Matt Dillon
1) On the road
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Story of two restless young men in the late 1940s who cross and recross America, encountering parties, girls, drugs, loneliness and their own dreams along the way.
2) Proxima
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sarah is a French astronaut training at the European Space Agency in Cologne. She is the only woman in the arduous program. She lives alone with Stella, her seven-year-old daughter. Sarah feels guilty that she cannot spend more time with her child. When Sarah is chosen to be part of the crew of a year-long space mission called Proxima, it creates chaos in the mother-daughter relationship.
3) Nimic
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A professional cellist has an encounter with a stranger on the subway which has unexpected and far-reaching ramifications on his life. Yorgos Lanthimos' new film was selected at TIFF, Locarno Film Festival and BFI London in 2019.
4) Factotum
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Henry Chinaski (Dillon) considers himself a writer, and on occasion writes. Mostly he quests for the booze and women that sidetrack and seduce (like that played by Oscar winner Marisa Tomei), rather than inspire. When he falls for Jan (Lili Taylor), the soulful connection fails to save either from their self-destructive ways, and the relationship totters between earnest connection and reflective loathing.
5) Native Son
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
After a botched robbery, three criminals (Matt Dillon, Gary Sinese and William Fichtner) make a desperate run for a dive bar and take five hostages. The place is quickly surrounded by Feds, and tensions are high. Someone is going to get hurt. Or maybe die. But then it's revealed that one of the hostages is a fugitive wanted by the Feds. Now, how far will any of them go to ensure their own freedom?
8) Sunlight Jr
Pub. Date
[2013?]
Language
English
Description
A convenience store clerk, Melissa, and her paraplegic boyfriend, Richie are barely making ends meet when they find out they are having a baby. Genuinely excited, they are overjoyed until Melissa loses her job, and the motel where they are living at evicts them. They must now face the difficult choices about their lives and relationship.
11) Crash
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
A car accident brings together a group of strangers in Los Angeles. Crash takes a provocative, unflinching look at the complexities of racial tolerance in contemporary America.
12) Bad country
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In 1983, a veteran Baton Rouge detective, Bud Carter, infiltrates the most powerful criminal enterprise in the South. After taking down its top lieutenant and contract killer, Jesse Weiland, the detective convinces him to become an informant. Jesse sets out to help bring down the entire organization, including its architect, Lutin.
13) The Flamingo kid
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
When the son of a plumber from Brooklyn is invited to a fancy beach club one summer day, he is lured from his working class world.
14) Beautiful Girls
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
This captivating comedy is about a group of old friends whose ten-year high school reunion creates some hilariously unexpected surprises.
15) Capone
Language
English
Formats
Description
Al "Fonzo" Capone is a ruthless businessman and bootlegger who once ruled Chicago with an iron fist. In an effort to retain his fortune, he hides away millions of dollars in a place that only he knows and everyone else is dying to uncover. In this harrowing and true untold story of his life, Capone will stop at nothing to protect himself, his family and his money.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
For newlyweds Carl and Molly Peterson, life is sweet. With a nice house and established careers, nothing seems to get in the newlyweds way. However, Carl's best friend, Dupree, has just been displaced from his home and fired from his job because of attending their wedding. Taking his friend in for what should just be a few days, turns into a lot more than they bargained for. Especially when Dupree overstays his welcome and in causes one hilarious...
18) To die for
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
In a small town in New Hampshire, a media sensation erupts over a murder case against Suzanne Stone, in which she is accused of persuading teenagers to kill her husband, Larry Maretto. Obsessed with becoming a TV personality, she viewed her husband's desire for children as an impediment to her career.
19) The outsiders
Language
English
Description
Based on S.E. Hinton's book about teenage gangs in 1966 Tulsa, OK. The "Soc's" [Socials] and the "Greasers," and the struggle of growing up as an outsider.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Maggie Peyton wants to join her family's dynasty of race car drivers, but her father worries that she'll get hurt. As a college graduation gift, he buys Maggie a junked-out Volkswagen Beetle, which turns out to be Herbie, a car with a mind of its own. Soon Maggie and Herbie are racing against an arrogant racing champion and duking it out with monster trucks.
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