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As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
Publisher: | NBC Universal |
Genres: | Drama, Romance |
Production Companies: | Universal Pictures, Relativity Media, Working Title Films, StudioCanal |
Publication Date: | August 29, 2007 |
Budget: | $30,000,000 |
Runtime: | 123 |
Tagline: | Torn apart by betrayal. Separated by war. Bound by love. |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (1653) |
A documentary on the life of Amy Winehouse, the immensely talented yet doomed songstress. We see her from her teen years, where she already showed her singing abilities, to her finding success and then her downward spiral into alcoholism and drugs.
Publisher: | A24 |
Genres: | Documentary, Music |
Production Companies: | On The Corner Films, Universal Music |
Publication Date: | July 3, 2015 |
Budget: | $0 |
Runtime: | 128 |
Tagline: | The girl behind the name |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (621) |
After being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil.
Publisher: | Marvel |
Genres: | Action, Science Fiction, Adventure |
Rating: | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
Production Companies: | Marvel Studios |
Publication Date: | April 30, 2008 |
Budget: | $140,000,000 |
Runtime: | 126 |
Tagline: | Heroes aren't born. They're built. |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (12786) |
When the kingdom's most wanted-and most charming-bandit Flynn Rider hides out in a mysterious tower, he's taken hostage by Rapunzel, a beautiful and feisty tower-bound teen with 70 feet of magical, golden hair. Flynn's curious captor, who's looking for he
Publisher: | Walt Disney Pictures |
Genres: | Animation, Family |
Rating: | PG |
Production Companies: | Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney Pictures |
Publication Date: | February 3, 2010 |
Budget: | $260,000,000 |
Runtime: | 100 |
Tagline: | They're taking adventure to new lengths. |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (5217) |
When Coraline moves to an old house, she feels bored and neglected by her parents. She finds a hidden door with a bricked up passage. During the night, she crosses the passage and finds a parallel world where everybody has buttons instead of eyes, with ca
Genres: | Animation, Family |
Production Companies: | Focus Features, Laika Entertainment |
Publication Date: | February 5, 2009 |
Budget: | $60,000,000 |
Runtime: | 100 |
Tagline: | Be careful what you wish for... |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (2417) |
It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a mission to retrieve a gorgeous princess from the clutches of a fire-breathing dragon, Shrek teams up with an unlikely compatriot -- a wisecracking donkey.
Publisher: | Dreamworks Animation |
Genres: | Action, Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy |
Rating: | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
Production Companies: | Pacific Data Images (PDI), DreamWorks Animation, DreamWorks |
Publication Date: | May 16, 2001 |
Budget: | $60,000,000 |
Runtime: | 90 |
Tagline: | The greatest fairy tale never told. |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (6771) |
Rudy grew up in a steel mill town where most people ended up working, but wanted to play football at Notre Dame instead. There were only a couple of problems. His grades were a little low, his athletic skills were poor, and he was only half the size of th
Genre: | Drama |
Production Companies: | TriStar Pictures |
Publication Date: | September 17, 1993 |
Budget: | $12,000,000 |
Runtime: | 114 |
Tagline: | It's not the size of the dog in the fight, It's the size of the fight in the dog. |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (239) |
On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
Publisher: | Warner Bros |
Genres: | Drama - Crime, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller |
Production Companies: | WV Films II, Village Roadshow Pictures, NPV Entertainment, Outlaw Productions (I), Warner Bros. Pictures |
Publication Date: | October 5, 2001 |
Budget: | $45,000,000 |
Runtime: | 122 |
Tagline: | The only thing more dangerous than the line being crossed, is the cop who will cross it. |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (2353) |
Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.
Publisher: | Paramount |
Genres: | Drama, Fantasy, Thriller, Mystery, Romance |
Rating: | PG-13 |
Production Companies: | Paramount, Warner Bros. Pictures, The Kennedy/Marshall Company |
Publication Date: | December 25, 2008 |
Budget: | $150,000,000 |
Runtime: | 166 |
Tagline: | Life isn't measured in minutes, but in moments. |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (5250) |
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
Publisher: | NBC Universal |
Genres: | Art House, Drama |
Production Companies: | American Zoetrope |
Publication Date: | August 31, 2003 |
Budget: | $4,000,000 |
Runtime: | 102 |
Tagline: | Everyone wants to be found. |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (2753) |
The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family
Genre: | Drama |
Production Companies: | Alcon Entertainment, Left Tackle Pictures, Zucker/Netter Productions |
Publication Date: | November 20, 2009 |
Budget: | $29,000,000 |
Runtime: | 129 |
Tagline: | Based on the extraordinary true story |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (2309) |
Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. Two daughters are the titular opposites.
Publisher: | Columbia Pictures |
Genres: | Drama, Romance |
Rating: | PG |
Production Companies: | Mirage Enterprises, Columbia Pictures |
Publication Date: | December 13, 1995 |
Budget: | $16,000,000 |
Runtime: | 136 |
Tagline: | Lose your heart and come to your senses. |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (554) |
In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
Genres: | Western, Drama, Adventure, Thriller |
Production Companies: | Monarchy Enterprises S.a.r.l., Regency Enterprises, Appian Way, CatchPlay, Anonymous Content, New Regency Pictures, Hong Kong Alpha Motion Pictures Co., M Productions, RatPac-Dune Entertainment |
Publication Date: | December 25, 2015 |
Budget: | $135,000,000 |
Runtime: | 156 |
Tagline: | (n. One who has returned, as if from the dead.) |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (9203) |
Bugs is in drag as the Valkyrie Brunhilde who sits on an overwieght horse. "She" is pursued by Elmer playing the demigod "Siegfried".
Genres: | Music, Animation, Comedy |
Production Companies: | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Publication Date: | July 6, 1957 |
Budget: | $0 |
Runtime: | 7 |
Tagline: | |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (60) |
Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.
Genres: | Fantasy, Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Romance |
Production Companies: | Paramount, Warner Bros. Pictures, The Kennedy/Marshall Company |
Publication Date: | December 25, 2008 |
Budget: | $150,000,000 |
Runtime: | 166 |
Tagline: | Life isn't measured in minutes, but in moments. |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (5250) |
Special agent 007 comes face to face with one of the most notorious villains of all time, and now he must outwit and outgun the powerful tycoon to prevent him from cashing in on a devious scheme to raid Fort Knox -- and obliterate the world's economy.
Publisher: | MGM |
Genres: | Action, Adventure, Thriller |
Rating: | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
Production Companies: | United Artists, Eon Productions, Danjaq |
Publication Date: | September 17, 1964 |
Budget: | $2,500,000 |
Runtime: | 110 |
Tagline: | Everything he touches turns into excitement! |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (1420) |
A girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics: by killing the popular kids.
Publisher: | Image Entertainment |
Genres: | Comedy, Thriller, Drama |
Rating: | R (Restricted) |
Production Companies: | New World Pictures, Cinemarque Entertainment |
Publication Date: | March 31, 1989 |
Budget: | $3,000,000 |
Runtime: | 102 |
Tagline: | Best friends, social trends, and occasional murder. |
User Score (votes): | 7.4 / 10 (626) |
An aspiring dancer moves to New York City and becomes caught up in a whirlwind of flighty fair-weather friends, diminishing fortunes and career setbacks.
Publisher: | IFC Films |
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Production Companies: | Scott Rudin Productions, RT Features, Pine District Pictures |
Publication Date: | May 17, 2013 |
Budget: | $0 |
Runtime: | 86 |
Tagline: | |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (527) |
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
Genres: | Horror, Romance |
Production Companies: | Geffen Pictures |
Publication Date: | November 11, 1994 |
Budget: | $60,000,000 |
Runtime: | 123 |
Tagline: | Drink from me and live forever |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (2310) |
In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Ellis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
Publisher: | Fox Searchlight |
Genres: | Romance, Drama |
Rating: | PG-13 |
Production Companies: | Wildgaze Films, Irish Film Board, Item 7, Parallel Film Productions |
Publication Date: | October 20, 2015 |
Budget: | $11,000,000 |
Runtime: | 111 |
Tagline: | Two countries, two loves, one heart |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (1646) |
Scott Pilgrim is a 23 year old radical Canadian gamer and wannabe rockstar who falls in love with an American delivery girl, Ramona Flowers, and must defeat her seven evil exes to be able to date her.
Publisher: | NBC Universal |
Genres: | Comedy, Action, Romance |
Rating: | PG-13 |
Production Companies: | Universal Pictures, Marc Platt Productions, Big Talk Productions, Closed on Mondays Entertainment, Dentsu Inc. |
Publication Date: | July 27, 2010 |
Budget: | $60,000,000 |
Runtime: | 112 |
Tagline: | Get the hot girl. Defeat her evil exes. Hit love where it hurts. |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (3253) |
The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.
Publisher: | Paramount |
Rating: | 0 |
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Production Companies: | Plan B Entertainment, Paramount, Regency Enterprises |
Publication Date: | December 11, 2015 |
Budget: | $28,000,000 |
Runtime: | 131 |
Tagline: | This is a true story. |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (3782) |
A young writer begins an affair with an older woman from France whose open marriage to a diplomat dictates that they can meet only between the hours of 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Publisher: | IFC in Theaters LLC |
Genres: | Romance, Comedy |
Production Companies: | IFC Films, Mockingbird Pictures, Demarest Films |
Publication Date: | April 19, 2014 |
Budget: | $0 |
Runtime: | 98 |
Tagline: | Loving someone... at the right time. |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (159) |
Dangerous Liaisons is the film based on the novel of the same name by Choderlos de Laclos set in 18th century France. Marquise de Merteuil’s asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last
Publisher: | Warner Bros |
Genres: | Drama - Historical, Drama, Romance |
Production Companies: | Lorimar Film Entertainment, NFH Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures |
Publication Date: | December 16, 1988 |
Budget: | $14,000,000 |
Runtime: | 119 |
Tagline: | Lust. Seduction. Revenge. The Game As You've Never Seen It Played Before. |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (425) |
The Blue Meanies take over Pepperland, draining it of all its color and music, firing anti-music missiles, bonking people with green apples, and turning the inhabitants to stone by way of the pointed finger of a giant blue glove. As the only survivor, the
Publisher: | Capitol |
Genres: | Romance, Fantasy, Music, Animation, Family, Adventure |
Production Companies: | United Artists, Apple Corps, King Features Production |
Publication Date: | July 17, 1968 |
Budget: | $0 |
Runtime: | 90 |
Tagline: | Nothing Is Real. |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (163) |
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his
Publisher: | Paramount |
Genres: | Drama - Crime, Thriller, Crime, Drama |
Rating: | 0 |
Production Companies: | Timnick Films, Paramount, Miramax, Mirage Enterprises |
Publication Date: | December 25, 1999 |
Budget: | $40,000,000 |
Runtime: | 139 |
Tagline: | How far would you go to become someone else? |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (1146) |
When college coach Herb Brooks is hired to helm the 1980 U.S. men's Olympic hockey team, he brings a unique and brash style to the ice. After assembling a team of hot-headed college all-stars, who are humiliated in an early match, Brooks unites his squad
Genres: | Drama, History |
Production Companies: | Walt Disney Pictures |
Publication Date: | February 6, 2004 |
Budget: | $28,000,000 |
Runtime: | 135 |
Tagline: | If you believe in yourself, anything can happen. |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (237) |
Coffee And Cigarettes is a collection of eleven films from cult director Jim Jarmusch. Each film hosts star studded cast of extremely unique individuals who all share the common activities of conversing while drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Production Companies: | Smokescreen Inc. |
Publication Date: | September 5, 2003 |
Budget: | $0 |
Runtime: | 96 |
Tagline: | |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (342) |
Bombshell is a revealing look inside the most powerful and controversial media empire of all time; and the explosive story of the women who brought down the infamous man who created it.
Genres: | Comedy, Romance |
Production Companies: | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Publication Date: | October 13, 1933 |
Budget: | $0 |
Runtime: | 96 |
Tagline: | |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (12) |
The final installment of the "Hunting Trilogy" once again has Elmer out hunting, while Bugs and Daffy try to con him into shooting the other.
Genre: | Animation |
Production Companies: | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Publication Date: | October 3, 1953 |
Budget: | $0 |
Runtime: | 7 |
Tagline: | |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (24) |
Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school, so he's very upset when newcomer Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and other differences, including that she's rich, he's poor, and she's a city girl, he's a co
Publisher: | Walt Disney Pictures |
Genres: | Adventure, Drama, Family |
Rating: | PG |
Production Companies: | Lauren Levine Productions Inc., Walden Media, Hal Lieberman Company |
Publication Date: | February 16, 2007 |
Budget: | $60,000,000 |
Runtime: | 96 |
Tagline: | Close your eyes, but keep your mind wide open. |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (1908) |
A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.
Genres: | Drama, Romance |
Production Companies: | Wendy Finerman Productions, Alcon Entertainment, Grosvenor Park Productions, Warner Bros. Pictures |
Publication Date: | November 15, 2007 |
Budget: | $30,000,000 |
Runtime: | 126 |
Tagline: | His life ended. Now, a new one will begin. |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (1581) |
Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.
Genre: | Comedy |
Production Companies: | Broadway Video, Paramount, M.G. Films |
Publication Date: | April 30, 2004 |
Budget: | $17,000,000 |
Runtime: | 97 |
Tagline: | Welcome to girl world. |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (3783) |
Still reeling from a heartbreaking family event and his parents' subsequent divorce, Tyler Hawkins discovers a fresh lease on life when he meets Ally Craig, a gregarious beauty who witnessed her mother's death. But as the couple draws closer, the fallout
Genres: | Drama, Romance |
Production Companies: | Summit Entertainment |
Publication Date: | March 12, 2010 |
Budget: | $16,000,000 |
Runtime: | 113 |
Tagline: | Live in the moments. |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (1615) |
A young girl named Juno gets herself pregnant and tries to stand on her own, but soon learns a few lessons about being grown up.
Publisher: | 20th Century Fox |
Genres: | Art House, Comedy, Drama, Romance |
Rating: | PG-13 |
Production Companies: | Mandate Pictures, Mr. Mudd Production |
Publication Date: | December 5, 2007 |
Budget: | $7,500,000 |
Runtime: | 96 |
Tagline: | A comedy about growing up... and the bumps along the way. |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (3422) |
When Quasimodo defies the evil Frollo and ventures out to the Festival of Fools, the cruel crowd jeers him. Rescued by fellow outcast the gypsy Esmeralda, Quasi soon finds himself battling to save the people and the city he loves.
Genres: | Drama, Animation, Family |
Production Companies: | Walt Disney Pictures |
Publication Date: | June 21, 1996 |
Budget: | $100,000,000 |
Runtime: | 91 |
Tagline: | |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (2007) |
Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, Linda
Genres: | Comedy, Romance, Drama |
Production Companies: | Refugee Films, Universal Pictures |
Publication Date: | August 13, 1982 |
Budget: | $4,500,000 |
Runtime: | 90 |
Tagline: | Fast Cars, Fast Girls, Fast Carrots...Fast Carrots? |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (469) |
After being bitten by a genetically altered spider, nerdy high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers.
Genres: | Fantasy, Action |
Production Companies: | Marvel Enterprises, Columbia Pictures |
Publication Date: | May 1, 2002 |
Budget: | $139,000,000 |
Runtime: | 121 |
Tagline: | With great power comes great responsibility. |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (8157) |
Painters Painting: The New York Art Scene 1940-1970 is a 1972 documentary directed by Emile de Antonio. It covers American art movements from abstract expressionism to pop art through conversations with artists in their studios. Artists appearing in the f
Publisher: | Arthouse Films/Curiously Bright |
Genres: | Nonfiction - Documentary, Documentary, History |
Rating: | NR |
Publication Date: | March 19, 1973 |
Budget: | $0 |
Runtime: | 116 |
Tagline: | A candid history of the New York art scene, 1940-1970. |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (1) |
An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Production Companies: | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Publication Date: | August 29, 1933 |
Budget: | $435,000 |
Runtime: | 111 |
Tagline: | |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (26) |