War veteran Michael Corlone returns home to find himself becoming increasingly involved with the family "business." His father, "Don" Vito Corleone, is the head of the mafia family and eventually expects Michael to take his place when he dies. ... more about Godfather
Actor Awards
BAFTA Awards - Best Supporting Actor
New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Supporting Actor
The second installment in the Godfather trilogy follows Michael and his position of "Don" in the Corleone family. The film also tells about Vito Corleone's beginnings and how he became one of the most powerful men in New York. ... more about Godfather: Part II
During the height of the Vietnam War, Special Forces Captain Willard is given the assignment to hunt and kill one of the Military's own; an insane Col. reported to have killed hundreds of innocent people and has established a personal refuge in the jungle. ... more about Apocalypse Now
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
American Movie Awards - Best Supporting Actor
BAFTA Awards - Best Supporting Actor
Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor in a Supporting Role
A detective is sent by a politician to catch a big-time gangster, so he can procure him before a Senate crime committee for selfish gain. When the gangster is bumped off before this can happen, the detective and the politico clash with each other. ... more about Bullitt
Surgical hijinks unfold as ace Army cutters subvert the Korean War, drive lieutenants over the edge, chase after wary nurses, and have fun with syringes during an epic football game--all the while remembering that they're living in the backdrop of a seemingly senseless war zone. ... more about MASH
The tale of Karl Childers, a mildly retarded man faced with a complex moral dilemma. As a child, Karl was severely abused by his fanatically religious parents, who considered him a punishment from God. ... more about Sling Blade
In 1975 terrorist violence is the stuff of network nightly news programming and the corporate structure of the UBS television network is changing. ... more about Network
A pure western in which a lawmen tracks a criminal, TRUE GRIT, based on Charles Portis' novel, reunited John Wayne with director Henry Hathaway (THE SONS OF KATIE ELDER). Wayne is crotchety U.S.... ... more about True Grit
A satirical window into the world of big tobacco and the culture of spin. Attacked by politicians and lifestyle advocates Nick Naylor's job is to defend big tobacco, until his son and health force him to question his own position. ... more about Thank You for Smoking
Eulis 'Sonny' Dewey is a preacher from Texas living a happy life with his beautiful wife Jessie. Suddenly his stable world crumbles: Jessie is having an affair with young minister Horace. ... more about Apostle
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
Florida Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards - Best Actor
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Actor
Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Screen Actors Guild Awards - Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
A group of cattle herders are temporally detoured when a young ranch hand is beaten and jailed by a corrupt land baron and the sheriff. Wanting to acquire the group's heard the baron’s henchmen attack them, killing several men. The herders return to the old town to enact their revenge. ... more about Open Range
THX 1138' is a chilling look at a 25th-century totalitarian state where mankind is stripped of any individuality. People are numbered drones, and a government-enforced program of sedating drugs controls the populace. ... more about THX 1138
Henry Hackett is the editor of a New York City tabloid. He is a workaholic who loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. ... more about Paper
"Secondhand Lions" follows the comedic adventures of an introverted boy (Osment) left on the doorstep of a pair of reluctant, eccentric great-uncles (Caine and Duvall), whose exotic remembrances stir the boy's spirit and re-ignite the men's lives. ... more about Secondhand Lions
As a comet is on a collision course with earth, humans have to prepare for their survival. They randomly select eight hundred thousand people to be saved in order to keep the human race alive. ... more about Deep Impact
Actor Awards
Blockbuster Entertainment Awards - Favorite Actor - Sci-Fi
The main character (John Travolta) observes a strange light on his birthday at a bar. The following days he becomes very intell-i-gent and puts the intell-i-gence to good use in his community. ... more about Phenomenon
A helicopter pilot survives a near-fatal accident and returns to his home - to find that he's been replaced by an exact duplicate of himself, a clone. When the clone's creators find out the pilot didn't die in the crash, the hunt is on. ... more about 6th Day
Bowlegged cracker, Earl Pilcher Jr., runs an equipment rental outfit in Arkansas, lives with his wife and kids and parents, and rarely takes off his gimme cap. ... more about Family Thing
Natalie Ravenna decides one day that she needs a break from marriage. She meanders across the U.S. trying to deal with the notion of being responsible. ... more about Rain People
Police detective Joe Leland (Frank Sinatra) investigates the murder of a homosexual man. While investigating, he discovers links to official corruption in New York City in this drama that delves into a world of sex and drugs. ... more about Detective
Documents the sensational events surrounding the making of 'Apocalypse Now' (qv) and 'Francis Ford Coppola' (qv)'s struggle with nature, governments, actors, and self-doubt. Includes footage and sound secretly recorded by Elanor Coppola, wife of Francis. ... more about Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
William (D-FENS) just wants to get home to see his daughter on her birthday. Unfortunately, nothing seems to be going right for him. First there's the traffic jam, then the unhelpful Korean shopkeeper who "doesn't give change". ... more about Falling Down
July, 1899: When Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise the distribution price one-tenth of a cent per paper, ten cents per hundred, the newsboys, poor enough already, are outraged. ... more about Newsies
A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of L.A. about to explode in violence in this look at the gang culture enforced by the colors that members wear. ... more about Colors
Cole Trickle enters the high-pressure world of Nascar racing. He's a hot driver with a hot temper, and this attitude gets him into trouble not only with other drivers, but members of his own team as well. ... more about Days of Thunder
John Quincy Archibald's son Michael collapses while playing baseball as a result of a heart failure. Immediately, John Q. rushes Michael to the hospital's emergency room for a transplant. Unfortunately, the insurance would not cover his son's transplant. ... more about John Q
Grace Bichon, who is managing her father's riding-stable, discovers that her husband Eddie deceives her with another woman. ... more about Something to Talk About
In the world of high-stakes poker, Huck Cheever is a blaster--a player who goes all out, all the time. But in his personal relationships, Huck plays it tight, expertly avoiding emotional commitments and long-term expectations. ... more about Lucky You
Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. ... more about Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Oberst Steiner, a German parachute unit commander, is sent to England on a covert mission to kidnap Prime Minister Winston Churchill and bring him to Berlin. ... more about Eagle Has Landed
The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of corn farmers, and one in particular - Geronimo, is restless. ... more about Geronimo: An American Legend
Alchoholic former country singer Mac Sledge makes friends with a young widow and her son. The friendship enables him to find inspiration to resume his career. ... more about Tender Mercies
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
Golden Globes, USA - Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards - Best Actor
Gods and Generals, the screen adaptation of Jeff Shaara's heralded best-selling novel and prequel to the acclaimed drama "Gettysburg," is and epic and sweeping portrayal of a nation divided at the start of the Civil War. ... more about Gods and Generals
The Apollo 3 crew are training when it is discovered that the Russians plan a moon landing. The Americans enact a makeshift plan to land a man on the moon first, using an older style Gemini spacecraft. ... more about Countdown
In 1666 in the Massachusetts Bay colony, Puritans and Algonquian have an uneasy truce. Hester arrives from England, seeking independence. Awaiting her husband, she establishes independence, fixing up a house, befriending Quakers and other outsiders. ... more about Scarlet Letter
Most everyone in town thinks that Sheriff Calder is merely a puppet of rich oil-man Val Rogers. When it is learned that local baddie Bubba Reeves has escaped prison, Rogers' son is concerned because he is having an affair with Reeves' wife. ... more about Chase
Rose, is taken in by the Hillyer family to serve as a 1930s housemaid so that she can avoid falling into a life of prostitution. Rose's appearence and personality is such that all men fall for her, and Rose knows it. ... more about Rambling Rose
The four Meechum kids and their mother move from Marine post to Marine post, following their father, a pilot, in the peaceful years before the Vietnam war. ... more about Great Santini
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
Joe Kidd is a former bounty hunter and all-around tough-guy in the American Southwest. When a band of Mexicans find their U. S. land claims denied and all relevant records destroyed in a courthouse fire, they turn to force of arms. ... more about Joe Kidd
When the small criminal Macklin is released from prison, he learns that shortly before his brother was shot by two killers. They didn't know that the bank they robbed was owned by the syndicate. ... more about Outfit
Dr. Josiah Newman (Gregory Peck) runs the psychiatric unit of a U.S. Military Hospital during WWII. Short of help, Newman coerces newly arrived neurotic orderly Jackson Leibowitz (Tony Curtis) to work in his ward. ... more about Captain Newman
The setting is early America during the oil boom. An elderly, down on his luck 'oil man', Mr. Cox finds himself in the town of Henrietta. Using unconventional methods, he convinces himself and local Don Day that there is oil on Day's land. ... more about Stars Fell on Henrietta
Frank, a retired Irish seaman, and Walter, a retired Cuban barber, are two lonely old men trapped in the emptiness of their own lives. When they meet in a park Frank is able to start a conversation after several attempts. ... more about Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
A lonely farmer in backwoods Mississippi takes in a pregnant wayfarer who has been abandoned by the father of her child. The farmer looks after her, but tragedy soon strikes. ... more about Tomorrow
De Niro (a Catholic Priest) and Duvall (a Homicide Detective) play brothers drawn together after many years apart, in the aftermath of the brutal murder of a young prostitute. ... more about True Confessions
Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn pair up for this Christmas comedy about a couple who has to visit four different sets of parents as a result of divorce. ... more about Four Christmases
Mike Locken is one of the principle members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the C.I.A. and while on a case for them one of his friends turns on him and shoots him in the elbow and knee. ... more about Killer Elite
In 1902 Texas, 13-year-old Horace goes to work on old Soll's farm to earn enough money to buy a headstone for his father's grave. ... more about Convicts
A speculation on the fate of the famous hijacker who parachuted with his ransom and disappeared in the mountains, has Cooper following a meticulous plan to disappear into anonymity despite the best efforts of a dogged cop. ... more about Pursuit of D.B. Cooper