Historical Film

1989

PG13

Plot: Kenneth Branagh makes his feature film directorial debut with this adaptation of William Shakespeares Henry V. After the Chorus (Derek Jacobi) introduces the play, young king of England Henry V (Kennet ...

Comedy Drama

1964

NR

Plot: Decked out with another of his American accents, Peter Sellers plays self-centered concert pianist Henry Orient. While Henrys active libido sends him off on pursuit of married woman Paula Prentiss, a p ...

History [nf]

2002

NR

Plot: This incisive documentary offers a sobering portrait of statesman Henry Kissinger, quite possibly the most powerful and influential diplomat in U.S. government in the latter half of the 20th cen ...

Plot: This anthology film assembles five respected directors and a top-notch cast to bring a handful of stories by the great American author O. Henry to the screen. In The Cop and the Anthem, a tramp ...

History [nf]

2003

NR

Plot: Award-winning short filmmaker Jessica Yu makes her feature-length debut with In the Realms of the Unreal, a documentary about outsider artist Henry Darger. Born in 1892, Darger liv ...

Adventure

1975

PG

Plot: The Man Who Would Be King opens with author Rudyard Kipling (Christopher Plummer) working in his study. His solitude is broken by the arrival of a tattered, half-mad derelict, who is soon ...

Musical

1956

G

Plot: The King and I, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammersteins 1951Broadway musical hit, was based on Margaret Landons book Anna and the King of Siam. Since 20th-Century-Fox had made a film versi ...

Children's/Family

1999

G

Plot: In this animated adaptation of the popular musical, British widow Anna Leonowens (voiced by Miranda Richardson, with singing by Christiane Noll) and her ten-year-old son Louis (Adam Wylie) travel from ...

Drama

1999

R

Plot: Actor Frank Whaley makes his directorial debut with Joe the King, a downbeat drama about a 14-year-old boy coming of age in an abusive and uncaring environment. When he was nine, Joe Henr ...

Drama

1949

NR

Plot: Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Robert Penn Warren, All the Kings Men is a roman a clef inspired by the career of Louisiana governor Huey Long. Broderick Crawford won an Acad ...

Drama

2005

R

Plot: A young man exacts a thorough revenge against the father who abandoned him in this independent drama. Elvis (Gael García Bernal) is a young man in his early twenties who, after finishing a hitch ...

Horror

1976

PG

Plot: Famed producer Dino De Laurentiis tries to steal the thunder from Jaws, then the top-grossing film of all-time, in this big budget remake of King Kong. (De Laurentiis relate ...

Horror

1998

PG13

Plot: What happens when you cross an African King Cobra with an Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake? You get one extremely large and ill-tempered reptile, and hes on the loose in the horror opus King Cobra ...

Drama

1996

NR

Plot: This tender Chinese tale of an aged street performer who begins teaching a young child is filled with warm humanity but not imbued with undue sentiment. It is set about seventy years in the past and ce ...

Drama

1958

PG

Plot: Elvis Presley delivers one of his finest early performances in King Creole. Elvis plays a teenager named Danny Fisher, who is forced to drop out of school to help support his ineffective ...

Crime

1990

R

Plot: The gritty underbelly of New Yorks complex, ethnically divided criminal world is exposed in this dark drama from director Abel Ferrara. Christopher Walken stars as Frank White, a drug lord whos just be ...

Epic

1999

PG13

Plot: The true story of Anna Leonowens experiences as a governess to the children of an eccentric Asian king has been adapted into a book of memoirs, a biography, a stage play called Anna and the King ...

Comedy

1966

NR

Plot: The French/Italian/British King of Hearts (Le Roi de Couer) takes place during World War I, but it might as well have been the Vietnamese conflict so far as its youthful cor ...

Comedy

1991

PG

Plot: Sometimes a family title, among the nobility of England, goes to the collateral heirs -- people not in the direct line of decent, like cousins, great-nephews and the like. On rare occasions, these peop ...

Adventure

2000

PG13

Plot: In medieval times, dashing Captain Reynolds (Trevor St. John), the commander of the kings elite guardsmen, is ordered by the queen (Lesley-Anne Down) to go undercover to protect Princess Gwendolyn (Ash ...

Fantasy

1980

NR

Plot: The second of Rankin/Bass animated TV specials based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, Return of the King plots the quest to defeat the evil wizard Sauron. Frodo, nephew of The Hobbit ...

Crime

2002

R

Plot: Jon Seda and Mario Lopez star in this gritty crime drama set against the backdrop of gangland Los Angeles. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide

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Drama

2000

R

Plot: Martin Scorseses seminal 1975 drama Taxi Driver informs this tale of a neglected, Upper West Side outcast who slowly devolves into a potential murderer. John Leguizamo stars as Seymour, t ...

Drama

2000

R

Plot: Shot against the barren sand dunes of Africas Namib Desert, The King Is Alive is the fourth film to adhere to the stripped-down aesthetic of the Dogma 95 movement, and the first to ...

Crime

2003

R

Plot: Somewhere between the cocaine and the money, hip hop producer Tommy Gold loses sight of the music he once loved, and the dream he had of making it. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide

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Crime

2003

R

Plot: Touted as something of a return-to-form for Re-Animator director Stuart Gordon, King of the Ants offers the brutal tale of a man discovering his previously untapped potentia ...

Comedy

2005

PG13

Plot: A multi-millionaire plans a scam that goes wrong in a great many ways in this comedy. Malcolm King (Anthony Anderson) is a wildly successful businessman who has gotten used to having things his ...

Adventure

2005

PG13

Plot: One of the greatest adventure stories in Hollywood history gets a new interpretation in this action drama from Academy Award-winning director Peter Jackson. In the early 1930s, Carl Denham (Jack ...

Plot: Though officially based on Pierre Schoendoerffers novel LAdieu au Roi, Farewell to the King also bears echoes of Conrads Heart of Darkness and Lord Jim

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Plot: When a beautiful young slave girl learns that her people are about to fall victim to a horrible act of genocide, she will be forced to choose between realizing her wildest dreams or stepping into the p ...

Drama

2007

Plot: Producer/writer/director and stepbrother to Elvis Presley, D. Edward Stanley relays just what it was like to protect the King of Rock and Roll in an intensely personal biography that offers rare person ...

PG13

Plot: Michael Douglas stars as a treasure-hunting eccentric in this Alexander Payne-produced comedy from director Michael Cahill. Recently released from a mental institution and reunited with his teen ...

Science Fiction

1954

Plot: Filmed in 1954 as Gojira, this grandaddy of all Japanese giant-reptile epics was picked up for American distribution two years later, at which time several newly filmed inserts, fe ...

Music [nf]

1974

Plot: When Muhammad Ali and George Foreman staged their heavyweight title fight in Zaire in 1974, a three-day music festival was held in tandem with the bout, and headliner B.B. King proved why hes regarded ...

Drama

1972

R

Plot: Dreams die hard in wintry Atlantic City in Bob Rafelsons downbeat character drama. Depressive deejay David Staebler (Jack Nicholson) tends to his grandfather as he philosophizes on late-night Philadel ...

Science Fiction

1995

PG13

Plot: Ten passengers on a red-eye flight from L.A. to Boston discover that they are not the only people on the plane, but after making an emergency landing in Bangor, Maine, they discover that they are the o ...

Historical Film

1994

PG13

Plot: Based on Alan Bennetts acclaimed play The Madness of George III, The Madness of King George takes a dark-humored look at the mental decline of King George III of England. The films story ...

Fantasy

1962

Plot: This preposterous battle between the huge ape King Kong and the fire-breathing dinosaur Gojira marked the beginning of Toho Studios aiming their monster films at children rather than general audiences. ...

Adventure

1937

NR

Plot: The first of three talkie versions of H. Rider Haggards adventure novel King Solomons Mine was produced by British Gaumont. While Cedric Hardwicke plays the nominal leading role of explor ...

Children's/Family

2004

G

Plot: Ten years after The Lion King shot to the top at the box office and first introduced the characters of Simba (Matthew Broderick) and his pals Timon (Nathan Lane) and Pumbaa (Ernie Sabella ...

Adventure

1985

PG13

Plot: The action in this routine adventure film would be modeled on the enormously successful Indiana Jones but it is too much, too fast, too deja vu. It all starts when Jessie Huston (Sharon S ...

Adventure

2004

NR

Plot: This four-hour cable miniseries adaptation of H. Rider Haggards classic adventure novel King Solomons Mines dispenses with much of the original story in favor of a standard Indiana Jones-e ...

Drama

1927

Plot: Having scored big-time box office with his first Biblical epic, The Ten Commandments (1923), Cecil B. DeMille hoped to top this success with his 1927 The King of Kings

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Music [nf]

2003

Plot: When music has become predictably homogenized and creative malaise begins to set in, its innovators like Bruce Haack who strive to bring a newfound sense of experimentation and fun to their art -- to i ...

Adventure

1933

NR

Plot: How would you like to star opposite the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood? Enticed by these words, brunette leading lady Fay Wray dyed her hair blonde and accepted the role of Ann Darrow in ...

Horror

1999

PG13

Plot: The first story Stephen King wrote specifically for a television miniseries, Storm of the Century is set in Little Tall Island, a small town off the coast of Maine. The citizens are braci ...

Children's/Family

1998

NR

Plot: Darrell Rooney directed this direct-to-video sequel to Disneys 1994 The Lion King, which climaxed with Simba (voice of Matthew Broderick) enthroned as the ruling king of beasts following ...

Music [nf]

2000

NR

Plot: Take a musical journey with rhythm & blues singing legend Ben E. King in BET on Jazz: The Jazz Channel Presents Ben E. King. In this program, filmed originally at Studio II for the Black ...

Plot: Red Skeltons final film starring vehicle is an expansion of an hour-long TV play, which also starred Skelton when it was originally seen in September of 1955 on the weekly anthology Climax!

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Adventure

2002

PG13

Plot: The Rock has his first starring role in this prequel to The Mummy films, which was developed while The Mummy Returns was still in production. The film takes place in ancient ...

Fantasy

2004

PG13

Plot: After witnessing the brutal murder of his powerful father King Solomon of the Netherlands, a young heir to the throne begins preparation for his ultimate revenge in director Uli Edels medivel tale of m ...

Fantasy

1983

R

Plot: Richard Hill is Deathstalker in this sweat-drenched Sword-and-Sorcery romp. Armed with the Sword of Justice, which renders him invincible, Hill takes on main villain Victor Bo. Barbi Benton is t ...

2003

NR

Plot: The first season of King of the Hill opens with its pilot episode, in which suburban Texas redneck Hank Hill is falsely accused of child abuse when his chubby son Bobby turns up with a bl ...

Children's/Family

1994

G

Plot: One of the most popular Disney animated musicals, The Lion King presents the story of a lion cubs journey to adulthood and acceptance of his royal destiny. Simba (voiced first by Jonathan ...

Fantasy

2003

PG13

Plot: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King brings Peter Jacksons mammoth adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkiens classic to a close in suitably epic fashion. Instead of starting just where the p ...

Adventure

2004

NR

Plot: An ambitious attempt to wed the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table with known historical facts of the era, this action adventure drama begins with the fall of the Ro ...

Plot: An adventurous former librarian sets out in search of the legendary mines of King Solomon in this epic sequel to The Librarian: Quest for the Spear starring Noah Wyle, Gabrielle Anwar, Bo ...

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Fantasy

2003

PG13

Plot: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King brings Peter Jacksons mammoth adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkiens classic to a close in suitably epic fashion. Instead of starting just where the p ...

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2003

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Drama

2004

NR

Plot: Based upon the critically acclaimed Lars von Trier miniseries Riget (The Kingdom), this American remake from fright master Stephen King unfolds over 15 hours and centers on ...

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1998

NR

Plot: Godzilla is reunited with one of his arch-enemies in this remake of the Japanese monster classic. When a meteorite crashes to Earth in the Pacific Ocean near Japan, the consequences are remarkable; it ...