Search results for "Alan Parker"
The Life of David Gale

The Life of David Gale

The Life of David Gale
IMDb: 7.5
130

A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Angela’s Ashes

Angela’s Ashes

Angela’s Ashes
IMDb: 7.3
145

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…

Genre: Drama
Evita

Evita

Evita
IMDb: 6.3
135

The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, a B-movie Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president and dictator Juan PerĂ³n, and the most beloved…

Genre: Drama, History, Music
The Commitments

The Commitments

The Commitments
IMDb: 7.6
118

Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First he needs musicians…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Come See the Paradise

Come See the Paradise

Come See the Paradise
IMDb: 6.7
133

In this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a movie theater owned by a Japanese-American man….

Mississippi Burning

Mississippi Burning

Mississippi Burning
IMDb: 7.8
128

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…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Angel Heart

Angel Heart

Angel Heart
IMDb: 7.2
113

A down-and-out Brooklyn detective is hired to track down a singer on an odyssey that will take him through the desperate streets of Harlem, the smoke-filled jazz clubs of New…

Genre: Horror, Mystery
Birdy

Birdy

Birdy
IMDb: 7.2
120

Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam War. One of them has always been obsessed with birds – but now believes he really is a bird, and has…

Genre: Drama
Shoot the Moon

Shoot the Moon

Shoot the Moon
IMDb: 6.8
124

After fifteen years of marriage, an affluent couple divorce and take up with new partners.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Pink Floyd: The Wall

Pink Floyd: The Wall

Pink Floyd: The Wall
IMDb: 8
95

A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.

Genre: Drama, Music
Fame

Fame

Fame
IMDb: 6.6
134

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

Genre: Drama, Music
Midnight Express

Midnight Express

Midnight Express
IMDb: 7.5
121

Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison….

Genre: Crime, Drama
Bugsy Malone

Bugsy Malone

Bugsy Malone
IMDb: 6.8
93

New York, 1929, a war rages between two rival gangsters, Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. Dan is in possession of a new and deadly weapon, the dreaded “splurge gun”. As…