Alan Parker

Birdy 1984

After two friends return home from the Vietnam War one becomes mentally unstable and obsesses with becoming a bird.

Category: Drama, War

Stars: Matthew Modine, Nicolas Cage, John Harkins

7.2 IMDB Rating 574 Views
Bugsy Malone 1976

The classic gangster story of Bugsy Malone told with an all-child cast.

Category: Comedy, Crime, Family

Stars: Jodie Foster, Scott Baio, Florence Garland

6.8 IMDB Rating 827 Views
Fame 1980

A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.

Category: Drama, Music, Musical

Stars: Eddie Barth, Irene Cara, Lee Curreri

6.6 IMDB Rating 1,046 Views
Mississippi Burning 1988

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 and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his former Sheriff partner.

Category: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Stars: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif

7.8 IMDB Rating 6,335 Views
Angela’s Ashes 1999

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 the family endures harsh slum conditions.

Category: Biography, Drama

Stars: Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Joe Breen

7.3 IMDB Rating 3,135 Views
Evita 1996

The hit musical based on the life of Eva Perón (Evita Duarte), a B-picture Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president Juan Domingo Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Madonna, Jonathan Pryce, Antonio Banderas

6.3 IMDB Rating 3,926 Views
The Commitments 1991

Jimmy Rabbitte, an unemployed Dublin boy, decides to put together a soul band made up entirely of the Irish working class.

Category: Comedy, Drama, Music

Stars: Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball

7.6 IMDB Rating 4,313 Views
Midnight Express 1978

Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins

7.6 IMDB Rating 6,019 Views
The Life of David Gale 2003

When anti-death-penalty activist David Gale is convicted and condemned to death for the murder of a colleague, reporter Bitsey Bloom sets out to learn the story behind Gale's crime. What she finds challenges her belief in Gale's guilt and, finally, in the justice system.

Category: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Stars: Kate Winslet,Cleo King,Constance Jones,Kevin Spacey

7.6 IMDB Rating 5,026 Views
Angel Heart 1987

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.

Category: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Stars: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet

7.2 IMDB Rating 4,428 Views