Drama

1957

Plot: Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa transferred the setting of Maxim Gorkys play The Lower Depths from Imperial Russia to his own countrys Edo Period--which, like Gorkys 19th-century settin ...

Comedy

2001

R

Plot: Country singer Dwight Yoakam is a co-producer of this Miramax comedy about marital infidelity among the Southern redneck set. Auto dealer Lonnie Earl (Billy Bob Thornton) and his wife, Da ...

Plot: For those unfamiliar with its setup: the popular sketch comedy television series Reno 911! posits itself as an absurdist parody of the long-running reality program Cops

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2003

NR

Plot: The cinema vérité police documentary parody Reno 911! dispenses law and disorder during its first season on Comedy Central. The seasons unscripted, totally imp ...

Drama

1986

PG

Plot: Co-adapted by director Claude Berri from a novel by Marcel Pagnol, this hugely successful French historical drama concerns a bizarre battle royale over a valuable natural spring in a remote French farm ...

Drama

1996

R

Plot: Originally made for cable television, this imaginative biopic chronicles the life of Marilyn Monroe (Mira Sorvino), including the years before she changed her name from Norma Jean Baker (Ashley Judd) a ...

History [nf]

1995

NR

Plot: The meteoric rise and tragic fall of actress Jean Seberg is dissected in this fascinatingly complex psuedo-documentary that features actress Mary Beth Hurt playing Seberg as she examines her life. Alon ...