreaded "splurge gun". As the custard pies f…
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
Shoot the Moon
1982 • Drama • Romance
After fifteen years of marriage, an affluent couple divorce and take up with new partners.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Come See the Paradise
1990 • Drama • Romance • History
In this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a movie theater owned by a Japanese-American man. Jack…
Matched on: Parker