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Frank Pierson (May 12, 1925 - July 23, 2012) was an American writer, producer and director for film and television, honoured with an Academy Award in the category "Best Writing, Original Screenplay" for the movie "Dog Day Afternoon". He was a Harvard graduate with an BA in Cultural Anthropology.
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03 October 2018
Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers — and falls in love with — struggling artist Ally. She has just about given up on her dream to make it big as a singer — until Jack coaxes her into the spotlight.
01 November 1967
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will.
17 December 1976
Drunken, has-been rock star John Norman Howard falls in love with unknown singer Esther Hoffman after seeing her perform at a club.
16 October 1994
Mary Crow Dog, daughter of a desperately poor Indian family in South Dakota, is swept up in the protests of the 1960s and becomes sensitized to the injustices that society inflicts on her people.
21 September 1975
Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly turns sour and escalates into a hostage situation and stand-off with the police.
27 July 1990
Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. Soon after, he's accused of the crime.
24 June 1965
A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he's very different from what she expects.
19 May 2001
At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.
02 January 1970
When a Polish sailor jumps ship in Britain, a couple of local intelligence operatives keep him under surveillance.
10 May 2003
This true story, which takes place in Fort Campbell, KY, tells the heart-wrenching story of the life and tragic death of soldier Barry Winchell.
17 May 1967
A group of young drifters kidnap wealthy businessman Roc Delmonico just for kicks. They keep him captive, demanding a ransom for his safe release.
20 December 1978
Zharko, leader of the Romanis in NYC, passes his position of leadership on to his unwilling grandson, Dave, leading to infighting between Dave and his father.
08 February 1971
A housewife and her teenage daughter, fleeing their boring lives, stop in a diner in the California desert.
17 June 1971
Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her posh apartment block, and makes plans to rob the entire building.
22 August 1992
As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his past visit him as he reflects on his life and loves.
01 January 2004
Televangelist Bobby Paradise "saw God" in some space debris when he was returning to Earth as an astronaut.
16 December 2008
A documentary on the making of 'Cool Hand Luke' (1967).
09 September 1995
Biographical account of America's President for the latter part of WWII. Shows Truman's rise from small-town nobody to leader of the USA, his decision to use the Atomic Bomb against Japan, and subsequent election as the US' post-war President.
15 September 1989
Samantha Hughes, a teenaged Kentucky girl, never knew her father, who died in Vietnam before her birth.
16 October 2008
An intimate portrait and saga of four film pioneers--Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack who rose from immigrant poverty through personal tragedies persevering to create a major studio with a social conscience.
09 September 1990
Raymond Eames, a small-time drug dealer, has been sentenced to death for the shooting death of a policeman.
04 May 1973
A dedicated family doctor tries to help a pregnant teen-ager.
27 May 2000
A Cincinnati museum director goes on trial in 1990 for exhibiting sadomasochistic photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe.
28 February 2006
A documentary chronicling the making of the 1975 film "Dog Day Afternoon."
