Lorenzo's Oil (1992)
Drama
Until about the age of 7, 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: an extremely rare incurable degenerative brain disorder.... [show more]
Nick Nolte
Susan Sarandon
Peter Ustinov
Kathleen Wilhoite
George Miller
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
Jon Voight
James Gartner
Comedy, Crime
Charles Dreyfus escapes from the mental asylum and tries to kill Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau. He doesn't succeed at first, so he takes on another strategy, namely to build a Doomsday machine and demand that someone else kills Jacques Clouseau, or Dreyfus will use the machine to wipe out whole... [show more]
Peter Sellers
Herbert Lom
Lesley-Anne Down
Burt Kwouk
Blake Edwards
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
Linda Faye Farkas
Martin Scorsese
The Madness of King George (1994)
Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
A meditation on power and the metaphor of the body of state, based on the real episode of dementia experienced by George III [now suspected a victim of porphyria, a blood disorder]. As he loses his senses, he becomes both more alive and more politically marginalized; neither effect desirable to his... [show more]
Rupert Graves
Helen Mirren
Amanda Donohoe
Charlotte Curley
Nicholas Hytner
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
Vincent Gardenia
Olympia Dukakis
Norman Jewison
Superman II (1980)
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Picking up where "Superman: The Movie" left off, three criminals, General Zod (Terence Stamp), Ursa, (Sarah Douglas), and Non (Jack O'Halloran) from the planet Krypton are released from the Phantom Zone by a nuclear explosion in space. They descend upon Earth where they could finally rule. Superman,... [show more]
Gene Hackman
Christopher Reeve
Ned Beatty
Jackie Cooper
Richard Lester
Richard Donner
Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
When Willy Wonka decides to let five children into his chocolate factory, he decides to release five golden tickets in five separate chocolate bars, causing complete mayhem. The tickets start to be found, with the fifth going to a very special boy, called Charlie Bucket. With his Grandpa, Charlie... [show more]
Johnny Depp
Freddie Highmore
David Kelly
Helena Bonham Carter
Tim Burton
Emma (1996)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people's affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest in romance, Emma is clueless about her own feelings, and her relationship with gentle Mr. Knightly.
Gwyneth Paltrow
James Cosmo
Greta Scacchi
Alan Cumming
Douglas McGrath
The Santa Clause (1994)
Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Divorcee Scott Calvin is disgusted to learn that his ex and her husband have tried - and failed - to break it easy to their 6-year-old son Charlie that Santa isn't real. On Christmas Eve, Scott reads The Night Before Christmas... then receives an unexpected visitor on his roof. When he's startled by... [show more]
Tim Allen
Judge Reinhold
Wendy Crewson
Eric Lloyd
John Pasquin
Nanny McPhee (2005)
Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Mr. Cedric Brown has just lost his wife and is now left with his seven children who misbehave so much that all the nannies have run away. Now he is told by a mysterious voice that he should get Nanny McPhee who is a magical woman with special powers.
Emma Thompson
Colin Firth
Kelly Macdonald
Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Kirk Jones
Sister Act (1992)
Comedy, Crime, Family, Music
Sister Act is about a Reno lounge singer named Deloris Van Carter who witnesses her mobster boyfriend killing an employee. She is then hidden in a convent under a witness protection program. She soon makes friends with the nuns, especially Sister Mary Robert, Sister Mary Lazuras and Sister Mary... [show more]
Whoopi Goldberg
Maggie Smith
Kathy Najimy
Wendy Makkena
Emile Ardolino
Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Desperate to cure her near catatonic sister, intrepid authoress Adèle Blanc-Sec braves ancient Egyptian tombs and modern Egyptian lowlife to locate a mummified doctor and get him back to Paris. Her hope is that oddball Professor Espérandieu will then use his unusual powers to bring the doctor back... [show more]
Louise Bourgoin
Mathieu Amalric
Gilles Lellouche
Jean-Paul Rouve
Luc Besson
My Little Pony: The Movie (1986)
Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical
At Dream Castle, the Little Ponies are preparing a festival to celebrate the first day of Spring. From the Volcano of Gloom, the evil witch Hydia watches the event via her cauldron and, disgusted by the frivolity, tells her daughters that they must ruin it. Hydia's daughters, Draggle and Reeka, are... [show more]
Danny DeVito
Madeline Kahn
Cloris Leachman
Rhea Perlman
Mike Joens
Gerry Chiniquy
Ray Lee
Akinori Matsubara
Margaret Nichols
Heungsun Oh
Karen Peterson
Tom Ray
Robert Shellhorn
Gregg Vanzo
Gwen Wetzler
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Malcom Crowe (Bruce Willis)is a child psychologist who receives an award on the same night that he is visited by a very unhappy ex-patient. After this encounter, Crowe takes on the task of curing a young boy with the same ills as the ex-patient (Donnie Wahlberg) . This boy "sees dead people". Crowe... [show more]
Bruce Willis
Haley Joel Osment
Toni Collette
Olivia Williams
M. Night Shyamalan
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Marty McFly has only just gotten back from the past, when he is once again picked up by Dr. Emmett Brown and sent through time to the future. Marty's job in the future is to pose as his own son to prevent him from being thrown in prison. Unfortunately, things get worse when the future changes the... [show more]
Michael J. Fox
Christopher Lloyd
Lea Thompson
Thomas F. Wilson
Robert Zemeckis
Days of Heaven (1978)
Drama, Romance
Bill and Abby, a young couple who to the outside world pretend to be brother and sister are living and working in Chicago at the beginning of the century. They want to escape the poverty and hard labor of the city and travel south. Together with the girl Linda (who acts as the narrator in the movie)... [show more]
Richard Gere
Brooke Adams
Sam Shepard
Linda Manz
Terrence Malick
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
Mary Steenburgen
Lasse Hallström
Avatar (2009)
Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
When his brother is killed in a robbery, paraplegic Marine Jake Sully decides to take his place in a mission on the distant world of Pandora. There he learns of greedy corporate figurehead Parker Selfridge's intentions of driving off the native humanoid "Na'vi" in order to mine for the precious... [show more]
Sam Worthington
Zoe Saldana
Sigourney Weaver
Stephen Lang
James Cameron
The Social Network (2010)
Biography, Drama
On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication.... [show more]
Jesse Eisenberg
Rooney Mara
Bryan Barter
Dustin Fitzsimons
David Fincher
In America (2002)
Drama
Following the tragic death of their five-year-old son Frankie, Irish couple Johnny and Sarah Sullivan and their remaining two offspring, 10 year old Christy Sullivan and 5 year old Ariel Sullivan, emigrate illegally to the United States via Canada with little in their pockets. Their final... [show more]
Paddy Considine
Samantha Morton
Sarah Bolger
Emma Bolger
Jim Sheridan
Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
Drama
Evelyn Couch is having trouble in her marriage, and no one seems to take her seriously. While in a nursing home visiting relatives, she meets Ninny Threadgoode, an outgoing old woman, who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode, a young woman in 1920's Alabama. Through Idgie's inspiring life,... [show more]
Kathy Bates
Mary Stuart Masterson
Mary-Louise Parker
Jessica Tandy
Jon Avnet
Drama, Sci-Fi
An alien (Klaatu) with his mighty robot (Gort) land their spacecraft on Cold War-era Earth just after the end of World War II. They bring an important message to the planet that Klaatu wishes to tell to representatives of all nations. However, communication turns out to be difficult, so, after... [show more]
Michael Rennie
Patricia Neal
Hugh Marlowe
Sam Jaffe
Robert Wise
Shine (1996)
Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
As a child piano prodigy, David Helfgott's musical ambitions generate friction with his overbearing father, Peter. When Helfgott travels to London on a musical scholarship, his career as a pianist blossoms. However, the pressures of his newfound fame, coupled with the echoes of his tumultuous... [show more]
Geoffrey Rush
Justin Braine
Sonia Todd
Chris Haywood
Scott Hicks
Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
The true story of three inmates who attempt a daring escape from the infamous prison, Alcatraz Island. Although no-one had managed to escape before, bank robber Frank Morris masterminded this elaborately detailed and, as far as anyone knows, ultimately successful, escape. In 29 years, this seemingly... [show more]
Clint Eastwood
Patrick McGoohan
Roberts Blossom
Jack Thibeau
Don Siegel
True Grit (2010)
Drama, Western
Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking,... [show more]
Jeff Bridges
Hailee Steinfeld
Matt Damon
Josh Brolin
Ethan Coen
Joel Coen
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
When Adams and his crew are sent to investigate the silence from a planet inhabited by scientists, he finds all but two have died. Dr. Morbius and his daughter Altaira have somehow survived a hideous monster which roams the planet. Unknown to Adams, Morbius has made a discovery, and has no intention... [show more]
Walter Pidgeon
Anne Francis
Leslie Nielsen
Warren Stevens
Fred M. Wilcox
Victor Victoria (1982)
Comedy, Music, Musical, Romance
In 1934 Paris, trained coloratura soprano Victoria Grant, a native Brit, can't get a job as a singer and is having trouble making ends meet. She doesn't even have enough money for the basics of food and shelter. Gay cabaret singer Carole 'Toddy' Todd may befall the same fate as Victoria as he was... [show more]
Julie Andrews
James Garner
Robert Preston
Lesley Ann Warren
Blake Edwards
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]
Sandra Bullock
Tim McGraw
Quinton Aaron
Jae Head
John Lee Hancock
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
After a long prison sentence Smiler Grogan is heading at high speed to a California park where he hid $350,000 from a job 15 years previously. He accidentally careens over a cliff in view of four cars whose occupants go down to help. The dying Grogan gives details of where the money is buried and... [show more]
Spencer Tracy
Milton Berle
Sid Caesar
Buddy Hackett
Stanley Kramer
The Great Debaters (2007)
Biography, Drama, Romance
Marshall, Texas, described by James Farmer, Jr. as "the last city to surrender after the Civil War," is home to Wiley College, where, in 1935-36, inspired by the Harlem Renaissance and his clandestine work as a union organizer, Professor Melvin Tolson coaches the debate team to a nearly-undefeated... [show more]
Denzel Washington
Nate Parker
Jurnee Smollett
Denzel Whitaker
Denzel Washington
Amazing Grace (2006)
Biography, Drama, History, Romance
In 1797, William Wilberforce, the great crusader for the British abolition of slavery, is taking a vacation for his health even while he is sicker at heart for his frustrated cause. However, meeting the charming Barbara Spooner, Wilberforce finds a soulmate to share the story of his struggle. With... [show more]
Ioan Gruffudd
Romola Garai
Benedict Cumberbatch
Albert Finney
Michael Apted
Best in Show (2000)
Comedy
The owners (and handlers) of five show dogs head for the Mayflower Kennel Club Dog Show. A film crew interviews them as they prepare for the trip, arrive at Philly's Taft Hotel, and compete. From Florida come the Flecks: she keeps running into old lovers. A wordless ancient in a wheelchair and his... [show more]
Jay Brazeau
Parker Posey
Michael Hitchcock
Catherine O'Hara
Christopher Guest
The Goodbye Girl (1977)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
A divorced woman and her daughter come home to find that her boyfriend has left for an out of town job with no warning. This has happened before. The second surprise comes in the form of another actor who has sublet the apartment from her boyfriend (who did not mention the pair of females who would... [show more]
Richard Dreyfuss
Marsha Mason
Quinn Cummings
Paul Benedict
Herbert Ross
The Mighty (1998)
Comedy, Drama
This tells the story of a strong friendship between a young boy with Morquio's syndrome and an older boy who is always bullied because of his size. Adapted from the novel, Freak the Mighty, the film explores a building of trust and friendship. Kevin, an intelligent guy helps out Maxwell to improve... [show more]
Harry Dean Stanton
Gena Rowlands
Elden Henson
Douglas Bisset
Peter Chelsom
Top Secret! (1984)
Comedy, Music
This time Zucker and Abrahams are spoofing, most notably, Elvis films and WWII spy movies. Val Kilmer stars as Nick Rivers, a handsome American 50s-style rock and roll singer. While performing in East Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful heroine and becomes involved with the French Resistance.
Val Kilmer
Lucy Gutteridge
Peter Cushing
Jeremy Kemp
Jim Abrahams
David Zucker
Jerry Zucker
Benny & Joon (1993)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
In Spokane, Washington, Juniper Pearl - Joon to those that know her - is an artist. She is also a mentally challenged young woman who requires around the clock care, as she could cause harm to herself or others. Her brother Benny Pearl, who owns and operates a garage and who is her only living... [show more]
Johnny Depp
Mary Stuart Masterson
Aidan Quinn
Julianne Moore
Jeremiah S. Chechik
Shattered Glass (2003)
Drama, History
This film tells the true story of fraudulent Washington, D.C. journalist Stephen Glass (Christensen), who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in his 20s, becoming a staff writer at "The New Republic" for three years (1995-1998), where 27 of his 41 published stories were either partially or... [show more]
Hayden Christensen
Peter Sarsgaard
Chloë Sevigny
Rosario Dawson
Billy Ray
Newsies (1992)
Drama, Family, History, Musical
July, 1899: When Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise the distribution price one-tenth of a cent per paper, ten cents per hundred, the newsboys, poor enough already, are outraged. Inspired by the strike put on by the trolley workers, Jack "Cowboy" Kelly (Christian Bale) organizes a... [show more]
Christian Bale
David Moscow
Luke Edwards
Max Casella
Kenny Ortega
Fletch (1985)
Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher, Los Angeles journalist, really lives for his profession. As Jane Doe, he publishes articles that have caused several heads to roll in the past. Now, Fletch is at it again: In disguise as a bum, he lives at the beach, researching drugs and their dealing. One day, Fletch is... [show more]
Chevy Chase
Joe Don Baker
Dana Wheeler-Nicholson
Richard Libertini
Michael Ritchie
My Girl (1991)
Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
1972. Vada Sultenfuss (played by Anna Chlumsky) is an intelligent, bubbly, hypochondriacal 11-year old girl. Her father, Harry (Dan Aykroyd), is a mortician and a widower. Her best friend is Thomas J Sennett (Macaulay Culkin). Then her father hires a new receptionist, Shelly (Jamie Lee Curtis), and... [show more]
Dan Aykroyd
Jamie Lee Curtis
Macaulay Culkin
Anna Chlumsky
Howard Zieff
Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
A young boy named Max has an active imagination, and he will throw fits if others don't go along with what he wants. Max - following an incident with Claire (his sister) and her friends, and following a tantrum which he throws as a result of his Mother paying more attention to her boyfriend than to... [show more]
Max Records
Pepita Emmerichs
Max Pfeifer
Madeleine Greaves
Spike Jonze
Explorers (1985)
Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Ben Crandall, an alien-obsessed kid, dreams one night of a circuit board. Drawing out the circuit, he and his friends Wolfgang and Darren set it up, and discover they have been given the basis for a starship. Setting off in the ThunderRoad, as they name their ship, they find the aliens Ben hopes... [show more]
Ethan Hawke
River Phoenix
Jason Presson
Bradley Gregg
Joe Dante
Escape to Witch Mountain (1975)
Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Tia and Tony are two orphaned youngsters with extraordinary powers. Lucas Deranian poses as their uncle in order to get the kids into the clutches of Deranian's megalomanical boss, evil millionaire Aristotle Bolt, who wants to exploit them. Jason, a cynical widower, helps Tia and Tony "escape to... [show more]
Eddie Albert
Ray Milland
Donald Pleasence
Kim Richards
John Hough
Splash (1984)
Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Allen Bauer is rescued from drowning as a young boy off Cape Cod by a young mermaid. Years later, he returns to the same location, and once again manages to fall into the sea, and is rescued once more by the mermaid (Allen isn't sure what he has seen and what he has imagined). Using maps from a... [show more]
Tom Hanks
Daryl Hannah
Eugene Levy
John Candy
Ron Howard
Vertigo (1958)
Mystery, Romance, Thriller
John "Scottie" Ferguson is a retired San Francisco police detective who suffers from acrophobia and Madeleine is the lady who leads him to high places. A wealthy shipbuilder who is an acquaintance from college days approaches Scottie and asks him to follow his beautiful wife, Madeleine. He fears she... [show more]
James Stewart
Kim Novak
Barbara Bel Geddes
Tom Helmore
Alfred Hitchcock
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Adventure, Sci-Fi
Taylor and two other astronauts come out of deep hibernation to find that their ship has crashed. Escaping with little more than clothes they find that they have landed on a planet where men are pre-lingual and uncivilized while apes have learned speech and technology. Taylor is captured and taken... [show more]
Charlton Heston
Roddy McDowall
Kim Hunter
Maurice Evans
Franklin J. Schaffner
The Graduate (1967)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Ben has recently graduated from college, with his parents now expecting great things from him. At his "Homecoming" party, Mrs. Robinson, the wife of his father's business partner, has Ben drive her home, which leads to an affair between the two. The affair eventually ends, but comes back to haunt... [show more]
Anne Bancroft
Dustin Hoffman
Katharine Ross
William Daniels
Mike Nichols
The Bourne Identity (2002)
Action, Mystery, Thriller
Based very loosely on Robert Ludlum's novel, the Bourne Identity is the story of a man whose wounded body is discovered by fishermen who nurse him back to health. He can remember nothing and begins to try to rebuild his memory based on clues such as a Swiss bank account, the number of which is... [show more]
Matt Damon
Franka Potente
Chris Cooper
Clive Owen
Doug Liman
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Adventure, Drama
To escape the edict of Egypt's Pharaoh, Rameses I, condemning all newborn Hebrew males, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother, Pharaoh Seti. Moses gains Seti's favor and... [show more]
Charlton Heston
Yul Brynner
Anne Baxter
Edward G. Robinson
Cecil B. DeMille