Released Date:
1987-12-17
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK, Ireland, USA
Runtime:
83 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (5145 Reviews)
Director:
John HustonGenres:
DramaTony Huston (screenplay)
James Joyce (story)
John Huston's last film is a labor of love at several levels: an adaptation of perhaps one of the greatest pieces of English-language literature by one of Huston's favorite authors, James Joyce; a love letter to the land of his ancestors and the country where his children grew up; and the chance to work with his screenwriter son Tony and his actress daughter Anjelica. The film is delicate and unhurried, detailing an early January dinner at the house of two spinster musician sisters and their niece in turn-of-the-century Ireland, attended by friends and family. Among the visiting attendees are the sisters' nephew Gabriel Conroy and his wife Gretta. The evening's reminiscences bring up melancholy memories for Gretta concerning her first, long-lost love when she was a girl in rural Galway. Her recounting of this tragic love to Gabriel brings him to an epiphany: he learns the difference between mere existence and living. The all-Irish cast and careful period detail give the piece richness and gravity, and Donal McCann and Anjelica Huston are unforgettable as the Conroys.
Released Date:
1987-05-08
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
111 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (3854 Reviews)
Director:
Francis Ford CoppolaNicholas Proffitt (novel)
Ronald Bass (screenplay)
In the late 60s, during the Vietnam War, the idealistic soldier Jackie Willow arrives at Fort Meyer expecting to go to the Academy and then to the Vietnam War. Jackie is the son of a veteran sergeant and soon he becomes the protègè of the former friends of his father, Sergeant Clell Hazard and Sergeant Major 'Goody' Nelson. Jackie is promoted and gets married with his childhood friend Rachel Feld, to recommend Jackie to the Academy. He is promoted to lieutenant and asks to go to the Vietnam, returning to the Arlington National Cemetery.
Released Date:
1989-12-13
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, Canada
Runtime:
119 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (1599 Reviews)
Director:
Paul MazurskyIsaac Bashevis Singer (novel)
Roger L. Simon (screenplay)
Paul Mazursky (screenplay)
Set in 1949 New York, a Holocaust survivor who makes a living as a ghostwriter for a Jewish rabbi, finds himself involved with three women - his current wife, a passionate affair with a married woman, and his long-vanished wife whom he thought was killed during the war and suddenly reappears. The film concentrates on the views of the Jewish survivors, who no longer abide by religious morales and question a God who could let the Holocaust occur.
Released Date:
1991-01-04
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(19604 Reviews)
Director:
Stephen FrearsJim Thompson (novel)
Donald E. Westlake (screenplay)
Lily works for a bookie, placing bets to change the odds at the track. When her son is hospitalized after an unsuccessful con job and resultant beating, she finds that even an absentee parent has feelings for her child. This causes her own job to go wrong as well. Each of them faces the down side of the grift.
Released Date:
1990-08-24
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK, USA
Runtime:
91 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (22325 Reviews)
Director:
Nicolas RoegRoald Dahl (book)
Allan Scott (screenplay)
A young boy, recently orphaned, is taken to England by his grandmother. At a hotel in which they are staying, a group of witches have gathered to prepare a plot to rid England of all children.
Released Date:
1991-11-22
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
99 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (87966 Reviews)
Director:
Barry SonnenfeldCharles Addams (characters)
Caroline Thompson
Larry Wilson
The Addams step out of Charles Addams' cartoons. They live with all of the trappings of the macabre (including a detached hand for a servant) and are quite wealthy. Added to this mix is a crooked accountant and his loan shark and a plot to slip in the shark's son into the family as their long lost Uncle Fester. Can the false Fester find his way into the vault before he is discovered?
Released Date:
1993-11-19
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
94 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (51510 Reviews)
Director:
Barry SonnenfeldCharles Addams (characters)
Paul Rudnick
On any day of the week, you could expect a newborn baby to be nurtured and loved by his older sister. Except, of course, if it's Wednesday. Pubert is the latest addition to the Addams family and, to prevent sibling rivalry escalating to fratricide, Wednesday and Pugsley are shipped off to summer camp and a nanny is hired. Debby Jellinsky is great with wrinkling baldies, which makes her the perfect nanny for Pubert and the unlikely wife of Uncle Fester. The question is..."Is she grave-digging or gold-digging?"
Released Date:
1995-11-16
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
111 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (9920 Reviews)
Director:
Sean PennGenres:
DramaAfter his daughter died in a hit and run, Freddy Gale has waited six years for John Booth, the man responsible, to be released from prison. On the day of release, Gale visits Booth and announces that he will kill him in one week. Booth uses his time to try and make peace with himself and his entourage, and even finds romance. Gale, whose life is spiralling down because of his obsession towards Booth, will bring himself on the very edge of sanity. At the end of the week, both men will find themselves on a collision course with each other.
Released Date:
1998-07-31
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
121 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
(55004 Reviews)
Director:
Andy TennantSusannah Grant (screenplay)
Andy Tennant (screenplay)
Rick Parks (screenplay)
With the sudden death of her loving father, Danielle is made a servant by her new stepmother. She also has two new stepsisters, one quite kind but the other one really horrid. Still, Danielle grows up to be a happy and strong-willed young lady, and one day her path crosses that of handsome Prince Henry, who has troubles of his own at home. Luckily the nice Leonardo da Vinci is on hand to help all round.
Released Date:
2000-03-03
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
USA, Ireland
Runtime:
92 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (1778 Reviews)
Director:
Anjelica HustonBrendan O'Carroll (novel)
John Goldsmith (screenplay)
Brendan O'Carroll (screenplay)
The unexpected death of her husband sends a woman and her seven children, ages 2-14, into emotional turmoil and financial crisis in 1967 Dublin. She is forced to borrow money from a ruthless loan shark to make ends meet. She faces her dismal existence by selling fruits and vegetables at an open air market where she spends time with a best friend who gives her encouragement. Wishing to escape her existence, if only for a short time, she dreams of finding enough money to attend an upcoming Tom Jones concert. She realizes her dream by accepting her first date with a French baker. Her kids pool their money so she can buy a new dress. Of course, eventually the family has to face the loan shark, but this is a movie where obstacles are maybe too easily overcome.
Released Date:
2001-05-25
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, France, UK
Runtime:
130 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(3619 Reviews)
Director:
James IvoryHenry James (novel)
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (screenplay)
Adam Verver, a US billionaire in London, dotes on daughter Maggie, an innocent abroad. An impecunious Italian, Prince Amerigo, marries her even though her best friend, Charlotte Stant, an alabaster beauty with brains, no money, and a practical and romantic nature, is his lover. She and Amerigo keep it secret from Maggie that they know each other, so Maggie interests her widowed father in Charlotte, who is happy with the match because she wants to be close to Amerigo. Charlotte desires him, the lovers risk discovery, Amerigo longs for Italy, Maggie wants to spare her father pain, and Adam wants to return to America to build a museum. Amidst lies and artifice, what fate awaits adulterers?
Released Date:
2001-07-15
Languages:
English
Countries:
Czech Republic, Germany, USA
Runtime:
183 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
(6924 Reviews)
Based on the bestseller by Marion Zimmer Bradley It tells the story of the women behind King Arthur; including his mother, Igraine; his half-sister, Morgaine; his aunt Viviane, the Lady of the Lake; and his wife, Gwenwyfar.
Released Date:
2002-01-04
Languages:
English, Italian
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (193424 Reviews)
Director:
Wes AndersonThree grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal had left them long ago, and comes back to make things right with his family.
Released Date:
2002-08-09
Languages:
English, Spanish
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (32600 Reviews)
Director:
Clint EastwoodMichael Connelly (novel)
Brian Helgeland (screenplay)
Retired FBI profiler Terry McCaleb (Eastwood), who has recently had a heart transplant, is hired by Graciela Rivers (De Jesus), to investigate the death of her sister, Gloria, who happens to have given McCaleb his heart. On the case, he soon deduces that the killer, who staged the murder to look like a random robbery, may actually be a serial killer Terry was trailing for years in the FBI. Can the elderly and feeble McCaleb, who had intended to spend his retirement living on his boat in the Los Angeles harbor, and who can't drive, and has to nap regularly, muster up the endurance to find the killer?
Released Date:
2002-10-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
84 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
(2562 Reviews)
Director:
Owen HurleyBarbie is Rapunzel in this beloved story. Kidnapped by an evil witch, Rapunzel is locked in a tower and hidden from the outside world. Rapunzel goes on a journey and with the help of her friends Penelope and Hobie, she manages to get the life she deserves and live happily ever after.
Released Date:
2004-02-15
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
123 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (4486 Reviews)
Director:
Katja von GarnierJennifer Friedes (story)
Sally Robinson (teleplay)
Eugenia Bostwick-Singer (teleplay)
Raymond Singer (teleplay)
Jennifer Friedes (teleplay)
Alice Paul and the women of the 1917 Women's Suffrage movement fight for future generations right to vote and run for office. Sacrificing their health, marriages and the limited amount of freedom they had, women were imprisoned and force fed after picketing and hunger-striking against war-time president, Woodrow Wilson; but survived to see the results of their efforts.
Released Date:
2004-12-25
Languages:
English, Icelandic, Filipino, Portuguese, French, Tagalog, German, Italian
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
119 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (128645 Reviews)
Director:
Wes AndersonWhen his partner is killed by the mysterious and possibly nonexistent Jaguar Shark, Steve Zissou and his Team Zissou crew set off for an expedition to hunt down the creature. Along with his estranged wife, a beautiful journalist and a co-pilot who could possibly be Zissou's son, the crew set off for one wild expedition.
Released Date:
2006-08-18
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
97 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
3.8 (18318 Reviews)
Director:
Martha CoolidgeJohn Quaintance
Jessica O'Toole
Amy Rardin
The silver spoon daughters of the late cosmetics empire founder Victor Marchetta, Avan and Tanzie, never even took an interest in the business, happy to let it be run by their and the firm's administrator, Tommy Katzenbach, while they lead socialite lives, aiming at a marriage with soap star Mic Rionn. Suddenly a scandal wrecks the firm's stock and their family reputation. Their credit cards are canceled, one of them torches the mansion, the other hands their sports-car to a thief mistaken for a parking valet. So they end up living with their Latina former cleaning lady. Help to investigate whether the firm is really best sold to competitor Fabiella, as Tommy claims, comes from hunky lab technician Rick, whom the previously mistook for the inexistent firm parking lot attendant, and Henry Baines, whose free law for the poor charity they didn't even consider for sponsoring.
Released Date:
2010-01-29
Languages:
English, Italian
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
91 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
5.5 (47036 Reviews)
Director:
Mark Steven JohnsonBeth is a hard working career woman whose last relationship says that she puts her work above him so he left her. When he tells her he found another career woman and is willing to stick it out with her and is engaged to her, Beth feels that there is no one for her. And when she goes to Rome to attend her sister's impromptu wedding and after meeting the best man, Nick, she's attracted to him but after seeing him with another woman, she gets drunk and goes into the famed Fountain of Love and takes some coins thrown by people looking for love. When she goes back to New York four men start coming onto her. And Nick keeps calling her asking her out. She later learns that what she did--is a no no. It seems legend says that if you take a coin out of the fountain the person who threw it will fall in love with who took the coin. So she has to find a way to break the curse. And she wonders if Nick, whom she likes, is with her cause he wants to or if he is under the spell.
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