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North Shore

1987
Gerry Lopez • John Philbin
A surfer dreams of conquering 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 & mischievous 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 and themselves.
Director: Rob Reiner

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

1977
Richard Dreyfuss • Teri Garr
Alien's come to Earth and a select few make up close contact.
Director: Steven Spielberg

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

Austin Powers

1997
Mike Meyers • Elizabeth Hurley

A 1960's preserved secret agent is revived in the 90's to take out his old enemy.
Music: George Clinton

The Road to Bali

1952
Bob Hope • Bing Crosby • Dorothy Lamour

Two showbiz pals find love, treasure & trouble in Bali.
Director: Hal Walker

Beat The Devil

1953
Humphrey Bogart • Gina Lollobrigida

A crew of thieves head to Africa looking for Uranium.
Director: John Huston

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

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
Lemuel Gulliver • Princess Glory

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

The Princess Bride

1987
Robin Wright • André the Giant

Buttercup is to wed evil Prince Humperdinck but her true love Westley thinks otherwise.
Director: Robert Reiner

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

Mystery

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

1988
Bob Hoskins • Christopher Lloyd

Roger Rabbit is framed for murder & sets out to prove his innocence with a tough detective.
Director: Robert Zemeckis

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 investigates a crime involving the Bank of England & three music boxes.
Book: Arthur Conan Doyle (1887)

War

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 America entering World War II.
Director: Richard Fleischer

Bridge On The River Kwai

1957
William Holden • Alec Guinness

POWs build a bridge for their Japanese captors that Allies are planning to destroy.
Director: David Lean

Westerns

Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid

1969
Robert Redford • Paul Newman

Two outlaws run from US Marshall's after a string of robberies and flee to Bolivia.
Director: George Roy Hill

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

1966
Clint Eastwood • Eli Wallach

A scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a 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

Crime

Bugsy Malone

1976
Jodie Foster • Scott Baio

1929 & Dandy Dan's mob runs 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

Scary

Frankenstein

1931
Boris Karloff • Mae Clark

Dr. Frankenstein tampers with life and creates a human monster.
Book: Mary Shelley (1818)

White Zombie

1932
Bela Lugosi • Madge Bellamy

A man uses a witch doctor to get girl he loves but he turns her into a zombie.
Director: Victor Halperin

Nosferatu: A Symphony Of Horror

1922
Max Schreck • Greta Schröder

An agent visits The Count to make a deal but the vampire wants a home & more.
Director: F. W. Murnau

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 • Connie Moore

A pilot awakes 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

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

Captain Nemo rescues the passengers of a U.S. Navy ship.
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

Adventure

Jumanji

1995
Robin Williams •Bonnie Hunt

Kids find a magical 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 & Motor Kings

1976
Billy Dee Williams • Richard Pryor

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

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 and meets a troubled former leading man who leads her to fame.
Director: William A. Wellman

The Muppet Movie

1979
Madeline Kahn • Carol Kane

Kermit and his Muppet friends travel to Hollywood to join show business.
Director: James Frawley

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

Kingsman: The Golden Circle

2017
Taron Egerton• Channing Tatum

Spies team up to take down a drug cartel pushing a fatal virus that threatens the world.
Director: Matthew Vaughn

Our Town

1940
Martha Scott • William Holden

20th Century 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

Noir

Sunset Boulevard

1950
Gloria Swanson • William Holden

A screenwriter's relationship with a star determined 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

Family

Paper Moon

1973
Ryan O'Neal • Tatum O'Neal

A con-artist father tries to dupe his daughter but instead takes her on as a partner.
Director: Peter Bogdanovich

Jungle Cruise

2021
Dwayne Johnson • Emily Blunt

A riverboat Captain leads a scientist & her brother in search of the Tree of Life.
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra

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