H.G. Wells has just invented a time machine but hasn't tried it out yet. When he discovers that one of his friends is actually Jack the Ripper, Jack makes his escape using the time machine. ... more about Time After Time

A stowaway orphan is raised by Santa's elves. Desperate to know who his family is, Buddy sets off to New York to find his father. ... more about Elf

Ambitious land developers descend on a tiny Florida coastline community, inhabited mostly by local yokels and elderly African Americans. Many of them don't want to see their homes and businesses sacrificed in the name of "progress" (a.k.a. ... more about Sunshine State

The film chronicles the story of former President Richard Nixon from childhood, through his political career and his Presidential resignation in 1974. ... more about Nixon

Gilbert Grape lives in Endora, a place where nothing much happens. The only times the police got something to do is when Gilbert's autistic brother Arnie tries to climb up on the watertower nearby. ... more about What's Eating Gilbert Grape

Andrew Beckett, a gay lawyer infected with AIDS, is fired from his conservative law firm in fear that they might contract AIDS from him. ... more about Philadelphia

The poignant, often humorous journey of one man who decides to tear down his house -- and winds up rebuilding the world around him. ... more about Life as a House

Stranded in 1955, Marty has to travel back to 1885 and save Doc from being killed by Mad Dog Tannen, but when Doc meets the new schoolteacher, he is reluctant to return to the future. ... more about Back to the Future Part III

This movie tells the possibly true story of Melvin Dummar. Melvin is a nice guy, but he is a total loser: unlucky, impractical and can't keep a job. One night, however, he helps an old man who has had a motorcycle accident in the desert. ... more about Melvin and Howard

The film was made in Acapulco, Mexico. Six women -- dreamy Eileen, abrasive Nan, athletic Skipper, brusque Leslie, vivacious Jennifer and patient Gayle -- are staying at a hotel in Latin America, run by Señora Muñoz. ... more about Casa de Los Babys

Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los Angeles, meet, marry, face deportation all in the 1930's. They establish their family in East L.A. ... more about My Family

Centred around a weekend party at the home of inventor Andrew Hobbs and his wife Adrian, attended by randy doctor Maxwell Jordan, his nurse Darcy, renowned philosopher Dr. ... more about Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy

The story runs in the 1910's New York. Coalhouse Walker Jr. is a black man piano player. He has won fame and fortune playing with a jazz band. Some white men do not like this situation, and one day they assault him and spoil his brand new car. ... more about Ragtime

The film tells the story of seven seemingly unrelated women and their possible connection to a dead woman found in a field. ... more about Dead Girl

The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. ... more about Parenthood

A clairvoyant thinks she's met her husband to be because she's seen him in her dreams. They marry quickly, and return to the husband's ("the butcher"), home in the city. ... more about Butcher's Wife

Gideon (Harry Dean Stanton), a Christmas angel, is sent, by Santa, to help Ginny Grainger (Mary Steenburgen). Ginny is a cynic, and she hates Christmas. ... more about One Magic Christmas

The "Dead Girl" is a quintet of stories about seemingly unrelated women whose lives converge around the murder of a young woman. ... more about Dead Girl

Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks and is obsessed with the Beatles. He has a daughter with a homeless woman; she abandons them as soon as they leave the hospital. ... more about I Am Sam

A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge. ... more about Brave One

When sheriff Barnum investigates the death of an elderly rural resident, he discovers a teenage grandson living in the basement. Raised by his grandparents, he has experienced the world only through books, never leaving the family farm. ... more about Powder

After his mother's death, Collin Fenwick goes to live with his father's cousins, the wealthy, avaricious, and controlling Verena Talbo, and her compliant, earthy sister Dolly. ... more about Grass Harp

Brennan Huff, a sporadically employed thirty-nine-year-old, lives with his mother, Nancy. Dale Doback, a terminally unemployed forty-year-old lives with his father, Robert. When Robert and Nancy marry and move in together, Brennan and Dale are forced to live with each other as step brothers. ... more about Step Brothers

Henry Moon is captured for a capital offense by a posse when his horse quits while trying to escape to Mexico. He finds that there is a post-Civil War law in the small town that any single or widowed woman can save him from the gallows by marrying him. ... more about Goin' South

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Struggling actress is hired for a part in a movie by an old man who lives in a rundown old mansion. Eventually she realizes she's being held prisoner. ... more about Dead of Winter

Colin's a sad-eyed British artist (Firth) holed up in a rundown hotel in small-town Vermont after being dumped by his fiancee (Driver). The hotel owner (Steenburgen) plays matchmaker and introduces him to a local girl (Graham). ... more about Hope Springs

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Summer people in Maine: things are changing. Whales no longer pass close to the shore as they did during the youth of two elderly widowed sisters who have a seaside home where they've summered for 50 years. ... more about Whales of August

In this dark comedy a mischevious ten year old boy named Clifford (Martin Short) is sent to his uncle Martin's (Charles Grodin) for the weekend to get out of his father's (Richard Kind) hair. ... more about Clifford

Based on the classic children's book by E.B. White, this is the tale of a trumpeter swan named Louis who learns to speak to the world with a trumpet stolen from a music store by his father. ... more about Trumpet of the Swan

It is now summer in the Parker family; and the usual amount of numerous events are happening in their separate lives. ... more about It Runs in the Family

An absent-minded-professor father and his son bond during a symbolic road trip through the Western U.S. while his wife tries to overcome her neuroses to save the family. ... more about Pontiac Moon

Carnelle isn't happy with her life, so in order to improve herself she enters a local beauty contest, trying to emulate her cousin Elain's win many years ago. Few think she can win, even her closest friends and relatives (e.g. ... more about Miss Firecracker

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2 worker from a railway company realize that the company want to close the railroad track where they work. They steal an engine and travel thru America to the centre of the company to protest against the closing. ... more about End of the Line

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When the American researcher Eli wins the Nobel Prize, he decides to travel to Stockholm with his wife, Sarah and his son, Barkley, an unsuccessful writer. But Barkley is kidnapped by Thaddeus, who reveals to be Eli's son. ... more about Nobel Son

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