7 /10
A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.
Run Time: 2hr . MMPA: PG . Release: 02 Mar 2007
Director: Jeanette McGrath , Julian Jarrold
Producer: Robert Bernstein , Gail Stevens , Julia Blackman
Stars: Anne Hathaway , James McAvoy , Julie Walters , James Cromwell , Maggie Smith , Joe Anderson
7 /10
When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona, the government tries to stop them.
Run Time: 1hr 55` . MMPA: PG . Release: 13 Dec 1984
Director: Sandy King , Joe Alves , Jeffrey Chernov
Producer: Michael Douglas , Anna Zappia , Bruce A. Evans
Stars: Jeff Bridges , Karen Allen , Charles Martin Smith , Richard Jaeckel , Robert Phalen , Tony Edwards
7 /10
On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before. Bendrix's obsession with Sarah is rekindled; he succumbs to his own jealousy and arranges to have her followed.
Run Time: 1hr 42` . MMPA: R . Release: 03 Dec 1999
Director: Patrick Clayton , Neil Jordan , Ian Stone
Producer: Neil Jordan , Susie Figgis , David Pinnington
Stars: Ralph Fiennes , Julianne Moore , Stephen Rea , James Bolam , Ian Hart , Jason Isaacs
7 /10
Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hubbell Gardiner, a feckless WASP. Years later, in the wake of World War II, they meet once again and, despite their obvious differences, attempt to make their love for each other work.
Run Time: 1hr 58` . MMPA: PG . Release: 17 Oct 1973
Director: Sydney Pollack
Producer: Ray Stark , Richard N. Roth
Stars: Barbra Streisand , Robert Redford , Bradford Dillman , Lois Chiles , Patrick O'Neal , Viveca Lindfors
7 /10
Labor Day in a small Kansas farm town. Hal, a burly and resolute drifter, jumps off a dusty freight train car with the purpose of visiting Alan, a former college classmate and son of the richest man in town.
Run Time: 1hr 54` . MMPA: PG . Release: 18 Nov 1955
Director: Joshua Logan , Carter DeHaven Jr.
Producer: Fred Kohlmar
Stars: William Holden , Kim Novak , Rosalind Russell , Betty Field , Susan Strasberg , Cliff Robertson
7 /10
Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.
Run Time: 2hr 3` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 06 Aug 2009
Director: Nancy Herrmann , Nora Ephron , Dianne Dreyer
Producer: Amy Robinson , Gary Martyn , John Bernard
Stars: Meryl Streep , Amy Adams , Stanley Tucci , Chris Messina , Linda Emond , Helen Carey
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: Louis Elman , Harvey Weinstein , Michael Dreyer
Stars: Kate Winslet , Judi Dench , Jim Broadbent , Hugh Bonneville , Penelope Wilton , Samuel West
7 /10
Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.
Run Time: 1hr 39` . MMPA: NR . Release: 25 Jun 1948
Director: Michael Curtiz , Busby Berkeley
Producer: George Amy , Alex Gottlieb
Stars: Jack Carson , Janis Paige , Don DeFore , Doris Day , Oscar Levant , S.Z. Sakall
7 /10
Owen Legate, a railroad official, comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down the local railway - the town's main income. But Owen unexpectedly finds love with Dodson's flirt and main attraction, Alva Starr.
Run Time: 1hr 50` . MMPA: . Release: 03 Aug 1966
Director: Eddie Saeta , Sydney Pollack
Producer: Ray Stark , Clarence Eurist , John Houseman
Stars: Natalie Wood , Robert Redford , Charles Bronson , Kate Reid , Mary Badham , Alan Baxter
7 /10
Emma, a divorced single mother seeking to start her life over, moves to a small town in Arizona. She befriends Murphy, the older local pharmacist, but things turn complicated when her ex-husband shows up.
Run Time: 1hr 47` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 25 Dec 1985
Director: Jim Van Wyck , Aldric La'Auli Porter , Martina Ritt
Producer: Laura Ziskin , Dianne Crittenden , Jim Van Wyck
Stars: Sally Field , James Garner , Brian Kerwin , Corey Haim , Dennis Burkley , Georgann Johnson
7 /10
In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home to a black fishing community. Crippled beggar Porgy, who travels about in a goat-drawn cart, loves the drug-addicted Bess, who lives with stevedore Crown, the local bully.
Run Time: 2hr 18` . MMPA: . Release: 24 Jun 1959
Director: Otto Preminger , Paul Helmick
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
Stars: Sidney Poitier , Dorothy Dandridge , Sammy Davis Jr. , Pearl Bailey , Brock Peters , Diahann Carroll
7 /10
Gib, a beer-guzzling slob, and Alison, an uptight Ivy-Leaguer, are an unlikely duo stuck together on a cross-country trip during Christmas break. At first they get on each other's nerves but, as time passes, they find their divergent natures complement each other. Now they need to realize what they've already found before it's too late.
Run Time: 1hr 40` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 01 Mar 1985
Director: Rob Reiner
Producer: Roger Birnbaum , Janet Hirshenson , Steve Nicolaides
Stars: John Cusack , Daphne Zuniga , Anthony Edwards , Boyd Gaines , Tim Robbins , Lisa Jane Persky
7 /10
At a high-school party, four friends find that losing their collective virginity isn't as easy as they had thought. But they still believe that they need to do so before college. To motivate themselves, they enter a pact to all "score" by their senior prom.
Run Time: 1hr 35` . MMPA: R / NR . Release: 09 Jul 1999
Director: Hal Olofsson , Paul Weitz , Annie Welles
Producer: Joe Murphy , Deanna Adney , Michelle Morris
Stars: Jason Biggs , Chris Klein , Thomas Ian Nicholas , Alyson Hannigan , Shannon Elizabeth , Tara Reid
7 /10
When a wandering mercenary named Hogan rescues a nun called Sister Sara from the unwanted attentions of a band of rogues on the Mexican plains, he has no idea what he has let himself in for. Their chance encounter results in the blowing up of a train and a French garrison, as well as igniting a spark between them that survives a shocking discovery.
Run Time: 1hr 54` . MMPA: PG . Release: 02 Mar 1970
Director: Joseph C. Cavalier , Don Siegel , Manuel Muñoz 'Torito'
Producer: William Davidson , Martin Rackin , Carroll Case
Stars: Shirley MacLaine , Clint Eastwood , Manolo Fábregas , Alberto Morin , Armando Silvestre , John Kelly
7 /10
Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CIA assassin by night, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA at the height of his TV career and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.
Run Time: 1hr 53` . MMPA: R . Release: 31 Dec 2002
Director: Anne Alloucherie , Marie La Haye , Melissa V. Barnes
Producer: Steven Soderbergh , Far Shariat , Harvey Weinstein
Stars: Sam Rockwell , Drew Barrymore , George Clooney , Julia Roberts , Rutger Hauer , Maggie Gyllenhaal
7 /10
Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony, who vows to take power—but Caesar’s successor has other plans.
Run Time: 4hr 11` . MMPA: G . Release: 12 Jun 1963
Director: Fred R. Simpson , Joseph L. Mankiewicz , Elaine Schreyeck
Producer: Stuart Lyons , Walter Wanger , Peter Levathes
Stars: Elizabeth Taylor , Richard Burton , Rex Harrison , Pamela Brown , George Cole , Hume Cronyn
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: Gerry O'Hara , Anatole Litvak
Producer: Buddy Adler
Stars: Ingrid Bergman , Yul Brynner , Helen Hayes , Akim Tamiroff , Martita Hunt , Felix Aylmer
7 /10
Greg Focker is ready to marry his girlfriend, Pam, but before he pops the question, he must win over her formidable father, humorless former CIA agent Jack Byrnes, at the wedding of Pam's sister. As Greg bends over backward to make a good impression, his visit to the Byrnes home turns into a hilarious series of disasters, and everything that can go wrong does, all under Jack's critical, hawklike gaze.
Run Time: 1hr 48` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 06 Oct 2000
Director: Eva Z. Cabrera , Marco Schnabel , Jennifer Truelove
Producer: Jay Roach , Kate Kelly , Emo Philips
Stars: Ben Stiller , Robert De Niro , Teri Polo , Blythe Danner , Nicole DeHuff , Jon Abrahams
7 /10
Venice, 1596. Bassanio begs his friend Antonio, a prosperous merchant, to lend him a large sum of money so that he can woo Portia, a very wealthy heiress; but Antonio has invested his fortune abroad, so they turn to Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, and ask him for a loan.
Run Time: 2hr 12` . MMPA: R . Release: 03 Dec 2004
Director: Michael Radford
Producer: Michael Cowan , Nigel Goldsack , Cary Brokaw
Stars: Al Pacino , Jeremy Irons , Joseph Fiennes , Lynn Collins , Zuleikha Robinson , Kris Marshall
7 /10
During the 1980s, uptight Ted Boynton is a salesman working in the Barcelona office of a Chicago-based company. He receives an unexpected visit from his cousin Fred, a naval officer who has come to Spain on a public relations mission for a U.S. fleet. Not exactly friends in the past, Ted and Fred strike up relationships with women in the Spanish city and experience conflicts -- Ted with his employer, and Fred with the Barcelona community.
Run Time: 1hr 40` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 29 Jul 1994
Director: Whit Stillman
Producer: Consol Tura , Jonni Bassiner , Billy Hopkins
Stars: Taylor Nichols , Chris Eigeman , Tushka Bergen , Mira Sorvino , Pep Munné , Hellena Taylor
