Films like Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle
Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.
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Once Upon a Time in America
Film · 1984 · also dramaA former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of...
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Live by Night
Film · 2016 · also dramaA group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.
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Scarface
Film · 1932 · also dramaIn 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister fro...
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The Brutalist
Film · 2024 · also dramaWhen an innovative modern architect flees post-war Europe, he is given the opportunity to rebuild his legacy. Set during the dawn of the modern United States (in Pennsylv...
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A Love Song for Bobby Long
Film · 2004 · also dramaA headstrong young woman returns to New Orleans after the death of her estranged mother.
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Permanent Midnight
Film · 1998 · also dramaJuggling increasing career success and a growing heroin habit, a television comedy writer attempts to go down a path of improvement.
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Factory Girl
Film · 2006 · also dramaIn the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous Factory and becomes his muse. Although she seems to have it all, Edie...
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Valentino
Film · 1977 · also dramaThe untimely death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino prompts the many women in his past to reminisce about his troubled rise to superstardom.
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Less Than Zero
Film · 1987 · also dramaA college freshman returns to Los Angeles for Christmas at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.
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The Tender Bar
Film · 2021 · also dramaJR is a fatherless boy growing up in the glow of a bar where the bartender, his Uncle Charlie, is the sharpest and most colorful of an assortment of quirky and demonstrat...
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