Showing posts with label Starring: Robert De Niro. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Starring: Robert De Niro. Show all posts

Men of Honour (2000)

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Cuba Gooding Jr plays a black son of a Kentucky sharecropper, whose father has urged him to pursue his dreams. He joins the US Navy and atte...

15 Minutes (2001)

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A fundamentally misconceived thriller that somehow stars Robert De Niro. It’s an extremely heavy-handed satire about fame and the media that...

Hide and Seek (2005)

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Psychological thriller directed by John Polson. New York psychologist Dr. David Callaway (Robert De Niro) finds his wife dead in the bathtub...

The Deer Hunter (1978)

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A gripping and disturbing war drama directed by Michael Cimino. Three Slavic-American friends (Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and John S...

The Mission (1986)

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A remarkable drama directed by Roland Joffé and written by Robert Bolt. Plot (borrowed from online): "18th century Spanish Jesuits try ...

Ronin (1998)

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Woeful action thriller directed by John Frankenheimer and written by John David Zeik and David Mamet.  Robert De Niro stars as one of a team...

The Intern (2015)

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Comedy drama by Nancy Meyers, with interesting adjustments to the same formula she used for Something’s Gotta Give and It’s Complicated .  ...

Cape Fear (1991)

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Martin Scorsese ’s remake of the 1962 film creates something bigger, louder and a lot more scary than the original. This time around the ps...

Sleepers (1996)

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Four friends growing up in New York in the 1960s end up in a youth detention centre, where they are brutalised by the staff. We then meet t...

Heat (1995)

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Cop tries to catch criminal gang causing havoc in Los Angeles . Al Pacino is the cop. Robert De Niro leads the gang.  Heat is a complex f...

Raging Bull (1980)

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Martin Scorsese directs Robert De Niro again. This time, De Niro plays real-life boxer Jake LaMotta in an adaptation of the latter’s 1970 m...

Taxi Driver (1976)

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A masterpiece. Robert De Niro is utterly transfixing as Travis Bickle, a New York cabbie who becomes obsessed with cleaning up the city – ...

Mean Streets (1973)

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Brilliant drama by Martin Scorsese . Harvey Keitel plays Charlie Cappa, a small-time criminal in New York who gets into trouble because hi...

Goodfellas (1990)

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Martin Scorsese ’s adaptation of Nicholas Pileggi’s book Wiseguy is a beautifully filmed masterpiece. Unlike Casino , it’s presented from t...

Casino (1995)

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Lengthy, sometimes dense and extremely violent Martin Scorsese crime thriller.  Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci play mafia men sent from Chic...

Backdraft (1991)

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Chicago in 1971. Two brothers lose their fireman father when he is killed on duty. Twenty years later they are both firemen too and find th...

The Untouchables (1987)

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Brian De Palma’s historical crime drama is set in 1930 in Chicago , where gangster Al Capone ( Robert De Niro ) is running various illegal r...

Limitless (2011)

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Eddie Morra ( Bradley Cooper ) is struggling with motivation in his work (he’s a writer) and relationships (his girlfriend Lindy, played by ...

Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

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Adapted by David O. Russell from a novel by Matthew Quick, Silver Linings Playbook is a warm-hearted drama that somehow finds comedy and ...

Joy (2015)

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Highly intelligent drama – with welcome flashes of subtle comedy – directed by David O. Russell , who also made the excellent Silver Linin...