Release Date: 1988-12-07

Overview: An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.

Rating: 6.96 (932 votes)

Release Date: 1986-09-24

Overview: Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the ways of the serial killer.

Rating: 6.739 (733 votes)

Release Date: 1989-11-17

Overview: Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though she is an honorable woman. If he wins, he can have his lover to do as he will. However, in the process of seducing the married woman, Valmont falls in love.

Rating: 6.7 (281 votes)

Release Date: 1989-07-15

Overview: A humorous and thought-provoking view of what animals in zoos might be thinking about their captivity and surroundings.

Rating: 7.2 (122 votes)

Release Date: 1988-06-09

Overview: When a group of teenagers inadvertently kill his only son, Ed Harley seeks the powers of a backwoods witch to bring the child back to life.

Rating: 6.4 (492 votes)

Release Date: 2011-10-21

Overview: Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.

Rating: 6.402 (739 votes)

Release Date: 2010-11-10

Overview: A young and devoted morning television producer is hired as an executive producer on a long-running morning show at a once-prominent but currently failing station in New York City. Eager to keep the show on air, she recruits a former news journalist and anchor who disapproves of co-hosting a show that does not deal with real news stories.

Rating: 6.356 (1535 votes)

Release Date: 1988-12-12

Overview: When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant 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.

Rating: 7.754 (6628 votes)

Release Date: 1995-09-29

Overview: In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. Strapped for money and facing house payments, Easy takes the job, but soon finds himself in over his head.

Rating: 6.456 (423 votes)

Release Date: 1983-09-30

Overview: Seven old college friends gather for a weekend reunion after the funeral of one of their own.

Rating: 6.859 (614 votes)

Release Date: 2015-05-15

Overview: A sudden loss disrupts Carol’s orderly life, propelling her into the dating world for the first time in 20 years. Finally living in the present tense, she finds herself swept up in not one, but two unexpected relationships that challenge her assumptions about what it means to grow old.

Rating: 6.275 (171 votes)

Release Date: 2012-03-08

Overview: While working undercover as a bodyguard to arms dealer Harry, former-soldier-turned-secret-service-agent Ewan survives a bloody shootout with a member of an Islamic terrorist cell who steals Harry's briefcase full of Semtex explosives and escapes. Ewan's spymasters task Ewan with hunting down the cell members and retrieving the briefcase.

Rating: 5.631 (335 votes)

Release Date: 1987-09-03

Overview: A middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II.

Rating: 6.911 (203 votes)

Release Date: 2013-07-26

Overview: In remote Chile, a vacationing young woman begins to mentally unravel; meanwhile, her friends ignore her claim until it's too late.

Rating: 5.1 (209 votes)

Release Date: 2003-06-11

Overview: A troubled and bullied high school student fights against judgement from his community after threatening to bomb the football team.

Rating: 7 (153 votes)

Release Date: 1957-11-09

Overview: American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was killed in a freak accident the day before. It turns out that the deceased had been investigating a cult lead by Dr. Julian Karswell. Though a skeptic, Holden is suspicious of the devil-worshiping Karswell. Following a trail of mysterious manuscripts, Holden enters a world that makes him question his faith in science.

Rating: 6.976 (283 votes)

Release Date: 1996-12-13

Overview: Good-natured Reverend Henry Biggs finds that his marriage to choir mistress Julia is flagging, due to his constant absence caring for the deprived neighborhood they live in. On top of all this, his church is coming under threat from property developer Joe Hamilton. In desperation, Biggs prays to God for help – which arrives in the form of an angel named Dudley.

Rating: 5.8 (239 votes)

Release Date: 1984-09-14

Overview: In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army Base. Military lawyer, Captain Davenport—also a black man—is sent from Washington to conduct an investigation. Facing an uncooperative chain of command and fearful black troops, Davenport must battle with deceit and prejudice in order to find out exactly who really did kill the Master Sergeant.

Rating: 6.8 (190 votes)

Release Date: 1989-09-12

Overview: A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.

Rating: 6.315 (270 votes)

Release Date: 1961-12-14

Overview: During the American Civil War, a Southerner is about to be hanged from a bridge for sabotage when something unexpected happens.

Rating: 7.615 (91 votes)