Good Night, and Good Luck.
Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)
Biography, Drama, History
In the early 1950's, the threat of Communism created an air of paranoia in the United States and exploiting those fears was Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin. However, CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow and his producer Fred W. Friendly decided to take a stand and challenge McCarthy and expose him for... [show more]
David Strathairn
George Clooney
Patricia Clarkson
George Clooney
Cry Freedom
Cry Freedom (1987)
Biography, Drama, History
Donald Woods (Kevin Kline) is chief editor of the liberal newspaper "Daily Dispatch" in South Africa. He has written several editorials critical of the views of Steve Biko (Denzel Washington). But after having met him for the first time, he changes his opinion. They meet several times, and this... [show more]
Denzel Washington
Kevin Kline
Josette Simon
Richard Attenborough
The Silent Partner
The Silent Partner (1978)
Comedy, Crime, Drama
A bank teller is held up at gun point in his bank. Luckily for him he receives a clue that this is going to occur and diverts most of the cash into his own safety deposit box, leaving only a nominal amount for the crook. The ruse works well, but for the fact that the crook resents the fact that he... [show more]
Elliott Gould
Christopher Plummer
Susannah York
Daryl Duke
Curtis Hanson
Distant Voices, Still Lives
Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988)
Drama, Music
The second film in Terence Davies's autobiographical series ('Trilogy', 'The Long Day Closes') is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Davies's own family. The first part, 'Distant Voices', opens with grown siblings Eileen (Angela Walsh), Maisie... [show more]
Pete Postlethwaite
Freda Dowie
Angela Walsh
Terence Davies
Thief
Thief (1981)
Action, Crime, Drama
Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specializing in high-profile diamond jobs. After having spent many years in prison, he has a very concrete picture of what he wants out of life--including a nice home, a wife, and kids. As soon as he is able to assemble the pieces of this collage, by... [show more]
James Caan
Tuesday Weld
Willie Nelson
Michael Mann
Predestination
Predestination (2014)
Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
PREDESTINATION chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to ensure the continuation of his law enforcement career for all eternity. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must pursue the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time.
Ethan Hawke
Sarah Snook
Noah Taylor
Michael Spierig
Peter Spierig
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
Les Misérables
Les Misérables (1998)
Crime, Drama, Romance
Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Liam Neeson
Geoffrey Rush
Uma Thurman
Bille August
Steel Magnolias
Steel Magnolias (1989)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Pivoting around the lively Truvy Jones' Louisiana beauty parlour, a tightly-knit band of friends, confront griefs, loss, life's unforeseen tragedies and heartaches with what they do best: gossiping and sharing. The spirited diabetic and bride-to-be, Shelby; her always supportive mother, M'Lynn;... [show more]
Shirley MacLaine
Olympia Dukakis
Sally Field
Herbert Ross
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
The most acclaimed Star Trek adventure of all time with an important message. It is the 23rd century, and a mysterious alien probe is threatening Earth by evaporating the oceans and destroying the atmosphere. In their frantic attempt to save mankind, Admiral Kirk and his crew must time travel back... [show more]
William Shatner
Leonard Nimoy
DeForest Kelley
Leonard Nimoy
The Last Unicorn
The Last Unicorn (1982)
Animation, Adventure, Drama
From a riddle-speaking butterfly (Robert Klein), a unicorn (Mia Farrow) learns that she is supposedly the last of her kind, all of the others having been herded away by the Red Bull. The unicorn sets out to discover the truth behind the butterfly's words. She is eventually joined on her quest by... [show more]
Jeff Bridges
Mia Farrow
Angela Lansbury
Jules Bass
Arthur Rankin Jr.
Manhattan Murder Mystery
Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
Comedy, Mystery
Larry and Carol are fairly normal New Yorkers who have sent their son off to college. They meet an elderly couple down the hall and later in the week find that the wife has suddenly died. Carol becomes suspicious of Paul who seems to be too cheerful and too ready to move on. She begins her... [show more]
Woody Allen
Diane Keaton
Jerry Adler
Woody Allen
Ragtime
Ragtime (1981)
Drama
The story runs in the 1910's New York. Coalhouse Walker Jr. is a black piano player. He has won fame and fortune playing with a jazz band. Some white men do not like this situation, and one day they assault him and spoil his brand new car. Walker tries by all means to get justice, without an... [show more]
James Cagney
Elizabeth McGovern
Howard E. Rollins Jr.
Milos Forman
The Queen
The Queen (2006)
Biography, Drama
Diana, the "People's Princess" has died in a car accident in Paris. The Queen (Dame Helen Mirren) and her family decide that for the best, they should remain hidden behind the closed doors of Balmoral Castle. The heartbroken public do not understand and request that the Queen comforts her people.... [show more]
Helen Mirren
Michael Sheen
James Cromwell
Stephen Frears
Despicable Me 2
Despicable Me 2 (2013)
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
While Gru, the ex-supervillain is adjusting to family life and an attempted honest living in the jam business, a secret Arctic laboratory is stolen. The Anti-Villain League decides it needs an insider's help and recruits Gru in the investigation. Together with the eccentric AVL agent, Lucy Wilde,... [show more]
Steve Carell
Kristen Wiig
Benjamin Bratt
Pierre Coffin
Chris Renaud
The Walk
The Walk (2015)
Adventure, Biography, Drama
Twelve people have walked on the moon, but only one man - Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) - has ever, or will ever, walk in the immense void between the World Trade Center towers. Guided by his real-life mentor, Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley), and aided by an unlikely band of international recruits,... [show more]
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Charlotte Le Bon
Ben Kingsley
Robert Zemeckis
Transamerica
Transamerica (2005)
Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Southern Californian Bree Osbourne, formerly Stanley Chupak, has finally received the news for which she has been waiting: she has been approved for male-to-female sexual reassignment surgery. But before Margaret, her therapist, will allow her to go through with the surgery scheduled in a week's... [show more]
Felicity Huffman
Kevin Zegers
Fionnula Flanagan
Duncan Tucker
Monster
Monster (2003)
Biography, Crime, Drama
The true story of serial killer Aileen Wuornos who was convicted of luring men to their death and eventually executed in 2002. In 1989, she was working as a prostitute and finally makes a friend when she meets and begins a relationship with a young woman, Selby. Determined to straighten out her... [show more]
Charlize Theron
Christina Ricci
Bruce Dern
Patty Jenkins
Frida
Frida (2002)
Biography, Drama, Romance
"Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera, as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and... [show more]
Salma Hayek
Alfred Molina
Geoffrey Rush
Julie Taymor
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Needing extra cash, two brothers conspire to pull off the perfect, victimless crime. No guns, no violence, no problem. But when an accomplice ignores the rules and crosses the line, his actions trigger a series of events in which no one is left unscathed.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Ethan Hawke
Albert Finney
Sidney Lumet
Lethal Weapon 2
Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
Action, Crime, Thriller
Riggs and Murtaugh are trying to take down some drug dealers but the they turn out to be not run of the mill drug dealers; they have automatic weapons and helicopters. Eventually they grab one of their vehicles and find a million dollars worth of gold coins or Krugerrands in the trunk. Later... [show more]
Mel Gibson
Danny Glover
Joe Pesci
Richard Donner
Wall Street
Wall Street (1987)
Crime, Drama
On the Wall Street of the 1980s, Bud Fox is a stockbroker full of ambition, doing whatever he can to make his way to the top. Admiring the power of the unsparing corporate raider Gordon Gekko, Fox entices Gekko into mentoring him by providing insider trading. As Fox becomes embroiled in greed and... [show more]
Charlie Sheen
Michael Douglas
Tamara Tunie
Oliver Stone
The Bedford Incident
The Bedford Incident (1965)
Drama, Thriller
Richard Widmark plays a hardened cold-warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS Bedford. Sidney Poitier is a reporter given permission to interview the captain during a routine patrol. Poitier gets more than he bargained for when the Bedford discovers a Soviet sub in the depths and the... [show more]
Richard Widmark
Sidney Poitier
James MacArthur
James B. Harris
An Unmarried Woman
An Unmarried Woman (1978)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Erica is unmarried only temporarily, in that her successful, wealthy husband of 16 years has just left her for a girl he met while buying a shirt in Bloomingdale's. This movie shows Erica coming to terms with the break-up while revising her opinions of herself, redefining that self in its own right... [show more]
Jill Clayburgh
Alan Bates
Michael Murphy
Paul Mazursky
Only Lovers Left Alive
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Set against the romantic desolation of Detroit and Tangiers, an underground musician, deeply depressed by the direction of human activities, reunites with his resilient and enigmatic lover. Their love story has already endured several centuries at least, but their debauched idyll is soon disrupted... [show more]
Tilda Swinton
Tom Hiddleston
Mia Wasikowska
Jim Jarmusch
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Cosmo Vitelli owns the Crazy Horse West, a strip joint in Los Angeles. He's laconic, vet, and a gambler. When we meet him, he's making his last payment on a gambling debt, after which, he promptly loses $23,000 playing poker. The guys he owes this time aren't so friendly, pressuring him for... [show more]
Ben Gazzara
Timothy Carey
Seymour Cassel
John Cassavetes
Beginners
Beginners (2010)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
In 2003, 38-year-old graphic artist Oliver Fields has just lost his father Hal to cancer, 5 years after his mother Georgia's death. Oliver is naturally sullen because of his relationships with his parents growing up (especially his mother, who had a unique view of life) and watching their cordial... [show more]
Ewan McGregor
Christopher Plummer
Mélanie Laurent
Mike Mills
The Virgin Suicides
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
Drama, Romance
A man about forty years of age tells the story from when he was a teenager in upscale suburban Detroit of his and three of his friends' fascination with the mysterious and doomed Lisbon sisters. In 1974, the sisters were seventeen year old Therese, sixteen year old Mary, fifteen year old Bonnie,... [show more]
Kirsten Dunst
Josh Hartnett
James Woods
Sofia Coppola
This Is It
This Is It (2009)
Documentary, Music
In the weeks before his death, Michael Jackson (August 29, 1958 - June 25, 2009) was rehearsing a show, "This Is It," that was to open in July. This film begins with a few of the auditioning dancers speaking to the camera about why they're trying out and what Jackson means to them. Then we plunge... [show more]
Michael Jackson
Alex Al
Alexandra Apjarova
Kenny Ortega
It's All Gone Pete Tong
It's All Gone Pete Tong (2004)
Biography, Comedy, Drama
Its All Gone Pete Tong is a comedy following the tragic life of legendary Frankie Wilde. The story takes us through Frankie's life from one of the best DJ's alive, through subsequent battle with a hearing disorder, culminating in his mysterious disappearance from the scene. A genius in his own... [show more]
Paul Kaye
Beatriz Batarda
Kate Magowan
Michael Dowse
Vanishing Point
Vanishing Point (1971)
Action, Crime, Thriller
Kowalski works for a car delivery service. He takes delivery of a 1970 Dodge Challenger to take from Colorado to San Francisco, California. Shortly after pickup, he takes a bet to get the car there in less than 15 hours. After a few run-ins with motorcycle cops and highway patrol they start a chase... [show more]
Barry Newman
Cleavon Little
Charlotte Rampling
Richard C. Sarafian
Pom Poko
Pom Poko (1994)
Animation, Comedy, Drama
As the human city development encroaches on the raccoon dog population's forest and meadow habitat, the raccoon dogs find themselves faced with the very real possibility of extinction. In response, the raccoon dogs engage in a desperate struggle to stop the construction and preserve their home.
Shinchô Kokontei
Makoto Nonomura
Yuriko Ishida
Isao Takahata
Trinity Is Still My Name
Trinity Is Still My Name (1971)
Comedy, Western
A couple of two-bit thieving brothers try and keep a promise to their dying father: stick together and become successful outlaws. Bambino reluctantly agrees to show younger Trinity the ropes, but their gentle demeanors tend to diminish their haul by repeatedly helping the selfsame family they... [show more]
Terence Hill
Bud Spencer
Yanti Somer
Enzo Barboni
Truly Madly Deeply
Truly Madly Deeply (1990)
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Once upon a time there were two people in love, their names were Nina and Jamie. They were even happy enough to be able to live happily ever after, (not often the case) and then Jamie died. Nina is left with a house full of rats and handymen, a job teaching foreigners English and an ache that fills... [show more]
Juliet Stevenson
Alan Rickman
Jenny Howe
Anthony Minghella
The Man in the Moon
The Man in the Moon (1991)
Drama, Romance
Rural Louisiana, summer of 1957, Elvis is King. At 14, Dani is coming of age. Her older sister is beautiful, smart, and off to Duke in the fall; her mom's pregnant with number four (Dad wants a son), and Dad's pretty strict. Life gets sweeter when 17-year-old Court Foster, his widowed mom, and two... [show more]
Sam Waterston
Tess Harper
Gail Strickland
Robert Mulligan
The Chipmunk Adventure
The Chipmunk Adventure (1987)
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Alvin has entered himself and Simon and Theodore in a hot-air balloon race around the world against the Chipettes to deliver diamonds for a group of diamond smugglers. The winners will collect a prize of $100,000. Kids and adults will enjoy this film made with musical numbers by the Chipmunks and... [show more]
Ross Bagdasarian Jr.
Janice Karman
Dody Goodman
Janice Karman
The Adventures of Mark Twain
The Adventures of Mark Twain (1985)
Animation, Action, Adventure
Based on elements from the stories of Mark Twain, this feature-length Claymation fantasy follows the adventures of Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher and Huck Finn as they stowaway aboard the interplanetary balloon of Mark Twain. Twain, disgusted with the human race, is intent upon finding Halley's Comet... [show more]
James Whitmore
Michele Mariana
Gary Krug
Will Vinton
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence (1993)
Drama, Romance
Society scion Newland Archer is engaged to May Welland, but his well-ordered life is upset when he meets May's unconventional cousin, the Countess Olenska. At first, Newland becomes a defender of the Countess, whose separation from her abusive husband makes her a social outcast in the restrictive... [show more]
Daniel Day-Lewis
Michelle Pfeiffer
Winona Ryder
Martin Scorsese
Monsters University
Monsters University (2013)
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal) and James P. "Sully" Sullivan (John Goodman) are an inseparable pair, but that wasn't always the case. From the moment these two mismatched monsters met, they couldn't stand each other. This movie unlocks the door to how Mike and Sully overcame their differences and... [show more]
Billy Crystal
John Goodman
Steve Buscemi
Dan Scanlon
Mune: Guardian of the Moon
Mune: Guardian of the Moon (2014)
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Mune, a young fawn, is chosen as the new Guardian of the Moon. Together with Glim, a girl made of wax, and Sohone, the new Guardian of the Sun, they must recover the sun from the evil Necross.
Omar Sy
Izïa Higelin
Michaël Grégorio
Alexandre Heboyan
Benoît Philippon
Without a Trace
Without a Trace (1983)
Drama, Mystery
This movie, centering on a child's abduction, casts Kate Nelligan as the distraught mother who lashes out at the police (in the person of a relentless detective played by Judd Hirsch), who treat her and her husband as suspects, even as she hounds them to find her child and drives away her husband... [show more]
Kate Nelligan
Judd Hirsch
David Dukes
Stanley R. Jaffe
Meet the Patels
Meet the Patels (2014)
Documentary, Animation, Comedy
An Indian-American man who is about to turn 30 gets help from his parents and extended family to start looking for a wife in the traditional Indian way.
Ravi Patel
Geeta Vasant Patel
Champa V. Patel
Geeta Vasant Patel
Ravi Patel
The Keys to the House
The Keys to the House (2004)
Drama
"Prepare yourself for suffering if you intend to be close to him." So speaks the mother of a young woman with severe disabilities, speaking to Gianni, the father of 16-year-old Paolo, himself developmentally disabled. Gianni abandoned the boy at birth, when the child's mother died, and Paulo's aunt... [show more]
Kim Rossi Stuart
Andrea Rossi
Charlotte Rampling
Gianni Amelio
Chariots of Fire
Chariots of Fire (1981)
Biography, Drama, Sport
It's the post-World War I era. Britons Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell are both naturally gifted fast sprinters, but approach running and how it fits into their respective lives differently. The son of a Lithuanian Jew, Harold, who lives a somewhat privileged life as a student at Cambridge, uses... [show more]
Ben Cross
Ian Charleson
Nicholas Farrell
Hugh Hudson
Chicken Run
Chicken Run (2000)
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Having been hopelessly repressed and facing eventual certain death at the chicken farm where they are held, Rocky the rooster and Ginger the chicken decide to rebel against the evil Mr. and Ms. Tweedy, the farm's owners. Rocky and Ginger lead their fellow chickens in a great escape from the... [show more]
Mel Gibson
Julia Sawalha
Phil Daniels
Peter Lord
Nick Park
Frozen River
Frozen River (2008)
Crime, Drama
Takes place in the days before Christmas near a little-known border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New York State and Quebec. Here, the lure of fast money from smuggling presents a daily challenge to single moms who would otherwise be earning minimum wage. Two women - one white, one... [show more]
Melissa Leo
Misty Upham
Charlie McDermott
Courtney Hunt
The Savages
The Savages (2007)
Comedy, Drama
Jon and Wendy Savage are two siblings who have spent their adult years trying to recover from the abuse of their abusive father, Lenny Savage. Suddenly, a call comes in that his girlfriend has died, he cannot care for himself with his dementia and her family is dumping him on his children. Despite... [show more]
Laura Linney
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Philip Bosco
Tamara Jenkins
Wild
Wild (2014)
Adventure, Biography, Drama
With the dissolution of her marriage and the death of her mother, Cheryl Strayed has lost all hope. After years of reckless, destructive behavior, she makes a rash decision. With absolutely no experience, driven only by sheer determination, Cheryl hikes more than a thousand miles of the Pacific... [show more]
Reese Witherspoon
Laura Dern
Gaby Hoffmann
Jean-Marc Vallée
Safe
Safe (1995)
Drama
"Safe" has been described as a horror movie of the soul, a description that director Todd Haynes relishes. California housewife Carol White seems to have it all in life: a wealthy husband, a beautiful house, servants, beauty, and a lot of friends. The only thing she lacks is a strong personality:... [show more]
Julianne Moore
Xander Berkeley
Dean Norris
Todd Haynes
The Wings of the Dove
The Wings of the Dove (1997)
Drama, Romance
Kate Croy's (Helena Bonham Carter's) mother was born to wealth and privilege, but she threw it all away to marry Kate's Father (Sir Michael Gambon), a penniless opium addict who admits to having stolen from his wife. After her mother's death, Kate is offered an opportunity to return to the life her... [show more]
Helena Bonham Carter
Linus Roache
Alex Jennings
Iain Softley