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Inside Out 2 (temp)

Kelsey Mann, 2024

A sequel that features Riley entering puberty and experiencing brand new, more complex emotions as a result. As Riley tries to adapt to her teenage years, her old emotions try to adapt to the possibility of being replaced.
Runtime: 96 min
Director: Kelsey Mann
Writer: Meg LeFauve, Dave Holstein, Kelsey Mann
Actors: Amy Poehler, Maya Hawke, Kensington Tallman
Language: English, French, Spanish
Pixar
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson, 2023

Miles Morales catapults across the Multiverse, where he encounters a team of Spider-People charged with protecting its very existence. When the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles must redefine what it means to be a ...
Runtime: 140 min
Director: Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson
Writer: Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, Dave Callaham
Actors: Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Brian Tyree Henry
Language: English
Spider-Man
Commended
John Wick: Chapter 4

Chad Stahelski, 2023

John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes.
Runtime: 169 min
Director: Chad Stahelski
Writer: Shay Hatten, Michael Finch, Derek Kolstad
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, George Georgiou
Language: English, Russian, Japanese, Spanish, German, Latin, Cantonese, French
Asteroid City

Wes Anderson, 2023

World-changing events spectacularly disrupt the annual Asteroid Day celebration in an American desert town.
Runtime: 105 min
Director: Wes Anderson
Writer: Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola
Actors: Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Hanks
Language: English
Wes Anderson
Everything Everywhere All At Once

Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert, 2022

A middle-aged Chinese immigrant is swept up into an insane adventure in which she alone can save existence by exploring other universes and connecting with the lives she could have led.
Runtime: 139 min
Director: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
Writer: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
Actors: Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu, Jamie Lee Curtis
Language: English, Mandarin, Cantonese
Best Picture
Top Gun: Maverick

Joseph Kosinski, 2022

After thirty years, Maverick is still pushing the envelope as a top naval aviator, but must confront ghosts of his past when he leads TOP GUN's elite graduates on a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those chosen to ...
Runtime: 130 min
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Writer: Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr., Peter Craig
Actors: Tom Cruise, Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller
Language: English
Punch

Welby Ings, 2022

Jim is preparing for his first professional fight but begins to rethink his life's trajectory and his sexuality after tangling with Whetu, a gay Maori boy who spends his days in an old shack down by the beach.
Runtime: 98 min
Director: Welby Ings
Writer: Welby Ings
Actors: Tim Roth, Jordan Oosterhof, Conan Hayes
Language: English, Maori
The Banshees of Inisherin

Martin McDonagh, 2022

Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.
Runtime: 114 min
Director: Martin McDonagh
Writer: Martin McDonagh
Actors: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon
Language: English
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

Joel Crawford, Januel Mercado, 2022

When Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll and he has burned through eight of his nine lives, he launches an epic journey to restore them by finding the mythical Last Wish.
Runtime: 102 min
Director: Joel Crawford, Januel Mercado
Writer: Paul Fisher, Tommy Swerdlow, Tom Wheeler
Actors: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Harvey Guillén
Language: English, Spanish
Shrek
Matilda: The Musical

Matthew Warchus, 2022

An adaptation of the Tony and Olivier award-winning musical. Matilda tells the story of an extraordinary girl who, armed with a sharp mind and a vivid imagination, dares to take a stand to change her story with miraculous results.
Runtime: 117 min
Director: Matthew Warchus
Writer: Dennis Kelly, Tim Minchin, Roald Dahl
Actors: Alisha Weir, Emma Thompson, Lashana Lynch
Language: English
Musicals
Luca

Enrico Casarosa, 2021

On the Italian Riviera, an unlikely but strong friendship grows between a human being and a sea monster disguised as a human.
Runtime: 95 min
Director: Enrico Casarosa
Writer: Enrico Casarosa, Jesse Andrews, Simon Stephenson
Actors: Jacob Tremblay, Jack Dylan Grazer, Emma Berman
Language: English, Italian
Pixar
The French Dispatch

Wes Anderson, 2021

A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional twentieth century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in "The French Dispatch Magazine".
Runtime: 107 min
Director: Wes Anderson
Writer: Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Hugo Guinness
Actors: Benicio Del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton
Language: English, French
Wes Anderson
Superstars: The Documentary

Frank Munoz, 2021

In 1972, director Norman Jewison took a group of young actors, singers, and dancers to war-torn Israel to shoot the film adaptation of the hit rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar." This is their story - in their own words.
Runtime: 90 min
Director: Frank Munoz
Writer: N/A
Actors: Ted Neeley, Yvonne Elliman, Barry Dennen
Language: English
The Matrix Resurrections

Lana Wachowski, 2021

Return to a world of two realities: one, everyday life; the other, what lies behind it. To find out if his reality is a construct, to truly know himself, Mr. Anderson will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more.
Runtime: 148 min
Director: Lana Wachowski
Writer: Lana Wachowski, David Mitchell, Aleksandar Hemon
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II
Language: English, French, Spanish, Japanese
The Matrix
Dune

Denis Villeneuve, 2021

A noble family becomes embroiled in a war for control over the galaxy's most valuable asset while its heir becomes troubled by visions of a dark future.
Runtime: 155 min
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Writer: Jon Spaihts, Denis Villeneuve, Eric Roth
Actors: Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya
Language: English, Mandarin
Spider-Man: No Way Home

Jon Watts, 2021

With Spider-Man's identity now revealed, Peter asks Doctor Strange for help. When a spell goes wrong, dangerous foes from other worlds start to appear, forcing Peter to discover what it truly means to be Spider-Man.
Runtime: 148 min
Director: Jon Watts
Writer: Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Stan Lee
Actors: Tom Holland, Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch
Language: English
Spider-Man
No Time to Die

Cary Joji Fukunaga, 2021

James Bond has left active service. His peace is short-lived when Felix Leiter, an old friend from the CIA, turns up asking for help, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.
Runtime: 163 min
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
Writer: Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Cary Joji Fukunaga
Actors: Daniel Craig, Ana de Armas, Rami Malek
Language: English, French, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Norwegian, German
James Bond
Fast & Furious 9

Justin Lin, 2021

Dom and the crew must take on an international terrorist who turns out to be Dom and Mia's estranged brother.
Runtime: 143 min
Director: Justin Lin
Writer: Daniel Casey, Justin Lin, Alfredo Botello
Actors: Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster
Language: English, Japanese, Spanish
The Fast and the Furious
Soul

Pete Docter, Kemp Powers, 2020

After landing the gig of a lifetime, a New York jazz pianist suddenly finds himself trapped in a strange land between Earth and the afterlife.
Runtime: 100 min
Director: Pete Docter, Kemp Powers
Writer: Pete Docter, Mike Jones, Kemp Powers
Actors: Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Graham Norton
Language: English, Korean, Inuktitut
Pixar
The New Mutants

Josh Boone, 2020

Five young mutants, just discovering their abilities while held in a secret facility against their will, fight to escape their past sins and save themselves.
Runtime: 94 min
Director: Josh Boone
Writer: Josh Boone, Knate Lee
Actors: Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton
Language: English, Portuguese, Latin
X-Men
Tenet

Christopher Nolan, 2020

Armed with only one word, Tenet, and fighting for the survival of the entire world, a Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.
Runtime: 150 min
Director: Christopher Nolan
Writer: Christopher Nolan
Actors: John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki
Language: English, Russian, Ukrainian, Estonian, Norwegian, Hindi
The Father

Florian Zeller, 2020

A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. As he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.
Runtime: 97 min
Director: Florian Zeller
Writer: Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller
Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Mark Gatiss
Language: English
Bill & Ted Face the Music

Dean Parisot, 2020

Once told they'd save the universe during a time-traveling adventure, two would-be rockers from San Dimas, California find themselves as middle-aged dads still trying to crank out a hit song and fulfill their destiny.
Runtime: 91 min
Director: Dean Parisot
Writer: Chris Matheson, Ed Solomon
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, Kristen Schaal
Language: English, German, Chaozhou, Spanish
Nomadland

Chloé Zhao, 2020

A woman in her sixties, after losing everything in the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
Runtime: 107 min
Director: Chloé Zhao
Writer: Chloé Zhao, Jessica Bruder
Actors: Frances McDormand, David Strathairn, Linda May
Language: English
Best Picture
Fox Searchlight

2010s

Harriet

Kasi Lemmons, 2019

The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes, whose courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
Runtime: 125 min
Director: Kasi Lemmons
Writer: Gregory Allen Howard, Kasi Lemmons
Actors: Cynthia Erivo, Janelle Monáe, Leslie Odom Jr.
Language: English
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker

J.J. Abrams, 2019

In the riveting conclusion of the landmark Skywalker saga, new legends will be born-and the final battle for freedom is yet to come.
Runtime: 141 min
Director: J.J. Abrams
Writer: Chris Terrio, J.J. Abrams, Derek Connolly
Actors: Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac
Language: English
Star Wars
Dark Phoenix

Simon Kinberg, 2019

Jean Grey begins to develop incredible powers that corrupt and turn her into a Dark Phoenix, causing the X-Men to decide if her life is worth more than all of humanity.
Runtime: 113 min
Director: Simon Kinberg
Writer: Simon Kinberg
Actors: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence
Language: English, French
X-Men
The Personal History of David Copperfield

Armando Iannucci, 2019

A modern take on Charles Dickens's classic tale of a young orphan who is able to triumph over many obstacles.
Runtime: 119 min
Director: Armando Iannucci
Writer: Armando Iannucci, Simon Blackwell, Charles Dickens
Actors: Dev Patel, Hugh Laurie, Tilda Swinton
Language: English, French
Knives Out

Rian Johnson, 2019

A detective investigates the death of the patriarch of an eccentric, combative family.
Runtime: 130 min
Director: Rian Johnson
Writer: Rian Johnson
Actors: Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas
Language: English, Spanish, Hindi
Parasite

Bong Joon Ho, 2019

Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.
Runtime: 132 min
Director: Bong Joon Ho
Writer: Bong Joon Ho, Han Jin-won
Actors: Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong
Language: Korean, English
Best Picture
Spider-Man: Far From Home

Jon Watts, 2019

Following the events of Avengers: Endgame (2019), Spider-Man must step up to take on new threats in a world that has changed forever.
Runtime: 129 min
Director: Jon Watts
Writer: Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Stan Lee
Actors: Tom Holland, Samuel L. Jackson, Jake Gyllenhaal
Language: English, Italian, Czech
Spider-Man
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

Chad Stahelski, 2019

John Wick is on the run after killing a member of the international assassins' guild, and with a $14 million price tag on his head, he is the target of hit men and women everywhere.
Runtime: 130 min
Director: Chad Stahelski
Writer: Derek Kolstad, Shay Hatten, Chris Collins
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Halle Berry, Ian McShane
Language: English, Russian, Japanese, Indonesian, Mandarin, Italian, Arabic, Latin
Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw

David Leitch, 2019

Lawman Luke Hobbs and outcast Deckard Shaw form an unlikely alliance when a cyber-genetically enhanced villain threatens the future of humanity.
Runtime: 137 min
Director: David Leitch
Writer: Chris Morgan, Drew Pearce, Gary Scott Thompson
Actors: Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Idris Elba
Language: English, Samoan, Russian
The Fast and the Furious
On the Basis of Sex

Mimi Leder, 2018

The true story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her struggles for equal rights, and the early cases of a historic career that lead to her nomination and confirmation as U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice.
Runtime: 120 min
Director: Mimi Leder
Writer: Daniel Stiepleman
Actors: Felicity Jones, Armie Hammer, Justin Theroux
Language: English
Solo: A Star Wars Story

Ron Howard, 2018

Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in an epic action-adventure that will set the course of one of the Star Wars saga's most unlikely heroes.
Runtime: 135 min
Director: Ron Howard
Writer: Jonathan Kasdan, Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas
Actors: Alden Ehrenreich, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke
Language: English
Star Wars
Deadpool 2

David Leitch, 2018

Foul-mouthed mutant mercenary Wade Wilson (a.k.a. Deadpool) assembles a team of fellow mutant rogues to protect a young boy with supernatural abilities from the brutal, time-traveling cyborg Cable.
Runtime: 119 min
Director: David Leitch
Writer: Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Ryan Reynolds
Actors: Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Morena Baccarin
Language: English, Cantonese, Spanish, Russian
X-Men
Black Panther

Ryan Coogler, 2018

T'Challa, heir to the hidden but advanced kingdom of Wakanda, must step forward to lead his people into a new future and must confront a challenger from his country's past.
Runtime: 134 min
Director: Ryan Coogler
Writer: Ryan Coogler, Joe Robert Cole, Stan Lee
Actors: Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o
Language: English, Swahili, Nama, Xhosa, Korean
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again

Ol Parker, 2018

Five years after the events of Mamma Mia! (2008), Sophie prepares for the grand reopening of the Hotel Bella Donna as she learns more about her mother's past.
Runtime: 114 min
Director: Ol Parker
Writer: Ol Parker, Richard Curtis, Catherine Johnson
Actors: Lily James, Amanda Seyfried, Meryl Streep
Language: English, French, Greek
Musicals
Ocean's 8

Gary Ross, 2018

Debbie Ocean gathers an all-female crew to attempt an impossible heist at New York City's annual Met Gala.
Runtime: 110 min
Director: Gary Ross
Writer: Gary Ross, Olivia Milch, George Clayton Johnson
Actors: Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway
Language: English, Hindi, French, German, Mandarin
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, 2018

Teen Miles Morales becomes the Spider-Man of his universe and must join with five spider-powered individuals from other dimensions to stop a threat for all realities.
Runtime: 117 min
Director: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman
Writer: Phil Lord, Rodney Rothman
Actors: Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld
Language: English, Spanish
Spider-Man
All Time
Super Troopers 2

Jay Chandrasekhar, 2018

When a border dispute arises between the U.S. and Canada, the Super Troopers are tasked with establishing a Highway Patrol station in the disputed area.
Runtime: 99 min
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
Writer: Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme
Actors: Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme
Language: English
Fox Searchlight
Green Book

Peter Farrelly, 2018

A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver for an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South.
Runtime: 130 min
Director: Peter Farrelly
Writer: Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly
Actors: Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini
Language: English, Italian, Russian, German
Best Picture
Coco

Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina, 2017

Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family's ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather, a legendary singer.
Runtime: 105 min
Director: Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina
Writer: Lee Unkrich, Jason Katz, Matthew Aldrich
Actors: Anthony Gonzalez, Gael García Bernal, Benjamin Bratt
Language: English, Spanish
Pixar
Star Wars - Episode VIII - The Last Jedi

Rian Johnson, 2017

The Star Wars saga continues as new heroes and galactic legends go on an epic adventure, unlocking mysteries of the Force and shocking revelations of the past.
Runtime: 152 min
Director: Rian Johnson
Writer: Rian Johnson, George Lucas
Actors: Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Mark Hamill
Language: English
Star Wars
Mary and the Witch's Flower

Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 2017

Based on "The Little Broomstick" by Mary Stewart, a strange flower grants a girl magic powers.
Runtime: 103 min
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Writer: Mary Stewart, Riko Sakaguchi, Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Actors: Hana Sugisaki, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Yûki Amami
Language: Japanese
Studio Ghibli
Logan

James Mangold, 2017

In a future where mutants are nearly extinct, an elderly and weary Logan leads a quiet life. But when Laura, a mutant child pursued by scientists, comes to him for help, he must get her to safety.
Runtime: 137 min
Director: James Mangold
Writer: James Mangold, Scott Frank, Michael Green
Actors: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen
Language: English, Spanish
X-Men
Alien: Covenant

Ridley Scott, 2017

The crew of a colony ship, bound for a remote planet, discover an uncharted paradise with a threat beyond their imagination, and must attempt a harrowing escape.
Runtime: 122 min
Director: Ridley Scott
Writer: Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett, Jack Paglen
Actors: Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup
Language: English, German
Alien
The Beguiled

Sofia Coppola, 2017

The unexpected arrival of a wounded Union soldier at a girls school in Virginia during the American Civil War leads to jealousy and betrayal.
Runtime: 93 min
Director: Sofia Coppola
Writer: Sofia Coppola, Thomas Cullinan, Albert Maltz
Actors: Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning
Language: English, French
Blade Runner 2049

Denis Villeneuve, 2017

Young Blade Runner K's discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former Blade Runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years.
Runtime: 164 min
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Writer: Hampton Fancher, Michael Green, Philip K. Dick
Actors: Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas
Language: English, Finnish, Japanese, Hungarian, Russian, Somali, Spanish
Downsizing

Alexander Payne, 2017

A social satire in which a man realizes he would have a better life if he were to shrink himself to five inches tall, allowing him to live in wealth and splendor.
Runtime: 135 min
Director: Alexander Payne
Writer: Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
Actors: Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau
Language: English, Spanish, Norwegian, French, Korean, Greek, Vietnamese
The Fate of the Furious

F. Gary Gray, 2017

When a mysterious woman seduces Dominic Toretto into the world of terrorism and a betrayal of those closest to him, the crew face trials that will test them as never before.
Runtime: 136 min
Director: F. Gary Gray
Writer: Gary Scott Thompson, Chris Morgan
Actors: Vin Diesel, Jason Statham, Dwayne Johnson
Language: English, Russian, Spanish
The Fast and the Furious
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg, 2017

Captain Jack Sparrow is pursued by old rival Captain Salazar and a crew of deadly ghosts who have escaped from the Devil's Triangle. They're determined to kill every pirate at sea...notably Jack.
Runtime: 129 min
Director: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg
Writer: Jeff Nathanson, Terry Rossio, Ted Elliott
Actors: Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Javier Bardem
Language: English, Spanish
Pirates of the Caribbean
Pitch Perfect 3

Trish Sie, 2017

Following their win at the world championship, the now separated Bellas reunite for one last singing competition at an overseas USO tour, but face a group who uses both instruments and voices.
Runtime: 93 min
Director: Trish Sie
Writer: Kay Cannon, Mike White, Mickey Rapkin
Actors: Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow
Language: English, Papiamento
Musicals
Spider-Man: Homecoming

Jon Watts, 2017

Peter Parker balances his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens with his superhero alter-ego Spider-Man, and finds himself on the trail of a new menace prowling the skies of New York City.
Runtime: 133 min
Director: Jon Watts
Writer: Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley, Jon Watts
Actors: Tom Holland, Michael Keaton, Robert Downey Jr.
Language: English, Spanish
Spider-Man
T2: Trainspotting

Danny Boyle, 2017

After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie.
Runtime: 117 min
Director: Danny Boyle
Writer: John Hodge, Irvine Welsh
Actors: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller
Language: English, Bulgarian, Scots
John Wick: Chapter 2

Chad Stahelski, 2017

After returning to the criminal underworld to repay a debt, John Wick discovers that a large bounty has been put on his life.
Runtime: 122 min
Director: Chad Stahelski
Writer: Derek Kolstad
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Riccardo Scamarcio, Ian McShane
Language: English, Italian, Russian, Sign , Hebrew
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (temp)

Martin McDonagh, 2017

A mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's murder when they fail to catch the culprit.
Runtime: 115 min
Director: Martin McDonagh
Writer: Martin McDonagh
Actors: Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell
Language: English
Fox Searchlight
The Shape of Water

Guillermo del Toro, 2017

At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity.
Runtime: 123 min
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Writer: Guillermo del Toro, Vanessa Taylor
Actors: Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon
Language: English, American Sign , Russian, French
Best Picture
Fox Searchlight
God's Own Country

Francis Lee, 2017

Spring. Yorkshire. Young farmer Johnny Saxby numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker for lambing season ignites an intense relationship that sets Johnny on a ...
Runtime: 104 min
Director: Francis Lee
Writer: Francis Lee
Actors: Josh O'Connor, Alec Secareanu, Gemma Jones
Language: English, Romanian, Bulgarian
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Gareth Edwards, 2016

In a time of conflict, a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire's ultimate weapon of destruction.
Runtime: 133 min
Director: Gareth Edwards
Writer: Chris Weitz, Tony Gilroy, John Knoll
Actors: Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk
Language: English
Star Wars
Deadpool

Tim Miller, 2016

A wisecracking mercenary gets experimented on and becomes immortal yet hideously scarred, and sets out to track down the man who ruined his looks.
Runtime: 108 min
Director: Tim Miller
Writer: Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick
Actors: Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, T.J. Miller
Language: English
X-Men
X-Men: Apocalypse

Bryan Singer, 2016

In the 1980s the X-Men must defeat an ancient all-powerful mutant, En Sabah Nur, who intends to thrive through bringing destruction to the world.
Runtime: 144 min
Director: Bryan Singer
Writer: Simon Kinberg, Bryan Singer, Michael Dougherty
Actors: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence
Language: English, Polish, German, Arabic, Egyptian (Ancient)
X-Men
La La Land

Damien Chazelle, 2016

While navigating their careers in Los Angeles, a pianist and an actress fall in love while attempting to reconcile their aspirations for the future.
Runtime: 128 min
Director: Damien Chazelle
Writer: Damien Chazelle
Actors: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Rosemarie DeWitt
Language: English, Cantonese
Musicals
Lion

Garth Davis, 2016

A five-year-old Indian boy is adopted by an Australian couple after getting lost hundreds of kilometers from home. 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
Runtime: 118 min
Director: Garth Davis
Writer: Saroo Brierley, Luke Davies
Actors: Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara
Language: English, Hindi, Bengali
Moonlight

Barry Jenkins, 2016

A young African-American man grapples with his identity and sexuality while experiencing the everyday struggles of childhood, adolescence, and burgeoning adulthood.
Runtime: 111 min
Director: Barry Jenkins
Writer: Barry Jenkins, Tarell Alvin McCraney
Actors: Mahershala Ali, Naomie Harris, Trevante Rhodes
Language: English
Best Picture
Zoolander 2

Ben Stiller, 2016

Derek and Hansel are lured into modelling again, in Rome, where they find themselves the target of a sinister conspiracy.
Runtime: 101 min
Director: Ben Stiller
Writer: Justin Theroux, Ben Stiller, Nicholas Stoller
Actors: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Penélope Cruz
Language: English, Italian, Spanish
Assassin's Creed

Justin Kurzel, 2016

Callum Lynch explores the memories of his ancestor Aguilar de Nerha and gains the skills of a Master Assassin, before taking on the secret Templar society.
Runtime: 115 min
Director: Justin Kurzel
Writer: Michael Lesslie, Adam Cooper, Bill Collage
Actors: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons
Language: English, Spanish, Arabic
Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Taika Waititi, 2016

A national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush.
Runtime: 101 min
Director: Taika Waititi
Writer: Taika Waititi, Barry Crump, Tearepa Kahi
Actors: Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata
Language: English
Gimme Danger

Jim Jarmusch, 2016

An in-depth look at legendary punk band The Stooges.
Runtime: 108 min
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Writer: Jim Jarmusch
Actors: Iggy Pop, Jim Jarmusch, Bob Waller
Language: English
Jim Jarmusch
Spectre

Sam Mendes, 2015

A cryptic message from James Bond's past sends him on a trail to uncover the existence of a sinister organisation named SPECTRE. With a new threat dawning, Bond learns the terrible truth about the author of all his pain in his mos...
Runtime: 148 min
Director: Sam Mendes
Writer: John Logan, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade
Actors: Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux
Language: English, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Ukrainian
James Bond
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens

J.J. Abrams, 2015

As a new threat to the galaxy rises, Rey, a desert scavenger, and Finn, an ex-stormtrooper, must join Han Solo and Chewbacca to search for the one hope of restoring peace.
Runtime: 138 min
Director: J.J. Abrams
Writer: Lawrence Kasdan, J.J. Abrams, Michael Arndt
Actors: Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac
Language: English
Star Wars
Fast & Furious 7

James Wan, 2015

Deckard Shaw seeks revenge against Dominic Toretto and his family for his comatose brother.
Runtime: 137 min
Director: James Wan
Writer: Chris Morgan, Gary Scott Thompson
Actors: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson
Language: English, Thai, Arabic, Spanish
The Fast and the Furious
The Hateful Eight

Quentin Tarantino, 2015

In the dead of a Wyoming winter, a bounty hunter and his prisoner find shelter in a cabin currently inhabited by a collection of nefarious characters.
Runtime: 168 min
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Writer: Quentin Tarantino
Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Language: English, Spanish, French, Persian
Mad Max: Fury Road

George Miller, 2015

In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in search for her homeland with the aid of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshiper and a drifter named Max.
Runtime: 120 min
Director: George Miller
Writer: George Miller, Brendan McCarthy, Nick Lathouris
Actors: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult
Language: English, Russian
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

Christopher McQuarrie, 2015

Ethan and his team take on their most impossible mission yet when they have to eradicate an international rogue organization as highly skilled as they are and committed to destroying the IMF.
Runtime: 131 min
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Writer: Bruce Geller, Christopher McQuarrie, Drew Pearce
Actors: Tom Cruise, Rebecca Ferguson, Jeremy Renner
Language: English, Swedish, German, Russian
Pitch Perfect 2

Elizabeth Banks, 2015

After a humiliating command performance at The Kennedy Center, the Barden Bellas enter an international competition that no American group has ever won in order to regain their status and right to perform.
Runtime: 115 min
Director: Elizabeth Banks
Writer: Kay Cannon, Mickey Rapkin
Actors: Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Hailee Steinfeld
Language: English, German
Musicals
Spotlight

Tom McCarthy, 2015

The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
Runtime: 129 min
Director: Tom McCarthy
Writer: Josh Singer, Tom McCarthy
Actors: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams
Language: English
Best Picture
Magic Mike XXL

Gregory Jacobs, 2015

Three years after Mike bowed out of the stripper life at the top of his game, he and the remaining Kings of Tampa hit the road to Myrtle Beach to put on one last blow-out performance.
Runtime: 115 min
Director: Gregory Jacobs
Writer: Reid Carolin
Actors: Channing Tatum, Joe Manganiello, Matt Bomer
Language: English
Jurassic World

Colin Trevorrow, 2015

A new theme park, built on the original site of Jurassic Park, creates a genetically modified hybrid dinosaur, the Indominus Rex, which escapes containment and goes on a killing spree.
Runtime: 124 min
Director: Colin Trevorrow
Writer: Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Colin Trevorrow
Actors: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ty Simpkins
Language: English
Entourage

Doug Ellin, 2015

Movie star Vincent Chase, together with his boys Eric, Turtle, and Johnny, are back - and back in business with super agent-turned-studio head Ari Gold on a risky project that will serve as Vince's directorial debut.
Runtime: 104 min
Director: Doug Ellin
Writer: Doug Ellin, Rob Weiss
Actors: Adrian Grenier, Kevin Connolly, Jerry Ferrara
Language: English
Inside Out

Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen, 2015

After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust, and Sadness - conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school.
Runtime: 95 min
Director: Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen
Writer: Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen, Meg LeFauve
Actors: Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Lewis Black
Language: English, Portuguese, Latvian
Pixar
Carol

Todd Haynes, 2015

An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York.
Runtime: 118 min
Director: Todd Haynes
Writer: Phyllis Nagy, Patricia Highsmith
Actors: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson
Language: English
The Dressmaker

Jocelyn Moorhouse, 2015

A glamorous woman returns to her small town in rural Australia. With her sewing machine and haute couture style, she transforms the women and exacts sweet revenge on those who did her wrong.
Runtime: 119 min
Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse
Writer: Rosalie Ham, Jocelyn Moorhouse, P.J. Hogan
Actors: Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth
Language: English
The Lobster

Yorgos Lanthimos, 2015

In a dystopian near future, according to the laws of The City, single people are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in 45 days or they're transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
Runtime: 119 min
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Writer: Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou
Actors: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Jessica Barden
Language: English, French, Greek
The Theory of Everything

James Marsh, 2014

A look at the relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife.
Runtime: 123 min
Director: James Marsh
Writer: Anthony McCarten, Jane Hawking
Actors: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Tom Prior
Language: English, French, Ukrainian
Fox Searchlight Pictures: We Have Your Story

Gregg Temkin, 2014

The Fox Searchlight promise has been to offer the most visionary directors, actors and writers a setting to express themselves unlike any other. We Have Your Story is a celebration of that pledge, highlighting the special bond that exists between the filmmakers, the stars...and the story.
Runtime: 98 min
Director: Gregg Temkin
Writer:
Actors: Tom Wilkinson
Language: English
Fox Searchlight
When Marnie Was There

Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 2014

Due to 12-year-old Anna's asthma, she's sent to stay with relatives of her guardian in the Japanese countryside. She likes to be alone, sketching. She befriends Marnie. Who is the mysterious, blonde Marnie?
Runtime: 103 min
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Writer: Joan G. Robinson, Keiko Niwa, Masashi Andô
Actors: Sara Takatsuki, Kasumi Arimura, Nanako Matsushima
Language: Japanese
Studio Ghibli
X-Men: Days of Future Past

Bryan Singer, 2014

The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants.
Runtime: 132 min
Director: Bryan Singer
Writer: Simon Kinberg, Jane Goldman, Matthew Vaughn
Actors: Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman
Language: English, Vietnamese, French
X-Men
Coming Home

Yimou Zhang, 2014

Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer recogniz...
Runtime: 109 min
Director: Yimou Zhang
Writer: Geling Yan, Jingzhi Zou, Xiaofeng Zhou
Actors: Gong Li, Daoming Chen, Huiwen Zhang
Language: Mandarin
300: Rise of an Empire

Noam Murro, 2014

Greek general Themistocles of Athens leads the naval charge against invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god Xerxes and Artemisia, vengeful commander of the Persian navy.
Runtime: 102 min
Director: Noam Murro
Writer: Zack Snyder, Kurt Johnstad, Frank Miller
Actors: Sullivan Stapleton, Eva Green, Lena Headey
Language: English
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Alejandro G. Iñárritu, 2014

A washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway production.
Runtime: 119 min
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Writer: Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris
Actors: Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton
Language: English
Best Picture
Fox Searchlight
Boyhood

Richard Linklater, 2014

The life of Mason, from early childhood to his arrival at college.
Runtime: 165 min
Director: Richard Linklater
Writer: Richard Linklater
Actors: Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke
Language: English, Spanish, Ukrainian, Arabic
Gone Girl

David Fincher, 2014

With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Runtime: 149 min
Director: David Fincher
Writer: Gillian Flynn
Actors: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris
Language: English
Commended
The Grand Budapest Hotel

Wes Anderson, 2014

A writer encounters the owner of an aging high-class hotel, who tells him of his early years serving as a lobby boy in the hotel's glorious years under an exceptional concierge.
Runtime: 99 min
Director: Wes Anderson
Writer: Stefan Zweig, Wes Anderson, Hugo Guinness
Actors: Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric
Language: English, French, German
Wes Anderson
Into the Woods

Rob Marshall, 2014

A witch tasks a childless baker and his wife with procuring magical items from classic fairy tales to reverse the curse put on their family tree.
Runtime: 125 min
Director: Rob Marshall
Writer: James Lapine, Stephen Sondheim
Actors: Anna Kendrick, Meryl Streep, Chris Pine
Language: English
Musicals
The Last Five Years

Richard LaGravenese, 2014

A struggling actress and her novelist lover each illustrate the struggle and deconstruction of their love affair.
Runtime: 94 min
Director: Richard LaGravenese
Writer: Jason Robert Brown, Richard LaGravenese
Actors: Anna Kendrick, Jeremy Jordan, Tamara Mintz
Language: English
Musicals
The Amazing Spider-Man 2

Marc Webb, 2014

When New York is put under siege by Oscorp, it is up to Spider-Man to save the city he swore to protect as well as his loved ones.
Runtime: 142 min
Director: Marc Webb
Writer: Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Jeff Pinkner
Actors: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx
Language: English
Spider-Man
Wish I Was Here

Zach Braff, 2014

A struggling actor, father and husband finds himself at a major crossroads, which forces him to examine his life, his family and his career.
Runtime: 106 min
Director: Zach Braff
Writer: Adam J. Braff, Zach Braff
Actors: Zach Braff, Joey King, Pierce Gagnon
Language: English
John Wick

Chad Stahelski, David Leitch, 2014

An ex-hitman comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters who killed his dog and stole his car.
Runtime: 101 min
Director: Chad Stahelski, David Leitch
Writer: Derek Kolstad
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen
Language: English, Russian, Hungarian
Interstellar

Christopher Nolan, 2014

When Earth becomes uninhabitable in the future, a farmer and ex-NASA pilot, Joseph Cooper, is tasked to pilot a spacecraft, along with a team of researchers, to find a new planet for humans.
Runtime: 169 min
Director: Christopher Nolan
Writer: Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan
Actors: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain
Language: English
12 Years a Slave

Steve McQueen, 2013

In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
Runtime: 134 min
Director: Steve McQueen
Writer: John Ridley, Solomon Northup
Actors: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender
Language: English
Best Picture
Fox Searchlight
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya

Isao Takahata, 2013

Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthralls all who encounter her, but ultimately she must confront h...
Runtime: 137 min
Director: Isao Takahata
Writer: Isao Takahata, Riko Sakaguchi
Actors: Chloë Grace Moretz, James Caan, Mary Steenburgen
Language: Japanese
Studio Ghibli
The Wind Rises

Hayao Miyazaki, 2013

A look at the life of Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed Japanese fighter planes during World War II.
Runtime: 126 min
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Writer: Hayao Miyazaki
Actors: Hideaki Anno, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Miori Takimoto
Language: Japanese, German, Italian, French
Studio Ghibli
The Wolverine

James Mangold, 2013

Wolverine comes to Japan to meet an old friend whose life he saved years ago, and gets embroiled in a conspiracy involving yakuza and mutants.
Runtime: 126 min
Director: James Mangold
Writer: Mark Bomback, Scott Frank
Actors: Hugh Jackman, Will Yun Lee, Tao Okamoto
Language: English, Japanese
X-Men
Blue Is the Warmest Colour

Abdellatif Kechiche, 2013

Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire and to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adèle grows, seeks herself, loses herself, and ...
Runtime: 180 min
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
Writer: Abdellatif Kechiche, Ghalya Lacroix, Jul Maroh
Actors: Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Salim Kechiouche
Language: French, English
A Good Day to Die Hard

John Moore, 2013

John McClane travels to Russia to help out his seemingly wayward son, Jack, only to discover that Jack is a CIA operative working undercover, causing the father and son to team up against underworld forces.
Runtime: 98 min
Director: John Moore
Writer: Skip Woods, Roderick Thorp
Actors: Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney, Sebastian Koch
Language: English, Russian, Hindi, Punjabi
Die Hard
Fast & Furious 6

Justin Lin, 2013

Hobbs has Dominic and Brian reassemble their crew to take down a team of mercenaries: Dominic unexpectedly gets sidetracked with facing his presumed deceased girlfriend, Letty.
Runtime: 130 min
Director: Justin Lin
Writer: Chris Morgan, Gary Scott Thompson
Actors: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson
Language: English, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Cantonese, Dutch, Danish, Ukrainian
The Fast and the Furious
The Great Gatsby

Baz Luhrmann, 2013

A writer and wall street trader, Nick Carraway, finds himself drawn to the past and lifestyle of his mysterious millionaire neighbor, Jay Gatsby, amid the riotous parties of the Jazz Age.
Runtime: 143 min
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Writer: Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton
Language: English
Her

Spike Jonze, 2013

In a near future, a lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with an operating system designed to meet his every need.
Runtime: 126 min
Director: Spike Jonze
Writer: Spike Jonze
Actors: Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Scarlett Johansson
Language: English
Inside Llewyn Davis

Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, 2013

A week in the life of a young singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961.
Runtime: 104 min
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Writer: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Actors: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman
Language: English
Fox Searchlight
Kick-Ass 2

Jeff Wadlow, 2013

Following Kick-Ass' heroics, other citizens are inspired to become masked crusaders, but Red Mist leads his own group of evil super-villains to get revenge, kill Kick-Ass, and destroy everything he stands for.
Runtime: 103 min
Director: Jeff Wadlow
Writer: Jeff Wadlow, Mark Millar, John Romita Jr.
Actors: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Chloë Grace Moretz, Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Language: English
Only God Forgives

Nicolas Winding Refn, 2013

Julian, a drug-smuggler thriving in Bangkok's criminal underworld, sees his life get even more complicated when his mother compels him to find and kill whoever is responsible for his brother's recent death.
Runtime: 90 min
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Writer: Nicolas Winding Refn
Actors: Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas, Vithaya Pansringarm
Language: English, Thai
The Way Way Back

Nat Faxon, Jim Rash, 2013

Shy 14-year-old Duncan goes on summer vacation with his mother, her overbearing boyfriend, and her boyfriend's daughter. Having a rough time fitting in, Duncan finds an unexpected friend in Owen, manager of the Water Wizz water park.
Runtime: 103 min
Director: Nat Faxon, Jim Rash
Writer: Nat Faxon, Jim Rash
Actors: Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Allison Janney
Language: English
Fox Searchlight
Before Midnight

Richard Linklater, 2013

We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna.
Runtime: 109 min
Director: Richard Linklater
Writer: Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
Actors: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick
Language: English, Greek, French
Nebraska

Alexander Payne, 2013

An aging, booze-addled father makes the trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim a million-dollar Mega Sweepstakes Marketing prize.
Runtime: 115 min
Director: Alexander Payne
Writer: Bob Nelson
Actors: Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb
Language: English, Spanish
Frozen

Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, 2013

When the newly crowned Queen Elsa accidentally uses her power to turn things into ice to curse her home in infinite winter, her sister Anna teams up with a mountain man, his playful reindeer, and a snowman to change the weather co...
Runtime: 102 min
Director: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee
Writer: Jennifer Lee, Hans Christian Andersen, Chris Buck
Actors: Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff
Language: English, Norwegian
Disney
Chinese Puzzle

Cédric Klapisch, 2013

A 40-year-old father's life is complicated when the mother of his two children moves to New York. Since he can't bear them growing up far away from him, he decides to move there as well.
Runtime: 117 min
Director: Cédric Klapisch
Writer: Cédric Klapisch
Actors: Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Cécile de France
Language: French, English, Spanish, Chinese, Yiddish
Gravity

Alfonso Cuarón, 2013

Two astronauts work together to survive after an accident leaves them stranded in space.
Runtime: 91 min
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Writer: Alfonso Cuarón, Jonás Cuarón
Actors: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris
Language: English, Greenlandic
Moonrise Kingdom

Wes Anderson, 2012

A pair of young lovers flee their New England town, which causes a local search party to fan out to find them.
Runtime: 94 min
Director: Wes Anderson
Writer: Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola
Actors: Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Bruce Willis
Language: English
Wes Anderson
Beasts of the Southern Wild

Benh Zeitlin, 2012

Faced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love.
Runtime: 93 min
Director: Benh Zeitlin
Writer: Lucy Alibar, Benh Zeitlin
Actors: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly
Language: English
Fox Searchlight
Skyfall

Sam Mendes, 2012

James Bond's loyalty to M is tested when her past comes back to haunt her. When MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.
Runtime: 143 min
Director: Sam Mendes
Writer: Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, John Logan
Actors: Daniel Craig, Javier Bardem, Naomie Harris
Language: English, Turkish, Shanghainese, Portuguese, Japanese
James Bond
Prometheus

Ridley Scott, 2012

Following clues to the origin of mankind, a team finds a structure on a distant moon, but they soon realize they are not alone.
Runtime: 124 min
Director: Ridley Scott
Writer: Jon Spaihts, Damon Lindelof, Dan O'Bannon
Actors: Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall-Green, Michael Fassbender
Language: English, Gaelic
Alien
Amour

Michael Haneke, 2012

Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tes...
Runtime: 127 min
Director: Michael Haneke
Writer: Michael Haneke
Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert
Language: French, English
Argo

Ben Affleck, 2012

Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.
Runtime: 120 min
Director: Ben Affleck
Writer: Chris Terrio, Tony Mendez, Joshuah Bearman
Actors: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman
Language: English, Persian, German, Arabic
Best Picture
Les Miserables

Tom Hooper, 2012

In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory worker's daughter. The decision changes their lives forever.
Runtime: 158 min
Director: Tom Hooper
Writer: William Nicholson, Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg
Actors: Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway
Language: English
Musicals
Men in Black 3

Barry Sonnenfeld, 2012

Agent J travels in time to M.I.B.'s early days in 1969 to stop an alien from assassinating his friend Agent K and changing history.
Runtime: 106 min
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Writer: Etan Cohen, Lowell Cunningham
Actors: Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin
Language: English, Ukrainian
Pitch Perfect

Jason Moore, 2012

Beca, a freshman at Barden University, is cajoled into joining The Bellas, her school's all-girls singing group. Injecting some much needed energy into their repertoire, The Bellas take on their male rivals in a campus competition.
Runtime: 112 min
Director: Jason Moore
Writer: Kay Cannon, Mickey Rapkin
Actors: Anna Kendrick, Brittany Snow, Rebel Wilson
Language: English, Ukrainian
Musicals
The Amazing Spider-Man

Marc Webb, 2012

After Peter Parker is bitten by a genetically altered spider, he gains newfound, spider-like powers and ventures out to save the city from the machinations of a mysterious reptilian foe.
Runtime: 136 min
Director: Marc Webb
Writer: James Vanderbilt, Alvin Sargent, Steve Kloves
Actors: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans
Language: English
Spider-Man
Django Unchained

Quentin Tarantino, 2012

With the help of a German bounty-hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal plantation owner in Mississippi.
Runtime: 165 min
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Writer: Quentin Tarantino
Actors: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio
Language: English, German, French, Italian
American Pie: Reunion

Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, 2012

Jim, Michelle, Stifler, and their friends reunite in East Great Falls, Michigan for their high school reunion.
Runtime: 113 min
Director: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg
Writer: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, Adam Herz
Actors: Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, Seann William Scott
Language: English
Magic Mike

Steven Soderbergh, 2012

A male stripper teaches a younger performer how to party, pick up women, and make easy money.
Runtime: 110 min
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writer: Reid Carolin
Actors: Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Olivia Munn
Language: English
The Dark Knight Rises

Christopher Nolan, 2012

Eight years after the Joker's reign of chaos, Batman is coerced out of exile with the assistance of the mysterious Selina Kyle in order to defend Gotham City from the vicious guerrilla terrorist Bane.
Runtime: 164 min
Director: Christopher Nolan
Writer: Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan, David S. Goyer
Actors: Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway
Language: English, Arabic
Looper

Rian Johnson, 2012

In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent into the past, where a hired gun awaits - someone like Joe - who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by sending back Joe's future self for assassin...
Runtime: 119 min
Director: Rian Johnson
Writer: Rian Johnson
Actors: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt
Language: English, French
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

John Madden, 2011

British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than advertised, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways.
Runtime: 124 min
Director: John Madden
Writer: Ol Parker, Deborah Moggach
Actors: Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith
Language: English, Hindi
Fox Searchlight
The Descendants

Alexander Payne, 2011

A land baron tries to reconnect with his two daughters after his wife is seriously injured in a boating accident.
Runtime: 115 min
Director: Alexander Payne
Writer: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash
Actors: George Clooney, Shailene Woodley, Amara Miller
Language: English
Fox Searchlight
From Up On Poppy Hill

Gorô Miyazaki, 2011

A group of Yokohama teens look to save their school's clubhouse from the wrecking ball in preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
Runtime: 91 min
Director: Gorô Miyazaki
Writer: Tetsurô Sayama, Hayao Miyazaki, Keiko Niwa
Actors: Sarah Bolger, Chris Noth, Anton Yelchin
Language: Japanese
Studio Ghibli
X-Men: First Class

Matthew Vaughn, 2011

In the 1960s, superpowered humans Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr work together to find others like them, but Erik's vengeful pursuit of an ambitious mutant who ruined his life causes a schism to divide them.
Runtime: 131 min
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Writer: Ashley Miller, Zack Stentz, Jane Goldman
Actors: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence
Language: English, German, French, Spanish, Russian
X-Men
Batman: Year One

Sam Liu, Lauren Montgomery, 2011

A wealthy playboy and a Chicago cop both return to Gotham City where their lives will intersect in unexpected ways.
Runtime: 64 min
Director: Sam Liu, Lauren Montgomery
Writer: Bob Kane (Batman created by), Tab Murphy, Frank Miller (graphic novel), David Mazzucchelli (graphic novel), Richmond Lewis (graphic novel)
Actors: Bryan Cranston, Ben McKenzie, Eliza Dushku, Jon Polito
Language: English, French, Spanish
Drive

Nicolas Winding Refn, 2011

A mysterious Hollywood action film stuntman gets in trouble with gangsters when he tries to help his neighbor's husband rob a pawn shop while serving as his getaway driver.
Runtime: 100 min
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Writer: Hossein Amini, James Sallis
Actors: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston
Language: English, Spanish
Fast & Furious 5

Justin Lin, 2011

Dominic Toretto and his crew of street racers plan a massive heist to buy their freedom while in the sights of a powerful Brazilian drug lord and a dangerous federal agent.
Runtime: 130 min
Director: Justin Lin
Writer: Chris Morgan, Gary Scott Thompson
Actors: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson
Language: English, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French
The Fast and the Furious
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

Brad Bird, 2011

The IMF is shut down when it's implicated in the bombing of the Kremlin, causing Ethan Hunt and his new team to go rogue to clear their organization's name.
Runtime: 132 min
Director: Brad Bird
Writer: Bruce Geller, Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec
Actors: Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg
Language: English, Russian, French, Arabic, Swedish
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Rob Marshall, 2011

Jack Sparrow and Barbossa embark on a quest to find the elusive fountain of youth, only to discover that Blackbeard and his daughter are after it too.
Runtime: 136 min
Director: Rob Marshall
Writer: Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Stuart Beattie
Actors: Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Ian McShane
Language: English, Spanish
Pirates of the Caribbean
Shame

Steve McQueen, 2011

A sex addict's carefully cultivated private life falls apart after his sister arrives for an indefinite stay.
Runtime: 101 min
Director: Steve McQueen
Writer: Steve McQueen, Abi Morgan
Actors: Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale
Language: English
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Tomas Alfredson, 2011

In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet Agent within MI6.
Runtime: 127 min
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Writer: John le Carré, Bridget O'Connor, Peter Straughan
Actors: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy
Language: English, Russian, Hungarian, French, Turkish
The Tree of Life

Terrence Malick, 2011

The story of a family in Waco, Texas in 1956. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence and struggles with his parents' conflicting teachings.
Runtime: 139 min
Director: Terrence Malick
Writer: Terrence Malick
Actors: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain
Language: English
Fox Searchlight
Win Win

Tom McCarthy, 2011

A struggling lawyer and volunteer wrestling coach's chicanery comes back to haunt him when the teenage grandson of the client he has double-crossed comes into his life.
Runtime: 106 min
Director: Tom McCarthy
Writer: Tom McCarthy, Joe Tiboni
Actors: Paul Giamatti, Amy Ryan, Jeffrey Tambor
Language: English
Fox Searchlight
Young Adult

Jason Reitman, 2011

Soon after her divorce, a fiction writer returns to her home in small-town Minnesota, looking to rekindle a romance with her ex-boyfriend who is now happily married and has a newborn daughter.
Runtime: 94 min
Director: Jason Reitman
Writer: Diablo Cody
Actors: Charlize Theron, Patrick Wilson, Patton Oswalt
Language: English
Fox Searchlight
The Artist

Michel Hazanavicius, 2011

An egomaniacal film star develops a relationship with a young dancer against the backdrop of Hollywood's silent era.
Runtime: 100 min
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Writer: Michel Hazanavicius
Actors: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman
Language: English, French
Best Picture
Martha Marcy May Marlene

Sean Durkin, 2011

Haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia, a damaged woman struggles to re-assimilate with her family after fleeing an abusive cult.
Runtime: 102 min
Director: Sean Durkin
Writer: Sean Durkin
Actors: Elizabeth Olsen, Sarah Paulson, John Hawkes
Language: English
Fox Searchlight
Puss in Boots

Chris Miller, 2011

An outlaw cat, his childhood egg-friend, and a seductive thief kitty set out in search for the eggs of the fabled Golden Goose to clear his name, restore his lost honor, and regain the trust of his mother and town.
Runtime: 90 min
Director: Chris Miller
Writer: Tom Wheeler, Brian Lynch, William Davies
Actors: Antonio Banderas, Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis
Language: English, Spanish
Shrek
Young Adult (duplicate)

Jason Reitman, 2011

Soon after her divorce, a fiction writer returns to her home in small-town Minnesota, looking to rekindle a romance with her ex-boyfriend who is now happily married and has a newborn daughter.
Runtime: 94 min
Director: Jason Reitman
Writer: Diablo Cody
Actors: Charlize Theron, Patrick Wilson, Patton Oswalt
Language: English
Inception

Christopher Nolan, 2010

A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O., but his tragic past may doom the project and his team to disaster.
Runtime: 148 min
Director: Christopher Nolan
Writer: Christopher Nolan
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Elliot Page
Language: English, Japanese, French
127 Hours

Danny Boyle, 2010

A mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive.
Runtime: 94 min
Director: Danny Boyle
Writer: Danny Boyle, Simon Beaufoy, Aron Ralston
Actors: James Franco, Amber Tamblyn, Kate Mara
Language: English, Italian
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Black Swan

Darren Aronofsky, 2010

Nina is a talented but unstable ballerina on the verge of stardom. Pushed to the breaking point by her artistic director and a seductive rival, Nina's grip on reality slips, plunging her into a waking nightmare.
Runtime: 108 min
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Writer: Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, John J. McLaughlin
Actors: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel
Language: English, French, Italian
Fox Searchlight
The Secret World of Arrietty

Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 2010

The Clock family are four-inch-tall people who live anonymously in another family's residence, borrowing simple items to make their home. Life changes for the Clocks when their teenage daughter Arrietty is discovered.
Runtime: 94 min
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
Writer: Mary Norton, Hayao Miyazaki, Keiko Niwa
Actors: Bridgit Mendler, Amy Poehler, Will Arnett
Language: Japanese
Boy

Taika Waititi, 2010

Boy, an 11-year-old child and devout Michael Jackson fan who lives on the east coast of New Zealand in 1984, gets a chance to know his absentee criminal father, who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years ago.
Runtime: 87 min
Director: Taika Waititi
Writer: Taika Waititi
Actors: James Rolleston, Te Aho Eketone-Whitu, Taika Waititi
Language: English, Maori
Kick-Ass

Matthew Vaughn, 2010

Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a superhero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.
Runtime: 117 min
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Writer: Jane Goldman, Matthew Vaughn, Mark Millar
Actors: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Nicolas Cage, Chloë Grace Moretz
Language: English
Burlesque

Steve Antin, 2010

A small-town girl ventures to Los Angeles and finds her place in a neo-burlesque club run by a former dancer.
Runtime: 119 min
Director: Steve Antin
Writer: Steve Antin
Actors: Cher, Christina Aguilera, Alan Cumming
Language: English, Ukrainian
Toy Story 3

Lee Unkrich, 2010

The toys are mistakenly delivered to a day-care center instead of the attic right before Andy leaves for college, and it's up to Woody to convince the other toys that they weren't abandoned and to return home.
Runtime: 103 min
Director: Lee Unkrich
Writer: John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich
Actors: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack
Language: English, Spanish
Pixar
The King's Speech

Tom Hooper, 2010

The story of King George VI, his unexpected ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.
Runtime: 118 min
Director: Tom Hooper
Writer: David Seidler
Actors: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter
Language: English
Best Picture
Step Up 3

Jon M. Chu, 2010

A tight-knit group of New York City street dancers find themselves pitted against the world's best hip hop dancers in a high-stakes showdown.
Runtime: 107 min
Director: Jon M. Chu
Writer: Amy Andelson, Emily Meyer, Duane Adler
Actors: Sharni Vinson, Rick Malambri, Adam Sevani
Language: English
Shrek Forever After

Mike Mitchell, 2010

Rumpelstiltskin tricks a mid-life crisis burdened Shrek into allowing himself to be erased from existence and cast in a dark alternate timeline where Rumpelstiltskin rules supreme.
Runtime: 93 min
Director: Mike Mitchell
Writer: Josh Klausner, Darren Lemke, William Steig
Actors: Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy
Language: English
Shrek

2000s

The Princess and the Frog

Ron Clements, John Musker, 2009

A waitress, desperate to fulfill her dreams as a restaurant owner, is set on a journey to turn a frog prince back into a human being, but she has to face the same problem after she kisses him.
Runtime: 97 min
Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
Writer: Ron Clements, John Musker, Greg Erb
Actors: Anika Noni Rose, Keith David, Oprah Winfrey
Language: English, French
Disney
(500) Days of Summer

Marc Webb, 2009

After being dumped by the girl he believes to be his soulmate, hopeless romantic Tom Hansen reflects on their relationship to try and figure out where things went wrong and how he can win her back.
Runtime: 95 min
Director: Marc Webb
Writer: Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber
Actors: Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Geoffrey Arend
Language: English, French, Swedish
Fox Searchlight
Crazy Heart

Scott Cooper, 2009

A faded country music musician is forced to reassess his dysfunctional life during a doomed romance that also inspires him.
Runtime: 112 min
Director: Scott Cooper
Writer: Scott Cooper, Thomas Cobb
Actors: Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Colin Farrell
Language: English, Spanish
Fox Searchlight
Up

Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, 2009

78-year-old Carl Fredricksen travels to Paradise Falls in his house equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway.
Runtime: 96 min
Director: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson
Writer: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy
Actors: Edward Asner, Jordan Nagai, John Ratzenberger
Language: English
X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Gavin Hood, 2009

The early years of James Logan, featuring his rivalry with his brother Victor Creed, his service in the special forces team Weapon X, and his experimentation into the metal-lined mutant Wolverine.
Runtime: 107 min
Director: Gavin Hood
Writer: David Benioff, Skip Woods
Actors: Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds
Language: English
X-Men
An Education

Lone Scherfig, 2009

A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.
Runtime: 100 min
Director: Lone Scherfig
Writer: Lynn Barber, Nick Hornby
Actors: Carey Mulligan, Peter Sarsgaard, Alfred Molina
Language: English, French
Fame

Kevin Tancharoen, 2009

An updated version of the musical Fame (1980), which centered on the students of the New York Academy of Performing Arts. The name of the school in 1980 was Fiorello Laguardia High School.
Runtime: 107 min
Director: Kevin Tancharoen
Writer: Allison Burnett, Christopher Gore
Actors: Kelsey Grammer, Bebe Neuwirth, Megan Mullally
Language: English
Fantastic Mr Fox

Wes Anderson, 2009

An urbane fox cannot resist returning to his farm raiding ways and then must help his community survive the farmers' retaliation.
Runtime: 87 min
Director: Wes Anderson
Writer: Roald Dahl, Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach
Actors: George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Bill Murray
Language: English, French
Fox Searchlight
Wes Anderson
Fast & Furious

Justin Lin, 2009

Brian O'Conner, back working for the FBI in Los Angeles, teams up with Dominic Toretto to bring down a heroin importer by infiltrating his operation.
Runtime: 107 min
Director: Justin Lin
Writer: Chris Morgan, Gary Scott Thompson
Actors: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez
Language: English, Spanish
The Fast and the Furious
In the Loop

Armando Iannucci, 2009

A political satire about a group of skeptical American and British operatives attempting to prevent a war between two countries.
Runtime: 106 min
Director: Armando Iannucci
Writer: Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci
Actors: Tom Hollander, Peter Capaldi, James Gandolfini
Language: English
Inglourious Basterds

Quentin Tarantino, 2009

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.
Runtime: 153 min
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Writer: Quentin Tarantino
Actors: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth
Language: English, German, French, Italian
Nine

Rob Marshall, 2009

Famous film director Guido Contini struggles to find harmony in his professional and personal lives, as he engages in dramatic relationships with his wife, his mistress, his muse, his agent, and his mother.
Runtime: 118 min
Director: Rob Marshall
Writer: Michael Tolkin, Anthony Minghella, Arthur Kopit
Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz
Language: English, Italian, French
Musicals
Notorious

George Tillman Jr., 2009

The life and death story of The Notorious B.I.G. (a.k.a. Christopher Wallace), who came straight out of Brooklyn to take the world of rap music by storm.
Runtime: 122 min
Director: George Tillman Jr.
Writer: Reggie Rock Bythewood, Cheo Hodari Coker
Actors: Jamal Woolard, Anthony Mackie, Derek Luke
Language: English
Fox Searchlight
Watchmen

Zack Snyder, 2009

In 1985 where former superheroes exist, the murder of a colleague sends active vigilante Rorschach into his own sprawling investigation, uncovering something that could completely change the course of history as we know it.
Runtime: 162 min
Director: Zack Snyder
Writer: Dave Gibbons, David Hayter, Alex Tse
Actors: Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Wilson, Carla Gugino
Language: English
Amelia

Mira Nair, 2009

A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 in an attempt to make a flight around the world.
Runtime: 111 min
Director: Mira Nair
Writer: Ron Bass, Anna Hamilton Phelan, Susan Butler
Actors: Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor
Language: English
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Avatar

James Cameron, 2009

A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.
Runtime: 162 min
Director: James Cameron
Writer: James Cameron
Actors: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver
Language: English, Spanish
The Dark Knight

Christopher Nolan, 2008

When the menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, Batman must accept one of the greatest psychological and physical tests of his ability to fight injustice.
Runtime: 152 min
Director: Christopher Nolan
Writer: Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan, David S. Goyer
Actors: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart
Language: English, Mandarin
Burn After Reading

Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, 2008

A disk containing mysterious information from a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous and daft gym employees who attempt to sell it.
Runtime: 96 min
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Writer: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Actors: Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, George Clooney
Language: English
Slumdog Millionaire

Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan, 2008

A Mumbai teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"
Runtime: 120 min
Director: Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan
Writer: Simon Beaufoy, Vikas Swarup
Actors: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Saurabh Shukla
Language: English, Hindi, French, German
Best Picture
Fox Searchlight
Quantum of Solace

Marc Forster, 2008

James Bond descends into mystery as he tries to stop a mysterious organisation from eliminating a country's most valuable resource.
Runtime: 106 min
Director: Marc Forster
Writer: Paul Haggis, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade
Actors: Daniel Craig, Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric
Language: English, Spanish, Italian, French, Swiss German, German
James Bond
Dolphins & Whales 3D

Jean-Jacques Mantello, 2008

This documentary goes to coral reefs of the Bahamas and the waters of the Kingdom of Tonga for a close encounter with the surviving tribes of the ocean: wild dolphins and belugas, the love of a Humpback mother for her newborn calf...
Runtime: 42 min
Director: Jean-Jacques Mantello
Writer: Jon Michael Johnson, Elisabeth Mantello
Actors: Daryl Hannah, Charlotte Rampling
Language: English
Ponyo

Hayao Miyazaki, 2008

A five-year-old boy develops a relationship with Ponyo, a young goldfish princess who longs to become a human after falling in love with him.
Runtime: 101 min
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Writer: Hayao Miyazaki, Melissa Mathison
Actors: Cate Blanchett, Matt Damon, Liam Neeson
Language: English, Japanese
Australia

Baz Luhrmann, 2008

Set in northern Australia before WWII, an Englishwoman who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscapes.
Runtime: 165 min
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Writer: Stuart Beattie, Baz Luhrmann, Ronald Harwood
Actors: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Shea Adams
Language: English, Aboriginal, Chinese, Japanese
Che Part One: The Argentine

Steven Soderbergh, 2008

In 1956, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and a band of Castro-led Cuban exiles mobilize an army to topple the regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.
Runtime: 134 min
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writer: Peter Buchman, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
Actors: Julia Ormond, Benicio Del Toro, Oscar Isaac
Language: Spanish, English
Che Part Two: Guerilla

Steven Soderbergh, 2008

In 1967, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara leads a small partisan army to fight an ill-fated revolutionary guerrilla war in Bolivia, South America.
Runtime: 135 min
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writer: Peter Buchman, Benjamin A. van der Veen, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
Actors: Demián Bichir, Rodrigo Santoro, Benicio Del Toro
Language: Spanish, English
Jumper

Doug Liman, 2008

A young man with teleportation abilities suddenly finds himself in the middle of an ancient war between those like him and their sworn annihilators.
Runtime: 88 min
Director: Doug Liman
Writer: David S. Goyer, Jim Uhls, Simon Kinberg
Actors: Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, Jamie Bell
Language: English, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin
Mamma Mia!

Phyllida Lloyd, 2008

The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told using hit songs by the popular 1970s group ABBA.
Runtime: 108 min
Director: Phyllida Lloyd
Writer: Catherine Johnson
Actors: Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Amanda Seyfried
Language: English, Greek
Musicals
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

Rob Cohen, 2008

In the Far East, Alex O'Connell, the son of famed mummy fighters Rick and Evy O'Connell, unearths the mummy of the first Emperor of Qin -- a shape-shifting entity cursed by a witch centuries ago.
Runtime: 112 min
Director: Rob Cohen
Writer: Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, John L. Balderston
Actors: Brendan Fraser, Jet Li, Maria Bello
Language: English, Mandarin, Sanskrit
Repo! The Genetic Opera

Darren Lynn Bousman, 2008

A worldwide epidemic encourages a biotech company to launch an organ-financing program similar in nature to a standard car loan. The repossession clause is a killer, however.
Runtime: 98 min
Director: Darren Lynn Bousman
Writer: Darren Smith, Terrance Zdunich
Actors: Paul Sorvino, Anthony Head, Alexa PenaVega
Language: English
Musicals
The Hurt Locker

Kathryn Bigelow, 2008

During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.
Runtime: 131 min
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Writer: Mark Boal
Actors: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty
Language: English, Arabic
Best Picture
Synecdoche, New York

Charlie Kaufman, 2008

A theatre director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he creates a life-size replica of New York City inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
Runtime: 124 min
Director: Charlie Kaufman
Writer: Charlie Kaufman
Actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams
Language: English, German
Atonement

Joe Wright, 2007

Thirteen-year-old fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
Runtime: 123 min
Director: Joe Wright
Writer: Ian McEwan, Christopher Hampton
Actors: Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Brenda Blethyn
Language: English, French
Juno

Jason Reitman, 2007

Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes a selfless decision regarding the unborn child.
Runtime: 96 min
Director: Jason Reitman
Writer: Diablo Cody
Actors: Elliot Page, Michael Cera, Jennifer Garner
Language: English, Spanish
Fox Searchlight
Once

John Carney, 2007

A modern-day musical about a busker and an immigrant and their eventful week in Dublin, as they write, rehearse and record songs that tell their love story.
Runtime: 86 min
Director: John Carney
Writer: John Carney
Actors: Glen Hansard, Markéta Irglová, Hugh Walsh
Language: English, Czech
Commended
Musicals
Fox Searchlight
Die Hard 4.0

Len Wiseman, 2007

John McClane and a young hacker join forces to take down master cyber-terrorist Thomas Gabriel in Washington D.C.
Runtime: 128 min
Director: Len Wiseman
Writer: John Carlin, Roderick Thorp, Mark Bomback
Actors: Bruce Willis, Justin Long, Timothy Olyphant
Language: English, Italian, French
Die Hard
La Vie En Rose

Olivier Dahan, 2007

Biopic of the iconic French singer Édith Piaf. Raised by her grandmother in a brothel, she was discovered while singing on a street corner at the age of 19. Despite her success, Piaf's life was filled with tragedy.
Runtime: 140 min
Director: Olivier Dahan
Writer: Isabelle Sobelman, Olivier Dahan
Actors: Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory
Language: French, English
Persepolis

Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi, 2007

A precocious and outspoken Iranian girl grows up during the Islamic Revolution.
Runtime: 96 min
Director: Vincent Paronnaud, Marjane Satrapi
Writer: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
Actors: Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Gena Rowlands
Language: French, English, Persian, German
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End

Gore Verbinski, 2007

Captain Barbossa, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann must sail off the edge of the map, navigate treachery and betrayal, find Jack Sparrow, and make their final alliances for one last decisive battle.
Runtime: 169 min
Director: Gore Verbinski
Writer: Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Stuart Beattie
Actors: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley
Language: English
Pirates of the Caribbean
Spider-Man 3

Sam Raimi, 2007

A strange black entity from another world bonds with Peter Parker and causes inner turmoil as he contends with new villains, temptations, and revenge.
Runtime: 139 min
Director: Sam Raimi
Writer: Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi, Alvin Sargent
Actors: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Topher Grace
Language: English, French
Spider-Man
Stardust

Matthew Vaughn, 2007

In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm.
Runtime: 127 min
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Writer: Jane Goldman, Matthew Vaughn, Neil Gaiman
Actors: Charlie Cox, Claire Danes, Sienna Miller
Language: English
Hairspray

Adam Shankman, 2007

Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.
Runtime: 117 min
Director: Adam Shankman
Writer: Leslie Dixon, John Waters, Mark O'Donnell
Actors: John Travolta, Queen Latifah, Nikki Blonsky
Language: English
Musicals
28 Weeks Later

Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, 2007

Six months after the rage virus was inflicted on the population of Great Britain, the US Army helps to secure a small area of London for the survivors to repopulate and start again. But not everything goes according to plan.
Runtime: 100 min
Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Writer: Rowan Joffe, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Enrique López Lavigne
Actors: Jeremy Renner, Rose Byrne, Robert Carlyle
Language: English
Fox Searchlight
No Country for Old Men

Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, 2007

Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.
Runtime: 122 min
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Writer: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Cormac McCarthy
Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin
Language: English, Spanish
Best Picture
Sunshine

Danny Boyle, 2007

A team of international astronauts is sent on a dangerous mission to reignite the dying Sun with a nuclear fission bomb in 2057.
Runtime: 107 min
Director: Danny Boyle
Writer: Alex Garland
Actors: Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne, Chris Evans
Language: English
Fox Searchlight
Shrek the Third

Chris Miller, Raman Hui, 2007

Reluctantly designated as the heir to the land of Far, Far Away, Shrek hatches a plan to install the rebellious Artie as the new king while Princess Fiona tries to fend off a coup d'état by the jilted Prince Charming.
Runtime: 93 min
Director: Chris Miller, Raman Hui
Writer: William Steig, Andrew Adamson, Jeffrey Price
Actors: Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy
Language: English
Shrek
The Darjeeling Limited

Wes Anderson, 2007

A year after their father's funeral, three brothers travel across India by train in an attempt to bond with each other.
Runtime: 91 min
Director: Wes Anderson
Writer: Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman
Actors: Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman
Language: English, Hindi, German, Punjabi, Tibetan, French
Fox Searchlight
Wes Anderson
The Prestige

Christopher Nolan, 2006

After a tragic accident, two stage magicians in 1890s London engage in a battle to create the ultimate illusion while sacrificing everything they have to outwit each other.
Runtime: 130 min
Director: Christopher Nolan
Writer: Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan, Christopher Priest
Actors: Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson
Language: English
Little Miss Sunshine

Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris, 2006

A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus.
Runtime: 101 min
Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Writer: Michael Arndt
Actors: Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Greg Kinnear
Language: English
Fox Searchlight
The Last King of Scotland

Kevin Macdonald, 2006

Based on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s.
Runtime: 123 min
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Writer: Peter Morgan, Jeremy Brock, Giles Foden
Actors: James McAvoy, Forest Whitaker, Gillian Anderson
Language: English, French, German, Swahili
Fox Searchlight
Casino Royale

Martin Campbell, 2006

After earning 00 status and a licence to kill, secret agent James Bond sets out on his first mission as 007. Bond must defeat a private banker funding terrorists in a high-stakes game of poker at Casino Royale, Montenegro.
Runtime: 144 min
Director: Martin Campbell
Writer: Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Paul Haggis
Actors: Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Judi Dench
Language: English, Serbian, German, Italian, French
James Bond
Commended
Tales From Earthsea

Gorô Miyazaki, 2006

In a mythical land, a man and a young boy investigate a series of unusual occurrences.
Runtime: 115 min
Director: Gorô Miyazaki
Writer: Ursula K. Le Guin, Gorô Miyazaki, Keiko Niwa
Actors: Timothy Dalton, Willem Dafoe, Mariska Hargitay
Language: Japanese
Studio Ghibli
X-Men: The Last Stand

Brett Ratner, 2006

The human government develops a cure for mutations, and Jean Gray becomes a darker uncontrollable persona called the Phoenix who allies with Magneto, causing escalation into an all-out battle for the X-Men.
Runtime: 104 min
Director: Brett Ratner
Writer: Simon Kinberg, Zak Penn
Actors: Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry
Language: English
X-Men
Curse of the Golden Flower

Yimou Zhang, 2006

During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself.
Runtime: 114 min
Director: Yimou Zhang
Writer: Zhihong Bian, Yu Cao, Nan Wu
Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Gong Li, Jay Chou
Language: Mandarin
300

Zack Snyder, 2006

King Leonidas of Sparta and a force of 300 men fight the Persians at Thermopylae in 480 B.C.
Runtime: 117 min
Director: Zack Snyder
Writer: Zack Snyder, Kurt Johnstad, Michael B. Gordon
Actors: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham
Language: English
Children of Men

Alfonso Cuarón, 2006

In 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have somehow become infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea.
Runtime: 109 min
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Writer: Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata
Actors: Julianne Moore, Clive Owen, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Language: English, German, Italian, Romanian, Spanish, Arabic, Georgian, Russian, Serbian
All Time
The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift

Justin Lin, 2006

A teenager becomes a major competitor in the world of drift racing after moving in with his father in Tokyo to avoid a jail sentence in America.
Runtime: 104 min
Director: Justin Lin
Writer: Chris Morgan
Actors: Lucas Black, Zachery Ty Bryan, Shad Moss
Language: English, Japanese, Portuguese
The Fast and the Furious
Marie Antoinette

Sofia Coppola, 2006

The retelling of France's iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 14 to her reign as queen at 19 and to the end of her reign as queen, and ultimately the fall of Versailles.
Runtime: 123 min
Director: Sofia Coppola
Writer: Sofia Coppola
Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Rip Torn
Language: English, Latin, French
Commended
M:i:III

J.J. Abrams, 2006

IMF agent Ethan Hunt comes into conflict with a dangerous and sadistic arms dealer who threatens his life and his fiancée in response.
Runtime: 126 min
Director: J.J. Abrams
Writer: Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, J.J. Abrams
Actors: Tom Cruise, Michelle Monaghan, Ving Rhames
Language: English, Italian, Mandarin, Cantonese, German, Czech
Day Watch

Timur Bekmambetov, 2006

A man who serves in the war between the forces of Light and Dark comes into possession of a device that can restore life to Moscow, which was nearly destroyed by an apocalyptic event.
Runtime: 132 min
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Writer: Timur Bekmambetov, Sergey Lukyanenko, Alexander Talal
Actors: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Mariya Poroshina, Vladimir Menshov
Language: Russian
Fox Searchlight
Pan's Labyrinth

Guillermo del Toro, 2006

In the Falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.
Runtime: 118 min
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Writer: Guillermo del Toro
Actors: Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi López
Language: Spanish
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Gore Verbinski, 2006

Jack Sparrow races to recover the heart of Davy Jones to avoid enslaving his soul to Jones' service, as other friends and foes seek the heart for their own agenda as well.
Runtime: 151 min
Director: Gore Verbinski
Writer: Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Stuart Beattie
Actors: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley
Language: English, Turkish, Greek, Mandarin, French
Pirates of the Caribbean
Rocky Balboa

Sylvester Stallone, 2006

Thirty years after the ring of the first bell, Rocky Balboa comes out of retirement and dons his gloves for his final fight against the reigning heavyweight champ Mason 'The Line' Dixon.
Runtime: 102 min
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Writer: Sylvester Stallone
Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Tarver, Milo Ventimiglia
Language: English, Spanish
Snakes on a Plane

David R. Ellis, 2006

An FBI agent takes on a plane full of deadly venomous snakes, deliberately released to kill a witness being flown from Honolulu to Los Angeles to testify against a mob boss.
Runtime: 105 min
Director: David R. Ellis
Writer: John Heffernan, Sebastian Gutierrez, Shamuelle David D'Alessandro
Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Julianna Margulies, Nathan Phillips
Language: English
Step Up

Anne Fletcher, 2006

Tyler Gage receives the opportunity of a lifetime after vandalizing a performing arts school, gaining him the chance to earn a scholarship and dance with an up and coming dancer, Nora.
Runtime: 104 min
Director: Anne Fletcher
Writer: Duane Adler, Melissa Rosenberg
Actors: Channing Tatum, Jenna Dewan, Damaine Radcliff
Language: English
Smokin' Aces

Joe Carnahan, 2006

When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob, it seems that a whole lot of people would like to make sure he's no longer breathing.
Runtime: 108 min
Director: Joe Carnahan
Writer: Joe Carnahan
Actors: Jeremy Piven, Ryan Reynolds, Ray Liotta
Language: English, Spanish
The Last Kiss

Tony Goldwyn, 2006

Michael, at 30, has a great job, still have his four best friends, and has a beautiful girlfriend, but his life seems predictable. Until he meets a college girl. It seems that everybody's having relationship problems.
Runtime: 104 min
Director: Tony Goldwyn
Writer: Paul Haggis, Gabriele Muccino
Actors: Zach Braff, Jacinda Barrett, Rachel Bilson
Language: English
The Departed

Martin Scorsese, 2006

An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.
Runtime: 151 min
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writer: William Monahan, Alan Mak, Felix Chong
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson
Language: English, Cantonese
Best Picture
Southland Tales

Richard Kelly, 2006

During a three-day heat wave just before a huge 4th of July celebration, an action star stricken with amnesia meets up with a porn star who is developing her own reality TV project, and a policeman who holds the key to a vast cons...
Runtime: 145 min
Director: Richard Kelly
Writer: Richard Kelly
Actors: Dwayne Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seann William Scott
Language: English
A Scanner Darkly 

Richard Linklater, 2006

An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.
Runtime: 100 min
Director: Richard Linklater
Writer: Philip K. Dick, Richard Linklater
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr.
Language: English
Batman Begins

Christopher Nolan, 2005

After witnessing his parents' death, Bruce learns the art of fighting to confront injustice. When he returns to Gotham as Batman, he must stop a secret society that intends to destroy the city.
Runtime: 140 min
Director: Christopher Nolan
Writer: Bob Kane, David S. Goyer, Christopher Nolan
Actors: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Ken Watanabe
Language: English, Mandarin
Kronk's New Groove

Saul Blinkoff, Elliot M. Bour, 2005

Kronk desperately tries to find ways to impress his dad, whom he can never please. But when things go wrong, Kronk kicks into comical gear and discovers the true riches in life are his friends and being "true to your groove".
Runtime: 75 min
Director: Saul Blinkoff, Elliot M. Bour
Writer: Tony Leondis (story by), Michael LaBash (story by), Tom Rogers (story by), Tom Rogers (screenplay by), Michael Lucker
Actors: Patrick Warburton, Tracey Ullman, Eartha Kitt, David Spade
Language: English
Disney
Lilo & Stitch: Stitch Has a Glitch

Michael LaBash, Tony Leondis, 2005

A malfunction threatens to destroy Stitch and his friendship with Lilo!
Runtime: 68 min
Director: Michael LaBash, Tony Leondis
Writer: Tony Leondis (screenplay by), Michael LaBash (screenplay by), Eddie Guzelian (screenplay by), Alexa Junge (screenplay by)
Actors: Chris Sanders, Dakota Fanning, Tia Carrere, David Ogden Stiers
Language: English, French, Spanish
Disney
Brokeback Mountain

Ang Lee, 2005

Ennis and Jack are two shepherds who develop a sexual and emotional relationship. Their relationship becomes complicated when both of them get married to their respective girlfriends.
Runtime: 134 min
Director: Ang Lee
Writer: Annie Proulx, Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana
Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams
Language: English, Spanish
Pride & Prejudice

Joe Wright, 2005

Sparks fly when spirited Elizabeth Bennet meets single, rich, and proud Mr. Darcy. But Mr. Darcy reluctantly finds himself falling in love with a woman beneath his class. Can each overcome their own pride and prejudice?
Runtime: 129 min
Director: Joe Wright
Writer: Deborah Moggach, Jane Austen, Emma Thompson
Actors: Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Brenda Blethyn
Language: English
Star Wars - Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

George Lucas, 2005

Three years into the Clone Wars, Obi-Wan pursues a new threat, while Anakin is lured by Chancellor Palpatine into a sinister plot to rule the galaxy.
Runtime: 140 min
Director: George Lucas
Writer: George Lucas, John Ostrander, Jan Duursema
Actors: Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor
Language: English
Star Wars
Transporter 2

Louis Leterrier, 2005

Transporter Frank Martin, surfaces in Miami, Florida and is implicated in the kidnapping of the young son of a powerful USA official.
Runtime: 87 min
Director: Louis Leterrier
Writer: Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen
Actors: Jason Statham, Amber Valletta, Kate Nauta
Language: English, French, Italian
Russian Dolls

Cédric Klapisch, 2005

Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.
Runtime: 125 min
Director: Cédric Klapisch
Writer: Cédric Klapisch
Actors: Romain Duris, Kelly Reilly, Audrey Tautou
Language: French, Russian, English, Spanish, Italian
Broken Flowers

Jim Jarmusch, 2005

As the extremely withdrawn Don Johnston is dumped by his latest woman, he receives an anonymous letter from a former lover informing him that he has a son who may be looking for him. A freelance sleuth neighbor moves Don to embark...
Runtime: 106 min
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Writer: Jim Jarmusch, Bill Raden, Sara Driver
Actors: Bill Murray, Jessica Lange, Sharon Stone
Language: English
Jim Jarmusch
V for Vendetta

James McTeigue, 2005

In a future British dystopian society, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow the tyrannical government - with the help of a young woman.
Runtime: 132 min
Director: James McTeigue
Writer: Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, David Lloyd
Actors: Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman, Rupert Graves
Language: English, French, Latin, Spanish
Serenity

Joss Whedon, 2005

The crew of the ship Serenity try to evade an assassin sent to recapture telepath River.
Runtime: 119 min
Director: Joss Whedon
Writer: Joss Whedon
Actors: Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Chiwetel Ejiofor
Language: English, Mandarin
Mulan II

Darrell Rooney, Lynne Southerland, 2004

While preparing for their wedding, Shang and Mulan are suddenly sent off on a secret mission. Mushu starts to meddle, and a surprise attack by Mongolians doesn't help either.
Runtime: 79 min
Director: Darrell Rooney, Lynne Southerland
Writer: Michael Lucker (screenplay), Chris Parker (screenplay), Roger S.H. Schulman (screenplay)
Actors: Ming-Na Wen, BD Wong, Mark Moseley, Lucy Liu
Language: English
Disney
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Michel Gondry, 2004

When their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories for ever.
Runtime: 108 min
Director: Michel Gondry
Writer: Charlie Kaufman, Michel Gondry, Pierre Bismuth
Actors: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson
Language: English
All Time
Garden State

Zach Braff, 2004

A quietly troubled young man returns home for his mother's funeral after being estranged from his family for a decade.
Runtime: 102 min
Director: Zach Braff
Writer: Zach Braff
Actors: Zach Braff, Peter Sarsgaard, Natalie Portman
Language: English, Klingon
Commended
Fox Searchlight
Napoleon Dynamite

Jared Hess, 2004

A listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home.
Runtime: 96 min
Director: Jared Hess
Writer: Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess
Actors: Jon Heder, Efren Ramirez, Jon Gries
Language: English
Fox Searchlight
Sideways

Alexander Payne, 2004

Two men reaching middle age with not much to show but disappointment embark on a week-long road trip through California's wine country, just as one is about to take a trip down the aisle.
Runtime: 127 min
Director: Alexander Payne
Writer: Rex Pickett, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
Actors: Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen
Language: English, Armenian, French
Fox Searchlight
Sharks 3D

Jean-Jacques Mantello, 2004

Jean-Michel Cousteau invites you to embark on a breathtaking underwater voyage to discover the ultimate predator: the shark. Experience an astonishing up-close encounter in 3D with the Lions and Tigers of the Ocean.
Runtime: 42 min
Director: Jean-Jacques Mantello
Writer: David Chocron
Actors: Geoffrey Bateman
Language: English
Howl's Moving Castle

Hayao Miyazaki, 2004

When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking castle.
Runtime: 119 min
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Writer: Hayao Miyazaki, Diana Wynne Jones
Actors: Chieko Baishô, Takuya Kimura, Tatsuya Gashûin
Language: Japanese
Studio Ghibli
Closer

Mike Nichols, 2004

The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.
Runtime: 104 min
Director: Mike Nichols
Writer: Patrick Marber
Actors: Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Clive Owen
Language: English
All Time
Ghost in the Shell: Innocence

Mamoru Oshii, 2004

In the year 2032, Batô, a cyborg detective for the anti-terrorist unit Public Security Section 9, investigates the case of a female robot--one created solely for sexual pleasure--who slaughtered her owner.
Runtime: 100 min
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Shirow Masamune, Mamoru Oshii, Richard Epcar
Actors: Akio Ôtsuka, Atsuko Tanaka, Tamio Ôki
Language: Japanese, Cantonese, English
Kill Bill: Vol 2

Quentin Tarantino, 2004

The Bride continues her quest of vengeance against her former boss and lover Bill, the reclusive bouncer Budd, and the treacherous, one-eyed Elle.
Runtime: 137 min
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Writer: Quentin Tarantino, Uma Thurman
Actors: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Michael Madsen
Language: English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Spanish
Mean Girls

Mark Waters, 2004

Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George.
Runtime: 97 min
Director: Mark Waters
Writer: Rosalind Wiseman, Tina Fey
Actors: Lindsay Lohan, Jonathan Bennett, Rachel McAdams
Language: English, German, Vietnamese, Swahili
Night Watch

Timur Bekmambetov, 2004

A fantasy-thriller set in present-day Moscow where the respective forces that control daytime and nighttime do battle.
Runtime: 114 min
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Writer: Timur Bekmambetov, Laeta Kalogridis, Sergey Lukyanenko
Actors: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Vladimir Menshov, Mariya Poroshina
Language: Russian, German
Fox Searchlight
Spider-Man 2

Sam Raimi, 2004

Peter Parker is beset with troubles in his failing personal life as he battles a brilliant scientist named Doctor Otto Octavius.
Runtime: 127 min
Director: Sam Raimi
Writer: Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, Alfred Gough
Actors: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Alfred Molina
Language: English, Russian, Chinese
Spider-Man
Commended
Crash

Paul Haggis, 2004

Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.
Runtime: 112 min
Director: Paul Haggis
Writer: Paul Haggis, Bobby Moresco
Actors: Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Thandiwe Newton
Language: English, Persian, Spanish, Mandarin, Korean
Best Picture
Before Sunset

Richard Linklater, 2004

Nine years after Jesse and Celine first met, they encounter each other again on the French leg of Jesse's book tour.
Runtime: 80 min
Director: Richard Linklater
Writer: Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
Actors: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Vernon Dobtcheff
Language: English, French
Million Dollar Baby

Clint Eastwood, 2004

Frankie, an ill-tempered old coach, reluctantly agrees to train aspiring boxer Maggie. Impressed with her determination and talent, he helps her become the best and the two soon form a close bond.
Runtime: 132 min
Director: Clint Eastwood
Writer: Paul Haggis, F.X. Toole
Actors: Hilary Swank, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman
Language: English, Irish Gaelic
Best Picture
2046 (temp)

Kar-Wai Wong, 2004

Several women enter a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years, after the author has lost the woman he considers his one true love.
Runtime: 129 min
Director: Kar-Wai Wong
Writer: Kar-Wai Wong
Actors: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Ziyi Zhang, Faye Wong
Language: Cantonese, Japanese, Mandarin
Wong Kar-Wai
Shrek 2

Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, Conrad Vernon, 2004

Shrek and Fiona travel to the Kingdom of Far Far Away, where Fiona's parents are King and Queen, to celebrate their marriage. When they arrive, they find they are not as welcome as they thought they would be.
Runtime: 93 min
Director: Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury, Conrad Vernon
Writer: William Steig, Andrew Adamson, Joe Stillman
Actors: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz
Language: English
Shrek
Lost in Translation

Sofia Coppola, 2003

A faded movie star and a neglected young woman form an unlikely bond after crossing paths in Tokyo.
Runtime: 102 min
Director: Sofia Coppola
Writer: Sofia Coppola
Actors: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi
Language: English, Japanese, German, French
All Time
Ocean Wonderland 3D

Jean-Jacques Mantello, 2003

In an increasingly hurried and busy world, it is important to take time out to relax, to recharge one's batteries, chill out and perhaps enjoy a little self-indulgence.Come and enjoy the underwater world and experience the sublime...
Runtime: 41 min
Director: Jean-Jacques Mantello
Writer: David Chocron, Mark Spalding
Actors: Geoffrey Bateman
Language: English
X2

Bryan Singer, 2003

When anti-mutant Colonel William Stryker kidnaps Professor X and attacks his school, the X-Men must ally with their archenemy Magneto to stop him.
Runtime: 134 min
Director: Bryan Singer
Writer: Zak Penn, David Hayter, Bryan Singer
Actors: Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry
Language: English, German, Italian, Spanish
X-Men
Big Fish

Tim Burton, 2003

A frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life.
Runtime: 125 min
Director: Tim Burton
Writer: Daniel Wallace, John August
Actors: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup
Language: English, Cantonese
All Time
Cold Mountain

Anthony Minghella, 2003

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.
Runtime: 154 min
Director: Anthony Minghella
Writer: Charles Frazier, Anthony Minghella
Actors: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger
Language: English
2 Fast 2 Furious

John Singleton, 2003

Former cop Brian O'Conner is called upon to bust a dangerous criminal and he recruits the help of a former childhood friend and street racer who has a chance to redeem himself.
Runtime: 107 min
Director: John Singleton
Writer: Gary Scott Thompson, Michael Brandt, Derek Haas
Actors: Paul Walker, Tyrese Gibson, Cole Hauser
Language: English, Spanish
The Fast and the Furious
Kill Bill: Vol 1

Quentin Tarantino, 2003

After awakening from a four-year coma, a former assassin wreaks vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her.
Runtime: 111 min
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Writer: Quentin Tarantino, Uma Thurman
Actors: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah
Language: English, Japanese, French
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Peter Jackson, 2003

Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.
Runtime: 201 min
Director: Peter Jackson
Writer: J.R.R. Tolkien, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens
Actors: Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen
Language: English, Quenya, Old English, Sindarin
Commended
Best Picture
Love Actually

Richard Curtis, 2003

Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.
Runtime: 135 min
Director: Richard Curtis
Writer: Richard Curtis
Actors: Hugh Grant, Martine McCutcheon, Liam Neeson
Language: English, Portuguese, French
Christmas
The Animatrix

Peter Chung, Andrew R. Jones, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Takeshi Koike, Mahiro Maeda, Kôji Morimoto, Shin'ichirô Watanabe, 2003

A collection of nine short films featuring stories related to The Matrix (1999).
Runtime: 100 min
Director: Peter Chung, Andrew R. Jones, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Takeshi Koike, Mahiro Maeda, Kôji Morimoto, Shin'ichirô Watanabe
Writer: Lilly Wachowski (screenplay "The Matrix"), Lana Wachowski (screenplay "The Matrix"), Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Kôji Morimoto, Shin'ichirô Watanabe, Peter Chung
Actors: James Arnold Taylor, Julia Fletcher, Dwight Schultz
Language: English, Japanese
Commended
The Matrix
The Matrix Reloaded

Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, 2003

Freedom fighters Neo, Trinity and Morpheus continue to lead the revolt against the Machine Army, unleashing their arsenal of extraordinary skills and weaponry against the systematic forces of repression and exploitation.
Runtime: 138 min
Director: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Writer: Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss
Language: English, French
Commended
The Matrix
The Matrix Revolutions

Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, 2003

The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith.
Runtime: 129 min
Director: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Writer: Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss
Language: English, French
The Matrix
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

Gore Verbinski, 2003

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.
Runtime: 143 min
Director: Gore Verbinski
Writer: Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Stuart Beattie
Actors: Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom
Language: English
Pirates of the Caribbean
Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life

Jan de Bont, 2003

Adventurer Lara Croft goes on a quest to save the mythical Pandora's Box, before an evil scientist finds it, and recruits a former Marine turned mercenary to assist her.
Runtime: 117 min
Director: Jan de Bont
Writer: Dean Georgaris, Steven E. de Souza, James V. Hart
Actors: Angelina Jolie, Gerard Butler, Chris Barrie
Language: English, Mandarin, Swahili, Greek, Russian
American Pie: The Wedding

Jesse Dylan, 2003

It's the wedding of Jim and Michelle and the gathering of their families and friends, including Jim's old friends from high school and Michelle's little sister.
Runtime: 96 min
Director: Jesse Dylan
Writer: Adam Herz
Actors: Jason Biggs, Alyson Hannigan, Seann William Scott
Language: English
Coffee and Cigarettes

Jim Jarmusch, 2003

A series of vignettes that all have coffee and cigarettes in common.
Runtime: 95 min
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Writer: Jim Jarmusch
Actors: Bill Murray, Tom Waits, Roberto Benigni
Language: English, French
Jim Jarmusch
Saraband

Ingmar Bergman, 2003

Marianne, some thirty years after divorcing Johan, decides to visit her ex-husband at his summer home. She arrives in the middle of a family drama between Johan's son from another marriage and his granddaughter.
Runtime: 107 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Börje Ahlstedt
Language: Swedish, English, German
Ingmar Bergman
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

Peter Weir, 2003

During the Napoleonic Wars, a brash British captain pushes his ship and crew to their limits in pursuit of a formidable French war vessel around South America.
Runtime: 138 min
Director: Peter Weir
Writer: Patrick O'Brian, Peter Weir, John Collee
Actors: Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, Billy Boyd
Language: English, French, Portuguese
Legally Blonde 2

Charles Herman-Wurmfeld, 2003

Elle Woods heads to Washington, D.C. to join the staff of a Representative in order to pass a bill to ban animal testing.
Runtime: 95 min
Director: Charles Herman-Wurmfeld
Writer: Amanda Brown, Eve Ahlert, Dennis Drake
Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Sally Field, Bob Newhart
Language: English
Infernal Affairs II

Wai Keung Lau, Alan Mak, 2003

In this prequel to Mou gaan dou (2002), Chan Wing Yan has just become an undercover cop in the triads while Lau Kin Ming joins the police force. Both the triads and the police find an enemy in a rival crime boss.
Runtime: 119 min
Director: Wai Keung Lau, Alan Mak
Writer: Alan Mak, Felix Chong
Actors: Edison Chen, Shawn Yue, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong
Language: Cantonese, English, Mandarin, Thai
Infernal Affairs III

Wai Keung Lau, Alan Mak, 2003

Months after the events of the original film, Ming suspects a police superintendent as being a new mole for the triads, while years earlier, Yan embarks on his first mission.
Runtime: 118 min
Director: Wai Keung Lau, Alan Mak
Writer: Alan Mak, Felix Chong
Actors: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Andy Lau, Leon Lai
Language: Cantonese, Mandarin
Lilo & Stitch

Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders, 2002

A young and parentless girl adopts a 'dog' from the local pound, completely unaware that it's supposedly a dangerous scientific experiment that's taken refuge on Earth and is now hiding from its creator and those who see it as a m...
Runtime: 85 min
Director: Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders
Writer: Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois
Actors: Daveigh Chase, Chris Sanders, Tia Carrere
Language: English, Hawaiian
Disney
The Hunchback of Notre Dame II

Bradley Raymond, 2002

Quasimodo goes into action when a magician seeks to steal one of the bells of Notre Dame.
Runtime: 68 min
Director: Bradley Raymond
Writer: Jule Selbo (screenplay by), Flip Kobler (screenplay by), Cindy Marcus (screenplay by)
Actors: Jason Alexander, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Tom Hulce, Paul Kandel
Language: English
Disney
28 Days Later

Danny Boyle, 2002

Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.
Runtime: 113 min
Director: Danny Boyle
Writer: Alex Garland
Actors: Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston
Language: English, Spanish
Fox Searchlight
Die Another Day

Lee Tamahori, 2002

James Bond is sent to investigate the connection between a North Korean terrorist and a diamond mogul, who is funding the development of an international space weapon.
Runtime: 133 min
Director: Lee Tamahori
Writer: Ian Fleming, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade
Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, Rosamund Pike
Language: English, Korean, Cantonese, Spanish, German, Icelandic, Italian, Arabic
James Bond
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

George Lucas, 2002

Ten years after initially meeting, Anakin Skywalker shares a forbidden romance with Padmé Amidala, while Obi-Wan Kenobi discovers a secret clone army crafted for the Jedi.
Runtime: 142 min
Director: George Lucas
Writer: George Lucas, Jonathan Hales
Actors: Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor
Language: English
Star Wars
The Cat Returns

Hiroyuki Morita, 2002

After helping a cat, a seventeen-year-old girl finds herself involuntarily engaged to a cat Prince in a magical world where her only hope of freedom lies with a dapper cat statuette come to life.
Runtime: 75 min
Director: Hiroyuki Morita
Writer: Aoi Hiiragi, Reiko Yoshida, Cindy Davis
Actors: Chizuru Ikewaki, Yoshihiko Hakamada, Aki Maeda
Language: Japanese
Studio Ghibli
24 Hour Party People

Michael Winterbottom, 2002

In 1976, Tony Wilson sets up Factory Records and brings Manchester's music to the world.
Runtime: 117 min
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Writer: Frank Cottrell Boyce
Actors: Steve Coogan, Lennie James, John Thomson
Language: English
Bend It Like Beckham

Gurinder Chadha, 2002

Two ambitious girls, despite their parents' wishes, have their hearts set on careers in professional football.
Runtime: 112 min
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Writer: Gurinder Chadha, Guljit Bindra, Paul Mayeda Berges
Actors: Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Language: English, Punjabi, Hindi, German
Fox Searchlight
Hero

Yimou Zhang, 2002

A defense officer, Nameless, was summoned by the King of Qin regarding his success of terminating three warriors.
Runtime: 120 min
Director: Yimou Zhang
Writer: Feng Li, Yimou Zhang, Bin Wang
Actors: Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung
Language: Mandarin
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Peter Jackson, 2002

While Frodo and Sam edge closer to Mordor with the help of the shifty Gollum, the divided fellowship makes a stand against Sauron's new ally, Saruman, and his hordes of Isengard.
Runtime: 179 min
Director: Peter Jackson
Writer: J.R.R. Tolkien, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens
Actors: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen
Language: English, Sindarin, Old English
All Time
Men in Black II

Barry Sonnenfeld, 2002

Agent Jay is sent to find Agent Kay and restore his memory after the re-appearance of a case from Kay's past.
Runtime: 88 min
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Writer: Lowell Cunningham, Robert Gordon, Barry Fanaro
Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Rip Torn
Language: English
Spider-Man

Sam Raimi, 2002

After being bitten by a genetically-modified spider, a shy teenager gains spider-like abilities that he uses to fight injustice as a masked superhero and face a vengeful enemy.
Runtime: 121 min
Director: Sam Raimi
Writer: Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, David Koepp
Actors: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, Willem Dafoe
Language: English
Spider-Man
All Time
The Transporter

Louis Leterrier, Corey Yuen, 2002

Frank Martin, who "transports" packages for unknown clients, is asked to move a package that soon begins moving, and complications arise.
Runtime: 92 min
Director: Louis Leterrier, Corey Yuen
Writer: Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen
Actors: Jason Statham, Shu Qi, Matt Schulze
Language: English, French, Mandarin
Adaptation

Spike Jonze, 2002

A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen.
Runtime: 115 min
Director: Spike Jonze
Writer: Susan Orlean, Charlie Kaufman
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper
Language: English, Latin
Chicago

Rob Marshall, 2002

Two death-row murderesses develop a fierce rivalry while competing for publicity, celebrity, and a sleazy lawyer's attention.
Runtime: 113 min
Director: Rob Marshall
Writer: Bill Condon, Bob Fosse, Fred Ebb
Actors: Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere
Language: English, Hungarian
Best Picture
The Spanish Apartment

Cédric Klapisch, 2002

A strait-laced French student moves into an apartment in Barcelona with a cast of six other characters from all over Europe. Together, they speak the international language of love and friendship.
Runtime: 122 min
Director: Cédric Klapisch
Writer: Cédric Klapisch
Actors: Romain Duris, Judith Godrèche, Kelly Reilly
Language: French, Spanish, English, Catalan, Danish, German, Italian
Austin Powers in Goldmember

Jay Roach, 2002

Upon learning that his father has been kidnapped, Austin Powers must travel to 1975 and defeat the aptly named villain Goldmember, who is working with Dr. Evil.
Runtime: 94 min
Director: Jay Roach
Writer: Mike Myers, Michael McCullers
Actors: Mike Myers, Beyoncé, Seth Green
Language: English, Japanese, German, French
Infernal Affairs

Wai Keung Lau, Alan Mak, 2002

Chen Wing Yan, a policeman, successfully infiltrates a gang while Lau Kin Ming, a tried member, becomes a mole in the police force. However, things change when both of them must seek each other out.
Runtime: 101 min
Director: Wai Keung Lau, Alan Mak
Writer: Alan Mak, Felix Chong
Actors: Andy Lau, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong
Language: Cantonese, English, Thai
Spirited Away

Hayao Miyazaki, 2001

During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches and spirits, a world where humans are changed into beasts.
Runtime: 125 min
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Writer: Hayao Miyazaki
Actors: Daveigh Chase, Suzanne Pleshette, Miyu Irino
Language: Japanese
Studio Ghibli
Amelie

Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001

Despite being caught in her imaginative world, Amelie, a young waitress, decides to help people find happiness. Her quest to spread joy leads her on a journey where she finds true love.
Runtime: 122 min
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Writer: Guillaume Laurant, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Actors: Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus
Language: French, Russian, English
All Time
A Beautiful Mind

Ron Howard, 2001

After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.
Runtime: 135 min
Director: Ron Howard
Writer: Akiva Goldsman, Sylvia Nasar
Actors: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly
Language: English
Best Picture
Donnie Darko

Richard Kelly, 2001

After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
Runtime: 113 min
Director: Richard Kelly
Writer: Richard Kelly
Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell
Language: English
All Time
The Fast & The Furious

Rob Cohen, 2001

Los Angeles police officer Brian O'Conner must decide where his loyalty really lies when he becomes enamored with the street racing world he has been sent undercover to destroy.
Runtime: 106 min
Director: Rob Cohen
Writer: Ken Li, Gary Scott Thompson, Erik Bergquist
Actors: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez
Language: English, Spanish
The Fast and the Furious
Jurassic Park III

Joe Johnston, 2001

A decidedly odd couple with ulterior motives convince Dr. Grant to go to Isla Sorna for a holiday, but their unexpected landing startles the island's new inhabitants.
Runtime: 92 min
Director: Joe Johnston
Writer: Michael Crichton, Peter Buchman, Alexander Payne
Actors: Sam Neill, William H. Macy, Téa Leoni
Language: English, Spanish
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Peter Jackson, 2001

A meek Hobbit from the Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to destroy the powerful One Ring and save Middle-earth from the Dark Lord Sauron.
Runtime: 178 min
Director: Peter Jackson
Writer: J.R.R. Tolkien, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens
Actors: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom
Language: English, Sindarin
All Time
Moulin Rouge!

Baz Luhrmann, 2001

A poor Bohemian poet in 1890s Paris falls for a beautiful courtesan and nightclub star coveted by a jealous duke.
Runtime: 127 min
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Writer: Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce
Actors: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo
Language: English, French, Spanish
All Time
Musicals
The Mummy Returns

Stephen Sommers, 2001

The mummified body of Imhotep is shipped to a museum in London, where he once again wakes and begins his campaign of rage and terror.
Runtime: 130 min
Director: Stephen Sommers
Writer: Stephen Sommers
Actors: Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah
Language: English, Arabic
The Royal Tenenbaums

Wes Anderson, 2001

The eccentric members of a dysfunctional family reluctantly gather under the same roof for various reasons.
Runtime: 110 min
Director: Wes Anderson
Writer: Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson
Actors: Gene Hackman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Anjelica Huston
Language: English, Italian
All Time
Wes Anderson
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

Simon West, 2001

Video game adventurer Lara Croft comes to life in a movie where she races against time and villains to recover powerful ancient artifacts.
Runtime: 100 min
Director: Simon West
Writer: Sara B. Cooper, Mike Werb, Michael Colleary
Actors: Angelina Jolie, Jon Voight, Iain Glen
Language: English, Central Khmer, Russian, Italian
Shrek

Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson, 2001

A mean lord exiles fairytale creatures to the swamp of a grumpy ogre, who must go on a quest and rescue a princess for the lord in order to get his land back.
Runtime: 90 min
Director: Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson
Writer: William Steig, Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio
Actors: Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz
Language: English
Shrek
Super Troopers

Jay Chandrasekhar, 2001

Five Vermont state troopers, avid pranksters with a knack for screwing up, try to save their jobs and out-do the local police department by solving a crime.
Runtime: 100 min
Director: Jay Chandrasekhar
Writer: Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme
Actors: Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, André Vippolis
Language: English, German, French
Fox Searchlight
Legally Blonde

Robert Luketic, 2001

Fashionable sorority queen Elle Woods follows her ex-boyfriend to law school, where she discovers that there is more to her than just looks.
Runtime: 96 min
Director: Robert Luketic
Writer: Amanda Brown, Karen McCullah, Kirsten Smith
Actors: Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair
Language: English, Vietnamese
Memento

Christopher Nolan, 2000

A man with short-term memory loss attempts to track down his wife's murderer.
Runtime: 113 min
Director: Christopher Nolan
Writer: Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan
Actors: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano
Language: English
The Emperor's New Groove

Mark Dindal, 2000

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.
Runtime: 78 min
Director: Mark Dindal
Writer: Chris Williams, Mark Dindal, David Reynolds
Actors: David Spade, John Goodman, Eartha Kitt
Language: English
Disney
X-Men

Bryan Singer, 2000

In a world where mutants (evolved super-powered humans) exist and are discriminated against, two groups form for an inevitable clash: the supremacist Brotherhood, and the pacifist X-Men.
Runtime: 104 min
Director: Bryan Singer
Writer: Tom DeSanto, Bryan Singer, David Hayter
Actors: Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen
Language: English
X-Men
Almost Famous

Cameron Crowe, 2000

A high-school boy in the early 1970s is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone magazine about an up-and-coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour.
Runtime: 122 min
Director: Cameron Crowe
Writer: Cameron Crowe
Actors: Billy Crudup, Patrick Fugit, Kate Hudson
Language: English, French
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Ang Lee, 2000

A young Chinese warrior steals a sword from a famed swordsman and then escapes into a world of romantic adventure with a mysterious man in the frontier of the nation.
Runtime: 120 min
Director: Ang Lee
Writer: Hui-Ling Wang, James Schamus, Kuo Jung Tsai
Actors: Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Ziyi Zhang
Language: Mandarin, Chinese
All Time
Gladiator

Ridley Scott, 2000

A former Roman General sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery.
Runtime: 155 min
Director: Ridley Scott
Writer: David Franzoni, John Logan, William Nicholson
Actors: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen
Language: English
Best Picture
All Time
High Fidelity

Stephen Frears, 2000

Rob, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress.
Runtime: 113 min
Director: Stephen Frears
Writer: Nick Hornby, D.V. DeVincentis, Steve Pink
Actors: John Cusack, Iben Hjejle, Todd Louiso
Language: English, Danish
M:i-2

John Woo, 2000

IMF agent Ethan Hunt is sent to Sydney to find and destroy a genetically modified disease called "Chimera".
Runtime: 123 min
Director: John Woo
Writer: Bruce Geller, Ronald D. Moore, Brannon Braga
Actors: Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandiwe Newton
Language: English
Sexy Beast

Jonathan Glazer, 2000

Brutal gangster Don Logan recruits "retired" safecracker Gal for one last job, but it goes badly for both of them.
Runtime: 89 min
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Writer: Louis Mellis, David Scinto
Actors: Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, Ian McShane
Language: English, Spanish
Fox Searchlight
In The Mood For Love (temp)

Kar-Wai Wong, 2000

Two neighbors form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs.
Runtime: 98 min
Director: Kar-Wai Wong
Writer: Kar-Wai Wong
Actors: Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung, Siu Ping-Lam
Language: Cantonese, Shanghainese, French, Spanish
Wong Kar-Wai
Traffic

Steven Soderbergh, 2000

A conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife ...
Runtime: 147 min
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writer: Simon Moore, Stephen Gaghan
Actors: Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Language: English, Spanish
O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, 2000

In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.
Runtime: 107 min
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Writer: Homer, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Actors: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson
Language: English

1990s

Tarzan

Chris Buck, Kevin Lima, 1999

A man raised by gorillas must decide where he really belongs when he discovers he is a human.
Runtime: 88 min
Director: Chris Buck, Kevin Lima
Writer: Tab Murphy, Bob Tzudiker, Noni White
Actors: Tony Goldwyn, Minnie Driver, Brian Blessed
Language: English
Disney
Boys Don't Cry

Kimberly Peirce, 1999

A young man named Brandon Teena navigates love, life, and being transgender in rural Nebraska.
Runtime: 118 min
Director: Kimberly Peirce
Writer: Kimberly Peirce, Andy Bienen
Actors: Hilary Swank, Chloë Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard
Language: English
Fox Searchlight
The World Is Not Enough

Michael Apted, 1999

James Bond uncovers a nuclear plot while protecting an oil heiress from her former kidnapper, an international terrorist who can't feel pain.
Runtime: 128 min
Director: Michael Apted
Writer: Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, Bruce Feirstein
Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle
Language: English, Russian, Spanish
James Bond
Eyes Wide Shut

Stanley Kubrick, 1999

A Manhattan doctor embarks on a bizarre, night-long odyssey after his wife's admission of unfulfilled longing.
Runtime: 159 min
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writer: Stanley Kubrick, Frederic Raphael, Arthur Schnitzler
Actors: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Todd Field
Language: English
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

George Lucas, 1999

Two Jedi escape a hostile blockade to find allies and come across a young boy who may bring balance to the Force, but the long dormant Sith resurface to claim their original glory.
Runtime: 136 min
Director: George Lucas
Writer: George Lucas
Actors: Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson, Natalie Portman
Language: English, Sanskrit
Star Wars
My Neighbors the Yamadas

Isao Takahata, 1999

The life and misadventures of a family in contemporary Japan.
Runtime: 104 min
Director: Isao Takahata
Writer: Hisaichi Ishii, Isao Takahata, Leo Chu
Actors: Yukiji Asaoka, Tôru Masuoka, Masako Araki
Language: Japanese
Studio Ghibli
10 Things I Hate About You

Gil Junger, 1999

A high-school boy, Cameron, cannot date Bianca until her anti-social older sister, Kat, has a boyfriend. So, Cameron pays a mysterious boy, Patrick, to charm Kat.
Runtime: 97 min
Director: Gil Junger
Writer: Karen McCullah, Kirsten Smith, William Shakespeare
Actors: Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Language: English, French
Cruel Intentions

Roger Kumble, 1999

Two vicious step-siblings of an elite Manhattan prep school make a wager: to deflower the new headmaster's daughter before the start of term.
Runtime: 97 min
Director: Roger Kumble
Writer: Choderlos de Laclos, Roger Kumble
Actors: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon
Language: English, Vietnamese, French
All Time
Fight Club

David Fincher, 1999

An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more.
Runtime: 139 min
Director: David Fincher
Writer: Chuck Palahniuk, Jim Uhls
Actors: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Meat Loaf
Language: English
All Time
The Matrix

Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski, 1999

When a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.
Runtime: 136 min
Director: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
Writer: Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss
Language: English
All Time
The Matrix
The Mummy

Stephen Sommers, 1999

At an archaeological dig in the ancient city of Hamunaptra, an American serving in the French Foreign Legion accidentally awakens a mummy who begins to wreak havoc as he searches for the reincarnation of his long-lost love.
Runtime: 124 min
Director: Stephen Sommers
Writer: Stephen Sommers, Lloyd Fonvielle, Kevin Jarre
Actors: Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah
Language: English, Egyptian (Ancient), Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Hungarian
Notting Hill

Roger Michell, 1999

The life of a simple bookshop owner changes when he meets the most famous film star in the world.
Runtime: 124 min
Director: Roger Michell
Writer: Richard Curtis
Actors: Hugh Grant, Julia Roberts, Richard McCabe
Language: English, Spanish, French
Commended
Varsity Blues

Brian Robbins, 1999

A back-up quarterback is chosen to lead a Texas football team to victory after the star quarterback is injured.
Runtime: 106 min
Director: Brian Robbins
Writer: W. Peter Iliff
Actors: James Van Der Beek, Jon Voight, Paul Walker
Language: English
Being John Malkovich

Spike Jonze, 1999

A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich.
Runtime: 113 min
Director: Spike Jonze
Writer: Charlie Kaufman
Actors: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener
Language: English
Simply Irresistible

Mark Tarlov, 1999

A magical crab works wonders for a terrible chef's culinary skills, leading her towards the man of her dreams.
Runtime: 96 min
Director: Mark Tarlov
Writer: Judith Roberts
Actors: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sean Patrick Flanery, Patricia Clarkson
Language: English, French
Foxtel
Ghost Dog

Jim Jarmusch, 1999

An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
Runtime: 116 min
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Writer: Jim Jarmusch
Actors: Forest Whitaker, Henry Silva, John Tormey
Language: English, French
Jim Jarmusch
The Blair Witch Project

Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez, 1999

Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.
Runtime: 81 min
Director: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez
Writer: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez, Heather Donahue
Actors: Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, Joshua Leonard
Language: English
American Beauty

Sam Mendes, 1999

A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.
Runtime: 122 min
Director: Sam Mendes
Writer: Alan Ball
Actors: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch
Language: English
Best Picture
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

Jay Roach, 1999

Dr. Evil is back and has invented a new time machine that allows him to go back to the 1960s and steal Austin Powers' mojo, inadvertently leaving him "shagless".
Runtime: 95 min
Director: Jay Roach
Writer: Mike Myers, Michael McCullers
Actors: Mike Myers, Heather Graham, Michael York
Language: English, German
Election

Alexander Payne, 1999

A high school teacher meets his match in an over-achieving student politician.
Runtime: 103 min
Director: Alexander Payne
Writer: Tom Perrotta, Alexander Payne, Jim Taylor
Actors: Matthew Broderick, Reese Witherspoon, Loren Nelson
Language: English, Spanish
Foxtel
Mulan

Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook, 1998

To save her father from death in the army, a young maiden secretly goes in his place and becomes one of China's greatest heroines in the process.
Runtime: 87 min
Director: Tony Bancroft, Barry Cook
Writer: Robert D. San Souci, Rita Hsiao, Chris Sanders
Actors: Ming-Na Wen, Eddie Murphy, BD Wong
Language: English, Mandarin
Disney
Pocahontas II: The New World

Tom Ellery, Bradley Raymond, 1998

Pocahontas sets off on a journey to England with Meeko, Flit, and Percy. Hearing rumors of John Smith's death, Pocahontas tries to prevent war and battle.
Runtime: 72 min
Director: Tom Ellery, Bradley Raymond
Writer: Allen Estrin (screenplay), Cindy Marcus (screenplay), Flip Kobler (screenplay)
Actors: Irene Bedard, Jim Cummings, Donal Gibson, Finola Hughes
Language: English
Disney
Babe: Pig in the City

George Miller, 1998

Babe, fresh from his victory in the sheepherding contest, returns to Farmer Hoggett's farm, but after Farmer Hoggett is injured and unable to work, Babe has to go to the big city to save the farm.
Runtime: 97 min
Director: George Miller
Writer: George Miller, Judy Morris, Mark Lamprell
Actors: Magda Szubanski, Elizabeth Daily, Mickey Rooney
Language: English
The Big Lebowski

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, 1998

Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire of the same name, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.
Runtime: 117 min
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Writer: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Actors: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore
Language: English, German, Hebrew, Spanish
All Time
Cats

David Mallet, 1998

"Jellicle" cats join for a Jellicle ball where they rejoice with their leader, Old Deuteronomy. One cat will be chosen to go to the "Heavyside Layer" and be reborn. The cats introduce themselves.
Runtime: 120 min
Director: David Mallet
Writer: T.S. Eliot
Actors: Elaine Paige, John Mills, Ken Page
Language: N/A
A Night at the Roxbury

John Fortenberry, 1998

Two dim-witted brothers dream of owning their own dance club or at least getting into the coolest and most exclusive club in town, The Roxbury.
Runtime: 82 min
Director: John Fortenberry
Writer: Steve Koren, Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan
Actors: Chris Kattan, Will Ferrell, Raquel Gardner
Language: English
Foxtel
Run Lola Run

Tom Tykwer, 1998

After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks.
Runtime: 80 min
Director: Tom Tykwer
Writer: Tom Tykwer
Actors: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup
Language: German, English, Japanese
The Truman Show

Peter Weir, 1998

An insurance salesman discovers his whole life is actually a reality TV show.
Runtime: 103 min
Director: Peter Weir
Writer: Andrew Niccol
Actors: Jim Carrey, Ed Harris, Laura Linney
Language: English
All Time
Armageddon

Michael Bay, 1998

After discovering that an asteroid the size of Texas will impact Earth in less than a month, NASA recruits a misfit team of deep-core drillers to save the planet.
Runtime: 151 min
Director: Michael Bay
Writer: Jonathan Hensleigh, J.J. Abrams, Tony Gilroy
Actors: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Ben Affleck
Language: English, Russian, Indonesian
Shakespeare in Love

John Madden, 1998

The world's greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.
Runtime: 123 min
Director: John Madden
Writer: Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard
Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush
Language: English
Best Picture
Elizabeth

Shekhar Kapur, 1998

The early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch.
Runtime: 124 min
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Writer: Michael Hirst
Actors: Cate Blanchett, Liz Giles, Rod Culbertson
Language: English, French, Turkish
Rushmore (temp)

Wes Anderson, 1998

A teenager at Rushmore Academy falls for a much older teacher and befriends a middle-aged industrialist. Later, he finds out that his love interest and his friend are having an affair, which prompts him to begin a vendetta.
Runtime: 93 min
Director: Wes Anderson
Writer: Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson
Actors: Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams
Language: English, Spanish, Latin, French
Wes Anderson
Baseketball

David Zucker, 1998

Two childhood friends are pro athletes of a national sport called BASEketball, a hybrid of baseball and basketball, and must deal with a greedy businessman scheming against their team.
Runtime: 103 min
Director: David Zucker
Writer: David Zucker, Robert LoCash, Lewis Friedman
Actors: Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Dian Bachar
Language: English
Foxtel
Batman & Robin

Joel Schumacher, 1997

Batman and Robin try to keep their relationship together even as they must stop Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy from freezing Gotham City.
Runtime: 125 min
Director: Joel Schumacher
Writer: Bob Kane, Akiva Goldsman
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Clooney, Chris O'Donnell
Language: English
Hercules

Ron Clements, John Musker, 1997

The son of Zeus and Hera is stripped of his immortality as an infant and must become a true hero in order to reclaim it.
Runtime: 93 min
Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
Writer: Ron Clements, John Musker, Don McEnery
Actors: Tate Donovan, Susan Egan, James Woods
Language: English, Spanish, Greek
Disney
The Full Monty

Peter Cattaneo, 1997

Six unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity.
Runtime: 91 min
Director: Peter Cattaneo
Writer: Simon Beaufoy
Actors: Robert Carlyle, Tom Wilkinson, Mark Addy
Language: English
Fox Searchlight
Tomorrow Never Dies

Roger Spottiswoode, 1997

James Bond sets out to stop a media mogul's plan to induce war between China and the UK in order to obtain exclusive global media coverage.
Runtime: 119 min
Director: Roger Spottiswoode
Writer: Bruce Feirstein, Ian Fleming
Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh
Language: English, German, Danish, Mandarin, Cantonese
James Bond
Princess Mononoke

Hayao Miyazaki, 1997

On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime.
Runtime: 134 min
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Writer: Hayao Miyazaki, Neil Gaiman
Actors: Yôji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida, Yûko Tanaka
Language: Japanese
Studio Ghibli
Alien: Resurrection

Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 1997

Two centuries after her death, a powerful human/alien hybrid clone of Ellen Ripley aids a crew of space pirates in stopping the aliens from reaching Earth.
Runtime: 109 min
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Writer: Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett, Joss Whedon
Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Winona Ryder, Dominique Pinon
Language: English, Spanish
Alien
Gattaca

Andrew Niccol, 1997

A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel.
Runtime: 106 min
Director: Andrew Niccol
Writer: Andrew Niccol
Actors: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Jude Law
Language: English, Esperanto
Jackie Brown

Quentin Tarantino, 1997

A flight attendant with a criminal past gets nabbed by the ATF for smuggling. Under pressure to become an informant against the drug dealer she works for, she must find a way to secure her future without getting killed.
Runtime: 154 min
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Writer: Quentin Tarantino, Elmore Leonard
Actors: Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster
Language: English
The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Steven Spielberg, 1997

A research team is sent to the Jurassic Park Site B island to study the dinosaurs there, while an InGen team approaches with another agenda.
Runtime: 129 min
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writer: Michael Crichton, David Koepp
Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite
Language: English, Spanish
Men in Black

Barry Sonnenfeld, 1997

A police officer joins a secret organization that polices and monitors extraterrestrial interactions on Earth.
Runtime: 98 min
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Writer: Lowell Cunningham, Ed Solomon
Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith, Linda Fiorentino
Language: English, Spanish
Romy & Michele's High School Reunion

David Mirkin, 1997

Two dim-witted, inseparable friends hit the road for their ten-year high school reunion and concoct an elaborate lie about their lives in order to impress their classmates.
Runtime: 92 min
Director: David Mirkin
Writer: Robin Schiff
Actors: Mira Sorvino, Lisa Kudrow, Janeane Garofalo
Language: English
The Saint

Phillip Noyce, 1997

Simon "The Saint" Templar (Val Kilmer), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on toppling the Russian government, as well as the woman who holds its ...
Runtime: 116 min
Director: Phillip Noyce
Writer: Leslie Charteris, Jonathan Hensleigh, Wesley Strick
Actors: Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue, Rade Serbedzija
Language: English, Russian
Foxtel
Starship Troopers

Paul Verhoeven, 1997

Humans in a fascist, militaristic future wage war with giant alien bugs.
Runtime: 129 min
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Writer: Edward Neumeier, Robert A. Heinlein
Actors: Casper Van Dien, Denise Richards, Dina Meyer
Language: English
The Fifth Element

Luc Besson, 1997

In the colorful future, a cab driver unwittingly becomes the central figure in the search for a legendary cosmic weapon to keep Evil and Mr. Zorg at bay.
Runtime: 126 min
Director: Luc Besson
Writer: Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen
Actors: Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman
Language: English, Swedish, German, Arabic, Egyptian (Ancient)
Event Horizon

Paul W.S. Anderson, 1997

A rescue crew is tasked with investigating the mysterious reappearance of a spaceship that had been lost for seven years.
Runtime: 96 min
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Writer: Philip Eisner
Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Sam Neill, Kathleen Quinlan
Language: English, Latin
Titanic

James Cameron, 1997

A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.
Runtime: 194 min
Director: James Cameron
Writer: James Cameron
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane
Language: English, Swedish, Italian, French
Best Picture
Year of the Horse

Jim Jarmusch, 1997

This film documents Neil Young and Crazy Horse's 1996 concert tour. Jim Jarmusch interviews the band about their long history, and we see backstage footage from the 1970s and 1980s.
Runtime: 106 min
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Writer: N/A
Actors: Neil Young, Jim Jarmusch, Ralph Molina
Language: English
Jim Jarmusch
The Castle

Rob Sitch, 1997

A working-class family from Melbourne, Australia fights city hall after being told they must vacate their beloved family home to allow for infrastructural expansion.
Runtime: 85 min
Director: Rob Sitch
Writer: Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, Jane Kennedy
Actors: Michael Caton, Anne Tenney, Stephen Curry
Language: English
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation

John R. Leonetti, 1997

A group of martial-arts warriors has only six days to save the Earth from an extra-dimensional invasion.
Runtime: 95 min
Director: John R. Leonetti
Writer: Ed Boon, Lawrence Kasanoff, Joshua Wexler
Actors: Robin Shou, Talisa Soto, James Remar
Language: English
Good Will Hunting

Gus Van Sant, 1997

Will Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.
Runtime: 126 min
Director: Gus Van Sant
Writer: Matt Damon, Ben Affleck
Actors: Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck
Language: English
Happy Together (temp)

Kar-Wai Wong, 1997

A couple take a trip to Argentina but both men find their lives drifting apart in opposite directions.
Runtime: 96 min
Director: Kar-Wai Wong
Writer: Manuel Puig, Kar-Wai Wong
Actors: Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Chang Chen
Language: Cantonese, Spanish, English, Mandarin
Wong Kar-Wai
Life Is Beautiful

Roberto Benigni, 1997

When an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.
Runtime: 116 min
Director: Roberto Benigni
Writer: Vincenzo Cerami, Roberto Benigni
Actors: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini
Language: Italian, German, English
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

Jay Roach, 1997

A world-class playboy and part-time secret agent from the 1960s emerges after thirty years in a cryogenic state to battle with his nemesis Dr. Evil.
Runtime: 89 min
Director: Jay Roach
Writer: Mike Myers
Actors: Mike Myers, Elizabeth Hurley, Michael York
Language: English
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise, 1996

A deformed bell-ringer must assert his independence from a vicious government minister in order to help his friend, a gypsy dancer.
Runtime: 91 min
Director: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
Writer: Tab Murphy, Victor Hugo, Irene Mecchi
Actors: Demi Moore, Jason Alexander, Mary Kay Bergman
Language: English, Latin
Disney
Fargo

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, 1996

Minnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.
Runtime: 98 min
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Writer: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Actors: William H. Macy, Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi
Language: English
Jerry Maguire

Cameron Crowe, 1996

When a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent agent with the only athlete who stays with him and his former colleague.
Runtime: 139 min
Director: Cameron Crowe
Writer: Cameron Crowe
Actors: Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr., Renée Zellweger
Language: English, American Sign
Commended
Mission: Impossible

Brian De Palma, 1996

An American agent, under false suspicion of disloyalty, must discover and expose the real spy without the help of his organization.
Runtime: 110 min
Director: Brian De Palma
Writer: Bruce Geller, David Koepp, Steven Zaillian
Actors: Tom Cruise, Jon Voight, Emmanuelle Béart
Language: English, French, Czech
Muppet Treasure Island

Brian Henson, David Lane, 1996

The Muppets set sail in search of treasure, with Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver.
Runtime: 99 min
Director: Brian Henson, David Lane
Writer: Robert Louis Stevenson, Jerry Juhl, Kirk R. Thatcher
Actors: Tim Curry, Billy Connolly, Jennifer Saunders
Language: English
Romeo + Juliet

Baz Luhrmann, 1996

Shakespeare's famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona still retaining its original dialogue.
Runtime: 120 min
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Writer: William Shakespeare, Craig Pearce, Baz Luhrmann
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, John Leguizamo
Language: English
All Time
Trainspotting

Danny Boyle, 1996

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.
Runtime: 93 min
Director: Danny Boyle
Writer: Irvine Welsh, John Hodge
Actors: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller
Language: English
All Time
Independence Day

Roland Emmerich, 1996

The aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy Earth. Fighting superior technology, mankind's best weapon is the will to survive.
Runtime: 145 min
Director: Roland Emmerich
Writer: Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich
Actors: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum
Language: English
Independence Day

Roland Emmerich, 1996

The aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy Earth. Fighting superior technology, mankind's best weapon is the will to survive.
Runtime: 145 min
Director: Roland Emmerich
Writer: Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich
Actors: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum
Language: English
From Dusk Till Dawn

Robert Rodriguez, 1996

Two criminals and their hostages unknowingly seek temporary refuge in a truck stop populated by vampires, with chaotic results.
Runtime: 108 min
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Writer: Robert Kurtzman, Quentin Tarantino
Actors: Harvey Keitel, George Clooney, Juliette Lewis
Language: English, Spanish
The English Patient

Anthony Minghella, 1996

At the close of World War II, 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.
Runtime: 162 min
Director: Anthony Minghella
Writer: Michael Ondaatje, Anthony Minghella
Actors: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe
Language: English, German, Italian, Arabic
Best Picture
Bottle Rocket

Wes Anderson, 1996

Three friends plan to pull off a simple robbery and go on the run.
Runtime: 91 min
Director: Wes Anderson
Writer: Owen Wilson, Wes Anderson
Actors: Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Ned Dowd
Language: English, Spanish
Wes Anderson
Shine

Scott Hicks, 1996

David Helfgott, a gifted pianist, struggles through childhood as his dysfunctional father abuses him and his siblings. Years later, he suffers a mental breakdown but manages to return as a legend.
Runtime: 105 min
Director: Scott Hicks
Writer: Jan Sardi, Scott Hicks
Actors: Geoffrey Rush, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Justin Braine
Language: English, Yiddish
The Flower of My Secret

Pedro Almodóvar, 1995

Leo writes trashy romance novels under a pseudonym but as she struggles in her relationship with her husband, she finds her output becoming darker.
Runtime: 103 min
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Writer: Pedro Almodóvar, Dorothy Parker
Actors: Marisa Paredes, Juan Echanove, Carme Elias
Language: Spanish, French
Batman Forever

Joel Schumacher, 1995

Batman must battle former district attorney Harvey Dent, who is now Two-Face and Edward Nygma, The Riddler with help from an amorous psychologist and a young circus acrobat who becomes his sidekick, Robin.
Runtime: 121 min
Director: Joel Schumacher
Writer: Bob Kane, Lee Batchler, Janet Scott Batchler
Actors: Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey
Language: English
Pocahontas

Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg, 1995

An English soldier and the daughter of an Algonquin chief share a romance when English colonists invade seventeenth century Virginia.
Runtime: 81 min
Director: Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg
Writer: Carl Binder, Susannah Grant, Philip LaZebnik
Actors: Mel Gibson, Linda Hunt, Christian Bale
Language: English, Algonquin
Disney
The Brothers McMullen

Edward Burns, 1995

Three Irish Catholic brothers from Long Island struggle to deal with love, marriage, and infidelity.
Runtime: 98 min
Director: Edward Burns
Writer: Edward Burns
Actors: Jack Mulcahy, Michael McGlone, Edward Burns
Language: English
Fox Searchlight
GoldenEye

Martin Campbell, 1995

Years after a friend and fellow 00 agent is killed on a joint mission, a secret space based weapons program known as "GoldenEye" is stolen. James Bond is assigned to stop a Russian crime syndicate from using the weapon.
Runtime: 130 min
Director: Martin Campbell
Writer: Ian Fleming, Michael France, Jeffrey Caine
Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Sean Bean, Izabella Scorupco
Language: English, Russian, Spanish
James Bond
Commended
Whisper of the Heart

Yoshifumi Kondô, 1995

A love story between a girl who loves reading books, and a boy who has previously checked out all of the library books she chooses.
Runtime: 111 min
Director: Yoshifumi Kondô
Writer: Hayao Miyazaki, Aoi Hiiragi, Cindy Davis
Actors: Yoko Honna, Issei Takahashi, Takashi Tachibana
Language: Japanese
Studio Ghibli
Shanghai Triad

Yimou Zhang, 1995

A provincial boy related to a Shanghai crime family is recruited by his uncle into cosmopolitan Shanghai in the 1930s to be a servant to a ganglord's mistress.
Runtime: 108 min
Director: Yimou Zhang
Writer: Feiyu Bi, Li Xiao
Actors: Gong Li, Baotian Li, Xiaoxiao Wang
Language: Mandarin
Braveheart

Mel Gibson, 1995

Scottish warrior William Wallace leads his countrymen in a rebellion to free his homeland from the tyranny of King Edward I of England.
Runtime: 178 min
Director: Mel Gibson
Writer: Randall Wallace
Actors: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan
Language: English, French, Latin, Gaelic, Italian
Best Picture
Clueless

Amy Heckerling, 1995

Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other.
Runtime: 97 min
Director: Amy Heckerling
Writer: Amy Heckerling
Actors: Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, Brittany Murphy
Language: English, Spanish
Crimson Tide

Tony Scott, 1995

On a U.S. nuclear missile sub, a young First Officer stages a mutiny to prevent his trigger happy Captain from launching his missiles before confirming his orders to do so.
Runtime: 116 min
Director: Tony Scott
Writer: Michael Schiffer, Richard P. Henrick
Actors: Gene Hackman, Denzel Washington, Matt Craven
Language: English
Die Hard With a Vengeance

John McTiernan, 1995

John McClane and a Harlem store owner are targeted by German terrorist Simon in New York City, where he plans to rob the Federal Reserve Building.
Runtime: 128 min
Director: John McTiernan
Writer: Jonathan Hensleigh, Roderick Thorp
Actors: Bruce Willis, Jeremy Irons, Samuel L. Jackson
Language: English, German, Romanian
Die Hard
Ghost in the Shell

Mamoru Oshii, 1995

A cyborg policewoman and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master.
Runtime: 83 min
Director: Mamoru Oshii
Writer: Shirow Masamune, Kazunori Itô
Actors: Atsuko Tanaka, Iemasa Kayumi, Akio Ôtsuka
Language: Japanese
Heat

Michael Mann, 1995

A group of high-end professional thieves start to feel the heat from the LAPD when they unknowingly leave a clue at their latest heist.
Runtime: 170 min
Director: Michael Mann
Writer: Michael Mann
Actors: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer
Language: English, Spanish
Babe

Chris Noonan, 1995

Babe, a pig raised by sheepdogs on a rural English farm, learns to herd sheep with a little help from Farmer Hoggett.
Runtime: 91 min
Director: Chris Noonan
Writer: Dick King-Smith, George Miller, Chris Noonan
Actors: James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski, Christine Cavanaugh
Language: English
Jumanji

Joe Johnston, 1995

When two kids find and play a magical board game, they release a man trapped in it for decades - and a host of dangers that can only be stopped by finishing the game.
Runtime: 104 min
Director: Joe Johnston
Writer: Jonathan Hensleigh, Greg Taylor, Jim Strain
Actors: Robin Williams, Kirsten Dunst, Bonnie Hunt
Language: English, French
Before Sunrise

Richard Linklater, 1995

A young man and woman meet on a train in Europe, and wind up spending one evening together in Vienna. Unfortunately, both know that this will probably be their only night together.
Runtime: 101 min
Director: Richard Linklater
Writer: Richard Linklater, Kim Krizan
Actors: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Andrea Eckert
Language: English, German, French
Dead Man

Jim Jarmusch, 1995

On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange aboriginal American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.
Runtime: 121 min
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Writer: Jim Jarmusch
Actors: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Crispin Glover
Language: English, Cree
Jim Jarmusch
Mortal Kombat

Paul W.S. Anderson, 1995

Three unknowing martial artists are summoned to a mysterious island to compete in a tournament whose outcome will decide the fate of the world.
Runtime: 101 min
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Writer: Ed Boon, John Tobias, Kevin Droney
Actors: Christopher Lambert, Robin Shou, Linden Ashby
Language: English
Fallen Angels (temp)

Kar-Wai Wong, 1995

This Hong Kong-set crime drama follows the lives of a hitman, hoping to get out of the business, and his elusive female partner.
Runtime: 99 min
Director: Kar-Wai Wong
Writer: Kar-Wai Wong
Actors: Leon Lai, Michelle Reis, Takeshi Kaneshiro
Language: Cantonese, Mandarin, Min Nan, Japanese, English
Wong Kar-Wai
Welcome to the Dollhouse

Todd Solondz, 1995

An awkward seventh-grader struggles to cope with inattentive parents, snobbish class-mates, a smart older brother, an attractive younger sister and her own insecurities in suburban New Jersey.
Runtime: 88 min
Director: Todd Solondz
Writer: Todd Solondz
Actors: Heather Matarazzo, Christina Brucato, Victoria Davis
Language: English
Four Rooms

Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez, 1995

Four interlocking tales that take place in a fading hotel on New Year's Eve.
Runtime: 98 min
Director: Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez
Writer: Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Robert Rodriguez
Actors: Tim Roth, Antonio Banderas, Sammi Davis
Language: English
The Lion King

Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff, 1994

Lion prince Simba and his father are targeted by his bitter uncle, who wants to ascend the throne himself.
Runtime: 88 min
Director: Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff
Writer: Irene Mecchi, Jonathan Roberts, Linda Woolverton
Actors: Matthew Broderick, Jeremy Irons, James Earl Jones
Language: English, Swahili, Xhosa, Zulu
Disney
Pom Poko

Isao Takahata, 1994

A community of magical shape-shifting raccoon dogs struggle to prevent their forest home from being destroyed by urban development.
Runtime: 119 min
Director: Isao Takahata
Writer: Isao Takahata
Actors: Shinchô Kokontei, Makoto Nonomura, Yuriko Ishida
Language: Japanese
To Live

Yimou Zhang, 1994

After Fugui and Jiazhen lose their personal fortunes, they raise a family and survive difficult cultural changes during 1940s to 1970s China.
Runtime: 133 min
Director: Yimou Zhang
Writer: Wei Lu, Hua Yu
Actors: You Ge, Gong Li, Ben Niu
Language: Mandarin
Beverly Hills Cop III

John Landis, 1994

Axel Foley, while investigating a car theft ring, comes across something much bigger than that: the same men who killed his boss are running a counterfeit money ring out of a theme park in Los Angeles.
Runtime: 104 min
Director: John Landis
Writer: Danilo Bach, Daniel Petrie Jr., Steven E. de Souza
Actors: Eddie Murphy, Jon Tenney, Joey Travolta
Language: English, French
Muriel's Wedding

P.J. Hogan, 1994

A young social outcast in Australia steals money from her parents to finance a vacation where she hopes to find happiness, and perhaps love.
Runtime: 106 min
Director: P.J. Hogan
Writer: P.J. Hogan
Actors: Toni Collette, Rachel Griffiths, Bill Hunter
Language: English
All Time
Pulp Fiction

Quentin Tarantino, 1994

The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.
Runtime: 154 min
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Writer: Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary
Actors: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson
Language: English, Spanish, French
Forrest Gump

Robert Zemeckis, 1994

The history of the United States from the 1950s to the '70s unfolds from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, who yearns to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.
Runtime: 142 min
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Writer: Winston Groom, Eric Roth
Actors: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise
Language: English
Best Picture
The Shawshank Redemption

Frank Darabont, 1994

Over the course of several years, two convicts form a friendship, seeking consolation and, eventually, redemption through basic compassion.
Runtime: 142 min
Director: Frank Darabont
Writer: Stephen King, Frank Darabont
Actors: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton
Language: English
Stargate

Roland Emmerich, 1994

An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.
Runtime: 116 min
Director: Roland Emmerich
Writer: Dean Devlin, Roland Emmerich
Actors: Kurt Russell, James Spader, Jaye Davidson
Language: English, Norwegian, Swedish, Egyptian (Ancient), Arabic
Speed

Jan de Bont, 1994

A young police officer must prevent a bomb exploding aboard a city bus by keeping its speed above 50 mph.
Runtime: 116 min
Director: Jan de Bont
Writer: Graham Yost
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, Sandra Bullock
Language: English
Chungking Express (temp)

Kar-Wai Wong, 1994

Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal waitress at a late-night restaurant he frequents.
Runtime: 102 min
Director: Kar-Wai Wong
Writer: Kar-Wai Wong
Actors: Brigitte Lin, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Chiu-wai
Language: Cantonese, English, Japanese, Hindi, Mandarin, Punjabi, Urdu
Wong Kar-Wai
Street Fighter

Steven E. de Souza, 1994

In the midst of a civil war in South East Asia, a general intensifies the climate of violence by kidnapping 63 UN delegates. To free the hostages, a colonel leads a group of fighters, who will have to use all their skills to be su...
Runtime: 102 min
Director: Steven E. de Souza
Writer: Steven E. de Souza
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raul Julia, Ming-Na Wen
Language: English, Japanese, Esperanto
Reality Bites

Ben Stiller, 1994

A documentary filmmaker and her fellow Generation X graduates face life after college, looking for work and love in Houston.
Runtime: 99 min
Director: Ben Stiller
Writer: Helen Childress
Actors: Winona Ryder, Ethan Hawke, Janeane Garofalo
Language: English
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

Stephan Elliott, 1994

Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.
Runtime: 104 min
Director: Stephan Elliott
Writer: Stephan Elliott
Actors: Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce, Terence Stamp
Language: English, Filipino
Kika

Pedro Almodóvar, 1993

Kika, a cute cosmetologist, prepares Ramon for funeral when he revives. He proposes to the much older Kika who has his dad as lover. Did Ramon's dad murder his mom? What about the escaped rapist and the PSYCHOlogist video reporter?
Runtime: 114 min
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Writer: Pedro Almodóvar
Actors: Peter Coyote, Verónica Forqué, Victoria Abril
Language: Spanish
Ocean Waves

Tomomi Mochizuki, 1993

As a young man returns home after his first year away at college he recalls his senior year of high school and the iron-willed, big city girl that turned his world upside down.
Runtime: 76 min
Director: Tomomi Mochizuki
Writer: Saeko Himuro, Keiko Niwa
Actors: Nobuo Tobita, Toshihiko Seki, Yoko Sakamoto
Language: Japanese
Dazed and Confused

Richard Linklater, 1993

The adventures of high school and junior high students on the last day of school in May 1976.
Runtime: 103 min
Director: Richard Linklater
Writer: Richard Linklater
Actors: Jason London, Wiley Wiggins, Matthew McConaughey
Language: English
Jurassic Park

Steven Spielberg, 1993

A pragmatic paleontologist touring an almost complete theme park on an island in Central America is tasked with protecting a couple of kids after a power failure causes the park's cloned dinosaurs to run loose.
Runtime: 127 min
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writer: Michael Crichton, David Koepp
Actors: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum
Language: English, Spanish
All Time
The Nightmare Before Christmas

Henry Selick, 1993

Jack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town, but his attempts to bring Christmas to his home causes confusion.
Runtime: 76 min
Director: Henry Selick
Writer: Tim Burton, Michael McDowell, Caroline Thompson
Actors: Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara
Language: English
Christmas
Schindler's List

Steven Spielberg, 1993

In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
Runtime: 195 min
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writer: Thomas Keneally, Steven Zaillian
Actors: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley
Language: English, Hebrew, German, Polish, Latin
Best Picture
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

Bill Duke, 1993

Showgirl Deloris Van Cartier returns as Sister Mary Clarence to teach music to a group of Catholic students whose run-down school is slated for closure.
Runtime: 107 min
Director: Bill Duke
Writer: James Orr, Jim Cruickshank, Judi Ann Mason
Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Kathy Najimy, Maggie Smith
Language: English
Super Mario Bros.

Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton, 1993

Two Brooklyn plumbers, Mario and Luigi, must travel to another dimension to rescue a princess from the evil dictator King Koopa and stop him from taking over the world.
Runtime: 104 min
Director: Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton
Writer: Parker Bennett, Terry Runte, Ed Solomon
Actors: Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper
Language: English
Cliffhanger

Renny Harlin, 1993

A botched mid-air heist results in suitcases full of cash being searched for by various groups throughout the Rocky Mountains.
Runtime: 113 min
Director: Renny Harlin
Writer: John Long, Michael France, Sylvester Stallone
Actors: Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow, Michael Rooker
Language: English
Much Ado About Nothing

Kenneth Branagh, 1993

Young lovers, and soon to wed, Hero and Claudio conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles, Benedick and Beatrice, to wed as well.
Runtime: 111 min
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Writer: William Shakespeare, Kenneth Branagh
Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Keanu Reeves
Language: English
The Piano

Jane Campion, 1993

In the mid-19th century a mute woman is sent to New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a farmer, but is soon lusted after by a farm worker.
Runtime: 121 min
Director: Jane Campion
Writer: Jane Campion
Actors: Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill
Language: English, British Sign , Maori
Wayne's World 2

Stephen Surjik, 1993

The inseparable duo try to organize a rock concert while Wayne must fend off a record producer who has an eye for his girlfriend.
Runtime: 95 min
Director: Stephen Surjik
Writer: Mike Myers, Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner
Actors: Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Christopher Walken
Language: English, Cantonese
Batman Returns

Tim Burton, 1992

While Batman deals with a deformed man calling himself the Penguin wreaking havoc across Gotham with the help of a cruel businessman, a female employee of the latter becomes the Catwoman with her own vendetta.
Runtime: 126 min
Director: Tim Burton
Writer: Bob Kane, Daniel Waters, Sam Hamm
Actors: Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer
Language: English
Aladdin

Ron Clements, John Musker, 1992

A kind-hearted street urchin and a power-hungry Grand Vizier vie for a magic lamp that has the power to make their deepest wishes come true.
Runtime: 90 min
Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
Writer: Ron Clements, John Musker, Ted Elliott
Actors: Scott Weinger, Robin Williams, Linda Larkin
Language: English
Disney
Porco Rosso

Hayao Miyazaki, 1992

In 1930s Italy, a veteran World War I pilot is cursed to look like an anthropomorphic pig.
Runtime: 94 min
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Writer: Hayao Miyazaki
Actors: Shûichirô Moriyama, Tokiko Katô, Bunshi Katsura Vi
Language: Japanese
Studio Ghibli
The Story of Qiu Ju

Yimou Zhang, 1992

A peasant woman seeks justice after the headman of her village has kicked her husband in the groin.
Runtime: 100 min
Director: Yimou Zhang
Writer: Yuan Bin Chen, Heng Liu
Actors: Gong Li, Peiqi Liu, Liuchun Yang
Language: Mandarin
Alien 3

David Fincher, 1992

Returning from LV-426, Ellen Ripley crash-lands on the maximum-security prison Fiorina 161, where she discovers that she has unwittingly brought along an unwelcome visitor.
Runtime: 114 min
Director: David Fincher
Writer: Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett, Vincent Ward
Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance
Language: English
Alien
The Muppet Christmas Carol

Brian Henson, 1992

The Muppets present their own touching rendition of Charles Dickens' classic tale.
Runtime: 85 min
Director: Brian Henson
Writer: Charles Dickens, Jerry Juhl
Actors: Michael Caine, Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire
Language: English
Christmas
Orlando

Sally Potter, 1992

After Queen Elizabeth I commands him not to grow old, a young nobleman struggles with love and his place in the world.
Runtime: 94 min
Director: Sally Potter
Writer: Virginia Woolf, Walter Donohue, Sally Potter
Actors: Tilda Swinton, Billy Zane, Quentin Crisp
Language: English, French
Sister Act

Emile Ardolino, 1992

When a nightclub singer is forced to take refuge from the mob in a convent, she ends up turning the convent choir into a soulful chorus complete with a Motown repertoire, until the sudden celebrity of the choir jeopardizes her ide...
Runtime: 100 min
Director: Emile Ardolino
Writer: Paul Rudnick
Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith, Harvey Keitel
Language: English
Strictly Ballroom

Baz Luhrmann, 1992

A maverick dancer risks his career by performing an unusual routine and sets out to succeed with a new partner.
Runtime: 94 min
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Writer: Baz Luhrmann, Andrew Bovell, Craig Pearce
Actors: Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice, Bill Hunter
Language: English, Spanish
Commended
Wayne's World

Penelope Spheeris, 1992

Two slacker friends try to promote their public-access cable show.
Runtime: 94 min
Director: Penelope Spheeris
Writer: Mike Myers, Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner
Actors: Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe
Language: English, Cantonese
Howards End

James Ivory, 1992

A businessman thwarts his wife's bequest of an estate to another woman.
Runtime: 142 min
Director: James Ivory
Writer: E.M. Forster, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Vanessa Redgrave
Language: English, German
Unforgiven

Clint Eastwood, 1992

Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner Ned Logan and a young man, The "Schofield Kid."
Runtime: 130 min
Director: Clint Eastwood
Writer: David Webb Peoples
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman
Language: English
Best Picture
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

Chris Columbus, 1992

One year after Kevin McCallister was left home alone and had to defeat a pair of bumbling burglars, he accidentally finds himself stranded in New York City - and the same criminals are not far behind.
Runtime: 120 min
Director: Chris Columbus
Writer: John Hughes
Actors: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern
Language: English, French, Spanish, Latin
Christmas
A Few Good Men

Rob Reiner, 1992

Lt. Daniel Kaffee, a US military lawyer, defends two US marines charged with murdering a fellow marine at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. The needle of suspicion, however, points to a colonel.
Runtime: 138 min
Director: Rob Reiner
Writer: Aaron Sorkin
Actors: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore
Language: English, French
The Bodyguard

Mick Jackson, 1992

A former Secret Service agent takes on the job of bodyguard to an R&B singer, whose lifestyle is most unlike a President's.
Runtime: 129 min
Director: Mick Jackson
Writer: Lawrence Kasdan
Actors: Kevin Costner, Whitney Houston, Gary Kemp
Language: English
Beauty & the Beast

Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise, 1991

A prince cursed to spend his days as a hideous monster sets out to regain his humanity by earning a young woman's love.
Runtime: 84 min
Director: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
Writer: Linda Woolverton, Brenda Chapman, Chris Sanders
Actors: Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Jesse Corti
Language: English, French
Disney
Only Yesterday

Isao Takahata, 1991

A twenty-seven-year-old office worker travels to the countryside while reminiscing about her childhood in Tokyo.
Runtime: 119 min
Director: Isao Takahata
Writer: Hotaru Okamoto, Yuuko Tone, David Freedman
Actors: Miki Imai, Toshirô Yanagiba, Yoko Honna
Language: Japanese, Bulgarian
Studio Ghibli
Raise the Red Lantern

Yimou Zhang, 1991

A young woman becomes the fourth wife of a wealthy lord, and must learn to live with the strict rules and tensions within the household.
Runtime: 125 min
Director: Yimou Zhang
Writer: Tong Su, Ni Zhen
Actors: Gong Li, Jingwu Ma, Saifei He
Language: Mandarin
The Silence of the Lambs

Jonathan Demme, 1991

A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.
Runtime: 118 min
Director: Jonathan Demme
Writer: Thomas Harris, Ted Tally
Actors: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn
Language: English, Latin
Best Picture
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

Peter Hewitt, 1991

A tyrant from the future creates evil android doubles of Bill and Ted and sends them back to eliminate the originals.
Runtime: 93 min
Director: Peter Hewitt
Writer: Chris Matheson, Ed Solomon
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, William Sadler
Language: English, Italian, Russian
Night on Earth

Jim Jarmusch, 1991

An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
Runtime: 129 min
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Writer: Jim Jarmusch
Actors: Winona Ryder, Gena Rowlands, Lisanne Falk
Language: English, French, Italian, Finnish, German
Jim Jarmusch
Terminator 2: Judgment Day

James Cameron, 1991

A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten year old son John from an even more advanced and powerful cyborg.
Runtime: 137 min
Director: James Cameron
Writer: James Cameron, William Wisher
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong
Language: English, Spanish
Fried Green Tomatoes

Jon Avnet, 1991

Evelyn, an ordinary housewife, visits a nursing home and befriends the old lady Ninny. Together, they bond over stories from the past about two intrepid women of Whistle Stop Cafe.
Runtime: 130 min
Director: Jon Avnet
Writer: Fannie Flagg, Carol Sobieski
Actors: Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson
Language: English
Ju Dou

Yimou Zhang, Fengliang Yang, 1990

In rural China, the young bride of a tyrannical owner of a silk-dyeing business finds temporary solace in the arms of her husband's nephew, but problems arise when she becomes pregnant.
Runtime: 95 min
Director: Yimou Zhang, Fengliang Yang
Writer: Heng Liu
Actors: Gong Li, Wei Li, Baotian Li
Language: Mandarin
Back to the Future Part III

Robert Zemeckis, 1990

Stranded in 1955, Marty McFly learns about the death of Doc Brown in 1885 and must travel back in time to save him. With no fuel readily available for the DeLorean, the two must figure how to escape the Old West before Emmett is m...
Runtime: 118 min
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Writer: Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale
Actors: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen
Language: English
Die Hard 2

Renny Harlin, 1990

John McClane attempts to avert disaster as rogue military operatives seize control of Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C.
Runtime: 124 min
Director: Renny Harlin
Writer: Steven E. de Souza, Doug Richardson, Walter Wager
Actors: Bruce Willis, William Atherton, Bonnie Bedelia
Language: English, Spanish
Die Hard
Goodfellas

Martin Scorsese, 1990

The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.
Runtime: 145 min
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writer: Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese
Actors: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci
Language: English, Italian
Mo' Better Blues

Spike Lee, 1990

Jazz trumpeter Bleek Gilliam makes questionable decisions in his professional and romantic lives.
Runtime: 130 min
Director: Spike Lee
Writer: Spike Lee
Actors: Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, Wesley Snipes
Language: French, Spanish, English
Pretty Woman

Garry Marshall, 1990

A man in a legal but hurtful business needs an escort for some social events, and hires a beautiful prostitute he meets... only to fall in love.
Runtime: 119 min
Director: Garry Marshall
Writer: J.F. Lawton
Actors: Richard Gere, Julia Roberts, Jason Alexander
Language: English
Rocky V

John G. Avildsen, 1990

Reluctantly retired from fighting, Rocky takes charge of Mickey's gym and agrees to train a young protégé who's hungry for success.
Runtime: 104 min
Director: John G. Avildsen
Writer: Sylvester Stallone
Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young
Language: English, Italian
Home Alone

Chris Columbus, 1990

An eight-year-old troublemaker, mistakenly left home alone, must defend his home against a pair of burglars on Christmas eve.
Runtime: 103 min
Director: Chris Columbus
Writer: John Hughes
Actors: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern
Language: English
Christmas
Ghost

Jerry Zucker, 1990

After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.
Runtime: 127 min
Director: Jerry Zucker
Writer: Bruce Joel Rubin
Actors: Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg
Language: English
Days Of Being Wild (temp)

Kar-Wai Wong, 1990

A man tries to find out who his real mother is after the woman who raised him tells him the truth.
Runtime: 94 min
Director: Kar-Wai Wong
Writer: Jeffrey Lau, Kar-Wai Wong
Actors: Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau
Language: Cantonese, Shanghainese, Tagalog, English, Mandarin
Wong Kar-Wai
Dances With Wolves

Kevin Costner, 1990

A lieutenant assigned to a remote Civil War outpost starts questioning his purpose after making contact with a neighboring Sioux settlement.
Runtime: 181 min
Director: Kevin Costner
Writer: Michael Blake
Actors: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene
Language: English, Sioux, Pawnee
Best Picture
Total Recall

Paul Verhoeven, 1990

When a man goes in to have virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars implanted in his mind, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real - or is he?
Runtime: 113 min
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Writer: Philip K. Dick, Ronald Shusett, Dan O'Bannon
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Michael Ironside
Language: English

1980s

Batman

Tim Burton, 1989

The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being Jack Napier, a criminal who becomes the clownishly homicidal Joker.
Runtime: 126 min
Director: Tim Burton
Writer: Bob Kane, Sam Hamm, Warren Skaaren
Actors: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger
Language: English, French, Spanish
The Little Mermaid

Ron Clements, John Musker, 1989

A mermaid princess makes a Faustian bargain in an attempt to become human and win a prince's love.
Runtime: 83 min
Director: Ron Clements, John Musker
Writer: John Musker, Ron Clements, Hans Christian Andersen
Actors: Jodi Benson, Samuel E. Wright, Rene Auberjonois
Language: English, French
Disney
Kiki's Delivery Service

Hayao Miyazaki, 1989

A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.
Runtime: 103 min
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Writer: Eiko Kadono, Hayao Miyazaki
Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Minami Takayama, Rei Sakuma
Language: Japanese
Studio Ghibli
Back to the Future Part II

Robert Zemeckis, 1989

After visiting 2015, Marty McFly must repeat his visit to 1955 to prevent disastrous changes to 1985...without interfering with his first trip.
Runtime: 108 min
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Writer: Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale
Actors: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson
Language: English
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Stephen Herek, 1989

Two rock-'n-rolling teens, on the verge of failing their class, set out on a quest to make the ultimate school history report after being presented with a time machine.
Runtime: 90 min
Director: Stephen Herek
Writer: Chris Matheson, Ed Solomon
Actors: Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter, George Carlin
Language: English, French, German, Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Dead Poets Society

Peter Weir, 1989

Maverick teacher John Keating returns in 1959 to the prestigious New England boys' boarding school where he was once a star student, using poetry to embolden his pupils to new heights of self-expression.
Runtime: 128 min
Director: Peter Weir
Writer: Tom Schulman
Actors: Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Ethan Hawke
Language: English, Latin
Driving Miss Daisy

Bruce Beresford, 1989

An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.
Runtime: 99 min
Director: Bruce Beresford
Writer: Alfred Uhry
Actors: Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd
Language: English, Hebrew
Best Picture
Mystery Train

Jim Jarmusch, 1989

Three stories are connected by a Memphis hotel and the spirit of Elvis Presley.
Runtime: 110 min
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Writer: Jim Jarmusch
Actors: Masatoshi Nagase, Yûki Kudô, Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Language: English, Japanese, Italian
Jim Jarmusch
sex, lies & videotape

Steven Soderbergh, 1989

A sexually repressed woman's husband is having an affair with her sister. The arrival of a visitor with a rather unusual fetish changes everything.
Runtime: 100 min
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writer: Steven Soderbergh
Actors: James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher
Language: English
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Pedro Almodóvar, 1988

A television actress encounters a variety of eccentric characters after embarking on a journey to discover why her lover abruptly left her.
Runtime: 88 min
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Writer: Pedro Almodóvar, Jean Cocteau
Actors: Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas, Julieta Serrano
Language: Spanish
Grave of the Fireflies

Isao Takahata, 1988

A young boy and his little sister struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.
Runtime: 89 min
Director: Isao Takahata
Writer: Akiyuki Nosaka, Isao Takahata
Actors: Tsutomu Tatsumi, Ayano Shiraishi, Akemi Yamaguchi
Language: Japanese
Studio Ghibli
My Neighbor Totoro

Hayao Miyazaki, 1988

When two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wondrous forest spirits who live nearby.
Runtime: 86 min
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Writer: Hayao Miyazaki
Actors: Hitoshi Takagi, Noriko Hidaka, Chika Sakamoto
Language: Japanese
Studio Ghibli
Red Sorghum

Yimou Zhang, 1988

When a leprous winery owner in 1930s China dies a few days after his arranged marriage, his young widow is forced to run the winery to make a living while contending with bandits, her drunkard lover, and the invading Japanese army.
Runtime: 91 min
Director: Yimou Zhang
Writer: Jianyu Chen, Yan Mo, Wei Zhu
Actors: Gong Li, Wen Jiang, Rujun Teng
Language: Mandarin, Japanese
Akira

Katsuhiro Ôtomo, 1988

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by a teenager, his gang of biker friends and a group of psychics.
Runtime: 124 min
Director: Katsuhiro Ôtomo
Writer: Katsuhiro Ôtomo, Izô Hashimoto
Actors: Mitsuo Iwata, Nozomu Sasaki, Mami Koyama
Language: Japanese
Cocktail

Roger Donaldson, 1988

A talented New York City bartender takes a job at a bar in Jamaica and falls in love.
Runtime: 104 min
Director: Roger Donaldson
Writer: Heywood Gould
Actors: Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, Elisabeth Shue
Language: English, Spanish Sign
Coming to America

John Landis, 1988

An extremely pampered African prince travels to Queens, New York and goes undercover to find a wife that he can respect for her intelligence and strong will.
Runtime: 117 min
Director: John Landis
Writer: Eddie Murphy, David Sheffield, Barry W. Blaustein
Actors: Eddie Murphy, Paul Bates, Garcelle Beauvais
Language: English
Commended
Die Hard

John McTiernan, 1988

A New York City police officer tries to save his estranged wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.
Runtime: 132 min
Director: John McTiernan
Writer: Roderick Thorp, Jeb Stuart, Steven E. de Souza
Actors: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia
Language: English, German, Italian, Japanese
Die Hard
Christmas
Rain Man

Barry Levinson, 1988

After a selfish L.A. yuppie learns his estranged father left a fortune to an autistic-savant brother in Ohio that he didn't know existed, he absconds with his brother and sets out across the country, hoping to gain a larger inheri...
Runtime: 133 min
Director: Barry Levinson
Writer: Barry Morrow, Ron Bass
Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino
Language: English, Italian
Best Picture
School Daze

Spike Lee, 1988

A not so popular young man wants to pledge to a popular fraternity at his historically black college.
Runtime: 121 min
Director: Spike Lee
Writer: Spike Lee
Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, Tisha Campbell
Language: English
As Tears Go By (temp)

Kar-Wai Wong, 1988

Mid-level gangster Wah falls in love with his beautiful cousin, but must also continue to protect his volatile partner-in-crime and friend, Fly.
Runtime: 102 min
Director: Kar-Wai Wong
Writer: Jeffrey Lau, Kar-Wai Wong
Actors: Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung, Jacky Cheung
Language: Cantonese
Wong Kar-Wai
Law of Desire

Pedro Almodóvar, 1987

A gay filmmaker becomes involved with an obsessive fan while still pining for his absent true love. Meanwhile, he shares a close but complex relationship with his trans sister, an actress.
Runtime: 102 min
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Writer: Pedro Almodóvar
Actors: Eusebio Poncela, Carmen Maura, Antonio Banderas
Language: Spanish
84 Charing Cross Road

David Hugh Jones, 1987

True story of a transatlantic business correspondence about used books that developed into a close friendship.
Runtime: 100 min
Director: David Hugh Jones
Writer: Helene Hanff, James Roose-Evans, Hugh Whitemore
Actors: Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins, Judi Dench
Language: English
The Living Daylights

John Glen, 1987

James Bond is sent to investigate a KGB policy to kill all enemy spies and uncovers an arms deal that potentially has major global ramifications.
Runtime: 130 min
Director: John Glen
Writer: Richard Maibaum, Michael G. Wilson, Ian Fleming
Actors: Timothy Dalton, Maryam d'Abo, Jeroen Krabbé
Language: English, Arabic, French, German, Russian, Czech, Slovak, Dari, Pashtu
James Bond
Full Metal Jacket

Stanley Kubrick, 1987

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
Runtime: 116 min
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writer: Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford
Actors: Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio
Language: English, Vietnamese
Beverly Hills Cop II

Tony Scott, 1987

Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills to help Taggart and Rosewood investigate Chief Bogomil's near-fatal shooting and the series of "alphabet crimes" associated with it.
Runtime: 100 min
Director: Tony Scott
Writer: Danilo Bach, Daniel Petrie Jr., Eddie Murphy
Actors: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, Jürgen Prochnow
Language: English
Planes, Trains & Automobiles

John Hughes, 1987

A Chicago advertising man must struggle to travel home from New York for Thanksgiving, with a lovable oaf of a shower-curtain-ring salesman as his only companion.
Runtime: 93 min
Director: John Hughes
Writer: John Hughes
Actors: Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins
Language: English
The Last Emperor

Bernardo Bertolucci, 1987

Bernardo Bertolucci's Oscar-winning dramatisation of the life story of China's last emperor, Pu Yi.
Runtime: 163 min
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Writer: Enzo Ungari, Mark Peploe, Bernardo Bertolucci
Actors: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole
Language: English, Mandarin, Japanese
Best Picture
Wall Street

Oliver Stone, 1987

An impatient young stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless, greedy corporate raider who takes the youth under his wing.
Runtime: 126 min
Director: Oliver Stone
Writer: Stanley Weiser, Oliver Stone
Actors: Charlie Sheen, Michael Douglas, Tamara Tunie
Language: English
Dirty Dancing

Emile Ardolino, 1987

Spending the summer at a Catskills resort with her family, Frances "Baby" Houseman falls in love with the camp's dance instructor, Johnny Castle.
Runtime: 100 min
Director: Emile Ardolino
Writer: Eleanor Bergstein
Actors: Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Jerry Orbach
Language: English
Laputa: Castle In The Sky

Hayao Miyazaki, 1986

A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.
Runtime: 125 min
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Writer: Hayao Miyazaki, Jonathan Swift
Actors: Mayumi Tanaka, Keiko Yokozawa, Kotoe Hatsui
Language: Japanese
Studio Ghibli
Aliens

James Cameron, 1986

Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.
Runtime: 137 min
Director: James Cameron
Writer: James Cameron, David Giler, Walter Hill
Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Carrie Henn
Language: English, Spanish
Alien
Ferris Bueller's Day Off

John Hughes, 1986

A popular high school student, admired by his peers, decides to take a day off from school and goes to extreme lengths to pull it off, to the chagrin of his Principal, who'll do anything to stop him.
Runtime: 103 min
Director: John Hughes
Writer: John Hughes
Actors: Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara
Language: English, German
Labyrinth

Jim Henson, 1986

Sixteen-year-old Sarah must solve a labyrinth to rescue her baby brother when he is taken by the Goblin King.
Runtime: 101 min
Director: Jim Henson
Writer: Dennis Lee, Jim Henson, Terry Jones
Actors: David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, Toby Froud
Language: English
Platoon

Oliver Stone, 1986

Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.
Runtime: 120 min
Director: Oliver Stone
Writer: Oliver Stone
Actors: Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe
Language: English, Vietnamese
Best Picture
Pretty in Pink

Howard Deutch, 1986

A poor girl must choose between the affections of dating her childhood sweetheart or a rich but sensitive playboy.
Runtime: 97 min
Director: Howard Deutch
Writer: John Hughes
Actors: Molly Ringwald, Jon Cryer, Harry Dean Stanton
Language: English
Top Gun

Tony Scott, 1986

As students at the United States Navy's elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom.
Runtime: 109 min
Director: Tony Scott
Writer: Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr., Ehud Yonay
Actors: Tom Cruise, Tim Robbins, Kelly McGillis
Language: English
Commended
Down by Law

Jim Jarmusch, 1986

Two men are framed and sent to jail, where they meet a murderer who helps them escape and leave the state.
Runtime: 107 min
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Writer: Jim Jarmusch
Actors: Tom Waits, John Lurie, Roberto Benigni
Language: English, Italian, French
Jim Jarmusch
Agnes of God

Norman Jewison, 1985

When a naive novice nun is discovered with a dead newborn in her convent quarters, a court-appointed psychiatrist investigates her case.
Runtime: 98 min
Director: Norman Jewison
Writer: John Pielmeier
Actors: Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft, Meg Tilly
Language: English, French, Latin
A View to a Kill

John Glen, 1985

The recovery of a microchip off the body of a fellow agent leads James Bond to a mad industrialist who plans to create a worldwide microchip monopoly by destroying California's Silicon Valley.
Runtime: 131 min
Director: John Glen
Writer: Richard Maibaum, Michael G. Wilson, Ian Fleming
Actors: Roger Moore, Christopher Walken, Tanya Roberts
Language: English, French
James Bond
Ran

Akira Kurosawa, 1985

In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.
Runtime: 160 min
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Writer: Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Masato Ide
Actors: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu
Language: Japanese
Back to the Future

Robert Zemeckis, 1985

Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.
Runtime: 116 min
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Writer: Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale
Actors: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson
Language: English
Brazil

Terry Gilliam, 1985

A bureaucrat in a dystopic society becomes an enemy of the state as he pursues the woman of his dreams.
Runtime: 132 min
Director: Terry Gilliam
Writer: Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, Charles McKeown
Actors: Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro
Language: English
Rocky IV

Sylvester Stallone, 1985

Rocky Balboa proudly holds the world heavyweight boxing championship, but a new challenger has stepped forward: Drago, a six-foot-four, 261-pound fighter who has the backing of the Soviet Union.
Runtime: 91 min
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Writer: Sylvester Stallone
Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young
Language: English, Russian
Out of Africa

Sydney Pollack, 1985

In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.
Runtime: 161 min
Director: Sydney Pollack
Writer: Karen Blixen, Judith Thurman, Errol Trzebinski
Actors: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer
Language: English, Swahili, Arabic
Best Picture
Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome

George Miller, George Ogilvie, 1985

After being exiled from the most advanced town in post apocalyptic Australia, a drifter travels with a group of abandoned children to rebel against the town's queen.
Runtime: 107 min
Director: George Miller, George Ogilvie
Writer: Terry Hayes, George Miller, Byron Kennedy
Actors: Mel Gibson, Tina Turner, Bruce Spence
Language: English
What Have I Done to Deserve This?

Pedro Almodóvar, 1984

The vicissitudes of Gloria, a neurotic housewife, and her family's peculiar characters.
Runtime: 101 min
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Writer: Pedro Almodóvar
Actors: Carmen Maura, Gonzalo Suárez, Luis Hostalot
Language: Spanish, German, English, French
License to Kill

John Glen, 1984

A vengeful James Bond goes rogue to infiltrate and take down the organization of a drug lord who has murdered his friend's new wife and left him near death.
Runtime: 133 min
Director: John Glen
Writer: Michael G. Wilson, Richard Maibaum, Ian Fleming
Actors: Timothy Dalton, Robert Davi, Carey Lowell
Language: English, Spanish
James Bond
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

Hayao Miyazaki, 1984

Warrior and pacifist Princess Nausicaä desperately struggles to prevent two warring nations from destroying themselves and their dying planet.
Runtime: 117 min
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Writer: Hayao Miyazaki, Cindy Davis, Donald H. Hewitt
Actors: Sumi Shimamoto, Mahito Tsujimura, Hisako Kyôda
Language: Japanese
Studio Ghibli
1984

Michael Radford, 1984

In a totalitarian future society, a man, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.
Runtime: 113 min
Director: Michael Radford
Writer: Michael Radford, George Orwell
Actors: John Hurt, Richard Burton, Suzanna Hamilton
Language: English
Beverly Hills Cop

Martin Brest, 1984

A freewheeling Detroit cop pursuing a murder investigation finds himself dealing with the very different culture of Beverly Hills.
Runtime: 105 min
Director: Martin Brest
Writer: Daniel Petrie Jr., Danilo Bach
Actors: Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold, John Ashton
Language: English
Blood Simple

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, 1984

The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies, and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
Runtime: 99 min
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Writer: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Actors: John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya
Language: English, Spanish
The NeverEnding Story

Wolfgang Petersen, 1984

A troubled boy dives into a wondrous fantasy world through the pages of a mysterious book.
Runtime: 102 min
Director: Wolfgang Petersen
Writer: Wolfgang Petersen, Herman Weigel, Michael Ende
Actors: Noah Hathaway, Barret Oliver, Tami Stronach
Language: English
Stranger Than Paradise

Jim Jarmusch, 1984

A New Yorker's life is thrown into a tailspin when his younger cousin surprise-visits him, starting a strange, unpredictable adventure.
Runtime: 89 min
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Writer: Jim Jarmusch, John Lurie
Actors: John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson
Language: English, Hungarian, Italian
Jim Jarmusch
Amadeus

Milos Forman, 1984

The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was deeply jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.
Runtime: 160 min
Director: Milos Forman
Writer: Peter Shaffer, Zdenek Mahler
Actors: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge
Language: English, Italian, Latin, German, French
Best Picture
After the Rehearsal

Ingmar Bergman, 1984

As an aging playwright interacts with the young lead in his play after everybody's gone home, he reminisces about her mother, whom he maintained a sexual relationship with before she died.
Runtime: 70 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Erland Josephson, Ingrid Thulin, Lena Olin
Language: Swedish
Ingmar Bergman
Dark Habits

Pedro Almodóvar, 1983

A nightclub singer seeks refuge with gay nuns on dope in a Madrid convent.
Runtime: 114 min
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Writer: Pedro Almodóvar
Actors: Cristina Sánchez Pascual, Will More, Laura Cepeda
Language: Spanish
To Be or Not to Be

Alan Johnson, 1983

At the onset of WW2, a Polish actor's family and the Polish Resistance help the troupe of a theatre escape Poland and the invading Nazis.
Runtime: 107 min
Director: Alan Johnson
Writer: Thomas Meehan, Ronny Graham, Edwin Justus Mayer
Actors: Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Ronny Graham
Language: English, Polish
Octopussy

John Glen, 1983

A fake Fabergé egg, and a fellow Agent's death, lead James Bond to uncover an international jewel-smuggling operation, headed by the mysterious Octopussy, being used to disguise a nuclear attack on N.A.T.O. forces.
Runtime: 131 min
Director: John Glen
Writer: George MacDonald Fraser, Richard Maibaum, Michael G. Wilson
Actors: Roger Moore, Maud Adams, Louis Jourdan
Language: English, Russian, German, Spanish, Hindi
James Bond
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

Richard Marquand, 1983

After rescuing Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebels attempt to destroy the second Death Star, while Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side.
Runtime: 131 min
Director: Richard Marquand
Writer: Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas
Actors: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
Language: English, Kikuyu, Tagalog, Kalmyk-Oirat, Quechua, Polish
Star Wars
Terms of Endearment

James L. Brooks, 1983

Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughter's family problems.
Runtime: 132 min
Director: James L. Brooks
Writer: Larry McMurtry, James L. Brooks
Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson
Language: English
Best Picture
The Sting II

Jeremy Kagan, 1983

A team of cons is planning a new scam involving betting on a boxing match but one of its past victims aims to exact revenge by eliminating the whole group.
Runtime: 101 min
Director: Jeremy Kagan
Writer: David S. Ward, Dean Riesner
Actors: Jackie Gleason, Mac Davis, Teri Garr
Language: Italian, Spanish, English, French
Blade Runner

Ridley Scott, 1982

A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
Runtime: 117 min
Director: Ridley Scott
Writer: Hampton Fancher, David Webb Peoples, Philip K. Dick
Actors: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young
Language: English, German, Cantonese, Japanese, Hungarian, Arabic, Korean
The Man Who Saved the World

Çetin Inanç, 1982

Two space cadets crash-land on a desert planet, where an evil wizard seeks the ultimate power to take over the world. Although the movie borrows some background footage from Star Wars, the plot is mostly unrelated.
Runtime: 91 min
Director: Çetin Inanç
Writer: Cüneyt Arkin
Actors: Cüneyt Arkin, Aytekin Akkaya, Füsun Uçar
Language: Turkish
Rocky III

Sylvester Stallone, 1982

Rocky faces the ultimate challenge from a powerful new contender, and must turn to a former rival to help regain his throne as the undisputed fighting champion.
Runtime: 99 min
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Writer: Sylvester Stallone
Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young
Language: English
Gandhi

Richard Attenborough, 1982

The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.
Runtime: 191 min
Director: Richard Attenborough
Writer: John Briley
Actors: Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Rohini Hattangadi
Language: English, Hindi
Best Picture
Fanny and Alexander

Ingmar Bergman, 1982

Two young Swedish children in the 1900s experience the many comedies and tragedies of their lively and affectionate theatrical family, the Ekdahls.
Runtime: 188 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Bertil Guve, Pernilla Allwin, Kristina Adolphson
Language: Swedish, German, Yiddish, English, French
Ingmar Bergman
For Your Eyes Only

John Glen, 1981

James Bond is assigned to find a missing British vessel, equipped with a weapons encryption device and prevent it from falling into enemy hands.
Runtime: 127 min
Director: John Glen
Writer: Richard Maibaum, Michael G. Wilson, Ian Fleming
Actors: Roger Moore, Carole Bouquet, Topol
Language: English, Greek, Italian, Spanish
James Bond
The Great Muppet Caper

Jim Henson, 1981

Kermit the Frog, The Great Gonzo, and Fozzie Bear are reporters who travel to Britain to interview a rich victim of jewel thieves and help her along with her secretary, Miss Piggy.
Runtime: 97 min
Director: Jim Henson
Writer: Tom Patchett, Jay Tarses, Jerry Juhl
Actors: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz
Language: English
Chariots of Fire

Hugh Hudson, 1981

Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, are driven to win in the 1924 Olympics as they wrestle with issues of pride and conscience.
Runtime: 125 min
Director: Hugh Hudson
Writer: Colin Welland
Actors: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nicholas Farrell
Language: English, French
Best Picture
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior

George Miller, 1981

In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline-rich community escape a horde of bandits.
Runtime: 96 min
Director: George Miller
Writer: Terry Hayes, George Miller, Brian Hannant
Actors: Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Michael Preston
Language: English
Fatso

Anne Bancroft, 1980

An overweight bachelor is fat, 40 and fed up--to the gills--but when his obese cousin Sal dies at 39, he must finally come to terms with his own weight problem.
Runtime: 93 min
Director: Anne Bancroft
Writer: Anne Bancroft
Actors: Dom DeLuise, Anne Bancroft, Ron Carey
Language: English, Italian
The Shining

Stanley Kubrick, 1980

A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
Runtime: 146 min
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writer: Stephen King, Stanley Kubrick, Diane Johnson
Actors: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd
Language: English
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Irvin Kershner, 1980

After the Rebels are overpowered by the Empire, Luke Skywalker begins his Jedi training with Yoda, while his friends are pursued across the galaxy by Darth Vader and bounty hunter Boba Fett.
Runtime: 124 min
Director: Irvin Kershner
Writer: Leigh Brackett, Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas
Actors: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
Language: English
Star Wars
Fame

Alan Parker, 1980

A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.
Runtime: 134 min
Director: Alan Parker
Writer: Christopher Gore
Actors: Eddie Barth, Irene Cara, Lee Curreri
Language: English, Spanish, French, Russian
Musicals
Ordinary People

Robert Redford, 1980

The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father and the guilt-ridden younger son.
Runtime: 124 min
Director: Robert Redford
Writer: Judith Guest, Alvin Sargent, Nancy Dowd
Actors: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch
Language: English
Best Picture
Permanent Vacation

Jim Jarmusch, 1980

A young man wanders New York City searching for some meaning in life and encounters many idiosyncratic characters.
Runtime: 75 min
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Writer: Jim Jarmusch
Actors: Chris Parker, Leila Gastil, John Lurie
Language: English, Spanish
Jim Jarmusch
From the Life of the Marionettes

Ingmar Bergman, 1980

An account of the events before and after a murder committed by a disturbed businessman in a strained marriage, and what led him to perform such a shocking act.
Runtime: 104 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Robert Atzorn, Christine Buchegger, Martin Benrath
Language: German
Ingmar Bergman

1970s

Moonraker

Lewis Gilbert, 1979

James Bond investigates the mid-air theft of a space shuttle, and discovers a plot to commit global genocide.
Runtime: 126 min
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Writer: Christopher Wood, Ian Fleming, Gerry Anderson
Actors: Roger Moore, Lois Chiles, Michael Lonsdale
Language: English, Italian, Portuguese
James Bond
Dirty Ho

Chia-Liang Liu, 1979

A prince enlists a thief to serve as his bodyguard to protect him from assassins.
Runtime: 103 min
Director: Chia-Liang Liu
Writer: Kuang Ni
Actors: Yue Wong, Chia-Hui Liu, Lieh Lo
Language: Cantonese, Mandarin
Shawscope
Alien

Ridley Scott, 1979

The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating an unknown transmission.
Runtime: 117 min
Director: Ridley Scott
Writer: Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett
Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt
Language: English
Alien
Apocalypse Now

Francis Ford Coppola, 1979

A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
Runtime: 147 min
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Writer: John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Herr
Actors: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall
Language: English, French, Vietnamese
Rocky II

Sylvester Stallone, 1979

Rocky struggles in family life after his bout with Apollo Creed, while the embarrassed champ insistently goads him to accept a challenge for a rematch.
Runtime: 119 min
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Writer: Sylvester Stallone
Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young
Language: English, Italian
Life of Brian

Terry Jones, 1979

Born on the original Christmas in the stable next door to Jesus Christ, Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.
Runtime: 94 min
Director: Terry Jones
Writer: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam
Actors: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Michael Palin
Language: English, Latin
Kramer vs. Kramer

Robert Benton, 1979

After his wife leaves him, a work-obsessed Manhattan advertising executive is forced to learn long-neglected parenting skills, but a heated custody battle over the couple's young son deepens the wounds left by the separation.
Runtime: 105 min
Director: Robert Benton
Writer: Avery Corman, Robert Benton, Jay Christian
Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander
Language: English
Best Picture
Faro Document 1979

Ingmar Bergman, 1979

Fårö Document 1979 is the ten-year followup to the first documentary Bergman made about his adopted home, Fårö, where he filmed many of his best works and lived until the end of his life.
Runtime: 103 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Ingmar Bergman, Irene Broman, Per Broman
Language: Swedish
Ingmar Bergman
Mad Max

George Miller, 1979

In a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang.
Runtime: 88 min
Director: George Miller
Writer: James McCausland, George Miller, Byron Kennedy
Actors: Mel Gibson, Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keays-Byrne
Language: English
Hair

Milos Forman, 1979

Claude Bukowski leaves the family ranch in Oklahoma for New York where he is rapidly embraced into the hippie group of youngsters led by Berger, yet he's already been drafted. He soon falls in love with Sheila Franklin, a rich gir...
Runtime: 121 min
Director: Milos Forman
Writer: Gerome Ragni, James Rado, Michael Weller
Actors: John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo
Language: English
Musicals
Crippled Avengers

Cheh Chang, 1978

Three men who have been physically disabled by an evil warlord and his physically-disabled son become friends and learn kung fu so that they can seek revenge with help from an elderly martial-arts teacher and his mentally-disabled...
Runtime: 104 min
Director: Cheh Chang
Writer: Cheh Chang, Kuang Ni
Actors: Kuan Tai Chen, Feng Lu, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok
Language: Mandarin, Cantonese
Shawscope
Heroes of the East

Chia-Liang Liu, 1978

A Chinese man (Liu) marries a Japanese woman through an arranged marriage and manages to insult all of her Japanese martial arts family by issuing a challenge to her that is misinterpreted by the others. He must then prove how goo...
Runtime: 105 min
Director: Chia-Liang Liu
Writer: Kuang Ni
Actors: Chia-Hui Liu, Yuka Mizuno, Yasuaki Kurata
Language: Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese
Shawscope
The Five Venoms

Cheh Chang, 1978

The sixth and final pupil of a dying martial arts teacher is instructed to find the teacher's five former pupils and defeat any evil ones that are among them.
Runtime: 101 min
Director: Cheh Chang
Writer: Kuang Ni, Cheh Chang
Actors: Sheng Chiang, Chien Sun, Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok
Language: Mandarin, Cantonese
Shawscope
Grease

Randal Kleiser, 1978

Good girl Sandy Olsson and greaser Danny Zuko fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?
Runtime: 110 min
Director: Randal Kleiser
Writer: Jim Jacobs, Warren Casey, Bronte Woodard
Actors: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing
Language: English
Musicals
The Deer Hunter

Michael Cimino, 1978

An in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.
Runtime: 183 min
Director: Michael Cimino
Writer: Michael Cimino, Deric Washburn, Louis Garfinkle
Actors: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale
Language: English, Vietnamese, French, Russian, Cantonese
Best Picture
Autumn Sonata

Ingmar Bergman, 1978

A devoted wife is visited by her mother, a successful concert pianist who had little time for her when she was young.
Runtime: 99 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Lena Nyman
Language: Swedish, English
Ingmar Bergman
The Spy Who Loved Me

Lewis Gilbert, 1977

James Bond investigates the hijacking of British and Russian submarines carrying nuclear warheads, with the help of a K.G.B. agent whose lover he killed.
Runtime: 125 min
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Writer: Christopher Wood, Richard Maibaum, Ian Fleming
Actors: Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Curd Jürgens
Language: English, Italian, Arabic
James Bond
Chinatown Kid

Cheh Chang, 1977

After getting in trouble with local gangs, a young man (Fu Sheng) flees to San Francisco, where the same gangs are still causing problems. He becomes a part of a rival gang, and eventually decides to play them against each other i...
Runtime: 115 min
Director: Cheh Chang
Writer: Cheh Chang, Kuang Ni, James Wong
Actors: Sheng Fu, Shirley Yu, Susan Yam-Yam Shaw
Language: Cantonese, Mandarin, English
Shawscope
Executioners from Shaolin

Chia-Liang Liu, 1977

Hong Hsi-Kuan devotes years to mastering Tiger style Kung Fu in order to defeat the evil priest Pai Mei. His wife, who is an expert in Crane style Kung Fu, has a feeling training in only one style won't be enough.
Runtime: 100 min
Director: Chia-Liang Liu
Writer: Kuang Ni
Actors: Kuan Tai Chen, Lieh Lo, Yue Wong
Language: Mandarin
Shawscope
Mighty Peking Man

Meng-Hua Ho, 1977

A greedy Hong Kong businessman captures a 50-foot-tall ape from the Himalayas and puts it on display, but it escapes and goes on a rampage.
Runtime: 90 min
Director: Meng-Hua Ho
Writer: Kuang Ni
Actors: Evelyne Kraft, Danny Lee, Feng Ku
Language: Mandarin
Shawscope
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

George Lucas, 1977

Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth ...
Runtime: 121 min
Director: George Lucas
Writer: George Lucas
Actors: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
Language: English
Star Wars
The Serpent's Egg

Ingmar Bergman, 1977

Berlin, 1923. Following the suicide of his brother, American circus acrobat Abel Rosenberg attempts to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism and the social decay of Germany during the Weimar Republic.
Runtime: 119 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Liv Ullmann, David Carradine, Gert Fröbe
Language: English, German
Ingmar Bergman
Family Plot

Alfred Hitchcock, 1976

A phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/actor boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
Runtime: 120 min
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Ernest Lehman, Victor Canning
Actors: Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris
Language: English
Alfred Hitchcock
Challenge of the Masters

Chia-Liang Liu, 1976

Teenager Wong Fei-hung is sent to train in the art of hung gar kung fu from his father's teacher, Luk Ah-choy. With training complete, Wong must fight an assassin and regain the honor of his school.
Runtime: 97 min
Director: Chia-Liang Liu
Writer: Kuang Ni
Actors: Chia-Hui Liu, Kuan Tai Chen, Yue Wong
Language: Cantonese, Mandarin
Shawscope
Shaolin Temple

Cheh Chang, Wu Ma, 1976

The Shaolin Temple is the last place to resist defeat by the Manchu Dynasty, mostly because of their unique fighting style. Men from far and wide come to wait outside the temple, hoping that they will be admitted as pupils. As the...
Runtime: 126 min
Director: Cheh Chang, Wu Ma
Writer: Cheh Chang, Kuang Ni
Actors: Sheng Fu, Kuan-Chun Chi, Lung Ti
Language: Mandarin
Shawscope
Rocky

John G. Avildsen, 1976

A small-time Philadelphia boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight the world heavyweight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.
Runtime: 120 min
Director: John G. Avildsen
Writer: Sylvester Stallone
Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young
Language: English
Best Picture
Barry Lyndon

Stanley Kubrick, 1975

An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.
Runtime: 185 min
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writer: Stanley Kubrick, William Makepeace Thackeray
Actors: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee
Language: English, German, French
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, 1975

King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table embark on a surreal, low-budget search for the Holy Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles.
Runtime: 91 min
Director: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
Writer: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle
Actors: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle
Language: English, French, Latin, Swedish
The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Jim Sharman, 1975

A newly-engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must seek shelter at the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-n-Furter.
Runtime: 100 min
Director: Jim Sharman
Writer: Richard O'Brien, Jim Sharman
Actors: Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick
Language: English
Musicals
Commended
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Milos Forman, 1975

In the Fall of 1963, a Korean War veteran and criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rallies up the scared patients against the tyrannical nurse.
Runtime: 133 min
Director: Milos Forman
Writer: Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman, Ken Kesey
Actors: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman
Language: English
Best Picture
The Magic Flute

Ingmar Bergman, 1975

The story of the prince Tamino and his zestful sidekick Papageno, who are sent on a mission to save a beautiful princess from the clutches of evil.
Runtime: 135 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Emanuel Schikaneder, Ingmar Bergman, Alf Henrikson
Actors: Ulrik Cold, Josef Köstlinger, Irma Urrila
Language: Swedish
Ingmar Bergman
French Connection II

John Frankenheimer, 1975

"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseille to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler who eluded him in New York.
Runtime: 119 min
Director: John Frankenheimer
Writer: Alexander Jacobs, Robert Dillon, Laurie Dillon
Actors: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson
Language: English, French
The Man with the Golden Gun

Guy Hamilton, 1974

James Bond is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin, while he attempts to recover sensitive solar cell technology that is being sold to the highest bidder.
Runtime: 125 min
Director: Guy Hamilton
Writer: Richard Maibaum, Tom Mankiewicz, Ian Fleming
Actors: Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland
Language: English, Thai, Cantonese
James Bond
Five Shaolin Masters

Cheh Chang, 1974

Five students escape from the destruction of their beloved Shaolin Temple...now each must take revenge and train in their own seperate fighting styles...they will become The Five Shaolin Masters!!
Runtime: 109 min
Director: Cheh Chang
Writer: Kuang Ni
Actors: David Chiang, Lung Ti, Sheng Fu
Language: Mandarin
Shawscope
The Godfather Part II

Francis Ford Coppola, 1974

The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.
Runtime: 202 min
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Writer: Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo
Actors: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall
Language: English, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Sicilian
Best Picture
Scenes from a Marriage

Ingmar Bergman, 1974

Scenes from a Marriage chronicles the many years of love and turmoil that bind Marianne (Liv Ullmann) and Johan (Erland Josephson) through matrimony, infidelity, divorce, and subsequent partners.
Runtime: 169 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Liv Ullmann, Erland Josephson, Bibi Andersson
Language: Swedish
Ingmar Bergman
Live and Let Die

Guy Hamilton, 1973

James Bond is sent to stop a diabolically brilliant heroin magnate armed with a complex organisation and a reliable psychic tarot card reader.
Runtime: 121 min
Director: Guy Hamilton
Writer: Tom Mankiewicz, Ian Fleming
Actors: Roger Moore, Yaphet Kotto, Jane Seymour
Language: Italian, English, Hungarian
James Bond
Jesus Christ Superstar

Norman Jewison, 1973

Film version of the musical stage play, presenting the last few weeks of Christ's life told in an anachronistic manner.
Runtime: 106 min
Director: Norman Jewison
Writer: Melvyn Bragg, Norman Jewison, Tim Rice
Actors: Ted Neeley, Carl Anderson, Yvonne Elliman
Language: English
All Time
Musicals
The Sting

George Roy Hill, 1973

Two grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con.
Runtime: 129 min
Director: George Roy Hill
Writer: David S. Ward
Actors: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw
Language: English
Best Picture
Frenzy

Alfred Hitchcock, 1972

A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man.
Runtime: 116 min
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Arthur La Bern, Anthony Shaffer
Actors: Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Language: English
Alfred Hitchcock
King Boxer

Chang-hwa Jeong, 1972

As two martial arts schools prepare for an important tournament, one school's master is a dishonorable man, and to ensure his son wins the title, he hires three Japanese samurais, who target the rival school's best fighter.
Runtime: 104 min
Director: Chang-hwa Jeong
Writer: Yang Chiang
Actors: Lieh Lo, Ping Wang, Hsiung Chao
Language: Mandarin
Shawscope
The Boxer from Shantung

Cheh Chang, Hsueh-Li Pao, 1972

Leaving the poverty of his life in Shantung to seek fortune in Shanghai, The Boxer is instead drawn into a world of corruption, gang warfare and evil... Where his only protection is his famed fighting technique.
Runtime: 134 min
Director: Cheh Chang, Hsueh-Li Pao
Writer: Cheh Chang, Kuang Ni
Actors: Kuan Tai Chen, Li Ching, David Chiang
Language: Mandarin
Shawscope
The Godfather

Francis Ford Coppola, 1972

Don Vito Corleone, head of a mafia family, decides to hand over his empire to his youngest son Michael. However, his decision unintentionally puts the lives of his loved ones in grave danger.
Runtime: 175 min
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Writer: Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola
Actors: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan
Language: English, Italian, Latin
Best Picture
Diamonds Are Forever

Guy Hamilton, 1971

A diamond smuggling investigation leads James Bond to Las Vegas where he uncovers an evil plot involving a rich business tycoon.
Runtime: 120 min
Director: Guy Hamilton
Writer: Richard Maibaum, Tom Mankiewicz, Ian Fleming
Actors: Sean Connery, Jill St. John, Charles Gray
Language: English, German
James Bond
A Clockwork Orange

Stanley Kubrick, 1971

In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.
Runtime: 136 min
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writer: Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Burgess
Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates
Language: English
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Mel Stuart, 1971

A poor but hopeful boy seeks one of the five coveted golden tickets that will send him on a tour of Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory.
Runtime: 100 min
Director: Mel Stuart
Writer: Roald Dahl, David Seltzer
Actors: Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum
Language: English, French, German, Italian
Musicals
The Touch

Ingmar Bergman, 1971

A Swedish housewife begins an adulterous affair with a foreign archaeologist. But he is an emotionally scarred man, a Holocaust survivor; consequently, their relationship will be painfully difficult.
Runtime: 115 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Elliott Gould, Bibi Andersson, Max von Sydow
Language: English, Swedish, French
Ingmar Bergman
Fiddler on the Roof

Norman Jewison, 1971

In pre-revolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant with traditional values contends with marrying off three of his daughters with modern romantic ideals while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.
Runtime: 181 min
Director: Norman Jewison
Writer: Sholom Aleichem, Arnold Perl, Joseph Stein
Actors: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey
Language: English, Hebrew, Russian
Musicals
The French Connection

William Friedkin, 1971

A pair of NYPD detectives in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles, but stopping them and capturing their leaders proves an elusive goal.
Runtime: 104 min
Director: William Friedkin
Writer: Ernest Tidyman, Robin Moore, William Friedkin
Actors: Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey
Language: English, French, Italian
Best Picture
Faro Document

Ingmar Bergman, 1970

Bergman interviews the locals of Fårö in this fascinating documentary. An expression of personal and political solidarity with the fellow inhabitants of his adopted home, the island of Fårö in the Baltic Sea, this documentary inve...
Runtime: 57 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: N/A
Actors: Arvid Andersson, Sven Bernander, Carl Ekman
Language: Swedish
Ingmar Bergman
Patton

Franklin J. Schaffner, 1970

The World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.
Runtime: 172 min
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Writer: Francis Ford Coppola, Edmund H. North, Ladislas Farago
Actors: George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Stephen Young
Language: English, German, French, Russian, Arabic, Italian
Best Picture

1960s

Topaz

Alfred Hitchcock, 1969

A French Intelligence Agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring.
Runtime: 143 min
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Leon Uris, Samuel A. Taylor
Actors: Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, John Vernon
Language: English, Spanish, French, Russian
Alfred Hitchcock
On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Peter R. Hunt, 1969

James Bond woos a mob boss' daughter and goes undercover to uncover the true reason for Ernst Stavro Blofeld's allergy research in the Swiss Alps involving beautiful women from around the world.
Runtime: 142 min
Director: Peter R. Hunt
Writer: Simon Raven, Richard Maibaum, Ian Fleming
Actors: George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas
Language: English, German, French
James Bond
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid

George Roy Hill, 1969

In 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid lead a band of outlaws. When a train robbery goes wrong, they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. After considering their options, they escape to South ...
Runtime: 110 min
Director: George Roy Hill
Writer: William Goldman
Actors: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross
Language: English, Spanish
Easy Rider

Dennis Hopper, 1969

Two bikers head from L.A. to New Orleans through the open country and desert lands, and along the way they meet a man who bridges a counter-culture gap of which they had been unaware.
Runtime: 95 min
Director: Dennis Hopper
Writer: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Terry Southern
Actors: Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson
Language: English, Spanish, Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Midnight Cowboy

John Schlesinger, 1969

A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.
Runtime: 113 min
Director: John Schlesinger
Writer: Waldo Salt, James Leo Herlihy
Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles
Language: English, Italian
Best Picture
The Rite

Ingmar Bergman, 1969

A theatre troupe is called to court because of obscene performance material and an interrogation ensues, which causes them to expose their neuroses and inner psychological torments.
Runtime: 72 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Ingrid Thulin, Anders Ek, Gunnar Björnstrand
Language: Swedish
Ingmar Bergman
The Passion of Anna

Ingmar Bergman, 1969

A recently divorced man meets an emotionally devastated widow and they begin a love affair.
Runtime: 101 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson, Max von Sydow
Language: Swedish
Ingmar Bergman
2001: A Space Odyssey

Stanley Kubrick, 1968

After uncovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, a spacecraft is sent to Jupiter to find its origins: a spacecraft manned by two men and the supercomputer HAL 9000.
Runtime: 149 min
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writer: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke
Actors: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester
Language: English, Russian, French
Commended
Hour of the Wolf

Ingmar Bergman, 1968

While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.
Runtime: 88 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Gertrud Fridh
Language: Swedish, German
Ingmar Bergman
Shame

Ingmar Bergman, 1968

In the midst of a civil war, former violinists Jan and Eva Rosenberg, who have a tempestuous marriage, run a farm on a rural island. In spite of their best efforts to escape their homeland, the war impinges on every aspect of thei...
Runtime: 103 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Sigge Fürst
Language: Swedish
Ingmar Bergman
Oliver!

Carol Reed, 1968

After being sold to a mortician, young orphan Oliver Twist runs away and meets a group of boys trained to be pickpockets by an elderly mentor in 1830s London.
Runtime: 153 min
Director: Carol Reed
Writer: Lionel Bart, Vernon Harris, Charles Dickens
Actors: Mark Lester, Ron Moody, Shani Wallis
Language: English
Best Picture
Musicals
The Graduate

Mike Nichols, 1967

A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.
Runtime: 106 min
Director: Mike Nichols
Writer: Calder Willingham, Buck Henry, Charles Webb
Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, Katharine Ross
Language: English
Commended
You Only Live Twice

Lewis Gilbert, 1967

James Bond and the Japanese Secret Service must find and stop the true culprit of a series of space hijackings, before war is provoked between Russia and the United States.
Runtime: 117 min
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Writer: Harold Jack Bloom, Roald Dahl, Ian Fleming
Actors: Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Mie Hama
Language: English, Japanese, Russian
James Bond
Belle de Jour

Luis Buñuel, 1967

A frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute.
Runtime: 100 min
Director: Luis Buñuel
Writer: Joseph Kessel, Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Carrière
Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli
Language: French, Spanish
Cool Hand Luke

Stuart Rosenberg, 1967

A laid-back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.
Runtime: 127 min
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Writer: Donn Pearce, Frank Pierson, Hal Dresner
Actors: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Strother Martin
Language: English
In the Heat of the Night

Norman Jewison, 1967

A black Philadelphia police detective is mistakenly suspected of a local murder while passing through a racially hostile Mississippi town, and after being cleared is reluctantly asked by the police chief to investigate the case.
Runtime: 110 min
Director: Norman Jewison
Writer: Stirling Silliphant, John Ball
Actors: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
Language: English
Best Picture
The Producers

Mel Brooks, 1967

A stage-play producer devises a plan to make money by producing a sure-fire flop.
Runtime: 88 min
Director: Mel Brooks
Writer: Mel Brooks
Actors: Zero Mostel, Gene Wilder, Dick Shawn
Language: English, German
Torn Curtain

Alfred Hitchcock, 1966

An American scientist publicly defects to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the solution for a formula resin before planning an escape back to the West.
Runtime: 128 min
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Brian Moore, Willis Hall, Keith Waterhouse
Actors: Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova
Language: English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, French
Alfred Hitchcock
Persona

Ingmar Bergman, 1966

A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together.
Runtime: 83 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook
Language: Swedish, English
Ingmar Bergman
A Man For All Seasons

Fred Zinnemann, 1966

The story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry.
Runtime: 120 min
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Writer: Robert Bolt
Actors: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw
Language: English, Latin, Spanish, French
Best Picture
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

Chuck Jones, Ben Washam, 1966

A grumpy hermit hatches a plan to steal Christmas from the Whos of Whoville.
Runtime: 26 min
Director: Chuck Jones, Ben Washam
Writer: Dr. Seuss, Irv Spector, Bob Ogle
Actors: Boris Karloff, Thurl Ravenscroft, June Foray
Language: English
Christmas
Alphaville

Jean-Luc Godard, 1965

A U.S. secret agent is sent to the distant space city of Alphaville where he must find a missing person and free the city from its tyrannical ruler.
Runtime: 99 min
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Writer: Jean-Luc Godard, Paul Éluard
Actors: Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Akim Tamiroff
Language: French, English, Spanish
Pierrot le Fou

Jean-Luc Godard, 1965

Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
Runtime: 110 min
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Writer: Rémo Forlani, Jean-Luc Godard, Lionel White
Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Anna Karina, Graziella Galvani
Language: French, English, Italian
Thunderball

Terence Young, 1965

James Bond heads to the Bahamas to recover two nuclear warheads stolen by S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Agent Emilio Largo in an international extortion scheme.
Runtime: 130 min
Director: Terence Young
Writer: Richard Maibaum, John Hopkins, Jack Whittingham
Actors: Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi
Language: English, French
James Bond
The Sound of Music

Robert Wise, 1965

A young novice is sent by her convent in 1930s Austria to become a governess to the seven children of a widowed naval officer.
Runtime: 172 min
Director: Robert Wise
Writer: Georg Hurdalek, Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse
Actors: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker
Language: English, German
Best Picture
Musicals
The Pumpkin Eater

Jack Clayton, 1964

Beautiful Mother of five Jo leaves the banality of her marriage to second husband Giles to wed her passionate screenwriter lover, Jake Armitage. As suspicions of Husband Jake's philandering grows, Jo's sanity spirals.
Runtime: 118 min
Director: Jack Clayton
Writer: Penelope Mortimer, Harold Pinter
Actors: Anne Bancroft, Peter Finch, James Mason
Language: English
Marnie

Alfred Hitchcock, 1964

Mark marries Marnie although she is a habitual thief and has serious psychological problems, and tries to help her confront and resolve them.
Runtime: 130 min
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Winston Graham, Jay Presson Allen
Actors: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Martin Gabel
Language: English
Alfred Hitchcock
Goldfinger

Guy Hamilton, 1964

While investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve.
Runtime: 110 min
Director: Guy Hamilton
Writer: Richard Maibaum, Paul Dehn, Ian Fleming
Actors: Sean Connery, Gert Fröbe, Honor Blackman
Language: English, Chinese, Spanish
James Bond
My Fair Lady

George Cukor, 1964

In 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make crude flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, presentable in high society.
Runtime: 170 min
Director: George Cukor
Writer: Alan Jay Lerner, George Bernard Shaw
Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway
Language: English
Best Picture
Audrey Hepburn
All These Women

Ingmar Bergman, 1964

A critic blackmails a famous musician with his biography filled with the revelations of many of his women.
Runtime: 80 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Erland Josephson, Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Eva Dahlbeck
Language: Swedish, English, German, French
Ingmar Bergman
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (temp)

Stanley Kubrick, 1964

An unhinged American general orders a bombing attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.
Runtime: 95 min
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writer: Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George
Actors: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden
Language: English, Russian
Le Mepris

Jean-Luc Godard, 1963

Screenwriter Paul Javal's marriage to his wife Camille disintegrates during movie production as she spends time with the producer. Layered conflicts between art and business ensue.
Runtime: 102 min
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Writer: Alberto Moravia, Jean-Luc Godard
Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Jack Palance, Michel Piccoli
Language: French, English, German, Italian
The Birds

Alfred Hitchcock, 1963

A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.
Runtime: 119 min
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Daphne Du Maurier, Evan Hunter
Actors: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy
Language: English, Latin
Alfred Hitchcock
From Russia With Love

Terence Young, 1963

James Bond willingly falls into an assassination plot involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by S.P.E.C.T.R.E.
Runtime: 115 min
Director: Terence Young
Writer: Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, Ian Fleming
Actors: Sean Connery, Robert Shaw, Lotte Lenya
Language: English, Russian, Turkish, French, Romany, Italian
James Bond
Cleopatra

Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1963

Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.
Runtime: 192 min
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Writer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Ranald MacDougall, Sidney Buchman
Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison
Language: English
Winter Light

Ingmar Bergman, 1963

A small-town priest struggles with his faith.
Runtime: 81 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Gunnel Lindblom
Language: Swedish
Ingmar Bergman
The Silence

Ingmar Bergman, 1963

Two estranged sisters, Ester and Anna, and Anna's 10-year-old son travel to the Central European country on the verge of war. Ester becomes seriously ill and the three of them move into a hotel in a small town called Timoka.
Runtime: 96 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Birger Malmsten
Language: Swedish, English, German, French, Spanish
Ingmar Bergman
Tom Jones

Tony Richardson, 1963

The romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th-century England.
Runtime: 129 min
Director: Tony Richardson
Writer: John Osborne, Henry Fielding
Actors: Albert Finney, Susannah York, George Devine
Language: English
Best Picture
The Miracle Worker

Arthur Penn, 1962

The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate.
Runtime: 106 min
Director: Arthur Penn
Writer: William Gibson, Helen Keller
Actors: Anne Bancroft, Patty Duke, Victor Jory
Language: English, American Sign
Dr. No

Terence Young, 1962

A resourceful British government agent seeks answers in a case involving the disappearance of a colleague and the disruption of the American space program.
Runtime: 110 min
Director: Terence Young
Writer: Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, Berkely Mather
Actors: Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Bernard Lee
Language: English, French, Italian
James Bond
Sanjuro

Akira Kurosawa, 1962

A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen trying to save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.
Runtime: 96 min
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Writer: Ryûzô Kikushima, Hideo Oguni, Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi
Language: Japanese
Lolita

Stanley Kubrick, 1962

A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a fourteen-year-old girl.
Runtime: 153 min
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Writer: Vladimir Nabokov, Stanley Kubrick, James B. Harris
Actors: James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon
Language: English, French, Spanish, German
Lawrence of Arabia

David Lean, 1962

The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
Runtime: 218 min
Director: David Lean
Writer: Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson
Actors: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn
Language: English, Arabic, Turkish
Best Picture
State Fair

José Ferrer, 1962

A brother and sister find romance and good clean fun at the state fair in Dallas.
Runtime: 120 min
Director: José Ferrer
Writer: Richard L. Breen, Oscar Hammerstein II, Sonya Levien
Actors: Pat Boone, Bobby Darin, Pamela Tiffin
Language: English, Italian, Spanish, French
Une Femme est Une Femme

Jean-Luc Godard, 1961

A French striptease artist is desperate to become a mother. When her reluctant boyfriend suggests that his best friend impregnate her, feelings become complicated when she accepts.
Runtime: 84 min
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Writer: Geneviève Cluny, Jean-Luc Godard
Actors: Anna Karina, Jean-Claude Brialy, Jean-Paul Belmondo
Language: French
Yojimbo

Akira Kurosawa, 1961

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.
Runtime: 110 min
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Writer: Akira Kurosawa, Ryûzô Kikushima
Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Eijirô Tôno, Tatsuya Nakadai
Language: Japanese
Breakfast at Tiffany's

Blake Edwards, 1961

A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building, but her past threatens to get in the way.
Runtime: 115 min
Director: Blake Edwards
Writer: Truman Capote, George Axelrod
Actors: Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal
Language: English, Portuguese, French, Japanese
Audrey Hepburn
Commended
West Side Story

Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise, 1961

Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
Runtime: 153 min
Director: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
Writer: Ernest Lehman, Arthur Laurents, Jerome Robbins
Actors: Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer
Language: English, Spanish
Best Picture
Musicals
Through a Glass Darkly

Ingmar Bergman, 1961

Recently released from a mental hospital, Karin rejoins her emotionally disconnected family in their island home, only to slip from reality as she begins to believe she is being visited by God.
Runtime: 90 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Max von Sydow
Language: Swedish, Latin
Ingmar Bergman
West Side Story (duplicate)

Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise, 1961

Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
Runtime: 153 min
Director: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise
Writer: Ernest Lehman, Arthur Laurents, Jerome Robbins
Actors: Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard Beymer
Language: English, Spanish
Breathless

Jean-Luc Godard, 1960

A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he reunites with a hip American journalism student and attempts to persuade her to run away with him to Italy.
Runtime: 90 min
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Writer: François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol
Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Van Doude
Language: French, English
Psycho

Alfred Hitchcock, 1960

A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
Runtime: 109 min
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Joseph Stefano, Robert Bloch
Actors: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles
Language: English
Alfred Hitchcock
The Apartment

Billy Wilder, 1960

A Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.
Runtime: 125 min
Director: Billy Wilder
Writer: Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond
Actors: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray
Language: English
Best Picture
Christmas
The Magnificent Seven

John Sturges, 1960

Seven gunfighters are hired by Mexican peasants to liberate their village from oppressive bandits.
Runtime: 128 min
Director: John Sturges
Writer: William Roberts, Akira Kurosawa, Walter Bernstein
Actors: Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson
Language: English, Spanish
The Virgin Spring

Ingmar Bergman, 1960

In 14th-century Sweden, an innocent yet pampered teenage girl and her family's pregnant and jealous servant set out from their farm to deliver candles to church, but only one returns from events that transpire in the woods along t...
Runtime: 89 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ulla Isaksson
Actors: Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom
Language: Swedish, German
Ingmar Bergman
The Devil's Eye

Ingmar Bergman, 1960

Don Juan is sent from Hell to Earth with a mission - to seduce a virgin in order to spoil her pure wedding. The mission becomes crazy when Don Juan falls in love for the first time in centuries.
Runtime: 87 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman, Oluf Bang
Actors: Jarl Kulle, Bibi Andersson, Stig Järrel
Language: Swedish
Ingmar Bergman

1950s

Some Like It Hot

Billy Wilder, 1959

After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.
Runtime: 121 min
Director: Billy Wilder
Writer: Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond, Robert Thoeren
Actors: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon
Language: English
Marylin Monroe
Ben-Hur

William Wyler, 1959

After a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.
Runtime: 212 min
Director: William Wyler
Writer: Lew Wallace, Karl Tunberg, Gore Vidal
Actors: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd
Language: English
Best Picture
North by Northwest

Alfred Hitchcock, 1959

A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.
Runtime: 136 min
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Ernest Lehman, Gerald Devriès
Actors: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
Language: English, French
Alfred Hitchcock
Vertigo

Alfred Hitchcock, 1958

A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.
Runtime: 128 min
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Alec Coppel, Samuel A. Taylor, Pierre Boileau
Actors: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
Language: English
Alfred Hitchcock
The Hidden Fortress

Akira Kurosawa, 1958

Lured by gold, two greedy peasants unknowingly escort a princess and her general across enemy lines.
Runtime: 126 min
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Writer: Ryûzô Kikushima, Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto
Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki
Language: Japanese
South Pacific

Joshua Logan, 1958

On a South Pacific island during World War II, love blooms between a young nurse and a secretive Frenchman who's being courted for a dangerous military mission.
Runtime: 157 min
Director: Joshua Logan
Writer: Paul Osborn, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II
Actors: Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr
Language: English, French
Musicals
Gigi

Vincente Minnelli, Charles Walters, 1958

Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship which may not stay platonic for long.
Runtime: 115 min
Director: Vincente Minnelli, Charles Walters
Writer: Alan Jay Lerner, Colette, Niven Busch
Actors: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan
Language: English, French
Best Picture
Brink of Life

Ingmar Bergman, 1958

Three women in a maternity ward reveal their lives and intimate thoughts to each other, where they face the choice of keeping their babies or offering them for adoption.
Runtime: 84 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman, Ulla Isaksson
Actors: Eva Dahlbeck, Ingrid Thulin, Bibi Andersson
Language: Swedish
Ingmar Bergman
The Magician

Ingmar Bergman, 1958

A traveling magician and his assistants are persecuted by authorities in Sweden of the 19th century. Their capture, however, didn't bring victory to those in power.
Runtime: 101 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Max von Sydow, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand
Language: Swedish
Ingmar Bergman
Throne of Blood

Akira Kurosawa, 1957

A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle.
Runtime: 110 min
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Writer: Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto, Ryûzô Kikushima
Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Isuzu Yamada
Language: Japanese
The Bridge on the River Kwai

David Lean, 1957

British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.
Runtime: 161 min
Director: David Lean
Writer: Pierre Boulle, Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson
Actors: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins
Language: English, Japanese, Thai
Best Picture
The Seventh Seal

Ingmar Bergman, 1957

A knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.
Runtime: 96 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Max von Sydow, Gunnar Björnstrand, Bengt Ekerot
Language: Swedish, Latin
Ingmar Bergman
Wild Strawberries

Ingmar Bergman, 1957

After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence.
Runtime: 91 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin
Language: Swedish, Latin
Ingmar Bergman
The Man Who Knew Too Much

Alfred Hitchcock, 1956

An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.
Runtime: 120 min
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: John Michael Hayes, Charles Bennett, D.B. Wyndham-Lewis
Actors: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda de Banzie
Language: English, Arabic, French
Alfred Hitchcock
Giant

George Stevens, 1956

Sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates.
Runtime: 201 min
Director: George Stevens
Writer: Edna Ferber, Fred Guiol, Ivan Moffat
Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean
Language: English, Spanish
Bus Stop

Joshua Logan, 1956

A naive but stubborn cowboy falls in love with a saloon singer and tries to take her away against her will to get married and live on his ranch in Montana.
Runtime: 96 min
Director: Joshua Logan
Writer: George Axelrod, William Inge
Actors: Marilyn Monroe, Don Murray, Arthur O'Connell
Language: English
Marylin Monroe
Carousel

Henry King, 1956

Fifteen years after his death, a carousel barker is granted permission to return to Earth for one day to make amends to his widow and their daughter.
Runtime: 128 min
Director: Henry King
Writer: Phoebe Ephron, Henry Ephron, Oscar Hammerstein II
Actors: Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Cameron Mitchell
Language: English
Musicals
The King & I

Walter Lang, 1956

A widow accepts a job as a live-in governess to the King of Siam's children.
Runtime: 133 min
Director: Walter Lang
Writer: Ernest Lehman, Oscar Hammerstein II, Margaret Landon
Actors: Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr, Rita Moreno
Language: English, Thai
Musicals
The Ten Commandments

Cecil B. DeMille, 1956

Moses, raised as a prince of Egypt in the Pharaoh's household, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people from slavery.
Runtime: 220 min
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Writer: Dorothy Clarke Wilson, J.H. Ingraham, A.E. Southon
Actors: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter
Language: English
The Trouble With Harry

Alfred Hitchcock, 1955

Harry's dead and, while no one really minds, everyone feels responsible. After Harry's body is found in the woods, several locals must determine not only how and why he was killed but what to do with the body.
Runtime: 99 min
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: John Michael Hayes, Jack Trevor Story
Actors: John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Edmund Gwenn
Language: English
Alfred Hitchcock
East of Eden

Elia Kazan, 1955

Two brothers in 1910s California struggle to maintain their strict, Bible-toting father's favor as an old secret about their long-absent mother comes to light.
Runtime: 118 min
Director: Elia Kazan
Writer: John Steinbeck, Paul Osborn
Actors: James Dean, Raymond Massey, Julie Harris
Language: English
Rebel Without a Cause

Nicholas Ray, 1955

A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies.
Runtime: 111 min
Director: Nicholas Ray
Writer: Stewart Stern, Irving Shulman, Nicholas Ray
Actors: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo
Language: English
The Seven Year Itch

Billy Wilder, 1955

When his family goes away for the summer, a hitherto faithful husband with an overactive imagination is tempted by a beautiful neighbor.
Runtime: 105 min
Director: Billy Wilder
Writer: Billy Wilder, George Axelrod
Actors: Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell, Evelyn Keyes
Language: English
Marylin Monroe
Oklahoma!

Fred Zinnemann, 1955

In Oklahoma, several farmers, cowboys and a traveling salesman compete for the romantic favors of various local ladies.
Runtime: 145 min
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Writer: Sonya Levien, William Ludwig, Richard Rodgers
Actors: Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson
Language: English
Musicals
Marty

Delbert Mann, 1955

A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love meet at a dance and fall for each other.
Runtime: 90 min
Director: Delbert Mann
Writer: Paddy Chayefsky
Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Esther Minciotti
Language: English, German, Italian
Best Picture
To Catch a Thief

Alfred Hitchcock, 1955

A retired jewel thief sets out to prove his innocence after being suspected of returning to his former occupation.
Runtime: 106 min
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: John Michael Hayes, David Dodge, Alec Coppel
Actors: Cary Grant, Grace Kelly, Jessie Royce Landis
Language: English, French
Alfred Hitchcock
Dreams

Ingmar Bergman, 1955

Two different women - a young photo model and her boss - dream about a happy life with beloved men. Their dreams are as different as they are.
Runtime: 87 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand
Language: Swedish
Ingmar Bergman
Smiles of a Summer Night

Ingmar Bergman, 1955

In Sweden at the turn of the century, members of the upper class and their servants find themselves in a romantic tangle that they try to work out amidst jealousy and heartbreak.
Runtime: 109 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Ulla Jacobsson, Eva Dahlbeck, Harriet Andersson
Language: Swedish
Ingmar Bergman
Rear Window

Alfred Hitchcock, 1954

A photographer in a wheelchair spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window, and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend.
Runtime: 112 min
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: John Michael Hayes, Cornell Woolrich
Actors: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey
Language: English
Alfred Hitchcock
Seven Samurai

Akira Kurosawa, 1954

Farmers from a village exploited by bandits hire a veteran samurai for protection, who gathers six other samurai to join him.
Runtime: 207 min
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Writer: Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni
Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima
Language: Japanese
River of No Return

Otto Preminger, Jean Negulesco, 1954

The titular river unites a farmer recently released from prison, his young son, and an ambitious saloon singer. In order to survive, each must be purged of anger, and each must learn to understand and care for the others.
Runtime: 91 min
Director: Otto Preminger, Jean Negulesco
Writer: Frank Fenton, Louis Lantz
Actors: Robert Mitchum, Marilyn Monroe, Rory Calhoun
Language: English
There's No Business Like Show Business

Walter Lang, 1954

Molly and Terry Donahue, plus their three children, are The Five Donahues. Son Tim meets hat-check girl Vicky and the family act begins to fall apart.
Runtime: 117 min
Director: Walter Lang
Writer: Phoebe Ephron, Henry Ephron, Lamar Trotti
Actors: Ethel Merman, Marilyn Monroe, Donald O'Connor
Language: English, Latin
Marylin Monroe
Sabrina

Billy Wilder, 1954

A playboy becomes interested in the daughter of his family's chauffeur, but it's his more serious brother who would be the better man for her.
Runtime: 113 min
Director: Billy Wilder
Writer: Billy Wilder, Samuel A. Taylor, Ernest Lehman
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, William Holden
Language: English, French
Audrey Hepburn
On the Waterfront

Elia Kazan, 1954

An ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims.
Runtime: 108 min
Director: Elia Kazan
Writer: Budd Schulberg, Malcolm Johnson, Robert Siodmak
Actors: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb
Language: English, Latin
Best Picture
La Strada

Federico Fellini, 1954

A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.
Runtime: 108 min
Director: Federico Fellini
Writer: Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano
Actors: Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart
Language: Italian
A Lesson in Love

Ingmar Bergman, 1954

After a 15-year marriage, the spouses are going to divorce, but suddenly find out that their feelings have not vanished yet.
Runtime: 96 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Eva Dahlbeck, Gunnar Björnstrand, Yvonne Lombard
Language: Swedish, Danish
Ingmar Bergman
Dial M for Murder

Alfred Hitchcock, 1954

A former tennis star arranges the murder of his adulterous wife.
Runtime: 105 min
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Frederick Knott
Actors: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings
Language: English
Alfred Hitchcock
A Star Is Born

George Cukor, 1954

In George Cukor's remake, fading matinee idol Norman Maine helps young singer and actress Esther Blodgett find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral.
Runtime: 154 min
Director: George Cukor
Writer: Moss Hart, Dorothy Parker, Alan Campbell
Actors: Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson
Language: English
Musicals
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Howard Hawks, 1953

Showgirls Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw travel to Paris, pursued by a private detective hired by the suspicious father of Lorelei's fiancé, as well as a rich, enamored old man and many other doting admirers.
Runtime: 91 min
Director: Howard Hawks
Writer: Charles Lederer, Joseph Fields, Anita Loos
Actors: Jane Russell, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Coburn
Language: English, French
Marylin Monroe
Musicals
How to Marry a Millionaire

Jean Negulesco, 1953

Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process.
Runtime: 95 min
Director: Jean Negulesco
Writer: Nunnally Johnson, Zoe Akins, Dale Eunson
Actors: Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall
Language: English, French, Latin, Arabic
Marylin Monroe
Niagara

Henry Hathaway, 1953

As two couples are visiting Niagara Falls, tensions between one wife and her husband reach the level of murder.
Runtime: 92 min
Director: Henry Hathaway
Writer: Charles Brackett, Walter Reisch, Richard L. Breen
Actors: Marilyn Monroe, Joseph Cotten, Jean Peters
Language: English
Marylin Monroe
Roman Holiday

William Wyler, 1953

A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.
Runtime: 118 min
Director: William Wyler
Writer: Dalton Trumbo, Ian McLellan Hunter, John Dighton
Actors: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert
Language: English, Italian, German
Audrey Hepburn
The Wild One

Laslo Benedek, 1953

Two rival motorcycle gangs terrorize a small town after one of their leaders is thrown in jail.
Runtime: 79 min
Director: Laslo Benedek
Writer: John Paxton, Frank Rooney, Ben Maddow
Actors: Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith
Language: English
From Here to Eternity

Fred Zinnemann, 1953

At a U.S. Army base in 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his commanding officer's wife and top aide begin a tentative affair.
Runtime: 118 min
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Writer: Daniel Taradash, James Jones
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr
Language: English
Best Picture
Summer with Monika

Ingmar Bergman, 1953

A pair of teenagers meet one summer day, start a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.
Runtime: 96 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Per Anders Fogelström, Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg, Dagmar Ebbesen
Language: Swedish
Ingmar Bergman
Sawdust and Tinsel

Ingmar Bergman, 1953

The complicated relationships between a circus ringmaster, his estranged wife and his lover.
Runtime: 93 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Åke Grönberg, Harriet Andersson, Hasse Ekman
Language: Swedish
Ingmar Bergman
Don't Bother to Knock

Roy Ward Baker, 1952

After being dumped by his girlfriend, an airline pilot pursues a babysitter in his hotel and gradually realizes she's dangerous.
Runtime: 76 min
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Writer: Daniel Taradash, Charlotte Armstrong
Actors: Richard Widmark, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Bancroft
Language: English
Marylin Monroe
Singin' in the Rain

Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly, 1952

A silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.
Runtime: 103 min
Director: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
Writer: Betty Comden, Adolph Green
Actors: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds
Language: English
Musicals
Waiting Women

Ingmar Bergman, 1952

The four wives of four brothers share stories of their marriages as they each wait for their husbands in a small, secluded cottage.
Runtime: 107 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman, Gun Grut
Actors: Anita Björk, Eva Dahlbeck, Maj-Britt Nilsson
Language: Swedish, French
Ingmar Bergman
The Greatest Show on Earth (temp)

Cecil B. DeMille, 1952

The dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer are told against a background of circus spectacle.
Runtime: 152 min
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Writer: Fredric M. Frank, Barré Lyndon, Theodore St. John
Actors: James Stewart, Charlton Heston, Betty Hutton
Language: English, Russian
Best Picture
An American in Paris

Vincente Minnelli, 1951

Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman.
Runtime: 114 min
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Writer: Alan Jay Lerner
Actors: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant
Language: English, French, German
Best Picture
Musicals
Summer Interlude

Ingmar Bergman, 1951

A lonely woman recalls her first love thirteen years prior during a brief summer vacation.
Runtime: 96 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman, Herbert Grevenius
Actors: Maj-Britt Nilsson, Birger Malmsten, Alf Kjellin
Language: Swedish
Ingmar Bergman
Strangers on a Train

Alfred Hitchcock, 1951

A psychopath tries to forcibly persuade a tennis star to agree to his theory that two strangers can get away with murder by submitting to his plan to kill the other's most-hated person.
Runtime: 101 min
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Raymond Chandler, Czenzi Ormonde, Whitfield Cook
Actors: Farley Granger, Robert Walker, Ruth Roman
Language: English, French
Alfred Hitchcock
Sunset Boulevard

Billy Wilder, 1950

A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.
Runtime: 110 min
Director: Billy Wilder
Writer: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D.M. Marshman Jr.
Actors: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim
Language: English
All Time
All About Eve

Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950

A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.
Runtime: 138 min
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Writer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Mary Orr
Actors: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders
Language: English, French
Best Picture
To Joy

Ingmar Bergman, 1950

Two violinists playing in the same orchestra fall in love and get married, but they can't get along.
Runtime: 98 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Maj-Britt Nilsson, Stig Olin, Birger Malmsten
Language: Swedish
Ingmar Bergman

1940s

Thirst

Ingmar Bergman, 1949

A needy couple in a bad marriage travel back to Stockholm after a trip to Italy. Meanwhile, a widow resists seductions from two different persons - her psychiatrist and a lesbian friend.
Runtime: 83 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Herbert Grevenius, Birgit Tengroth
Actors: Eva Henning, Birger Malmsten, Birgit Tengroth
Language: Swedish, German
Ingmar Bergman
Rope

Alfred Hitchcock, 1948

Two men attempt to prove they committed the perfect crime by hosting a dinner party after strangling their former classmate to death.
Runtime: 80 min
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Hume Cronyn, Patrick Hamilton, Arthur Laurents
Actors: James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger
Language: English
Alfred Hitchcock
Hamlet

Laurence Olivier, 1948

Prince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former king.
Runtime: 154 min
Director: Laurence Olivier
Writer: William Shakespeare, Laurence Olivier
Actors: Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, John Laurie
Language: English
Best Picture
Port of Call

Ingmar Bergman, 1948

A suicidal factory girl out of reformatory school, anxious to escape her overbearing mother, falls in love with a sailor who can't forgive her past.
Runtime: 100 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman, Olle Länsberg
Actors: Nine-Christine Jönsson, Bengt Eklund, Mimi Nelson
Language: Swedish, English, German
Ingmar Bergman
A Ship to India

Ingmar Bergman, 1947

A sailor returns to his hometown after 7 years and remembers the dark and the light moments of his past.
Runtime: 98 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman, Martin Söderhjelm
Actors: Holger Löwenadler, Anna Lindahl, Birger Malmsten
Language: Swedish
Ingmar Bergman
Crisis

Ingmar Bergman, 1946

A small-town piano teacher is shocked by the arrival of her foster daughter's real mother, whose young lover soon follows and causes further disruption.
Runtime: 93 min
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman, Leck Fischer
Actors: Inga Landgré, Stig Olin, Marianne Löfgren
Language: Swedish
Ingmar Bergman
It's a Wonderful Life

Frank Capra, 1946

An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
Runtime: 130 min
Director: Frank Capra
Writer: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Frank Capra
Actors: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore
Language: English, French
Christmas
The Lost Weekend

Billy Wilder, 1945

The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.
Runtime: 101 min
Director: Billy Wilder
Writer: Charles R. Jackson, Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder
Actors: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry
Language: English
Best Picture
Going My Way

Leo McCarey, 1944

When young Father O'Malley arrives at St. Dominic's, old Father Fitzgibbon doesn't think much of his new assistant.
Runtime: 126 min
Director: Leo McCarey
Writer: Frank Butler, Frank Cavett, Leo McCarey
Actors: Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Frank McHugh
Language: English
Best Picture
Shadow of a Doubt

Alfred Hitchcock, 1943

A teenage girl, overjoyed when her favorite uncle comes to visit the family in their quiet California town, slowly begins to suspect that he is in fact the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities.
Runtime: 108 min
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Thornton Wilder, Sally Benson, Alma Reville
Actors: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey
Language: English
Alfred Hitchcock
The Heat's On

Gregory Ratoff, 1943

When his biggest star joins a rival's show, a Broadway producer bluffs and schemes to get her back.
Runtime: 79 min
Director: Gregory Ratoff
Writer: Fitzroy Davis, George S. George, Fred Schiller
Actors: Mae West, Victor Moore, William Gaxton
Language: English, Spanish
Mae West
Saboteur

Alfred Hitchcock, 1942

A young man accused of sabotage goes on the run to prove his innocence.
Runtime: 109 min
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Peter Viertel, Joan Harrison, Dorothy Parker
Actors: Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger
Language: English
Alfred Hitchcock
Casablanca

Michael Curtiz, 1942

A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
Runtime: 102 min
Director: Michael Curtiz
Writer: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
Language: English, French, German, Italian, Russian
Best Picture
Commended
Mrs Miniver

William Wyler, 1942

A British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.
Runtime: 134 min
Director: William Wyler
Writer: Arthur Wimperis, George Froeschel, James Hilton
Actors: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright
Language: English, German
Best Picture
Citizen Kane

Orson Welles, 1941

Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'
Runtime: 119 min
Director: Orson Welles
Writer: Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles, John Houseman
Actors: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore
Language: English, Italian
The Maltese Falcon

John Huston, 1941

San Francisco private detective Sam Spade takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered.
Runtime: 100 min
Director: John Huston
Writer: John Huston, Dashiell Hammett
Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
Language: English
How Green Was My Valley

John Ford, 1941

At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.
Runtime: 118 min
Director: John Ford
Writer: Philip Dunne, Richard Llewellyn
Actors: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee
Language: English, Welsh
Best Picture
My Little Chickadee

Edward F. Cline, 1940

After a scandal runs a gold-digger out of town, she meets a con artist and becomes embroiled in a string of petty deceits.
Runtime: 83 min
Director: Edward F. Cline
Writer: Mae West, W.C. Fields
Actors: Mae West, W.C. Fields, Joseph Calleia
Language: English
Mae West
Rebecca

Alfred Hitchcock, 1940

A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.
Runtime: 130 min
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Writer: Daphne Du Maurier, Robert E. Sherwood, Joan Harrison
Actors: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
Language: English, French
Best Picture
Alfred Hitchcock

1930s

The Wizard of Oz

Victor Fleming, King Vidor, 1939

Young Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz, and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the other...
Runtime: 102 min
Director: Victor Fleming, King Vidor
Writer: Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf
Actors: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger
Language: English
Musicals
Gone with the Wind

Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood, 1939

A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
Runtime: 238 min
Director: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood
Writer: Margaret Mitchell, Sidney Howard, Oliver H.P. Garrett
Actors: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell
Language: English
Best Picture
You Can't Take It With You

Frank Capra, 1938

The son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.
Runtime: 126 min
Director: Frank Capra
Writer: Robert Riskin, George S. Kaufman, Moss Hart
Actors: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore
Language: English, Russian
Best Picture
Every Day's a Holiday

A. Edward Sutherland, 1937

At the turn of the century, a con woman finds herself in trouble with the law while dealing with multiple suitors.
Runtime: 79 min
Director: A. Edward Sutherland
Writer: Mae West
Actors: Mae West, Edmund Lowe, Charles Butterworth
Language: English, French
Mae West
Go West Young Man

Henry Hathaway, 1936

A movie star, stranded in the country, trifles with a young man's affections.
Runtime: 80 min
Director: Henry Hathaway
Writer: Lawrence Riley, Mae West
Actors: Mae West, Warren William, Randolph Scott
Language: English
Mae West
Klondike Annie

Raoul Walsh, 1936

Carlton Rose, a girl known as "the Frisco Doll" escapes to Alaska after accidentally killing her guard.
Runtime: 78 min
Director: Raoul Walsh
Writer: Mae West, Marion Morgan, George B. Dowell
Actors: Mae West, Victor McLaglen, Phillip Reed
Language: Cantonese, English
Mae West
Goin' to Town

Alexander Hall, 1935

Former dance hall queen Cleo Borden, newly rich, falls for and pursues an upper-crust Englishman.
Runtime: 71 min
Director: Alexander Hall
Writer: Marion Morgan, George B. Dowell, Mae West
Actors: Mae West, Paul Cavanagh, Gilbert Emery
Language: English
Mae West
Mutiny on the Bounty

Frank Lloyd, 1935

First mate Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against his sadistic commander, Captain Bligh, in this classic seafaring adventure, based on the real-life 1789 mutiny.
Runtime: 132 min
Director: Frank Lloyd
Writer: Talbot Jennings, Jules Furthman, Carey Wilson
Actors: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone
Language: English, Polynesian
Best Picture
Belle of the Nineties

Leo McCarey, 1934

Ruby Carter, the American Beauty queen of the night club-sporting world, shifts her operations from St. Louis to New Orleans, mostly to get away from prizefighter Tiger Kid. Installed as the prize attraction of "The Sensation Club...
Runtime: 73 min
Director: Leo McCarey
Writer: Mae West, Jack Wagner
Actors: Mae West, Roger Pryor, Johnny Mack Brown
Language: English
Mae West
It Happened One Night

Frank Capra, 1934

A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.
Runtime: 105 min
Director: Frank Capra
Writer: Robert Riskin, Samuel Hopkins Adams
Actors: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly
Language: English
Best Picture
I'm No Angel

Wesley Ruggles, 1933

Circus performer Tira seeks a better life pursuing the company of wealthy New York men with improbable comic complications along the way.
Runtime: 87 min
Director: Wesley Ruggles
Writer: Mae West, Lowell Brentano
Actors: Mae West, Cary Grant, Gregory Ratoff
Language: English
Mae West
She Done Him Wrong

Lowell Sherman, 1933

In the Gay Nineties, a seductive nightclub singer contends with several suitors, including a jealous escaped convict and a handsome temperance league member.
Runtime: 66 min
Director: Lowell Sherman
Writer: Mae West, Harvey F. Thew, John Bright
Actors: Mae West, Cary Grant, Owen Moore
Language: English
Mae West
Night After Night

Archie Mayo, 1932

A successful ex-boxer opens a high-class speakeasy in what once was the childhood home of a formerly rich society girl.
Runtime: 73 min
Director: Archie Mayo
Writer: Louis Bromfield, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Vincent Lawrence
Actors: George Raft, Constance Cummings, Wynne Gibson
Language: English
Mae West
Grand Hotel

Edmund Goulding, 1932

A group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.
Runtime: 112 min
Director: Edmund Goulding
Writer: Vicki Baum, William Absalom Drake, Béla Balázs
Actors: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford
Language: English, Russian
Best Picture
All Quiet on the Western Front

Lewis Milestone, 1930

A German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.
Runtime: 152 min
Director: Lewis Milestone
Writer: Erich Maria Remarque, Maxwell Anderson, George Abbott
Actors: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray
Language: English, French, German, Latin
Best Picture

1920s

Wings

William A. Wellman, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast, 1927

Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I.
Runtime: 144 min
Director: William A. Wellman, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast
Writer: John Monk Saunders, Hope Loring, Louis D. Lighton
Actors: Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Richard Arlen
Language: English
Best Picture