Jaws (1975)
Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
It's a hot summer on Amity Island, a small community whose main business is its beaches. When new Sheriff Martin Brody discovers the remains of a shark attack victim, his first inclination is to close the beaches to swimmers. This doesn't sit well with Mayor Larry Vaughn and several of the local... [show more]
Roy Scheider
Robert Shaw
Richard Dreyfuss
Steven Spielberg
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Drama, Thriller
Major Bennett Marco (Frank Sinatra) is an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army. He served valiantly as a Captain in the Korean war and his Sergeant, Raymond Shaw (Laurence Harvey), even received the Medal of Honor. Marco has a major problem however: he has a recurring nightmare, one where two... [show more]
Frank Sinatra
Laurence Harvey
Janet Leigh
John Frankenheimer
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
Awakenings (1990)
Biography, Drama
1969. Dr. Malcolm Sayer is hired as a clinical physician at a local hospital in the Bronx, despite he only having a research background. The job is not ideal on his side as he has difficulties relating to people which is the reason he has focused on research projects not involving human subjects,... [show more]
Robert De Niro
Robin Williams
Julie Kavner
Penny Marshall
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
It is the 23rd century. Admiral James T. Kirk is an instructor at Starfleet Academy and feeling old; the prospect of attending his ship, the USS Enterprise--now a training ship--on a two-week cadet cruise does not make him feel any younger. But the training cruise becomes a deadly serious mission... [show more]
William Shatner
Leonard Nimoy
DeForest Kelley
Nicholas Meyer
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Drama, Family
Life is hard in a Welsh mining town and no less so for the Morgan family. Seen through the eyes of the family's youngest, Huw, we learn of the family's trials and tribulations. Family patriarch Gwilym and his older sons work in the mines, dangerous and unhealthy as it is. Gwilym has greater hopes... [show more]
Walter Pidgeon
Maureen O'Hara
Anna Lee
John Ford
Home Alone (1990)
Comedy, Family
It is Christmas time and the McCallister family is preparing for a vacation in Paris, France. But the youngest in the family, Kevin (Macaulay Culkin), got into a scuffle with his older brother Buzz (Devin Ratray) and was sent to his room, which is on the third floor of his house. Then, the next... [show more]
Macaulay Culkin
Joe Pesci
Daniel Stern
Chris Columbus
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
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
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
The Secret of NIMH (1982)
Animation, Adventure, Drama
To save her ill son, a field mouse must seek the aid of a colony of rats, with whom she has a deeper link than she suspected.
Elizabeth Hartman
Derek Jacobi
Dom DeLuise
Don Bluth
Hoosiers (1986)
Drama, Sport
Based on the true story of a small-town Indiana team that made the state finals in 1954, this movie chronicles the attempts of a coach with a spotty past, and the town's basketball-loving drunk to lead their high school team to victory.
Gene Hackman
Barbara Hershey
Dennis Hopper
David Anspaugh
Funny Girl (1968)
Biography, Comedy, Drama
Early twentieth century New York. Fanny Brice knows that she is a talented comedienne and singer. She also knows that she is not the beauty typical of the stage performers of the day, she with skinny legs and a crooked nose among other physical issues. So she knows she has to use whatever other... [show more]
Barbra Streisand
Omar Sharif
Kay Medford
William Wyler
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
National Velvet (1944)
Drama, Family, Sport
Mi Taylor (Mickey Rooney) was a young wanderer and opportunist whose father had given him "all the roads in the Kingdom" to travel. One of the roads, and a notation in his father's journal, leads him to the quiet English countryside home of the Brown family. The youngest daughter, Velvet (Dame... [show more]
Mickey Rooney
Elizabeth Taylor
Donald Crisp
Clarence Brown
Born Free (1966)
Adventure, Biography, Drama
Married couple George Adamson and Joy Adamson have long lived in northern Kenya for George's work as the senior game warden of the region. One of George's primary responsibilities is to deal with dangerous animals that may be chronically threatening to humans, livestock and/or crops. It is in this... [show more]
Virginia McKenna
Bill Travers
Geoffrey Keen
James Hill
Tom McGowan
Glory Road (2006)
Biography, Drama, Sport
In 1965, the coach of the high school girl basketball team Don Haskins is invited by the Texas Western Miners to be their coach. Despite the lack of budget, Haskins sees the chance to dispute the NCAA and moves with his wife and children to the college dormitory. He recruits seven talented and... [show more]
Josh Lucas
Derek Luke
Austin Nichols
James Gartner
Old Yeller (1957)
Adventure, Drama, Family
Young Travis Coates is left to take care of the family ranch with his mother and younger brother while his father goes off on a cattle drive in the 1860's. When a yellow mongrel comes for an uninvited stay with the family, Travis reluctantly adopts the dog. After a series of scrapes involving... [show more]
Dorothy McGuire
Fess Parker
Tommy Kirk
Robert Stevenson
Two Brothers (2004)
Adventure, Drama, Family
1920s Indochina. In the wild, a pair of adult tigers have just had a litter of two male cubs. It is a loving family unit, with the two brothers having a bond through their adventurous spirit. In different incidents, the cubs are captured individually, and although both in captivity live very... [show more]
Guy Pearce
Freddie Highmore
Jean-Claude Dreyfus
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Adventure, Drama, Family
The story of two animals and their adventures. Milo, the cat, and Otis, the dog, are two animals who grew up together on the same farm. One day, the two are separated and begin a journey to find each other. The adventurous, and often perilous quest finds the two animals traveling across mountains,... [show more]
Kyôko Koizumi
Dudley Moore
Chatran
Masanori Hata
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
Cats Don't Dance (1997)
Animation, Comedy, Family
Danny is a cat leaving his small town home for the big time in Hollywood. He comes in hoping to sing and dance his way into stardom, not knowing that animals can only be extras, and if he forgets his place, child starlet Darla Dimple and her musclehead butler Max have ways of reminding him.
Scott Bakula
Jasmine Guy
Natalie Cole
Mark Dindal
Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)
Comedy, Family, Fantasy
In this comedy, Sir Peter Ustinov is the famous pirate's ghost that returns to our time. Blackbeard has been cursed by his last wife who was a notorious witch, so that he will never die. The only way to "break" the curse is to do (for once in his life) a good act. Is the famous pirate able to do... [show more]
Peter Ustinov
Dean Jones
Suzanne Pleshette
Robert Stevenson
The Dark Knight (2008)
Action, Crime, Drama
Set within a year after the events of Batman Begins (2005), Batman, Lieutenant James Gordon, and new District Attorney Harvey Dent successfully begin to round up the criminals that plague Gotham City, until a mysterious and sadistic criminal mastermind known only as "The Joker" appears in Gotham,... [show more]
Christian Bale
Heath Ledger
Aaron Eckhart
Christopher Nolan
Rear Window (1954)
Mystery, Thriller
Professional photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jefferies breaks his leg while getting an action shot at an auto race. Confined to his New York apartment, he spends his time looking out of the rear window observing the neighbors. He begins to suspect that a man across the courtyard may have murdered his wife.... [show more]
James Stewart
Grace Kelly
Wendell Corey
Alfred Hitchcock
Modern Times (1936)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Chaplin's last 'silent' film, filled with sound effects, was made when everyone else was making talkies. Charlie turns against modern society, the machine age, (The use of sound in films ?) and progress. Firstly we see him frantically trying to keep up with a production line, tightening bolts. He is... [show more]
Charles Chaplin
Paulette Goddard
Henry Bergman
Charles Chaplin
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Comedy, Musical, Romance
1927 Hollywood. Monumental Pictures' biggest stars, glamorous on-screen couple Lina Lamont and Don Lockwood, are also an off-screen couple if the trade papers and gossip columns are to be believed. Both perpetuate the public perception if only to please their adoring fans and bring people into the... [show more]
Gene Kelly
Donald O'Connor
Debbie Reynolds
Stanley Donen
Gene Kelly
The Straight Story (1999)
Biography, Drama
Seventy-three year old Alvin Straight is a simple living and stubborn man who lives on his social security. He needs to do things on his own terms. He is in failing health. Both his hips are shot, which requires him to use two canes to walk. He is diabetic. He has emphysema from years of smoking.... [show more]
Richard Farnsworth
Sissy Spacek
Jane Galloway Heitz
David Lynch
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Adventure, Drama, Family
To escape the edict of Egypt's Pharaoh Rameses I (Ian Keith), condemning all newborn Hebrew males, the infant Moses (Fraser C. Heston) is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaoh's daughter Bithiah (Nina Foch), he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother,... [show more]
Charlton Heston
Yul Brynner
Anne Baxter
Cecil B. DeMille
All the President's Men (1976)
Drama, History, Thriller
In the run-up to the 1972 elections, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward covers what seems to be a minor break-in at the Democratic Party National headquarters. He is surprised to find top lawyers already on the defense case, and the discovery of names and addresses of White House fund organizers... [show more]
Dustin Hoffman
Robert Redford
Jack Warden
Alan J. Pakula
Iron Man (2008)
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Tony Stark. Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist. Son of legendary inventor and weapons contractor Howard Stark. When Tony Stark is assigned to give a weapons presentation to an Iraqi unit led by Lt. Col. James Rhodes, he's given a ride on enemy lines. That ride ends badly when Stark's... [show more]
Robert Downey Jr.
Gwyneth Paltrow
Terrence Howard
Jon Favreau
The Fugitive (1993)
Action, Crime, Drama
A well respected Chicago surgeon Dr. Richard Kimble has found out that his wife, Helen, has been murdered ferociously in her own home. The police found Kimble and accused him of the murder. Then, Kimble (without Justifiable Reason) was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. However, on the way to... [show more]
Harrison Ford
Tommy Lee Jones
Sela Ward
Andrew Davis
Goldfinger (1964)
Action, Adventure, Thriller
James Bond (Sir Sean Connery) is back and his next mission takes him to Fort Knox, where Auric Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe) and his henchman are planning to raid Fort Knox and obliterate the world economy. To save the world once again, Bond will need to become friends with Goldfinger, dodge killer hats,... [show more]
Sean Connery
Gert Fröbe
Honor Blackman
Guy Hamilton
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
It's 'vege-mania' in Wallace and Gromit's neighborhood, and our two enterprising chums are cashing in with their humane pest-control outfit, "Anti-Pesto." With only days to go before the annual Giant Vegetable Competition, business is booming, but Wallace & Gromit are finding out that running a... [show more]
Peter Sallis
Helena Bonham Carter
Ralph Fiennes
Steve Box
Nick Park
Secondhand Lions (2003)
Comedy, Drama, Family
A boy named Walter is dropped by his mother Mae at his great-uncles' house. Later, Walter will find out his great-uncles' big secret, and rumors say that Hub and Garth, Walter's great-uncles, have stolen a lot of gold and money. (some say they stole it from Al Capone) Did they really steal that... [show more]
Haley Joel Osment
Michael Caine
Robert Duvall
Tim McCanlies
Spider-Man 2 (2004)
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Peter Parker is an unhappy man: after two years of fighting crime as Spider-Man, his life has begun to fall apart. The girl he loves is engaged to someone else, his grades are slipping, he cannot keep any of his jobs, and on top of it, the newspaper Daily Bugle is attacking him viciously, claiming... [show more]
Tobey Maguire
Kirsten Dunst
Alfred Molina
Sam Raimi
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)
Biography, Drama
In 1931, three half-white, half-Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their houses to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a journey across the Outback.
Everlyn Sampi
Tianna Sansbury
Kenneth Branagh
Phillip Noyce
Cinderella (1950)
Animation, Family, Fantasy
Cinderella, the beautiful and kind-hearted daughter, sees her world turn upside down when her beloved mother dies, and her pained father remarries another woman, the wicked Lady Tremaine, who has two equally cruel daughters, the jealous Anastasia and Drizella. But, once more, things will go from bad... [show more]
Ilene Woods
James MacDonald
Eleanor Audley
Clyde Geronimi
Wilfred Jackson
Hamilton Luske
Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Young lovers Hero (Kate Beckinsale) and Claudio (Robert Sean Leonard) are to be married in one week. To pass the time, they conspire with Don Pedro (Denzel Washington) to set a "lover's trap" for Benedick (Sir Kenneth Branagh), an arrogant confirmed bachelor, and Beatrice (Dame Emma Thompson), his... [show more]
Kenneth Branagh
Emma Thompson
Keanu Reeves
Kenneth Branagh
The Buddy Holly Story (1978)
Biography, Drama, Music
The musical career of rock and roll pioneer Buddy Holly is chronicled, from the days when "Peggy Sue" was "Cindy Lou", a song about his first girlfriend, to the meteoric run of "That'll Be the Day" up the charts, to his marriage, breakup with the Crickets, reunion with the Crickets, and untimely... [show more]
Gary Busey
Don Stroud
Charles Martin Smith
Steve Rash
The Dish (2000)
Comedy, Drama, History
In the days before the July 19, 1969 space mission that marked humankind's first steps on the moon, NASA was working with a group of Australian technicians who had agreed to rig up a satellite interface. That the Aussies placed the satellite dish smack dab in the middle of an Australian sheep farm... [show more]
Sam Neill
Billy Mitchell
Roz Hammond
Rob Sitch
Dr. No (1962)
Action, Adventure, Thriller
James Bond 007 is Britain's top agent, and is on an exciting mission, to solve the mysterious murder of a fellow agent. The task sends him to Jamaica, where he joins forces with Quarrel and a loyal C.I.A. Agent, Felix Leiter. While dodging tarantulas, "fire breathing dragons", and a trio of... [show more]
Sean Connery
Ursula Andress
Bernard Lee
Terence Young
The Yearling (1946)
Drama, Family, Western
The family of Civil War veteran Penny Baxter, who lives and works on a farm in Florida with his wife, Orry, and their son, Jody. The only surviving child of the family, Jody longs for companionship and unexpectedly finds it in the form of an orphaned fawn. While Penny is supportive of his son's... [show more]
Gregory Peck
Jane Wyman
Claude Jarman Jr.
Clarence Brown
Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Darby O'Gill seems to be as full of blarney as any old codger in Ireland, but the stories of leprechauns he tells at the pub are true. In fact, he and the tiny King Brian, ruler of The Little People, are friendly adversaries, continually out-foxing each other. Darby needs a bit of magical help from... [show more]
Albert Sharpe
Janet Munro
Sean Connery
Robert Stevenson
My Bodyguard (1980)
Comedy, Drama, Family
Clifford Peache is the new kid in Lake View High School. Faced with all the stress that role entails he makes his situation worse by insulting Moody, the leader of a group of toughs who extort lunch money from kids. These punks pretend to be bodyguards for the kids to protect them from Linderman... [show more]
Chris Makepeace
Adam Baldwin
Matt Dillon
Tony Bill
Hairspray (1988)
Comedy, Drama, Family
'Pleasantly Plump' teenager Tracy Turnblad achieves her dream of becoming a regular on the Corny Collins Dance Show. Now a teen hero, she starts using her fame to speak out for the causes she believes in, most of all integration. In doing so, she earns the wrath of the show's former star, Amber Von... [show more]
Sonny Bono
Ruth Brown
Divine
John Waters
Adventure, Drama, Family
Legends (and myths) from the life of famed American frontiersman Davy Crockett are depicted in this feature film edited from television episodes. Crockett and his friend George Russell fight in the Creek Indian War. Then Crockett is elected to Congress and brings his rough-hewn ways to the House of... [show more]
Fess Parker
Buddy Ebsen
Basil Ruysdael
Norman Foster
Peter Pan (2003)
Adventure, Family, Fantasy
In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbuckling, and the fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become the heroes of an even greater story, when Peter Pan flies into their nursery one night and leads them over moonlit... [show more]
Jeremy Sumpter
Jason Isaacs
Olivia Williams
P.J. Hogan
Life Is Beautiful (1997)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish waiter named Guido starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman from a nearby city. Guido and his wife have a son and live happily together until the occupation of Italy by German forces. In an attempt to hold his family together and help his son... [show more]
Roberto Benigni
Nicoletta Braschi
Giorgio Cantarini
Roberto Benigni
City Lights (1931)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind girl. Her family is in financial trouble. The tramp's on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.
Charles Chaplin
Virginia Cherrill
Florence Lee
Charles Chaplin