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The Fountainhead

The Fountainhead (1949) more movies like this

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. Rather than compromise his ideals, Roark takes menial work as a quarryman to finance his projects. He falls in love with heiress Dominique (Patricia Neal), but ends the relationship when he has the ...

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The Women

The Women (1939) more movies like this

directed by George Cukor
featuring Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Mary Boland, Joan Fontaine, Paulette Goddard

Based on the Clare Booth Luce play of the same name, this MGM comedy is justly famous for its all-female cast and deft direction by George Cukor. The plot centers on a group of gossipy high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily wedded Mary Haines (Norma Shearer) finds her marriage in ...

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Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane (1941) more movies like this

directed by Orson Welles
featuring Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins, Ruth Warrick, George Coulouris

Orson Welles first feature film -- which he directed, produced, and co-wrote, as well as playing the title role -- proved to be his most important and influential work, a ground-breaking drama loosely based on the life of William Randolph Hearst which is frequently cited as the finest American film ever made. Aging newspaper magnate Charles Foster ...

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Quartet

Quartet (1981) more movies like this

directed by James Ivory
featuring Alan Bates, Maggie Smith, Isabelle Adjani, Anthony Higgins, Daniel Chatto

No relation to the 1949 Somerset Maugham "omnibus" film of the same name, 1981's Quartet is based on the roman a clef by Jean Rhys. Though the names are changed, it is clearly the story of Rhys' romance with Ford Maddox Ford in 1920s Paris. The titular quartet consists of novelist Isabelle Adjani, her Polish husband Anthony Higgins, wealthy ...

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Strategic Air Command

Strategic Air Command (1955) more movies like this

directed by Anthony Mann
featuring James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Lovejoy, Barry Sullivan, Alex Nicol

Inspired in part by the true story of baseball great Ted Williams, who after serving in World War II was drafted to serve in the Korean War just as his baseball career was taking off, Strategic Air Command stars James Stewart as "Dutch" Holland, a star third baseman with the St. Louis Cardinals. "Dutch" served with distinction as a fighter pilot ...

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Marked Woman

Marked Woman (1937) more movies like this

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 better films. Like many Warners films of the period, Marked Woman was "torn from today's headlines." Specifically, it was inspired by the recent downfall of gangster Lucky Luciano, who at one time ...

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The Bad and the Beautiful

The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) more movies like this

directed by Vincente Minnelli
featuring Kirk Douglas, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell, Barry Sullivan

Kirk Douglas plays the corrupt and amoral head of a major film studio in this Hollywood drama, often regarded as one of the film's industry's most interesting glimpses at itself. Actress Gloria Lorrison (Lana Turner), director Fred Amiel (Barry Sullivan), and screenwriter James Lee Bartlow (Dick Powell) are invited to a meeting at a Hollywood ...

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Sweet Smell of Success

Sweet Smell of Success (1957) more movies like this

directed by Alexander MacKendrick
featuring Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Martin Milner, Sam Levene

Ernest Lehman drew upon his experiences as a Broadway press agent to write the devastating a clef short story "Tell Me About Tomorrow." This in turn was adapted by Lehman and Clifford Odets into the sharp-edged, penetrating feature film Sweet Smell of Success. Burt Lancaster stars as J. J. Hunsecker, a Walter Winchell-style columnist who wields ...

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Reckless

Reckless (1935) more movies like this

directed by Victor Fleming
featuring Jean Harlow, William Powell, Franchot Tone, May Robson, Rosalind Russell, Ted Healy, Mickey Rooney

Reckless is a delightfully breezy screwball comedy from the same director (Victor Fleming) and star (Jean Harlow) responsible for the celebratedBombshell (itself a film à clef loosely based on Clara Bow) -- with the added appeal of William Powell. One can readily see the chemistry between the two stars at work, which would lead to their impending ...

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The Harder They Fall

The Harder They Fall (1956) more movies like this

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 thinly disguised a clef account of the Primo Carnera boxing scandal. Bogart is cast as unemployed newspaperman Eddie Willis, who sells his soul down the river when he signs on as press agent for slimy ...

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All the King's Men

All the King's Men (1949) more movies like this

directed by Robert Rossen
featuring Broderick Crawford, John Derek, Joanne Dru, John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men is a roman à clef inspired by the career of Louisiana governor Huey Long. Broderick Crawford won an Academy Award for his portrayal of Willie Stark, a backwoods Southern lawyer who wins the hearts of his constituents by bucking the corrupt state government. ...

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Casino

Casino (1995) more movies like this

directed by Martin Scorsese
featuring Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods, Don Rickles, Alan King

The inner-workings of a corrupt Las Vegas casino are exposed in Martin Scorsese's story of crime and punishment. The film chronicles the lives and times of three characters: "Ace" Rothstein (Robert De Niro), a bookmaking wizard; Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci), a Mafia underboss and longtime best friend to Ace; and Ginger McKenna (Sharon Stone, in a ...

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White Hunter, Black Heart

White Hunter, Black Heart (1990) more movies like this

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 novel about the location shoot of John Huston's immortal The African Queen. But the focus is never on Bogie and Hepburn. Egomaniacal director John Wilson (Eastwood) is far more interested in killing ...

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Primary Colors

Primary Colors (1998) more movies like this

directed by Mike Nichols
featuring John Travolta, Emma Thompson, Billy Bob Thornton, Kathy Bates, Adrian Lester

Mike Nichols directed this Elaine May screenplay adapted from the 1996 bestseller by "Anonymous" (Joe Klein), who fictionalized Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign. In the New Hampshire primary, Governor Jack Stanton (John Travolta) convinces Henry Burton (Adrian Lester), grandson of a respected civil rights pioneer, to become his deputy ...

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Life Support

Life Support (2007) more movies like this

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 her home-life seems happy with a loving husband and young daughter, Ana remains haunted by a past that produced Kelly (Rachel Nicks), a resentful estranged older daughter who now lives with Ana's ...

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People I Know

People I Know (2002) more movies like this

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 Pacino) was raised in the deep South, attended Harvard Law School, and has devoted his spare time to progressive political causes since working alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s. ...

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The Five Heartbeats

The Five Heartbeats (1991) more movies like this

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 traces the rise and fall of a popular African-American 1950s singing aggregation. The story is told from the point of view of one of the "Heartbeats," played by Robert Townsend (who also co-produced, ...

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Young Man With a Horn

Young Man With a Horn (1950) more movies like this

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 Beiderbecke character, here named Rick Martin. An ace trumpter player, Martin is one of the few white musicians to flourish in the black-dominated jazz scene of the 1920s. Chafing against the dullness of the ...

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The Wild Party

The Wild Party (1974) more movies like this

directed by James Ivory
featuring James Coco, Raquel Welch, Perry King, Tiffany Bolling, Royal Dano

Director James Ivory has disowned this Hollywood drama, inspired by the Fatty Arbuckle/Virginia Rappe case and based on a satirical poem by Joseph Moncure March, which was heavily cut by American International Pictures from two hours to 90 minutes. The story concerns Jolly Grimm (James Coco), whose career as a famous silent film comic is coming to ...

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Grace of My Heart

Grace of My Heart (1996) more movies like this

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 to that of real-life pop star Carole King. Edna Buxton, the daughter of a Philadelphia steel tycoon, aspires to a career as a singer, and when against her mother's bidding she sings a sultry version of ...

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Ordinary Decent Criminal

Ordinary Decent Criminal (1999) more movies like this

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, Michael Lynch, a thief, bigamist, liar, and criminal genius who robs from the rich to give to the poor. Michael is suave, sardonic, and sexy. When his leather-clad figure weaves its way through the Dublin ...

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The Moon and Sixpence

The Moon and Sixpence (1943) more movies like this

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/director Albert Lewin. George Sanders plays Charles Strickland, a staid London broker who kicks over the traces to become an artist. Strickland pursues his dream to the extent of leaving his family, ...

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The Rose

The Rose (1979) more movies like this

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 pressures of performing by indulging in drugs and alcohol. Her sweetheart Dyer (Frederic Forrest) is the former chauffeur who naively tries to save her from self destruction, while her British ...

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What Just Happened

What Just Happened (2008) more movies like this

directed by Barry Levinson
featuring Robert De Niro, Catherine Keener, Sean Penn, John Turturro, Robin Wright Penn

Inspired by the personal memoirs of Hollywood producer Art Linson, Barry Levinson's fictional showbiz comedy stars Robert De Niro as a struggling movie producer who has just suffered through his second divorce, and slowly finds his soul being ground up in the machinations of the Hollywood machine. Ben (De Niro) is an aging producer whose career ...

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Rose of Washington Square

Rose of Washington Square (1939) more movies like this

directed by Gregory Ratoff
featuring Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Al Jolson, William Frawley, Joyce Compton

This barely-disguised portrait of singer Fanny Brice led to Brice's lawsuit against 20th Century Fox for defamation of character, a case which was settled out of court. Alice Faye plays Rose Sargent, a New York singer of the 1920s who falls for handsome, cocky wheeler-dealer Bart Clinton (Tyrone Power in a role patterned on Brice's troubled real ...

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