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The Ultimate Movie Bucket List: Top 100 Movies of All Time
Release Date:
01/01/1953
Synopsis:
Princess
Anne is touring Rome when she decides she's tired of the structured
life of royalty. When she slips out on her own she meets up with a
fiesty American reporter who thinks he has the scoop of the century --
until he falls in love with her.
Director:
William Wyler
Actor/Voice credits:
Gorella Gori, Harcourt Williams, Margaret Rawlings
Roman Holiday
Genre:
Drama, Adaptation, Comedy
Release Date:
12/06/2002
Synopsis:
Despite
the success of his first produced script, "Being John Malkovich," for
which he received an Academy Award nomination for best original
screenplay, Charlie Kaufman is plagued by insecurities, both in his
career and his personal life. When he is hired to adapt "The Orchid
Thief," a nonfiction book about a fanatical orchid breeder, John
Laroche, he is completely stumped. Though, on the surface, the book is
about Laroche's flower poaching adventures in the Florida Everglades, on
another level more...
Director:
Spike Jonze
Actor/Voice credits:
Marc Coppola, Harris Mann, Nancy Lenehan
Adaptation
Release Date:
06/05/1998
Synopsis:
The
film that made critics sit up and take notice of Jim Carrey's dramatic
chops, the legendary funnyman is Truman Burbank in "The Truman Show,"
director Peter Weir's satirical look at a man raised from infancy to
adulthood in front of television cameras. Unbeknownst to him, Carrey
lives in a bubble where actors have played his family and cameras have
followed his every move since the day he was born. When the seams in
this make-believe world begin to split and he realizes his whole life is
a lie, more...
Director:
Peter Weir
Actor/Voice credits:
David Andrew Nash, Natascha McElhone, Matthew McDonough
The Truman Show
Release Date:
05/13/2005
Synopsis:
Phil
Weston is an average Joe who's had to put up all his life with his
overly competitive father, Buck. When Phil decides to coach his
10-year-old son's soccer team, he goes head-to-head for the league
championship against Buck, who coaches his own young son on the
preeminent team of the league. Old scores come into play as Phil and
Buck find themselves going to extreme measures to win the championship
trophy.
Director:
Jesse Dylan
Actor/Voice credits:
Willie Amakye, Tyler Reid West, Michael Uyehara
Kicking & Screaming
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date:
12/25/1971
Synopsis:
An
eccentric but idealistic octogenarian who's been on her own for years
hooks up with a rich, ghoulish, not-yet-twenty loner who's been in
search of love. Both grasp at enjoying the simple pleasures in
life--regardless of what the outside world has to say about their quirky
winter-summer romance.
Director:
Hal Ashby
Actor/Voice credits:
G Wood, Judy Engles, Shari Summers
Harold and Maude
Genre:
Drama, Crime, Adaptation, Period, Biopic
Release Date:
12/25/2002
Synopsis:
Based
on a true story, Frank W. Abagnale was employed as a doctor, a lawyer,
and as a co-pilot for a major airline company-all before reaching his
21st birthday. A successful con artist and master of deception, Frank
is also a brilliant forger, whose skill at check fraud has netted him
millions of dollars in stolen funds--much to the chagrin of the
authorities. FBI Agent Carl Hanratty has made it his prime mission to
capture him and bring him to justice, however Frank is always one step
ahead more...
Director:
Steven Spielberg
Actor/Voice credits:
Antoine Drolet-Dumoulin, Leon Dussault-Gagne, Simon Houle-Gauthier
Catch Me If You Can
Release Date:
06/29/2007
Synopsis:
A
rat named Remy dares to dream the impossible dream of becoming a
gourmet chef in a five-star French restaurant. Together with a
down-and-out garbage boy named Linguini, the pair carves their own
imaginative path to becoming the greatest chef in Paris. All his life,
Remy has had a gifted sense of smell and a most unusual dream for a rat:
to cook in a gourmet restaurant. Undeterred by the obvious problem of
trying to make it in the world's most rodent-phobic profession, not to
mention his family's more...
Director:
Jan Pinkava
Actor/Voice credits:
Teddy Newton, John Ratzenberger, James Remar
Ratatouille
Genre:
Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy, Period, Historical
Release Date:
03/31/1975
Synopsis:
An absurdist send-up of the legend of King Arthur and his knight's quest for the Holy Grail.
Director:
Terry Jones
Actor/Voice credits:
Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Genre:
Adaptation, Comedy, Romance, Romantic Comedy
Release Date:
03/31/1999
Synopsis:
Bianca
Stratford is pretty and popular, but her strict family won't allow her
to date until her older sister does: the problem is that sister Kat is
an outsider who tries to alienate any guy who might be interested in
her. So Bianca's would-be boyfriend bribes fellow outsider Patrick to
ask out Kat, thinking that this sullen young man with a mysterious past
might tempt Kat to rise to the challenge.
Director:
Gil Junger
Actor/Voice credits:
Monique Powell, Nick Brown, Jesper Inglis
10 Things I Hate About You
Release Date:
09/15/1999
Synopsis:
Lester
Burnham's wife Carolyn, who's cheating on him, hates him, his daughter
Jane regards him with contempt, and his boss is positioning him for the
ax -- the typical suburban nightmare. When you've got nothing to lose,
you might as well risk everything. Provoked by forbidden passions,
Lester decides to make a few changes in his life that are less mid-life
crisis than adolescence redux. The freer he gets, the happier he gets,
which is even more maddening to wife and daughter alike. A pandora's box
more...
Director:
Sam Mendes
Actor/Voice credits:
Sue Casey, Fort Atkinson, John Cho
American Beauty
Genre:
Crime, Adaptation, Adventure, Sequel, Action
Release Date:
07/18/2008
Synopsis:
With
the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent,
Batman sets out to destroy organized crime in Gotham for good. The
triumvirate proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey
to a rising criminal mastermind known as the Joker, who thrusts Gotham
into anarchy and forces the Dark Knight ever closer to crossing the fine
line between hero and vigilante.
Director:
Christopher Nolan
Actor/Voice credits:
Andy Luther, Nydia Rodriguez Terracina, James Farruggio
The Dark Knight
Genre:
Drama, Crime, Adaptation, Biopic
Release Date:
12/25/2013
Synopsis:
This
is the true story of the outlandish rise and non-stop pleasure-hunting
descent of Jordan Belfort, the New York stockbroker who, along with his
merry band of brokers, makes a gargantuan fortune by defrauding
investors out of millions. Belfort transforms from a righteous young
Wall Street newcomer to a thoroughly corrupted stock-pumper and IPO
cowboy. Having quickly amassed an absurd fortune, Jordan pumps it back
into an endless array of aphrodisiacs: women, Quaaludes, coke, cars, his
supermodel more...
Director:
Martin Scorsese
Actor/Voice credits:
Tess Gillis, Shea Coleman, Giselle Eisenberg
The Wolf of Wall Street
Genre:
Adaptation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Release Date:
11/16/2001
Synopsis:
Harry
Potter has learned to live with his bullying Uncle Vernon, his callous
Aunt Petunia and the constant whining of his greedy, spoiled cousin
Dudley. He's even learned to live with sleeping in the cupboard under
the stairs. Harry's relatives have just as reluctantly learned to live
with the unwelcome presence of their orphaned relation, a constant
reminder of Petunia's "wayward" sister and brother-in-law and their
mysterious and untimely demise. Even the impending arrival of his 11th
birthday more...
Director:
Chris Columbus
Actor/Voice credits:
Warwick Davis, Will Theakston, Samantha Whittaker
The Harry Potter Films
Genre:
Drama, Comedy, Romance, Romantic Comedy
Release Date:
02/18/1994
Synopsis:
Film
about four recent college graduates, and how difficult it is to find
good jobs (even if you're the valedictorian) and romance after college.
Director:
Ben Stiller
Actor/Voice credits:
Barry Del Sherman, Eric Stuart, John Mahoney
Reality Bites
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date:
04/30/2004
Synopsis:
Cady
Heron is a cultural blank slate when she first sets foot on the grounds
of North Shore High School in a small town outside of Chicago,
Illinois. After living in Africa, Cady, now a junior, has no idea how
"wild" things can be in civilization until she crosses paths with one of
the meanest species of all, the "Queen Bee," who at this particular
high school is the cool and calculating Regina George. But Cady doesn't
just cross paths with this Queen Bee--she really stings her when she
falls for more...
Director:
Mark Waters
Actor/Voice credits:
Erin Jarvis, Randi Lee Butcher, Jo Chim
Mean Girls
Genre:
Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Technology
Release Date:
03/31/1999
Synopsis:
Neo
is a young software engineer and part-time hacker who is singled out by
some mysterious figures who want to introduce him into the secret of
'the matrix'. The cops also seem to be after him, and he takes a chance
on discovering what he has always suspected: that the world is not quite
what it seems to be and a sinister conspiracy is at work.
Director:
Bruce Hunt
Actor/Voice credits:
Natalie Tjen, Bill Young, David O'Conor
The Matrix
Release Date:
09/30/1984
Synopsis:
In
the year 2029, the rulers of Earth, to ensure their success, decide to
reshape the future by changing the past. They send The Terminator back
in time to destroy Sarah Connor, who doesn't realize the awesome role
her unborn child will play in the decades to come.
Director:
Jean-Paul Ouelette
Actor/Voice credits:
Ed Dogans, Joe Farago, Tom Oberhaus
The Terminator
Release Date:
07/16/2010
Synopsis:
Dom
Cobb is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of
"extraction", stealing valuable secrets from deep within people's
subconscious while they are dreaming, when the mind is at its most
vulnerable. Cobb's rare ability has made him a coveted player in this
treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him
an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved. Now
Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption. One last job could give
him his life more...
Director:
Christopher Nolan
Actor/Voice credits:
Nicolas Clerc, Coralie Dedykere, Silvie Laguna
Inception
Release Date:
10/23/1998
Synopsis:
In
1939, Guido, an Italian Jew, falls in love with Dora, who isn't Jewish.
He woos her away from the Fascist official she has been dating, and
they get married. Their son Giosue grows up among growing anti-Semitism.
As the war progresses, Guido and Giosue are arrested and taken to a
concentration camp. Dora goes too, determined not to separate the
family. In the midst of the horrors of the camp, Guido protects his son
by pretending that survival in the concentration camp is an elaborate
game with more...
Director:
Roberto Benigni
Actor/Voice credits:
Giovanna Villa, Dirk Karsten Van Den Berg, Andrea Tidona
Life Is Beautiful
Release Date:
11/09/2007
Synopsis:
Llewelyn
Moss finds a pickup truck surrounded by a sentry of dead men. A load of
heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back trunk.
When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic
violence that not even the law--namely aging, disillusioned Sheriff
Bell--can contain. Moss tries to evade his pursuers, in particular a
mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives.
Director:
Ethan Coen
Actor/Voice credits:
John Mancha, Milton Hernandez, David A Gomez
No Country for Old Men
Release Date:
09/22/1995
Synopsis:
Lt.
William Somerset, a burnt-out veteran cop, is on the brink of
retirement. Forced to train his ambitious and eager replacement,
Somerset is teamed with Detective David Mills on an investigation that
draws these disparate cops deeper and deeper into the twisted world of a
cunning and meticulous criminal. He is methodical, exacting and
grotesquely creative. He is known as John Doe and he is the most vicious
serial killer alive, fashioning murders based on the seven deadly sins.
As each new victim more...
Director:
David Fincher
Actor/Voice credits:
Shannon Wilcox, Brian Evers, Heidi Schanz
Seven
Release Date:
04/01/1952
Synopsis:
In
1927, dashing actor Don Lockwood and blonde bombshell Lina Lamont are
one of Hollywood's favorite romantic teams, though Lina mistakenly
believes that their on-screen love is for real. Don and his less famous
partner Cosmo have worked their way to the top the hard way, through
vaudeville, stunt work etc. When "The Jazz Player" arrives and sound
changes everything in the movie business, Don is ready. Not so Lina,
whose shrill voice makes a mockery of the musical that their new film
has been made more...
Director:
Gene Kelly
Actor/Voice credits:
Rita Moreno, Douglas Fowley, Madge Blake
Singin' in the Rain
Release Date:
12/16/1988
Synopsis:
Charlie
Babbitt has just discovered he has an autistic brother named Raymond
and is now taking him on the ride of his life. Or is it the other way
around? From his refusal to drive on major highways to a "four minutes
to Wapner" meltdown at an Oklahoma farmhouse, Raymond first pushes
hot-headed Charlie to the limits of his patience and then pulls him
completely out of his self-centered world.
Director:
Barry Levinson
Actor/Voice credits:
Ralph Tabakin, Ray Baker, Isadore Figler
Rain Man
Release Date:
10/29/1999
Synopsis:
A
man takes a new job on the 7th-and-a-half floor of an office building
and stumbles upon a membranous room that leads inside the head of stage
and screen actor John Malkovich. There he can see life through
Malkovich's eyes before being systematically ejected from the room and
onto the New Jersey turnpike. The man then rents out Malkovich's head to
others, eventually letting his wife inside where she falls in love with
another woman who, in turn, thinks she has fallen in love with John
Malkovich more...
Director:
Spike Jonze
Actor/Voice credits:
Elizabeth Rivera, Sara Rifkin, Jessica Neuberger
Being John Malkovich
Release Date:
10/23/1992
Synopsis:
Six
unacquainted professional criminals are brought together by a veteran
thief to execute an intricately planned diamond robbery.
Director:
Quentin Tarantino
Actor/Voice credits:
Edward Bunker, Kirk Baltz, Quentin Tarantino
Reservoir Dogs
Release Date:
10/04/2013
Synopsis:
Dr.
Ryan Stone, a brilliant engineer, is on her first shuttle mission with
veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk,
disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalski
completely alone, tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out
into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any
link to Earth...and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every
gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way more...
Director:
Alfonso Cuarón
Actor/Voice credits:
George Clooney, Sandra Bullock, Basher Savage
Gravity
Release Date:
07/24/1998
Synopsis:
James
Ryan, who has parachuted into France during the Allied invasion of
Europe, has just lost three brothers in combat. Government policy
dictates that he should return home lest his family be deprived of all
its male offspring. A team of soldiers, led by Captain John Miller and
fresh from the beaches of Normandy, is assembled to find and save
Private Ryan.
Director:
Steven Spielberg
Actor/Voice credits:
Seamus McQuade, Ronald Longridge, Adam Shaw
Saving Private Ryan
Release Date:
07/02/1980
Synopsis:
Laugh
until you cry with "Airplane!" (1980), the spoof comedy that started it
all, now funnier than ever with this "Don't Call Me Shirley!" Edition.
Robert Hayes, Julie Hagerty, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack and Leslie
Nielsen send up every '70s disaster movie cliche, with the help of a
wide assortment of supporting players and sight gags. The style of this
hilarious tongue-in-cheek comedy spawned a genre of its own.
Director:
Jim Abrahams
Actor/Voice credits:
Howard Honig, Howard Jarvis, Michael Laurence
Airplane!
Release Date:
06/27/2008
Synopsis:
After
hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, Wall-E (short
for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) discovers a new purpose in
life (besides collecting knick-knacks) when he meets a sleek search
robot named Eve. Eve comes to realize that Wall-E has inadvertently
stumbled upon the key to the planet's future, and races back to space to
report her findings to the humans (who have been eagerly awaiting word
that it is safe to return home). Meanwhile, Wall-E chases Eve across more...
Director:
Andrew Stanton
Actor/Voice credits:
Ben Burtt, Jeff Garlin, John Ratzenberger
WALL-E
Genre:
Drama, Adaptation, Fantasy, Action, Thriller
Release Date:
10/15/1999
Synopsis:
The
mundane existence of a product liability evaluator and insomniac, who
is addicted to self-help groups, is turned upside down when he meets a
sado-masochistic anarchist who is secretly plotting to overthrow
civilization. As their friendship grows, they become increasingly
involved in a secret society of "fight clubs" where men act out their
aggressions and violently beat one another to a pulp. In the meantime,
the evaluator falls in love with a woman who is also addicted to
self-help groups, but more...
Director:
David Fincher
Actor/Voice credits:
Michael Girardin, Markus Redmond, Van Quattro
Fight Club
Release Date:
12/18/2013
Synopsis:
In
Los Angeles, in the near future, lives Theodore Twombly - a complex,
soulful man who makes his living writing touching, personal letters for
other people. Heartbroken after the end of a long relationship, he
becomes intrigued with a new, advanced operating system that promises to
be an intuitive entity in its own right, individual to each user. Upon
initiating it, he is delighted to meet "Samantha," a bright, female
voice, who is insightful, sensitive and surprisingly funny. As her needs
and desires more...
Director:
Spike Jonze
Actor/Voice credits:
Melanie Seacat, Pramod Kumar, Dr. Guy Lewis
Her
Release Date:
12/08/2000
Synopsis:
Legendary
martial artist Li Mu Bai is tracking the murderer of his master. The
poised and self-assured Li can handle anything -- except his feelings
for lithe, pantherish Yu Shu Lien. Jen Yu, the tremulous and spoiled
daughter of the Province's governor, is also fascinated by Shu Lien's
glamorous life: that a woman can have so many adventures and such
freedom is marvelous to her. Though the refined Jen is soon to be
married off into respectability, she harbors a sinister plan. By night
she transforms more...
Director:
Ang Lee
Actor/Voice credits:
Xu Cheng-Lin, Lin Feng, Du Zhen-Xi
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Genre:
Adaptation, Comedy
Release Date:
04/23/1999
Synopsis:
A
high school election goes awry when Jim McAllister, a popular teacher
and student government advisor, determines to sabotage the campaign of
Tracy Flick, the over-achieving student who ruined the life of his best
friend, a fellow teacher, by getting him fired after they had an affair.
McAllister encourages Paul Metzler, a sweet but dumb jock sidelined by a
broken leg, to run for class president against Tracy. After Jim
unwittingly steals his kid sister Tammy's girlfriend away from her, she
also more...
Director:
Alexander Payne
Actor/Voice credits:
Heather Koenig, Matt Golden, Jillian Crane
Election
Genre:
Western
Release Date:
01/24/1968
Synopsis:
A
cashbox containing $200,000, that was stolen and hidden in an unmarked
grave, is the focus of three men: two criminals and a stranger.
Director:
Sergio Leone
Actor/Voice credits:
Al Mulloch, Claudio Scarchilli, Livio Lorenzon
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Genre:
Drama
Release Date:
12/05/1997
Synopsis:
Set
in working-class South Boston, a psychological drama about a
20-year-old lad who works as a janitor at MIT and spends most of his
time with his coarse friends at the neighborhood bar. Blessed with a
certain genius, Will, who has never attended college, can summon obscure
historical references based on his exceptional photographic memory. He
can also solve difficult mathematical problems with an ease that makes
MIT's richer more educated students envious of him. When big shot
professor Lambeau more...
Director:
Gus van Sant
Actor/Voice credits:
Patrick O'Donnell, James Allodi, Frank Nakashima
Good Will Hunting
Release Date:
08/21/1991
Synopsis:
Set
in 1941, the story focuses on a New York playwright who moves to a
seedy L.A. hotel and suffers from writers' block after being recruited
to write a wrestling movie for Wallace Beery.
Director:
Joel Coen
Actor/Voice credits:
Richard Portnow, David Warrilow, Christopher Murney
Barton Fink
Genre:
Drama, Adaptation, Romance, Foreign
Release Date:
10/25/2013
Synopsis:
A
15-year-old girl named Adèle is approaching adulthood and dreams of
experiencing her first love. A handsome male classmate falls for her
hard, but an unsettling erotic reverie upsets the romance before it
begins. Adèle imagines that the mysterious, blue-haired girl she
encountered in the street slips into her bed and possesses her with an
overwhelming pleasure. That blue-haired girl is a confident, older art
student named Emma, who will soon enter Adèle's life for real.
Director:
Abdellatif Kechiche
Actor/Voice credits:
Aurelie Lemanceau, Karim Saidi, Audrey Deswarte
Blue is the Warmest Color
Release Date:
06/15/1994
Synopsis:
A
heroic coming-of-age story which follows the epic adventures of a young
lion cub named Simba as he struggles to accept the responsibilities of
adulthood and his destined role as king of the jungle. As a carefree
cub, he is both excited and anxious to become king, one day, and spends
his days frolicking with his pal, Nala. His father, King Mufasa, the
revered ruler of Pride Rock and the lands that surround it, teaches him
about the "Circle of Life"--the delicate balance of nature which bonds
all more...
Director:
Rob Minkoff
Actor/Voice credits:
David Randolph, Ernie Sabella, Nathan Lane
The Lion King
Genre:
Adaptation, Thriller
Release Date:
01/01/1948
Synopsis:
Roommates
Brandon and Philip consider themselves so far above ordinary people
that they strangle a peer, hide his body in a trunk and host a dinner
party with his friends and relatives just to prove their own
intellectual abilities. But an old professor is not quite as dimwitted
as the murderous duo originally thought.
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Actor/Voice credits:
Cedric Hardwicke, Farley Granger, John Dall
Rope
Genre:
Drama, Adaptation, Period, Biopic
Release Date:
12/27/2002
Synopsis:
An
adaptation based on the autobiography of the acclaimed Polish composer,
Wladyslaw Szpilman, who detailed his survival during World War II, and
narrowly escaped a roundup that sent his family to a death camp. A
composer and pianist, Szpilman played the last live music heard over
Polish radio airwaves before Nazi artillery hit. There, in Poland,
Szpilman struggled to stay alive--even when cast away from those he
loved. He spent the duration of the war hiding in the ruins of Warsaw
and scavenging more...
Director:
Roman Polanski
Actor/Voice credits:
Andrzej Blumenfeld, Darian Wawer, Zbigniew Zamachowski
The Pianist
Genre:
Drama, Adaptation, Period
Release Date:
12/26/2007
Synopsis:
On
the frontier of California's turn-of-the-century petroleum boom, Daniel
Plainview transforms himself from a down-and-out silver miner raising a
son on his own into a self-made oil tycoon. When Plainview gets a
mysterious tip-off that there's a little town out West where an ocean of
oil is oozing out of the ground, he heads with his son, H.W., to take
their chances in dust-worn Little Boston. In this hardscrabble town,
where the main excitement centers around the holy roller church of
charismatic more...
Director:
Paul Thomas Anderson
Actor/Voice credits:
Stockton Taylor, Erica Sullivan, Harrison Taylor
There Will Be Blood
Release Date:
10/24/2008
Synopsis:
Theater
director Caden Cotard is mounting a new play. His life catering to
suburban blue-hairs at the local regional theater in Schenectady, New
York is looking bleak. His wife Adele has left him to pursue her
painting in Berlin, taking their young daughter Olive with her. His
therapist, Madeleine Gravis, is better at plugging her best-seller than
she is at counseling him. A new relationship with the alluringly candid
Hazel has prematurely run aground. And a mysterious condition is
systematically more...
Director:
Charlie Kaufman
Actor/Voice credits:
Jerry Adler, Lynn Cohen, Amy Wright
Synecdoche, New York
Release Date:
03/08/1996
Synopsis:
Jerry
Lundegaard is a car salesman in Minneapolis who has gotten himself into
debt and is so desperate for money that he hires two thugs to kidnap
his own wife. Jerry will collect the ransom from her wealthy father,
paying the thugs a small portion and keeping the rest to satisfy his
debts. The scheme collapses when the thugs shoot a state trooper and two
innocent bystanders in rural Minnesota, drawing local Police Chief
Marge Gunderson into her first homicide investigation. At first unaware
that more...
Director:
Joel Coen
Actor/Voice credits:
Don Wescott, John Ttndemer, Robert Ozasky
Fargo
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date:
02/28/1959
Synopsis:
Two
male musicians join an all-female band to flee the mob in Billy
Wilder's all-time slapstick comedy classic "Some Like it Hot" (1959).
Two schmoes (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon) who witness the St.
Valentine's Day massacre don drag and join an all-girl band on a train
out of town. But when one of the guys falls for ukulele-playing Sugar
(Marilyn Monroe at her best) and the other is hit on by an un-swayable
millionaire, thing get complicated in a hurry. One of the most enjoyable
movies ever to hit more...
Director:
Billy Wilder
Actor/Voice credits:
Joan Shawlee, Billy Gray, George E Stone
Some Like It Hot
Genre:
Drama, Adaptation
Release Date:
10/18/2013
Synopsis:
In
the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from
upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty at
the hands of a malevolent slave owner, as well as unexpected kindnesses,
Solomon struggles not only to stay alive, but to retain his dignity. In
the twelfth year of his unforgettable odyssey, Solomon's chance meeting
with a Canadian abolitionist will forever alter his life.
Director:
Steve McQueen
Actor/Voice credits:
Willo Jean Baptiste, Devyn A Tyler, Jay Huguley
12 Years a Slave
Release Date:
02/07/1986
Synopsis:
Hannah
regularly meets with her sisters Holly and Lee to discuss the weeks'
events. It's what they don't always tell each other that forms the
film's various subplots. Hannah is married to rock-star manager Elliot,
who carries a torch for Lee, who in turn lives with pompous Soho artist
Frederick. Meanwhile, Holly, a neurotic actress and eternal loser in
love, dates TV producer Mickey, who used to be married to Hannah and
spends most of the film convinced that he's about to die.
Director:
Woody Allen
Actor/Voice credits:
Ira Wheeler, Richard Jenkins, Tracy Kennedy
Hannah and Her Sisters
Release Date:
06/26/2009
Synopsis:
Three
members of the Army's elite Explosive Ordnance Disposal squad battle
insurgents and each other as they search for and disarm a wave of
roadside bombs on the streets of Baghdad-in order to try and make the
city a safer place for Iraqis and Americans alike. Their mission is
clear-protect and save-but the margin of error when defusing a war-zone
bomb is zero. When Staff Sergeant William James cheerfully takes over
the team, his subordinates, Sanborn and Eldridge are shocked by what
seems like more...
Director:
Kathryn Bigelow
Actor/Voice credits:
Sam Spruell, Nabil Koni, Evangeline Lilly
The Hurt Locker
Release Date:
12/07/1990
Synopsis:
When a mad scientist meets an early death his creation is left to fend with scissors for hands.
Director:
Tim Burton
Actor/Voice credits:
Andrew Clark, Andrew Crofton, Linda Hess Hess
Edward Scissorhands
Genre:
Drama, Adaptation, Comedy, Period, Biopic
Release Date:
10/06/2000
Synopsis:
Evoking
the inner landscape of human beings longing to connect, to love and
feel loved, is this parable of happiness gloriously found and tragically
lost. Parallel stories are linked by the relationship between the
lonely, widowed Sara Goldfard and her sweet but aimless son, Harry. The
plump Sara, galvanized by the prospect of appearing on a TV game show,
has started on a dangerous diet regimen to beautify herself for a
national audience. Meanwhile, Harry and his new girlfriend Marion Silver
form more...
Director:
Darren Aronofsky
Actor/Voice credits:
Allison Furman, Robert Dylan Cohen, Ben Shenkman
Requiem for A Dream
Release Date:
09/20/2002
Synopsis:
Tale
of the fanciful adventures of a ten-year-old girl named Chihiro, who
discovers a secret world when she and her family get lost and venture
through a hillside tunnel. When her parents undergo a mysterious
transformation, Chihiro must fend for herself as she encounters strange
spirits, assorted creatures and a grumpy sorceress who seeks to prevent
her from returning to the human world.
Director:
Kirk Wise
Actor/Voice credits:
Jim Ward, Phil Proctor, Rodger Bumpass
Spirited Away
Release Date:
07/31/1960
Synopsis:
This
four-time Academy Award nominated masterpiece of cinema is one of the
most iconic horror films of all time. In "Psycho" (1960), Anthony
Perkins stars as Norman Bates, the disturbed proprietor of a macabre
motel in Alfred Hitchock's landmark triumph of terror. After a
mysterious traveler, played by Janet Leigh, meets an infamous end,
spine-tingling suspense builds into a scream-inducing climax that
revolutionized a genre.
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Actor/Voice credits:
Martin Balsam, Vaughn Taylor, John Gavin
Psycho
Genre:
Mystery
Release Date:
11/30/1973
Synopsis:
Paranoid
surveillance expert Harry Caul has a meticulous devotion to his work
and a policy of never getting personally involved in the jobs he's
given. When Caul accepts an assignment to record a public conversation
between a young couple, he grows convinced that his subjects are in
trouble and breaks his own rules in an effort to save their lives, with
disastrous consequences for everyone involved.
Director:
Francis Ford Coppola
Actor/Voice credits:
Cindy Williams, Michael Higgins, Frederic Forrest
The Conversation
Release Date:
06/11/1982
Synopsis:
An
extra-terrestrial is accidentally left behind on Earth and is
befriended by a young boy and his brother and sister. As Elliot attempts
to help his new friend contact his home planet, so that he might be
rescued, the children must elude scientists and government agents
determined to apprehend the alien for their own purposes...which results
in an adventure greater than any of them could have imagined.
Director:
Steven Spielberg
Actor/Voice credits:
Mitchell Suskin, Mary Stein, Will Fowler Jr.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
Release Date:
09/25/1987
Synopsis:
A fairy tale about a beautiful girl who is to be married to a nasty prince, but who is in love with another.
Director:
Rob Reiner
Actor/Voice credits:
Robin Wright, Peter Falk, Peter Cook
The Princess Bride
Release Date:
10/12/1997
Synopsis:
A
dark comedy following the rise and fall of Eddie Adams, a handsome,
uneducated teenager who works in the kitchen of a popular San Fernando
Valley nightclub. Back at home, Eddie has to face the oppressive company
of a passive father and a domineering mother who keeps reminding him
he's stupid and a failure. But when he's spotted at the club by Jack
Horner, a successful porn producer, Eddie is instantly lured to a
promising career in the adult entertainment industry.
Director:
Paul Thomas Anderson
Actor/Voice credits:
Tom Lenk, Lexi Leigh, Henry Lee
Boogie Nights
Genre:
Drama, Adaptation
Release Date:
11/30/1962
Synopsis:
In 1932 Alabama, a widowed lawyer with two small children defends a black man accused of raping a white woman.
Director:
Robert Mulligan
Actor/Voice credits:
Collin Wilcox Paxton, Robert Duvall, Alice Ghostley
To Kill a Mockingbird
Release Date:
12/29/2006
Synopsis:
Set
in 1940s Spain against the postwar repression of Franco's Spain, a
fairy tale that centers on Ofelia, a lonely and dreamy child living with
her mother and adoptive father, who is a military officer tasked with
'ridding the area' of rebels. In her loneliness, Ofelia creates a world
filled with fantastical creatures and secret destinies. With Fascism at
its height, Ofelia must come to terms with her world through a fable of
her own creation.
Director:
Guillermo del Toro
Actor/Voice credits:
Chani Martin, Milo Taboada, Ana Saez
Pan's Labyrinth
Release Date:
06/03/1988
Synopsis:
When
a fortune-telling machine grants 13-year-old Josh his wish for
adulthood, his baffled grown-up version must find a way to change back
to his kid self. After landing a job at a toy factory, Josh brings new
joy to young-at-heart owner Robert Loggia and kindles a new romance with
co-worker Susan before he learns that being an adult comes with a
price.
Director:
Penny Marshall
Actor/Voice credits:
Pasquale Pugliese, Gordon Press, Dolores Messina
Big
Genre:
Drama, Adaptation, Action, Period, Biopic
Release Date:
06/03/1987
Synopsis:
The story of FBI agent Eliott Ness's obsessive goal to bring down the notorious gangster Al Capone.
Director:
Brian De Palma
Actor/Voice credits:
Will Zahrn, Tony Mockus Sr., Louie Lanciloti
The Untouchables
Genre:
Adaptation, Adventure, Fantasy, Sequel, Action
Release Date:
12/17/2003
Synopsis:
Sauron's
forces have laid siege to Minas Tirith, the capital of Gondor, in their
efforts to eliminate the race of men. The once-great kingdom, watched
over by a fading steward, has never been in more desperate need of its
king. But can Aragorn answer the call of his heritage and become what he
was born to be? In no small measure, the fate of Middle-earth rests on
his broad shoulders. With the final battle joined and the legions of
darkness gathering, Gandalf urgently tries to rally Gondor's broken more...
Director:
Peter Jackson
Actor/Voice credits:
Joel Tobeck, Stephen Ure, Peter Tait
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Release Date:
01/27/1995
Synopsis:
While
traveling through Europe on a train, a twentysomething American male
meets a young French woman. It's his last day before returning to the
US, but the two impulsively agree to spend his few remaining hours
together.
Director:
Richard Linklater
Actor/Voice credits:
Wilbirg Reiter, Barbara Klebel, Wolfgang Staribacher
The Before Films
Release Date:
07/03/1985
Synopsis:
"Back
to the Future" (1985) follows a boy, played by Michael J. Fox, and his a
rough life in high school after being tormented by the principal, and a
rough relationship with his father. When he befriends a scientist,
played by Christopher Lloyd, he finds out that he is working on a time
machine and is accidentally sent to the 1950s. He interferes with the
romance of his parents, and must get them reunited to ensure his own
existence back in the 1980s. "Back to the Future" has cemented itself as
more...
Director:
Robert Zemeckis
Actor/Voice credits:
Tommy Thomas, Karen Petrasek, Granville "Danny" Young
Back to the Future
Release Date:
12/03/2010
Synopsis:
Nina
is a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all
those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives
with her retired ballerina mother Erica who zealously supports her
daughter's professional ambition. When artistic director Thomas Leroy
decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre for the opening
production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice.
But Nina has competition: a new dancer, Lily, who impresses Leroy as
well. Swan Lake more...
Director:
Darren Aronofsky
Actor/Voice credits:
Carrie Lee Riggins, Jamie Wolf, Adrianna de Svastich
Black Swan
Release Date:
02/15/1985
Synopsis:
A
diverse group of high schoolers forced to spend detention on a Saturday
in the library. Forced to make the best of their circumstances, they
learn to understand each other and discover that in spite of their
initial differences, they actually share many common feelings and
problems.
Director:
John Hughes
Actor/Voice credits:
Mercedes Hall, Ally Sheedy, Paul Gleason
The Breakfast Club
Release Date:
06/30/1959
Synopsis:
A
suave, succesful New York advertising executive finds himself, through a
case of mistaken identity, embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder
that takes him across the country to prove his innocence to the police
and get an evil crime syndicate, looking for a lost microfilm, off his
tail.
Director:
Alfred Hitchcock
Actor/Voice credits:
Frank Marlowe, Dale Van Sickel, Bill Catching
North By Northwest
Release Date:
07/25/1980
Synopsis:
The
Bushwood Country Club is home to all sorts of antics, from its
gopher-obsessed groundskeeper Murray to its upwardly mobile caddies.
When Rodney Dangerfield comes to town with designs on turning the golf
course into condo units, vulgarity, battle of wills and assorted hijinks
ensue.
Director:
Harold Ramis
Actor/Voice credits:
Scott Sudden, Jackie Davis, Thomas Carlin
Caddyshack
Release Date:
10/03/1971
Synopsis:
In
a bleak and sleepy 50s Texas town, two high-school seniors, stars on a
losing football team, ponder their futures, carry on love affairs with
the town sweetheart and and an older, married woman respectively, and
look to fatherly advice from the ex-cowboy owner of the town's pool
hall/cafe and moviehouse. But when the moviehouse closes for good it not
only forces the youths to reeaxmine what lies ahead, it also signals
the end of an era.
Director:
Peter Bogdanovich
Actor/Voice credits:
The Leon Miller Band, Will Morris Hannis, George Gaulden
The Last Picture Show
Release Date:
10/31/1980
Synopsis:
The
story of Jake LaMotta, a former middlweight boxing champion, whose
reputation for tenacity and success in the ring was offset by his
troubled domestic life. But the same viciousness that fuels his rise as a
prizefighter destroys his marriage and personal life.
Director:
Martin Scorsese
Actor/Voice credits:
Floyd Anderson, Louis Raftis, Johnny Turner
Raging Bull
Release Date:
05/25/1977
Synopsis:
In
a distant galaxy, a long time ago, young Luke Skywalker assembles his
motley crew of allies including space rogue Han Solo and two "droids" --
C3PO and R2D2 -- to rescue Princess Leia, the rebel leader of her
planet from the clutches of the evil Empire as embodied by its enforcer
Darth Vader.
Director:
George Lucas
Actor/Voice credits:
Angus MacInnes, Jeremy Sinden, Graham Ashley
Star Wars
Release Date:
11/22/1995
Synopsis:
Woody,
a traditional pull-string talking cowboy, has long enjoyed a place of
honor as the favorite among six-year-old Andy's menagerie of toys. Quick
to calm their anxieties about being replaced by newer arrivals, Woody
finds his own confidence shaken, and his status as top toy in jeopardy,
upon the arrival of Buzz Lightyear, simply the coolest space action
figure ever made. Woody plots to get rid of Buzz, but things backfire
and he finds himself lost in the outside world with Buzz as his only
companion. more...
Director:
John Lasseter
Actor/Voice credits:
Penn Jillette, Sarah Freeman, R Lee Ermey
Toy Story
Genre:
Drama, Adaptation, Adventure, Historical
Release Date:
12/16/1962
Synopsis:
Stunning
in scope, visually magnificent, and filled with compelling
performances, David Lean's epic masterpiece is one of the great
achievements in cinematic history. Peter O'Toole stars as T.E. Lawrence,
a British officer who is sent to Arabia in 1917, and becomes a heroic
leader in the Arabic rebellion against the Turks. As he grows more
integrated into Arab society, his loyalties become conflicted. Omar
Sharif, Alec Guinness and Anthony Quinn co-star in this sweeping
historical action-adventure more...
Director:
David Lean
Actor/Voice credits:
John Dimech, Zia Mohyeddin, Michel Ray
Lawrence of Arabia
Release Date:
08/21/2009
Synopsis:
In
the first year of the German occupation of France, Shosanna Dreyfus
witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans
Landa. Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris where she forges a
new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema. Elsewhere in Europe,
Lieutenant Aldo Raine organizes a group of Jewish American soldiers to
perform swift, shocking acts of retribution. Later known to their enemy
as "the basterds," Raine's squad joins German actress and undercover
agent more...
Director:
Quentin Tarantino
Actor/Voice credits:
Salvadore Brandt, Eva Löbau, Patrick Elias
Inglourious Basterds
Release Date:
06/12/1981
Synopsis:
Archeologist
and university professor Indiana Jones must retrieve the mythic Lost
Ark of the Covenant before it gets into the hands of Adolf Hitler who
plans on using its power to guarantee his global conquest.
Director:
Michael D Moore
Actor/Voice credits:
Pat Roach, Vic Tablian, Fred Sorenson
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Genre:
Comedy, Romance, Romantic Comedy, Fantasy
Release Date:
02/12/1993
Synopsis:
Teamed
with a relentlessly cheery producer and a smart-aleck cameraman, TV
weatherman Phil Connors is sent to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania to cover
the annual Groundhog Day festivities. But on his way out of town, Phil
is caught in a giant blizzard, which he failed to predict, and finds
himself in small town hell. Just when things couldn't get worse, Phil
wakes up the next morning to find it's Groundhog Day all over again...
and again... and again.
Director:
Harold Ramis
Actor/Voice credits:
Angela Gollan, Martha Webster, Shaun Chaiyabhat
Groundhog Day
Release Date:
04/30/1960
Synopsis:
A
mild-mannered insurance clerk at a big corporation realizes that the
only way to a promotion is to loan out his apartment for his superiors
to carry on their extramarital affairs. Once he's rewarded for his
services, he moves up the ladder and pursues his love interest - the
elevator operator girl. Only problem is - she's the mistress of the
CEO.
Director:
Billy Wilder
Actor/Voice credits:
Dorothy Abbott, Hal Smith, Jack Kruschen
The Apartment
Release Date:
06/22/1988
Synopsis:
It's
post-war Hollywood, and a hard-boiled human detective is hired to tail
hot-to-trot toon Jessica Rabbit. But when the object of Jessica's
affections is murdered, all eyes turn to her rascally husband and the
chase across worlds in on.
Director:
Robert Zemeckis
Actor/Voice credits:
Morgan Deare, June Foray, April Winchell
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Release Date:
09/19/1990
Synopsis:
Follow
the true tale of mobster and FBI informant Henry Hill. The Brooklyn
native rises to the upper crust of Brooklyn's notorious mafia then
endures a long fall to the bottom of addiction, infidelity, and
incarceration.
Director:
Joseph Reidy
Actor/Voice credits:
Fran McGee, Daniela Barbosa, Bob Altman
Goodfellas
Genre:
Adaptation, Adventure, Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Technology
Release Date:
06/11/1993
Synopsis:
Eccentric
millionaire John Hammond has invited three dinosaur experts see his new
amusement park before it opens. The park is on an island off Costa Rica
and is populated by actual, living dinosaurs that Hammond has created
using DNA harvested from pre-historic insects. The scientists are
joined by Hammond's two grandchildren during their preview of the park
and the group is enjoying the tour in their computer-controlled cars
until a storm knocks out power on the island. A park employee who wants more...
Director:
Steven Spielberg
Actor/Voice credits:
Richard Kiley, Adrian Escober, Greg Burson
Jurassic Park
Release Date:
09/24/1993
Synopsis:
It's
Texas, 1976, and the last day of high school. A group of seniors
celebrate getting stoned, getting lucky and contemplating what lies
ahead.
Director:
Richard Linklater
Actor/Voice credits:
Heidi Cole Trenbath, Doug Taylor, John L Martin
Dazed and Confused
Genre:
Drama, Adaptation, Thriller, Mystery
Release Date:
02/14/1991
Synopsis:
In
this chilling film, based on the novel by Thomas Harris, a serial
killer is terrorizing the Midwest and in an effort to catch him, the FBI
sends agent Clarice Darling to interview a prisoner, psychiatrist Dr.
Hannibal Lecter, who agrees to give insight into the mind of the
on-the-loose criminal. A lingering classic filled with gore, mystery and
suspense. Starring Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Lawrence A. Bonney,
Kasi Lemmons and Lawrence T. Wrentz.
Director:
Jonathan Demme
Actor/Voice credits:
Brent Hinkley, Cynthia Ettinger, Steve Wyatt
The Silence of the Lambs
Release Date:
11/16/1977
Synopsis:
Several
civilian people are drawn to a remote corner of the US where aliens
land in their spaceship and parley with US officials.
Director:
Steven Spielberg
Actor/Voice credits:
Eumenio Blanco, Gene Rader, Daniel Nunez
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Genre:
Drama, Period, Historical, Biopic
Release Date:
12/15/1993
Synopsis:
The
true story of Austrian industrialist Oskar Schindler, who harbored
Polish Jews during WWII by using them as workers in his factory.
Schindler saved 1,100 Jews from certain death.
Director:
Steven Spielberg
Actor/Voice credits:
Marian Glinka, Daniel Del Ponte, Andrzej Welminski
Schindler's List
Release Date:
12/17/1999
Synopsis:
On
one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young
wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a
boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter
will each become part of a dazzling multiplicity of plots, but one
story. Through a collusion of coincidence, chance, human action, shared
media, past history and divine intervention they will weave and warp
through each other's lives on a day that builds to an unforgettable
climax.
Director:
Paul Thomas Anderson
Actor/Voice credits:
Bobby Brewer, Pat Healy, Mike Massa
Magnolia
Genre:
Drama, Adaptation
Release Date:
03/31/1957
Synopsis:
One
dissenting juror throws a murder trial into chaos in Sidney Lumet's
suspense classic "Twelve Angry Men" (1957). It seems clear to all but
one juror that the young man on trial killed his father. But the lone
holdout (Henry Fonda) isn't convinced that the evidence holds up. A
masterpiece of contained drama with an all-star cast featuring Lee J.
Cobb, E.G. Marshall, Jack Warden and Jack Klugman.
Director:
Sidney Lumet
Actor/Voice credits:
John Savoca, Bill Nelson, James A Kelly
12 Angry Men
Genre:
Adaptation, Action, Thriller
Release Date:
06/20/1975
Synopsis:
A
giant great white shark arrives on the shores of a New England beach
resort and wreaks havoc with bloody attacks on swimmers until a
part-time sheriff teams up with a marine biologist and an old seafarer
to hunt the monster down.
Director:
Steven Spielberg
Actor/Voice credits:
Jeffrey Kramer, Susan Backlinie, Jonathan Filley
Jaws
Genre:
Adaptation, Comedy
Release Date:
01/29/1964
Synopsis:
Fearful
that the Russians are flouridating America's drinking water, General
Jack D. Ripper unleashes a B-52 H-Bomb attack on the Soviets, and a
frantic President and Joint Chiefs of Staff must somehow find a way to
stop it.
Director:
Stanley Kubrick
Actor/Voice credits:
Hal Galili, Peter Bull, Tracy Reed
Dr. Strangelove
Genre:
Drama, Adaptation
Release Date:
04/30/1969
Synopsis:
A
slightly dim-witted young Texan journeys to New York City to offer his
services as a stud-for-hire, but spends a hard winter helping a
tubercular con man.
Director:
John Schlesinger
Actor/Voice credits:
Georgann Johnson, Jonathan Kramer, Arlene Reeder
Midnight Cowboy
Release Date:
01/01/1976
Synopsis:
Howard
Beale, the dean of newscasters at the United Television Network, is put
out to pasture because he too old. Network executive Max Schumacher,
Howard's best friend, is forced to deliver the bad news. Beale can't
stomach the idea of losing his 25-year post as anchorman simply because
of age, so in his next broadcast he announces to the viewers that he's
going to commit suicide on his final program. What he doesn't count on
is a media blitz surrounding his circumstance.
Director:
Sidney Lumet
Actor/Voice credits:
Lydia Wilen, Conchata Ferrell, Jerome Dempsey
Network
Release Date:
09/12/2003
Synopsis:
Bob
Harris and Charlotte are two Americans in Tokyo. Bob is a movie star in
town to shoot a whiskey commercial, while Charlotte is a young woman
tagging along with her workaholic photographer husband. Unable to sleep,
Bob and Charlotte cross paths one night in the luxury hotel bar. This
chance meeting soon becomes a surprising friendship. Charlotte and Bob
venture through Tokyo, having often hilarious encounters with its
citizens, and ultimately discover a new belief in life's possibilities.
Director:
Sofia Coppola
Actor/Voice credits:
Mark Willms, Georg O P Eschert, Diedrich Bollman
Lost In Translation
Genre:
Action, Thriller, Horror, Sci-Fi, Technology
Release Date:
05/25/1979
Synopsis:
In
deep space, the crew of the commercial ship Nostromo--comprised of five
men and two women--is awakened from their cryo-sleep capsules, halfway
through their journey home to investigate a distress call from an alien
vessel. The tale unfolds as they further look into the S.O.S. distress
call from that battered commercial space vessel--only to discover that
it's a warning call, rather than a call for help. However, it is too
late to turn back as three members of the crew have already left to
investigate more...
Director:
Ridley Scott
Actor/Voice credits:
Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto, John Hurt
Alien
Genre:
Drama, Adaptation, Romance
Release Date:
11/20/1942
Synopsis:
Expatriate
Rick Blaine, a cynical nightclub owner in Casablanca, discovers that
his ex-lover Ilsa, who abandoned him years before, has arrived in
Casablanca with her Resistance leader husband, Victor. With the Germans
on Victor's trail, Ilsa has come to the club to beg Rick for the
precious letters of transit that have come into his possession. The
documents would allow Victor to escape Casablanca and continue the fight
against Fascism.
Director:
Michael Curtiz
Actor/Voice credits:
Olaf Hytten, Michael Mark, Alberto Morin
Casablanca
Genre:
Drama, Crime, Adaptation, Action
Release Date:
12/12/1974
Synopsis:
Continuing
saga of the Corleone family as they move to Nevada and make the casino
business their major income source under the leadership of the
increasingly paranoid and malevolent Michael, whose reign as the "Don"
is juxtaposed against the parallel tale of his father's escape from
Sicily as a young boy and his subsequent rise to power in New York's
Lower East Side during the turn-of-the-century.
Director:
Francis Ford Coppola
Actor/Voice credits:
Joe Spinell, Maria Carta, Oreste Baldini
The Godfather, Parts I and II
Release Date:
02/01/1976
Synopsis:
Travis
Bickle is a loner, alienated from society, who finds work as a cabbie
working the night shift. Inside him grows a morbid fascination and
disgust with the seedy side of the city's street life--a fascination
that drives him to save a young prostitute and enact a vengeance against
what he considers are the perpetrators of urban decay.
Director:
Martin Scorsese
Actor/Voice credits:
Copper Cunningham, Harry Fischler, Harry Cohn
Taxi Driver
Genre:
Drama
Release Date:
01/08/1941
Synopsis:
A
psychological study of Charles Foster Kane, a powerful newspaper tycoon
whose idealism was corrupted as he rose to enourmous wealth and power.
The story unfolds as a mystery: when Mr. Kane dies uttering cryptic last
words, a magazine reporter interviews the tycoon's friends in an effort
to uncover the significance of the word "Rosebud."
Director:
Orson Welles
Actor/Voice credits:
Fortunio Bonanova, Gus Schilling, Philip Van Zandt
Citizen Kane
Genre:
Comedy, Romance, Romantic Comedy, Fantasy
Release Date:
03/19/2004
Synopsis:
Joel
is stunned to discover that his girlfriend Clementine has had the
memories of their tumultuous relationship erased. Out of desperation, he
contacts the inventor of the process, Dr. Howard Mierzwiak, to have
Clementine removed from his own memory. But as Joel's memories
progressively begin to disappear, he begins to discover their earlier
passion. From deep within the recesses of his brain, Joel attempts to
escape the procedure. As Dr. Mierzwiak and his crew chase him through
the maze of his more...
Director:
Michel Gondry
Actor/Voice credits:
Amir Ali Said, Debbon Ayer, David Cross
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Release Date:
01/01/1974
Synopsis:
While
investigating adultery, amoral detective Jake Gittes stumbles onto a
murder. Set in Los Angeles, he unravels a scheme to control all the
water coming into the city.
Director:
Roman Polanski
Actor/Voice credits:
Bob Golden, James O'Rear, Nandu Hinds
Chinatown
Genre:
Drama, Adaptation, Adventure, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Technology
Release Date:
03/31/1968
Synopsis:
In
space, HAL takes control of the humans in Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A
Space Odyssey" (1968). This towering cinematic achievement begins with a
black monolith and ends with a space journey that goes terribly wrong
as HAL, the computer that runs the spaceship, takes on a life of his
own. Starring Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood, this film is considered one
of the great masterpieces of modern film.
Director:
Stanley Kubrick
Actor/Voice credits:
Jonathan Daw, Richard Wood, Bob Wilyman
2001: A Space Odyssey
Genre:
Drama, Adaptation, Adventure, Action
Release Date:
04/30/1979
Synopsis:
During
the Vietnam War, the young American Captain Willard is given the
assignment to hunt down and kill one of his own: Colonel Kurtz who has
apparently gone insane, murdered hundreds of innocent people, and
constructed a strange kingdom for himself deep in the jungle. Willard
and his crew embark on a surreal river journey to find Kurtz, meeting
along the way a Lieutenant-Colonel who surfs during live combat, Playboy
bunnies dropped in by helicopter to entertain rowdy troops, and the
inhabitants more...
Director:
Francis Ford Coppola
Actor/Voice credits:
Bo Byers, Scott Glenn, Jerry Ziesmer
Apocalypse Now
Genre:
Drama, Adaptation, Comedy
Release Date:
01/01/1975
Synopsis:
Jack
Nicholson scores the role of a lifetime in Milos Forman's
Oscar-sweeping drama classic "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975).
To get out of jail, McMurphy (Nicholson) fakes psychosis and is sent to
what he believes will be the cushier rooms of a state mental asylum. He
doesn't count on the terrifying Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher) and
dehumanizing conditions that might really drive him insane. A
masterpiece about rebellion and the unstoppable human spirit co-starring
Danny DeVito, Vincent more...
Director:
Milos Forman
Actor/Voice credits:
Nathan George, Mimi Sarkisian, Louisa Moritz
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Release Date:
04/20/1977
Synopsis:
A
comical look at the up and down relationship between a New York City TV
writer and his aspiring actress/singer girlfriend who's originally from
the Midwest.
Director:
Woody Allen
Actor/Voice credits:
Margaretta Warwick, Lucy Lee Flippin, Gary Mule Deer
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