The best Brian Tarantina’s drama movies

Brian Tarantina

Brian Tarantina

27/03/1959- 02/11/2019
Today we present the best Brian Tarantina’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Brian Tarantina’s movies.
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Carlito's Way

Carlito's Way
7.9/10
A Puerto-Rican ex-con, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him, and lead a better life outside NYC.

The Talented Mr. Ripley

The Talented Mr. Ripley
7.4/10
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.

Donnie Brasco

Donnie Brasco
7.7/10
An FBI undercover agent infilitrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.

BlacKkKlansman

BlacKkKlansman
7.5/10
Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercover operation to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan.

Uncle Buck

Uncle Buck
7.1/10
Buck Russell, a lovable but slovenly bachelor, suddenly becomes the temporary caretaker of his nephew and nieces after a family emergency. His freewheeling attitude soon causes tension with his older niece Tia, loyal girlfriend Chanice and just about everyone else who crosses his path.

The Kitchen

The Kitchen
5.6/10
The mobster husbands of three 1978 Hell's Kitchen housewives are sent to prison by the FBI. Left with little but a sharp ax to grind, the ladies take the Irish mafia's matters into their own hands — proving unexpectedly adept at everything from running the rackets to taking out the competition… literally.

Born on the Fourth of July

Born on the Fourth of July
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 20/12/1989
  • Character: Vet #2 - Miami Convention
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.

Summer of Sam

Summer of Sam
6.7/10
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.

Jacob's Ladder

Jacob's Ladder
7.4/10
After returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran Jacob Singer struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by hallucinations and flashbacks, Singer rapidly falls apart as the world and people around him morph and twist into disturbing images. His girlfriend, Jezzie, and ex-wife, Sarah, try to help, but to little avail. Even Singer's chiropractor friend, Louis, fails to reach him as he descends into madness.

The Brave One

The Brave One
6.7/10
A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.

The Cotton Club

The Cotton Club
6.5/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 14/12/1984
  • Character: Vince Hood
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.

City by the Sea

City by the Sea
6.1/10
Vincent LaMarca is a dedicated and well-respected New York City police detective who has gone to great lengths to distance himself from his past, but then makes the terrible discovery that his own son has fallen into a life of crime.

Rob the Mob

Rob the Mob
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 21/03/2014
  • Character: Ronnie
The true-life story of a crazy-in-love Queens couple who robbed a series of mafia social clubs and got away with it… for a while… until they stumble upon a score bigger than they ever planned and become targets of both the mob and the FBI.

Personal Velocity

Personal Velocity
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/01/2002
  • Character: Pete Shunt
Three women's escapes from their afflicted lives. Each struggles to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.

Bed of Roses

Bed of Roses
6.1/10
The seeds of love are planted when Lisa, a high-powered investment banker, receives flowers from a secret admirer. But when his fairy-tale fantasies clash with her workaholic ways, they soon find out that sometimes, it's harder than it seems for love to conquer all.

The Saint of Fort Washington

The Saint of Fort Washington
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/11/1993
  • Character: Fred
Matthew, a young schizophrenic, finds himself out on the street when a slumlord tears down his apartment building. Soon, he finds himself in even more dire straits, when he is threatened by Little Leroy, a thug who is one of the tough denizens of the Fort Washington Shelter for Men. He reaches out to Jerry, a streetwise combat veteran, who takes Matthew under his wing as a son. The relationship between these two men grows as they attempt to conquer the numbing isolation of homelessness.

Breaking Brooklyn

Breaking Brooklyn
5.5/10
A 12 year old boy with a passion for dance and his brother are rescued from the streets by an old showman who takes them to live with his estranged former dancing partner/brother.

Ask for Jane

Ask for Jane
5.8/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 17/05/2019
  • Character: Angry Doctor
A group of college students develop an underground network that helps women get abortions in the pre-Roe vs. Wade Chicago.

Zarra's Law

Zarra's Law
4.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 11/06/2014
  • Character: Frankie Andreoli
Retired detective Tony Zarra is pushed into the world of crime after the murder of his younger brother.

Walking to the Waterline

Walking to the Waterline
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/06/1998
  • Character: Lucy 'Replacement'
Once a successful television sitcom star, Francis McGowan is now a struggling actor who returns to his family home on the Jersey Shore to sell it following his father's death. While there, he interacts with his agent Michael Woods, his childhood friend Duane Hopwood, and tour guide Lucy Bammer, with whom he drifts into a casual affair while his wife and children wait for him to return home.

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