Drama

1971

R

Plot: Memorably described by Pauline Kael as a beautiful pipe dream of a movie, Robert Altmans McCabe and Mrs. Miller reimagines the American West as a muddy frontier filled with hustlers, oppo ...

Crime

1990

R

Plot: Joel and Ethan Coens third collaboration, the gangster film Millers Crossing, stars Gabriel Byrne as Tom Reagan, the right-hand man of big-city Irish mob boss Leo (Albert Finney). The fil ...

Plot: The man who has made a career out of exposing the artifice and excess of modern living takes a trip to the most artificially excessive city on the planet for his seventh HBO stand-up special. Wh ...

Adventure

1955

NR

Plot: Rossana Podesta may not quite possess the face that would launch a thousand ships, but she is otherwise convincing in the title role of Helen of Troy. Filmed in Italy, this super-epic cos ...

Historical Film

2004

R

Plot: Homers sprawling tale of love and war in ancient Greece comes to the screen in all its grandeur in this epic-scale adventure. In 1193 B.C., Paris, Prince of Troy (Orlando Bloom), has fall ...

Adventure

2003

NR

Plot: The face that launched a thousand ships was the centerpiece of this two-part TV miniseries, which invoked affectionate memories of the overblown Cecil B. DeMille epics of years gone by. Set in t ...

History [nf]

2004

Plot: Troy, a documentary about the Trojan War, came to home video around the same time as the big-budget action spectacle of the same name featuring Brad Pitt. The film details h ...

Historical Film

2004

NR

Plot: Homers sprawling tale of love and war in ancient Greece comes to the screen in all its grandeur in this epic-scale adventure. In 1193 B.C., Paris, Prince of Troy (Orlando Bloom), has fall ...

History [nf]

2004

NR

Plot: Produced to coincide with Wolfgang Petersens epic-scale adventure Troy, this documentary produced by National Geographic takes a looks at the facts behind the legends ...