List of the best Alan Parker movies: Pink Floyd - The Wall(1982), Mississippi Burning(1988), The Commitments(1991), Midnight Express(1978), Angela's Ashes(1999), Angel Heart(1987), Bugsy Malone(1976), Shoot the Moon(1982), Come See the Paradise(1990), Fame(1980), Evita(1996) ... ...
8.1/10
Musical, Drama
UK
1982
99 Minutes
Director
Bob Geldof Christine Hargreaves James Laurenson Eleanor David Kevin McKeon Bob Hoskins David Bingham Jenny Wright Alex McAvoy Ellis Dale James Hazeldine
musician mother father wife manager teacher dreamy dark outlandish los angeles hotel household school childhood mother/son relationship depression fame drugs music discovery
A confined but troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
7.8/10
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
1988
125 Minutes
Director
Gene Hackman Willem Dafoe Frances McDormand Brad Dourif R. Lee Ermey Gailard Sartain Stephen Tobolowsky Michael Rooker Pruitt Taylor Vince Park Overall Jake Gipson
fbi agent mayor sheriff klansman activist wife tense brutal powerful mississippi small town barbershop church highway racism civil rights violence pursuit revenge 1960s
Two F.B.I. Agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.
7.6/10
Comedy, Drama, Music
Ireland|UK|USA
1991
117 Minutes
Director
Robert Arkins Johnny Murphy Angeline Ball Michael Aherne Maria Doyle Kennedy Dave Finnegan Bronagh Gallagher Félim Gormley Glen Hansard Kenneth McCluskey Andrew Strong
promoter musician singer lighthearted moving amusing dublin ireland music friendship poverty pursuit transformation rise 1990s
Jimmy Rabbitte, an unemployed Dublin boy, decides to put together a soul band made up entirely of the Irish working class.
7.6/10
Biography, Drama
UK|USA
1978
121 Minutes
Director
Brad Davis Randy Quaid John Hurt Bo Hopkins Paul L. Smith Mike Kellin Norbert Weisser Irene Miracle Paolo Bonacelli Michael Ensign Kevork Malikyan
prison guard prisoner police officer girlfriend judge bleak gutsy shocking istanbul prison airport prison life prison break drug trafficking foreign relations torture escape transformation wretched excess 1970s
Billy Hayes, an American college student, is caught smuggling drugs out of Turkey and thrown into prison.
7.3/10
Drama, History
USA|Ireland
1999
145 Minutes
Director
Emily Watson Robert Carlyle Joe Breen Ciaran Owens Michael Legge Ronnie Masterson Pauline McLynn Liam Carney Eanna Macliam
ira agent irishman teen boy mother father emotional moving melodramatic household brooklyn, n.y. limerick, ireland immigration adolescence alcoholism sexual awakening self-discovery growing up love quest discovery
Based on the best-selling autobiography by Irish expatriate Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the ... See full summary »
7.3/10
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
UK|Canada|USA
1987
113 Minutes
Director
Mickey Rourke Robert De Niro Lisa Bonet Charlotte Rampling Stocker Fontelieu Brownie McGhee Michael Higgins Charles Gordone Kathleen Wilhoite
private investigator singer daughter satan magician dark gripping suspenseful new york city new orleans hotel racetrack mystery murder secret detective voodoo investigation mystery pursuit
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.
6.9/10
Musical, Comedy
UK|USA
1976
93 Minutes
Director
Scott Baio Jodie Foster John Cassisi Florrie Dugger Paul Murphy Albin "Humpty" Jenkins Martin Lev Davidson Knight Paul Chirelstein Paul Besterman Ron Meleleu
The classic gangster story of Bugsy Malone told with an all-child cast.
6.9/10
Drama
USA
1982
125 Minutes
Director
Albert Finney Diane Keaton Dana Hill Peter Weller Karen Allen Viveka Davis Tracey Gold Tina Yothers George Murdock Leora Dana Irving Metzman
husband wife daughter pretty woman contractor intense emotional california countryside household infidelity marital problems parenthood deception love temptation discovery 1980s
A mother of four is abandoned by her husband for a younger woman. Husband, wife and children struggle to survive the seemingly inevitable divorce.
6.7/10
Drama
USA
1990
134 Minutes
Director
Dennis Quaid Tamlyn Tomita Sab Shimono Shizuko Hoshi Stan Egi Ronald Yamamoto Akemi Nishino Naomi Nakano Brady Tsurutani Elizabeth Gilliam Shyree Mezick
soldier projectionist theater owner japanese-american bleak tender sad los angeles seattle manzanar, california new york city world war ii interracial romance interracial conflict imprisonment xenophobia forbidden love wretched excess escape 1940s
The passionate romance between an Irish-American man and a Japanese-American woman is threatened when the Pearl Harbor attacks happen and the woman is forced into a prison camp because of her ethnicity.
6.6/10
Musical
USA
1980
134 Minutes
Director
Irene Cara Eddie Barth Lee Curreri Laura Dean Paul McCrane Barry Miller Gene Anthony Ray Maureen Teefy Antonia Franceschi Anne Meara Albert Hague
dancer singer actor parent teacher student uplifting inspiring emotional spirited creative new york city school street stage studio graduation abortion music failure
A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.
6.3/10
Musical
USA
1996
134 Minutes
Director
Madonna Antonio Banderas Jonathan Pryce Jimmy Nail Julian Littman Olga Merediz Andrea Corr Peter Polycarpou
president wife political activist father politician passionate buenos aires, argentina mansion family home feminism class conflict love marriage politics rise 1950s
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.
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