The film chronicles over the course of 15 years and shares the difficulties the government face in trying to run a space program. NASA recruits seven test pilots and trains them to be astronauts. They participate in the Mercury Space Program in an attempt to beat the Russians into space. ... more about Right Stuff
Actor Awards
Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Bill and Abby, a young couple who to the outside world pretend to be brother and sister are living and working in Chicago at the beginning of the century. They want to escape the poverty and hard labour of the city and travel south. ... more about Days of Heaven
Action/war drama based on the best-selling book detailing a near-disastrous mission in Somalia on October 3, 1993 where nearly 100 U.S. Army Rangers, commanded by Capt. ... more about Black Hawk Down
Revolving around Truvy's Beauty Parlor in a small parish in modern-day Louisiana, STEEL MAGNOLIAS is the story of a close-knit circle of friends whose lives come together there. ... more about Steel Magnolias
After the American playwright and actor Sam Shepard had played the role of the ghost in Michael Almereyda's Hamlet, Shepard invited the filmmaker to document rehearsals for his The Late Henry Moss, that he staged with Nick Nolte and Sean Penn in leading ... more about This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs the Late Henry Moss
New York, 2000. A specter in the guise of the newly-dead CEO of Denmark Corporation appears to Hamlet, tells of murder most foul, demands revenge, and identifies the killer as Claudius, the new head of Denmark, Hamlet's uncle and now step-father. ... more about Hamlet
John Grady Cole moves to Mexico looking for a better life. When he is hired to break a horse for a local landowner, he quickly falls in love with the powerful man's daughter. Their relationship soon results in murder and betrayal. ... more about All the Pretty Horses
J.C. Wiatt is a successful New York business woman known around town as the "tiger lady." She gets news of an inheritance from a relative from another country and off the bat she suspects it's money. Well it's not money, it's a baby girl. ... more about Baby Boom
The movie focuses on an old man reading a story to an old woman in a nursing home. The story he reads follows two young lovers named Allie Hamilton and Noah Calhoun, who meet one evening at a carnival. ... more about Notebook
Howard Spence ('Sam Shepard' (qv)) has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. ... more about Don't Come Knocking
Carl, a fisherman in the waters off Washington state, has been found dead, drowned in own nets, but with a serious head wound. ... more about Snow Falling on Cedars
When the DEA shut down its dummy corporation operation codenamed SWORDFISH in 1986, they had generated $400 million which they let sit around; fifteen years of compound interest has swelled it to $9.5 billion. ... more about Swordfish
A mother with seven sons feels like she's losing control of her life and her family. But personal pain and a troubled marriage fade into the background as news comes that one of her sons might have died in an accident. ... more about Safe Passage
Two Supreme Court Justices have been killed. Now a college professor, who clerked for one of the two men, who's also having an affair with one of his students, is given a brief by her, that states who probably, wanted to see these two men dead. ... more about Pelican Brief
In this documentary filmmaker Heather Rae the engaging life story of Native American poet-prophet-activist John Trudell and his heartfelt message of active, personal responsibility to the earth, all of its inhabitants and our descendents. ... more about Trudell
May is waiting for her boyfriend in a run-down American motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life that she was running away from. ... more about Fool for Love
In the near future, the Navy develops a fighter jet piloted by an artificial intelligence computer. The jet is placed on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific to learn combat manuevers from the human pilots aboard. ... more about Stealth
Gilbert Ivy and his wife Jewell are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gilbert has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous, but his wife decides to fight for her family. ... more about Country
A bachelor afraid of marriage angers his long-time girlfriend by buying a splendid townhouse just for himself, only to find it haunted by the ghosts of a famous theatrical couple, who teach him about love and commitment. ... more about Curtain Call
Three sisters with quite different personalities and lives reunite when the youngest of them, Babe, has just shot her husband. ... more about Crimes of the Heart
Sara (Penelope Cruz) and Maria (Salma Hayek) are two women who reluctantly join forces to fight a ruthless enforcer...by becoming celebrated bank robbers. ... more about Bandidas
THE RETURN stars Sarah Michelle Gellar as a seemingly normal young woman who becomes ensnared in the world of the supernatural when she begins having nightmares about a 25-year-old murder. ... more about Return
An FBI man with Sioux background is sent to a reservation to help with a murder investigation, where he has to come to terms with his heritage. ... more about Thunderheart
Nita, a divorced mother of two boys, is stuck working as a telephone operator in a small Texas town in World War II. Her friendship with a sailor on leave causes tongues to wag in town. ... more about Raggedy Man
Ellen Burstyn experiences the after-life for a brief time after a car accident that kills her husband. As she begins her long process of physical healing she discovers that she has the ability to heal physical infirmaties. ... more about Resurrection
This epic is a mass amalgamation of three separate film-types that is, contrary to popular opinion, coherent and a unified whole. Bob Dylan is shown in concert, often masked, during the Rolling Thunder Revue. ... more about Renaldo and Clara