Crazy People (1990)
Comedy
When a stressed-out ad exec (Moore) proposes a "truth in advertising" scheme, he is promptly shipped off to a mental institution.
Starring: Dudley Moore, Daryl Hannah, Paul Reiser, J.T. Walsh, Bill Smitrovich, Alan North
Director: Tony Bill, Barry L. Young
The Wizard (1989)
Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Family | Romance
A boy and his brother run away from home and hitch cross country with the help of a girl they meet to compete in the ultimate video game championship.
Starring: Fred Savage, Beau Bridges, Christian Slater, Luke Edwards, Wendy Phillips, Sam McMurray
Director: Todd Holland
The Whoopee Boys (1986)
Comedy | Romance
Two dim-witted street peddlers, Jack and Barney, arrive in Palm Beach, Florida, looking for a better, wealthier lifestyle. In Palm Beach, Jack falls for Olivia, a young heiress running an orphaned children's shelter being threatened with foreclosure. Jack, at Barney's insistence, enrolls them both at a finishing school so they can learn the etiquette of the upper class in order to fit in with the hope that Olivia's uncle will approve of Jack wanting to marry her and help her obtain an inheritance to save the orphanage.
Starring: Michael O'Keefe, Paul Rodriguez, Denholm Elliott, Carole Shelley, Andy Bumatai, Eddie Deezen, Marsha Warfield
Director: John Byrum
Sexmission / Seksmisja (1984)
Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi
Two scientists are chosen as guinea pigs for a time experiment: they are placed in hibernation and should be brought back to life after three years. In the meantime, however, the World War III breaks out and life have been wiped out of the surface of the Earth. When they wake up, it turns out that not only 50 years have passed but also that they are the only living specimens of the male sex in a new, underground society composed exclusively of women. Max used to be woman-chaser so he finds himself in heaven. Albert, on the other hand, forgot all about love and sex as a serious scientist, but is willing to learn. So are the Amazons, who after a kiss turn into pliant kittens. The Council of Women is going to decide their fate, so they are trying to win more time. Eventually they make it to the surface, helped by beautiful Lamia. On the surface it turns out that there is life there and somebody has been living a decent life…
Starring: Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Jerzy Stuhr, Bozena Stryjkówna, Boguslawa Pawelec, Wieslaw Michnikowski
Director: Juliusz Machulski
The Crucible (1996)
Drama | History
The setting is 17th century Salem, Massachusetts. A group of teenage girls meets in the woods at midnight for a secret love-conjuring ceremony. But instead of love, Abigail Williams wishes for the death of her former lover's wife. When the ceremony is witnessed by the town minister, the girls are accused of witchcraft. Soon the entire village is consumed by hysteria, and innocent victims are put on trial, leading to a devastating climax!
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen, Rob Campbell, Jeffrey Jones
Director: Nicholas Hytner
The Duke of Burgundy (2014)
Drama
Dark melodrama about an amateur butterfly expert whose wayward desires test her lover's tolerance.
Starring: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Chiara D'Anna, Eugenia Caruso, Zita Kraszkó, Monica Swinn, Eszter Tompa
Director: Peter Strickland
I Am Big Bird / I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story (2014)
Biography | Documentary | Drama
Caroll Spinney has been Sesame Street's Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch since 1969; at 78-years-old, he has no intention of stopping.
Starring: Caroll Spinney, Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Kevin Clash, Sonia Manzano, Emilio Delgado, Roscoe Orman, Jerry Nelson
Director: Dave LaMattina, Chad N. Walker
Love Me (2014)
Comedy | Documentary | Drama | Romance
Love Me is a character-drive narrative that follows desperate men on their quest for love through the modern 'mail-order bride' industry in Ukraine. The film highlights the complete process of finding a partner in a foreign land, showing the Western male and Ukrainian female perspectives.
Director: Jonathon Narducci
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau (2014)
Documentary
Behind the scenes chronicle of how clash of vision, bad creative decisions, lack of interest and really bad weather plagued the disastrous production of the infamous 1996 remake of The Island of Dr. Moreau.
Starring: Fairuza Balk, Hugh Dickson, Oli Dickson, Peter Elliott, Marco Hofschneider
Director: David Gregory
Martian Child (2007)
Comedy | Drama | Family
A science-fiction writer, recently widowed, considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.
Starring: John Cusack, Bobby Coleman, Amanda Peet, Sophie Okonedo, Joan Cusack, Oliver Platt
Director: Menno Meyjes
Pizza My Heart (2005)
Family | Romance
Two Italian families own competitive pizza restaurants and have had an ongoing family feud since long ago in the 'old country'. The son and daughter of each opposing family fall in love, but not without strong disapproval of their parents. Romeo and Juliet with a happy ending. It takes place in modern day Verona, New Jersey.
Starring: Shiri Appleby, Eyal Podell, Dan Hedaya, Michael Badalucco, Joanna Canton
Director: Andy Wolk
Against the Ropes (2004)
Biography | Drama | Romance | Sport
A fictional story inspired by North America's most famous female boxing promoter, Jackie Kallen. Her struggle to survive and succeed in a male dominated sport.
Starring: Meg Ryan, Omar Epps, Charles S. Dutton, Tony Shalhoub, Tim Daly, Kerry Washington
Director: Charles S. Dutton
The Last Shot (2004)
Comedy
A movie director-screenwriter finds a man to finance his latest project but soon discovers that the producer is actually an undercover FBI agent working on a mob sting operation.
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Alec Baldwin, Toni Collette, Tony Shalhoub, Calista Flockhart, Tim Blake Nelson
Director: Jeff Nathanson
Fletch Lives (1989)
Comedy | Crime | Mystery
The wise-cracking reporter retires to the deep south where he is caught up in a murder plot.
Starring: Chevy Chase, Hal Holbrook, Julianne Phillips, R. Lee Ermey, Richard Libertini, Randall Cobb
Director: Michael Ritchie
Honkytonk Man (1982)
Comedy | Drama | Music | Western
As the film opens on an Oklahoma farm during the depression, two simultaneous visitors literally hit the Wagoneer home: a ruinous dust storm and a convertible crazily driven by Red, the missus' brother. A roguish country-western musician, he has just been invited to audition for the Grand Ole Opry, his chance of a lifetime to become a success. However, this is way back in Nashville, Red clearly drives terribly, and he's broke and sick with tuberculosis to boot. Whit, 14, seeing his own chance of a lifetime to avoid "growing up to be a cotton picker all my life," begs Ma to let him go with Uncle Red as driver and protege. Thus begins a picaresque journey both hilarious and poignant.
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Kyle Eastwood, John McIntire, Verna Bloom, Matt Clark, Barry Corbin
Director: Clint Eastwood
What About Bob? (1991)
Comedy
Bob Wiley has a habit of clinging to his therapists. His last one sends him to Dr. Leo Marvin, to whom Bob develops an attachment after just one session. When the doctor leave to spend the rest of the summer with his family, Bob tracks him down, with surprising results.
Starring: Bill Murray, Richard Dreyfuss, Julie Hagerty, Charlie Korsmo, Kathryn Erbe, Tom Aldredge
Director: Frank Oz
Quick Change (1990)
Comedy | Crime
Three thieves successfully rob a New York City bank, but making the escape from the city proves to be almost impossible.
Starring: Bill Murray, Geena Davis, Randy Quaid, Jason Robards, Tony Shalhoub, Philip Bosco
Director: Howard Franklin, Bill Murray
The Invisible Woman (2013)
Biography | Drama | History | Romance
At the height of his career, renowned author and social critic Charles Dickens meets an 18-year-old actress, Ellen "Nelly" Ternan, who becomes his secret lover until his death in 1870.
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Felicity Jones, Kristin Scott Thomas, Tom Hollander, Michelle Fairley, John Kavanagh
Director: Ralph Fiennes
La famille Bélier / The Bélier Family (2014)
Comedy
A girl, who lives with her deaf-mute parents, discovers that she has the gift of singing.
Starring: Karin Viard, François Damiens, Eric Elmosnino, Louane Emera
Director: Eric Lartigau
The A-List (2015)
Comedy | Drama
Alyson Stoner (Step Up films, "Phinneas & Ferb"), Hal Sparks ("Lab Rats" "Queer as Folk") and Skyler Vallo ("True Blood") costar in this hilarious comedy. Eric Schultz (Hudson Thames, "The Secret Life of the American Teenager") is the coolest student at Lake Odell High School. He has the looks, the girl, and the popularity. Even the school newspaper has turned into a gossip blog about his personal life. His guidance counselor, Sylvia Martin (Elizabeth Bond), is just as in awe of him as everyone else is. Being a nerd back in her day, Sylvia has always wished she could have done the things that come so easily to Eric. When she discovers he is missing one class to graduate, she makes a deal with him. If Eric completes a list of 5 things she always wanted to do in High School (like date the quarterback and be a cheerleader) she will fudge his transcript and allow him to graduate!
Starring: Alyson Stoner, Hal Sparks, Skyler Vallo, Elizabeth Bond, Hudson Thames
Director: Will Bigham
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