7.3

The Life of David Gale

2002, USA, Germany, UK

• Actors: Kate Winslet, Cleo King, Constance Jones, Kevin Spacey, Laura Linney, Lee Ritchey, Gabriel Mann, Matt Craven, Brandy Little, Cindy Waite, Jim Beaver, Leon Rippy, Jesse De Luna, Vernon Grote, Rhona Mitra, Kimberly Tortorice, Katie Lott, Noah Truesdale, Larissa Wolcott, Chuck Cureau, Sean Hennigan, Charles Sanders, Mike Fontaine, Marco Perella, Michael Crabtree, Julio Cedillo, Chris Meister, Melissa McCarthy, Elizabeth Gast, Cliff Stephens
• Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller
• Director(s): Alan Parker
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Dr. David Gale, an advocate of eliminating the death penalty, is falsely accused of rape and murder. Once convicted, he ends up on death row in Texas himself, telling his story to a reporter through a series of flashbacks.

  7.4

The Commitments

1991, Ireland, UK, USA

• Actors: Robert Arkins, Michael Aherne, Angeline Ball, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Dave Finnegan, Bronagh Gallagher, Félim Gormley, Glen Hansard, Dick Massey, Johnny Murphy, Ken McCluskey, Andrew Strong, Colm Meaney, Anne Kent, Andrea Corr, Gerard Cassoni, Ruth Fairclough, Lindsay Fairclough, Michael O'Reilly, Liam Carney, Ger Ryan, Mark O'Regan, Phelim Drew, Sean Hughes, Philip Bredin, Aoife Lawless, Lance Daly, Conor Malone, Jezz Bell, Colm MacConiomare
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
• Director(s): Alan Parker
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Jimmy Rabbitte, che vive di piccoli espedienti in un quartiere proletario di Dublino, si e' messo in testa di organizzare una band musicale per rinverdire i fasti del rythm&blues e del soul. Grazie ad un annuncio sul giornale, Rabbitte comincia a selezionare giovani dal lavoro precario ma pieni di talento: Dean, Fay, Outspan, l'occhialuto Steven , Clifford, Deco, il ciccione senza buone maniere ma con una grande voce, Billy il batterista e Joey "The lips", un bizzarro e maturo anziano suonatore di tromba che si vanta di aver suonato con famosi soul-singers. Aggrega anche Natalie, Imelda e Bernie, tre grintose ragazze, ottime coriste e molto sexy. Procuratisi a credito la strumentazione, cominciano le prove, massacranti, che impegnano tutti. Si inizia a suonare in pubblico, in capannoni e feste sociali: il gruppo sembra pervaso dal fuoco della musica e dell'ambizione. La band, pur se dilettantesca e provinciale, sembra lanciata verso il vertice e finisce invece nel fallimento: dissapori, piccole gelosie e contrasti umani ed artistici, sfaldano il gruppo. Il sogno di Jimmy evapora nel nulla e quel grande patrimonio di energia e bravura che poteva fruttare quattrini e successo siPL: disperde nel nulla.

  7.8

Mississippi Burning

1987, USA

• Actors: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, R. Lee Ermey, Gailard Sartain, Stephen Tobolowsky, Michael Rooker, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Badja Djola, Kevin Dunn, Frankie Faison, Tom Mason, Geoffrey Nauffts, Rick Zieff, Christopher White, Gladys Greer, Jake Gipson, Dianne Lancaster, Stanley W. Collins, Daniel Winford, Marc Clement, Larry Shuler, Stephen Bridgewater, Bob Penny, James F. Moore, Park Overall, Georgia F. Wise, Lois Allen, Barry Davis Jim Sr.
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Alan Parker
• Available languages:
  • English English.

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.

  7.3

Angel Heart

1987, USA, Canada, UK

• Actors: Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet, Charlotte Rampling, Stocker Fontelieu, Brownie McGhee, Michael Higgins, Elizabeth Whitcraft, Eliott Keener, Charles Gordone, Dann Florek, Kathleen Wilhoite, George Buck, Judith Drake, Gerald Orange, Peggy Severe, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Dave Petitjean, Rick Washburn, Neil Newlon, Oakley Dalton, Yvonne Bywaters, Loys T. Bergeron, Joshua Frank, Karmen Harris, Nicole Burdette, Kendall Lupe, Percy Martin, Viola Dunbar, Murray Bandel
• Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Alan Parker
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Harry Angel has a new case, to find a man called Johnny Favourite. Except things aren't quite that simple, and Johnny doesn't want to be found. Let's just say that, amongst the period detail and beautiful scenery, it all gets really, really nasty.

  7.8

Pink Floyd The Wall

1982, UK

• Actors: Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves, James Laurenson, Eleanor David, Kevin McKeon, Bob Hoskins, David Bingham, Jenny Wright, Alex McAvoy, Ellis Dale, James Hazeldine, Ray Mort, Margery Mason, Robert Bridges, Michael Ensign, Marie Passarelli, Winston Rose, Joanne Whalley, Nell Campbell, Emma Longfellow, Lorna Barton, Rod Bedall, Peter Jonfield, Philip Davis, Gary Olsen, Eddie Tagoe, Dennis Fletcher, Jonathan Scott, Joanna Dickens, John Scott Martin
• Genre: Drama, Music
• Director(s): Alan Parker
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The movie tells the story of rock singer "Pink" who is sitting in his hotel room in Los Angeles, burnt out from the music business and only able to perform on stage with the help of drugs. Based on the 1979 double album "The Wall" by Pink Floyd, the film begins in Pink's youth where he is crushed by the love of his mother. Several years later he is punished by the teachers in school because he is starting to write poems. Slowly he begins to build a wall around himself to be protected from the world outside. The film shows all this in massive and epic pictures until the very end where he tears down the wall and breaks free.

  6.4

Fame

1980, USA

• Actors: Eddie Barth, Irene Cara, Lee Curreri, Laura Dean, Antonia Franceschi, Boyd Gaines, Albert Hague, Tresa Hughes, Steve Inwood, Paul McCrane, Anne Meara, Joanna Merlin, Barry Miller, Jim Moody, Gene Anthony Ray, Maureen Teefy, Debbie Allen, Richard Belzer, Frank Bongiorno, Bill Britten, Eric Brockington, Nicholas Bunin, Cindy Canuelas, Nora Cotrone, Mbewe Escobar, Gennadi Filimonov, Victor Fischbarg, Penny Frank, Willie Henry Jr., Steve Hollander
• Genre: Drama, Music
• Director(s): Alan Parker
• Available languages:
  • English English.

At the New York City High School for the Performing Arts, students get specialized training that often leads to success as actors, singers, etc. This movie follows four students from the time when they audition to get into the school, through graduation. They are the brazen Coco Hernandez, shy Doris Finsecker, sensitive gay Montgomery MacNeil, and brash, abrasive Raul Garcia.

  7.6

Midnight Express

1978, UK, USA

• Actors: Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins, Paolo Bonacelli, Paul L. Smith, Randy Quaid, Norbert Weisser, John Hurt, Mike Kellin, Franco Diogene, Michael Ensign, Gigi Ballista, Kevork Malikyan, Peter Jeffrey, Joe Zammit Cordina, Yashaw Adem, Raad Rawi, Tony Boyd, Zannino, Mihalis Giannatos, Vic Tablian, Ahmed El Shenawi, Alan Parker
• Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Alan Parker
• Available languages:
  • English English.

On October 6, 1970 while boarding an international flight out of Istanbul Airport, American Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle 2 kilos of hashish out of the country, the drugs strapped to his body. He is told that he will be released if he cooperates with the authorities in identifying the person who actually sold him the hash. Billy's troubles really begin when after that assistance, he makes a run for it and is recaptured. He is initially sentenced to just over four years for possession, with no time for the more harsh crime of smuggling. The prison environment is inhospitable in every sense, with a sadistic prison guard named Hamidou ruling the prison, he who relishes the mental and physical torture he inflicts on the prisoners for whatever reason. Told to trust no one, Billy does befriend a few of the other inmates, namely fellow American Jimmy Booth (in for stealing two candlesticks from a church), a Swede named Erich, and one of the senior prisoners having already served seven years, an Englishman named Max, the latter two also in for hash related charges. One prisoner not befriended is Rifki, who wields power in the prison as the unofficial eyes and ears for the guards. As Billy, his family and his girlfriend Susan attempt through legal and diplomatic channels for Billy's release, Max tells him that the only way out is to "catch the midnight express" aka escape, which is what Jimmy is continually trying to do. When Billy's situation changes, he becomes more desperate in every sense of the word. It seems as if Billy has only two options: to let the prison ultimately figuratively then literally kill him, or to somehow regain control of his life through whatever means available.

  6.4

Bugsy Malone

1976, UK

• Actors: Scott Baio, Florrie Dugger, Jodie Foster, John Cassisi, Martin Lev, Paul Murphy, Sheridan Earl Russell, Albin 'Humpty' Jenkins, Paul Chirelstein, Andrew Paul, Davidson Knight, Michael Jackson, Jeffrey Stevens, Peter Holder, Donald Waugh, Michael Kirkby, Jon Zebrowski, Jorge Valdez, John Rafter Lee, Ron Meleleu, Paul Besterman, Kevin Reul, Brian Hardy, Dexter Fletcher, Bonnie Langford, Mark Curry, Kathryn Apanowicz, Vivienne McKone, Helen Corran, Lynn Aulbaugh
• Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family, Musical
• Director(s): Alan Parker
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A gangster movie where all the gangsters are children. Instead of real bullets they use "splurge guns" that cover the victim in cream. The story tells of the rise of "Bugsy Malone" and the battle for power between "Fat Sam" and "Dandy Dan".