Released Date:
1981-12-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
100 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (154 Reviews)
Director:
Peter LevinIn this touching story, a dedicated African-American teacher in an inner-city school in the midwestern United States facing tough odds helps ghetto children to succeed. Meanwhile, she faces an adversarial colleague and a principal who disapproves of her teaching methods. To top it off, some naughty youth regularly mess up the classroom after school to tick the teacher off. We watch as Tyson's character, Marva Collins, manages it all and keeps up both a personal life and her looks.
Released Date:
1988-08-10
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
124 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (4222 Reviews)
Director:
Glenn Gordon CaronGenres:
DramaMichael Keaton plays Daryl Poynter, a hot shot real estate agent who just happens to have a cocaine and drinking problem. One morning, he wakes up to find a dead woman in his bed (someone he had been partying with the night before) from a cocaine overdose. He also just happens to receive a phone call from his employers telling him a huge sum of money is missing from one of his accounts. Panicking, Daryl decides to check into a drug rehab to hide from the law, where he meets tough cookie Morgan Freeman. A recovering addict himself, he now works as a drug counselor, and knows all the tricks Daryl tries to pull. Soon Daryl discovers he just might be in the right place, after all.
Released Date:
1990-01-26
Languages:
English, Hebrew
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
99 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (65676 Reviews)
Director:
Bruce BeresfordGenres:
DramaAlfred Uhry (screenplay)
Alfred Uhry (play)
An elderly Jewish widow living in Atlanta can no longer drive. Her son insists she allow him to hire a driver, which in the 1950s meant a black man. She resists any change in her life but, Hoke, the driver is hired by her son. She refuses to allow him to drive her anywhere at first, but Hoke slowly wins her over with his native good graces. The movie is directly taken from a stage play and does show it. It covers over twenty years of the pair's life together as they slowly build a relationship that transcends their differences.
Released Date:
1990-02-16
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
122 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.9 (97187 Reviews)
Director:
Edward ZwickKevin Jarre (screenplay)
Lincoln Kirstein (book)
Peter Burchard (book)
Robert Gould Shaw (letters)
Shaw was an officer in the Federal Army during the American Civil War who volunteered to lead the first company of black soldiers. Shaw was forced to deal with the prejudices of both the enemy (who had orders to kill commanding officers of blacks), and of his own fellow officers.
Released Date:
1989-09-29
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
94 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.1 (6426 Reviews)
Director:
Walter HillJohn Godey (novel)
Ken Friedman (screenplay)
Johnny Handsome is a deformed gangster who plans a successful robbery with a friend of his, Mikey Chalmette, and another couple (Sunny Boid and Rafe Garrett). During the heist, Johnny and Mikey are double-crossed by Sunny and Rafe---Mikey is killed and Johnny sent to prison. While in prison, Johnny is invited to a rehabilitation program, where Dr. Steven Fischer rebuilds Johnny's face and helps Johnny get paroled. Johnny starts working in a shipyard, where he meets Donna McCarty and starts a romance. Lt. A.Z. Drones is a skeptical detective who follows the rehabilitation of Johnny. Johnny's new life is consumed by the desire of payback.
Released Date:
1989-03-03
Languages:
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
108 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (13662 Reviews)
Director:
John G. AvildsenGenres:
DramaAn arrogant and unorthodox teacher returns as principal to the idyllic high school from which he had earlier been fired to find it a den of drug abuse, gang violence, and urban despair. Eventually his successful but unorthodox methods lead to a clash with city officials that threatens to undo all his efforts. Based on a true story.
Released Date:
1990-09-23
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
680 min
IMDB Ratings:
9.4 (4625 Reviews)
This highly acclaimed mini series traces the course of the U.S. Civil War from the abolitionist movement through all the major battles to the death of President Lincoln and the beginnings of Reconstruction. The story is mostly told in the words of the participants themselves, through their diaries, letters, and Visuals are usually still photographs and illustrations of the time, and the soundtrack is likewise made up of war-era tunes played on period instruments. Several modern-day historians offer periodic comment and insight on the war's causes and events.
Released Date:
1991-06-14
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
143 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.9 (135455 Reviews)
Director:
Kevin ReynoldsPen Densham (story)
Pen Densham (screenplay)
John Watson (screenplay)
After being captured by Turks during the Crusades, Robin of Locksley and a Moor, Azeem, escape back to England, where Azeem vows to remain until he repays Robin for saving his life. Meanwhile, Robin's father, a nobleman loyal to King Richard the Lionhearted, has been murdered by the brutal Sheriff of Nottingham, who helped install Richard's treacherous brother, Prince John, as king while Richard is overseas fighting the Crusades. When Robin returns home, he vows to avenge his father's death and restore Richard to the throne. Even though Maid Marian, his childhood friend, cannot help him, he escapes to the Forest of Sherwood where he joins a band of exiled villagers and becomes their leader. With their help he attempts to cleanse the land of the evil that the Sheriff has spread.
Released Date:
1992-08-07
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
131 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
8.3 (251747 Reviews)
Director:
Clint EastwoodGenres:
WesternThe town of Big Whisky is full of normal people trying to lead quiet lives. Cowboys try to make a living. Sheriff 'Little Bill' tries to build a house and keep a heavy-handed order. The town whores just try to get by.Then a couple of cowboys cut up a whore. Dissatisfied with Bill's justice, the prostitutes put a bounty on the cowboys. The bounty attracts a young gun billing himself as 'The Schofield Kid', and aging killer William Munny. Munny reformed for his young wife, and has been raising crops and two children in peace. But his wife is gone. Farm life is hard. And Munny is no good at it. So he calls his old partner Ned, saddles his ornery nag, and rides off to kill one more time, blurring the lines between heroism and villainy, man and myth.
Released Date:
1994-10-14
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
142 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
9.3 (1521105 Reviews)
Director:
Frank DarabontStephen King (short story "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption")
Frank Darabont (screenplay)
Andy Dufresne is a young and successful banker whose life changes drastically when he is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife and her lover. Set in the 1940s, the film shows how Andy, with the help of his friend Red, the prison entrepreneur, turns out to be a most unconventional prisoner.
Released Date:
1995-03-10
Languages:
English, Korean, French
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
127 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (86633 Reviews)
Director:
Wolfgang PetersenIn July of 1967, In Motaba River Valley, Zaire, a virus with a 100% mortality rate starts infecting people. The virus becomes known as the Motaba virus, and it's so deadly that it causes severe bleeding and liquefies internal organs, killing within 3 days. The virus wipes out Motaba River Valley, and a devastatingly huge fire bomb is dropped onto Motaba River Valley in order to reduce the chances of further infection. The bomb was dropped on the orders of corrupt General Donald McClintock, even though an army surgeon, General Bill Ford, was against the idea. 27 years later, in 1994, there is another outbreak in Motaba River Valley. At the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID), located at Fort Detrick in Maryland, Colonel Sam Daniels is doing research on the Motaba virus, and so is his ex-wife Roberta Keough, who works at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. A monkey carrying the Motaba virus stows away on a ship that is heading for the USA, and after the monkey's arrival, people in Cedar Creek, California start becoming infected by the virus. Sam and Roberta head into Cedar Creek with fellow doctor Casey Schuler, and they start searching for the monkey, thinking that the monkey is the key to finding a cure. Along the way, Sam stumbles onto some information that may be of help -- McClintock has been concealing vital information from the president of the United States. Since 1967, McClintock and Ford have been in possession of E-1101, a serum that was made to cure the virus. McClintock has been trying to stop Ford from coming forward with this information, and so far, McClintock has succeeded. McClintock now wants to drop onto Cedar Creek the kind of firebomb that was dropped on Motaba River Valley 27 years ago. Sam and Roberta figure out that the virus in the Cedar Creek outbreak is a new strain of the Motaba virus -- an airborne strain that is even more contagious than the flu. When a new serum is made to stop the new strain, Sam and Roberta set out to stop McClintock from having the town blown up.
Released Date:
1995-09-22
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
127 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
8.6 (910013 Reviews)
Director:
David FincherA film about two homicide detectives' desperate hunt for a serial killer who justifies his crimes as absolution for the world's ignorance of the Seven Deadly Sins. The movie takes us from the tortured remains of one victim to the next as the sociopathic "John Doe" sermonizes to Detectives Sommerset and Mills -- one sin at a time. The sin of Gluttony comes first and the murderer's terrible capacity is graphically demonstrated in the dark and subdued tones characteristic of film noir. The seasoned and cultured but jaded Sommerset researches the Seven Deadly Sins in an effort to understand the killer's modus operandi while the bright but green and impulsive Detective Mills scoffs at his efforts to get inside the mind of a killer...
Released Date:
1996-08-02
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
107 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
5.5 (38101 Reviews)
Director:
Andrew DavisArne Schmidt (story)
Rick Seaman (story)
Josh Friedman (story)
J.F. Lawton (screenplay)
Michael Bortman (screenplay)
Eddie Kasalivich, an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, works as a technician for a scientific team that discovers an alternative, low-cost, pollution-free fuel source. When one of the chief scientists is murdered and the invention stolen, Eddie and physicist Lily Sinclair are framed for it and have to flee for their lives, with the FBI, CIA and other involved parties in close pursuit. Paul Shannon, Eddies mentor, is the director of a scientific company which - unknown to Eddie - has commercial interests in the invention. Eddie and Lily set out to find the stolen invention and hopefully clear themselves of the false charges.
Released Date:
1996-06-14
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
123 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (3199 Reviews)
Director:
Pen DenshamDaniel Defoe (character from novel)
Pen Densham (screen story)
Pen Densham (screenplay)
The daughter of a thief, young Moll is placed in the care of a nunnery after the execution of her mother. However, the actions of an abusive priest lead Moll to rebel as a teenager, escaping to the dangerous streets of London. Further misfortunes drive her to accept a job as a prostitute from the conniving Mrs. Allworthy. It is there that Moll first meets Hibble, who is working as Allworthy's servant but takes a special interest in the young woman's well-being. With his help, she retains hope for the future, ultimately falling in love with an unconventional artist who promises the possibility of romantic happiness.
Released Date:
1997-12-25
Languages:
English, Mende, Spanish
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
155 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (52487 Reviews)
Director:
Steven SpielbergAmistad is the name of a slave ship traveling from Cuba to the U.S. in 1839. It is carrying a cargo of Africans who have been sold into slavery in Cuba, taken on board, and chained in the cargo hold of the ship. As the ship is crossing from Cuba to the U.S., Cinque, who was a tribal leader in Africa, leads a mutiny and takes over the ship. They continue to sail, hoping to find help when they land. Instead, when they reach the United States, they are imprisoned as runaway slaves. They don't speak a word of English, and it seems like they are doomed to die for killing their captors when an abolitionist lawyer decides to take their case, arguing that they were free citizens of another country and not slaves at all. The case finally gets to the Supreme Court, where John Quincy Adams makes an impassioned and eloquent plea for their release.
Released Date:
1997-10-03
Languages:
English, Mandarin
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
115 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (46661 Reviews)
Director:
Gary FlederJames Patterson (novel)
David Klass (screenplay)
Alex Cross, a Washington D.C. cop and forensic psychologist learns that his niece who is going to college in North Carolina is missing. So he goes there and learns that the police think she's among the victims of someone who kidnaps young girls and holds them captive and kills them who dubs himself Cassanova after the great lover. Later Kate, one of his victims, escapes and tries to help Cross find his niece.
Released Date:
1997-09-19
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
120 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (524 Reviews)
Director:
Mark Jonathan HarrisAfter WWII, Jewish Holocaust survivors are moved into Displaced Persons' camps. After delays, more physical hardship, and years of uncertainty, they are permitted to begin new lives in Israel and the U.S.
Released Date:
2000-11-15
Languages:
English, Italian, Spanish
Countries:
France, USA
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (17332 Reviews)
Director:
Stephen HopkinsJohn Wainwright (book)
Claude Miller
Jean Herman
Michel Audiard
Tom Provost (screenplay)
W. Peter Iliff (screenplay)
A lawyer is asked to come to the police station to clear up a few loose ends in his witness report of a foul murder. This will only take ten minutes, they say, but it turns out to be one loose end after another, and the ten minutes he is away from his speech become longer and longer...
Released Date:
2001-04-06
Languages:
English, Russian
Countries:
USA, Germany, Canada
Runtime:
104 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (55623 Reviews)
Director:
Lee TamahoriGenres:
ThrillerJames Patterson (novel)
Marc Moss (screenplay)
Detective/psychologist Alex Cross loses his partner in an out of control 'bust.' He stops working and cannot forgive himself. He is drawn back to work reluctantly when a senator's daughter is kidnapped and the kidnapper seems to want to deal with Alex personally.
Released Date:
2000-09-08
Languages:
English, Spanish
Countries:
Germany, USA
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (29450 Reviews)
Director:
Neil LaButeJohn C. Richards (story)
John C. Richards (screenplay)
James Flamberg (screenplay)
A Kansas City waitress with dreams of becoming a nurse becomes delusional after seeing her no-good car salesman husband murdered. Becoming delusional from shock, she becomes convinced that she is the former fiancèe of her soap opera idol. What she also believes is that the soap opera is real and goes to LA to find the hospital where he works as a cardiologist. Meanwhile, her husband's murderers are searching for the drugs stolen by her husband and, as luck would have it, they are stored in the trunk of the car she drove off in. Freeman, an aging hit man planning his retirement after this job, also becomes delusional about the woman he is tracking.
Released Date:
1994-10-14
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
142 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
9.3 (1513145 Reviews)
Director:
Frank DarabontStephen King (short story "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption")
Frank Darabont (screenplay)
Andy Dufresne is a young and successful banker whose life changes drastically when he is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife and her lover. Set in the 1940s, the film shows how Andy, with the help of his friend Red, the prison entrepreneur, turns out to be a most unconventional prisoner.
Released Date:
1990-09-23
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
680 min
IMDB Ratings:
9.4 (4624 Reviews)
This highly acclaimed mini series traces the course of the U.S. Civil War from the abolitionist movement through all the major battles to the death of President Lincoln and the beginnings of Reconstruction. The story is mostly told in the words of the participants themselves, through their diaries, letters, and Visuals are usually still photographs and illustrations of the time, and the soundtrack is likewise made up of war-era tunes played on period instruments. Several modern-day historians offer periodic comment and insight on the war's causes and events.
Released Date:
2002-04-05
Languages:
English, Spanish
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
115 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (28062 Reviews)
Director:
Carl FranklinJoseph Finder (novel)
Yuri Zeltser (screenplay)
Grace Cary Bickley (screenplay)
High powered lawyer Claire Kubik finds her world turned upside down when her husband, who she thought was Tom Kubik, is arrested and is revealed to be Ron Chapman. Chapman is on trial for a murder of Latin American villagers while he was in the Marines. Claire soon learns that to navigate the military justice system, she'll need help from the somewhat unconventional Charlie Grimes; meanwhile, Claire's sister, Jackie, is falling in love with wet-behind-the-ears Lieutenant Embry assigned as the official defense lawyer. And most of the eyewitnesses have rather too conveniently died.
Released Date:
2003-03-21
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
134 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.5 (71556 Reviews)
Director:
Lawrence KasdanStephen King (novel)
William Goldman (screenplay)
Lawrence Kasdan (screenplay)
Four childhood friends, Jonesy, Beaver, Pete and Henry all share a special secret. Each year, they take a trip into Maine woods. This year is different. A blizzard occurs, and they recover a man found wandering around. Unbeknownst to them,this wandering individual isn't the only being to be found. Now they must act fast to stop the outbreak developing and to prevent the world from its doom
Released Date:
2003-08-29
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, France
Runtime:
100 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (5628 Reviews)
Director:
Ed SolomonThe film philosophical approach at redemption. The protagonist Manual Jordan has gotten parole from a life sentence for the murder of Abner Easley, and returns to the city he lived in to try to seek redemption. He ends up living and working at a community house run by a preacher, Miles Evans. The film is equipped with beautiful voice-overs about the meaning of life and different philosophies for getting redeemed. Manual also becomes friends with Adele Easley, his victims sister, in an attempt to make up for what he did. While working at the home he has interactions with Sofia Mellinger, the druggie daughter of a famous singer, struggling with the lack of adult guidance in her life.
Released Date:
2003-05-23
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
101 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (271709 Reviews)
Director:
Tom ShadyacSteve Koren (story)
Mark O'Keefe (story)
Steve Koren (screenplay)
Mark O'Keefe (screenplay)
Steve Oedekerk (screenplay)
Bruce Nolan, a television reporter in Buffalo, N.Y., is discontented with almost everything in life despite his popularity and the love of his girlfriend Grace . At the end of the worst day of his life, Bruce angrily ridicules and rages against God and God responds. God appears in human form and, endowing Bruce with divine powers, challenges Bruce to take on the big job to see if he can do it any better.
Released Date:
2005-05-13
Languages:
English
Countries:
France, USA, UK
Runtime:
103 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(80950 Reviews)
Director:
Louis LeterrierA man treated like a dog and raised as a fighting machine his entire life, ends up in a coma and is taken in the care of good people, but his sinister owner is looking to retrieve his most prized possession: a non stop human weapon triggered by the collar leashed on his neck.
Released Date:
2005-09-16
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, Germany
Runtime:
108 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
(22320 Reviews)
Director:
Lasse HallstrèmGenres:
DramaMark Spragg
Virginia Korus Spragg
In order to escape from the abusive boy-friend, Gary Winston, Jean Gilkyson moves with her young daughter Griff Gilkyson without previous notice to the ranch of her father-in-law Einar Gilkyson in Wyoming. Jean and Einar are disaffected, since he blames her for the death of his beloved son in a car accident. Einar is taking care of his friend Mitch Bradley, who was attacked and seriously wounded by a bear, and he does not know that he has a grand-daughter. While Mitch heals his wounds and forgives the bear, Einar also changes his feelings regarding Jean, finally understanding that accidents happen and accepting her and loving his grand-daughter.
Released Date:
2005-11-11
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, Germany
Runtime:
99 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.3 (12830 Reviews)
Director:
David J. BurkeJosh Pollack, a naive and ambitious reporter, is convinced the F.R.A.T., an elite force within the Edison Police Department, is corrupted. Working on a homicide case, he begins to unearth evidence which suggests that the entire justice system is willingly turning a blind eye to the abuses of the this force. When his life and that of his girlfriend are threatened from his research, he join forces with his editor, a once-famous reporter, and a renown private detective to bring down the F.R.A.T. and every one behind it.
Released Date:
2004-01-23
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
90 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (850 Reviews)
Genres:
DocumentaryJoe Conason (book)
Gene Lyons (book)
Nickolas Perry (screenplay)
Harry Thomason (screenplay)
Previously unreleased material outlines the campaign against Bill Clinton's presidency, from his days in Arkansas up to his impeachment trial.
Released Date:
2005-01-28
Languages:
English, Irish
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
132 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
8.1 (429949 Reviews)
Director:
Clint EastwoodPaul Haggis (screenplay)
F.X. Toole (stories)
Frankie Dunn has trained and managed some incredible fighters during a lifetime spent in the ring. The most important lesson he teaches his boxers is the one that rules life: above all, always protect yourself. In the wake of a painful estrangement from his daughter, Frankie has been unwilling to let himself get close to anyone for a very long time. His only friend, Scrap, an ex-boxer who looks after Frankie's gym, knows that beneath his gruff exterior is a man who has been seeking, for the past 25 years, the forgiveness that somehow continues to elude him. Then Maggie Fitzgerald walks into his gym...
Released Date:
2007-06-22
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
96 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
5.4 (108059 Reviews)
Director:
Tom ShadyacSteve Oedekerk (screenplay)
Steve Oedekerk (story)
Joel Cohen (story)
Alec Sokolow (story)
Steve Koren (characters)
Mark O'Keefe (characters)
Buffalo newsman Evan Baxter is elected to Congress with the slogan, "Change the world." He lucks into a huge house in a new Virginia suburb. His Capitol office is also fantastic, but there's a catch: he's tapped by the powerful Congressman Long to co-sponsor a bill to allow development in national parks. In steps God, who appears to a disbelieving Evan and gently commands him to build an ark. Tools and wood arrive in Evan's yard, animal pairs follow, his beard and hair grow wildly, nomad's clothes and a staff appear. Long grows impatient, Evan starts building, his family leaves him, reporters gather, and drought grips D.C. Still, Evan believes. But will he change the world?
Released Date:
2006-04-07
Languages:
English
Countries:
Germany, USA
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (246744 Reviews)
Director:
Paul McGuiganIn an airport waiting room, a man in a wheelchair tells a stranger a story about a fixed horse race in 1979 that resulted in a family's deaths. In Manhattan, two bookies and the son of a Mob boss die. A young man just out of the shower answers the door to a neighbor woman and explains that he's visiting, has had a bad week, including being mugged, and doesn't know where his pal, who lives there, is. The neighbor is chatty; she's a coroner. Two thugs arrive and, believing the visitor to be the guy who lives there, take him to see the boss with the dead son, who tells him to kill the son of his Mob rival. Mistaken identity? What connects the threads? Cops are watching.
Released Date:
2005-07-22
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
France
Runtime:
80 min
Rated:
G
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (40127 Reviews)
Director:
Luc JacquetGenres:
DocumentaryLuc Jacquet (scenario)
Luc Jacquet (adaptation)
Michel Fessler (adaptation)
Jordan Roberts (narration: US edited version)
Each winter, alone in the pitiless ice deserts of Antarctica, deep in the most inhospitable terrain on Earth, a truly remarkable journey takes place as it has done for millennia. Emperor penguins in their thousands abandon the deep blue security of their ocean home and clamber onto the frozen ice to begin their long journey into a region so bleak, so extreme, it supports no other wildlife at this time of year. In single file, the penguins march blinded by blizzards, buffeted by gale force winds. Guided by instinct, by the otherworldly radiance of the Southern Cross, they head unerringly for their traditional breeding ground where--after a ritual courtship of intricate dances and delicate maneuvering, accompanied by a cacophony of ecstatic song--they will pair off into monogamous couples and mate. The females remain long enough only to lay a single egg. Once this is accomplished, exhausted by weeks without nourishment, they begin their return journey across the ice-field to the fish-filled seas. The male emperors are left behind to guard and hatch the precious eggs, which they cradle at all times on top of their feet. After two long months during which the males eat nothing, the eggs begin to hatch. Once they have emerged into their ghostly white new world, the chicks can not survive for long on their fathers' limited food reserves. If their mothers are late returning from the ocean with food, the newly-hatched young will die. Once the families are reunited, the roles reverse, the mothers remaining with their new young while their mates head, exhausted and starved, for the sea, and food. While the adults fish, the chicks face the ever-present threat of attack by prowling giant petrels. As the weather grows warmer and the ice floes finally begin to crack and melt, the adults will repeat their arduous journey countless times, marching many hundreds of miles over some of the most treacherous territory on Earth, until the chicks are ready to take their first faltering dive into the deep blue waters of the Antarctic.
Released Date:
2005-07-22
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
France
Runtime:
80 min
Rated:
G
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (40076 Reviews)
Director:
Luc JacquetGenres:
DocumentaryLuc Jacquet (scenario)
Luc Jacquet (adaptation)
Michel Fessler (adaptation)
Jordan Roberts (narration: US edited version)
Each winter, alone in the pitiless ice deserts of Antarctica, deep in the most inhospitable terrain on Earth, a truly remarkable journey takes place as it has done for millennia. Emperor penguins in their thousands abandon the deep blue security of their ocean home and clamber onto the frozen ice to begin their long journey into a region so bleak, so extreme, it supports no other wildlife at this time of year. In single file, the penguins march blinded by blizzards, buffeted by gale force winds. Guided by instinct, by the otherworldly radiance of the Southern Cross, they head unerringly for their traditional breeding ground where--after a ritual courtship of intricate dances and delicate maneuvering, accompanied by a cacophony of ecstatic song--they will pair off into monogamous couples and mate. The females remain long enough only to lay a single egg. Once this is accomplished, exhausted by weeks without nourishment, they begin their return journey across the ice-field to the fish-filled seas. The male emperors are left behind to guard and hatch the precious eggs, which they cradle at all times on top of their feet. After two long months during which the males eat nothing, the eggs begin to hatch. Once they have emerged into their ghostly white new world, the chicks can not survive for long on their fathers' limited food reserves. If their mothers are late returning from the ocean with food, the newly-hatched young will die. Once the families are reunited, the roles reverse, the mothers remaining with their new young while their mates head, exhausted and starved, for the sea, and food. While the adults fish, the chicks face the ever-present threat of attack by prowling giant petrels. As the weather grows warmer and the ice floes finally begin to crack and melt, the adults will repeat their arduous journey countless times, marching many hundreds of miles over some of the most treacherous territory on Earth, until the chicks are ready to take their first faltering dive into the deep blue waters of the Antarctic.
Released Date:
2007-10-19
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
114 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (177509 Reviews)
Director:
Ben AffleckBen Affleck (screenplay)
Aaron Stockard (screenplay)
Dennis Lehane (novel)
When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons - they're not cops and they know the tough Boston neighborhood in which they all live. As the case progresses, Kenzie and Gennaro face drug dealers, gangs and pedophiles. When they are about to solve their case, they are faced with a moral dilemma that could tear them apart.
Released Date:
2005-07-22
Languages:
French, English
Countries:
France
Runtime:
80 min
Rated:
G
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (40078 Reviews)
Director:
Luc JacquetGenres:
DocumentaryLuc Jacquet (scenario)
Luc Jacquet (adaptation)
Michel Fessler (adaptation)
Jordan Roberts (narration: US edited version)
Each winter, alone in the pitiless ice deserts of Antarctica, deep in the most inhospitable terrain on Earth, a truly remarkable journey takes place as it has done for millennia. Emperor penguins in their thousands abandon the deep blue security of their ocean home and clamber onto the frozen ice to begin their long journey into a region so bleak, so extreme, it supports no other wildlife at this time of year. In single file, the penguins march blinded by blizzards, buffeted by gale force winds. Guided by instinct, by the otherworldly radiance of the Southern Cross, they head unerringly for their traditional breeding ground where--after a ritual courtship of intricate dances and delicate maneuvering, accompanied by a cacophony of ecstatic song--they will pair off into monogamous couples and mate. The females remain long enough only to lay a single egg. Once this is accomplished, exhausted by weeks without nourishment, they begin their return journey across the ice-field to the fish-filled seas. The male emperors are left behind to guard and hatch the precious eggs, which they cradle at all times on top of their feet. After two long months during which the males eat nothing, the eggs begin to hatch. Once they have emerged into their ghostly white new world, the chicks can not survive for long on their fathers' limited food reserves. If their mothers are late returning from the ocean with food, the newly-hatched young will die. Once the families are reunited, the roles reverse, the mothers remaining with their new young while their mates head, exhausted and starved, for the sea, and food. While the adults fish, the chicks face the ever-present threat of attack by prowling giant petrels. As the weather grows warmer and the ice floes finally begin to crack and melt, the adults will repeat their arduous journey countless times, marching many hundreds of miles over some of the most treacherous territory on Earth, until the chicks are ready to take their first faltering dive into the deep blue waters of the Antarctic.
Released Date:
2008-06-27
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, Germany
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (280682 Reviews)
Director:
Timur BekmambetovMichael Brandt (screenplay)
Derek Haas (screenplay)
Chris Morgan (screenplay)
Michael Brandt (story)
Derek Haas (story)
Mark Millar (comic book series)
J.G. Jones (comic book series)
A young man finds out his long lost father is an assassin. When his father is murdered, the son is recruited into his father's old organization and trained by a man named Sloan to follow in his dad's footsteps.
Released Date:
2007-02-08
Languages:
English, Spanish
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
82 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (12290 Reviews)
Director:
Brad SilberlingA well-known actor, who hasn't accepted a role in four years, is considering a project. The cousin of the director drives him to Archie's Ranch Market, in Carson, and drops him off to do a little research. He's fascinated by one of the checkers, Scarlet, a young woman from Spain with a preternatural ability to ring up items at the cash register. She hates her job, stuck at the 10 items or less lane. The actor chats her up, and when her shift ends, he asks for a ride. In the course of the afternoon, he helps her prepare for a job interview. She needs to have confidence, he needs to commit. Human contact, however brief, can change people.
Released Date:
2008-01-11
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
97 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (170277 Reviews)
Director:
Rob ReinerCorporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common except for their terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to leave it and do all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die according to their bucket list. In the process, both of them heal each other, become unlikely friends, and ultimately find joy in life.
Released Date:
2009-12-11
Languages:
English, Afrikaans, Maori, Zulu, Xhosa, Southern Sotho
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
134 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (114502 Reviews)
Director:
Clint EastwoodAnthony Peckham (screenplay)
John Carlin (book)
The film tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa's rugby team to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.
Released Date:
2013-11-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
105 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (96761 Reviews)
Director:
Jon TurteltaubGenres:
ComedyBilly (Michael Douglas), Paddy (Robert De Niro), Archie (Morgan Freeman) and Sam (Kevin Kline) have been best friends since childhood. So when Billy, the group's sworn bachelor, finally proposes to his thirty-something (of course) girlfriend, the four head to Las Vegas with a plan to stop acting their age and relive their glory days. However, upon arriving, the four quickly realize that the decades have transformed Sin City and tested their friendship in ways they never imagined. The Rat Pack may have once played the Sands and Cirque du Soleil may now rule the Strip, but it's these four who are taking over Vegas.
Released Date:
2009-01-15
Languages:
English
Countries:
Canada
Runtime:
90 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (549 Reviews)
Director:
Paul SaltzmanGenres:
DocumentaryIn 1997, Academy Award winning actor, Morgan Freeman, who lives in the Charleston, Mississippi community, offered to fund the first-ever integrated Senior Prom in the history of Charleston's one high school. His offer was ignored. In 2008, Morgan offered again... the East Tallahatchie County School Board accepted. In this town of 2,300 people, its high school of 415 black and white students has, to this day, always had separate proms: one black, one white prom. Our film follows the Charleston High senior class of 2008 preparing and attending their historic, first integrated prom, in the context of strong emotions, traditions, and conflict inherent in race relations in the community, and in the deep south. Some of the white parents maintained their whites-only prom.
Released Date:
2013-04-19
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
124 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
(347173 Reviews)
Director:
Joseph KosinskiKarl Gajdusek (screenplay)
Michael Arndt (screenplay)
Joseph Kosinski (graphic novel original story)
One of the few remaining drone repairmen assigned to Earth, its surface devastated after decades of war with the alien Scavs, discovers a crashed spacecraft with contents that bring into question everything he believed about the war, and may even put the fate of mankind in his hands.
Released Date:
2011-04-08
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
40 min
Rated:
G
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (2372 Reviews)
Director:
David LickleyThis heartwarming film documents orphaned orangutans and elephants and the extraordinary people who rescue and raise them-saving endangered species one life at a time.
Released Date:
2012-07-06
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
109 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
(11413 Reviews)
Director:
Rob ReinerMonty Wildhorn, an alcoholic novelist of Westerns, has lost his drive. His nephew pushes him to summer in quiet Belle Isle. He begrudgingly befriends a newly single mom and her 3 girls who help him find the inspiration to write again.
Released Date:
2014-07-25
Languages:
English, French, Spanish, Korean, Chinese
Countries:
France
Runtime:
89 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (275454 Reviews)
Director:
Luc BessonIt was supposed to be a simple job. All Lucy had to do was deliver a mysterious briefcase to Mr. Jang. But immediately Lucy is caught up in a nightmarish deal where she is captured and turned into a drug mule for a new and powerful synthetic drug. When the bag she is carrying inside of her stomach leaks, Lucy's body undergoes unimaginable changes that begins to unlock her mind's full potential. With her new-found powers, Lucy turns into a merciless warrior intent on getting back at her captors. She receives invaluable help from Professor Norman, the leading authority on the human mind, and French police captain Pierre Del Rio.
Released Date:
2014-09-05
Languages:
English
Countries:
Canada, USA, Madagascar
Runtime:
39 min
Rated:
G
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (590 Reviews)
Director:
David DouglasJoin our mailing list and get access to expert analysis, trivia, and recommendations that will elevate your movie-watching experience.