Howl’s Moving Castle
When Sophie, a shy young woman, is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking castle.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Stars: Akihiro Miwa Chieko Baishô Haruko Kato Mayuno Yasokawa Rio Kanno Ryunosuke Kamiki Takuya Kimura Tatsuya Gashûin Yayoi Kazuki Yo Oizumi
Spirited Away
A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Stars: Bunta Sugawara Mari Natsuki Miyu Irino Rumi Hiiragi Ryunosuke Kamiki Takashi Naito Tatsuya Gashûin Yasuko Sawaguchi Yo Oizumi Yumi Tamai
Meatballs
Tripper is the head counselor at a budget summer camp called Camp Northstar. In truth, he's young at heart and only marginally more mature than the campers themselves. Tripper befriends Rudy, a loner camper who has trouble fitting in. As Tripper inspires his young charges to defeat rival Camp Mohawk in the annual Olympiad competition, Rudy plays matchmaker between Tripper and Roxanne, a female counselor at Northstar.
Director: Ivan Reitman
Stars: Bill Murray Chris Makepeace Harvey Atkin Kate Lynch Keith Knight Kristine DeBell Matt Craven Russ Banham Sarah Torgov Todd Hoffman
A Charlie Brown Christmas
When Charlie Brown complains about the overwhelming materialism that he sees amongst everyone during the Christmas season, Lucy suggests that he become director of the school Christmas pageant. Charlie Brown accepts, but is a frustrating struggle. When an attempt to restore the proper spirit with a forlorn little fir Christmas tree fails, he needs Linus' help to learn the meaning of Christmas.
Director: Bill Melendez
Stars: Ann Altieri Bill Melendez Chris Doran Christopher Shea Geoffrey Ornstein Karen Mendelson Kathy Steinberg Peter Robbins Sally Dryer Tracy Stratford
Goldfinger
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.
Director: Guy Hamilton
Stars: Austin Willis Bernard Lee Cec Linder Gert Fröbe Harold Sakata Honor Blackman Martin Benson Sean Connery Shirley Eaton Tania Mallet
Ice Age
With the impending ice age almost upon them, a mismatched trio of prehistoric critters – Manny the woolly mammoth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger and Sid the giant sloth – find an orphaned infant and decide to return it to its human parents. Along the way, the unlikely allies become friends but, when enemies attack, their quest takes on far nobler aims.
Director: Chris Wedge
Stars: Alan Tudyk Cedric the Entertainer Denis Leary Diedrich Bader Goran Visnjic Jack Black John Leguizamo Lorri Bagley Ray Romano Stephen Root
The Belko Experiment
A group of eighty American workers are locked in their office and ordered by an unknown voice to participate in a twisted game.
Director: Greg McLean
Stars: Adria Arjona Brent Sexton John C. McGinley John Gallagher Jr. Josh Brener Melonie Diaz Michael Rooker Owain Yeoman Sean Gunn Tony Goldwyn
The Silence of the Lambs
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. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.
Director: Jonathan Demme
Stars: Anthony Heald Anthony Hopkins Brooke Smith Diane Baker Frankie Faison Jodie Foster Kasi Lemmons Scott Glenn Ted Levine Tracey Walter
The Ring
It sounded like just another urban legend: A videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. As a newspaper reporter, Rachel Keller was naturally skeptical of the story, until four teenagers all met with mysterious deaths exactly one week after watching just such a tape. Allowing her investigative curiosity to get the better of her, Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring.
Director: Gore Verbinski
Stars: Amber Tamblyn Brian Cox Daveigh Chase David Dorfman Jane Alexander Lindsay Frost Martin Henderson Naomi Watts Rachael Bella Shannon Cochran
Resident Evil
When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain the outbreak. Alice and Rain are charged with leading the mission. But they only have three hours before the pathogen becomes airborne and infects the world.
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Stars: Anna Bolt Eric Mabius Heike Makatsch Indra Ové Joseph May Michelle Rodriguez Milla Jovovich Oscar Pearce Robert Tannion Ryan McCluskey
Pride & Prejudice
A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages.
Director: Joe Wright
Stars: Brenda Blethyn Claudie Blakley Donald Sutherland Jena Malone Judi Dench Keira Knightley Matthew Macfadyen Rosamund Pike Rupert Friend Simon Woods
Sixteen Candles
A teenage girl deals with her parents forgetting her birthday and a crush on her high school's heartthrob.
Director: John Hughes
Stars: Anthony Michael Hall Blanche Baker Carlin Glynn Edward Andrews Gedde Watanabe Haviland Morris Justin Henry Michael Schoeffling Molly Ringwald Paul Dooley
The Breakfast Club
Five disparate high school students meet in Saturday detention, and discover they have a lot more in common than they thought.
Director: John Hughes
Stars: Ally Sheedy Anthony Michael Hall Emilio Estevez Fran Gargano John Kapelos Judd Nelson Molly Ringwald Paul Gleason Perry Crawford Ron Dean
Wet Hot American Summer
The setting is Camp Firewood, the year 1981. It's the last day before everyone goes back to the real world, but there's still a summer's worth of unfinished business to resolve. At the center of the action is camp director Beth, who struggles to keep order while she falls in love with the local astrophysics professor. He is busy trying to save the camp from a deadly piece of NASA's Skylab which is hurtling toward earth. All that, plus: a dangerous waterfall rescue, love triangles, misfits, cool kids, and talking vegetable cans. The questions will all be resolved, of course, at the big talent show at the end of the day.
Director: David Wain
Stars: A.D. Miles Christopher Meloni David Hyde Pierce Gideon Jacobs Janeane Garofalo Marguerite Moreau Michael Showalter Molly Shannon Paul Rudd Zak Orth
The Blues Brothers
Jake Blues is just out of jail, and teams up with his brother, Elwood on a 'mission from God' to raise funds for the orphanage in which they grew up. The only thing they can do is do what they do best: play music. So they get their old band together, and set out on their way—while getting in a bit of trouble here and there.
Director: John Landis
Stars: Aretha Franklin Cab Calloway Dan Aykroyd Donald "Duck" Dunn James Brown John Belushi Murphy Dunne Ray Charles Steve Cropper Willie Hall
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
When the dastardly Sheriff of Nottingham murders Robin's father, the legendary archer vows vengeance. To accomplish his mission, Robin joins forces with a band of exiled villagers (and comely Maid Marian), and together they battle to end the evil sheriff's reign of terror.
Director: Kevin Reynolds
Stars: Alan Rickman Brian Blessed Christian Slater Geraldine McEwan Kevin Costner Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio Michael McShane Michael Wincott Morgan Freeman Nick Brimble
Donnie Darko
After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
Director: Richard Kelly
Stars: Beth Grant Daveigh Chase Drew Barrymore Holmes Osborne Jake Gyllenhaal James Duval Jena Malone Maggie Gyllenhaal Mary McDonnell Patrick Swayze
X-Men
Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.
Director: Bryan Singer
Stars: Anna Paquin Famke Janssen Halle Berry Hugh Jackman Ian McKellen James Marsden Patrick Stewart Ray Park Rebecca Romijn Tyler Mane
The Matrix Reloaded
Six months after the events depicted in The Matrix, Neo has proved to be a good omen for the free humans, as more and more humans are being freed from the matrix and brought to Zion, the one and only stronghold of the Resistance. Neo himself has discovered his superpowers including super speed, ability to see the codes of the things inside the matrix and a certain degree of pre-cognition. But a nasty piece of news hits the human resistance: 250,000 machine sentinels are digging to Zion and would reach them in 72 hours. As Zion prepares for the ultimate war, Neo, Morpheus and Trinity are advised by the Oracle to find the Keymaker who would help them reach the Source. Meanwhile Neo's recurrent dreams depicting Trinity's death have got him worried and as if it was not enough, Agent Smith has somehow escaped deletion, has become more powerful than before and has fixed Neo as his next target.
Director: Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
Stars: Carrie-Anne Moss Daniel Bernhardt Don Battee Helmut Bakaitis Hugo Weaving Keanu Reeves Laurence Fishburne Monica Bellucci Steve Bastoni Valerie Berry
Cloud Atlas
A set of six nested stories spanning time between the 19th century and a distant post-apocalyptic future. Cloud Atlas explores how the actions and consequences of individual lives impact one another throughout the past, the present and the future. Action, mystery and romance weave through the story as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero and a single act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution in the distant future. Based on the award winning novel by David Mitchell. Directed by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis.
Director: Tom Tykwer, Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
Stars: Bae Doo-na Ben Whishaw Halle Berry Hugo Weaving James D'Arcy Jim Broadbent Jim Sturgess Keith David Tom Hanks Zhou Xun
White Christmas
Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful Haynes sisters who comprise a sister act.
Director: Michael Curtiz
Stars: Anne Whitfield Bea Allen Bing Crosby Danny Kaye Dean Jagger Frank Baker John Brascia Mary Wickes Rosemary Clooney Vera-Ellen
Lost in Translation
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.
Director: Sofia Coppola
Stars: Akiko Takeshita Anna Faris Bill Murray Fumihiro Hayashi Giovanni Ribisi Hiroko Kawasaki Kazuko Shibata Kazuyoshi Minamimagoe Scarlett Johansson Take
Beowulf
6th-century Scandinavian warrior, Beowulf embarks on a mission to slay the a man-like ogre, Grendel.
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Stars: Alison Lohman Angelina Jolie Anthony Hopkins Brendan Gleeson Crispin Glover Greg Ellis John Malkovich Ray Winstone Robin Wright Sebastian Roché
Patriot Games
When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.
Director: Phillip Noyce
Stars: Anne Archer Harrison Ford James Earl Jones James Fox Patrick Bergin Polly Walker Richard Harris Samuel L. Jackson Sean Bean Thora Birch
My Cousin Vinny
Two carefree pals traveling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. When he arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend , to try his first case, it's a real shock - for him and the Deep South!
Director: Jonathan Lynn
Stars: Austin Pendleton Bruce McGill Fred Gwynne Joe Pesci Lane Smith Marisa Tomei Maury Chaykin Mitchell Whitfield Paulene Myers Ralph Macchio
The Phantom of the Opera
Deformed since birth, a bitter man known only as the Phantom lives in the sewers underneath the Paris Opera House. He falls in love with the obscure chorus singer Christine, and privately tutors her while terrorizing the rest of the opera house and demanding Christine be given lead roles. Things get worse when Christine meets back up with her childhood acquaintance Raoul and the two fall in love
Director: Joel Schumacher
Stars: Ciarán Hinds Emmy Rossum Gerard Butler Jennifer Ellison Kevin McNally Minnie Driver Miranda Richardson Patrick Wilson Simon Callow Victor McGuire
Doom
A team of space marines known as the Rapid Response Tactical Squad, led by Sarge, is sent to a science facility on Mars after somebody reports a security breach. There, they learn that the alert came after a test subject, a mass murderer purposefully injected with alien DNA, broke free and began killing people. Dr. Grimm, who is related to team member Reaper, informs them all that the chromosome can mutate humans into monsters -- and is highly infectious.
Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak
Stars: Al Weaver Ben Daniels Brian Steele Deobia Oparei Dexter Fletcher Dwayne Johnson Karl Urban Razaaq Adoti Richard Brake Rosamund Pike
Robin Hood: Men in Tights
Robin Hood comes home after fighting in the Crusades to learn that the noble King Richard is in exile and that the despotic King John now rules England, with the help of the Sheriff of Rottingham. Robin Hood assembles a band of fellow patriots to do battle with King John and the Sheriff.
Director: Mel Brooks
Stars: Amy Yasbeck Cary Elwes Dave Chappelle Dom DeLuise Eric Allan Kramer Isaac Hayes Megan Cavanagh Patrick Stewart Richard Lewis Roger Rees
Schindler’s List
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Andrzej Seweryn Béatrice Macola Ben Kingsley Caroline Goodall Embeth Davidtz Jonathan Sagall Liam Neeson Malgorzata Gebel Mark Ivanir Ralph Fiennes
The Matrix
Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
Director: Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
Stars: Carrie-Anne Moss Gloria Foster Hugo Weaving Joe Pantoliano Julian Arahanga Keanu Reeves Laurence Fishburne Marcus Chong Paul Goddard Robert Taylor
Titanic
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi win third-class tickets aboard the ship. Rose tells the whole story from Titanic's departure through to its death—on its first and last voyage—on April 15, 1912.
Director: James Cameron
Stars: Bernard Hill Bill Paxton Billy Zane David Warner Frances Fisher Gloria Stuart Kate Winslet Kathy Bates Leonardo DiCaprio Victor Garber
The Godfather
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Stars: Al Lettieri Al Pacino Diane Keaton James Caan John Marley Marlon Brando Richard Conte Richard S. Castellano Robert Duvall Sterling Hayden
The Wizard of Oz
Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.
Director: Victor Fleming
Stars: Bert Lahr Billie Burke Charley Grapewin Clara Blandick Frank Morgan Jack Haley Judy Garland Margaret Hamilton Ray Bolger The Singer Midgets
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.
Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Amrish Puri Chua Kah Joo David Yip Harrison Ford Jonathan Ke Quan Kate Capshaw Philip Stone Ric Young Roshan Seth Roy Chiao
Zootopia
Determined to prove herself, Officer Judy Hopps, the first bunny on Zootopia's police force, jumps at the chance to crack her first case - even if it means partnering with scam-artist fox Nick Wilde to solve the mystery.
Director: Byron Howard, Rich Moore
Stars: Bonnie Hunt Don Lake Ginnifer Goodwin Idris Elba J.K. Simmons Jason Bateman Jenny Slate Nate Torrence Octavia Spencer Tommy Chong
Toy Story
Led by Woody, Andy's toys live happily in his room until Andy's birthday brings Buzz Lightyear onto the scene. Afraid of losing his place in Andy's heart, Woody plots against Buzz. But when circumstances separate Buzz and Woody from their owner, the duo eventually learns to put aside their differences.
Director: John Lasseter
Stars: Annie Potts Don Rickles Erik von Detten Jim Varney John Morris John Ratzenberger Laurie Metcalf Tim Allen Tom Hanks Wallace Shawn
Finding Nemo
Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to his worrisome father Marlin and a friendly but forgetful fish Dory to bring Nemo home -- meeting vegetarian sharks, surfer dude turtles, hypnotic jellyfish, hungry seagulls, and more along the way.
Director: Andrew Stanton
Stars: Albert Brooks Alexander Gould Allison Janney Austin Pendleton Brad Garrett Ellen DeGeneres Joe Ranft Stephen Root Vicki Lewis Willem Dafoe
Inside Out
Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Riley's guiding emotions— Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness—live in Headquarters, the control centre inside Riley's mind, where they help advise her through everyday life and tries to keep things positive, but the emotions conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school.
Director: Pete Docter
Stars: Amy Poehler Bill Hader Diane Lane Kaitlyn Dias Kyle MacLachlan Lewis Black Mindy Kaling Paula Poundstone Phyllis Smith Richard Kind
A Quiet Place
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
Director: John Krasinski
Stars: Cade Woodward Doris McCarthy Emily Blunt Evangelina Cavoli Ezekiel Cavoli John Krasinski Leon Russom Millicent Simmonds Noah Jupe Rhoda Pell
Incredibles 2
Elastigirl springs into action to save the day, while Mr. Incredible faces his greatest challenge yet – taking care of the problems of his three children.
Director: Brad Bird
Stars: Bob Odenkirk Brad Bird Catherine Keener Craig T. Nelson Eli Fucile Holly Hunter Huck Milner Nicholas Bird Samuel L. Jackson Sarah Vowell
The Incredibles
Bob Parr has given up his superhero days to log in time as an insurance adjuster and raise his three children with his formerly heroic wife in suburbia. But when he receives a mysterious assignment, it's time to get back into costume.
Director: Brad Bird
Stars: Brad Bird Bud Luckey Craig T. Nelson Elizabeth Peña Holly Hunter Jason Lee Samuel L. Jackson Sarah Vowell Spencer Fox Wallace Shawn
Space Jam
In a desperate attempt to win a basketball match and earn their freedom, the Looney Tunes seek the aid of retired basketball champion, Michael Jordan.
Director: Joe Pytka
Stars: Bill Murray Billy West Brandon Hammond Charles Barkley Danny DeVito Dee Bradley Baker Larry Bird Michael Jordan Theresa Randle Wayne Knight
Snow White and the Huntsman
After the Evil Queen marries the King, she performs a violent coup in which the King is murdered and his daughter, Snow White, is taken captive. Almost a decade later, a grown Snow White is still in the clutches of the Queen. In order to obtain immortality, The Evil Queen needs the heart of Snow White. After Snow escapes the castle, the Queen sends the Huntsman to find her in the Dark Forest.
Director: Rupert Sanders
Stars: Bob Hoskins Charlize Theron Chris Hemsworth Eddie Marsan Ian McShane Kristen Stewart Nick Frost Ray Winstone Sam Claflin Toby Jones
Shutter Island
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor. For our review of the film, click here.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Ben Kingsley Emily Mortimer Jackie Earle Haley John Carroll Lynch Leonardo DiCaprio Mark Ruffalo Max von Sydow Michelle Williams Patricia Clarkson Ted Levine