Adventure

2000

R

Plot: Based on the novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, this film version of St. Ives is a romantic costume adventure set during the end of the Napoleonic Wars. The dashing Jacques St. Ives (Jean ...

Drama

2002

R

Plot: Following up on his directorial debut, Joe the King, actor-turned-sometimes director Frank Whaley made this gritty character study of a man consumed by anger. Working as a clerk at a supe ...

Children's/Family

2001

G

Plot: This animated feature from Nickelodeon is the story of ten-year-old genius inventor Jimmy Neutron, whose penchant for gadget-creation gets him and his robot dog, Goddard, into trouble at home and schoo ...

Music [nf]

2002

Plot: The keeper of one of the most distinctive voices in modern jazz, enigmatic singer Jimmy Scott has overcome remarkable adversity to become one of the most respected jazz vocalists of his g ...

Drama

1986

PG

Plot: Co-adapted by director Claude Berri from a novel by Marcel Pagnol, this hugely successful French historical drama concerns a bizarre battle royale over a valuable natural spring in a remote French farm ...

Drama

1996

R

Plot: Originally made for cable television, this imaginative biopic chronicles the life of Marilyn Monroe (Mira Sorvino), including the years before she changed her name from Norma Jean Baker (Ashley Judd) a ...

Drama

1957

Plot: Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa transferred the setting of Maxim Gorkys play The Lower Depths from Imperial Russia to his own countrys Edo Period--which, like Gorkys 19th-century settin ...

History [nf]

1995

NR

Plot: The meteoric rise and tragic fall of actress Jean Seberg is dissected in this fascinatingly complex psuedo-documentary that features actress Mary Beth Hurt playing Seberg as she examines her life. Alon ...