Mickey Rourke
Angel Heart
(1987)
William Hjortsberg (novel), Alan Parker (screenplay)
2 wins & 3 nominations.
Harry Angel has a new case, to find a man called Johnny Favourite. Except things aren't quite that simple and Johnny doesn't want to be found. Let's just say that amongst the period detail and beautiful scenery, it all gets really really nasty.
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
(2003)
Robert Rodriguez
3 wins & 4 nominations.
In the third movie of Rodriguez's "Mariachi" trilogy, a Mexican drug lord pretends to overthrow the Mexican government, and is connected to a corrupt CIA agent who at that time, demands retribution from his worst enemy to carry out the drug lord's uprising against the government.
Rumble Fish
(1983)
S.E. Hinton (novel), S.E. Hinton (screenplay), Francis Ford Coppola (screenplay)
Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 3 wins & 1 nomination.
Rusty James is the leader of a small, dying gang in an industrial town. He lives in the shadow of the memory of his absent, older brother -- The Motorcycle Boy. His mother has left, his father drinks, school has no meaning for him and his relationships are shallow. He is drawn into one more gang fight and the events that follow begin to change his life.
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
(2014)
Frank Miller, Frank Miller (graphic novels)
3 wins & 6 nominations.
Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.
Spun
(2002)
Will De Los Santos (screenplay), Creighton Vero (screenplay)
2 nominations.
A drug dealer introduces one of his customers, a 'speed freak', to the man who runs the meth lab. A crazy three-day adventure ensues.
The Wrestler
(2008)
Robert D. Siegel
Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 53 wins & 75 nominations.
This is a drama about an aging professional wrestler, decades past his prime, who now barely gets by working small wrestling shows in VFW halls and as a part-time grocery store employee. As he faces health problems that may end his wrestling career for good he attempts to come to terms with his life outside the ring: by working full time at the grocery store, trying to reconcile with the daughter he abandoned in childhood and forming a closer bond with a stripper he has romantic feelings for. He struggles with his new life and an offer of a high-profile rematch with his 1980s arch-nemesis, The Ayatollah, which may be his ticket back to stardom.