Modern Times
Modern Times (1936)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Chaplin's last 'silent' film, filled with sound effects, was made when everyone else was making talkies. Charlie turns against modern society, the machine age, (The use of sound in films ?) and progress. Firstly we see him frantically trying to keep up with a production line, tightening bolts. He is... [show more]
Charles Chaplin
Paulette Goddard
Henry Bergman
Charles Chaplin
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
Action, Adventure
The year is 1936. An archeology professor named Indiana Jones is venturing in the jungles of South America searching for a golden statue. Unfortunately, he sets off a deadly trap but miraculously escapes. Then, Jones hears from a museum curator named Marcus Brody about a biblical artifact called The... [show more]
Harrison Ford
Karen Allen
Paul Freeman
Steven Spielberg
The Dark Knight Rises
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Action, Crime, Drama
Despite his tarnished reputation after the events of The Dark Knight (2008), in which he took the rap for Dent's crimes, Batman feels compelled to intervene to assist the city and its Police force, which is struggling to cope with Bane's plans to destroy the city.
Christian Bale
Tom Hardy
Anne Hathaway
Christopher Nolan
Hoop Dreams
Hoop Dreams (1994)
Documentary, Drama, Sport
This documentary follows two young African-Americans through their high school years as they perfect their skills in basketball in the hopes of getting a college scholarship and eventually play in the NBA. Arthur Agee and William Gates both show great potential and are are actively recruited as they... [show more]
William Gates
Arthur Agee
Emma Gates
Steve James
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
History is turned on its comic head when, in tenth-century England, King Arthur travels the countryside to find knights who will join him at the Round Table in Camelot. Gathering up the men is a tale in itself but after a bit of a party at Camelot, many decide to leave only to be stopped by God, who... [show more]
Graham Chapman
John Cleese
Eric Idle
Terry Gilliam
Terry Jones
Catch Me If You Can
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Biography, Crime, Drama
A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Tom Hanks
Christopher Walken
Steven Spielberg
The Cameraman
The Cameraman (1928)
Comedy, Drama, Family
After becoming infatuated with a pretty office worker for MGM Newsreels, Buster trades in his tintype operation for a movie camera and sets out to impress the girl (and MGM) with his work.
Buster Keaton
Marceline Day
Harold Goodwin
Edward Sedgwick
Buster Keaton
Into the Wild
Into the Wild (2007)
Adventure, Biography, Drama
Based on a true story. After graduating from Emory University, Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire savings account to charity, and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters who shape his life.
Emile Hirsch
Vince Vaughn
Catherine Keener
Sean Penn
Dallas Buyers Club
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
Biography, Drama
Dallas 1985. Electrician and sometimes rodeo bull rider Ron Woodroof lives hard, which includes heavy smoking, drinking, drug use (primarily cocaine) and casual sex. He is racist and homophobic. While in the hospital on a work related injury, the doctors discover and inform him that he is HIV+, and... [show more]
Matthew McConaughey
Jennifer Garner
Jared Leto
Jean-Marc Vallée
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
This is the story of Mr. Fox (George Clooney) and his wild ways of hen heckling, turkey taking, and cider sipping, nocturnal, instinctive adventures. He has to put his wild days behind him and do what fathers do best: be responsible. He is too rebellious. He is too wild. He is going to try "just one... [show more]
George Clooney
Meryl Streep
Bill Murray
Wes Anderson
American Movie
American Movie (1999)
Documentary, Comedy
On the northwest side of Milwaukee, Mark Borchardt dreams the American dream: for him, it's making movies. Using relatives, local theater talent, slacker friends, his Mastercard, and $3,000 from his Uncle Bill, Mark strives over three years to finish "Coven," a short horror film. His own personal... [show more]
Mark Borchardt
Mike Schank
Tom Schimmels
Chris Smith
The Devils
The Devils (1971)
Biography, Drama, History
Cardinal Richelieu and his power-hungry entourage seek to take control of 17th-century France, but need to destroy Father Grandier, the priest who runs the fortified town that prevents them from exerting total control. So they seek to destroy him by setting him up as a warlock in control of a... [show more]
Vanessa Redgrave
Oliver Reed
Dudley Sutton
Ken Russell
Chasing Ice
Chasing Ice (2012)
Documentary, Biography
'National Geographic' photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change. But through his Extreme Ice Survey, he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet. In 'Chasing Ice,' we follow Balog across the Arctic as he deploys revolutionary time-lapse cameras designed for one... [show more]
James Balog
Svavar Jónatansson
Louie Psihoyos
Jeff Orlowski-Yang
Sorcerer
Sorcerer (1977)
Adventure, Drama, Thriller
A gangster, a crooked banker, a hit man and an Arab terrorist are stranded and on the run in a small village in South America. Their only chance of escape is to drive two trucks filled with unstable dynamite (leaking nitroglycerin) up a long and rocky mountain road in order to plug an escalating oil... [show more]
Roy Scheider
Bruno Cremer
Francisco Rabal
William Friedkin
Punishment Park
Punishment Park (1971)
Drama, Thriller
"Punishment Park" is a pseudo-documentary purporting to be a film crews's news coverage of the team of soldiers escorting a group of hippies, draft dodgers, and anti-establishment types across the desert in a type of capture the flag game. The soldiers vow not to interfere with the rebels' progress... [show more]
Patrick Boland
Kent Foreman
Carmen Argenziano
Peter Watkins
It Might Get Loud
It Might Get Loud (2008)
Documentary, Music
A documentary on the electric guitar from the point of view of three significant rock musicians: the Edge, Jimmy Page and Jack White.
Jimmy Page
The Edge
Jack White
Davis Guggenheim
Seconds
Seconds (1966)
Sci-Fi, Thriller
Middle-aged banker Arthur Hamilton is given the opportunity to start a completely new life when he receives calls from his old friend Charlie. The only problem is that Charlie is supposed to be dead. Hamilton is eventually introduced to a firm that will fake his death and create an entirely new look... [show more]
Rock Hudson
Frank Campanella
John Randolph
John Frankenheimer
Mindwalk
Mindwalk (1990)
Drama
The summary of this plot holds true today for 2019 and beyond. The fact that the original summary noted the scientist as psychotic and out for revenge speaks to a long standing bias against the truth in history. There is no psychosis or revenge in this story. Listen and learn from history.
PG
112 min
Liv Ullmann
Sam Waterston
John Heard
Bernt Amadeus Capra
PG
112 min
Unknown
Antarctica: A Year on Ice
Antarctica: A Year on Ice (2013)
Documentary, Adventure, Biography
This feature-length film reveals what it is like to live and work at the bottom of the planet, in Antarctica, for a full year. The story is not from the point of view of scientists, but of the people who spend the most time there; the everyday workers who keep the stations running in the harshest... [show more]
Anthony Powell
Genevieve Bachman
William Brotman
Anthony Powell
Hugo
Hugo (2011)
Adventure, Drama, Family
Hugo is an orphan boy living in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. He learned to fix clocks and other gadgets from his father and uncle which he puts to use keeping the train station clocks running. The only thing that he has left that connects him to his dead father is an automaton... [show more]
Asa Butterfield
Chloë Grace Moretz
Christopher Lee
Martin Scorsese
Mystery Train
Mystery Train (1989)
Comedy, Crime, Drama
Over the course of a single night in pale Memphis--the home of Sam Phillips' legendary Sun Studio--a vivid triptych of romantic Rock n' Roll pilgrimage; sad nostalgia; emotional Americana, and forgotten, decrepit places unfolds. Pivoting around the low-rent and almost dilapidated Arcade Hotel, the... [show more]
Masatoshi Nagase
Yûki Kudô
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Jim Jarmusch
The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
Drama
A coming-of-age story about two inner city boys who are left to fend for themselves over the summer after their mothers are taken away by the authorities.
Skylan Brooks
Ethan Dizon
Jordin Sparks
George Tillman Jr.
Watership Down
Watership Down (1978)
Animation, Adventure, Drama
Based upon Richard Adam's novel of the same title, this animated feature delves into the surprisingly violent world of a warren of rabbits as they seek to establish a new colony free of tyranny and human intervention.
John Hurt
Richard Briers
Ralph Richardson
Martin Rosen
John Hubley
Bagdad Cafe
Bagdad Cafe (1987)
Comedy, Drama
Out of Rosenheim (Bagdad Café) is a look into the lives (and minds) of some people we all have encountered, but few of us ever get to know. This film (a 'fish out odd water'-type tale) shows how one person can affect a disparate community. The Adlons express the view that change and "magic" comes... [show more]
Marianne Sägebrecht
CCH Pounder
Jack Palance
Percy Adlon
The Greatest Game Ever Played
Biography, Drama, Sport
Near the turn of the twentieth century, young Harry Vardon becomes a champion golfer but learns that his amazing skill is no match for the class boundaries that exclude him from "gentlemanly" English society. A dozen years later, a young American, Francis Ouimet, fights against the same prejudice,... [show more]
Shia LaBeouf
Stephen Dillane
Elias Koteas
Bill Paxton
Frozen
Frozen (2013)
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Fearless optimist Anna teams up with rugged mountain man Kristoff and his loyal reindeer Sven and sets off on an epic journey to find her sister Elsa, whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom of Arendelle in eternal winter. Encountering Everest-like conditions, mystical trolls and a hilarious... [show more]
Kristen Bell
Idina Menzel
Jonathan Groff
Chris Buck
Jennifer Lee
Tootsie
Tootsie (1982)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Michael Dorsey is an unemployed actor with an impossible reputation. In order to find work and fund his friend's play he dresses as a woman, Dorothy Michaels, and lands the part in a daytime drama. Dorsey loses himself in this woman role and essentially becomes Dorothy Michaels, captivating women... [show more]
Dustin Hoffman
Jessica Lange
Teri Garr
Sydney Pollack
Howards End
Howards End (1992)
Drama, Romance
Encounter of three social classes of England at the beginning of the twentieth century: the Victorian capitalists (the Wilcoxes) considering themselves as aristocrats, whose only god is money; the enlightened bourgeois (the Schlegels), humanistic and philanthropic; and the workers (the Basts),... [show more]
Anthony Hopkins
Emma Thompson
Vanessa Redgrave
James Ivory
Tyson
Tyson (2008)
Documentary, Biography, Sport
Mike Tyson narrates his life story as a reaction to fear and as a resolution not to be bullied or humiliated as he was when a boy in Brooklyn's mean streets. He starts boxing while at a state detention center; his coach there sends him to Cus D'Amato who becomes trainer, father figure, and... [show more]
Mike Tyson
Mills Lane
Trevor Berbick
James Toback
Stranger Than Paradise
Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
Comedy, Drama
A self-styled New York hipster is paid a surprise visit by his younger cousin from Budapest. From initial hostility and indifference a small degree of affection grows between the two. Along with a friend, they eventually end up visiting their aunt in the wastelands of Cleveland and then proceed to... [show more]
John Lurie
Eszter Balint
Richard Edson
Jim Jarmusch
Faces
Faces (1968)
Drama
Richard Forst has grown old. One night, he leaves his wife for Jeannie Rapp, a young woman who does not like friendship. Meanwhile, Richard's wife, Maria, is seduced by Chet, a kind young man from Detroit... A film about the meaningless of life for a certain kind of wealthy middle-aged people.
John Marley
Gena Rowlands
Lynn Carlin
John Cassavetes
Amistad
Amistad (1997)
Biography, Drama, History
Amistad is the name of a slave ship travelling from Cuba to the U.S. in 1839. It is carrying a cargo of Africans who have been sold into slavery in Cuba, taken on board, and chained in the cargo hold of the ship. As the ship is crossing from Cuba to the U.S., Cinque (Djimon Hounsou), who was a... [show more]
Djimon Hounsou
Matthew McConaughey
Anthony Hopkins
Steven Spielberg
Four Lions
Four Lions (2010)
Comedy, Crime, Drama
Four Lions tells the story of a group of British jihadists who push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point. As the wheels fly off, and their competing ideologies clash, what emerges is an emotionally engaging (and entirely plausible) farce. In a storm of razor-sharp verbal jousting and... [show more]
Will Adamsdale
Riz Ahmed
Adeel Akhtar
Christopher Morris
Chef
Chef (2014)
Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Carl Casper is an acclaimed chef with a family life that seems as decaying as his artistic freedom. Those frustrations boil over into a raucous viral-videoed public confrontation against a restaurant critic who panned his cooking of food that his boss ordered him to make against his instincts. Now... [show more]
Jon Favreau
Robert Downey Jr.
Scarlett Johansson
Jon Favreau
Targets
Targets (1968)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Byron Orlok is an old horror-movie star who feels that he is an anachronism. Compared to real-life violence, his films are tame. Meanwhile, Bobby Thompson goes on a killing spree...
Tim O'Kelly
Boris Karloff
Nancy Hsueh
Peter Bogdanovich
Kung Fu Panda 2
Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)
Animation, Action, Adventure
After a year of being the dragon warrior, obesitized but fearless Po (Black) is a hero in China along with Crane (Cross), Mantis (Rogen), Monkey (Chan), Viper (Liu), Tigress (Jolie), and Shifu (Hoffman). But trouble pops out when villian Shen (Oldman) begins chaos. Everybody is ready to fight, but... [show more]
Jack Black
Angelina Jolie
Jackie Chan
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
The Hundred-Foot Journey
The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)
Comedy, Drama
The family of talented cook, Hassan Kadam (Manish Dayal), has a life filled with both culinary delights and profound loss. Drifting through Europe after fleeing political violence in India that killed the family restaurant business and their mother, the Kadams arrive in France. Once there, a chance... [show more]
Helen Mirren
Om Puri
Manish Dayal
Lasse Hallström
The Gods Must Be Crazy
The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980)
Adventure, Comedy
A Sho in the Kalahari desert encounters technology for the first time--in the shape of a Coke bottle. He takes it back to his people, and they use it for many tasks. The people start to fight over it, so he decides to return it to the God--where he thinks it came from. Meanwhile, we are introduced... [show more]
N!xau
Marius Weyers
Sandra Prinsloo
Jamie Uys
Over the Edge
Over the Edge (1979)
Crime, Drama
A group of bored teenagers rebel against authority in the community of New Granada after the death of one of their own.
Matt Dillon
Michael Eric Kramer
Pamela Ludwig
Jonathan Kaplan
National Velvet
National Velvet (1944)
Drama, Family, Sport
Mi Taylor (Mickey Rooney) was a young wanderer and opportunist whose father had given him "all the roads in the Kingdom" to travel. One of the roads, and a notation in his father's journal, leads him to the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velvet (Dame... [show more]
Mickey Rooney
Elizabeth Taylor
Donald Crisp
Clarence Brown
Jason and the Argonauts
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
Action, Adventure, Family
Jason has been prophesied to take the throne of Thessaly. When he saves Pelias from drowning, but does not recognize him as the man who had earlier killed his father, Pelias tells Jason to travel to Colchis to find the Golden Fleece. Jason follows his advice and assembles a sailing crew of the... [show more]
Todd Armstrong
Nancy Kovack
Gary Raymond
Don Chaffey
The Professionals
The Professionals (1966)
Action, Adventure, Drama
A rich Texan, J.W. Grant, selects three men and invites them to his private train to offer them a contract: Rescue his wife who has been kidnapped by a Mexican revolutionary. The leader of the men, Rico, decides they would be a better team if Grant would hire one more man, an explosives expert.... [show more]
Burt Lancaster
Lee Marvin
Robert Ryan
Richard Brooks
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966)
Comedy, Family, Mystery
Luther Heggs aspires to be a reporter for his small town newspaper, the Rachel Courier Express. He gets his big break when the editor asks him to spend the night at the Simmons mansion that 20 years before was the site of a now famous murder-suicide. The case has aroused local interest not only... [show more]
Don Knotts
Joan Staley
Liam Redmond
Alan Rafkin
Smoke Signals
Smoke Signals (1998)
Comedy, Drama
Young Native American man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling everyone stories no-one wants to hear. His parents died in a fire in 1976, and Thomas was saved by Arnold. Arnold soon left his family (and his tough son Victor), and Victor hasn't seen his father for... [show more]
Adam Beach
Evan Adams
Irene Bedard
Chris Eyre
Without Limits
Without Limits (1998)
Biography, Drama, Sport
The film follows the life of famous 1970s runner Steve Prefontaine from his youth days in Oregon to the University of Oregon where he worked with the legendary coach Bill Bowerman, later to Olympics in Munich and his early death at 24 in a car crash.
Billy Crudup
Donald Sutherland
Monica Potter
Robert Towne
Candy
Candy (2006)
Drama, Romance
This story is a narration from an Australian man who falls in love with two kinds of Candy: a woman of the same name and heroin. The narrator changes from a smart-aleck to someone trying to find a vein to inject, while Candy changes from an actress, call girl, streetwalker, and then a madwoman.... [show more]
Heath Ledger
Abbie Cornish
Geoffrey Rush
Neil Armfield
Sunshine
Sunshine (2007)
Sci-Fi, Thriller
50 years into the future, the Sun begins to die, and Earth is dying as a result. A team of astronauts is sent to revive the Sun - but the mission fails. Seven years later, a new team is sent to finish the mission as mankind's last hope.
Cillian Murphy
Rose Byrne
Chris Evans
Danny Boyle
The Yearling
The Yearling (1946)
Drama, Family, Western
The family of Civil War veteran Penny Baxter, who lives and works on a farm in Florida with his wife, Orry, and their son, Jody. The only surviving child of the family, Jody longs for companionship and unexpectedly finds it in the form of an orphaned fawn. While Penny is supportive of his son's... [show more]
Gregory Peck
Jane Wyman
Claude Jarman Jr.
Clarence Brown
Heidi
Heidi (1937)
Drama, Family, Musical
Eight-year-old Heidi is orphaned and her selfish maternal Aunt Dete takes her to the mountains to live with Adolph Kramer, her grumpy, old, outcast, survivalist paternal grandfather. Heidi brings her grandfather back into mountain society through her angelic ways, sheer love, and adorable... [show more]
Shirley Temple
Jean Hersholt
Arthur Treacher
Allan Dwan
The Dead
The Dead (1987)
Drama
On the lightly snowy evening of January 6, 1904 in Dublin, elderly spinster sisters Kate and Julia and their niece, Mary Jane - all music teachers or performers, past or present - are hosting their annual Epiphany party and dinner, and, with the exception of Mary Jane's new crop of students and the... [show more]
Anjelica Huston
Donal McCann
Helena Carroll
John Huston