The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (2009)

Actors: Lance E. Nichols (actor), Chaz Smith (actor), Elton LeBlanc (actor), Val Kilmer (actor), Jay Oliver (actor), Michael Shannon (actor), Gary Grubbs (actor), Douglas M. Griffin (actor), Tom Bower (actor), J.D. Evermore (actor), Brad Dourif (actor), Nicolas Cage (actor), Vondie Curtis-Hall (actor), Marco St. John (actor), Logan Douglas Smith (actor),

Plot: After Katrina, police sergeant Terence McDonagh rescues a prisoner, hurts his back in the process and earns a promotion to lieutenant plus an addiction to cocaine and painkillers. Six months later, a family is murdered over drugs; Terence runs the investigation. His drug-using prostitute girlfriend, his alcoholic father's dog, run-ins with two old women and a well-connected john, gambling losses, a nervous young witness, and thefts of police property put Terence's job and then his life in danger. He starts seeing things. He wants a big score to get out from under mounting debts, so he joins forces with drug dealers. The murders remain unsolved. A bad lieutenant gets worse.

Keywords: abuse-of-power, alcoholic, alcoholic-father, alligator, ambulance, american-football, anti-hero, aquarium, arrest, assistant-district-attorney
Genres: Crime, Drama,
Taglines: The only criminal he can't catch is himself.

Quotes:

Terence McDonagh: Shoot them again!::Deshaun 'Midget' Hackett: What for?::Terence McDonagh: Their soul's still dancing!::[laughs hysterically]

Terence McDonagh: You think fish have dreams?

Terence McDonagh: [Hallucinating] What are these fuckin' iguanas doing on my coffee table.::Stevie Pruit: There ain't no iguana.::Terence McDonagh: ...Yeah, there are.::Stevie Pruit: There ain't no iguana.::Terence McDonagh: What the fuck is that? [taps it] Fuckin' iguana.

Terence McDonagh: Is this the same police force my father was in?

Terence McDonagh: [to a man stuck in a cell as the water rises above his neck] You want me to get wet? On account of you?

Terence McDonagh: You don't have a lucky crack pipe?

Terence McDonagh: I'll kill all of you. To the break of dawn. To the break of dawn, baby.

Terence McDonagh: [a dog is barking in the distance as Terrence approaches the house] Hey! What's wrong?::Genevieve: Your father's mad at me 'cause I can't take care of his fucking dog...::Terence McDonagh: Well why does he need you to take care of it?::Genevieve: Cause! He's goin' back into AA. He says he can deal with anymore responsibilities bsides he said he's gotta stop drinking. I mean, it ain't like I don't wanna take care of it... but I leave at seven o'clock in the morning to go to work!::Terence McDonagh: Let me talk to him.::Genevieve: I try to be a good wife to him, Terrence. I really do. But I got a limit too! You know, he's got a drinking problem, he says he's got a drinking problem and he wants to do something about it and that's good. You know, he's been down this road before and it didn't take... he wants to try it again. GOOD. But I... I say to him "why don't you just stick to beer the way I do" but he says he can't do that.

Terence McDonagh: You know we got your boy, G, right?::Deshaun 'Midget' Hackett: Man, I don't know no G.::Terence McDonagh: He knows you. It's amazing how much you can get done when you've got a simple purpose guiding you through life. My purpose is to find out who shot up this apartment on Josephine. I know the guy that was living there was from Senegal. I know he was selling heroin. I know whose territory he was stepping on. And I know who went over to the apartment to straighten him out. I found out all that in the past few days. Where's Big Fate, son?::Deshaun 'Midget' Hackett: I don't know no Big Fate.::Terence McDonagh: Now, see, I know that's not true, because everybody who comes from where you come from knows who Big Fate is. The fact that you're lying to me about it tells me you're hiding something. Since you know my only reason for being here is to find out who shot up the apartment, I know that's what you're hiding. See? It all comes back to that same simple purpose.

Frankie Donnenfeld: Just get me my money.::Justin: I usually pay when I'm done.::Terence McDonagh: Done smacking her around?::Justin: It's erotic shit, man. I didn't hurt her.::Terence McDonagh: [Throws him against the wall] Just like I'm not hurting you.::Justin: Did I hurt-did I hurt you?::Frankie Donnenfeld: Terence, let's just go.::Terence McDonagh: We don't hit women down south.::Justin: You just made a big mistake, Terry. My father's Andy Winnick. You ever hear of him?::Terence McDonagh: Who?::Justin: One of the biggest developers in the Gulf Coast.::Terence McDonagh: Congratulations.::Justin: Tommy Leonardi's one of his best friends.::Terence McDonagh: Hey, listen to me, scumbag. Don't try to impress me with your father knows some guinea hood. What you've got to take away from this experience is if you ever see that girl again, you turn around and you walk in the opposite direction. You got that?::Justin: Oh, yeah, man. Yeah.::Terence McDonagh: I ever hear about you so much as looking at that girl, you're gonna wish you were born without a dick.

Paramedics (1988)

Actors: Michael Donner (miscellaneous crew), Sally Kellerman (actress), Stuart Margolin (director), Kim Davis (miscellaneous crew), Ray Walston (actor), Leslie Greif (producer), John P. Ryan (actor), George Newbern (actor), John Achorn (miscellaneous crew), Robert DoQui (actor), Christopher McDonald (actor), Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs (actor), Eric Laneuville (actor), John Pleshette (actor), Hope Williams (miscellaneous crew),

Genres: Comedy,
Taglines: They give you second thoughts about first aid. Call them smooth, call them slick, just don't call them when you're sick!

Quotes:

Marshall: NOW, WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU, MAN?::Daryl Cage: [grabs him by the neck] Hey, listen, I got ten keys of smack! It doesn't matter who the fuck I am! Who the fuck are you?

Savannah: Farley! You're drooling all over my Reeboks!

Going Ape! (1981)

Actors: Danny DeVito (actor), John Daheim (actor), Gene LeBell (actor), Leon Askin (actor), John Daly (producer), Elmer Bernstein (composer), Tony Danza (actor), Jessica Walter (actress), Art Metrano (actor), Ted White (actor), Ruth Gillette (actress), Joseph Maher (actor), Frank Sivero (actor), John W. Wheeler (editor), Robert L. Rosen (producer),

Plot: When his father - who owned a circus - dies, Oscar inherits 5 million dollars - and 3 orang outangs. However there's a condition connected to the money: if he gives away the apes or just one gets sick or dies during the next 3 years, the zoologic society will get all the money. So he not only has to deal with 3 apes and an annoyed girlfriend, but also with a greedy zoologic society's president.

Keywords: monkey-actor, orangutan, pie-in-the-face, simian-fiction
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Family, Romance,
Taglines: There were 3 conditions to the 5 million dollar inheritance, and they had to be bathed once a week.

Hello, Dolly! (1969)

Actors: Michael Crawford (actor), Fritz Feld (actor), Morgan Farley (actor), Louis Armstrong (actor), William Fawcett (actor), Sam Edwards (actor), Scatman Crothers (actor), George Barrows (actor), William 'Billy' Benedict (actor), Billy Bletcher (actor), Billy Curtis (actor), Morgan Farley (actor), Lester Dorr (actor), Shep Houghton (actor), Shep Houghton (actor),

Plot: A matchmaker named Dolly Levi takes a trip to Yonkers, New York to see the "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire," Horace Vandergelder. While there, she convinces him, his two stock clerks and his niece and her beau to go to New York City. In New York, she fixes Vandergelder's clerks up with the woman Vandergelder had been courting, and her shop assistant (Dolly has designs of her own on Mr. Vandergelder, you see).

Keywords: 1890s, 19th-century, 70mm-film, based-on-play, based-on-stage-musical, based-on-stage-musical-based-on-stage-play, belle-epoque, blockbuster, borzoi, brawl
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Romance,

Quotes:

Horace: Advice is cheap, Ms. Molloy. It's the things that come gift wrapped that count!

Horace: It takes a woman all powdered and pink to joyously clean out the drain in the sink!

Dolly Levi: Here, let me cut your wings!::Horace: I don't want my wings cut!::Dolly Levi: No man does, Horace, no man does.

Dolly Levi: Money, pardon the expression, is like manure. It's not worth a thing unless it's spread around, encouraging young things to grow.

Barnaby Tucker: Holy cabooses!

Cornelius Hackl: We're gonna close the store.::Barnaby Tucker: Close the store?::Cornelius Hackl: We have to, 'cause some rotten cans of chicken mash are going to explode.::Barnaby Tucker: Holy cabooses, how do you know?::Cornelius Hackl: Because I'm gonna light some candles under them.

Dolly Levi: [singing] It takes a woman to quietly plan to take him and change him to her kind of man and to gently lead him where fortune can find him and not let him know that the power behind him was that dainty woman, that fragile woman, that sweetheart, that mistress, that wife.

Joe, Vandergelder's barber: You'll have to sit still, Mr Vandergelder. If I cut your throat it'll be practically unintentional.

Horace: I'm going to march in the 14th street parade with the only kind of people I can trust: 700 men.

Horace: Eighty percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in danger of contamination.

Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)

Actors: Mauritz Hugo (actor), Ramsay Hill (actor), William Gould (actor), Sven Hugo Borg (actor), William Hall (actor), Jack Gargan (actor), Jack George (actor), Roy Gordon (actor), Gordon B. Clarke (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Douglas Carter (actor), John Elliott (actor), Paul E. Burns (actor), Howard Freeman (actor), Louis Jourdan (actor),

Plot: In Vienna, about 1900, a dashing man arrives at his flat, instructing his manservant that he will leave before morning: the man is Stefan Brand, formerly a concert pianist, planning to leave Vienna to avoid a duel. His servant gives him a letter from an unknown woman, which he reads. In flashbacks we see the lifelong passion of Lisa Berndle for him: first as a girl who was his neighbor; next as a young woman who, in secret, has his child; then as a mature woman who meets him again and abandons husband and son to be with him. Each time he does not remember who she is or that they have ever met. By morning, he has finished the letter, and her husband awaits satisfaction.

Keywords: 1900s, 1910s, amusement-park, amusement-park-ride, apartment, austria-hungary, autograph, band, barefoot, based-on-novel
Genres: Drama, Romance,

Quotes:

Stefan Brand: Honor is a luxury only gentlemen can afford.

Stefan Brand: Promise me something.::Lisa Berndl: Anything.::Stefan Brand: And I don't even know where you live. Promise me you won't vanish.::Lisa Berndl: I won't be the one who vanishes.

1st Man on Balcony: [Speaking of Stefan] He returned last week.::2nd Man on Balcony: A concert tour?::Woman on Balcony: Pleasure trip most likely.::1st Man on Balcony: The way he's burning himself up, it's a wonder he's still alive.::2nd Man on Balcony: Ten years ago, he showed great promise. Too bad. With that talent, he could have been a great pianist.::1st Man on Balcony: Perhaps talent is not enough.::Woman on Balcony: Perhaps he has too many talents.

Lisa Berndl: The course of our lives can be changed by such little things. So many passing by, each intent on his own problems. So many faces that one might easily have been lost. I know now that nothing happens by chance. Every moment is measured; every step is counted.

Lisa Berndl: Oh, if only you could've recognized what was always yours, could've found what was never lost. If only...

Stefan Brand: [When leaving for Milan] Say Stefan, the way that you said it last night.::Lisa Berndl: ...Stefan::Stefan Brand: It's as though you've said it all your life.

Stefan Brand: Have you ever shuffled faces like cards, hoping to find one that lies somewhere, just over the edge of your memory? The one you've been waiting for? Well tonight when I first saw you, and then later when I watched you in the dark, it was as though i'd found that one face among all the others. Who are you?

Lisa Berndl: Now I'm alone. My head throbs and my temples are burning. Perhaps God has been kind, and I too have caught the fever. If this letter reaches you, believe this - that I love you now as I've always loved you. My life can be measured by the moments I've had with you and our child. If only you could have shared those moments, if only you could have recognized what was always yours, could have found what was never lost. If only...

Lisa Berndl: Suddenly in that one moment, everything was in danger, everything I thought was safe. Somewhere out there were your eyes... and I knew I couldn't escape them. It was like the first time I saw you. The years between were melting away.

Maisie Was a Lady (1941)

Actors: Milton Kibbee (actor), Jerry Maren (actor), Howard C. Hickman (actor), George Guhl (actor), Paul Cavanagh (actor), Charles Coleman (actor), Hans Conried (actor), Lew Ayres (actor), Billy Curtis (actor), Charles D. Brown (actor), Edgar Dearing (actor), Joe Devlin (actor), Bruce Edwards (actor), Jack Gardner (actor), Henry O'Neill (actor),

Plot: Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family's new maid. Maisie soon finds herself trying to mend the family's many problems.

Keywords: alcoholic, brother-sister-relationship, burlesque, butler, cad, carnival, character-name-in-title, class-distinction, clothes, doctor
Genres: Comedy, Drama,
Taglines: "Blonde Bonfire" Maisie is in Society Now!

Quotes:

Maisie Ravier, an alias of Mary Anastasia O'Connor: To each to their own tastes, said the woman as she kissed the cow.

Al Walpole, the Main Butler: [about Mr. Robert's drinking] He's just going through a phase right now, that's all::Maisie Ravier, an alias of Mary Anastasia O'Connor: yeah a phase, on the barroom floor

Link Phillips: [after its exposed he's only getting married for the money] Well what are you looking at?::Maisie Ravier, an alias of Mary Anastasia O'Connor: Nothing. I'm nearsighted... I can't see that far down

Maisie Ravier, an alias of Mary Anastasia O'Connor: [after having lost her job due to Bob's drunken antics] Maybe life's a jolly 4th of July picnic for you, brother, but it certainly isn't for me. You cancelled out my meal ticket, its the middle of the night, there's no trains or buses until morning, and I got exactly 2 dimes and 45 miles between me and New York. Well what are you going to do about it?::Robert 'Bob': I'll take you::Maisie Ravier, an alias of Mary Anastasia O'Connor: How? Piggy back?::Robert 'Bob': No, no, no, no... in my car. Sure, we'll have a little drink here with Curly and then we'll shove off, what do you say?::Maisie Ravier, an alias of Mary Anastasia O'Connor: In a word "No"... I don't need to see the newspaper picture of the accident to know how I'd look sprinkled all over the highway.

Motorcycle Policeman: [riding next to Maisie who is driving a convertible] Pull Over.::Maisie Ravier, an alias of Mary Anastasia O'Connor: Look Officer, I'm in kind of a hurry... so if you're lonesome and want to talk can't we just ride along like this?

The Plot Thickens (1936)

Actors: Mary Gordon (actress), Paul Fix (actor), Richard Tucker (actor), James Donlan (actor), Oscar Apfel (actor), Frank Fanning (actor), Arthur Aylesworth (actor), James Gleason (actor), Reed Howes (actor), John Indrisano (actor), Lew Kelly (actor), Billy Dooley (actor), Tom Quinn (actor), George Sorel (actor), Zasu Pitts (actress),

Plot: John Carter just had one of those days. First he had an argument with a mysterious Frenchman. Then Alice wants him to pick her up at the park after she has a fight with Robert over him. So Carter takes the roadster just as Marie and Joe were getting ready to leave. But Kendall, the butler, follows the roadster as he thinks it is Joe and his girl Marie. So when Carter picks up Alice and goes out in the country to park - he is shot dead. But the next day, he is found dead in the library at home. The investigation may be run by Inspector Piper, but most of the snooping is done by Hildegarde. The Sultan's Emerald, and a picture of the Cellini Cup, may be the clue leading to Carter's killer.

Keywords: amateur-detective, butler, chauffeur, detective, dwarf, emerald, guard, hildegarde-withers, jewel-theft, jeweller
Genres: Mystery,

The Doorway to Hell (1930)

Actors: Gus Leonard (actor), Charles Judels (actor), John Kelly (actor), Ward Bond (actor), James Cagney (actor), Lew Ayres (actor), Eddie Kane (actor), Nick Copeland (actor), Robert Elliott (actor), Dwight Frye (actor), Joe Bordeaux (actor), Eddie Hart (actor), Al Hill (actor), Thomas E. Jackson (actor), Noel Madison (actor),

Plot: Lou Ricarno is a smart guy. His plan is to organize the various gangs in Chicago so that the mugs will not liquidate each other. WIth the success of his leadership, Louie prospers, marries Doris and retires to Florida to write his autobiography and play golf. In his absence the gang warfare flares, but he does not return as he wants to give a respectable image of life to his wife, younger brother and his Florida neighbors. While letters and telegrams from Mileaway will not influence his decision, events will.

Keywords: attempted-kidnapping, automobile-accident, beer, brewery, brother, burning-car, confession, dancing, detective, dinner
Genres: Crime, Drama,

Quotes:

Title Card: [closing title] The "Doorway to Hell" is a one-way door. There is no retribution - no plea for further clemency. The little boy walked through it with his head up and a smile on his lips. They gave him a funeral - a swell funeral that stopped traffic - and then they forgot him before the roses had a chance to wilt.

The Girl from Montmartre (1926)

Actors: Alexander Hall (editor), E.H. Calvert (actor), Arthur Stone (actor), Lewis Stone (actor), Leo White (actor), Mathilde Comont (actress), Rose Dione (actress), George Marion Jr. (writer), Eve Unsell (writer), Alfred E. Green (director), André Cheron (actor), Robert Ellis (actor), Robert Milasch (actor), Edward Peil Sr. (actor), Julian Rivero (actor),

Genres: Drama, Romance,

Upstage (1926)

Actors: Frank Sullivan (editor), Emile Chautard (actor), Tenen Holtz (actor), Rolfe Sedan (actor), Gwen Lee (actress), Dorothy Phillips (actress), Norma Shearer (actress), Walter DeLeon (writer), Joseph Farnham (writer), Monta Bell (director), J. Frank Glendon (actor), Ward Crane (actor), Charles Meakin (actor), André-ani (costume designer), Kathleen Kay (costume designer),

Plot: Dolly Havens, a small-town girl with big-town ambitions that are larger than her talents, hooks up with Johnny Storm, a vaudeville performer, whose talents make the act a success. Dolly, thinking she is the reason, meets a handsome leading man and joins up with him but, before long, he discovers 'she ain't a trouper' and she is soon performing with 4th-class acts in Tank Town America.

Keywords: 1920s, actress, ambitious-woman, cigarette-smoking, daughter, death-of-child, death-of-daughter, fashion, father, knife-thrower
Genres: Drama, Romance,
Taglines: The picture that goes 'back-stage' - and reveals the thrilling drama that stalks there! (original poster) It will make you laugh through your tears! (original poster)