Shining Through

Description: During the World War II, a legal secretary from New York is transformed into a government spy. After discovering her attorney boss and lover is actually an Army colonel and spy, she convinces him to let her go undercover. From secretary to secret agent, is dropped behind enemy lines. With the help of a fellow operative she penetrates the Berlin home of a high-ranking enemy official, works swiftly to accomplish her mission, and get out of Germany alive.
Starring:Michael Douglas, Melanie Griffith
Director:David Seltzer
Duration: 132 minutes
Year: 1992

Three Wishes

Description: A widowed mother and her two sons accidentally run into a drifter who breaks his leg. Feeling sorry for him, she invites him and his dog to stay at her home until his leg has healed. After having some difficulties to adapt to this new lifestyle, he develops a strong bond and finds himself loved by the family through romance, physical and spiritual journeys, self-revelation, and even a celebration of diversity and personal strength.
Starring:Patrick Swayze, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Director: Martha Coolidge
Duration: 115 minutes
Year: 1995

The Bicycle Thief

Description: A desperate father, unemployed for over two years, is overjoyed when he's finally given a job putting up posters. However, he needs a bicycle as a requirement of the job, so he pawns the family linen to get the bike. He goes off to his first day's work, truly happy for the first time in years, but a street thief steals his bicycle. Too poor to buy another, he and his son take a journey to the streets in an impossible search for his bike.
Starring: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Duration: 89 minutes
Year: 1949

Frankie Starlight

Description: A man suffering from dwarfism writes an autobiographical account of his life. He was conceived to a French mother who attempts to smuggle herself to Ireland on an American ship. She is helped by a customs officer who becomes his surrogate father teaching him astronomy. Afterwards, she is involved with another man who takes them to America, but soon they return home to Ireland where he grows to manhood as a writer.
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Anne Parillaud
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Duration: 96 minutes
Year: 1995

Seventeen Years

Description: Two teenage step-sisters living in the same house couldn't be more different. One is academic, pretty and quite cosmopolitan. The other is tough minded and proud of her working class roots. As their parents play favorites, an unhealthy competition between them emerges that climaxes in a moment of shocking rage as one of the sisters accidentally kills the other over a bit of lost grocery money. The young girl is convicted of murder and sentenced to a long stay in prison. After 17 years she is granted a special furlough for the New Years. When her parents fail to pick her up, she's left stranded. However, a prison guard takes pity on the now mature woman and becomes determined to have her spend the holiday with her family.
Starring: Lin Liu, Bingbing Li
Director: Yuan Zhang
Duration: 85 minutes
Year: 1999

Amelie

Description: A girl named Amélie whose childhood was suppressed by her Father's mistaken concerns of a heart defect. With these concerns she gets hardly any real life contact with other people. She later on becomes a young woman and moves to the central part of Paris as a waitress. One day, she decides to devote her life to helping other people around her, including her father who is obsessed with his garden-gnome, a failed writer, a hypochondriac, a man who stalks his ex girlfriends. But after consuming herself with these escapades, she finds out that she is disregarding her own life and damaging her quest for love. So she must become more aggressive and take a hold of her life and capture the beauty of love she has always dreamed of.
Starring:Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Duration: 122 Minutes
Year: 2001

Awakenings

Description: A new doctor finds himself with a ward full of comatose patients. He is disturbed by the fact that they have been comatose for decades with no hope of any cure. When he finds a possible cure he gets permission to try it on one of them. The patient begins to awake but first can hardly move. However, he puts up well with the pain, and asks the doctor to film him in hopes that he would some day contribute to research that may help others. Soon after, he returns to his catatonic state. The doctor gain finds himself depressed for failing to keep his patient "awake", but remember his patient advice on living every minute and learn to appreciate and live life.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Robin Williams
Director: Penny Marshall
Duration: 121 Minutes
Year: 1990

Gorillas in the Mist

Description: The true story about a scientist who comes to Africa, a land of beauty, wonder and danger, to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, study of gorillas. She then becomes fascinated with the lives and habits of the rare mountain gorillas of the Rwandan wilderness and develops a means of communicating with the gorillas. She also becomes so preoccupied with her vocation that she loses the opportunity of a romance with the National Geographic photographer.
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown
Director: Michael Apted
Duration: 130 minutes
Year: 1988

The Education of Little Tree

Description: In 1935, an 8-year-old orphaned boy is sent to live in the mountains with his grandparents. He doesn't yet know that he is half Cherokee, on his grandmother's side. As he learns about life and the Cherokee "way" from his grandparents, his sensitivity to nature and to others grows. However, the tough issue of the forced assimilation of Native Americans isn't glossed over when he is sent off to a school.
Starring:James Cromwell, Tantoo Cardinal
Director: Richard Friedenberg
Duration: 115 minutes
Year: 19977

Four Sheets to the Wind

Description:A man who finds his usually silent father even quieter than usual.dead from an overdose of medication. He sinks his father's body in a pond according to his father's wishes. Without an autopsy or funeral, his deed creates a crisis in his family as he tries to understand who his father. There is only one girl who seems to understand him and hold the key to understanding the bonds holding a family together.
Starring: Cody Lightning, Mike Randleman
Director: Sterlin Harjo
Duration: 81 minutes
Year: 2007

Monster Thursday

Description: A young man leads a directionless life, unlike, his best friend who is the opposite: a great surfer with a prestigious job and a beautiful bride whom he is not-so-secretly in love with. When his best friend asks him to look after her bride while he is out of town, he decides to clean up his act and master the waves to impress her. A local surfing legend becomes his mentor, and they end up on a collision course with the monster wave.
Starring: Kim Bodnia, Iben Hjejle
Director: Arild Ostin Ommundsen
Duration: 111 minutes
Year: 2004

License to Wed

Description: Sadie and Ben are in love, and although Ben suggests getting married in the Caribbean, Sadie has her heart set on a wedding at the family church, St. Augustine's. Ben says sure, and they meet with the pastor, Rev. Frank. The only date open for two years is three weeks away, and Frank insists the kids go through his marriage prep course. They're to write their own vows; he also demands chastity, bugs their apartment, initiates arguments, has them care for robot twins, creates friction between Ben and her family, and raises doubts in Sadie. Desperate, Ben looks for dirt on Frank. Can he undermine Frank's authority and keep Sadie's heart?
Starring: Robin Williams, Mandy Moore (II), John Krasinski
Director: Ken Kwapis
Duration: 91 minutes
Year: 2007

The Notebook

Description: Behind every great love is a great story. Two teenagers from opposite sides of the tracks fall in love during one summer together, but are tragically forced apart. When they reunite 7 years later, their passionate romance is rekindled, forcing one of them to choose between true love and class order

Starring: Tim Ivey, Gena Rowlands, Starletta DuPois
Director:Nick Cassavetes
Duration: 124 minutes
Year: 2005

American Beauty

Description: Meet Lester Burnham; a man who feels like he's completely dead inside. His wife and daughter despise him and do not show him any signs of respect. On the surface, the family seems like a picture-perfect family that everybody dreams about--but inside is a completely different matter. His wife is obsessed with material possessions and doesn't care for "petty" things like love or life, while his daughter resents herself because she isn't "perfect." Lester's mental coma is rudely interrupted when he meets his daughter's friend and starts fantasizing about her. The awakening might be due to a disturbing thought or feeling, but the wake-up call changes Lester and allows him to realize that there's always time to erase his "forced-image" and be the person he really is.
Starring: Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Chris Cooper
Director:Sam Mendes
Duration: 122minutes
Year: 2000

Mr. Holland's Opus

Description: "Mr. Holland's Opus" spans thirty years in the life of aspiring music composer Glenn Holland (Richard Dreyfuss) who wants to leave his mark on the world with one memorable piece of music. But instead, finds his calling in a more unlikely place...

Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Glenne Headly
Director:Stephen Herek
Duration: 143 minutes
Year: 1995

Days of Wine and Roses

Description:Boy (with drinking problem) meets girl (with addiction to chocolate). They fall in love, get married and have a beautiful baby girl. But the picture perfect family is anything but perfect. Joe has introduced his wife Kristen to the "pleasures" of drinking and soon both are confirmed alcoholics. An absorbing, frightening study of the insidiousness of addiction.

Starring:Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford
Director:Blake Edwards
Duration: 117 minutes
Year: 1962

Sweet November

Description:: Nelson is a man devoted to his advertising career in San Francisco. One day, while taking a driving test at the DMV, he meets Sara. She is very different from the other women in his life. Nelson causes her to miss out on taking the test and later that day she tracks him down. One thing leads to another and Nelson ends up living with her through a November that will change his life forever.

Starring:Keanu Reeves Ray Baker, Greg Germann
Director:Pat O'Connor
Duration: 117 minutes
Year: 1962

Things We Lost in the Fire

Description: A recent widow invites her husband's troubled best friend to live with her and her two children. As he gradually turns his life around, he helps the family cope and confront their loss.

Starring:: Halle Berry, Benicio Del Toro, David Duchovny
Director:Susanne Bier
Duration: 119 minutes
Year: 2007

My Life

Description: A life of an advertising executive seems to be going well with a great job, a beautiful loving wife and a baby on the way. Then he suddenly finds out that he has the dreaded disease that will leave him dead within months. Knowing that he may never see his child, he sets out to videotape his life for his child, and ends up on a voyage of self-discovery and reconciliation.

Starring:Michael Keaton, Nicole Kidman
Director:Bruce Joel Rubin
Duration: 117 minutes
Year: 1993

Tuesdays with Morrie

Description:Mitch became caught up with his career as a sport commentator and journalist. He ignored his girlfriend and did not make time to do things in life that are of the most value to a human being. Morrie was one of Mitch's professors in college and a famous scholar. One day Mitch was watching television and saw Morrie giving an interview stating that he is dying of Lou Gehrig disease or ALS.

Starring:Jack Lemmon, Hank Azaria
Director:Mick Jackson
Duration: 89 minutes
Year: 1999

The Barbarian Invasions

Description: A history professor is dying of cancer, and his successful, but stubborn son returns to care for the old man. With the power of money, the son cuts through bureaucracy to give his father some comfort that the father accepts with reluctance. the father and son find themselves gathering with their family to confront their differences, confess their secrets, and celebrate life!

Starring:Remy Girard, Stephane Rousseau
Director:Denys Arcand
Duration: 99 minutes
Year: 2003

Meet Joe Black

Description: A media tycoon Bill is about to celebrate his 65th birthday. He is contacted by Joe, Death in a man's body, whose intention was to take Bill with him. Accidentally, Joe's former host and Bill's daughter Susan have already met. Joe begins to develop certain interest in life on earth and in Susan who has no clue who Joe really is.

Starring:Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins
Director:Martin Brest
Duration: 180 minutes
Year: 1999