Billy Elliot
Billy Elliot (2000)
Drama, Music
County Durham, during the endless, violent 1984 strike against the Margaret Thatcher closure of British coal mines. Widower Jackie Elliot (Gary Lewis) and his firstborn, fellow miner Tony (Jamie Draven), take a dim view of eleven-year-old second son Billy's (Jamie Bell's) poor record in boxing... [show more]
Jamie Bell
Julie Walters
Jean Heywood
Stephen Daldry
Tangled
Tangled (2010)
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
After receiving the healing powers from a magical flower, the baby Princess Rapunzel is kidnapped from the palace in the middle of the night by Mother Gothel. Mother Gothel knows that the flower's magical powers are now growing within the golden hair of Rapunzel, and to stay young, she must lock... [show more]
Mandy Moore
Zachary Levi
Donna Murphy
Nathan Greno
Byron Howard
A Man for All Seasons
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
Biography, Drama, History
The story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry.
Paul Scofield
Wendy Hiller
Robert Shaw
Fred Zinnemann
The Triplets of Belleville
The Triplets of Belleville (2003)
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Madame Souza, an elderly woman, instills in her grandson Champion (for who she acts as his guardian) a love of cycling. As a young man, he does become a dedicated road racer with his grandmother as his trainer. During a mountainous leg of the Tour de France in which Champion is racing, he goes... [show more]
Michèle Caucheteux
Jean-Claude Donda
Michel Robin
Sylvain Chomet
Red Army
Red Army (2014)
Documentary, Biography, History
Red Army is a feature documentary about the Soviet Union and the most successful dynasty in sports history: the Red Army hockey team. Told from the perspective of its captain Slava Fetisov, the story portrays his transformation from national hero to political enemy. From the USSR to Russia, the film... [show more]
Viacheslav Fetisov
Vladislav Tretiak
Scotty Bowman
Gabe Polsky
The Little Prince
The Little Prince (2015)
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
From Mark Osborne comes the first-ever animated feature film adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's iconic masterpiece, The Little Prince. At the heart of it all is The Little Girl, who's being prepared by her mother for the very grown-up world in which they live - only to be interrupted by her... [show more]
Jeff Bridges
Mackenzie Foy
Rachel McAdams
Mark Osborne
Pina
Pina (2011)
Documentary, Music
In modern dance since the 1970s, few choreographers have had more influence in the medium than the late Pina Bausch. This film explores the life and work of this artist of movement while we see her company perform her most notable creations where basic things like water, dirt and even gravity take... [show more]
Pina Bausch
Regina Advento
Malou Airaudo
Wim Wenders
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Drama, Sci-Fi
Two parallel stories are told. In the first, a group of research scientists from a variety of backgrounds are investigating the strange appearance of items in remote locations, primarily desert regions. In continuing their investigation, one of the lead scientists, a Frenchman named Claude Lacombe,... [show more]
Richard Dreyfuss
François Truffaut
Teri Garr
Steven Spielberg
The Boys in the Band
The Boys in the Band (1970)
Drama
It's Harold's birthday, and his closest friends throw him a party at Michael's apartment. Among Harold's presents is "Cowboy", since Harold may have trouble finding a cute young man on his own now that he's getting older. As the party progresses the self-deprecating humor of the group takes a nasty... [show more]
Kenneth Nelson
Peter White
Leonard Frey
William Friedkin
3:10 to Yuma
3:10 to Yuma (2007)
Action, Crime, Drama
Rancher Dan Evans heads into Bisbee to clear up issues concerning the sale of his land when he witnesses the closing events of a stagecoach robbery led by famed outlaw Ben Wade. Shortly thereafter, Wade is captured by the law in Bisbee and Evans finds himself one of the escorts who will take Wade to... [show more]
Russell Crowe
Christian Bale
Ben Foster
James Mangold
Office Space
Office Space (1999)
Comedy
In the Initech office, the insecure Peter Gibbons hates his job and the obnoxious Division VP Bill Lumbergh who has just hired two efficiency consultants to downsize the company. His best friends are two software engineers Michael Bolton and Samir Nagheenanajar, that also hate Initech, and his... [show more]
Ron Livingston
Jennifer Aniston
David Herman
Mike Judge
RoboCop
RoboCop (1987)
Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed confrontation with crime lord Boddicker so they can... [show more]
Peter Weller
Nancy Allen
Dan O'Herlihy
Paul Verhoeven
The Last King of Scotland
The Last King of Scotland (2006)
Biography, Drama, History
Having graduated recently from the University of Edinburgh, the Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan, flies to Uganda to work at a missionary clinic run by Dr David Merrit and his wife, Sarah. Before long, Garrigan has a chance encounter with the new President, General Idi Amin, who, right from the... [show more]
James McAvoy
Forest Whitaker
Gillian Anderson
Kevin Macdonald
Control
Control (2007)
Biography, Drama, Music
Ian Curtis is a quiet and rather sad lad who works for an employment agency and sings in a band called Warsaw. He meets a girl named Debbie whom he promptly marries and his band, of which the name in the meantime has been changed to Joy Division, gets more and more successful. Even though Debbie and... [show more]
Sam Riley
Samantha Morton
Craig Parkinson
Anton Corbijn
The Last of the Mohicans
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
Action, Adventure, Drama
The last members of a dying Native American tribe, the Mohicans -- Uncas, his father Chingachgook, and his adopted half-white brother Hawkeye -- live in peace alongside British colonists. But when the daughters of a British colonel are kidnapped by a traitorous scout, Hawkeye and Uncas must rescue... [show more]
Daniel Day-Lewis
Madeleine Stowe
Russell Means
Michael Mann
After Hours
After Hours (1985)
Comedy, Crime, Drama
A meek word processor in New York impulsively travels downtown to Soho for date with an attractive, but apparently disturbed young woman, and finds himself trapped in a nightmarishly surreal vortex of improbable coincidences and farcical circumstances.
Griffin Dunne
Rosanna Arquette
Verna Bloom
Martin Scorsese
Vera Drake
Vera Drake (2004)
Crime, Drama
Vera Drake is a selfless woman who is completely devoted to, and loved by, her working class family. She spends her days doting on them and caring for her sick neighbor and elderly mother. However, she also secretly visits women and helps them induce miscarriages for unwanted pregnancies. While the... [show more]
Imelda Staunton
Jim Broadbent
Heather Craney
Mike Leigh
Superbad
Superbad (2007)
Comedy
Seth and Evan are best friends, inseparable, navigating the last weeks of high school. Usually shunned by the popular kids, Seth and Evan luck into an invitation to a party, and spend a long day, with the help of their nerdy friend Fogell, trying to score enough alcohol to lubricate the party and... [show more]
Michael Cera
Jonah Hill
Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Greg Mottola
The Piano
The Piano (1993)
Drama, Music, Romance
It is the mid-nineteenth century. Ada cannot speak and she has a young daughter, Flora. In an arranged marriage she leaves her native Scotland accompanied by her daughter and her beloved piano. Life in the rugged forests of New Zealand's North Island is not all she may have imagined and nor is her... [show more]
Holly Hunter
Harvey Keitel
Sam Neill
Jane Campion
Dangerous Liaisons
Dangerous Liaisons (1988)
Drama, Romance
In 18th century France, the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont play a dangerous game of seduction. Valmont is someone who measures success by the number of his conquests and Merteuil challenges him to seduce the soon to be married Cecile de Volanges and provide proof in writing of his... [show more]
Glenn Close
John Malkovich
Michelle Pfeiffer
Stephen Frears
Boys Don't Cry
Boys Don't Cry (1999)
Biography, Crime, Drama
Based on actual events. Brandon Teena is the popular new guy in a tiny Nebraska town. He hangs out with the guys, drinking, cussing, and bumper surfing, and he charms the young women, who've never met a more sensitive and considerate young man. Life is good for Brandon, now that he's one of the guys... [show more]
Hilary Swank
Chloë Sevigny
Peter Sarsgaard
Kimberly Peirce
The Town
The Town (2010)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Charlestown neighborhood of Boston is renowned for churning out a high number of armed robbers, generation after generation. These robbers never leave their Charlestown life on their own volition, the neighborhood where there is an unwritten code to protect that lifestyle. Such robbers include... [show more]
Ben Affleck
Rebecca Hall
Jon Hamm
Ben Affleck
Traffic
Traffic (2000)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
An intertwined drama about the United States' war on drugs, seen through the eyes of a once conservative judge, now newly-appointed drug czar, his heroin-addicted daughter, two DEA agents, a jailed drug kingpin's wife, and a Mexican cop who begins to question his boss's motives.
Michael Douglas
Benicio Del Toro
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Steven Soderbergh
127 Hours
127 Hours (2010)
Biography, Drama
127 Hours is the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah. Over the next five days Ralston examines his life and survives the elements to finally discover he has the... [show more]
James Franco
Amber Tamblyn
Kate Mara
Danny Boyle
The Damned United
The Damned United (2009)
Biography, Drama, Sport
Taking over England's top football club Leeds United, previously successful manager Brian Clough's abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players' dirty style of play make it certain there is going to be friction. Glimpses of his earlier career help explain both his hostility to previous... [show more]
Colm Meaney
Henry Goodman
David Roper
Tom Hooper
Withnail and I
Withnail and I (1987)
Comedy, Drama
London, 1969 - two 'resting' (unemployed and unemployable) actors, Withnail and Marwood, fed up with damp, cold, piles of washing-up, mad drug dealers and psychotic Irishmen, decide to leave their squalid Camden flat for an idyllic holiday in the countryside, courtesy of Withnail's uncle Monty's... [show more]
Richard E. Grant
Paul McGann
Richard Griffiths
Bruce Robinson
Bigger Stronger Faster*
Bigger Stronger Faster* (2008)
Documentary, Sport
In America, we define ourselves in the superlative: we are the biggest, strongest, fastest country in the world. Is it any wonder that so many of our heroes are on performance enhancing drugs? Director Christopher Bell explores America's win-at-all-cost culture by examining how his two brothers... [show more]
Chris Bell
Mike Bell
Mark Bell
Chris Bell
Sideways
Sideways (2004)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
A week before his friend Jack is to be married, best man Miles and the prospective groom head off to wine country for a week of fun, relaxation and - of course - wine drinking. Miles is the oenophile and does his best to teach Jack a bit about the art of appreciating great wine. All Jack cares about... [show more]
Paul Giamatti
Thomas Haden Church
Virginia Madsen
Alexander Payne
Menace II Society
Menace II Society (1993)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
This urban nightmare chronicles several days in the life of Caine Lawson, following his high-school graduation, as he attempts to escape his violent existence in the projects of Watts, CA.
Tyrin Turner
Larenz Tate
June Kyoto Lu
Albert Hughes
Allen Hughes
Midnight Express
Midnight Express (1978)
Biography, Crime, Drama
On October 6, 1970 while boarding an international flight out of Istanbul Airport, American Billy Hayes (Brad Davis) is caught attempting to smuggle two kilos of hashish out of the country, the drugs strapped to his body. He is told that he will be released if he cooperates with the authorities in... [show more]
Brad Davis
Irene Miracle
Bo Hopkins
Alan Parker
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 Warriors
The Warriors (1979)
Action, Crime, Thriller
Cyrus, the leader of the most powerful gang in New York City, the Gramercy Riffs, calls a midnight summit for all the area gangs, with all asked to send nine unarmed representatives for the conclave. A gang called The Warriors are blamed for killing Cyrus as he gives his speech. They now have to... [show more]
Michael Beck
James Remar
Dorsey Wright
Walter Hill
Little Big Man
Little Big Man (1970)
Adventure, Drama, Western
Jack Crabb is 121 years old as the film begins. A collector of oral histories asks him about his past. He recounts being captured and raised by indians, becoming a gunslinger, marrying an indian, watching her killed by General George Armstrong Custer, and becoming a scout for him at Little Big Horn.
Dustin Hoffman
Faye Dunaway
Chief Dan George
Arthur Penn
The War Room
The War Room (1993)
Documentary, History
A behind-the-scenes documentary about the Clinton for President campaign, focusing on the adventures of spin doctors James Carville and George Stephanopoulos. Bill Clinton himself is almost never seen.
James Carville
George Stephanopoulos
Heather Beckel
Chris Hegedus
D.A. Pennebaker
High Hopes
High Hopes (1988)
Comedy, Drama
The life of a working class couple living in London and their complicated relationships with other members of the family.
Phil Davis
Ruth Sheen
Edna Doré
Mike Leigh
Bullets Over Broadway
Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
Comedy, Crime
1920s Broadway. Playwright David Shayne considers himself an artist, and surrounds himself with like minded people, most struggling financially as they create art for themselves, not the masses. David, however, believes the failure of his first two plays was because he gave up creative control to... [show more]
John Cusack
Dianne Wiest
Jennifer Tilly
Woody Allen
Smoke
Smoke (1995)
Comedy, Drama
The plot of this movie, like smoke, drifts and swirls ethereally. Characters and subplots are deftly woven into a tapestry of stories and pictures which only slowly emerges to our view. This movie tries to convince us that reality doesn't matter so much as aesthetic satisfaction. In Auggie Wren's... [show more]
Harvey Keitel
William Hurt
Giancarlo Esposito
Wayne Wang
Body Heat
Body Heat (1981)
Crime, Drama, Romance
Ned Racine is a seedy small town lawyer in Florida. During a searing heatwave he's picked up by married Matty Walker. A passionate affair commences but it isn't long before they realise the only thing standing in their way is Matty's rich husband Edmund. A plot hatches to kill him but will they pull... [show more]
William Hurt
Kathleen Turner
Richard Crenna
Lawrence Kasdan
If....
If.... (1968)
Crime, Drama
In an indictment of the British public school system, we follow Mick and his mostly younger friends through a series of indignities and occasionally abuse as any fond feelings toward these schools are destroyed. When Mick and his friends rebel, violently, the catch phrase, "which side would you be... [show more]
Malcolm McDowell
David Wood
Richard Warwick
Lindsay Anderson
Gods and Monsters
Gods and Monsters (1998)
Biography, Drama
1957. Long having retired, James Whale, arguably most famous for directing Frankenstein (1931) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935) among some other 1930s horror classics, has burned his bridges with the Hollywood community in that they have abandoned him, the possible exception being his continuing... [show more]
Ian McKellen
Brendan Fraser
Lynn Redgrave
Bill Condon
The Selfish Giant
The Selfish Giant (2013)
Drama
An official selection at the Cannes Film Festival, The Selfish Giant is a contemporary fable about 13 year old Arbor (Conner Chapman) and his best friend Swifty (Shaun Thomas). Excluded from school and outsiders in their own neighborhood, the two boys meet Kitten (Sean Gilder), a local scrap dealer.... [show more]
Conner Chapman
Shaun Thomas
Sean Gilder
Clio Barnard
Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa (1986)
Crime, Drama, Romance
After getting out of prison, George (Bob Hoskins) looks for a job, but his time in prison has reduced his stature in the criminal underworld. The only job he can find is to be a driver for beautiful, high-priced call girl Simone (Cathy Tyson), with whom he forms an at first grudging, and then a... [show more]
Bob Hoskins
Cathy Tyson
Michael Caine
Neil Jordan
Atlantic City
Atlantic City (1980)
Crime, Drama, Romance
Atlantic City is a place where people go to realize their dreams, the promise of the future manifested by the demolition of the old crumbling buildings to be replaced by new hotels and casinos. Someone who recently came to Atlantic City for that promise is native Moose Javian (Saskatchewan) Sally... [show more]
Burt Lancaster
Susan Sarandon
Kate Reid
Louis Malle
Big Night
Big Night (1996)
Drama, Romance
New Jersey, 1950s. Two brothers run an Italian restaurant. Business is not going well as a rival Italian restaurant is out-competing them. In a final effort to save the restaurant, the brothers plan to put on an evening of incredi...
Tony Shalhoub
Stanley Tucci
Marc Anthony
Campbell Scott
Stanley Tucci
Welcome to the Dollhouse
Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995)
Comedy, Drama
Seventh-grade is no fun. Especially for Dawn Weiner when everyone at school calls you 'Dog-Face' or 'Wiener-Dog.' Not to mention if your older brother is 'King of the Nerds' and your younger sister is a cutesy ballerina who gets you in trouble but is your parents' favorite. And that's just the... [show more]
Heather Matarazzo
Christina Brucato
Victoria Davis
Todd Solondz
National Lampoon's Vacation
National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
Adventure, Comedy
Having it all planned down to the last detail, the American, well-meaning paterfamilias, Clark Griswold, and his supportive wife, Ellen, take their two teenage children, Rusty and Audrey, on a cross-country trip from the suburbs of Chicago, all the way to sunny California's Walley World amusement... [show more]
Chevy Chase
Beverly D'Angelo
Imogene Coca
Harold Ramis
Hope and Glory
Hope and Glory (1987)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
A semi-autobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War II. For a young boy, this time in history was more of an adventure, a total upheaval of order, restrictions and discipline. The liberating effect of the war on... [show more]
Sarah Miles
David Hayman
Sebastian Rice-Edwards
John Boorman
Metropolitan
Metropolitan (1989)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
In an apartment on Manhattan a couple of friends from the New York upper-class meet almost every night to talk about social mobility, play bridge and discuss Fourier's socialism; the cynic Nick, the philosophical Charlie, party girl Sally and austenite Audrey. They are joined by Tom. His background... [show more]
Carolyn Farina
Edward Clements
Chris Eigeman
Whit Stillman
Moonlighting
Moonlighting (1982)
Drama
A Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak (Irons) has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West and loneliness and separation from their families. Nowak is the only... [show more]
Jeremy Irons
Eugene Lipinski
Jiri Stanislav
Jerzy Skolimowski
The Grey Fox
The Grey Fox (1982)
Biography, Drama, History
Old West highwayman Bill Miner, known to Pinkertons as "The Gentleman Bandit," is released in 1901 after 33 years in prison, a genial and charming old man. He goes to Washington to live and work with his sister's family. But the world has changed much while he has been away, and he just can't... [show more]
Richard Farnsworth
Jackie Burroughs
Ken Pogue
Phillip Borsos