Love Story
Let’s get this out of the way: Love Story isn’t an accurate retelling of the marriage between John F. Kennedy…
Four Daughters
Dir. Kaouther Ben Hania
Normally, a film like this would be a straightforward documentary with archival footage and key interviews with experts in the…
Spellbound
Dir. Jeffrey Blitz
There’s a natural competitive thrill to this chronicle of the 1999 Scripps National Spelling Bee and eight of its bright…
Running on Empty
Dir. Sidney Lumet
Running on Empty is a movie that covers many timely themes including capitalism, education, and social class. It tells the…
The Last Picture Show
Dir. Peter Bogdanovich
These days, most coming-of-age films tend to have a comic or hopeful tone to them. It’s hard being a teenager,…
Hoosiers
Dir. David Anspaugh
Bearing pretty much every trademark you’ve come to expect from a sports drama, Hoosiers might not bring as many surprises…
The Heartbreak Kid
Dir. Elaine May
“What if I meet my soulmate while in a relationship with someone else?” It’s a worry we’ve all had, but…
A Room with A View
Dir. James Ivory
A Room with a View is downright beautiful. Amidst the impressionistic scenery of Florence’s and England’s countrysides, paired with iconic…
Ordinary People
Dir. Robert Redford
Based on the 1976 novel of the same name, Ordinary People is an emotionally wrought film about a family on…
Broadcast News
Dir. James L. Brooks
A marvelous combination of perfect casting and a sizzling script. William Hurt, Albert Brooks, and Holly Hunter are such natural…
The Defiant Ones
Dir. Allen Hughes
A four-part documentary series that tells the stories of Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre — one the son of a…
Coming Home
Dir. Zhang Yimou
When adapting a novel, sometimes the book is too long to fit into a whole feature, so filmmakers would create…
Runaway Train
Dir. Andrei Konchalovsky
A hardened convict and a younger prisoner escape from a brutal prison in the middle of winter only to find…
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
Dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Ypsilanti, Michigan, 1945. Engineer Preston Tucker dreams of designing the car of future, but his innovative envision will be repeatedly…
A Soldier’s Story
Dir. Norman Jewison
In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army…
The Right Stuff
Dir. Philip Kaufman
As the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts to enter…
A Room with a View
Dir. James Ivory
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and…
Places in the Heart
Dir. Robert Benton
In 1935 rural Texas, recently widowed Edna Spaulding struggles to survive with two small children, a farm to run, and…
Raging Bull
Dir. Martin Scorsese
The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed…
Chariots of Fire
Dir. Hugh Hudson
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris…
The Hurricane
Dir. Norman Jewison
The story of Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aided in his fight…
Terms of Endearment
Dir. James L. Brooks
Aurora, a finicky woman, is in search of true love while her daughter faces marital issues. Together, they help each…
Out of Africa
Dir. Sydney Pollack
Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa…
Moonstruck
Dir. Norman Jewison
It’s easy enough to pitch Moonstruck with the promise of Cher and a young Nicolas Cage getting hot and heavy…