Mac

1992

English

6.2

♡ 1

67%

62%

Action

Drama

John Turturro Director

John Amos as Nat

John Turturro as Niccolo

Ellen Barkin as Oona Goldfarb

Aida Turturro as Wife

Niccolo "Mac" Vitelli is the eldest of three brothers in 1950s Queens. Mac is a construction builder, a trade he learned from his late father, and helps put his brothers on the job. When they can no longer take working for Polowski, who does shoddy work and is abusive to his staff, Mac and his brothers set up their own company. Together, Vitelli Brothers Construction builds houses with pride and care. But Mac turns out to be an overbearing workaholic, with obsessive concern about the quality of their work and incredible attention to detail. His intensity and driven ambition precludes a happy family life and begins to drive his brothers away.

Shit Year

2010

English

5.4

♡ 1

33%

55%

Action

Drama

Cam Archer Director

Ellen Barkin as Colleen West

David Zellner as Hal Ashland

Fairuza Balk as Message Voice

Melora Walters as Shelly

Renowned actress Colleen West abandons her successful career for a secluded life in the hills. But the peace and quiet she longed for is disrupted by the noisy construction of neighboring housing developments. Before long, Colleen discovers that she can’t stand herself now that she has given up the only thing she has ever truly been passionate about. As an alternative to isolation, she reluctantly befriends her jubilant, whimsical neighbor and reconnects with her estranged brother. Haunted by loneliness and past desires, Colleen begins to feel as if her life was lived through the characters she has played on stage and screen.

Eddie and the Cruisers

1983

English

7.0

♡ 13

38%

Martin Davidson Director

Joe Pantoliano as Doc Robbins

Tom Berenger as Frank Ridgeway

Louis D'Esposito as Guitar Player at El Marko

Ellen Barkin as Maggie Foley

A television newswoman picks up the story of a 1960s rock band whose long-lost leader — Eddie Wilson — may still be alive, while searching for the missing tapes of the band's never-released album.

Tender Mercies

1983

English

7.3

♡ 18

82%

Bruce Beresford Director

Jerry Jones as Country Man

Wilford Brimley as Harry

Robert Duvall as Mac Sledge

Ellen Barkin as Sue Anne

Alchoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume his career.

Crime + Punishment in Suburbia

2000

English

5.8

♡ 9

Rob Schmidt Director

Brad Greenquist as Calvin Berry

Nicki Aycox as Cecil

Jeffrey Wright as Chris

Ellen Barkin as Maggie Skolnick

At school, Roseanne is the object of fellow student Vincent's infatuation. By night, she deals with a troubled family life: her mother, Maggie, cheats on her drunken husband, Fred. When Maggie's adultery is revealed, Fred viciously takes his anger out on stepdaughter Roseanne. With the help of her boyfriend, Jimmy, Maggie plots her revenge, but Vincent might be the one to help her forge a new life in this contemporary fable loosely based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment".

Bad Company

1995

English

5.4

♡ 16

Action

blackmail

central intelligence agency (cia)

Damian Harris Director

Nicholas Lea as Jake

Ellen Barkin as Margaret Wells

Laurence Fishburne as Nelson Crowe

Michael Beach as Tod Stapp

CIA operative Nelson Crowe is tasked with a deadly assignment: infiltrate a highly secret industrial espionage firm. Once inside, he teams with Margaret Wells, a master spy and seductive manipulator, in a plot to overthrow the organization's sinister president, which leads them into a darkly mysterious web of intrigue -- and shocking murder!

The Big Easy

1986

English

6.5

♡ 24

89%

new orleans, louisiana

police

Romance

Thriller

Jim McBride Director

Ellen Barkin as Anne Osborne

John Goodman as Det. Andre DeSoto

Lisa Jane Persky as McCabe

Dennis Quaid as Remy McSwain

Remy McSwain is a New Orleans police lieutenant who investigates the murder of a local mobster. His investigation leads him to suspect that fellow members of the police force may be involved.

Palindromes

2004

English

6.7

♡ 4

43%

Todd Solondz Director

Ellen Barkin as Joyce Victor

Debra Monk as Mama Sunshine

Jennifer Jason Leigh as 'Mark' Aviva

John Gemberling as Second Judah

Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve, a regular guy who does have a fierce temper from time to time. The film revolves around her family, friends and neighbors.