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When her father unexpectedly passes away, young Ella finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her daughters. Never one to give up hope, Ella's fortunes begin to change after meeting a dashing stranger in the woods.
Publisher: | Walt Disney Pictures |
Genres: | Animation, Romance, Fantasy, Family, Drama |
Production Companies: | Walt Disney Pictures, Genre Films, Beagle Pug Films, Allison Shearmur Productions |
Publication Date: | March 12, 2015 |
Budget: | $95,000,000 |
Runtime: | 105 |
Tagline: | Midnight is just the beginning. |
User Score (votes): | 6.7 / 10 (3744) |

Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.
Publisher: | Universal Pictures |
Genres: | Drama, History |
Production Companies: | Universal Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions, Legendary Entertainment, The Mark Gordon Company, Management 360, Cloud Eight Films |
Publication Date: | October 9, 2015 |
Budget: | $30,000,000 |
Runtime: | 122 |
Tagline: | Can a great man be a good man? |
User Score (votes): | 6.8 / 10 (2192) |

Demonic gang-leader Alex goes on the spree of rape, mugging and murder with his pack of "droogs". But he's a boy who also likes Beethoven's Ninth and a bit of "the old in-out, in-out". He later finds himself at the mercy of the state and its brainwashing
Genres: | Crime, Drama, Thriller |

When a millionaire wheeler-dealer enters a business contract with a Hollywood hooker Vivian Ward, he loses his heart in the bargain.
Genres: | Romance, Comedy |

A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Genre: | Comedy |

A magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.
Genres: | Comedy, Family, Fantasy |
Production Companies: | Walt Disney Productions |
Publication Date: | August 27, 1964 |
Budget: | $6,000,000 |
Runtime: | 139 |
Tagline: | It's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! |
User Score (votes): | 7.5 / 10 (1936) |

Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. Then, one day, he suddenly has second thoughts about what he's really do
Publisher: | TriStar Pictures |
Genre: | Drama |
Publisher: | Warner Bros |
Genre: | Family Cinema |

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) |

A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.
Publisher: | Columbia Pictures |
Genre: | Drama |
Rating: | PG-13 |

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) |

Bonnie and Clyde is based on the true stories of the gangster pair Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow who in the 1930s began robbing banks in U.S. cities until they were eventually killed. The film is a major landmark in the aesthetic movement known as the Ne
Genres: | Crime, Drama |

Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Budget: | $20,000,000 |
Runtime: | 109 |
Tagline: | It's No Laughing Matter. |

Box Set: The incredible saga of high-school-chemistry-teacher-turned-meth-kingpin Walter White is here in its entirety: all 62 uncut, uncensored episodes! Emmy® winner Bryan Cranston portrays Walter White, a family man who turns to crime after a lung can
Publisher: | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment |
Rating: | Unrated |

Violet, a shy teenager living on the Isle of Wight off the south coast of England dreams of pop stardom and with the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a singing competition that will test her integrity, talent and ambition.
Genres: | Music, Drama |
Budget: | $0 |
Runtime: | 92 |
Tagline: |

Struggling to make ends meet, former special ops soldiers reunite for a high-stakes heist: stealing $75 million from a South American drug lord.
Genres: | Action, Adventure, Thriller |

An orphan in a facility run by the mean Miss Hannigan, Annie believes that her parents left her there by mistake. When a rich man named Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks decides to let an orphan live at his home to promote his image, Annie is selected. While Annie
Genres: | Comedy, Drama, Family, Music |

After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson runs off on a hilarious misadventure in this comedy classic that takes him from rags to riches and back to rags again. The slaphappy jerk strikes it rich, bu
Genre: | Comedy |

In this candid, in-depth interview with the late visionary filmed in 1995, Steve Jobs discusses at length his early days, career battles, and vision for the future. Small portions of the piece were used for<br>a television series at the time, but the vast
Publisher: | Magnolia Home Entertainment |
Rating: | NR |

A look at the first years of Pixar Animation Studios - from the success of "Toy Story" and Pixar's promotion of talented people, to the building of its East Bay campus, the company's relationship with Disney, and its remarkable initial string of eight hit
Publisher: | Disney/Pixar |
Genres: | Documentary > Entertainment, Documentary |
Production Companies: | Leslie Iwerks Productions |
Publication Date: | August 28, 2007 |
Budget: | $0 |
Runtime: | 87 |
Tagline: | Documentary about the history of Pixar animation |
User Score (votes): | 7.7 / 10 (85) |

After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, con
Genres: | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller |

When a down-to-earth Chicago baker and a soon-to-be princess discover they look like twins, they hatch a Christmastime plan to trade places.
Genre: | Romance |

Set in the 1930s this intricate caper deals with an ambitious small-time crook and a veteran con man who seek revenge on a vicious crime lord who murdered one of their gang.
Genres: | Comedy, Crime, Drama |

The auto-biographical story of Howard Stern, the radio-rebel who is now also a TV-personality, an author and a movie star.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |
Budget: | $28,000,000 |
Runtime: | 109 |
Tagline: | Never before has a man done so much with so little. |

In the 1930s, the gangster pair Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow began robbing banks in U.S. cities until they were eventually killed in a police shoot-out.
Genres: | Comedy, Drama |