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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) |
Young princess Anna of Arendelle dreams about finding true love at her sister Elsa’s coronation. Fate takes her on a dangerous journey in an attempt to end the eternal winter that has fallen over the kingdom. She's accompanied by ice delivery man Kristoff
Genres: | Animation, Adventure, Family |
Production Companies: | Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Animation Studios |
Publication Date: | November 27, 2013 |
Budget: | $150,000,000 |
Runtime: | 102 |
Tagline: | Only the act of true love will thaw a frozen heart. |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (8013) |
An acclaimed writer, his ex-wife, and their teenaged children come to terms with the complexities of love in all its forms over the course of one tumultuous year.
Genres: | Drama, Comedy |
Production Companies: | Troy Entertainment, Informant Media, MICA Entertainment |
Publication Date: | September 9, 2012 |
Budget: | $0 |
Runtime: | 97 |
Tagline: | A story about first loves and second chances. |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (1021) |
While vacationing with a friend in Paris, an American girl is kidnapped by a gang of human traffickers intent on selling her into forced prostitution. Working against the clock, her ex-spy father must pull out all the stops to save her. But with his best
Publisher: | 20th Century Fox |
Genres: | Action, Thriller |
Rating: | PG-13 |
Production Companies: | Wintergreen Productions, EuropaCorp, M6 Films, Grive Productions, TPS Star, M6, All Pictures Media, 20th Century Fox, Canal+ |
Publication Date: | February 18, 2008 |
Budget: | $25,000,000 |
Runtime: | 93 |
Tagline: | They took his daughter. He'll take their lives. |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (5867) |
America's king of clean comedy delivers wickedly funny jokes in his fifth hour-long special.
Genre: | Comedy |
Production Companies: | Comedy Dynamics |
Publication Date: | January 10, 2017 |
Budget: | $0 |
Runtime: | 73 |
Tagline: | |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (29) |
The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
Publisher: | A24 |
Genres: | Independentfilm & Arthouse, Drama |
Production Companies: | Pastel, Plan B Entertainment, Upload Films, A24 |
Publication Date: | October 21, 2016 |
Budget: | $4,000,000 |
Runtime: | 111 |
Tagline: | This is the story of a lifetime |
User Score (votes): | 7.3 / 10 (3104) |
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) |
On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room as a small site among frien
Genre: | Drama |
Production Companies: | Columbia Pictures, Relativity Media, Scott Rudin Productions |
Publication Date: | October 1, 2010 |
Budget: | $40,000,000 |
Runtime: | 121 |
Tagline: | You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies. |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (5056) |
Times are hard in 1846 London and one must make do. Nellie Lovett adds something extra to the meat pies she peddles on Fleet Street. The secret ingredient: freshly murdered victims of her partner in crime, barber Sweeney Todd. Composer/lyricist Stephen So
Genres: | Horror, Music, Drama, Thriller |
Production Companies: | The Nederlander Organization, RKO Radio Pictures |
Publication Date: | September 12, 1982 |
Budget: | $0 |
Runtime: | 140 |
Tagline: | Sondheim's darkly savage tale of revenge featuring the first national touring cast. |
User Score (votes): | 7.2 / 10 (11) |
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) |
Clark Griswold is on a quest to take his family on a quest to Walley World theme park for a vacation, but things don't go exactly as planned.
Genres: | Comedy, Adventure, Romance |
Production Companies: | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Publication Date: | July 28, 1983 |
Budget: | $15,000,000 |
Runtime: | 99 |
Tagline: | Every summer Chevy Chase takes his family on a little trip. This year he went too far. |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (571) |
Follows seemingly unrelated people as their lives begin to intertwine while they fall in – and out – of love. Affections languish and develop as Christmas draws near.
Genres: | Comedy, Romance, Drama |
Production Companies: | Working Title Films, DNA Films, Universal Pictures, StudioCanal |
Publication Date: | September 7, 2003 |
Budget: | $40,000,000 |
Runtime: | 135 |
Tagline: | The ultimate romantic comedy. |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (2823) |
The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball team on a budget, by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.
Genre: | Drama |
Production Companies: | Columbia Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions |
Publication Date: | September 22, 2011 |
Budget: | $50,000,000 |
Runtime: | 134 |
Tagline: | What are you really worth? |
User Score (votes): | 7.1 / 10 (1922) |
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) |
Lonely toymaker Geppetto has his wishes answered when the Blue Fairy arrives to bring his wooden puppet Pinocchio to life. Before becoming a real boy, however, Pinocchio must prove he's worthy as he sets off on an adventure with his whistling sidekick and
Genres: | Animation, Family |
Production Companies: | Walt Disney Productions |
Publication Date: | February 23, 1940 |
Budget: | $2,600,000 |
Runtime: | 88 |
Tagline: | For anyone who has ever wished upon a star. |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (2346) |
When his cattlemen abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his cowboys in order to get his herd to market in time to avoid financial disaster. The boys learn to do a man's job under Andersen
Genres: | Action, Adventure, Drama, Western |
Production Companies: | Sanford Productions (III), Warner Bros. Pictures |
Publication Date: | January 13, 1972 |
Budget: | $6,000,000 |
Runtime: | 131 |
Tagline: | All they wanted was their chance to be men...and he gave it to them. |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (80) |
Sam Von Schamm The Hessian and Bugs Bunny fight it out in the little known American Revolutionary War Battle of Bagel Heights.
Publication Date: | September 23, 1950 |
Budget: | $0 |
Runtime: | 7 |
Tagline: | |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (8) |
Tough-talking Detroit cop Axel Foley heads to the rarified world of Beverly Hills in his beat-up Chevy Nova to investigate a friend's murder. But soon, he realizes he's stumbled onto something much more complicated. Bungling rookie detective Billy Rosewoo
Publisher: | Paramount |
Genres: | Action, Comedy, Crime |
Rating: | R (Restricted) |
Production Companies: | Paramount, Eddie Murphy Productions |
Publication Date: | November 29, 1984 |
Budget: | $15,000,000 |
Runtime: | 105 |
Tagline: | The Heat Is On! |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (1445) |
After spending eight months in a mental institution, a former teacher moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
Production Companies: | The Weinstein Company |
Publication Date: | September 8, 2012 |
Budget: | $21,000,000 |
Runtime: | 122 |
Tagline: | Watch For The Signs |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (6548) |
Elmer Fudd gets more than he bargained for from his new pet rabbit.
Genre: | Animation |
Production Companies: | Warner Bros. Pictures |
Publication Date: | January 4, 1941 |
Budget: | $0 |
Runtime: | 8 |
Tagline: | |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (2) |
In the film that launched the James Bond saga, Agent 007 battles mysterious Dr. No, a scientific genius bent on destroying the U.S. space program. As the countdown to disaster begins, Bond must go to Jamaica, where he encounters beautiful Honey Ryder, to
Publisher: | MGM |
Genres: | Action - Crime, Adventure, Action, Thriller |
Rating: | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
Production Companies: | United Artists, Eon Productions |
Publication Date: | October 4, 1962 |
Budget: | $950,000 |
Runtime: | 110 |
Tagline: | NOW meet the most extraordinary gentleman spy in all fiction! |
User Score (votes): | 7 / 10 (1370) |
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) |