The Sheriff In Town

Four young friends, while taking a shortcut en route to a local boxing match, witness a brutal murder which leaves them running for their lives.

Runtime

1h 50m

Director

Stephen Hopkins

Cast

Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr., Denis Leary

Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.

Runtime

1h 54m

Director

Martin Scorsese

Cast

Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd

A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his brother's gang.

Runtime

1h 53m

Director

Takeshi Kitano

Cast

Omar Epps, Claude Maki, Susumu Terajima

New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade returns to face trial, confident his money and influence will get him acquitted -- especially since he's paid a drug kingpin to kill the witness.

Runtime

1h 39m

Director

John Singleton

Cast

Samuel L. Jackson, Vanessa Williams, Jeffrey Wright

When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his former employer and his old drug dealer re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually finds hi...

Runtime

1h 59m

Director

Otto Preminger

Cast

Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak