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American Resource Center

Movie Catalogue 2010

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3:10 to Yuma 2007

Genre: Action | Crime | Drama | Western


Director: James Mangold
Starring Russell Crowe Christian Bale

A small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who's awaiting a


train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to
psych out the rancher
300 (Two-Disc Special Edition) (2007)

Director: Zack Snyder


Genre: Action| Fantasy | War
Starring: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey
Awards: 9 wins & 27 nominations
Rated R for graphic battle sequences throughout, some sexuality and
nudity

Plot: In 480 BC, the Persian king Xerxes sends his massive army to conquer
Greece. The Greek city of Sparta houses its finest warriors, and 300 of
these soldiers are chosen to meet the Persians.
27 Dresses (Widescreen Edition) (2008)

Director: Anne Fletcher


Genre: Comedy | Romance
Starring: Katherine Heigl, James Marsden
Awards: 4 wins & 3 nominations
Rated: Rated PG-13 for language, some innuendo and sexuality.

Plot: After serving as a bridesmaid 27 times, a young woman wrestles with


the idea of standing by her sister's side as her sibling marries the man
she's secretly in love with
10 things I hate about you 1999

Genre: Comedy | Romance


Director: Gil Junger
Starring Heath Ledger Julia Stiles Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Popular, pretty Bianca Stratford is in dilemma. A family rule forbids her


from dating until her unpopular, rebellious, boy-hating older sister Kat
gets a suitor of her own. In an attempt to win Bianca, a potential boyfriend
desperately attempts to set Kat up with Patrick Verona, another rebel who
may just be able to win Kat's heart
48 HRS. 1982

Genre: Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller


Director: Walter Hill
Starring Nick Nolte Eddie Murphy

A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal


temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer
16 Blocks 2006

Genre: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller


Director: Richard Donner
Starring Bruce Willis Mos Def David Morse

An aging cop is assigned the ordinary task of escorting a fast-talking


witness from police custody to a courthouse. There are however forces at
work trying to stop prevent them from making it
8 Mile 2002

Genre: Drama | Music


Director: Curtis Hanson
Starring Eminem Kim Basinger Brittany Murphy Mekhi Phifer

A young rapper, struggling with every aspect of his life, wants to make the
most of what could be his final opportunity but his problems around gives
him doubts
2 fast 2 furious 2003

Genre: Action | Crime | Thriller


Director: John Singleton
Starring Paul Walker Tyrese Gibson Eva Mendes

Former cop, Brian O'Conner is finally arrested after letting his leader
escape the law. To avoid the consequences, he must now work with an old
college friend and help the police arrest a local drug exporter
100 Girls 2000

Genre: Comedy | Romance


Director: Michael Davis
Starring Jonathan Tucker Larisa Oleynik Emmanuelle Chriqui

College Freshman meets his dream girl in a dorm elevator during a


blackout. They make love, and he falls for her without ever seeing her
face. Now he has one goal in life, to find his mystery girl amongst the 100
female suspects
40 days and 40 nights 2002

Genre: Comedy | Romance | Drama


Director: Michael Lehmann
Starring Josh Hartnett Shannyn Sossamon

After a brutal breakup, a young man vows to stay celibate during the 40
days of Lent, but finds the girl of his dreams and is unable to do anything
about it.
The 39 Steps 1935

Genre: thriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock,
Starring: Robert Donat , Madeleine Carroll

A harrowing portrait of an innocent man struggle to prove his innocence


while the world turns inexplicably against him.
A….
Avenging Angelo 2002

Genre: Action | Comedy | Crime


Director: Martyn Burke
Starring Sylvester Stallone Madeleine Stowe Anthony Quinn

A woman who has just discovered she is the daughter of a murdered


Mafia chieftain seeks revenge, with the aide of her Father's faithful
bodyguard
Australia (2008)

Director: Baz Luhrmann


Genre: Adventure | Drama | Romance | War
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman

Plot: Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat
who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order
to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000
head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of
Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand
Atonement (2007)

Director: Joe Wright


Genre: Drama | Mystery | Romance | War
Starring: Keira Knightley, James Mcavoy
Awards: Won Oscar. Another 23 wins & 67 nominations
Rated: Rated R for disturbing war images, language and some sexuality

Plot: Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes


the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a
crime he did not commit. Based on the British romance novel by Ian
McEwan
Awake (2007)

Director: Joby Harold


Genre: Crime | Thriller
Starring: Terrence Howard, Fisher Stevens Jessica Alba
Awards: 1 win & 3 nominations

Plot: The story focuses on a man who suffers "anesthetic awareness" and
finds himself awake and aware, but paralyzed, during heart surgery. His
mother must wrestle with her own demons as a drama unfolds around
them, while trying to unfold the story hidden behind her son's young wife
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007)

Director: Tim Hill


Genre: Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Music
Starring: Jason Lee, David Cross
Awards: 2 wins & 1 nomination

Plot: A struggling songwriter named Dave Seville finds success when he


comes across a trio of singing chipmunks: mischievous leader Alvin, brainy
Simon, and chubby, impressionable Theodore
Assassins 1995

Genre: Action | Thriller | Crime


Director: Richard Donner
Starring Sylvester Stallone Antonio Banderas Julianne Moore

Robert Rath is a seasoned hitman who just wants out of the business with
no back talk. But, as things go, it ain't so easy. A younger, peppier assassin
named Bain is having a field day trying to kill said older assassin. Rath
teams up with a computer hacker named Electra to defeat the obsessed
Bain
Analyze this 1999

Genre: Comedy | Crime


Director: Harold Ramis
Starring Robert De Niro Billy Crystal Lisa Kudrow

A comedy about a psychiatrist whose number one-patient is an insecure


mob boss.
Analyze that 2002

Genre: Comedy | Crime


Director: Harold Ramis
Starring Robert De Niro Billy Crystal Lisa Kudrow

The mafia's Paul Vitti is back in prison and will need some serious
counseling when he gets out. Naturally, he returns to his analyst Dr. Ben
Sobel for help and finds that Sobel needs some serious help himself as he
has inherited the family practice, as well as an excess stock of stress
All the President's men 1976

Genre: Drama | History | Thriller


Director: Alan J. Pakula
Starring Dustin Hoffman Robert Redford

Reporters Woodward and Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate


scandal that leads to President Nixon's resignation
Apocalypto 2006

Genre: Action | Adventure | Drama


Director: Mel Gibson
Starring Dalia Hernández Rudy Youngblood

As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to
prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices. Jaguar
Paw, a young man captured for sacrifice, flees to avoid his fate
Autumn in New York 2000

Genre: Romance | Drama


Director: Joan Chen
Starring Richard Gere Winona Ryder

Romantic drama about an aging playboy who falls for a sweet, but
terminally ill, young woman
Alpha Dog 2006

Genre: Crime | Drama


Director: Nick Cassavetes
Starring Bruce Willis Matthew Barry

A drama based on the life of Jesse James Hollywood, a drug dealer who
became one of the youngest men ever to be on the FBI's most wanted list
Anger Management 2003

Genre: Comedy | Romance


Director: Peter Segal
Starring Adam Sandler Jack Nicholson

Sandler plays a businessman who is wrongly sentenced to an anger-


management program, where he meets an aggressive instructor
American History X 1998

Genre: Crime | Drama


Director: Tony Kaye
Starring : Edward Norton; Edward Furlong

A former neo-nazi skinhead tries to prevent his younger brother from


going down the same wrong path that he did
Apocalypse now – The Complete dossier 1979

Genre: Action | Drama | War


Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring Marlon Brando Martin Sheen Robert Duvall

During the on-going Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous


mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set
himself up as a God among a local tribe
As good as it gets 1997

Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance


Director: James L. Brooks
Starring Jack Nicholson Helen Hunt Greg Kinnear

After his homosexual neighbor is brutally beaten, he is entrusted to the


care of the neighbor's dog, with a difficult relationship with a waitress to
add on top of that.
Advise & Consent 1962

Genre: Drama
Director: Otto Preminger
Starring Henry Fonda

Senate investigation into the President's newly nominated Secretary of


State, gives light to a secret from the past, which may not only ruin the
candidate, but the President's character as well.
And Justice for all 1979

Genre: Drama | Thriller | Crime


Director: Norman Jewison
Starring Al Pacino Jack Warden

An ethical Baltimore defense lawyer disgusted with rampant legal


corruption is asked to defend a judge he despises in a rape trial. But if he
doesn't do it, the judge will have him disbarred
Amos&Andrew 1993

Genre: Comedy | Crime


Director: E. Max Frye
Starring Samuel L. Jackson Nicolas Cage

When Andrew Sterling, a successful black urbanite writer buys a vacation


home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar
American Gangster 2007 The Complete First Season

Genre: Crime | Drama


Director: Ridley Scott
Starring Denzel Washington Russell Crowe

In 1970s America, a detective works to bring down the drug empire of


Frank Lucas, a heroin kingpin from Manhattan, who is smuggling the drug
into the country from the Far East
The Alamo 1960

Genre: Action | Adventure | Drama | History | War | Western


Director: John Wayne
Starring John Wayne Richard Widmark Laurence Harvey

The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their
lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a
tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas
Air America 1990

Genre: Action | Comedy


Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Starring Mel Gibson Robert Downey Jr.

A young pilot finds himself recruited into a covert and corrupt CIA airlift
organization operating in Vietnam War Era Laos
An American in Paris 1951

Genre: Musical | Romance


Director: Vincente Minnelli
Starring Gene Kelly Leslie Caron Oscar Levant Georges Guétary

Jerry Mulligan, a struggling American painter in Paris, is "discovered" by an


influential heiress with an interest in more than Jerry's art
American Pie 1999

Genre: Comedy | Romance


Director: Paul Weitz
Starring Jason Biggs Chris Klein Alyson Hannigan Shannon Elizabeth

Four teenage boys enter a pact to lose their virginity by prom night
Alex Rider (Operation Stormbreaker)

Genre: Action/Adventure, Art/Foreign, Thriller


Director: Geoffrey Sax
Starring Alex Pettyfer, Ewan McGregor, Robbie Coltrane, Mickey Rourke,

Alex soon learns that his uncle was a spy for Britain's secret intelligence
service MI6. Uncle Ian had actually prepared Alex for a career in espionage
by encouraging his hobbies, and with Alex's skills in languages, scuba
diving, mountaineering
Are we there yet? Travel Games & Songs for kids on the Go!
2005

Genre: Educational, Children , Family


Director:Banyan Entertainment
Starring Miles the Goose

Kids learn the car games at home and play them on the road!
Ali 2001

Genre: Biography | Drama | Sport


Director: Michael Mann
Starring Will Smith Jamie Foxx

A biography of sports legend, Muhammad Ali, from his early days to his
days in the ring
Amistad 1997

Genre: Drama | History | Mystery


Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring Morgan Freeman Anthony Hopkins Djimon Hounsou

AMISTAD is a slave ship. Much of the story involves a court-room drama


about the free-man who led the revolt
Apollo 13 1995

Genre: Adventure | Drama | History


Director: Ron Howard
Starring Tom Hanks Bill Paxton

True story of the moon-bound mission that developed severe trouble and
the men that rescued it with skill and dedication
B….
Bourne ultimatum, The 2007

Genre: Action | Adventure | Mystery | Thriller


Director: Paul Greengrass
Starring Matt Damon

Bourne dodges new, superior assassins as he searches for his unknown


past while a government agent tries to track him down
Bourne Supremacy, The 2004

Genre: Action | Adventure | Mystery | Thriller


Director: Paul Greengrass
Starring Matt Damon

When Jason Bourne is framed for a botched CIA operation he is forced to


take up his former life as a trained assassin to survive.
Bee Movie (2007)

Director: Steve Hickner


Genre: Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family
Starring: Jerry Seinfeld
Awards: Nomin. for Golden Globe. Another 11 nomin.
Rated: Rated PG for mild suggestive humor, and a brief depiction of
smoking

Plot: Barry B. Benson, a bee who has just graduated from college, is
disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a special trip
outside the hive, Barry's life is saved by Vanessa, a florist in New York City.
As their relationship blossoms, he discovers humans actually eat honey,
and subsequently decides to sue us
Batman Begins (2005)

Director: Christopher Nolan


Genre: Action | Crime | Thriller
Starring: Christian Bale, Michael Caine
Awards: Nomin for Oscar. Another 6 wins & 38 nominations
Rated: Rated PG-13 for intense action violence, disturbing images and
some thematic elements

Plot: The story of how Bruce Wayne became what he was destined to be:
Batman
Babylon A.D. (2008)

Director: Mathieu Kassovitz


Genre: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Starring: Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh
Awards: 1 nomination
Rated: Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action,
language and some sexuality

Plot: Veteran-turned-mercenary Toorop takes the high-risk job of


escorting a woman from Russia to America. Little does he know that she is
host to an organism that a cult wants to harvest in order to produce a
genetically modified Messiah
Bedtime Stories (2008)

Director: Adam Shankman


Genre: Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Starring: Adam Sandler, Keri Russell
Awards: 1 win & 4 nominations
Rated: Rated PG for some mild rude humor and mild language

Plot: A family comedy about a hotel handyman whose life changes when
the lavish bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to magically
come true
Bolt (2008)

Director: Chris Williams; Byron Howard


Genre: Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Starring: John Travolta, Miley Cyrus
Awards Nominated for Oscar. Another 20 nominations
Rated: Rated PG for some mild action and peril

Plot: The canine star of a fictional sci-fi/action show that believes his
powers are real embarks on a cross country trek to save his co-star from a
threat he believes is just as real

Braveheart (1995)

Director: Mel Gibson


Genre: Action | Biography | Drama | History | War
Starring: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau
Awards Won 5 Oscars. Another 15 wins & 20 nominations
Rated: Rated R for brutal medieval warfare

Plot: Braveheart is the partly historical, partly mythological, story of


William Wallace, a Scottish common man who fights for his country's
freedom from English rule around the end of the 13th century

Beowulf (2007)

Director: Robert Zemeckis


Genre: Animation | Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Starring: Ray Winstone, Crispin Glover
Awards 12 nominations
Rated: Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence including disturbing
images, some sexual material and nudity

Plot: The warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel who
is terrorizing towns, and later, Grendel's mother, who begins killing out of
revenge

The Bucket List (2007)

Director: Rob Reiner


Genre: Adventure | Comedy | Drama
Starring: Jack Nicholson; Morgan Freeman
Awards: 3 nominations
Rated: Rated PG-13 for language, including a sexual reference.

Plot: Two terminally ill men escape from a cancer ward and head off on a
road trip with a wish list of to-dos before they die.
Body of Lies (2008)

Director: Ridley Scott


Genre: Action | Drama | Thriller
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe
Awards: 2 nominations
Rated: Rated R for strong violence including some torture, and for
language throughout

Plot: Roger Ferris (DiCaprio) is a CIA paramilitary operations officer. He is


in Iraq trying to track down a terrorist called Al-Saleem...

Bordertown (2007)

Director: Gregory Nava


Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Starring: Jennifer lopez Juan Diego Botto,
Awards: 1 nomination
Rated: Rated R for violence including a brutal rape, sexuality, nudity and
language.

Plot: A journalist investigates a series of murders near American-owned


factories on the border of Juarez and El Paso

Becoming Jane (2007)

Director: Julian Jarrold


Genre: Biography | Drama | Romance
Starring: Philip Culhane, Jessica Ashworth
Awards: 2 wins & 5 nominations
Rated: Rated PG for brief nudity and mild language. (edited for re-rating;
was PG-13)

Plot: A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance


with a young Irishman

The Butterfly Effect (2004)

Director: Eric Bress, J. Mackye


Genre: Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Starring: Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart
Awards 1 win & 3 nominations
Rated: Rated R for violence, sexual content, language and brief drug use.

Plot: A young man blocks out harmful memories of significant events of his
life. As he grows up, he finds a way to remember these lost memories and
a supernatural way to alter his life
The Butterfly Effect 2 (2006)

Director: John R. Leonetti


Genre: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Starring: Eric Lively, Erica Durance
Awards 1 nomination
Rated: Rated R for violence, sexuality and language

Plot: A brain tumor allows a person to change the past by reflecting at


relevant pictures
The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations (2009)

Director: Seth Grossman Rating


Genre: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Starring: Rachel Miner, Chris Carmack
Awards -
Rated: Rated R for graphic bloody violence, a strong sex scene including
nudity, language and some drug content.

Plot: A young man with the power to time travel attempts to solve the
mystery of his girlfriend's death
The bridges on the River Kwai 1957

Genre: Adventure | Drama | War


Director: David Lean
Starring William Holden Alec Guinness

After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a


British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway
bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy
it.
Band f Brothers 2001 10 episodes

Genre: Adventure | Drama | History | War


Director: Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg
Starring Damian Lewis Donnie Wahlberg

The story of Easy Company of the US Army 101st Airborne division and
their mission in WWII Europe from Operation Overlord through V-J Day
Being Julia 2004

Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance


Director: István Szabó
Starring Annette Bening Jeremy Irons

Set in '30s London, the film involves stage actors and their experiences
with love and revenge
The Big Lebowski 1998

Genre: Comedy | Crime


Director: Joel Coen
Starring Jeff Bridges John Goodman Steve Buscemi

"Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, seeks restitution


for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it

Bobby 2006

Genre: Drama
Director: Emilio Estevez
Starring Laurence Fishburne Heather Graham Anthony Hopkins

The story of the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy who was
shot in the early morning hours of June 5, 1968 in the Ambassador Hotel
in Los Angeles, and 22 people in the hotel whose lives were never the
same

The Big Country 1958

Genre: Drama | Romance | Western


Director: William Wyler
Starring Gregory Peck Jean Simmons Carroll Baker

A New Englander arrives in the Old West, where he becomes embroiled in


a feud between two families over a valuable patch of land

Bewitched 2005

Genre: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance


Director: Nora Ephron
Starring Nicole Kidman Will Ferrell

Thinking he can overshadow an unknown actress in the part, an egocentric


actor unknowingly gets a witch cast in an upcoming television remake of
the classic show "Bewitched".

Bad Lieutenant 1992

Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller


Director: Abel Ferrara
Starring Harvey Keitel

While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police
detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his
ways and find forgiveness
Before Sunset 2004

Genre: Drama | Romance


Director: Richard Linklater
Starring Ethan Hawke Julie Delpy

There are nine years after Jesse and Celine first met; now, they encounter
one another on the French leg of Jesse's book tour. ..and they have only
one fanding afternoon to decide if they should share their tomorrows
Be Cool 2005

Genre: Comedy | Crime


Director: F. Gary Gray
Starring John Travolta Uma Thurman

Disenchanted with the movie industry, Chili Palmer (John Travolta) tries
the music industry, meeting and romancing a widow of a music exec (Uma
Thurman) on the way
Bad Company 1995

Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller


Director: Damian Harris
Starring Ellen Barkin Laurence Fishburne

One of Crowe's co-workers, discovers Crowe's current CIA involvement in


a plot to overthrow Grimes, and blackmails him to be cut in on the deal.
Bad Boys 1995

Genre: Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller


Director: Michael Bay
Starring Martin Lawrence Will Smith

Two hip detectives protect a murder witness while investigating a case of


stolen heroin
Bad Boys II 2003

Genre: Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller


Director: Michael Bay
Starring Martin Lawrence Will Smith

Two loose-cannon narcotics cops investigate the flow of Ecstacy into


Florida
A Beautiful Mind 2001

Genre: Biography | Drama


Director: Ron Howard
Starring Russell Crowe

After a brilliant but asocial mathematician accepts secret work in


cryptography, his life takes a turn to the nightmarish
Back to the Future 1985 (The complete trilogy)

Genre: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi


Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring Michael J. Fox Lea Thompson Christopher Lloyd

In 1985, Doc Brown invents time travel; in 1955, Marty McFly accidentally
prevents his parents from meeting, putting his own existence at stake.
The Birds 1963

Genre: Horror | Romance | Thriller


Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring Rod Taylor Jessica Tandy Suzanne Pleshette

A wealthy San Francisco playgirl pursues a potential boyfriend to a small


Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when
birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people there in increasing
numbers and with increasing viciousness
The Black Stallion 1979

Genre: Adventure | Family | Sport


Director: Carroll Ballard
Starring Kelly Reno Mickey Rooney

While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a


mysterious Arabian stallion …
The Black Stallion returns 1983

Genre: Adventure | Family


Director: Robert Dalva
Starring Kelly Reno Vincent Spano

A teenager loses his horse in Morocco and gets him back after various
daredevil adventures
Black Hawk Down 2001

Genre: Action | Drama | War


Director: Ridley Scott
Starring Josh Hartnett Ewan McGregor

123 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of
a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large
force of heavily-armed Somalis
Bonnie and Clyde 1967

Genre: Biography | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller


Director: Arthur Penn
Starring Warren Beatty Faye Dunaway

A somewhat romantized account of the career of the notoriously violent


bank robbing couple and their gang
Boiler room 2000

Genre: Thriller | Drama | Crime


Director: Ben Younger
Starring Giovanni Ribisi Vin Diesel Nia Long

A college dropout gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm,


which puts him on the fast track to success, but the job might not be as
legitimate as it sounds
Blue Streack 1999

Genre: Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller


Director: Les Mayfield
Starring Martin Lawrence

A thief turned ex-con poses as a cop to retrieve a diamond he stole years


ago
C…
Chocolat 2000

Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance


Director: Lasse Hallström
Starring:Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp

A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village
that shakes up the rigid morality of the community.

Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)

Director: P.J. Hogan


Genre: Comedy | Romance
Starring: Isla Fisher, Leslie Bibb
Awards 3 nominations
Rated: Rated PG for some mild language and thematic elements

Plot: A college grad lands a job as a financial journalist in New York City to
support where she nurtures her shopping addiction and falls for a wealthy
entrepreneur
Charlie's Angels (2000)& Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle

Director: McG
Genre: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore
Awards: 12 wins & 26 nominations
Rated: Rated PG-13 for action violence, innuendo and some
sensuality/nudity

Plot: Three women, detectives with a mysterious boss, retrieve stolen


voice-ID software, using martial arts, tech skills, and sex appeal
Changeling (2008)

Director: Clint Eastwood


Genre: Drama | History | Mystery | Thriller
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Colm Feore
Awards: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 4 wins & 31 nominations
Rated: Rated R for some violent and disturbing content, and language.

Plot: A grief-stricken mother takes on the LAPD to her own detriment


when it stubbornly tries to pass off an obvious impostor as her missing
child, while also refusing to give up hope that she will find him one day

Constantine 2005

Genre: Fantasy | Horror | Thriller


Director: Francis Lawrence
Starring: Keanu Reeves

The story of irreverent supernatural detective John Constantine, who has


literally been to Hell and back. When Constantine teams up with skeptical
policewoman Angela Dodson to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin
sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and
angels.
The Cheney Vase 1955

Genre: Fantasy | Horror | Thriller


Director: "Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Patricia Collinge Darren McGavin

When Lyle Endicott is fired from his job at an art museum, he comes up
with a plan to take advantage of a trusting invalid whom he befriended at
the museum
The Constant Gardener 2005

Genre: Drama | Romance | Thriller


Director: Fernando Meirelles
Starring: Ralph Fiennes Rachel Weisz

A widower is determined to get to the bottom of a potentially explosive


secret involving his wife's murder, big business, and corporate corruption
Crash 2004

Genre: Crime | Drama


Director: Paul Haggis
Starring: Sandra Bullock Sean Cory Cooper Matt Dillon

Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a


collection of inter-related characters
Conspiracy Theory 1997

Genre: Crime | Mystery | Romance | Thriller


Director: Richard Donner
Starring: Mel Gibson Julia Roberts

Jerry Fletcher is a man who sees conspiracies everywhere. But if you keep
doing that long enough, sooner or later you're going to get one right...
Closer 2004

Genre: Drama | Romance


Director: Mike Nichols
Starring: Natalie Portman Jude Law Julia Roberts Clive Owen

The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when


the man from one couple meets the woman of the other
Cinderella Man 2005

Genre: Biography | Drama | Sport


Director: Ron Howard
Starring: Russell Crowe Renée Zellweger

The story of James Braddock, a supposedly washed up boxer who came


back to become a champion and an inspiration in the 1930s
Citizen Kane 1941

Genre: Drama | Mystery


Director: Orson Welles
Starring: Joseph Cotten Agnes Moorehead

We see, inside the castle, a dying man examining a winter scene within a
crystal ball. As he drops it, it smashes, and one word is heard -
"Rosebud..." What follows are pieces of newsreel-like footage detailing
how Kane amassed his fortune, and turning around full circle at the end.
Chasers 1994

Genre: Comedy
Director: Dennis Hopper
Starring: Tom Berenger William McNamara Erika Eleniak

A hapless Navy grunt is assigned SP duty. The catch : he must escort a


beautiful female prisoner on her way to prison for going AWOL
I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry

Genre: Comedy | Romance


Director: Dennis Dugan
Starring: Adam Sandler Kevin James Jessica Biel Dan Aykroyd

Two straight, single Brooklyn firefighters pretend to be a gay couple in


order to receive domestic partner benefits
Casino 1995

Genre: Crime | Drama | History


Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Sharon Stone, Robert De Niro , Joe Pesci

Greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two


mobster best friends and a trophy wife over a gambling empire
Cold Mountain 2003

Genre: Drama | Romance | War


Director: Anthony Minghella
Starring: Jude Law Nicole Kidman Renée Zellweger

In the waning days of the American Civil War, a wounded soldier (Law)
embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain, North
Carolina to reunite with his sweetheart (Kidman). Based on the novel by
Charles Frazier
The Candidate 1972

Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Ritchie
Starring: Robert Redford

Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no
hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment
Carlito's Way 1993

Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller


Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Al Pacino Sean Penn

A Puerto-Rican, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs
and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life
A Christmas Story 1983

Genre: Comedy | Family


Director: Bob Clark
Starring: Peter Billingsley Melinda Dillon Darren McGavin

Ralphie has to convince his parents, teachers, and Santa that a Red Ryder
BB gun really is the perfect gift for the 1940's
Cutting Glass 1989

Genre: Comedy | Horror | Thriller


Director: Rospo Pallenberg
Starring: Brad Pitt Roddy McDowall

High school student Paula Carson's affections are being sought after by
two of her classmates: Dwight, the "bad boy", and Brian, a disturbed
young man who has just been released from a mental hospital where he
was committed following the suspicious death of his father. Soon after
being released, more murders start happening. Is Brian back to his old
tricks, or is Dwight just trying to eliminate the competition?
The Cowboys 1972

Genre: Drama | Western


Director: Mark Rydell
Starring: John Wayne

Wil Andersen finds himself with a herd of cattle which he has to get to
market before the winter sets in, but he has no men to help him. He turns
to a group of young school boys as his last hope to get the job done. There
is no better training for these boys than hands-on as they don't know what
they are in for. They set out as schoolboys but return as Cowboys
Cruel Intentions 1999

Genre: Drama | Romance | Thriller


Director: Roger Kumble
Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar Ryan Phillippe Reese Witherspoon

Kathryn makes a bet that her step-brother, Sebastian, won't be able to


bed Annette (a virgin, who wants to wait until love). If he loses, Kathryn
gets his Jaguar, if he wins, he gets Kathryn
Continental Divide 1981

Genre: Comedy | Romance


Director: Michael Apted
Starring: John Belushi Blair Brown

A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle


researcher
Collateral 2004

Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller


Director: Michael Manna
Starring: Tom Cruise Jamie Foxx

A cab driver finds himself the hostage of an engaging contract killer as he


makes his rounds from hit to hit during one night in LA. He must find a way
to save both himself and one last victim
A Christmas Carol 1938

Genre: Drama | Fantasy


Director: Edwin L. Marin
Starring: Alastair Sim

The timeworn Dickens' story about the old merchant Scrooge and how his
own disappointments in life shape
Capote

Genre: Biography | Crime | Drama


Director: Bennett Miller
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman

Truman Capote (Hoffman), during his research for his book In Cold Blood,
an account of the murder of a Kansas family, the writer develops a close
relationship with Perry Smith, one of the killers

Charlotte's Web 2006

Genre: Comedy | Family | Fantasy


Director: Gary Winick
Starring: Julia Roberts John Cleese

Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that
come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with
Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never
happen

Cabaret 1972

Genre: Drama | Music | Romance


Director: Bob Fosse
Starring: Liza Minnelli Michael York

A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances


two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them

City of Angels 1998

Genre: Fantasy | Romance | Thriller


Director: Brad Silberling
Starring: Nicolas Cage Meg Ryan

Inspired by the modern classic, Wings of Desire, City involves an angel


(Cage) who is spotted by a doctor in an operating room. Franz plays Cage's
buddy who somehow knows a lot about angels

Captain Corelli's Mandolin 2001

Genre: Drama | Music | Romance


Director: John Madden
Starring: Penélope Cruz Nicolas Cage

When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during WWII, his
fiancee falls in love with the local Italian commander
The Craft 1996

Genre: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller


Director: Andrew Fleming
Starring: Fairuza Balk, Robin Tunney, Neve Campbell, Rachel True

A newcomer to a Catholic prep high school falls in with a trio of outcast


teenage girls who practice witchcraft and they all soon conjure up various
spells and curses against those who even slightly anger them
Cry Baby 1990

Genre: Comedy | Musical | Romance


Director: John Waters
Starring: Johnny Depp

"Drape" (or Greaser) Wade Walker, also known as Cry-Baby for his ability
to shed a single tear, falls
A Civil Action 1998

Genre: Drama
Director: Steven Zaillian
Starring: John Travolta

The families of children who died sue two companies for dumping toxic
waste: a tort so expensive to prove, the case could bankrupt their lawyer
Cheyenne warrior 1994

Genre: Action | Western


Director: Mark Griffiths
Starring: Kelly Preston

An interracial love story, set in the turbulent wild west, stirs up tensions
between the Indians and the settlers
Cats 1998

Genre: Comedy | Music | Musical | Romance


Director: David Mallet
Starring: Elaine Paige; John Mills; Ken Page

"Jellicle" cats join for a Jellicle ball where they rejoice with their leader,
Old Deuteronomy. One cat will be chosen to go to the "Heavyside Layer"
and be reborn. The cats introduce themselves
Coming to America 1988

Genre: Comedy | Romance


Director: John Landis
Starring: Eddie Murphy

An African prince goes to Queens, New York City to find a wife whom he
can respect for her intelligence and will
Chicago 2002

Genre: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Musical


Director: Rob Marshall
Starring: Renée Zellweger Catherine Zeta-Jones Richard Gere

Murderesses Velma Kelly (a chanteuse and tease who killed her husband
and sister after finding them in bed together) and Roxie Hart (who killed
her boyfriend when she discovered he wasn't going to make her a star)
find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will
keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago
Color Purple, The 1985

Genre: Drama
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Whoopi Goldberg Oprah Winfrey Danny Glover

This film follows the life of Celie, a young black girl growing up in the early 1900's.
The first time we see Celie, she is 14 - and pregnant - by her father. We stay with
her for the next 30 years of her tough life...
D
The Dark Side of the Sun 1997

Genre: Drama | Romance


Director: Bozidar 'Bota' Nikolic
Starring: Brad Pitt Cheryl Pollak

Traveling in search of a cure for a rare skin disease, a man finds freedom
and love along the way.
Defiance (2008)

Director: Edward Zwick


Genre: Action | Drama | Thriller | War
Starring: Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber
Awards: Nomin. for Oscar. Another 1 win & 2 nomin.
Rated: Rated R for violence and language.

Plot: Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe escape into the


Belarusian forests, where they join Russian resistance fighters and
endeavor to build a village in order to protect themselves and about 1,000
Jewish non-combatants
Death Defying Acts (2007)

Director: Gillian Armstrong


Genre: Drama | Romance | Thriller
Starring: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Guy Pearce
Awards: 3 wins & 6 nominations
Rated: Rated PG for some sensuality, thematic material, language, violent
content and smoking.

Plot: On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate


affair with a psychic out to con the famous magician
Dark City (1998)

Director: Alex Proyas


Genre: Crime | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Starring: John Bluthal, Jennifer Connelly
Awards: 6 wins & 7 nominations
Rated: Rated R for violent images and some sexuality

Plot: A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he


cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings
with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans
Desperate Housewives: Seasons 1-5

Director: Marc Cherry


Genre: Comedy | Drama
Starring: Marcia Cross Eva Longoria Parker Felicity Huffman Teri Hatcher
Brenda Strong
Awards: Won 3 Golden Globes. Another 38 wins & 107 nominations
Rated:

Plot: Secrets and truths unfold through the lives of female friends in one
suburban neighborhood, after the mysterious suicide of a neighbor
Derailed (2005)

Director: Mikael Håfström


Genre: Drama | Thriller
Starring: Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston
Awards -
Rated: Rated R for strong disturbing violence, language and some
sexuality.

Plot: When two married business executives having an affair are


blackmailed by a violent criminal, the two must turn the tables on him to
save their families

The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

Director: Scott Derrickson


Genre: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly
Awards 2 wins & 5 nominations
Rated: Rated PG-13 for some sci-fi disaster images and violence.

Plot: When a sphere from outer space lands in the Central Park in
Manhattan, a group of scientists are summoned by the American
government under the call of the Secretary of Defense Regina Jackson.
The reborn alien form Klaatu is brought to a military facility and Dr. Helen
Benson decides to help him to escape and become the only chance to save
the mankind from destruction
Departed, The 2006

Genre: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller


Director: Martin Scorsese
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio Matt Damon Jack Nicholson

Two men from opposite sides of the law are undercover within the
Massachusetts State Police and the Irish mafia, but violence and
bloodshed boil when discoveries are made..
Down to you 2000

Genre: Romance | Comedy | Drama


Director: Kris Isacsson
Starring: Freddie Prinze Jr. Julia Stiles

A young man wins and loses the first serious love of his life
Drum line 2002

Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance | Music


Director: Charles Stone III
Starring Nick Cannon

A band director recruits a Harlem street drummer to play at a Southern


university
Devil's Advocate 1997

Genre: Drama | Horror | Thriller


Director: Taylor Hackford
Starring> Keanu Reeves Al Pacino Charlize Theron

A hotshot lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he learns his new
boss is Lucifer himself
Down in the Valley 2005

Genre: Drama | Romance


Director: David Jacobson
Starring: Edward Norton Evan Rachel Wood David Morse

Set in the present-day San Fernando Valley, the project revolves around a
delusional man who believes he's a cowboy and the relationship that he
starts with a rebellious young woman
Driven 2001

Genre: Action | Drama | Sport


Director: Renny Harlin
Starring: Sylvester Stallone

A young hot shot driver is in the middle of a championship season and is


coming apart at the seams. A former CART champion is called in to give
him guidance
Dead poets society

Genre: Drama
Director: Peter Weir
Starring: Robin Williams

English professor John Keating inspires his students to a love of poetry and
to seize the day
Donnie Darko 2001

Genre: Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller


Director: Richard Kelly
Starring Jake Gyllenhaal

A troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that


manipulates him to commit a series of crimes, after narrowly escaping a
bizarre accident
The Day After Tomorrow 2004

Genre: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller


Director: Roland Emmerich
Starring Dennis Quaid

A climatologist tries to figure out a way to save the world from abrupt
global warming. He must get to his young son in New York, which is being
taken over by a new ice age
Dr. Strangelove 1964

Genre: Comedy
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring Peter Sellers George C. Scott

An insane general starts a process to nuclear holocaust that a war room of


politicians and generals frantically try to stop
Doctor Zhivago 1965

Genre: Drama | Romance | War


Director: David Lean
Starring: Omar Sharif Julie Christie Rod Steiger

Life of a Russian doctor/poet who, although married, falls for a political


activist's wife and experiences hardships during the Bolshevik Revolution
Dial M for Murder 1954

Genre: Crime | Mystery | Thriller


Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Ray Milland Grace Kelly

An ex-tennis pro carries out a plot to murder his wife. When things go
wrong, he improvises a brilliant plan B
Drums along the Mohawk 1939

Genre: Drama | Romance | War | Western


Director: John Ford
Starring: Claudette Colbert Henry Fonda

Before the Revolutionary War farmer Martin brings bride Magdelana the
Mohawk Valley where they are burned out by Indians

Demolition Man 1993

Genre: Action | Comedy | Crime | Sci-Fi


Director: Marco Brambilla
Starring: Sylvester Stallone Wesley Snipes Sandra Bullock

A cop is brought out of suspended animation in prison to pursue an old


ultra-violent enemy who is loose in a nonviolent future society

Dogma 1999

Genre: Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Mystery


Director: Kevin Smith
Starring Bud Cort Barret Hackney Ben Affleck

An abortion clinic worker with a special heritage is called upon to save the
existence of humanity from being negated by two renegade angels trying
to exploit a loophole and re-enter Heaven

Deliver US from Eva 2003

Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance


Director: Gary Hardwick
Starring: LL Cool J Gabrielle Union

Eva Dandridge is a very uptight young woman who constantly meddles in


the affairs of her sisters and their husbands

E
Employee of the month 2006

Genre: Comedy | Romance


Director: Greg Coolidge
Starring: Jessica Simpson, Dane Cook, Dax Shepard

When he hears that the new female employee digs ambitious men who
are the store employee of the month, a slacker gets his act together but
finds himself in competition with his rival, an ambitious co-worker.
Elegy (2008)

Director: Isabel Coixet


Genre: Drama | Romance
Starring: Penelope Cruz, Ben Kingsley
Awards 2 wins & 4 nominations
Rated: Rated R for sexuality, nudity and language

Plot: David Kepesh is growing old. He's a professor of literature. When he


finds a student attractive, Consuela, a 24-year-old, he sets out to seduce
her. Along the way, he swims in deeper feelings, maybe he's drowning.
The English Patient (1996)

Director: Anthony Minghella


Genre: Romance | Drama | War
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche
Awards: Won 9 Oscars. Another 41 wins & 37 nominations
Rated: Rated R for sexuality, some violence and language.

Plot: At the close of WWII, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane


crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a
fateful love affair

Eagle Eye (2008)

Director: D.J. Caruso


Genre: Action | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan
Awards: 1 win & 7 nominations
Rated: Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of action and violence, and for
language.

Plot: Jerry and Rachel are two strangers thrown together by a mysterious
phone call from a woman they have never met. Threatening their lives and
family, she pushes Jerry and Rachel into a series of increasingly dangerous
situations, using the technology of everyday life to track and control their
every move

Eye see you 2002

Genre: Drama, Crime, action


Director: Jim Gillespie
Starring Sylvester Stallone Dina Meyer

A disgraced FBI agent with a drinking problem joins nine other troubled
law enforcement officers at an isolated detox clinic in the wilds of
Wyoming. But the therapeutic sanctuary becomes a nightmarish hellhole
when a major snowstorm cuts off the clinic from the outside world and
enables a killer on the inside to get busy
Election 1999

Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance


Director: Alexander Payne
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon

A high school teacher's personal life becomes complicated as he works


with students during the school elections
E.T. The extraterrestrial 1982

Genre: Adventure | Drama | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi


Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas

A group of Earth children help a stranded alien botanist return home


Enemy of the State 1998

Genre: Action | Drama | Thriller


Director: Tony Scott
Starring: Will Smith, Gene Hackman

A lawyer becomes a target by a corrupt politician and his NSA goons when
he accidentally receives key evidence to a serious politically motivated
crime.
Erin Brockovich 2000

Genre: Biography | Drama | Romance


Director: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: Julia Roberts

An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-


handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a
city's water supply.
Encino Man 1992

Genre: Comedy | Fantasy


Director: Les Mayfield
Starring: Sean Astin, Brendan Fraser

When they find a frozen caveman in their backyard, two high school
outcasts thaw him out and introduce him to modern day life while he in
turn, gets them to actually enjoy life
Evan Almighty 2007

Genre: Comedy | Fantasy


Director: Tom Shadyac
Starring: Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman

God contacts Congressman Evan Baxter and tells him to build an ark in
preparation for a great flood
East of Eden 1955

Genre: Drama
Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Julie Harris, James Dean

In the Salinas Valley, in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must
compete against overwhelming odds with his brother Aron for the love of
their father Adam. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the
war, to how to get ahead in business and in life, to how to relate to
estranged mother.
El Dorado 1966

Genre: Western | Action | Adventure


Director: Howard Hawks
Starring: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum

Hired gunman Cole Thornton turns down a job with Bart Jason as it would
mean having to fight an old sheriff friend..
Eastern promises 2007

Genre: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller


Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Naomi Watts, Vincent Cassel, Viggo Mortensen

A Russian teenager living in London who dies during childbirth leaves clues
to a midwife in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a
violent Russian mob family
Elizabethtown 2005

Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance


Director: Cameron Crowe
Starring: Orlando Bloom, Kirsten Dunst

Hours after a ruinous product debut, suicidal industrial designer Drew


Baylor learns of his father's sudden death. As the only son, Drew must
travel to their small hometown of Elizabethtown, Kentucky to attend to his
father's memorial. On the flight to Kentucky, Drew meets Claire, a quick-
witted flight attendant, who helps him navigate the rough waters ahead
and proves that amazing things happen when you least expect them
F
Feeling Minnesota 1996

Genre: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance


Director: Steven Baigelman
Starring: Keanu reeves, Cameron Diaz, Vincent D’Onofrio

Just when she met the man of her dreams, along came her husband to
ruin everything
Fireproof (2008)

Director: Alex Kendrick


Genre: Drama
Starring: Kirk Cameron, Jason McLeod
Awards

Rated: Rated PG for thematic material and some peril


Plot: In an attempt to save his marriage, A firefighter uses a 40-day
experiment known as "The Love Dare".
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)

Director: Nicholas Stoller


Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Starring: William Baldwin, Jason Bateman
Awards: 1 win & 10 nominations
Rated: Rated R for sexual content, language and some graphic nudity

Plot: Devastated Peter takes a Hawaii vacation in order to deal with recent
break-up with his TV star girlfriend, Sarah. Little does he know Sarah's
traveling to the same resort as her ex ... and she's bringing along her new
boyfriend
Friends - The Complete Series Collection (2006)

Director: David Crane Marta Kauffman


Genre: Comedy | Romance
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc,
Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer
Awards: Won Golden Globe. Another 56 wins & 155 nominations

Plot: The lives, loves, and laughs of six young friends living in Manhattan
Number of discs: 40
Fast and The furious, The 2001

Genre: Action | Crime | Thriller


Director: Rob Cohen
Starring: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker

An undercover cop infiltrates an underworld subculture of Los Angeles


street racers looking to bust a hijacking ring, and soon begins to question
his loyalties when his new street racing friends become the prime suspects
Four Feathers 2002

Genre: Adventure | Drama | War


Director: Shekhar Kapur
Starring: Heath Ledger, Wes Bentley, Kate Hudson

A British officer resigns his post just before battle and subsequently
receives four white feathers from his friends and fiancee as symbols of
what they believe to be his cowardice
The Faculty 1998

Genre: Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller


Director: Robert Rodriguez
Starring: Jordana Brewster, Clea DuVall,

Students suspect that their teachers are aliens after bizarre occurrences.
Fargo 1996

Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller


Director: Joel Coen
Starring: William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi

Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's
bungling and the persistent police work of pregnant Marge Gunderson
The Fifth element 1997

Genre: Action | Adventure | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller


Director: Luc Besson
Starring: Bruce Willis, Mila Jovovich, Gary Oldman

In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure
in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr Zorg at
bay
Flight of the Intruder 1991

Genre: Action | War


Director: John Milius
Starring: Danny Glover, Willem Dafoe, Brad Johnson

After his bombardier is killed, Jake Grafton, a carrier-based Intruder pilot,


questions the purpose of Navy bombing missions.
Facing the Giants 2006

Genre: Drama | Sport


Director: Alex Kendrick
Starring: Alex Kendrick,

A losing coach with an underdog football team faces their giants of fear
and failure on and off the field to surprising results.
Flags of our fathers 2006

Genre: Action | Drama | History | War


Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, Ryan Phillippe

The life stories of the six men who raised the flag at The Battle of Iwo
Jima, a turning point in WWII
Funny Valentine 2005

Genre: Comedy and Romance


Director: Jeff Oppenheim
Starring: MArlo Marron, Ivan Martin, Lord Jamar, Larry Storch

A group of twenty-some things discover that finding true love in the city
can sometimes mean taking a leap of faith -- and finding oneself in the
process.
Find me Guilty 2006

Genre: Comedy | Crime | Drama


Director: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Vin Diesel

Based on the true story of Jack DiNorscio, a mobster who defended


himself in court for what would be the longest mafia trial in U.S. history
Full metal jack 1987

Genre: Action | Drama | War


Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam


War has on his fellow Marine recruits from their brutal basic training to
the bloody street fighting set in 1968 Hue, Vietnam.
The favor 1994

Genre: Comedy | Romance


Director: Donald Petrie
Starring: Elizabeth McGovern, Harley Jane Kozak, Bill Pullman, Brad Pitt

Kathy is married to Peter. Now she can't help but wonder how things
could have been if she got together with her old boyfriend.
Few good men, A 1992

Genre: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller


Director: Rob Reiner
Starring: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore

Neo military lawyer Kaffee defends Marines accused of murder; they


contend they were acting under orders:
Fracture 1991

Genre: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller


Director: Gregory Hoblit
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Ryan Gosling

An attorney intent on climbing the career ladder toward success, finds an


unlikely opponent in a manipulative criminal he's trying to prosecute
The Frisco kid 1979

Genre: Comedy | Western


Director: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Gene Wilder, Harrison Ford

A Polish rabbi wanders through the Old West on his way to lead a
synagogue in San Francisco.
Forever young 1992

Genre: Adventure | Comedy | Romance | Sci-Fi


Director: Steve Miner
Starring: Mel Gibson

A 1939 test pilot asks his best friend to use him as a guinea pig for a
cryogenics experiment. Daniel
Funny Girl 1968

Genre: Biography | Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance


Director: William Wyler
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif

The life of comedienne Fannie Brice, from her early days in the Jewish
slums of the Lower East Side
Face/ OFF 1997

Genre: Action | Crime | Sci-Fi | Thriller


Director: John Woo
Starring: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage

A revolutionary medical technique allows an undercover agent to take the


physical appearance of a major criminal and infiltrate his organization
Ferris Bueller’s day off 1986

Genre: Comedy
Director: John Hughes
Starring: Matthew Broderick

A high school wise guy is determined to have a day off from school,
despite of what the principal thinks of that.
Field of Dreams 1989

Genre: Drama | Family | Fantasy | Sport


Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Starring: Kevin Costner

An Iowa corn farmer, hearing voices, interprets them as a command to


build a baseball diamond in his fields; he does, and the Chicago Black Sox
come
Forrest Gump 1994

Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance | War


Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Tom Hanks

Forrest Gump, while not intelligent, has accidentally been present at many
historic moments, but his true love, Jenny, eludes him

Four Rooms 1995

Genre: Comedy
Director: Allison Anders Alexandre Rockwell
Starring: Sammi Davis, Antonio Banderas, Jennifer Beals

12 outrageous guests. Four scandalous requests. And one lone bellhop, in


his first day on the job, who's in for the wildest New year's Eve of his life

Finding Neverland 2004

Genre: Biography | Drama | Family


Director: Marc Forster
Starring: Johnny Depp Kate Winslet

The story of J.M. Barrie's friendship with a family who inspired him to
create Peter Pan

The Family Man 2000

Genre: Comedy | Fantasy | Drama | Romance


Director: Brett Ratner
Starring: Nicolas Cage Téa Leoni

A fast-lane investment broker, offered the opportunity to see how the


other half lives, wakes up to find that his sports car and girlfriend have
become a mini-van and wife

Farmer's Wife, The 1928

Genre: Comedy | Romance


Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Jameson Thomas Lillian Hall-Davis Gordon Harker

Farmer Sweetland is an old and lonely widower who manages to marry again. He
likes three ladies, but they all reject him, instigated by Aramintha, the farmer's
maid who is secretely in love with her master. The farmer seems to start thinking
love is no more his business, but he realizes that the right woman has always
lived by his side. She is Aramintha herself
G
Great Expectations 1946

Genre: Drama
Director: David Lean
Starring: John Mills Alec Guinness

A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an


unknown benefactor

Garfield: (A Tale of Two Kitties / Garfield: The Movie)


(2006)
Director: Peter Hewitt
Genre: Comedy | Family
Starring: Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt
Awards
Rated: Rated PG for brief mild language

Plot: Jon Arbuckle buys a second pet, a dog named Odie. However, Odie is
then abducted and it is up to Jon's cat, Garfield, to find and rescue the
canine

Get Smart (2008)

Director: Peter Segal


Genre: Action | Adventure | Comedy
Starring: Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway
Awards 2 wins & 6 nominations
Rated: Rated PG-13 for some rude humor, action violence and language

Plot: American Maxwell Smart works for a Government spy agency in an


administrative capacity. When the agency's head office is attacked, the
Chief decides to assign Maxwell as a spy and partners him with sexy Agent
99, much to her chagrin

Grey's Anatomy Series: Seasons 1-5

Director: Shonda Rhimes


Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Starring: Ellen Pompeo, Patrick Dempsey
Awards: Won 2 Golden Globes. Another 34 wins & 95 nominations
Rated:

Plot: A drama centered on the personal and professional lives of five


surgical interns and their supervisors
Gran Torino (2008)

Director: Clint Eastwood


Genre: Crime | Drama
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Brian Haley
Awards: Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 4 wins & 5 nominations
Rated: Rated R for language throughout, and some violence.

Plot: Disgruntled Korean War vet Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his
neighbor, a young Hmong teenager, who tried to steal Kowalski's prized
possession: his 1972 Gran Torino
Gone with the Wind 1939

Genre: Drama | Romance | War


Director: Victor Fleming
Starring: Clark Gable; Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia deHavilland

American classic in which a manipulative woman and a roguish man carry


on a turbulent love affair in the American south during the Civil War and
Reconstruction

Good Will Hunting 1997

Genre: Drama
Director: Gus Van Sant
Starring: Robin Williams Matt Damon Ben Affleck

Will Hunting, a janitor at MIT, has a gift for mathematics which is


discovered, and a psychologist tries to help him with his gift and the rest
of his life

Goodbye America 1997

Genre: Action | Drama | Romance


Director: Thierry Notz
Starring: Wolfgang Bodison Corin Nemec

A tragic incident during a beach party leads to an investigation by Special


Agent Danzig of the Naval Investigative Service and her opposite number,
Jess Santiago. Meanwhile, Stryzack is brooding over what he believes is a
betrayal of America. Under arrest, he escapes from prison, sworn to
assassinate the symbol of America's betrayal, Senator James Bladon

Groundhog day 1993

Genre: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance


Director: Harold Ramis
Starring Bill Murray

A weatherman finds himself living the same day over and over again
Gone in 60 seconds 2000

Genre: Action | Crime | Thriller


Director: Dominic Sena
Starring Nicolas Cage Angelina Jolie

A retired master car thief must come back to the industry and steal 50 cars
with his crew in one night to save his brother's life
Good morning Vietnam

Genre: Comedy | Drama | War


Director: Barry Levinson
Starring Robin Williams

An unorthodox and irreverent DJ begins to shake up things when he is


assigned to the US Armed Services Radio station in Vietnam
Good night, and good luck 2005

Genre: Drama | History


Director: George Clooney
Starring: Jeff Daniels David Strathairn George Clooney

Broadcast journalist 'Edward R. Murrow (I)' looks to bring down Senator


Joseph McCarthy
Giant 1956

Genre: Drama | Romance | Western


Director: George Stevens
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor Rock Hudson

Texan rancher Bick visits a Maryland farm to buy a prize horse. Whilst
there he meets and falls in love with the owner's daughter Leslie, they are
married immediately and return to his ranch. The story of their family and
its rivalry with cowboy and Jett Rink unfolds across two generations
Guardian, The 2006

Genre: Action | Adventure | Drama


Director: Andrew Davis
Starring: Kevin Costner Ashton Kutcher

A high school swim champion with a troubled past enrolls in the U.S. Coast
Guard's "A" School, where legendary rescue swimmer Ben Randall teaches
him some hard lessons about loss, love, and self-sacrifice
Gladiator 2000

Genre: Action | Adventure | Drama | History


Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Russell Crowe

When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by a corrupt


prince, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge
Guess who 2005

Genre: Comedy | Romance


Director: Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Starring: Bernie Mac Ashton Kutcher

A sarcastic father (Mac) has plenty to say about his daughter wanting to
marry a white boy

Gridiron Gang 2006

Genre: Crime | Drama | Sport


Director: Phil Joanou
Starring: Dwayne Johnson

Teenagers at a juvenile detention center, under the leadership of their


counselor, gain self-esteem by playing football together

Good, The Bad and the Ugly, The 1966

Genre: Action | Adventure | Western


Director: Sergio Leone
Starring: Clint Eastwood

A bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third
in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery
Geronimo 1993

Genre: Drama | History | Western


Director: Walter Hill
Starring: Jason Patric Gene Hackman Robert Duvall

The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government


approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of
corn farmers. One in particular, Geronimo, is restless. Pushed over the
edge by broken promises and necessary actions by the government,
Geronimo and thirty or so other warriors form an attack team which
humiliates the government by evading capture, while reclaiming what is
rightfully theirs

Gold Rush – Charlie Chaplin Collection, The 1925

Genre: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Romance | Western


Director: Charles Chaplin
Starring: Charles Chaplin

A lone prospector ventures into Alaska looking for gold. He gets mixed up
with some burly characters and falls in love with the beautiful Georgia. He
tries to win her heart with his singular charm.
Green Mile, The 1999

Genre: Crime | Drama


Director: Frank Darabont
Starring: Tom Hanks

The story about the lives of guards on death row leading up to the
execution of black man accused of child murder & rape, who has the
power of faith healing.
General's daughter, The 1999

Genre: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller


Director: Simon West
Starring: John Travolta

When the daughter of a well-known and well-respected base commander


is murdered, an undercover detective is summoned to look into the
matter and finds a slew of cover-ups at West Point
Get Carter 1971

Genre: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller


Director: Mike Hodges
Starring: Michael Caine

When his brother dies under mysterious circumstances in a car accident,


London gangster Jack Carter travels to Newcastle to investigate
GiGi 1958

Genre: Comedy | Musical | Romance


Director: Vincente Minnelli
Starring: Leslie Caron

Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful


courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship, but it may not stay
platonic for long
Get over it 2001

Genre: Comedy | Musical | Romance


Director: Tommy O'Haver
Starring: Kirsten Dunst Ben Foster

When Berke Landers, a popular high school basketball star, gets dumped
by his life-long girlfriend, Allison
Guarding tess 1994

Genre: Comedy
Director: Hugh Wilson
Starring: Nicolas Cage Shirley MacLaine

A former First Lady of the US wants a particular Secret Service agent to


head her bodyguard detail, even though he can't stand her
Glory 1989

Genre: Drama | History | War


Director: Edward Zwick
Starring: Matthew Broderick Denzel Washington Morgan Freeman

Robert Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company,
fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates
Guys and Dolls 1955

Genre: Musical | Comedy | Romance | Crime


Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Starring: Marlon Brando Jean Simmons Frank Sinatra Vivian Blaine

In NY, a gambler is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana,


but they fall for each other, and the bet has a hidden motive to finance a
crap game
Game, The 1997

Genre: Action | Adventure | Mystery | Thriller


Director: David Fincher
Starring: Michael Douglas Sean Penn

Wealthy financier Nicholas Van Orton gets a strange birthday present from
wayward brother Conrad: a live-action game that consumes his life.
Get Shorty 1995

Genre: Comedy | Crime


Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Starring: John Travolta Gene Hackman Danny DeVito Rene Russo

Chili Palmer happens to be in Hollywood collecting a gambling debt when


he's struck by lightning (not literally). Called a natural for the movie
business, he's snagged up by a producer. The rest is history
Grapes of Wrath 1940

Genre: Drama
Director: John Ford
Starring: Henry Fonda

A poor Midwest family is forced off of their land. They travel to California,
suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
Good Year, A 2006

Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance


Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Russell Crowe Marion Cotillard

A British investment broker inherits his uncle's chateau and vineyard in


Provence, where he spent much of his childhood. He discovers a new laid-
back lifestyle as he tries to renovate the estate to be sold
Grandfather , The 1998

Genre: Drama
Director: José Luis Garci
Starring: Fernando Fernan-Gomez, Rafael Alonso, Cayetana Guillen
Cuervo, Agustin Gonzales

The aging Count of Albrit returns to Spain from the Americas, where he
has lost almost all of his money searching for gold. There he finds his son
dead and two granddaughters, one of whom is illegitimate. The Count
must contend with his son's widow for his family's honor, but along the
way he learns that blood ties are less important than love
Good Son ,The 1993

Genre: Drama Thriller


Director: Joseph Ruben
Starring: Macaulay Culkin Elijah Wood

A young boy stays with his aunt and uncle, and befriends his cousin who's
the same age. But his cousin begins showing increasing signs of psychotic
behavior
Godfather, The 1972

Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller


Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Al Pacino, Marlon Brando

The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his


clandestine empire to his reluctant son
H
High Noon 1952

Genre: Drama | Western


Director: Fred Zinnemann
Starring: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly

A Marshall, personally compelled to face a returning deadly enemy, finds


that his own town refuses to help him
The Hours (2003)

Director: Stephen Daldry


Genre: Drama
Starring: Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman
Awards: Won Oscar. Another 30 wins & 67 nominations
Rated: Rated PG-13 for mature thematic elements, some disturbing
images and brief language

Plot: The story of how the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" affects three generations
of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with
suicide in their lives
High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008)

Director: Kenny Ortega


Genre: Comedy | Drama | Family | Musical | Romance
Starring: Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens
Awards 7 wins & 9 nominations

Plot: As seniors in high school, Troy and Gabriella struggle with the idea of
being separated from one another as college approaches. Along with the
rest of the Wildcats, they stage a spring musical to address their
experiences, hopes and fears about their future

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

Director: Alfonso Cuarón


Genre: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Mystery
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe Rupert Grint Emma Watson
Awards Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 31 nominations
Rated: Rated PG for frightening moments, creature violence and mild
language.

Plot: It's Harry's third year at Hogwarts; not only does he have a new
"Defense against the Dark Arts" teacher, but there is also trouble brewing.
Convicted murderer Sirius Black has escaped the Wizards' Prison and is
coming after Harry.

He's Just Not That Into You (2008)

Director: Ken Kwapis


Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Starring: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston
Awards 1 win & 3 nominations
Rated: Rated PG-13 for sexual content and brief strong language.

Plot: The Baltimore-set movie of interconnecting story arcs deals with the
challenges of reading or misreading human behavior

The Holiday (2006)

Director: Nancy Meyers


Genre: Comedy | Romance
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet
Awards 1 win & 5 nominations
Rated: Rated PG-13 for sexual content and some strong language

Plot: Two women troubled with guy-problems swap homes in each other's
countries, where they each meet a local guy and fall in love
House: Seasons 1 - 5 Collection

Director: David Shore


Genre: Drama | Mystery
Starring: Hugh Laurie Lisa Edelstein Robert Sean Leonard Omar Epps
Jennifer Morrison
Awards Won 2 Golden Globes. Another 31 wins & 74 nominations

Plot: An antisocial maverick doctor who specializes in diagnostic medicine


does whatever it takes to solve puzzling cases that come his way using his
crack team of doctors and his wits.
Number of discs: 21
Hollywood Land 2006

Genre: Biography | Crime | Drama | History | Mystery | Thriller


Director: Allen Coulter
Starring: Adrien Brody, Diane Lane, Ben Affleck, Bob Hoskins

George Reeves, the heroic Man of Steel on TV's Adventures of Superman,


as the actor dies in his Hollywood Hills home. Felled by a single gunshot
wound, Reeves leaves behind a fiancée - aspiring starlet Leonore Lemmon
- and millions of fans who are shocked by his death. But it is his grieving
mother, who will not let the questionable circumstances surrounding his
demise go unaddressed.
Hot Chick, The 2002

Genre: Comedy | Fantasy


Director: Tom Brady
Starring: Rob Schneider

An attractive and popular teenager who is mean spirited toward others,


finds herself in the body of an older man, and must find a way to get back
to her original body
Hustle & Flow 2005

Genre: Crime | Drama | Music


Director: Craig Brewer
Starring: Terrence Howard, Anthony Anderson

Aspiring emcee DJay works the angles to get his first record made with
help from assorted people in his Memphis 'hood. And when he hears that
hip-hop superstar Skinny Black is heading to his area, he throws together a
supreme hustle to grab Skinny's attention
House of Sand and Fog 2003

Genre: Drama
Director: Vadim Perelman
Starring: Jennifer Connelly; Ben Kingsley

An abandoned wife is evicted from her house and starts a tragic conflict
with her home's new owners
Halloweentown high 2004

Genre: Family | Comedy | Fantasy


Director: Mark A.Z. Dippé
Starring: Kimberly J. Brown

Marnie Piper (as first noted by this movie) prepares to begin a new school
year. She proposes to bring a group of Halloweentown students to her
own high school in the mortal world.

Hudson Hawk 1991

Genre: Action | Adventure | Comedy


Director: Michael Lehmann
Starring: Bruce Willis

A cat burglar is forced to steal Da Vinci works of art for a world domination
plot

Hostage 2005

Genre: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller


Director: Florent Emilio Siri
Starring: Bruce Willis

A failed police negotiator turned small town cop, must save the lives of a
family held hostage, which draws him into a much more dangerous
situation.

Head over Heels 2001

Genre: Comedy | Romance


Director: Mark Waters
Starring: Monica Potter; Freddie Prinze. Jr

A young woman is attracted to a man despite her thinking she's seen him
kill someone

How to steal a million 1966

Genre: Comedy | Crime | Romance


Director: William Wyler
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Peter O’Toole

Romantic comedy about a woman who must steal a statue from a Paris
museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries, and the man who helps
her
Heartbreak kid, The 2007

Genre: Comedy | Romance


Director: Bobby Farrelly Peter Farrelly
Starring: Ben Stiller

A newlywed man who believes he's just gotten hitched to the perfect
woman encounters another lady on his honeymoon

Homeward Bound 1993

Genre: Adventure | Drama | Family | Comedy


Director: Duwayne Dunham
Starring> Don Alder

Remake of the popular Disney classic, this time featuring some well known
voices as two dogs and a cat.

Hardball 2001

Genre: Drama | Sport


Director: Brian Robbins
Starring :Keanu Reeves

An aimless young man who is scalping tickets, gambling and drinking,


agrees to coach a Little League team from the Cabrini Green housing
project in Chicago as a condition of getting a loan from a friend.

How to lose a guy in 10 days 2003

Genre: Comedy | Romance


Director: Donald Petrie
Starring: Kate Hudson, Mathew McConaughey

Benjamin Barry is an advertising executive and ladies' man who, to win a


big campaign, bets that he can make a woman fall in love with him in 10
days. Andie Anderson covers the "How To" beat for "Composure"
magazine and is assigned to write an article on "How to Lose a Guy in 10
days." They meet in a bar shortly after the bet is made

He was a quiet man 2007

Genre: Drama | Romance | Thriller


Director: Frank A. Cappello
Starring: Christian Slater, William Macy, Elisha Cuthebert

An office worker inadvertently becomes a hero after he saves a woman's


life.
How the west was won 1962

Genre: Adventure | Drama | Romance | Western


Director: John Ford Henry Hathaway
Starring: Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb

A family saga covering several decades of Westward expansion in the


nineteenth century--including the Gold Rush, the Civil War, and the
building of the railroads
High School Musical 2006

Genre: Comedy | Drama | Family | Musical | Romance


Director: Kenny Ortega
Starring: Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens,

Troy and Gabriella - two teens who are worlds apart - meet at a karaoke
contest and discover their mutual love for music.
High School Musical 2 2007

Genre: Comedy | Drama | Family | Musical | Romance


Director: Kenny Ortega
Starring: Zac Efron, Vanessa Hudgens,

During the summer vacations a talent show is organized in a local country


club and Troy, Gabriella, Sharpay, Ryan, Chad and Taylor take part in it
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 2001

Genre: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Mystery


Director: Chris Columbus
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson

Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy
with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School of
Witchcraft and Wizardry
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 2002

Genre: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Mystery


Director: Chris Columbus
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson

Harry ignores warnings not to return to Hogwarts, only to find the school
plagued by a series of mysterious attacks and a strange voice haunting him
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 2005

Genre: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Mystery


Director: Mike Newell
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson

Harry finds himself selected as an under aged competitor in a dangerous


multi-wizardry school competition
Hotel Rwanda 2004

Genre: Drama | History | Thriller | War


Director: Terry George
Starring Don Cheadle Nick Nolte Sophie Okonedo

The true-life story of Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager who housed


over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu
militia in Rwanda
Head of State 2003

Genre: Comedy
Director: Chris Rock
Starring Chris Rock Bernie Mac

When a presidential candidate dies unexpectedly, the Dem party


unexpectedly picks a WA, D.C. alderman, Mays Gilliam as his replacement
I….
The Island 2005

Genre: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller


Director: Michael Bay
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Scarlett Johansson

A man goes on the run after he discovers that he is actually a "harvested


being", and is being kept along with others in a utopian facility
The Incredibles (2004)

Director: Brad Bird


Genre: Animation | Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family
Starring: Maeve Andrews, Michael Bird
Awards Won 2 Oscars. Another 39 wins & 32 nominations
Rated: Rated PG for action violence.

Plot: A family of undercover superheroes, while trying to live the quiet


suburban life, are forced into action to save the world.

Inkheart (2009)

Director: Iain Softley


Genre: Adventure | Family | Fantasy
Starring: Brendan Fraser, Sienna Guillory
Awards-
Rated: Rated PG for fantasy adventure action, some scary moments and
brief language

Plot: A young girl discovers her father has an amazing talent to bring
characters out of their books and must try to stop a freed villain from
destroying them all, with the help of her father, her aunt, and a
storybook's hero
I Am Legend (2007)

Director: Francis Lawrence


Genre: Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Starring: Will Smith, Alice Braga
Awards: 7 wins & 17 nominations
Rated: Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi action and violence

Plot: Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest
into monsters, the sole survivor in New York City struggles valiantly to find
a cure
Iron Man (2008)

Director: Jon Favreau


Genre: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow
Awards Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 12 wins & 42 nominations
Rated: Rated PG-13 for some intense sequences of sci-fi action and
violence, and brief suggestive content

Plot: When wealthy industrialist Tony Stark is forced to build an armored


suit after a life-threatening incident, he ultimately decides to use its
technology to fight against evil
Insomnia, The 2002

Genre: Drama | Mystery | Thriller


Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring> Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank

Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town


where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local
teen
In the name of the Father 1993

Genre: Biography | Drama


Director: Jim Sheridan
Starring: Emma Thompson, Daniel Day-Lewis

Man's coerced confession to an IRA bombing he didn't do imprisons his


father as well; a British lawyer helps fight for their freedom
Il Postino 1994

Genre: Biography | Comedy | Drama | Romance


Director: Michael Radford
Starring: Maria Grazia Cucinotta

Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a


famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice
Illusionist, The 2006

Genre: Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller


Director: Neil Burger
Starring: Edward Norton

In turn-of-the-century Vienna, a magician uses his abilities to secure the


love of a woman far above his social standing.
I think I love My Wife 2007

Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance


Director: Chris Rock
Starring: Chris Rock, Kerry Washington

A married man who daydreams about being with other women finds his
will and morals tested after he's visited by the ex-mistress of his old friend
Interview with the Vampire 1994

Genre: Adventure | Drama | Horror


Director: Neil Jordan
Starring: Tom Cruise , Brad Pitt, Antonio Banderas

It hadn't even been a year since a plantation owner named Louis had lost
his wife in childbirth. A vampire named Lestat takes a liking to Louis and
offers him the chance to become a creature of the night: a vampire. Louis
must learn from Lestat the ways of the vampire
I, Robot 2004

Genre: Action | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller


Director: Alex Proyas
Starring: Will Smith

In the year 2035 a techno-phobic cop investigates a crime that may have
been perpetrated by a robot, which leads to a larger threat to humanity
Irma La Douce 1963

Genre: Comedy | Romance


Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine

In Paris, an ex-cop falls in love with a prostitute, and tries to get her out of
that life by paying for all of her time. Not so easy
Italian Job, The 2003

Genre: Action | Crime | Thriller


Director: F. Gary Gray
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Charlize Theron,

Based on a 1969 Michael Caine film of the same name, thieves plan to pull
of the heist of their lives by creating Los Angeles largest traffic jam ever
Ice Age 2002

Genre: Adventure | Animation | Family | Comedy


Director: Chris Wedge Carlos Saldanha
Starring: Ray Romano

Set during the Ice Age, a sabertooth tiger, a sloth, and a wooly mammoth
find a lost human infant, and they try to return him to his tribe
It’s a wonderful Life

Genre: Drama | Family | Fantasy | Romance


Director: Frank Capra
Starring: James Stewart

An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman


by showing what life would had been like if he never existed.
J…..
Just Married 2003

Genre: Comedy | Romance


Director: Shawn Levy
Starring: Brittany Murphy, Ashton Kutcher

A young newlywed couple honeymoon in Europe, where obstacles


challenge their ability to sustain the marriage
James Bond Ultimate Collector's Set (1962 - 2007)

Genre: Adveture, Action


Plot: All 21 James Bond's riveting Adventures.

Number of discs: 42

Junebug 2005

Genre: Comedy | Drama


Director: Shawn Levy
Starring: Embeth Davidtz, Jerry Minor

A dealer in "outsider" art travels from Chicago to North Carolina to meet


her new in-laws, challenging the equilibrium of this middle class Southern
home
Jackal, The 1997

Genre: Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller


Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Starring: Bruce Willis , Richard Gere

An imprisoned IRA sniper is freed to help stop a brutal, seemingly


"faceless" assassin from completing his next job
Jurassic Park 1993

Genre: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller


Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum

Scientists clone dinosaurs to populate a theme park which suffers a major


security breakdown and releases the dinosaurs

Judge Dredd 1995

Genre: Action | Crime | Sci-Fi


Director: Danny Cannon
Starring: Silvestre Stallone

In a dystopian future, Dredd, the most famous judge (a cop with instant
field judiciary powers) is convicted for a crime he did not commit while his
murderous counterpart escapes

Just one of the Guys 1985

Genre: Comedy | Romance


Director: Lisa Gottlieb
Starring: Joyce Hyser, Clayton Rohner

When Terry's journalism teacher passes her article up in favor of a couple


of pieces written by boys, Terry is convinced that sexism is to blame.
Determined to win the internship at any cost, Terry goes undercover at a
rival high school to resubmit her article... as a boy.

Jamaica Inn 1939

Genre: Adventure | Crime


Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Charles Laughton Maureen O'Hara

Irish orphan girl Mary is sent to stay with Aunt Patience and Uncle Joss in
Cornwall. Joss is the landlord of Jamaica Inn and also the head of a gang of
pirates who lure ships to their doom on the rocky coast. Mary soon finds
herself in trouble when she discovers the truth.

K……
Kramer VS Kramer

Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Benton
Starring Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep

A just divorced man must learn to care for his son on his own, and then
must fight in court to keep custody of him
Kung Fu Panda + Secrets of the Furious Five (2008)

Director: John Stevenson, Mark Osborne


Genre: Animation | Action | Comedy | Family
Starring: Jack Black, Ian McShane
Awards: Nominated for Oscar. Another 12 wins & 20 nominations
Rated: Rated PG for sequences of martial arts action

Plot: In the Valley of Peace, Po the Panda finds himself chosen as the
Dragon Warrior despite the fact that he is obese and a complete novice at
martial arts
Knowing (2009)

Director: Alex Proyas


Genre: Action | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne
Awards -
Rated: Rated PG-13 for disaster sequences, disturbing images and brief
strong language

Plot: A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's
elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have
already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe
his family plays a role in the events that are about to unfold
King Kong 1933

Genre: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Horror


Director: Merian C. Cooper
Starring: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong

A film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot and
discovers a colossal giant gorilla who takes a shine to their female blonde
star
Kelly’s heroes 1970

Genre: Action | Adventure | Comedy | War


Director: Brian G. Hutton
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas

A group of U.S. soldiers sneaks across enemy lines to get their hands on a
secret stash of Nazi treasure

Kill a Mockingbird, To 1962

Genre: Crime | Drama


Director: Robert Mulligan
Starring: Gregory Peck

Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man


against an undeserved rape charge, and his kids against prejudice
Knight’s Tale, A 2001

Genre: Action | Comedy | Romance


Director: Brian Helgeland
Starring: Heath Ledger, Rufus Sewell, Shannyn Sossamon

After his master dies, a peasant squire, fueled by his desire for food and
glory, creates a new identity for himself as a knight.

King of California 2007

Genre: Comedy/ Drama


Director: Mike Cahill
Starring: Michael Douglas, Evan Rachel Wood

An unstable dad who after getting out of a mental institution tries to


convince his daughter that there's Spanish gold buried somewhere under
suburbia.

Keeping the Faith 2000

Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance


Director: Edward Norton
Starring: Ben Stiller, Edward Norton, Jenna Elfman

A story about two friends, a priest and a rabbi, who fall in love with the
same beauty

Killing Fields, The 1984

Genre: Drama | History | War


Director: Roland Joffé
Starring: Sam Waterston

He was a reporter for the New York Times whose coverage of the
Cambodian War would win him a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting.
But the friend who made it possible was half the world away with his life
in great danger... This is the story of war and friendship, the anguish of a
country and of one man's will to live.

Knockaround Guys 2001

Genre: Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller


Director: Brian Koppelman, David Levien
Starring: Vin diesel, John Malkovich , Barry Pepper, Seth Green

The wannabe sons of mobsters go to a remote town in the Midwest, and


get themselves into more trouble than anyone could anticipate.
Kiss of Death 1947

Genre: Crime | Drama | Film-Noir


Director: Henry Hathaway
Starring: Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Coleen Gray

With his law-breaking lifestyle in the past, an ex-con, along with his family,
attempt to start a new life, unknowing a betrayed someone from the past
is bound to see otherwise.
Kingdom of Heaven 2005

Genre: Action | Adventure | History


Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Orlando Bloom David Thewlis

Balian of Ibelin travels to Jerusalem during the crusades of the 12th


century, and there he finds himself as the defender of the city and its
people
L….
Last Ride of the Dalton Gang, The 1979

Genre: Action | Western


Director: Dan Curtis
Starring: Cliff Potts, Randy Quaid

A light-hearted view of the Dalton Gang's legendary raid on Coffeyville,


Kansas and the years leading.

The Legend of 1900 (2002)

Director: Giuseppe Tornatore


Genre: Drama | Fantasy | Music | Romance
Starring: Tim Roth Bill Nunn
Awards: Won Golden Globe. Another 14 wins & 5 nominations
Rated: Rated R for language.

Plot: A beatiful story of a man who could do anything... except be ordinary


Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

Director: Clint Eastwood


Genre: Drama | History | War
Starring: Roxanne Hart, Ken Watanabe, Takumi Bando
Awards: Won Oscar. Another 16 wins & 15 nominations
Rated: Rated R for graphic war violence.

Plot: The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and
Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the
Japanese who fought it
Lions For Lambs (2007)

Director: Robert Redford


Genre: Drama | War
Starring: Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep
Awards -
Rated: Rated R for some war violence and language

Plot: Injuries sustained by two Army ranger behind enemy lines in


Afghanistan set off a sequence of events involving a congressman, a
journalist and a professor
Lost – 1; Lost - 2 (2004) Lost-3 (2006)Lost-4(2008)Lost-5(2009)

Creators: J.J. Abrams, Jeffrey Lieber, Damon Lindelof


Genre: Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Starring: Naveen Andrews, Matthew Fox, Jorge Garcia
Awards: Won Golden Globe. Another 48 wins & 164 nomin

Plot: The survivors of a plane crash are forced to live with each other on a
remote island, a dangerous new world that poses unique threats of its
own
Last of the Mohicans, The 1992

Genre: Adventure | Romance | War


Director: Michael Mann
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis

Three trappers protect a British Colonel's daughters in the midst of the


French and Indian War

Lawrence of Arabia 1962

Genre: Adventure | Biography | Drama | War


Director: David Lean
Starring: Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins

The story opens with the death of Lawrence in a motorcycle accident in


London at the age of 47, then flashbacks to recount his adventures: as a
young intelligence officer in Cairo in 1916, he is given leave to investigate
the progress of the Arab revolt against the Turks in World War I. In the
desert, he organizes a guerrilla army and--for two years--leads the Arabs in
harassing the Turks with desert raids, train-wrecking and camel attacks
License to drive 1988

Genre: Comedy
Director: Greg Beeman
Starring: Corey Feldman,

A teen decides to go for a night on the town with his friends despite
flunking his driver's test
Last days of Frank & Jesse James, The 1986

Genre: Western
Director: William A. Graham
Starring: Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Marcia Cross

Frank is shown to be a book-loving and family-oriented man, while brother


Jesse is a money-hungry womanizer.
Let’s make love 1960

Genre: Comedy | Musical | Romance


Director: George Cukor
Starring: Mrilyn Monroe

Billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-


Broadway revue. He goes to the theatre, where he sees Amanda
rehearsing a song, and the director thinks him an actor suited to play
himself in the revue. He takes the part in order to see more of Amanda
Live free or Die Hard 2007

Genre: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller


Director: Len Wiseman
Starring: Bruce Willis

John McClane takes on an Internet-based terrorist organization who is


systematically shutting down the United States.
Lord of War 2005

Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller


Director: Andrew Niccol
Starring:Nicolas Cage, Jared Leto, Ethan Hawke

An arms dealer confronts the morality of his work as he is being chased by


an Interpol agent
Last Tycoon, The 1976

Genre: Drama | Romance


Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Robert De Niro, Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum

A ruthless businessman who dominates studio politics but remains


haunted by a lost love from his past.
Longest Yard, The 1974

Genre: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Sport


Director: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Burt Reynolds

A sadistic warden asks a former pro quarterback, now serving time in his
prison, to put together a team of inmates to take on (and get pummeled
by) the guards
License to wed 2007

Genre: Comedy | Romance


Director: Ken Kwapis
Starring: Robin Williams, Mandy Moore, John Krasinski

A reverend puts an engaged couple through a grueling marriage


preparation course to see if they are meant to be married in his church

Lords of Dogtown 2005

Genre: Biography | Drama | Sport


Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Victor Rasuk

A fictionalized take on the group of brilliant young skateboarders raised in


the mean streets of Dogtown in Santa Monica, California. The Z-Boys,
pioneering a thrilling new sport and eventually moving into legend
Lot like Love, A 2005

Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance


Director: Nigel Cole
Starring: Ashton Kutcher, Amanda Peet

On a flight from Los Angeles to New York, Oliver and Emily make a
connection, only to decide that they are poorly suited to be together. Over
the next seven years, however, they are reunited time and time again,
they go from being acquaintances to close friends to ... lovers?
Lake house, The 2006

Genre: Drama | Fantasy | Romance


Director: Alejandro Agresti
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock

A lonely doctor who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins


exchanging love letters with its former resident, a frustrated architect.
They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance
before it's too late.
Last warrior, The 1989

Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: Martin Wragge
Starring: Graham Gary, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Maria Holvoe

As World War II comes to its savage climax, a South Pacific island becomes
the battleground for two soldiers defending their countries, their lives,
and their honors
Little big Man 1970

Genre: Adventure | Drama | War | Western


Director: Arthur Penn
Starring: Dustin Hoffman

Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised
by Indians and fighting with General Custer.
L.A. Confidential 1997

Genre: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller


Director: Curtis Hanson
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito

A shooting at an all night diner is investigated by three LA policemen in


their own unique ways.
Last Boy scout, The 1991

Genre: Action | Comedy | Mystery | Thriller


Director: Tony Scott
Starring: Bruce Willis, Damon Wayans

A down and out cynical detective teams up with a down and out ex-
quarterback to try and solve a murder case involving a pro football team
and a politician
La Buena Vida 1996

Genre: Comedy | Drama


Director: David Trueba
Starring: Fernando Ramallo, Lucia Jimenez

The life of a 14 year old (Tristan) as he deals with some major issues in his
life. Things don't quite go to plan when at the crucial moment the phone
rings to tell him his parents have been killed in a car crash.
LEON, The Professional 1994

Genre: Action | Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller


Director: Luc Besson
Starring Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Natalie Portman

Professional assassin Leon reluctantly takes care of 12-year-old Mathilda,


a neighbor whose parents are killed, and teaches her his trade
Love & Basketball 2000

Genre: Drama | Romance | Sport


Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Starring: Omar Epps, Sanaa Lathan

In 1981 in L.A., Monica moves in next door to Quincy. They're 11, and both
want to play in the NBA, just like Quincy's dad
Longest Day, The 1962

Genre: Action | Drama | History | War


Director: Ken Annakin Andrew Marton
Starring: Sean Connery

Tells the story of the D-Day invasion of Normandy in WWII. There are
dozens of characters, some seen only briefly, who together weave the
story of five separate invasion points that made up the operation.

Leaving Las Vegas 1995

Genre: Drama | Romance


Director: Mike Figgis
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue

Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything


because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death.
There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference
pact with prostitute Sera
Lonely Hearts 2006

Genre: Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller


Director: Todd Robinson
Starring: John Travolta, Salma Hayek

Based on the true story, two homicide detectives track Martha Beck and
Raymond Martinez Fernandez, a murderous pair known as the "Lonely
Hearts Killers" who lured their victims through the personals

Love Actually 2003

Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance


Director: Richard Curtis
Starring Liam Neeson Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Emma Tompson

Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love
lives in various loosely and interrelated tales all set during a frantic month
before Christmas in London, England

Little Miss Sunshine 2006

Genre: Adventure | Comedy | Drama


Director: Jonathan Dayton Valerie Faris
Starring Abigail Breslin

A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty
pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus
Liar Liar 1997

Genre: Comedy | Fantasy


Director: Tom Shadyac
Starring: Jim Carrey

A fast track lawyer can't lie for 24 hours due to his son's birthday wish
after the lawyer turns his son down for the last time.

Lord of the Rings

I The fellowship of the ring 2001


II The Two Towers 2002
III The Return of the King 2003

Genre: Action | Adventure | Fantasy


Director: Peter Jackson
Starring Sean Astin Orlando Bloom Christopher Lee

In a small village in the Shire a young Hobbit named Frodo has been
entrusted with an ancient Ring. Now he must embark on an Epic quest to
the Cracks of Doom in order to destroy it

M ……..
My Super Ex- Girlfriend 2006

Genre: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller


Director: Ivan Reitman
Starring: Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson

When a regular New York building designer guy Matt Saunders dumps
Jenny Johnson a smart, sexy and a reluctant superhero known as G-Girl of
her neediness, she uses her powers to make his life a living hell!

Munich (2006)

Director: Steven Spielberg


Genre: Drama | History | Thriller
Starring: Tom Cruise, Daniel Craig
Awards: Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 7 wins & 21 nominations
Rated: Rated R for strong graphic violence, some sexual content, nudity
and language.

Plot: The world was watching in 1972 as 11 Israeli athletes were murdered
at the Munich Olympics. This is the story of what happened next
Monsters, Inc. (2001)

Director: Pete Docter


Genre: Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Starring: John Goodman Billy Crystal
Awards: Won Oscar. Another 11 wins & 31 nominations

Plot: Monsters generate their city's power by scaring children, but they
are terribly afraid themselves of being contaminated by children, so when
one enters Monstropolis, top scarer Sulley finds his world disrupted
Madagascar - Escape 2 Africa (2008)

Director: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath


Genre: Animation | Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family
Starring: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock
Awards 1 win & 7 nominations

Plot: The sequel to 2005's "Madagascar", in which New York Zoo animals,
Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe and Gloria the Hippo,
still stranded on Madagascar, start to leave the island. All of a sudden,
they land in the wilderness of Africa, where Alex meets the rest of his
family, but has trouble communicating with them after spending so much
time at the Central Park Zoo
Marley and Me (2008)

Director: David Frankel


Genre: Comedy | Drama | Family | Romance
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Owen Wilson
Awards: 2 wins & 3 nominations
Rated: Rated PG for thematic material, some suggestive content and
language

Plot: A family learns important life lessons from their adorable, but
naughty and neurotic dog
Martian Child (2007)

Director: Menno Meyjes


Genre: Drama | Family
Starring: John Cusack, Amanda Peet
Awards: 2 nominations
Rated: Rated PG ror thematic elements and mild language (theatrical); for
thematic elements

Plot: A science-fiction writer, recently widowed, considers whether to


adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially rejected boy
who says he's really from Mars
The Mist (2007)

Director: Stephen King Frank Darabont


Genre: Drama | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Starring: Thomas Jane Laurie Holden
Awards: 2 wins & 4 nominations
Rated: Rated R for violence, terror and gore, and language

Plot: A freak storm unleashes a species of blood-thirsty creatures on a


small town, where a small band of citizens hole-up in a supermarket and
fight for their lives

Milk (2008)

Director: Gus Van Sant


Genre: Biography | Drama
Starring: Sean Penn, Emile Hirsch
Awards: Won 2 Oscars. Another 34 wins & 52 nominations
Rated: Rated R for language, some sexual content and brief violence

Plot: The story of Harvey Milk, and his struggles as an American gay
activist who fought for gay rights and became California's first openly gay
elected official

Magnificent Seven, The 1960

Genre: Western | Adventure | Drama


Director: John Sturges
Starring: Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen

An oppressed Mexican peasant village assembles seven gunfighters to


help defend their homes.
Mulholland DR. 2001

Genre: Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance | Thriller


Director: David Lynch
Starring: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring

After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman


amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers
across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality
My Boss’s Daughter

Genre: Comedy | Romance


Director: David Zucker
Starring: Ashton Kutcher, Tara Reid

When a young man agrees to housesit for his boss, he thinks it'll be the
perfect opportunity to get close to the woman he desperately has a crush
on
Mrs. Henderson presents 2005

Genre: Comedy | Crime | Drama


Director: Stephen Frears
Starring: Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Kelly Reilly

Laura Henderson buys an old London theater and opens it up as the


Windmill, a performance hall which goes down in history for, among other
things, its all-nude revues.
Mackenna’s Gold 1969

Genre: Romance | Western


Director: J. Lee Thompson
Starring: Gregory Peck, Omar Sharif

The gangster Colorado kidnaps Marshal McKenna. He believes that


McKenna has seen a map which leads to
Man who Shot Liberty Valance, The 1962

Genre: Drama | Romance | Western


Director: John Ford
Starring: John Wayne, James Stewart

A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for
the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed
Men of Honor 2000

Genre: Biography | Drama


Director: George Tillman Jr.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Cuba Gooding Jr.

The story of Carl Brashear, the first African American, then also the first
amputee, US Navy Diver and the man who trained him
Mean Girls 2004

Genre: Comedy | Drama


Director: Mark Waters
Starring: Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams

Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new
school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-
boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George
Million Dollar Baby 2004

Genre: Drama | Sport


Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Clint Eastwood Hilary Swank Morgan Freeman

A hardened trainer/manager works with a determined woman in her


attempt to establish herself as a boxer.
Major Payne 1995

Genre: Comedy
Director: Nick Castle
Starring: Damon Wayans

Major Benson Winifred Payne is being discharged from the Marines.


Payne is a killin' machine, but the.
My Fair Lady 1964

Genre: Drama | Family | Musical | Romance


Director: George Cukor
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison

A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he


can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society
Master and Commander 2000

Genre: Action | Adventure | Drama | War


Director: Peter Weir
Starring: Russell Crowe

During the Napoleonic Wars, a brash British captain pushes his ship and
crew to their limits in pursuit of a formidable French war vessel around
South America.
Matchstick Men 2003

Genre: Comedy | Drama | Crime | Thriller


Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell

A phobic artist and his protégé are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative
swindle when the con artist's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.
Marnie 1964

Genre: Mystery | Romance | Thriller


Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Tippi Hedren Sean Connery

Mark marries Marnie although she is a habitual thief and has serious
psychological problems, and tries to help her confront and resolve them.

Mystery, Alaska 1999

Genre: Comedy | Drama | Sport


Director: Jay Roach
Starring: Russell Crowe, Hank Azaria

This comedy is about the residents of a small town who get over-excited
when their hockey team gets chosen to host a televised event
Malcolm X 1992

Genre: Biography | Drama | History


Director: Spike Lee
Starring: Denzel Washington

Biography of Malcolm X, the famous African American leader. Born


Malcolm Little, his father (a minister) was killed by the Ku Klux Klan. He
became a gangster, and while in jail discovered the Nation of Islam
writings of Elijah Muhammad.

Man from Earth, The 2007

Genre: Drama | History | Sci-Fi


Director: Richard Schenkman
Starring: David Lee Smith

An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a


mysterious interrogation after the retiring

Madagascar 2005

Genre: Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family


Director: Eric Darnell Tom McGrath
Starring: Ben Stiller Chris Rock

Spoiled by their upbringing with no idea what wild life is really like, four
animals from New York Central Zoo escape, unwittingly assisted by four
absconding penguins, and find themselves in Madagascar, among a bunch
of merry lemurs

Miami Vice 2006

Genre: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller


Director: Michael Mann
Starring: Colin Farrell, Jamie Foxx

Based on the 1980's TV action/drama, this update focuses on vice


detectives Crockett and Tubbs as their respective personal and
professional lives become dangerously intertwined.

Man on Fire 2004

Genre: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller


Director: Tony Scott
Starring: Denzel Washington

In Mexico City, a former assassin swears vengeance on those who


committed an unspeakable act against the family he was hired to protect
Man without Face 1993

Genre: Drama
Director: Mel Gibson
Starring: Mel Gibson

Chuck wants to leave home but can't make the grade for boarding school.
Then he finds out the disfigured recluse living nearby is an ex-teacher
Michael Clayton 2007

Genre: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller


Director: Tony Gilroy
Starring: Tom Wilkinson, George Clooney

A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a
breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty
in a multi-billion dollar class action suit
Mrs. Doubtfire 1993

Genre: Comedy | Drama | Family


Director: Chris Columbus
Starring: Robin Williams, Sally Field

After a bitter divorce, an actor disguises himself as a female housekeeper


to spend secret time with his children held in custody by his Ex

Manchurian Candidate, The 1962

Genre: Drama | Mystery | Thriller


Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey

Former Korean War POW is brainwashed by Communists into becoming a


political assassin.But another former prisoner may know how to save him.
Masked and Anonymous 2003

Genre: Comedy | Drama | Music


Director: Larry Charles
Starring: Bob Dylan Penélope Cruz

A singer (Dylan), whose career has gone on a downward spiral, is forced to


make a comeback to the performance stage for a benefit concert
Men In Black 1997

Genre: Action | Comedy | Sci-Fi


Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones Will Smith

Two men who keep an eye on aliens in New York City must try to save the
world after the aliens threaten to blow it up.
Men In Black II 2002

Genre: Action | Comedy | Sci-Fi


Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones Will Smith

Kay and Jay are back in black as the scum-fighting super-agents -


regulators of all things alien on planet Earth. Their latest mission: to save
the world from a total intergalactic disaster! When a renegade Kylothian
monster disguised as a lingerie model threatens the survival of the human
race, the boys of the MIB get the call to step up and get busy.
Million Dollar Hotel, The 2000

Genre: Drama | Mystery | Thriller


Director: Wim Wenders
Starring: Jeremy Davies Milla Jovovich Mel Gibson

Tragi-comic, romantic whodunnit set in a run down hotel which plays host
to mentally ill people too poor to afford medical insurance.
Man apart, A 2003

Genre: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller


Director: F. Gary Gray
Starring: Vin Diesel

A man known as Diablo emerges to head a drug cartel after the previous
leader is imprisoned.
My darling Clementine 1946

Genre: Drama | Western


Director: John Ford
Starring: Henry Fonda

A Western retelling the tale of the Shoot-out at the OK Corral.


Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1939

Genre: Drama
Director: Frank Capra
Starring: Jean Arthur James Stewart

A naive man is appointed to fill a vacancy in the US Senate. His plans


promptly collide with political corruption, but he doesn't back down
Miss Congeniality 2003

Genre: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime


Director: Donald Petrie
Starring: Sandra Bullock

An FBI agent must go undercover in the Miss United States beauty


pageant to prevent a group from bombing the event.
Mystic river 2003

Genre: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller


Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring: Sean Penn

With a childhood tragedy that overshadowed their lives, three men are
reunited by circumstance when one loses a daughter.
Manxman, The 1929

Genre: Drama | Romance | Thriller


Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Carl Brisson Malcolm Keen Anny Ondra Randle Ayrton

Despite their differing backgrounds, fisherman Pete and lawyer Philip have been
life long friends on the Isle of Man. Pete wants to marry Kate, the landlord's
daughter at the local inn; however Kate's father doesn't think he is good enough.
Pete leaves the island to seek his fortune abroad and entrusts Kate to Philip, but
they start to be attracted to each other
N…..
Net, The 1995

Genre: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller


Director: Irwin Winkler
Starring Sandra Bullock

Angela Bennett's a software engineer type who works from home and has
few friends outside of cyberspace. Taking her first vacation in years she
becomes embroiled in a web (sic) of computer espionage
No Country for Old Men (2007)

Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen


Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller | Western
Starring: Javier Bardem, Rodger Boyce
Awards: Won 4 Oscars. Another 94 wins & 45 nominations
Rated: Rated R for strong graphic violence and some language

Plot: Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon some
dead bodies, a stash of heroin and more than $2 million in cash near the
Rio Grande
The Number 23 (2007)

Director: Joel Schumacher


Genre: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Starring: Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen
Awards: 4 nominations
Rated: Rated R for violence, disturbing images, sexuality and language

Plot: Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was
written about him. As his obsession increases, more and more similarities
seem to arise
Nights in Rodanthe (2008)

Director: George C. Wolfe


Genre: Drama | Romance
Starring: Richard Gere, Diane Lane
Awards -
Rated: PG-13

Plot: A doctor who is traveling to see his estranged son sparks with an
unhappily married woman at a North Carolina inn.
The Ninth Gate (2000)

Director: Roman Polanski


Genre: Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Starring: Johnny Depp, Frank Langella
Awards: 1 win & 3 nominations

Plot: A rare book dealer, while seeking out the last two copies of a demon
text, gets drawn into a conspiracy with supernatural overtones

New In Town (2009)

Director: Jonas Elmer


Genre: Comedy | Romance
Starring: Renee Zellweger, Harry Connick Jr.
Awards -
Rated: Rated PG for language and some suggestive material. (edited for
re-rating; originally PG-13 for brief strong language

Plot: A Miami businesswoman adjusts to her new life in a tiny Minnesota


town
Night at the Museum (2006)

Director: Shawn Levy


Genre: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Starring: Ben Stiller Robin Williams Bill Cobbs
Awards: 1 win & 8 nominations

Plot: A newly recruited night security guard at the Museum of Natural


History discovers that an ancient curse causes the animals and exhibits on
display to come to life and wreak havoc.
North By Northwest 1959

Genre: Action | Adventure | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller


Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring Cary Grant Eva Marie Saint James Mason

A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government


agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while
he looks for a way to survive.
Nothing to Lose 1997

Genre: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime


Director: Steve Oedekerk
Starring Martin Lawrence Tim Robbins

Nick Beam's life couldn't get any worse. He discovers he has been living a
lie and is on the verge of a nervous breakdown...

Night Listener, The 2006

Genre: Mystery | Thriller


Director: Patrick Stettner
Starring Toni Collette Robin Williams

In the midst of his crumbling relationship, a radio show host begins


speaking to his biggest fan, a young boy, via the telephone. But when
questions about the boy's identity come up, the host's life is thrown into
chaos

New World, The 2005

Genre: Adventure | Biography | Drama | History | Romance


Director: Terrence Malick
Starring Colin Farrell Q'orianka Kilcher Christopher Plummer

When 17th century explorer John Smith and a few men go up the river to
trade with the Indians, he befriends the princess Pocahontas and they fall
in love. While in love, Smith must obtain his duties as president of
Jamestown fort and challenges to himself what is the better path for
himself to take: stay with the fallen apart colony or go up the river and
love Pocahontas in the wild.

Number 17/

Genre: crime drama


Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring Carl Brisson, Lillian Hall-Davis

A band of Criminals pull off a jewel robbery and stash their loot in what
they think is a safe house.

Narnia. The lion The witch and the wardrobe 2005

Genre: Adventure | Family | Fantasy


Director: Andrew Adamson
Starring William Moseley Judy McIntosh

Four kids travel through a wardrobe to the land of Narnia and learn of
their destiny to free it with the guidance of a mystical lion
O…..
Once upon a time in America 1984

Genre: Crime | Drama


Director: Sergio Leone
Starring: Robert de Niro

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to Brooklyn over 30


years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of
his old life

Over the Hedge (2006)

Director: Karey Kirkpatrick, Tim Johnson


Genre: Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family
Starring: Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling
Awards 5 wins & 12 nominations
Rated: Rated PG for some rude humor and mild comic action

Plot: A scheming raccoon fools a mismatched family of forest creatures


into helping him repay a debt of food, by invading the new suburban
sprawl that popped up while they were hibernating...and learns a lesson
about family himself.

Over Her Dead Body (2008)

Director: Jeff Lowell


Genre: Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Starring: Eva Longoria Parker, Paul Rudd
Awards -
Rated: PG-13

Plot: A ghost tries to sabotage her former boyfriend's current relationship


with a psychic

One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest 1975

Genre: Drama
Director: Milos Forman
Starring: Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco,

Upon arrival at a mental institution, a brash rebel rallies the patients


together to take on the oppressive Nurse Ratched, a woman more a
dictator than a nurse
Out of Africa 1985

Genre: Biography | Drama | Romance


Director: Sydney Pollack
Starring: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford

In 20th century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a


passionate but ultimately doomed love affair with a free-sprited big-game
hunter.
O Brother, where art thou? 2000

Genre: Comedy | Adventure | Crime | Music


Director: Joel Coen
Starring: George Clooney

With nothing to lose and buried loot to regain -- before it's lost forever in
a flood the three embark on the adventure of a lifetime in this hilarious
offbeat road picture.
Old School 2003

Genre: Comedy
Director: Todd Phillips
Starring: Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn
Three men are disenchanted with life and try to recapture their college
days

Once upon a time in The West 1968

Genre: Western
Director: Sergio Leone
Starring: Claudia Cardinale, Henry fonda, Jason Robards

Morton, the power-hungry owner of a railroad company, hires Frank , a


gunfighter without a conscience, to kill anyone who stands in the way of
the completion of the railroad. After Frank murders land owner Brett
McBain, McBain's widow hires two killers of her own to protect her and
gain revenge

Outsiders, The 1983

Genre: Crime | Drama | Romance


Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon

When two poor greasers, Johnny, and Ponyboy are assaulted by a vicious
gang, the socs, and Johnny kills one of the attackers, tension begins to
mount between the two rival gangs, setting off a turbulent chain of
events.
Ordinary People 1980

Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Redford
Starring: Mary Tyler Moore, Donald Sutherland

The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains
the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and
the guilt-ridden younger son
Oklahoma! 1955

Genre: Musical | Romance | Western


Director: Fred Zinnemann
Starring: Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame

A couple of young cowboys win the hearts of their sweethearts in the


Oklahoma territory at the turn of the century..
Officer and a Gentleman, An 1982

Genre: Drama | Romance


Director: Taylor Hackford
Starring: Richard Gere, Debra Winger

A young man must complete his work at a Navy Flight school to become
an aviator, with the help of a tough gunnery sergeant and his new
girlfriend
Oscar 1991

Genre: Comedy | Crime


Director: John Landis
Starring: Sylvester Stallone

Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his


deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest
businessman...

Oliver Twist 1948

Genre: Adventure | Crime | Drama


Director: David Lean
Starring: Alec Guinness

Based on the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist is about an orphan boy
who runs away from a workhouse and meets a pickpocket on the streets
of London...
Off the Map 2003

Genre: Drama
Director: Campbell Scott
Starring: Joan Allen, Valentina de Angelis, Sam Elliott
An 11-year-old girl watches her father come down with a crippling
depression. Over one summer, she learns answers to several mysteries
and comes to terms with love and loss
Ocean’s (11, 12, 13) 2001 , 2004 , 2007

Genre: Comedy | Crime | Thriller


Director: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: George Clooney Brad Pitt

Danny Ocean and his ten accomplices plan to rob three Las Vegas casinos
simultaneously (Ocean 11)
Daniel Ocean recruits one more team member so he can pull off three
major European heists in this sequel to Ocean's 11 (Ocean 12)
Danny Ocean rounds up the boys for a third heist, after casino owner Willy
Bank double-crosses one of the original eleven, Reuben Tishkoff (Ocean
13)
Over the Top 1987

Genre: Action | Drama | Family | Sport


Director: Menahem Golan
Starring: Silvester Stallone

Lincoln Hawk is a struggling trucker who's trying to rebuild his life. He tries
to make amends with his son who he left behind years earlier. Upon their
first meeting, his son doesn't think too highly of him until he enters the
nation-wide arm wrestling competition in Las Vegas
P….
Primary Colors 1998

Genre: Comedy | Drama


Director: Mike Nichols
Starring: John Travolta Emma Thompson Billy Bob Thornton

A man joins the political campaign of a smooth-operator candidate for


president of the USA
Pride & Prejudice (2005)

Director: Joe Wright


Genre: Drama | Romance
Starring: Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen
Awards: Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 10 wins & 35 nominations
Rated: PG

Plot: The story is based on Jane Austen's novel about five sisters - Jane,
Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty and Lydia Bennet - in Georgian England. Their lives
are turned upside down when a wealthy young man (Mr. Bingley) and his
best friend (Mr. Darcy) arrive in their neighborhood
Pink Panther 2 (2009)

Director: Harald Zwart


Genre: Pink Panther 2 (2009)
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Alfred Molina
Awards: 3 nominations
Rated: Rated PG for some suggestive humor, brief mild language and
action

Plot: Insp. Jacques Clouseau teams up with a squad of International


detectives who are just as bumbling as he is. Their mission: Stop a globe-
trotting thief who specializes in stealing historical artifacts
The Pink Panther (2006)

Director: Shawn Levy


Genre: Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Mystery
Starring: Steve Martin, Kevin Kline
Awards: 3 nominations
Rated: Rated PG for occasional crude and suggestive humor and language.

Plot: Loosely based on the 1964 Peter Sellers original film, where the
detective must solve the murder of a famous soccer coach and find out
who stole the infamous Pink Panther diamond.
Polar Express, The 2004

Genre: Animation | Adventure | Family | Fantasy


Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring Tom Hanks Eddie Deezen Nona Gaye

On Christmas Eve, a doubting boy boards a magical train that's headed to


the North Pole and Santa Claus's home
PCU 1994

Genre: Comedy
Director: Hart Bochner
Starring: Jeremy Piven Chris Young

A high school senior visits college for the weekend, and stay at the wildest
house on campus in this classic tale of anti-political-correctness
Presumed Innocent 1990

Genre: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller


Director: Alan J. Pakula
Starring: Harrison Ford

When the woman deputy prosecutor R.K. Sabich had an affair with is
murdered the prosecutor asks him to lead the investigation. When Sabich
digs too deeply he finds himself framed for the murder.
Prime 2005

Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance


Director: Ben Younger
Starring: Uma Thurman, Meryl Streep, Bryan Greenberg

A career driven professional from Manhattan is wooed by a young painter,


who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst
Pianist, The 2002

Genre: Biography | Drama | War


Director: Roman Polanski
Starring: Adrien Brody

A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the


Warsaw ghetto of World War II
Places in the Heart 1984

Genre: Drama
Director: Robert Benton
Starring: Sally Field

In 1930's Southern US, a widow and her family try to run their cotton farm
with the help of a disparate group of friends
Philadelphia 1933

Genre: Drama
Director: Jonathan Demme
Starring: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington

When a man with AIDS is fired by a conservative law firm because of his
condition, he hires a homophobic small time lawyer as the only willing
advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit
Poseidon 2006

Genre: Action | Adventure | Thriller


Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Starring: Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell

On New Year's Eve, the luxury ocean liner, Poseidon, capsizes after being
swamped by a rogue wave. The survivors are left to fight for survival as
they attempt to escape the sinking ship
Pulp Fiction 1994

Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller


Director: Quentin Tarantino
Starring: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman

The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of
diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption
Psycho 1960

Genre: Horror | Thriller


Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles

A young woman steals $40,000 from her employer's client, and


subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor too long under the
domination of his mother
Patriot 2000

Genre: Action | Drama | War


Director: Roland Emmerich
Starring: Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger

Peaceful farmer Benjamin Martin is driven to lead the Colonial Militia


during the American Revolution when a sadistic British officer murders his
son
Pocketful of Miracles 1961

Genre: Comedy | Drama


Director: Frank Capra
Starring

Boozy, brassy Apple Annie, a beggar with a basket of apples, is as much as


part of downtown New York as old Broadway itself. Bootlegger Dave the
Dude is a sucker for her apples --- he thinks they bring him luck. But Dave
and girlfriend Queenie Martin need a lot more than luck when it turns out
that Annie is in a jam and only they can help:
Prestige, The 2006

Genre: Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller


Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Hugh Jackman Christian Bale Scarlett Johansson

Robert and Alfred are rival magicians. When Alfred performs the ultimate
magic trick, Robert tries desperately to find out the secret to the trick
Pay it Forward 2000

Genre: Drama | Romance


Director: Mimi Leder
Starring: Kevin Spacey Helen Hunt Haley Joel Osment

Young Trevor McKinney, troubled by his mother's alcoholism and fears of


his abusive but absent father, is caught up by an intriguing assignment
from his new social studies teacher, Mr. Simonet. The assignment: think of
something to change the world and put it into action.
Perfect Stranger 2007

Genre: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller


Director: James Foley
Starring: Halle Berry Bruce Willis

A journalist goes undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill as her


best friend's killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of
online cat-and-mouse.
Pearl Harbor 2001

Genre: Action | Romance | War


Director: Michael Bay
Starring: Ben Affleck Kate Beckinsale Josh Hartnett

Pearl Harbor follows the story of two best friends, Rafe and Danny, and
their love lives as they go off to join the war.
Pursuit of Happyness, The 2006

Genre: Biography | Drama


Director: Gabriele Muccino
Starring: Will Smith

A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a


life-changing professional endeavor.
Paparazzi 2004

Genre: Action | Crime | Thriller


Director: Paul Abascal
Starring: Cole Hauser Robin Tunney

An actor decides to take personal revenge against a group of persistent


photographers to make them pay for almost causing a personal tragedy
involving his wife and son
Proof 2005

Genre: Drama
Director: John Madden
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow Anthony Hopkins

The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician tries to


come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating
matters are one of ex-students who wants to search through his papers
Producers, The 1968

Genre: Comedy
Director: Mel Brooks
Starring: Zero Mostel Gene Wilder

Producers Max Bialystock (Mostel) and Leo Bloom (Wilder) make money
by producing a sure-fire flop
Platoon 1986

Genre: Action | Drama | War


Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Keith David

A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the
horrors of war and the duality of man

Pancho Villa 1972

Genre: Adventure | Comedy | Western


Director: Eugenio Martín
Starring: Clint Walker Telly Savalas

Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa is double-crossed in an arms deal


planned by his comrade Scotty. Villa and Scotty plot a raid on a U.S...

Painted Veil 2006

Genre: Drama | Romance


Director: John Curran
Starring: Edward Norton Naomi Watts

A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese


village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an
unfaithful wife

Pacifier, The 2005

Genre: Comedy | Action | Family | Thriller


Director: Adam Shankman
Starring Vin Diesel

Disgraced Navy SEAL Shane Wolfe is handed a new assignment: Protect


the five Plummer kids from enemies of their recently deceased father -- a
government scientist whose top-secret experiment remains in the kids'
house

R….
Rush Hour 1 1998

Genre: Action | Comedy | Thriller | Crime


Director: Brett Ratner
Starring: Jackie Chan Chris Tucker

Two cops team up to get back a kidnapped daughter


Rush Hour 2 2001

Genre: Action | Comedy | Thriller | Crime


Director: Brett Ratner
Starring: Jackie Chan Chris Tucker

Carter and Lee head to Hong Kong for vacation, but become embroiled in
a counterfeit money scam
Rush Hour 3 2007

Genre: Action | Comedy | Thriller | Crime


Director: Brett Ratner
Starring: Jackie Chan Chris Tucker

After an attempted assassination on Ambassador Han, Lee and Carter


head to Paris to protect a French woman with knowledge of the Triads'
secret leaders.
Ratatouille (2007)

Director: Brad Bird Jan Pinkava


Genre: Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Starring: Patton Oswalt Peter Sohn
Awards: Won Oscar. Another 43 wins & 20 nominations
Rated:

Plot: Remy is a young rat in the French countryside who arrives in Paris,
only to find out that his cooking idol is dead. When he makes an unusual
alliance with a restaurant's new garbage boy, the culinary and personal
adventures begin despite Remy's family's skepticism and the rat-hating
world of humans.
Reservation Road (2007)

Director: Terry George


Genre: Drama | Thriller
Starring: Jennifer Connelly, Susan Powell
Awards -
Rated: Rated R for language and some disturbing images

Plot: Haunted by the tragedy, both fathers react in unexpected ways, as


do Grace and Emma. As a reckoning looms, the two fathers are forced to
make the hardest choices of their lives
Revolutionary Road (2008)

Director: Sam Mendes


Genre: Drama | Romance
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet
Awards: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 6 wins & 22 nominations

Plot: A young couple living in a Connecticut suburb during the mid-1950s


struggle to come to terms with their personal problems while trying to
raise their two children. Based on a novel by Richard Yates
Robin Hood 1991

Genre: Action | Adventure | Drama | Romance


Director: Kevin Reynolds
Starring: Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman

When Robin and his Moorish companion come to England and the tyranny
of the Sheriff of Nottingham, he decides to fight back as an outlaw
Reign over me 2007

Genre: Drama
Director: Mike Binder
Starring Adam Sandler Don Cheadle Liv Tyler

A man who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City
runs into his old college roommate. Rekindling the friendship is the one
thing that appears able to help the man recover from his grief.
The Rundown 2003

Genre: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Thriller


Director: Peter Berg
Starring: Dwayne Johnson Seann William Scott

A tough aspiring chef is hired to bring home a mobster's son from the
Amazon but becomes involved in the fight against an oppressive town
operator and the search for a legendary treasure.
Rock, The 1996

Genre: Action | Adventure | Thriller


Director: Michael Bay
Starring: Sean Connery Nicolas Cage, Ed Harris

A group of U.S. marines, under command of a renegade general, take over


Alcatraz and threat San Francisco Bay with biological weapons. A chemical
weapons specialist and the only man to have ever escaped from the Rock
are the only ones who can prevent chaos
Rio Grande 1950

Genre: Romance | Western


Director: John Ford
Starring: John Wayne Maureen O'Hara

Union officer Kirby Yorke is in charge of training of new recruits one of


which is his son whom he hasn't seen in 15 years. his mother shows up to
take him out of there.The decision to leave is left up to Trooper Yorke who
decides to stay and fight. Through it all Kirby and Kathleen fall back into
love and decide that it's time to give it another try. But Yorke faces his
toughest battle when his unorthodox plan to outwit the e Apaches leads
to possible court- martial. Locked in a bloody Indian war, he must fight to
redeem his honor and save the love and lives of his broken family
Recruit, The 2003

Genre: Action | Thriller


Director: Roger Donaldson
Starring: Al Pacino Colin Farrell

A brilliant young CIA trainee is asked by his mentor to help find a mole in
the Agency.
Rio Bravo 1959

Genre: Western | Romance | Drama


Director: Howard Hawks
Starring: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson

A small-town sheriff in the American West enlists the help of a cripple, a


drunk, and a young gunfighter
Red River 1948

Genre: Western | Action | Adventure


Director: Howard Hawks Arthur Rosson
Starring: John Wayne Montgomery Clift

Dunson is driving his cattle to Red River when his adopted son, Matthew,
turns against him
Revenge of the Nerds I, II, III, IV

Genre: Comedy | Thriller


Director: Jeff Kanew
Starring: Robert Carradine

At a big campus, a group of bullied outcasts and misfits resolve to fight


back for their peace and self respect
Ring, The 1927

Genre: Drama | Romance | Thriller


Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring Carl Brisson Lillian Hall-Davis

In the second feature, a boxer must fight an opponent who is in love with
his wife
Requiem 2000

Genre: Drama
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Starring: Ellen Burstyn Jared Leto

The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their
drug addictions begin spiraling out of control
Roman Holiday 1953

Genre: Drama | Romance


Director: William Wyler
Starring: Gregory Peck Audrey Hepburn

A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love
with an American newsman in Rome

S…..
Scalphunters, The 1968

Genre: Comedy | Western


Director: Sydney Pollack
Starring: Burt Lancaster Shelley Winters

Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a


rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the
renegades that killed them

Southland Tales (2006)

Director: Richard Kelly


Genre: Comedy | Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar
Awards: 2 nominations
Rated: Rated R for language, violence, sexual material and some drug
content

Plot: Southland Tales is an ensemble piece set in the futuristic landscape


of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic
and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken
with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star
developing her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner, a
Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy

The Seeker - The Dark is rising (2007)

Director: David L. Cunningham


Genre: Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Thriller
Starring: Frances Conroy, Wendy Crewson
Awards -
Rated: Rated PG for fantasy action and some scary images

Plot: A boy's life is turned upside down when he learns that he is the last
of a group of immortal warriors who have dedicated their lives to fighting
the forces of the dark
Shrek 2 (2004)

Director: Andrew Adamson


Genre: Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Starring: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy
Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 13 wins & 34 nominations
Rated: Rated PG for some crude humor, a brief substance reference and
some suggestive content

Plot: Princess Fiona's parents invite her and Shrek to dinner to celebrate
her marriage. If only they knew the newlyweds were both ogres

Sex and the City - The Complete Series

Director: Darren Star


Genre: Comedy | Romance
Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker Kim Cattrall Kristin Davis Cynthia Nixon
Awards: Won 8 Golden Globes. Another 36 wins & 125 nominations
Rated: R

Plot: Four beautiful female New Yorkers gossip about their sex-lives (or
lack thereof) and find new ways to deal with being a woman in the 90's

Sex and the City - The Movie (2008)

Director: Michael Patrick King


Genre: Comedy | Romance
Starring: Sarah Jessica Parker Kim Cattrall Kristin Davis Cynthia Nixon
Awards: 1 win & 10 nominations
Rated: Rated R for strong sexual content, graphic nudity and language.

Plot: A New York writer on sex and love is finally getting married to her
Mr. Big. But her three best girlfriends must console her after one of them
inadvertently leads Mr. Big to jilt her.

Seinfeld - The Complete Series

Director: Larry David Jerry Seinfeld


Genre: Comedy
Starring: Jerry Seinfeld Julia Louis-Dreyfus Michael Richards Jason
Alexander
Awards: Won 3 Golden Globes. Another 58 wins & 121 nominations

Plot: The continuing misadventures of neurotic New York stand-up


comedian Jerry Seinfeld and his equally neurotic New York friends.
Seven Pounds (2008)

Director: Gabriele Muccino


Genre: Drama
Starring: Will Smith Rosario Dawson
Awards: 2 wins & 5 nominations
Rated: Rated PG-13 for thematic material, some disturbing content and a
scene of sensuality.

Plot: An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary


journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers

Space Buddies (2009)

Director: Robert Vince


Genre: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
Starring: Diedrich Bader Josh Flitter

Plot: One Small Step For Dog. One Giant Leap For Dogkind

Shakespeare in Love (1999)

Director: John Madden


Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes
Awards: Won 7 Oscars. Another 43 wins & 60 nominations
Rated: Rated R for sexuality

Plot: A young Shakespeare, out of ideas and short of cash, meets his ideal
woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays

Searchers, The 1956

Genre: Adventure | Drama | Western


Director: John Ford
Starring: John Wayne

As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured
by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable

Shanghai Noon 2000

Genre: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Western


Director: Tom Dey
Starring: Jackie Chan Owen Wilson Lucy Liu

Jackie Chan plays a Chinese man who travels to the Wild West to rescue a
kidnapped princess. After teaming up with a train robber, the unlikely duo
takes on a Chinese traitor and his corrupt boss
Silence of the Lambs, The 1991

Genre: Crime | Thriller


Director: Jonathan Demme
Starring: Jodie Foster Anthony Hopkins

A young FBI cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer


to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims
Siege, The 1998

Genre: Action | Crime | Thriller


Director: Edward Zwick
Starring: Denzel Washington Annette Bening Bruce Willis

The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist leads to a wave of


terrorist attacks in New York that lead to the declaration of martial law
Specialist, The 1994

Genre: Action | Thriller


Director: Luis Llosa
Starring: Sylvester Stallone Sharon Stone

A woman entices a bomb expert she's involved with into destroying the
mafia that killed her family
She's all That 1999

Genre: Comedy | Romance


Director: Robert Iscove
Starring: Freddie Prinze Jr. Rachael Leigh Cook

A high school jock makes a bet that he can turn an unattractive girl into
the school's prom queen
Splendor in the Grass 1961

Genre: Drama | Romance


Director: Elia Kazan
Starring: Natalie Wood Warren Beatty

A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome


young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak
and madness
Spiderman Trilogy Spider man I /II/III

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Superherro


Director: Sam Raimi
Starring: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst

Spider man I - The story of how Peter Parker became Spider-Man."


Spider man II - As Peter struggles to juggle the dual responsibilities of his life
Spiderman III - Every hero has a choice to face the darkness or be consumed by it.
The greatest battle lies within.
Shrek I 2001

Genre: Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Romance


Director: Andrew Adamson Vicky Jenson
Starring: Mike Myers Eddie Murphy Cameron Diaz

An ogre, in order to regain his swamp, travels along with an annoying


donkey in order to bring a princess to a scheming lord.
Shane 1953

Genre: Drama | Western


Director: George Stevens
Starring: Alan Ladd Jean Arthur Van Heflin

A weary gunfighter attempts to settle down with a homestead family, but


a smoldering settler/rancher conflict forces him to act
Stagecoach 1939

Genre: Action | Western | Drama | Romance


Director: John Ford
Starring: John Wayne Claire Trevor

A stagecoach trip is complicated by the fact that Geronimo is on the


warpath in the area. The passengers on the coach include a a drunken
doctor, two women, a bank manager who has taken off with his client's
money, and the famous Ringo Kid, among others
Saved 2004

Genre: Comedy | Drama


Director: Brian Dannelly
Starring: Jena Malone Mandy Moore Macaulay Culkin

When a girl attending a Christian high school becomes pregnant, she finds
herself ostracized and demonized, as all of her former friends turn on her
Silverado 1985

Genre: Action | Western


Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Starring: Kevin Kline Scott Glenn

A misfit bunch of friends come together to right the injustices which exist
in a small town
Starship Troopers 1997

Genre: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller


Director: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Casper Van Dien Dina Meyer Denise Richards

Humans of a fascistic, militaristic future do battle with giant alien bugs in a


fight for survival.
Somethin's Gotta give 2003

Genre: Comedy | Romance


Director: Nancy Meyers
Starring: Jack Nicholson Diane Keaton Keanu Reeves

A swinger on the cusp of being a senior citizen with a taste for young
women falls in love with an accomplished woman closer to his age
Sixth Sense, The 1999

Genre: Drama | Thriller


Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Starring: Bruce Willis Haley Joel Osment

A boy who communicates with spirits that don't know they're dead seeks
the help of a disheartened child psychologist
Sentinel, The 1977

Genre: Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller


Director: Michael Winner
Starring: Chris Sarandon Cristina Raines

Not ready for marriage, a fashion model moves into an unbelievably nice
Brooklyn Heights apartment, where scary occurrences turn into a much
more frightening turn of events
Shawshank Redemption, The

Genre: Crime | Drama


Director: Frank Darabont
Starring: Tim Robbins Morgan Freeman

Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and
eventual redemption through acts of common decency
Saving Privat Ryan 1998

Genre: Action | Drama | War


Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Tom Hanks Tom Sizemorew

Following the Normandy Landings, a group of US soldiers go behind


enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed
Seabiscuit 2003

Genre: Drama | History | Sport


Director: Gary Ross
Starring: Jeff Bridges

True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories


lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their
nation
Step up 2006

Genre: Crime | Drama | Music | Romance


Director: Anne Fletcher
Starring: Channing Tatum Jenna Dewan

Tyler Gage is a rebel from the wrong side of Baltimore¹s tracks and the
only thing that stands between him and an unfulfilled life are his dreams
of one day making it out of there. Nora is a privileged ballet dancer
attending Baltimore¹s ultra-elite Maryland School of the Arts -- and the
only thing standing in the way of her obviously brilliant future is finding a
great dance partner for her senior showcase.

Sands Of Iwo Jima 1949

Genre: Action | Drama | War | Romance


Director: Allan Dwan
Starring: John Wayne

A dramatization of the World War II Battle of Iwo Jima

Serenity 2005

Genre: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller


Director: Joss Whedon
Starring: Nathan Fillion Gina Torres Alan Tudyk

The crew of the ship Serenity tries to evade an assassin sent to recapture
one of their number who is telepathic

Stealth 2005

Genre: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller


Director: Rob Cohen
Starring: Josh Lucas Jessica Biel Jamie Foxx

Deeply ensconced in a top-secret military program, three pilots struggle to


bring an artificial intelligence program under control ... before it initiates
the next world war

Straw Dogs 1971

Genre: Thriller
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Starring: Dustin Hoffman

A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face
increasingly vicious local harassment
Schindler's List 1993

Genre: Biography | Drama | History | War


Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Liam Neeson Ben Kingsley

Oskar Schindler uses Jews to start a factory in Poland during the war. He
witnesses the horrors endured by the Jews, and starts to save them
Sweet Home Alabama 2002

Genre: Comedy | Romance


Director: Andy Tennant
Starring: Reese Witherspoon Josh Lucas Patrick Dempsey

A young woman with a white trash background runs away from her
husband in Alabama and reinvents herself as a New York socialite
Stardust 2007

Genre: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Romance


Director: Matthew Vaughn
Starring: Claire Danes Michelle Pfeiffer

In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a


promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the
magical realm
Singin'in the rain 1952
Genre: Comedy | Musical | Romance
Director: Stanley Donen Gene Kelly
Starring: Gene Kelly Donald O'Connor Debbie Reynolds

A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to


sound
Stand and Deliver 1998

Genre: Drama
Director: Ramón Menéndez
Starring: Eliot Edward James Olmos

A dedicated teacher inspires his students to learn calculus to build up their


self-esteem and do so well that they are accused of cheating
Six Days Seven Nights 1998

Genre: Action | Adventure | Romance


Director: Ivan Reitman
Starring: Harrison Ford Anne Heche

Robin Monroe, a New York magazine editor, and the gruff pilot Quinn
Harris must put aside their mutual dislike if they are to survive after crash
landing on a deserted South Seas island
Spy game 2001

Genre: Action | Crime | Thriller


Director: Tony Scott
Starring: Robert Redford Brad Pitt Catherine McCormack

Retiring CIA agent Nathan Muir recalls his training of Tom Bishop while
working against agency politics to free him from his Chinese captors
Sweet nowember 2001

Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance


Director: Pat O'Connor
Starring: Keanu Reeves Charlize Theron

Nelson is a man devoted to his advertising career in San Francisco. One


day, while taking a driving test at the DMV, he meets Sara. She is very
different from the other women in his life. Nelson causes her to miss out
on taking the test and later that day she tracks him down. One thing leads
to another and Nelson ends up living with her through a November that
will change his life forever.
Saving Sarah Cain 2007

Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Landon Jr.
Starring: Lisa Pepper

When Sarah Cain, a self-involved big-city newspaper columnist, travels to


Pennsylvania for the funeral of her Amish sister, she soon discovers that
she is the legal guardian of her five Amish nieces and nephews. Rather
than choose to move to Lancaster County to finish raising them there
herself, or let them be separated by the foster care system, Sarah decides
to take them with her back to Portland where she believes she can make a
new life for them
Swordfish 2001

Genre: Action | Thriller | Crime


Director: Dominic Sena
Starring: John Travolta; Hugh JAckman; Halle Berry

A secretive renegade counter-terrorist co-opts the world's greatest hacker


(who is trying to stay clean) to steal billions in US Government dirty money
Sleepers 1996

Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller


Director: Barry Levinson
Starring: Kevin Bacon; Robert DeNiro; Dustin Hofman; Brad Pitt

After a prank goes disastrously wrong, a group of boys are sent to a


detention center where they are brutalized; over 10 years later, they get
their chance for revenge
Star Wars Trilogy

IV A New Hope 1977- Luke Skywalker leaves his home planet, teams up
with other rebels, and tries to save Princess Leia from the evil clutches of
Darth Vader
V The Empire Strikes Back 1980 - While Luke takes advanced Jedi training
from Yoda, his friends are relentlessly pursued by Darth Vader as part of
his plan to capture Luke
VI Return of the Jedi 1983 - After rescuing Han Solo from the palace of
Jabba the Hutt, the Rebels attempt to destroy the Second Death Star,
while Luke Skywalker tries to bring his father back to the Light Side of the
Force

Genre: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi


Director: George Lucas/ Irvin Kershner/ Richard Marquand
Starring: Mark Hamill Carrie Fisher Peter Mayhew

Scarface 1983

Genre: Crime | Drama


Director: Brian De Palma
Starring: Al Pacino

In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug empire


while succumbing to greed

Some like it Hot 1959

Genre: Action | Comedy | Crime | Drama | Family | Music | Romance


Director: Billy Wilder
Starring: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft, Pat O
Brien

When a pair of bumbling, out-of-work musicians accidentally witness the


St. Valentine's Day gangster murders, they disguise themselves as women
and join up with a travelling all-womens' band to escape the mobsters
who are after them.

Superbad 2007

Genre: Comedy
Director: Greg Mottola
Starring: Jonah Hill; Michael Cera

Two co-dependent high school seniors are forced to deal with separation
anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry
Scent of a woman 1992

Genre: Drama
Director: Martin Brest
Starring: Al Pacino Chris O'Donnell

A prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but
the job is not at all what he anticipated

Skin Game, The 1931

Genre: Drama
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: C.V. France Helen Haye

A rich family, the Hillcrests, is fighting against the speculator, Hornblower,


who sends away poor farmers to build factories on their lands. When Mrs.
Hillcrest finds out that Chloe Hornblower was a prostitute, she uses this
secret to blackmail the speculator and force him to stop his business.

T….
Terminal, The 2004

Genre: Drama | Romance | Comedy


Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring Tom Hanks Catherine Zeta-Jones

An eastern immigrant finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take
up temporary residence there

Twilight (2008)

Director: Catherine Hardwicke


Genre: Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Starring: : Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson
Awards: 22 wins & 7 nominations
Rated: Rated PG-13 for some violence and a scene of sensuality

Plot: A teenage girl risks everything when she falls in love with a vampire
There Will Be Blood (2008)

Director: Paul Thomas


Genre: Drama | Thriller
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Barry Del Sherman
Awards: Won 2 Oscars. Another 57 wins & 52 nominations
Rated: Rated R for some violence

Plot: A story about family, greed, religion, and oil, centered around a turn-
of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business
Taken (2008)

Director: Pierre Morel


Genre: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Starring: Liam Neeson, Famke Janssen
Awards: 1 win & 2 nominations

Plot: A former spy relies on his old skills to save his estranged daughter,
who has been forced into the slave trade.

Lara Croft (Tomb Raider/The Cradle of Life) - (2003)

Director: Jan de Bont, Simon West


Genre: Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Thriller
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Gerard Butler
Awards: 1 win & 2 nominations

Plot: Lara Croft is on a quest to save Pandoras box


Plot2: Lara Croft races against time and villains to recover powerful
ancient artifacts
The Terminator (1984)

Director: James Cameron


Genre: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton
Awards: 5 wins & 6 nominations

Plot: In the Year of Darkness, 2029, the rulers of this planet devised the
ultimate plan. They would reshape the Future by changing the Past. The
plan required something that felt no pity. No pain. No fear. Something
unstoppable. They created 'THE TERMINATOR'
Terminator 2 - Judgment Day (1991)

Director: James Cameron


Genre: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton
Awards: Won 4 Oscars. Another 20 wins & 18 nominations

Plot: The cyborg who once tried to kill Sarah Connor must now protect her
teenager son, John Connor, from an even more powerful and advanced
cyborg
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)

Director: Jonathan Mostow


Genre: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Kristanna Loken, Claire Danes
Awards: 1 win & 17 nominations

Plot: John Connor is now in his 20's, and a female terminator, called T-X or
Terminatrix, is after him. Another T-101 is sent back through time to
protect John once again on the verge of the rise of the machines
Transformers 2007

Genre: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller


Director: Michael Bay
Starring Shia LaBeouf Megan Fox

An ancient struggle re-erupts on Earth between two extraterrestrial clans,


the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, with a clue to the ultimate
power held by a young teenager

Truman Show, The 1998

Genre: Drama | Sci-Fi


Director: Peter Weir
Starring Jim Carrey Laura Linney

An insurance salesman/adjuster discovers his entire life is actually a TV


show
Three Amigos 1986

Genre: Adventure | Comedy | Western


Director: John Landis
Starring Steve Martin Chevy Chase Martin Short

Three unemployed actors accept an invitation to a Mexican village to


replay their bandit fighter roles, unaware that it is the real thing
Take the Lead 2006

Genre: Drama | Music


Director: Liz Friedlander
Starring Antonio Banderas Rob Brown

The real story of a dance teacher who believed in the talent of a group of
problem kids
Two of a kind 1983

Genre: Comedy | Romance | Fantasy


Director: John Herzfeld
Starring John Travolta Olivia Newton-John

God has had just about enough of the human's attitude so he will destroy
the planet very soon. It is up to a struggling inventor and a bank teller
True Lies 1994

Genre: Action | Comedy | Romance | Thriller


Director: James Cameron
Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger Jamie Lee Curtis

When a secret agent learns of his wife's extra-marital affair, he pursues


her and uses his intelligence resources in a job he kept secret from her
There's something about Mary 1998

Genre: Comedy | Romance


Director: Bobby Farrelly Peter Farrelly
Starring Cameron Diaz Matt Dillon Ben Stiller

A man gets a chance to meet up with his dream girl from highschool, even
though his date with her back then was a complete disaster
Three Kings 1999

Genre: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Drama | War


Director: David O. Russell
Starring George Clooney Mark Wahlberg Ice Cube

In the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War, 4 soldiers set out to steal gold
that was stolen from Kuwait, but they discover people who desperately
need their help
Tombstone 1993

Genre: Action | Drama | History | Romance | Western


Director: George P. Cosmatos
Starring Kurt Russell Val Kilmer

A successful lawman's plans to retire anonymously in Tombstone, Arizona,


are disrupted by the kind of outlaws he was famous for eliminating
Time to Kill, A 1996

Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller


Director: Joel Schumacher
Starring Matthew McConaughey Sandra Bullock Samuel L. Jackson

A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two men who
raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK
Troy 2004

Genre: Action | History | Romance


Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Starring Brad Pitt Orlando Bloom Eric Bana

An adaptation of Homer's great epic, the film follows the assault on Troy
by the united Greek forces and chronicles the fates of the men involved
Tuskegee Airmen, The 1995

Genre: Drama | History | War


Director: Robert Markowitz
Starring Laurence Fishburne

The true story of how a group of African American pilots overcame racist
opposition to become one of the finest US fighter groups in World War II
Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The 1948

Genre: Adventure | Drama | Western | Action


Director: John Huston
Starring Humphrey Bogart

Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in
1925, meet up with a grizzled prospector named Howard and decide to
join with him in search of gold in the wilds of central Mexico. Through
enormous difficulties, they eventually succeed in finding gold, but bandits,
the elements, and most especially greed threaten to turn their success
into disaster

To Have and Have not 1994

Genre: Adventure | Music | Romance | Thriller | War


Director: Howard Hawks
Starring Humphrey Bogart Lauren Bacall

Harry Morgan and his alcoholic sidekick, Eddie, are based on the island of
Martinique and crew a boat available for hire. However, since the second
world war is happening around them business is not what it could be and
after a customer who owes them a large sum fails to pay they are forced
against their better judgement to violate their preferred neutrality and to
take a job for the resistance transporting a fugitive on the run from the
Nazis to Martinique. Through all this runs the stormy relationship between
Morgan and Marie "Slim" Browning, a resistance sympathizer and the
sassy singer in the club where Morgan spends most of his days

Titanic 1997

Genre: Drama | Romance


Director: James Cameron
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio Kate Winslet

Fictional romantic tale of a rich girl and poor boy who meet on the ill-fated
voyage of the 'unsinkable' ship

Thin red Line, The 1998

Genre: Action | Drama | War


Director: Terrence Malick
Starring Sean Penn Adrien Brody George Clooney John Cusack

Director Terrence Malick's adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical


1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second
World War
Twins 1988

Genre: Comedy
Director: Ivan Reitman
Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger Danny DeVito

A physically perfect, but innocent, man goes in search of his twin brother,
who is a short small-time crook

Terms and Endeanment 1983

Genre: Romance | Comedy | Drama


Director: James L. Brooks
Starring Shirley MacLaine Debra Winger Jack Nicholson

Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different
drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult
and loving she can be.
Trouble with Angels, The 1966

Genre: Comedy
Director: Ida Lupino
Starring Rosalind Russell Hayley Mills

Two high-spirited young students at St. Francis Academy For Girls keep
things hopping for the challenged Mother Superior and her staff of
bewildered Sisters
Traffic 2000

Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller


Director: Steven Soderbergh
Starring Benicio Del Toro Jacob Vargas

A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's


escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is
an addict

Three o'clock High 1987

Genre: Comedy | Fantasy


Director: Phil Joanou
Starring Casey Siemaszko Richard Tyson

A high school nerd, Jerry Mitchell is assigned to write a piece for the
school paper about new boy Buddy Revell, who is rumored to be a
psychopathic nutcase. When Jerry accidentally touches Buddy, he says
that they must fight in the parking lot at 3pm. Jerry will just about do
anything to avoid the confrontation
Truth About Cats and Dogs, The

Genre: Comedy | Romance


Director: Michael Lehmann
Starring Uma Thurman Janeane Garofalo

A successful veternarian & radio show host with low self-esteem asks her
model friend to impersonate her when a handsome man wants to see her.
Ten, The 2007

Genre: Comedy
Director: David Wain
Starring : Paul Rudd; Adam Brody

Ten stories, each inspired by one of the ten commandments.

Q
Quantum of Solace (2008)
Director: Marc Forster
Genre: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Starring: Daniel Craig, Jesper Christensen
Awards: Nominated for 2 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 4 wins & 20
nominations
Rated: PG-13

Plot: Seeking revenge for the death of his love, secret agent James Bond
sets out to stop an environmentalist from taking control of a country's
valuable resource
U…..
Unforgiven 1992

Genre: Crime | Drama | Western


Director: Clint Eastwood
Starring : Clint Eastwood Gene Hackman Morgan Freeman

Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last
job, with the help of his old partner and a young man.
Usual Suspects 1995

Genre: Crime | Mystery | Thriller


Director: Bryan Singer
Starring : Stephen Baldwin Gabriel Byrne Benicio Del Toro Kevin Pollak

A boat has been destroyed, criminals are dead, and the key to this mystery
lies with the only survivor and his twisted, convoluted story beginning with
five career crooks in a seemingly random police lineup
V……
Volver 2006

Genre: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Mystery


Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Starring : Penelope Cruz

After her death, a mother returns to her home town in order to fix the
situations she couldn't resolve during her life
Valkyrie (2008)
Director: Bryan Singer
Genre: Drama | History | Thriller | War
Starring: Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh
Awards: 1 win & 8 nominations
Rated: PG-13

Plot: Based on actual events, a plot to assassinate Hitler is unfurled during


the height of WWII

Verdict, The 1982

Genre: Drama
Director: Sidney Lumet
Starring : Paul Newman

A lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a
medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling

V for Vendetta 2005

Genre: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller


Director: James McTeigue
Starring : Natalie Portman; Hugo Weaving

A shadowy freedom fighter known only as "V" uses terrorist tactics to fight
against his totalitarian society. Upon rescuing a girl from the secret police,
he also finds his best chance at having an ally

W….
What’s Cooking? 2000

Genre: Drama | Comedy


Director: Gurinder Chadha
Starring: Joan Chen, Julianna Margulies, Mercedes Ruehl, Kyra Sedgwick

Four households celebrate Thanksgiving amidst family tensions. Around


each table, things come to a head. A gun, an affair, a boyfriend, and a
pregnancy precipitate crises forcing each family to find its center
Wall-E (2008)
Director: Andrew Stanton
Genre: Animation | Adventure | Family | Romance
Starring: Ben Burtt, Jeff Garlin
Awards: Won Oscar. Another 44 wins & 40 nominations

Plot: In the distant future, a small waste collecting robot inadvertently


embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of
mankind

What Just Happened? (2008)


Director: Barry Levinson
Genre: Comedy-drama, Satire
Starring: Robert De Niro, Stanley Tucci
Awards -
Rated: Rated R for language, some violent images, sexual content and
some drug material.

Plot: Two weeks in the life of a fading Hollywood producer who's having a
rough time trying to get his new picture made.

The Women (2008)


Director: Diane English
Genre: Comedy | Drama
Starring: Meg Ryan, Eva Mendes
Awards 2 nominations
Rated: PG-13 for sex-related material, language, some drug use and brief
smoking

Plot: A wealthy New Yorker leaves her cheating husband and bonds with
other society women at a resort.

Wanted (2008)
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Genre: Action | Crime | Thriller
Starring: Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy
Awards: Nominated for 2 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 11 nominations
Rated: R for strong bloody violence throughout, pervasive language and
some sexuality.

Plot: 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.
War of the Worlds 2005

Genre: Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Thriller


Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Tom Cruise

As Earth is invaded by alien tripod fighting machines, one family fights for
survival.
Wind Talkers 2002

Genre: Action | History | Romance | War


Director: John Woo
Starring: Nicolas Cage

Two U.S. Marines in WWII are assigned to protect Navajo Marines who
use their native language as an unbreakable radio cipher
Whole nine Yards, The 2000

Genre: Comedy | Crime


Director: Jonathan Lynn
Starring: Bruce Willis, Mathew Perry

Nick is a struggling dentist in Canada. A new neighbor moves in, and he


discovers that it is Jimmy "The Tulip" Teduski. His wife convinces him to go
to Chicago and inform the mob boss who wants Jimmy dead
Wild at heart 1990

Genre: Crime | Drama | Romance | Thriller


Director: David Lynch
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Laura Dern

Lula's psychopathic mother goes crazy at the thought of Lula being with
Sailor, who just got free from jail. Ignoring Sailor's probation, they set out
for California. However their mother hires a killer to hunt down Sailor
When we were colored 1995

Genre: Drama | Romance


Director: Tim Reid
Starring: Al Freedman Jr, Phylicia Rashad, Leon

A narrator tells the story of his childhood years in a tightly knit Afro-
American community in the deep south under racial segregation
What’s the Worst that could Happen? 2001

Genre: Comedy | Crime


Director: Sam Weisman
Starring: Martin Lawrence; Danny DeVito

A rich man catches a thief burglarizing his home and steals the thief's lucky
ring, who then tries to get it back
Wyatt Earp 1994

Genre: Action | Adventure | Biography | Romance | Western


Director: Lawrence Kasdan
Starring:Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman

Wyatt Earp is a movie about a man and his family. More of a documentary
than Hollywood tinsel, this movie shows us the good times and the bad
times of one of the West's greatest heros
Weather man, The 2005

Genre: Comedy | Drama


Director: Gore Verbinski
Starring: Nicolas Cage

A Chicago weather man, separated from his wife and children, debates
whether professional and personal success are mutually exclusive
Willow 1988

Genre: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Romance


Director: Ron Howard
Starring: Val kilmer, Joanne Whalley

A reluctant dwarf must play a critical role in protecting a special baby from
an evil queen.
Wild things 1998

Genre: Crime | Mystery | Thriller


Director: John McNaughton
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Matt Deillon, Neve Campbell

In south Florida, a high school counselor is accused of rape by a


manipulative rich girl and her trailer trash classmate. The cop on the case
begins to suspect a conspiracy and dives into an elaborate and devious
web of greed and betrayal to find the truth

Wicker Park 2004

Genre: Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller


Director: Paul McGuigan
Starring: Josh Hartnett

A young Chicago advertizing executive (Hartnett) believes a woman he


sees in a cafe is his long-lost love. His conviction leads to obsession, as he
puts his life on hold to trail her
What’s love got to do with it 1993

Genre: Biography | Drama | Music


Director: Brian Gibson
Starring: Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne
A film about the singer Tina Turner and how she rose to stardom with her
abusive husband Ike Turner and how she gained the courage to break free
Working Girl 1988

Genre: Comedy | Romance | Drama


Director: Mike Nichols
Starring: Harrison Ford, Melanie Griffith, Sigourney Weaver

When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to


steal it back by pretending she has her boss's job.
White Squall 1996

Genre: Adventure | Drama


Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Jeff Bridges

"White Squall" is the true story of a ship school called the "Albatross." The
school is run by the captain, Christopher "Skipper" Sheldon and his wife,
Dr. Alice Sheldon. In the of 1960, the couple took aboard eight teenage
boys from around the country for eight months of learning how to sail, be
a crew, and respect one another. the crew goes through hard times and
more laid-back times, but they must come together when a freak storm
gets them in trouble in the middle of the ocean
Walk The Line 2005

Genre: Biography | Drama | Music | Romance


Director: James Mangold
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon

A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days
on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in
Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and
Carl Perkins.
We’re no angels 1955

Genre: Comedy
Director: Michael Curtiz
Starring; Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov

In Christmas, three prisoners - Joseph, Albert and Jules - escape from the
Devil Island to a French small coastal town.
We were Soldiers 2002

Genre: Action | History | War


Director: Randall Wallace
Starring: Mel Gibson

The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam
War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.
Waitress 2007

Genre: Comedy | Drama | Romance


Director: Adrienne Shelly
Starring: Keri Russell

Jenna is a pregnant, unhappily married waitress in the deep south. She


meets a newcomer to her town and falls into an unlikely relationship as a
last attempt at happiness.
Wall Street 1987

Genre: Crime | Drama


Director: Oliver Stone
Starring: Michael Douglas , Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah

A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the


top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a
ruthless and greedy corporate raider whom takes the youth under his
wing
Wizard of OZ, The

Genre: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Musical


Director: Victor Fleming
Starring: Judy Garland

Dorothy Gale is swept away to a magical land in a tornado and embarks on


a quest to see the Wizard who can help her return home
Wild Hogs 2007

Genre: Action | Adventure | Comedy


Director: Walt Becker
Starring: Tim Allen, John Travolta, Martin Lawrence, W.H. Macy

A group of suburban biker wannabes looking for adventure hit the open
road, but get more than they bargained for when they encounter a New
Mexico gang called the Del Fuegos
Wild Bunch, The 1969
Genre: Action | Western
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Starring: William Holden

An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional"
American West is disappearing around them
Wild wild west 1999
Genre: Action | Western | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Starring: Will Smith, Kevin kline, Salma Hayek

The two best hired guns in the West must save President Grant from the
clutches of a 19th century inventor-villain
Walk to Remember, A 2002

Genre: Drama | Romance


Director: Adam Shankman
Starring: Shane West, Mandy Moore

The story of two North Carolina teens, Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan,
who are thrown together after Landon gets into trouble and is made to do
community service.

X
X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

Director: Gavin Hood


Genre: Action | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber
Awards: 2 wins & 6 nominations
Rated: PG-13 for intense sequences of action and violence, and some
partial nudity

Plot: Colonel, Stryker, recruits Logan and Victor, and other mutants as
commandos. Logan quits and becomes a logger, falling in love with a local
teacher. When Logan refuses to rejoin Stryker's crew, the colonel sends
the murderous Victor.

X-Men Trilogy (X-Men/ X2 - X-Men United/ X-Men - The Last


Stand) (2003)

Director: Bryan Singer


Genre: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry, James
Marsden
Awards: 11 wins & 23 nominations
Rated: Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action violence

Plot: Two mutants come to a private academy for mutants whose resident
superhero team must oppose a powerful mutant terrorist organization

xXx - 2002

Genre: Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller


Director: Rob Cohen
Starring : Vin Diesel

Xander Cage is standard adrenaline junkie with no fear. When the US


Government "recruits" him to go on a mission, he's not exactly thrilled. His
mission: to gather information on an organization that may just be
planning the destruction of the world, led by the nihilistic Yorgi
Y
Yes Man (2008)

Director: Peyton Reed


Genre: Comedy | Romance
Starring: Jim Carrey, Zooey Deschanel
Awards: 2 wins & 7 nominations

Plot: Carl Allen is at a standstill. No future... Until the day he enrolls into a
personal development program based on a very simple idea: say yes to
everything!

You got Served 2004

Genre: Comedy | Drama | Music | Sport


Director: Chris Stokes
Starring : Jennifer Freeman J-Boog Lil' Fizz Raz B

In order to achieve their dream of opening a recording studio, two friends


(Omarion, Houston) must first win their city's dance contest -- a fierce
competition that pits them against a group of tough street dancers

Young & Innocent 1937

Genre: Crime | Thriller


Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Nova Pilbeam Percy Marmont Edward Rigby

A film actress is murdered by her estranged husband who is jealous of all her
young boyfriends. The next day, writer Robert Tisdall (who happens to be one
such boyfriend) discovers her body on the beach. He runs to call the police;
however, two witnesses think that he is the escaping murderer. Robert is
arrested, but owing to a mix up at the courthouse, he escapes and goes on the
run with a police constable's daughter Erica, determined to prove his innocence
.
Z
Zodiac (2007)

Director: David Fincher


Genre: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr.
Awards: 25 nominations

Plot: A San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed


with tracking down the Zodiac killer

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