Released Date:
1994-10-14
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
New Zealand, Germany
Runtime:
99 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (47408 Reviews)
Director:
Peter JacksonFran Walsh (screenplay)
Peter Jackson (screenplay)
Based on the true story of Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker, two close friends who share a love of fantasy and literature, who conspire to kill Pauline's mother when she tries to end the girls' intense and obsessive relationship.
Released Date:
1996-01-26
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
USA, UK
Runtime:
131 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (71782 Reviews)
Director:
Ang LeeJane Austen (novel)
Emma Thompson (screenplay)
When Mr. Dashwood dies, he must leave the bulk of his estate to the son by his first marriage, which leaves his second wife and their three daughters (Elinor, Marianne, and Margaret) in straitened circumstances. They are taken in by a kindly cousin, but their lack of fortune affects the marriageability of both practical Elinor and romantic Marianne. When Elinor forms an attachment for the wealthy Edward Ferrars, his family disapproves and separates them. And though Mrs. Jennings tries to match the worthy (and rich) Colonel Brandon to her, Marianne finds the dashing and fiery John Willoughby more to her taste. Both relationships are sorely tried.
Released Date:
1996-10-18
Languages:
English, Latin
Countries:
UK
Runtime:
123 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(8233 Reviews)
Director:
Michael WinterbottomHossein Amini (screenplay)
Thomas Hardy (novel)
A stonemason steadfastly pursues a cousin he loves. However their love is troubled as he is married to a woman who tricked him into marriage and she is married to a man she does not love.
Released Date:
1997-12-19
Languages:
English, French, German, Swedish, Italian, Russian
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
194 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (716392 Reviews)
Director:
James Cameron84 years later, a 101-year-old woman named Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story to her granddaughter Lizzy Calvert, Brock Lovett, Lewis Bodine, Bobby Buell and Anatoly Mikailavich on the Keldysh about her life set in April 10th 1912, on a ship called Titanic when young Rose boards the departing ship with the upper-class passengers and her mother, Ruth DeWitt Bukater, and her fiancè, Caledon Hockley. Meanwhile, a drifter and artist named Jack Dawson and his best friend Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets to the ship in a game. And she explains the whole story from departure until the death of Titanic on its first and last voyage April 15th, 1912 at 2:20 in the morning.
Released Date:
1999-04-26
Languages:
English, French, Arabic
Countries:
UK, France
Runtime:
98 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.1 (5256 Reviews)
Director:
Gillies MacKinnonEsther Freud (novel)
Billy MacKinnon
Hideous Kinky is the story of two sisters (seven and five years old) traveling with their hippie mother from London to Morocco. They encounter many adventures, new experiences, and interesting culture as they tag along on their mother's search for freedom and love. It is told through the eyes of the youngest girl, and we learn her observations on life, Mum, and determined sister, Bea.
Released Date:
2000-02-18
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, Australia
Runtime:
115 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.9 (11664 Reviews)
Director:
Jane CampionWhile on a journey of discovery in exotic India, beautiful young Ruth Barron falls under the influence of a charismatic religious guru. Her desperate parents then hire PJ Waters, a macho cult de-programmer who confronts Ruth in a remote desert hideaway. But PJ quickly learns that he's met his match in the sexy, intelligent and iron-willed Ruth!
Released Date:
2002-06-07
Languages:
English, German
Countries:
UK, USA, Germany, Netherlands
Runtime:
119 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (16874 Reviews)
Director:
Michael AptedRobert Harris (novel)
Tom Stoppard (screenplay)
During the heart of World War II, in March of 1943, cryptoanalysts at Britain's code-breaking center have discovered to their horror that Nazi U-boats have changed their Enigma Code. Authorities enlist the help of a brilliant young man named Tom Jericho to help them break the code again. The possibility of a spy within the British code-breakers' ranks looms and Tom's love, Claire, has disappeared. To solve the mysteries, Tom recruits Claire's best friend, Hester Wallace. In investigating Claire's personal life, the pair discovers personal and international betrayals.
Released Date:
2000-12-25
Languages:
English, Latin
Countries:
UK, Germany, USA
Runtime:
124 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (42789 Reviews)
Director:
Philip KaufmanDoug Wright (play)
Doug Wright (screenplay)
The infamous writer, the Marquis de Sade of 18th Century France, is imprisoned for unmentionable activities at Charenton Insane Asylum. He manages to befriend the young Abbè de Coulmier, who runs the asylum, along with a beautiful laundress named Madeline. Things go terribly wrong when the Abbe finds out that the Marquis' books are being secretly published. The emperor Napoleon contemplates sending Dr. Royer-Collard to oversee the asylum, a man famed for his torturous punishments. It could mean the end of Charenton and possibly the Marquis himself.
Released Date:
2001-12-07
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK, Germany
Runtime:
77 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
5.5 (1277 Reviews)
Director:
Jimmy T. MurakamiPiet Kroon (screenplay)
Robert Llewellyn (screenplay)
Charles Dickens (book)
The film begins with a live-action sequence set in Boston in 1857, the site of a live reading by renowned novelist Dickens. As he begins his 'story of ghosts' a woman in the audience screams because she has seen a mouse and Dickens points out that this is appropriate since his story begins with a mouse. At this point the story turns into the animated version and Dickens explains that the mouse, named Gabriel, carries a glimmer of hope amidst the glaring co-existence of rich and poor in the streets of London. Throughout the subsequent unfolding of the well-known story Gabriel acts as a miniature Greek chorus, providing younger members of the audience with a point of entry into the story and, in the case of the potentially frightening elements (the Ghosts of Past, Present and Future), a place of refuge.
Released Date:
2002-03-29
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK, USA
Runtime:
91 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (14117 Reviews)
Director:
Richard EyreJohn Bayley (books)
Richard Eyre (screenplay)
Charles Wood (screenplay)
Iris, based on the life of revered British writer and philosopher Iris Murdoch, is a story of unlikely yet enduring love. As a young academic, teaching philosophy at Oxford, Murdoch meets and eventually falls in love with fellow professor John Bayley, a man whose awkwardness seems in stark opposition to the spirited self-confidence of his future wife. The story unfolds as snippets of time, seen through Bayley's eyes. He recalls their first encounter over 40 years ago, activities they enjoyed doing together, and Iris' charismatic and individualistic personality. These images portray Murdoch as a vibrant young woman with great intellect and are contrasted with the novelist's later life, after the effects of Alzheimer's disease have ravaged her. Murdoch's great mind deteriorates until she is reduced to a mere vestige of her former self, unable to perform simple tasks and completely reliant on her at times frustrated yet devoted husband.
Released Date:
2002-03-29
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK, USA
Runtime:
91 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (14115 Reviews)
Director:
Richard EyreJohn Bayley (books)
Richard Eyre (screenplay)
Charles Wood (screenplay)
Iris, based on the life of revered British writer and philosopher Iris Murdoch, is a story of unlikely yet enduring love. As a young academic, teaching philosophy at Oxford, Murdoch meets and eventually falls in love with fellow professor John Bayley, a man whose awkwardness seems in stark opposition to the spirited self-confidence of his future wife. The story unfolds as snippets of time, seen through Bayley's eyes. He recalls their first encounter over 40 years ago, activities they enjoyed doing together, and Iris' charismatic and individualistic personality. These images portray Murdoch as a vibrant young woman with great intellect and are contrasted with the novelist's later life, after the effects of Alzheimer's disease have ravaged her. Murdoch's great mind deteriorates until she is reduced to a mere vestige of her former self, unable to perform simple tasks and completely reliant on her at times frustrated yet devoted husband.
Released Date:
2003-02-21
Languages:
English, Spanish
Countries:
USA, Germany, UK
Runtime:
130 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (81953 Reviews)
Director:
Alan ParkerWhen anti-death-penalty activist David Gale is convicted and condemned to death for the murder of a colleague, reporter Bitsey Bloom sets out to learn the story behind Gale's crime. What she finds challenges her belief in Gale's guilt and, finally, in the justice system.
Released Date:
2004-12-17
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, UK
Runtime:
106 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (166684 Reviews)
Director:
Marc ForsterAllan Knee (play)
David Magee (screenplay)
The movie details the experiences of "Peter Pan" author J.M. Barrie, which lead him to write the children's classic. He got to know four children who have no father. Drawing from his time with the kids, he writes a story about children who don't want to grow up.
Released Date:
2004-12-17
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, UK
Runtime:
106 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (166216 Reviews)
Director:
Marc ForsterAllan Knee (play)
David Magee (screenplay)
The movie details the experiences of "Peter Pan" author J.M. Barrie, which lead him to write the children's classic. He got to know four children who have no father. Drawing from his time with the kids, he writes a story about children who don't want to grow up.
Released Date:
2004-03-19
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
108 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
8.4 (595742 Reviews)
Director:
Michel GondryCharlie Kaufman (story)
Michel Gondry (story)
Pierre Bismuth (story)
Charlie Kaufman (screenplay)
A man, Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend Clementine underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realizes that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his mistake.
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
105 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (9609 Reviews)
Director:
John TurturroNick and Kitty Murder are married middle-aged working class New Yorkers. Kitty catches Nick in an indiscretion when she finds a love poem, extolling the virtues of one specific body part, Nick wrote to his mistress, Tula. The poem is the last straw for Kitty regarding their marriage. Kitty has the support of their three grown daughters - biological or other - her cousin Bo, her pastor and others at the church. They help her with among other things finding and thus dealing with Tula, who she does not know, and looking back at if she made a mistake in choosing Nick over her first love. On the other side, Nick turns to his co-worker Angelo, and a local police officer/ex-military man for advice, which he also gets unsolicited from his tough talking mother. Nick still has Tula, a frank-talking Scottish sex shop clerk, who truly loves Nick's body parts as he loves hers. A little emotional distance may provide Nick and Kitty the best perspective of what their future holds.
Released Date:
2007-02-09
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
136 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (89282 Reviews)
Director:
Todd FieldTodd Field (screenplay)
Tom Perrotta (screenplay)
Tom Perrotta (based on the novel by)
Echoes of "Madame Bovary" in the American suburbs. Sarah's in a loveless marriage to an advertising executive, long days with her young daughter at the park and the pool, wanting more. Brad is an immature househusband, married to a flinty documentary filmmaker. Ronnie is just out of prison - two years for indecent exposure to a minor - living with his elderly mother, May; Larry is a retired cop, fixated on driving Ronnie away. Sarah and Brad connect, a respite of adult companionship at the pool. Ronnie and Larry have their demons. Brad should be studying for the bar; Larry misses his job; Ronnie's mom thinks he needs a girlfriend. Sarah longs to refuse to be trapped in an unhappy life. Where can these tangled paths lead?
Released Date:
2006-09-22
Languages:
English
Countries:
Germany, USA
Runtime:
128 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (19917 Reviews)
Director:
Steven ZaillianSteven Zaillian (screenplay)
Robert Penn Warren (novel)
In the 50's, in Louisiana, the smart populist, manipulative and wolf hick Willie Stark is elected governor with the support of the lower social classes. He joins a team composed of his bodyguard and friend Sugar Boy; the journalist from an aristocratic family Jack Burden; the lobbyist Tiny Duffy; and his mistress Sadie Burke, to face the opposition of the upper classes. When the influent Judge Irwin supports a group of politicians in their request of impeachment, Stark assigns Jack to find some dirtiness along the life of Irwin, leading to a tragedy in the end.
Released Date:
2006-11-03
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK, USA
Runtime:
85 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (78148 Reviews)
Dick Clement (screenplay)
Ian La Frenais (screenplay)
Christopher Lloyd (screenplay)
Joe Keenan (screenplay)
William Davies (screenplay)
Sam Fell (story)
Peter Lord (story)
Dick Clement (story)
Ian La Frenais (story)
Roddy is a decidedly upper-crust "society mouse" who lives the life of a beloved pet in a posh Kensington flat. When a sewer rat named Sid comes spewing out of the sink and decides he's hit the jackpot, Roddy schemes to rid himself of the pest by luring him into the "whirlpool." Sid may be an ignorant slob, but he's no fool, so it is Roddy who winds up being flushed away into the bustling sewer world of Ratropolis. There Roddy meets Rita, an enterprising scavenger who works the sewers in her faithful boat, the Jammy Dodger. Roddy immediately wants out, or rather, up; Rita wants to be paid for her trouble; and, speaking of trouble, the villainous Toad - who royally despises all rodents equally, making no distinction between mice and rats--wants them iced... literally. The Toad dispatches his two hapless hench-rats, Spike and Whitey, to get the job done. When they fail, the Toad has no choice but to send to France for his cousin - that dreaded mercenary, Le Frog.
Released Date:
2006-03-03
Languages:
English
Countries:
Canada, USA
Runtime:
41 min
Rated:
G
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (1388 Reviews)
Director:
Howard HallA 3-D digital exploration of the ocean's depths and its creatures.
Released Date:
2006-12-08
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
138 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (166056 Reviews)
Director:
Nancy MeyersIn London, Iris Simpkins writes a wedding column in a newspaper and nurtures an unrequited love for her colleague Jasper Bloom. Near Christmas, she is informed that Jasper is engaged to marry another colleague, and her life turns upside down. In Los Angeles, the movie-trailers maker Amanda Woods has just split with her unfaithful boyfriend Ethan and wants to forget him. Through a house exchange website, Amanda impulsively swaps her mansion for Iris' cottage in Surrey for the holidays. While in Surrey, Amanda meets Iris' brother and book editor Graham and they fall in love with each other. Meanwhile, Iris meets her new next door neighbor the ninety year old screenplay writer Arthur, who helps her retrieve her self-esteem, and the film composer Miles, with whom she falls in love.
Released Date:
2009-01-23
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, UK
Runtime:
119 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (141182 Reviews)
Director:
Sam MendesJustin Haythe (screenplay)
Richard Yates (novel)
It's 1955. Frank and April Wheeler, in the seventh year of their marriage, have fallen into a life that appears to most as being perfect. They live in the Connecticut suburbs with two young children. Frank commutes to New York City where he works in an office job while April stays at home as a housewife. But they're not happy. April has forgone her dream of becoming an actress, and Frank hates his job - one where he places little effort - although he has never figured out what his passion in life is. One day, April suggests that they move to Paris - a city where Frank visited during the war and loved, but where April has never been - as a means to rejuvenate their life. April's plan: she would be the breadwinner, getting a lucrative secretarial job for one of the major international organizations, while Frank would have free time to find himself and whatever his passion. Initially skeptical, Frank ultimately agrees to April's plan. When circumstances change around the Wheelers, April decides she will do whatever she has to to get herself out of her unhappy existence.
Released Date:
2009-01-30
Languages:
English, German, Greek, Latin
Countries:
USA, Germany
Runtime:
124 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (175558 Reviews)
Director:
Stephen DaldryDavid Hare (screenplay)
Bernhard Schlink (book)
THE READER opens in post-war Germany when teenager Michael Berg becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna loves being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from "The Odyssey," "Huck Finn" and "The Lady with the Little Dog." Despite their intense bond, Hanna mysteriously disappears one day and Michael is left confused and heartbroken. Eight years later, while Michael is a law student observing the Nazi war crime trials, he is stunned to find Hanna back in his life - this time as a defendant in the courtroom. As Hanna's past is revealed, Michael uncovers a deep secret that will impact both of their lives. THE READER is a story about truth and reconciliation, about how one generation comes to terms with the crimes of another.
Released Date:
2011-03-27
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
336 min
Rated:
TV-MA
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (13203 Reviews)
Genres:
DramaGlendale, California, 1931: Mildred Pierce, a young mother with a talent for baking, is left a "grass widow" after throwing her husband, Bert, out of the house. Forced to hunt for work to support herself and her two young daughters, 11-year-old Veda and seven-year-old Ray, Mildred visits an employment agency, only to encounter job opportunities she feels are beneath her. Amidst her job search, she receives dating advice from her friend and neighbor, Lucy Gessler, and begins an unexpected affair with an ex-business partner of her husband's, Wally Burgan. When Mildred receives a call from the agency regarding an opening as a housekeeper to a wealthy socialite, she reluctantly agrees to meet with her. After cutting the acerbic interview short, Mildred seeks refuge at a local diner, Cristofor's Cafè, where fate, and a waitress named Ida, will play a role in shaping her future.
Released Date:
2011-11-18
Languages:
English
Countries:
France, Germany, Poland, Spain
Runtime:
80 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (88846 Reviews)
Director:
Roman PolanskiYasmina Reza (play)
Yasmina Reza (screenplay)
Roman Polanski (screenplay)
Michael Katims (translation)
In Brooklyn Bridge Park, eleven year old Zachary Cowan strikes his eleven year old classmate Ethan Longstreet across the face with a stick after an argument. Among the more serious of Ethan's injuries is a permanently missing tooth and the possibility of a second tooth also being lost. Their respective parents learn of the altercation through Ethan's parents questioning him about his injuries. The Longstreet parents invite the Cowan parents to their Brooklyn apartment to deal with the incident in a civilized manner. They are: Penelope Longstreet, whose idea it was to invite the Cowans, she whose priorities in life include human rights and justice; Michael Longstreet, who tries to be as accommodating as possible to retain civility in any situation; Nancy Cowan, a nervous and emotionally stressed woman; and Alan Cowan, who is married more to his work as evidenced by the attachment he has to his cell phone and taking work calls at the most inopportune times. Although the meeting starts off civilized enough, it quickly degenerates after an unfortunate incident by Nancy. The degeneration of their meeting not only has to do with their boys' fight, but also the other couple's fitness as parents, the state of their respective marriages and their place in a crazy world.
Released Date:
2014-01-31
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
111 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (27705 Reviews)
Director:
Jason ReitmanGenres:
DramaJason Reitman (screenplay)
Joyce Maynard (based on the novel by)
A depressed mother's husband has left her for she could not bear a second child. Living alone with her only son, she has an unlikely meeting with an injured escaped convict, and reluctantly takes him into her own care. The man proves to be better than his criminal image as the three bond over Labor Day weekend. The only problem? Everyone in town is looking for him.
Released Date:
2015-03-20
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
119 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (93387 Reviews)
Director:
Robert SchwentkeBrian Duffield (screenplay)
Akiva Goldsman (screenplay)
Mark Bomback (screenplay)
Veronica Roth (novel)
One choice can transform you-or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love. Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable--and even more powerful. Transformed by her own decisions but also by haunting grief and guilt, radical new discoveries, and shifting relationships. Tris must fully embrace her Divergence, even if she does not know what she may lose by doing so.
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