Connection
Alamo Bay is a american film of genre Drama directed by Louis Malle released in USA on 3 april 1985 with Amy Madigan
Alamo Bay (1985)
If you like this film, let us know!
- Infos
- Casting
- Technical infos
- Photos
- Videos
- Film quotes
- Characters
- Music
- Awards
Add to a movie listAlamo Bay is a 1985 drama film about a Vietnam veteran who clashes with Vietnamese immigrants who move to his fictitious Texas bay hometown. The film was directed by Louis Malle, and stars Amy Madigan and Ed Harris. Future Texas A&M and Dallas Cowboys linebacker Dat Nguyen, who was 9 at the time has a small role as a Little League ballplayer.
In his review, Vincent Canby of The New York Times said "Like many other movies that have their origins in a general idea, which characters and their story, Alamo Bay is almost shamefully clumsy and superficial - it's manufactured 'art.' Watching it is an unhappy experience that never becomes illuminating."
The title soundtrack "Theme from Alamo Bay" by artist Ry Cooder is one of his better efforts and can be found on Music by Ry Cooder, a compilation album of Cooder's soundtracks from movies released between 1980 and 1993.
Synopsis
Un vétéran du Viêt Nam dépressif prend part à l'arrivée de réfugiés vietnamiens dans le port d'Alamo Bay et des tensions qui en découlent...Actors
Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to Alamo Bay
There are 175 films with the same actors, 27 films with the same director, 61674 with the same cinematographic genres, 16376 films with the same themes (including 9 films with the same 5 themes than Alamo Bay), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked Alamo Bay, you will probably like those similar films :
May Fools (1990)
, 1h47Directed by Louis Malle
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about families, Politique, Political films, Histoire de France
Actors Miou-Miou, Michel Piccoli, Michel Duchaussoy, Dominique Blanc, Paulette Dubost, Harriet Walter
Rating71%
Milou's mother dies just as the unrest and strikes are sweeping the country. The events interfere with the plans for a funeral and disrupt the family and a stranded truck driver. The film combines elements of social and interpersonal commentary with farce.
Spirits of the Dead (1968)
, 2h1Directed by Roger Vadim, Louis Malle, Federico Fellini
Origin France
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about religion, Films about suicide, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Films about horses, Demons in film, Ghost films, Road movies, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Jane Fonda, Terence Stamp, Brigitte Bardot, Peter Fonda, Alain Delon, Serge Marquand
Rating63%
Les étranges rapports d'amour que la comtesse Frederica, débauchée notoire, mais cavalière émérite, entretient avec un superbe étalon noir en qui elle voit la réincarnation de son vertueux cousin Wilhelm qui l'a dédaignée et dont elle se culpabilise de la disparition dans l'incendie de son écurie qu'elle a commandité par vengeance…
Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
, 1h31Directed by Louis Malle
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Transport films
Actors Jeanne Moreau, Maurice Ronet, Georges Poujouly, Iván Petrovich, Lino Ventura, Charles Denner
Rating78%
Florence Carala (Moreau) and Julien Tavernier (Ronet) are illicit lovers who plan to kill Florence's husband, Simon Carala (Wall), a wealthy industrialist who is also Julien's boss. Julien, an ex-Foreign Legion parachutist officer veteran of Indochina and Algeria, climbs up the office block on a rope, shoots Carala in his office without being seen, and arranges the room to make it look like a suicide.
Au Revoir les Enfants (1987)
, 1h43Directed by Louis Malle
Origin France
Genres Drama, War
Themes French war films, Films about children, Films about religion, Scoutisme, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France, La condition juive en France sous l'Occupation allemande
Actors Raphaël Fejtö, Gaspard Manesse, Philippe Morier-Genoud, François Berléand, Francine Racette, Stanislas Carré de Malberg
Rating79%
During the winter of 1943-44, Julien Quentin, a student at a Carmelite boarding school in occupied France, is returning to school from vacation. He acts tough to the students at the school, but he is actually a pampered mother's boy who still wets his bed. Saddened to be returning to the tedium of boarding school, Julien's classes seem uneventful until Père Jean, the headmaster, introduces three new pupils. One of them, Jean Bonnet, is the same age as Julien. Like the other students, Julien at first despises Bonnet, a socially awkward boy with a talent for arithmetic and playing the piano.
Lacombe, Lucien (1974)
, 2h12Directed by Louis Malle
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Romance
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France, La condition juive en France sous l'Occupation allemande
Actors Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clément, Therese Giehse, Holger Löwenadler, Stéphane Bouy, René Bouloc
Rating75%
In 1944 Lucien Lacombe, a 17-year-old peasant living in the Lot region of south-western France, is rejected by the French Resistance. Pro-German collaborators obtain information from him about a resistance leader and recruit him into the "Milice Francaise", a fascist group that hunts down Resistance fighters.
The Silent World (1956)
, 1h26Directed by Louis Malle, Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Origin France
Genres Documentary, Adventure
Themes Environmental films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Documentary films about environmental issues, Documentary films about nature
Actors Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Rating68%
Voilà enfin le film de Cousteau et Malle, oscarisé et palme d'Or en 1956 à Cannes, édité en DVD et Blu-ray au niveau de qualité qu'il mérite, qui plus est pour la première fois avec des suppléments !! Tout d'abord le travail de restauration qui a été accompli sur le film est absolument bluffant. Et les suppléments sont inédits, donc intéressants aussi pour ceux qui connaissent le film par coeur.Un documentaire de 50 minutes en HD sur la production du film intitulé « du Silence et des hommes : les pionniers du Monde du Silence ». Le documentaire s'intéresse à la première rencontre entre Louis Malle, alors élève à l'IDHEC et le Commandant Cousteau, le défi technique et humain du film, la Palme d'or à Cannes, la polémique autour du film, qui apparut quelques années plus tard, et les différends au montage entre Malle et Cousteau sur la tonalité globale du film etc.
Viva Maria! (1965)
, 2hDirected by Louis Malle, Volker Schlöndorff, Juan Luis Buñuel
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Themes Circus films, Feminist films, Monde imaginaire, Films about sexuality, Political films, Buddy films, Striptease
Actors Brigitte Bardot, Jeanne Moreau, Paulette Dubost, Claudio Brook, Carlos López Moctezuma, George Hamilton
Rating62%
Début du XX siècle en Amérique. Deux jeunes chanteuses d'une troupe de music-hall ambulante s'éprennent du même homme, un révolutionnaire. Par amour, elles épousent sa cause et après la mort du jeune homme, les deux femmes poursuivent la mission qu'il avait entamée jusqu'au triomphe de la révolution.
Zazie dans le Métro (1960)
, 1h29Directed by Louis Malle
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Transport films, Transport en Île-de-France, Métro parisien dans la culture populaire
Actors Catherine Demongeot, Philippe Noiret, Vittorio Caprioli, Hubert Deschamps, Carla Marlier, Jacques Dufilho
Rating68%
Provincial 10-year-old Zazie stays in Paris with her Uncle Gabriel (a female impersonator) for two days, while her mother spends some time with her lover. Zazie manages to evade her uncle's custody, however, and, métro strike notwithstanding, sets out to explore the city on her own.
Vive le Tour (1962)
, 18minutesDirected by Louis Malle
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Cycling films, Documentary films about sports, Documentary films about technology
Rating73%
Ce documentaire filmé lors du Tour de France 1962, n'est pas un résumé de la course. Il permet de se rendre compte de l'ambiance avec la caravane publicitaire, du public sur le bord des routes, les motards suivant les coureurs et des anecdotes de cycliste. La caméra suit les abandons de l'Italien Zorzi et du Belge Van Looy.
The Right Stuff (1983)
, 3h13Directed by Philip Kaufman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical
Themes Space adventure films, Seafaring films, Politique, Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Space opera, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Fred Ward, Dennis Quaid, Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Sam Shepard, Barbara Hershey
Rating77%
The film begins in 1947 at Muroc Army Air Field, an arid California military base where test pilots often die flying high-speed aircraft such as the rocket-powered Bell X-1. After another pilot, Slick Goodlin, demands $150,000 to attempt to break the sound barrier, war hero Captain Chuck Yeager receives the chance to fly the X-1. While on a horseback ride with his wife Glennis, Yeager collides with a tree branch and breaks his ribs, which inhibits him from leaning over and locking the door to the X-1. Worried that his injury might become known, Yeager confides in friend and fellow pilot Jack Ridley. Ridley cuts off part of a broomstick and tells Yeager to use it as a lever to help seal the hatch to the X-1, and Yeager becomes the first man to fly at supersonic speed, defeating the "demon in the sky".