1998 film by Alex Proyas

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.

1995 film directed by Emir Kusturica

The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.