Released Date:
1980-04-24
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
122 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(3291 Reviews)
Director:
Harold BeckerJoseph Wambaugh (book)
Joseph Wambaugh (screenplay)
Greg Powell is a disturbed ex-con who recruits Jimmy Smith (aka Jimmy Youngblood), a petty thief, as his partner in crime. Powell panics one night when the two of them are pulled over by a pair of cops for broken brake-lights. Powell decides to kidnap the cops and Smith, as always, reluctantly goes along with Powell's crazy scheme. The group drives out to a deserted onion field in Bakersfield, California and one officer is shot while the other escapes. The remainder of the film explores the nature of the American justice system, as well as the devastating psychological effects of this event and the trial on the surviving officer.
Released Date:
1981-09-18
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
113 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (21696 Reviews)
Director:
Lawrence KasdanNed Racine is a seedy small town lawyer in Florida. During a searing heatwave he's picked up by married Matty Walker. A passionate affair commences but it isn't long before they realise the only thing standing in their way is Matty's rich husband Edmund. A plot hatches to kill him but will they pull it off?
Released Date:
1984-01-09
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
100 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (346 Reviews)
Director:
Randa HainesGenres:
DramaCounseling helps family deal with the discovery that their child was sexually abused by the closest relative.
Released Date:
1987-11-25
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
102 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
5.9 (34398 Reviews)
Director:
Leonard NimoyColine Serreau (screenplay)
James Orr (screenplay)
Jim Cruickshank (screenplay)
Three bachelor friends - architect Peter, artist Michael, and actor Jack are sharing an apartment in Manhattan. After Jack goes filming in Turkey his two flatmates find his baby daughter - which Jack doesn't know about - left outside their door. The two are left to look after the baby, and realise how difficult this can be. How would this baby change the life style of these confirmed bachelors?
Released Date:
1989-11-10
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
117 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.1 (3489 Reviews)
Director:
Gary David GoldbergWilliam Wharton (novel)
Gary David Goldberg (screenplay)
A busy, "always-on-the-run" executive learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him than ever before. In the process, he teaches his father to be more independent which causes problems with the man's wife. Estranged from his own son, the executive comes to realize what has been missing in his own life.
Released Date:
1990-11-21
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
104 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
5.2 (16313 Reviews)
Director:
Emile ArdolinoColine Serreau (screenplay)
Sara Parriott (story)
Josann McGibbon (story)
Charlie Peters (screenplay)
Sylvia's work increasingly takes her away from the three men who help bring up Mary, her daughter. When she decides to move to England and take Mary with her, the three men are heartbroken at losing the two most important females in their lives.
Released Date:
1993-05-28
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, France
Runtime:
111 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
4.9 (11349 Reviews)
Director:
Richard BenjaminGenres:
ComedyMarcia Brandwynne (story)
Nadine Schiff (story)
Holly Goldberg Sloan (story)
Holly Goldberg Sloan (screenplay)
A young black woman discovers that her father was a sperm donor, and if that weren't bad enough, he's white.
Released Date:
1994-06-17
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
109 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
4.5 (5707 Reviews)
Director:
Howard DeutchRay, an ex-con and widower, is planning a coin heist with two accomplices to help him to buy his own bakery. However, he doesn't expect his son Timmy, who was living with Ray's sister, to show up at the house right in the middle of planning. Timmy is ignored and Ray and his buddies pull off the heist. Timmy gets his father's attention by stealing the coins and hiding them. To get them back, his father must take him to a number of different places and treat him like he enjoys his presence. They grow fond of each other but Timmy won't stay with his dad unless he gives up the coins.
Released Date:
1996-09-20
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK, USA
Runtime:
101 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
5.3 (3094 Reviews)
Director:
John HendersonDr. Dempsey, an American scientist who has become a skeptic after a disastrous wrong call, isn't exactly enthusiastic to be sent by his well-funded employer to Scotland to (dis)prove the existence of the Loch Ness monster, but has no choice. He finds the locals stubborn, 'primitive' and all but hospitable, not in the least because the Nessie legend is the only tourist attraction, but still gets romantically attracted by his independent inn-keeper Laura, and both her kid and his enthusiastic local assistant end up making him face a small family of Nessie-dinosaurs, but is this to be made public?
Released Date:
1996-02-04
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK, USA
Runtime:
186 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
(4997 Reviews)
All star adaptation of Jonathan Swift's satirical tale about a normal man who, after returning home following eight years of absence, relates fantastical tales about how he was thought to be giant in the Land of Lilliput, but was only six inches high in the Land of Brobdingnag. He also tells of his visit to the floating island of Laputa populated by scientists who are so obsessed with reason that they act with no common sense. Finally, he tells of his journey to the land where his disturbing likeness to the bestial Yahoos and his inferiority to the intelligent horses there makes him question the very worth of his humanity.
Released Date:
1998-12-04
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
107 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (1516 Reviews)
Director:
Saul RubinekRick Cleveland (play)
Rick Cleveland (screenplay)
Tom and Jerry are two hit men, they work by day at a third-rate second-hand car dealership. Tom is a veteran and Jerry is a novice in their business, and their attitude toward their profession differs a lot. It shows when Tom is required to kill his old friend Karl.
Released Date:
2002-04-28
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
142 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (1037 Reviews)
Director:
Stephen GyllenhaalJames Van Praagh (book)
John Pielmeier
A man begins to have disturbing visions of dead people, among whom are his mother and victims of a local serial killer. The detective investigating the murders looks to him for help in solving the case.
Released Date:
2005-05-21
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
130 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(461 Reviews)
Director:
Dan CurtisGenres:
DramaDavid France (book)
Thomas Michael Donnelly (screenplay)
In the 1970s and 1980s a scandal was brewing in the Boston diocese of the Roman Catholic Church. Pedophile priests, especially Father John Geoghan, were sexually molesting young boys. Although the Cardinal at the time, Bernard Law, was made aware of the evil acts committed by Geoghan & other priests, he sided with the priests and quietly moved them from one church to the next, and kept the matter a secret from the authorities. Years later, the victims start to come forward, and a lawyer sues Cardinal Law & the diocese for hiding the crimes from the authorities. Cardinal Law arrogantly defends his behavior, and refuses to resign. Meanwhile, Father Geoghan is found guilty and sentenced to 10 years behind bars. Will the Cardinal resign now...or continue to try to hold onto his position?
Released Date:
2008-01-18
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
104 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
5.8 (16125 Reviews)
Director:
Callie KhouriGlenn Gers (screenplay)
John Mister (earlier screenplay)
Neil McKay (screenplay)
Terry Winsor (screenplay)
Don and Bridget Cardigan's upper middle class lifestyle is threatened since Don, who has been out of work for a year, seems to have given up looking for a job, and housewife Bridget has been out of the workforce for most of her life. They are close to $300,000 in debt. Finding out this information, Bridget comes to the conclusion that she needs to get a job - any job - that at least provides them with some benefits. She reluctantly takes a job as a janitor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Almost immediately, Bridget is enthralled with all the old worn out money that is being shredded. She comes up with a plan to get her old lifestyle back by stealing much of that money, which she believes is an easy job since the locks used on the money carts are standard equipment and as she notices that no one ever checks the garbage as she goes about her work. Her plan needs the cooperation of one person who works the shredder and one person who pushes the carts of money. The two people she co-opts are single mom Nina Brewster and diabetic, trailer living and constant music listening Jackie Truman. Jackie is easy to convince, but Nina is only convinced when Bridget brings it to her attention that the money would allow her to provide a better education to her two bright sons. Nina vows to kill Bridget if she ever loses her children because of this scheme. As the three woman progress with the plan, it is threatened by: the bank's head of security, a man named Glover, who believes it is impossible to steal money from the reserve; another security guard at the reserve named Barry who seems to be attracted to Nina; Jackie's working class husband Bob who is not used to having money; Don, a conservative man who can't understand being on the wrong side of the law; and Bridget herself who seems to be increasingly focused on getting more and more money with no end in sight, which seems to be diverging from the priorities of her two accomplices.
Released Date:
2014-08-08
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
91 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (17753 Reviews)
Director:
Charlie McDowellStruggling with a marriage on the brink of falling apart, a couple escapes for a weekend in pursuit of their better selves, only to discover an unusual dilemma that awaits them.
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