Richard Brooks
Author
Series
Criterion Collection volume 781
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
A hard-hitting docu-drama about two ex-cons who ruthlessly murder a Kansas family in 1959 in order to steal their non-existent stash of money. Based on the novel by Truman Capote.
Publisher
The Film Detective
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
An aspiring American writer living in Paris comes into unexpected wealth and ditches his hard-working lifestyle for a lavish yet self-destructive spending spree that threatens to cost him all the things that really matter to him.
7) Key Largo
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A hurricane swells outside, but it's nothing compared to the storm within the hotel at Key Largo. There, sadistic mobster Johnny Rocco holds at gunpoint hotel owner Nora Temple, her invalid father-in-law, and ex-Gl Frank McCloud.
9) Elmer Gantry
Publisher
United Artists Pictures
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
One man's fervent pursuit of wealth and power leads him to religion for profit in the evangelist tents of the 1920's Midwestern Corn Belt.
10) Brute force
Series
Criterion collection volume 383
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Joe Collins, who, along with his fellow inmates, lives under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins's dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's chains? Matter-of-fact and ferocious, it builds to an explosive climax that shows the lengths men will go to when fighting for their freedom and asks the question of who society's real brutes are.