City of Ember (
2008) | IMDb:
6.4
For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker. Now, two teenagers, in a race against time, must search Ember for clues that will unlock the ancient mystery of the city's existence, before the the lights go out forever.
Starring:
Saoirse Ronan
,
Harry Treadaway
,
Bill Murray
,
David Ryall
,
Tim Robbins
,
Mackenzie Crook
Oliver Twist (
2005) | IMDb:
6.8
An adaptation of the classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (
2005) | IMDb:
7.5
Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal, Gromit, investigate a mystery in Nick Park's animated adventure, in which the lovable inventor and his intrepid pup run a business ridding the town of garden pests. Using only humane methods that turn their home into a halfway house for evicted vermin, the pair stumble upon a mystery involving a voracious vegetarian monster that threatens to ruin the annual veggie-growing contest.
Starring:
Peter Sallis
,
Ralph Fiennes
,
Helena Bonham Carter
,
Peter Kay
,
Nicholas Smith
,
Liz Smith
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (
2005) | IMDb:
6.7
A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.
Starring:
Johnny Depp
,
Freddie Highmore
,
David Kelly
,
Helena Bonham Carter
,
Noah Taylor
,
Missi Pyle
Alice in Wonderland (
1999) | IMDb:
6.3
Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a whimsical Wonderland, where she meets characters like the delightful Cheshire Cat, the clumsy White Knight, a rude caterpillar, and the hot-tempered Queen of Hearts and can grow ten feet tall or shrink to three inches. But will she ever be able to return home?
Starring:
Tina Majorino
,
Robbie Coltrane
,
Ben Kingsley
,
Miranda Richardson
,
Martin Short
,
Christopher Lloyd
Secrets & Lies (
1996) | IMDb:
8
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman.
Starring:
Brenda Blethyn
,
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
,
Timothy Spall
,
Phyllis Logan
,
Claire Rushbrook
,
Lee Ross
Son of the Pink Panther (
1993) | IMDb:
3.9
The illegitimate son of Inspector Clouseau is on the case of the kidnapped Princess Yasmin.
Starring:
Roberto Benigni
,
Herbert Lom
,
Claudia Cardinale
,
Shabana Azmi
,
Debrah Farentino
,
Jennifer Edwards
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (
1989) | IMDb:
7.5
The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.
Apartment Zero (
1989) | IMDb:
6.8
In a rundown area of Buenos Aires, at the dawn of the 1980s, Adrian LeDuc owns both a struggling movie theater and a shabby apartment building filled with eccentric, squabbling tenants. To make ends meet, Adrian takes in a roommate, Jack Carney, but soon begins to suspect that the quiet American is responsible for a series of political assassinations that are rocking the city.
High Spirits (
1988) | IMDb:
5.7
When a hotelier attempts to fill the chronic vacancies at his castle by launching an advertising campaign that falsely portrays the property as haunted, two actual ghosts show up and end up falling for two guests.
Starring:
Peter O'Toole
,
Daryl Hannah
,
Steve Guttenberg
,
Beverly D'Angelo
,
Jennifer Tilly
,
Liam Neeson
Curse of the Pink Panther (
1983) | IMDb:
4.3
Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for him. However, Clouseau's enemy, Dreyfus, rigs the Surete's computer to select, instead, the world's WORST detective, NYPD Sgt. Clifton Sleigh. Sleigh obtusely bungles his way past assassins and corrupt officials as though he were Clouseau's American cousin.
Directed by:
Blake Edwards
Britannia Hospital (
1982) | IMDb:
6.2
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis arrives to cover the celebration, he finds the hospital under siege by striking workers, ruthless unions, violent demonstrators, racist aristocrats, an African cannibal dictator, and sinister human experiments.
Starring:
Graham Crowden
,
Leonard Rossiter
,
Malcolm McDowell
,
Joan Plowright
,
Mark Hamill
,
Jill Bennett
Directed by:
Lindsay Anderson
Agatha (
1979) | IMDb:
6.2
England, 1926. An American journalist looks for mystery writer Agatha Christie when she suddenly disappears without explanation, leaving no trace.
Starring:
Dustin Hoffman
,
Vanessa Redgrave
,
Timothy Dalton
,
Helen Morse
,
Celia Gregory
,
Paul Brooke