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Mean Streets
Date Added 2007-02-05 Rating 10.0 / 10.0
Number 692 Year 1973
Length 1:50 Director Martin Scorsese
Category Crime, Urban Drama, Crime Drama, Coming-of-Age, Gangster Film
AMG SYNOPSIS: "You don't make up for your sins in church; you do it in the streets; you do it at home. The rest is bulls--t, and you know it." Returning to the autobiographical milieu of his 1968 debut Who's That Knocking at My Door? for his third feature, Martin Scorsese examined the daily struggles of a wannabe hood to keep his morals straight on the streets of Little Italy. Driven equally by his wish to become a respectable gangster like his uncle (Cesare Danova) and his desire to live his life like St. Francis, Charlie (Harvey Keitel) takes on his energetically unhinged friend Johnny Boy (Robert De Niro) as his own personal penance, intervening...
Nick of Time
Date Added 2007-02-05 Rating 3.0 / 10.0
Number 695 Year 1995
Length 1:29 Director John Badham
Category Thriller, Psychological Thriller
AMG SYNOPSIS: A stranger pulled into a deadly scheme races against time to save his daughter in this thriller. Gene Watson (Johnny Depp) is an accountant who comes to L.A. with his ten-year-old daughter Lynn (Courtney Chase) to attend a funeral. On the street, Gene and Lynn are pulled aside by Mr. Smith (Christopher Walken) and Ms. Jones (Roma Maffia), who flash what look like police badges and usher them into a van. Gene soon discovers that he's been kidnapped, and his captors have an unusual demand -- if Gene does not murder Gov. Eleanor Grant (Marsha Mason) within 75 minutes, his daughter will be killed. Gene now has just an hour and a quarter...
Night at the Museum
Date Added 2007-02-05 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 696 Year 2006
Length 1:48 Director Shawn Levy
Category Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy Adventure, Adventure Comedy
AMG SYNOPSIS: The new night watchman at New York's Museum of Natural History finds that the job comes with more responsibility than he ever dreamed in this wild fantasy comedy directed by Shawn Levy and starring Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Mickey Rooney, and Dick Van Dyke. Larry Daley (Stiller) is a kind-hearted dreamer who always knew that he was destined for greatness, he just never quite knew how. None of his ideas or inventions has panned out, so with a heavy heart, he takes a regular job as a lowly graveyard-shift security guard at the Museum of Natural History in order to provide a more stable life for himself and his ten-year-old son. His first...
Schindler's List [1/2]
Date Added 2007-02-05 Rating 10.0 / 10.0
Number 700 Year 1993
Length 3:20 Director Steven Spielberg
Category Drama, War, War Drama, Biography [feature]
AMG SYNOPSIS: Based on a true story, Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List stars Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, a German businessman in Poland who sees an opportunity to make money from the Nazis' rise to power. He starts a company to make cookware and utensils, using flattery and bribes to win military contracts, and brings in accountant and financier Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley) to help run the factory. By staffing his plant with Jews who've been herded into Krakow's ghetto by Nazi troops, Schindler has a dependable unpaid labor force. For Stern, a job in a war-related plant could mean survival for himself and the other Jews working for Schindler. However, in 1942, all of Krakow's...
Schindler's List [2/2]
Date Added 2007-02-05 Rating 10.0 / 10.0
Number 701 Year 1993
Length 3:20 Director Steven Spielberg
Category Drama, War, War Drama, Biography [feature]
AMG SYNOPSIS: Based on a true story, Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List stars Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, a German businessman in Poland who sees an opportunity to make money from the Nazis' rise to power. He starts a company to make cookware and utensils, using flattery and bribes to win military contracts, and brings in accountant and financier Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley) to help run the factory. By staffing his plant with Jews who've been herded into Krakow's ghetto by Nazi troops, Schindler has a dependable unpaid labor force. For Stern, a job in a war-related plant could mean survival for himself and the other Jews working for Schindler. However, in 1942, all of Krakow's...
The Last King of Scotland
Date Added 2007-02-05 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 708 Year 2006
Length 2:01 Director Kevin MacDonald
Category Drama, Docudrama
Other Screener
AMG SYNOPSIS: Director Kevin MacDonald teams with screenwriter Jeremy Brock to adapt Giles Foden's novel detailing the brutal reign of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin as seen through the eyes of his personal physician. James McAvoy stars as the doctor who slowly realizes that he is trapped in an inescapable nightmare, and Forest Whitaker assumes the role of the notorious despot. -- Jason Buchanan ...
Wake of Death
Date Added 2007-02-05 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 716 Year 2004
Length 1:30 Director Philippe Martinez
Category Action, Crime Thriller, Action Thriller
AMG SYNOPSIS: Action star and goofball extraordinaire Jean-Claude Van Damme returns in this gritty tale of revenge between the Los Angeles mob and an invading Chinese Triad. The "Muscles From Brussels" stars as Ben Archer, an ex-mob tough guy whose wife is savagely murdered after she brings home an orphaned child who happens to be a Chinese kingpin's daughter. Racked with grief, Archer is forced back into the mob life as Van Damme stacks up the dead bodies until he finally comes face to face with his wife's killer in an explosive match to the death. -- Jeremy Wheeler ...
Windtalkers
Date Added 2007-02-05 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 718 Year 2002
Length 2:14 Director John Woo
Category War, War Drama, Combat Films
AMG SYNOPSIS: Loosely based on a real-life operation during World War II, this action-adventure from director John Woo stars Nicolas Cage as Joe Enders, a Marine traumatized by the loss of his entire platoon in the Solomon Islands during an ambush he believes was deadlier than necessary due to his indecision. Suffering from eardrum damage in Hawaii, Joe manages to be declared fit for duty once again thanks to a sympathetic nurse (Frances O'Connor), but his new assignment isn't what he expects. Joe is ordered to safeguard a Navajo soldier named Ben Yahzee (Adam Beach) because the military has developed a new secret code based on the near-dead Navajo language that is proving unbreakable to...
X-Men Evolution [1/4]
Date Added 2007-02-05 Rating 7.7 / 10.0
Number 719 Year 2003
Length 0:00 Director
Category Action, Superhero Show
Other Unexpected Changes
Professor Charles Francis Xavier, who has the mutant ability to read minds, searches for new mutants to train them how to use their powers for good and to prevent the mutants from harming themselves and others at his School for Gifted Youngsters. His opposition, Magneto "Master of Magnetism", is doing the same thing, but for evil purposes. He has made Mystique who is a shape-shifter, a principle of his high school to gather evil mutants to prepare them for war against non-mutants. The most interesting plot of the story is that all the heroes and villains attend the same high school. The classic battle of good vs. evil has begun again....
X-Men Evolution [2/4]
Date Added 2007-02-05 Rating 7.7 / 10.0
Number 720 Year 2003
Length 0:00 Director
Category Action, Superhero Show
Other Xplosive Rays
Professor Charles Francis Xavier, who has the mutant ability to read minds, searches for new mutants to train them how to use their powers for good and to prevent the mutants from harming themselves and others at his School for Gifted Youngsters. His opposition, Magneto "Master of Magnetism", is doing the same thing, but for evil purposes. He has made Mystique who is a shape-shifter, a principle of his high school to gather evil mutants to prepare them for war against non-mutants. The most interesting plot of the story is that all the heroes and villains attend the same high school. The classic battle of good vs. evil has begun again....
X-Men Evolution [3/4]
Date Added 2007-02-05 Rating 7.7 / 10.0
Number 721 Year 2003
Length 0:00 Director
Category Action, Superhero Show
Other X Marks the Spot
Professor Charles Francis Xavier, who has the mutant ability to read minds, searches for new mutants to train them how to use their powers for good and to prevent the mutants from harming themselves and others at his School for Gifted Youngsters. His opposition, Magneto "Master of Magnetism", is doing the same thing, but for evil purposes. He has made Mystique who is a shape-shifter, a principle of his high school to gather evil mutants to prepare them for war against non-mutants. The most interesting plot of the story is that all the heroes and villains attend the same high school. The classic battle of good vs. evil has begun again....
X-Men Evolution [4/4]
Date Added 2007-02-05 Rating 7.7 / 10.0
Number 722 Year 2003
Length 0:00 Director
Category Action, Superhero Show
Other Xposing The Truth
Professor Charles Francis Xavier, who has the mutant ability to read minds, searches for new mutants to train them how to use their powers for good and to prevent the mutants from harming themselves and others at his School for Gifted Youngsters. His opposition, Magneto "Master of Magnetism", is doing the same thing, but for evil purposes. He has made Mystique who is a shape-shifter, a principle of his high school to gather evil mutants to prepare them for war against non-mutants. The most interesting plot of the story is that all the heroes and villains attend the same high school. The classic battle of good vs. evil has begun again....
Pan's Labyrinth
Date Added 2007-02-03 Rating 9.0 / 10.0
Number 698 Year 2006
Length 2:00 Director Guillermo del Toro
Category Drama, Fantasy, Fairy Tales & Legends, War Drama, Period Film
Other Spanish Audio
AMG SYNOPSIS: Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro returns to the phantasmagorical cinema that defined such early fare as Cronos and The Devil's Backbone with this haunting fantasy-drama set in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War and detailing the strange journeys of an imaginative young girl who may be the mythical princess of an underground kingdom. Her mother, Carmen (Ariadna Gil), recently remarried to sadistic army captain Vidal (Sergi L...
American Psycho
Date Added 2007-01-15 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 673 Year 2000
Length 1:37 Director Mary Harron
Category Comedy, Thriller, Satire, Black Comedy
AMG SYNOPSIS: Bret Easton Ellis' dark and violent satire of America in the 1980s is brought to the screen in this unsettling drama with black comic overtones. Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale), the son of a wealthy Wall Street financier, is pursuing his own lucrative career with his father's firm. Bateman is the prototypical yuppie, obsessed with success, fashion, and style. He is also a serial killer who murders, rapes, and mutilates both strangers and acquaintances without provocation or reason. Donald Kimble (Willem Dafoe), a police detective, questions Bateman about the disappearance of Paul Allen (Jared Leto), whom Patrick murdered several days earlier. As Kimble stays on Bateman's trail, Bateman's mask of studied, distant cool begins...
Chopper
Date Added 2007-01-15 Rating 4.0 / 10.0
Number 678 Year 2000
Length 1:34 Director Andrew Dominik
Category Drama, Crime, Biography [feature], Black Comedy
Other Dutch
AMG SYNOPSIS: This Australian drama is based on the life and times of Mark "Chopper" Read, a notorious Aussie criminal who went on to become a best-selling author, publishing nine books about his exploits outside the law. In 1978, Chopper (played by Eric Bana) is serving a 16-year sentence for abducting a judge who was overseeing the trial of his best friend Jimmy (Simon Lyndon). Jimmy and Chopper end up sharing a cell, along with Keithy George (David Field), a crime boss; when a disagreement between Keithy and Chopper escalates into violence, Chopper kills Keithy, leading to retribution from the gangster's mates, who hire Jimmy to do their dirty work. To escape, Chopper forces a...
Citizen X
Date Added 2007-01-15 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 679 Year 1995
Length 1:43 Director Chris Gerolmo
Category Crime, Mystery, Docudrama, Police Detective Film, True Crime, Crime Drama
AMG SYNOPSIS: Stephen Rea stars as a relentless Russian investigator in this made-for-cable thriller. Based on an actual case, this taut film tells the story of Burakov (Rea), a Russian forensic pathologist assigned to track down a brutal serial killer who is targeting young drifters. The nature of the assignment takes its toll on Burakov's personal life, as he tracks the killer for years despite the red-tape and bureaucracy of the Soviet state. Nominated for several awards overall that year, Donald Sutherland won an Emmy and a Golden Globe Award for his co-starring role as Rea's supportive superior, Fetisov. The movie was filmed in Hungary. -- Bernadette McCallion ...
Jackie Brown
Date Added 2007-01-15 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 687 Year 1997
Length 2:35 Director Quentin Tarantino
Category Crime, Crime Thriller
Other Dutch
AMG SYNOPSIS: Quentin Tarantino wrote and directed this adaptation of Elmore Leonard's 1995 Rum Punch, switching the action from Miami to LA, and altering the central character from white to black. Ruthless arms dealer Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson), who lives with perpetually stoned beach-babe Melanie (Bridget Fonda), teams with his old buddy Louis Gara (Robert De Niro), just released from prison after serving four years for armed robbery. ATF agent Ray Nicolette (Michael Keaton) and cop Mark Dargus (Michael Bowen) bust stewardess Jackie Brown (Pam Grier), who was smuggling money into the country for Ordell. Ordell springs Jackie, but when middle-aged bail bondsman Max Cherry (Robert Forster) picks her up at the jail, he's...
Sexy Beast
Date Added 2007-01-15 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 703 Year 2000
Length 1:28 Director Jonathan Glazer
Category Crime, Gangster Film, Crime Thriller
AMG SYNOPSIS: Gary (Ray Winstone) is a former gangster who has made a modest amount of money from his criminal career. Happy to put his life of crime behind him, he has retired with his wife Deedee (Amanda Redman) to the sunny bliss of rural Spain, where he lives an idyllic life with his family and a few close friends. But Gary's contentment is ruptured by an unwelcome visitor from his past -- Don (Ben Kingsley), a former associate who has been hired to assemble a team of criminals to rob a heavily guarded bank. Don wants Gary in on the job, and is less than pleased by Gary's unwillingness to volunteer his services. What...
The Dead Zone
Date Added 2007-01-15 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 704 Year 1983
Length 1:44 Director David Cronenberg
Category Science Fiction, Supernatural Thriller
AMG SYNOPSIS: Christopher Walken plays a schoolteacher, Johnny Smith, who awakens from a five-year coma. He discovers that he has acquired the ability to foretell a person's future simply by touching his or her hand. After seeing several examples, Smith's doctor (Herbert Lom) becomes convinced that Smith can not only predict the future, but also has the power to change it. This ability is given its severest test when Smith shakes the hand of ruthless political candidate Greg Stillson (Martin Sheen) -- and suddenly has a flash-forward to a nuclear holocaust. The Dead Zone is not only one of the best-ever Stephen King adaptations, but also one of the most consistently successful (and least gory)...
The Score
Date Added 2007-01-15 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 710 Year 2001
Length 2:03 Director Frank Oz
Category Crime, Caper, Crime Thriller
Other Dutch
AMG SYNOPSIS: Three generations of method acting giants unite for this crime thriller written by Kario Salem and directed by Frank Oz. Robert De Niro stars as Nick Wells, an aging thief whose specialty is safecracking and who is on the verge of retiring to a life of ease, running his jazz club and romancing his girlfriend Diane (Angela Bassett). But before he can ride off into the sunset, Nick is pressured to do one last job by his mentor and business partner, a flamboyant and extravagant upscale fence named Max (Marlon Brando). Max is plotting the heist of the Montreal Customs House, and he's got a man on the inside, Jackie Teller (Edward Norton),...
Time After Time
Date Added 2007-01-15 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 713 Year 1979
Length 2:00 Director Nicholas Meyer
Category Science Fiction, Fantasy, Chase Movie, Fantasy Adventure
AMG SYNOPSIS: It's H.G. Wells (Malcolm McDowell) versus Jack the Ripper (David Warner) in the fanciful Time After Time--and, per the film's title, the chase extends from the 19th century to the 20th. Wells has built a time machine in his cellar, which the Ripper uses as a means of escape. Both men find themselves in 20th- century San Francisco, and, after an amusing period of adjustment, both make themselves at home. The plot takes a dark turn when the Ripper, disappointed that Wells' dreams of a Utopian future have not come to fruition, resumes his murderous activities. The suspenseful climax finds Wells and the Ripper in a standoff, with Wells' modern lady friend, kooky...
Trainspotting
Date Added 2007-01-15 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 714 Year 1996
Length 1:34 Director Danny Boyle
Category Comedy Drama, Addiction Drama, Urban Drama, Buddy Film
Other Dutch
AMG SYNOPSIS: Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), a young man with few prospects and fewer ambitions, lives in economically depressed Edinburgh. Like most of his friends, Renton is a heroin addict who loves the drug's blissful nothingness; financing his habit also provides excitement and challenges that his life otherwise lacks. Renton's two best friends are also junkies: Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), a snappy dresser obsessed with James Bond, and Spud (Ewan Bremner), a guileless nerd who suggests Pee Wee Herman's debauched cousin. Renton and his pals also hang out with Begbie (Robert Carlyle), a borderline psychotic who loathes junkies even though he drinks like a fish. After one too many brushes with the law, Renton...
True Romance
Date Added 2007-01-15 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 715 Year 1993
Length 1:56 Director Tony Scott
Category Crime, Road Movie, Crime Thriller
Other Directors Cut
AMG SYNOPSIS: Quentin Tarantino scripted this wild and wooly blend of action and dark comedy, which reached theaters a year before his breakthrough hit Pulp Fiction. Clarence Worley (Christian Slater) is a well-meaning but socially unskilled comic-shop clerk whose idea of a big night out is catching a Sonny Chiba triple-feature at a downtown grindhouse. Clarence is celebrating his birthday in just such a manner when he meets a beautiful girl named Alabama (Patricia Arquette), and it's love at first sight for both of them. Clarence's enthusiasm isn't dampened much when he discovers Alabama is actually a prostitute who was paid by his boss to bump into him; she's only been in the business for...
Get Shorty
Date Added 2007-01-14 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 683 Year 1995
Length 1:45 Director Barry Sonnenfeld
Category Comedy, Crime Comedy, Showbiz Comedy
Other Dutch Custom
AMG SYNOPSIS: A gangster is looking to get away from crooked deals and double-crossing people but ends up in the movie business anyway in this comic crime story. Chili Palmer (John Travolta) is a Miami-based loan collector for the mob trying to collect a gambling debt. His assignment takes him to Hollywood to collect money from Harry Zimm (Gene Hackman), a mildly sleazy producer of low-budget horror movies. Although Chili intends to hurt Harry if necessary, he takes a certain liking to him and an even keener interest in Karen (Rene Russo), Harry's girlfriend, whom Chili recognizes from Harry's grade-B monster epics. It seems Harry has a script that he feels is Academy Award material,...
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
Date Added 2007-01-14 Rating 6.0 / 10.0
Number 684 Year 1999
Length 1:56 Director Jim Jarmusch
Category Crime, Crime Drama, Gangster Film, Parody/Spoof
AMG SYNOPSIS: A surreal crime drama told as only Jim Jarmusch could, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai stars Forest Whitaker as Ghost Dog, a hit man living in an unidentified but run-down city in what license plates call "The Industrialized State." Known for his gift of being able to come and go without people noticing him, Ghost Dog is a self-taught samurai who is obsessed with order and his strict personal moral code, drawn from the philosophies of the Japanese warriors. As every samurai needs a leader to whom he swears loyalty, Ghost Dog has devoted himself the service of Louie (John Tormey), a low-level crime boss who once saved his life. When...
Last Action Hero
Date Added 2007-01-14 Rating 3.0 / 10.0
Number 690 Year 1993
Length 2:11 Director John McTiernan
Category Comedy, Action, Fantasy, Action Thriller, Buddy Film, Fantasy Comedy
Other Superbit
AMG SYNOPSIS: Arnold Schwarzenegger appears as a pumped-up Shakespearian hero while an announcer bellows, "Something is rotten in Denmark -- and Hamlet is taking out the trash!" This gag sets the stage for the post-modernist action epic The Last Action Hero. The film concerns Danny Madigan (Austin O'Brien), a lonely eleven-year-old boy who escapes from his bleak New York City reality by glorying in the action adventure movies of his favorite film character, Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger). Danny's friend is an elderly movie projectionist, Nick (Robert Prosky), who lets Danny into the shabby Times Square movie theater where he works so Danny can see Slater's new movie. He hands Danny a magic ticket given to...
Mercury Rising
Date Added 2007-01-14 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 693 Year 1998
Length 1:52 Director Harold Becker
Category Action, Action Thriller, Chase Movie
AMG SYNOPSIS: In this action-suspense thriller, orphaned nine-year-old autistic savant Simon (Miko Hughes) deciphers a government code hidden in a puzzle magazine. Calling for his prize, Simon triggers an alarm at the National Security Agency: NSA chief Nicholas Kudrow (Alec Baldwin), who says the code protects covert American operatives all over the world, sends an assassin to do away with Simon. Simon's parents are killed, but Simon survives, hiding in a secret closet crawlspace where he's later discovered by maverick FBI agent Art Jeffries (Bruce Willis). Simon is emotionally unpredictable, complicating matters as Art drags him all over Chicago, eluding Kudrow's hitman in a variety of interesting locations (train tracks, street scenes, heliport, Wrigley building)...
No Way Out
Date Added 2007-01-14 Rating 8.0 / 10.0
Number 697 Year 1987
Length 1:54 Director Roger Donaldson
Category Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Political Thriller
AMG SYNOPSIS: No Way Out is told in flashback as Naval officer Tom Farrell (Kevin Costner) is grilled by his superiors regarding a recent "unpleasantness." While at a Washington party, Tom meets Susan Atwel (Sean Young), and they're soon sharing a steamy love scene in the back of a limo (marvelously parodied in 1993's Hot Shots! Part Deux). Several months pass before Tom meets Susan again; he discovers she's the mistress of the US Secretary of Defense David Brice (Gene Hackman). When Susan is murdered by Brice, his loyal aide (Will Patton) dutifully destroys the evidence and invents the fallacious theory that a KGB mole was responsible. Tom is assigned to locate that mole --...
Point Blank
Date Added 2007-01-14 Rating 10.0 / 10.0
Number 699 Year 1967
Length 1:32 Director John Boorman
Category Crime, Crime Thriller, Gangster Film
AMG SYNOPSIS: Based on Donald E. Westlake's novel The Hunter, John Boorman's gangster film hauntingly merges a generic revenge story with a European art cinema sensibility. In Alcatraz to divvy up the spoils from a robbery, thief Walker (Lee Marvin) is instead shot point blank by his double-crossing friend Mal Reese (John Vernon) and left to die while Reese takes off with Walker's wife Lynne (Sharon Acker) and his $93,000. Resurrected, the stone-faced Walker returns to Los Angeles a couple of years later to seek revenge on Mal with the help of the enigmatic Yost (Keenan Wynn) and Lynne's sister Chris (Angie Dickinson). Wanting little but his cash, Walker implacably penetrates Mal's lair and the...
The Good German
Date Added 2007-01-14 Rating 5.0 / 10.0
Number 705 Year 2006
Length 1:47 Director Steven Soderbergh
Category Mystery, Drama, War Drama, Period Film
Other Screener, Limited
AMG SYNOPSIS: A U.S. Army war correspondent is drawn into a deadly mystery in post-war Berlin as he seeks out his wartime mistress in this adaptation of author Joseph Kanon's best-selling novel. The war is over, and Jake Geismar (George Clooney) is an American journalist assigned the task of covering the peace in Berlin -- but he was once lovers with a mysterious woman named Lena Brandt (Cate Blanchett). Lena is a lady with many secrets to hide, however, and now that the fighting has ceased, she has every intention of burying her sins and escaping her dark past. As Jake searches for Lena in war-torn Berlin with the assistance of American Army motor pool...
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