Ordinary People
Ordinary People (1980)
Drama
Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having difficulty being supportive to Conrad. Calvin is... [show more]
Donald Sutherland
Mary Tyler Moore
Judd Hirsch
Robert Redford
Merchants of Doubt
Merchants of Doubt (2014)
Documentary
A documentary that looks at pundits-for-hire who present themselves as scientific authorities as they speak about topics like toxic chemicals, pharmaceuticals and climate change.
Frederick Singer
Naomi Oreskes
Jamy Ian Swiss
Robert Kenner
Seven Pounds
Seven Pounds (2008)
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Haunted by a secret, Ben Thomas looks for redemption by radically transforming the lives of seven people he doesn't know. Once his plan is set, nothing will be able to stop him. At least that's what he thinks. But Ben hadn't planned on falling in love with one of these people and she's the one who... [show more]
Will Smith
Rosario Dawson
Woody Harrelson
Gabriele Muccino
Fruitvale Station
Fruitvale Station (2013)
Biography, Crime, Drama
This is the true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident who wakes up on the morning of December 31, 2008 and feels something in the air. Not sure what it is, he takes it as a sign to get a head start on his resolutions: being a better son to his mother, whose birthday falls on New Year's... [show more]
Michael B. Jordan
Melonie Diaz
Octavia Spencer
Ryan Coogler
Meet Me in St. Louis
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Comedy, Drama, Family
St. Louis 1903. The well-off Smith family has four beautiful daughters, including Esther and little Tootie. 17-year old Esther has fallen in love with the boy next door who has just moved in, John. He however barely notices her at first. The family is shocked when Mr. Smith reveals that he has been... [show more]
Judy Garland
Margaret O'Brien
Mary Astor
Vincente Minnelli
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
Up in the Air
Up in the Air (2009)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles, and just after he's met the frequent-traveller woman of his dreams.
George Clooney
Vera Farmiga
Anna Kendrick
Jason Reitman
Beyond Silence
Beyond Silence (1996)
Drama, Music
Since the earliest days in her childhood Lara has had a difficult but important task. Both her parents are deaf-mute and Lara has to translate from sign-language to the spoken word and vice versa when her parents want to communicate with other people. Getting older and more mature she becomes... [show more]
PG-13
109 min
Sylvie Testud
Tatjana Trieb
Howie Seago
Caroline Link
PG-13
109 min
Unknown
Little Manhattan
Little Manhattan (2005)
Comedy, Family, Romance
In Manhattan, 10-year-old Gabe finds his first love when he meets his former kindergarten mate, eleven-year-old Rosemary, in his karate classes. Confused with his new feelings and with the divorce process of his beloved parents, Leslie and Adam, he experiences the delightful unknown sensation of... [show more]
Josh Hutcherson
Charlotte Ray Rosenberg
Bradley Whitford
Mark Levin
The Black Stallion
The Black Stallion (1979)
Adventure, Family, Sport
While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion who is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks both he and the horse survive only to be stranded on a desert island. He befriends it, so when finally rescued,... [show more]
Kelly Reno
Mickey Rooney
Teri Garr
Carroll Ballard
Lean on Me
Lean on Me (1989)
Biography, Drama
An arrogant and unorthodox teacher returns as principal to the idyllic high school from which he had earlier been fired to find it a den of drug abuse, gang violence, and urban despair. Eventually he is successful but unorthodox methods lead to a clash with city officials that threatens to undo all... [show more]
Morgan Freeman
Beverly Todd
Robert Guillaume
John G. Avildsen
Shaun the Sheep Movie
Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015)
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Tired of working on the farm, the special sheep, Shaun, takes his flock and the farmer's dog, Bitzer, into his own "temporary escape plan" after an unexpected accident. Unfortunately, in the big city, the farmer is diagnosed with amnesia, that could possibly change their normal farm life forever,... [show more]
Justin Fletcher
John Sparkes
Omid Djalili
Mark Burton
Richard Starzak
Submarine
Submarine (2010)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Precocious Oliver struggles with being popular in school but when a dark-haired beauty takes interest in him, he's determined to become the best boyfriend in the world. Meanwhile, his parents' already rocky relationship is threatened when his mother's ex-boyfriend moves in next door. Oliver makes... [show more]
Craig Roberts
Sally Hawkins
Paddy Considine
Richard Ayoade
Identity
Identity (2003)
Mystery, Thriller
Malcolm Rivers has been convicted as the perpetrator of several murders and is sentenced to death. An 11th-hour defense by his lawyers and psychiatrist that Malcolm is insane based on new evidence has resulted in them meeting with the prosecutors and the judge to discuss whether the verdict should... [show more]
John Cusack
Ray Liotta
Amanda Peet
James Mangold
Kingdom of Heaven
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
Action, Adventure, Drama
It is the time of the Crusades during the Middle Ages -- the world-shaping 200-year collision between Europe and the East. A blacksmith named Balian has lost his family and nearly his faith. The religious wars raging in the far-off Holy Land seem remote to him, yet he is pulled into that immense... [show more]
Orlando Bloom
Eva Green
Liam Neeson
Ridley Scott
Dogma
Dogma (1999)
Adventure, Comedy, Drama
An abortion clinic worker with a special heritage is enlisted to prevent two angels from reentering Heaven and thus undoing the fabric of the universe. Along the way, she is aided by two prophets, Jay and Silent Bob. With the help of Rufus, the 13th Apostle, they must stop those who stand in their... [show more]
Ben Affleck
Matt Damon
Linda Fiorentino
Kevin Smith
Animal Farm
Animal Farm (1954)
Animation, Drama
Britain's second animated feature, which, despite the title and Disney-esque animal animation, is in fact a no-holds-barred adaptation of George Orwell's classic satire on Stalinism, with the animals taking over their farm by means of a revolutionary coup, but then discovering that although all... [show more]
Gordon Heath
Maurice Denham
Joy Batchelor
John Halas
The Paper Chase
The Paper Chase (1973)
Comedy, Drama
Serious, hard-working student James T. Hart faces the rigors of his first year at Harvard Law School. The pressure to succeed is tremendous and some of the students form study groups while also spending a great many hours studying. Hart's greatest challenge is contract law and his professor, Charles... [show more]
Timothy Bottoms
Lindsay Wagner
John Houseman
James Bridges
Metropolis
Metropolis (2001)
Animation, Adventure, Drama
Metropolis is a visually stunning, rich, and memorable pleasure. It's contributors have brought us other classics such as Astroboy and Akira. The story takes place in the muti-leveled, fascinating, megalopolis called Metropolis. Metropolis is loosely ruled by Duke Red, who is close to presenting his... [show more]
Toshio Furukawa
Scott Weinger
Yuka Imoto
Rintarô
Speak
Speak (2004)
Drama
In the book Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda Sordino is forced into the worst year of her life. Her best friend, Rachel Bruin, has turned against her with all other of Melinda's fellow students looking away; not daring to take a single glance at Melinda. All because of one stupid... [show more]
Kristen Stewart
Elizabeth Perkins
Richard Hagerman
Jessica Sharzer
Tracks
Tracks (2013)
Adventure, Biography, Drama
In 1977, a young Australian woman named Robyn Davidson set out from Alice Springs to trek across 2,700 kilometres of harsh desert of Western Australia to reach the ocean. Accompanied only by her dog and four camels, Davidson had no other purpose than to reach the ocean and find herself on a journey... [show more]
Mia Wasikowska
Adam Driver
Lily Pearl
John Curran
The Muppets
The Muppets (2011)
Adventure, Comedy, Family
When 3 Muppet fans learn that Tex Richman wants to drill under the Muppet Theater for oil, Gary, Mary and Walter set out to find the Muppets who have been split up for years so that they can put on one last show and save the Muppet Theater. Kermit the Frog now lives in his own mansion depressed in... [show more]
Amy Adams
Jason Segel
Chris Cooper
James Bobin
Thursday
Thursday (1998)
Action, Comedy, Crime
The movie opens in a Los Angeles convenience store one late Monday night, where a smalltime drug dealer named Nick (Aaron Eckhart) is trying to decide what coffee brand to buy. His ex-lover Dallas (Paulina Porizkova) and fellow hitman Billy Hill (James LeGros) are getting impatient and tell him to... [show more]
Thomas Jane
Aaron Eckhart
Paulina Porizkova
Skip Woods
Basic Instinct
Basic Instinct (1992)
Drama, Mystery, Romance
A former rock star, Johnny Boz, is brutally killed during sex, and the case is assigned to detective Nick Curran of the SFPD. During the investigation, Nick meets Catherine Tramell, a crime novelist who was Boz's girlfriend when he died. Catherine proves to be a very clever and manipulative woman,... [show more]
Michael Douglas
Sharon Stone
George Dzundza
Paul Verhoeven
Crossroads
Crossroads (1986)
Drama, Music, Mystery
Eugene is an extraordinary talent in classic guitar, but he dreams of being a famous Blues guitarist. So he investigates to find a storied lost song. He asks the legendary Blues musician Willie Brown to help him, but Willie demands to free him from the old-people's prison first and to really learn... [show more]
Ralph Macchio
Joe Seneca
Jami Gertz
Walter Hill
The Color of Money
The Color of Money (1986)
Drama, Sport
Pool hustler Fast Eddie Felson finds the young, promising pool player Vincent in a local bar and he sees in him a younger version of himself. To try and make it as in the old days, Eddie offers to teach Vincent how to be a hustler. After some hesitations Vincent accepts and Eddie takes him and... [show more]
Paul Newman
Tom Cruise
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Martin Scorsese
A Serious Man
A Serious Man (2009)
Comedy, Drama
Bloomington, Minnesota, 1967: Jewish physics lecturer Larry Gopnik is a serious and a very put-upon man. His daughter is stealing from him to save up for a nose job, his pot-head son, who gets stoned at his own bar-mitzvah, only wants him round to fix the TV aerial and his useless brother Arthur is... [show more]
Michael Stuhlbarg
Richard Kind
Sari Lennick
Ethan Coen
Joel Coen
Burn After Reading
Burn After Reading (2008)
Comedy, Crime, Drama
Osbourne Cox, a Balkan expert, resigned from the CIA because of a drinking problem, so he begins a memoir. His wife wants a divorce and expects her lover, Harry, a philandering State Department marshal, to leave his wife. A CD-ROM falls out of a gym bag at a Georgetown fitness center. Two employees... [show more]
Brad Pitt
Frances McDormand
George Clooney
Ethan Coen
Joel Coen
The Trouble with Harry
The Trouble with Harry (1955)
Comedy, Mystery
There is a dead well-dressed man in a meadow clearing in the hills above a small Vermont town. Captain Albert Wiles, who stumbles across the body and finds by the man's identification that his name is Harry Worp, believes he accidentally shot Harry dead while he was hunting rabbits. Captain Wiles... [show more]
John Forsythe
Shirley MacLaine
Edmund Gwenn
Alfred Hitchcock
Miss Potter
Miss Potter (2006)
Biography, Drama, Romance
In 1902, in London, spinster Beatrix Potter (Renée Zellweger) lives with her bourgeois parents. Her snobbish mother, Helen Potter (Barbara Flynn), had introduced several bachelors to Beatrix until she was twenty-years-old, but she had turned them all down. Beatrix Potter has been drawing animals... [show more]
Renée Zellweger
Ewan McGregor
Emily Watson
Chris Noonan
Bella
Bella (2006)
Drama, Romance
An international soccer star is on his way to sign a multimillion-dollar contract when a series of events unfold that bring his career to an abrupt end. A beautiful waitress, struggling to make it in New York City, discovers something about herself that she's unprepared for. In one irreversible... [show more]
Eduardo Verástegui
Tammy Blanchard
Manny Perez
Alejandro Monteverde
Starman
Starman (1984)
Romance, Sci-Fi
Jenny Hayden never did get over the death of her husband, so when an alien life form decides to model "himself" on the husband, Jenny is understandably confused if not terrified. The alien, or Starman, as he is called, has a deadline to meet and kidnaps Jenny in order to meet it.
Jeff Bridges
Karen Allen
Charles Martin Smith
John Carpenter
Oklahoma!
Oklahoma! (1955)
Drama, Musical, Romance
In the Oklahoma territory at the turn of the twentieth century, two young cowboys vie with a violent ranch hand and a traveling peddler for the hearts of the women they love.
Gordon MacRae
Gloria Grahame
Gene Nelson
Fred Zinnemann
Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck are rival book salesmen from Rambling House. They each go their separate ways to sell books to folks, Daffy finds himself encountering Elmer Fudd and Porky Pig. Bugs gets forced by Sultan Yosemite Sam to tell stories to his spoiled-brat son, Prince Abba-Dabba. The stories... [show more]
Mel Blanc
Arthur Q. Bryan
Shepard Menken
Friz Freleng
Chuck Jones
Robert McKimson
The Rookie
The Rookie (2002)
Drama, Family, Sport
Jim Morris is a Texas high school chemistry teacher and coach of the school's baseball team. He's always loved baseball and as a way of motivating his players, he agrees to go to a professional try-out if they win the championship. He once had aspirations to be a professional baseball player but an... [show more]
Dennis Quaid
JD Evermore
Rachel Griffiths
John Lee Hancock
Get Shorty
Get Shorty (1995)
Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Some guys get all the luck, whether they like it or not. Chili Palmer happens to be in Hollywood collecting a gambling debt when he's struck by lightning (not literally). Called a natural for the movie business, he's snagged up by a producer. The rest is history.
Gene Hackman
Rene Russo
Danny DeVito
Barry Sonnenfeld
The World's End
The World's End (2013)
Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
20 years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hell bent on trying the drinking marathon again. They are convinced to stage an encore by mate Gary King, a 40-year old man trapped at the cigarette end of his teens, who drags his reluctant pals to... [show more]
Simon Pegg
Nick Frost
Martin Freeman
Edgar Wright
Lucas
Lucas (1986)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
A socially inept fourteen year old experiences heartbreak for the first time when his two best friends--one an older-brother figure, the other a girl with whom he is in love-- fall for each other.
Corey Haim
Kerri Green
Charlie Sheen
David Seltzer
Role Models
Role Models (2008)
Comedy
Danny and Wheeler, well into their 30s, lack something: Danny feels stuck; he's sour and has driven away his terrific girlfriend. Wheeler chases any skirt he sees for empty sex. When they get in a fight with a tow-truck driver, they choose community service over jail and are assigned to be big... [show more]
Paul Rudd
Seann William Scott
Elizabeth Banks
David Wain
Obsession
Obsession (1976)
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
New Orleans businessman Michael Courtland's life is shattered when his wife and daughter are tragically killed in a botched kidnap rescue attempt. Many years later whilst visiting Italy he meets and falls in love with Sandra Portinari, who bears a striking resemblance to his wife.
Cliff Robertson
Geneviève Bujold
John Lithgow
Brian De Palma
Mirrormask
Mirrormask (2005)
Drama, Fantasy
In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year-old girl named Helena who works at the family circus with her father and mother, who wishes--quite ironically--that she could run away from the circus and join 'real life'. But such is not to be the case, as she finds herself on a strange journey... [show more]
Stephanie Leonidas
Jason Barry
Rob Brydon
Dave McKean
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
In London, the sideshow troupe of Doctor Parnassus promises the audience a journey to the "Imaginarium", an imaginary world commanded by the mind of Doctor Parnassus, where dreams come true. In the stories that Doctor Parnassus tells to his daughter Valentina, the midget Percy, and his assistant... [show more]
Christopher Plummer
Lily Cole
Heath Ledger
Terry Gilliam
Licence to Kill
Licence to Kill (1989)
Action, Adventure, Thriller
James Bond is on possibly his most brutal mission yet. Bond's good friend, Felix Leiter, is left near death, by drug baron Franz Sanchez. Bond sets off on the hunt for Sanchez, but not everyone is happy. MI6 does not feel Sanchez is their problem and strips Bond of his license to kill making Bond... [show more]
Timothy Dalton
Robert Davi
Carey Lowell
John Glen
Australia
Australia (2008)
Adventure, Drama, Romance
In northern Australia at the beginning of World War II, an English aristocrat inherits a cattle station the size of Maryland. When English cattle barons plot to take her land, she reluctantly joins forces with a rough stock-man to drive 2,000 head of cattle across hundreds of miles of the country's... [show more]
Nicole Kidman
Hugh Jackman
Shea Adams
Baz Luhrmann
Last Holiday
Last Holiday (2006)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
In morte veritas. Georgia Byrd clerks at a New Orleans department store. She defers pleasure: cooks gourmet meals, eats Lean Cuisine; likes a co-worker in silence; has savings, but hasn't left Louisiana. All that changes when a CT Scan discloses she has three weeks to live. She cashes her savings... [show more]
Queen Latifah
LL Cool J
Timothy Hutton
Wayne Wang
This Is Where I Leave You
This Is Where I Leave You (2014)
Comedy, Drama
After their father passes away, four grown siblings, bruised and banged up by their respective adult lives, are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof together for a week, along with their over-sharing mother and an assortment of spouses, exes and might-have-beens.... [show more]
Jason Bateman
Tina Fey
Jane Fonda
Shawn Levy
Freeheld
Freeheld (2015)
Biography, Drama, Romance
New Jersey police lieutenant Laurel Hester and her registered domestic partner Stacie Andree battle to secure Hester's pension benefits when she is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Julianne Moore
Elliot Page
Steve Carell
Peter Sollett
American Flyers
American Flyers (1985)
Drama, Sport
Sports physician Marcus persuades his unstable brother David to come with him and train for a bicycle race across the Rocky Mountains. Marcus doesn't tell David that he has a brain aneurysm which could render him paralyzed or dead at any given moment. While David powerfully heads for the victory,... [show more]
Kevin Costner
David Marshall Grant
Rae Dawn Chong
John Badham
Fire and Ice
Fire and Ice (1983)
Animation, Adventure, Fantasy
As the blackest of magic, summoned by the evil megalomaniac Lord Nekron, gives birth to a towering, ever-growing glacier, the remnants of humankind flee south, seeking shelter in the temperate, volcanic realm of generous King Jarol. With the unstoppable glacial mass devouring everything in its path,... [show more]
Randy Norton
Cynthia Leake
Steve Sandor
Ralph Bakshi
The Missouri Breaks
The Missouri Breaks (1976)
Drama, Western
Tom Logan is a horse thief. Rancher David Braxton has horses, and a daughter, worth stealing. But Braxton has just hired Lee Clayton, an infamous "regulator", to hunt down the horse thieves; one at a time.
Marlon Brando
Jack Nicholson
Randy Quaid
Arthur Penn