"It's a Lovely Life."

1984

1h 47m

6.3(181 votes)

Crime

Drama

Thriller

Overview

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.

Links & Resources

IMDbView

Social & External

IMDb

Production Companies

Videos & Trailers

2 videos

Cast & Crew

40 members

Acting

Kathleen Turner

Joanna Crane / China Blue

Acting

Anthony Perkins

Reverend Peter Shayne

Acting

John Laughlin

Bobby Grady

Acting

Annie Potts

Amy Grady

Acting

Bruce Davison

Donny Hopper

Acting

Norman Burton

Lou Bateman

Acting

Stephen Lee

Jerry

Directing

Gordon Hunt

Group Leader

Acting

Dan Gerrity

Group Member #1

Acting

Terri Hoyos

Group Member #2

Acting

Vince McKewin

Group Member #3

No Image

Acting

Deanna Oliver

Group Member #4

Acting

Patricia Stevens

Group Member #5

Acting

Janice Renney

Stripper

Acting

John G. Scanlon

Carl

No Image

Acting

Pat McNamara

Frank

Acting

Christina Lange

Lisa Grady

No Image

Acting

Seth Wagerman

Jimmy Grady

No Image

Acting

Joseph Chapman

Walt Pierson

No Image

Acting

Thomas Murphy

Phil Chambers

No Image

Acting

Roxanne Mayweather

First Hooker

No Image

Acting

Jan Rabson

Airline Trick

Acting

John Rose

Arthur

No Image

Acting

Louise Sorel

Claudia

Acting

Lisa Hayslip

Hooker

No Image

Acting

Pamela Anderson

Hooker

No Image

Acting

Janice Kent

Patty Marshall

Acting

Yvonne McCord

Sheila

No Image

Acting

James Crittenden

Tom Marshall

Acting

Ian Petrella

Jimmy's Friend

Acting

Randall Brady

Cop

No Image

Acting

Peggy Feury

Adrian (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

John Gocha

Limousine Driver (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Helen Kelly

Wedding Guest (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Darrell Mapson

Cop (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Gerald S. O'Loughlin

Ben (uncredited)

Acting

Molly Russell

Little Girl in Music Video (uncredited)

No Image

Costume & Make-Up

Victoria Russell

Bride in Music Video (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Carl Solomon

Peep Show Voyeur (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Rick Wakeman

Wedding Photographer (uncredited)

Similar Movies

5.0

1992

All Ladies Do It

After five years of marriage, Diana discovers the joys of adultery, claiming that she can save her failing relationship through betrayal.

Movie

4.8

1957

Chain of Evidence

A police lieutenant fights to prove a boy's innocence after he's accused of murder. The fourth of five Ben Schwab productions that starred Bill Elliott as a detective lieutenant in the L.A. Sheriff's department.

Movie

7.1

2009

Dogtooth

Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new meaning. Hence 'the sea' refers to a large armchair and 'zombies' are little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have ostracized for his disobedience, the uber-controlling parents terrorize their offspring into submission.

Movie

2011

Mail Order

A Wall Street trader who is obsessed with snuff films thinks he sees an old girlfriend starring in one.

Movie

6.8

2010

Fire of Conscience

A police detective must solve a brutal murder to prove his partner's innocence and unearth the truth behind Hong Kong's police force. The investigation brings him to an unlikely collaboration with an inspector from the Narcotics Bureau, whose motives may not be what they seem.

Movie

5.9

1946

Nocturne

In 1940s Los Angeles, when womanizing composer Keith Vincent is found dead, the inquest concludes it was a suicide but police detective Joe Warne isn't so sure.

Movie

6.4

2007

The Witnesses

Paris, 1984. A group of friends contend with the first outbreak of the AIDS epidemic.

Movie

7.1

2020

Bad Boys for Life

Marcus and Mike are forced to confront new threats, career changes, and midlife crises as they join the newly created elite team AMMO of the Miami police department to take down the ruthless Armando Armas, the vicious leader of a Miami drug cartel.

Movie

5.7

2010

The Last Exorcism

After years of performing “exorcisms” and taking believers’ money, Reverend Marcus travels to rural Louisiana with a film crew so he can dispel what he believes is the myth of demonic possession. The dynamic reverend is certain that this will be another routine “exorcism” on a disturbed religious fanatic but instead comes upon the blood-soaked farm of the Sweetzer family and a true evil he would have never thought imaginable.

Movie

5.8

2003

Nathalie...

Paris doctor Catherine starts to think her husband, Bernard, is having an affair when she hears an unfamiliar woman's message on his voice mail. Hoping to learn more about his extramarital activities, Catherine heads to a strip club, where she hires call girl Nathalie to have a fling with Gerard. As the affair progresses, Nathalie gives Catherine regular status reports, and the relationship between the women evolves from business to personal.

Movie

6.4

1974

Frightmare

In 1957, Dorothy and Edmund Yates were committed to an institution for the criminally insane, she for acts of murder and cannibalism and he for covering up her crimes. Fifteen years later, they are pronounced fit for society and released. However, in Dorothy's case the doctors may have jumped the gun a bit. Edmund and eldest daughter, Jackie, try to discover just how far Mother's bloodlust has taken her. Meanwhile, youngest daughter Debbie begins to explore the crazy roots of her family tree as fully as possible.

Movie

2025

Contours

Upon using a modern art museum as the setting for a role play game that goes hopelessly awry, a deaf couple desperate to rekindle their spark finds the reconnection they seek in their shared experience over an abstract sculpture.

Movie

7.9

2024

A Girl Named Ann

A drug-addicted girl from an abusive family finds hope through kind people but her grim reality strikes back just as she sees a glimmer of light.

Movie

The Three Investigators and The Carpathian Dog

6.2

2025

The Three Investigators and The Carpathian Dog

A call for help from gallery owner Mr. Prentice leads the three detectives into a new adventure: his apartment is said to be haunted. When the Carpathian dog, a valuable work of art, is also stolen, events spiral out of control because all the residents have a motive. As the suspects are eliminated one by one, the three detectives find themselves in the middle of their most exciting case yet.

Movie

6.3

1969

Last Summer

During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.

Movie

7.7

2017

The Outlaws

In Chinatown, law and order is turned upside down when a trio of feral Chinese gangsters arrive, start terrorizing civilians, and usurping territory. The beleaguered local gangsters team up with the police, lead by the badass loose cannon Ma Seok-do, to bring them down. Based on a true story.

Movie

6.2

1998

High Art

When Syd, a young editor at an influential art magazine, becomes involved with her neighbor, a drug-addicted lesbian photographer, both seek to exploit each other for their respective careers while slowly falling in love with each other.

Movie

5.6

2009

The Assassin Next Door

In an old apartment building on the wrong side of the tracks, two women, unknown to each other, live across the hall on the second floor. Galia is an assassin involved against her will with the local sex-traffic mafia. All she wants is to reunite with her little daughter that she left back home in Ukraine . Eleanor is a grocery store cashier and a battered wife. She dreams of winning the lottery and running away from her abusive husband. Galia and Eleanor don't know each other, but as neighbors they share two things: an adjoining wall and a strong need to plan their escape. As Galia disobeys her latest contract, a woman target, and Eleanor discovers that she's pregnant, the two women decide to take action against their oppressors in a fight for survival and freedom.

Movie

10.0

2019

Toast

After Romaine is kidnapped at the hands of the shadowy Spicers, Detective Alfredo Pasta goes undercover to find his missing friend and root out an evil conspiracy in San Pancrisco.

Movie

4.2

1978

Die kleine Niederdorfoper

Farmer Heiri has sold his calf and celebrates his temporary wealth in the big city. But in doing so he is confronted with many temptations and dangers: pickpockets, second-rate artists and prostitutes who all try to grab the money of this naive man from Hausen. A 1978 recording of the well-known Zurich boulevard theatre piece.

Movie

Recommended Movies

5.9

1996

City Hall

The accidental shooting of a boy in New York City leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly far-reaching consequences.

Movie

6.3

1968

A Quiet Place in the Country

A painter facing a creative block arranges to spend the weekend in the country at his mistress's villa. While staying there, his sanity begins to disintegrate.

Movie

The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

5.9

1975

The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

Goalkeeper Josef Bloch is sent off after committing a foul during an away game. This causes him to lose his bearings, and he wanders aimlessly through the city streets and spends the night with the box-office attendant of a movie theatre.

Movie

7.2

1984

Love Streams

Two closely-bound, emotionally wounded siblings reunite after years apart.

Movie

5.9

1978

Eyes of Laura Mars

A famous fashion photographer develops a disturbing ability to see through the eyes of a serial killer.

Movie

4.8

1996

Uncle Sam

It's Fourth of July Weekend, and the recently discovered corpse of Sgt. Sam Harper rises from the dead to punish the unpatriotic.

Movie

7.5

1979

Serie Noire

In the shadowy outskirts of Paris, a desperate door-to-door salesman crosses paths with a mysterious young woman trapped in a grim world. As his obsession deepens, his grip on reality begins to slip—and the line between escape and destruction starts to blur.

Movie

6.6

1999

Gemini

When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer may be targeting him and his amnesiac wife.

Movie

5.7

1987

Gothic

Living on an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy and Mary Shelley. Together with Byron's lover Claire Clairmont, and aided by hallucinogenic substances, they devise an evening of ghoulish tales. However, when confronted by horrors, ostensibly of their own creation, it becomes difficult to tell apparition from reality.

Movie

6.4

1997

FairyTale: A True Story

In 1917, two children take a photograph, which is soon believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies. Based on the true story of the Cottingley Fairies.

Movie

5.5

1976

Hollywood Boulevard

A Midwestern ingenue arrives in Hollywood to try her luck as an actress. An incompetent agent hooks her up with a production company which specializes in low budget B-movie fair, which starts being plagued by strange, deadly accidents.

Movie

7.1

1965

The Moment of Truth

Miguel, a poor young man living in Franco's Spain becomes a bull fighter to escape starvation.

Movie

5.1

1971

Bury Me an Angel

After a stranger murders her brother, Dag sets out on the road to avenge his murder, toting a shotgun and leaving any restraint behind.

Movie

6.2

2007

Still Small Voices

A 911 operator receives a ghostly call from a child murdered thirty years before and becomes obsessed with unraveling the crime. What she discovers shatters her.

Movie

10.0

2006

Manilow: Music and Passion

Legendary songwriter and entertainer Barry Manilow celebrates the 100th performance of his hit Las Vegas show, "Manilow: Music and Passion," at the Las Vegas Hilton. Barry gives his audience the show of a lifetime, delivering favorites such as "Mandy," "Copacabana," and "Can't Smile Without You" in a high-energy party Vegas style! Plus Barry sings songs from his album "The Greatest Songs Of The Fifties."

Movie

4.2

2003

Lost Seamen

Based on a novel by Jean-Claude Izzo, this melancholic movie focuses on three sailors being the last remaining crew members on their ship which is aground in the harbor of Marseille. After the owner has sold the "Aldébaran", only the Lebanese captain Aziz, the Greek Diamantis and the Turk Nelim are stuck on the boat for a lack of prospects. Aziz doesn't want to return to his wife, Diamantis tries to find a girl he left at the age of 20 and Nelim, young and foolish, just wants to have fun...

Movie

6.5

1983

Psycho II

Norman Bates is declared sane and released from the facility in which he was being held, despite the complaints of Lila Loomis, sister of his most famous victim. Is he really cured, or will he kill again?

Movie

6.3

2001

Wet Hot American Summer

The setting is Camp Firewood, the year 1981. It's the last day before everyone goes back to the real world, but there's still a summer's worth of unfinished business to resolve. At the center of the action is camp director Beth, who struggles to keep order while she falls in love with the local astrophysics professor. He is busy trying to save the camp from a deadly piece of NASA's Skylab which is hurtling toward earth. All that, plus: a dangerous waterfall rescue, love triangles, misfits, cool kids, and talking vegetable cans. The questions will all be resolved, of course, at the big talent show at the end of the day.

Movie

7.1

2015

Anomalisa

An inspirational speaker becomes reinvigorated after meeting a lively woman who shakes up his mundane existence.

Movie

7.6

1968

Night of the Living Dead

A ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.

Movie