David Shire Movies

Two hoplessly out of their class con-men attempt to pull off the largest bank heist of the l9th century—by gaining the enmity of the most...

An English teacher and struggling single mother has her life disrupted when the father who abandoned her as a child comes back into her life.

As America recovers from the Civil War, one man tries to put the pieces of his life back together but finds himself fighting a new battle on the...

In early 1980s Manhattan, a pair of Irish-American brothers become embroiled in a conflict with the Irish Mob.

Two bumbling hustlers in the 1920s attempt to gain the fortune of an heiress. Nothing will stop them, not even murder.

Quincy Drew and Jason O’Rourke, a pair of friends and con men—the former white, the latter a Northern-born free Black man— travel...

A mother and daughter spend a night together after the daughter reveals that she will kill herself by the end of it.

An AIDS-stricken woman becomes a leader in the struggle to educate people about the disease and its prevention.

Inspired by the explosive sex-for-sale scandal that rocked Manhattan in 1984, the infamous Sydney Biddle Barrows, a driven young socialite, opens an...

A boozy Broadway actress comes out of a 12-week cure to face the problems of her best friends as well as her needy daughter. She tries to balance the...

This film concerns a writer of mystery stories who bases his villain on a criminal, played by Malcolm McDowell, who is incarcerated in prison....

Stewart and Neil Woodman plot to have their parents murdered.

Mara McAndrew's marriage is falling apart. Her husband, Donnie, a Vietnam veteran, suffers troubling flashbacks about the war, leaving him...

Following a mysterious suicide at Niagara Falls, a low-rent detective unravels a conspiracy to build a revolutionary invention by enigmatic...

A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.

Hector is a star basketball player for the College basketball team he plays for, the Leopards. His girlfriend, Olive, doesn't know whether to stay...

The story of a mother driven to reach the heights of superstardom at the cost of abandoning her only child.

Paris Trout is a vile Southern bigot. He owns a store and is a loanshark. He often sues people, and so his lawyer, Harry Seagraves, eventually meets...

Buddy Evans manages events at Madison Square Garden in New York City. He is a confirmed bachelor who lives with his housekeeper Celia. After coming...

Kansas, 1910. Widowed farmer Jacob Witting finds that taking care of both his farm and two children, Anna and Caleb, is too difficult to handle...