He Got Game
β 6.7 Β· 1998 Β· 136m Β· Drama
A basketball player's father must try to convince him to go to a college so he can get a shorter prison sentence.
More Like This
Antonia's Line
1995 Β· β 6.9
After World War II, Antonia and her daughter, Danielle, go back to their Dutch hometown, where Antonia's late mother has bestowed a small farm upon her. There, Antonia settles down and joins a tightly-knit but unusual community. Those around her include quirky friend Crooked Finger, would-be suitor Bas and, eventually for Antonia, a granddaughter and great-granddaughter who help create a strong family of empowered women.
More info β
Sleepless in Seattle
1993 Β· β 6.7
After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up on a date. Across the country, an engaged woman becomes convinced that they belong together, despite their never having met. Will their paths collide despite the odds?
More info β
Finding Neverland
2004 Β· β 7.3
During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boysβwho soon become an important part of Barrieβs life and the inspiration that lead him to create his masterpiece. Peter Pan.
More info β
The Color Purple
1985 Β· β 7.7
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing 'Mister' Albert Johnson, things go from bad to worse, leaving Celie to find companionship anywhere she can. She perseveres, holding on to her dream of one day being reunited with her sister in Africa.
More info β
Amity
2025
When Quinn realizes the briefcase she and her boyfriend found is valuable to a dangerous mob, she must act quickly to get the target off their backs
More info β
The Docks of New York
1928 Β· β 6.9
A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.
More info β
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946 Β· β 7.7
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has arrived. But for each man, the dream is about to become a nightmare.
More info β
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977 Β· β 7.4
After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
More info β
Birdman of Alcatraz
1962 Β· β 7.5
After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparrow in the exercise yard and nurses it back to health. Despite having only a third grade education, Stroud goes on to become a renowned ornithologist and achieves a greater sense of freedom and purpose behind bars than most people find in the outside world.
More info β
The Jazz Singer
1927 Β· β 6.1
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the original film musical.
More info β
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957 Β· β 7.8
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.
More info β
Cool Hand Luke
1967 Β· β 7.7
When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn't play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the yard's resident heavy, Dragline, who ends up admiring the new guy's unbreakable will. Luke's bravado, even in the face of repeated stints in the prison's dreaded solitary confinement cell, "the box," make him a rebel hero to his fellow convicts and a thorn in the side of the prison officers.
More info β