Movie Listings by Genre

Director: James Foley    More Info
Starring: Jason Patric, Rocky Giordani, Rachel Ward, Bruce Dern, Tom Wagner, Mike Hagerty, George Dickerson, Burke Byrnes

 Former boxer Kevin "Kid" Collins (Jason Patric) gets involved in a kidnapping scheme when he hooks up with widow Fay Anderson (Rachel Ward) and her Uncle Bud (Tom Wagner).

Director: Akira Kurosawa    More Info
Starring: Akira Terao, Martin Scorsese, Chishu Ryu, Mieko Harada, Mitsuko Baisho, Chosuke Ikariya, Toshie Negishi, Mitsunori Isaki, Toshihiko Nakano, Yoshitaka Zushi

 Famed writer-director Akira Kurosawa put together a number of his dreams and presents a sequence of incidents exploring the relationship of human beings to their environments.

Director: Michael Pattinson    More Info
Starring: Rosanna Arquette, Bruce Spence, Hugo Weaving, Kerry Walker, Doreen Warburton, Barry Jenkins, Betty Lucas, Douglas Hedge, Desiree Smith, Jennifer Hagan

 Feeling neglected on her 10th wedding anniversary when her husband, Ronnie (Bruce Spence), has not returned from a business trip, Wendy ( Rosanna Arquette), an ardent reader of romance novels, also thinks that he may be having an affair. Then Jake (Hugo Weaving) comes along and is determined to start an affair. Meanwhile, Ronnie goes through all sorts of problems–including lightning strikes. But all ends well in this fanciful tale from Australia.

Director: Jane Campion    More Info
Starring: Kerry Fox, Alexia Keogh, Karen Fergusson, Iris Churn, Kevin J. Wilson, Melina Bemecker, Jessie Mune, Francesca Collins, Mark Morrison

 This film is based on the autobiography of Janet Frame who endured a bizarre childhood and was misdiagnosed with mental illness.

Director: Barry Levinson    More Info
Starring: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Leo Fuchs, Eve Gordon, Elizabeth Perkins, Lou Jacobi, Joan Plowright, Aidan Quinn, Kevin Pollak, Elijah Wood

 When the patriarch of a Jewish family arrives in America following World War II, he tries to bridge the gap between the modern era and the past by telling his grandchildren stories about their long-lost relatives.

Director: Penny Marshall    More Info
Starring: Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, John Heard, Julie Kavner, Penelope Ann Miller, Max von Sydow, Ruth Nelson, Anne Meara, Richard Libertini, Judith Malina

 Neurologist Dr. Malcolm Sayer (Robin Williams) works in the chronic-care ward of a hospital in the Bronx where he gives the new drug L-DOPA to patient Leonard Lowe (Robert De Niro) who is in a semi-comatose state. The drug works, and Lowe is gradually awakened after 30 years. He experiences the wonder of life and love, and this success with L-DOPA encourages Sayer to administer the drug to his other patients. Oscar nominations included Best Picture and Actor (De Niro).

Director: Curtis Hanson    More Info
Starring: Rob Lowe, James Spader, Lisa Zane, Christian Clemenson, Kathleen Wilhoite, Tony Maggio, Marcia Cross, Joyce Meadows, Kelly Miller, John Verea

 Alex (Rob Lowe) comes to the aid of timid Michael (James Spader) during a barroom incident. The aggressive Alex befriends Michael, and soon takes control over Michael's life, introducing him to drugs, sex, and a life of crime. Things go from bad to worse for Michael in this well-paced thriller.

Director: John Kent Harrison    More Info
Starring: Colm Feore, Rip Torn, Wendel Meldrum, Sheila McCarthy, Colin Fox, David Gardner, Barbara Gordon, Marsha Moreau

 American poet Walt Whitman (Rip Torn) comes to the aid of Canadian psychiatrist Dr. Bucke (Colm Feore) as he works for reform in mental asylums in this fact-based story set in the 1880s.

Director: David Leland    More Info
Starring: Liam Neeson, Joanne Whalley, Billy Connolly, Hugh Grant, Maurice Roeves, Carla Cannon, Ian Bannen, Kenny Ireland, John Beattie, Amanda Walker

 Set in Scotland in the mid-1980s, this film is more of a statement against then-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher than a boxing story. The economy resulted in many hardships, and Danny (Liam Neeson) has been unemployed since he lost his job in the mines. Not wanting to live entirely off his loving wife's (Joanne Whalley) income, he finds a job as a participant in the brutal sport of bare-knuckle boxing.

Director: John Badham    More Info
Starring: Mel Gibson, Goldie Hawn, David Carradine, Bill Duke, Stephen Tobolowsky, Joan Severance, Harry Caesar, Jeff Corey, Alex Bruhanski, John Pyper-Ferguson

 Lots of chase scenes fill the screen in this film about lawyer Marianne Graves (Goldie Hawn) who saves her ex-fiance, FBI informer Rick Jarmin) (Mel Gibson), whose life is in jeopardy after he leaves the witness protection program.

Director: Andy Blumenthal    More Info
Starring: Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Rina Reyes, Joe Mari Avellana, Robert Marius, Maurice Smith, Timothy D. Baker, James Warring, Rick Hill, Steve Rogers, Monsour Del Rosario

 Lots of good kickboxing provides entertainment in this film. Kickboxing champion Jake (Don "The Dragon" Wilson) "retires" after accidentally killing a man during a fight. However, he is back in the fray when a friend calls him to the Philippines where a madman sets out to have his martial arts experts take on world champions in fights to the death.

Director: Kathryn Bigelow    More Info
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy Brown, Elizabeth Pena, Louise Fletcher, Philip Bosco, Kevin Dunn, Matt Craven, Richard Jenkins, Mary Mara

 Policewoman Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis) kills a holdup man on her first assignment. Her gun is picked up by mentally unbalanced Wall Street broker Eugene Hunt (Ron Silver) who then uses it to commit murders throughout the city with the rookie's name engraved on the bullets. The two become involved, and he makes it appear that she is the mass murderer.

Director: Kristine Peterson    More Info
Starring: Marc Singer, Lisa Pescia, Mary Crosby, David Kagen, H. Bradley Barneson, Doreen Alderman, Lauren Tuerk, Joseph Campanella, Rhonda Aldrich

 Tom (Marc Singer) is a sex researcher who is up for promotion. Then, along comes Claire (Lisa Pescia) with a government grant on abhorrent sexual behavior, and he agrees to assist. Well, she thinks they should get it on for the sake of "field research." It ends up being a "Fatal Attraction" scenario when he is not allowed to free himself. There are several sequels.

Director: Takeshi Kitano    More Info
Starring: Yurei Yanagi, Takeshi Kitano, Yuriko Ishida, Gadanukanaru Taka, Dankan, Hitoshi Ozawa, Shinobu Tsuruta, Kengakusha Akiyama, Yurei Yanagi, Bannai Matsuo

 Gang warfare mixes with baseball in this Takeshi Kitano action/comedy offering. When baseball player and car wash attendant Masaki (Yurei Yanagi) is punished by a gang member for not washing his car correctly, he seeks revenge. Masaki and his team mate Kazuo (Dankan) go to Okinawa to buy a gun. Many adventures occur along way as they join forces with other gangsters to confront the gang.

Director: Brian De Palma    More Info
Starring: Tom Hanks, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Kim Cattrall, Saul Rubinek, Morgan Freeman, John Hancock, Kevin Dunn, Clifton James, F. Murray Abraham

 Brian De Palma directed this comedy/drama based on Tom Wolfe's novel. It stars Tom Hanks as a millionaire whose mistress kills a young black man with his car. Comfortable in the sedate world of Wall Street, he finds himself unable to cope with the life of a suspected criminal. Melanie Griffith is good as his self-involved mistress. This is a pretty good depiction of the problems evolving from racism, but overall it doesn't do justice to Wolfe's novel.

Director: John Woo    More Info
Starring: Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Jacky Cheung, Waise Lee, Simon Yam, Fennie Yuen, Yolinda Yam, Chung Lam, Shek Yin Lau, John Woo

 The Vietnam War was raging in 1967, and John Woo uses this setting for another of his epic productions. Three friends in Hong Kong are not only on the run but feel stifled by the archaic Hong Kong rule. Thus, they flee to Vietnam where they intend to make money on the crime scene. Instead, they become involved with wartime events that challenge their friendship and lives.

Director: Jack Sholder    More Info
Starring: Powers Boothe, Rebecca De Mornay, James Earl Jones, Martin Landau, Darren McGavin, Rip Torn, Peter MacNicol, Jeffrey DeMunn, Kieran Mulroney, Nicolas Coster

 The Soviets think the United States has launched a nuclear attack, and they quickly strike back. It was all a mistake; but is it too late to correct it?

Director: Mick Jackson    More Info
Starring: Gary Oldman, Frances McDormand, Ned Beatty, William DeAcutis, Dennis Hopper, Pamela Reed, M. Emmet Walsh, Lee Wilkof, Gary Howard Klar, Matt Craven

 Based on a true story, this film is about the inhumane treatment patients in mental hospitals endured in the 1950s.

Director: Bernard Rose    More Info
Starring: Emily Lloyd, Kiefer Sutherland, Patsy Kensit, Keith Allen, Liz Fraser, Alexandra Pigg, Ralph Nossek, Colin Bruce, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Harry Fowler

 Based on an actual murder case in 1944 Great Britain called "The Cleft Chin Murder Case," this is the tale of U.S. Army deserter Karl (Kiefer Sutherland) and stripper Betty (Emily Lloyd) who meet and embark on a crime spree, which eventually escalates to murder.

Director: Nathaniel Christian    More Info
Starring: Burt Young, Judy Landers, Allen Garfield, Lance Kinsey, Karen Black, Sherman Hemsley, Joseph Campanella, Mary Woronov, Lyle Alzado, Wally George

 High-ranking FBI official Vince Hooligan (Joseph Campanella) wants to shut down Club Fed, a minimum security federal prison. To that end, he sends in undercover Agent 976, Howard Polk (Lance Kinsey), to stake out the prison in order to uncover criminal activities among the inmates. While on the job, Howard meets and falls for sexy inmate Angelica (Judy Landers), and his worlds–both professional and personal–are turned upside down as he works to save Angelica and the prison as well.

Director: Tony Wharmby    More Info
Starring: Loni Anderson, Shanna Reed, Carl Weintraub, Stuart Wilson, David Wilson, Anthony Newley, John Sanderford, Stepfanie Kramer, Tim Flavin, Peter Kelly

 This remake of "Three Coins in the Fountain" is an updated version of the now-classic story of three American women tossing coins into the Fountain of Trevi and wishing for happiness.

Director: Alan Parker    More Info
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Tamlyn Tomita, Sab Shimono, Shizuko Hoshi, Stan Egi, Ronald Yamamoto, Akemi Nishino, Naomi Nakano, Brady Tsurutani, Elizabeth Gilliam

 The plight of the Japanese-Americans and the union activists/organizers in the 1930s and 1940s are both highlighted in this love story of union activist Jack (Dennis Quaid) and Japanese-American Lily (Tamlyn Tomita). Against the wishes of her father, Lily marries Jack. When World War II breaks out, Lily, along with many of the Japanese-Americans, is put in an internment camp. Jack, now in the service, goes AWOL and searches the camps for Lily. Not many films have dealt with the treatment of the Japanese-Americans, and this one, though not great, is adequate in its treatment of the subject.

Director: Joe Roth    More Info
Starring: Patrick Dempsey, Arye Gross, Daniel Stern, Annabeth Gish, Rita Taggart, Joseph Bologna, Alan Arkin, James Gammon

 Three estranged brothers (Patrick Dempsey, Arye Gross, and Daniel Stern) drive a vintage Coupe de Ville from Detroit to their mother's Florida home and reestablish relationships along the way.

Director: George Ogilvie    More Info
Starring: Russell Crowe, Robert Mammone, Danielle Spencer, Daphne Gray, George Whaley, Jacquy Phillips, Emily Lumbers, Rodney Bell, John Blair, Patrick Ward

 Sam (Robert Mammone) returns home after more than a year's absence and finds girlfriend Meg (Danielle Spencer) having an affair with his best friend Johnny (Russell Crowe). Sam and Johnny vie for Meg's affection, and the rivalry comes to a climax during a car chase that ends at a train crossing.

Director: Norman Stone    More Info
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Mare Winningham, Susan Wooldridge, Michael Kitchen, Claire Drummond, Alastair Haley, Juliette Mole, Annette Badland, Ron Donachie

 This TV remake of 1942's "The Pied Piper" is not of the same caliber; Peter O'Toole takes on the role of the crotchety man who leads a group of youngsters through Nazi-occupied France toward freedom during World War II. Based on a Nevil Shute novel and filmed on location in France.