Film | Director | Writer(s) | Major Actors | Story | Keywords | Locations | Run-time (min-utes) |
A Few Good Men
| Rob Reiner
| Aaron Sorkin (play and screen-play | Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson | Neo military lawyer defends Marines accused of murder; they contend they were acting under orders. | Baseball Bat/Death/Courtroom/Woman Lawyer/Law
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| 138
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Advise & Consent | Otto Prem-inger | Otto Drury (book) Wendell Mayes | Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton, Don Murray | Senate investigation into the president's newly nominated Secretary of State gives light to a secret from the past, which may not only ruin the candidate, but the president's character as well | Gay Bar, Blackmail, Homosexual, Politics, Pulitzer Prize source | Washington DC | 139 |
The Age of Innocence
| Martin Scorsese
| Edith Wharton (novel), Jay Cocks & Martin Scorsese (screen-play) | Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfieffer | Society scion is, but his well-ordered life is upset when he meets his fiancee's unconventional cousin.
| Repressed Love / Upper Class / Social Climber / Sensuality / Romance
| Albany, New York,
| 139
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All About Eve | Joseph L. Mankie-wicz | Joseph L. Mankie-wicz
| Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm | An aspiring actress maneuvers her way into the lives of a Broadway star, a playwright and a director. | Beautiful Woman, Behind the Scenes, Competition, Friendship, Price of Fame
| Los Angeles, NYC | 138 |
All the President’s Men | Alan J. Pakula | Carl Bern-stein, Bob Wood-ward
| Dustin Hoffman Robert Redford Stephen Collins | Reporters Woodward and Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Nixon’s resignation. | Sergeant/Paranoia/Reporter/Watergate /Whistleblower | Washing-ton, D.C. | 138 |
American Beauty
| Sam Mendes
| Alan Ball
| Kevin Spacey, Annette Benning, Thora Birch | Amidst a mid-life crisis, a man adjusts his life after developing an infatuation for his daughter's friend. | barefoot, drive-thru, cynical, blonde, irreverent
| L.A.
| 122
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American Graffiti | George Lucas
| George Lucas, Gloria Katz
| Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard
| A couple of high school grads spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college. | sexual awakening, student, hot rod, car | California
| 110 |
An Officer and a Gentleman
| Taylor Hackford
| Douglas Day Stewart
| Richard Gere, Debra Winger | A young man must complete his work at a Navy Flight school to become an aviator, with the help of a tough gunnery sergeant and his new girlfriend. | Motorcycle/Male Nudity/Sex/Repeating History/Drill Instructor | Bremerton, Washing-ton
| 122
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