"It's not where you start - It's where you start again."

1986

1h 46m

7.3(853 votes)

Crime

Drama

Comedy

Overview

A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.

Links & Resources

IMDbView

Social & External

IMDb

Production Companies

Videos & Trailers

3 videos

Cast & Crew

22 members

Acting

Tom Waits

Zack

Acting

John Lurie

Jack

Acting

Roberto Benigni

Roberto

Acting

Nicoletta Braschi

Nicoletta

Acting

Ellen Barkin

Laurette

Acting

Billie Neal

Bobbie

No Image

Acting

Rockets Redglare

Gig

Acting

Vernel Bagneris

Preston

Acting

Timothea

Julie

No Image

Acting

L.C. Drane

L.C.

No Image

Directing

Joy N. Houck Jr.

Detective Mandino

No Image

Acting

Carrie Lindsoe

Young Girl

No Image

Acting

Ralph Joseph

Detective

No Image

Acting

Richard Boes

Detective

Acting

Dave Petitjean

Cajun Detective

Acting

Adam Cohen

Uniformed Cop

No Image

Production

Alan Kleinberg

Corpse

No Image

Acting

Archie Sampier

Prisoner

No Image

Acting

David Dahlgren

Guard #1

Acting

Alex Miller

Guard #2

No Image

Acting

Eliott Keener

Guard #3

Acting

Jay Hilliard

Guard #4

No Image

Similar Movies

6.4

1940

Road to Singapore

Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore – until they meet a beautiful dancer.

Movie

7.0

1931

Monkey Business

Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.

Movie

6.9

1932

Horse Feathers

Quincy Adams Wagstaff, the new president of Huxley U, hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against rival Darwin U.

Movie

6.9

1930

Animal Crackers

The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse when a valuable painting goes missing. The intrepid Captain Spaulding attempts to solve the crime with the help of his silly secretary Horatio Jamison, while sparring with the anarchic Signor Emanuel Ravelli and his nutty sidekick The Professor.

Movie

5.7

1999

The Craic

When Fergus and Wesley get in the bad books of a local rough in their home town in Northern Ireland they decide to flee to Australia. After making a new life for themselves in Sydney they soon outstay their visas and must go on the run again, this time from the immigration officials.

Movie

7.0

1989

Knick Knack

Life on a shelf as a snowman trapped in a snow-globe blizzard can become wearing, especially when you're surrounded by knickknacks from sunnier locales. When the jaded snowman finally breaks free of his glass house, his vacation plans are cut short.

Movie

10.0

1921

An Unwilling Hero

As a man travels down to New Orleans for the winter, he finds out a robbery will be taken place on Christmas night in a plantation. he helps a girl by making it available for her to marry her boyfriend.

Movie

8.0

2016

The Eternal

A krautrock ghost story where a ghostly transmission implores the help of an occult-savvy pizza girl.

Movie

6.1

2002

Roger Dodger

A smooth-talking ad executive attributes his remarkable success with women to his ability to manipulate their emotions from the moment he first meets them. When his teenage nephew drops in for a visit, he soon learns that his approach isn't as foolproof as he thought when he attempts to teach the boy how to pick up women.

Movie

7.1

1965

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face another mission, which may prove to be his final one.

Movie

2024

Mime

Today is going to be a good day.... or so we hope. Watch as we follow a Mime go throughout their day creating a public disturbance with a smile that makes you nervous until their day goes from good to bad to even worse.

Movie

7.0

1941

The Wolf Man

After his brother's death, Larry Talbot returns home to his father and the family estate. Events soon take a turn for the worse when Larry is bitten by a werewolf.

Movie

7.0

1945

Christmas in Connecticut

While recovering in a hospital, war hero Jefferson Jones grows familiar with the "Diary of a Housewife" column written by Elizabeth Lane. Jeff's nurse arranges with Elizabeth's publisher, Alexander Yardley, for Jeff to spend the holiday at Elizabeth's bucolic Connecticut farm with her husband and child. But the column is a sham, so Elizabeth and her editor, Dudley Beecham, in fear of losing their jobs, hasten to set up the single, childless and entirely nondomestic Elizabeth on a country farm.

Movie

6.7

1996

Bottle Rocket

Upon his release from a mental hospital following a nervous breakdown, the directionless Anthony joins his friend Dignan, who seems far less sane than the former. Dignan has hatched a harebrained scheme for an as-yet-unspecified crime spree that somehow involves his former boss, the (supposedly) legendary Mr. Henry.

Movie

7.5

1938

Angels with Dirty Faces

Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.

Movie

6.5

1967

Dead Youth

The homoerotic poetry of Mutsuo Takahashi sets the stage for these associated images based on male desire.

Movie

1969

Blind Rain

A poetic story about the first love of boy Sanya to girl Lena.

Movie

5.5

2007

Borderland

Three college students, Phil, Ed, and Henry take a road trip into Mexico for a week of drinking and carefree fun only to have Phil find himself a captive of a group of satanic Mexican drug smugglers who kill tourists and whom are looking for a group of new ones to prepare for a sacrifice.

Movie

6.0

2006

The Dead Girl

The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated women begin to intersect.

Movie

7.6

1936

My Man Godfrey

Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock needs a "forgotten man" to win a scavenger hunt, and no one is more forgotten than Godfrey Park, who resides in a dump by the East River. Irene hires Godfrey as a servant for her riotously unhinged family, to the chagrin of her spoiled sister, Cornelia, who tries her best to get Godfrey fired. As Irene falls for her new butler, Godfrey turns the tables and teaches the frivolous Bullocks a lesson or two.

Movie

Recommended Movies

6.7

1971

The Grissom Gang

Violent crime caper set in 1930s Kansas in which a gang kidnap an heiress and attempt to recover a ransom. However, the scheme is jeopardised when the leader falls in love with their beautiful captive.

Movie

6.4

2020

Cut Throat City

Four boyhood friends return to New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina, to find their home decimated and prospects for work swept away. Turning to a local gangster for employment, the crew is hired to pull off a daring casino heist, right in the heart of the city.

Movie

6.4

1989

Johnny Handsome

A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.

Movie

6.0

1997

Money Talks

Sought by police and criminals, a small-time huckster makes a deal with a TV newsman for protection.

Movie

6.0

2015

Bad Asses on the Bayou

The third installment in the successful Bad Ass action-comedy franchise. Bad Asses on the Bayou reunites the dynamic duo, Frank Vega and Bernie Pope, as they travel to Louisiana to attend the wedding of their dear friend Carmen Gutierrez. What was pictured as a wedding weekend escape to the south turns violently ugly as madness and mayhem ensue, pressing our senior heroes to once again serve justice.

Movie

7.8

1993

Carlito's Way

Free after years in prison, Carlito Brigante intends to give up his criminal ways, but it's not long before the ex-con is sucked back into the New York City underworld.

Movie

5.8

2002

Analyze That

The mafia's Paul Vitti is back in prison and will need some serious counseling when he gets out. Naturally, he returns to his analyst Dr. Ben Sobel for help and finds that Sobel needs some serious help himself as he has inherited the family practice, as well as an excess stock of stress.

Movie

6.2

2023

The Channel

After their bank heist goes wrong, a desperate criminal, his out-of-control brother, and their motley crew of ex-marines must escape New Orleans, United States.

Movie

6.4

2009

The Disappearance of Alice Creed

A rich man's daughter is held captive in an abandoned apartment by two former convicts who abducted her and hold her ransom in exchange for her father's money.

Movie

6.3

2000

Animal Factory

Suburbanite Ron is spoiled, young and not overly worried about the marijuana charges leveled against him. But, after being made out to be a drug dealer, he faces a five-year jail sentence in San Quentin State Prison. Physically frail and unaccustomed to his rough surroundings, Ron is primed to fall victim to sexual predators and bullying guards – that is, until he's befriended by Earl, a veteran inmate who finds meaning in protecting the vulnerable new kid.

Movie

7.0

1983

Bad Boys

Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug dealer goes tragically wrong Mick is sentenced to a brutal juvenile prison where violence is a rite of passage and respect is measured in vengeance.

Movie

6.0

2012

Stand Up Guys

After serving 28 years in prison for accidentally killing the son of a crime boss, newly paroled gangster Val reunites with his former partners in crime, Doc and Hirsch, for a night on the town. As the three men revisit old haunts, reflect on their glory days and try to make up for lost time, one wrestles with a terrible quandary: Doc has orders to kill Val, and time is running out for him to figure out a way out of his dilemma.

Movie

6.3

1984

Crimes of Passion

Fashion designer Joanna Crane leads a double life. By night she is China Blue, a prostitute who's attracted the attention of a sexually frustrated private detective, and a psychopathic priest in possession of a murderous sex toy.

Movie

7.1

1966

The Chase

The escape of Bubber Reeves from prison affects the inhabitants of a small Southern town.

Movie

5.9

2005

The Ice Harvest

A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. But his partner, a strip club owner, might have different plans for the cash.

Movie

6.8

1971

Klute

A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.

Movie

6.5

1980

Stir Crazy

New Yorkers Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe have no jobs and no prospects, so they decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, landing jobs wearing woodpecker costumes to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a bank robbery, they no longer have to worry about employment — they're sent to prison.

Movie

6.7

2006

Alpha Dog

Johnny Truelove likes to see himself as tough. He's the son of an underworld figure and a drug dealer. Johnny also likes to get tough when things don't go his way. When Jake Mazursky fails to pay up for Johnny, things get worse for the Mazursky family, as Johnny and his 'gang' kidnap Jake's 15 year old brother and hold him hostage.

Movie

6.4

2010

Faster

After 10 years in prison, Driver is now a free man with a single focus - hunting down the people responsible for brutally murdering his brother.

Movie

6.9

2021

Nightmare Alley

An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.

Movie