Meet John Doe (1941)
IMDB rating: 7.70
Plot: As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed “John Doe,” who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate “Doe.” Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it’s [...]
Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
IMDB rating: 6.60
Plot: Academy Award nominee ‘Diane Lane (I)’ (qv) stars as ‘Frances Mayes’ (qv), a 35-year-old San Francisco writer whose perfect life has just taken an unexpected detour. Her recent divorce has left her with terminal writer’s block and extremely depressed, and her best friend, Patti, is beginning to think [...]
Electric Dreams (1984)
IMDB rating: 6.00
Plot: This upbeat love story features an architect named Miles who decides to modernize his life by buying a computer. Not knowing a thing about them he purchases the biggest most power system he can get ahold of, and wastes no time in having all sorts of accidents – dropping it, [...]
Runaway Bride (1999)
IMDB rating: 5.20
Plot: Ike Graham, New York columnist, writes his text always at the last minute. This time, a drunken man in his favourite bar tells Ike about Maggie Carpenter, a woman who always flees from her grooms in the last possible moment. Ike, who does not have the best opinion about females [...]
Wraith, The (1986)
IMDB rating: 5.00
Plot: A small desert town has been harassed for months by a gang of drag racers, but so far no one has done anything to stop them. One day, a ghostly black car shows up, challenging members of the group to race, then killing them one by one. Neither the gang [...]
Whatever Works (2009)
IMDB rating: 8.20
Plot: Attempting to impress his ideologies on religion, relationships, and the randomness (and worthlessness) of existence, lifelong New York resident Boris Yellnikoff rants to anyone who will listen, including the audience. But when he begrudgingly allows naive Mississippi runaway Melodie St. Ann Celestine to live in his apartment, his reclusive rages [...]
Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
IMDB rating: 7.20
Plot: Annie Oakley is an incredible shot who was raised ‘Doin’ What Comes Naturally’. Frank Butler, the star sharpshooter in ‘Colonel Buffalo Bill’’s show, however, knows full well that’s not how ‘The Girl That I Marry’ must be. Anyway, not at least until he finds that ‘My Defences are [...]
To Catch a Thief (1955)
IMDB rating: 7.50
Plot: John Robie is a one-time cat burglar, now reformed and living a blameless life in a plush villa. When a fresh set of burglaries rocks the Riviera all bearing the hallmark of Robie’s own robberies, he is the natural suspect. Robie sets out to catch the new burglar [...]
How to Make an American Quilt (1995)
IMDB rating: 5.70
Plot: Finn is a young graduate student, finishing a master’s thesis, and preparing for marriage to her fiance Sam. But thoughts of the end of the free life, and a potential summer fling, intrude. She goes home to her grandmother, where, over the making of her wedding [...]
Reader, The (2008)
IMDB rating: 7.80
Plot: Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
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Directors: Daldry Stephen
Actors: Bruch Volker,Blochberger Ludwig,Bode Marcus,Fiennes Ralph,Bruno Ganz,Grove Moritz,Habich Matthias,Herca Alexandru,Keller Alexander,Kross David,Kuhmstedt Rudiger,Maa? [...]