What's Eating Gilbert Grape
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
Drama
What's Eating Gibert Grape is a beautifully shot movie of tenderness, caring and self-awareness that is set amongst the fictional working class one street town Endora. Centred around the Grape family Ellen and Amy and their two brothers Arnie and Gilbert, who, along with their morbidly obese widowed... [show more]
Johnny Depp
Leonardo DiCaprio
Juliette Lewis
Lasse Hallström
Minority Report
Minority Report (2002)
Action, Crime, Mystery
In the year 2054 A.D. crime is virtually eliminated from Washington D.C. thanks to an elite law enforcing squad "Precrime". They use three gifted humans (called "Pre-Cogs") with special powers to see into the future and predict crimes beforehand. John Anderton heads Precrime and believes the... [show more]
Tom Cruise
Colin Farrell
Samantha Morton
Steven Spielberg
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet (1968)
Drama, Romance
Against the backdrop of a venomous feud between the powerful clans of the Montagues and the Capulets in the medieval city of Verona, William Shakespeare's eternal story of teenage love unfolds. As youth's insolence arms the charming young Montague, Romeo, with dauntless courage to come uninvited to... [show more]
Leonard Whiting
Olivia Hussey
John McEnery
Franco Zeffirelli
Lord of War
Lord of War (2005)
Crime, Drama
This movie charts the rise and fall of Yuri Orlov, from his early days in the early 1980s in Little Odessa, selling guns to mobsters in his local neighborhood, through to his ascension through the decade of excess and indulgence into the early 1990s, where he forms a business partnership with an... [show more]
Nicolas Cage
Ethan Hawke
Jared Leto
Andrew Niccol
The Reader
The Reader (2008)
Drama, Mystery, Romance
THE READER opens in post-war Germany when teenager Michael Berg becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate secret affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being... [show more]
Kate Winslet
Ralph Fiennes
Bruno Ganz
Stephen Daldry
Jackie Brown
Jackie Brown (1997)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
The middle-aged stewardess Jackie Brown smuggles money from Mexico to Los Angeles for the arms dealer Ordell Robbie. When she gets caught by the agents Ray Nicolet and Mark Dargus with ten thousand dollars and cocaine in her purse, they propose a deal to her to help them to arrest Ordell in exchange... [show more]
Pam Grier
Samuel L. Jackson
Robert Forster
Quentin Tarantino
10 Rillington Place
10 Rillington Place (1971)
Biography, Crime, Drama
London, 1949. John Christie is an unassuming, middle-aged man who, along with his wife Ethel, lives in the ground-floor flat at 10 Rillington Place. His demeanor masks the fact of being a serial killer. His modus operandi is to act as a person with a medical background, lure unsuspecting women to... [show more]
Richard Attenborough
Judy Geeson
John Hurt
Richard Fleischer
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
Coal Miner's Daughter
Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
Biography, Drama, Music
At only 13, Loretta Webb marries Doolittle Lynn and is soon responsible for a large family. She appears destined to a life of homemaking, but Doolittle recognizes his wife's musical talent, and buys her a guitar as an anniversary present one year. At 18, the busy mother of four children still finds... [show more]
Sissy Spacek
Tommy Lee Jones
Levon Helm
Michael Apted
42
42 (2013)
Biography, Drama, Sport
In 1946, Jackie Robinson is a Negro League baseball player who never takes racism lying down. Branch Rickey is a Major League team executive with a bold idea. To that end, Rickey recruits Robinson to break the unspoken color line as the first modern African American Major League player. As both... [show more]
Chadwick Boseman
T.R. Knight
Harrison Ford
Brian Helgeland
A Hard Day's Night
A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Comedy, Musical
A day and a half in the life of the Fab Four leading up to a televised concert gig. The boys seem to be constantly on the run, from their crazed fans and from their manager, who is constantly trying to rein them in. Sir Ringo Starr however is arrested and still isn't in the studio half an hour... [show more]
John Lennon
Paul McCartney
George Harrison
Richard Lester
Marathon Man
Marathon Man (1976)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Thomas "Babe" Levy, whose brother Henry James "Doc" Levy is an oil business executive, is a Ph.D. candidate in History at Columbia University. He is also training as a marathon runner. Babe is paying homage to his deceased father, H.B. Levy, in pursuing the same studies as he, the father who... [show more]
Dustin Hoffman
Laurence Olivier
Roy Scheider
John Schlesinger
The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
The 1950s. Manhattan lavatory attendant, Tom Ripley, borrows a Princeton jacket to play piano at a garden party. When the wealthy father of a recent Princeton grad chats Tom up, Tom pretends to know the son and is soon offered $1,000 to go to Italy to convince Dickie Greenleaf to return home. In... [show more]
Matt Damon
Gwyneth Paltrow
Jude Law
Anthony Minghella
Cloud Atlas
Cloud Atlas (2012)
Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Everything is connected: an 1849 diary of an ocean voyage across the Pacific, letters from a composer to his lover, a thriller about a conspiracy at a nuclear power plant, a farce about a publisher in a nursing home;, a rebellious clone in futuristic Korea, and the tale of a tribe living on... [show more]
Tom Hanks
Halle Berry
Hugh Grant
Tom Tykwer
Lana Wachowski
Lilly Wachowski
Black Dynamite
Black Dynamite (2009)
Action, Comedy
This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor. Black Dynamite was the one hero willing to fight The Man all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to... [show more]
Michael Jai White
Arsenio Hall
Tommy Davidson
Scott Sanders
Deep Blue
Deep Blue (2003)
Documentary
Embark on a fascinating voyage through awesome aquatic realms where humans have rarely dared to go. Waddle with playful penguins, dart with lightning speed through schools of sharks, ride over stormy waves with massive whales, encounter families of polar bears and seals, and watch alien-like... [show more]
Pierce Brosnan
Michael Gambon
David Attenborough
Andy Byatt
Alastair Fothergill
United
United (2011)
Drama, History, Sport
United is based on the true story of Manchester United's legendary "Busby Babes", the youngest side ever to win the Football League and the 1958 Munich Air Crash that claimed eight of the their number. The film draws on first-hand interviews with the survivors and their families to tell the... [show more]
Dean Andrews
Kate Ashfield
Natalie Burt
James Strong
Eight Below
Eight Below (2006)
Adventure, Drama, Family
In the Antarctic, after an expedition with Dr. Davis McClaren, the sled dog trainer Jerry Shepherd has to leave the polar base with his colleagues due to the proximity of a heavy snow storm. He ties his dogs to be rescued after, but the mission is called-off and the dogs are left alone at their own... [show more]
Paul Walker
Jason Biggs
Bruce Greenwood
Frank Marshall
The Front
The Front (1976)
Drama
In the early 1950s Howard Prince, who works in a restaurant, helps out a black-listed writer friend by selling a TV station a script under his own name. The money is useful in paying off gambling debts, so he takes on three more such clients. Howard is politically pretty innocent, but involvement... [show more]
Woody Allen
Zero Mostel
Herschel Bernardi
Martin Ritt
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 Basketball Diaries
The Basketball Diaries (1995)
Biography, Crime, Drama
Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction. As a member of a seemingly unbeatable high school basketball squad, Jim's life centers around the basketball court and the court becomes a metaphor for the world in his... [show more]
Leonardo DiCaprio
Lorraine Bracco
Marilyn Sokol
Scott Kalvert
The Crying Game
The Crying Game (1992)
Crime, Drama, Romance
An unlikely kind of friendship develops between Fergus (Stephen Rea), an Irish Republican Army volunteer, and Jody (Forest Whitaker), a kidnapped British soldier lured into an IRA trap by Jude (Miranda Richardson), another IRA member. When the hostage-taking ends up going horribly wrong, Fergus... [show more]
Stephen Rea
Jaye Davidson
Forest Whitaker
Neil Jordan
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Drama, Romance
Tomas is a doctor and a lady-killer in 1960s Czechoslovakia, an apolitical man who is struck with love for the bookish country girl Tereza; his more sophisticated sometime lover Sabina eventually accepts their relationship and the two women form an electric friendship. The three are caught up in the... [show more]
Daniel Day-Lewis
Juliette Binoche
Lena Olin
Philip Kaufman
We Were Soldiers
We Were Soldiers (2002)
Action, Drama, History
A telling of the 1st Battalion, 7 Cavalry Regiment, 1st Calvary Division's battle against overwhelming odds in the Ia Drang valley of Vietnam in 1965. Seen through the eyes of the battalion's commander, Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore (played by Mel Gibson), we see him take command of the battalion and... [show more]
Mel Gibson
Madeleine Stowe
Greg Kinnear
Randall Wallace
Friday
Friday (1995)
Comedy, Drama
It is Friday and Craig Jones (Ice Cube) is unemployed, having been fired yesterday. This has lead to trouble with Smokey's (Chris Tucker's) supplier, Big Worm (Faizon Love), who now wants his money, or his product back, or Smokey is a dead man. Then there's Deebo (Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Jr.), the... [show more]
Ice Cube
Chris Tucker
Nia Long
F. Gary Gray
Insomnia
Insomnia (2002)
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
In Nightmute, Alaska, seventeen year old resident Kay Connell is found murdered. As a favor to the local Nightmute police chief, two Los Angeles Robbery Homicide police detectives, Will Dormer and Hap Eckhart, are called in to assist in the investigation. Although renowned in the police world, both... [show more]
Al Pacino
Robin Williams
Hilary Swank
Christopher Nolan
Mother and Child
Mother and Child (2009)
Drama, Romance
Almost forty years ago, a young girl of fourteen has sex, gets pregnant, and gives her baby up for adoption. Fast-forwarding to the present day, we meet three very different women, each of whom struggles to maintain control of their lives. There's Elizabeth, a smart and successful lawyer who uses... [show more]
Naomi Watts
Annette Bening
Kerry Washington
Rodrigo García
The Three Faces of Eve
The Three Faces of Eve (1957)
Drama, Mystery
Eve White is a quiet, mousy, unassuming wife and mother who keeps suffering from headaches and occasional black outs. Eventually she is sent to see psychiatrist Dr. Luther, and, while under hypnosis, a whole new personality emerges: the racy, wild, fun-loving Eve Black. Under continued therapy, yet... [show more]
Joanne Woodward
David Wayne
Lee J. Cobb
Nunnally Johnson
The Same Love, the Same Rain
The Same Love, the Same Rain (1999)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
The love story between Jorge Pellegrini, a promising writer, and Laura Ramallo, a passionate waitress with artistic aspirations, over almost two decades. It begins in 1980 and ends on 1999. It tells their initial romance, the subsequent disagreements, the triumphs, the individual defeats - and their... [show more]
PG-13
113 min
Ricardo Darín
Soledad Villamil
Ulises Dumont
Juan José Campanella
PG-13
113 min
Unknown
Now You See Me
Now You See Me (2013)
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Four magicians each answer a mysterious summons to an obscure address with secrets inside. A year later, they are the Four Horsemen, big time stage illusionists who climax their sold-out Las Vegas show with a bank apparently robbed for real. This puts F.B.I. Agents Dylan Rhodes and Interpol Agent... [show more]
Jesse Eisenberg
Common
Mark Ruffalo
Louis Leterrier
The Express
The Express (2008)
Biography, Drama, Sport
This biopic focuses on the relationship of Ernie Davis (1939-1963), a gifted African-American athlete, and his coach from 1958 to 1962 at Syracuse University, Ben Schwartzwalder (1909-1993). Schwartzwalder recruits Davis with the help of All-American running back, Jim Brown. The civil rights... [show more]
Rob Brown
Dennis Quaid
Clancy Brown
Gary Fleder
Moonstruck
Moonstruck (1987)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
No sooner does Italian-American widow Loretta accept a marriage proposal from her doltish boyfriend, Johnny, then she finds herself falling for his younger brother, Ronny. She tries to resist, but Ronny lost his hand in an accident he blames on his brother, and has no scruples about aggressively... [show more]
Cher
Nicolas Cage
Olympia Dukakis
Norman Jewison
Stardust Memories
Stardust Memories (1980)
Comedy, Drama
Renowned filmmaker Sandy Bates is in a professional transition, directing largely comedies early in his career now wanting to direct more serious movies so that he can explore the meaning of life, most specifically his own. Most are fighting him all along the way, including the movie going public,... [show more]
Woody Allen
Charlotte Rampling
Jessica Harper
Woody Allen
Dumbo
Dumbo (1941)
Animation, Adventure, Drama
The stork delivers a baby elephant to Mrs. Jumbo, veteran of the circus, but the newborn is ridiculed because of his truly enormous ears and dubbed "Dumbo". After being separated from his mother, Dumbo is relegated to the circus' clown acts; it is up to his only friend, a mouse, to assist Dumbo to... [show more]
Sterling Holloway
Edward Brophy
James Baskett
Samuel Armstrong
Norman Ferguson
Wilfred Jackson
Same Time, Next Year
Same Time, Next Year (1978)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
A man and woman meet by chance at a romantic inn over dinner. Although both are married to others, they find themselves in the same bed the next morning questioning how this could have happened. They agree to meet on the same weekend each year. Originally a stage play, the two are seen changing,... [show more]
Alan Alda
Ellen Burstyn
Ivan Bonar
Robert Mulligan
Faraway, So Close!
Faraway, So Close! (1993)
Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A group of angels in the German capital look longingly upon the life of humans.
Otto Sander
Bruno Ganz
Peter Falk
Wim Wenders
The Man from Snowy River
The Man from Snowy River (1982)
Adventure, Drama, Romance
Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father's farm. The death of his father forces him to go to the low lands to earn enough money to get the farm back on its feet. Kirk Douglas plays two roles as twin brothers who haven't spoken for years, one of whom was... [show more]
Kirk Douglas
Tom Burlinson
Terence Donovan
George Miller
Gregory's Girl
Gregory's Girl (1980)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
In his warm, Scottish coming-of-age film, gangly teen Gregory and his school-mates are starting to find out about girls. He fancies Dorothy, not least because she has got on to the football team (and is a better player than he). He finally asks her out, but it is obviously the females in control of... [show more]
John Gordon Sinclair
Dee Hepburn
Jake D'Arcy
Bill Forsyth
Elf
Elf (2003)
Adventure, Comedy, Family
Buddy was a baby in an orphanage who stowed away in Santa's sack and ended up at the North Pole. Later, as an adult who happened to be raised by elves, Santa allows him to go to New York City to find his birth father, Walter Hobbs. Walter, who is on Santa's naughty list for being a heartless jerk,... [show more]
Will Ferrell
James Caan
Bob Newhart
Jon Favreau
Kon-Tiki
Kon-Tiki (2012)
Adventure, Biography, Drama
The Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific Ocean in a balsawood raft in 1947, together with five men, to prove that South Americans back in pre-Columbian times could have crossed the ocean and settled on Polynesian islands. After financing the trips with loans and donations, they set... [show more]
Pål Sverre Hagen
Anders Baasmo
Gustaf Skarsgård
Joachim Rønning
Espen Sandberg
The World According to Garp
The World According to Garp (1982)
Comedy, Drama
Based on the John Irving novel, this film chronicles the life of T S Garp, and his mother, Jenny. Whilst Garp sees himself as a "serious" writer, Jenny writes a feminist manifesto at an opportune time, and finds herself as a magnet for all manner of distressed women.
Robin Williams
Mary Beth Hurt
Glenn Close
George Roy Hill
Spy Game
Spy Game (2001)
Action, Crime, Thriller
CIA operative Nathan Muir (Redford) is on the brink of retirement when he finds out that his protege Tom Bishop (Pitt) has been arrested in China for espionage. No stranger to the machinations of the CIA's top echelon, Muir hones all his skills and irreverent manner in order to find a way to free... [show more]
Robert Redford
Brad Pitt
Catherine McCormack
Tony Scott
State of Grace
State of Grace (1990)
Action, Crime, Drama
Terry Noonan returns home to New York's Hells Kitchen after a ten year absence. He soon hooks up with childhood pal Jackie who is involved in the Irish mob run by his brother Frankie. Terry also rekindles an old flame with Jackie's sister Kathleen. Soon, however, Terry is torn between his loyalty to... [show more]
Sean Penn
Ed Harris
Gary Oldman
Phil Joanou
The Parallax View
The Parallax View (1974)
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
An ambitious reporter gets in way-over-his-head trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.
Warren Beatty
Paula Prentiss
William Daniels
Alan J. Pakula
Last Night
Last Night (1998)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
It's 18:00 in a somewhat deserted Toronto on the last day before the scheduled end of the world at midnight, the end which has been known now for months. Most people are treating midnight as a matter-of-fact event with little sense of panic. In fact, many are celebrating this last day. Most have... [show more]
Don McKellar
Sandra Oh
Roberta Maxwell
Don McKellar
Venus
Venus (2006)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Maurice Russell, once a great actor, is now living in London in the twilight of his life. Those of his generation remember him fondly, while those in the younger generations have no idea who he is. He spends most of his time hanging out with his friends Ian, also an actor, and Donald, or visiting... [show more]
Peter O'Toole
Jodie Whittaker
Leslie Phillips
Roger Michell
Prick Up Your Ears
Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
Biography, Drama
This movie is the story of the spectacular life and violent death of British playwright Joe Orton (Gary Oldman). In his teens, Orton is befriended by the older, more reserved Kenneth Halliwell (Alfred Molina), and while the two begin a relationship, it's fairly obvious that it's not all about sex.... [show more]
Gary Oldman
Alfred Molina
Vanessa Redgrave
Stephen Frears
Elvis and Anabelle
Elvis and Anabelle (2007)
Drama, Romance
Groomed by her overly ambitious mother, Anabelle is on the road to winning the Miss Texas Rose tiara when she dies tragically during a pageant. Her death lands her on the embalming table of Elvis, an embittered young man whose sense of family duty and love for his ailing father keep him from... [show more]
Max Minghella
Blake Lively
Joe Mantegna
Will Geiger
Alive
Alive (1993)
Biography, Drama, Thriller
In 1972, the Uruguayan rugby team is flying to Chile to play a game. However, the plane from the Uruguayan Air Force with 45 people crashes on the Andes Mountains and after the search party, they are considered dead. Two months after the crash, the sixteen survivors are finally rescued. Along the... [show more]
Ethan Hawke
Vincent Spano
Josh Hamilton
Frank Marshall