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I’m Losing You (1998) Bruce Wagner, Frank Langella, Daniel von Bargen, Rosanna Arquette
Nearing his 60th birthday, a movie producer discovers that he may have less than a year Read More »
Nobodys Fool (1986) Evelyn Purcell, Rosanna Arquette, Eric Roberts, Mare Winningham
Cassie has a miserable job in a bar, is lonely and depressed. Read More »
Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) Susan Seidelman, Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Aidan Quinn
Bored Roberta spots a regular personal ad in the paper titled ‘Desperately Seeking Susan’. Read More »
Baby It’s You (1983) John Sayles, Rosanna Arquette, Vincent Spano, Joanna Merlin
In 1966 New Jersey, Jill Rosen, a frustrated high schooler, is intrigued by an enigmatic Read More »
Amazon Women on the Moon (1987) Joe Dante, Carl Gottlieb, Rosanna Arquette, Michelle Pfeiffer, Arsenio Hall
A series of short sketches, most of which parody late-night television and the low-budget movies one often finds there. Read More »
Floating Away (1998) John Badham, Paul Hogan, Judge Reinhold, Rosanna Arquette
After losing custody of her infant child to her domineering husband Read More »
The Linguini Incident (1991) Richard Shepard, Rosanna Arquette, David Bowie, Eszter Balint, Comedy, Crime
Lucy (Arquette) is a frustrated magician, specifically an escape artist, who is obsessed with becoming a modern female version of Harry Houdini. She collects Houdini artifacts and waits for her big break while working as a waitress at a trendy Manhattan restaurant. With British bartender, Monte (Bowie), and her roommate Vivian, she arranges a heist of the restaurant. Read More »
After Hours (1985) Martin Scorsese, Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom, Comedy, Crime, Drama
A meek word processor impulsively travels to Manhattan’s Soho District to date an attractive but apparently disturbed young woman and finds himself trapped there in a nightmarishly surreal vortex of improbable coincidences and farcical circumstances.
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After Hours (1985) Martin Scorsese, Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom, Comedy, Crime, Drama
A meek word processor impulsively travels to Manhattan’s Soho District to date an attractive but apparently disturbed young woman and finds himself trapped there in a nightmarishly surreal vortex of improbable coincidences and farcical circumstances.
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Le grand bleu / The Big Blue (1988) Luc Besson, Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno, Rosanna Arquette, Adventure, Romance, Sport
Enzo and Jacques have known each other for a long time. Their friendship started in their childhood days in the Mediterranean. They were not real friends in these days, but there was something they both loved and used to do the whole day long: diving. One day Jacques’ father, who was a diver too, died in the Mediterranean sea. After that incident Enzo and Jacques lost contact. After several years, Enzo and Jacques had grown up, Johanna, a young clerk in an insurance office, has to go to Peru. There she meets Jacques who is being studied by a group of scientists. He dives for some minutes into ice-cold water and the scientists monitor his physical state that is more like a dolphin than human. Johanna can not believe what she sees and gets very interested in Jacques but she’s unable to get acquainted with him. Some weeks later back in her office, she finds out that Jacques will be competing in a diving championship that takes place in Taormina, Sicily. In order to see Jacques again she …
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8 Million Ways to Die (1986) Hal Ashby, Jeff Bridges, Rosanna Arquette, Alexandra Paul, Action, Adventure, Crime
Scudder is a detective with the Sheriff’s Department who is forced to shoot a violent suspect during a narcotics raid. The ensuing psychological aftermath of this shooting worsens his drinking problem and this alcoholism causes him to lose his job, as well as his marriage. During his recovery through Alcoholics Anonymous, he meets a mysterious stranger who draws him back into a world of vice. In trying to help this beautiful woman, he must enter a crime-world of prostitution and drugs to solve a murder, while resisting the temptation to return to his alcohol abuse.
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