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1. Parlez-Moi D'Amour (2002)
directed by Sophie Marceau
featuring Judith Godrèche, Niels Arestrup, Anne Le Ny, Laurence Fevrier, Jean-Marie Frin
Internationally recognized French actress Sophie Marceau makes her feature directing debut with the intimate divorce drama Speak to Me of Love, which ... More
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2. Heartburn (1986)
directed by Mike Nichols
featuring Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels, Maureen Stapleton, Stockard Channing
Though she always played coy about the fact in interviews, Nora Ephron's novel Heartburn is a thinly disguised "à clef" rehash of her marriage to ... More
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3. The Moon and Sixpence (1943)
directed by Albert Lewin
featuring George Sanders, Herbert Marshall, Doris Dudley, Steven Geray, Eric Blore
The Moon and Sixpence, W. Somerset Maugham's account of the life of artist Paul Gauguin, was brought to the screen as a labor of love by writer ... More
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4. The Fountainhead (1949)
directed by King Vidor
featuring Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey, Kent Smith, Henry Hull, Robert Douglas
The hero of Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead is Howard Roark (Gary Cooper), a fiercely independent architect obviously patterned after Frank Lloyd Wright. ... More
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5. Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine (2000)
directed by Bahman Farmanara
featuring Bahman Farmanara, Roya Nonahali, Reza Kianian
Iranian filmmaker Bahman Farmanara wrote, directed, and stars in this autobiographical drama of an artist reaching beyond the limits of censorship. ... More
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6. The Carpetbaggers (1964)
directed by Edward Dmytryk
featuring George Peppard, Alan Ladd, Martha Hyer, Elizabeth Ashley, Carroll Baker
Edward Dmytryk brings Harold Robbins' trashy, dirt-dishing Hollywood best-seller to the screen with George Peppard starring as Jonas Cord, a rancidly ... More
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7. Sweet Love, Bitter (1967)
directed by Herbert Danska
featuring Dick Gregory, Don Murray, Diane Varsi, Robert Hooks, Jeri Archer
Loosely based on Charlie Parker's life and based on the book Night Song, this drama chronicles the friendship between a nearly washed up jazz sax ... More
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8. Pather Panchali (1955)
directed by Satyajit Ray
featuring Runki Banerji, Kanu Banerji, Subir Banerji, Karuna Bannerjee, Umas Das Gupta
Pather Panchali (Father Panchali), Indian director Satyajit Ray's first feature film, relates the story of an impoverished Bengalese family. When the ... More
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9. Talk Radio (1988)
directed by Oliver Stone
featuring Eric Bogosian, Alec Baldwin, Ellen Greene, Leslie Hope, John C. McGinley
Monologist Eric Bogosian's one-man theater piece Talk Radio, co-written by Bogosian and Tad Savinar, is searingly brought to the screen by Oliver ... More
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10. Last Days (2005)
directed by Gus Van Sant
featuring Michael Pitt, Lukas Haas, Asia Argento, Scott Patrick Green, Nicole Vicius
Filmmaker Gus Van Sant wrote and directed this meditation on stardom and its costs, inspired in part by the life and death of rock musician Kurt ... More
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11. Far Harbor (1996)
directed by John Huddles
featuring Jennifer Connelly, Edward Atterton, Jim True, Marcia Gay Harden, Dan Futterman
In this emotional drama, a group of young professionals tries to get away from their problems, only to find that their friends create new annoyances. ... More
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12. Rope (1948)
directed by Alfred Hitchcock
featuring James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier
Rope, Alfred Hitchcock's first color film, was adapted from Patrick Hamilton's stage play Rope's End by no less than Hume Cronyn. Loosely inspired ... More
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13. Life Support (2007)
directed by Nelson George
featuring Queen Latifah, Anna Deavere Smith, Wendell Pierce, Rachel Nicks, Evan Ross, Tracee Ellis Ross
Produced by Jamie Foxx for HBO, this drama stars Queen Latifah as Ana a woman struggling to maintain a happy life despite being HIV-positive. Though ... More
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14. Young Man With a Horn (1950)
directed by Michael Curtiz
featuring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day, Hoagy Carmichael, Juano Hernandez
The life of tragic jazz great Bix Beiderbecke is given the "a clef" treatment in Warner Bros. Young Man With a Horn. Kirk Douglas plays the ... More
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15. Ordinary Decent Criminal (1999)
directed by Thaddeus O'Sullivan
featuring Kevin Spacey, Linda Fiorentino, Peter Mullan, Stephen Dillane, Helen Baxendale, David Hayman
Ordinary Decent Criminal is a classic gangster movie in modern-day Ireland. It follows the extraordinary adventures of a Robin Hood character, ... More
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16. Marked Woman (1937)
directed by Lloyd Bacon
featuring Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Isabel Jewell, Eduardo Ciannelli, Lola Lane, Rosalind Marquis
Bette Davis' famous walk-out from her home studio of Warner Bros. may have hurt her financially, but in the long run it paid off with bigger parts in ... More
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17. White Hunter, Black Heart (1990)
directed by Clint Eastwood
featuring Clint Eastwood, Jeff Fahey, George Dzundza, Alun Armstrong, Marisa Berenson
Something of a sleeper in its 1990 release, White Hunter, Black Heart is one of Clint Eastwood's most engaging films. It is based on Peter Vietel's ... More
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18. The Five Heartbeats (1991)
directed by Robert Townsend
featuring Robert Townsend, Michael Wright, Leon, Harry J. Lennix, Tico Wells
Loosely based on the life and times of several R&B artists (The Dells, The Temptations, Frankie Lymon, Sam Cooke and others) The Five Heartbeats ... More
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19. Compulsion (1959)
directed by Richard Fleischer
featuring Orson Welles, Dean Stockwell, Bradford Dillman, Diane Varsi, E.G. Marshall
Compulsion is a compelling, stylish thriller, loosely based on the famous 1924 murder trial of thrill-killers Loeb and Leopold, two homosexual ... More
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20. People I Know (2002)
directed by Dan Algrant
featuring Al Pacino, Kim Basinger, Ryan O'Neal, Téa Leoni, Richard Schiff
A powerful behind-the-scenes man in politics and show business finds himself skidding into a very public scandal in this taut drama. Eli Wurman (Al ... More
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21. The Rose (1979)
directed by Mark Rydell
featuring Bette Midler, Alan Bates, Frederic Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton, Barry Primus
Bette Midler stars as Rose in this somber drama loosely based on the life of the late Janis Joplin. She plays an ill-fated singer who succumbs to the ... More
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22. The Harder They Fall (1956)
directed by Mark Robson
featuring Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger, Jan Sterling, Mike Lane, Max Baer, Edward Andrews, Jersey Joe Walcott
An obviously ailing Humphrey Bogart made his final screen appearance in The Harder They Fall. Adapted from a novel by Budd Schulberg, the film is a ... More
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23. Berkeley (2007)
directed by Bobby Roth
featuring Nick Roth, Laura Jordan, Henry Winkler, Sarah Carter, Tom Morello
A young man is thrown into the center of the political and social tumult of the late '60s in this drama. It's 1968, and Ben Sweet (Nick Roth) is 18 ... More
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24. Grace of My Heart (1996)
directed by Allison Anders
featuring Illeana Douglas, John Turturro, Matt Dillon, Eric Stoltz, Bruce Davison, Patsy Kensit
Illeana Douglas delivers a superb performance as Denise Waverly, a fictional singer and songwriter whose life bears more than a passing resemblance ... More
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25. Entre Nous (1983)
directed by Diane Kurys
featuring Miou-Miou, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Guy Marchand, Robin Renucci
French filmmaker Diane Kurys directs the period drama Coup de Foudre (distributed in the U.S. as Entre Nous), adapted from a book she co-wrote with ... More
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