7 /10
Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspirations. He wants to be a DJ and happens to have a gig the night of the robbery. Unfortunately for him, Bishop isn't willing to take no for answer in a game where everything's for keeps.
Run Time: 1hr 36` . MMPA: R . Release: 17 Jan 1992
Director: Shari L. Carpenter , Dale Pierce-Johnson , Randy Fletcher
Producer: Fred Styles , David Heyman , Elloise Dover
Stars: Omar Epps , Tupac Shakur , Khalil Kain , Jermaine Hopkins , Samuel L. Jackson , Cindy Herron
7 /10
At the opening party of a colossal—but poorly constructed—skyscraper, a massive fire breaks out, threatening to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
Run Time: 2hr 45` . MMPA: PG . Release: 14 Dec 1974
Director: Irwin Allen , Phil Ball , Marie Kenney
Producer: Art Volpert , Norman A. Cook , Sidney Marshall
Stars: Steve McQueen , Paul Newman , William Holden , Faye Dunaway , Fred Astaire , Susan Blakely
7 /10
Samantha Crawford is living a storybook life: she’s happily married, she lives on a ranch where she keeps her beloved horse, and the stories she’s told and illustrated since childhood have become published books. When her husband Billy is killed in a senseless act of violence, Sam loses her faith and her will to live. But a death-defying encounter with two children leads to a reunion with Joe, her oldest friend. As Sam watches “Papa” Joe care for and love the kids in his under-resourced neighborhood, she begins to realize that no matter life’s circumstances, the love of God is always reaching out to us.
Run Time: 1hr 32` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 21 Sep 2012
Director: Brent McCorkle
Producer: Jason Atkins , Meg Morman , J. Wesley Legg
Stars: Lynn Collins , Michael Ealy , Bruce McGill , Kwesi Boakye , Diego Klattenhoff , Cedric Pendleton
7 /10
A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.
Run Time: 2hr 4` . MMPA: R . Release: 31 Dec 2014
Director: J.C. Chandor , Mirashyam Blakeslee , Jessica Lichtner
Producer: Tiffany Little Canfield , J.C. Chandor , Kerry Orent
Stars: Oscar Isaac , Jessica Chastain , David Oyelowo , Alessandro Nivola , Elyes Gabel , Albert Brooks
7 /10
Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he’s long admired. Yet something ugly is taking place behind the town’s peaceful facade. And when Freddy uncovers a massive, deadly conspiracy among these local residents, he is forced to take action and make a dangerous choice between protecting his idols and upholding the law.
Run Time: 1hr 44` . MMPA: R / NR . Release: 15 Aug 1997
Director: Christopher Swartout , Marlene Arvan , Amy Lynn
Producer: Meryl Poster , Craig Markey , Bob Weinstein
Stars: Sylvester Stallone , Harvey Keitel , Ray Liotta , Robert De Niro , Peter Berg , Janeane Garofalo
7 /10
The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.
Run Time: 2hr 9` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 23 Sep 1988
Director: Mary Holdsworth , Tim Lewis , Michael Apted
Producer: Christine Forsyth-Peters , Terence A. Clegg , Peter Guber
Stars: Sigourney Weaver , Bryan Brown , Julie Harris , John Omirah Miluwi , Iain Cuthbertson , Constantin Alexandrov
7 /10
A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager.
Run Time: 1hr 48` . MMPA: PG . Release: 04 Oct 1996
Director: Katterli Frauenfelder , Mark Cotone , Anne Rapp
Producer: Christa Vausbinder , Bill Dance , Edward Saxon
Stars: Tom Hanks , Tom Everett Scott , Liv Tyler , Johnathon Schaech , Steve Zahn , Ethan Embry
7 /10
In the panicky, uncertain hours before his wedding, a groom with prenuptial jitters and his two best friends reminisce about growing up together in the middle-class African-American neighborhood of Inglewood, California. Flashing back to the twenty-something trio's childhood exploits, the memories capture the mood and nostalgia of the '80s era.
Run Time: 1hr 46` . MMPA: R . Release: 16 Jul 1999
Director: Rick Famuyiwa
Producer: Emily Schweber , Albert Berger , David Gale
Stars: Omar Epps , Richard T. Jones , Taye Diggs , Sanaa Lathan , LisaRaye McCoy , De'Aundre Bonds
7 /10
"Citizen Ruth" is the story of Ruth Stoops, a woman who nobody even noticed -- until she got pregnant. Now, everyone wants a piece of her. The film is a comedy about one woman caught in the ultimate tug-of-war: a clash of wild, noisy, ridiculous people that rapidly dissolves into a media circus.
Run Time: 1hr 44` . MMPA: R . Release: 21 Nov 1996
Director: Randa Rai Slack , Alexander Payne , Basti Van Der Woude
Producer: Lisa Beach , Cary Woods , Cathy Konrad
Stars: Laura Dern , Swoosie Kurtz , Kurtwood Smith , Mary Kay Place , Kelly Preston , M.C. Gainey
7 /10
A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.
Run Time: 2hr 43` . MMPA: R . Release: 30 Sep 2016
Director: Andrea Arnold , Nick Grau
Producer: Pouya Shahbazian , Allison Rose Carter , Lucas Ochoa
Stars: Sasha Lane , Shia LaBeouf , Riley Keough , McCaul Lombardi , Arielle Holmes , Crystal Ice
7 /10
Verona and Burt have moved to Colorado to be close to Burt's parents but, with Verona expecting their first child, Burt's parents inexplicably decide to move to Belgium, now leaving them in a place they hate and without a support structure in place. They set off on a whirlwind tour of of disparate locations where they have friends or relatives, sampling not only different cities and climates but also different families. Along the way they realize that the journey is less about discovering where they want to live and more about figuring out what type of parents they want to be.
Run Time: 1hr 38` . MMPA: R . Release: 05 Jun 2009
Director: Sam Mendes , Jayne-Ann Tenggren
Producer: Meghan Rafferty , Ellen Lewis , Geoffrey Miclat
Stars: John Krasinski , Maya Rudolph , Carmen Ejogo , Catherine O'Hara , Jeff Daniels , Allison Janney
7 /10
Millionaire conservative Bob Roberts launches an insurgent campaign against incumbent senator Brickley Paiste, firing up crowds at his rallies by singing '60s-style acoustic folk songs with lyrics espousing far-right conservative social and economic views.
Run Time: 1hr 42` . MMPA: R . Release: 04 Sep 1992
Director: Maria Melograne , Steve Day , Tim Robbins
Producer: Ronna B. Wallace , V. Scott Balcerek , Linda Corrolla
Stars: Tim Robbins , Giancarlo Esposito , Ray Wise , Alan Rickman , Gore Vidal , Brian Murray
7 /10
A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from.
Run Time: 1hr 46` . MMPA: R . Release: 24 Jun 2015
Director: Florian Gallenberger , Eileen Byrne
Producer: Benjamin Herrmann , Nicolas Steil , John Hubbard
Stars: Emma Watson , Daniel Brühl , Michael Nyqvist , Richenda Carey , Vicky Krieps , Jeanne Werner
7 /10
This film is a glimpse into the life, love and the unconquerable spirit of the legendary Bruce Lee. From a childhood of rigorous martial arts training, Lee realizes his dream of opening his own kung-fu school in America. Before long, he is discovered by a Hollywood producer and begins a meteoric rise to fame and an all too short reign as one the most charismatic action heroes in cinema history.
Run Time: 1hr 59` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 07 May 1993
Director: Fran Joseph , Deirdre Horgan , Rob Cohen
Producer: Rick Nathanson , Wan Allen , John Badham
Stars: Jason Scott Lee , Lauren Holly , Robert Wagner , Michael Learned , Nancy Kwan , Kay Tong Lim
7 /10
A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.
Run Time: 1hr 56` . MMPA: R . Release: 01 Oct 2015
Director: Gabriele Muccino
Producer: Dominic Rustam , Craig J. Flores , Richard Middleton
Stars: Amanda Seyfried , Russell Crowe , Aaron Paul , Diane Kruger , Jane Fonda , Bruce Greenwood
7 /10
A bigoted junkie cop suffering from borderline personality disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way in a bid to secure promotion.
Run Time: 1hr 37` . MMPA: R . Release: 23 Sep 2013
Director: Jon S. Baird , Mark Murdoch , David Gilchrist
Producer: Jens Meurer , Christian Angermayer , James McAvoy
Stars: James McAvoy , Jamie Bell , Eddie Marsan , Imogen Poots , Joanne Froggatt , Jim Broadbent
7 /10
An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to uncover the nefarious evildoer behind the strangling of a notorious stage star.
Run Time: 1hr 57` . MMPA: PG . Release: 05 Mar 1982
Director: Derek Cracknell , Andy Armstrong , Guy Hamilton
Producer: Jim Brennan , John Brabourne , Dyson Lovell
Stars: Peter Ustinov , Jane Birkin , Nicholas Clay , Maggie Smith , Diana Rigg , Denis Quilley
7 /10
The government gets wind of a plot to destroy America involving a trio of nuclear weapons for which the whereabouts are unknown. It's up to a seasoned interrogator and an FBI agent to find out exactly where the nukes are.
Run Time: 1hr 37` . MMPA: R . Release: 14 Jun 2010
Director: Gregor Jordan , Tracy Scott
Producer: Vince Cirrincione , Jennifer Cram , Samson Mucke
Stars: Samuel L. Jackson , Carrie-Anne Moss , Michael Sheen , Stephen Root , Lora Kojovic , Martin Donovan
7 /10
A 10-year-old child prodigy cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country on board a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.
Run Time: 1hr 45` . MMPA: PG . Release: 16 Oct 2013
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Producer: Suzanne Girard , Gilles Legrand , Francis Boespflug
Stars: Kyle Catlett , Helena Bonham Carter , Judy Davis , Callum Keith Rennie , Niamh Wilson , Jakob Davies
7 /10
An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.
Run Time: 2hr 30` . MMPA: R . Release: 02 Dec 2021
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Producer: Ashley Gray , Dann Fink , Rachel Musson
Stars: Bradley Cooper , Rooney Mara , Cate Blanchett , Toni Collette , Richard Jenkins , Willem Dafoe
