Romance

1975

Plot: The great Biblical romance between Jacob and Rachel provides the basis of this costume drama. The trouble begins when the young womans stern father demands that they wait seven years before they ...

Travel [nf]

1992

Plot: A visual journey through the North country, across glaciers, over coastlines, and through forests, matched by a beautiful musical score. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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Drama

1998

R

Plot: Carl Franklin directed this family drama adapted from the 1995 novel by former New York Times columnist Anna Quindlen about a young woman who goes back home to take care of her dying mother. In 1987-88 ...

Comedy

1986

PG

Plot: Director David Byrne (of Talking Heads) takes an outside-looking-in glance at Texas and Texans in True Stories. Casting himself as the protagonist/narrator, Byrne adopts what he thinks is ...

Action

1994

R

Plot: Borrowing liberally from the French film La Totale, this is an action picture, domestic comedy, and political thriller rolled into a crowd-pleasing ball of entertainment. Producer James C ...

Western

1969

G

Plot: In fine Hollywood tradition, John Wayne had to play a one-eyed fat man before the Motion Picture Academy considered him worthy of an Oscar. In True Grit, Wayne plays grumpy, pot-bellied U ...

Thriller

1989

R

Plot: The only True Believer at the beginning of this drama is idealistic young attorney Robert Downey Jr., who apprentices under the guidance of celebrated civil-rights activist James Woods. A ...

Thriller

2000

R

Plot: Detective Rem Macy (Tom Berenger) is investigating a murder mystery instigated by the discovery of a disembodied hand. After the victim is identified, the victims roommate (Lori Heuring) becomes fright ...

Thriller

1995

R

Plot: In this thriller a woman attempts to solve a murder and ends up face to face with a serial killer. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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Drama

1999

R

Plot: Investigative reporter Steve Everett (Clint Eastwood) has just relocated to the west coast after getting fired from the New York Times. Thanks to his old friend, Alan Mann (James Woods), the editor-in- ...

Drama

1991

R

Plot: John Cusack and James Spader play against type in Kevin Wades morality play, directed by Herbert Ross. Spader plays Tim Gerrity, a well-heeled WASP blueblood, who has dedicated his life to justice and ...

Children's/Family

1997

PG

Plot: Two young girls who believe that fairies are real attempt to prove it to the world in this drama based on actual events. In 1917, there is little to be happy about in the Wright household in West Yorks ...

History [nf]

2004

Plot: Troy, a documentary about the Trojan War, came to home video around the same time as the big-budget action spectacle of the same name featuring Brad Pitt. The film details h ...

Comedy

2004

PG13

Plot: Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story revolves around amiable underachiever Peter LaFleur (Vince Vaughn), whose rundown gym, Average Joes, is populated by ...

Plot: A man and his young daughter face almost impossible odds as they struggle to help an injured horse return to the racetrack in this family-friendly drama. Ben Crane (Kurt Russell) is a horse trai ...

Plot: Douglas Bruce was a British expatriate living in New York City who in the early morning hours of July 3, 2003, found himself on a subway train heading toward Coney Island, with no memory of who he was, ...

2003

Plot: A&Es award-winning series Biography profiles the life of the infamous Bugsy Siegel. Born Benjamin Siegel in Brooklyn, New York this New York and California gangster was the U.S. crime sy ...

Crime

1993

NR

Plot: Quentin Tarantino scripted this wild and wooly blend of action and dark comedy, which reached theaters a year before his breakthrough hit Pulp Fiction. Clarence Worley (Chri ...