Film Title |
Director |
Cast |
genre |
Description |
My Rating |
| Adaptation |
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| The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen |
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- |
- |
- |
- |
| The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai |
W.D. Richter |
Peter Weller, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Lloyd, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin |
Sci-fi, comedy |
The world's most famous physicist, rock star, and brain surgeon must prevent a fascist alien from freeing his brothers from the eighth dimension. |
* * * * * |
| Alien |
Ridley Scott |
Sigourney Weaver, Harry Dean Stanton |
Sci-Fi, Horror |
The crew of a space freighter discovers a dangerous new life-form. |
* * * * 1/2 |
| Aliens |
James Cameron |
Sigourney Weaver, Bill Paxton, Paul Reiser |
Sci-Fi, Horror |
Ripley returns to the planet after 50 years of cryo-sleep to rescue the settlers who have met the Aliens. |
* * * * 1/2 |
| Almost Famous |
Cameron Crowe |
Patrick Fugit, Kate Hudson, Billy Crudup, Jason Lee, Frances McDormand |
Comedy, drama |
A 15-year-old writer gets a job writing music reviews for Cream magazine in the 70's. He goes on the road with Stillwater. |
* * * * * |
| Amelie |
Jean-Pierre Jeunet |
Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Serge Merlin |
comedy |
A shy young woman finds a boyhood treasure of a former resident of her apartment. This inspires her to begin performing anonymous good deeds. |
* * * 1/2 |
| American Beauty |
Sam Mendes |
Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Peter Gallagher |
drama |
The story of a dysfunctional family and their relationships with each other, and their neighbors. |
* * * * |
| American History X |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| American Pie |
Paul Weitz |
Jason Biggs, Natasha Lyonne, Mena Suvari, Chris Klein, Tara Reid |
comedy |
Soon-to-graduate high school kids make a pact to loose their virginity |
* * * |
| An American Werewolf In London |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Amistad |
Steven Speilberg |
Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Djimon Hounsou, Matthew McConaughey |
drama |
Africans aboard a Spanish slave ship kill their captors and end up in USA. Spain demands that they be handed over as murderers. |
* * * 1/2 |
| The Animatrix |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Annie Hall |
Woody Allen |
Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Paul Simon, Christopher Walken, Tony Roberts |
comedy |
A story about the relationship between a neurotic man from the city and a free-spirited woman from the suburbs. |
* * * * * |
| The Anniversary Party |
Alan Cumming, Jennifer Jason Lee |
Alan Cumming, Jennifer Jason Lee, Phoebe Cates, Kevin Kline, Jane Adams |
Comedy, drama |
Tensions reach the breaking point as a group of Hollywood actors, friends, and neighbors get together. |
* * * * |
| Apollo 13 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Army Of Darkness |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Artificial Intelligence |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Auto Focus |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Back To The Future |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Barton Fink |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Being John Malkovich |
Spike Jonze |
John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, John Malkovich |
comedy |
A puppeteer and reluctant office worker finds a strange tunnel to a new world. |
* * * * * |
| The Big Chill |
Laurence Kasdan |
Jeff Goldblum, Kevin Klein |
Drama, comedy |
A group of friends from the University of Michigan are brought back together by the death of a classmate. |
* * * 1/2 |
| Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure |
Steven Herek |
Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin |
sci-fi, comedy |
A pair of knuckleheads who are failing history are visited by a man from the future, who must help them for the sake of all humankind. |
* * * |
| Birthday Girl |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Blade |
Steven Norington |
Wesley Snipes, Steven Dorff |
Action/Horror |
A half-vampire superhero dedicates his life to destroying vampires. |
* * * * |
| Blade Runner |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| The Blair Witch Project |
Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez |
Heather Donahue, Michael Williams, Joshua Leonard |
Horror |
A pseudo-documentary about a group of film students who set out to tell the legend of a local witch. |
* * * * * |
| Blood Simple |
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- |
- |
- |
- |
| Blood: The Last Vampire |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Blue Crush |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Boogie Nights |
Paul Thomas Anderson |
Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds, William H. Macy, Heather Graham |
drama |
A young restaurant worker is discovered by a porn movie director. |
* * * 1/2 |
| Boondock Saints |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Bottle Rocket |
Wes Anderson |
Owen Wilson, Luc Wilson |
comedy |
A recently rehabilitated drug-addict helps his child-like buddy pull off a series of robberies. |
* * * * 1/2 |
| Braveheart |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Brazil |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Broadcast News |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| The Brotherhood of the Wolf |
Christophe Gans |
Vincent Cassel, Samuel Le Bihan, Emilie DeQuenne, Monica Bellucci |
Action, Thriller |
A mysterious beast is terrorizing a French town. Two men, a naturalist who fought against the British in the colonies, and an American Indian, are instructed to identify and destroy the beast. |
* * * 1/2 |
| The Brothers McMullen |
Edward Burns |
Jack Mulcahy, Mike McGlone, Edward Burns, Connie Britton |
comedy |
Three Irish-American New Yorkers learn about true love and facing their fears of commitment. |
* * * * * |
| Canadian Bacon |
Michael Moore |
John Candy, Alan Alda, Rhea Pearlman, Dan Ackroyd, Steven Wright |
comedy |
The president and his advisors create a war with Canada in order to improve his popularity. |
* * 1/2 |
| Cannes Man |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Cast Away |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Charlie's Angels |
MCG |
Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, Bill Murray, Crispin Glover |
campy action |
three karate-kicking crime-fighters sponsered by an anonymous millionaire face a clever new foe. |
* * * |
| Chasing Amy |
Kevin Smith |
Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, Jason Lee, Dwight Ewell |
comedy |
Story about a comic-book artist, his best friend, and his girlfriend, and his emotional hang-ups. |
* * * * |
| Chocolat |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| The City of Lost Children |
Jean Pierre Jeunet |
Dominique Pinon, Ron Pearlman, Judith Vittet |
fantasy |
Dream-stealing scientist preys on orphans |
* * * * 1/2 |
| Clerks |
Kevin Smith |
Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Marilyn Ghigliotti, Jason Mewes |
comedy |
A particularly bad day forces a convenience-store clerk to examine his life. |
* * * * * |
| A Clockwork Orange |
Stanley Kubrick |
Malcolm McDowell |
black comedy |
A young trouble-maker is taught how to be a good citizen |
* * * * * |
| Close Encounters of the Third Kind |
Steven Spielberg |
Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr |
sci-fi |
Visitors from outer space cause strange behavior in some of the humans they meet. |
* * * * * |
| Contact |
Robert Zemeckis |
Jodi Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerritt |
Sci-fi |
A brilliant astronomer appears to have thrown away her career searching for extra-terrestrials, until she detects a signal from Vega. |
* * * 1/2 |
| Cowboy Bebop |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Crash |
David Cronenberg |
James Spader, Holly Hunter, Rosanna Arquette |
drama |
A small group of people are drawn together by their mutual interest: They find injuries and car crashes sexually arousing. |
* * * * |
| Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| The Crow |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Cruel Intentions |
Roger Kumble |
Reese Witherspoon, Sara Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe |
comedy, drama |
Rich, cold-hearted teenagers make a sexual bet that involves using and throwing away their victims in this loose adaptation of Dangerous Liaisons. |
* * * |
| Dancing At The Blue Iguana |
Michael Radford |
Darryl Hannah, Jennifer Tilly, Charlotte Ayanna, Sheila Kelley, Vladimir Mashkov |
drama |
- |
- |
| Dangerous Liaisons |
Stephen Frears |
Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Michele Pfeifer, Uma Thurman, Swoosie Kurtz |
Drama, comedy |
Cruel rich people play games with other people's emotions. But, they loose control of the game. |
* * * * |
| The Dark Crystal |
Jim Henson, Frank Oz |
Jim Henson, Frank Oz |
fantasy |
A young Gelfling must find a missing crystal shard to stop the world from ending. |
* * * * |
| Dazed And Confused |
Richard Linklater |
Wiley Wiggins, Ben Affleck, Parker Posey |
comedy |
Teenagers begin the summer of 1976, and begin to figure out who they are, and what is important to them. |
* * * * * |
| The Deep End |
Scott McGehee, David Siegel |
Tilda Swindon, Goran Visnjic |
Thriller, drama |
A woman in Lake Tahoe finds a dead body. Believing that her son is involved, she hides the body. This makes her the victim of blackmail. |
* * * * |
| Deep Impact |
Mimi Leder |
Elijah Wood, Tea Leoni, Robert Duvall, Morgan Freeman |
drama |
A young astronomer discovers a comet, which turns out to be on a collision course with the earth. |
* * * |
| The Dish |
Rob Sitch |
Sam Neill, Kevin Harrington |
comedy |
Radio astronomers in Australia are called upon to use their dish as a link for the Apollo mission. |
* * * |
| Do The Right Thing |
Spike Lee |
Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Spike Lee, Bill Nunn, John Turturro, Rosie Perez |
Comedy, drama |
- |
- |
| Don Juan De Marco |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Bram Stoker's Dracula |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Dr. Strangelove |
Stanley Kubrick |
Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Slim Pickens, Sterling Hayden, Keenen Wynn, Tracey Reed |
Black comedy |
On a routine flight, an American bomber loaded with nuclear weapons receives the order to attack Russia. The order also instructs them to refuse all future orders without a special “abort” code. |
* * * * * |
| Dogma |
Kevin Smith |
Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino, Salma Hayek, Jason Lee, Alan Rickman, Chris Rock, Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith |
comedy |
Two angels who are condemned to walk the earth forever find a loophole which will allow them to enter heaven, but which will also destroy the earth. A non-religious woman is chosen to stop them. |
* * * |
| Donnie Darko |
Richard Kelly |
Jake Gyllenhaal, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Holmes Osborne, Mary McDonnell, Daveigh Chase, Patrick Swayze, Jena Malone, Katherine Ross, Drew Barrymore, Noah Wyle, James Duval |
Science fiction |
A high school boy who sleepwalks and sees “visions” is saved by a vision named Frank when a jet engine falls on his bedroom. Frank begins to instruct him to commit acts of vandalism. |
* * * * * |
| Dralion |
Cirque Du Soleil |
N/A |
Not a movie |
N/A |
- |
| Dune |
David Lynch |
Kyle MacLachlan, Sting, Sean Young, Linda Hunt |
Science fiction |
A young man is prophesized to lead an overthrow of the Emperor of the Universe by taking control of the “spice” that makes interstellar space travel possible. |
* * 1/2 |
| Edward Scissorhands |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Election |
Alexander Payne |
Reese Witherspoon, Matthew Broderick |
Black Comedy |
- |
- |
| The English Patient |
Anthony Minghella |
Ralph Fiennes, Kristen Scott Thomas, Juliette Binoche |
drama |
- |
- |
| Escape From New York |
John Carpenter |
Kurt Russel, Harry Dean Stanton |
campy action |
A former criminal has to break into NY city, now a maximum-security prison, to free a hostage |
* * 1/2 |
| Event Horizon |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| The Evil Dead |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Evil Dead II |
Sam Raimi |
Bruce Campbell, Sarah Berry, Dan Hicks, Kassie Wesley |
comedy/horror |
Maniacally-paced horror slapstick about a couple on vacation who discover a book that can summon the dead. |
* * * * * |
| Eyes Wide Shut |
Stanley Kubrick |
Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise |
pdrama, suspense |
A wealthy, seemingly happy couple learn things about themselves and each other. |
* * * |
| The Faculty |
Robert Rodrigez |
Elijah Wood, Josh Hartnet, John Stewart, Famke Jansen |
horror/thriller |
High school teachers begin to act strangely |
* * * |
| Fast Times At Ridgemont High |
Amy Heckerling |
Sean Penn, Phoebe Cates, Jennifer Jason Liegh |
comedy |
- |
- |
| Fargo |
Joel & Ethan Coen |
Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, William H. Macy |
Black comedy |
A police detective investigates murders in North Dakota |
* * * * 1/2 |
| Ferris Bueller's Day Off |
John Hughes |
Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara |
comedy |
A popular high school student with no car uses his influence to skip school and have fun in Chicago. The principal is determined to
| * * * * * |
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| The Fifth Element |
Luc Besson |
Bruce Willis, Milla Jovavich, Gary Oldman |
sci-fi |
a secret power is needed when an ancient threat returns to earth |
* * * 1/2 |
| Fight Club |
David Fincher |
Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Meat Loaf, Helena Bonham Carter |
Suspense, Black Comedy |
- |
- |
| Finding Nemo |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Jackie Chan's First Strike |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| A Fish Called Wanda |
Charles Crichton |
John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin |
comedy |
A plot-twisting comedy about an eccentric group of thieves |
* * * * |
| Flesh And Bone |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Fright Night |
Tom Holland |
Chris Sarandon, William Ragsdale, Amanda Bearse, Steven Geoffreys, Roddy McDowell |
horror |
A teenager discovers that the new guy next door is a vampire. |
* * * * |
| The Fugitive |
Andrew Davis |
Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, Sela Ward, Joe Pantoliano, Andreas Katsulas |
Action, suspense |
- |
- |
| Gattaca |
Andrew Niccol |
Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Alan Arkin, Jude Law |
drama, Sci-Fi |
In the future, when DNA can be read like a book, a man with imperfect genes is determined to become an astronaut. |
* * * * |
| Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai |
Jim Jarmusch |
Forest Whitaker, John Tormey, Cliff Gorman, Henry Silva, Isaach De Bankole, Tricia Vessey, Victor Argo |
drama, comedy |
A hit man who follows the code of the Samurai must stay loyal to a mafia member who saved his life as a teenager, even when they become adversaries. |
* * * * |
| Ghost In The Shell |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Ghost World |
Terry Zwigoff |
Thora Birch, Scarlette Johansson, Steve Buscemi |
comedy |
A misfit girl who has just graduated from high school develops a fascination with an antisocial 40-something guy who collects blues records. |
* * * * |
| Ghostbusters |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Ghostbusters 2 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| The Gift |
Sam Raimi |
Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi, Keannu Reeves, Hillary Swank, Greg Kinnear, Katie Holmes |
suspense |
A tarot-card reader is a witness in a murder trial. She sees some clues with her eyes, and some with her supernatural powers. |
* * * 1/2 |
| Good Will Hunting |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Goonies |
Richard Donner |
Sean Astin, Corey Feldman, Kerri Green, Martha Plimpton |
comedy, adventure |
A gang of misfit kids discover a map to buried treasure that could save their home from foreclosure. |
* * * * |
| Gosford Park |
Robert Altman |
Bob Balaban, Kelly MacDonald, Helen Mirren, Maggie Smith, Ryan Phillippe |
Comedy, mystery |
A screenwriter who is researching his murder mystery film in the english countryside gets a little more research than he wanted. |
* * * * |
| The Grifters |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Grosse Pointe Blank |
George Armitage |
John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Dan Akroyd, Joan Cusack, Alan Arkin |
black comedy |
A hit man revisits his past |
* * * * |
| Guinevere |
Audrey Wells |
Sarah Polley, Stephen Rea, Jean Smart, Gina Gershon |
drama |
A girl in her early 20's finds her self-confidence with the help of her new boyfriend, an older bohemian photographer. This new awareness reveals things about their relationship, good and bad. |
* * * * * |
| Heathers |
Michael Lehmann |
Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty |
black comedy |
Brilliant satire about high school cliques, fads, suicides, and murders. |
* * * * 1/2 |
| Heaven |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| High Fidelity |
Stephen Frears |
John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Jack Black, Todd Luiso, Tim Robbins, Lisa Bonet, Sara Gilbert, Joan Cusack |
comedy |
A record store owner in his thirties goes on a personal quest to find the cause of all his failed relationships. |
* * * * |
| Higher Learning |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| The Hudsucker Proxy |
Joel & Ethan Coen |
Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newman |
comedy |
A naïve young business graduate with big ideas moves to New York from the midwest and becomes a pawn in a corporate power struggle. |
* * * * * |
| I Know What You Did Last Summer |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| I Shot Andy Warhol |
Mary Harron |
Lili Taylor, Jared Harris, Lothaire Bluteau, Martha Plimpton |
Drama, comedy |
- |
- |
| The Ice Storm |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| In The Company of Men |
Neil LaBute |
Aaron Eckhart, Stacy Edwards, Matt Malloy |
black comedy |
a devious misogynist convinces his office-buddy to help him with a cruel joke |
* * * * * |
| Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Innocent Blood |
John Landis |
Anne Parillaud, Robert Loggia, Anthony LaPaglia, Don Rickles |
gore-horror, comedy |
a female vampire only eats bad guys |
* * 1/2 |
| Interview With The Vampire |
Neil Jordan |
Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst, Christian Slater, Antonio Banderas, Stephen Rea |
horror, drama |
A vampire tells the story of his life, which spans 200 years and involves many other vampires. |
* * * 1/2 |
| Inventing The Abbotts |
Pat O'Connor |
Liv Tyler, Joaquin Pheonix, Billy Crudup, Jennifer Connelly |
Drama |
How two working class boys see their lives in reference to their rich neighbors, and their three daughters. |
* * * |
| Jabberwocky |
Terry Gilliam |
Michael Palin |
comedy |
An idiot from the medieval English countryside goes to the city to find work, and finds a place terrorized by a ferocious monster. |
* * * 1/2 |
| Jean de Florette |
Claude Berri |
Yves Montand, Gerard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil |
Drama |
A greedy farmer in rural France has a wicked plan to buy some valuable land on the cheap. |
* * * 1/2 |
| Jude |
Michael Winterbottom |
Christopher Eccleston, Kate Winslet, Liam Cunningham, Rachel Griffiths, June Whitfield |
drama |
- |
- |
| Jurassic Park |
Steven Spielberg |
Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum |
sci-fi, thriller |
A mad billionaire creates an island zoo full of genetically-engineered dinosaurs. Very bad things happen next. |
* * * |
| Jurassic Park II: The Lost World |
Steven Spielberg |
Jeff Goldblum, Jullianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Vince Vaughn, Arliss Howard |
Sci-fi, thriller |
The corporation which now owns the dinosaur island decides to create a new zoo in San Diego. Things go horribly awry. |
* * * 1/2 |
| Jurassic Park III |
Joe Johnson |
Sam Neill, William H. Macy, Tea Leoni, Alesandro Nivola |
Sci-fi, thriller |
A paleontologist is tricked into helping a couple search for their lost son on the dinosaur island. Awful, unspeakable things happen. |
* * 1/2 |
| Kids |
Larry Clark |
Leo Fitzpatrick, Justin Pierce, Chloe Sevigny |
drama |
- |
- |
| La Femme Nikita |
Luc Besson |
Anne Parillaud, Tcheky Karyo, Jean-Hugues Anglade |
drama, action |
a convicted killer is forced to be an assassin for the government |
* * * * * |
| Labyrinth |
Jim Henson |
Jennifer Connelly, David Bowie |
fantasy |
A girl who wishes her baby brother would go away gets her wish. She must then find her way through a labyrinth and rescue him from the goblin king before 13 o'clock. |
* * * 1/2 |
| Laurel Canyon |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Lethal Weapon |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Lifeforce |
Tobe Hooper |
Patrick Stewart, Mathilda May, Steve Railsback, Peter Firth |
Sci-fi, horror |
Nude space vampires begin turning the entire human race into life-sucking zombies. |
* * * |
| Lord Of The Rings: Fellowship Of The Ring |
Peter Jackson |
Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortenson, Ian McKellan, Orlando Bloom, Liv Tyler, Sean Astin |
Fantasy adventure |
A young hobbit is chosen to save middle earth by destroying an evil ring that slowly corrupts whoever possesses it. He sets out on a dangerous journey to destroy the ring. |
* * * * |
| Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| The Lost Boys |
Joel Shumacher |
Corey Feldman, Corey Haim, Jason Patric, Keifer Sutherland, Edward Herrmann |
horror, comedy |
Two boys move to Santa Cruz with their divorced mom. They find that some of their new friends are vampires. |
* * * * |
| Lost In America |
Albert Brooks |
Albert Brooks, Julie Haggerty |
comedy |
A rich couple from New York decide to quit their jobs and travel the country in a Winnebago. |
* * * * * |
| Lost In Space |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Madison Variations |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Manhattan |
Woody Allen |
- |
Comedy |
- |
* * * * |
| Manon of the Spring |
Claude Berri |
Emanuelle Beart, Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil |
drama |
Sequel to Jean de Florette. An aging wealthy farmer wants his nephew to marry so he will have an heir. But the object of the nephew's desire is the daughter of a man they both betrayed long ago. |
* * * |
| The Matrix |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Matrix Reloaded |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Men In Black |
Barry Sonnenfeld |
Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Fiorentino, Vincent D'Onofrio |
sci-fi, comedy |
A New York cop is recruited into the special agency that protects the Earth from the scum of the universe. |
* * * * |
| Metropolis |
Rintaro |
(voices of) Yuka Imoto, Kei Kobayashi, Kohki Okada, Taro Ishida |
Animated sci-fi |
- |
- |
| Minority Report |
Steven Spielberg |
Tom Cruise, Colin Farrel |
Science fiction |
- |
- |
| Monty Python's the Meaning of Life |
Terry Jones |
Michael Palin, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Terry Jones |
comedy |
a loosely-assembled collection of brilliant comedy sketches. Life and death are the theme. |
* * * * |
| Mulholland Drive |
David Lynch |
Naomi Watts, Laura Herring |
suspense |
A young woman goes to Hollywood to be a star. She discovers a mysterious woman, and strange things begin to happen. |
* * * * |
| The Muppet Movie |
James Frawley |
Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Dave Goelz |
comedy |
Kermit the Frog goes to Hollywood to become a star. |
* * * 1/2 |
| The Muppets Take Manhattan |
Frank Oz |
Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Dave Goelz |
comedy |
Kermit and the gang graduate from college and take their musical show to New York. |
* * * |
| Mystery Men |
Kinka Usher |
Ben Stiller, Janeane Garofalo, William H. Macy, Paul Rubins |
comedy |
Superhero-wannabes try to get a little recognition. |
* * * * |
| Mystery Train |
Jim Jarmusch |
Youki Kudoh, Masatoshi Nagase, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Joe Strummer, Rick Aviles, Steve Buscemi |
comedy |
Two rock-and-roll fans from Japan, a woman from Italy, and a guy hiding from the law all end up in the same hotel. |
* * * * * |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas |
Henry Selick |
(voices of) Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, Danny Elfman |
stop-motion animated fantasy musical |
The leader of Halloween town discovers a wonderful new holiday. |
* * * * * |
| Notorious |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Ingrid Bergman, Cary Grant |
Suspense, drama |
Because of her father's treacherous activities, a woman is chosen to act as a mole by marrying a Nazi collaborator. |
* * * * |
| Novocaine |
David Atkins |
Steve Martin, Helena Bonham Carter, Laura Dern |
Comedy, suspense |
- |
- |
| Nurse Betty |
Neil LaBute |
Renee Zelweger, Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock, Greg Kinnear |
comedy |
- |
- |
| "O" |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| October Sky |
Joe Johnston |
Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Chris Owen, Laura Dern |
drama |
A boy in a coal-mining town dreams of being an Astronaut. He builds rockets and enters them in the science fair. This causes conflict with his father, who considers the whole thing a ridiculous waste of time. |
* * * * |
| Office Space |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Out Of Sight |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Pee-Wee's Big Adventure |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Pi |
Darren Aronofsky |
Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman, Samia Shoaib |
Suspense |
A mathematician is on the verge of a great discovery, and on the verge of madness at the same time. |
* * * * * |
| Pirates Of The Caribean |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Pitch Black |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| The Princess And The Warrior |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| The Princess Bride |
Rob Reiner |
Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Billy Crystal |
fantasy, comedy |
A witty and hilarious story about swordfighting, magic, and true love. |
* * * * * |
| Princess Mononoke |
Hayao Miyazaki |
(voices of) Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Billy Bob Thornton, Minnie Driver, |
animated fantasy |
Incredibly beautiful and imaginative tale about harmony, good, evil and love. |
* * * * * |
| Pulp Fiction |
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- |
- |
- |
- |
| Pump Up The Volume |
Allan Moyle |
Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis |
comedy |
A quiet, loner teen starts his own pirate radio show. |
* * * 1/2 |
| Punch-Drunk Love |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Pushing Tin |
Mike Newell |
John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchett, Angelina Jolie, Jake Weber |
comedy |
- |
- |
| Quidam |
Cirque Du Soleil |
N/A |
not a movie |
N/A |
- |
| Raiders Of The Lost Ark |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Raising Arizona |
Joel and Ethan Coen |
Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, John Goodman |
comedy |
An ex-con and his cop wife desperately want a child. They kidnap one of a set of quintuplets. |
* * * * |
| Ready To Wear |
Robert Altman |
Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Steven Rea |
comedy |
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- |
| Red Planet |
Anthony Hoffman |
Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tom Sizemore |
Sci-Fi |
On Mars, an automated terraforming operation mysteriously stops making oxygen. A group of astronauts is sent to investigate. |
* 1/2 |
| Repo Man |
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- |
- |
- |
- |
| Requiem For A Dream |
Darren Aronofsky |
Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans |
drama |
A lonely, TV-addicted woman and her drug-addicted son each have a plan to make their lives better. |
* * * * |
| Reservoir Dogs |
Quentin Tarantino |
Harvey Keitel, Steve Buscemi, Tim Roth, Chris Penn |
drama, thriller |
A group of mutually anonymous bank robbers realize that one of them is an informant after the job goes bad. |
* * * * * |
| Resident Evil |
Paul W.S. Anderson |
Milla Jovavich, Michele Rodriguez |
Sci-fi horror |
A biological weapon turns the employees of a research lab into flesh-eating zombies. A security team gets locked into their underground lair. |
* * * |
| River's Edge |
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- |
- |
- |
- |
| Road To Perdition |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Road Trip |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Roger Dodger |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| The Rules Of Attraction |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Run Lola Run |
Tom Tykwer |
Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu |
alternate-reality suspense |
A girl has 20 minutes to save her boyfriend from a gangster. |
* * * * |
| Rushmore |
Wes Anderson |
Jason Schwartzman, Olivia Williams, Bill Murray |
comedy |
An unusual boy, who loves his school too much, discovers that he also loves the kindergarten teacher. |
* * * * * |
| Saltimbanco |
Cirque Du Soleil |
N/A |
not a movie |
N/A |
| Scream |
Wes Craven |
Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courtney Cox, Matthew Lillard, Rose McGowan, Skeet Ulrich, Drew Barrymore |
Horror |
A masked killer terrorizes a high school, especially the girl whose mother was murdered a few years ago. |
* * * * * |
| Scream 2 |
Wes Craven |
Neve Campbell, David Arquette, Courtney Cox, Sara Michelle Gellar, Jerry O'Connell, Jada Pinket, Omar Epps |
Horror |
The killer who died in the first movie seems to have returned. More terror ensues. |
* * * |
| Secretary |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Serpico |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Sex And Lucia |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Sex, Lies, And Videotape |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Shadows and Fog |
Woody Allen |
Woody Allen, Mia Farrow, John Malkovich, John Cusack, Jodie Foster, Kathy Bates |
comedy |
Film noir styled depiction of a timid man who is called upon to join a man-hunt for a mostly-strangler who is terrifying a town and the travelling circus performers who are just passing through. |
* * * * * |
| Shrek |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Silver Bullet |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Silverado |
Lawrence Kasdan |
Kevin Costner, Jeff Goldblum, Kevin Kline, Danny Glover, Rosanna Arquette |
western |
- |
- |
| The Slums of Beverly Hills |
Tamara Jenkins |
Natasha Leonne, Alan Arkin, Marissa Tomei |
comedy |
- |
- |
| So I Married An Axe Murderer |
Thomas Schlamme |
Mike Myers, Nancy Travis, Alan Arkin, Amanda Plummer, Anthony LaPaglia |
comedy |
A man who is afraid of marriage finally meets the girl of his dreams. Then he begins to suspect that she is an axe murderer. |
* * * 1/2 |
| Something Wicked This Way Comes |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| South Park Bigger, Longer & Uncut |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Snatch |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Spiderman |
Sam Raimi |
Tobey Maguire, Willem Dafoe, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Cliff Robertson |
Sci-fi, comic-book action |
A meek and unpopular photographer for the high school newspaper obtains super powers when he is bitten by a genetically-modified spider. |
* * * |
| Spirited Away |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Spy Kids |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Stargate |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| State of Grace |
Phil Joanou |
Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Ed Harris, Robin Wright, John Turturro |
Drama, action |
- |
- |
| Stealing Beauty |
Bernardo Bertolucci |
Liv Tyler, Jeremy Irons, Sinead Cusack |
drama |
A 19-year-old girl returns to Italy after four years to spend the summer with her late mother's artist friends. She discovers things about her mother and about herself. |
* * * 1/2 |
| Storytelling |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Strange Days |
Kathryn Bigelow |
Ralph Fiennes, Angela Bassett, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Michael Wincott, Vincent D’Onofrio |
Science fiction, action |
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- |
| Stranger Than Paradise |
Jim Jarmusch |
John Laurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson |
comedy |
Deadpan comedy about a card-hustling New-Yorker, his buddy, his young cousin from Hungary, and their adventures in Cleveland and Florida. |
* * * * * |
| Stroszek |
Werner Herzog |
Bruno S., Eva Mattes, Clemens Scheitz |
Comedy, tragedy |
A German street performer with a taste for alcohol is released from prison. He befriends a prostitute, and the two of them flee to America to escape her violent pimp. |
* * * * |
| The Temp |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| 10 Things I Hate About You |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| The Terminator |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Terminator 3 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| There's Something About Mary |
Peter and Bobby Farrelly |
Ben Stiller, Cameron Diaz, Jim Carey, Chris Elliot |
comedy |
An awkward teenager grows up. He hires a private detective to find his dream girl from high school. |
* * * * |
| 39 Steps |
Alfred Hitchcock |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Throw Mama From The Train |
Danny DeVito |
Billy Crystal, Danny DeVito, Anne Ramsey |
comedy |
- |
- |
| Time Bandits |
Terry Gilliam |
John Cleese, Michael Palin |
Fantasy, comedy |
Story about time-traveling thieves and the most fabulous object in the universe. |
* * * * * |
| To Die For |
Gus Van Sant |
Nicole Kidman, Joaquin Phoenix |
black comedy |
An ambitious weather-girl knows that one way or another, she will be famous. |
* * * * 1/2 |
| Trainspotting |
Danny Boyle |
Ewan McGregor |
black comedy, drama |
The life and choices of a hooligan heroine-addict. |
* * * * * |
| The Truth About Cats and Dogs |
Michael Lehmann |
Janeane Garofalo, Uma Thurman, Ben Chaplin, Jamie Fox |
comedy |
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- |
| 12 Monkeys |
Terry Gilliam |
Bruce Willis, Madeline Stowe, Brad Pitt |
Sci-fi, suspense |
A prisoner from the future is sent back in time to learn more about the release of a virus that made the surface of the earth uninhabitable. |
* * * * * |
| 2001: A Space Odyssey |
Stanley Kubrick |
Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood |
sci-fi |
As space travel becomes more commonplace, unusual objects are found in our solar system. |
* * * * |
| 2010: The Year We Make Contact |
Peter Hyams |
Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Bob Balaban, Helen Mirren |
Sci-fi |
Dr. Floyd returns to the discovery to find out what went wrong with Hal, and to learn the secret of the monolith. |
* * * |
| UHF |
Jay Levey |
Weird Al Yankovic, Michael Richards, Victoria Jackson |
comedy |
A daydreamer who drifts from job to job is allowed to manage a failing TV station. |
* * * 1/2 |
| The Vanishing |
George Sluizer |
Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Joanna ter Steege |
suspense |
A sociopathic chemistry teacher is responsible for the disappearance of a girl. He becomes fascinated with her boyfriend, who refuses to stop searching. |
* * * * * |
| The Visitors |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Waiting For Guffman |
Christopher Guest |
Christopher Guest, Bob Balaban, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Parker Posey |
comedy |
A playwright and director with aspirations to work on Broadway directs a small musical about the history of Blaine, Missouri. |
* * * * |
| Waking Life |
Richard Linklater |
Wiley Wiggins, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy |
Its own genre: dreamscape |
A young man is not sure if he is dreaming or awake. As he wanders, he encounters many different philosophers. |
* * * * 1/2 |
| Walkabout |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Wayne's World |
Penelope Spheeris |
Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe, Tia Carrera |
comedy |
A pair of midwestern suburban teenagers have their own late-night cable TV show, which is discovered by a big studio. |
* * * * |
| Welcome to the Dollhouse |
Todd Solondz |
Heather Matarazzo, Brendan Sexton Jr., Eric Mabius, Matthew Faber |
Black comedy |
- |
- |
| Wet Hot American Summer |
David Wain |
Janeane Garofalo, David Hyde Pierce, Molly Shannon, Paul Rudd, Christopher Meloni, Michael Showalter, Marguerite Moreau, Ken Marino, Michael Ian Black |
comedy |
- |
- |
| When Harry Met Sally |
Rob Reiner |
Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan |
comedy |
Story about a man and woman who dislike each other, and their on-and-off romance. |
* * * * |
| The Whole Nine Yards |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Wild Reeds |
Andre Techine |
Elodie Bouchez, Gael Morel, Stephane Rideau, Frederic Gorny, Michele Moretti |
drama |
The story of a left-wing activist high school girl and her sexually confused boyfriend, set in 1950's France, during the Algerian war for independence. |
* * * * |
| X-Men |
Bryan Singer |
Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellan, Anna Paquin, Hugh Jackman, Famke Janssen, Halle Berry |
Sci-fi, comic-book fantasy |
- |
- |
| X2 |
Bryan Singer |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Y Tu Mama Tambien |
Alfonso Cuaron |
Maribel Verdu, Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna |
drama |
- |
- |
| The Zero Effect |
Jake Kasdan |
Bill Pullman, Ben Stiller, Kim Dickens |
mystery, comedy |
The world's greatest detective is like a fish-out-of-water in social situations. His assistant is at the end of his rope because of his meticulous and eccentric nature. |
* * * * * |