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Last updated: January 30th, 2016
Dorothy Gale is swept away to a magical land in a tornado and embarks on a quest to see the Wizard who can help her return home.
Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.
Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance.
An ingenue insinuates herself into the company of an established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater friends.
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home-world.
A 'typical' day in the life of the Beatles, including many of their famous songs.
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
A spoiled heiress, running away from her family, is helped by a man who is actually a reporter in need of a story.
A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.
After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness - conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school.
When Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a rebel guerrilla army.
A sex-repulsed woman who disapproves of her sister's boyfriend sinks into depression and has horrific visions of rape and violence.
The life of Mason, from early childhood to his arrival at college.
A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive.
A film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot and discovers a colossal giant gorilla who takes a shine to their female blonde star. Then he's captured and brought back to New York City for public exhibition.
Snow White, pursued by a jealous queen, hides with the Dwarfs; the queen soon learns of this and prepares to feed her a poison apple.
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
When Woody is stolen by a toy collector, Buzz and his friends vow to rescue him, but Woody finds the idea of immortality in a museum tempting.
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
A heinous crime and its aftermath are recalled from differing points of view.
Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Dr. Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.
The toys are mistakenly delivered to a day-care center instead of the attic right before Andy leaves for college, and it's up to Woody to convince the other toys that they weren't abandoned and to return home.
Set in Post-WWII Italy, a working class man's bicycle is stolen. He and his son set out to find it.
Moving story of a young boy who, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime.
When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
Fred Dobbs and Bob Curtin, two Americans searching for work in Mexico, convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.
Seventy-eight year old Carl Fredricksen travels to Paradise Falls in his home equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway.
A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves.
A chronicle of Martin Luther King's campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.
A jury holdout attempts to prevent a miscarriage of justice by forcing his colleagues to reconsider the evidence.
A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
A self-conscious bride is tormented by the memory of her husband's dead first wife.
After his son is captured in the Great Barrier Reef and taken to Sydney, a timid clownfish sets out on a journey to bring him home.
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
An obsessed scientist assembles a living being from parts of exhumed corpses.
Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.
A young couple move into an apartment, only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins to control her life.
As corruption grows in 1950s LA, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.
An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically try to stop.
A faded professional wrestler must retire, but finds his quest for a new life outside the ring a dispiriting struggle.
A man in London tries to help a counterespionage agent. But when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to both save himself and also stop a spy ring which is trying to steal top secret information.
A poor Midwest family is forced off of their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.
A group of 1950s high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied West Texas town that is slowly dying, both economically and culturally.
An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city; but the children have little time for them.
A living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy.
In a decrepit South American village, men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe.
A cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's room.
A look at tightrope walker Philippe Petit's daring, but illegal, high-wire routine performed between New York City's World Trade Center's twin towers in 1974, what some consider, "the artistic crime of the century."
A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.
In a murder trial, the defendant says he suffered temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth, and will he win his case?
A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.
The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860's Sicily.
Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditzy Annie Hall.
A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption and murder.
Three World War II veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resulting street demonstration which brought on a police massacre.
A man refuses to conform to life in a rural prison.
A Civil War veteran embarks on a journey to rescue his niece from an Indian tribe.
An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.
A bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resulting street demonstration which brought on a police massacre.
A prospector goes to the Klondike in search of gold and finds it and more.
We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna.
Powerful but unethical Broadway columnist J.J. Hunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney Falco into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician.
A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
A human-looking indestructible cyborg is sent from 2029 to 1984 to assassinate a waitress, whose unborn son will lead humanity in a war against the machines, while a soldier from that war is sent to protect her at all costs.
An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.
A 20-something supervising staff member of a residential treatment facility navigates the troubled waters of that world alongside her co-worker and longtime boyfriend.
Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl.
Monsieur Hulot curiously wanders around a high-tech Paris, paralleling a trip with a group of American tourists. Meanwhile, a nightclub/restaurant prepares its opening night, but it's still under construction.
A magic nanny comes to work for a cold banker's unhappy family.
An aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them.
With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.
Two young boys encounter a fugitive and form a pact to help him evade the vigilantes that are on his trail and to reunite him with his true love.
A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets a little more action than he bargained for. A mix up with the Farmer, a caravan and a very steep hill lead them all to the Big City and it's up to Shaun and the flock to return everyone safely to the green grass of home.
An impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands.
The planet from Alien (1979) has been colonized, but contact is lost. This time, the rescue team has impressive firepower, but will it be enough?
A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together.
A surgeon causes an accident which leaves his daughter disfigured, and goes to extremes to give her a new face.
A hapless young Viking who aspires to hunt dragons becomes the unlikely friend of a young dragon himself, and learns there may be more to the creatures than he assumed.
Epic story of a mysterious stranger with a harmonica who joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.
A former prisoner of war is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.
Following the life of a small-time hood who struggles with a moral crisis regarding his friends, family, business, and his conflicting religious beliefs.
A story set in Santiago and centered on Gloria, a free-spirited older woman, and the realities of her whirlwind relationship with a former naval officer whom she meets out in the clubs.
In a Russian coastal town, Kolya is forced to fight the corrupt mayor when he is told that his house will be demolished. He recruits a lawyer friend to help, but the man's arrival brings further misfortune for Kolya and his family.
In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.
A bus crash in a small town brings a lawyer to the town to defend the families, but he discovers that everything is not what it seems.
A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.
A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.