Julie & Julia (
2009) | IMDb:
7
Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends... until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.
Truman (
1995) | IMDb:
7.1
Biographical account of America's President for the latter part of WWII. Shows Truman's rise from small-town nobody to leader of the USA, his decision to use the Atomic Bomb against Japan, and subsequent election as the US' post-war President.
King of the Hill (
1993) | IMDb:
7.3
Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a hotel in St. Louis after his mother is committed to a sanatorium with tuberculosis. His father, a German immigrant and traveling salesman working for the Hamilton Watch Company, is off on long trips from which the boy cannot be certain he will return.
Starring:
Jesse Bradford
,
Jeroen Krabbé
,
Lisa Eichhorn
,
Karen Allen
,
Spalding Gray
,
Elizabeth McGovern
Shadows and Fog (
1991) | IMDb:
6.7
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
The House on Carroll Street (
1988) | IMDb:
6.1
Emily Crane is fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, and takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. One day her attention is drawn to a noisy argument being conducted largely in German in a neighbouring house, the more so since one of those involved is her main senator prosecutor. Starting to look into things, she gradually enlists the help of FBI officer Cochran who was initially detailed to check her out. Just as well when things turn nasty
Starring:
Kelly McGillis
,
Jeff Daniels
,
Mandy Patinkin
,
Jessica Tandy
,
Jonathan Hogan
,
Remak Ramsay
Directed by:
Peter Yates
Class (
1983) | IMDb:
6
Naive Midwestern prep student Jonathan bonds with his more worldly roommate, Skip, who takes the small-town boy under his wing. At Skip's urging, the inexperienced Jonathan is emboldened to seek out older women in the cocktail lounges of nearby Chicago, where he meets and beds the alluring Ellen, who unfortunately turns out to be Skip's mother. The division between the friends is further deepened when a cheating scandal engulfs the school.
Starring:
Jacqueline Bisset
,
Rob Lowe
,
Andrew McCarthy
,
Cliff Robertson
,
Stuart Margolin
,
John Cusack