Tuesday, April 10, 2007


Dead Poets Society (1989)
Tagline: He was their inspiration. He made their lives extraordinary.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
Starring: Robin Williams, Ethan Hawke
Director: Peter Weir
Genre: Drama
Plot Outline: English professor John Keating inspires his students to a love of poetry and to seize the day.

The Truth About Cats & Dogs (1996)
Tagline: Brian's about to discover the woman he loves isn't the woman he loves.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
Starring: Uma Thurman, Ben Chaplin, Jamie Foxx
Genre: Comedy/Romance
Plot Outline: A successful veternarian & radio show host with low self-esteem asks her model friend to impersonate her when a handsome man wants to see her.


One Hour Photo (2002)
Tagline: There's nothing more dangerous than a familiar face.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
Starring: Robin Williams, Connie Nielsen
Director: Mark Romanek
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Plot Outline: An employee of a one-hour photo lab becomes obsessed with a young suburban family.

Blow (2001)
Tagline: Based on a True Story.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
Starring: Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz
Director: Ted Demme
Genre: Biography/Crime
Plot Outline: The story of George Jung, the man who established the American cocaine market in the 1970's.

Changing Lanes (2002)
Tagline: An ambitious lawyer, a desperate father, they had no reason to meet, until today.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
Starring: Ben Affleck, Samuel L Jackson, Sydney Pollack
Director: Roger Michell
Genre: Drama/Thriller
Plot Outline: The story of what happens one day in New York when a young lawyer and a businessman share a small automobile accident on F.D.R. Drive and their mutual road rage escalates into a feud...

Little Britain Season 2 (2004)
IMDB Rating: 8.0
Starring: Matt Lucas, David Williams, Paul Putner
Directors: Steve Bendelack, Matt Lipsey
Genre: Comedy
Plot Outline: Matt Lucas and David Walliams, the creators of this character-comedy sketch show, delight in all that is mad, bad, quirky and generally bonkers about the people and places of Britain.

Little Britain Season 1 (2003)
IMDB Rating: 8.0
Starring: Matt Lucas, David Williams, Paul Putner
Directors: Steve Bendelack, Matt Lipsey
Genre: Comedy
Plot Outline: Matt Lucas and David Walliams, the creators of this character-comedy sketch show, delight in all that is mad, bad, quirky and generally bonkers about the people and places of Britain.

Monday, April 9, 2007


The Office – Christmas Special (UK Version) (2003)
IMDB Rating: 9.4
Starring: Ricky Gervais, Martin Freeman, Mackenzie Crook, Lucy Davis
Directors: Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant
Genre: Comedy
Plot Outline: The story of an office that faces closure when the company decides to downsize its branches. A documentary film crew follow staff and the manager Brent as they continue their daily lives.

The Office Season 2 (UK Version) (2002)
IMDB Rating: 9.4
Starring: Ricky Gervais, Martin Freeman, Mackenzie Crook, Lucy Davis
Directors: Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant
Genre: Comedy
Plot Outline: The story of an office that faces closure when the company decides to downsize its branches. A documentary film crew follow staff and the manager Brent as they continue their daily lives.

The Office Season 1 (UK Version) (2001)
IMDB Rating: 9.4
Starring: Ricky Gervais, Martin Freeman, Mackenzie Crook, Lucy Davis
Directors: Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant
Genre: Comedy
Plot Outline: The story of an office that faces closure when the company decides to downsize its branches. A documentary film crew follow staff and the manager Brent as they continue their daily lives.

The Office Season 2 (US Version) (2006)
Tagline: America's stuck in (crossed out) on the office.
IMDB Rating: 9.3
Starring: Steve Carrell, Rainn Wilson, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, BJ Novak
Directors: Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant
Genre: Comedy
Plot Outline: A mockumentary on a group of typical office workers, where the workday consists of ego clashes, inappropriate behavior, and tedium. Based on the hit BBC series.

The Office Season 1 (US Version) (2005) VCD
Tagline: America's stuck in (crossed out) on the office.
IMDB Rating: 9.3
Starring: Steve Carrell, Rainn Wilson, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, BJ Novak
Directors: Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant
Genre: Comedy
Plot Outline: A mockumentary on a group of typical office workers, where the workday consists of ego clashes, inappropriate behavior, and tedium. Based on the hit BBC series.
London Suite (1996)
IMDB Rating: 4.8
Starring: Kelsey Grammar, Michael Richards, Julia Louis-Dreyfuss
Director: Jay Sandrich
Genre: Comedy
Plot Outline: On one day at an English Hotel, four different stories are shown. Diana is in London to promote her...

Enemy Of The State (1998) – VCD
Tagline: It's not paranoia if they're really after you.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
Starring: Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight
Director: Tony Scott
Genre: Action/Drama/Thriller
Plot Outline: A lawyer becomes a target by a corrupt politician and his NSA goons when he accidentally receives key evidence to a serious politically motivated crime.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005) - VCD
Tagline: SeX. MurdEr. MyStery. Welcome to the party.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan
Director: Shane Black
Genre: Action/Comedy
Plot Outline: A murder mystery brings together a private eye, a struggling actress, and a thief masquerading as an actor.

Monsters Inc. (2001)
Tagline: Monsters, Inc.: We Scare Because We Care
IMDB Top 250: #247
IMDB Rating: 7.9
Voices: John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Mary Gibbs, James Coburn, Steve Buscemi
Director: Pete Docter, David Silverman
Genre: Animation
Plot Outline: Monsters generate their city's power by scaring children, but they are terribly afraid themselves of being contaminated by children, so when one enters Monstropolis, top scarer Sulley find his world disrupted.

My Fair Lady (1964) – VCD & DVD
Tagline: The loverliest motion picture of them all!
IMDB Rating: 7.8
Starring: Rex Harrison, Audrey Hepburn
Director: George Cukor
Genre: Comedy/Musical
Plot Outline: A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

Roman Holiday (1953) VCD & DVD
Tagline: Audrey Hepburn at her Oscar-winning best in an immortal comedy-romance!
IMDB Top 250: #234
IMDB Rating 8.0
Starring: Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn
Director: William Wyler
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Plot Outline: A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.

Arsenic And Old Lace (1944) VCD
Tagline: She Passed Out On Cary ! No Wonder . . . She's just discovered his favorite aunts have poisoned their 13th gentleman friend !
IMDB Top 250: #231
IMDB Rating: 8.0
Starring: Cary Grant, Peter Lorre
Director: Frank Capra
Genre: Comedy
Plot Outline: A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family.

United 93 (2006)
Tagline: September 11, 2001. Four planes were hijacked. Three of them reached their target. This is the story of the fourth.
IMDB Top 250: #223
IMDB Rating: 7.9
Starring: Christian Clemenson, Trish Gates, David Alan Basche
Director: Paul Greenglass
Genre: Drama/History
Plot Outline: A real time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.

Walk The Line (2005)
Tagline: Love is a burning thing.
IMDB Top 250: #224
IMDB Rating: 8.0
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon
Director: James Mangold
Genre: Biography/Drama/Music
Plot Outline: A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins.
8 Heads In A Duffel Bag (1997)
Tagline: Meet Tommy Spinelli. He's got two days to deliver this bag, or more heads are gonna roll.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
Starring: Joe Pesci, Kristy Swanson, George Hamilton
Director: Tom Schulman
Genre: Comedy
Plot Outline: A mob bagman finds that his luggage, containing the proof of his latest hit, has been switched.

Big Fish (2003)
Tagline: An adventure as big as life itself.
IMDB Top 250: #195
IMDB Rating: 8.0
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Jessica Lange, Helena Bonham Carter
Director: Tim Burton
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
Plot Outline: A story about a son trying to learn more about his dying father by reliving stories and myths his father told him about himself.

Ed Wood (1994)
Tagline: Movies were his passion. Women were his inspiration. Angora sweaters were his weakness.
IMDB Top 250: #191
IMDB Rating: 8.0
Starring: Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette
Director: Tim Burton
Genre: Biography/Comedy
Plot Outline: The mostly true story of the legendary director of awful movies and his strange group of friends and actors.

Snatch (2000)
Tagline: Stealin' Stones and Breakin' Bones
IMDB Top 250: #187
IMDB Rating: 8.0
Starring: Jason Statham, Brad Pitt, Dennis Farina, Benicio Del Toro
Director: Guy Ritchie
Genre: Comedy/Crime
Plot Outline: Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.

The Apartment (1960)
Tagline: Movie-wise, there has never been anything like "The Apartment" - laugh-wise, love-wise, or otherwise-wise!
IMDB Top 250: #96
IMDB Rating: 8.3
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Shirley McLaine, Fred McMurray
Director: Billy Murray
Genre: Comedy/Romance
Plot Outline: A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.

The Big Lebowski (1998)
Tagline: They figured he was a lazy time wasting slacker. They were right.
IMDB Top 250: #173
IMDB Rating: 8.1
Starring: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tara Reid.
Director: Joel Coen
Genre: Comedy
Plot Outline: "Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.

Night At The Museum (2006)
Tagline: This Christmas, it won't be a silent night.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
Starring: Ben Stiller, Dick Van Dyke, Mickey Rooney, Ricky Gervais, Robin Williams
Director: Shawn Levy
Genre: Action/Comedy/Family
Plot Outline: A newly recruited night security guard at the Museum of Natural History discovers that an ancient curse causes the animals and exhibits on display to come to life and wreak havoc.

Casino Royale (2006)
IMDB Rating: 7.9
Starring: Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Judi Dench, Jeffrey White
Director: Martin Campbell
Genre: Action/Thriller
Plot Outline: In his first mission, James Bond must stop Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorist organizations, from winning a high-stakes poker tournament at Casino Royale in Montenegro.

Gladiator (2000)
Tagline: What We Do In Life Echoes In Eternity.
IMDB Top 250: #134
IMDB Rating: 8.1
Starring: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Oliver Reed, Richard Harris, Connie Nielsen
Director: Ridley Scott
Genre: Action/Adventure
Plot Outline: When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by a corrupt prince, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.

Sunday, April 8, 2007


V For Vendetta (2005)
Tagline: Remember, remember the 5th of November.
IMDB Top 250: #125
IMDB Rating: 8.3
Starring: Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Fry
Director: James McTeigue
Genre: Action/Drama
Plot Outline: A shadowy freedom fighter known only as "V" uses terrorist tactics to fight against his totalitarian society. Upon rescuing a girl from the secret police, he also finds his best chance at having an ally.

Quiz Show (1994)
Tagline: Fifty million people watched, but no one saw a thing.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
Starring: John Turturro, Ralph Fiennes, Rob Morrow
Director: Robert Redford
Genre: Drama/History
Plot Outline: Dick Goodwin discovers game shows are fixed: pretty boy WASP Charles Van Doren is fed answers so he beats geeky Jew Herbie Stempel.
Good Night And Good Luck (2005)
Tagline: We will not walk in fear of one another.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
Starring: Jeff Daniels, Robert Downey Jr., David Strathairn
Director: George Clooney
Genre: Drama/History
Plot Outline: Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Syriana (2005)
IMDB Rating: 7.2
Starring: George Clooney, Christopher Plummer, Jeffrey Wright, Matt Damon, Amanda Peet
Director: Stephen Gaghan
Genre: Drama/ Thriller
Plot Outline: A politically-charged epic about the state of the oil industry in the hands of those personally involved and affected by it.

Capote (2005)
IMDB Rating: 7.8
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Craig Archibald, Bronwen Coleman
Director: Bennett Miller
Genre: Biography/Crime
Plot Outline: Truman Capote (Hoffman), during his research for his book In Cold Blood, an account of the murder of a Kansas family, the writer develops a close relationship with Perry Smith, one of the killers.

Crash (2004)
Tagline: You think you know who you are. You have no idea.
IMDB Top 250: #117
IMDB Rating: 8.2
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Loretta Devine, Matt Dillon, Brendan Fraser
Director: Paul Haggis
Genre: Crime/Drama
Plot Outline: Several stories interweave during two days in Los Angeles involving a collection of inter-related characters.

A Fistful Of Dollars (1964)
Tagline: This short cigar belongs to a man with no name. This long gun belongs to a man with no name. This poncho belongs to a man with no name. He's going to trigger a whole new style in adventure.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch
Director: Sergio Leone
Genre: Western/Action
Plot Outline: A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge.

For A Few Dollars More (1965)
Tagline: The man with no name is back... The man in black is waiting... a walking arsenal - he uncoils, strikes, and kills!
IMDB Top 250: #131
IMDB Rating: 8.2
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef
Director: Sergio Leone
Genre: Western/Action
Plot Outline: Two bounty hunters with completely different intentions team up to track down a Western outlaw.

The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly (1966)
Tagline: For Three Men The Civil War Wasn't Hell. It Was Practice!
IMDB Top 250: #4
IMDB Rating: 8.9
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach
Director: Sergio Leone
Genre: Western/Action
Plot Outline: Three gunmen set out to find a hidden fortune. Who will walk away with the cash?

Unforgiven (1992)
IMDB Top 250: #115
IMDB Ranking: 8.2
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard Harris
Director: Clint Eastwood
Genre: Drama/Western
Plot Outline: Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner and a young man.

The Incredibles (2004) VCD
IMDB Top 250: #111
IMDB Rating: 8.2
Voice: Craig T Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L Jackson, Jason Lee
Genre: Animation
Plot Outline: A family of undercover superheroes, while trying to live the quiet suburban life, is forced into action to save the world.

Once Upon A Time In America (1984)
Tagline: As boys, they said they would die for each other. As men, they did.
IMDB Top 250: #109
IMDB Rating: 8.3
Starring: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth Govern, Joe Pesci, Jennifer Connelly
Director: Sergio Leone
Genre: Crime/Drama
Plot Outline: A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to Brooklyn over 30 years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Tagline: Whatever you hear about Midnight Cowboy is true.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight
Director: John Schlesinger
Genre: Drama
Plot Outline: A naive male prostitute and his sickly friend struggle to survive on the streets of New York City.
Kill Bill: Vol 2 (2004) VCD
Tagline: Revenge is a dish best served cold.
IMDB Top 250: #129
IMDB Rating: 8.1
Starring: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Michael Madsen, Daryl Hannah
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Genre: Action/Crime/Thriller
Plot Outline: The murderous Bride continues her vengeance quest against her ex-boss, Bill, and his two remaining associates; his younger brother Budd, and Bill's latest flame Elle.
Kill Bill: Vol 1 (2003) VCD
Tagline: In the year 2003, Uma Thurman will kill Bill
IMDB Top 250: #102
IMDB Rating: 8.2
Starring: Uma Thurman, Lucy Liu, David Carradine, Julie Dreyfuss, Daryl Hannah
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Genre: Action/Crime/Thriller
Plot Outline: The Bride wakes up after a long coma. The baby that she carried before entering the coma is gone. The only thing on her mind is to have revenge on the assassination team that betrayed her - a team she was once part of.


Braveheart (1995)
Tagline: The courage to face fear
IMDB Top 250: #95
IMDB Rating: 8.3
Starring: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau
Director: Mel Gibson
Genre: Action/Biography/Drama
Plot Outline: William Wallace, a commoner, unites the 13th Century Scots in their battle to overthrow English rule.

Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Tagline: In Vietnam The Wind Doesn't Blow It Sucks
IMDB Top 250: #93
IMDB Rating: 8.3
Starring: Kevyn Major Howard, R. Lee Ermey, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D’Onofrio
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Genre: Drama/War
Plot Outline: A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow Marine recruits from their brutal basic training to the bloody street fighting set in 1968 Hue, Vietnam.

The Elephant Man (1980)
Tagline: I am not an animal! I am a human being! I...am...a man!
IMDB Top 250: #92
IMDB Rating: 8.3
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, John Hurt
Director: David Lynch
Genre: Biography/Drama
Plot Outline: A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous facade, there is revealed a person of intelligence and sensitivity.

The Great Escape (1963)
Tagline: A Glorious Saga Of The R.A.F.
IMDB Top 250: #74
IMDB Rating: 8.4
Starring: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson, James Coburn.
Director: John Sturges
Genre: Adventure/War
Plot Outline: Several hundred Allied POWs plan a mass escape from a German POW camp.

The Manchurian Candidate (2004) - (For Your Consideration)
Tagline: This summer everything is under control.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
Starring: Denzel Washington, Jeffrey Wright, Jon Voight, Meryl Streep
Director: Jonathan Demme
Genre: Drama/Mystery
Plot Outline: In the midst of the Gulf War, soldiers are kidnapped and brainwashed for sinister purposes.

Sin City (2005)
Tagline: Hell of a way to end a partnership.
IMDB Top 250: #70
IMDB Rating: 8.4
Starring: Jessica Alba, Bruce Willis, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Hartnett, Brittany Murphy, Clive Owen, Mickey Rourke, Elijah Wood
Directors: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez
Genre: Action/Drama/Crime/Thriller
Plot Outline: A film that explores the dark and miserable southern town Basin City and tells the story of three different people, all caught up in the violent corruption of the city.