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North Shore

1987
Gerry Lopez • John Philbin
A surfer dreams of life on Oahu's North Shore & learns life's not so easy on the local beach.
Director: William Phelps

The Breakfast Club

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

Bride of Frankenstein

1935
Boris Karloff • Elsa Lanchester
Mad Scientists make a Bride for a Monster who lacks social graces.
Director: James Whale

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

Popeye

1980
Robin Williams • Shelley Duvall
Popeye looks for his Dad, falls for Olive Oyl, takes in baby Swee'Pea & beats bully Bluto.
Director: Robert Altman

Love Songs

1999
Robert Townsend • Louis Gossett Jr.
Three stories set in the same North Philadelphia neighborhood.
Director: Andre Braugher

Aladdin

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

The Longest Day

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

Girls! Girls! Girls!

1962
Elvis Presley • Stella Stevens
A skipper helps tourists land the big ones but wants his own boat.
Director: Norm Taurog

Spy Kids

2001
Antonio Banderas • Teri Hatcher
Retired spy parents are kidnapped & their kids must save them.
Director: Robert Rodriguez

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

Dazed and Confused

1993
Ben Affleck • Milla Jovovich,
High school is over and it's time for summer in 1976 Texas.
Director: Richard Linklater

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

Duck Soup

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

Kids

The Wizard of Oz

1939
Judy Garland • Toto
Dorothy & Toto land in Oz and team up with the Lion, Tin Man & Scarecrow to find the Wizard.
Book: L. Frank Baum (1900)

Gulliver's Travels

1939
Gulliver • Princess Glory
A doctor washes ashore on an island inhabited by little people locked in a foolish war.
Book: Jonathan Swift (1726)

Curly Sue

2007
James Belushi • Alisan Porter
A vagabond criminal and the curly-topped orphan he’s raised hit the jackpot.
Director: John Hughes

Follow That Bird

1985
Frank Oz ● Carol Spinney
A social worker sends Big Bird away from Sesame Street and he tries to get back.
Director: Ken Kwapis

Jack & The Beanstalk

1952
Bud Abbott • Lou Costello
A boy trades the family cow for magic beans, meets a Giant and a lot of trouble.
Director: Hal Roach

Dumbo

1941
Herman Bing • Billy Bletcher
An elephant & his rat buddy escape the circus in search of a new life.
Director: Ben Sharpstein

Pinnochio

1940
Dickie Jones • Don Brodie
Peer pressure tries to distract a wooden boy from his goal of becoming real.
Director: Hamilton Luske

Robin Hood

1938
Errol Flynn
Robin Hood & his Merrymen rob from the rich give to the poor & save Maid Marian too.
Director: William Keighley

The Adventures Of Shark Boy & Lava Girl

2005
George Lopez • Kristin Davis
A kid & his wild creations save the world.
Director: Robert Rodriguez

Sam's Adventures: A Turtle's Tale

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

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)

Gone With The Wind

1939
Vivien Leigh • Clark Gable
Civil War story of a plantation owner's daughter and her pursuit of love.
Director: Victor Fleming

Splash

1984
Daryl Hannah • Tom Hanks
A New York man falls in love with a mermaid not knowing who or what she is.
Director: Ron Howard

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

Roman Holiday

1953
Audrey Hepburn • Gregory Peck
A princess sneaks away, meets an American and falls in love in Rome.
Director: William Wyler

Never Been Kissed

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

Love Actually

2003
Keira Knightley • Alan Rickman
Eight different couples in London dealing with love & life at Christmas.
Director: Richard Curtis

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 newspaper tycoon dies speaking a single word, 'Rosebud' and 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
After a fight with her detective boyfriend Alice 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

Who's That Girl?

1987
Madonna • Griffin Dunne
An uptight attorney's lifestyle changes when he meets a wild girl.
Director: James Foley

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

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 Eagle Has Landed

1976
M. Caine • D. Sutherland
Nazi's try kidnap Churchill but Americans disguised as Polish Army drop in to stop the plan.
Director: John Sturges

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

The Heroes Of Telemark

1965
Kirk Douglas • Richard Harris
Norwegian fighters stop the Nazis from making an Atomic Bomb.
Director: Anthony Mann

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 battle the Nazis in WWII.
Director: Andrew Maclaglan

The Dirty Dozen

1967
Jim Brown ● Lee Marvin
12 death row inmates are recruited to parachute across enemy lines & help end WWII.
Director: Robert Aldrich

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 Over The Hill Gang

1969
Walter Brennan • Jack Elam
A retired Texas Ranger & his aging pals are hired to clean up a lawless town.
Director: Jean Yarbrough

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

1966
Clint Eastwood • Eli Wallach
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

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

Bugsy Malone

1976
Jodie Foster • Scott Baio
Dandy Dan's mob runs 1929 New York but not according to Fat Sam.
Director: Alan Parker

Goodfellas

1990
Robert De Niro • Ray Liotta
Henry Hill navigates decades of family life and Mob life in New York City.
Director: Martin Scorsese

Ruthless People

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

Way Down East

1920
Lillian Gish • Lowell Sherman
A woman in Boston is tricked into a phony marriage and a fight for love.
Director: D.W. Griffith

The Public Enemy

1931
James Cagney • Jean Harlow
A man tries to keep his brother out of jail.
Director: William Welleman

Scarface: The Shame Of A Nation

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

Mad Money

2008
Dianne Keaton • Queen Latifah
Three women from different worlds attempt the heist of the century.
Director: Kallie Khouri

Die Hard

1988
Bruce Willis • Alan Rickman
An NYPD officer visiting his wife in LA tries to stop a hostage crisis.
Director: John McTiernan

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 • Franca Bettoia
A man tries to live a normal life among virus plagued zombies.
Director: Ubaldo Ragona

Dracula: Dead & Loving It

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

Invasion Of Astro Monster

1970
Nick Adams • Akira Takarada
Aliens from Planet X use Godzilla & Rodan to fight off King Ghidorah.
Director: Ishiro Honda

Furry Vengeance

2010
Brendan Fraser • Brooke Shields
Local critters put a stop to plans to build on their forest home.
Director: Roger Kumble

The Phantom Tollbooth

1970
Butch Patrick
A tollbooth opens a world of warring kings, creatures & a princess.
Director: Abe Levitow

Thrills

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

Buck Rodgers

1939
Buster Crabbe
A pilot awakens after 500 years to find that Evil has taken over the World.
Director: Ford Beebe

Back To The Future

1985
Michael J. Fox • Christopher Lloyd
A 1985 kid gets lost in 1955 and tries to get back without changing the future.
Director: Robert Zemeckis

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

Drunken Master

1978
Jackie Chan • Yuen Siu-tien
The drunken brother of a martial arts master teaches his son kung-fu.
Director: Yuen Woo-ping

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

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

Jumanji

1995
Robin Williams • Bonnie Hunt
Kids find a game & release a man trapped inside.
Director: Joe Johnston

Godzilla

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

Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars

1976
Billy Dee Williams
Baseball pitcher 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

Tabu: A Story Of The South Seas

1931
Reri • Matahi • Hitu
An islander tries to rescue his love before she becomes a sacrifice.
Director: F.W. Murnau

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
A massive traffic jam leads a group of motorists on a wild search for a fortune.
Director: Stanley Kramer

The Raiders Of The Lost Ark

1981
Harrison Ford • Karen Allen
An American archeologist keeps mankind's secrets from the evil Nazis.
Director: Steven Spielberg

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

The Muppet Movie

1979
Madeline Kahn • Carol Kane
Kermit & the Muppets travel to Hollywood.
Director: James Frawley

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

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

1975
Tim Curry • Susan Sarandon
A parody tribute to the sci-fi & horror movies of the 1930s through the 60s.
Director: Jim Sharman

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

Drumline

2002
Orlando Jones • Zoe Saldana
New York kid heads to college in Atlanta 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 young homeless woman helps the Tramp as he struggles to live in modern society.
Director: Charlie Chaplin

Johnny Mnemonic

1995
Keanu Reeves • Henry Rollins
A virtual Internet creates a virus & everyone is after Johnny who has the cure implanted in his brain.
Director: Robert Longo

Django Unchained

2012
Jamie Foxx ● Chris Waltz
A slave is freed by a bounty hunter & together they hunt the South's most-wanted criminals.
Director: Quentin Tarantino

Marley

2022
Bob Marley • The Wailers
A Jamaican prophet preaches peace, love & understanding with music.
Director: Kevin Macdonald

To Sir, With Love

1967
Sidney Poitier ● Lulu
Social & racial issues rise in an inner city London school.
Director: James Clavell

Convoy

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

Noir

Sunset Boulevard

1950
Gloria Swanson • William Holden
A writer & a former star lookung 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

Angels With Dirty Faces

1938
James Cagney • Pat O'Brien
A New York priest tries to keep his friend out of jail.
Director: Michael Curtiz

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

Goldfinger

1964
Sean Connery • Honor Blackman
007 tries to stop a gold crazy millionaire.
Director: Guy Hamilton

The Cheap Detective

1978
Peter Falk • Ann-Margret
1940 detectives, dames, Nazis & a treasure in San Francisco.
Director: Neil Simon

Family

Paper Moon

1973
Ryan & Tatum O'Neal
A con father tries to dupe his daughter but she becomes his partner.
Director: Peter Bogdanovich

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 sailing to Australia builds an island settlement.
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

Zoolander

2001
Owen Wilson ● Will Ferrell
A model tries to stop an evil plot to ruin the World.
Director: Ben Stiller

Oh God!

1977
George Burns • John Denver
God has a hard time convincing his chosen messenger who He really is.
Director: Carl Reiner

Alice In Wonderland

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

Uncle P

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

The Longshots

2011
Ice Cube • Keke Palmer
An 11 year old coached by her uncle is the first female to play Pop Warner football .
Director: Fred Durst

The Spy Next Door

2010
Jackie Chan • George Lopez
A spy babysits his neighbor's unruly kids & they blow his cover.
Director: Brian Levant