Eden (2024)
Adventure | Drama | History | Thriller
Based on a factual account of a group of outsiders who settle on a remote island only to discover their greatest threat isn’t the brutal climate or deadly wildlife, but each other.
Starring: Jude Law, Ana de Armas, Vanessa Kirby, Daniel Brühl, Sydney Sweeney
Director: Ron Howard
Cinderella Man (2005)
Biography | Drama | Romance | Sport
The true story of James J. Braddock, a supposedly washed-up boxer, who returned to the spotlight to win the heavyweight championship of the world.
Starring: Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger, Paul Giamatti, Craig Bierko, Bruce McGill, Paddy Considine
Director: Ron Howard
The Shootist (1976)
Drama | Romance | Western
A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.
Starring: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, James Stewart, Richard Boone, Hugh O'Brian
Director: Don Siegel
Ransom (1996)
Action | Crime | Thriller
ulti-millionaire Tom Mullen's son is kidnapped, but after initially agreeing to pay the ransom Mullen then decides to use the ransom money as a bounty.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Gary Sinise, Rene Russo, Liev Schreiber, Donnie Wahlberg, Lili Taylor
Director: Ron Howard
Thirteen Lives (2022)
Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | Thriller
A rescue mission is assembled in Thailand where a group of young boys and their soccer coach are trapped in a system of underground caves that are flooding.
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Colin Farrell, Joel Edgerton, Tom Bateman
Director: Ron Howard
Hillbilly Elegy (2020)
Drama
A Yale law student drawn back to his hometown grapples with family history, Appalachian values and the American dream.
Starring: Amy Adams, Glenn Close, Haley Bennett, Gabriel Basso, Haley Bennett, Freida Pinto, Bo Hopkins, Owen Asztalos
Director: Ron Howard
Night Shift (1982)
Comedy
A morgue attendant is talked into running a brothel at his workplace after a deceased pimp is sent there. However, the pimp's killers don't look too kindly on this new 'business', nor does the morgue's owner.
Starring: Henry Winkler, Michael Keaton, Shelley Long, Gina Hecht, Pat Corley, Bobby Di Cicco, Nita Talbot
Director: Ron Howard
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi
During an adventure into the criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his future co-pilot Chewbacca and encounters Lando Calrissian years before joining the Rebellion.
Starring: Alden Ehrenreich, Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover, Woody Harrelson, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Thandie Newton, Joonas Suotamo
Director: Ron Howard
Splash (1984)
Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
A young man is reunited with a mermaid who saves him from drowning as a boy and falls in love not knowing who/what she is.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Daryl Hannah, Eugene Levy, John Candy, Dody Goodman, Shecky Greene
Director: Ron Howard
Inferno (2016)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
When Robert Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Dr. Sienna Brooks, and together they must race across Europe against the clock to foil a deadly global plot.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Ben Foster, Irrfan Khan, Omar Sy, Ana Ularu
Director: Ron Howard
Angels & Demons (2009)
Mystery | Thriller
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon works to solve a murder and prevent a terrorist act against the Vatican.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer, Stellan Skarsgård, Pierfrancesco Favino, Nikolaj Lie Kaas
Director: Ron Howard
The Da Vinci Code (2006)
Mystery | Thriller
A murder inside the Louvre and clues in Da Vinci paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years — which could shake the foundations of Christianity.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen, Jean Reno, Paul Bettany, Alfred Molina
Director: Ron Howard
Backdraft (1991)
Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A childhood incident has left brothers Stephen and Brian McCaffret mentally scarred, but that doesn't stop them following in their father's footsteps by becoming firefighters. Brian, the more wary of the two, teams up with dogged arson investigator Donald Rimgale after a series of blazes, and finds himself at loggerheads with the more gung-ho Stephen when he is led to suspect someone in his former unit.
Starring: Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro, Donald Sutherland, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Scott Glenn
Director: Ron Howard
In the Heart of the Sea (2015)
Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | History | Thriller
Based on the 1820 event, a whaling ship is preyed upon by a sperm whale, stranding its crew at sea for 90 days, thousands of miles from home.
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Ben Whishaw, Charlotte Riley, Brendan Gleeson, Michelle Fairley
Director: Ron Howard
Gung Ho (1986)
Comedy | Drama
When a Japanese car company buys an American plant, the American liason must mediate the clash of work attitudes between the foreign management and native labor.
Starring: Michael Keaton, Gedde Watanabe, George Wendt, Mimi Rogers, John Turturro, Sô Yamamura
Director: Ron Howard
Apollo 13 (1995)
Adventure | Drama | History
It had been less than a year since man first walked on the moon, but as far as the American public was concerned, Apollo 13 was just another "routine" space flight- until these words pierced the immense void of space: "Houston, we have a problem." Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly, flight director Gene Kranz and a heroic ground crew race against time-and the odds- to bring them home.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, Kathleen Quinlan
Director: Ron Howard
EDtv / Ed TV (1999)
Comedy
Video store clerk Ed agrees to have his life filmed by a camera crew for a tv network.
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Jenna Elfman, Woody Harrelson, Sally Kirkland, Martin Landau, Ellen DeGeneres
Director: Ron Howard
Osmosis Jones (2001)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Frank an out-of-shape, 40-year-old man who's the host to various organisms, tissues and blood cells all trying to do their assigned tasks. Osmosis Jones, a daffy white blood cell who tries to police Frank's body.
Starring: Chris Rock, Laurence Fishburne, David Hyde Pierce, Brandy, William Shatner, Ron Howard
Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Far and Away (1992)
Adventure | Drama | Romance | Western
A young man leaves Ireland with his landlord's daughter after some trouble with her father, and they dream of owning land at the big giveaway in Oklahoma ca. 1893. Filmed in 70mm.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Thomas Gibson, Robert Prosky, Barbara Babcock, Colm Meaney
Director: Ron Howard
Rush (2013)
Action | Biography | Drama | Sport
This dramatic portrayal of the intense 1970s rivalry between race drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt captures the contrasts between the two champions. While Hunt was a charming and handsome ladies' man, Lauda was a loner with a single goal: victory.
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Dormer, Olivia Wilde, Daniel Brühl, Alexandra Maria Lara, Patrick Baladi
Director: Ron Howard
