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Sultry, dark-eyed, brunette leading actress Gina Gershon mixes a muscular toughness with her seductive femininity. Born the youngest of five children, raised in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley, Gershon gets her exotic looks from her French, Russian,... more
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Tags: Crime Thriller Mystery Thriller Post-Noir (Modern Noir)
Length: 114min
When new evidence confirms that he was framed, reporter Harry Barber (Woody Harrelson) is released from prison after serving two years. He then goes on to demonstrate repeatedly that he is the dumbest, most masochistic noir hero since Adam ate the...
Cast: John Travolta Nicolas Cage John Woo Joan Allen Michael Douglas
Tags: Action Action Thriller
Length: 138min
The third of John Woo's American-made feature films, Face/Off stars John Travolta as Sean Archer, an FBI agent obsessed with capturing Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage), a criminal genius who years before killed Archer's son while trying to assassinate the...
Cast: Andy Wachowski Larry Wachowski Gina Gershon Joe Pantoliano
Tags: Erotic Thriller Crime Drama Gay & Lesbian Films Crime Post-Noir (Modern Noir)
Length: 107min
Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly nearly set the screen on fire in this clever, female-powered twist on the standard Mob caper film. Gershon is Corky, an ex-con renovating the apartment next door to where Tilly's Violet lives. Violet is the moll of...
This World, Then the Fireworks (1997)
Cast: Seymour Cassel
Tags: Post-Noir (Modern Noir) Crime Drama Drama
Length: 100min
Pulp fiction writer Jim Thompson's novels have been adapted into noirish movies such as The Grifters and this one, directed by Michael Oblowitz. This unusual dark tragedy is narrated by Marty (Billy Zane), a successful investigative reporter who is...
Cast: Paul Verhoeven
Tags: Drama Erotic Drama Showbiz Drama
Length: 131min
"I'm gonna dance," Nomi Malone (Elizabeth Berkley) insists in the opening scene of Showgirls, and dance she does. In this quasi-update of All About Eve, Nomi is a drifter whose sole ambition is to headline the "Goddess" topless dance show at the...
Cast: Bridget Fonda Christopher Walken Tom Arnold Paul Schrader Paul Mazursky
Tags: Satire Comedy Drama
Length: 96min
This film is the product of an unlikely pairing between novelist Elmore Leonard and maverick screenwriter-director Paul Schrader. Leonard usually writes Detroit-based crime novels; this time, Schrader transports one of Leonard's quirkier, non-crime...
Cast: Tony Goldwyn Griffin Dunne Annette O'Toole
Length: 97min
The title of this made-for-cable endeavor has a double-edged meaning. It's about "matters of love," and also about "love that matters." The love that matters -- or should -- involves two married couples. Both unions are sorely threatened by an...
Best of the Best 3: No Turning Back (1995)
Tags: Martial Arts Action
Length: 95min
In this martial arts actioner, a straight-arrow, Midwestern small-town sheriff teams up with a martial arts master and kicks the stuffing out of a band of white supremacists. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
Tags: Romantic Comedy Comedy Drama Romantic Drama Romance
Length: 92min
Richard Edson stars as the title character, a New York talent agent who takes little interest in the world outside of the entertainment industry. Then he falls for Cyan (Cedella Marley), a Jamaican waitress working to put herself through nursing...
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