Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Comedy
High school student Ferris Bueller wants a day off from school and he's developed an incredibly sophisticated plan to pull it off. He talks his friend Cameron into taking his father's prized Ferrari and with his girlfriend Sloane head into Chicago for the day. While they are taking in what the city... [show more]
Matthew Broderick
Alan Ruck
Mia Sara
John Hughes
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Drama, Sci-Fi
Travelling with mind-boggling speed, a gleaming unidentified flying object zooming in from the boundless deep space, penetrates the Earth's atmosphere, landing smoothly in Cold War-Washington, D.C. Encircled by large yet feeble military forces, the peaceful intergalactic ambassador, Klaatu, emerges... [show more]
Michael Rennie
Patricia Neal
Hugh Marlowe
Robert Wise
Crash
Crash (2004)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Over a thirty-six hour period in Los Angeles, a handful of disparate people's lives intertwine as they deal with the tense race relations that belie life in the city. Among the players are: the Caucasian district attorney, who uses race as a political card; his Caucasian wife, who, having recently... [show more]
Don Cheadle
Sandra Bullock
Thandiwe Newton
Paul Haggis
Midnight in Paris
Midnight in Paris (2011)
Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Gil and Inez travel to Paris as a tag-along vacation on her parents' business trip. Gil is a successful Hollywood writer but is struggling on his first novel. He falls in love with the city and thinks he and Inez should move there after they get married, but Inez does not share his romantic notions... [show more]
Owen Wilson
Rachel McAdams
Kathy Bates
Woody Allen
The Blind Side
The Blind Side (2009)
Biography, Drama, Sport
Based on the true story of Leigh Anne Tuohy and Sean Tuohy who take in a homeless teenage African-American, Michael Oher. Michael has no idea who his father is and his mother is a drug addict. Michael has had little formal education and few skills to help him learn. Leigh Anne soon takes charge... [show more]
Quinton Aaron
Sandra Bullock
Tim McGraw
John Lee Hancock
The Machinist
The Machinist (2004)
Drama, Thriller
Trevor Reznik is a machinist in a factory. An extreme case of insomnia has led to him not sleeping in a year, and his body withering away to almost nothing. He has an obsessive compulsion to write himself reminder notes and keep track of his dwindling weight, both scribbled on yellow stickies in his... [show more]
Christian Bale
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
Brad Anderson
Get Real
Get Real (1998)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
This tenderly romantic film tells the story of Steve, a young boy in a at secondary school, as he struggles with coming out and falling in love with John, the top athlete at school - who, amazingly, falls in love with him as well.
Ben Silverstone
Brad Gorton
Charlotte Brittain
Simon Shore
Fahrenheit 9/11
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
Documentary, Drama, War
Following up on 'Bowling for Columbine', film-maker Michael Moore provides deep and though-provoking insights on the American security system, the level of paranoia, fear, uncertainty, false values and patriotism, which all combined together to set a stage for George W. Bush to launch a war on Iraq... [show more]
Michael Moore
George W. Bush
Ben Affleck
Michael Moore
Thank You for Smoking
Thank You for Smoking (2005)
Comedy, Drama
The chief spokesperson and lobbyist Nick Naylor is the Vice President of the Academy of Tobacco Studies. He is talented in speaking and spins arguments to defend the cigarette industry in the most difficult situations. His best friends are Polly Bailey that works in the Moderation Council in alcohol... [show more]
Aaron Eckhart
Cameron Bright
Maria Bello
Jason Reitman
Elle s'appelait Sarah
Elle s'appelait Sarah (2010)
Drama, War
One of the darkest moments in French history occurred in 1942 Paris when French officials rounded up over 10,000 Jews and placed them in local camps. Eventually, over 8,000 were sent off to German concentration camps. As 10-year-old Sarah (Mélusine Mayance) and her family are being arrested, she... [show more]
Kristin Scott Thomas
Mélusine Mayance
Niels Arestrup
Gilles Paquet-Brenner
The Impossible
The Impossible (2012)
Drama, History, Thriller
A regular family - Maria (Naomi Watts), Henry (Ewan McGregor) and their three kids - travel to Thailand to spend Christmas. They get an upgrade to a villa on the coastline. After settling in and exchanging gifts, they go to the pool, like so many other tourists. A perfect paradise vacation until a... [show more]
Naomi Watts
Ewan McGregor
Tom Holland
J.A. Bayona
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Action, Adventure, Mystery
With Dr. John Watson about to marry and end their partnership, a disconsolate Sherlock Holmes occupies his time investigating the schemes of his archenemy, Professor James Moriarty. However, when Moriarty warns that he considers the Watsons a legitimate target for his retaliation against the... [show more]
Robert Downey Jr.
Jude Law
Jared Harris
Guy Ritchie
The Terminal
The Terminal (2004)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Victor Navorski reaches JFK airport from a politically unstable country. Due to collapse of his government, his papers are no longer valid in the airport, and hence he is forced to stay in the airport until the war cools down. He makes the airport his home and develops a friendship with the people... [show more]
Tom Hanks
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Chi McBride
Steven Spielberg
Cross of Iron
Cross of Iron (1977)
Drama, War
In 1943, on the Russian front, decorated leader Rolf Steiner (James Coburn) is promoted to Sergeant after another successful mission. Meanwhile, upper-class arrogant Prussian Captain Hauptmann Stransky (Maximilian Schell) is assigned as the new commander of his squad. After a bloody battle of... [show more]
James Coburn
Maximilian Schell
James Mason
Sam Peckinpah
Prince of the City
Prince of the City (1981)
Crime, Drama
NYPD officer, Daniel Ciello's involved in some questionable police practices. He's approached by IAB, and in exchange for him potentially being let off he's instructed to begin looking at the inner workings of police corruption. Danny agrees as long as he doesn't have to turn on his partners but he... [show more]
Treat Williams
Jerry Orbach
Richard Foronjy
Sidney Lumet
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Horror
En route to visit their grandfather's grave (which has apparently been ritualistically desecrated), five teenagers drive past a slaughterhouse, pick up (and quickly drop) a sinister hitch-hiker, eat some delicious home-cured meat at a roadside gas station, before ending up at the old family home...... [show more]
Marilyn Burns
Edwin Neal
Allen Danziger
Tobe Hooper
In the Bedroom
In the Bedroom (2001)
Crime, Drama
In idyllic Mid-Coast Maine, the Fowler family's only son Frank comes home from his freshman year at college for summer vacation. His mother Ruth, the school choir director, is unhappy with Frank dating soon-to-be divorced mother Natalie who is several years his senior, but Frank's father Matt, the... [show more]
Tom Wilkinson
Sissy Spacek
Nick Stahl
Todd Field
Barney's Version
Barney's Version (2010)
Comedy, Drama
Take a ride through the life and memories of Barney Panofsky, a hard-drinking, cigar-smoking, foulmouthed 65-year old hockey fanatic and television producer, as he reflects on his life's successes and (numerous) gaffes and failures as the final chapters of his own existence come sharply into focus.
Paul Giamatti
Rosamund Pike
Jake Hoffman
Richard J. Lewis
Into the Abyss
Into the Abyss (2011)
Documentary, Crime, Drama
Into the abyss explores a triple murder which occurred in the small Texas City of Conroe in 2001. Michael Perry and Jason Burkett, under the influence of alcohol and drugs, murdered a middle-aged housewife; they then gunned down her stepson and his friend. The film features Conversations with the... [show more]
Werner Herzog
Richard Lopez
Michael Perry
Werner Herzog
The Year My Voice Broke
The Year My Voice Broke (1987)
Drama, Romance
In 1962, a prepubescent boy in rural Australia watches painfully as his best friend and first love, an older girl, blossoms into womanhood and falls for a thuggish rugby player, setting off a chain of events that irreversibly changes the lives of everyone involved.
Noah Taylor
Loene Carmen
Ben Mendelsohn
John Duigan
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Musical, Romance, Western
Adam, the eldest of seven brothers, goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home. Only then does she discover he has six brothers - all living in his cabin. Milly sets out to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of... [show more]
Jane Powell
Howard Keel
Jeff Richards
Stanley Donen
Lorenzo's Oil
Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
Biography, Drama
Until about the age of seven, Lorenzo Odone was a normal child. After then, strange things began to happen to him: he would have blackouts, memory lapses, and other strange mental phemonenons. He is eventually diagnosed as suffering from ALD (adrenoleukodystrophy): an extremely rare incurable... [show more]
Nick Nolte
Susan Sarandon
Peter Ustinov
George Miller
Coach Carter
Coach Carter (2005)
Biography, Drama, Sport
In 1999, Ken Carter accepts the job of basketball coach for his old high school in a poor area of Richmond, CA. As much dismayed by the poor attitudes of his players as well as their dismal play performance, Carter sets about to change both. He imposes a strict regime typified in written contracts... [show more]
Samuel L. Jackson
Rick Gonzalez
Robert Ri'chard
Thomas Carter
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
Chocolat
Chocolat (2000)
Drama, Romance
When single mother Vianne Rocher (Juliette Binoche) and her six-year-old daughter, Anouk (Victoire Thivisol) move to rural France and open a chocolate shop, with Sunday hours, across the street from the local church, they are met with some skepticism. But as soon as they coax the townspeople into... [show more]
Juliette Binoche
Johnny Depp
Judi Dench
Lasse Hallström
The Bank Job
The Bank Job (2008)
Crime, Thriller
Business is slow for Terry Leather, a London car dealer, married with children. He's an artful dodger, so Martine, a former model with a thing for him, brings him her scheme: a bank's alarm is off for a couple weeks, so let's tunnel into the vault. He assembles a team, not realizing her real goal is... [show more]
Jason Statham
Saffron Burrows
Stephen Campbell Moore
Roger Donaldson
About Schmidt
About Schmidt (2002)
Drama
Warren Schmidt (Jack Nicholson) has led a safe, predictable life working in the insurance industry in Omaha, Nebraska for many years, yet now faces retirement. At the same time, he is forced to take a hard look at his wife, his life, and his relationship with his estranged daughter. An often... [show more]
Jack Nicholson
Hope Davis
Dermot Mulroney
Alexander Payne
Caddyshack
Caddyshack (1980)
Comedy, Sport
There's something fishy going on at the elitist Bushwood Country Club, and the scheming president of the clubhouse, Judge Elihu Smails, has something to do with it. But, the suave golf guru, Ty Webb, and the distasteful, filthy rich construction magnate, Al Czervik, are onto him. In the meantime,... [show more]
Chevy Chase
Rodney Dangerfield
Bill Murray
Harold Ramis
Defending Your Life
Defending Your Life (1991)
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Just after being killed in a car crash, Daniel Miller finds himself in Judgment City, a waiting area for the newly deceased. While there, one must prove in a courtroom-style process that he successfully overcame his fears. Daniel meets Julia in an afterlife comedy club, and falls in love with her.... [show more]
Albert Brooks
Meryl Streep
Rip Torn
Albert Brooks
Another Woman
Another Woman (1988)
Drama
Having recently turned fifty, Marion feels that she has led a so far blessed life. The well-respected Dean of Philosophy at a women's college, she is currently on sabbatical to write her latest book. Although her first husband Sam died tragically fourteen years ago from a mixture of alcohol and... [show more]
Gena Rowlands
Mia Farrow
Ian Holm
Woody Allen
Out of Africa
Out of Africa (1985)
Biography, Drama, Romance
Follows the life of Karen Blixen, who establishes a plantation in Africa. Her life is complicated by a husband of convenience (Bror Blixen), a true love (Denys), troubles on the plantation, schooling of the natives, war, and catching VD from her husband.
Meryl Streep
Robert Redford
Klaus Maria Brandauer
Sydney Pollack
Rocky Balboa
Rocky Balboa (2006)
Drama, Sport
When he loses a highly publicized virtual boxing match to ex-champ Rocky Balboa, reigning heavyweight titleholder Mason Dixon retaliates by challenging the Itallian Stallion to a nationally televised, 10-round exhibition bout. To the surprise of his son and friends, Rocky agrees to come out of... [show more]
Sylvester Stallone
Antonio Tarver
Milo Ventimiglia
Sylvester Stallone
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Comedy
In 1970s San Diego, journalism was a well respected profession and people actually cared about what they saw on TV. And the top rated anchor man in the city is Ron Burgundy. He enjoys his run at the top, and has for the last five years. And his news team is equally as good as he is. Professional... [show more]
Will Ferrell
Christina Applegate
Steve Carell
Adam McKay
The Great Santini
The Great Santini (1979)
Drama
In 1962, the Marine Corps family, the Meechums - parents Lieutenant Colonel Wilbur "Bull" Meechum and Lillian Meechum, and their four children Ben Meechum, Mary Anne Meechum, Karen Meechum and Matthew Meechum - are moving like they do most years, this time to Beaufort, South Carolina. Bull -... [show more]
Robert Duvall
Blythe Danner
Michael O'Keefe
Lewis John Carlino
White Oleander
White Oleander (2002)
Drama
Astrid Magnussen (Alison Lohman) is a fifteen-year-old girl, living in California. Her mother, Ingrid (Michelle Pfeiffer), is a beautiful, free-spirited poet and artist who also suffers from a borderline personality disorder (BPD). Their life, though unusual, is satisfying until one day, a man named... [show more]
Michelle Pfeiffer
Renée Zellweger
Robin Wright
Peter Kosminsky
Wag the Dog
Wag the Dog (1997)
Comedy, Drama
After being caught in a scandalous situation days before the election, the president does not seem to have much of a chance of being re-elected. One of his advisers contacts a top Hollywood producer in order to manufacture a war in Albania that the president can heroically end, all through mass... [show more]
Dustin Hoffman
Robert De Niro
Anne Heche
Barry Levinson
Trees Lounge
Trees Lounge (1996)
Comedy, Drama
Things aren't going so well for Tommy Basilio. He lost his job because he "borrowed" money from the register, his girlfriend left him for his boss and is now pregnant, and he can't find work because of the incident. His life revolves around the Trees Lounge, a neighborhood bar over which he lives,... [show more]
Steve Buscemi
Carol Kane
Mark Boone Junior
Steve Buscemi
Jackass 3D
Jackass 3D (2010)
Documentary, Action, Comedy
'Jackass 3D' opens with the entire cast all lined up, each wearing a different color of the rainbow, in front of a rainbow colored background, each in turn being attacked in various ways. Some of the footage is slowed down for maximal effect. This is repeated again at the end of the movie with... [show more]
Johnny Knoxville
Steve-O
Bam Margera
Jeff Tremaine
Phoebe in Wonderland
Phoebe in Wonderland (2008)
Drama
The fantastical tale of a little girl who won't - or can't - follow the rules. Confounded by her clashes with the rule-obsessed world around her, Phoebe seeks enlightenment from her unconventional drama teacher, as her brilliant but anguished mother begins to worry for her daughter's health.
Elle Fanning
Patricia Clarkson
Felicity Huffman
Daniel Barnz
The Italian Job
The Italian Job (2003)
Action, Crime, Thriller
Led by John Bridger (Donald Sutherland) and Charlie Croker (Mark Wahlberg) a team is assembled for one last heist to steal $35 million in gold bars from a heavily guarded safe in Venice, Italy. After successfully pulling off the heist, a team member, Steve (Edward Norton), driven by greed and... [show more]
Donald Sutherland
Mark Wahlberg
Edward Norton
F. Gary Gray
Ladies in Lavender
Ladies in Lavender (2004)
Drama, Music, Romance
Taking place in pre-World War II England, aging sisters Ursula and Janet live peacefully in their cottage on the shore of Cornwall. One morning following a violent storm, the sisters spot from their garden a nearly-drowned man lying on the beach. They nurse him back to health and discover that he is... [show more]
Judi Dench
Maggie Smith
Daniel Brühl
Charles Dance
An Unfinished Life
An Unfinished Life (2005)
Drama, Family, Romance
To escape an abusive boyfriend, without announcing her plans in advance, Jean Gilkyson takes her young daughter Griff to the Wyoming ranch of her father-in-law, Einar. Jean and Einar are disaffected, as he blames her for the death of his son in a car accident. Einar is taking care of his friend... [show more]
Jennifer Lopez
Robert Redford
Morgan Freeman
Lasse Hallström
A King in New York
A King in New York (1957)
Comedy, Drama
Due to a revolution in his country, King Shahdov comes to New York - almost broke. To get some money he goes to TV, making commercials and meets the child from communist parents. Due to this he is suddenly a suspected as a communist himself and has to face one of McCarthy's hearings.
Charles Chaplin
Maxine Audley
Jerry Desmonde
Charles Chaplin
Brother Bear
Brother Bear (2003)
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Kenai, a man who resents bears after a fight with one kills his older brother, is turned into a bear so he can see life from a different perspective. He is visited by the spirit of his older brother, and is told that, if he wishes to be changed back into a human, he must travel to the place where... [show more]
Joaquin Phoenix
Jeremy Suarez
Rick Moranis
Aaron Blaise
Robert Walker
Love Story
Love Story (1970)
Drama, Romance
The love story of young adults Oliver Barrett IV and Jenny Cavilleri is told. Oliver comes from an extremely well off and old money New England family, the Barrett name which holds much gravitas and which is plastered especially all over Harvard where Oliver is in pre-law. Like those before him, he... [show more]
Ali MacGraw
Ryan O'Neal
John Marley
Arthur Hiller
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986)
Comedy
Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He lives with his parents, his aunt, two cousins, and his brother, Stanley, whom he looks up to and admires. He goes through the hardships of puberty, sexual fantasy, and living the life of a poor boy in a... [show more]
Blythe Danner
Jonathan Silverman
Stacey Glick
Gene Saks
Enemy Mine
Enemy Mine (1985)
Action, Adventure, Drama
At the height of the devastating intergalactic war between humans and the bipedal reptilian humanoids known as Dracs, the earthling single-seat fighter pilot, Willis Davidge, and the saurian pilot, Jeriba Shigan, engage in a furious dogfight. As both sworn enemies crash-land on the desolate,... [show more]
Dennis Quaid
Louis Gossett Jr.
Brion James
Wolfgang Petersen
Sleepless in Seattle
Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
After his wife Maggie passes away, Sam Baldwin and his 8-year-old son Jonah relocate from Chicago to Seattle to escape the grief associated with Maggie's death. Eighteen months later Sam is still grieving and can't sleep. Although Jonah misses his mother, he wants his father to get a new wife... [show more]
Tom Hanks
Meg Ryan
Ross Malinger
Nora Ephron
Bridesmaids
Bridesmaids (2011)
Comedy
Annie (Kristen Wiig), is a maid of honor whose life unravels as she leads her best friend, Lillian (Maya Rudolph), and a group of colorful bridesmaids (Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Wendi McLendon-Covey and Ellie Kemper) on a wild ride down the road to matrimony. Annie's life is a mess. But when she... [show more]
Kristen Wiig
Maya Rudolph
Rose Byrne
Paul Feig
The Inbetweeners
The Inbetweeners (2011)
Comedy
Best friends Will McKenzie, Simon Cooper, Jay Cartwright and Neil Sutherland - who are not among the social outcasts, but also not cool enough to hang out with the cool kids who they aspire to be - have just graduated from their suburban London high school. Simon has finally been able to get Carli... [show more]
James Buckley
Blake Harrison
Joe Thomas
Ben Palmer