Each month, the movie committee of the 1940s club sends out a poll containing the names of about a dozen movies. Club members are asked to vote on which one they would like to see next. Occasionally there may be supplementary lists of movies of a particular genre and members pick one of those to view. We have about 170 suggested movies to pick from. Here is the current list of titles. Contact Joe Finan if you have movies you’d like to suggest.
Title | Release Year | Genres | Description |
12 Angry Men | 1957 | Crime, Drama | A jury holdout attempts to prevent a miscarriage of justice by forcing his colleagues to reconsider the evidence. |
A Beautiful Mind | 2001 | Biography, Drama | After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish. |
A Fish Called Wanda | 1988 | Comedy, Crime | In London, four very different people team up to commit armed robbery, then try to doublecross each other for the loot. |
A Soldier’s Story | 1984 | Crime, Drama, Mystery | An African-American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II. |
A.I. – Artificial Intelligence | 2001 | Drama, Sci-Fi | A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become “real” so that he can regain the love of his human mother. |
About Time | 2013 | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | At the age of 21, Tim discovers he can travel in time and change what happens and has happened in his own life. His decision to make his world a better place by getting a girlfriend turns out not to be as easy as you might think. |
All of Me | 1984 | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance | A dying millionaire has her soul transferred into a younger, willing woman. However, something goes wrong, and she finds herself in her lawyer’s body – together with the lawyer. |
All that Jazz | 1979 | Drama, Music, Musical | Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid career of Joe Gideon, a womanizing, drug-using dancer. |
Amadeus | 1984 | Biography, Drama, History | The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart’s talent and claimed to have murdered him. |
An Affair to Remember | 1957 | Drama, Musical, Romance | A couple falls in love and agrees to meet in six months at the Empire State Building – but will it happen? |
An Officer and a Gentleman | 1982 | Drama, Romance | A young man must complete his work at a Navy Officer Candidate School to become an aviator, with the help of a tough Gunnery Sergeant and his new girlfriend. |
And Then There Were None | 1945 | Drama, Crime, Mystery | Seven guests, a newly hired secretary and two staff are gathered at a manor house on an isolated island by an unknown absentee host and are killed off one-by-one. They work together to determine who the killer is before it’s too late. |
Anna and the King | 1999 | Drama, History, Romance | The story of the romance between the King of Siam and widowed British schoolteacher, Anna Leonowens, during the 1860s. |
As Good As It Gets | 1997 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | A single mother and waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery. |
Avatar | 2009 | Action, Adventure, Fantasy | A paraplegic Marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home. |
Blade Runner | 1982 | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller | A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space, and have returned to Earth to find their creator. |
Blast from the Past | 1999 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | A naive man comes out into the world after spending 35 years in a nuclear fallout shelter. |
Bodyguard | 1992 | Action, Drama, Music | A former Secret Service agent takes on the job of bodyguard to an R&B singer, whose lifestyle is most unlike a President’s. |
Bridget Jones Diary | 2001 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Bridget Jones is determined to improve herself while she looks for love in a year in which she keeps a personal diary. |
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 1969 | Biography, Crime, Drama | Wyoming, early 1900s. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are the leaders of a band of outlaws. After a train robbery goes wrong they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. Their solution – escape to Bolivia. |
Caine Mutiny | 1954 | Drama, War | When a U.S. Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny. |
Can You Ever Forgive Me? | 2018 | Biography, Crime, Comedy | When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception. |
Casablanca | 1942 | Drama, Romance, War | A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco. |
Cast Away | 2000 | Adventure, Drama, Romance | A FedEx executive undergoes a physical and emotional transformation after crash landing on a deserted island. |
Catch Me if You Can | 2002 | Biography, Crime, Drama | Barely 21 yet, Frank is a skilled forger who has passed as a doctor, lawyer and pilot. FBI agent Carl becomes obsessed with tracking down the con man, who only revels in the pursuit. |
Charade | 1963 | Comedy, Mystery, Romance | Romance and suspense ensue in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Whom can she trust? |
Chariots of Fire | 1981 | Biography, Drama, Sport | Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew, and the other a devout Christian, compete in the 1924 Olympics. |
Chicago | 2002 | Comedy, Crime, Musical | Two death-row murderesses develop a fierce rivalry while competing for publicity, celebrity, and a sleazy lawyer’s attention. |
Chicken Run | 2000 | Animation, Comedy, Adventure | When a cockerel apparently flies into a chicken farm, the chickens see him as an opportunity to escape their evil owners. |
Chocolat | 2000 | Drama, Romance | A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community. |
Clear and Present Danger | 1994 | Action, Crime, Drama | CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel. |
Cold Mountain | 2003 | Adventure, Drama, History | In the waning days of the American Civil War, a wounded soldier embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with his sweetheart. |
Cool Runnings | 1993 | Adventure, Comedy, Family | When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach to start the first Jamaican Bobsled Team. |
Da Vinci Code | 2006 | Mystery, Thriller | A murder inside the Louvre, and clues in Da Vinci paintings, lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years, which could shake the foundations of Christianity. |
Dances with Wolves | 1990 | Western, Adventure, Drama | Lieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military. |
Dave | 1993 | Comedy, Romance | An uncanny Presidential lookalike named Dave is recruited by the Secret Service to become a momentary stand-in for the President of the United States |
Death on the Nile | 1978 | Crime, Drama, Mystery | As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board. Can Poirot identify the killer before the ship reaches the end of its journey? |
Departures | 2008 | Drama, Music | A newly unemployed cellist takes a job preparing the dead for funerals. |
Dirty Dozen | 1967 | Action, War, Adventure | During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers. |
Divine Secrets of the Ya Ya Sisterhood | 2002 | Drama | After years of mother-daughter tension, Siddalee receives a scrapbook detailing the wild adventures of the “Ya-Yas”, her mother’s girlhood friends. |
English Patient | 1996 | Drama, Romance, War | At the close of World War II, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair. |
Erin Brockovich | 2000 | Biography, Drama | An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a city’s water supply. |
Ex Machina | 2014 | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | A young programmer is selected to participate in a ground-breaking experiment in synthetic intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a highly advanced humanoid A.I. |
Fiddler on the Roof | 1971 | Drama, Family, Musical | In prerevolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant contends with marrying off three of his daughters while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village. |
Field of Dreams | 1989 | Drama, Family, Fantasy | Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella is inspired by a voice he can’t ignore to pursue a dream he can hardly believe. Supported by his wife, Ray begins the quest by turning his ordinary cornfield into a place where dreams can come true. |
Finding Forrester | 2000 | Drama | A young writing prodigy finds a mentor in a reclusive author. |
Five Little Pigs | 2003 | Crime, Drama, Mystery | Lucy Crale enlists Poirot to investigate the 14-year-old murder in which her mother was hanged for poisoning her artist father. |
Flash of Genius | 2008 | Biography, Drama | Robert Kearns takes on the Detroit automakers who he claims stole his idea for the intermittent windshield wiper. |
Flirting | 1991 | Drama, Romance | Two freethinking teenagers – a boy and a girl – confront with authoritarian teachers in their boarding schools. The other students treat this differently. Early Thandiwe Newton and Nicole Kidman appearances. |
Four Weddings and a Funeral | 1994 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Over the course of five social occasions, a committed bachelor must consider the notion that he may have discovered love. |
French Lieutenant’s Woman | 1981 | Drama, Romance | Anna and Mike portray two characters in a film set in 19th century England who fall in love despite the fact that Mike’s character is engaged. In the book, the author writes two possible endings for the novel. Interesting how this is handled in the movie. |
Frequency | 2000 | Crime, Drama, Mystery | An accidental cross-time radio link connects father and son across 30 years. The son tries to save his father’s life, but then must fix the consequences |
Fried Green Tomatoes | 1991 | Drama | A housewife who is unhappy with her life befriends an old lady in a nursing home and is enthralled by the tales she tells of people she used to know. |
Gigi | 1958 | Musical, Comedy, Romance | Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship which may not stay platonic for long. |
Godfather I | 1972 | Crime, Drama | An organized crime dynasty’s aging patriarch transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son. |
Godfather Part II | 1974 | Crime, Drama | The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate. |
Godfather Part III | 1990 | Crime, Drama | Follows Michael Corleone, now in his 60s, as he seeks to free his family from crime and find a suitable successor to his empire. |
Goodbye Mr. Chips | 1939 | Drama, Romance | An aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades. |
Greyhound | 2020 | Action, Drama, History | Several months after the U.S. entry into World War II, an inexperienced U.S. Navy commander must lead an Allied convoy being stalked by a German submarine wolf pack. |
Groundhog Day | 1993 | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance | A weatherman finds himself inexplicably living the same day over and over again. |
Harry and Tonto | 1974 | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | When his apartment building is torn down, a retired lifelong New Yorker goes on a cross-country odyssey with his beloved cat Tonto. |
Double Jeopardy | Fantasy | ||
Her | 2013 | Sci-Fi, Drama, Romance | In a near future, a lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with an operating system designed to meet his every need. |
Hopscotch | 1980 | Adventure, Comedy | Grounded with a desk job by incompetent superiors, a clever CIA agent retires and writes a tell all memoir that will embarrass his bosses, prompting him to go on the run and elude them. |
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying | 1967 | Comedy, Musical | Armed with the titular manual, an ambitious window washer seeks to climb the corporate ladder. |
Hunt for Red October | 1990 | Action, Adventure, Thriller | In November 1984, the Soviet Union’s best submarine Captain in their newest sub violates orders and heads for the U.S. Is he trying to defect or to start a war? |
Independence Day | 1996 | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | The aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy Earth. Fighting superior technology, mankind’s best weapon is the will to survive. |
Jane Eyre | 1943 | Drama, Romance | After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house, to care for his young daughter. |
Jane Eyre | 1996 | Drama, Romance | Jane Eyre is an orphan cast out as a young girl by her aunt, Mrs. Reed, and sent to be raised in a harsh charity school for girls. There she learns to become a teacher and eventually seeks employment outside of the school. Her advertisement is answered by the housekeeper of Thornfield Hall, Mrs. Fairfax. |
Jerry Maguire | 1996 | Comedy, Romance, Drama | When a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent agent with the only athlete who stays with him and his former colleague. |
Kamataki | 2006 | Comedy, Drama | |
Kindergarten Cop | 1990 | Action, Comedy, Crime | |
Kinky Boots | 2005 | Comedy, Drama, Music | A drag queen comes to the rescue of a man who, after inheriting his father’s shoe factory, needs to diversify his product if he wants to keep the business afloat. |
Kiss the Girls | 1997 | Crime, Drama, Mystery | |
Legally Blond | 2001 | Comedy, Romance | Elle Woods, a fashionable sorority queen, is dumped by her boyfriend. She decides to follow him to law school. While she is there, she figures out that there is more to her than just looks. |
Letters from Iwo Jima | 2006 | Action, Adventure, Drama | The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it. |
Letters to Juliet | 2010 | Action, Comedy, Drama | Sophie dreams of becoming a writer and travels to Verona, Italy where she meets the “Secretaries of Juliet”. |
Little Women | 1949 | Drama, Family, Romance | The four daughters of a New England family fight for happiness during and after the Civil War |
Love Actually | 2003 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England. |
Mansfield Park | 1999 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Fanny, born into a poor family, is sent away to live with wealthy uncle Sir Thomas, his wife and their four children, where she’ll be brought up for a proper introduction to society. |
Master and Commander – Far Side of the World | 2003 | Action, Adventure, Drama | During the Napoleonic Wars, a brash British captain pushes his ship and crew to their limits in pursuit of a formidable French war vessel around South America. |
Midnight Run | 1988 | Action, Comedy, Crime | An accountant is chased by bounty hunters, the F.B.I., and the Mafia after jumping bail. |
Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 1975 | Adventure. Comedy, Fantasy | King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table embark on a surreal, low-budget search for the Holy Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles |
Moonstruck | 1987 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Loretta Castorini, a bookkeeper from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the brother of the man she has agreed to marry. |
Moulin Rouge | 2001 | Drama, Musical, Romance | A poet falls for a beautiful courtesan whom a jealous duke covets. |
Mr. Roberts | 2019 | Comedy, Drama, War | In the waning days of World War II, the United States Navy cargo ship Reluctant and her crew are stationed in the “backwater” areas of the Pacific Ocean. Trouble ensues when the crew members are granted liberty. |
Murder on the Orient Express | 2017 | Crime, Drama, Mystery | In December 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before. |
Murder on the Orient Express | 1974 | Crime, Drama, Mystery | In December 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before. |
Music From Another Room | 1998 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | A man’s search for his one true love, whose birth he assisted in as a five-year-old. Starring Jude Law & Gretchen Mol. |
My Big Fat Greek Wedding | 2002 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity. |
Mystic River | 2003 | Crime, Drama, Mystery | The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them has a family tragedy. |
Norma Ray | 1979 | Drama | A young single mother and textile worker agrees to help unionize her mill despite the problems and dangers involved. |
Out of Africa | 1985 | Biography, Drama, Romance | In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter. |
Passengers | 2016 | Sci-Fi, Drama, Romance | A malfunction in a sleeping pod on a spacecraft traveling to a distant colony planet wakes one passenger 90 years early. |
Patriot Games | 1992 | Action Thriller | When CIA analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets him and his family for revenge. |
Pay it Forward | 2000 | Drama | A young boy attempts to make the world a better place after his teacher gives him that chance |
Pianist | 2002 | Biography, Drama, Music, War | A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II. |
Places in the Heart | 1984 | Drama | n central Texas in the 1930s, a widow, with two small children, tries to run her small 40-acre farm with the help of two disparate people. |
Presumed Innocent | 1990 | Mystery, Thriller | As a lawyer investigates the murder of a colleague, he finds himself more connected to the crime than anyone else. |
Pretty Woman | 1990 | Comedy, Romance | A man in a legal but hurtful business needs an escort for some social events, and hires a beautiful prostitute he meets… only to fall in love. |
Pride and Prejudice | 2005 | Drama, Romance | Sparks fly when spirited Elizabeth Bennet meets single, rich, and proud Mr. Darcy. But Mr. Darcy reluctantly finds himself falling in love with a woman beneath his class. Can each overcome their own pride and prejudice? |
Rabbit-Proof Fence | 2002 | Adventure, Biography, Drama | In 1931, three half-white, half-Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their houses to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a journey across the Outback. |
Radio | 2003 | Biography, Drama, Sport | The story of a high school coach and the developmentally challenged man who he took under his wing. |
Raging Bull | 1980 | Biography, Drama, Sport | The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it. |
Ran | 1985 | Action, Drama, War | In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other…and him. |
Rocky | 1976 | Drama, Sport | A small-time boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight a heavyweight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect. |
Romancing the Stone | 1984 | Action, Adventure, Comedy | A mousy romance novelist sets off for Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure hunting for treasure with a mercenary rogue. |
Saving Private Ryan | 1998 | Drama, War | Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action. |
Secretariat | 2010 | Family, Biography, Drama | Penny Chenery Tweedy and colleagues guide her long-shot but precocious stallion to set, in 1973, the unbeaten record for winning the Triple Crown. |
Seven Samurai | 1954 | Action, Adventure, Drama | A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves. |
Shakespeare in Love | 1998 | Comedy, Drama, History | The world’s greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays. |
Sleepless in Seattle | 1993 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | A recently widowed man’s son calls a radio talk-show in an attempt to find his father a partner. |
Somewhere in Time | 1980 | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | A Chicago playwright uses self-hypnosis to travel back in time and meet the actress whose vintage portrait hangs in a grand hotel. |
St. Vincent | 2014 | Comedy, Drama | A young boy whose parents have just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic war veteran who lives next door. |
The 39 Steps | 1935 | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who’s after a spy ring that covets British military secrets. |
The 39 Steps | 2008 | Adventure, Crime, Mystery | Richard Hannay, a mining engineer on holiday from the African colonies, finds London socialite life terribly dull. Yet it’s more than he bargained for when secret agent, Scudder, bursts into his room and entrusts him a coded notebook with map, concerning the impending start of World War I. In no time both German agents and the British law are chasing him, ruthlessly coveting the Roman numerals code, which Hannay believes he must crack himself. Masquerading as a liberal party pundit, Richard also gets stuck with parliamentary candidate Sir George Sinclair’s sister Victoria. They must survive with the secrets and decide who they can trust and how to keep it from others. |
The American President | 1995 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | A widowed U.S. President running for reelection and an environmental lobbyist fall in love. It’s all above-board, but “politics is perception,” and sparks fly anyway. |
The Bedroom Window | 1987 | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | A young executive starts an affair with his boss’s wife which then escalates into a nightmare after he lies to the police in order to protect her. No good deed goes unpunished. |
The Big Chill | 1983 | Comedy, Drama | |
The Blind Side | 2009 | Biography, Drama, Sport | |
The Caine Mutiny | 1954 | Drama, War | When a U.S. Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny. |
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian | 2008 | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | The Pevensie siblings return to Narnia, where they are enlisted to once again help ward off an evil king and restore the rightful heir to the land’s throne, Prince Caspian. |
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | 2005 | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | Four kids travel through a wardrobe to the land of Narnia and learn of their destiny to free it with the guidance of a mystical lion. |
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | 2010 | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | Lucy and Edmund Pevensie return to Narnia with their cousin Eustace where they meet up with Prince Caspian for a trip across the sea aboard the royal ship The Dawn Treader. Along the way they encounter dragons, dwarves, merfolk, and a band of lost warriors before reaching the edge of the world. |
The Day the Earth Stood Still -the original | 1951 | Sci-Fi, Drama | An alien lands and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets. |
The Devil Wears Prada | 2006 | Comedy, Drama | A smart but sensible new graduate lands a job as an assistant to Miranda Priestly, the demanding editor-in-chief of a high fashion magazine. |
The Diary of Anne Frank | 1959 | Biography, Drama, Family | |
The Diary of Anne Frank | 1980 | Biography, Drama | |
The Firm | 1993 | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | A young lawyer joins a prestigious law firm only to discover that it has a sinister dark side. |
The Fugitive | 1993 | Action, Crime, Drama | Dr. Richard Kimble, unjustly accused of murdering his wife, must find the real killer while being the target of a nationwide manhunt led by a seasoned U.S. Marshal. |
The Full Monty | 1997 | Comedy, Drama | Six unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for “the full monty” – total nudity. |
The Green Book | 2018 | Biography, Comedy, Drama | A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South. |
The Guernsey Literary Society | 2018 | Drama, Romance, War | In the aftermath of World War II, a writer forms an unexpected bond with the residents of Guernsey Island when she decides to write a book about their experiences during the war. |
The Guns of Navarone | 1961 | Action, Adventure, Drama | A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers. |
The Happening | 2008 | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi | A science teacher, his wife, and a young girl struggle to survive a plague that causes those infected to commit suicide. |
The Hours | 2002 | Drama, Romance | The story of how the novel “Mrs. Dalloway” affects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives. |
The Hunt For Red October | 1990 | Action, Adventure, Thriller | In November 1984, the Soviet Union’s best submarine Captain in their newest sub violates orders and heads for the U.S. Is he trying to defect or to start a war? |
The Incredibles | 2004 | Animation, Action, Adventure | A family of undercover superheros, while trying to live the quiet suburban life, are forced into action to save the world. |
The Intern | 2015 | Comedy, Drama | 75 yr old widower, Ben Whittaker, has discovered that retirement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Seizing and opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded by and run by Jules Ostin. |
The Kingdom of Heaven | 2005 | Action, Adventure, Drama | Ballian of Ibelin travels to Jersusalem during the crusades of the 12th century, and there he finds himself as the defender of the city and its people. |
The Loved One | 1965 | Comedy | Satire on the funeral business, in which a young British poet goes to work at a Hollywood cemetary. NOTE: This costs $2.99 on Prime Video. |
The Music Man | 1962 | Comedy, Family, Musical | Harold Hill poses as a boys’ band leader to con naive Iowa townsfolk. Note: There is a TV Movie with the same name, The Music Man, made in 2003′ available on Amazon: A masterful con artist tries to bilk a staid Midwestern community, with unexpected results, in this contemporary rethinking of the legendary Broadway musical and lively 1962′ film. |
The Natural | 1984 | Drama, Sport | |
The Sting | 1973 | Comedy, Crime, Drama | Two grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con |
The Terminator | 1984 | Action, Sci-Fi | Human soldier and cyborg assassin sent back in time |
The Thomas Crown Affair | 1999 | Crime, Romance, Thriller | A very rich and successful playboy amuses himself by stealing artwork, but may have met his match in a seductive detective. |
The Way We Were | 1973 | Drama/Romance | Political views and convictions interrupt a romance |
Three Days of the Condor | 1975 | Mystery, Thriller | A bookish CIA researcher finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust. |
Throne of Blood | 1957 | Drama, War | Japanese adaptation of Macbeth |
Tin Cup | 1996 | Comedy, drama, romance | Washed up golf pro tries to qualify for the US Open |
To Kill a Mockingbird | 1962 | Crime, Drama | Southern lawyer defends Black man against rape charge |
To Sir with Love | 1967 | Drama | Black engineer teaches White high school students in London slums |
Tom Jones | 1963 | Adventure, Comedy, History | The romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th-century England. |
True Lies | 1994 | Action, Comedy, Thriller | A fearless, globe-trotting, terrorist-battling secret agent has his life turned upside down when he discovers his wife might be having an affair with a used-car salesman while terrorists smuggle nuclear war heads into the United States. |
Walkabout | 1971 | Adventure, Drama | Two city-bred siblings are stranded in the Australian Outback, where they learn to survive with the aid of an Aboriginal boy on his “walkabout”: a ritual separation from his tribe. |
What Women Want | 2000 | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance | A cocky, chauvinistic advertising executive magically acquires the ability to hear what women are thinking. |
When Harry Met Sally | 1989 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship. |
While You Were Sleeping | 1995 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | A hopelessly romantic Chicago Transit Authority token collector is mistaken for the fiancée of a coma patient. |
With Honors | 1994 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Convinced his thesis will have him graduate with honors from Harvard University, a stuffy student finds himself at the mercy of a homeless man’s demands when he holds the papers hostage. |
You’ve got Mail | 1998 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Book superstore magnate, Joe Fox and independent book shop owner, Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet both blissfully unaware that he’s trying to put her out of business. |
Young at Heart | 1954 | Drama, Musical, Romance | The lives and romances of three sisters in a musical family; the youngest daughter’s life is complicated by the subsequent arrival of a charming composer and a cynical music arranger. |