Biography: Alan Parker |

An advertising gofer-turned-writer and director, Alan Parker began his film career through his association with producer David Puttnam, another ad man with cinematic aspirations, who hired Parker to write the screenplay for the preteen omance Melody... more
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Cast: Nicolas Cage Kate Winslet   
Tags: Mystery Crime Drama Melodrama Message Movie Drama 
Length: 130min
The mystery of one man's guilt or innocence literally becomes a matter of life and death in this drama. David Gale (Kevin Spacey) was the head of the philosophy department at Austin University and the author of several well-regarded books; he was also...

Tags: Musical Biopic Musical Drama 
Length: 134min
Evita is based on the musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. Actually, the film is more of an opera, with only short moments devoted to dialogue. "Evita" is the friendly, family version of the proper name "Eva," and this film tells the story of...

Cast: Anthony Hopkins John Cusack Matthew Broderick Bridget Fonda   
Tags: Satire Comedy Comedy of Manners 
Length: 120min
This adaptation of the comic novel by T. Coraghessan Boyle is the story of real-life Corn Flakes inventor Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (Anthony Hopkins), an eccentric health nut in the early 20th century. Convinced of the benefits of holistic health...

Cast: Emily Watson John Williams   
Tags: Urban Drama Coming-of-Age Drama Period Film Family Drama 
Length: 145min
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir by Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes is an alternately funny and heartbreaking look at growing up in Ireland. Born in Brooklyn, NY, young Frank (Joe Breen) moves at an early age to Limerick, Ireland, with his...

The Beiderbecke Connection (1988)
Tags: Comedy Drama Comedy Thriller Romantic Mystery Mystery 
Length: 204min
After the success of the British mini-series The Beiderbecke Affair and its sequel The Beiderbecke Tapes, the BBC followed with The Beiderbecke Connection, the final installment of the trilogy. The lives of jazz lovers Trevor (James Bolam) and Jill...

Cast: Alan Parker Dennis Quaid   
Tags: Period Film Romantic Drama Melodrama Drama 
Length: 135min
One of the few American films to deal with the tragic story of the internment of Asian-Americans during World War II, Come See the Paradise opens in the late 1930s, as Jack McGurn (Dennis Quaid) is working as a union organizer in New York City. Jack...

Cast: Robert De Niro Charlotte Rampling   
Tags: Post-Noir (Modern Noir) Mystery Supernatural Thriller Detective Film 
Length: 112min
The time is the 1950s: seedy Brooklyn private eye Harry Angel (Mickey Rourke) is hired by shady Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro) to locate a pop singer who reneged on a debt. Harry ventures into Harlem, the first step of a -Heart of Darkness-inspired...

Tags: Musical Drama Urban Drama Rock Musical Musical 
Length: 116min
"The Irish are the blacks of Europe, Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland, and the North Siders are the blacks of Dublin ... so say it loud -- I'm black and I'm proud!" Or so Jimmy Rabbitte (Robert Arkins) tells his slightly puzzled friends as he tries...

Cast: Willem Dafoe Frances McDormand   
Tags: Detective Film Political Thriller Drama 
Length: 127min
Mississippi Burning is an all-names-changed dramatization of the Ku Klux Klan's murders of three civil rights workers in 1964. Investigating the mysterious disappearances of the three activists are FBI agents Gene Hackman (older, wiser) and Willem...

Tags: Psychological Drama Drama 
Length: 120min
Director Alan Parker tackles this adapation of William Wharton's novel, which retains much of the source material's texture and complexity. Matthew Modine is Birdy, who comes back from Vietnam mentally shattered and deludes himself into thinking that...
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