The Rainmaker (1997)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Rudy Baylor is a young attorney out to make a difference in the justice system. He is also the only hope of an elderly couple after their corrupt insurance company refuses to pay out a claim that could save their child's life. In this judicial drama, Baylor rails against corporate lawyers, corrupt... [show more]
Matt Damon
Danny DeVito
Claire Danes
Francis Ford Coppola
The Princess and the Frog (2009)
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A modern day retelling of the classic story The Frog Prince. The Princess and the Frog finds the lives of arrogant, carefree Prince Naveen and hardworking waitress Tiana crossing paths. Prince Naveen is transformed into a frog by a conniving voodoo magician and Tiana, following suit, upon kissing... [show more]
Anika Noni Rose
Keith David
Oprah Winfrey
Ron Clements
John Musker
The Madness of King George (1994)
Biography, Comedy, Drama
Aging King George III of England (Sir Nigel Hawthorne) is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of confusion and near-violent outbursts of temper, his hapless doctors attempt the ineffectual cures of the day. Meanwhile, Queen... [show more]
Nigel Hawthorne
Helen Mirren
Rupert Graves
Nicholas Hytner
Chicken Run (2000)
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Having been hopelessly repressed and facing eventual certain death at the chicken farm where they are held, Rocky the rooster and Ginger the chicken decide to rebel against the evil Mr. and Ms. Tweedy, the farm's owners. Rocky and Ginger lead their fellow chickens in a great escape from the... [show more]
Mel Gibson
Julia Sawalha
Phil Daniels
Peter Lord
Nick Park
Anastasia (1997)
Animation, Adventure, Drama
The daughter of the last Russian Czar, Nicolas II (Rick Jones), Anastasia (Meg Ryan) is found by two Russian con men, Dimitri (John Cusack) and Vladimir (Kelsey Grammer), who seek the reward that her grandmother, the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna (Dame Angela Lansbury), promised to the ones... [show more]
Meg Ryan
John Cusack
Christopher Lloyd
Don Bluth
Gary Goldman
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
Jeremiah S. Chechik
Big Jake (1971)
Drama, Western
McCandles Ranch is run over by a gang of cutthroats led by the evil John Fain. They kidnap little Jacob McCandles and hold him for one million dollars ransom. There is only one man brave enough, tough enough, and smart enough to bring him back alive, and that man is Big Jake.
PG-13
110 min
John Wayne
Richard Boone
Maureen O'Hara
George Sherman
John Wayne
PG-13
110 min
Unknown
Time After Time (1979)
Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
It's 1893 London. Futurist H.G. Wells believes that the future holds a Utopian society. He also believes in time travel. He has just built a time machine which he is displaying to a group of skeptical friends, including surgeon Dr. John Leslie Stevenson. Unbeknown to Wells or anyone else among that... [show more]
Malcolm McDowell
Mary Steenburgen
David Warner
Nicholas Meyer
What About Bob? (1991)
Comedy
Dr. Leo Marvin, an egotistical psychotherapist in New York City, is looking forward to his upcoming appearance on a "Good Morning America" telecast, during which he plans to brag about "Baby Steps," his new book about emotional disorder theories in which he details his philosophy of treating... [show more]
Bill Murray
Richard Dreyfuss
Julie Hagerty
Frank Oz
Barcelona (1994)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Ted, a stuffy white guy from Illinois working in sales for the Barcelona office of a US corporation, is paid an unexpected visit by his somewhat less stuffy cousin Fred, who is an officer in the US Navy. Over the next few months, both their lives are irrevocably altered by the events which follow... [show more]
Taylor Nichols
Chris Eigeman
Tushka Bergen
Whit Stillman
Barefoot in the Park (1967)
Comedy, Romance
New Yorkers Paul Bratter and Corie Bratter née Banks have just gotten married. He is a stuffed shirt just starting his career as a lawyer. She is an independently minded free spirit who prides herself on doing the illogical purely out of a sense of adventure, such acts as walking through Washington... [show more]
Robert Redford
Jane Fonda
Charles Boyer
Gene Saks
The Last Wave (1977)
Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A Sydney lawyer has more to worry about than higher-than-average rainfall when he is called upon to defend five Aboriginals in court. Determined to break their silence and discover the truth behind the hidden society he suspects lives in his city, the Lawyer is drawn further, and more intimately,... [show more]
Richard Chamberlain
Olivia Hamnett
David Gulpilil
Peter Weir
Testament (1983)
Drama, Sci-Fi
Nuclear war in the United States is portrayed in a realistic and believable manner. The story is told through the eyes of a woman who is struggling to take care of her family. The entire movie takes place in a small suburban town outside San Francisco. After the nuclear attack, contact with the... [show more]
Jane Alexander
William Devane
Rossie Harris
Lynne Littman
My Girl (1991)
Comedy, Drama, Family
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]
Anna Chlumsky
Macaulay Culkin
Dan Aykroyd
Howard Zieff
Bolt (2008)
Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Bolt, an American white shepherd, has lived his whole life on the set of his action TV show, where he believes he has superpowers. When separated from the studio by accident, he meets a female alley cat named Mittens and a hamster named Rhino. He's trying to find the way home, to the studio. Along... [show more]
John Travolta
Miley Cyrus
Susie Essman
Byron Howard
Chris Williams
Adventure, Comedy, Family
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
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
Douglas McGrath
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
Ron Howard
Lassie (1994)
Family, Adventure
Determined to start a new life in the country, the Turner Family - Dad, stepmom, little Jennifer and teenager Matt - leaves the city for the wilds of Virginia. The move creates problems for everyone, especially Matt, who feels lost and alone in his new surroundings. Fortunately, the Turners are... [show more]
Helen Slater
Tom Guiry
Jon Tenney
Daniel Petrie
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
M. Night Shyamalan
The Graduate (1967)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Benjamin Braddock returns home to California after successfully completing college. He gets a hero's welcome from his parents but Ben isn't quite sure what to do with the rest of his life. He is soon seduced by Mrs. Robinson, the wife of his father's partner, who methodically pursues the... [show more]
Dustin Hoffman
Anne Bancroft
Katharine Ross
Mike Nichols
Avatar (2009)
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
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
James Cameron
Cabaret (1972)
Drama, Music, Musical
Cambridge University student Brian Roberts arrives in Berlin in 1931 to complete his German studies. Without much money, he plans on making a living teaching English while living in an inexpensive rooming house, where he befriends another of the tenants, American Sally Bowles. She is outwardly a... [show more]
Liza Minnelli
Michael York
Helmut Griem
Bob Fosse
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Comedy, Drama
Hannah, Holly, and Lee are adult sisters from a show business family, their boozy actress mother who still believes she's an ingénue that can attract any man she wants, despite still being married to the girls' father, Evan. Hannah, on her second marriage to a man named Elliot, a financial advisor,... [show more]
Mia Farrow
Dianne Wiest
Michael Caine
Woody Allen
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
Jessica Tandy
Mary Stuart Masterson
Jon Avnet
The African Queen (1951)
Adventure, Drama, Romance
September 1914, news reaches the colony German Eastern Africa that Germany is at war, so Reverend Samuel Sayer became a hostile foreigner. German imperial troops burn down his mission; he is beaten and dies of fever. His well-educated, snobbish sister Rose Sayer buries him and leaves by the only... [show more]
Humphrey Bogart
Katharine Hepburn
Robert Morley
John Huston
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
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
Djimon Hounsou
Jim Sheridan
Shine (1996)
Biography, Drama, Music
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
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Justin Braine
Scott Hicks
Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
Action, Biography, Crime
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 (Clint Eastwood) masterminded this elaborately detailed, and, as far as anyone knows, ultimately successful, escape. In... [show more]
Clint Eastwood
Patrick McGoohan
Roberts Blossom
Don Siegel
Victor Victoria (1982)
Comedy, Music, Romance
In 1934 Paris, trained coloratura soprano Victoria Grant (Dame Julie Andrews), 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 (Robert Preston) may befall... [show more]
Julie Andrews
James Garner
Robert Preston
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]
Quinton Aaron
Sandra Bullock
Tim McGraw
John Lee Hancock
Best in Show (2000)
Comedy
At the prestigious Mayflower Dog Show, a "documentary film crew" captures the excitement and tension displayed by the eccentric participants in the outrageously hilarious satire Best In Show. This biting send-up exposes the wondrously diverse dog owners who travel from all over America to showcase... [show more]
Fred Willard
Eugene Levy
Catherine O'Hara
Christopher Guest
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
Forest Whitaker
Kimberly Elise
Denzel Washington
Beetlejuice (1988)
Comedy, Fantasy
Adam and Barbara are a normal couple...who happen to be dead. They have given their precious time to decorate their house and make it their own, but unfortunately a family is moving in, and not quietly. Adam and Barbara try to scare them out, but end up becoming the main attraction to the money... [show more]
Alec Baldwin
Geena Davis
Michael Keaton
Tim Burton
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
Action, Adventure, Comedy
The story begins during a massive traffic jam caused by reckless driver Smiler Grogan, who, before kicking the bucket, cryptically tells the assembled drivers that he's buried a fortune in stolen loot under the Big W. All of the motorists set out to find the fortune.
Spencer Tracy
Milton Berle
Ethel Merman
Stanley Kramer
The China Syndrome (1979)
Drama, Thriller
While doing a series of reports on alternative energy sources, a reporter, Kimberly Wells, witnesses an accident at a nuclear power plant. Wells is determined to report the incident but soon finds herself entangled in a sinister conspiracy to keep the full impact of the incident a secret.
Jane Fonda
Jack Lemmon
Michael Douglas
James Bridges
Amazing Grace (2006)
Biography, Drama, History
In 1797, William Wilberforce (Ioan Gruffudd), 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 (Romola Garai), Wilberforce finds a soulmate to share... [show more]
Ioan Gruffudd
Albert Finney
Michael Gambon
Michael Apted
Everything Is Illuminated (2005)
Comedy, Drama
Jewish-American writer Jonathan Safran Foer is a collector of his family's memorabilia, although most of the items, some which he takes without asking, would not be considered keepsakes by the average person. He places most of those items in individual Ziploc bags, and hangs them on his keepsake... [show more]
Elijah Wood
Eugene Hutz
Boris Lyoskin
Liev Schreiber
The Mission (1986)
Adventure, Drama, History
Jeremy Irons plays a Spanish Jesuit who goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region. Robert De Niro plays a slave hunter who is converted and joins the Jesuit in his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced... [show more]
Robert De Niro
Jeremy Irons
Ray McAnally
Roland Joffé
Norma Rae (1979)
Drama
Like a lot of her family before her, Norma Rae works at the local textile mill, where the pay is hardly commensurate with the long hours and lousy working conditions. But after hearing a rousing speech by labor activist Reuben, Norma is inspired to rally her fellow workers behind the cause of... [show more]
Sally Field
Beau Bridges
Ron Leibman
Martin Ritt
Clue (1985)
Comedy, Crime, Mystery
This is a movie about seven guests, a butler, and a maid, who are all involved in a series of murders. The guests all meet at Hill House, where you learn that Professor Plum (Christopher Lloyd) works in Washington, D.C., where everyone else lives. Colonel Mustard (Martin Mull) is a client of Miss... [show more]
Eileen Brennan
Tim Curry
Madeline Kahn
Jonathan Lynn
A Passage to India (1984)
Adventure, Drama, History
It's the early 1920s. Britons Adela Quested (Judy Davis) and her probable future mother-in-law Mrs. Moore (Peggy Ashcroft) have just arrived in Chandrapore in British India to visit Adela's unofficial betrothed, Ronny Heaslop (Nigel Havers), who works there as the city's magistrate. Adela and Mrs.... [show more]
Judy Davis
Victor Banerjee
Peggy Ashcroft
David Lean
Stand and Deliver (1988)
Biography, Drama
Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a Hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods help gang members and no-hopers pass the rigorous Advanced Placement exam in calculus.
Edward James Olmos
Estelle Harris
Mark Phelan
Ramón Menéndez
Top Secret! (1984)
Comedy, Crime, 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
Omar Sharif
Jeremy Kemp
Jim Abrahams
David Zucker
Jerry Zucker
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
The Prince of Egypt (1998)
Animation, Adventure, Drama
This is the extraordinary tale of two brothers named Rameses II (Ralph Fiennes) and Moses (Val Kilmer), one born of royal blood, and one an orphan with a secret past. Growing up the best of friends, they share a strong bond of free-spirited youth and good-natured rivalry. But the truth will... [show more]
Val Kilmer
Ralph Fiennes
Michelle Pfeiffer
Brenda Chapman
Steve Hickner
Simon Wells
School of Rock (2003)
Comedy, Music
After being kicked out of his rock band, guitarist slacker Dewey Finn faces a mountain of debts and depression. He shares an apartment with his best friend, Ned Schneebly, an old band member who is now a substitute teacher. Dewey accepts a job as a substitute teacher at a snobbish private elementary... [show more]
Jack Black
Mike White
Joan Cusack
Richard Linklater
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
Chloë Sevigny
Steve Zahn
Billy Ray
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Brother and sister Viola and Sebastian, who are not only very close but look a great deal alike, are in a shipwreck, and both think the other dead. When she lands in a foreign country, Viola dresses as her brother and adopts the name Cesario, becoming a trusted friend and confidante to the Count... [show more]
Helena Bonham Carter
Richard E. Grant
Imogen Stubbs
Trevor Nunn