Release Date: 1996-12-06

Overview: A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister gets engaged.

Rating: 6.446 (681 votes)

Release Date: 1994-10-14

Overview: After young playwright, David Shayne obtains funding for his play from gangster Nick Valenti, Nick's girlfriend Olive miraculously lands the role of a psychiatrist—but not only is she a bimbo who could never pass for a psychiatrist—she's a dreadful actress. David puts up with the leading man who is a compulsive eater, the grand dame who wants her part jazzed up, and Olive's interfering hitman/bodyguard—but, eventually he must decide whether art or life is more important.

Rating: 7.1 (637 votes)

Release Date: 1949-01-01

Overview: An early example of ultra-realism, this movie contrasts the quiet, bucolic life in the outskirts of Paris with the harsh, gory conditions inside the nearby slaughterhouses. Describes the fate of the animals and that of the workers in graphic detail.

Rating: 7.494 (77 votes)

Release Date: 1995-03-31

Overview: His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry. In Paris, he becomes smitten with cultured artist Maria Cosway, but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally Hemings, Jefferson's attentions are diverted.

Rating: 5.128 (43 votes)

Release Date: 1994-12-18

Overview: Somewhere behind the early 1960s cold-war iron curtain, the Hollander family cause an international spying incident when Walter photographs a sunset in a sensitive region. In order to stay out of jail, the Hollanders take refuge in the American Embassy, which is temporarily being run by the absent Ambassador's diplomatically incompetent son, Axel.

Rating: 5.537 (82 votes)

Release Date: 2004-10-31

Overview: Three generations of New Orleans prostitute fight the FBI and each other. Based on a true story.

Rating: 4.7 (3 votes)

Release Date: 1992-09-18

Overview: When Jack and Sally announce that they're splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they also are drifting apart and are now being made aware of it. So while Jack and Sally try to go on and meet new people, the marriage of Gabe and Judy gets more and more strained, and they begin to find themselves being attracted to other people.

Rating: 7.013 (473 votes)

Release Date: 1985-12-19

Overview: A former convict discovers that his son has been adopted by a couple living on the mountains and tries to establish a contact with him

Rating: 6.5 (56 votes)

Release Date: 1987-01-30

Overview: The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.

Rating: 7.1 (596 votes)

Release Date: 1978-10-02

Overview: A wizard invents characters who all come to life and start to arrive at his house: a King, his servants, a princes, a bear trapped in a man's body - the usual lot. The Plot mainly rotates around the bear, who the wizard had turned into a man. The Bear, who wishes to be a bear once again, can turn into his old self if he were to kiss a princess. It gets complicated when he falls in love with that princess, that arrived at the wizard's house. For how can they be together, if a single kiss will destroy their love?

Rating: 7.322 (73 votes)

Release Date: 2000-10-19

Overview: A group of maverick scientists on a remote Australian sheep farm are the globe's only hope for obtaining the epic images of man's first steps on the moon.

Rating: 6.72 (202 votes)

Release Date: 2007-10-13

Overview: Determined to find out the true effects of marijuana on the human body, stand-up comedian and former Stoner of the Year Doug Benson documents his experience avoiding pot for 30 days and then consuming massive amounts of the drug for 30 days. More than just an amusing story of one man's quest to get superhigh, this documentary also examines the hotly contested debate over medical marijuana use.

Rating: 5.741 (160 votes)

Release Date: 2003-08-27

Overview: Jerry Falk, an aspiring writer in New York, falls in love at first sight with a free-spirited young woman named Amanda. He has heard the phrase that life is like "anything else," but soon he finds that life with the unpredictable Amanda isn't like anything else at all.

Rating: 6.2 (625 votes)

Release Date: 2001-08-05

Overview: CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they think. During a night out with the rest of the office employees, they go to watch Voltan, a magician who secretly hypnotizes both of them.

Rating: 6.608 (790 votes)

Release Date: 1988-05-05

Overview: Sherlock Holmes is as dashing as ever, but with a little secret: Dr. Watson is the brains behind the operation. When Reginald Kincaid, the actor he has hired to play Holmes becomes insufferable, Watson fires him and tries to go out on his own, but finds that he has done too good a job building Holmes up in the public's mind.

Rating: 6.632 (231 votes)

Release Date: 2000-05-19

Overview: A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.

Rating: 6.442 (710 votes)

Release Date: 1991-12-05

Overview: With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.

Rating: 6.745 (376 votes)

Release Date: 2011-08-28

Overview: Johnny is a long-serving MI5 officer. His boss dies suddenly, leaving behind an inexplicable file which threatens the stability of the organisation.

Rating: 6.565 (307 votes)

Release Date: 2017-02-17

Overview: Pierre, widowed and retired, has not been out of his house for two years. He discovers the joys of the internet thanks to Alex, a young man hired by his daughter to teach him the basics of computer science. On a meeting place, a charming young woman, Flora63, seduced by the romanticism of Pierre, offers her a first date. Lovers, Pierre is back. But on his profile he put a picture of Alex and not his own. Pierre must convince the young man to meet Flora in his place

Rating: 5.995 (204 votes)

Release Date: 1995-06-23

Overview: Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.

Rating: 7 (314 votes)