Welcome to a space where every title holds a story waiting to be explored. I have curated lists that aim to make it easier for you to find somethingÂ
meaningful, enjoyable, and worth recommending. Click on an image to find out more about the movie!
Welcome to a space where every title holds a story waiting to be explored. I have curated lists that aim to make it easier for you to find something meaningful, enjoyable, and worth recommending. Click on an image to find out more about the movie!
Welcome to a space where every title holds a story waiting to be explored. I have curated lists that aim to make it easier for you to find something meaningful, enjoyable, and worth recommending. Click on an image to find out more about the movie!
Jack Bruno, a Las Vegas taxi driver, is swept up in the adventure of a lifetime when he meets Sara and Seth, a pair of extraterrestrial youths who possess paranormal powers. In order to prevent an invasion of Earth, Jack must help the youths reach their spaceship, which is buried within Witch Mountain. But the task will not be easy, for government operatives and an alien bounty hunter are fast on their trail.
A baby zebra gets separated from a traveling circus in a small Kentucky town. It’s eventually discovered by horse trainer Nolan Walsh and his daughter, Channing, who falls in love with the animal. She calls him Stripes and keeps him as a pet. Though Nolan has forbidden Channing from racing ever since her mother was killed in an accident, her ambition is undiminished. With the help of her new pet, she’s convinced that her goal can be realized.
When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has an autistic older brother named Raymond and that his father’s $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father’s money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers’ cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.
Single and self-involved, Helen Harris has a thriving fashion career and a lavish lifestyle in New York City. Helen is shocked to hear that her sister and brother-in-law have died in an accident, and alarmed that they have named her the guardian of their three kids. As the children struggle with the change, Helen has to decide whether she’ll cling to her old ways or come to terms with her new family role.
Primatologist Davis Okoye shares an unshakable bond with George, an extraordinarily intelligent, silverback gorilla that’s been in his care since birth. When a rogue genetic experiment goes wrong, it causes George, a wolf and a reptile to grow to a monstrous size. As the mutated beasts embark on a path of destruction, Okoye teams up with a discredited genetic engineer and the military to secure an antidote and prevent a global catastrophe.
In 1999, Officer Dave Brown, a 24-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department, tends to follow his own code of rough justice. A number of years earlier, he was implicated in the death of a serial rapist. Brown’s violent tendencies once again land him in hot water when a video of him beating up a suspect plays all over local TV. An assistant DA pressures him to retire, but Brown edges closer and closer to a meltdown.
A chameleon who has lived as a sheltered family pet finds himself in the grip of an identity crisis. Rango wonders how to stand out when it is his nature to blend in. When he accidentally winds up in a frontier town called Dirt, he takes the first step on a transformational journey as the town’s new sheriff. Though at first Rango only role-plays, a series of thrilling situations and outrageous encounters forces him to become a real hero.
Through a life of hard work, airline owner Tom Mullen as amassed a great deal of wealth. When a group of criminals want a piece of his cash, they kidnap his son for a $2 million ransom. Encouraged by his wife and an FBI agent, Tom prepares to pay the money, but the ransom drop goes awry. Enraged, Tom decides to turn the tables on the kidnappers by making the ransom a bounty on their heads – which he announces on national television.
Remy, a resident of Paris, appreciates good food and has quite a sophisticated palate. He would love to become a chef so he can create and enjoy culinary masterpieces to his heart’s delight. The only problem is, Remy is a rat. When he winds up in the sewer beneath one of Paris’ finest restaurants, the rodent gourmet finds himself ideally placed to realize his dream.
A film set in a chaotic 2045 where people escape reality in a vast virtual universe called the OASIS. When its creator dies, he leaves behind a challenge: find a hidden Easter egg within the OASIS to inherit his fortune and control of the virtual world. The story follows unlikely hero Wade Watts as he embarks on a thrilling, reality-bending treasure hunt filled with pop culture references and danger, racing against an evil corporation to find the prize.
An epic science-fantasy event decades in the making. When a peaceful colony on the edge of a galaxy finds itself threatened by the armies of a tyrannical ruling force, Kora, a mysterious stranger living among the villagers, becomes their best hope for survival. Tasked with finding trained fighters who will unite with her in making an impossible stand against the Mother World, Kora assembles a small band of warriors – outsiders, insurgents, peasants and orphans of war from different worlds who share a common need for redemption and revenge.Â
Continues the story of Kora and the rebel warriors defending the farming moon of Veldt from the tyrannical Motherworld, focusing on their final stand, forging unbreakable bonds, and confronting their painful pasts as the full force of the Imperium descends, turning into a full-scale war movie where heroes emerge and legends are made in a fight for survival and redemption.
A film about an FBI profiler forced to partner with a notorious art thief to catch a more elusive criminal behind a series of global heists, all while dodging an Interpol “Red Notice” warrant, leading to double-crosses and globe-trotting adventures as they pursue legendary artifacts like Cleopatra’s eggs.
In present-day London, 12-year-old Quinn watches as his mother wakes an enormous fire-breathing beast from its centuries-long slumber. Twenty years later, much of the world has been scarred by the beast and its offspring. As a fire chief, Quinn is responsible for warding off the beasts and keeping a community alive as they eke out a meager existence. Into their midst comes a hotshot American, Van Zan, who says he has a way to kill the beasts.
In Virginia, high school football is a way of life, an institution revered, each game celebrated more lavishly than Christmas, each playoff distinguished more grandly than any national holiday. And with such recognition, comes powerful emotions. In 1971 high school football was everything to the people of Alexandria. But when the local school board was forced to integrate an all black school with an all white school, the very foundation of football’s great tradition was put to the test.
Max, a teen scientist who’s a bit of a geek, has developed a cloning device that he uses to create the perfect woman – one who understands and shares male needs in a way that the average woman doesn’t. His creation, Repli-Kate, is based on an attractive reporter who interviewed Max for a news story. While he and his good friend Henry are thrilled with their creation at first, Max soon realizes that she pales in comparison to the real thing.
Imaginatively evoking the inner landscape of human beings longing to connect, to love and feel loved, the film is a parable of happiness gloriously found and tragically lost. “Requiem for a Dream” tells parallel stories that are linked by the relationship between the lonely, widowed Sara Goldfarb and her sweet but aimless son, Harry. The plump Sara, galvanized by the prospect of appearing on a TV game show, has started on a dangerous diet regimen to beautify herself for a national audience.
A group of thieves assemble to pull of the perfect diamond heist. It turns into a bloody ambush when one of the men turns out to be a police informer. As the group begins to question each other’s guilt, the heightening tensions threaten to explode the situation before the police step in.
Frank and April Wheeler always see themselves as far-removed from the conventionality of suburbia. Yet that is exactly what creeps up on them when they buy a house in Connecticut. He toils 10 hours a day in a job he hates, while she, as a 1950s homemaker, yearns for fulfillment and passion. Rebelling against the torpor of their lives, the couple plan an escape that may push them to their limits.
The fresh, funny, touching and true story of writer Beverly Donofrio, reveals her coming of age in the late 1960s and her whole life colored by an event that happened when she was 15. The events span more than two decades, as the young heroine experiences often-humorous, sometimes-irreverent, but certainly a unique personal journey to make something meaningful of her life.
Captured by smugglers when he was just a hatchling, a macaw named Blu never learned to fly and lives a happily domesticated life in Minnesota with his human friend, Linda. Blu is thought to be the last of his kind, but when word comes that Jewel, a lone female, lives in Rio de Janeiro, Blu and Linda go to meet her. Animal smugglers kidnap Blu and Jewel, but the pair soon escape and begin a perilous adventure back to freedom – and Linda.
Blue macaws Blu, Jewel and their three children are comfortably settled in the city – perhaps too comfortably. Jewel fears that the children are becoming more like humans than birds. After learning that she and Blu may not be the last blue macaws after all, Jewel decides that their little family should visit the Amazon jungle. It’s there that Blu meets his formidable father-in-law and goes beak-to-beak with archnemesis Nigel.
Josh videotapes his affair with another girl and accidentally mails it to his girlfriend. Discovering the mistake, he tows two of his college buddies – and one not-so-eager kid who happens to own the car – on a raucous 1,800-mile road trip from Ithaca, N.Y., to Austin, Texas, to save his lifelong romance.
Even though he has a new girlfriend, Andy can’t stop thinking about his old high school love, Jenna, who dumped him and went on to become a high-profile beer pong model. When he learns Jenna is on tour with a beer pong tournament, he and his friend, Arash, decide to go on a road trip and follow them. After a series of misunderstandings and several encounters with the law, Andy and Arash catch up with Jenna and the tournament.
In a world of sentient robots, striving young inventor Rodney Copperbottom wants to work for the avuncular Bigweld, whose Bigweld Industries makes spare robot parts. But Bigweld has just been deposed as company head by the villainous Phineas T. Ratchet, who wants to make all robots submit to profitable forced upgrades. In this animated adventure, Rodney and his friend Fender go underground to fight Ratchet’s evil plans.
After salesmen Danny and Wheeler trash a company truck, the court gives them a choice: jail time or community service in a mentoring program. Thinking to take the easy way out, the two overgrown adolescents find themselves paired with a teenager, who is experiencing the pangs of first love, and a foul-mouthed fifth-grader, who needs an attitude adjustment.
The Capulets and the Montagues are two rival gangs. Juliet is attending a costume ball thrown by her parents. Her father Fulgencio Capulet has arranged her marriage to the boorish Paris as part of a strategic investment plan. Romeo attends the masked ball and he and Juliet fall in love.
Living in New York City, Sarah must make the cross-country trip back to her home state of California for the wedding of her younger sister. Once with her family, Sarah learns some interesting things from her grandmother, including the family’s inspirational ties to the famous film “The Graduate.” But all this leads to millionaire Beau Burroughs, and Sarah wants answers – especially since Burroughs might be her real father.
Having already left three grooms at the altar, Maggie Carpenter is branded “the runaway bride” by jaded city journalist Ike Graham. But, after his facts are called into question, Ike races to Maggie’s hometown to save his reputation and report on her upcoming fourth trip down the aisle – during which he’s convinced she’ll run again. Though he’s there on a muckraking mission, Ike can’t help but fall for this breathtaking heartbreaker.
After a workplace shooting in New Orleans, a trial against the gun manufacturer pits lawyer Wendell Rohr against shady jury consultant Rankin Fitch, who uses illegal means to stack the jury with people sympathetic to the defense. But when juror Nicholas Easter and his girlfriend, Marlee, reveal their ability to sway the jury into delivering any verdict they want, a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game begins.
The Munros are a typically American dysfunctional family, complete with rebellious, uncommunicative offspring and baffled parents. Patriarch Bob would like to remedy the situation before his son and daughter instant-message their parents out of their lives. Bob rents a motor home to take the clan on vacation but soon finds that camping and togetherness can be hazardous to one’s health.