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When Fucking Spring is in the Air (2024)
Storyline: It is a feel-good road movie about 17-year-old rebellious Kasia, and her worthless family.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Directed By: Chris Columbus
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson
MPAA Rate: PG
Storyline: Harry Potter lives his second year at Hogwarts with Ron and Hermione when a message on the wall announces that the legendary Chamber of Secrets has been opened. The trio soon realize that, to save the school, it will take a lot of...
Fox and His Friends (1975)
Directed By: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Starring: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Peter Chatel, Karlheinz Böhm
MPAA Rate: Not Rated
Storyline: A suggestible working-class innocent wins the lottery but lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends.
The Boy in the Woods (2023)
Storyline: The remarkable true-life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe.
Casanova (1976)
Directed By: Federico Fellini
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Tina Aumont, Cicely Browne
MPAA Rate: R
Storyline: Giacomo Casanova uses his sexuality to find his place in life amid eccentric and strange characters.
Dominique (2024)
Directed By: Michael S. Ojeda
Starring: Maurice Compte, Chase Coleman, Oksana Orlan
MPAA Rate: R
Storyline: Trained assassin Dominique escapes troubled past, moves to South American town rife with violence/corruption. Sheltered by innocent family, she faces attacks from police/mafia, must choose between self-protection or defending her ...
Frost/Nixon (2008)
Directed By: Ron Howard
Starring: Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Kevin Bacon
MPAA Rate: R
Storyline: A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon.
The Grinch (2018)
Directed By: Yarrow Cheney, Scott Mosier
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Cameron Seely, Rashida Jones
MPAA Rate: PG
Storyline: A grumpy Grinch plots to ruin Christmas for the village of Whoville.
Eye of the Needle (1981)
Directed By: Richard Marquand
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Kate Nelligan, Stephen MacKenna
MPAA Rate: R
Storyline: A ruthless German spy, trying to get out of Britain with vital information about D-Day, must spend time with a young woman and her crippled husband.
Gandhi (1982)
Storyline: The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.
Black Thunder (1998)
Directed By: Rick Jacobson
Starring: Michael Dudikoff, Richard Norton, Michael Cavanaugh
MPAA Rate: R
Storyline: A top secret stealth fighter is stolen. Only Navy Test Pilot Vince Connors can recover the plane and bring it back in one piece. Battling terrorists, and flying with deadly nerve gas, he has to evade his mentor, now the enemy's to...
Inside Out 2 (2024)
Directed By: Kelsey Mann
Starring: Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Lewis Black
MPAA Rate: PG
Storyline: A sequel that features Riley entering puberty and experiencing brand new, more complex emotions as a result. As Riley tries to adapt to her teenage years, her old emotions try to adapt to the possibility of being replaced.
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
Directed By: Terry George
Starring: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix
MPAA Rate: PG-13
IMDb Top Movies: #220 Top 250
Storyline: Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, houses over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda, Africa.
Genie (2023)
Directed By: Sam Boyd
Starring: Melissa McCarthy, Alan Cumming, Luis Guzmán
MPAA Rate: PG
Storyline: The film is a fairy-tale comedy about a workaholic man who enlists the help of a magical genie to help win his family back before Christmas.
The Proud and Profane (1956)
Storyline: In the Pacific during WWII, a Roman Catholic widow falls for a tough lieutenant colonel.
Never Let Go (2024)
Storyline: A family that has been haunted by an evil spirit for years. Their safety and their surroundings come into question when one of the children questions if the evil is real.
Dune: Part Two (2024)
Directed By: Denis Villeneuve
MPAA Rate: PG-13
IMDb Top Movies: #38 Top 250
Storyline: Paul Atreides unites with Chani and the Fremen while seeking revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family.
Fist of the North Star (1986)
Directed By: Toyoo Ashida
Starring: Akira Kamiya, Yuriko Yamamoto, Kenji Utsumi
MPAA Rate: Not Rated
Storyline: In a post-nuclear hellscape, a master of the deadly martial art "Hokuto Shinken" allies with two kids and an expert in "Nanto Suicho-Ken" to battle the tyrants who kidnapped his lover.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
Directed By: James Gunn
Starring: Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista
MPAA Rate: PG-13
Storyline: The Guardians struggle to keep together as a team while dealing with their personal family issues, notably Star-Lord's encounter with his father, the ambitious celestial being Ego.
Gorillas in the Mist (1988)
Directed By: Michael Apted
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris
MPAA Rate: PG-13
Storyline: The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.
First Man (2018)
Directed By: Damien Chazelle
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke
MPAA Rate: PG-13
Storyline: A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.
Rumours (2024)
Directed By: Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, Guy Maddin
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Rolando Ravello, Charles Dance
MPAA Rate: R
Storyline: The leaders of seven wealthy democracies get lost in the woods while drafting a statement on a global crisis, facing danger as they attempt to find their way out.
Shadow Billionaire (2009)
Directed By: Alexis Spraic
Starring: Bob O'Connor, Jon Anderson, Peter Manso
MPAA Rate: Not Rated
Storyline: After Larry Hillblom, founder of DHL, disappeared following a 1995 plane crash off his Micronesian island home, dozens of would be heirs came out of the woodwork to lay claim to his mega fortune.
Miss PJ (2024)
Storyline: A young lady on a National Youth Service assignment becomes the saviour of a little town at the mercy of a mysterious killer.
Hairspray (1988)
Directed By: John Waters
Starring: Sonny Bono, Ruth Brown, Divine
MPAA Rate: PG
Storyline: A 'pleasantly plump' teenager teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.
Green Lantern: First Flight (2009)
Directed By: Lauren Montgomery
Starring: Christopher Meloni, Victor Garber, Tricia Helfer
MPAA Rate: PG-13
Storyline: Test pilot Hal Jordan finds himself recruited as the newest member of the intergalactic police force, The Green Lantern Corps.
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
Directed By: Werner Herzog
Starring: Klaus Kinski, Claudia Cardinale, José Lewgoy
MPAA Rate: PG
Storyline: The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.
The Apprentice (2024)
Directed By: Ali Abbasi
Starring: Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong, Maria Bakalova
MPAA Rate: R
Storyline: The story of how a young Donald Trump started his real-estate business in 1970s and '80s New York with the helping hand of infamous lawyer Roy Cohn.
Floating Weeds (1959)
Directed By: Yasujirô Ozu
Starring: Ganjirô Nakamura, Machiko Kyô, Haruko Sugimura
MPAA Rate: Not Rated
Storyline: The head of a Japanese theatre troupe returns to a small coastal town where he left a son who thinks he is his uncle, and tries to make up for the lost time, but his current mistress grows jealous.
God's Own Country (2017)
Directed By: Francis Lee
Starring: Josh O'Connor, Alec Secareanu, Gemma Jones
MPAA Rate: Not Rated
Storyline: Spring. Yorkshire. Young farmer Johnny Saxby numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker for lambing season ignites an intense relationship that sets Johnny on a ...
Gantz: O (2016)
Directed By: Yasushi Kawamura, Kei'ichi Sato
Starring: Daisuke Ono, Mao Ichimichi, Tomohiro Kaku
Storyline: After being brutally murdered in a subway station, a teen boy awakens to find himself resurrected by a strange computer named Gantz, and forced to fight a large force of invading aliens in Osaka.
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Directed By: Norman Jewison
Starring: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey
MPAA Rate: G
Storyline: In pre-revolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant with traditional values contends with marrying off three of his daughters with modern romantic ideals while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.
Fright Night (1985)
Directed By: Tom Holland
Starring: Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdale, Amanda Bearse
MPAA Rate: R
Storyline: "Fright Night" sees a teenager believing that the newcomer in his neighborhood is a vampire. He turns to an actor in a television hosted horror movie show for help to deal with the undead.
Maybe Baby 2 (2024)
Storyline: We meet the two couples again: Cecilie and Andreas, and their son Leo, and Liv and Malte, and their daughter Sille. Both children are now 2 years old, the families still keep in touch, but live very different lives. During a medic...
Iron Man 3 (2013)
Directed By: Shane Black
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Guy Pearce, Gwyneth Paltrow
MPAA Rate: PG-13
Storyline: When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.
Her (2013)
Directed By: Spike Jonze
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Scarlett Johansson
MPAA Rate: R
Storyline: In the near future, a lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with an operating system designed to meet his every need.
Red One (2024)
Storyline: After Santa Claus (code name: Red One) is kidnapped, the North Pole's Head of Security (Dwayne Johnson) must team up with the world's most infamous bounty hunter (Chris Evans) in a globe-trotting, action-packed mission to save Chr...
Good Times, Wonderful Times (1965)
Directed By: Lionel Rogosin
Starring: Molly Parkin
MPAA Rate: Not Rated
Storyline: Juxtaposing horrific archival war footage from multiple nations with vapid cocktail party chatter. A 1964 Vietnam-era cinematic plea against war and fascism.
Soudain seuls (2023)
Directed By: Thomas Bidegain
Starring: Mélanie Thierry, Gilles Lellouche
Storyline: Based on the French-language novel "Soudain seuls", this film follows a couple who must fight for survival after they become stranded on an island that was supposed to be their dream journey.
Gate of Hell (1953)
Directed By: Teinosuke Kinugasa
Starring: Machiko Kyô, Kazuo Hasegawa, Isao Yamagata
MPAA Rate: Not Rated
Storyline: A samurai pursues a married lady-in-waiting.
Gook (2017)
Directed By: Justin Chon
Starring: Simone Baker, Justin Chon, Curtiss Cook Jr.
MPAA Rate: Unrated
Storyline: Two Korean-American brothers run a shoe store in L.A. county. Their friend, black eleven-year-old Kamilla, drops in and helps. On this day, the Rodney King verdict ignites the 1992 L.A. riots.
Blackwater Lane (2024)
Directed By: Jeff Celentano
Starring: Minka Kelly, Dermot Mulroney, Maggie Grace
MPAA Rate: PG-13
Storyline: Late one night a woman drives by a stranded motorist who is later revealed to have been murdered. After a series of terrifying events the woman believes she is the killer's next victim.
Bagman (2024)
Directed By: Colm McCarthy
Starring: Sam Claflin, Steven Cree, Antonia Thomas
MPAA Rate: PG-13
Storyline: When a sinister threat from his childhood returns to haunt him, a father desperately struggles against his deepest inner fear. Only this time, the fight isn't for himself; it's for his family.
The Twisters (2024)
Directed By: Michael Su
Starring: Tiffany, Mark Justice, Kayla Fields
MPAA Rate: Not Rated
Storyline: Dozens of deadly tornadoes converge in the Midwest, merging into a mega twister set to obliterate everything for hundreds of miles.
Reagan (2024)
Directed By: Sean McNamara
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Mena Suvari, Kevin Sorbo
MPAA Rate: PG-13
Storyline: A drama based on the life of Ronald Reagan, from his childhood to his time in the oval office.
Fanny and Alexander (1982)
Directed By: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Bertil Guve, Pernilla Allwin, Kristina Adolphson
MPAA Rate: R
Storyline: Two young Swedish children in the 1900s experience the many comedies and tragedies of their lively and affectionate theatrical family, the Ekdahls.
Green Street Hooligans (2005)
Directed By: Lexi Alexander
Starring: Elijah Wood, Charlie Hunnam, Claire Forlani
MPAA Rate: R
Storyline: A wrongfully expelled Harvard undergrad moves to London, where he is introduced to the violent underworld of football hooliganism.
Cellar Door (2024)
Directed By: Vaughn Stein
Starring: Scott Speedman, Jordana Brewster, Laurence Fishburne
MPAA Rate: R
Storyline: Looking for a fresh start after a miscarriage, a couple find themselves being gifted the house of their dreams with one caveat - they can never open the cellar door. Whether they can live without knowing triggers shocking conseque...
How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
Directed By: Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders
Starring: Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Christopher Mintz-Plasse
MPAA Rate: PG
IMDb Top Movies: #201 Top 250
Storyline: A hapless young Viking who aspires to hunt dragons becomes the unlikely friend of a young dragon himself, and learns there may be more to the creatures than he assumed.
Goodbye Bafana (2007)
Directed By: Bille August
Starring: Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert, Diane Kruger
MPAA Rate: R
Storyline: Goodbye Bafana is the true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.
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