In 1963, she starred in Jean-Luc Godard's critically acclaimed film Le Mépris.

An example may be Paul Verhoeven's big budgeted, highly sexualized Showgirls ( 1995 ), initially intended to be a drama film about the rise of a Las Vegas stripper, that flopped both critically and commercially when released theatrically ; afterward, it enjoyed success on the home video market, generating more than $ 100 million from video rentals.

These films include such financially fruitless and critically scorned films, such as Showgirls, The Lonely Lady, Mommie Dearest, Cool as Ice, Boxing Helena, Manos: The Hands of Fate, North, The Wicker Man, Fatal Deviation, Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2, and Troll 2, which have become inadvertent comedies to film buffs.

Then being employed by the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group, he proceeded to make two films: the science-fiction epic Dune ( 1984 ), which proved to be a critical and commercial failure, and then a neo-noir crime film, Blue Velvet ( 1986 ), which was critically acclaimed.

He has said that the decision to direct it was influenced by his having had to defer some of his salary on the low-budgeted Spider, but it is one of his most critically acclaimed films to date, along with Eastern Promises ( 2007 ) a film about the struggle of one man to gain power in the Russian Mafia.

These two films are lesser known of their film pairings and weren't as successful critically or commercially.

One of the most famous was The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ) from critically acclaimed Bengali film director Satyajit Ray, whose films had a profound influence on world cinema, with directors such as Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, James Ivory, Abbas Kiarostami, Elia Kazan, François Truffaut, Steven Spielberg ,< ref name = unmaderay >

German film director F. W. Murnau had recently made The Last Laugh and Sunrise and was the most critically acclaimed director in Hollywood, and Hawks's attempted to imitate Murnau's style with this film.

In the critically acclaimed and influential 1950s TV series created by Nigel Kneale, Quatermass and the Pit, depictions of supernatural horned entities, with specific reference to prehistoric cave-art and shamanistic horned head-dress are revealed to be a " race-memory " of psychic Martian grasshoppers, manifested at the climax of the film by a fiery horned god.

Spacey would later work with Lemmon in Dad ( 1989 ), the critically acclaimed film Glengarry Glen Ross ( 1992 ) and on stage in a revival of Long Day's Journey Into Night.

He followed this up with a critically acclaimed performance in Martin Scorsese's 1983 film, The King of Comedy, in which Lewis plays a late-night TV host plagued by obsessive fans ( played by Robert De Niro and Sandra Bernhard ).

Cagney's career began winding down, and he made only one film in 1960, the critically acclaimed The Gallant Hours, in which he played Admiral William F. " Bull " Halsey.

The film was critically acclaimed, with The New York Times listing it as one of the ten best films of the year, and broke box office records in cities across the country.

The film was a failure at the box office and critically.

He is presently doing a pivotal role in a Tamil film titled ' Aravaan ', directed by Vasanthabalan, who is critically acclaimed for his earlier films Angaadi Theru and Veyil.

However, they shared a distrust of organised religion, and, after witnessing the critically acclaimed Holy Grails enormous financial turnover, confirming an appetite among the fans for more cinematic endeavours, they soon began to seriously consider a film lampooning the New Testament era in the same way Holy Grail had lampooned Arthurian legend.

In 1968, Marvin also appeared in another Boorman film, the critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful World War II character study Hell in the Pacific, also starring famed Japanese actor Toshirō Mifune.

The film musicals that were still being made were financially and critically less successful than in their heyday.

The film was critically and commercially unsuccessful.

On September 20, 2011 it was announced that Crow will write the music and lyrics for Diner, a new musical inspired by the critically acclaimed 1982 film.

Sex, Lies, and Videotape was followed by a series of low-budget box-office disappointments: Kafka, a biopic mixing fact and Kafka's own fiction ( notably The Castle and The Trial ), written by Lem Dobbs and starring Jeremy Irons as Franz Kafka ; King of the Hill ( 1993 ), a critically acclaimed Depression-era drama ; The Underneath ( 1995 ), a remake of Robert Siodmak's 1949 film noir Criss Cross ; and Schizopolis ( 1996 ), a comedy which he starred in, wrote, composed, and shot as well as directed.

The Osterman Weekend had some effective action sequences and some strong supporting performances, but Peckinpah's final film was critically panned.

The result was a film critically received by both the Soviets and in the West, which won him the Order of Lenin and the Stalin Prize.

Hoffs starred in the 1987 film, The Allnighter, directed by her mother, Tamar Simon Hoffs, and was critically panned.

The lab explores and creates digital entertainment prototypes for film, television, video games, broadband and mobile phones.

The Vadim film thoroughly explores the lesbian implications behind Carmilla's selection of victims, and boasts cinematography by Claude Renoir.

The film explores the life of a rich businessman who develops anterograde amnesia following a violent encounter in which his love interest was killed.

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media ( 1992 ) is a documentary film that explores the political life and ideas of Noam Chomsky, a linguist, intellectual, and political activist.

The film explores the tension between selfishness and duty.

The film explores the DIY community in the 21st century and its impact on the genre's past and present.

The film explores the band's influence on popular music and the reasons why that influence has been underrepresented over the years.

The film explores the nature of ' controlled actuality ' and sheds new light on thinking about Flaherty.

The film explores themes of race, gender, nationality, and sexuality against the backdrop of the Irish Troubles.

Others are connected only by theme: for example, each film of Krzysztof Kieślowski's Three Colors trilogy explores one of the political ideals of the French Republic ( liberty, equality, fraternity ) and each novel in Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy uses formats from detective fiction to explore existential questions.

The film is a study on the dimensions of comic books ; it explores the analogies between the real world and the mythology of superheroes.

*" Two's a Crowd ," a humorous documentary short film explores the cohabitation of a married couple, who had lived separately for the first four years of their marriage.

The film Convoy, inspired by a 1975 song of the same name, explores the camaraderie between truck drivers, where the culture of the CB radio encourages truck drivers to travel in convoys.

Schiele has been the subject of a biographical film, Excess & Punishment ( aka Egon Schiele Exzess und Bestrafung ), a 1980 film originating in Germany with a European cast that explores Schiele's artistic demons leading up to his early death.

A landmark counterculture film, and a " touchstone for a generation " that " captured the national imagination ," Easy Rider explores the societal landscape, issues, and tensions in the United States during the 1960s, such as the rise and fall of the hippie movement, drug use, and communal lifestyle.

Hospital is an 84 minute 1970 American documentary film directed by Frederick Wiseman, which explores the daily activities of the people at a large-city hospital, with emphasis on its emergency ward and outpatient clinics.

The film explores some of the concepts of shared noetic consciousness, having been sponsored in part by the Institute of Noetic Sciences.

The 1981 documentary film Imagine the Sound explores free jazz through interviews with and performances by Archie Shepp, Paul Bley, Cecil Taylor and Bill Dixon.

Set among French POWs during their internment in labor camps by the Nazis during World War II, the film explores the twin human needs for freedom, on the one hand, and emotional and economic security, on the other.

The Quays ' excursion into feature films and live-action dance films are by no means an indication of a move away from animation and the literature that inspires them — on the contrary, this next film explores the potential which slumbers in the combination of these cinematic techniques.

The film explores the historic and current relationship of Washington with Latin American countries such as Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile.

Using, among other sources, archive footage sourced by Michael Moore's archivist Carl Deal, the film explores the role of US intervention, overt and covert, in toppling a series of governments in the region since the 1950s.

The film also explores the attempted overthrow of Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez in 2002 and how the people of Caracas rose up to force his return to power.

The relative commercial success of this film gave Kieślowski the funding for his ambitious final films, the trilogy Three Colors ( Blue, White, Red ), which explores the virtues symbolized by the French flag.