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Valiant

Valiant

Valiant
IMDb: 5.5
76

Set in 1944, Valiant is a woodland pigeon who wants to become a great hero someday. When he hears they are hiring recruits for the Royal Homing Pigeon Service, he…

Owning Mahowny

Owning Mahowny

Owning Mahowny
IMDb: 7
104

Dan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four he was assistant manager of a major branch in the heart of Toronto’s financial district….

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Miranda

Miranda

Miranda
IMDb: 5.4
93

A librarian begins a passionate affair with a mysterious woman who walks into his library. When she suddenly disappears he travels down to London to search for her only to…

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
IMDb: 5.9
131

When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in love with the local Italian commander.

Genre: Drama, Romance, War
The Tigger Movie

The Tigger Movie

The Tigger Movie
IMDb: 6.3
77

Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Owl, Kanga, Roo, and Rabbit are preparing a suitable winter home for Eeyore, the perennially dejected donkey, but Tigger’s continual bouncing interrupts their efforts. Rabbit suggests…

New Blood

New Blood

New Blood
IMDb: 5.3
98

Alan White is a desperate man; his daughter must have a heart transplant to live. He gets an unexpected visit from his adult son, Danny, a criminal who hasn’t spoken…

Genre: Action
Hellboy

Hellboy

Hellboy
IMDb: 6.8
122

In the final days of World War II, the Nazis attempt to use black magic to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where the ceremony is taking…

Genre: Action, Fantasy
Lost Souls

Lost Souls

Lost Souls
IMDb: 4.8
97

A young woman becomes aware of a conspiracy to enable the Devil to walk the Earth in human form. To defeat the prophesy, she must convince a respected New York…

The Commissioner

The Commissioner

The Commissioner
IMDb: 6.1
108

John Hurt stars as a scandal-hit member of parliament, dispatched to the political backwaters of the European Commission in Brussels as penance for his failures. However, once there he stumbles…

All the Little Animals

All the Little Animals

All the Little Animals
IMDb: 6.7
112

An emotionally challenged young man named Bobby runs away from home in order to escape his abusive stepfather who has killed his pets. He meets an old man, Mr. Summers,…

Love and Death on Long Island

Love and Death on Long Island

Love and Death on Long Island
IMDb: 6.9
93

Curmudgeonly author Giles De’Ath, a widower with a marked distaste for modern popular culture, attempts to buy a ticket for a film adaptation of an E.M. Forster novel, but instead…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Contact

Contact

Contact
IMDb: 7.5
150

A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action,…

Wild Bill

Wild Bill

Wild Bill
IMDb: 5.8
98

Biopic about famous gunslinger Wild Bill Hickock. The early career of legendary lawman is telescoped and culminates in his relocation in Deadwood and a reunion with Calamity Jane.

Genre: Western
Rob Roy

Rob Roy

Rob Roy
IMDb: 6.9
139

In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle…

Dead Man

Dead Man

Dead Man
IMDb: 7.5
121

William Blake, an accountant turned fugitive, is on the run. During his travels, he meets a Native American man called Nobody, who guides him on a journey to the spiritual…

Second Best

Second Best

Second Best
IMDb: 6.8
105

The difficult relationship between a british postal officer and his adoptive son.

Genre: Drama, Family
Monolith

Monolith

Monolith
IMDb: 4.5
95

Two cops investigating the murder of a young boy become involved in a very secret project involving alien life. Needless to say, the authorities don’t want them to stick their…

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
IMDb: 4.3
96

A girl born with enormous thumbs in the repressive era of the 1950s learns to turn her quirks into assets.

King Ralph

King Ralph

King Ralph
IMDb: 5.4
97

As the only relative in line to ascend the Royal throne, a down-on-his-luck American slob must learn the ways of the English.

Genre: Comedy
Frankenstein Unbound

Frankenstein Unbound

Frankenstein Unbound
IMDb: 5.4
85

The ultimate weapon, claimed to be safe for mankind, produces global side-effects including time slides and disappearances. The scientist behind the project and his car are zapped from the year…

The Field

The Field

The Field
IMDb: 7.3
110

“Bull” McCabe’s family has farmed a field for generations, sacrificing much in the name of the land. When the widow who owns the field decides to sell it in a…

Genre: Drama
Scandal

Scandal

Scandal
IMDb: 6.4
115

An English bon-vivant osteopath is enchanted with a young exotic dancer and invites her to live with him. He serves as friend and mentor, and through his contacts and parties…

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment

Crime and Punishment
IMDb: 5.5
126

A modern day adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s classic novel about a young student who is forever haunted by the murder he has committed.

Genre: Drama
White Mischief

White Mischief

White Mischief
IMDb: 6.4
107

A millionaire past his prime and his young wife arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the other affluent British expatriates are living large as the homefront gears up…

Vincent

Vincent

Vincent
IMDb: 7.5
105

A biography of Vincent van Gogh using only images and the letters he wrote to his brother Theo.

From the Hip

From the Hip

From the Hip
IMDb: 6.1
111

Apprentice lawyer Robin Weathers turns a civil suit into a headline grabbing charade. He must reexamine his scruples after his shenanigans win him a promotion in his firm, and he…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Aria

Aria

Aria
IMDb: 5.7
96

Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound, and is an…

Genre: Music
Jake Speed

Jake Speed

Jake Speed
IMDb: 4.9
100

Jake Speed (Wayne Crawford) is the lead character in some of the biggest page-turners of the 1940s. A chiseled, heroic action figure, Speed saves lives on paper, but when a…

The Black Cauldron

The Black Cauldron

The Black Cauldron
IMDb: 6.3
80

Taran is an assistant pigkeeper with boyish dreams of becoming a great warrior. However, he has to put the daydreaming aside when his charge, an oracular pig named Hen Wen,…

After Darkness

After Darkness

After Darkness
IMDb: 5
104

To salve his guilty conscience an elder brother removes his disturbed younger sibling from a mental institution after a suicide attempt and tries to bring him back to mental competency…

Success Is the Best Revenge

Success Is the Best Revenge

Success Is the Best Revenge
IMDb: 5.8
91

Poland is under Communist rule. An exiled Polish theater director is in England, enthusiastically preparing an abstract play which will criticize the authoritarian Polish government. His sons might not share…

Genre: Drama
Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four
IMDb: 7.1
113

George Orwell’s novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

The Hit

The Hit

The Hit
IMDb: 7
98

Ten years after ratting on his old mobster friends in exchange for personal immunity, two hit men drive a hardened criminal to Paris for his execution. However, while on the…

The Osterman Weekend

The Osterman Weekend

The Osterman Weekend
IMDb: 5.8
103

The host of an investigative news show is convinced by the CIA that the friends he has invited to a weekend in the country are engaged in a conspiracy that…

Champions

Champions

Champions
IMDb: 6.5
106

The true story of jockey Bob Champion who overcame cancer to win the 1981 Grand National

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Plague Dogs

The Plague Dogs

The Plague Dogs
IMDb: 7.7
103

Two dogs, Rowf and Snitter, stuggle to survive in the countryside after escaping from an animal research laboratory. They are pursued by search parties and then the military after rumors…

Partners

Partners

Partners
IMDb: 5.3
93

Benson is a police detective. After a series of murders in the Gay community he is ordered to go undercover with a gay police clerk named Kerwin as his partner….

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Night Crossing

Night Crossing

Night Crossing
IMDb: 6.5
107

Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story.

Heaven’s Gate

Heaven’s Gate

Heaven’s Gate
IMDb: 6.7
217

Harvard graduate James Averill is the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., when a battle erupts between the area’s poverty-stricken immigrants and its wealthy cattle farmers. The politically connected ranch…

The Elephant Man

The Elephant Man

The Elephant Man
IMDb: 8.2
124

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his “owner” as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of great intelligence and…

Genre: Drama, History