RKO 281 (1999)
Biography | Drama
Orson Welles produces his greatest film, Citizen Kane (1941), despite the opposition of the film's de facto subject, William Randolph Hearst.
Starring: Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith, John Malkovich, Brenda Blethyn, Roy Scheider
Director: Benjamin Ross
Sammy's Adventures: The Secret Passage / A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures / Sammy's avonturen: De geheime doorgang (2010)
Adventure | Animation | Family
A sea turtle, who was hatched in 1959, spends the next fifty years travelling the world, while it is being changed by global warming.
Starring: Melanie Griffith, Tim Curry, Anthony Anderson, Kathy Griffin, Stacy Keach, Gemma Arterton, Isabelle Fuhrman
Director: Ben Stassen, Mimi Maynard
The Drowning Pool (1975)
Action | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
A big-city private detective travels to the Deep South to help out an old girlfriend who is worried that her husband will find out that she is cheating on him.
Starring: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Linda Haynes, Melanie Griffith, Gail Strickland
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
The Pirates of Somalia / Dabka (2017)
Biography | Drama
In 2008, rookie journalist Jay Bahadur forms a half-baked plan to embed himself among the pirates of Somalia. He ultimately succeeds in providing the first close-up look into who these men are, how they live, and the forces that drive them.
Starring: Al Pacino, Evan Peters, Melanie Griffith, Barkhad Abdi, Aidan Whytock, Edward Gelbinovich
Director: Bryan Buckley
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Cecil B. DeMented (2000)
Comedy | Crime | Thriller
An insane independent film director and his renegade group of teenage filmmakers kidnap an A-list Hollywood actress and force her to star in their underground film.
Starring: Melanie Griffith, Stephen Dorff, Alicia Witt, Adrian Grenier, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Maggie Gyllenhaal
Director: John Waters
Working Girl (1988)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss' job.
Starring: Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Melanie Griffith, Alec Baldwin, Joan Cusack, Philip Bosco
Director: Mike Nichols
Body Double (1984)
Horror | Mystery | Thriller
A young actor's obsession with spying on a beautiful woman who lives nearby leads to a baffling series of events with drastic consequences.
Starring: Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith, Gregg Henry, Deborah Shelton, Guy Boyd, Dennis Franz
Director: Brian De Palma
Day Out of Days (2015)
Drama
Mia Roarke is an actress quickly approaching 40. She's had her moment in the spotlight and now struggles to get back to where she once was. Or anywhere. Mia can't catch a break, and in the cutthroat world of The Business, Mia is her own worst enemy. No matter how hard she tries, she's competing in a younger woman's world and she can't get used to the idea that she's 'too old' and no longer viable. Her agent wants to get rid of her, she's got a controlling mother she supports and an ex husband who is poised for stardom. Then, a strange and humiliating turn of events gives her the chance to come back into the spotlight.
Starring: Alexia Landeau, Christa B. Allen, Melanie Griffith, Eddie Izzard, Cheyenne Jackson
Director: Zoe R. Cassavetes
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Shining Through (1992)
Drama | Romance | Thriller | War
1940, Linda Voss is a woman of Irish, Jewish-German parentage who loves the movies, especially films about war and spies. She gets a job at a New York law firm, after it's revealed she can speak German, fluently. As secretary and translator to Ed Leland, she begins to suspect that her boss is involved in espionage work. The two become lovers, and when America officially joins the Allies in fighting Hitler, Linda volunteers to go undercover behind enemy lines.
Starring: Michael Douglas, Melanie Griffith, Liam Neeson, Joely Richardson
Director: David Seltzer
Roar (1981)
Adventure | Thriller
A family takes a trip to Africa to visit their scientist father when they come afoul of some ferocious felines.
Starring: Tippi Hedren, Noel Marshall, Melanie Griffith, John Marshall, Jerry Marshall, Kyalo Mativo
Director: Noel Marshall
Tart (2001)
Crime | Drama | Romance
After becoming part of the snooty in crowd at school, 16-year-old Cat Storm ends up involved in a depraved world of drug use, sex and — during a weekend at a well-appointed country estate — a grisly murder.
Starring: Dominique Swain, Brad Renfro, Melanie Griffith, Bijou Phillips, Mischa Barton, Lacey Chabert
Director: Christina Wayne
Milk Money (1994)
Comedy | Romance
In MILK MONEY, when 12-year-old Frank Wheeler (Carter) and his two buddies save up their milk money and head into the city in search of a woman who will let them see her naked body, they think they’ve died and gone to heaven when V (Griffith) agrees to disrobe for them. Now stuck in the city and out of their element, the boys seek refuge in V who agrees to drive them back to the suburbs and away from the city’s chaos. But, when V’s car breaks down outside of his house, Frank decides that V would make a good step mom, and proceeds to play matchmaker for his dad, Tom (Harris). Thanks to Frank, Tom thinks that V is a math tutor, while V thinks that Frank knows the truth about her occupation. What ensues is a long, hilarious conversation that revolves around this comical misunderstanding.
Starring: Melanie Griffith, Ed Harris, Michael Patrick Carter, Malcolm McDowell, Anne Heche, Casey Siemaszko
Director: Richard Benjamin
Shade (2003)
Crime | Thriller
The hand is quicker than the eye in LA's underground gambling scene, hustlers get hustled and fortunes ride on every deal. Three small-time grifters devise a plan to beat the ultimate card mechanic – The Dean. But a seat at The Dean's table doesn't come cheap. Stuart Townsend (Queen of the Damned), Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects), Thandie Newton (Mission: Impossible II), Jamie Foxx (Any Given Sunday), Melanie Griffith (Crazy in Alabama) and Sylvester Stallone (Cop Land) star in this stylish film where quick maneuvers and shady alliances keep you guessing until the last hand is revealed.
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Jamie Foxx, Sylvester Stallone, Thandie Newton, Stuart Townsend, Melanie Griffith
Director: Damian Nieman
Nobody's Fool (1994)
Comedy | Drama
Newman plays Sully, a likable working stiff who's made a lifetime of bad decisions. But he unexpectedly has a chance to make right on some of them when his estranged son – and grandson – drop into his life.
Starring: Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Jessica Tandy, Melanie Griffith, Dylan Walsh, Pruitt Taylor Vince
Director: Robert Benton
Lolita (1997)
Drama | Romance
Humbert Humbert is a remarkable man with a poisonous wound: the indelible memory of a fated childhood love and a haunting urge to rediscover its lost passion through an obsession with a teenage girl named Lolita.
Starring: Dominique Swain, Jeremy Irons, Melanie Griffith, Frank Langella, Ben Silverstone
Director: Adrian Lyne
Autómata (2014)
Sci-Fi | Thriller
An insurance agent of ROC robotics corporation routinely investigates the case of manipulating a robot. What he discovers will have profound consequences for the future of humanity.
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Dylan McDermott, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Melanie Griffith, Robert Forster
Director: Gabe Ibáñez
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Crazy in Alabama (1999)
Comedy | Crime | Drama
During the summer of 1965, an abused wife heads to California to become a movie star while her nephew back in Alabama has to deal with a racially-motivated murder involving a corrupt sheriff.
Starring: Melanie Griffith, David Morse, Lucas Black, Cathy Moriarty, Meat Loaf, Rod Steiger
Director: Antonio Banderas
Dark Tourist / The Grief Tourist (2012)
Drama | Thriller
A psychological-thriller in the haunting tradition of films like Taxi Driver and Monster, The Grief Tourist takes us into the chilling labyrinth of a man's dark hobby and his even darker mind. JIM TAHANA doesn't leave much of an impression when he passes you by. But look closer and you'll sense his hunger – the deep hunger of an insatiable American soul – always scanning to devour something – anything that might fill the searing, unexplained void within him. Jim obsesses over the hobby that has been part of his DNA since he was a young boy: grief tourism – the act of traveling with the intent to visit places of tragedy or disaster. Every year his week-long vacations from work are spent going to grief tourist locations in the lives of different serial killers he is fascinated with. This years obsession is Carl Marznap, a mass murder from New Orleans, Louisiana. But this trip is no ordinary vacation as Jim's rancid sexual impulses and weakening grip on reality deteriorate into a violent despair that will ultimately unlock an unspeakable secret festering within him, bringing The Grief Tourist to it's brutal and shocking finale…
Starring: Melanie Griffith, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Michael Cudlitz, Suzanne Quast, Eddie J. Fernandez
Director: Suri Krishnamma
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Fear City (1984)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
In New York City, a psycho killer is stalking and randomly slashing and killing strippers working in various nightclubs. Matt Rossi is a former boxer trying to escape his past whom is currently employed at a talent agency which caters exotic dancers to the mafia-controlled strip clubs all over Manhattan. Matt and his business partner, Nicky, are relentlessly dogged by Al Wheeler, a persistent police detective on the case of the murdered strippers, and hoping to find something to nail both Matt and Nicky on. Matt is trying to reconcile with his former flame, Loretta, whom also works as a dancer and has a off-again, on-again drug problem. With the police constantly hounding them, and under pressure from his mob boss and other bosses to do something, Matt must somehow face his inner demons to find the killer before he strikes again.
Starring: Tom Berenger, Billy Dee Williams, Jack Scalia, Melanie Griffith, Rossano Brazzi, Rae Dawn Chong
Director: Abel Ferrara
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
Comedy | Drama
The story of New York City bond salesman, Sherman McCoy, who accidentally hits a young black man with his car during an unexpected foray into the Bronx.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall, Saul Rubinek, Morgan Freeman
Director: Brian De Palma
