12 Angry Men is based on a jury’s

deliberations in a capital murder

case. A 12 year old Latin boy is
accused of murdering his father
with a knife, and is on the verge
of being announced a death
sentence, and the jury of 12
members is asked to deliberate
on the issue. The case appears to
be open-and-shut: The defendant
has a weak alibi; a knife he
claimed to have lost is found at
the murder scene; and several
witnesses either heard
screaming, saw the killing or the
boy fleeing the scene. Eleven of
the jurors immediately vote
guilty; only one casts a not guilty
vote. At first Mr. Davis’ bases his
vote more so for the sake of
discussion after all, the jurors
must believe beyond a
reasonable doubt that the
defendant is guilty. As the
deliberations unfold, the story
quickly becomes a study of the
jurors’ complex personalities
(which range from wise, bright
and empathetic to arrogant,
prejudiced and merciless),
preconceptions, backgrounds and
interactions.
Protagonist Alex is an
"ultraviolent" youth in
futuristic Britain. As with
all luck, his eventually
runs out and he's
arrested and convicted
of murder and rape.
While in prison, Alex
learns of an
experimental program in
which convicts are
programmed to detest
violence. If he goes
through the program his
sentence will be reduced
and he will be back on
the streets sooner than
expected. But Alex's
ordeals are far from over
once he hits the mean
streets of Britain that he
had a hand in creating.
Bette Davis plays Margo
Channing, a
temperamental
Broadway star, who is
approached by aspiring
actress and fan Eve
Harrington (Anne
Baxter). At first Eve
seems sweet and naive
and Margo hires her as a
girl Friday. Until we come
to know about her real
ambition.
Amélie is looking for
love, and perhaps for the
meaning of life in
general. We see her
grow up in an original if
slightly dysfunctional
family. Now a waitress in
central Paris, she
interacts curiously with
her neighbors and
customers, as well as a
mysterious Photomaton-
image collector and one
of his even more
mysterious photo
subjects. Little by little,
Amélie realizes that the
way to happiness (and
yet more subtle humor)
requires her to take her
own initiative and reach
out to others.
Curt and Steve have gotten
into a prestigious college, but
Curt is having second
thoughts on the night before
they're going to leave for the
school. That night, Curt
searches relentlessly for a
spellbinding woman in a white
T-Bird while Steve tries to
patch things up with his
girlfriend after suggesting
they date other people while
he's away. Their two other
friends John and Terry also
have a wild night, John when
he's forced to chauffer a little
girl and Terry when he
borrows Steve's car and picks
up a girl but then has trouble
living up to the expectations
set by the car.
Handsome playboy Nicky
Ferrante and beautiful night
club singer Terry McKay have
a romance while on a cruise
from Europe to New York.
Despite being engaged to
other people, both agree to
reunite at the top of the
Empire State Building in six
months. However, an
unfortunate accident keeps
Terry from the reunion, and
Nicky fears that she has
married or does not love him
anymore. Will he discover the
truth behind her absence and
reunite with his one true love,
or has fate and destiny
passed them by?
Harry Angel has a new case,
to find a man called Johnny
Favourite. Except things
aren't quite that simple, and
Johnny doesn't want to be
found. Let's just say that,
amongst the period detail
and beautiful scenery, it all
gets really, really nasty.
Faber College has one frat house
so disreputable it will take
anyone. It has a second one full of
white, anglo-saxon, rich young
men who are so sanctimonious no
one can stand them except Dean
Wormer. The dean enlists the help
of the second frat to get the boys
of Delta House off campus. This
film gives high-jinks and fooling
around a bad name. The dean's
plan comes into play just before
the homecoming parade to end all
parades for all time.
During World War II, 19 year
old soldier Alyosha gets a
medal as a reward for a heroic
act at the front. Instead of this
medal he asks for a few days
leave to visit his mother and
repair the roof of their home.
On the train eastwards he
meets Shura who is on her
way to her aunt. In those few
days traveling together they
fall in love.
Young Lateef works on a
construction site in Tehran with
some Kurds and a few illegal
Afghan workers. When Lateef is
given heavier tasks to
compensate for new Afghan
worker Rahmat, he resents his
displacement and treats Rahmat
cruelly. After one of his pranks,
however, Lateef discovers
Rahmat's secret--he is a girl
named Baran. Latif's heart
softens towards Baran and he
shows his new affection for her
by doing what he can to ease the
hardships she suffers at work.
When government inspectors
force all Afghans to be fired from
the site, Lateef discovers he
cannot bear to be without her.
Jeopardizing social standing and
endangering his own well being,
Lateef stops at nothing to save
his love.
Based on the historical events
the movie tells the story of a
riot at the battleship
Potemkin. What started as a
protest strike when the crew
was given rotten meat for
dinner ended in a riot. The
sailors raised the red flag and
tried to ignite the revolution
in their home port Odessa.
Severine is a beautiful young
woman married to a doctor.
She loves her husband
dearly, but cannot bring
herself to be physically
intimate with him. She
indulges instead in vivid,
kinky, erotic fantasies to
entertain her sexual desires.
Eventually she becomes a
prostitute, working in a
brothel in the afternoons
while remaining chaste in
her marriage.
Craig, a puppeteer, takes a
filing job in a low-ceilinged
office in Manhattan. Although
married to the slightly askew
Lotte, he hits on a colleague,
the sexually frank Maxine.
She's bored but snaps awake
when he finds a portal leading
inside John Malkovich: for 15
minutes you see, hear, and
feel whatever JM is doing, then
you fall out by the New Jersey
Turnpike. Maxine makes it
commercial, selling trips for
$200; also, she's more
interested in Lotte than in
Craig, but only when Lotte is
inside JM. JM finds out what's
going on and tries to stop it,
but Craig sees the portal as his
road to Maxine and to success
as a puppeteer. Meanwhile,
Lotte discovers others
interested in the portal.
A poor young father in postwar-
ravaged Rome who finally finds
work putting up Rita Hayworth
posters around town, only have
his precious bicycle stolen the
first day on the job. In a light
moment as the father and his
young son chase after the thief,
the boy attempts to relieve
himself against a wall, and his
father lets him know they don't
have time for that. In another
scene, the father tracks the thief
into the kitchen of a brothel.
In a cyberpunk vision of the
future, man has developed
the technology to create
replicants, human clones
used to serve in the
colonies outside Earth but
with fixed life-spans. In Los
Angeles, 2019, Deckard is a
Blade Runner, a cop who
specializes in terminating
replicants. Originally in
retirement, he is forced to
re-enter the force when six
replicants escape from an
off-world colony to Earth.
A man returns to his home
town after being away and
discovers a severed human
ear in a field. Not satisfied
with the police's pace, he and
the police detective's
daughter carry out their own
investigation. The object of
his investigation turns out to
be a beautiful and mysterious
woman involved with a
violent and perversely evil
man.
The United States of America
is notorious for its
astronomical number of
people killed by firearms for
a developed nation without a
civil war. With his signature
sense of angry humor,
activist filmmaker Michael
Moore sets out to explore the
roots of this bloodshed. In
doing so, he learns that the
conventional answers of
easy availability of guns,
violent national history,
violent entertainment and
even poverty are inadequate
to explain this violence when
other cultures share those
same factors without the
equivalent carnage. In order
to arrive at a possible
explanation, Michael Moore
takes on a deeper
examination of America's
culture of fear, bigotry and
violence in a nation with
widespread gun ownership.
Americans Jeff and Tommy,
hunting in Scotland, stumble
upon a village - Brigadoon. They
soon learn that the town
appears once every 100 years in
order to preserve its peace and
special beauty. The citizens go
to bed at night and when they
wake up, it's 100 years later.
Tommy falls in love with a
beautiful young woman, Fiona,
and is torn between staying or,
as Jeff is encouraging him, going
back to his hectic life in New
York.
Butch and Sundance are the
two leaders of the Hole-in-the-
Wall Gang. Butch is all ideas,
Sundance is all action and
skill. The west is becoming
civilized and when Butch and
Sundance rob a train once too
often, a special posse begins
trailing them no matter where
they run. Over rock, through
towns, across rivers, the group
is always just behind them.
When they finally escape
through sheer luck, Butch has
another idea, "Let's go to
Bolivia". Based on the exploits
of the historical characters.
In World War II Casablanca, Rick
Blaine, exiled American and
former freedom fighter, runs the
most popular nightspot in town.
The cynical lone wolf Blaine
comes into the possession of
two valuable letters of transit.
When Nazi Major Strasser
arrives in Casablanca, the
sycophantic police Captain
Renault does what he can to
please him. Much to Rick's
surprise, Lazslo arrives with Ilsa,
Rick's one time love. Rick is very
bitter towards Ilsa, who ran out
on him in Paris, but when he
learns she had good reason to,
they plan to run off together
again using the letters of transit.
Well, that was their original
plan....
A pair of comic book painters
named Holden McNeil and
Banky Edwards, who live in New
Jersey, have been best friends
since 20 years. They spend their
time working in their studio, and
in the evenings they are going
out. But their friendship is about
to be disputed for the first time
in their life, when a beautiful
young lesbian woman named
Alyssa Jones enters their life and
Holden falls in love with her.
Now Holden has to deal with
Banky's jealousy, and with his
new girlfriend's very rich past.
Ali takes his little sister Zahra's
shoes to the shoemaker to be
repaired, but loses them on the
way home. The siblings decide
to keep the predicament a
secret from their parents,
knowing that there is no money
to buy a replacement pair and
fearing that they will be
punished. They devise a
scheme to share Ali's sneakers:
Zahra will wear them to school
in the morning and hand them
off to Ali at midday so he can
attend afternoon classes. This
uncomfortable arrangement
leads to one adventure after
another as they attempt to hide
the plan from their parents and
teachers, attend to their
schoolwork and errands, and
acquire a new pair of shoes for
Zahra. Zahra sees the shoes on
a schoolmate's feet, and
follows her home, but the
incident leads to one of the
most beautiful realization in a
film that is ever pictured.
Los Angeles detective Jake
Gittes is hired by a woman
claiming to be a Mrs. Mulwray
to spy on her husband. Shortly
after Gittes is hired, the real
Mrs. Mulwray appears in his
office threatening to sue if he
doesn't drop the case
immediately. Gittes pursues
the case anyway, slowly
uncovering a vast conspiracy
centering on water
management, state and
municipal corruption, land use
and real estate, and involving
at least one murder.
Two stories, two lovelorn
cops, two objects of desire:
one a big-time heroin dealer
in deep trouble with her boss
after the cargo disappears,
the other a seriously flaky
take-out waitress who
inadvertently gets hold of the
keys to her admirer's
apartment, all shot in a
breathless kaleidoscope of
color and hand-held camera
work to create a mesmerizing
portrait of Hong Kong in the
1990s.
A boy who grew up in a native
Sicilian Village returns home as
a famous director after
receiving news about the death
of an old friend. Told in a
flashback, Salvatore
reminiscences about his
childhood and his relationship
with Alfredo, a projectionist at
Cinema Paradiso. Under the
fatherly influence of Alfredo,
Salvatore fell in love with film
making, with the duo spending
many hours discussing about
films and Alfredo painstakingly
teaching Salvatore the skills
that became a stepping stone
for the young boy into the
world of film making.
The film is basically about a
group of reporters who are
trying to decipher the last
word ever spoke by Charles
Foster Kane, the millionaire
newspaper tycoon: "Rosebud."
The film begins with a news
reel detailing Kane's life for
the masses, and then from
there, we are shown
flashbacks from Kane's life. As
the reporters investigate
further, the viewers see a
display of a fascinating man's
rise to fame, and how he
eventually fell off the "top of
the world."
Brazil, 1960's, City of God. The
Tender Trio robs motels and gas
trucks. Younger kids watch and
learn well...too well. 1970's: Li'l
Zé has prospered very well and
owns the city. He causes violence
and fear as he wipes out rival
gangs without mercy. His best
friend Bené is the only one to
keep him on the good side of
sanity. Rocket has watched these
two gain power for years, and he
wants no part of it. Yet he keeps
getting swept up in the madness.
All he wants to do is take
pictures. 1980's: Things are out
of control between the last two
remaining gangs...will it ever
end? Welcome to the City of God.
Dante Hicks is a clerk at a local
convenience store in New Jersey.
On one particular Saturday
morning, he gets called in on his
day off. Once there, he must deal
with multiple problems. The
shutters outside won't open. His
ex-girlfriend, whom he is still in
love with, is getting married. His
girlfriend, who bugs him about
starting college, has revealed
certain, uh...stuff about her past.
His boss hasn't come in to take his
place. He has a hockey game at 2
o'clock. His friend, Randal, a clerk
at the video store next door, is
even less dedicated to his job than
Dante, and is always bothering
Dante's customers. And the
biggest problem of them all: HE'S
NOT EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE
THERE TODAY!! Can Dante manage
it all?
Since a road accident left him
with serious facial and bodily
scarring, a former TV scientist
has become obsessed by the
marriage of motor-car
technology with what he sees
as the raw sexuality of car-
crash victims. The scientist,
along with a crash victim he
has recently befriended, sets
about performing a series of
sexual acts in a variety of
motor vehicles, either with
other crash victims or with
prostitutes whom they contort
into the shape of trapped
corpses.
In a castle high on top of a hill
lives an inventor's greatest
creation - Edward, a near-
complete person. The creator
died before he could finish
Edward's hands; instead,
Edward is left with metal
scissors for hands. Edward
has always lived alone, until a
kind lady called Peg discovers
Edward and welcomes him
into her home. At first,
everyone welcomes Edward
into the community, but soon
things begin to take a change
for the worse.
Tracy Flick is running unopposed
for this year's high school
student election. But school
civics teacher Jim McAllister has
a different plan. Partly to
establish a more democratic
election, and partly to satisfy
some deep personal anger
toward Tracy, Jim talks popular
varsity football player Paul
Metzler to run for president as
well. Chaos ensues.
A group of dwarfs confined
in an institution on a remote
island rebel against the
guards and director (all
dwarfs as well) in a display
of mayhem. The dwarfs
gleefully break windows and
dishes, abandon a running
truck to drive itself in
circles, engineer food
fights and cock fights, set
fire to pots of flowers, kill a
large pig, torment other
blind dwarfs, and crucify a
monkey.
Jerry Lundegaard is in a financial
jam and, out of desperation,
comes up with a plan to hire
someone to kidnap his wife and
demand ransom from her
wealthy father, to be secretly
split between Jerry and the
perpetrators. Jerry, who is not the
most astute of individuals, hires
a couple of real losers from the
frozen northern reaches of Fargo,
North Dakota for the job. Then
things begin to slip from bad to
worse as Jerry helplessly watches
on. Giving a new meaning to
Murphhy’s Law: EVERYTHING
THAT CAN GO WRONG, WILL GO
WRONG.
In this darkly comic drama,
Edward Norton stars as a
depressed young man, who has
become a small cog in the world
of big business. He doesn't like his
work and gets no sense of reward
from it, attempting instead to
drown his sorrows by putting
together the "perfect" apartment.
He can't sleep and feels alienated
from the world at large; he's
become so desperate to relate to
others that he's taken to visiting
support groups for patients with
terminal diseases so that he'll
have people to talk to. One day on
a business flight, he discovers
Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), a
charming iconoclast who sells
soap. Tyler doesn't put much stock
in the materialistic world, and he
believes that one can learn a great
deal through pain, misfortune, and
chaos. Tyler cheerfully challenges
his new friend to a fight. Our
Narrator finds that bare-knuckle
brawling makes him feel more
alive than he has in years, and
soon the two become friends and
roommates, meeting informally to
fight once a week. As more men
join in, the "fight club" becomes
an underground sensation, even
though it's a closely guarded
secret among the participants.
Fitzcarradlo is an obsessed opera
lover who wants to build an opera
in the jungle. To accomplish this he
first has to make a fortune in the
rubber business, and his cunning
plan involves hauling an enormous
river boat across a small mountain
with aid from the local Indians.
James Bond 007 is on
the search for a Russian
decoding machine,
known as Lektor. Bond
needs to find this
machine, before the evil
SPECTRE organization
discovers it first. Whilst
being romantically linked
with Russian girl, Tatiana
Romanova, Bond sneaks
his way around Istanbul,
whilst each SPECTRE
agent tries to pick him
off, including the over
powering Donald 'Red'
Grant and ex-KGB agent
Rosa Klebb who knows
all the tricks in the
books and even
possesses an incredible
poison tipped shoe!
The movie begins with THE DON
blind eyeing his own daughter’s
wedding, and his son refusing to
continue the family business, who
has just returned from war. The
movie is all about the Family, Don is
not ready to shed is old ways of
working and ensuring the stability
of mafia business. But then comes
the guy who is determined to sell
drugs out in the city. Don’s son who
has returned from the war wants to
lead a normal life with his family.
Then the rival drug seller seeks
protection from the DON, which the
DON feels is against morals and
denies. The rival then conspires and
gets Don shot; but Vito survives,
and the incident pushes his son to
become violent and rage war
against the rival.
The story of Irish-Italian
American, Henry Hill, and
how he lives day-to-day life
as a member of the Mafia.
Based on a true story, the
plot revolves around Henry
and his two unstable friends
Jimmy and Tommy as they
gradually climb the ladder
from petty crime to violent
murders.
Shot in 1966, the movie revolves around
the three guys; Blondie (The Good) is a
professional gunslinger who is out trying
to earn a few dollars. Angel Eyes (The
Bad) is a hit man and does the job
whenever he is asked to, as long as he is
paid to do so and Tuco (The Ugly) is a
wanted in the city and is trying to hide.
Blondie and Tuco share a partnership
together making money off Tuco’s
bounty. Tuco tries to hunt down Blondie
when he unties the partnership. When
Blondie and Tuco come across a horse
carriage loaded with dead bodies, they
soon learn from the only survivor (Bill
Carson) that he and a few other men
have buried a stash of gold in a
cemetery. Unfortunately Carson dies and
Tuco only finds out the name of the
cemetery, while Blondie finds out the
name on the grave. Now the two must
keep each other alive in order to find the
gold. Angel Eyes (who had been looking
for Bill Carson) discovers that Tuco and
Blondie meet with Carson and knows
they know the location of the gold. All he
needs is for the two to lead him to it.
Now The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
must all battle it out to get their hands
on $200,000 worth of gold.
A weather man is reluctantly
sent to cover a story about a
weather forecasting "rat" (as
he calls it). This is his fourth
year on the story, and he
makes no effort to hide his
frustration. On awaking the
'following' day he discovers
that it's Groundhog Day
again, and again, and again.
First he uses this to his
advantage, then comes the
realisation that he is doomed
to spend the rest of eternity
in the same place, seeing the
same people do the same
thing EVERY day.
Forrest, Forrest Gump is a
simple man with little brain
activity but good intentions. He
struggles through childhood with
his best and only friend Jenny.
His 'mama' teaches him the
ways of life and leaves him to
choose his destiny. Forrest joins
the army for service in Vietnam,
finding new friends called Dan
and Bubba, he wins medals,
starts a table tennis craze,
creates a famous shrimp fishing
fleet, inspires people to jog,
create the smiley, write bumper
stickers and songs, donating to
people and meeting the
president several times.
However this is all irrelevant to
Forrest who can only think of his
childhood sweetheart Jenny.
Who has messed up her life.
A two-segment look at the
effect of the military mindset
and war itself on Vietnam era
Marines. The first half follows
a group of recruits in basic
training under the command
of the punishing Sgt.
Hartman. The second half
shows one of those recruits,
Joker, covering the war as a
correspondent for Stars and
Stripes, focusing on the Tet
offensive.
Jeffrey is an assassin
who wishes to leave the
business so he can take
care of Jennie, the
beautiful lounge singer
who he inadvertently
blinded during a
previous assignment. Li
Ying is the determined
cop who will stop at
nothing to bring him in,
only he realizes that
Jeffrey is no ordinary
assassin, and wishes to
help him in his quest.
Only problem is that
Jeffrey's employers
refuse to pay him for his
last job, money which is
needed to restore
Jennie's eyesight.
On the day he gets married
and hangs up his badge,
lawman Will Kane is told that
a man he sent to prison
years before, Frank Miller, is
returning on the noon train
to exact his revenge. Having
initially decided to leave with
his new spouse, Will decides
he must go back and face
Miller. However, when he
seeks the help of the
townspeople he has
protected for so long, they
turn their backs on him. It
seems Kane may have to
face Miller alone, as well as
the rest of Miller's gang, who
are waiting for him at the
station...
Kanji Watanabe is a longtime
bureaucrat in a city office who,
along with the rest of the
office, spends his entire
working life doing nothing. He
learns he is dying of cancer
and wants to find some
meaning in his life. He finds
himself unable to talk with his
family, and spends a night on
the town with a novelist, but
that leaves him unfulfilled. He
next spends time with a young
woman from his office, but
finally decides he can make a
difference through his job...
After Watanabe's death, co-
workers at his funeral discuss
his behavior over the last
several months and debate
why he suddenly became
assertive in his job to promote
a city park, and resolve to be
more like Watanabe.
Virgil Tibbs is a Philadelphia
Homicide detective home to see
his mother in the rural south. He
is arrested on general principles
when a rich white man is found
dead, and Tibbs' being Black is
enough reason. When his identity
is established, his boss offers his
services to the small town sheriff
who has little experience with
murder investigations. As the two
policemen learn how to work
together, they begin to make
progress on the crime.
Ellie Andrews has just
tied the knot with
society aviator King
Westley when she is
whisked away to her
father's yacht and out of
King's clutches. Ellie
jumps ship and
eventually winds up on a
bus headed back to her
husband. Reluctantly she
must accept the help of
out-of- work reporter
Peter Warne. Actually,
Warne doesn't give her
any choice: either she
sticks with him until he
gets her back to her
husband, or he'll blow
the whistle on Ellie to
her father. Either way,
Peter gets what (he
thinks!) he wants .... a
really juicy newspaper
story.
A family on their last day
of the vacation to see
the great mountain
peak, kanchanjangha. A
great character study.
Ray successfully makes
the mountain a more
important character than
any of the actor playing
the family members.
Charles is a young
provincial coming up to
Paris to study law. He
shares his cousin Paul's
flat. Paul is a kind of
decadent boy, a
disillusioned pleasure-
seeker, always dragging
along with other idles,
while Charles is a
plodding, naive and
honest man. He fell in
love with Florence, one
of Paul's acquaintances.
But how will Paul react
to that attempt to build
a real love relationship ?
One of the major New
Wave films.
Four Jack-the-lads find
themselves heavily -
seriously heavily - in debt
to an East End hard man
and his enforcers after a
crooked card game.
Overhearing their
neighbors in the next flat
plotting to hold up a group
of out-of-their-depth drug
growers, our heroes decide
to stitch up the robbers in
turn. In a way the
confusion really starts
when a pair of antique
double-barrelled shotguns
go missing in a completely
different scam.
A psychotic child murderer
stalks a city, and despite an
exhaustive investigation
fueled by public hysteria and
outcry, the police have been
unable to find him. But the
police crackdown does have
one side-affect, it makes it
nearly impossible for the
organized criminal
underground to operate. So
they decide that the only
way to get the police off
their backs is to catch the
murderer themselves.
Besides, he is giving them a
bad name.
On the day in 1940 that
Italy enters the war, two
things happen to the 12-
year-old Renato: he gets his
first bike, and he gets his
first look at Malèna. She is a
beautiful, silent outsider
who's moved to this Sicilian
town to be with her
husband, Nico. He promptly
goes off to war, leaving her
to the lustful eyes of the
men and the sharp tongues
of the women. During the
next few years, as Renato
grows toward manhood, he
watches Malèna suffer and
prove her mettle. He sees
her loneliness, then grief
when Nico is reported dead,
the effects of slander on her
relationship with her father,
her poverty and search for
work, and final humiliations.
Will Renato learn courage
from Malèna and stand up
for her?
Memento chronicles two
separate stories of Leonard,
an ex-insurance investigator
who can no longer build new
memories, as he attempts to
find the murderer of his wife,
which is the last thing he
remembers. One story line
movies forward in time while
the other tells the story
backwards revealing more
each time.
It is the future, and humans
are divided into two groups:
the thinkers, who make plans
(but don't know how
anything works), and the
workers, who achieve goals
(but don't have the vision).
Completely separate, neither
group is complete, but
together they make a whole.
One man from the "thinkers"
dares visit the underground
where the workers toil, and is
astonished by what he
sees...
Christy Brown is a spastic
quadriplegic born to a large,
poor Irish family. His mother,
Mrs Brown, recognizes the
intelligence and humanity in
the lad everyone else regards
as a vegetable. Eventually,
Christy matures into a
cantankerous writer who uses
his only functional limb, his left
foot, to write with.
Napoleon Dynamite, a lovable,
unpopular high school age guy
who just wants to fit in. There's
Deb, the girl who keeps showing
up with her crap on the front
porch. There's Kip, Napoleon's
geek brother who's searching for
love. There's Rico, Napoleon's
jock uncle who just seems to
want to ruin Napoleon's life. And
then Pedro shows up. The new
kid in town. He's from Mexico,
he has an awesome bike, and
he's the only kid in school with a
mustache. When Napoleon
befriends Pedro, and Pedro
decides to run for class
president, Napoleon gets his
chance to show his stuff and
prove that he's got nothing to
prove.
A matinee idol Arindam
Mukherjee (Uttam Kumar) is
going by train to collect an
acting award. On the train, he
is confronted by a journalist
Aditi (Sharmila Tagore) who
somewhat unwillingly starts
to take his interview.
Arindam, won over by Aditi's
naivete, starts to disclose his
past, his fears and his secrets.
On a parallel track, a number
of sub-plots unfold (involving
an advertising executive and
his wife, a businessman and
his family, a silent swami and
a cranky old man) to reveal
the hypocrisies and frailties of
the society.
A fourth network is struggling
for ratings and turns it's News
division over to the
entertainment division. As one
of the ramifications of this
move the news Anchor is fired.
He goes on the air with a
wonderfully daffy rant and
rave session culminating in his
insisting that people go to the
windows and yell, "I'm mad as
hell, and I'm not going to take
it anymore." His ravings make
him an Icon as the need to sell
begins to overwhelm everyone
touched by the network.
Story of a young woman,
Mrs. McBain, who moves
from New Orleans to
frontier Utah, on the
very edge of the
American West. She
arrives to find her new
husband and family
slaughtered, but by
who? The prime suspect,
coffee-lover Cheyenne,
befriends her and offers
to go after the real killer,
assassin gang leader
Frank, in her honor. He is
accompanied by
Harmonica on his quest
to get even. Get-rich-
quick subplots and
intricate character
histories intertwine with
such artistic flair that
this could in fact be the
movie-to-end-all-movies.
Jack Nicholson
performing as McMurphy
has in his name many
assault convictions. The
most recent of his lands
him into the jail. He is
now convicted of rape of
his own girlfriend, after
he finds out that she lied
about her being 18, but
in fact was 15. Inside jail
he starts acting crazy
and starts convincing
the guards that he has
become mad and was in
need of psychiatric care.
He becomes successful
in his efforts and gets
transferred to a mental
asylum. Once inside,
begins the real movie.
He is confronted with a
hostile nurse who is
behind him at his every
move, and his insane
point of views actually
starts making progress
in many of the patients.
In 1944 fascist Spain, a girl,
fascinated with fairy-tales, is sent
along with her pregnant mother to
live with her new stepfather, a
ruthless captain of the Spanish
army. During the night, she meets
a fairy who takes her to an old
faun in the center of the labyrinth.
He tells her she's a princess, but
must prove her royalty by
surviving three gruesome tasks. If
she fails, she will never prove
herself to be the true princess and
will never see her real father, the
king, again.
A brother and sister from the
1990s are sucked into their
television set and suddenly find
themselves trapped in a 1950s
style television show. Here they
have loving parents, old
fashioned values, and an
overwhelming amount of
innocence and naiveté. Not
sure how to get home, they
integrate themselves into this
"backwards" society and slowly
bring some color to this black
and white world. But as
innocence fades, the two teens
begin to wonder if their 90s
outlook is really to be preferred.
Pumpkin and Honey Bunny
are two thieves who, while
dining at a coffee shop,
decide that the best thing to
do is to rob it. Vincent and
Jules, two hit men working for
mob kingpin Marcellus
Wallace, are sent to retrieve a
very special and very
mysterious briefcase for their
boss. Vincent later must also
show Mrs. Wallace a good
time while her husband is out.
Butch Coolidge is an aging
prizefighter who is being paid
to "take a dive", but instead,
accidentally kills him
opponent, and tries to flee
town, but not before getting
his dead father's lucky golden
watch. These four seemingly
unrelated stories are
interwoven together in a non-
linear fashion.
Charley is a hustler. He's been
on his own long enough to
know how to work people and
situations. He finds that the
father who threw him out as a
teen ager has died. He's left
him a now antique convertible
and something more
important, a previously
unknown brother, Raymond.
Raymond is autistic, but is
able to calculate complicated
mathematical problems in his
head with great speed and
accuracy. Charley is enraged
by what has happened and by
his father keeping Raymond's
existence from him for his
entire life. He kidnaps
Raymond from his residential
home but then finds that
Raymond will only fly Qantas.
The two begin a long road trip
that will lead them to an
understanding of each other.
China in the 1920's. After her
father's death, nineteen year
old Songlian is forced to
marry Chen Zuoqian, the lord
of a powerful family. Fifty year
old Chen has already three
wives, each of them living in
separate houses within the
great castle. The competition
between the wives is tough,
as their master's attention
carries power, status and
privilege. Each night Chen
must decide with which wife
to spend the night and a red
lantern is lit in front of the
house of his choice. And each
wife schemes and plots to
make sure it's hers. However,
things get out of hand...
Requiem for a Dream
exposes four paralleled
individuals and their
menacing addiction to
heroin, cocaine, and diet
pills (speed). Taking place in
Brooklyn amidst the waning
Coney Island, the drugs are
very easily obtained and
keep each main character in
its cycle of dependence. The
protagonist Harry Goldfarb
is your typical heroin junky
with an ambitious plan of
"Getting off hard knocks,"
with help from his cocaine
crazed girlfriend Marion and
his long time friend Tyrone.
Meanwhile his widowed
mother is obsessed with the
glamor of television and
eventually finds her way to
a dietitian who pushes her
into the cycle of drug
induced enslavement.
Six criminals, who are
strangers to each other, are
hired by a crime boss Joe
Cabot to carry out a diamond
robbery. Right at the outset,
they are given false names
with an intention that they
won't get too close and
concentrate on the job
instead. They are completely
sure that the robbery is
going to be a success. But
when the police show up
right at the time and the site
of the robbery, panic spreads
amongst the group members
and one of them is killed in
the subsequent shootout
along with a few policemen
and civilians. When the
remaining people assemble
at the premeditated
rendezvous point (a
warehouse), they begin to
suspect that one of them is
an undercover cop.
A documentary about the
closure of General Motors'
plant at Flint, Michigan,
which resulted in the loss of
30,000 jobs. Details the
attempts of filmmaker
Michael Moore to get an
interview with GM CEO Roger
Smith.
In 12th century Japan, a samurai
and his wife are attacked by the
notorious bandit Tajomaru, and
the samurai ends up dead.
Tajomaru is captured shortly
afterward and is put on trial, but
his story and the wife's are so
completely different that a
psychic is brought in to allow the
murdered man to give his own
testimony. He tells yet another
completely different story. Finally,
a woodcutter who found the body
reveals that he saw the whole
thing, and his version is again
completely different from the
others.
Aviator André Jurieux has just
completed a record-setting
flight, but when he is greeted by
an admiring crowd, all he can
say to them is how miserable he
is that the woman he loves did
not come to meet him. He is in
love with Christine, the wife of
aristocrat Robert de la
Cheyniest. Robert himself is
involved in an affair with
Geneviève de Marras, but he is
trying to break it off. Meanwhile,
André seeks help from his old
friend Octave, who gets André
an invitation to the country
home where Robert and
Christine are hosting a large
hunting party. As the guests
arrive for the party, their cordial
greetings hide their real
feelings, along with their secrets
- and even some of the servants
are involved in tangled
relationships.
The film explores the events
that fate alone controls and
displays the constant "what
if's" that occur every moment
and that can easily change the
happenings of the next. The
film follows the events
between a woman, Lola, and
her boyfriend, Mani, who she
desperately tries to save from
death by helping him obtain a
huge amount of money he
carelessly lost. It takes you on
three different journeys with
Lola, all controlled by fate,
showing you what would
happen in each, and all the
"what if's" that provide the
foundations for each outcome.
A film about two homicide
detectives' desperate hunt for a
serial killer who justifies his
crimes as absolution for the
world's ignorance of the Seven
Deadly Sins. The movie takes
us from the tortured remains of
one victim to the next as the
sociopathic "John Doe"
sermonizes to Detectives
Sommerset and Mills -- one sin
at a time. The sin of Gluttony
comes first and the murderer's
terrible capacity is graphically
demonstrated in the dark and
subdued tones characteristic of
film noir. The seasoned and
cultured Sommerset researches
the Seven Deadly Sins in an
effort to understand the killer's
modus operandi while green
Detective Mills scoffs at his
efforts to get inside the mind of
a killer...
a movie about a banker who
gets jailed upon the murder of
his wife, which he did not
commit. He gets thrown into
Shawshank for a life term.
Here he comes across Red
(Morgan Freeman) and
develops a bond of friendship.
Andy (Tim Robbins) goes
through all kinds of torture
within the prison, and yet
importantly retains the hope
that one day he’ll be out as a
free man. The story continues
and shows us how he plans
along with Red, an escape
which almost takes a quarter
of his life. The movie
highlights the persistence and
patience that is required in a
person. Does he escape?
"Sin City" is four stories inter-
weaved telling tales of
corruption in Basin City. The
first story (The Customer is
always right) is short, and is
based on the depression of
women that they need to
pay a man to feel loved
when they commit suicide.
The next story is Part 1 of
"That Yellow Bastard" about
a cop who needs to save a
young girl from being raped.
The third story (The Hard
Goodbye) features a man
taking revenge on a
heartless killer who
murdered his one-night
stand. The fourth story (The
Big, Fat Kill) stars a man who
must dispatch a cop's body,
but it will be a tough ride to
do it. Following that are two
conclusions to Sin City, the
ending of "That Yellow
Bastard" which is set 8 years
later, and a short story that
ends Sin City.
While moving to a new home in
Japan, Chihiro and her parents
take a wrong turn down a
mysterious wooded path. They
come across an ominous-looking
tunnel of which only Chihiro is
scared. Going through the tunnel,
they are lead them to a mysterious
town filled with restaurants that
have all kinds of delicious food on
display. Chihiro's parents quickly
sit down and start gorging
themselves, assuming they will
pay the restaurant upon their
return. Chihiro's doubt of this
strange town leads her to wander
off, and she comes across a
building of titanic size, where a
young boy warns her to leave
before nightfall. However, as the
sun sets, the town begins to fill up
with the gods of Japan's
mythology, and Chihiro returns to
find her parents mysteriously
turned into pigs. The young boy,
Haku, works in the building, which
is a bathhouse for 8 Million gods.
He helps Chihiro find work in this
new world, find a way to save her
parents from a dinner platter, and
find her way home.
Near a gray and unnamed
city is the Zone, an alien
place guarded by barbed
wire and soldiers. Over his
wife's numerous objections,
a man rises in the dead of
night: he's a stalker, one of a
handful who have the mental
gifts (and who risk
imprisonment) to lead
people into the Zone to the
Room, a place where one's
secret hopes come true. That
night, he takes two people
into the Zone: a popular
writer who is burned out,
cynical, and questioning his
genius; and a quiet scientist
more concerned about his
knapsack than the journey. In
the deserted Zone, the
approach to the Room must
be indirect. As they draw
near, the rules seem to
change and the stalker faces
a crisis.
Dustin Hoffman plays a
regular American
mathematician, who
gets into some trouble
with local bullies. He is
made fun of and then his
wife is raped. When they
attack his home, he
fights back. His outbreak
of violence is extreme.
In Hollywood of the 50's, the
obscure screenplay writer Joe
Gillis is not able to sell his
work to the studios, is full of
debts and is thinking in
returning to his hometown to
work in an office. While trying
to escape from his creditors,
he has a flat tire and parks his
car in a decadent mansion in
Sunset Boulevard. He meets
the owner and former silent-
movie star Norma Desmond,
who lives alone with her butler
and driver Max von Mayerling.
Norma is demented and
believes she will return to the
cinema industry, and is
protected and isolated from
the world by Max, who was his
director and husband in the
past and still loves her. Norma
proposes Joe to move to the
mansion and help her in
writing a screenplay for her
comeback to the cinema, and
the small-time writer becomes
her lover and gigolo.
After a chance encounter at a
theater, two men, Benigno and
Marco, meet at a private clinic
where Benigno works. Lydia,
Marco's girlfriend and a
bullfighter by profession, has
been gored and is in a coma. It
so happens that Benigno is
looking after another woman in
a coma, Alicia, a young ballet
student. The lives of the four
characters will flow in all
directions, past, present and
future, dragging all of them
towards an unsuspected
destiny.
The Taste of The Cherry is the
story of the last day in the life
of Mister Badii. He is going to
Teheran, where he wants to
find somebody to bury him,
after he has killed himself. It
is an easy job, just shovel
some earth on him, and
besides, it is well paid. First
he wants to persuade a young
soldier who does not say
much, feels more and more
uncomfortable and then runs
away. The second man he
talks to is a seminarist, who
gives a lecture about suicide
and guilt but does not help
either. The third guy is an old
teacher, who will do the job,
but who tries to persuade
Badii that it is not a good
thing to do. He tells him a
joke about some ill-feeling
Kurd to make Badii change his
attitude, and says the taste of
the cherry kept him from
suicide once.
Vietnam vet Travis Bickle is 26,
a loner in the mean streets of
New York City, slipping slowly
into isolation and violent
misanthropy. In solving his
insomnia by driving a yellow
cab on the night shift, he
grows increasingly disgusted
by the low-lifes that hang out
at night: “Someday a real rain
will come and wash all the
scum off the streets.” His
touching attempts to woo
Betsy, a Senator’s campaign
worker, turn sour when he
takes her to a porn movie on
their first date. He even fails in
his attempt to persuade child
prostitute Iris to desert her
pimp and return to her parents
and school. Driven to the edge
by powerlessness, he buys
four handguns and sets out to
assassinate the Senator,
heading for the infamy of a
‘lone crazed gunman’
Jeff Bridges stars as a
lazy and useless slacker
named Jeffrey Lebowski,
but he always goes by
"The Dude." One night, a
pair of thugs break into
his house and pee on his
rug, mistaking him for a
local millionaire, also
named Jeffrey Lebowski
(David Huddleston, the
titular "Big" Lebowski).
Lebowski ends up
recruiting the Dude to
help in the negotiations
for his kidnapped wife,
Bunny (Tara Reid), and
that's when the plot
takes off.
It's the weekend, and
five students have
weekend detention.
There's a jock, a
princess, a misfit, a
nerd, and a lout. Not
much in common,
except for having to give
up their day, sit in the
school library, and write
an essay for the
principal. Being from
such widely different
backgrounds and having
such completely
different personalities,
it's inevitable that some
frictions and
shenanigans develop.
Especially when the
principal leaves the
room..
An unlikely kind of
friendship develops
between Fergus, an Irish
Republican Army
volunteer, and Jody, a
kidnapped British soldier
lured into an IRA trap by
Jude, another IRA
member. When the
hostage-taking ends up
going horribly wrong,
Fergus escapes and
heads to London, where
he seeks out Jody's
lover, a hairdresser
named Dil. Fergus
adopts the name
"Jimmy" and gets a job
as a day laborer. He also
starts seeing Dil, who
knows nothing about
Fergus' IRA background.
But there are some
things about Dil that
Fergus doesn't know,
either.
The setting is Sheffield England,
once the "City of Steel", home of
a massive steel industry and jobs
aplenty. Today with the industry
in decline and the steelworks
closed down there is widespread
unemployment and despair. Two
unemployed friends stumble
upon a Chippendales-like show
that's very popular with the local
women. Eventually they decide
they too would like to give it a
go, but they can't dance and
aren't what most would call good
physical specimens. They have
their doubts but are determined
to give it a shot. On their way
they pick up four other unlikely
candidates and begin practicing
for the big night. To drum up
interest, they boast they'll go
'the full monty' (a phrase
meaning 'all the way' - nude),
something they hadn't planned
and aren't sure they can deliver.
"Matuschek's" is the gift shop
around the corner. Among the
staff is Alfred Kralik, a likeable
young man who's in love with a
woman he has never met and
whose name he doesn't even
know (their "romance" has been
conducted through a post office
box). When Klara Novak comes
to work as a clerk in the shop,
the sparks begin to fly: she and
Alfred can't stand each other. Of
course, what neither knows is
that Klara is the woman Alfred
has been romancing through the
mail!
Baron Von Trapp, a widower,
runs his home near Salzburg
like the ship he once
commanded. That changes
when Maria arrives from the
convent to be the new
governess of his seven
children. Their romps through
the hills inspire all to sing and
to find joy in the smallest
things -- like raindrops on
window panes. With a
renewed zest for life, the
baron hosts a party to
introduce his new fiance.
Maria knows then she does
not want to be a nun. She
marries the baron. The happy
ever after part is threatened
when Austria's new German
rulers want the baron back in
military service
Truman Burbankis happy with
his life. He is a successful
business man, he has a nice
wife and many friends. However,
Truman finds his life is getting
very repetitive. Actually every
moment of his life is being
filmed, being watched by
millions, and that his world is
limited in a small Hollywood film
set. Truman decides to follow his
discovery no matter how hard
and how much it pains him.
Following a truck hijack in New
York, five conmen are arrested
and brought together for
questioning. As none of them
is guilty, they plan a revenge
operation against the police.
The operation goes well, but
then the influence of a
legendary mastermind
criminal called Keyser Söze is
felt. It becomes clear that each
one of them has wronged Söze
at some point and must pay
back now. The payback job
leaves 27 men dead in a boat
explosion, but the real
question arises now: Who
actually is Keyser Söze?
Three convicts - all on
death row for murder.
Jaggu (Jackie Shroff) is
convicted for killing and
stabbing his wife because
she was cheating on him
with another man. He
admits it. Nagya (Nagesh
Kukunoor) is convicted for
killing his wife by pushing
her off the street and
getting hit by a car. He
denies it. Ishaan
(Naseeruddin Shah) is
convicted for murdering a
bank teller while he was
robbing a bank. He says
it's an accident. Mohan
(Gulshan Grover) is the
three convicts' custodian.
Chandrika (Juhi Chawla) is
a documentary filmmaker
killing her time by coming
to the jail to do a movie
about the three men on
death row to escape her
abusive husband.
Michael Dorsey is an
unemployed actor with an
impossible reputation. In order
to find work and fund his
friend's play he dresses as a
woman, Dorothy Michaels, and
lands the part in a daytime
drama. Dorsey loses himself in
this woman role and essentially
becomes Dorothy Michaels,
captivating women all around
the city and inspiring them to
break free from the control of
men and become more like
Dorsey's initial identity. This
newfound role, however, lands
Dorsey in a hot spot between a
female friend/'lover,' a female
co-star he falls in love with,
that co-star's father who falls in
love with him, and a male co-
star who yearns for his
affection.
A wild, freeform, Rabelaisian
trip through the darkest
recesses of Edinburgh low-life,
focusing on Mark Renton and
his attempt to give up his
heroin habit, and how the
latter affects his relationship
with family and friends: Sean
Connery wannabe Sick Boy,
dimbulb Spud, psycho Begbie,
14-year-old girlfriend Diane,
and clean-cut athlete Tommy,
who's never touched drugs but
can't help being curious about
them.
Un Chien Andalou consists of
seventeen minutes of bizarre and
surreal images that may or may
not mean anything. A straight
razor seems to be placed by a
woman's eye, a small cloud
formation obscures the moon, a
cow's eye is slit open, a woman
pokes at a severed hand in the
street with his cane, a man drags
two grand pianos containing dead
and rotting donkeys and live
priests, and a man's hand has a
hole in the palm from which ants
emerge.
Federal agent Elliot Ness
assembles a personal team of
mob fighters to bring Chicago
crime boss Al Capone to justice
using unconventional means
during the mob wars of the
1920s. This fictionalized
account of the arrest of Al
Capone is heavy on style and
gunfire. The end shootout
combines a baby carriage and
stairs with a nod to Eisenstein's
The Battleship Potemkin
Wayne is still living at home.
He has a world class
collection of name tags from
jobs he's tried, but he does
have his own public access TV
show. A local station decides
to hire him and his sidekick,
Garth, to do their show
professionally and Wayne &
Garth find that it is no longer
the same. Wayne falls for a
bass guitarist and uses his
and Garth's Video contacts to
help her career along,
knowing that Ben Oliver, the
sleazy advertising guy who is
ruining their show will
probably take her away from
him if they fail.
Psychological realism and
foul language: George
and Martha are as far
from the bourgeois 1950s
perfect married couple as
you can get, alternatively
badgering, berating,
abusing and loving each
other, both alone and
accompanied by the
naive young married
couple that have come
over for a nightcap. The
fun and games in which
George and Martha
involve Nick and Honey
are a lacerating look at
the older couple's
existence, where the
emotional brutalizing fill
an unspeakable void at
their center, and a
troubling preview of what
the younger couple's life
could become. Combines
the banal, the vulgar and
the poetic.
Outlaws on the Mexican-U.S.
frontier face the march of
progress, the Mexican army
and a gang of bounty hunters
led by a former member while
they plan a robbery of a U.S.
army train. No one is innocent
in this gritty tale of
desperation against changing
times. Pump shotguns,
machine guns and
automobiles mix with horses
and winchesters in this
ultraviolent western.
Explores the
disillusionment of an
elderly physician, Professor
Isak Borg, as he reflects
upon his life and begins to
perceive his mortality. As
he travels to Lund to
receive an honorary award
after 50 years of medical
practice, he finds himself
repeatedly affected by
intrusive dreams and
hallucinations that expose
his darkest fears. He slowly
comes to realize that the
choices he made in the
past have created a cold
and empty life, devoid of
real meaning or value.
Finally, he achieves
redemption and
reintegration through
forgiveness and the love of
his family.
The film centers around the
story of two angels wandering
in a mixture of post-war and
modern Berlin. Invisible to
humans, they nevertheless give
their help and comfort to all the
lonely and depressed souls
they meet. Finally, after many
centuries, one of the angels
becomes unhappy with his
immortal state and wishes to
become human in order to
experience the joys of everyday
life. He meets a circus acrobat
and finds in her the fulfillment
of all his mortal desires. He also
discovers that he is not alone in
making this cross over, and
that a purely spiritual
experience is not enough to
satisfy anyone.
A man awakes disheveled;
impulsively, he skips work,
heading instead to the shore.
On this chilly February day, a
woman in orange, hair dyed
blue, chats him up: she's
Clementine, he's Joel, shy and
sad; by day's end, he likes
her. The next night she takes
him to the frozen Charles
River. After, as he drops her
off, she asks to sleep at his
place, and she runs up to get
her toothbrush. Strange
things occur: their meeting
was not entirely chance, they
have a history neither
remembers. Our seeing how
the lacunae came to be and
their discovery of the memory
loss take the rest of the film.
Costa-Gavras chronicles the
overthrow of the democratic
government in Greece. When a
liberal politician is murdered in
an attack during a peace
demonstration, the right wing
established figures in the
military and the police try and
hide not only their parts in it,
but try to cover up the murder
as well. The magistrate must
act as a detective in order to go
through the cover up. While
historically accurate, it is told
as a combination mystery and
thriller.