7 /10
A compelling drama that explores the different meanings of being a parent through the gritty, realistic lives of a struggling family, and a privileged family. Their lives intersect, intertwine and collide, all for the love of a little boy. This film bravely exposes the humanity in each character reminding us that we each have the potential to be the best and worst versions of ourselves at any time.
Run Time: 1hr 40` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 05 Feb 2009
Director: Jon Gunn
Producer:
Stars: Mira Sorvino , Barry Pepper , Cole Hauser , Kate Levering , Maxwell Perry Cotton , L. Scott Caldwell
7 /10
The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny lifeboat.
Run Time: 2hr 12` . MMPA: PG . Release: 04 May 1984
Director: Michael Stevenson , David Tringham , Roger Donaldson
Producer: Craig Barwick , David Middlemas , Arnold Ross
Stars: Mel Gibson , Anthony Hopkins , Laurence Olivier , Edward Fox , Daniel Day-Lewis , Bernard Hill
7 /10
The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of assisting in the extermination of fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months of life.
Run Time: 1hr 48` . MMPA: . Release: 13 Sep 2001
Director: Franklin A. Vallette , Milos Milicevic , Tim Blake Nelson
Producer: Danny Dimbort , Will Cantler , Avi Lerner
Stars: David Arquette , Velizar Binev , Michael Stuhlbarg , Daniel Benzali , Allan Corduner , Steve Buscemi
7 /10
In a last-ditch effort to save his career, sports agent JB Bernstein dreams up a wild game plan to find Major League Baseball’s next great pitcher from a pool of cricket players in India. He soon discovers two young men who can throw a fastball but know nothing about the game of baseball. Or America. It’s an incredible and touching journey that will change them all — especially JB, who learns valuable lessons about teamwork, commitment and family.
Run Time: 2hr 4` . MMPA: PG . Release: 09 May 2014
Director: Michael McCue , Mike Topoozian , Craig Gillespie
Producer: Palak Patel , Tabrez Noorani , Michael Mandt
Stars: Jon Hamm , Bill Paxton , Lake Bell , Suraj Sharma , Aasif Mandvi , Madhur Mittal
7 /10
Russian exiles in Paris plot to collect ten million pounds from the Bank of England by grooming a destitute, suicidal girl to pose as heir to the Russian throne. While Bounin is coaching her, he comes to believe that she is really Anastasia. In the end, the Empress must decide her claim.
Run Time: 1hr 45` . MMPA: NR . Release: 13 Dec 1956
Director: Anatole Litvak , Gerry O'Hara
Producer: Buddy Adler
Stars: Ingrid Bergman , Yul Brynner , Helen Hayes , Akim Tamiroff , Martita Hunt , Felix Aylmer
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: Tim Robbins , Fred 'Fredo' Donatelli , Brenda K. Wachel
Producer: Mark Seldis , Tim Bevan , Forrest Murray
Stars: Tim Robbins , Giancarlo Esposito , Ray Wise , Alan Rickman , Gore Vidal , Brian Murray
7 /10
Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living - no matter the cost.
Run Time: 1hr 46` . MMPA: R . Release: 12 Sep 2014
Director: Michaël R. Roskam , Timothy Bird , Ashley Hudson
Producer: Keith A. Adams , Ellen Lewis , John O'Grady
Stars: Tom Hardy , Noomi Rapace , James Gandolfini , Matthias Schoenaerts , John Ortiz , Ann Dowd
7 /10
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Run Time: 1hr 31` . MMPA: R . Release: 14 Dec 2001
Director: Richard Eyre
Producer: Michael Dreyer , David M. Thompson , Robert Fox
Stars: Kate Winslet , Judi Dench , Jim Broadbent , Hugh Bonneville , Penelope Wilton , Samuel West
7 /10
A team of U.S. government agents is sent to investigate the bombing of an American facility in the Middle East.
Run Time: 1hr 50` . MMPA: R . Release: 22 Aug 2007
Director: K.C. Hodenfield , Jeff Okabayashi , Peter Berg
Producer: Mary Parent , Michael Mann , Sarah Aubrey
Stars: Jamie Foxx , Jennifer Garner , Chris Cooper , Jason Bateman , Ali Suliman , Jeremy Piven
7 /10
The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as 'Kundun', which means 'The Presence'. He was forced to escape from his native home, Tibet, when communist China invaded and enforced an oppressive regime upon the peaceful nation. The Dalai Lama escaped to India in 1959 and has been living in exile in Dharamsala ever since.
Run Time: 2hr 14` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 25 Dec 1997
Director: Norman Berns , Martin Scorsese , Philip C. Pfeiffer
Producer: Ellen Lewis , Ahmed Abounouom , Laura Fattori
Stars: Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong , Tencho Gyalpo , Tsewang Migyur Khangsar , Gyurme Tethong , Robert Lin , Tulku Jamyang Kunga Tenzin
7 /10
Based on the autobiographical novel, the tempestuous 6-year relationship between Liberace and his (much younger) lover, Scott Thorson, is recounted.
Run Time: 1hr 58` . MMPA: R . Release: 26 May 2013
Director: Steven Soderbergh , Jody Spilkoman , Gregory Jacobs
Producer: Julia Ballou , Jerry Weintraub , Selena Carrillo
Stars: Michael Douglas , Matt Damon , Dan Aykroyd , Scott Bakula , Rob Lowe , Tom Papa
7 /10
The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
Run Time: 2hr 6` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 24 Mar 2017
Director: Niki Caro
Producer: Jennifer Monroe , Marc Butan , Kevan Van Thompson
Stars: Jessica Chastain , Daniel Brühl , Johan Heldenbergh , Michael McElhatton , Timothy Radford , Efrat Dor
7 /10
From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.
Run Time: 1hr 54` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 13 May 1994
Director: Spike Lee , Shari L. Carpenter
Producer: Monty Ross , Robi Reed , Joie Lee
Stars: Alfre Woodard , Delroy Lindo , David Patrick Kelly , Zelda Harris , Carlton Williams , Sharif Rashed
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: Nicolas Steil , John Hubbard , Martin Ware
Stars: Emma Watson , Daniel Brühl , Michael Nyqvist , Richenda Carey , Vicky Krieps , Jeanne Werner
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: Mark Murdoch , David Gilchrist , Stina Elinderson
Producer: Mark Amin , Danny Jackson , Jens Meurer
Stars: James McAvoy , Jamie Bell , Eddie Marsan , Imogen Poots , Joanne Froggatt , Jim Broadbent
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: Keith Rodger , Nicolas Chartier , Sherryl Clark
Stars: Amanda Seyfried , Russell Crowe , Aaron Paul , Diane Kruger , Jane Fonda , Bruce Greenwood
7 /10
A look at a few chapters in the life of Poppy, a cheery, colorful, North London schoolteacher whose optimism tends to exasperate those around her.
Run Time: 1hr 58` . MMPA: R . Release: 18 Apr 2008
Director: Serena Plunkett , Melanie Heseltine , Josh Robertson
Producer: Duncan Reid , Edith Kähler , Amie Tridgell
Stars: Sally Hawkins , Eddie Marsan , Alexis Zegerman , Sylvestra Le Touzel , Stanley Townsend , Kate O'Flynn
7 /10
After flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, a struggling man discovers that the will stipulates that he must deliver $150,000 in cash to a 30-year-old alcoholic sister he never knew existed, and her troubled 12-year-old son.
Run Time: 1hr 54` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 29 Jun 2012
Director: Alex Kurtzman
Producer: Roberto Orci , Clayton Townsend , Bobby Cohen
Stars: Chris Pine , Elizabeth Banks , Olivia Wilde , Michelle Pfeiffer , Mark Duplass , Devin Brochu
7 /10
A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.
Run Time: 1hr 56` . MMPA: PG . Release: 19 Mar 1982
Director: Mark McGann , Burtt Harris , Martha Pinson
Producer: Alfred De Liagre Jr. , Joseph M. Caracciolo , Burtt Harris
Stars: Michael Caine , Christopher Reeve , Dyan Cannon , Irene Worth , Henry Jones , Joe Silver
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: Jonathan Oliveira , Myles Koops , Bradley Cooper
Stars: Bradley Cooper , Rooney Mara , Cate Blanchett , Toni Collette , Richard Jenkins , Willem Dafoe
