The best Sam Coppola’s drama movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Sam Coppola’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Sam Coppola.
Fatal Attraction
6.9/10
A married man's one night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.
Saturday Night Fever
6.8/10
Tony spends his Saturdays at a disco where his stylish moves raise his popularity among the patrons. But his life outside the disco is not easy and things change when he gets attracted to Stephanie.
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.
Empire
5.9/10
A big time drug dealer Victor Rosa is looking to get out of the game and sees his chance with a big deal with a new friend who happens to be a Wall St. stockbroker. Thinking this will be his chance to go out on top Victor soon finds out that he has been double crossed and his last option is to get revenge.
The Anderson Tapes
6.4/10
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. What he doesn't know is that his every move is being recorded on audio and video, although he is not the subject of any surveillance.
Without a Trace
7.1/10
Based on the case of young New Yorker Etan Patz, who disappeared in the early 1980s, this film casts Kate Nelligan as the distraught mother who lashes out at the police (in the person of a relentless detective played by Judd Hirsch), who make her and her husband suspects, even as she hounds them to find her child and drives away her husband (David Dukes) and friends (including Stockard Channing) with her intensity and single-mindedness. Squandered on a Hollywood ending that doesn't square with the real case: Etan Patz was never found.
Citizen Cohn
7.1/10
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.
Money for Nothing
5.7/10
When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run. After all, he says, finders keepers. He turns to his ex-girlfriend Monica, who works in an investment firm, for advice, before turning to the mob for help laundering the money. While Joey makes plans to leave the country, however, a detective is following his ever-warmer trail in order to recover the cash.
Street Hunter
4.9/10
Logan Blade is a tough police officer who has to confront a gang led by ruthless Colonel Walsh.
The Deli
5.4/10
The wacky goings-on at a NYC deli—a comedy starring Mike Starr, Ice-T and Michael Imperioli.
Crazy Joe
6.2/10
The rise and fall of a Mafia gangster, based on the life of murdered New York gangster "Crazy" Joey Gallo.
The Super Cops
6.6/10
The true story of two New York City cops. Greenberg & Hantz fought the system, became detectives and were known on the streets as "Batman & Robin".
Reunion
4.1/10
Ten years after the death of a close friend, a group of Yale graduates who formed a secret society to make the world a better place reunite, only to discover how far from their ambitious, selfless goals they have strayed. Brett Cullen, Jessica Hecht and Jamey Sheridan star in this ensemble drama.
Murder in Black and White
5.8/10
A recently appointed black police commissioner is killed. So, Frank Janek is assigned to investigate.
Death Journey
4.7/10
Fearful that their star witness might be murdered, two attorneys hire a protector to bring him from Los Angeles to New York. Jesse Crowder (Fred Williamson) is a no-nonsense tough guy. He buddies up with the witness, an accountant, and they hit the road. Outwitting their foes means taking all manner of conveyance, including automobile, train, and airplane.
Driving Me Crazy
6.3/10
Meet Elliot Brown. He is one of Brooklyn's most neurotically sweet and eligible bachelors . . . who also happens to be pushing forty and living with his mother. Not getting any younger, Elliot embarks on a 3000 mile road trip across the country to take a chance on a girl he has never met. His travel companion? Her fun-loving sister. Now, he must face his fears, confront his past and learn to take risks to be the man worthy of her love. Buckle up. It's going to be a crazy drive.
The Warrior Class
5/10
Rookie lawyer Alec Brno has just been assigned the case of his career: exposing a billion-dollar oil scam led by a ruthless mafia boss. When he reluctantly falls for the gangster's beautiful but drug-addicted wife - also his key witness - Alec soon realizes that all the legal savvy in the world can't protect him from the dangerous reality of mob violence. In a system where criminals often walk free, sometimes courtroom warriors must take the battle for justice into their own hands. Written by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
The Big Heist
5.4/10
Based on the 1986 book "The Heist: How a Gang Stole $8,000,000 at Kennedy Airport and Lived to Regret It", by Ernest Volkman and John Cummings, this TV movie tells the story about the 1978 Lufthansa Heist at JFK Airport in New York - the largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil. The heist was also the subject of the much better-known 1990 film "Goodfella"s, directed by Martin Scorsese. It was also the subject of another made-for-television film: "The 10 Million Dollar Getaway" from 1991.
Mr. Inside/Mr. Outside
5.4/10
Two New York City cops investigate a drug-smuggling ring that they believe is run by New York-based foreign diplomats.
House of Satisfaction
Has-been rock star Jesse Limbo ventures from a life of dereliction to New York City in search of his long-lost teenage son. While there, he confronts his past in an effort to discover what - if anything - the future holds.
