Tony Camonte is a Prohibition era mobster with dreams… The only problem is that as he moves up the ranks in the Mafia, so does the number of enemies he makes along the way!
Drama
Croupier (1998)
by Brent Allard | July 12th, 2012 | Drama
There are all kinds of gambling, casino games only being a very small representation. Jack (Clive Owen,) Croupier’s central character spends much of the movie insisting that he does not gamble. He’s insistent that his primary calling is as a writer. This sets up the on going narration, Jack telling us the story he’s writing [...]
Cop Land (1997)
by Nathan Strack | April 27th, 2012 | Drama
Cop Land tells the story of how a small time Sheriff in an beautiful small town, that is populated by NYPD Officers, starts to look in to the seamy underbelly of the small town, after one of the cops makes a mistake and kills 2 stoners by mistake, and then himself! And how as this small time Sheriff dig in to the seamy underbelly of his town, he will find somethings that will change his world forever!
T.A.P.S (1981)
by Nathan Strack | April 1st, 2012 | Drama
T.A.P.S tells the story of a student body at a Military Academy that is about to learn what life is really like as a Soldier, when the Students at this Military Academy loose both their beloved Commandant and their school and decide to stage an uprising and arm themselves in an effort to get them both back!
Flowers In The Attic (1987)
by Nathan Strack | March 2nd, 2012 | Drama
Flowers In The Attic tells the tale of a group of children and their mother as they end up heading to their cruel and vindictive Grandparents, only to find that they are locked away in a lavish Prison of their grand parents house, and will have to escape before their family lets them die off one by one…
Red Rock West (1993)
by Josh James | February 12th, 2012 | Drama
Cage gets mistaken for a hired killer and rather than turn down the large amount of money being offered, he…
Kalifornia (1993)
by Nathan Strack | December 21st, 2011 | Drama
<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-21966" title="Kalifornia 1" src="http://awesomebmovies.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Kalifornia-1.jpg" buy viagra canadian pharmacy alt=”” width=”295″ height=”400″ />Now one of things that makes this movie interesting is how you can see the progression of David Duchovny’s career… To understand what I mean by this, let me preface what I am about to say, with this, currently Mr. Duchovny [...]
The Burning Bed (1984)
by Nathan Strack | November 2nd, 2011 | Drama
<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-19789" title="Bed 1" src="http://awesomebmovies.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Bed-1.jpg" alt="" width="25 5″ height=”475″ />On regular television there is a channel which seems to mostly play movies that have in some capacity to do with abuse of women by men, rather it be mental or physical abuse, and how these women overcome these evil men… Well this channel [...]
No Way Home (1996)
by Nathan Strack | October 7th, 2011 | Drama
Joey Larabito was once a crook that took the blame for his older brother’s mistake and heads to Prison! 6 years later Joey, who now wants to go straight, has to contend with a life where most of friends are gone, and the only family that he has left still is quite happy living a life of crime!
Heartburn (1986)
by Nathan Strack | August 25th, 2011 | Drama
Rachel Samstat is a Food columnist who doesn’t ever want to get married, that is until she meets Mark Forman that is, and despite some major reservations they end up getting married. But Rachel discovers that Mark has been cheating on her, it will be up to Rachel to decide to recreate the wedded bliss that they once had or to start fresh as a single mother…
Amadeus (1984)
by Nathan Strack | August 11th, 2011 | Drama, Musical
Amadeus tells the story of the maestro himself, and the feud he unintentionally created in colleague ‘Salieri’ and how this feud would lead the two of them on a path that would keep them connected together forever!
Kill Cruise (1990)
by Nathan Strack | July 22nd, 2011 | Drama
What starts off as the perfect cruise to Barbados for 2 women and their Captain ends up slowing going down hill, and they are fighting against a tide of hate to ensure that they make it to Barbados before they kill each other!
Bad Boys (1983)
by Nathan Strack | June 13th, 2011 | Drama
On the mean streets of Chicago, Michael ‘Mick’ O’Brien is a bad ass up and coming criminal. After a failed attempt to rob an up and coming Drug lord by the name of Paco. Mick is sent to Prison, where in he has to make some hard choices, and protect his decisions from that same drug lord that joins him in prison, before he is murdered for the death of Paco’s little brother!
Broken Angel (1988)
by Nathan Strack | May 19th, 2011 | Drama
The Coburn Family is a mild mannered family, a suburban family that on the outside appears normal, but on the inside, the family is being torn apart by infidelity, drug use, and Gang connections… When the Coburn’s daughter goes missing, the family pulls together to find her…
Judgment In Berlin (1988)
by Nathan Strack | April 4th, 2011 | Drama
For more then a Millennium there has been countries all over the planet that sought out the repression of their people in their own nation or the nations that they have conquered… From Ancient Rome and their use of slavery to the fascist regimes of Nazi Germany and Italy in the 1930s and 40s and [...]
Max Dugan Returns (1983)
by Keith Link | March 25th, 2011 | Drama
Nora (Marsha Mason) is a high school teacher and single mother who lives with her son Michael (Mathew Broderick). Their modest life is turned upside down when Nora’s estranged father Max Dugan (Jason Robards) shows up in the middle of the night offering a briefcase of money in exchange for a dying wish: time to [...]
My Bodyguard (1980)
by Josh James | March 7th, 2011 | Drama
My Bodyguard is a simply awesome flick, one of the best teen films of the eighties. Wait, that’s a challenging statement. Let me offer up some context. Now there’s no doubt that John Hughes RULED the eighties when it came to films for teens, no argument there – he went on a run that began [...]
Bringing Out The Dead (1999)
by Nathan Strack | February 24th, 2011 | Drama
In New York City in the early 1990′s there is a paramedic working the grave yard shift. The problem is, is this paramedic has slowly been driving himself insane at the loss of one of the people who he was supposed to have saved! The fun part of it, is none of the other paramedics seem to notice…
Smile (1975)
by Matthew Dowling | February 10th, 2011 | Drama
Big Bob’s the kind of guy who looks forward to his weekly lodge meetings, where the members get dressed up in white sheets and hoods, have barbecues and delight in hazing new members.
What Happened Was (1994)
by Nathan Strack | January 17th, 2011 | Drama
A story about the loneliness that can surround a person living in the big city, by themselves without any of the real comforts that companionship can provide!
Tin Cup (1996)
by Kevin Jacoby | January 14th, 2011 | Drama
For my next trick, I will make you believe that Tin Cup isn’t a giant turd of a movie. To perform this death-defying feat, I will require a willing assistant from the audience, two cups of Canola oil and a Boeing 747 sized bucket of suspension-of-disbelief. Now, to give credit where credit is due, golf [...]
Paris, Texas (1984)
by Keith Link | January 4th, 2011 | Drama
Director Wim Wender’s 1984 film Paris, Texas is the type of movie that draws you in and unravels with great depth. Is it a B Movie? perhaps not, but it is a bit of a forgotten gem and a favorite of mine. A film to definitely explore if you haven’t yet seen it. In this [...]
Freeway (1996)
by Candace Valentino | December 21st, 2010 | Drama
Vanessa Lutz is a juvenile delinquent on the run. She’s trying to escape a life of dysfunction and despair. She’s heads to the only sanctuary she has… her grandmothers house.
Bless the Beasts & Children (1971)
by Matthew Dowling | December 3rd, 2010 | Drama
Probably the Stand By Me of it’s day, Bless the Beasts & Children is a timeless theme for those of us that felt like we didn’t fit in or got bullied at one point or another.
Summer of ’42 (1971)
by Matthew Dowling | November 22nd, 2010 | Drama
It was the fall of ’84 when I discovered the Summer of ’42… Before TV was packed with late night infomercials, there was 2 options. Either play the National Anthem to conclude the broadcast day, then go to color bars OR play some obscure film that local networks were able to acquire the rights to [...]