Released Date:
1971-02-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.2 (573 Reviews)
Director:
Paul MazurskyBohemian Alex Morrison has just finished directing his first feature length movie. In its previews, the movie is considered a critical, artistic and surefire commercial success. As such, Alex seemingly has his choice of what his next project will be. Alex has a few thoughts in his mind, such as a biopic of Lenny Bruce, or a movie about a black uprising in Los Angeles. As he makes the rounds both in the Hollywood community and European movie centers for ideas, he fantasizes about movie scenarios of those everyday situations he is in. These fantasies are influenced by his movie idols, some who he meets such as Italian director Federico Fellini and French actress Jeanne Moreau. Concurrently, he is considering what to do about his personal life. He, his wife Beth and their two daughters live a middle class lifestyle. He is wondering whether it makes sense to "move up", which means that movie making not only has to achieve his main purpose of saying something meaningful, but also has to be commercially successful. That need for commercial success may ultimately take artistic control out of his hands.
Released Date:
1973-12-26
Languages:
English, Latin, Greek, French, German, Arabic
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
122 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(264509 Reviews)
Director:
William FriedkinGenres:
HorrorWilliam Peter Blatty (written for the screen by)
William Peter Blatty (novel)
A visiting actress in Washington, D.C., notices dramatic and dangerous changes in the behavior and physical make-up of her 12-year-old daughter. Meanwhile, a young priest at nearby Georgetown University begins to doubt his faith while dealing with his mother's terminal sickness. And, book-ending the story, a frail, elderly priest recognizes the necessity for a show-down with an old demonic enemy.
Released Date:
1975-05-30
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
112 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (14297 Reviews)
Director:
Martin ScorseseDespite admitting that she was scared of him in her never-ending quest to please him, thirty-five year old housewife and mother Alice Hyatt is devastated when her husband Donald is killed in an on the job traffic accident. With few job skills except that as a singer, Alice, along with her precocious eleven year old son Tommy, decides to move from their current home in Socorro, New Mexico to her home town of Monterrey, California, the only place she has ever felt happy. She plans on getting singing gigs along the way to earn money to get back to Monterrey by the end of the summer and the start of Tommy's school year. Alice's quest for a job at each stop leaves Tommy often to fend for himself, which may make Tommy even more precocious. His behavior is fostered by Alice, as their relationship is often more as trouble-making friends than mother and son. Alice's plans often do not end up as she envisions, especially as she is forced to take a waitressing job at Mel and Ruby's Diner in Tucson, Arizona, which entails working with a disparate group, including Mel, the establishment's gruff owner/short order cook, and her fellow waitresses, the wisecracking, foul mouthed Flo, and the naive and shy Vera. Alice also falls into old habits, namely relying on men to make her feel fulfilled, specifically the much younger Ben, and farmer David. Those relationships may also provide her with a better perspective on her life and her bad choice of Donald as a husband.
Released Date:
1977-02-09
Languages:
English
Countries:
France, Switzerland, UK
Runtime:
104 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.9 (2087 Reviews)
Director:
Alain ResnaisGenres:
DramaClive Langham (Sir John Gielgud) spends one tormenting night in his bed suffering from health problems and thinking up a story based on his relatives. He is a bitter man and he shows, through flashbacks, how spiteful, conniving and treacherous his family is. But is this how they really are or is it his own vindictive slant on things?
Released Date:
1979-04-23
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
119 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (4251 Reviews)
Director:
Robert MulliganBernard Slade (play)
Bernard Slade (screenplay)
A man and woman meet by chance at a romantic inn over dinner. Although both are married to others, they find themselves in the same bed the next morning questioning how this could have happened. They agree to meet on the same weekend each year. Originally a stage play, the two are seen changing, years apart, always in the same room in different scenes. Each of them always appears on schedule, but as time goes on each has some personal crisis that the other helps them through, often without both of them understanding what is going on.
Released Date:
1980-09-26
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
103 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (2056 Reviews)
Director:
Daniel PetrieEdna Mae Macaulay experiences the afterlife for a brief time after a car accident that kills her husband. As she begins her long process of physical healing, she discovers that she has the ability to heal physical infirmities. While most people simply accept her gift, her lover (Sam Shepard) becomes mentally unbalanced and dangerous because she does not place the healings within a religious context.
Released Date:
1985-10-23
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
111 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (736 Reviews)
Director:
Bud YorkinA middle-aged steelworker is content with his job and his family, but feels that something is missing in his life. On his 50th birthday, he stops in at a local bar for a drink to celebrate. He finds himself attracted to the young, very sexy barmaid--and, to his surprise, he finds that she is also very attracted to him.
Released Date:
1988-09-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
84 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.9 (1428 Reviews)
Director:
Bill CouturièBill Couturiè (screenplay)
Richard Dewhurst (screenplay)
Feature-length documentary film featuring real-life letters written by American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines during the Vietnam War to their families and friends back home. Archive footage of the war and news coverage thereof augment the first-person "narrative" by men and women who were in the war, some of whom did not survive it.
Released Date:
1991-11-15
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
94 min
Rated:
UNRATED
IMDB Ratings:
5.2 (146 Reviews)
Director:
Mary LambertGenres:
DramaKate Chopin (novel)
Hesper Anderson (screenplay)
A married woman in 1890s Louisiana meets a handsome Creole, reawakening her sexual desires, and is tempted into an affair with the man.
Released Date:
1991-05-12
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
100 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (83 Reviews)
Director:
Charles MatthauGenres:
DramaReleased Date:
1993-02-03
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
106 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
5.9 (616 Reviews)
Director:
Bill DukeGenres:
ComedyIvan Menchell (play)
Ivan Menchell (screenplay)
This comedy with much Jewish humor is about the widows Doris, Ester and Lucille, who's husbands died one after another in just a few years. The 3 friends in their 50s react quite differently on the deaths. But they make it a habit to meet every year at the graves of their husbands and talk about perspectives in their lives.
Released Date:
1994-05-13
Languages:
English, Vietnamese
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
126 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (15911 Reviews)
Director:
Luis MandokiAn airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addictions threaten her life and their daughter's safety. While the woman enters detox, her husband must face the truth of his enabling behavior.
Released Date:
1995-03-03
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
108 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (1419 Reviews)
Director:
Peter YatesMax Apple (short story)
Max Apple (story)
Max Apple (screenplay)
Stephen Metcalfe (screenplay)
Michael Holeczak has a most unusual roommate, his grandfather, Rocky. Now Rocky's a bit strange but loves Michael and only has his best interest. Michael would live with Rocky after his parents died. Michael would grow up go to school, become a doctor, Rocky would live alone abut when Rocky's about to be thrown out and placed in a retirement home, he refuses. Michael then takes him in. They would stay together even when Michael got married and had a family. And Rocky would always be there for Michael and Michael for him.
Released Date:
1996-08-23
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
117 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (4749 Reviews)
Director:
Lee David ZlotoffGenres:
DramaPercy, upon being released from prison, goes to the small town of Gillead, to find a place where she can start over again. She is taken in by Hannah, to help out at her place, the Spitfire Grill. Percy brings change to the small town, stirring resentment and fear in some, and growth in others.
Released Date:
2000-12-15
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
102 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
8.4 (516397 Reviews)
Director:
Darren AronofskyGenres:
DramaHubert Selby Jr. (based on the book by)
Hubert Selby Jr. (screenplay)
Darren Aronofsky (screenplay)
Drugs. They consume mind, body and soul. Once you're hooked, you're hooked. Four lives. Four addicts. Four failures. Despite their aspirations of greatness, they succumb to their addictions. Watching the addicts spiral out of control, we bear witness to the dirtiest, ugliest portions of the underworld addicts reside in. It is shocking and eye-opening but demands to be seen by both addicts and non-addicts alike.
Released Date:
2002-06-07
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
116 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
5.9 (14595 Reviews)
Director:
Callie KhouriGenres:
DramaRebecca Wells (novels)
Mark Andrus (adaptation)
Callie Khouri (screenplay)
Siddalee, a famous New York playwright, is quoted in Time magazine and infuriates her dramatic, Southern mother. A long-distant fight wages until her mother's friends (and members of the Yaya Sisterhood) kidnap Siddalee and take her "home" to the South, where they hope to explain her mother's history and to patch up the rift between mother and daughter.
Released Date:
2005-04-24
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
180 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (4684 Reviews)
Director:
Lloyd KramerMitch Albom (teleplay)
Mitch Albom (book)
Released Date:
2006-11-22
Languages:
English, Maya
Countries:
USA, Canada
Runtime:
96 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (179334 Reviews)
Director:
Darren AronofskyDarren Aronofsky (screenplay)
Darren Aronofsky (story)
Ari Handel (story)
Three stories - one each from the past, present, and future - about men in pursuit of eternity with their love. A conquistador in Mayan country searches for the tree of life to free his captive queen; a medical researcher, working with various trees, looks for a cure that will save his dying wife; a space traveler, traveling with an aged tree encapsulated within a bubble, moves toward a dying star that's wrapped in a nebula; he seeks eternity with his love. The stories intersect and parallel; the quests fail and succeed.
Released Date:
2006-09-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, Germany, Canada
Runtime:
102 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
3.6 (50196 Reviews)
Director:
Neil LaButeNeil LaBute (screenplay)
Anthony Shaffer
While recovering from a tragic accident on the road, the patrolman Edward Malus receives a letter from his former fiancèe Willow, who left him years ago without any explanation, telling that her daughter Rowan is missing. Edward travels to the private island of Summerisle, where Willow lives in an odd community that plant fruits, and she reveals that Rowan is actually their daughter. Along his investigation with the hostile and unhelpful dwellers, Edward discloses that the locals are pagans, practicing old rituals to improve their harvest, and Rowan is probably alive and being prepared to be sacrificed. When he locates the girl, he finds also the dark truth about the wicker man.
Released Date:
2014-11-07
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, UK, Canada
Runtime:
169 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
8.7 (699518 Reviews)
Director:
Christopher NolanJonathan Nolan
Christopher Nolan
In the near future, Earth has been devastated by drought and famine, causing a scarcity in food and extreme changes in climate. When humanity is facing extinction, a mysterious rip in the space-time continuum is discovered, giving mankind the opportunity to widen its lifespan. A group of explorers must travel beyond our solar system in search of a planet that can sustain life. The crew of the Endurance are required to think bigger and go further than any human in history as they embark on an interstellar voyage into the unknown. Coop, the pilot of the Endurance, must decide between seeing his children again and the future of the human race.
Released Date:
2008-07-11
Languages:
English
Countries:
Canada, UK
Runtime:
116 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (1474 Reviews)
Director:
Kari SkoglandGenres:
DramaKari Skogland
Margaret Laurence (novel)
In Manitoba, Hagar Shipley is nearing 90. She has little, she tells us, but her memories. Over several weeks, during which she runs away from her son and daughter-in-law who want to place her in a nursing home, returning to the small town where she grew up and the now-derelict farmhouse where she was married and raised two sons, we follow Hagar in the present and in memories that trace her childhood, marriage in defiance of her father, and later losses. She's fiercely even foolishly proud. Can she make peace with anyone she loves, or is she left to rage against the dying of the light?
Released Date:
2012-12-31
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
97 min
Rated:
G
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (463 Reviews)
Director:
Michael Landon Jr.Genres:
FamilyCindy Kelley (screenplay)
Michael Landon Jr. (story)
Margery Williams (book)
Sensitive young Toby is deeply saddened when his doted father John, who buried himself in work when widowed, dumps the boy for weeks, including Christmas, on his stern old mother, grim widow Ellen. Beside the stuck-up lady's driver-butler Henry, Toby finds comfort only with a velveteen cuddly rabbit and other animal toys in his father's childhood room, which come to life in his mind when he plays with them. Drama over rabbit and boy stirs crucial emotions in both family and fantasy toy land.
Released Date:
2010-03-27
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
92 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (1423 Reviews)
Director:
Nicholas FacklerNicholas Fackler
Tim Kasher (additional writing)
A holiday fable that tells the story of an elderly man discovering love for the first time.
Released Date:
2012-07-26
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
92 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
4.7 (2056 Reviews)
Director:
John DoyleGenres:
DramaSeveral residents of a small Southern city whose lives are changed by the arrival of a stranger with a controversial plan to save their decaying hometown. In the midst of today's challenging times, each of the colorful citizens of this close-knit North Carolina community, will search for ways to reinvent themselves, their relationships and the very heart of their neighborhood.
Released Date:
2015-04-24
Languages:
English, Portuguese, Italian
Countries:
USA, Canada
Runtime:
112 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (45693 Reviews)
Director:
Lee Toland KriegerJ. Mills Goodloe (screenplay)
Salvador Paskowitz (screenplay)
J. Mills Goodloe (screenplay)
J. Mills Goodloe (story)
Salvador Paskowitz (story)
After miraculously remaining 29 years old for almost eight decades, Adaline Bowman has lived a solitary existence, never allowing herself to get close to anyone who might reveal her secret. But a chance encounter with charismatic philanthropist Ellis Jones reignites her passion for life and romance. When a weekend with his parents threatens to uncover the truth, Adaline makes a decision that will change her life forever.
Released Date:
2014-08-05
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, Canada
Runtime:
108 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.8 (4789 Reviews)
Director:
Jason StoneGenres:
ThrillerScott Abramovitch (screenplay)
Inger Ash Wolfe (novel)
Detective Hazel Micallef hasn't had much to worry about in the sleepy town of Fort Dundas until a string of gruesome murders in the surrounding countryside brings her face to face with a serial killer driven by a higher calling.
Released Date:
2011-12-08
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
119 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(3058 Reviews)
Director:
Sam LevinsonA family weekend is fraught with emotional landmines for mercurial and sensitive Lynn (Barkin) as she arrives at her parents' Annapolis estate for the marriage of her estranged eldest son Dylan (Michael Nardelli), accompanied by her three younger children (Ezra Miller, Kate Bosworth, Daniel Yelsky). Lynn's hopes for a joyful reunion are crushed as her wry but troubled middle son Elliot (Ezra Miller) lobs verbal grenades at his mother and her relatives while daughter Alice (Kate Bosworth), a fights valiantly to keep her longtime demons under control. The weekend quickly unravels as Lynn demands to be heard by her aloof, disdainful mother (Ellen Burstyn), ailing, distant father (George Kennedy) and ever-judgmental sisters (Siobhan Fallon, Diana Scarwid), but most especially by her ex-husband Paul (Thomas Hayden Church) and his hot-tempered second wife Patty (Demi Moore). Confronted with the deeply painful, half-buried truths that have given rise to the family's primal web ofresentments and recriminations, Lynn struggles to maintain her equilibrium as her best attempts at reconciliation veer quickly off-course.
Released Date:
2013-05-16
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, France
Runtime:
107 min
Rated:
NOT RATED
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (1119 Reviews)
Director:
Liz GarbusTruman Capote (excerpts from memoirs)
Liz Garbus
Ralph Greenson (personal papers)
Elia Kazan (excerpts from memoirs)
Natasha Lytess (excerpts from memoirs)
Norman Mailer (excerpts from book)
Arthur Miller (excerpts from play)
Marilyn Monroe (personal papers)
Norman Rosten (excerpts from poem)
Gloria Steinem (excerpts from book)
Billy Wilder (excerpts from letters)
Of all the stars in Hollywood's history, no one had a more potent mix of glamor and tragedy than Marilyn Monroe. Through performed readings of her personal papers, this film explores the life and personal thoughts of this seminal movie star and how she achieved her dream with determination and audacity. Furthermore, through additional readings and interviews of her colleagues and acquaintances, we also follow her emotional self-destruction under the sexist pressures of Hollywood until her premature death in 1962.
Released Date:
2015-03-06
Languages:
English
Countries:
France, Belgium, Algeria, USA
Runtime:
120 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.6 (1038 Reviews)
Director:
Rachid BoucharebGenres:
DramaOlivier Lorelle (adaptation)
Yasmina Khadra (adaptation)
Rachid Bouchareb (adaptation)
Josè Giovanni (original screenplay)
Daniel Boulanger (original screenplay)
Forest Whitaker plays a parolee, who finds Allah inside, and tries to get his life on track after 18 years. He's off to a good start with a job, a bank account, and a good woman. Of course his old partner in crime tries hard to get him to come back to his old ways, but the real problem is the sheriff in town who won't let him forget his dark past.
Released Date:
2014-01-18
Languages:
English
Countries:
Canada, USA
Runtime:
86 min
Rated:
TV-14
IMDB Ratings:
6.1 (5402 Reviews)
Director:
Deborah ChowKayla Alpert (teleplay)
Virginia C. Andrews (based upon the novel by)
Based on V.C. Andrews' controversial cult-classic novel, "Flowers in the Attic" tells the story of the Dollanganger kids who, after the unexpected death of their father, are coerced to stay hidden in the attic of their ruthless grandmother.
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