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The Remains of the Day (1993)

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A rule bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  James Ivory
CAST:  Anthony Hopkins  •  Emma Thompson  •  James Fox  •  Christopher Reeve

A rule bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  James Ivory
CAST:  Anthony Hopkins  •  Emma Thompson  •  James Fox  •  Christopher Reeve

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)

Thought provokingPowerfulBrilliant

A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alex Gibney
CAST:  Peter Coyote  •  John Beard  •  Jim Chanos  •  Dick Cheney

A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alex Gibney
CAST:  Peter Coyote  •  John Beard  •  Jim Chanos  •  Dick Cheney

Wildlife (2018)

PowerfulDramaticEmotional

14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry — a housewife and a golf pro — in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job (and his sense of purpose) he decides to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Paul Dano
CAST:  Jake Gyllenhaal  •  Carey Mulligan  •  Ed Oxenbould  •  Bill Camp

14-year-old Joe is the only child of Jeanette and Jerry — a housewife and a golf pro — in a small town in 1960s Montana. Nearby, an uncontrolled forest fire rages close to the Canadian border, and when Jerry loses his job (and his sense of purpose) he decides to ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Paul Dano
CAST:  Jake Gyllenhaal  •  Carey Mulligan  •  Ed Oxenbould  •  Bill Camp

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Rashomon (1950)

Thought provokingDramaticEmotional

Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice. Through an ingenious use of camera and flashbacks, Kurosawa reveals the complexities of human nature as four ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Akira Kurosawa
CAST:  Toshirō Mifune  •  Machiko Kyō  •  Masayuki Mori  •  Takashi Shimura

Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice. Through an ingenious use of camera and flashbacks, Kurosawa reveals the complexities of human nature as four ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Akira Kurosawa
CAST:  Toshirō Mifune  •  Machiko Kyō  •  Masayuki Mori  •  Takashi Shimura

Rang De Basanti (2006)

PowerfulDramaticEmotional

After a group of friends graduate from Delhi University, they listlessly haunt their old campus, until a British filmmaker casts them in a film she's making about freedom fighters under British rule. Although the group is largely apolitical, the tragic death of a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
CAST:  Aamir Khan  •  Soha Ali Khan  •  Alice Patten  •  Sharman Joshi

After a group of friends graduate from Delhi University, they listlessly haunt their old campus, until a British filmmaker casts them in a film she's making about freedom fighters under British rule. Although the group is largely apolitical, the tragic death of a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
CAST:  Aamir Khan  •  Soha Ali Khan  •  Alice Patten  •  Sharman Joshi

Arizona Dream (1993)

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An Innuit hunter races his sled home with a fresh-caught halibut. This fish pervades the entire film, in real and imaginary form. Meanwhile, Axel tags fish in New York as a naturalist's gofer. He's happy there, but a messenger arrives to bring him to Arizona for ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Emir Kusturica
CAST:  Johnny Depp  •  Jerry Lewis  •  Faye Dunaway  •  Lili Taylor

An Innuit hunter races his sled home with a fresh-caught halibut. This fish pervades the entire film, in real and imaginary form. Meanwhile, Axel tags fish in New York as a naturalist's gofer. He's happy there, but a messenger arrives to bring him to Arizona for ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Emir Kusturica
CAST:  Johnny Depp  •  Jerry Lewis  •  Faye Dunaway  •  Lili Taylor

Secrets & Lies (1996)

FunnyPowerfulBrilliantEmotional

With both her adoptive parents now dead, a black optometrist decides to make contact with her birth mother, but is shocked to find out that she is white.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mike Leigh
CAST:  Timothy Spall  •  Phyllis Logan  •  Brenda Blethyn  •  Claire Rushbrook

With both her adoptive parents now dead, a black optometrist decides to make contact with her birth mother, but is shocked to find out that she is white.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Mike Leigh
CAST:  Timothy Spall  •  Phyllis Logan  •  Brenda Blethyn  •  Claire Rushbrook

Aaram Thamburan (1997)

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Jagannathan faces several challenges when he goes to stay in Kanimangalam village. He promises the villagers that he will help in the preparations for the annual temple festival, but will his enemies leave him in peace?  (more)

DIRECTION:  Shaji Kailas
CAST:  Mohanlal  •  Manju Warrier  •  Narendra Prasad  •  Priya Raman

Jagannathan faces several challenges when he goes to stay in Kanimangalam village. He promises the villagers that he will help in the preparations for the annual temple festival, but will his enemies leave him in peace?  (more)

DIRECTION:  Shaji Kailas
CAST:  Mohanlal  •  Manju Warrier  •  Narendra Prasad  •  Priya Raman

White Oleander (2002)

BeautifulBrilliantDramaticEmotional

A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Peter Kosminsky
CAST:  Alison Lohman  •  Michelle Pfeiffer  •  Cole Hauser  •  Robin Wright

A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Peter Kosminsky
CAST:  Alison Lohman  •  Michelle Pfeiffer  •  Cole Hauser  •  Robin Wright

The Power and the Prize (1956)

Thought provokingComplexDramaticEmotional

An ambitious executive jeopardizes his career to marry a European refugee.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Henry Koster
CAST:  Robert Taylor  •  Elisabeth Müller  •  Burl Ives  •  Charles Coburn

An ambitious executive jeopardizes his career to marry a European refugee.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Henry Koster
CAST:  Robert Taylor  •  Elisabeth Müller  •  Burl Ives  •  Charles Coburn

Revolver (2005)

OriginalPowerfulBrilliantDramatic

Hotshot gambler Jake Green is long on bravado and seriously short of common sense. Rarely is he allowed in any casino because he's a bona fide winner and, in fact, has taken so much money over the years that he's the sole client of his accountant elder brother, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Guy Ritchie
CAST:  Jason Statham  •  Ray Liotta  •  Vincent Pastore  •  André 3000

Hotshot gambler Jake Green is long on bravado and seriously short of common sense. Rarely is he allowed in any casino because he's a bona fide winner and, in fact, has taken so much money over the years that he's the sole client of his accountant elder brother, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Guy Ritchie
CAST:  Jason Statham  •  Ray Liotta  •  Vincent Pastore  •  André 3000

Lord of the Flies (1963)

Thought provokingBrilliantDarkDramatic

Amidst a nuclear war, a plane carrying a group of schoolboys crash lands on a deserted island. With no adult survivors, the boys are forced to fend for themselves. At first they cooperate, but when they split into two separate camps -- one led by the pragmatic ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Peter Brook
CAST:  James Aubrey  •  Tom Chapin  •  Hugh Edwards  •  Roger Elwin

Amidst a nuclear war, a plane carrying a group of schoolboys crash lands on a deserted island. With no adult survivors, the boys are forced to fend for themselves. At first they cooperate, but when they split into two separate camps -- one led by the pragmatic ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Peter Brook
CAST:  James Aubrey  •  Tom Chapin  •  Hugh Edwards  •  Roger Elwin

Ivanhoe (1952)

Thought provokingPowerfulBeautifulEmotional

Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of King Richard the Lionheart.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Richard Thorpe
CAST:  Robert Taylor  •  Elizabeth Taylor  •  Joan Fontaine  •  George Sanders

Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of King Richard the Lionheart.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Richard Thorpe
CAST:  Robert Taylor  •  Elizabeth Taylor  •  Joan Fontaine  •  George Sanders

Ali (2001)

Thought provokingInspiringBrilliantDramatic

In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene: Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public self-confidence and his unapologetic belief ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Michael Mann
CAST:  Will Smith  •  Jamie Foxx  •  Jon Voight  •  Mario Van Peebles

In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene: Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken, he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public self-confidence and his unapologetic belief ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Michael Mann
CAST:  Will Smith  •  Jamie Foxx  •  Jon Voight  •  Mario Van Peebles

The Five People You Meet In Heaven (2004)

Thought provokingBeautifulBrilliantEmotional

On his 83rd birthday, Eddie (Voight), a war vet and a maintenance worker at the Ruby Pier amusement park, dies while trying to save a girl who is sitting under a falling ride. When he awakens in the afterlife, he encounters five people with ties to his corporeal ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lloyd Kramer
CAST:  Jon Voight  •  Ellen Burstyn  •  Jeff Daniels  •  Dagmara Dominczyk

On his 83rd birthday, Eddie (Voight), a war vet and a maintenance worker at the Ruby Pier amusement park, dies while trying to save a girl who is sitting under a falling ride. When he awakens in the afterlife, he encounters five people with ties to his corporeal ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lloyd Kramer
CAST:  Jon Voight  •  Ellen Burstyn  •  Jeff Daniels  •  Dagmara Dominczyk

K-PAX (2001)

Thought provokingPowerfulEmotionalMysterious

Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Iain Softley
CAST:  Jeff Bridges  •  Kevin Spacey  •  Mary McCormack  •  Alfre Woodard

Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Iain Softley
CAST:  Jeff Bridges  •  Kevin Spacey  •  Mary McCormack  •  Alfre Woodard

Gods and Monsters (1998)

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It's 1957, and James Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The Invisible Man" is long behind him. Retired and a semi-recluse, he lives his days accompanied only by images from his past. When his dour housekeeper, Hannah, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Bill Condon
CAST:  Ian McKellen  •  Brendan Fraser  •  Lynn Redgrave  •  Lolita Davidovich

It's 1957, and James Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "The Invisible Man" is long behind him. Retired and a semi-recluse, he lives his days accompanied only by images from his past. When his dour housekeeper, Hannah, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Bill Condon
CAST:  Ian McKellen  •  Brendan Fraser  •  Lynn Redgrave  •  Lolita Davidovich

Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

Thought provokingPowerfulBrilliantMysterious

Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kenneth Branagh
CAST:  Kenneth Branagh  •  Penélope Cruz  •  Willem Dafoe  •  Judi Dench

Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Kenneth Branagh
CAST:  Kenneth Branagh  •  Penélope Cruz  •  Willem Dafoe  •  Judi Dench

Doubt (2008)

Thought provokingPowerfulDramaticMysterious

In 1964, a Catholic school nun questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student, suspecting him of abuse.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Patrick Shanley
CAST:  Amy Adams  •  Philip Seymour Hoffman  •  Meryl Streep  •  Viola Davis

In 1964, a Catholic school nun questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student, suspecting him of abuse.  (more)

DIRECTION:  John Patrick Shanley
CAST:  Amy Adams  •  Philip Seymour Hoffman  •  Meryl Streep  •  Viola Davis
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