MoviesPrix

HomeMoviesSearchTV SeriesBookmarksView Source
Pie in the Sky
Pie in the Sky

Pie in the Sky

New York's teeming "jungle" ...where kids learn crime from teen-aged "bosses"!

Genres

Drama

OverView

Rural runaway finds himself in Manhattan.

Others

Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Runtime

86 mins

Rating

0/10

Release Date

01 January 1964

Country

United States of America

Cast

Lee Grant

Lee Grant

Suzy

Richard Bray

Richard Bray

Brill

Michael Higgins

Michael Higgins

Carl

Robert Marsach

Robert Marsach

Paco

Robert Allen

Robert Allen

Brill's Father

Sylvia Miles

Sylvia Miles

Rose

Ruth Attaway

Ruth Attaway

Farmer's Wife

Robert Earl Jones

Robert Earl Jones

Farmer

Jaime Charlemagne

Jaime Charlemagne

Rick

Charles Jordan

Charles Jordan

Artificial Inseminator

Roscoe Lee Browne

Roscoe Lee Browne

Preacher

Rik Colitti

Rik Colitti

Pickpocket

Similar Movies

3.5

A Helpless Love Song

January 2018 •Japanese

After experiencing failure in business and his marriage, Mitsutoshi Yashiro (Shinsuke Kato) walks around looking for a place to die. He decides to stop at a red light district shop to have sex for one last time. He meets Hina (Rina Fujisaki) who changes his life. - AsianWiki

6.0

Mixed Company

October 1974 •English

Kathy Morrison (Harris), mother of three, who helps run a "color-blind" adoption program, wants to have another biological child. Her husband, Pete (Bologna), the head coach of the Phoenix Suns, finds out he can't produce another child. Kathy thinks about adopting a boy, Frederic "Freddie" Wilcox, and Pete does not want to adopt a boy who happens to be black. When he relents, Freddie's arrival causes an upheaval in the Morrison's neighborhood, their school, and family. Kathy's answer is to adopt another child, in this case two, a war-traumatized half-Vietnamese girl, Quan Tran, and a Hopi boy, Joe. The new extended family must now learn to live together.

4.6

Blonde Fist

November 1991 •English

A woman attempts to escape her domestic problems by fleeing to New York in search of her father. She finds him, and also new problems, some friendship, a romance, and an unexpected career as pro-boxer, to make ends meet.

0.0

The Copper Queen

October 2021 •English

Still healing from her grandmother’s death, Addison Moore finds herself checking into The Copper Queen Hotel in Bisbee, Arizona. Aware of the ghost stories and hauntings, Addison fearlessly elects to stay in Room 315, the location of the heartbroken Julia Lowell’s death a century ago.

4.4

Prostitute

March 1927 •Russian

A bold study on the dangers of prostitution in the Soviet Union in the 1920s. It's sort of dramatic fiction that tells the story of Lyuba, which after irremediable events, loses his honor, being obliged to exercise the oldest profession in the world to survive. She hopes for better days and a new opportunity. The film also shows us the story of two other women who also need hope.

5.5

I, 'The Heifer'

November 1985 •Spanish

Juan Jose Moreno Cuenca, alias the Heifer, is 23 years old and tells his story as a criminal offender from 1 Ocaña Toledo. Fatherless, the offender has his childhood and how everything changed when her mother went to prison.

1.0

Street of Forgotten Women

May 1927 •English

For those who thought "Reefer Madness" was the first exploitation movie you'll be interested to know that the genre was alive and well during the silent era. "Street of Forgotten Women" is the usual potboiler about a rich girl who is disowned by her father when she decides she wants a career in show business. After sinking her money in a stage production which immediately flops, she's forced to try and earn a living dancing in a saloon in her underwear. Even worse, she is forced into prostitution in a slum apartment that just happens to be owned by HER FATHER!!!!!

7.5

Lost Angel

December 1943 •English

Alpha's been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest story for his paper. But when his interview prompts Alpha to run away from the institute and ask him to show her some magic, Mike gets more responsibility than he bargained for. Especially since another story of his, one involving gangsters, has also come home to roost.

5.8

Untamed

November 1929 •English

In her first Talkie, Joan Crawford plays Bingo, a jungle-raised oil heiress, who turns Manhattan upside down in her hunt for Andy McAllister, the man of her dreams. Unfortunately for Bingo, Andy is penniless and refuses to agree to the match until he can provide for the wild, rich girl. Andy's prideful position is more than encouraged by Bingo's Uncle Ben, who seeks to scuttle their love match.

4.5

One-Third

October 2006 •English

A tragic tale of an individual teen prostitute as seen from the lens of her Buddhist neighbor.

4.7

Dragstrip Riot

March 1958 •English

An adolescent arrives in a new town where he tries to join the drag-racing crowd.

5.9

Third Person

June 2014 •English

An acclaimed novelist struggles to write an analysis of love in one of three stories, each set in a different city, that detail the beginning, middle and end of a relationship.

5.0

A Perfect Fit

April 2005 •English

A psychological drama about an unstable man, tormented by nightmares, who seeks help from a shrink but is pushed over the edge into increasingly dangerous, psychotic territory by a relationship he is unable to control.

4.3

Alcohol Is Dynamite

January 1958 •English

A carload of teenagers wants to buy some liquor, but the clerk at the liquor store won't sell them any because they're underage. They stop a pedestrian outside the store and ask if he'll buy them liquor. He proceeds to tell them a story about some teenagers he knew who drank and drove, and the consequences they suffered.

6.6

Never Say Goodbye

March 1956 •English

In present-day U.S., Dr. Michael Parker, a prominent surgeon, unexpectedly runs into his German-born wife whom he thought was dead. Victor, an artist and his "dead" wife's now boyfriend, berates Dr. Parker for "killing" her. The bulk of the story flashes back to Austria during World War II as we learn how Dr. Parker met and married his wife, and the one mistake that may have cost him his family.

3.8

Jennifer on My Mind

November 1971 •English

Two rich American young adults who meet and fall in love in Venice, Italy. With plenty of money and no real responsibilities or direction in life, the couple begin experimenting with illicit drugs. The movie travels through a series of flashbacks showing their progression from marijuana to harder drugs as a result of their complex romantic entanglement with each other.

4.1

Flesh and the Woman

June 1954 •French

In this romance, a jilted lawyer joins the French Foreign Legion to help him forget his faithless love. While in the desert he espies a village beauty who is the exact double of his true-love.

7.5

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

October 2014 •English

A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and family prove more difficult than expected.

5.9

Desire

September 1946 •Italian

Paola, a Milan call girl, returns home to her village in the Abruzzi mountains in an attempt to go straight. Rejected by her father, blackmailed by a former lover, and lusted after by her brother-in-law, she turns to her beloved sister for support. Denied succor, like so many of Rossellini’s isolated figures, Paola awaits the arrival of her fiancé, who has offered her a new start, but instead decides that life is untenable.

4.6

I Am Happiness on Earth

May 2014 •Spanish

Emiliano looks at his life with the eyes of a film director, mixing the objective reality with the processes of the artistic creation. The story he is filming flounders with his daily life, until his world is trapped in the lens of his camera. Confused, always alone and in front of a screen, now become a transfigured reality, but at the same time a measurable, controllable and manipulable one, he listens in loop to a song: one of those songs you sing or repeat as a prayer and forcing you to remember, believe and convince yourself.