List of the best James Gray movies: Two Lovers(2008), We Own the Night(2007), Little Odessa(1994), The Immigrant(2013), The Lost City of Z(2016), Ad Astra(2019) ... ...
Romance, Drama
USA|France
2008
109 Minutes
Director
Joaquin Phoenix Gwyneth Paltrow Vinessa Shaw Isabella Rossellini Elias Koteas Moni Monoshov Julie Budd Bob Ari
photographer cheater girlfriend father mother neighbor passionate emotional new york city apartment nightclub restaurant loneliness deception infidelity engagement suicide love triangle forbidden love 2000s
A Brooklyn-set romantic drama about a bachelor torn between the family friend his parents wish he would marry and his beautiful but volatile new neighbor.
Crime, Drama
USA
2007
118 Minutes
Director
Joaquin Phoenix Mark Wahlberg Eva Mendes Robert Duvall Antoni Corone Moni Moshonov Alex Veadov Tony Musante
club owner drug lord father police chief girlfriend friend brooding suspenseful brooklyn, n.y. club death pursuit drugs police work revenge pursuit revenge transformation 1980s
A New York City nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian Mafia hitmen.
Crime, Drama
USA
1994
98 Minutes
Director
Tim Roth Edward Furlong Moira Kelly Vanessa Redgrave Maximilian Schell Paul Guilfoyle David Vadim Natalya Andreychenko
hit man father dying person brother ex-girlfriend mistress somber sad brooklyn, n.y. hotel brighton beach, n.y. contract killing mafia family mother/son relationship father/son relationship revenge wretched excess 1990s
Early 1990s drama about a family of Soviet Jews living in Brooklyn's Brighton Beach ocean-side neighborhood nicknamed Little Odessa.
Drama, History
USA
2013
117 Minutes
Director
Marion Cotillard Joaquin Phoenix Jeremy Renner Dagmara Dominczyk Jicky Schnee Yelena Solovey Maja Wampuszyc Ilia Volok Angela Sarafyan
prostitute immigrant cousin sister illusionist melodramatic sad gritty powerful stage street big city home struggle regret love triangle control isolation new life 1920s
1921. An innocent immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.
Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
USA
2016
141 Minutes
Director
Charlie Hunnam Robert Pattinson Sienna Miller Tom Holland Edward Ashley Angus Macfadyen Ian McDiarmid Clive Francis Pedro Coello Matthew Sunderland Johann Myers
explorer scientist wife son aide dreamy incredible powerful thrilling amazon brazil jungle rain forest lost tribe lost world ancient civilization missing persons adventure discovery mystery
A true-life drama, centering on British explorer Major Percival Fawcett, who disappeared whilst searching for a mysterious city in the Amazon in the 1920s.
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller, Adventure
China|USA|Brazil
2019
124 Minutes
Director
Brad Pitt Tommy Lee Jones Ruth Negga Donald Sutherland Kimberly Elise Loren Dean Donnie Keshawarz Sean Blakemore Bobby Nish LisaGay Hamilton John Finn
astronaut father engineer space traveler intense suspenseful thrilling disturbing raw space space center space station spaceship space travel missing persons secret supernatural adventure discovery mystery
Astronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across an unforgiving solar system to uncover the truth about his missing father and his doomed expedition that now, 30 years later, threatens the universe.