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North Shore

1987
Gerry Lopez • John Philbin
A surfer travels to Hawaii & learns life's not easy on the North Shore beach.
Director: William Phelps

Baby Driver

2017
Ansel Elgort • Lily James
A music-loving orphan getaway driver works for a crime boss & wants out.
Director: Edgar Wright

The Breakfast Club

1985
Molly Ringwald • Judd Nelson
Saturday detention & Principal Vernon watches five diverse students.
Director: John Hughes

Stand By Me

1986
Wil Wheaton • River Phoenix
Four friends take the walk of their young lives to find a dead body.
Director: Rob Reiner

Forrest Gump

1994
Tom Hanks • Sally Field
A simple boy grows up in wild times.
Director: Robert Zemeckis

Tremors

1990
Kevin Bacon • Finn Carter
Worm-like monsters wake up a sleepy desert town.
Director: Ron Underwood

Bring It On

2000
Kirsten Dunst • Gabrielle Union
A high school cheer team's routine is stolen & they need a new one fast.
Director: Peyton Reed

School Of Rock

2003
Jack Black • Kids
A down & out musician takes a teaching job that's not his.
Director: Richard Linklater

Death Becomes Her

1992
Bruce Willis • Goldie Hawn
A magic tonic grants eternal life but immortality has a price.
Director: Robert Zemeckis

Aladdin

1992
Robin Williams
Aladdin meets Princess Jasmine, finds a magic genie lamp & must stop evil Jafar.
Director: John Musker

Comedy

History of the World Part I

1981
Mel Brooks • Dom DeLuise
From the Stone Age to the French Revolution, old stories get a new twist.
Director: Mel Brooks

Nothing But Trouble

1991
Chevy Chase • Demi Moore
A couple get busted for speeding & try to escape from the small town.
Director: Dan Aykroyd

The Road to Bali

1952
Bob Hope • Bing Crosby • Dorothy Lamour
Showbiz pals find love, treasure & trouble in tropical Bali.
Director: Hal Walker

Edward Scissorhands

1990
Johnny Depp • Dianne Wiest
A Housewife brings home a dead inventor's special creation.
Director: Tim Burton

My Dinner With Andre

1981
André Gregory • Wallace Shawn
All take part in the conversation at Café des Artistes in New York.
Director: Louis Malle

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

1982
Sean Penn • Phoebe Cates
Teens rule at Ridgemont High and the Galleria in 1980's L.A.
Director: Amy Heckerling

Crazy On The Outside

2010
Tim Allen • Sigourney Weaver
A middle aged ex-con, moves in with his sister & tries to get back on track.
Director: Tim Allen

Duck Soup

1933
Groucho • Harpo • Chico • Zeppo
Freedonia's President must stop an attack from bordering Sylvania.
Director: Leo McCarey

Kids

Gulliver's Travels

1939
Gulliver • Princess Glory
A man lands on an island of tiny people having a big war.
Book: Jonathan Swift

Follow That Bird

1985
Frank Oz ● Carol Spinney
Big Bird is sent away from Sesame Street & he tries to get back.
Director: Ken Kwapis

The Little Princess

1939
Shirley Temple • Richard Greene
A princess loses her father & is forced to be a servant.
Directors: Walter Lang

The Reef

2006
John Davies • Reedy Gibbs
A fish saves his home & his love from a bullying shark.
Director: John Fox

Charlotte's Web

1973
Debbie Reynolds • Paul Lynde
A pig makes friends with a spider who saves his life.
Director: Iwao Takamoto

Sam's Adventures: A Turtle's Tale

2011
Tim Curry • Melanie Griffith
Sammy swims the oceans of the world searching for love.
Director: Ben Stassen

Adventures of Shark Boy & Lava Girl

2005
Kristin Davis • David Arquette
A kid creates a real world & must save it.
Director: Robert Rodríguez

All Dogs Go To Heaven

1989
Burt Reynolds • Charles Reilly
A dog escapes from Heaven for revenge but finds friendship & love.
Director: Don Bluth

Love

Cyrano de Bergerac

1950
Jose Ferrer • Mala Powers
A large nosed poet-swordsman helps another man court his true love.
Play: Edmond Rostand (1897)

Six Pack

1982
Kenny Rogers • Erin Grey
A race driver's car is stripped by orphans & he and they form an unlikely bond.
Director: Daniel Petrie

The Phantom Of The Opera

1925
Lon Chaney • Mary Philbin
A lovelorn ghoul haunts the Paris Opera House and kidnaps it's star.
Director: Rupert Julian

Never Been Kissed

1999
Drew Barrymore ● David Arquette
A reporter poses as a high school student & falls for her teacher.
Director: Raja Gosnell

Woodstock

1969
Jimi Hendrix • Janis Joplin
Three Days Of Peace, Love & Music.
Director: Michael Wadleigh

Blast From The Past

Mi Familia

Herbie: The Love Bug

1968
Michelle Lee • Buddy Hackett
A Race Car Driver and his underdog car race to beat his rival & win his girl.
Director: Bob Stevenson

Mystery

Citizen Kane

1941
Orson Welles • Dorothy Comingore
A tycoon dies, saying 'Rosebud' & a reporter tries to find the secret.
Director: Orson Welles

Sherlock Holmes in Dressed to Kill

1946
Basil Rathbone • Nigel Bruce
Holmes solves a crime involving The Bank of England & music boxes.
Book: Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock, Jr.

1924
Buster Keaton • Kathryn McGuire
A man is framed by a rival, falls into a dream, clears his name & wins his love.
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Blackmail

1929
Anny Ondra • Charles Paton
A girl fights with her boyfriend & then ends up with the wrong guy.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Shadow Of The Thin Man

1941
Will Powell • Myrna Loy
A detective & his wife solve a crime at the race track.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke

Death On The Nile

1978
Peter Ustinov • Angela Landsbury
A detective on a Nile cruise must find the killer of an heiress.
Book: Agatha Christie

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button

2008
Brad Pitt • Kate Blanchett
1920s F. Scott Fitzgerald story of a man born in his 80's & ages backwards.
Director: David Fincher

War

The Longest Day

1962
John Wayne ● Henry Fonda
WWII U.S. Army & Allied forces invade France and end the War.
Director: Ken Annakin

A Farewell To Arms

1932
Helen Hays • Gary Cooper
An American Soldier and English Nurse fall in love in Italy during World War I.
Book: Ernest Hemingway (1929)

Tora! Tora! Tora!

1970
Jason Robards • So Yamamura
1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor leads to the USA entering World War II.
Director: Richard Fleischer

Bridge On The River Kwai

1957
Will Holden • Alec Guinness
POWs build a bridge for their captors that Allies plan to destroy.
Director: David Lean

All Quiet On The Western Front

1930
Lew Ayers • John Wray
German youth are recruited into hate-filled World War I fighting for evil & against humanity.
Director: Lewis Milestone

The Sea Wolves

1981
Gregory Peck • Roger Moore
WWI Indian soldiers help the British stop the WWII Nazis.
Director: Andy Maclaglan

Westerns

Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid

1969
Robert Redford • Paul Newman
After a string of robberies two outlaws run from US Marshall's and to Bolivia.
Director: George Roy Hill

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

1966
Clint Eastwood
Three men race to find a lost fortune.
Director: Sergio Leone

Angel & The Badman

1947
Gail Russell • John Wayne
A notorious gunman is injured and nursed back to health by a Quaker girl.
Director: James Grant

Greed

1924
Zasu Pitts • Dale Fuller
Trouble follows a gold miner who becomes a San Francisco dentist.
Director: Erich von Stroheim

The Great Train Robbery

1903
Bronco Billy • Mary Snow
Outlaws rob a train, flee the local posse but are caught in the mountains.
Director: Edwin Porter

Stagecoach

1939
John Wayne • Claire Trevor
Stagecoach passengers fight outlaws & the threat of Indian attack.
Director: John Ford

Support Your Local Gunfighter

The Shakiest Gun in the West

1968
Don Knotts • Barbara Rhodes
A dentist & a bandit travel West for a new life.
Director: Alan Rafkin

Crime

Big Trouble

2002
Tim Allen • Rene Russo
A divorced dad, a housewife, hitmen, street thugs, love struck teens, the FBI and a toad all collide.
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld

Ruthless People

1986
Danny DeVito • Bette Midler
A couple kidnap a rich man's wife but he doesn't want her back.
Directors: Zucker, Zucker & Abrahams

Way Down East

1920
Lillian Gish • Lowell Sherman
An unwed mom is abandoned, banished in a blizzard & set adrift on ice.
Director: D.W. Griffith

My Mom Robs Banks

What's Eating Gilbert Grape?

Scarface: The Shame Of A Nation

1932
Paul Muni • Ann Dvorak
North & South side Chicago gangsters fight to control the city.
Director: Howard Hawks

Scary

Frankenstein

1931
Boris Karloff • Mae Clark
Dr. Frankenstein creates a human monster looking for love.
Book: Mary Shelley (1818)

Nosferatu: A Symphony Of Horror

1922
Max Schreck
An agent tries to make a deal with a vampire.
Director: F. W. Murnau

Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein

1948
Bud Abbott • Lou Costello
Dracula & his Doctor want Abbott's brain for their Frankenstein monster.
Director: Charles Barton

The Last Man On Earth

1964
Vincent Price
A man tries to live a normal life among virus plagued zombies.
Director: Ubaldo Ragona

Dracula: Dead & Loving It

1995
Leslie Nielsen
Dracula moves to London & has a good time with the local residents.
Director: Mel Brooks

Plan 9 From Outer Space

1957
Ed Wood • Bela Lugosi
L.A. is under alien attack & aliens are raising corpses in a Hollywood cemetery.
Director: Ed Wood

The Birds

1963
Rod Taylor • Tippi Hedren
Romance brews among strange bird attacks in San Francisco.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock

The Phantom Tollbooth

1970
Butch Patrick
A tollbooth opens a fantasy world for a young man.
Director: Abe Levitow

Thrills

Jurassic World

2015
Chris Pratt • Bryce Howard
A dinosaur island luxury resort breaks down & a group of experts has to save it.
Director: Colin Trevorrow

King Kong

1933
Fay Wray • King Kong
A Giant Gorilla is taken to New York but his new home is not for him.
Director: Merian C. Cooper

Flash Gordon

1936
Buster Crabbe
Flash heads to planet Mongo to stop Ming the Merciless.
Director: Ray Taylor

The General

1927
Buster Keaton • Marion Mack
Northern Soldiers take a Southerner's train & girl and he aims to get them back.
Director: Clyde Bruckman

Twilight Zone: The Movie

1986
John Lithgow • Dan Aykroyd
Four scary stories remind us nothing is as it seems.
Director: Steven Spielberg

A Piece Of The Action

1977
Bill Cosby • James Earl Jones
A cop blackmails two criminals into giving back to the community.
Director: Sidney Poitier

Pacific Rim

Invasion Of The Body Snatchers

1956
Kevin McCarthy • Dana Wynter
Aliens invade a town in a weird way.
Director: Don Siegel

Silent

The Little Princess

1917
Mary Pickford • Za Ju Pitts
Her father off to war and Sara goes to a school run by a cruel headmistress.
Producer: Mary Pickford

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

1916
Allen Holubar • Jane Gail
Nemo rescues a U.S. Navy ship's passengers.
Book: Jules Verne (1875)

The Gold Rush

1925
Charlie Chaplin • Georgia Hale
A gold-digger joins a brave optimist determined to search for gold.
Director: Charlie Chaplin

Noah's Ark

1928
Dolores Costello • George O'Brien
The story of Noah, the Great Flood and World War I.
Writer: Darryl F. Zanuck

Metropolis

1927
Alfred Abel • Brigitte Helm
The son of a city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet.
Director: Fritz Lang

A Trip To The Moon

1902
Victor Andre • Bluette Bernon
Scientists go to the Moon, escape the hostile Selenites & make it home.
Director: Georges Melies

Intolerance

1916
Lillian Gish • Alfred Paget
Four stories from different times of history show 'Love's' struggle through the ages.
Director: D.W. Griffith

Within Our Gates

1920
Evelyn Preer • Jack Chenault
A school teacher from the South heads North to raise money for her school.
Director: Oscar Micheaux

Adventure

Godzilla

1954
Godzilla • Tokyo
Bomb testing wakes Godzilla and he destroys Tokyo.
Director: Ishiro Honda

Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars

1976
Billy Dee Williams
Bingo Long hits the road with his own team.
Director: John Badham

Tarzan The Fearless

1935
Jacqueline Wells • Buster Crabbe
Tarzan rescues Dr. Brooks from the evil Zar, God of the Emerald Fingers.
Director: Robert F. Hill

The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen

1988
John Neville • Uma Thurman
The Baron stops a Turkish invasion in late 1800's Europe.
Director: Terry Gilliam

Lawrence Of Arabia

1962
Peter O'Toole • Alec Guiness
An eccentric British officer fights the enemy in World War I.
Director: David Lean

It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

1963
Buddy Hackett ● Edie Adams
An accident leads a group on a wild search for fortune.
Director: Stanley Kramer

Captain Kidd

1945
Randolph Scott, John Carradine
A notorious privateer & pirate lay their sights on the East India Company.
Director: Rowland Lee

The Circuit

2008
Michelle Trachtenberg
The daughter of a racing legend finds herself becoming a star of the circuit.
Director: Peter Werner

Musicals

Yellow Submarine

1968
George • Ringo • John • Paul
The Beatles ride the Yellow Submarine to save Pepperland from the music-hating Blue Meanies.
Music: The Beatles

A Star Is Born

1937
Janet Gaynor • Frederic March
A woman moves to Hollywood & meets a former actor who leads her to fame.
Director: William A. Wellman

Fame

1980
Irene Cara • Lee Curreri
Teens seek their dreams at a New York School of the Arts.
Director: Alan Parker

Krush Groove

1985
Def Jam's Russell Walker manages the artists, Rick Rubin produces the records and Russ and his brother Run compete for Sheila E's love.
Director: Michael Schutz

Yankee Doodle Dandy

1942
James Cagney • Joan Leslie
At the White House to be honored, Broadway legend George Cohan reflects on his life.
Director: Michael Curtiz

The Wiz

1978
Diana Ross • Michael Jackson
A teacher in a storm lands in Oz & needs the Scarecrow, Tin Man, Lion & the Wiz to get home.
Director: Sidney Lumet

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

1953
Marilyn Monroe • Jane Russell
A girl's fiance's Dad hires a detective to follow her & her friend on a cruise.
Director: Howard Hawks

South Pacific

1958
Mitzi Gaynor • Ray Walston
World War II & love blooms between a nurse & a French US ally on a mission.
Director: Josh Logan

Winnie The Pooh & Piglet Too

Drumline

2002
Orlando Jones • Zoe Saldana
A kid heads to college to be the best drummer in the school band.
Director: Charles Stone

Reality

Kingsman: The Secret Service

2014
Colin Firth • Taron Egerton
A spy organization recruits a street kid to fight a plot using technology for violence & virus.
Director: Matthew Vaughn

The Grapes Of Wrath

1940
Henry Fonda • Jane Darwell
A 1939 Oklahoma Dustbowl family heads to California in search of a new life.
Director: John Ford

Our Town

1940
Martha Scott • William Holden
Modern change comes to this peaceful small New Hampshire town.
Play: Thornton Wilder (1938)

Boyz In The Hood

1991
Cuba Gooding Jr. • Morris Chestnut
Tre Styles moves to a community whose youths are struggling to find their way.
Director: John Singleton

Modern Times

1933
Charlie Chaplin • Paulette Goddard
A girl helps the Tramp struggling in a modern world.
Director: Charlie Chaplin

Johnny Mnemonic

1995
Keanu Reeves • Henry Rollins
Everyone wants Johnny who has a virus cure in his brain.
Director: Robert Longo

Let's Do It Again

1975
Sidney Poitier ● Bill Cosby
Two friends want to help a retirement home & fix a fight to get the cash.
Director: Sidney Poitier

Convoy

1978
Kris Kristofferson • Ali MacGraw
Upset truck drivers create a mile-long convoy.
Director: Sam Peckinpah

Noir

The Program

1993
James Caan • Halle Berry
Young adults cope with relationships & pressures of college football.
Director: David Ward

Sunset Boulevard

1950
Gloria Swanson • William Holden
A writer & former star lok to make a big return.
Director: Billy Wilder

Double Indemnity

1944
Fred MacMurray • Barbara Stanwyck
A man & woman plan to murder her husband and get his insurance claim.
Director: Billy Wilder

The Man Who Knew Too Much

1956
Doris Day • James Stewart
An American tourist son's kidnapping sets off an international search.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock

La Dolce Vita

1960
Anita Ekberg • Marcello Mastroianni
An Italian world whose excess is a nonstop parade of modern decadents.
Director:Frederico Fellini

Dr. Strangelove

1964
Peter Sellers • George C. Scott
A rogue U.S. General launches an attack on the USSR as the President tries to reverse course.
Director: Stanley Kubrick

The Deal

2008
William H. Macy • Meg Ryan
A bleak Hollywood producer works every trick he knows to get his nephew's movie made.
Director: Steven Schachter

Kansas City Confidential

1952
John Payne • Lee Van Cleef 
A GI is framed & sets out to discover who set him up.
Director: Phil Karlson

Family

Oh God!

1977
George Burns • John Denver
God needs a messenger on Earth to save the World.
Director: Carl Reiner

Seventeen Again

2000
Tia & Tamera Mowry
A kid's experiment goes awry & turns his grandparents 17 again.
Director: Jeff Byrd

Swiss Family Robinson

1960
John Mills • Dorothy McGuire
A shipwrecked family builds an island home.
Director: Ken Annakin

Mrs. Doubtfire

1993
Robin Williams • Sally Field
An actor disguises as a female housekeeper to see his kids & former wife.
Producer: Robin Williams

Alice In Wonderland

1999
Tina Manjorino • Gene Wilder
A girl falls asleep & enters a world of strange adventures & creatures.
Director: Nick Willing

Mr. Mom

17 Again

Uncle P

2007
Master P • Romeo Miller
A Rapper/multi-millionaire becomes the guardian of his sister's three children.
Director: Bernard Gourley