The second installment in the Godfather trilogy follows Michael and his position of "Don" in the Corleone family. The film also tells about Vito Corleone's beginnings and how he became one of the most powerful men in New York. ... more about Godfather: Part II
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
A New York City cab driver becomes increasingly disgusted with the scum and low lives of the city. When he meets an underage prostitute, he sets himself on a mission to save her and the city. ... more about Taxi Driver
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Actor
Goodfellas follows Irish-Italian Henry Hill as he rises from petty theft crimes to the top of the mobster ranks. The film explores the rites, rituals and rules of organized crime and how quickly your best friends can become your worst enemies. ... more about Goodfellas
Middleweight boxing champion, Jake LaMotta, becomes suspicious of the relationship between his wife and brother. His life quickly spirals out of control when he is overcome by jealously and paranoia. ... more about Raging Bull
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards - Best Actor
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
Epic drama follows the lives of a group of Russian-American friends from a small Pennsylvannia industrial town as they prepare to leave for Vietnam, but when they return from the war, their lives are indelibly changed. ... more about Deer Hunter
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
American Movie Awards - Best Actor
BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
Rupert Pupkin will do anything to be a comedian. He believes one appearance on his favorite late night talk show will make him a star, but when the host won't commit to an appearance he conspires with an obsessed fan to hold him hostage. ... more about King of Comedy
Charlie is an aspiring mobster in Little Italy, working for his uncle collecting debts and playing muscle; however, he struggles with his faith vs. career and the dichotomy begins to tear him in two. ... more about Mean Streets
Actor Awards
National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Supporting Actor
Sam "Ace" Rothstein, the consummate bookie who can change the odds merely by placing a bet, has risen through the ranks of the Midwestern mob to be picked by the bosses to front their entree into Vegas. Ace lives and breathes the odds. ... more about Casino
Agent Elliot Ness makes it his personal mission to bring down notorious crime boss Al Capone. Using unconventional methods resembling organized gang activity a cat and mouse chance ensues. Eventually Ness corners Capone and gains the respect of Chicago. ... more about Untouchables
Spanning nearly 40 years the film chronicles the lives of a group of Jewish-American gangsters though the early 1900's to their reunion in 1968. ... more about Once Upon a Time in America
Actor Awards
Sant Jordi Awards - Best Foreign Actor (Mejor Actor Extranjero)
Sam lives in a world of technology, where the government takes extreme anti-terrorism measures. When he meets the girl of his fantasies, he finds her neighbor has been falsely fingered as a terrorist. ... more about Brazil
Bounty hunter Jack Walsh is sent to find and return bail jumper and former Mafia accountant, Jonathan "The Duke" Mardukas. The FBI have had no success it locating The Duke, so when Jack finds him in next to no time, they are a little embarrassed. ... more about Midnight Run
Actor Awards
Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical
Hunters and their prey--Neil and his professional criminal crew hunt to score big money targets (banks, vaults, armored cars) and are, in turn, hunted by Lt. Vincent Hanna and his team of cops in the Robbery/Homicide police division. ... more about Heat
After being caught in a scandalous situation days before the election, the president does not seem to have much of a chance of being re-elected. ... more about Wag the Dog
A Jewish male nurse (Ben Stiller) plans to ask his live-in girl friend (Teri Polo) to marry him. However, he learns that her strict father (Robert DeNiro) expects to be asked for his daughter's hand before she can accept. ... more about Meet the Parents
Actor Awards
American Comedy Awards, USA - Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture (Leading Role)
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards - Favorite Actor - Comedy/Romance
Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical
Estranged since their father's first stroke some 17 years earlier, Lee and Bessie lead separate lives in separate states. Lee's son, Hank, finds himself committed to a mental institution after setting fire to his mother's house. ... more about Marvin's Room
Ronin is the Japanese word used for Samurai without a master. In this case, the Ronin are outcast specialists of every kind, whose services are available to everyone - for money. ... more about Ronin
A gumshoe private investigator is hired by a mysterious and malevolent client to find a missing crooner who owes him on a debt, but when the PI starts his investigation he is thwarted by the murders of his possible witnesses and haunted by unexplainable demonic nightmares. ... more about Angel Heart
Actor Awards
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Supporting Actor
Nick Wells, a professional criminal, decides to leave the business for good, since he nearly got caught on his last job. His plan is to live in peace with his girl Diane, running his Montreal jazz club NYC. ... more about Score
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney/"Leave It to Beaver"-esque family-man. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. ... more about Cape Fear
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Ben Sobol, Psychiatrist, has a few problems: His son spies on his patients when they open up their heart, his parents don't want to attend his upcoming wedding and his patients' problems don't challenge him at all. ... more about Analyze This
Actor Awards
American Comedy Awards, USA - Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture (Leading Role)
Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical
Policemen have always been the idols of Freddy Heflin. Due to being slightly deaf, Heflin could never pass the physical to become a police officer himself. ... more about Cop Land
In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm. ... more about Stardust
Jeremy Irons plays a Spanish Jesuit who goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region. Robert DeNiro plays a slave hunter who is converted and joins Irons in his mission. ... more about Mission
Gangster Sonny is the big man in Calogero's Bronx neighborhood. A shooting witnessed by Calogero is the starting point of a lasting bond between the gangster and the small boy. Father (bus driver Lorenzo), however, disap- proves. ... more about Bronx Tale
The story of the friendship between a star pitcher, wise to the world, and a half-wit catcher, as they cope with the catcher's terminal illness through a baseball season. ... more about Bang the Drum Slowly
Actor Awards
New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Supporting Actor
In 1957, a son and mother flee the East and an abusive boyfriend to find a new life, and end up in Seattle, where the mother meets a polite garage mechanic. The boy continually gets into trouble by hanging out with the wrong crowd. ... more about This Boy's Life
The day WWII ends, Jimmy, a selfish and smooth-talking musician, meets Francine, a lounge singer. From that moment on, their relationship grows into love as they struggle with their careers and aim for the top. ... more about New York
Actor Awards
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy
In the infancy of the CIA, agent Edward Wilson becomes suspicious and paranoid in Cold War America. As he becomes increasingly engrossed with is work Wilson sacirfices everything for his job, including his family. ... more about Good Shepherd
Based on Charles Dickens' timeless tale, this is a story of the love of a man for an unreachable woman. Updated to modern day New York City, the story concerns a man of modest background who falls in love with a rich girl. ... more about Great Expectations
The story ultimately revolves around two "men of honor"; their relationship, their individual and joint failures and triumphs. Carl Brashear is determined to be the first African American Navy Diver in a time where racism is strife. ... more about Men of Honor
Actor Awards
Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Drama
New York City homicide detective Vincent LaMarca has forged a long and distinguished career in law enforcement, making a name for himself as a man intensely committed to his work. ... more about City by the Sea
A new doctor finds himself with a ward full of comatose patients. He is disturbed by them and the fact that they have been comatose for decades with no hope of any cure. When he finds a possible chemical cure he gets permission to try it on one of them. ... more about Awakenings
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts filming their activities, both legal and illegal. ... more about 15 Minutes
De Niro plays Vietnam Vet. John Rubin. Rubin returns to New York and rents a rundown flat in Greenwhich Village. It is in this flat that he begins to film, 'Peeping Tom' style, the people in the apartment across the street. ... more about Hi
Dr. Frankenstein creates a simple creature from various body parts. The creature turns into a monster when Dr. Frankenstein rejects him. ... more about Frankenstein
Actor Awards
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Supporting Actor
Having given permission to male nurse Greg Focker to marry his daughter, ex-CIA man Jack Byrnes and his wife travel to Miami to Greg's parents, who this time around are Mr. and Mrs. Focker, who are as different from them as can be. ... more about Meet the Fockers
The sea underworld is shaken up when the son of the shark mob boss is found dead and a young fish named Oscar is found at the scene. Being a bottom feeder, Oscar takes advantage of the situation and makes himself look like he killed the finned mobster. ... more about Shark Tale
Documents the sensational events surrounding the making of 'Apocalypse Now' (qv) and 'Francis Ford Coppola' (qv)'s struggle with nature, governments, actors, and self-doubt. Includes footage and sound secretly recorded by Elanor Coppola, wife of Francis. ... more about Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Robert De Niro plays Walt Koontz, a homophobic guy who ends up with paralyzed vocal cords because of an unfortunate stroke. His therapy includes receiving singing lessons from a neighbor (played by Phillip S. ... more about Flawless
The mafia's Paul Vitti (De Niro) is back in prison and will need some serious counseling when he gets out. Naturally, he returns to his analyst Dr. ... more about Analyze That
LAPD Detective Sergeant Mitch Preston cares only about doing his job and nailing crooks. LAPD Patrol Officer Trey Sellars joined the force as a day job until his acting career took off. ... more about Showtime
Three-times MVP baseball player Bobby Rayburn joins San Fransisco Giants, and obsessive fan, whose profession is selling hunting knives, Gil Renard is excited over that. ... more about Fan
Hide and Seek revolves around a widower (Robert DeNiro) and his daughter (Dakota Fanning). They move to upstate and Emily (Fanning) soon creates an imaginary friend named Charlie... ... more about Hide and Seek
Two nail-biting, back-stabbing, roller-coaster weeks in the world of a middle-aged Hollywood producer as he tries to juggle an actual life with an outrageous series of crises in his day job. ... more about What Just Happened
A couple of escaped convicts on the run find refuge with the Church when they are mistaken for two priests. The two are keen to flee but are unable to do so without the help of Molly. ... more about We're No Angels
Robert DeNiro and Jessica Lange are the most impossible couple. He's a failed lawyer. She's a common waitress. Together they get in a downward spiral, as they can't seem to deal with there problems. ... more about Night and the City
An offbeat, episodic film about three friends, Paul, a shy love-seeker, Lloyd, a vibrant conspiracy nut, and Jon, an aspiring filmmaker and peeping tom. The film satirizes free-love, the Kennedy assassination, Vietnam, and amateur film-making. ... more about Greetings
A rookie firefighter tries to earn the respect of his older brother and other firefighters while taking part in an investigation of a string of arson/murders. ... more about Backdraft
Wayne Dobie is a shy police photographer who saves the life of crime boss Frank Milo. Greatful, Milo insists on being Wayne's friend, offering him the companionship of "Glory", one of his employees. ... more about Mad Dog and Glory
After their young son, Adam (Bright), is killed in an accident, a couple (Kinnear, Romijn-Stamos) approach an expert (De Niro) in stem cell research about bringing him back to life through an experimental and illegal cloning and regeneration process. ... more about Godsend
David Merrill (Robert DeNiro), a fictitious 1950s Hollywood director, returns from filming abroad in France to find that his loyalty has been called into question by the House Committee on Un-American Activities and he is unable to work until cleared. ... more about Guilty by Suspicion
During shopping for Christmas, Frank and Molly run into each other. This fleeting short moment will start to change their lives, when they recognize each other months later in the train home and have a good time together. ... more about Falling in Love
Actor Awards
Sant Jordi Awards - Best Foreign Actor (Mejor Actor Extranjero)
A comedy about a screenwriter (Wuhl) who's old movie script is read by a producer (Landau) and the search for financial backers begins. But it seems that each money source (Aiello, DeNiro, Wallach) has their own mistress that they want put into the film. ... more about Mistress
Five people are killed in a freak accident when a lofty rope bridge collapses. The film details a priest's journey to discover if there was a divine reason for the bloody disaster. Set in Lima, Peru, during the 18th century. ... more about Bridge of San Luis Rey
A pair of veteran New York City police detectives are on the trail of a vigilante serial killer. After 30 years as partners in the pressure cooker environment of the NYPD, highly decorated Detectives David Fisk and Thomas Cowan should be ready for retirement, but aren't. ... more about Righteous Kill
De Niro (a Catholic Priest) and Duvall (a Homicide Detective) play brothers drawn together after many years apart, in the aftermath of the brutal murder of a young prostitute. ... more about True Confessions
A conflict develops between a troubled Vietnam veteran and the sister he lives with when she becomes involved romantically with the army buddy who reminds him of the tragic battle they both survived. ... more about Jacknife
An illiterate cook (Robert De Niro) at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman (Jane Fonda). As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. ... more about Stanley & Iris
Vincent Macken has wriiten his magnus Opus but nobody will publish it. To prove to the publishers and his detractors that his novel is great, he decides to live out the story of his novel. ... more about Book That Wrote Itself
Based on a true story. Kate Barker (Shelley Winters) loves her four sons and would do anything for them. In an attempt to improve their lives, she leads them on a violent spree of bank robbery, murder, and kidnapping. ... more about Bloody Mama