The Green Mile Rating: 8.6/999918 Plot Summary:Death Row guards at a penitentiary, in the 1930's, have a moral dilemma with their job when they discover one of their prisoners, a convicted murderer, has a special gift. Director: Frank Darabont Running time: 3h 9min Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery Release date: 11 February 2000 (Sweden) Cast: … Read more
Inequality for All Rating: 8.1/6225 Plot Summary:A documentary that follows former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich as he looks to raise awareness of the country's widening economic gap. Director: Jacob Kornbluth Running time: 1h 29min Genre: Release date: 24 April 2015 (Norway) Cast: Lily Tomlin, Candice Bergen, Dolly Parton, Tyne Daly, Mary Tyler Moore, Jon … Read more
The Ghost Writer Rating: 7.2/147654 Plot Summary:An unremarkable ghost-writer has landed a lucrative contract to redact the memoirs of Adam Lang, the former UK Prime Minister. After dominating British politics for years, Lang has retired with his wife to the USA. He lives on an island, in luxurious, isolated premises complete with a security detail … Read more
The Illusionist Rating: 7.6/335211 Plot Summary:In late nineteenth century Vienna, renowned illusionist Eisenheim is reunited with the Duchess von Teschen when she is volunteered from the audience to participate in an illusion during one of his performances. Despite having not seen each other in fifteen years when they were teenagers, they almost immediately recognize each … Read more
The Birth of a Nation Rating: 6.6/20205 Plot Summary:Two brothers, Phil and Ted Stoneman, visit their friends in Piedmont, South Carolina: the family Cameron. This friendship is affected by the Civil War, as the Stonemans and the Camerons must join up opposite armies. The consequences of the War in their lives are shown in connection … Read more
Phone Booth Rating: 7.1/235259 Plot Summary:Stu Shepard is a fast talking and wise cracking New York City publicist who gets out of trouble and lies with his clever charm, connections, and charisma. Stu's greatest lie is to his wife Kelly, who he is cheating on with his girlfriend, Pam. Upon answering a call in a … Read more
Pulp Fiction Rating: 8.9/1619684 Plot Summary:Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) and Vincent Vega (John Travolta) are two hit men who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from their employer, mob boss Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames). Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia (Uma Thurman) out a few days later when Wallace … Read more
Memento Rating: 8.5/1020824 Plot Summary:Memento chronicles two separate stories of Leonard, an ex-insurance investigator who can no longer build new memories, as he attempts to find the murderer of his wife, which is the last thing he remembers. One story line moves forward in time while the other tells the story backwards revealing more each … Read more
Léon: The Professional Rating: 8.6/912498 Plot Summary:After her father, mother, older sister and little brother are killed by her father's employers, the 12-year-old daughter of an abject drug dealer is forced to take refuge in the apartment of a professional hitman who at her request teaches her the methods of his job so she can … Read more
Legends of the Fall Rating: 7.5/131917 Plot Summary:In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives in the wilderness with his sons, Tristan, Alfred and Samuel. Eventually, the unconventional but close-knit family encounters tragedy when Samuel is killed in World War I. Tristan and Alfred survive their tours of duty, but, soon after they return home, … Read more
L.A. Confidential Rating: 8.3/488960 Plot Summary:1950's Los Angeles is the seedy backdrop for this intricate noir-ish tale of police corruption and Hollywood sleaze. Three very different cops are all after the truth, each in their own style: Ed Exley, the golden boy of the police force, willing to do almost anything to get ahead, except … Read more
Kingdom of Heaven Rating: 7.2/248585 Plot Summary:It is the time of the Crusades during the Middle Ages – the world shaping 200-year collision between Europe and the East. A blacksmith named Balian has lost his family and nearly his faith. The religious wars raging in the far-off Holy Land seem remote to him, yet he … Read more
American History X Rating: 8.5/941247 Plot Summary:Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for brutally killing two black men who tried to break into/steal his truck. Through his brother's, Danny Vineyard, narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang … Read more
Good Will Hunting Rating: 8.3/757259 Plot Summary:A touching tale of a wayward young man who struggles to find his identity, living in a world where he can solve any problem, except the one brewing deep within himself, until one day he meets his soul mate who opens his mind and his heart. Director: Gus Van … Read more
Gandhi Rating: 8.1/205757 Plot Summary:In 1893, Mohandas K. Gandhi is thrown off a South African train for being an Indian and traveling in a first class compartment. Gandhi realizes that the laws are biased against Indians and decides to start a non-violent protest campaign for the rights of all Indians in South Africa. After numerous … Read more
Fried Green Tomatoes Rating: 7.7/60723 Plot Summary:Evelyn Couch is having trouble in her marriage, and no one seems to take her seriously. While in a nursing home visiting relatives, she meets Ninny Threadgoode, an outgoing old woman, who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode, a young woman in 1920's Alabama. Through Idgie's inspiring life, … Read more
Donnie Brasco Rating: 7.8/253780 Plot Summary:This true story follows FBI agent Joe Pistone as he infiltrates the mafia of New York. Befriending Lefty Ruggiero, Pistone (under the name Donnie Brasco) is able to embed himself in a mafia faction led by Sonny Black. Ruggiero and Pistone become tight as the group goes about collecting money … Read more
Catch Me If You Can Rating: 8.1/708395 Plot Summary:New Rochelle, the 1960s. High schooler Frank Abagnale Jr. idolizes his father, who's in trouble with the IRS. When his parents separate, Frank runs away to Manhattan with $25 in his checking account, vowing to regain dad's losses and get his parents back together. Just a few … Read more
Blow Rating: 7.6/222677 Plot Summary:A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes bankrupt. George does not want … Read more
Angels & Demons Rating: 6.7/250494 Plot Summary:Following the murder of a physicist, Father Silvano Bentivoglio, a symbolist, Robert Langdon, and a scientist, Vittoria Vetra, are on an adventure involving a secret brotherhood, the Illuminati. Clues lead them all around the Vatican, including the four altars of science, Earth, Air, Fire and Water. An assassin, working … Read more
A Million Ways to Die in the West Rating: 6.1/159399 Plot Summary:Set in 1882 in the American west, Albert is a lowly farmer with a nice girlfriend. But when she leaves him for the more successful and handsome owner of a moustachery store, Albert returns to his lonely daily life of trying to avoid death. … Read more
21 Jump Street Rating: 7.2/474143 Plot Summary:In high school, Schmidt (Jonah Hill) was a dork and Jenko (Channing Tatum) was the popular jock. After graduation, both of them joined the police force and ended up as partners riding bicycles in the city park. Since they are young and look like high school students, they are … Read more
The Greasy Strangler Rating: 5.7/5191 Plot Summary:The Los Angeles-set tale follows Ronnie, a man who runs a Disco Walking tour along with his browbeaten son, Brayden. When a sexy, alluring woman comes to take the tour, it begins a competition between father and son for her attentions. It also signals the appearance of an oily, … Read more
She Who Must Burn Rating: 4.9/352 Plot Summary:The Baarkers', a family group of religious fanatics who believe they are God's chosen ones, polarize a town and force it's residents to fight for their lives as their zeal turns murderous and the rule of law decays into brutish mob mentality. Director: Larry Kent Running time: 1h … Read more