Based in Montreal and in operation since 1966, Audio Cine

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Based in Montreal and in operation since 1966, Audio Cine Films Inc. has always been
at the forefront of the non-theatrical film business. As one the largest and most
experienced non-theatrical representatives in Canada, Audio Cine Films Inc. is best suited
to deal with your film needs, whether for entertainment or educational purposes.
Audio Cine Films is the exclusive Canadian non-theatrical rights representative for
numerous major studios, producers and 1000’s of feature length movies.
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Jewish Culture & the Holocaust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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Christmas Films . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Religion & Ethics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Music & Arts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Gay & Lesbian Films . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Substance Abuse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Black Experience on Film . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Critically Acclaimed Films . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Classics from the Golden Era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Academy Award Winners (Best Picture) . . . . . . . . 30
Famous Directors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Documentaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
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Family Films . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Films from Walt Disney Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
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William Shakespeare
(1458-1516)
Hamlet
Directed by Michael Almereyda
(Ethan Hawke, Julia Stiles,
Kyle Maclachlan, Bill Murray)
Modern day adaptation of Shakespeare’s
immortal story about Hamlet’s plight to avenge
his father’s murder, set in New York.
(2000) Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm 111 minutes PG
Henry V
Directed by Kenneth Branagh
(Kenneth Branagh, Paul Scofield, Derek Jacobi)
The King of France insults King Henry V of
England. As a result, Henry V leads his army
into battle against France. Along the way, the
young king must struggle with the sinking
morale of his troops and his own inner doubts.
(1989) MGM 138 minutes General
Julius Caesar
Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz
(Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud)
Brutus, Cassius, and other high-ranking
Romans murder Caesar because they believe
his ambition will lead to tyranny.
(1954) Warner Bros. Distribution 121 minutes General
Merchant of Venice, The
Directed by Michael Radford
(Jeremy Irons, Al Pacino, Joseph Fiennes)
In 16th century Venice, when a merchant must
default on a large loan, the bitterly vengeful
creditor demands a gruesome payment instead.
(2005) Mongrel Media 131 minutes 13 years +
Midwinter Tale, A
(Joan Collins, Richard Briers)
Out of work Joe volunteers to help try and
save his sister’s local church by putting on a
Christmas production of Hamlet against the
advice of his agent, Margaretta.
(1995) Les Films Séville 98 minutes General
Richard III
Directed by Richard Loncraine
(Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent)
In 1930’s Britain, a savage civil war between
two royal families has just concluded.
(1995) MGM 104 minutes 13 years +
Romeo and Juliet
Directed by George Cukor
(Leslie Howard, John Barrymore, Norma Shearer)
A portray of achingly poignant young lovers
whose families are sworn enemies.
(1937) Warner Bros. Distribution 127 minutes PG
King Lear
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
(Woody Allen, Freddy Bruache,
Jean-Luc Godard, Molly Ringwald)
Everything returns to normal after Chernobyl.
That is, everything but art.
(1988) MGM 91 minutes PG
Directed by Peter Hall
(Judi Dench, Ian Holm, Diana Rigg)
The story takes two sets of couples whose
romantic cross-purposes are complicated.
Much Ado About Nothing
(Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson,
Keanu Reeves, Kate Bekinsale, Denzel Washington)
Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire
to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles
Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well.
(1993) Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm 111 minutes General
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The
Tale of Two cities, A
Directed by Peter H. Hunt
(Patrick Day, Anne Shropshire,
Sada Thompson, Eugene Oakes)
Huckleberry Finn, a rambunctious boy adventurer
is chafing under the bonds of civilization.
(1985) Universal Studios 121 minutes General
Directed by Jack Conway
(Ronald Colman, E.M. Oliver)
A disreputable barrister finds redemption through
the most unlikely of friendships and in the process
provides for himself salvation of a kind during the
French Revolution
(1935) Warner Bros. Distribution
128 minutes General
Time Machine, The
Directed by George Pal
(Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, Alan Young)
A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future
and finds that humamity has divided into two
hostile species.
David Copperfield
(Edna May Oliver, Elizabeth Allan,
Jessie Ralph, Harry Beresford)
When David’s father dies, his mother remarries.
His new stepfather Murdstone has a mean and
cruel view on how to raise a child.
Island of Dr. Moreau, The
Directed by Don Taylor
(Burt Lancaster, Michael York,
Nigel Davenport, Barbara Carrera)
A ship-wrecked man floats ashore on an island in
the Pacific Ocean, where strange and inhumane
experiments are taking place.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Directed by Richard Brooks
(Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman,
Burl Ives, Jack Carson)
Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his
days away and resists the affections of his wife,
Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy,
who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories
and revelations for both father and son.
20.000 Leagues Under the Sea
Directed by Richard Fleischer
(James Mason, Kirk Douglas, Peter Lorre)
Captain Nemo, the commander of a futuristic
submarine called the Nautilus, rescues the
survivors of a shipwreck and takes them on an
incredible journey far below the ocean’s surface.
(1954) Walt Disney Pictures 127 minutes General
A Streetcar Named Desire
Directed by Elia Kazan
(Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brado,
Kim Hunter, Karl Malden)
Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister
in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish
brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.
Around the World in 80 Days
Directed by Frank Coraci
(Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan,
Jim Broadbent, Ian McNeice)
A British inventor, a Chinese thief and a
French artist are on a worldwide adventure
around the globe in 80 days.
Nicholas Nickleby
Directed by Douglas McGrath
(Jamie Bell, Jim Broadbent, Nathan Lane,
Christopher Plummer)
Young Nicholas and his family enjoy a
comfortable life, until Nicholas’ father
dies and the family is left penniless.
MARK TWAIN
(1835-1910)
Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn, The
Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn, The (1985)
Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s
Court, A
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Tom Sawyer
Tom and Huck
JOHN IRVING
(1942-)
Cider House Rules, The
Door in the Floor, The
Simon Birch
JULES VERNE
(1828-1905)
20.000 Leagues
Under the Sea
Journey to the Center
of the Earth
Mysterious Island
EDGAR ALLAN POE
(1809-1849)
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Oblong Box
Pit and The Pendulum, The
Premature Burial
Raven, The
Tales of Terror
Tomb of Legeia
Black Cat, The
Masque of the Red Death, The
ERNEST MILLER HEMMINGWAY
(1899-1961)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Killers, The
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Importance of Being Earnest, The
Cider House Rules, The
Directed by Oliver Parker
(Rupert Everett, Reese Whiterspoon,
Judi Dench, Colin Firth)
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England
use the same pseudonym “Ernest” on the sly,
which is fine until they both fall in love with
women using that name.
Witten by John Irving
Directed by Lasse Hallström
(Tobey Maguire, Micheal Caine, Charlize Therron)
Homer is an orphan in remote St. Cloud, Maine.
Never adopted, he becomes the favorite of
orphanage director Dr. Larch, who imparts
his full medical knowledge on Homer.
Bride and Prejudice
Dangerous Liaisons
Directed by Gurinder Chadha
(Aishwarya Rai, Martin Henderson)
It all begins in a modest Indian village when
the determined Mrs. Bakshi sets out to find
marriage matches for her four beautiful daughters
while there’s a lavish wedding party in town.
(2004) Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm
110 minutes General
Written by Choderlos de Laclos
Directed by Josée Dayan
(Catherine Deneuve, Rupert Everett,
Nastassja Kinski, LeeLee Sobieski)
The beautiful Madame de Merteuil seeks
vengeance against her ex-lover Gercourt
when he becomes engaged to her young
goddaughter, Cécile.
Pride and Prejudice
Ivanhoe
Directed by Joe Wright
(Keira Knightley, Donald Sutherland,
Jena Malone, Brenda Blethyn)
Their mother has raised the five Bennet sisters,
including strong-willed Elizabeth and young
Lydia, with one purpose in life: finding a husband.
(2005) Universal Studios 127 minutes PG
Written by Sir Walter Scott
Directed by Richard Thorpe
(Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine)
Ivanhoe, a disowned knight join to the
bravehearted and high-minded Robin Hood,
the valiant of Forest Sherwood.
Count of Monte Cristo, The
Man in the Iron Mask, The
Directed by Kevin Reynolds
(James Caviezel, Guy Pearce, Richard Harris,
James Frain, Luis Guzman)
A young man, falsely imprisoned by his jealous
friends, escapes and uses a hidden treasure to
exact his revenge.
(2001) Touchstone Pictures 131 minutes 13 years +
Written by Alexandre Dumas
Directed by Randall Wallace
(Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons,
John Malkovich, Gérard Depardieu, Gabriel Byrne)
The cruel King Louis XIV of France has a secret
twin brother who he keeps imprisoned.
Queen Margot, The
Directed by Patrice Chéreau
(Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteil, Vincent Perez)
The night of August 24, 1572, is known as
the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. In France
a religious war is raging.
(1994) Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm 137 minutes 13 years +
Three Musketeers, The
Directed by Stephen Herek
(Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland,
Chris O’Donnell, Oliver Platt)
The three best of the disbanded Musketeers,
Athos, Porthos and Aramis, join a young hotheaded
would-be-Musketeer, D’Artagnan, to stop the
Cardinal Richelieu’s evil plot.
(1993) Walt Disney Pictures 105 minutes PG
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
(1911-1983)
Boom
Fugitive Kind, The
Glass Menagerie, The
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Streetcar Named Desire, A
OSCAR WILDE
(1854-1900)
Canterville Ghost
Salome
Picture of Dorin Gray
JANES AUSTEN
(1775-1817)
Bride and Prejudice
Emma
Mansfield Park
Pride and Prejudice
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ALEXANDRE DUMAS
(1802-1870)
Count of Monte Cristo, The
Queen Margot, The
Three Musketeers, The
Musketeer, The
AGATHA CHRISTIE
(1890-1976)
Alphabet Murders
Appointment with Death
Evil Under the Sun
Mirror Crack’d, The
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Never Cry Wolf
Written by George Orwell
(John Hurt, Richard Burton,
Suzanna Hamilton, Cyril Cusack)
Movie adaptation of George Orwell’s novel of a
totalitarian future society in which a man whose
daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel.
Written by Farley Mowat
Directed by Carroll Ballard
(Charles Martin Smith, Brian Dennehy,
Zachary Ittimangnag)
A government researcher, sent to research the
“menace” of wolves in the north, learns about the
true beneficial and positive nature of the species.
Treasure Island
Dead Poets Society
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
Directed by Victor Fleming
(Wallace Berry, Jackie Cooper, Lionel Barrymore)
Young Jim Hawkins is torn between his
loyalty to his benefactors and his affection
for lovable rogue Long John Silver in their
struggle to recover a buried pirate treasure.
105 minutes General
Directed by Peter Weir
(Robin Williams, Ethan Hawke,
Josh Charles, Kurtwood Smith)
English professor John Keating inspires his
students to a love of poetry and to seize the day.
(1983) Touchstone Pictures 110 minutes PG
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Written by Homer
Directed by Joel Coen
(George Clooney, John Turturro,
John Goodman, Holly Hunter)
Three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure
while a relentless lawman pursues them.
Moby Dick
Written by Herman Melville
Directed by John Huston
(Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn)
The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates
the tale of his captain’s self-destructive
obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
Chronicles of Narnia, The
Written by C.S. Lewis
Directed by Andrew Adamson
(Georgia Henley, Tilda Swinton, James McAvoy)
Four kids travel through a wardrobe to the land
of Narnia and learn of their destiny to free it
with the guidance of a mystical lion.
Dr. Zhivago
Written by Boris Pasternak
Directed by David Lean
(Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin)
The life of a Russian doctor/poet who,
although married, falls for a political activist’s
wife and experiences hardships during the
Bolshevik Revolution.
Tom and Huck
Written by Mark Twain
Directed by Peter Howitt
(Brad Renfro, Jonathan Taylor Thomas)
Tom Sawyer and his best “friend” Huck go
on many adventures throughout the town of
Hannibal, Missouri.
Of Mice and Men
Written by John Steinbeck
Directed by Gary Sinise
(John Malkovich, Gary Sinise)
Two drifters, one a gentle but slow giant, try to
make money working the fields during the
Depression so they can fulfill their dreams.
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Murder at the Gallop
Murder Most Foul
Murder She Said
Witness for the Prosecution
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H.G. WELLS
(1866-1946)
Abbott & Costello Meet the
Invisible Man
Empire of the Ants
History of Mr. Polly, The
Invisible Man’s Revenge, The
Island of the Lost Souls
Passionate Friends, The
Time Machine, The
Invisible Man, The
Island of Dr. Moreau, The
CHARLES DICKENS
(1812-1870)
Christmas Carol, A
Great Expectations
Little Dorrit
Nicholas Nickleby
Tale of Two cities, A
David Copperfield
Oliver Twist
THOMAS HARRIS
(1940- )
Silence of the Lambs, The
Red Dragon
Hannibal
Hannibal Rising
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J.R.R. Tolkien
(1892-1973)
Lord of the Rings:
The Fellowship of the Ring, The
Directed by Peter Jackson
(Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Liv Tyler, Cate Blanchett)
In a small village in the Shire a young Hobbit
named Frodo has been entrusted with an ancient Ring.
Now he must embark on an epic quest to the Cracks
of Doom in order to destroy it.
Lord of the Rings:
The Two Towers, The
(Elijah Wood, Ian Mckellen, Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom)
Frodo and Sam take Gollum prisoner and
continue on to Mordor on the mission to
destroy The One Ring.
Lord of the Rings:
The Return of the King, The
(Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Ian Mckellen,
Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom)
The former Fellowship of the Ring prepare for
the final battle for Middle Earth, while Frodo & Sam
approach Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring.
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Don Juan
Intruder in the Dust.
Island of the Blue Dolphins, The
Jaws
Lolita
Lover, The
Madame Bovary
Moby Dick
Pianist, The
Rules of Attraction, The
Valmont
Chocolat
Constant Gardener, The
Doctor Zhivago
Of Mice and Men
Quiet American, The
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Traviata, La
Unbearable Lightness of Being, The
Joy Luck Club, The
13th Warrior, The
Miracle Worker, The
Treasure Island
Old Yeller
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Paperclips
Ushpizin
Directed by Elliot Berlin, Joe Fab
(Tom Bosley, Linda Hooper, Sandra Roberts)
As a part of their study of the Holocaust,
the children of the Whitwell, TN Middle School
try to collect 6 million paper clips representing
the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis.
(2004) One Clip At A Time, LLC 88 minutes General
Directed by Giddi Dar
(Shuli Rand, Michal Bat-Sheva Rand,
Shaul Mizrahi, Llan Ganani)
An Orthodox Jewish couple’s faith is tested
after praying to the Lord for a child on the
Succoth holiday.
Fiddler on the Roof
Watermarks
Directed by Norman Jewison
(Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Pico)
Tevye the Milkman is a Jewish peasant in
pre-Revolutionary Russia, coping with the
day-to-day problems of life, his Jewish traditions,
his family, and state-sanctioned pogroms.
Directed by Yaron Zilberman
(Judith Haspel, Trude Hirschler,
Anni Lampl, Hanni Lux)
The story of the Hakoah Vienna Jewish women’s
swim team of the 1930s, their forced separation,
and their reunion decades later.
(2005) Mongrel Media 84 minutes PG
Sophie’s Choice
Apprenticeship
of Duddy Kravitz, The
Directed by Alan J. Pakula
(Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Peter MacNicol)
Sophie is the survivor of Nazi concentration
camps, who has found a reason to live in Nathan,
a sparkling if unsteady American Jew obsessed
with the Holocaust.
(1983) Universal Studios 151 minutes 13 years +
Directed by Ted Kotcheff
(Richard Dreyfuss, Micheline Lantôt,
Jack Warden, Randy Quaid)
The younger son of a working-class Jewish
family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to
make a name for him in society.
121 minutes 13 years +
Anne Frank: The Whole Story
Directed by Robert Dornhelm
(Ben Kingsley, Brenda Blethyn,
Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Lili Taylor)
When the war began, she was only a
little girl. When it ended, she was the voice
of a generation…
Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies
and the American Dream
Directed by Simcha Jacobovici
(R.H. Thomson)
This film discusses the effect on how major
American films in Hollywood were influenced
by the Eastern European Jewish culture that
most of the major movie moguls, who controlled
the studios, shared.
Live and Become
Directed by Radu Mihaileanu
(Yaël Abecassis, Roschdy Zem,
Moshe Agazai, Sirak M. Sabahat)
In 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia are
recognised as genuine Jews. In turn they are
secretly carried to Israel.
(2004) Les Films Séville 149 minutes PG
Life is Beautiful
Directed by Roberto Benigni
(Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi,
Giorgio Cantarini)
A Jewish man has a wonderful romance
with the help of his humour, but must use
that same quality to protect his son in a
Nazi death camp.
114 minutes General
- Amen
- Ararat
- Assault, The
- Bent
- Blind Spot: Hitler’s Secretary
- Campfire
- Chosen, The
- Comedian Harmonists, The (EST)
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- Conspiracy of Hearts
- Counselor at Law
- Downfall
- Emotional Arithmetic
- Exodus
- Eyewitness
- Fateless
- Final Filmic Solution
Munich
Directed by Steven Speilberg
(Éric Bana, Daniel Craig,
Mathieu Kassovitz, Geoffrey Rush)
The world was watching in 1972 as 11 Israeli
athletes were murdered at the Munich Olympics.
This is the story of what happened next.
- Four Horseman
of an Apocalypse, The
- Grey Zone, The
- Judgement at Nuremberg
- Kadosh
- Last Days, The
- Live and Become (EST)
- Long Way Home, The
- Ninth Day, The
- Nuremberg
- Only Human (EST)
- Passover Fever
- Pianist, The
- Price Above Rubies, A
- Quest of the Lost Tribes
- Rosenstrasse (EST)
- Schindler’s List
- Summer of Aviya, The
- Sunshine
- Taking Sides
- Trembling Before G-D
- Truce, The
- Varian’s War
- Various Positions
- Yenti
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English Patient, The
Directed by Guy Hamilton
(Michael Caine, Ian McShane, Laurence Olivier,
In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a
desperate battle vs. the German Air Force for
control of British air space to prevent a Nazi
invasion of Britain.
Directed by Anthony Minghella
(Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe)
At the close of WWII, a young nurse tends to
a badly burned plane crash victim.
(1996) Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm 162 minutes
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Exodus
Directed by Otto Preminger
(Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson)
At the end of WWII, a British officer attempts to
evacuate Jewish survivors of the Holocaust and
send them to the newly created state of Israel.
Battle of El Alamein, The
Directed by Giorgio Ferroni
(Frederick Stafford, George Hilton, Robert Hossein)
An absorbing dramatization of the battles which
took place in North Africa during World War II.
Great Escape, The
Dirty Dozen, The
Directed by John Sturges
(Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard
Attenborough)
Several hundred Allied POWs plan a mass
escape from a German POW camp.
Directed by Robert Aldrich
(Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson)
A US Army Major is assigned a dozen
convicted murderers to train and lead them
into a mass assassination mission of German
officers in World War II.
Indigenes
Directed by Rachid Bouchareb
(Jamel Debbouze, Sami Bouajila,
Roschdy Zem, Samy Nacery)
During WWII, four North African men enlist in the
French army to liberate that country from Nazi
oppression, and to fight French discrimination.
Downfall
Directed by Olivier Hirschbiegel
(Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara,
Corinna Harfouch)
Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler,
tells of the Nazi dictator’s final days in his Berlin
bunker at the end of WWII.
Judgement at Nuremberg
Directed by Stanley Kramer
(Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster,
Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland)
In 1948, an American court in occupied
Germany tries four Nazi judges for war crimes.
(1961) MGM 186 minutes Not Rated
Life is Beautiful
(Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini)
A Jewish man has a wonderful romance with the
help of his humor, but must use that same quality
to protect his son in a Nazi death camp.
114 minutes General
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
(1789-1792)
- Tales of Two Cities, A
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- Napoléon
- Révolution Française 1: Les
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Années Terribles, La
- Souper, Le
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Pork Chop Hill
Bridge Too Far, A
Directed by Lewis Milestone
(Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, Rip Torn)
American GI’s must retake a barren hill in Korea
that has been overrun by Red Chinese troops.
Directed by Richard Attenborough
(James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery)
An historic telling of the failed attempt to capture
several bridges to Germany in World War II in a
campaign called Operation Market-Garden.
Apocalypse Now Redux
Assisi Underground
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
(Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen,
Robert Duvall, Laurence Fishburne)
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is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to
assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set
himself up as a God among a local tribe.
Directed by Alexander Ramati
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rescuing Italian Jews from the Nazis in 1943.
Born on the 4th of July
Directed by Oliver Stone
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The biography of Ron Kovic, who became an
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after feeling betrayed by the country he fought
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Deer Hunter, The
Directed by Michael Cimino
(Robert DeNiro, John Cazale,
Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep)
An in-depth examination of the way that
the Vietnam war affects the lives of people
in a small industrial town in the USA.
Platoon
(Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe,
Charlie Sheen, Forest Whitaker)
A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis
when confronted with the horrors of war and
the duality of man.
War, The
Directed by Jon Avnet
(Elijah Wood, Kevin Costner, Mare Winningham)
A Vietnam War vet must deal with a war of a
different sort between his son and their friends,
and a rival group of children.
WORLD WAR I
(1914-1918)
- All Quiet at the Western Front
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- Doughboys
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- Regeneration
- Suzy
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All Quiet at the Western Front
(Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray)
A young soldier faces profound disillusionment
in the soul-destroying horror of World War I.
Paths of Glory
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
(Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, Adolphe Menjou)
When soldiers in WWI refuse to continue with
an impossible attack, their superiors decide to
make an example of them.
WORLD WAR II
(1939-1945)
- 49th Parallel
- Bridge Too Far, A
- Adolf Hitler:
My Part In His Downfall
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- Assisi Underground
- Attack
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- Battle Of El Alamein, The
- Battleground
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- Bye Bye Blues
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- Code Name: Emerald
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- Conspiracy Of Hearts
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Train, The
Directed by Jack Smight
(Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, Edward Albert)
This battle is the turning point of the Pacific
Theatre of World War II.
Directed by John Frankenheimer
(Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau)
In 1944, a German colonel loads a train
with French art treasures to send to Germany.
The Resistance must stop it without damaging
the cargo.
Run Silent Run Deep
Directed by Robert Wise
(Clark Gable, Burt Lancaster, Jack Warden)
A U.S. commander, obsessed with sinking
a certain Japanese ship, butts heads with
his first officer and crew.
U-571
Directed by Jonathan Mostov
(Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton,
Harvey Keitel, Jon Bon Jovi, Thomas Kretschmann)
Disguised American submariners trying to
capture their Enigma cipher machine board
a German submarine.
Schindler’s List
Directed by Steven Spielberg
(Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes)
Oskar Schindler uses Jews to start a factory
in Poland during the war. He witnesses the
horrors endured by the Jews, and starts to
save them.
Varian’s War
Directed by Lionel Chetwynd
(William Hurt, Julia Osmond, Matt Craven)
Varian Fry rescues more than 2,000 artists
from Nazi persecution during World War II.
121 minutes General
Stalingrad
Directed by Joseph Vilsmaier
(Dominique Horwitz, Thomas Kretschmann,
Jochen Nickel)
A depiction of the brutal battle of Stalingrad,
the Third Reich’s ’high water mark’, as seen
through the eyes of German officer Hans von
Witzland and his battalion.
(1992) TVA Films 138 minutes 13 years +
Where Eagles Dare
Directed by Brian G. Hutton
(Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure)
Allied agents stage a daring raid on a castle where
the Nazis are holding an American General prisoner,
but that’s not all that’s really going on.
Tobruk
Good Morning Vietnam
Directed by Arthur Hiller
(Rock Hudson, George Peppard, Nigel Green)
British commandos, German Jews and an
American demolition’s expert must contend
with the desert.
- Day Will Dawn, The
- Devil’s Brigade, The
- Dirty Dozen, The
- Downfall
- English Patient, The
- Exodus
- Farewell To The King
- Five Graves To Cairo
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- Four Horseman of the
Apocalypse, The
- Gallant Hours, The
- Great Escape, The
- Great Raid, The
Directed by Barry Levinson
(Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker, Bruno Kirby)
An unorthodox and irreverent DJ begins to shake
up things when he is assigned to the US Armed
Services Radio station in Vietnam.
- Hail The Conquering Hero
- Hart’s War
- Indigenes
- In Enemy Hands
- In Which We Serve
- Judgement at Nuremberg
- Kelly’s Heroes
- Kings Go Forth
- Life is Beautiful
- Malaya
- Merry Christmas Mr.
Lawrence
- Midway
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Cold Mountain
Directed by Gregory Hoblit
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A law student who becomes a lieutenant during
World War II, is captured and asked to defend a
black prisoner of war falsely accused of murder.
(Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger,
Philip Seymour-Hoffman)
In the waning days of the American Civil War,
a wounded soldier embarks on a perilous journey
back home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to
reunite with his sweetheart.
Windtalkers
Directed by John Woo
(Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach,
Peter Stormare, Mark Ruffalo)
Two U.S. Marines in WWII are assigned to protect
Navajo Marines who use their native language
as an unbreakable radio cipher.
Fly boys
Directed by Tony Bill
(James Franco, Scott Hazell, Mac McDonald,
Philip Winchester)
The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille where
young Americans volunteered for the French
military before the U.S. entered World War I,
and became the country’s first fighter pilots.
Pearl Harbor
Directed by Michael Bay
(Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale)
Pearl Harbor follows the story of two best
friends, Rafe and Danny, and their love lives as
they go off to join the war.
Aimée et Jaguar
Directed by Max Färberböck
(Maria Schneider, Juliane Köhler)
In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin
and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews,
a dangerous love affair blossoms between
two women.
No Man’s Land
Directed by Danis Tanovic
(Branko Djuric, Rene Bitorajac, Filip Sovagovic,
Georges Siatidis)
Bosnia and Herzegovina during 1993 at the time
of the heaviest fighting between the two warring
sides. Two soldiers from opposing sides in the
conflict, Nino and Ciki, become trapped in no
man’s land, whilst a third soldier becomes a
living booby trap.
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
Directed by Marc Rothemund
(Julia Jentsch, Gerald Alexander Held,
Fabien Hinrichs)
As they are distributing leaflets calling for
an end to the war, 21-year-old Sophie Scholl
and her brother, Hans, are arrested and taken
to Gestapo headquarters.
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Hotel Rwanda
Directed by Terry George
(Don Cheadle, Xolani Mali, Desmond Dube,
Hakeem Kae-Kazim)
The true story of a man who fought impossible odds
to save everyone he could and created a place
where hope survived.
Jarhead
Directed by Sam Mendes
(Jake Gyllenhaal, Scott MacDonald,
Peter Sarsgaard, Jamie Foxx)
Based on former Marine Anthony Swofford’s
best-selling 2003 book about his pre-Desert
Storm experiences in Saudi Arabia and about
his experiences fighting in Kuwait.
- Stalingrad
- Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
- Tobruk
- Torpedo Run
- Train, The
- U-571
- Varian’s War
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- Windtalkers
- G.I. Jane
- Good Morning Vietnam
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Beauty and the Beast:
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Muppet Christmas Carol, The
Directed by Brian Henson
(Michael Caine, Frank Oz)
The Muppet characters tells their version of the
classic tale of an old and bitter miser’s redemption
on Christmas Eve.
Directed by Andy Knight
(Paige O’Hara, Robby Benson, Tim Curry,
Jerry Orbach, Haley Joel Osmont)
Belle prepares the castle for Christmas against
Beast’s wishes, trying to bring him happiness
for the season.
Nightmare Before Christmas, The
Directed by Henry Selick
(Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O’Hara)
Jack Skellington, king of Halloweentown,
discovers Christmas Town, but doesn’t quite
understand the concept.
(1993) Walt Disney Pictures 75 minutes PG
Christmas Carol, A
Directed by Edwin L. Marin
(Gene Lockhart, Reginald Owen, Kathleen Lockhart)
Marley’s ghost warns Ebenezer Scrooge on
Christmas Eve that he must change his miserly
ways or face damnation.
Blizzard
Directed by LeVar Burton
(Whoopi Goldberg, Christopher Plummer,
Kevin Pollak)
A young girl’s aunt tells her the tale of a young
ice skater and an enchanted reindeer.
Dr. Seuss: How the Grinch
Stole Christmas
Directed by Ron Howard
(Jim Carrey, Taylor Momsen, Molly Shannon)
Inside the town of Whoville, all the Who love
Christmas, yet just outside of their beloved
Whoville lives the Grinch, who plots to ruin
Christmas by stealing their presents.
Santa Clause, The
Directed by John Pasquin
(Tim Allen)
When a man inadvertantly kills Santa on
Christmas Eve, he finds himself magically
recruited to take his place.
Elf
Directed by Jon Favreau
(Will Ferrell, James Caan, Mary Steenburgen)
After inadvertently wreaking havoc on the elf
community due to his ungainly size, a man raised
as an elf at the North Pole is sent to the U.S. in
search of his true identity.
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Winnie the Pooh:
A Merry Pooh Year
Directed by Karl Geurs, Ted Henning
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Pooh and his lovable friends celebrate Christmas
and New Year’s in a delightful tale about spending
special moments with those you care about most.
Christmas in Wonderland
Directed by James Orr
(Patrick Swayze, Tim Curry, Carmen Electra)
Three kids and their Dad move from L.A to
Edmonton. When they go shopping at West
Edmonton Mall they find counterfeit cash.
- ’Twas The Night Before
Christmas
- All Dogs Christmas Carol
- Babes in Toyland
- Bad Santa
- Beat Street
- Enchanted Christmas, The
- Bush Christmas
- Casper’s Haunted Christmas
- Child’s Christmas in Wales, A
- Christmas Capers, A
- Christmas Cartoon, A
- Christmas Holiday
- Christmas in July
- Christmas Parade
- Comfort and Joy
- Ernest Saves Christmas
- Family Man
- Going my Way
- Holiday Inn
- I’ll Be Home for Christmas
- Life and Adventures
of Santa Claus, The
- Love Actually
- Mary of Nazareth
- Meet Me in St-Louis
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Apostle, The
Kundun
Directed by Robert Duvall
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Miranda Richardson)
After his happy life spins out of control, a preacher
from Texas changes his name, goes to Louisiana
and starts preaching on the radio.
Directed by Martin Scorsese
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Tencho Gyalpo)
From childhood until adulthood, Tibet’s 14th
dalai lama deals with Chinese oppression
and other problems.
Miracle Maker,
The Story of Jesus, The
Ben-Hur
Directed by William Wyler
(Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins,
Haya Harareet, Stephen Boyd)
When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent
into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains
his freedom and comes back for revenge.
213 minutes General
Directed by Derek W. Hayes, Stanislav Sokolov
(Ralph Fiennes, Julie Christie, Ian holm, William Hurt)
Jesus Christ’s Story.
Nativity Story, The
Directed by Catherine Hardwicke
(Keisha Castle-Hughes, Oscar Isaac,
Hiam Abbass, Shaun Toub)
The arduous journey of Mary and Joseph,
a miraculous pregnancy and the birth of Jesus.
101 minutes General
Gospel of John, The
Directed by Philip Saville
(Christopher Plummer, Henry Ian Cusick,
Stuart Bunce, Daniel Kash)
The story of Jesus’ life as told by the apostle
John, narrated by Christopher Plummer.
(2004) ThinkFilm 180 minutes 13 years +
Simon Birch
Directed by Mark Steven Johnson
(Ian Michael Smith, Joseph Mazzello,
Ashley Judd, Oliver Platt)
A young boy with stunted growth is convinced
that God has a great purpose for him.
Greatest Story Ever Told, The
Directed by George Stevens
(Max Von Sydow, Carroll Baker, Pat Boone,
Charlton Heston, Martin Landau)
Jesus Christ’s life.
Inherit the Wind
(Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly)
Two great lawyers argue the case for and
against a science teacher accused of the
crime of teaching evolution.
Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie
Directed by Mike Nawrocki, Phil Vischer
(Mike Nawrocki, Phil Vischer,
Tim Hodge, Lisa Vischer)
When the singing Veggies encounter some car
trouble, they’re stranded at old, rundown seafood
joint where nothing is quite as it seems.
- Act of the Heart
- At Play in the Fields of the Lord
- Ayurveda, The Art of Being
- Battle Hymn
- Ben-Hur
- Black Narcissus
- Breaking the Waves
- Conversations with God
- Daens
- Dead Man Walking
- Deadly Currents
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- Dogma
- Elmer Gantry
- End of Days
- Enlightenment Guaranteed
- Eve & the Fire Horse
- Fantasia 2000
- Faust
- Going My Way
- Holy Man
- Holy Smoke
- Into Great Silence
- Jesus Camp
- Jesus Christ Superstar
- Jesus of Montreal
- Keeping the Faith
- Khamosh Pani: Silent Waters
- King of Kings
- Little Buddha
- Live and Become
- Luther
- Mary of Nazareth
- Masada
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The Story of Jesus, The
- Monty Python’s the Meaning of Life
- Mysterious Man of the Shroud, The
- Not Without my Daughter
- One Night with the King
- Powaqqatsi
- Priest
- Queen Margot, The
- Quest for the Lost Tribes
- Quo Vadis
- Samsara
- Savage Messiah
- Scarlet Letter, The
- Shoes of the Fisherman
- Silent Waters
- Soldiers of God: The Knights
of St-John
- Solomon and Sheba
- Stealing Heaven
- Stigmata
Passion of the Christ, The
Directed by Mel Gibson
(James Caviezel, Monica Bellucci, Christo Jivkov, Maia Morgenstern)
Jesus Christ’s final hours and crucifixion.
(2004) Equinoxe 127 minutes 16 years +
- Story of Christmas
- Thunder on the Hill
- Tibet, A Buddhist Trilogy
- Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion
- Triumph Over Tragedy3
- Where He Walked
The VeggieTales
Snoodle’s Tale, A
- An Easter Carol
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- Esther… The Girl Who
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- God Wants Me to Forgive Them!?!
- Heroes of the Bible – Vol.1
- Heroes of the Bible – Vol.2
- Jonah Sing Along Song and More!
- Jonah: A Veggie Tales Movie
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Dancer in the Dark
Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman)
Three escaped convicts search for hidden
treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.
(2000) Walt Disney Pictures 103 minutes 13 years +
Directed by Lars Von Trier
(Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse,
Peter Stormare)
An east European girl goes to America with her
young son, expecting it to be like a Hollywood film.
Beyond the Sea
Mr. Holland’s Opus
Directed by Kevin Spacey
(Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth,
John Goodman, Bob Hoskins)
Consummate entertainer Bobby Darin
(1936-1973) is making a movie about his life.
(2005) Christal Films 118 minutes General
(Richard Dreyfuss, Glenne Headly,
William H. Macy, Terrence Howard)
A frustrated composer finds fulfillment
as a high school music teacher.
Ma Vie en Cinémascope
Traviata, La
Directed by Denise Filiatrault
(Pascale Bussières, Michel Barette,
Serge Postigo, Denis Bernard)
Alys Robi was the first Quebec woman to
become an enormously popular recording
artist on the international scene.
Directed by Franco Zeffirelli
(Teresa Stratas, Placido Domingo, Cornell Macneil)
Violetta Valéry, a consumptive courtesan,
falls in love with Alfredo Germont. Alfredo’s
father convinces Violetta that she must leave
him for the honor of the family.
Saddest Music in the World, The
Lust for Life
Directed by Guy Maddin
(Mark Mckinney, Isabella Rossellini,
Maria de Medeiros)
A sort-of musical set in Winnipeg during the
Great Depression, where a beer baroness organizes
a contest to find the saddest music in the world.
(2003) TVA Films 99 minutes General
Directed by Vincenti Minnelli
(Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn,
James Donald, Pamela Brown)
Vincent Van Gogh is the archetypical tortured
artistic genius. His obsession with painting,
combined with mental illness.
Triplets of Belleville, The
Directed by Sylvain Chomet
(Béatrice Bonifassi, Lina Boudreau,
Michèle Caucheteux)
When her grandson is kidnapped during the
Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved
pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters,
an aged song-and-dance team from the days
of Fred Astaire, to rescue him.
Calle 54
Directed by Fernando Trueba
(Arturo O’Farrill, Rolando Guerrero,
Joe Gonzales, Jim Seeley)
Fernando Trueba presents his love affair with Latin
jazz, his camera following 13 giants into the studio.
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Benny Goodman Story, The
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Blues Brothers 2000, The
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Gene Crupa Story
Glenn Miller Story, The
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Lady Sings the Blues
Ray
Wild Man Blues
Evita
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Great Waltz, The
Hilary & Jackie
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Mr. Holland’s Opus
Music Lover, The
Othello
Red Shoes, The
Red Violin, The
Traviata, La
Dave Chappelle’s Block Party
Producers, The
Directed by Michel Gondry
(Dave Chappelle, Erykah Badu, Bilal, Common)
A mix of Dave Chappelle’s sketch comedy and
musical interludes, inspired in part by the 1973
documentary Wattstax.
Chorus, The
Directed by Susan Stroman
(Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick,
Uma Thurman, Will Ferrell)
After putting together another Broadway flop,
down-on-his-luck producer Max Bialystock teams up
with timid accountant Leo Bloom in a get-rich-quick
scheme to put on the world’s worst show.
Directed by Christophe Barratier
(Gérard Jugnot, François Berléand,
Kad Merad, Jean-Paul Bonnaire)
The new teacher at a severely administered
boys’ boarding school works to positively effect
the students’ lives through music.
Directed by Taylor Hackford
(Jamie Foxx, Kerry Washington,
Regina King, Sharon Warren)
Ray Charles’ life and career .
Ray
De-Lovely
Chicago
Directed by Irwin Winkler
(Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd,
Jonathan Pryce, Kevin McNally)
Inspecting a magical biographical stage musical,
composer Cole Porter reviews his life and
career with his wife, Linda.
Directed by Rob Marshall
(Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renée Zellweger, Richard Gere)
Roxie Hart is a married chorus girl with hopes
of being a headliner in Vaudeville. Velma Kelly
is a former headliner. What do these two have
in common? They both are murderesses.
115 minutes General
Leonard Cohen: I’m your Man
Hairspray
Directed by Lian Lunson
(Perla Batalla, Bono, Leonard Cohen,
Julie Christensen)
A documentary on the legendary singer-song
writer, with performances by those musicians
he has influenced.
Directed by Adam Shankman
(John Travolta, Nikki Blonsky, Amanda Bynes,
Christopher Walkin, Michelle Pfeiffer)
Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad teaches
1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration
after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.
116 minutes General
Directed by Wim Wenders
(Luis Barzaga, Joachim Cooder, Ibrahim Ferrer)
Aging Cuban musicians whose talents had been
virtually forgotten following Castro’s takeover of
Cuba, are brought out of retirement by Ry Cooder.
100 minutes General
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Directed by Alan Parker
(Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves,
James Laurenson, Bob Hoskins)
A troubled rock star descends into madness
in the midst of his physical and social isolation
from everyone.
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Car Wash
Dancer in the Dark
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Music of the Heart
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Bad Education
Gods and Monsters
Directed by Pedro Almadòvar
(Gael Garcia Bernal, Fele Martinez)
In the early 60s, two boys, Ignacio and
Enrique, discover love, movies and fear
in a Christian school.
(2004) Les Films Séville 100 minutes 13 years +
Directed by Bill Condon
(Brendan Fraser, Ian Mackellan, Lynn Redgrave)
The story of James Whale, the director of
Frankenstein (1931) and Bride of Frankenstein
(1935), who in the time period following the
Korean War, developed a friendship with his
ardener, an ex-Marine.
(1998) Christal Films 105 minutes 13 years +
Before Night Falls
Directed by Julian Schnabel
(Javier Bardem, Johnny Depp,
Olivier Martinez, Sean Penn)
The life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas.
I Shot Andy Warhol
Directed by Mary Harron
(Lili Taylor, Stephen Dorff, Jared Harris)
Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas
who was a 60s radical preaching hatred
toward men in her “Scum” manifesto.
Being at Home with Claude
Directed by Jean Beaudin
(Roy Dupuis, Jean-François Pichette, Jacques Godin)
The police interrogation of a gay hustler accused
of murdering his lover, yields flashbacks of the
men’s emotionally intense, turbulent romance.
King is Dancing, The (est)
Directed by Gérard Corbiau
(Benoit Magimel, Boris Terral, Tcheky Karyo)
Corbiau repeats the Farinelli formula, artistic rivalry
and social private drama expressed in dazzling,
sometimes excessively lavish baroque scenery,
music and costume, but this time in its ultimate
setting: Versailles.
Birdcage, The
Directed by Mike Nichols
(Robin Williams, Nathan Lane,
Gene Hackman, Dianne West)
Armand and Albert have built the perfect
life for themselves tending to their gaudy
Miami nightclub.
Lilies
Directed by John Greyson
(Brent Carver, Marcel Sabourin,
Aubert Pallascio, Danny Gilmore)
1952: Bishop Bilodeau visits a Québéc prison
to hear the confession of a boyhood friend
jailed for murder 40 years ago.
Brokeback Mountain
Directed by Ang lee
(Heath Ledger, Jake Gylenhaal,
Anne Hathaway, Michelle Williams)
Based on the “E. Annie Proulx” story about a
forbidden and secretive relationship between
two cowboys and their lives over the years.
Far from Heaven
Directed by Todd Haynes
(Dennis Quaid, Julianne Moore)
Cathy is the perfect 50s housewife, living the
perfect 50s life: healthy kids, successful husband,
and social prominence. Then one night she surprises
her husband Frank kissing another man.
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To Wong Foo, Thanks for
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C.R.A.Z.Y.
Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée
(Michel Coté, Marc-André Grondin,
Daniel Proulx, Émile Vallée)
It’s a story of two love affairs, a father’s love
for his five sons. And one son’s love for his father,
a love so strong it compels him to live a lie.
Directed by Beeban Kidron
(Patrick Swayze, John Leguizamo, Wesley Snipes)
After Vida Boheme and Noxeema Jackson win
a major New York drag contest and a trip to
Hollywood, they are persuaded to take the
inexperienced drag princess Chi-Chi with them.
Fortune and Men’s Eyes
Directed by Harvey Hart
(Wendell Burton, Michael Greer,
Zooey Hall, Danny Freeman)
The young, naive Smitty is sent to prison for
six months; Cathy, his girlfriend, watches as he
disappears behind the bars and barbed wire.
Transamerica
Directed by Duncan Tucker
(Felicity Huffman, Kevin Zegers)
One week before her sex-change operation,
Bree receives a call from a 17-year-old identifying
himself as her son from a college liaison.
Hanging Garden, The
Better than Chocolate
Capote
Directed by Thom Fitzgerald
(Ian Parsons, Peter MacNeill, Troy Veinotte, Kerry Fox)
William, a once obese and troubled teen,
goes back to his family’s home after being gone,
without word, for ten years and finds it haunted
with his past.
Directed by Bennett Miller
(Philip Seymour-Hoffman, Graig Archibald,
Bronwen Coleman, Chris Cooper)
Truman Capote, during his research for his
book In Cold Blood, an account of the murder
of a Kansas family, develops a close relationship
with Perry Smith, one of the killers.
Directed by Léa Pool
(Piper Perabo, Jessica Paré,
Mischa Barton, Caroline Dhavernas)
A newcomer to a posh girls boarding school
discovers that her two senior roommates are lovers.
Directed by Anne Wheeler
(Wendy Crewson, Karyn Dwyer, Christina Cox)
Two attractive young lesbians, Maggie and
Kim, meet in Vancouver, develop a passionate
romance, and move in together.
Lost and Delirious
Strawberry and Chocolate
Directed by Tomas Gutierrez Alea et Juan Carlos Tabio
(Jorge Perugorria, Vladimir Cruz,
Mirta Ibarra, Francisco Gattorno)
Diego, a cultivated, homosexual and skeptical
young man, falls in love with a young heterosexual
communist full of prejudices and doctrinaire ideas.
Heavenly Creatures
(Kate Winslet, Melanie Lynskey)
Two girls have an intense fantasy life; their
parents, concerned the fantasy is too intense,
separate them, and the girls take revenge.
- Living End, The
- Longtime Companion
- Love and Death on Long Island
- Love of a Man
- Mascara
- Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
- Montreal Vu Par… (est)
- Music Lovers, The
- My Life in Pink
- My Summer of Love
- Mysterious Skin
- Nico and Dani
- Norman Is That You?
- Our lady of the Assassins (est)
- Perfect Son, A
- Prick Up Your Ears
- Priest
- Psycho Beach Party
- Rude
- Saving Face
- Show me Love
- Showgirls
- Six Degrees of Separation
- Sixth Happiness
- Size of Watermelons, The
- Some Of My Friends Are…
- Son Frère (est)
- Sunday Bloody Sunday
- Swoon
- Taste of Honey, A
- Tea and Sympathy
- Those Who Love Me Will Take
the Train (est)
- Trembling Before G-D
- Urbania
- Water Drops on
Burning Rocks (est)
- Wedding Banquet, The
- When Night is Falling
- Wild Weeds
- Year of Living Dangerously, The
- Zero Patience
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Directed by Mark Christopher
(Ryan Philippe, Salma Hayek,
Neve Campbell, Mike Myers)
The famous Studio 54, a hot disco hangout
for the social elite of New York.
Directed by Terry Gilliam
(Benicio Del Toro, Christina Ricci, Johnny Depp)
An oddball journalist and his psychopathic
lawyer travel to Las Vegas for a series of
psychedelic escapades.
Basketball Diaries, The
Igby Goes Down
Directed by Scott Kalvert
(Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, Mark Wahlberg)
Jim Carroll is a high school basketball player. Once in
a while he gets stoned with his friends, and step-bystep, he falls into the dark world of crime and drugs.
Directed by Burr Steers
(Bill Pullman, Claire Danes, Kieran Culkin,
Ryan Philippe, Susan Sarandon)
Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic seventeen
year-old boy, is at war with the oppressive world
of his East Coast “old money” family.
Big Lebowski, The
Wonderland
(Jeff Bridges, John Goodman,
Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi)
“Dude” Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire
Lebowski, seeks restitution for his ruined rug
and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.
Directed by James Cox
(Kate Bosworth, Lisa Kudrow, Val kilmer, Josh Lucas)
In the police investigation of a brutal crime scene,
one man was at the center of it all: legendary
porn star John Holmes.
Blow
Directed by Tod Demme
(Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Ray Liotta)
The story of George Jung, the man who established
the American cocaine market in the 1970’s.
City of God
Directed by Fernando Mierelles
(Alexandre Rodrigues, Firmino Leandro, Hora Da,
Phelipe Haagensen, Seu Jorge)
Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood
of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes
a photographer, the other a drug dealer.
Clockers
Directed by Spike lee
(Harvey Keitel, John Turturro)
Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage
of drug-lord Rodney Little, who likes to chill with his
brothers near the benches outside the project houses.
Dazed and Confused
Directed by Richard Linklater
(Matthew McConaughey, Milla Jovovich, Jason London)
The last day of school in May of 1976 for
a couple of friends.
- 24 Hour Party People
- Acid House
- Affliction
- Angel’s Rage
- Barfly
- Before Night Falls
- Big Lebowski, The
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- Blackout, The
- Blue Velvet
- Bright Lights, Big City
- Camorra
- Carlito’s Way
- Casino
- Citizen Ruth
- Clean
- Coffy
- Colors
- Dark Days
- Dead Ringers
- Desperado
- Dream with the Fishes
- Drunks
- Eye see you
- Fear and Loathing
in Las Vegas
- Four Friends
- Foxy Brown
- Fresh
- Gang Related
- Ginger Snaps
- Half Nelson
- Half Baked
- Hey, Happy!
- Human Traffic
- I Shot Andy Warhol
- Igby Goes Down
- It Takes All Kinds
- Jay and Silent
Bob Strike Back
Kids
Rules of Attraction, The
Directed by Larry Clark
(Justin Pierce, Leo Fitzpatrick, Sarah Henderson,
Chloe Sevigny, Rosario Dawson)
An amoral, HIV-positive skateboarder sets
out to deflower as many virgins as possible
while a local girl who contracted his disease tries
to save his next target from her same fate.
Directed by Roger Avary
(James Van Der Beek, Jessica Biel,
Shannyn Sossamon)
The incredibly spoiled and over privileged
students of Camden College are a backdrop
for an unusual love triangle between a drug
dealer, a virgin and a bisexual classmate.
Leaving Las Vegas
Scarface
Directed by Mike Figgis
(Elisabeth Shue, Nicolas Cage, Julian Sands)
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood
screenwriter who lost everything because
of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink
himself to death.
Directed by Brian De Palma
(Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer)
In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban
immigrant takes over a drug empire
while succumbing to greed.
Requiem for a Dream
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
(Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Zeta-Jones,
Dennis Quaid, Don Cheadle, Michael Douglas)
A conservative judge is appointed by
the President to spearhead America’s
escalating war against drugs, only to discover
that his teenage daughter is an addict.
Traffic
Directed by Darren Aronofsky
(Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly,
Marlon Wayans)
The hopes and dreams of four ambitious
people are shattered when their drug addictions
begin spiraling out of control.
Return to Paradise
Trainspotting
Directed by Joseph Ruben
(Anne Heche, Joaquin Phoenix, Vince Vaugn)
Two friends must choose whether to help
a third friend who was arrested in Malaysia
for drug possession.
Directed by David Boyle
(Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Johnny Lee Miller)
Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug
scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the
allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
Woman Who Drinks, The
Directed by Bernard Émond
(Élise Guilbault, Luc Picard, Michel Forget)
Paulette, an old woman, relates the night
that changed her life forever.
- Joe
- Jungle Fever
- Kids
- Laurel Canyon
- Layer Cake
- Lenny
- Lock Stock & Two
Smoking Barrels
- Lost Weekend, The
- Man with the Golden Arm, The
- Midnight Cowboy
- Mod Squad, The
- Novocaine
- Organization, The
- Outside Providence
- Party Monster
- Permanent Midnight
- Pig’s Law
- Pink Floyd-The Wall
- Place Vendome (est)
- Pulp Fiction
- Rude
- Rush
- Sarah T… Portrait of a Teenage
Alcoholic
- Saving Grace
- Senseless
- Shy People
- Sid and Nancy
- Sweet Hereafter, The
- Swimming Pool
- Protector, The
- Trip, The
- Twist
- Under Cover
- Voice in the Mirror
- Who’ll Stop the Rain?
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Clockers
A Family Thing
Directed by Spike Lee
(Harvey Keitel, John Turturro, Mekhi Phifer)
Strike is a young city drug pusher under
the tutelage of drug-lord Rodney Little,
who likes to chill with his brothers near the
benches outside the project houses.
Directed by Richard Pearce
(Robert Duvall, James Earl Jones, Irma P. Hall)
Earl Pilcher Jr., runs an equipment rental outfit
in Arkansas, lives with his wife and kids and
parents, and rarely takes off his cap.
Crooklyn
Directed by Charles Burnett
(Ice Cube, Lori Petty, Michael Ironside)
J.J. is a rookie in the Sheriff’s Department
and the first black officer at that station.
109 minutes General
The Glass Shield
(Alfre Woodard, Delroy Lindo, Spike lee,
Isaiah Washington)
A semi-autobiographical portrait of a
school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician
husband and their five kids living in ’70s Brooklyn.
The Hurricane
(Denzel Washington, Live Schreiber, John Hannah)
The story of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, a boxer
wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people
who aided in his fight to prove his innocence.
Cry Freedom
Directed by Richard Attenborough
(Kevin Kline, Denzel Washington, Penelope Wilton)
South African journalist Donald Woods is forced
to flee the country after attempting to investigate
the death in custody of his friend the black
activist Steve Biko.
In the Heat of the Night
(Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates)
An African American detective is asked to
investigate a murder in a racist southern town.
Cry, The Beloved Country
Directed by Darrell James Roodt
(James Earl Jones, Richard Harris, Charles S.Dutton)
A South-African preacher goes to search for
his wayward son who has committed a crime
in the big city.
Do The Right Thing
(Spike Lee, Richard Edson, Danny Aiello)
On the hottest day of the year on a street in
the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn,
everyone’s hate and bigotry smolders and
builds until it explodes into violence.
A Dry White Season
Directed by Euzhan Palcy
(Donald Sutherland, Marlon Brando,
Susan Sarandon, Zakes Mokae)
Ben DuToit is a teacher; his gardener son
is brutally beaten up by the police at a
demonstration by black school children.
- Across 110th Street
- Bamboozled
- Barbershop
- Barbershop 2
- Beat Street
- Beloved
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- Blacula
- Clockers
- Cooley High
- Crooklyn
- Cry Freedom
- Cry, the Beloved Country
- Dead Presidents
- Do the Right Thing
- Down in the Delta
- Drop the Beat
- A Dry White Season
- A Family Thing
- Five on the Black Hand Side
- Foreign Student
- Fresh
- Ghost DogThe Way of the Samurai
- The Glass Shield
- He Got Game
- Hollywood Shuffle
- Hoodlum
- The Hurricane
- Imitation of Life
- In the Heat of the Night
Jungle Fever
Race to Freedom:
The Underground Railroad
(Wesley Snipes, Annabella Sciorra, Spike lee,
Samuel L. Jackson, John Turturro)
Friends and family of a married black architect
react in different ways to his affair with an
Italian secretary.
Directed by Don McBrearty
(Falconer Abraham, Dwight Bacquie, Janet Bailey)
A number of slaves risk their lives to escape
their masters with their only help coming from the
famous secret slave escape network.
91 minutes General
Mississippi Burning
Directed by Alan Parker
(Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances
McDormand)
Two FBI agents with wildly different styles
arrive in Mississippi to investigate the
disappearance of some civil rights activists.
Ray
Directed by Taylor Hackford
(Jamie Foxx, Regina King)
Ray Charles’ life and career.
Remember the Titans
Directed by Boaz Yakin
(Denzel Washington, Will Patton, Wood Harris)
The true story of a African-American coach
and his high school team on their first season
as a racially integrated unit.
Mo’Better Blues
(Spike Lee, Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes,
John Turturro, Samuel L. Jackson)
The story of Bleek’s and Shadow’s friendly
rivalry on stage which spills into their
professional relationship and threatens to
tear apart the quartet.
Sarafina
Directed by Darrell Roodt
(Leleti Khumalo, Whoopi Goldberg, Miriam Makeba)
A high school girl involved in the Soweto
student protests of 1976.
Monster’s Ball
Directed by Marc Forster
(Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Berry, Heath Ledger)
After a family tragedy, a racist prison guard
reexamines his attitudes while falling in love
with the African American wife of the last
prisoner he executed.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Directed by Robert Mulligan
(Gregory Peck, Frank Overton, Robert Duvall)
Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depressionera South, defends a black man against
an undeserved rape charge, and his kids
against prejudice.
What’s Love Got To Do With It?
Directed by Brian Gibson
(Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne)
A film about the singer Tina Turner and
how she rose to stardom with her abusive
husband Ike Turner and how she gained the
courage to break free.
(1993) Touchstone Pictures
- The Inkwell
- Jungle Fever
- Mississippi Burning
- Mo’Better Blues
- Monster’s Ball
- The Negro
- Original Gangstas
- Poor Boy’s Game
- Race to Freedom: The
Underground Railroad
- Ray
- Remember the Titans
- Rude
- Sarafina
- Shaft in Africa
- Shaft’s Big Score
- Shaft
- Straight Out of Brooklyn
- Truck Turner
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- What Love Got To Do With it?
- Wrath of God
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Annie Hall
Thelma and Louise
Directed by Woody Allen
(Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Carol Kane,
Christopher Walken)
Woody Allen revolutionized the romantic
comedy and won his first Oscar for Best
Picture with this tribute to the 1970s “Me
Generation,” a story of two hopelessly neurotic
New Yorkers, a Jewish comedian and his
Midwestern-transplant ex-girlfriend.
Directed by Ridley Scott
(Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis,
Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen)
An Arkansas waitress and a housewife shoot
a rapist and take off in a ’66 Thunderbird.
Rocky
Directed by John G. Avildsen
(Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young,
Carl Weathers)
A small time boxer gets a once in a lifetime
chance to fight the heavyweight champ in a
bout in which he strives to go the distance
for his self-respect.
Being John Malkovich
Directed by Spike Jonze
(John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener,
John Malkovich)
A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally
into the head of the movie star John Malkovich.
(1999) Universal Studios 112 minutes PG
Midnight Cowboy
Directed by John Schlesinger
(Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight)
A naive male prostitute and his sickly
friend struggle to survive on the streets
of New York City.
Trainspotting
Directed by Danny Boyle
(Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle)
Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a starter
home. Choose dental insurance, leisurewear
and matching luggage. Choose your future. But
why would anyone want to do a thing like that?
Usual Suspects, The
Directed by Bryan Singer
(Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne,
Benicio Del Toro, Kevin Pollak, Kevin Spacey)
A boat has been destroyed, criminals are
dead, and the key to this mystery lies with
the only survivor.
Shadow of the Vampire
Directed by E. Elias Merhige
(John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe)
The filming of Nosferatu is hampered by the
fact that the star is taking his role far more
seriously than what seems humanly possible.
Gangs of New York, The
(Leonardo Dicaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron
Diaz, Jim Broadbent, John C. Reilly)
In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five
Points area of New York City seeking revenge
against Bill the Butcher, his father’s killer.
Dances with Wolves
Directed by Kevin Costner
(Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene)
Lt. John Dunbar, exiled to a remote western
Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and
Indians, making him an intolerable aberration
in the military.
- Lost in Translation
- Brokeback Mountain
- Good Night, And Good Luck
- Cold Mountain
- Murderball
- Constant Gardener, The
- March of the Penguins, The
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- Bowling for Columbine
- Chicago
- Transamerica
- Hotel Rwanda
- Ray
- Traffic
- 21 Grams
- Blue Velvet
- Red Violin, The
- Crash
- Chocolat
- Frida
- October Sky
- I Shot Andy Warhol
- E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
- Manhattan
- Beautiful Mind, A
- Dogville
- Girl With a Pearl Earring, The
- Brazil
- Stage Beauty
- Billy Elliot
- Eternal Sunshine of
the Spotless Mind
- Monster’s Ball
- Super Size Me
- Shakespeare in Love
- Paper Clips
Chicago
Beautiful Mind, A
(Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renée Zellweger, Richard Gere)
(Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly,
After a brilliant but asocial mathematician
accepts secret work in cryptography, his life
takes a turn to the nightmarish.
Blue Velvet
Eternal Sunshine
of the Spotless Mind
Directed by David Lynch
(Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan,
Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern)
After finding a severed human ear in a
field, a young man soon discovers a sinister
underworld lying just beneath his idyllic
suburban hometown.
Directed by Michel Gondry
(Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Elijah Wood,
Mark Ruffalo, Kristen Dunst)
A couple undergoes a procedure to erase
each other from their memories when their
relationship turns sour.
Crash
Pulp Fiction
Directed by Paul Haggis
(Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon,
Terrence Howard, Ryan Philippe)
Several stories interweave during two days
in Los Angeles involving a collection of
inter-related characters.
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
(John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson,
Bruce Willis, Uma Thurman)
The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster’s
wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four
tales of violence and redemption.
Frida
Raging Bull
Directed by Julie Taymor
(Salma Hayek, Diego Luna, Alfred Molina,
Ashley Judd, Geoffrey Rush)
Frida Kahlo Biography, who channeled the
pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous
marriage into her work.
(Robert DeNiro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty)
A biographical film about the middleweight
champ, the physically tough, but emotionally
self-destructive Jake LaMotta.
Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman)
Three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure
while a relentless lawman pursues them.
(2000) Walt Disney Pictures 103 minutes 13 years +
Seabiscuit
Directed by Gary Ross
(Jeff Bridges, Chris Cooper, Tobey Maguire)
The picture relates a moving story of
friendship and devotion in rehabilitating the
main characters’ fractured lives, as it interweaves
the interactions between horse, jockey, trainer
and owner and their adoring fans.
- Mulholland Drive
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Elizabeth
- Fargo
- Pulp Fiction
- Deep Blue
- Raging Bull
- O Brother, Where Art Thou?
- Sleeper
- Seabiscuit
- Jaws
- Annie Hall
- Ballad of Jack and Rose, The
- De-Lovely
- Strictly Ballroom
- Fried Green Tomatoes
- Monster
- Fahrenheit 9/11
- Chasing Amy
- Royal Tenenbaums, The
- Being John Malkovich
- American Graffiti
- Quiet American,The
- Aviator, The
- Trainspotting
- Gosford Park
- Ghost World
- Evelyn
-O
- Iris
- Pianist, The
- Lenny
- In The Bedroom
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(Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe,
Kristen Scott Thomas)
At the close of WWII, a young nurse tends to
a badly burned plane crash victim. His past is
shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement
in a fateful love affair.
Directed by Jonathan Demme
(Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn,
Anthony Heald)
A young FBI cadet must confide in an incarcerated
and manipulative killer to receive his help on
catching another serial killer who skins his victims.
Lost in Translation
Directed by Sofia Coppola
(Scarlett Johansson, Bill Murray)
A movie star with a sense of emptiness, and a
neglected newlywed meet up as strangers in
Tokyo, Japan and form an unlikely bond.
Fargo
(William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Frances
McDormand, John Carroll Lynch)
Jerry Lundegaard’s inept crime falls apart due to
his henchmen’s bungling and the persistent police
work of pregnant Marge Gunderson.
Red Violin, The
Directed by François Girard
(Samuel L. Jackson, Carlo Cecchi,
Don Mckellar, Sandra Oh)
A red and perfect violin inspires passion, making
its way through three centuries over several
owners and countries, eventually ending up at
an auction where it may find a new owner.
Kill Bill (Vol. 1 & 2)
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
(Uma Thurman, Daryl Hannah,
Michael Madsen, David Carradine)
The Bride wakes up after a long coma. The baby
that she carried before entering the coma is gone.
The only thing on her mind is to have revenge on
the assassination team that betrayed her.
(2003-2004) Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm
111-130 minutes 13 years +
Brazil
(Jonathan Pryce, Robert DeNiro, Ian Holm, Kim Greist)
A bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to
correct an administrative error and himself
becomes an enemy of the state.
Good Will Hunting
Directed by Gus Van Sant
(Robin Williams, Matt Damon,
Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver)
Good Will Hunting tells the poignant story
of two friends coming to terms with the blows
life has dealt them and with the questions that
lie in the future.
Elizabeth
Directed by Shekkar Kapur
(Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Joseph Fiennes,
Richard Attenborough, Vincent Cassel)
The early years of the reign of Elizabeth I
of England and her difficult task of learning
what is necessary to be a monarch.
Big Lebowski, The
(Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore,
Steve Buscemi)
“Dude” Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire
Lebowski, seeks restitution for his ruined rug
and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.
- When We Were Kings
- Shadow of the Vampire
- Sunshine
- Beloved
- Igby Goes Down
- Man Who Cried, The
- Golden Bowl, The
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- Sling Blade
- Gangs of New-York, The
- The Deer Hunter
- Dances With Wolves
- Blue Velvet
- Thelma et Louise
- Platoon
- Rocky
- Midnight Cowboy
- Usual Suspects
- English Patient, The
- Touch of Evil
- Requiem for a Dream
- Fargo
- Kill Bill (Vol. 1 & 2)
- Good Will Hunting
- Crying Game, The
- Big Lebowski, The
- Silence of the Lambs, The
- Munich
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Frankenstein
Directed by James Whale
(Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff)
Henry Frankenstein is a doctor who is trying
to discover a way to make the dead walk.
He succeeds and creates a monster that has
to deal with living again.
(Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger)
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
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The dying words of a thief spark a madcap
cross-country rush to find some treasure.
Freaks
Directed by Tod Browning
(Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova,
Roscoe Ates)
A circus’ beautiful trapeze artist agrees to
marry the leader of sideshow performers,
but his deformed friends discover she is
only marrying him for his inheritance.
Little Women
Directed by Mervyn Le Roy
(June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor, Janet Leigh)
Meg, Josephine, Amy and Beth are the little
women who, together with their mother, keep the
home fires burning while their preacher father
serves with the union army during the Civil War.
Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The
Directed by Sergio Leone
(Eli Wallach, Clint Eastwood,
Lee Van Cleef, John Bartha)
Three gunmen set out to find a hidden
fortune. Who will walk away with the cash?
High Society
Directed by Charles Walters
(Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra)
C.K. Dexter-Haven, a successful popular
jazz musician, lives in a mansion near his
ex-wife’s Tracy Lord’s family estate.
How the West Was Won
Directed by John Ford, Henry Hathaway
(Carroll Baker, Lee J. Cobb, Henry Fonda,
Gregory Peck, Debbie Reynolds)
A family of New England pioneers heads
west in the 1830’s on land and river.
Imitation of Life
Directed by John M. Stahl
(Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Rochelle Hudson)
Bea Pullman and her daughter Jessie have
had a hard time making ends meet since
Bea’s husband died.
- 20 000 Leagues
Under the Sea
- 49th Parallel
- Alexander the Great
- Along Came Jones
- Anna Karenina
- Applause
- Arrowsmith
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- Asphalt Jungle
- Ball of fire
- Barbary Coast
- Barefoot Contessa, The
- Ben-Hur
- Big Broadcast of 1932, The
- Big Parade, The
- Birds, The
- Black Cat, The
- Black Narcissus
- Blind Husbands
- Bride of Frankenstein, The
- Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
- Cape Fear
- Caesar and Cleopatra
- Cameraman
- Captains Courageous
- Casanova Brown
- Cat and the Canary, The
- Charlie Chan in the
Secret Services
- Dead End
- Detectives
- Dinner at Eight
- Dirty Dozen, The
- Discovering the Tramp
- Doctor Zhivago
- Doughboys
- Dressed to Kill
- Duck Soup
12 Angry Men
Apartment, The
Directed by Sidney Lumet
(Henry Fonda, Jack Warden,
Jack Klugman, E.G. Marshall)
A dissenting juror in a murder trial slowly
manages to convince the others that the case
is not as obviously clear as it seemed in court.
Directed by Billy Wilder
(Jack Lemmon, Shirley Maclaine, Fred MacMurray)
A man tries to rise in his company by letting its
executives use his apartment for trysts, but
complications and a romance of his own ensue.
2001 : A Space Odyssey
Directed by John Frankenheimer
(Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter)
A surly convicted murderer held in permanent
isolation redeems himself when he becomes a
renowned bird expert.
Birdman of Alcatraz
(Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood,
William Sylvester, Glenn Beck)
When a large black monolith is found beneath
the surface of the moon, the reaction immediately
is that it was intentionally buried.
Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
Directed by Richard Brooks
(Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Jack Carson)
Brick, an alcoholic ex-football player, drinks his
days away and resists the affections of his wife,
Maggie. His reunion with his father, Big Daddy,
who is dying of cancer, jogs a host of memories
and revelations for both father and son.
An American in Paris
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
(Gene Kelly, Nina Foch, Leslie Caron)
Jerry Mulligan, a struggling American painter in
Paris, is “discovered” by an influential heiress
with an interest in more than Jerry’s art.
David Copperfield
(Edna May Olivier, Elizabeth Allan,
Lionel Barrymore, Elsa Lanchester)
When David’s father dies, his mother remarries.
His new stepfather Murdstone has a mean
and cruel view on how to raise a child.
Devil is a Woman, The
Directed by Josef Von Sternerg
(Marlene Dietrich, Edward Everett Horton,
Cesar Romero)
Film told in flashbacks of an older man’s
obsession for a woman who can belong to
no-one but can frustrate everyone…
Dracula
Directed by Tod Browning
(Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners)
The ancient vampire Count Dracula arrives in England
and begins to prey upon the virtuous young Mina.
Fahrenheit 451
Directed by François Truffaut
(Oskar Werner, Julie Christie, Cyril Cusack)
In an oppressive future, a fireman whose duty is
to destroy all books begins to question his task.
- Easter Parade
- Elmer Gantry
- Entertainer, The
- Exit Smiling
- Exodus
- Flesh and the Devil
- Foolish Wives
- For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Fortune Cookie, The
- Four Feathers, The
- Gigi
- Graduate, The
- Grand Hotel
- Great Composers, The
- Hamlet
- Haunting, The
- Hole in the Head, A
- In Hollywood with Potash
and Perlmutter
- Incredible Shrinking Man, The
- Indemnity
- Invisible Man, The
- It Came from Outer Space
- Judgment at Nuremberg
- Julius Caesar
- Kid Galahad
- Kiss Me Kate
- Knick-Knack
- Last Tango in Paris (est)
- Lolita
- Lonely are the Brave
- Look Back in Anger
- Manchurian Candidate
- Misfits, The
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Magnificent Seven, The
Postman Always Rings Twice, The
Directed by John Sturges
(Yul Brynner, Eli Wallach, Steve McQueen,
Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn)
An oppressed Mexican peasant village assembles
seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.
Directed by Tay Garnett
(Lana Turner, John Garfield, Hume Cronyn)
A married woman and a drifter fall in love,
then plot to murder her husband, but even
once the deed is done, they must live with
the consequences of their actions
Man Who Knew Too Much, The
Psycho
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
(James Stewart, Doris Day)
A family vacationing in Morocco accidentally
stumbles on to an assassination plot and the
conspirators are determined to prevent them
from interfering.
(Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles)
Hitchcock’s most notorious film is still terrifying
after all these years, as larcenous Leigh picks the
wrong place to spend a night: The Bates Motel.
Meet Me in St-Louis
Raging Bull
(Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, Mary Aster)
In the year before the 1904 St Louis World’s Fair,
the four Smith daughters learn lessons of life
and love, even as they prepare for a reluctant
move to New York.
(Robert DeNiro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci)
A biographical film about the middleweight
champ, the physically tough, but emotionally
self-destructive Jake LaMotta.
Mummy, The
(James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey)
A wheelchair bound photographer spies on
his neighbors from his apartment window
and becomes convinced one of them has
committed murder.
Rear Window
Directed by Karl Freund
(Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners)
In 1921 a field expedition in Egypt discovers the
mummy of ancient Egyptian prince Im-Ho-Tep, who
was condemned and buried alive for sacrilege.
Night of the Hunter, The
Directed by Charles Laughton
(Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish)
A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose
young children know where their deceased father
hid $10,000 he’d stolen in a robbery.
North by Northwest
(Gary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason)
A hapless New York advertising executive is
mistaken for a government agent by a group
of foreign spies, and is pursued across the
country while he looks for a way to survive.
- Morocco
- Murders in the Rue Morgue
- Mutiny on the Bounty
- My Little Chickadee
- Partners Again
- Paths of Glory
- Phantom of the Opera
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- Picture of Dorian Gray
- Pocketful of Miracles
- Presenting Charlie Chaplin
- Royal Ballet, The
- Saratoga
- Scarface
- Scarlet Empress, The
- Scarlet Letter
- Seven Brides for
Seven Brothers
- Shanghai Express
- South Pacific
- Squaw Man
- Thirteenth Chair
- Thirteenth Hour
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Tom Jones
- Tom Thumb
- Tomorrow is Forever
- Touch of Evil
- Treasure Island
- Vertigo
- Wall Between
- West Side Story
- Witness for the Prosecution
- Wizard of Oz, The
- Wolfman, The
- Written on the Wind
Singin’ in the Rain
Streetcar Named Desire, A
Directed by Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
(Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor, Debbie Reynolds)
A silent film production company and cast
make a difficult transition to sound.
Directed by Elia Kazan
(Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden)
Blanche Dubois goes to visit her pregnant sister
and husband Stanley in New Orleans.
Some Like it Hot
Time Machine, The
(Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon)
When two musicians witness a mob hit, they
flee the state in an all female band disguised
as women, but further complications set in.
Directed by George Pal
(Rod Taylor, Alan Young, Yvette Mimieux)
A Victorian Englishman travels to the far
future and finds that humanity has divided
into two hostile species.
Spartacus
To Kill a Mockingbird
(Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons,
Charles Laughton)
The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt
against the decadent Roman Empire.
Directed by Robert Mulligan
(Gregory Peck, Frank Overton, Brock Peters, Robert Duvall)
Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era
South, defends a black man against an undeserved
rape charge, and his kids against prejudice.
Touch of Evil
Directed by Orson Welles
(Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles)
Stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police
corruption in Mexican border town.
West Side Story
Directed by Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
(Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno)
Westside story is the award winning adaptation of
the classic romantic tragedy, Romeo and Juliet.
Wizard of Oz, The
(Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Billie Burke)
Dorothy Gale is swept away to a magical land
in a tornado and embarks on a quest to see the
Wizard who can help her return home.
Written on the Wind
Directed by Douglas Sirk
(Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack)
The explosive tale of the Hadleys, a wealthy Texas oil
family whose debauched members are on a crash
course for self-destruction.
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Gone with the Wind
(Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable)
Based on Margaret Mitchell’s epic novel, this
sweeping romantic melodrama follows the
ever-changing fortunes of southern belle Scarlett
O’Hara who falls in love with the suave and cynical
Rhett Butler as she struggles to protect her family’s
plantation from the ravages of the Civil War.
222 minutes PG
1929 Broadway Melody of ’29
1930 All Quiet on the
Western Front
1931 Cimarron
1932 Grand Hotel
1935 Munity on the Bounty
1936 Great Ziegfeld
1939 Gone with the Wind
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1942 Mrs. Miniver
1944 Going my Way
1945 Lost Weekend, The
1948 Hamlet
1951 American in Paris, An
1955 Marty
1958 Gigi
1959 Ben-Hur
1960 Apartment, The
1961 West Side Story
1963 Tom Jones
1967 In the Heat of the Night
1969 Midnight Cowboy
1973 Sting, The
1976 Rocky
1977 Annie Hall
1978 Deer Hunter, The
1985 Out of Africa
1986 Platoon
1988 Rain Man
1990 Dances With Wolves
1991 Silence of the Lambs, The
1993 Schindler’s List
1996 English Patient, The
1998 Shakespeare in Love
2001 Beautiful Mind, A
2002 Chicago
2003 Lord of the Rings:
2005 Crash
Broadway Melody of ’29
Mutiny on the Bounty
Directed by Harry Beaumont
(Charles King, Anita Page, Bessie Love, Jed Prouty)
Harriet and Queenie Mahoney, a vaudeville act,
come to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns
needs them for his number in one of Francis
Zanfield’s shows.
104 minutes General
Directed by Frank Lloyd
(Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone)
The Bounty sails from Britain for Tahiti to obtain
a cargo of breadfruit plants. Captain Bligh is in
charge and he over-zealously enforces discipline
by various methods, his favorite being flogging.
135 minutes General
All Quiet on the Western Front
Great Ziegfeld
(Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy)
A young soldier faces profound disillusionment
in the soul-destroying horror of World War I.
Directed by Robert Z. Leonard
(William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer)
This biography follows the ups and downs
of Florenz Ziegfeld, famed producer of
extravagant stage revues.
179 minutes General
Cimarron
Directed by Wesley Ruggles
(Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor)
A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma
boomtown with his reluctant wife at the
end of the nineteenth century.
Grand Hotel
Directed by Edmund Goulding
(Greta Garbo, John Barrymore,
Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery)
Berlin’s plushest, most expensive hotel is the
setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag
“People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.”.
113 minutes General
Mrs. Miniver
(Greer Garson, Teresa Wright, Richard Ney,
Henry Wilcoxon)
The Minivers, an English “middle-class” family
experience life in the first months of World War II.
134 minutes General
Going my Way
Directed by Leo McCarey
(Bill Crosby, Gene Lockhart, Barry Fitzgerald)
A new priest shows up at the parish of a
crusty old priest named Father Fitzgibbon.
Lost Weekend, The
(Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Frank Faylen)
The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is
followed through a four day drinking bout.
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Hamlet
Apartment, The
Directed by Laurence Olivier
(Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Christopher Lee)
William Shakespeare’s tale of tragedy of murder
and revenge in the royal halls of medieval
Denmark.
(Jack Lemmon, Shirley Maclaine, Fred MacMurray)
A man tries to rise in his company by letting its
executives use his apartment for trysts, but
complications and a romance of his own ensue.
American in Paris, An
West Side Story
(Gene Kelly, Nina Foch, Leslie Caron)
Jerry Mulligan, a struggling American painter
in Paris, is “discovered” by an influential heiress
with an interest in more than Jerry’s art.
Directed by Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
(Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno)
Westside story is the award winning adaptation
of the classic romantic tragedy, Romeo and Juliet.
Marty
Directed by Tony Richardson
(Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith)
Squire Allworthy brings up Tom Jones, abandoned
as a baby in mysterious circumstances.
Directed by Delbert Mann
(Ernest Borgnine, Jerry Paris, Betsy Blair)
A touching story about two lonely people
who have almost resigned themselves to
never being truly loved.
Gigi
(Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan)
Weary of the conventions of Parisian society,
a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training
enjoy a platonic friendship, but it may not stay
platonic for long.
Ben-Hur
(Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins,
Haya Harareet)
When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent
into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains
his freedom and comes back for revenge.
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Tom Jones
(Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger)
Midnight Cowboy
Directed John Schlesinger
(Dustin Hoffman, John Voight)
A naive male prostitute and his sickly
friend struggle to survive on the streets
of New York City.
Sting, The
Deer Hunter, The
Directed by George Roy Hill
(Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Harold Gould)
In 1930s Chicago, a young con man seeking
revenge for his murdered partner teams up with
a master of the big con to win a fortune from a
criminal banker.
Directed by Michael Cimino
(Robert DeNiro, John Cazale, John Savage,
Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep)
An in-depth examination of the way that the
Vietnam war affects the lives of people in a
small industrial town in the USA.
Rocky
Out of Africa
Directed by John G. Avildsen
(Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young,
Carl Weathers)
An underdog boxer gets his million-to-one shot at
love, self-respect, and the world heavyweight title.
Directed by Sydney Pollack
(Meryl Streep, Robert Redford,
Klaus Maria Brandauer, Malick Bowens)
In 20th century colonial Kenya, a Danish
baroness/plantation owner has a passionate
but ultimately doomed love affair with a
free-spirited big-game hunter.
Annie Hall
Directed by Woody Allen
(Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Carol Kane,
Christopher Walken)
Woody Allen revolutionized the romantic comedy
and won his first Oscar for Best Picture with this
tribute to the 1970s “Me Generation,” a story
of two hopelessly neurotic New Yorkers,
a Jewish comedian and his Midwestern-transplant
ex-girlfriend.
Platoon
(Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen,
Forest Whitaker, Kevin Dillon)
A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis
when confronted with the horrors of war and
the duality of man.
Rain Man
Directed by Barry Levinson
(Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino)
Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt’s father dies and
leaves a fortune to Raymond, the institutionalized
savant brother that Charlie didn’t know he had.
Dances With Wolves
Directed by Kevin Costner
(Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene)
Lt. John Dunbar, exiled to a remote western
Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians,
making him an intolerable aberration in the
military.
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Lord of the Rings:
Directed by Jonathan Demme
(Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins,
Scott Glenn, Anthony Heald)
A young FBI cadet must confide in an
incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive
his help on catching another serial killer who
skins his victims.
(Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Elijah Wood,
Ian Mekellen, Viggo Mortensen)
The former Fellowship of the Ring prepare for the
final battle for Middle Earth, while Frodo & Sam
approach Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring.
Schindler’s List
(Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes,
Caroline Goodall, Embeth Davidtz)
Oskar Schindler uses Jews to start a factory in
Poland during the war. He witnesses the horrors
endured by the Jews, and starts to save them.
Crash
Directed by Paul Haggis
(Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon,
Terrence Howard, Ryan Philippe)
Several stories interweave during two days
in Los Angeles involving a collection of
inter-related characters.
The English Patient
(Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe,
Kristen Scott Thomas)
At the close of WWII, a young nurse tends
to a badly burned plane crash victim. His past
is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement
in a fateful love affair.
Shakespeare in Love
Directed by John Madden
(Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow,
Geoffrey Rush, Tom Wilkinson, Judi Dench)
A young Shakespeare, out of ideas and short
of cash, meets his ideal woman and is inspired
to write one of his most famous plays.
110 minutes General
Beautiful Mind, A
(Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly,
After a brilliant but asocial mathematician
accepts secret work in cryptography, his life
takes a turn to the nightmarish.
Chicago
(Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renée Zellweger,
Richard Gere)
115 minutes General
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Roman Polanski, (1933-)
French Director
- Cul-de-Sac
- Fearless Vampire Killers
- Ninth Gate, The
- Pianist, The
Robert Altman (1925-2006)
American Director
- Brewster McCloud
- Buffalo Bill & the Indians
- Company, The
- Cookie’s Fortune
- Delinquents The
- Dr.T and the Women
- Fool for Love
- Gingerbread Man, The
- Prairies Home Companion, A
- Ready-to-Wear
- Thieves Like Us
- Vincent and Theo
Spike Lee (1957-)
American Director
- 25th Hour
- Bamboozled
- Clockers
- Crooklyn
- He Got Game
- Inside Man
- Jungle Fever
- Mo’Better Blues
- She Hate Me
- Summer of Sam
Joel Coen (1954-)
American Director
- Big Lebowski, The
- Blood Simple
- Fargo
- Intolerable Cruelty
- Ladykillers, The
- O Brother, Where art Thou?
- Paris, je t’aime (est)
Sidney Lumet (1924-)
American Director
- 12 Angry Men
- Equus
- Find Me Guilty
- Fugitive Kind, The
- Garbo Talks
- Group, The
- Guilty as Sin
- Hill, The
- Network
- Offence, The
- Stranger Among Us
- Wiz, The
François Truffaut
(1932-1987)
French Director
- Bed and Board
- Fahrenheit 451
- Jules and Jim
- Last Metro, The
- Mississippi Mermaid
- Pocket Money
- Soft Skin
- Story of Adele H, The
- Two English Girls
- Wild Child, The
- Woman Next Door, The
Norman Jewison (1926-)
Canadian Director
- Art of Love
- Cincinatti Kid, The
- F.I.S.T.
- Fiddler on the Roof
- Forty Pounds of Trouble
- Gaily, Gaily
- Hurricane, The
- January Man
- Jesus Christ Superstar
- Moonstruck
- Rollerball (1974)
John Huston (1906-1987)
American Director
- Asphalt Jungle
- Freud the Secret Passion
- List of Adrian Messenger, The
- Misfits, The
- Moby Dick
- Moulin Rouge (1956)
- Night of the Iguana, The
- Red Badge of Courage
- Sinful Davey
- Under the Volcano
- Unforgiven, The
Pedro Almodòvar (1949-)
Spanish Director
- All About my Mother
- Bad Education
- High Heels
- Kika
- Live Flesh
- Talk to Her
- Volver
OTHER FAMOUS DIRECTORS
Philip Kaufman (1936-) American Director
James Cameron (1954-) Canadian Director
Tim Burton (1958-) American Director
Larry Clark (1943-) American Director
Claude Chabrol (1930-) French Director
John Ford (1894-1973) American Director
Roberto Benigni (1952-) Italian Director
James Waters (1946-) American Director
Claude Lelouch (1937-) French Director
Wernor Herzog (1942-) German Director
Jean-Luc Godard (1930-) French Director
John Frankenheimer (1930-2002) American Director
Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-) Italian Director
Ingmar Bergman (1918-) Swedish Director
John Cassavetes (1929-1989) American Director
Jane Campion (1954-) New Zealander Director
Richard Attenborough (1923-) British Director
Sydney Pollack (1934-) American Director
Oliver Stone (1946-) American Director
Wim Wenders (1945-) German Director
Cecil B. De Mille (1881-1959) American Director
Fritz Lang (1890-1976) Austrian Director
Peter Greenaway (1942-) British Director
Frederico Fellini (1920-1993) Italian Director
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Steven Spielberg (1946-)
American Director
- Always
- Amazing Stories
- Duel
- E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
- Jaws
- Jurassic Park
- Lost World, The
- Munich
- Sugarland Express, The
Ron Howard (1954-)
American Director
- Appollo 13
- Backdraft
- Beautiful Mind, A
- Cinderella Man
- Dr.Seuss: How the
Grinch Stole Christmas
- Ed TV
- Far and Away
- Paper, The
- Ransom
- Splash
Peter Jackson (1961-)
New Zealander Director
- Dead alive
- Frighteners
- Heavenly Creatures
- King Kong
- Lord of the Rings, The
Fellowship of the Ring, The
- Lord of the Rings, The Two
Towers, The
- Lord of the Rings, The
Return of the Kings, The
Denys Arcand (1941-)
Canadian Director
- Barbarians Invasions, The
- Decline of the
American Empire
- Jesus of Montreal
- Love and Human Remains
- Montreal Sextet
- Murder in the Family
- Poverty and Other Delights
- Stardom (est)
- The Age of Ignorance
Lars Von Trier (1956-)
Danish Director
- Boss of It All, The
- Breaking the Waves
- Dancer in the Dark
- Dogville
- Europa
- Idiots, Les
- Manderlay
Steven Soderbergh (1963-)
American Director
- Erin Brockovich
- Full Frontal
- Kafka
- King of the Hill
- Limey, The
- Out of Sight
- Traffic
Martin Scorsese (1942-)
American Director
- Boxcar Bertha
- Cape Fear
- Casino
- Color of Money, The
- Gangs of New York, The
- Kundun
- Last Temptation
of Christ, The
- Last Waltz, The
- New York, New York
- Raging Bull
John Irvin (1940-)
British Director
- Boys from County Clare
- City of Industry
- Dogs of War, The
- Fourth Angel, The
- Ghost Story
- Month by the Lake, A
- Shiner
- Turtle Diary
Sergio Leone (1929-1989)
Italian Director
- Colossus of Rhodes, The
- Duck you Sucker
- Fistful of Dollars, A
- For a Few Dollars More
- Good, the Bad and
the Ugly, The
- My Name is Nobody
David Cronenberg (1943-)
Canadian Director
- Crash
- Dead Ringers
- Eastern Promises
- Existenz
- Fast Company
- History of Violence, A
- Naked Lunch
- Shivers
- Spider
- Videodrome
Alfred Hitchcock
(1899-1980)
British Director
- Birds, The
- Family Plot
- Frenzy
- Lady Vanishes, The
- Man Who Knew Too Much,
The (1934, 1956)
- Marnie
- North by Northwest
- Psycho
- Rear Window
- Rope
- Sabotage
- Saboteur
- Shadow of a Doubt
- Thirty-Nine Steps, The
- Topaz
- Torn Curtain
- Trouble with Harry, The
- Vertigo
- Young and Innocent
Quentin Tarantino (1963-)
American Director
- Four Rooms
- Grindhouse
- Jackie Brown
- Kill Bill Volume 1
- Kill Bill Volume 2
- Pulp Fiction
Kenneth Branagh (1960-)
British Director
- Henry V
- Love’s Labour’s Lost
- Midwinter Tale, A
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Peter’s Friends
- Swan Song
Lasse Hallström (1946-)
Swedish Director
- Casanova
- Chocolat
- Hoax, The
- Shipping news, The
- Unfinished Life
David Lynch (1946-)
American Director
- Blue Velvet
- Dune
- Lost Highway
- Mulholland Dr.
- Straight Story, The
- Wild at Heart
Terry Gilliam (1946-)
American Director
- 12 Monkeys
- Brazil
- Brothers Grimm, The
- Fear and Loathing
in Las Vegas
- Tideland
Michael Moore (1954-)
American Director
- Big One, The
- Bowling for Columbine
- Fahrenheit 9/11
- Sicko
Jim Jarmush (1953-)
American Director
- Broken Flowers
- Coffee and Cigarettes
- Dead Man
- Ghost Dog, The Way of
the Samurai
- Night on Earth
- Stranger Than Paradise
Francis Ford Coppola
(1939-)
American Director
- Cotton Club, The
- Dementia 13
- Jack
- Rumble Fish
Luc Besson (1959-)
French Director
- Arthur and the Invisibles
- Atlantis
- Big Blue, The
- Last Battle, The
Woody Allen (1935-)
American Director
- Alice
- Annie Hall
- Another Woman
- Bananas
- Broadway Danny Rose
- Bullets Over Broadway
- Cassandra’s Dream
- Celebrity
- Crimes & Misdemeanors
- Everyone Says I Love You
- Everything You Always
Wanted to Know
About Sex But…
- Hannah and Her Sisters
- Interiors
- Love and Death
- Manhattan
- Midsummer Night’s Sex
Comedy, A
- Mighty Aphrodite
- New York Stories
- Purple Rose of Cairo, The
- Radio Days
- Scoop
- September
- Shadows and Fog
- Sleeper
- Stardust Memories
- Sweet and Lowdown
- Zelig
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11’09’’01 September 11
Darwin’s Nightmare
Directed by Youssef Chahine, Amos Gitai,
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Shohei Imamura,
Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, Samira Makhmalbaf,
Mira Nair, Idrissa Ouefraogo, Sean Penn,
Danis Tanovic.
(Maryam Karimi, Emmanuelle Laborit,
Jérôme Horry, Nour El-Sherif, Ahmed Haroun)
The effects of the 9/11 terrorist attacks are told
from different points of view around the world.
Directed by Hubert Sauper
(Hubert Sauper)
A documentary on the effect of fishing the Nile
perch in Tanzania’s Lake Victoria.
(2005) Capri Releasing Inc. 112 minutes General
Down the Rabbit Hole
(What the bleep do we know Part 2 )
Directed by William Arntz, Betsy Chasse
(Marlee Matlin, Elaine Hendrix,
Barry Newman, Armin Shimerman)
Interviews with scientists and authors, animated
bits, and a storyline involving a mute photographer
are used in this docudrama to illustrate the link
between quantum mechanics, neurobiology,
human consciousness and day-to-day reality.
(2006) Capri Releasing Inc. 156 minutes General
Amandla!
Revolution in Four-Part Harmony
Directed by Lee Hirsch
(Walter Cronkite, F.W. de Klerk,
Abdullah Ibrahim, Jesse Jackson)
Interviews, archival footage, and filmed
performances highlight the role of music in
the South African struggle against apartheid.
Enron -The Smartest Guys
in the Room
Directed by Alex Gibney
(Peter Coyote)
This searing examination of the Enron
accounting scandal reveals the psychology of
greed and corporate corruption that facilitated
the company’s rise to power and also its fall.
Blind Spot: Hitler’s Secretary
Directed by André Heller, Othmar Schmiderer
(Traudl Junge)
Documentary featuring interview footage with
Traudl Junge, one of Hitler’s personal secretaries
during WWII.
Fahrenheit 9/11
Born into Brothels (est)
Directed by Michael Moore
(Ben Affleck, Stevie Wonder,
George W. Bush, Michael Moore)
Michael Moore’s view on what happened to
the United States after September 11; and how
the Bush Administration allegedly used the tragic
event to push forward its agenda for unjust wars
in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Directed by Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman
(Shanti Das, Avijit, Suchitra, Manik,
Gour, Tapasi, Mamuni)
Two documentary filmmakers chronicle their time
in Sonagchi, Calcutta and the relationships they
developed with children of prostitutes who work
the city’s notorious red light district.
Bowling for Columbine
(Chris Rock, Dick Clark, Michael Moore)
Filmmaker Michael Moore explores the roots
of America’s predilection for gun violence.
Control Room, The
Directed by Jehane Noujaim
(Samir Khader, Josh Rushing, Hassan Ibrahim)
A chronicle which provides a rare window into
the international perception of the Iraq War,
courtesy of Al Jazeera, the Arab world’s most
popular news outlet.
- 11th Hour, The
- Agronomist, The
- An Unreasonable Man
- Aristocrats, The
- As Life Goes By
- Ballets Russes
- Barbiers, A Men’s Story
- Black Gold
- Born into Brothels
38
- Broadway: the Golden Age
- Capturing the Friedmans
- Control Room, The
- Crossing the Bridge:
The Sound of Istanbul
- Crude Awakening, The Oil
Crash
- Darwin’s Nightmare
- Deep Blue
- Devil and Daniel Johnston, The
- Dignity of the Nobodies, The
- Dogtown and the Z-Boys
- Down the Rabbit Hole (a.k.a.):
What the Bleep do We Know 2
- Dust to Glory
- Enron: The Smartest Guys in
the Room
- Fahrenheit 9/11
- Festival Express
- Fog of War: Eleven Lessons
from the Life of Robert S.
McNamara, The
- Game Over: Kasparov
and the Machine
- Genesis
- God Grew Tired of Us: The
Story of Lost Boys of Sudan
- Guerrilla: The Taking
of Patty Hearst
- Gunner Palace
- Heart of the Game, The
- I for India
- Illusion
- Into Great Silence
- Iraq in Fragments
- Jesus Camp
Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from
the Life of Robert S. McNamara
Paperclips
Directed by Elliot Berlin, Joe Fab
(Tom Bosley, Linda Hooper, Sandra Roberts)
As a part of their study of the Holocaust,
the children of the Whitwell, TN Middle School
try to collect 6 million paper clips representing
the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis.
(2004) One Clip At A Time, LLC 88 minutes General
Directed by Errol Moris
(Robert McNamara)
A film about the former US Secretary of Defense
and the various difficult lessons he learned about
the nature and conduct of modern war.
Sicko
Game Over: Kasparov
and the Machine
(Donna Smith, Larry Smith, Michael Moore)
A documentary comparing the American
health care industry to other nations.
Directed by Vikram Jayanti
(Marc Ghannoum, Joel Benjamin, Michael Greengard)
In 1997, amidst much media fanfare, chess
grandmaster Gary Kasparov lost a set of matches
against IBM’s “thinking” computer Deep Blue.
Species’ Odyssey, A
Directed by Jacques Malaterre
(Pere Arquillué, Peter Batakliev, Léa-Marie Cantin)
Documentary on the origins of mankind, from the
first primates to modern man’s conquest of space.
Genesis (est)
Directed by Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou
(Sotigui Kouyaté)
An African griot uses the evocative language of
myth and fable to relate the birth of the universe
and the stars, the fiery beginnings of our planet
and the appearance of life on earth.
Super Size Me
Directed by Morgan Spurlock
(Morgan Spurlock, Dr. Daryl Isaacs,
Dr. Lisa Ganjhu, Dr. Stephen Siegel)
An irreverent look at obesity in America
and one of its sources: fast food corporations.
Gunner Palace
Directed by Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker
(Bryant Davis, Devon Dixon, Javorn Drummond)
American soldiers of the 2/3 Field Artillery,
a group known as the “Gunners,” tell of their
experiences in Baghdad during the Iraq War.
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Directed by Chris Paine
(Ed Begley Jr., Colette Divine, Mel Gibson,
Tom Hanks, Martin Sheen)
A documentary that investigates the birth
and death of the electric car, as well as the
role of renewable energy and sustainable living
in the future.
Murderball
Directed by Henry Alex Rubin, Dana Adam Shapiro
(Joe Bishop. Keith Cavill, Andy Cohn, Scott Hogsett)
A film about quadriplegics who play full-contact
rugby in Mad Max-style wheelchairs, overcoming
unimaginable obstacles to compete in the
Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece.
(2005) ThinkFilm 85 minutes PG
- Jonas the Quest
- Journals of Knud
Rasmussen, The
- King of Kong, The
- Last Mogul: Life and Times of
Lew Wasserman, The
- Leaving Bountiful
- Leonard Cohen: I’m your man*
- Let it Ride
- Life and Hard Times
of Guy Terrifico
- Lightning in a Bottle
- March of the Penguins
- Mayor of the Sunset Strip
- Metal Headbanger’s Journey, A
- Mondovino
- Murderball
- My Architect A Son’s Journey
- Najac Calling, Over to
You Earth
- Nestor and the Forgotten
- Once in a Lifetime The
Extraordinary Story
of the New York Cosmos
- Paperclips
- Protocols of Zion
- Radiant City
- Real Cancun, The
- Regular Or Super
- Revolucion
- Riding Giants
- Ring, El
- Rock School
- September Tapes
- Sharkwater
- Short Life of José Antonio
Gutierrez, The
- Shut Up and Sing
- Sicko
- Sketches of Frank Gehry
- Social Genocide
- Stevie
- Story of the Weeping
Camel, The
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Celebration, The (Denmark/Sweden)
Taste of Cherry (Iran)
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
(Homayon Ershadi, Abdolrahman Bagheri,
Safar Ali Moradi)
Middle-aged Mr.Badii is planning to commit
suicide and desperately seeks anyone to assist
him. He has already dug out the grave in the
mountains, but the assistant will have to bury
him when he will do the deed.
Directed by Thomas Vinterberg
(Ulrich Thomsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Paprika Steen)
At Helge’s 60th birthday party, some
unpleasant family truths are revealed.
Sea Inside, The (Spain/France/Italy)
Alejandro Amenábar
(Javier Bardem, Belén Rueda,
Lola Dueñas, Mabel Rivera)
The real-life story of Spaniard Ramon Sampedro,
who fought a 30-year campaign in favour of
euthanasia and his own right to die.
Turtles Can Fly (Iran/France/Iraq)
Directed by Bahman Ghobadi
(Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, Saddam Hossein Feysal)
Near the Iraqi-Turkish border on the eve of
an American invasion, refugee children like
13-year-old Kak, gauge and await their fate.
Talk to Her (Spain)
Directed by Pedro Almodòvar
(Javier Cámara, Darío Grandinetti,
Leonor Watling, Rosario Flores)
Two men share an odd friendship while they care
for their girlfriends who are both in deep comas.
Good Thief, The
(France/United Kingdom/Ireland/Canada)
Directed by Neil Jordan
(Nick Nolte, Nutsa Kukhianidze, Saïd Taghmaoui)
An aging gambler on a losing streak attempts
to rob a casino in the South of France.
But someone’s already tipped off the cops
before he even makes a move.
Curse of the Golden Flower (Chine)
Directed by Yimou Zhang
(Yun-Fat Chow, Li Gong, Ye Lin, Jay Chou)
During China’s Tang Dynasty, the emperor
has taken the princess of a neighboring
province as wife.
Live and Become
(France/Belgium/Israel/Italy)
Directed by Radu Mihaileanu
(Yaël Abecassis, Roschdy Zem,
Moshe Agazai, Sirak M. Sabahat)
In 1980 the black Falashas in Ethiopia
are recognised as genuine Jews. In turn
they are secretly carried to Israel.
(2004) Les Films Séville 149 minutes PG
Maya (India)
Directed by Digvijay Singh
(Anant Nag, Mita Vasisht, Nitya Shetty, Nikhil Yadav)
Maya is a coming of age story set against
an outlawed brutal practice of ritual rape still
occurring in some parts of India.
Moment of Innocence, A (Iran)
Directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
(Mirhadi Tayebi, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Ali Bakhsi)
Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf based this Iranian
drama on his own life experiences, specifically
centering the story around a violent altercation
he had with a policeman as a 17-year-old.
ARGENTINA
El Aura (EST)
Motorcycle Diaries, The
Social Genocide
Son of the Bride
AUSTRALIA
Alexandra’s Project
Holy Smoke
Muriel’s Wedding
Walking on Water
40
Rabbit Proof Fence
AUSTRIA
Blind Spot: Hitler’s Secretary
Darwin’s Nightmare
Dog Days
Edukators, The
BELGIUM
Farinelli
Love Me If You Dare
Ma Vie en Rose (EST)
Pauline and Paulette
CHINA
Balzac and the Little Chinese
Seamstress
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Emperor and the Assassin, The
Hero (EST)
CROATIA
Black Cat, White Cat (EST)
Life is a Miracle
CUBA
Calle 54,
I am Cuba
Strawberry and Chocolate
DENMARK
Boss of it All, The
Dancer In The Dark
Dogville
Manderlay
Europa (EST)
How to Get Rid of the Others
I am Dina
Idiots, Les (EST)
FRANCE
8 Women
Belle de Jour (EST)
Botanist’s Daughters
Camille Claudel (EST)
Cyrano de Bergerac (EST)
Il Postino (France/Italy/Belgium)
(Philippe Noiret, Massimo Troisi,
Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Renato Scarpa)
Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while
delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to
woo local beauty Beatrice.
Amores Perros (Mexico)
Directed by Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu
(Emilio Echevarría, Gael García Bernal,
Goya Toledo, Adriana Barraza)
A horrific car accident connects three stories,
each involving characters dealing with loss, regret,
and life’s harsh realities, all in the name of love.
Son’s Room, The (Italy/France)
Directed by Nanni Moretti, Delucci Daniel
(Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante,
Jasmine Trinca, Giuseppe Sanfelice)
A psychoanalyst and his family go through
profound emotional trauma when their son
dies in a scuba diving accident.
Y Tu Mama También (Mexico)
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón
(Ana López Mercado, Diego Luna,
Gael García Bernal, Maribel Verdú)
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older
woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or
two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.
Princess Mononoke (Japan)
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
(Yôji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yûko Tanaka)
On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami’s
curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war
between the forest and Tataraba, a mining colony.
Whale Rider (New Zealand/Germany)
Directed by Niki Caro
(Keisha Castle-Hughes, Cliff Curtis,
Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton)
A contemporary story of love, rejection and
triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill
a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize.
Spirited Away (Japan)
Directed by Hayao Miyazaki
(Rumi Hîragi, Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki)
In the middle of her family’s move to the suburbs,
a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world
ruled by gods, witches, and monsters; where
humans are changed into animals.
(Germany/United Kingdom)
Directed by Fernando Meirelles
(Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Hubert Koundé)
A widower is determined to get to the bottom of
a potentially explosive secret involving his wife’s
murder, big business, and corporate corruption.
Pillow Book, The
(France/United Kingdom/Netherlands/Luxembourg)
Directed by Peter Greenaway
(Vivian Wu, Ewan McGregor, Yoshi Gida, Ken Ogata)
As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko’s father paints
characters on her face, and her aunt reads
to her from “The Pillow Book”, the diary of a
10th-century lady-in-waiting.
Queen, The (United Kingdom)
Directed by Stephen Frears
(Helen Mirren, James Cromwell, Alex Jennings)
After the death of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth
II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of
events nobody could have predicted.
Dangerous Liaisons
Dinner Game, The
Don Juan
Horseman on the Roof
Irreversible
Jules and Jim
King is Dancing, The (EST)
Molière (EST)
Monsieur Ibrahim (EST)
My Wife is an Actress
Nathalie (EST)
Nearest to Heaven
Paris, je t’aime (EST)
Ponette
Queen Margot, The
Rape Me
Read My Lips
Romance
Sade (EST)
Swimming Pool
Tanguy
Three Colors: Blue, White, Red
Vie en Rose, La (EST)
Widow of St-Pierre, The (EST)
GERMANY
Beyond Silence
Downfall (EST)
Good Bye Lenin! (EST)
Pianist, The
Run Lola Run (EST)
Sophie Scholl The Final Days
(EST)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…
and Spring (EST)
Stalingrad
HONG-KONG
Curse of the Golden Flower
Iron Monkey
Lan Yu,
Legend of the Drunken Master, The
INDIA
Asoka
Born into Brothels (EST)
Chalte Chalte
Earth
Monsoon Wedding
Perfect Husband, The
Salaam Bombay (EST)
IRAN
Close-Up
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Road to Guantanamo, The
City of God (Brazil)
(Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino,
Phellipe Haagensen, Douglas Silva)
Two boys growing up in a violent neighbourhood
of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one
becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer.
13 years +
(United Kingdom)
Directed by Mat Whitecross, Michael Winterbottom
(Riz Ahmed, Farhad Harun, Waqar Siddiqui,
Afran Usman)
Part drama, part documentary, The Road to
Guantánamo focuses on the Tipton Three,
a trio of British Muslims who were held in
Guantanamo Bay for two years until they
were released without charge.
Hero (Hong Kung/China)
Directed by Yimou Zhang
(Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung, Ziyi Zhang)
An orphan fighter presents himself to an avaricious
king, bearing the weapons of three assassins in
exchange for a generous bounty. But after listening
to the stranger’s incredible stories of how he
vanquished his deadly opponents, the skeptical ruler
suggests an alternate version of events.
Stage Beauty (United Kingdom)
Directed by Richard Eyre
(Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Rupert Everett,
Tom Wilkinson)
Based in the 1660’s of London’s theatres, it is about
the rules of gender roles in theatre production.
Saraband (Sweden)
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
(Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson,
Julia Dufvenius, Gunnel Fred)
Marianne, some thirty years after divorcing Johan,
decides to visit her ex-husband at his summer home.
Maria Full of Grace (USA/Colombia)
Directed by Joshua Marston
(Catalina Sandino Moreno, Virginia Ariza,
Yenny Paola Vega)
A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a
drug mule to make some desperately needed
money for her family.
Osama (Afghanistan)
Directed by Siddig Barmak
(Marina Golbahari, Arif Herati, Zubaida Sahar)
A 12-year-old Afghan girl and her mother lose
their jobs when the Taliban closes the hospital
where they work.
Ararat (Canada/France)
Directed by Atom Egoyan
(David Alpay, Marie-Josée Croze, Arsinée Khanjian,
Christopher Plummer, Elias Koteas)
Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man
recounts how his life was changed during the making
of a film about the Armenian genocide claims.
Experiment, The (Germany)
Directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel
(Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Berkel, Danny Richter)
The movie is based on the infamous
“Stanford Prison Experiment” conducted in
1971, when a makeshift prison environment
was set up in a research lab.
Lives of Others, The (Germany)
Directed by Florian Henckel Von Donnersmark
(Martina Gedeck, Ulrich Mühe, Sebastian Koch)
The movie focuses on the horrifying, sometimes
unintentionally funny system of state surveillance
in the former East Germany.
Color of Paradise, The
Moment of Innocence, A
Salaam Cinema
Ten
Through the Olive Trees
Turtles Can Fly (EST)
IRELAND
Breakfast on Pluto
Evelyn
Good Thief, The
42
In the Name of the Father
King Arthur
Matador, The
ISRAËL
Bubble, The
Free Zone
Late Marriage
Syrian Bride (EST)
Walk on Water (EST)
Watermarks (EST)
ITALY
Aprile
Arabian Nights
Bread and Tulips (EST)
Cinema Paradiso
Fellini’s Casanova
Fellini’s Roma
Fellini’s Satyricon
Golden Door, The (EST)
Good the Bad and the Ugly, The
Il Postino / Postman, The
Life is Beautiful
Malena (EST)
Salo or the 120 Days of Sodom
Son’s Room
Traviata, La (EST)
JAPAN
After Life
Castle In The Sky
Metropolis (EST)
Sonatine
MOROCCO
Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets
Casablancais, Les (EST)
MEXICO
Bandidas,
Cronos
NEW ZEALAND
Black book
Heavenly Creatures
Arthur and the Invisibles (France)
Ensemble, C’est Tout! (France)
Directed by Claude Berri
(Audrey Tautou, Guillaume canet,
Laurent Stocker, Françoise Bertin)
Four destinies at a crossroads, four people who
learn each other’s way, come to know one another,
love one another and live under a single roof.
Directed by Luc Besson
(Freddie Highmore, Mia Farrow,
Madonna, Robert DeNiro, Harvey Keitel)
Ten-year-old Arthur, in a bid to save his
grandfather’s house from being demolished,
goes looking for some much-fabled hidden
treasure in the land of the Minimoys, a tiny
people living in harmony with nature.
104 minutes General
Exils (France)
Directed by Tony Gatlif
(Romain Duris, Lubna Azabal,
Zouhir Gacem, Leila Makhlouf)
Zano and Naima are a pair of footloose bohemian
lovers living in Paris who decide to pull up roots
and travel to Algeria, even though they don’t know
the language and are unfamiliar with the cultural
traditions.
Beat That My Heart Skipped, The
(France)
Directed by Jacques Audiard
(Romain Duris, Jonathan Zaccaï, Gilles Cohen, Aure Atika)
Twenty-eight-year-old Tom leads a life that might
be termed as criminal. In doing so, he follows in the
footsteps of his father, who made his money from
dirty, and sometimes brutal, real estate deals.
Indigenes (Algeria/France/Morocco/Belgium)
Directed by Rachid Bouchareb
(Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri,
Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Assaad Bouab)
During WWII, four North African men enlist in the
French army to liberate that country from Nazi
oppression, and to fight French discrimination.
Caché (France)
Directed by Michael Haneke
(Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche,
Maurice Bénichou, Walid Afkir)
A married couple is terrorized by a series of
videotapes planted on its front porch that may be
the direct result from an event from years ago.
Latcho Drom (France)
Directed by Tony Gatlif
The journey of the Romany people told through
musicians and dancers of India, Egypt, Turkey,
Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, France, and Spain.
Cérémonie, La (France/Germany)
Directed by Claude Chabrol
(Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonnaire,
Jean-Pierre Cassel, Virginie Ledoyen)
Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for the
upper-class family Lelièvre, hides her illiteracy under
the cloak of a perfect household and obedience.
Those Who Love Me
Will Take the Train (France)
Directed by Patrice Chéreau
(Charles Berling, Jean-Louis Trintignant,
Vincent Perez, Roschdy Zem)
Friends of a recently deceased minor painter
Jean-Baptiste take a train in Paris for Limoges,
where he wished to be buried.
Vie en Rose, La (France)
Directed by Olivier Dahan
(Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory,
Emmanuelle Seigner, Gérard Depardieu)
Edith Piaf singing life story.
(2006) TVA Films 140 minutes PG
Lord of the Rings, The
Fellowship of the Ring, The
Lord of the Rings: The Return of
the King, The
Lord of the Rings: The Two
Towers
Ugly, The
RUSSIA
Luna Papa (EST)
Russian Ark (EST)
SWEDEN
After the Wedding (EST)
Persona
Saraband
SPAIN
All About My Mother (EST)
Bad Education
Bombon - El Perro
High Heels
I’m Not Scared
Intacto
Jamon Jamon (EST)
Pan’s Labyrinth
Sea Inside, The (EST)
Talk to Her
Volver
UNITED KINGDOM
1984
Atonement
Billy Elliot
Boxer, The
Brazil
Breakfast on Pluto
Calendar Girls
Cashback
Cassandra’s Dream,
Elizabeth
Emma
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Miss Potter
My summer of Love
Nanny McPhee
Rob Roy
Sylvia
Valmont
Where the Truth Lies
43
Three Colors:
Blue, White, Red (France)
Blow-Up (United-Kingdom, Italy)
Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
(David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave)
A mod London photographer believes that
he has photographed a murder.
Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski
(Juliette Binoche, Julie Delpy, Irène Jacob)
Three films dealing with contemporary French society.
95 minutes (each), General
Black Cat, White Cat
Life is Beautiful (Italy)
(Bulgaria, Romany, Germany)
Directed by Emir Kusturica
(Bajran Severdzan, Srdjan Todorovic,
Branka Katic, Florijian Ajdini)
Matko is a small time hustler, living by the
Danube with his 17-year-old son Zare.
(Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini)
A Jewish man has a wonderful romance with the
help of his humour, but must use that same quality
to protect his son in a Nazi death camp.
Amélie (France)
City of God (Brazil)
(Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino,
Phellipe Haagensen, Douglas Silva)
Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood
of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one
becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer.
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
(Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz)
Amélie, an innocent and naive girl in Paris, with
her own sense of justice, decides to help those
around her and along the way, discovers love.
Cinema Paradiso (Italy, France)
Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore
(Philippe Noiret, Marco Leonardi, Antonella Attili)
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love
with the movies at his village’s theater and formed a
deep friendship with the theater’s projectionist.
Dinner Game, The (France)
Directed by Francis Veber
(Thierry Lhermitte, Jacques Villeret, Francis Huster)
Each week, Pierre and his friends organize
what is called as “un dîner de cons”. Everyone
brings the dumbest guy he could find as a guest.
Children of Heaven (Iran)
Directed by Majid Majidi
(Bahare Seddiqi, Nafise Jafar-Mohammadi)
Zohre’s shoes are gone; her older brother
Ali lost them. They are poor; there are no
shoes for Zohre.
Last Tango in Paris (Italy, France)
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
(Marlon Brando, Maria Schneider)
A young Parisian woman begins a sordid
affair with a middle-aged American businessman
whom lays out ground rules that their clandestine
relationship will be based only on sex.
- Born into Brothels
- Chorus, The
- Intacto
- Warrior, The
- Osama
- I’m Not Scared
- 8 women
- Love Me If You Dare
- Monsoon Wedding
44
- Kolya
- Calle 54
- Intimate Strangers
- Bread and Tulips
- No Man’s Land
- In the Mood for Love
- Hero
- Closet, The
- Butterfly
- Postman, The
- Italian for Beginners
- Après Vous
- Wedding Banquet, The
- Twin Sisters
- Together
- Baran
- Cinema Paradiso
- Motorcycle Diaries, The
- Brotherhood of the Wolf
- Bride and Prejudice
- Novo
- Zatoichi
- Infernal Affairs
- Eat Drink Man Woman
- Fellini’s Satyricon
- Mondays in the Sun
- Don’t Tempt Me
- Valentin
- Fellini’s Roma
- Ararat
- Heaven
- Irréversible
- Belle de Jour
- Son’s Room, The
- Volver
- Brodeuses
Diamonds are Forever
Die Another Day
Dr. No
For Your Eyes Only
From Russia with Love
Golden Eye
Goldfinger
Licence to Kill
Live and Let Die
Living Daylights, The
Man with the Golden Gun, The
Moonraker
Octopussy
On her Majesty's Secret Service
Spy Who Loved Me, The
Thunderball
Tomorrow Never Dies
View to a Kill, A
World is Not Enough, The
You Only Live Twice
45
12 Monkeys
Brazil
2001 A Space Odyssey
(Bruce Willis, Brap Pitt, Madeleine Stowe)
In a future world devastated by disease, a convict
is sent back in time to gather information about
the man-made virus that wiped out most of the
human population on the planet.
(Jonathan Pryce, Robert DeNiro, Kim Greist)
Sam Lowry is a harried technocrat in a futuristic
society that is needlessly convoluted and inefficient.
He dreams of a life where he can fly away from
technology and overpowering bureaucracy, and
spend eternity with the woman of his dreams.
(Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood,
William Sylvester, Glenn Beck)
After a four-million-year-old black monolith
with kinks to Jupiter is discovered on the moon,
a space-ship is sent to Jupiter to further investigate
its meaning.
(1968) Warner Bros. Distribution 139 minutes
General
Terminator, The
Directed by James Cameron
(Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn)
In the year 2029, battles rage between the supers
intelligent machines that rule the world and the last
vestiges of humanity. A robot is sent back in time to
eliminate the future leader of the human resistance.
Pitch Black
Directed by David Twohy
(Vin Diesel, Cole Hauser, Radha Mitchell)
Marooned on a seemingly lifeless planet inhabited
by alien creatures that stalk the night, a group of
passengers require the help of a murderous convict
who has powerful night vision.
Serenity
Directed by Joss Whedon
(Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk)
Set in a futuristic, post-Earth universe dominated
by a planetary Alliance, Serenity chronicles
the adventures of a ragtag spaceship and her
eclectic crew of outcasts
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
(Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson)
After he is accidentally sent back to 1955,
a teenager inadvertently disrupts the first
meeting between his future parents, and his
mom ends up falling for him instead.
Directed by Kurt Wimmer
(Christian Bales, Sean Bean, Taye Diggs)
In a Fascist future where all forms of feeling
are illegal, a man in charge of enforcing the
law rises to overthrow the system.
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(Sam Neil, Laura Dern, Richard Attenborough)
On a remote island, a wealthy entrepreneur secretly
creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs
drawn from prehistoric DNA. Things go horribly
wrong however, when the park's security system
breaks down, the prehistoric creatures are set loose.
Naked Lunch
Directed by David Cronenberg
(Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands)
After developing an addiction to the substance
he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally
murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret
government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs
in an Islamic port town in Africa.
16 years +
Dune
Back to the Future
Equilibrium
Jurassic Park
Directed by David Lynch
(Kyle MacLachlan, Sting,
Sean Young, Kenneth McMillan)
In the year 10991, a young warrior messiah from
the desert planet Dune must battle the Harkonnens,
oppressive conquerors who desire the precious
spice that lies beneath Dune's arid sands.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Directed by Philip Kaufman
(Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy)
In San Francisco, a group of people discovers
the human race is being replaced one by one,
with clones devoid of emotion.
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Austin Powers
Meet the Fockers
Directed by M. Jay Roach
(Mike Myers, Elizabeth Hurley, Michael York)
Austin Powers and his enemy, Dr. Evil, awake
from 30 years of frozen cryogenic, sleep to
find themselves in the year 1997.
Directed by Jay Roach
(Ben Stiller, Robert DeNiro,
Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Steisand)
Greg Focker invites his future in-laws
to meet his own parents.
(2004) Universal Studios 91 minutes 13 ans et +
Because I Said So
Directed by Michael Lehman
(Diane Keaton, Mandy Moore, Gabriel Macht)
An over-protective mother tries to set her
daughter up with the right man hoping to help
her avoid the same fate as her.
Directed by Steve Bendelack
(Rowan Atkinson, Willem Dafoe, Emma De Caunes)
Mr. Bean is traveling to the South of France on
holiday, causing the usual mayhem and ending
with an unscheduled screening of his video diary
at the Cannes Film Festival.
Blues Brothers, The
Break-Up, The
Directed by John Landis
(Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, James Brown)
Two brothers are reunited and visit the orphanage
they grew up in, only to discover that it is in
danger of being shut down by the county for
failure to pay taxes.
Directed by Reed Peyton
(Jennifer Aniston, Vince Vaughn,
Ann Margret, Joey Lauren Adams)
The Break Up starts where most romantic comedies
end: after Gary and Brooke have met, fallen in love, and
moved in to start their happily-ever-after, but they soon
begin to drive each other crazy.
Mr. Bean’s Holiday
Knocked Up
Bridget Jones’s Diary
Directed by Judd Apatow
(Katherine Heigi, Paul Rudd, Seth Rogen)
Two mismatched people from very different
social circles are brought together by a
one-night-stand that results in an accidental
pregnancy.
Directed by Sharon Maguire
(Hugh Grant, Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth)
This Year's Resolutions: Stop smoking. Stop drinking.
Find inner poise. Go to the gym three times a week.
Don't flirt with the boss. Reduce thighs. Learn to
love thighs. Forget about thighs. Stop making lists.
About Schmidt
Ex, The
Directed by Alexander Payne
(Jack Nicholson, Dermot Mulroney, Hope Davis)
Warren Schmidt is a recently widowed man
in his 60's struggling with self-deception.
126 minutes General
40 Days and 40 Nights
40 Years Old Virgin, The
Abbott & Costello
After the Fox
Along Came Polly
American in Paris, An
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Annie Hall
Apartment, The
Back to the Future
Bad Company
Bad Santa
Balls of Fury
Directed by Jesse Peretz
(Amanda Peet, Jason Bateman, Zach Braff)
When Tom Reilly loses his promising chef job
at a swanky New York restaurant, he is compelled
to move to small-town Ohio to take a job with his
father-in-law at an advertising agency to support
his wife Sofia and newborn son.
Bananas
Bandits
Barbershop
Batteries Not Included
Benny and Joon
Bowfinger
Bruce Almighty
Connie and Carla
Cool Runnings
Cry Baby
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Drowning Mona
Duplex
Ed TV
Elf
Encino Man
Ernest
Family Man, The
Nanny Diaries, The
I Know Pronounce
You Chuck and Larry
Directed by Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman
(Scarlett Johansson, Laura Linney,
Chris Evans, Paul Giamatti)
A college graduate goes to work as a nanny for a rich
New York family. Ensconced in their home, she has to
juggle their dysfunction, a new romance, and the
spoiled brat in her charge.
Directed by Dennis Dugan
(Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Jessica Biel)
Two straight, single Brooklyn firefighters pretend
to be a gay couple in order to receive domestic
partner benefits.
Bringing Down the House
Pink Panther, The
Directed by Shawn Levy
(Steve Martin, Kevin Kline, Jean Reno, Beyoncé Knowles)
A famous soccer coach has been murdered and
his priceless ring has been stolen, a stunning ring
diamond known as the Pink Panther.
(Steve Martin, Queen Latifah, Eugen Levy)
When a lonely guy meets a woman on the
Internet who happens to be in prison, she breaks
out to be with him, and proceeds to wreak havoc
on his middle-class life.
(2003) Touchstone Pictures 105 minutes General
High Fidelity
Evan Almighty
Directed by Stephen Frears
(John Cusack, Jack Black, Lisa Bonet)
High Fidelity follows the mid-life crisis of Rob,
a thirty-something record-store owner who must
face the undeniable facts: he's growing up. In a
hilarious homage to the music scene, Rob is trying
to succeed in his adult relationships.
(2000) Touchstone Pictures 113 minutes 13 ans et +
Directed by Tom Shadyac
(Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman, Lauren Graham)
Polished, preening newscaster Evan Baxter is
the next one anointed by God to accomplish a
holy mission in this sequel to Bruce Almighty.
Wild Hogs
Directed by Walt Becker
(John Travolta, Martin Lawrence,
Tim Allen, William H. Macy)
A group of four middle-aged friends decide to rev up their
routine suburban lives with a freewheeling motorcycle trip.
Raising Helen
Directed by Garry Marshall
(Kate Hudson, Joan Cusack, Helen Mirren)
Helen Harris is living the life she always dreamed of,
but her carefree lifestyle comes to a screeching halt
when one phone call changes everything. Helen soon
finds herself responsible for her sister's children.
(2004) Touchstone Pictures 118 minutes General
Rush Hour 3
Directed by Brett Ratner
(Chris Tucker, Jackie Chan)
After an attempted assassination on Ambassador Han,
Lee and Carter head to Paris to protect a French woman
with knowledge of the Triads' secret leaders.
Hairspray
(John Travolta, Nikki Blonsky, Amanda Bynes,
Christopher Walkin, Michelle Pfeiffer)
Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad teaches
1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration
after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.
Father of the Bride
Fish Called Wanda, A
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Guru, The
Hot Chick, The
Hot Fuzz
In Good Company
Kinky Boots
Legally Blonde
Man on the Moon
Mighty Aphrodite
Monster-in-Law
Muriel’s Wedding
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Party, The
Directed by Blake Edwards
(Peter Sellers, Claudine Longet, Steve Franken)
An Indian actor is invited by mistake to a great
Hollywood party.
My Boss’s Daughter
My Date with Drew
Mystic Pizza
Nothing Hill
Nutty Professor
Overboard
Party, The
Pink Panther, The
Royal Tenenbaums, The
Sister Act
Some Like it Hot
Son-in-Law
Spaceballs
Splash
Sweet Home Alabama
Uptown Girls
Waterboy, The
You, Me and Dupree
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32 Short Films About Glen Gould
Blue Butterfly, The
Directed by François Girard
(Colm Feore, Derek Keurvorst, Katya Ladan)
Vignettes highlighting different aspects
of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed
Canadian classical pianist.
(William Hurt, Pascale Bussières, Marc Donato)
The Blue Butterfly tells the story of a terminally
ill 10-year-old boy whose dream is to catch the
most beautiful butterfly on Earth, the mythic
and elusive Blue Morpho.
Apprenticeship of
Duddy Kravitz, The
Bollywood / Hollywood
Directed by Deepa Mehta
(Rahul Khanna, Lisa Ray, Jazz Mann, Jessica Paré)
The Seth family resides in Canada. While
Mr. Seth has passed away, his mom is still alive,
living with her daughter-in-law, her son, Rahul,
and daughter, Twinky.
Directed by Ted Kotcheff
(Richard Dreyfuss, Micheline Lantôt,
Jack Warden, Randy Quaid)
The younger son of a working-class Jewish
family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to
make a name for himself in society…
Bon Cop Bad Cop
Ararat
Directed by Eric Canuel
(Colm Feore, Patrick Huard, Lucie Laurier,
Sarain Boylan, Nicolas Canuel)
When a crime is committed on the border of
Quebec and Ontario, everyone is forced to
come together, whether they want to or not.
(David Alpay, Marie-Josée Croze, Arsinée Khanijian)
Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man
recounts how his life was changed during the
making of a film about the Armenian genocide
claims.
Barbarian Invasions, The (est)
Bons Débarras, Les (est)
Directed by Denys Arcand
(Rémy Girard, Stéphane Rousseau, Marie-Josée
Croze, Dorothée Berryman, Louise Portal)
During his final days, a dying man is reunited
with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife,
and his estranged son.
Directed by Francis Mankiewicz
(Charlotte Laurier, Marie Tifo, Germain Houde,
Louise Marleau)
A mother who had to take care of her
simple-minded brother is in trouble with
her rebellious daughter.
(1979) Film Option International
113 minutes General
Being Julia
Directed by István Szabó
(Michael Gambon, Annette Bening, Jeremy Irons)
The successful and famous theater actress
Julia Lambert has an open marriage with her
husband and manager, Michael Gosselyn.
(2004) Serendipity Point Films Inc. 104 minutes PG
Black Robe
Directed by Bruce Beresford
(Lothaire Bluteau, Sandrine Holt, Aden Young)
In the 17th century a Jesuit priest and a young
companion are escorted through the wilderness
of Quebec by Algonquin Indians to find a distant
mission in the dead of winter.
- 2 Seconds
- 3 Needles
- 32 Short Films About
Glen Gould
- Alegria
- Apprenticeship of
Duddy Kravitz
- Ararat
- Aurore
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- Away from Her
- Barbarian Invasions, The (EST)
- Barbers, A Men’s Story
- Being at Home with Claude
- Being Julia
- Better Than Chocolate
- Betty Fischer and
Others Stories
- Black Robe
- Blue Butterfly, The
- Blue State
- Bollywood/Hollywood
- Bon Cop Bad Cop
- Bons Débarras, les (EST)
- Book of Eve, The
- Botanist’s Daughters
- Boys, The (1,2,3)
- Bread Pudding
- Cadillac Girls
- Cat’s Meow, The
- Chapter 27
- Clean
- Closing the Ring
- Confessionnal, Le (EST)
- Congorama
- Cosmos
- Crab in the Head, A
- Crash
- C.R.A.Z.Y.
- Cruising Bar
- Cube
- Dangerous Liaisons
- Daniel and the Superdogs
- Decline of the American Empire
- Dinner At Fred’s
- Dirty Deeds
Confessionnal, Le (est)
Double Happiness
Directed by Robert Lepage
(Lothaire Bluteau, Patrick Goyette,
Kristin Scoot Thomas, Jean-Louis Millette)
Pierre Lamontagne has returned to Quebec
to attend his father’s funeral. He meets up with
his adopted brother, Marc.
Directed by Mina Shum
(Stephen Chang, Claudette Carracedo,
Sandra Oh, Alannah Ong)
Jade Li is a feisty, 20 years old Chinese Canadian,
trying to achieve that happy medium between
giving in to her parent’s wishes and fulfilling
her own needs and desires: double happiness.
Crash
Emporte-Moi (est)
(James Spader, Holly Hunter, Elias Koteas,
Deborah Kara Unger, Rosanna Arquette)
After getting into a serious car accident, a TV
director discovers an underground sub-culture of
scarred car crash fetish victims and tries to use
that to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.
(Karine Vanasse, Pascale Bussières, Miki Manojlovic)
An unhappy and uncomfortable family life leads
Hannah to seek escapism in the world of cinema.
Eve and the Fire Horse
Directed by Julia Kwan
(Vivian Wu, Jessica Amlee, Alexander Ludwig)
Eve is a precocious nine year-old girl with a wild
imagination growing up in a traditional Chinese
immigrant family in Vancouver where Confucian
doctrines, superstitious obsessions and divine
visions abound.
Cube
Directed by Vincenzo Natali
(Nicole de Boer, David Hewlett, Julian Richings)
7 complete strangers of widely varying personality
characteristics are involuntarily placed in an endless Kafkaesque maze containing deadly traps.
Far Side of the Moon (est)
Decline of the
American Empire, The
Directed by Robert Lepage
(Robert Lepage, Anne-Marie Cadieux,
Marco Poulin, Céline Bonnier)
After the death of his mother, a man tries to
discover a meaning to his life, to the universe
and to rebuild a relationship with the only
family he has left: his brother.
Directed by Denys Arcand
(Rémy Girard, Yves Jacques, Dominique Michel,
Dorothée Berryman, Louise Portal)
Four men and four women, all coming from the
academic world, discuss their professional and
sex lives around a diner, revealing themselves
and their society as the evening goes by.
Felicia’s Journey
(Bob Hoskins, Arsinée Khanjian, Elaine Cassidy)
A lonely middle-aged catering manager spends all
of his time studying tapes of an eccentric TV chef.
Goût des Jeunes Filles, Le (est)
Directed by John L’Ecuyer
(Koumba, Ball, Lansana Kourouma, Luck Mervil)
Set in Haiti in 1971 over the weekend that leader
Pappa Doc died, following fifteen-year-old friends
Fanfan and Gégé as they engage in drinking, sex
and macho posturing.
- Double Happiness
- Eisenstein
- Eldorado (EST)
- Emile
- Emotional Arithmetic
- Emporte-moi (EST)
- Eternal
- Eve and the Fire Horse
- Existenz
- Falling Angels
- Familia (EST)
- Family Secret, A
- Fancy Dancing
- Far Side of the Moon, (EST)
- Fast Company
- Father and Sons (EST)
- Felicia’s Journey
- Fido
- Fishing Trip, The
- Five of Us, The (EST)
- Five Senses, The
- Florida, La (EST)
- Fourth Angel, The
- Gaz Bar Blues (EST)
- Ginger Snaps
- Going Back
- Going the Distance
- Goose on the Loose
- Forgive Me (EST)
- Gospel of John, The
- Gôut des Jeunes
Filles, Le (EST)
- Great New Wonderful, The
- Greg and Gentillon
- Hanging Garden, The
- Head in the Clouds
- Heavy Metal F.A.K.K.2
- How She Move
- Human Trafficking
- Imitation
- It’s all Gone Pete Tong
- Jack and Jill
- Jesus of Montreal (EST)
- Journals of Knud Rasmussen,
The (EST)
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Human Trafficking
Monkey Warfare
Directed by Christian Duguay
(Mira Sorvino, Donald Sutherland, Rémy Girard,
Laurence Leboeuf)
Hundreds of thousands of young women have
vanished from their everyday lives-forced
by violence into a hellish existence of brutality
and prostitution.
Directed by Reginald Harkema
(Don Mckellar, Tracy Wright, Nadia Litz)
A pair of pot-smoking Toronto bohemians
whose dealer has just been busted are shaken
from their stoned complacency.
Naked Lunch
(Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands)
After developing an addiction to the substance
he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally
murders his wife and becomes involved in a
secret government plot being orchestrated by
giant bugs in an Islamic port town in Africa.
It’s All Gone Pete Tong
Directed by Michael Dowse
(Paul Kaye, Beatriz Batarda, Kate Magowan)
The story takes us through Frankie’s life as one
of the best DJ’s alive, through a subsequent
battle with a hearing disorder, culminating in his
mysterious disappearance from the music scene.
Kamouraska
New Waterford Girl
Directed by Claude Jutra
(Geneviève Bujold, Richard Jordan, Marcel Cuvelier)
As she attends the bedside of Jérôme,
her second husband, Élisabeth recalls her youth,
her marriage to her first husband, Antoine, and
life in remote Kamouraska where he is seigneur.
(1973) Equinoxe 123 minutes General
Directed by Allan Moyle
(Liane Balahan, Tara Spencer-Nairn,
Mary Walsh, Andrew McCarthy)
A gifted teenager, dreaming of life beyond her
small town, becomes inspired when a 15-year-old
girl from New York moves in next door.
Khaled
Octobre (est)
Directed by Asghar Massombagi
(Michael D’Ascenzo, Michelle Duquet,
Normand Bissonnette, John Ralston)
When his mother suddenly dies, out of fear of
being sent to a foster home, Khaled keeps her
death a secret and tries to carry on his daily life
as if everything were normal.
Directed by Pierre Falardeau
(Hugo Dubé, Luc Picard, Pierre Rivard,
Denis Trudel, Serge Houde)
A dramatization of the infamous Canadian terrorist
abduction and murder of a government minister by
a cell of the FLQ.
Leolo (est)
Directed by Jean-Claude Lauzon
(Gilbert Sicotte, Maxime Collin, Ginette Reno)
Young Leo Lauzon is torn between two worlds,
the squalid Montreal tenement that he inhabits
with his severely dysfunctional family, and the
imaginative world that he constructs for himself
through his writings.
Margaret’s Museum
Directed by Mort Ransen
(Helena Boham-Carter, Kate Nelligan,
Kenneth Welsh, Andrea Morris)
A woman’s struggle to protect her family and
friends from the ravages of the coal-mining
industry in a 1940’s Nova Scotia town.
- Julie Walking Home
- Khaled
- Kissed
- Kitchen Party
- Last Night
- Lauzon, Lauzone
- Leolo (EST)
- Lilies
- Little Book of revenge,
The (EST)
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- Little Men
- Littoral (EST)
- Looking for Alexander
- Looking for Leonard
- Lost and Delirious
- Love and Human Remains
- Luck
- Ma Vie en Cinémascope
- Maelström
- Mambo Italiano
- Margaret’s Museum
- Marion Bridge
- Max
- May God Bless America (EST)
- Mee-Shee, the Water Giant
- Men with Brooms
- Missing Victor Pellerin (EST)
- Moitié Gauche du Frigo,
La (EST)
- Monkey Warfare
- Montréal vu par (EST)
- Muses Orphelines, Les (EST)
- My Life Without Me
- Naked Lunch
- New Waterford Girl
- No (EST)
- Nouvelle France (EST)
- Nuremberg
- Octobre (EST)
- Paper Wedding (EST)
- Paradise
- Past Perfect
- Perfect Pie
- Plouffe Family, The
- Polygraph, The
- Poor Boy’s Game
- Possible Worlds
- Post Mortem (EST)
- Problem With Fear, A
- Québec-Montréal (EST)
Rocket, The
Sunday in Kigali, A
Directed by Charles Binamé
(Roy Dupuis, Rémy Girard, Julie LeBreton)
The extraordinary story of Maurice “The Rocket”
Richard, whose tireless fight on and off the ice
ignited, and forever changed, a generation.
Directed by Robert Favreau
(Luc Picard, Fatou N’Diaye, Céline Bonnier)
Bernard Valcourt is a disillusioned journalist
living in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda,
during Hutu and Tutsi war.
Saint Ralph
Sweet Hereafter, The
Directed by Michael McGowan
(Adam Butcher, Campbell Scott, Jennifer Tilly)
Saint Ralph is the unlikely story of Ralph Walker,
a ninth grader who outran everyone’s expectations
except his own in his bold quest of trying to win
the 1954 Boston Marathon.
(Ian Holm, Sarah Polley, Arsinée Khanjian,
Bruce Greenwood)
This film documents the effects of a tragic bus
accident on the population of a small town.
Tin Flute, The
(Bonheur d’Occasion)
Grande Séduction, La
(Seducing Doctor Lewis)
Directed by Claude Fournier
(Mireille Deyglun, Pierre Chagnon,
Michel Forget, Charlotte Laurier)
In the early 1940’s, Canada is a country at
war and Florentine is a young woman, from
a very poor family, looking for love.
(1982) Rose Films Inc. 120 minutes General
Directed by Jean-François Pouliot
(Raymond Bouchard, Rita Lafontaine,
Lucie Laurier, Benoit Brière, David Boutin)
A new factory is promised to the residents
of the tiny fishing village St. Marie-La-Mauderne,
provided they can lure a doctor to take up
full-time residency on the island.
Triplets of Belleville, The
Directed by Sylvain Chomet
(Béatrice Bonifassi, Lina Boudreau,
Michèle Caucheteux)
When her grandson is kidnapped during the
Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved
pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters,
an aged song-and-dance team from the days of
Fred Astaire, to rescue him.
Snow Walker, The
Directed by Charles Martin Smith
(Barry Pepper, James Cormwell, Kierstern Warren)
After crashing in the Arctic tundra, a pilot
and his passenger struggle for survival.
Water
Directed by Deepa Mehta
(Sarala, Lisa Ray, Waheeda Rehman, Jon Abrahams)
The film examines the plight of a group of
widows forced into poverty at a temple in
the holy city of Varanasi.
Looking for Alexander
(Mémoires Affectives)
Directed by Francis Leclerc
(Roy Dupuis, Guy Thauvette, Line Rodier, Maka Kotto)
Disturbing and violent memories haunt a man
after he emerges from a lengthy coma.
- Radiant City
- Red Violin, The
- Regular or Super
- Republic of Love, The
- Revolucion
- Rhinoceros Eyes
- Rude
- Sabah
- Secret Life of Happy People,
The (EST)
- Seducing Doctor Lewis
- Seek You Too
- Seraphin: Heart of Stone (EST)
- Seven Times Lucky
- Sexe des Étoiles (EST)
- Shivers
- Silent Hill
- Silent Love, A
- Silk
- Snow Cake
- Snow Walker, The
- Spider
- Stardom (EST)
- Steal
- Sunday in Kigali, A (EST)
- Sunshine
- Surviving My Mother
- Sweet Hereafter, The
- Age of Ignorance, The
- Hurt Locker, The
- Poet, The
- These Girls
- This is my Father
- Tin Flute, The
- Touch of Pink
- Tracey Fragments, The
- Triplettes of Bellevilles, The
- Twist
- Water
- Weirdsville
- When Night is Falling
- Where the Truth Lies
- Without Her
- Wild Dogs, The
- Woman Who Drinks, The
- World Traveler
- Yellow Woman, The
- Zoo la Nuit, Un (EST)
(EST) : English Subtitles
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Arthur and the Invisibles
An American Tail
Directed by Luc Besson
(Freddie Highmore, Mia Farrow, Madonna,
Robert DeNiro, Harvey Keitel)
Ten-year-old Arthur, in a bid to save his
grandfather’s house from being demolished,
goes looking for some much-fabled hidden
treasure in the land of the Minimoys, a tiny
people living in harmony with nature.
Directed by Don Bluth
While immigrating to the United States, a young
Russian mouse gets separated from his family
and must relocate them while trying to survive
in a new country.
Balto
Directed by Simon Wells
An outcast half-wolf risks his life to prevent
a deadly epidemic from ravishing Nome, Alaska.
How to Eat Fried Green Worms
Directed by Bob Dulman
(Luke Benward, Hallie Kate Eisenberg,
Adam Hicks, Austin Rogers)
During the first day of his new school year,
a fifth grade boy squares off against a bully
and winds up accepting a dare that could
change the balance of power within the class.
Casper
Directed by Brad Silberling
(Bill Pullman, Christina Ricci, Ben Stein, Eric Idle)
A paranormal expert and his daughter bunk
in an abandoned house populated by
3 mischievous ghosts and friendly one.
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Land Before Time, The
(Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace,
Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote)
Elliot, is a normal boy, until one day,
he meets a little lost alien.
Four dinosaurs travel the ruins of their
world, while grieving the loss of their families
and banding together to face the odds of survival.
Babe
Directed by Chris Noonan
(James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski)
Babe, a pig raised by sheepdogs, learns to herd
sheep with a little help from Farmer Hoggett.
Curious George
Directed by Matthew O’Callaghan
(Will Ferrell, Shane Baumel, Eugene Levy,
Drew Barrymore)
Curious George, the original “monkey see,
monkey do” chimp sets off in a brand new tale
where his spunky and fun-loving nature endears
him to new friends he meets along the way and
lands him in a series of mis-adventures.
Asterix and the Vikings
Directed by Stefan Fjeldmark, Jesper Moller
After another raid in an empty village, the chief
of the Vikings misunderstands the explanation
of his advisor that “fear gives wings to the
dwellers” and believes that fear actually
makes the villagers fly.
78 minutes General
- Adventures of Huck Finn, The
- Adventures of Rocky and
Bullwinkle, The
- Adventures of Shark Boy and
Lava Girls, The
- Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Agent Cody Banks
- Air Bud
- Alakazam The Great
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- Aliens in the Wild Wild West
- All Dogs Go to Heaven
- American Tail, An
- And Now Miguel
- Arabian Adventures
- Artemis Fowl
- Arthur and the Invisibles
- Astérix and the Vikings
- Astérix Conquers America
- Babe
- Babel
- Bailey’s Billions
- Balto
- Barney’s Great Adventure
- Batteries Not Included
- Beethoven
- Big Fat Liar
- Billie
- Black Stallion, The
- Blizzard
- Blue Butterfly, The
- Borrowers, The
- Captains Courageous
- Casper
- Challenged to Lassie
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- Coraline
- Curious George
- Daniel and the Superdogs
- Dinotopia
- Dot and the Whale
- Dudley Do-Right
- E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
- Ella Enchanted
- Finding Neverland
- Flintstones, The
Ella Enchanted
Black Stallion, The
Directed by Tommy O’Haver
(Anne Hathaway, Hugh Dancy, Cary Elwes,
Aidan McArdle)
Ella is under a spell to be constantly obedient,
a fact she must hide from her new stepfamily in
order to protect the prince of the land, her friend
for whom she’s falling.
(Kelly Reno, Mickey Rooney, Teri Garr)
While traveling with his father, young Alec
becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian
stallion that is brought on board and stabled
in the ship he is sailing on.
Wizard Oz, The
Directed by Marc Forster
(Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie,
Dustin Hoffman, Freddie Highmore)
The story of J.M. Barrie’s friendship with the
family who inspired him to create Peter Pan.
Finding Neverland
(Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Billie Burke)
Dorothy Gale is swept away to a magical land
in a tornado and embarks on a quest to see the
Wizard who can help her return home.
Nanny McPhee
Good Boy
Directed by Kirk Jones
(Emma Thompson, Colin Firth, Kelly MacDonald)
In this dark and witty fable, Nanny McPhee,
a person of an unsettling appearance and magical
powers, enters the household of the recently
widowed Mr. Brown and attempts to tame his
seven exceedingly ill-behaved children.
Directed by John Hoffman
(Molly Shannon, Liam Aiken, Kevin Nealon)
An intergalactic dog pilot from Sirius visits Earth
to verify the rumors that dogs have failed to take
over the planet.
Secret of Nihm, The
Patch Adams
To save her ill son, a field mouse must seek the
aid of a colony of super-intelligent rats, in which
she has a deeper link than she ever suspected.
Directed by Tom Shadyac
(Robin Williams, Daniel London, Monica Potter,
Philip Seymour Hoffman)
True story of Hunter “Patch” Adams, an aspiring
doctor in the 1970’s who attempted to treat his
patients with a medicine that modern science
had totally disregarded: humor.
All Dogs Go to Heaven
Directed by Don Bluth, Gary Goldman
A dog is given a chance to enter Heaven,
if he is able to prove that he is worthy by
doing a good deed.
- Flipper
- Fluke
- Foodfight
- Getting Even with Dad
- Ghost Dad
- Good Boy
- Goose on the Loose
- Gordy
- Help! I’m a Fish
- Hoodwinked
- Hoot
- How to Eat Fried Worms
- Jetsons: The Movie
- Joey
- Kaena
- Kirikou and the Sorceress
- Land Before Time, The
- Larger than Life
Peter Pan
Directed by P.J. Hogan
(Jason Isaacs, Jeremy Sumpter, Rachel Hurd-Wood,
Lynn Redgrave)
The Darling family children receive a visit from
Peter Pan, who takes them to Never Never Land
where an ongoing war with the evil Pirate Captain
Hook is taking place.
- Last Mimzy, The
- Little Miss Marker
- Little Monsters
- Little Rascals, The
- Mac and Me
- Matilda
- Mighty Machines
- Minoes
- MVP: Most Valuable Primate
- Nanny McPhee
- Patch Adams
- Peter Pan
- Pokemon
- Poko
- Problem Child
- Red Riding Hood
- Reluctant Astronaut, The
- Return to Boggy Creek
- Return to Neverland
- Secret Agent Club
- Secret of Nihm, The
- Simple Wish, A
- Son of the Mask
- Swan Princess, The
- Two Brothers
- Uptown Girls
- Wizard of Oz, The
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Adventures of Ichabod
and Mr. Toad, The
Walt Disneyís 11th animated feature includes
two classic stories: “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
and “The Wind in the Willows.”
(1949) 68 minutes
Aladdin
Aladdin, a street urchin, accidentally meets Princess
Jasmine, who is in the city undercover. They love
each other, but she can only marry a prince.
(1992) 90 minutes
Alice in Wonderland
Alice stumbles into the world of Wonderland.
Will she get home? Not if the Queen of Hearts
has her way.
(1951) 75 minutes
Aristocats, The
After high-society cat Duchess and her three
kittens inherit a fortune from their mistress,
a greedy butler plots to get rid of them and
collect the cash himself.
(1970) 78 minutes
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
A young adventurer named Milo Thatch joins
an intrepid group of explorers to find the
mysterious lost continent of Atlantis.
(2001) 95 minutes
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Bambi
Bug’s Life, A
In Disney’s spectacularly animated forest fable,
a fawn named Bambi is born, destined to become
“Prince of the Forest.”
(1942) 70 minutes
A misfit ant, looking for warriors to save his
colony from grasshoppers, recruits a group of
bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troop.
(1998) 96 minutes
Beauty and the Beast
Cars
An old crone turns a Prince into an ugly man-beast
as punishment for being spoiled, selfish and
unkind. Unless he can love and be loved before
the last petal of a magical rose falls, he’ll be
doomed to beastliness for all time
(1991) 84 minutes
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rental, please contact us for more information”
A hotshot racecar named Lightning McQueen
gets waylaid in Radiator Springs, where he
finds the true meaning of friendship and family.
(2006) 116 minutes
Black Cauldron, The
A young boy and a bunch of misfit friends embark
on a quest to find a dark magic item of ultimate
power before a diabolical tyrant can.
(1985) 80 minutes
Chicken Little
After ruining his reputation with the town,
a courageous chicken must come to the
rescue of his fellow citizens when aliens
start an invasion.
(2005) 81 minutes
Brother Bear
A young Inuit hunter seeks vengeance against
a bear, only to be magically changed into a bear
himself, and his only chance to change back is
to help a talkative bear cub.
(2003) 85 minutes
Cinderella
Fantasia 2000
Hunchback of Notre Dame, The
When Cinderella’s cruel stepmother prevents
her from attending the Royal Ball, she gets
some unexpected help from the lovable mice
Gus and Jaq, and from her Fairy Godmother.
(1949) 74 minutes
Fantasia 2000 features seven animated short
films set to classical compositions, along with the
original version of “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,”
starring Mickey Mouse.
(2000) 75 minutes
A deformed bell ringer must assert his
independence from a vicious government
minister in order to help his friend,
a gypsy-dancing girl.
(1996) 90 minutes
Dinosaur
An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins
an arduous trek to a sanctuary after a meteorite
shower destroys his family home.
(2000) 82 minutes
Dumbo
Baby elephant Dumbo is delivered by the stork
to his elephant mom with much fanfare but soon
receives a cold shoulder from the snobby female
pachyderms and the rest of the circus due to his
oversize ears.
(1941) 63 minutes
Fox and the Hound, The
Disney’s enchanting tale of an unlikely friendship
between a fox cub and a hound pup, both
destined to become ennemies.
(1981) 83 minutes
Great Mouse Detective, The
This exciting, fun-filled Disney classic adventure
pits legendary mouse super sleuth, Basil, against
Professor Ratigan, the world’s greatest criminal mind.
(1986) 74 minutes
Emperor’s New Groove, The
Hercules
Emperor Kuzco is turned into a llama by his
ex-administrator Yzma, and must now regain
his throne with the help of Pacha, the gentle
llama herder.
(2000) 79 minutes
The son of the Greek Gods Zeus and Hera is
stripped of his immortality as an infant and must
become a true hero in order to reclaim it.
(1997) 93 minutes
Incredibles, The
A family of undercover superheroes, while
trying to live the quiet suburban life, is forced
into action to save the world.
(2004) 115 minutes
James & the Giant Peach
An orphan with terrible aunts for guardians
befriends human like bugs that live inside a
giant peach, who take the boy on a journey
to New York City.
(1996) 80 minutes
Jungle Book, The
This endearing feature is based on Rudyard
Kipling’s children’s story about a boy named
Mowgli raised by wolves in the wilderness of
India.
(1967) 78 minutes
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Lady and the Tramp, The
Endearing animated romantic adventure of a
pedigreed cocker spaniel and a freedom-loving
mongrel from the wrong side of the tracks.
(1955) 76 minutes
Many Adventures of
Winnie the Pooh, The
Nightmare Before Christmas, The
The many adventures of Pooh bear and his pals,
based on A.A. Milne’s classic children’s books.
(1976) 84 minutes
Jack Skellington, king of Halloweentown,
discovers Christmas Town, but doesn’t quite
understand the concept.
(1993) 75 minutes
Meet the Robinsons
Oliver & Company
A Hawaiian girl adopts an unusual pet that is actually
a notorious extra-terrestrial fugitive from the law.
(2002) 85 minutes
The adventures of Lewis, a young orphaned
inventor who is determined to find his birth
mother by using a “memory scanner”, a device
of his own creation.
(2007) 87 minutes
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Lion King, The
Monster’s Inc.
Lilo & Stich
One of the most popular Disney animated musicals,
The Lion King presents the story of a lion cub’s
journey to adulthood and acceptance of his royal
destiny.
(1994) 87 minutes
Little Mermaid, The
The title character is a precocious teenager
named Ariel, the daughter of Triton, king of the
Sea. Against her dad’s wishes, Ariel journeys
beyond her own world to the surface, where she
falls in love with Prince Eric, a handsome human.
(1989) 82 minutes
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In this animated adventure from Pixar a little
girl named Boo journeys into Monstropolis,
the monster-run company which specializes in
scaring kids. Of course, the monsters are more
scared of her than she is of them.
(2001) 92 minutes
A cute orphaned kitten named Oliver, is given
shelter by a streetwise gang of dogs.
(1988) 73 minutes
When the wicked Cruella de Vil and her
henchmen kidnap 101 dalmatian puppies for
their cherished spotted fur, it is up to the puppies’
parents, Pongo and Perdita, and some brave farm
animals, to free the caged canines.
(1961) 79 minutes
Mulan
When barbarous Huns attack ancient China, the
fiercely independent Mulan defies tradition by
disguising herself as a man in order to take her
ailing father’s place in the Imperial Army.
(1998) 88 minutes
Peter Pan
Ratatouille
Sleeping Beauty
Wendy and her brothers are whisked away to the
magical world of Neverland with the hero of their
stories, Peter Pan.
(1953) 77 minutes
A young rat living within the walls of a famous
Paris bistro wishes to become a chef, but is
hindered by his family’s skepticism and the
rat-despising staff and patrons.
(2007) 110 minutes
A snubbed malevolent fairy casts a curse
on a princess that only a prince can break,
with the help of three good fairies.
(1958) 75 minutes
Rescuers Down Under, The
The world’s bravest mice, Bernard and
Miss Bianca, answer a call for help from deep
in the heart of Australia’s vast and unpredictable
outback!
(1990) 76 minutes
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs tells the
story of the fairest princess in the land that,
after being banished to the forest by the evil
Queen, meets seven small men living in the
woods.
(1936) 83 minutes
Rescuers, The
Sword in the Stone, The
Two mice of the Rescue Aid Society search for
a little girl kidnapped by unscrupulous
treasure hunters.
(1977) 76 minutes
Disney animated feature based on the classic
Merlin tale.
(1963) 80 minutes
Robin Hood
A man raised by gorillas must decide where he
really belongs when he discovers he is a human.
(1999) 90 minutes
Piglet’s Big Movie
When Piglet comes up missing his Hundred
Acre Wood friends use Piglet’s own Book of
Memories to find him, discovering along the way
just how big a role he’s played in their lives.
(2003) 75 minutes
Pinocchio
The original animated tale from Disney of a
carpenter whose dream of a son comes true in
the form of a wooden puppet whose nose grows
to an amazing length whenever he tells a lie.
Based on the character created by Carlo Collodi.
(1940) 88 minutes
Pocahontas
An imaginative Disney version of the
Robin Hood legend.
(1973) 83 minutes
Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs
Tarzan
The daughter of a Native American tribe chief
and English soldier share a romance when
English colonists invade 16th century Virginia.
(1995) 82 minutes
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Toy Story
Cool Runnings
A cowboy toy is profoundly threatened and
jealous when a fancy spaceman toy supplants
him as top toy in a boy’s room.
(1996) 81 minutes
Directed by Frank Coraci
(Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan,
Jim Broadbent, Ian McNeice)
Raucaus Disney adaptation of Jules Verne’s classic
adventure novel Around The World in 80 Days.
(2004) 120 minutes General
Directed by Jon Turteltaub
(Malik Yoba, John Candy, Raymond J. Barry)
Based on the true story of the first Jamacian
bobsled team trying to make it to the winter
olympics.
(1993) 98 minutes Général
Blackbeard’s Ghost
Freaky Friday
Directed by Robert Stevenson
(Peter Ustinov, Dean Jones,
Suzanne Pleshette, Elsa Lanchester)
Risen from the dead by his descendent, a college
track coach, Blackbeard must deal with some
pesky racketeers who have plans to turn his
house into a casino.
Directed by Mark Waters
(Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan,
Mark Harmon, Chad Michael Murray)
An overworked mother and her daughter
do not get along. When they switch bodies,
each is forced to adapt to the others life for
one freaky Friday.
(2003) 100 minutes Général
Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion,
the Witch and the Wardrobe, The
George of the Jungle
Toy Story II
When Woody is stolen by a toy collector,
Buzz and his friends vow to rescue him,
but Woody finds the idea of immortality in
a museum tempting.
(1999) 92 minutes
Treasure Planet
Treasure Planet follows restless teen Jim Hawkins
on a fantastic journey across the universe as
cabin boy aboard a majestic space galleon.
(2002) 95 minutes
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Directed by Richard Fleischer
(James Mason, Kirk Douglas, Peter Lorre)
Captain Nemo, the commander of a futuristic
submarine called the Nautilus, rescues the
survivors of a shipwreck and takes them on an
incredible journey far below the ocean’s surface.
Directed by Andrew Adamson
(Tilda Swinton, James McAvoy,
Jim Broadbent, James Cosmo)
Four kids travel through a wardrobe to the
land of Narnia and learn of their destiny
to free it with the guidance of a mystical lion.
Directed by Sam Weisman
(Brendan Fraser, Leslie Mann,
Thomas Haden Church, John Cleese)
Baby George is displaced from his family during
a horrible plane crash and is adopted by a wise
ape. Life in the jungle is pretty sweet for George,
until, as an adult, he meets the lovely Ursula.
Angels in the Outfield
Haunted Mansion, The
Directed by William Dear
(Danny Glover, Tony Danza, Joseph Gordon-Levitt)
When a boy prays for a chance to have a family
if the California Angels win the pennant, angels
are assigned to make that possible.
Directed by Rob Minkoff
(Eddie Murphy, Terence Stamp,
Nathaniel Parker, Jennifer Tilly)
When a workaholic visits a haunted house
with his family during a job interview, he meets
a ghost that teaches him a lesson about the
importance of the family that he has neglected.
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Herbie: Fully Loaded
Honey, I Skrunk the Kids
Mighty Ducks
Directed by Angela Robinson
(Lindsay Lohan, Michael Keaton,
Matt Dillon, Breckin Meyer)
After receiving a car named Herbie as a graduation present, Maggie quickly discovers it is more
than just a regular car, and soon they’re on their
way to realizing her dreams of racing glory while
battling ego-inflated champ Trip Murphy
Directed by Joe Johnston
(Rick Moranis,matt Frewer, Marcia Strassman,
Thomas Wilson Brown)
A preoccupied inventor accidentally shrinks his
kids to 1/4” tall and tosses them out in the trash.
(Emilio Estevez, Lane Smith, Joshua Jackson,
Elden Henson)
An unruly group of kids needs a coach for their
hockey team, and they end with a seemingly
heartless exec who’s looking to beat a drunkdriving rap by doing community service.
Mighty Ducks 2 &3 also available
Hocus Pocus
Directed by Kenny Ortega
(Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker,
Kathy Najimy, Thora Birch)
Teenagers must prevent three resurected witches
from seeking vengeance on the town that burnt
them 300 years ago.
Homeward Bound:
The Incredible Journey
Directed by Duwayne Dunham
(Michael J. Fox, Sally Field, Don Ameche, Kim Greist)
Thinking they’ve been left behind, two dogs and a
cat make a harrowing journey across the Sierra
Nevadas in hopes of being reunited with their
moved-away family.
Iron Will
Directed by Charles Haid
(Kevin Spacey, David Ogden Stiers,
Brian Cox, George Gerdes)
In order to support his family, a young man
enters a treacherous sled race in hopes of
winning a $10,000 prize.
Jack
Miracle
Directed by Gavin O’Connor
(Kurt Russell, Patricia Clarkson, Sean McCann)
The inspiring story of a hockey team that
transcended the sport and united a nation.
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
(Robin Williams, Diane Lane, Jennifer Lopez, Bill Cosby)
Because of an unusual aging disorder that has
aged him four times faster than a normal human
being, a boy enters the fifth grade for the first
time with the appearance of a 40-year-old man.
Muppet Treasure Island
Mary Poppins
National Treasure
Directed by Robert Stevenson
(Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke,
Elsa Lanchester, Ed Wynn)
A magical, musical nanny brings a breath
of fresh air into the stuffy Banks household
in turn-of-the-century England.
Directed by Jon Turteltaub
(Nicolas Cage, Diane Kruger, Sean Bean,
Jon Voight, Harvey Keitel, Christopher Plummer)
A treasure hunter is in hot pursuit of a mythical
treasure that has been passed down for
centuries, while his employer turned enemy
is onto the same path that he’s on.
Directed by Brian Henson
(Tom Curry, Billy Connolly, Jennifer Saunders)
Those irrepressible Muppets return, this time in
a rollicking, musical adaptation of Robert Louis
Stevenson’s classic “Treasure Island.”
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Never Cry Wolf
Remember the Titans
Tom & Huck
(Carles Martin Smith, Brian Dennehy,
Zachary Ittimangnaq)
A government researcher, sent to research the
“menace” of wolves in the north, learns about the
true beneficial and positive nature of the species.
Directed by Boaz Yakin
(Denzel Washington, Will Patton,
Donald Faison, Kate Bosworth, Ryan Gosling)
The true story of a newly appointed
African-American coach and his high school
team on their first season as a newly racially
integrated school.
Directed by Peter Hewitt
(Jonathan Taylor-Thomas, Brad Renfro,
Eric Schweig, Rachael Leigh Cook)
Tom Sawyer and his best “friend” Huck go
on many adventures throughout the town
of Hannibal, Missouri.
Directed by Nancy Meyers
(Lindsay Lohan, Dennis Quaid,
Natasha Richardson, Elaine Hendrix)
Identical twins Hallie and Annie were separated
at birth when their parents divorced. After the
two meets at summer camp, they begin plotting
to reunite their estranged parents.
Rookie, The
Directed by Byron Haskin
(Bobby Driscoll, Robert Newton, Basil Sydney)
Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure
buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney,
Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing
voyage to a Caribbean island.
Pirates of the Caribbean:
The Curse of the Black Pearl
Swiss Family Robinson
Parent Trap, The
Directed by Gore Verbinski
(Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush,
Orlondo Bloom, Keira Knightley)
Blacksmith Will Turner teams up with eccentric
pirate “Captain” Jack Sparrow to save his love,
the governor’s daughter, from Jack’s former
pirate allies, who are now undead.
(2003) 143 minutes 13 years +
Pirates of the Caribbean 2 & 3 also available.
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Directed by John Lee Hancock
(Dennis Quaid, Rachel Griffiths,
Jay Hernandez, Beth Grant)
A high school baseball coach makes it to the
major leagues after being chalenged to do so by
his struggling team.
Directed by Ken Annakin
(John Mills, James MacArthur, Janet Munro)
A family in route to New Guinea is
shipwrecked on a deserted tropical island.
They are forced to remain on the island
because of the damage to the ship and
the pirates that are roaming the islands.
Treasure Island
Tron
Directed by Steven Lisberger
(Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner, Cindy Morgan)
A hacker is literally abducted into the world
of a computer and forced to participate in
gladiatorial games where his only chance
of escape is with the help of a heroic
security program.
White Fang
Directed by Randal Kleiser
(Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ethan Hawke,
Seymour Cassel, James Remar)
A young man tries to fulfill his father’s dying wish
to find gold in the treacherous Yukon Valley.
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