8.5 /10
Young lion prince Simba, eager to one day become king of the Pride Lands, grows up under the watchful eye of his father Mufasa; all the while his villainous uncle Scar conspires to take the throne for himself. Amid betrayal and tragedy, Simba must confront his past and find his rightful place in the Circle of Life.
Run Time: 1hr 29` . MMPA: G . Release: 15 Jun 1994
Director: Rick Moore , Brenda Chapman , Roger Allers
Producer: Brian Chavanne , Loni Beckner-Black , Michael Meagher
Stars: Matthew Broderick , James Earl Jones , Jeremy Irons , Moira Kelly , Nathan Lane , Ernie Sabella
8.5 /10
Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throughout L.A. and his actions greatly influenced Danny. Reformed and fresh out of prison, Derek severs contact with the gang and becomes determined to keep Danny from going down the same violent path as he did.
Run Time: 1hr 59` . MMPA: R . Release: 01 Jul 1998
Director: Ira Hurvitz , David Larson , Mark Cotone
Producer: Timothy P. Tundel , Natalie Trussell , Steve Tisch
Stars: Edward Norton , Edward Furlong , Beverly D'Angelo , Jennifer Lien , Ethan Suplee , Fairuza Balk
8.5 /10
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
Run Time: 2hr 45` . MMPA: R . Release: 25 Dec 2012
Director: Quentin Tarantino , Greg Hale , Martin Kitrosser
Producer: Marc A. Hammer , Victoria Thomas , Shannon McIntosh
Stars: Jamie Foxx , Christoph Waltz , Leonardo DiCaprio , Kerry Washington , Samuel L. Jackson , Walton Goggins
8.5 /10
Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess.
Run Time: 1hr 46` . MMPA: R . Release: 19 Jul 1995
Director: Bryan Singer , Alan Steinman , Kenneth Kokin
Producer: Art Horan , Francine Maisler , Judie Fixler
Stars: Gabriel Byrne , Stephen Baldwin , Kevin Spacey , Chazz Palminteri , Kevin Pollak , Pete Postlethwaite
8.5 /10
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
Run Time: 2hr 10` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 17 Oct 2006
Director: Christopher Nolan , Jody Spilkoman , Alan B. Curtiss
Producer: Barbara Harris , Christopher Nolan , Charles J.D. Schlissel
Stars: Christian Bale , Hugh Jackman , Michael Caine , Scarlett Johansson , Rebecca Hall , David Bowie
8.5 /10
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.
Run Time: 2hr 30` . MMPA: R . Release: 17 Sep 2002
Director: Zbigniew Gruz , Caroline Veyssière , Roman Polanski
Producer: Brendan Donnison , Sonja Sommer , Heta Mantscheff
Stars: Adrien Brody , Thomas Kretschmann , Frank Finlay , Maureen Lipman , Emilia Fox , Ed Stoppard
8.5 /10
On the eve of the Second World War, two of the greatest minds of the twentieth century, C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud converge for their own personal battle over the existence of God. The film interweaves the lives of Freud and Lewis, past, present, and through fantasy, bursting from the confines of Freud’s study on a dynamic journey.
Run Time: 1hr 49` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 22 Dec 2023
Director: Matt Brown
Producer: Lillie Jeffrey , Alan Greisman , Meg Thomson
Stars: Anthony Hopkins , Matthew Goode , Liv Lisa Fries , Jodi Balfour , Stephen Campbell Moore , Jeremy Northam
8.5 /10
After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his devious son takes power and demotes Maximus, one of Rome's most capable generals who Marcus preferred. Eventually, Maximus is forced to become a gladiator and battle to the death against other men for the amusement of paying audiences.
Run Time: 2hr 35` . MMPA: R / NR . Release: 04 May 2000
Director: Ridley Scott , Ali Cherkaoui , Adam Somner
Producer: Mike Higgins , Ridley Scott , Ty Warren
Stars: Russell Crowe , Joaquin Phoenix , Connie Nielsen , Oliver Reed , Richard Harris , Derek Jacobi
8.4 /10
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
Run Time: 2hr 2` . MMPA: R . Release: 01 Oct 2019
Director: Renee Burke , Jeremy Marks , Todd Phillips
Producer: Jason Cloth , Ben Gatollari , Courtney Battles
Stars: Joaquin Phoenix , Robert De Niro , Zazie Beetz , Frances Conroy , Brett Cullen , Shea Whigham
8.4 /10
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
Run Time: 2hr 33` . MMPA: R . Release: 02 Aug 2009
Director: Carlos Fidel , Quentin Tarantino , Martin Kitrosser
Producer: Erica Steinberg , Olivier Carbone , Charlie Woebcken
Stars: Brad Pitt , Mélanie Laurent , Christoph Waltz , Eli Roth , Michael Fassbender , Diane Kruger
8.4 /10
An ailing barrister agrees to defend a man in a sensational murder trial where the unconvincing testimony of the defendant's wife becomes a subject of confusion.
Run Time: 1hr 56` . MMPA: NR . Release: 17 Dec 1957
Director: Emmett Emerson , Billy Wilder , Frank Losee
Producer: William Maybery , Ben Hersh , Edward Small
Stars: Charles Laughton , Tyrone Power , Marlene Dietrich , Elsa Lanchester , John Williams , Ian Wolfe
8.4 /10
Following the death of District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman assumes responsibility for Dent's crimes to protect the late attorney's reputation and is subsequently hunted by the Gotham City Police Department. Eight years later, Batman encounters the mysterious Selina Kyle and the villainous Bane, a new terrorist leader who overwhelms Gotham's finest. The Dark Knight resurfaces to protect a city that has branded him an enemy.
Run Time: 2hr 45` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 17 Jul 2012
Director: Brandon Lambdin , Manjari Makijany , Sid Karne
Producer: Jordan Goldberg , Mark Scoon , Kate Kelly
Stars: Christian Bale , Michael Caine , Gary Oldman , Anne Hathaway , Tom Hardy , Marion Cotillard
8.4 /10
Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the hedonistic and remarkably talented young Viennese composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Run Time: 2hr 40` . MMPA: R . Release: 19 Sep 1984
Director: Miloš Forman , Věra Vláčilová , Jan Kubišta
Producer: Nancy Eichler , Letizia Bucci-Casari , Bonnie Timmermann
Stars: F. Murray Abraham , Tom Hulce , Elizabeth Berridge , Roy Dotrice , Simon Callow , Christine Ebersole
8.4 /10
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
Run Time: 2hr 27` . MMPA: R . Release: 19 May 1979
Director: Francis Ford Coppola , Tony Brandt , Jerry Ziesmer
Producer: Vic Ramos , Francis Ford Coppola , Eddie Romero
Stars: Martin Sheen , Frederic Forrest , Albert Hall , Laurence Fishburne , Sam Bottoms , Marlon Brando
8.3 /10
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
Run Time: 1hr 57` . MMPA: R . Release: 26 Jun 1987
Director: Stanley Kubrick , Ken Shane , Terry Needham
Producer: Philip Kohler , Stanley Kubrick , Paul Hitchcock
Stars: Matthew Modine , Adam Baldwin , Vincent D'Onofrio , R. Lee Ermey , Dorian Harewood , Arliss Howard
8.3 /10
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.
Run Time: 3hr 11` . MMPA: NR . Release: 18 Dec 1961
Director: Stanley Kramer , Marshall Schlom , Ivan Volkman
Producer: Stanley Kramer , Clem Beauchamp , Philip Langner
Stars: Spencer Tracy , Burt Lancaster , Richard Widmark , Marlene Dietrich , Maximilian Schell , Judy Garland
8.3 /10
A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster.
Run Time: 2hr 9` . MMPA: PG . Release: 25 Dec 1973
Director: Charles Dismukes , George Roy Hill , Ray Gosnell Jr.
Producer: Robert J. LaSanka , Ernest B. Wehmeyer , Tony Bill
Stars: Paul Newman , Robert Redford , Robert Shaw , Charles Durning , Ray Walston , Eileen Brennan
8.3 /10
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
Run Time: 2hr 2` . MMPA: R . Release: 15 Sep 1999
Director: Chris Edmonds , Tony Adler , Rosemary C. Cremona
Producer: Stan Wlodkowski , Shannon Speaker , Christine Bonnem
Stars: Kevin Spacey , Annette Bening , Thora Birch , Wes Bentley , Mena Suvari , Chris Cooper
8.3 /10
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.
Run Time: 2hr 11` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 21 May 2022
Director: Andrew Stahl , Robert E. Kay , Scott Robertson
Producer: David Ellison , Christie Kwan , Morgan Patterson
Stars: Tom Cruise , Miles Teller , Jennifer Connelly , Jon Hamm , Glen Powell , Ed Harris
8.3 /10
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and stereotyping.
Run Time: 2hr 9` . MMPA: NR . Release: 20 Dec 1962
Director: Joseph E. Kenney , Robert Mulligan , Meta Rebner
Producer: Dick Gallegly , Boaty Boatwright , Harper Lee
Stars: Gregory Peck , Mary Badham , Phillip Alford , John Megna , Frank Overton , Brock Peters
