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A concert film documenting Talking Heads at the height of their popularity, on tour for their 1983 album "Speaking in Tongues." The band takes the stage one by one and is joined by a cadre of guest musicians for a career-spanning and cinematic performance
Publisher: | Cinedigm |
Genres: | Documentary, Music |
Rating: | NR |
Production Companies: | Talking Heads, Arnold Stiefel Company |
Publication Date: | November 16, 1984 |
Budget: | $1,200,000 |
Runtime: | 88 |
Tagline: | Why stop making sense? Why a movie? Why a big suit? Where do the odd movements come from? What will the band do next? |
User Score (votes): | 8.6 / 10 (66) |

Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne c
Genres: | Drama, Crime |
Production Companies: | Castle Rock Entertainment, Warner Bros. Pictures |
Publication Date: | September 23, 1994 |
Budget: | $25,000,000 |
Runtime: | 142 |
Tagline: | Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free. |
User Score (votes): | 8.6 / 10 (11107) |

Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they so
Publisher: | Warner Bros |
Genres: | Action - Crime, Drama, Action, Crime, Thriller |
Rating: | PG-13 |
Production Companies: | DC Entertainment, DC Comics, Legendary Entertainment, Syncopy, Warner Bros. Pictures |
Publication Date: | July 16, 2008 |
Budget: | $185,000,000 |
Runtime: | 152 |
Tagline: | Why So Serious? |
User Score (votes): | 8.4 / 10 (16275) |

A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
Publisher: | Lionsgate |
Genres: | suspenseful, Drama, Thriller, Crime |
Rating: | 0 |
Production Companies: | Miramax, A Band Apart, Jersey Films |
Publication Date: | September 10, 1994 |
Budget: | $8,000,000 |
Runtime: | 154 |
Tagline: | Just because you are a character doesn't mean you have character. |
User Score (votes): | 8.4 / 10 (12661) |

Violette lives in the country with her parents, wealthy Picardie land owners. Gabriel works as a cashier in a supermarket. On the face of it, both of these two young people appear to have led ordinary lives without incident, and yet they both have dark se
Publisher: | The Criterion Collection |
Genre: | Drama |
Rating: | NR |
Publication Date: | April 18, 2012 |
Budget: | $0 |
Runtime: | 108 |
Tagline: | |
User Score (votes): | 8.3 / 10 (3) |

The epic saga continues as Luke Skywalker, in hopes of defeating the evil Galactic Empire, learns the ways of the Jedi from aging master Yoda. But Darth Vader is more determined than ever to capture Luke. Meanwhile, rebel leader Princess Leia, cocky Han S
Publisher: | Lucasfilm |
Genres: | Science Fiction, Adventure, Action |
Rating: | PG |
Production Companies: | Lucasfilm, 20th Century Fox |
Publication Date: | May 20, 1980 |
Budget: | $18,000,000 |
Runtime: | 124 |
Tagline: | The Adventure Continues... |
User Score (votes): | 8.3 / 10 (8453) |

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with
Genres: | Action, Drama |
Production Companies: | Toho Company, Ltd. |
Publication Date: | April 26, 1954 |
Budget: | $2,000,000 |
Runtime: | 207 |
Tagline: | The Mighty Warriors Who Became the Seven National Heroes of a Small Town |
User Score (votes): | 8.3 / 10 (1219) |

At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.
Publisher: | Touchstone Pictures |
Genre: | Drama |
Rating: | PG |
Production Companies: | Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners IV |
Publication Date: | June 2, 1989 |
Budget: | $16,400,000 |
Runtime: | 128 |
Tagline: | He was their inspiration. He made their lives extraordinary. |
User Score (votes): | 8.3 / 10 (4596) |

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
Genre: | Drama |
Production Companies: | Toho Company, Ltd. |
Publication Date: | October 9, 1952 |
Budget: | $0 |
Runtime: | 143 |
Tagline: | One of the Great Films of Our Time! |
User Score (votes): | 8.3 / 10 (308) |

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
Publisher: | Paramount |
Genre: | Drama |
Rating: | NR |
Production Companies: | Paramount |
Publication Date: | August 10, 1950 |
Budget: | $1,752,000 |
Runtime: | 110 |
Tagline: | A Hollywood Story |
User Score (votes): | 8.3 / 10 (828) |

The short-tempered Daffy Duck must improvise madly as the backgrounds, his costumes, the soundtrack, even his physical form, shifts and changes at the whim of the animator.
Genre: | Animation |
Production Companies: | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Publication Date: | February 28, 1953 |
Budget: | $0 |
Runtime: | 7 |
Tagline: | |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (70) |

Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism.
Publisher: | MGM |
Genres: | Mystery, Crime, Drama, Thriller |
Production Companies: | Strong Heart/Demme Production, Orion Pictures |
Publication Date: | February 1, 1991 |
Budget: | $19,000,000 |
Runtime: | 119 |
Tagline: | To enter the mind of a killer she must challenge the mind of a madman. |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (6923) |

Coral reefs are the nursery for all life in the oceans, a remarkable ecosystem that sustains us. Yet with carbon emissions warming the seas, a phenomenon called “coral bleaching”—a sign of mass coral death—has been accelerating around the world, and the p
Genre: | Documentary |
Production Companies: | Sustainable Films, Exposure Labs, Argent Pictures, Code Blue Foundation, EarthSense Foundation, Kendeda Fund, The |
Publication Date: | March 16, 2017 |
Budget: | $0 |
Runtime: | 93 |
Tagline: | |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (39) |

Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the hands of its evil creator. Along the way, a fellowship is formed to protect the ringbearer and make sure tha
Genres: | Adventure, Fantasy, Action |
Production Companies: | New Line Cinema, WingNut Films, The Saul Zaentz Company |
Publication Date: | December 18, 2001 |
Budget: | $93,000,000 |
Runtime: | 178 |
Tagline: | One ring to rule them all |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (12268) |

Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents' romance and - wi
Publisher: | NBC Universal |
Genres: | Adventure, Comedy, Science Fiction, Family |
Rating: | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
Production Companies: | U-Drive Productions, Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment |
Publication Date: | July 3, 1985 |
Budget: | $19,000,000 |
Runtime: | 116 |
Tagline: | He's the only kid ever to get into trouble before he was born. |
User Score (votes): | 8.2 / 10 (9125) |

Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain's top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during t
Publisher: | The Weinstein Company |
Genres: | Drama, History, Thriller, War |
Rating: | PG-13 |
Production Companies: | Bristol Automotive, Black Bear Pictures |
Publication Date: | November 14, 2014 |
Budget: | $14,000,000 |
Runtime: | 113 |
Tagline: | The true enigma was the man who cracked the code. |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (8723) |

Simba idolises his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub's arrival. Scar, Mufasa's brother—and former heir to the throne—has plans of his own. The battle for Pride Rock is rav
Genres: | Family, Animation, Drama |
Production Companies: | Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios |
Publication Date: | June 23, 1994 |
Budget: | $45,000,000 |
Runtime: | 89 |
Tagline: | Life's greatest adventure is finding your place in the Circle of Life. |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (8361) |

In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how their new-found power will corrupt them.
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Action, Drama, History |
Production Companies: | Nippon Herald Films, Greenwich Film Productions, Herald Ace |
Publication Date: | June 1, 1985 |
Budget: | $11,500,000 |
Runtime: | 162 |
Tagline: | The Greatest Shakespeare Film |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (500) |

Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justice. Through an ingenious use of camera and flashbacks, Kurosawa reveals the complexities of human nature
Publisher: | AV Channel |
Genres: | Action & Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery |
Rating: | Unrated |
Production Companies: | Daiei Motion Picture Co., Ltd. |
Publication Date: | December 26, 1950 |
Budget: | $250,000 |
Runtime: | 88 |
Tagline: | The husband, the wife...or the bandit? |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (678) |

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a jo
Publisher: | Criterion |
Rating: | NR |
Genres: | Drama, Fantasy |
Production Companies: | Svensk Filmindustri (SF) |
Publication Date: | February 16, 1957 |
Budget: | $0 |
Runtime: | 96 |
Tagline: | |
User Score (votes): | 8.1 / 10 (910) |

An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
Genre: | Documentary |
Production Companies: | Kandoo Films |
Publication Date: | October 7, 2016 |
Budget: | $0 |
Runtime: | 101 |
Tagline: | From slave to criminal with one amendment |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (211) |

The Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov, accompanied by guide and translator Eugenia, is traveling through Italy researching the life of an 18th-century Russian composer. In an ancient spa town, he meets the lunatic Domenico, who years earlier had imprisoned hi
Genres: | Russian, Drama, Romance |
Production Companies: | Sovinfilm, Opera Film Produzione, RAI 2 |
Publication Date: | May 1, 1983 |
Budget: | $0 |
Runtime: | 120 |
Tagline: | |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (132) |

Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, def
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
Production Companies: | Universal International Pictures |
Publication Date: | December 25, 1962 |
Budget: | $2,000,000 |
Runtime: | 129 |
Tagline: | The rare film story of a father who must expose his children to a small town's outraged passions… and can only protect them with his love. |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (1090) |

The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then m
Publisher: | The Criterion Collection |
Genres: | Comedy, Crime, Drama |
Rating: | NR |
Production Companies: | Charles Chaplin Productions |
Publication Date: | April 11, 1947 |
Budget: | $2,000,000 |
Runtime: | 124 |
Tagline: | A Comedy of Murders |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (112) |

In this filmed version of cult film director John Waters' popular one-man show, the Pink Flamingos and A Dirty Shame director takes the stage to discuss everything from his early influences, fondest career memories, and notorious struggles against the MPA
Genres: | Documentary, Comedy, History |
Production Companies: | Red Envelope Entertainment, Netflix, Revelation Films, Cinemavault Releasing, Filthy World |
Publication Date: | November 24, 2006 |
Budget: | $0 |
Runtime: | 86 |
Tagline: | John Waters brings his unique world view to theatre audiences. |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (22) |

The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.
Publisher: | Lionsgate |
Genres: | Art House, Crime, Drama |
Rating: | NR |
Production Companies: | Artisan Entertainment |
Publication Date: | October 6, 2000 |
Budget: | $4,500,000 |
Runtime: | 102 |
Tagline: | |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (3980) |

Will Hunting has a genius-level IQ but chooses to work as a janitor at MIT. When he solves a difficult graduate-level math problem, his talents are discovered by Professor Gerald Lambeau, who decides to help the misguided youth reach his potential. When W
Publisher: | Lionsgate |
Genre: | Drama |
Production Companies: | Miramax, Lawrence Bender Productions, Be Gentlemen Limited Partnership |
Publication Date: | December 5, 1997 |
Budget: | $10,000,000 |
Runtime: | 127 |
Tagline: | Some people can never believe in themselves, until someone believes in them. |
User Score (votes): | 8 / 10 (4521) |

In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every needs. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. This unconventiona
Genres: | Romance, Science Fiction, Drama |
Production Companies: | Annapurna Pictures, Warner Bros. Pictures |
Publication Date: | December 18, 2013 |
Budget: | $23,000,000 |
Runtime: | 126 |
Tagline: | A Spike Jonze Love Story |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (6260) |

Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink white Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, ad
Publisher: | Universal Studios Home Entertainment |
Genres: | Comedy, Crime |
Production Companies: | Gramercy Pictures, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Working Title Films, Universal Pictures |
Publication Date: | March 6, 1998 |
Budget: | $15,000,000 |
Runtime: | 117 |
Tagline: | Times like these call for a Big Lebowski. |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (4511) |

Harry, Ron and Hermione return to Hogwarts for another magic-filled year. Harry comes face to face with danger yet again, this time in the form of escaped convict, Sirius Black—and turns to sympathetic Professor Lupin for help.
Publisher: | Warner Bros |
Genres: | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Family |
Rating: | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
Production Companies: | 1492 Pictures, Heyday Films, Warner Bros. Pictures |
Publication Date: | May 31, 2004 |
Budget: | $130,000,000 |
Runtime: | 141 |
Tagline: | Something wicked this way comes. |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (9294) |

Carl Fredricksen spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest. But at age 78, life seems to have passed him by, until a twist of fate (and a persistent 8-year old Wilderness Explorer named Russell) gives him a
Genres: | Animation, Comedy, Family, Adventure |
Production Companies: | Pixar |
Publication Date: | May 28, 2009 |
Budget: | $175,000,000 |
Runtime: | 96 |
Tagline: | |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (10357) |

The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde.
Publisher: | Focus Features |
Genres: | Drama, Romance |
Rating: | PG-13 |
Production Companies: | Working Title Films |
Publication Date: | November 26, 2014 |
Budget: | $15,000,000 |
Runtime: | 123 |
Tagline: | His Mind Changed Our World. Her Love Changed His. |
User Score (votes): | 7.9 / 10 (5225) |

Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English ru
Publisher: | Paramount |
Genres: | Action, Drama, History, War |
Production Companies: | Icon Entertainment International, The Ladd Company, B.H. Finance C.V. |
Publication Date: | May 24, 1995 |
Budget: | $72,000,000 |
Runtime: | 177 |
Tagline: | Every man dies. Not every man truly lives. |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (4659) |

After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity, and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness.
Publisher: | Paramount |
Genres: | Adventure, Drama |
Production Companies: | River Road Entertainment, Paramount Vantage, Into the Wild, The Linson Company |
Publication Date: | September 11, 2007 |
Budget: | $15,000,000 |
Runtime: | 148 |
Tagline: | Into the heart. Into the soul. |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (4733) |

A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.
Publisher: | Shorts International |
Genre: | Drama |
Rating: | PG |
Production Companies: | Svensk Filmindustri (SF) |
Publication Date: | February 11, 1963 |
Budget: | $0 |
Runtime: | 80 |
Tagline: | |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (108) |

A tomboyish girl disguises herself as a young man so she can fight with the Imperial Chinese Army against the invading Huns. With help from wise-cracking dragon Mushu, Mulan just might save her country -- and win the heart of handsome Captain Li Shang.
Genres: | Animation, Family, Adventure |
Production Companies: | Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios |
Publication Date: | June 18, 1998 |
Budget: | $90,000,000 |
Runtime: | 88 |
Tagline: | This time, the princess saves the prince. |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (3690) |

Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to children on Christmas morning. But as Chris
Publisher: | Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment |
Genres: | Kids & Family, Fantasy, Animation, Family |
Rating: | PG |
Production Companies: | Tim Burton Productions, Skellington Productions Inc., Touchstone Pictures |
Publication Date: | October 9, 1993 |
Budget: | $18,000,000 |
Runtime: | 76 |
Tagline: | This is Halloween, everybody make a scene! |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (3444) |

When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, ev
Genres: | Crime, Drama |
Production Companies: | Jalem Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures |
Publication Date: | June 22, 1967 |
Budget: | $3,200,000 |
Runtime: | 126 |
Tagline: | What we've got here is failure to communicate. |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (539) |

A psychological thriller about an eight year old boy named Cole Sear who believes he can see into the world of the dead. A child psychologist named Malcolm Crowe comes to Cole to help him deal with his problem, learning that he really can see ghosts of de
Publisher: | Hollywood Pictures |
Genres: | Thrillers, Mystery, Thriller, Drama |
Rating: | PG-13 |
Production Companies: | Spyglass Entertainment, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, Hollywood Pictures, Barry Mendel Productions |
Publication Date: | August 6, 1999 |
Budget: | $40,000,000 |
Runtime: | 107 |
Tagline: | Not every gift is a blessing. |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (4907) |

On his way to Vienna, American Jesse meets Céline, a student returning to Paris. After long conversations forge a surprising connection between them, Jesse convinces Celine to get off the train with him in Vienna. Since his flight to the U.S. departs the
Publisher: | Warner Bros |
Genres: | Comedy - Romantic, Drama, Romance |
Production Companies: | Detour Film Production, Castle Rock Entertainment, Filmhaus Wien, Columbia Pictures |
Publication Date: | January 27, 1995 |
Budget: | $2,500,000 |
Runtime: | 101 |
Tagline: | Can the greatest romance of your life last only one night? |
User Score (votes): | 7.8 / 10 (1432) |