Actress Rosanna Arquette (1959)

Hell’s Kitchen (1998) is a film written and directed by Tony Cinciripini. Its plot revolves around a robbery gone wrong, resulting in the accidental death of one of the robbers. The culprit, Johnny, is sentenced to five years in prison. His former girlfriend, Gloria blames him for her brother’s death and upon his release, she urges her new boyfriend to seek revenge. However, the new boyfriend knows that Johnny was not at fault and cannot bring himself to harm him. In the meantime, Johnny turns his life around by pursuing boxing and receiving training from a former heavyweight contender.

Quentin Tarantino wrote and directed the American independent film, Pulp Fiction (1994). The narrative of the film deviates from chronological order and centers around three separate protagonists: Vincent Vega, a hitman; Butch Coolidge, a prizefighter; and Jules Winnfield, Vincent’s business partner. It opens with a diner robbery by a couple and then transitions between the three story lines before concluding back at the diner. Throughout the film, there are seven distinct narrative sequences, marked by intertitles. Summary. As Pumpkin and Honey Bunny dine at ...

New York Stories (1989) is an American anthology film featuring three segments with a central focus on the bustling metropolis of New York City. The first segment, Life Lessons, is directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Richard Price. It stars Nick Nolte. The second segment, Life Without Zoë, is helmed by Francis Ford Coppola and co-written by Coppola and his daughter,

Silverado (1985) is an American Western film, produced and directed by Lawrence Kasdan and written by both Kasdan brothers. While resting in a remote shack, the cowboy Emmett is surprised by three armed men who he ultimately defeats, gaining possession of a horse. His next plan is to meet up with his brother Jake in Turley before visiting their sister Kate in Silverado, then continuing on to California. On the journey to Turley, Emmett comes across Paden, who is stranded in the desert and robbed of all his belongings. Emmett offers Paden one of his extra horses and they ...

After Hours (1985) is an American black comedy film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Joseph Minion. Following a tedious day at work, data entry worker Paul Hackett strikes up a conversation with a stranger named Marcy Franklin in a New York City cafe. She reveals that she shares an apartment in SoHo with a sculptor named Kiki Bridges, who creates and sells paperweights resembling cream cheese bagels. After receiving her number, Paul decides to call under the guise of purchasing one of the paperweights. He hails a cab to the apartment later that night but ...

Written and directed by John Sayles, Baby It’s You (1983) is a romantic comedy drama set in 1966 New Jersey. Jill Rosen, an upper-middle-class Jewish girl headed for Sarah Lawrence College, enters into a relationship with the Sheik, a blue-collar Italian boy with dreams of becoming the next Frank Sinatra. While Jill excels in high school acting productions, the Sheik has a one-night stand with Jody, one of Jill’s close friends. However, their budding romance is cut short when the Sheik is expelled from school and flees to Miami, Florida after being involved in an attempted robbery. In the fall of 1967, Jill ...