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Movie: Backdraft

Two Chicago firefighter brothers, who don't get along, have to work together while a dangerous arsonist is on the loose. [more inside]
posted by Carillon on Feb 8, 2024 - 8 comments

Movie: Killers of the Flower Moon

Members of the Osage tribe in the United States are murdered under mysterious circumstances in the 1920s, sparking a major F.B.I. investigation involving J. Edgar Hoover. [more inside]
posted by chill on Oct 22, 2023 - 13 comments

Movie: Raging Bull

The story of middleweight boxer Jake La Motta (Robert De Niro) as he rises through ranks to earn his first shot at the middleweight crown. He falls in love with Vickie (Cathy Moriarty) a gorgeous girl from the Bronx. The inability to express his feelings enters into the ring and eventually takes over his life. He eventually is sent into a downward spiral that costs him everything. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 13, 2023 - 1 comment

Movie: Cape Fear

When attorney Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte) knowingly withholds evidence that would acquit violent sex offender Max Cady (Robert De Niro) of rape charges, Max spends 14 years in prison. But after Max's release, knowing about Sam's deceit, he devotes his life to stalking and destroying the Bowden family. When practical attempts to stop Max fail, Sam realizes that he must act outside the law to protect his wife and daughter. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 9, 2023 - 7 comments

Movie: Angel Heart

A private investigator is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cyphre to track down a singer named Johnny Favorite. But the investigation takes an unexpected and somber turn. Trailer. [more inside]
posted by johnofjack on Dec 18, 2022 - 20 comments

Movie: Silver Linings Playbook

After losing his job and wife, and spending time in a mental institution, Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper) winds up living with his parents (Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver). He wants to rebuild his life and reunite with his wife, but his parents would be happy if he just shared their obsession with the Philadelphia Eagles. Things get complicated when Pat meets Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), who offers to help him reconnect with his wife, if he will do something very important for her in exchange. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 22, 2022 - 10 comments

Movie: Taxi Driver

Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) takes a job as a NYC cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city. When Travis meets campaign worker Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), he becomes obsessed with the idea of saving the world, first plotting to assassinate a presidential candidate, then directing his attentions toward rescuing 12-year-old prostitute Iris (Jodie Foster). [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 20, 2022 - 9 comments

Movie: The Godfather: Part II

The second installment in The Godfather trilogy. Partially based on Puzo's novel The Godfather, the film is both sequel and prequel to The Godfather, presenting parallel dramas: one picks up the 1958 story of Michael Corleone (Pacino), the new Don of the Corleone family, protecting the family business in the aftermath of an attempt on his life; the prequel covers the journey of his father, Vito Corleone (De Niro), from his Sicilian childhood to the founding of his family enterprise in New York City. [more inside]
posted by growabrain on Jun 3, 2020 - 12 comments

Movie: The Intern

70-year-old widower Robert De Nero has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Anne Hathaway.
posted by growabrain on Aug 17, 2019 - 9 comments

Movie: Mean Streets

A small-time hood aspires to work his way up the ranks of a local mob. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on May 26, 2018 - 4 comments

Movie: Casino

A tale of greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two best friends: a mafia enforcer and a casino executive, compete against each other over a gambling empire, and over a fast living and fast loving socialite. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Feb 7, 2018 - 9 comments

Movie: Heat

A group of professional bank robbers start to feel the heat from police when they unknowingly leave a clue at their latest heist, while both sides attempt to find balance between their personal and their professional lives. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Feb 4, 2018 - 18 comments

Movie: Brazil

A bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state. Written and directed by Terry Gilliam, starring Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins, Michael Palin and Kim Greist [more inside]
posted by the man of twists and turns on Dec 8, 2016 - 15 comments

Movie: Ronin

A freelancing former US intelligence agent tries to track down a mysterious package that is wanted by both the Irish and the Russians. [more inside]
posted by valkane on Apr 25, 2016 - 44 comments

Movie: The King of Comedy

Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin wants to achieve success in show biz by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Mar 23, 2016 - 6 comments

Movie: Midnight Run

An accountant is chased by bounty hunters, the FBI, and the Mafia after jumping bail. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Mar 1, 2016 - 16 comments

Movie: Jackie Brown

A middle-aged woman finds herself in the middle of a huge conflict that will either make her a profit or cost her life. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Feb 8, 2016 - 22 comments

Movie: Goodfellas

Henry Hill and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Feb 1, 2016 - 12 comments

Movie: The Mission

18th century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American Indian tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal. [more inside]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on Sep 9, 2015 - 3 comments

Movie: Wag the Dog

[From IMDB] Shortly before an election, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to fabricate a war in order to cover up a presidential sex scandal. [more inside]
posted by phunniemee on May 4, 2015 - 9 comments

Movie: Once Upon a Time in America

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life. [more inside]
posted by drezdn on Mar 27, 2015 - 2 comments

Movie: Awakenings

Directed by Penny Marshall in 1990, Awakenings focuses on a group of patients frozen in a trance like state until Dr. Malcolm Sayer (Robin Williams) begins to experiment with a drug called L-DOPA. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Dec 13, 2014 - 9 comments

Movie: The Untouchables

Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop Al Capone; because of rampant corruption, he assembles a small, hand-picked team. [more inside]
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on Jul 29, 2014 - 26 comments

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