Films
Chocolat
When mysterious Vianne and her child arrive in a tranquil French town in the winter of 1959, no one could have imagined the impact that she and her spirited daughter would have on the community stubbornly rooted in tradition. Within days, she opens an unusual chocolate shop, across the square from the church. Her ability to perceive her customers' desires and satisfy them with just the right confection, coaxes the villagers to abandon themselves to temptation—just as Lent begins.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physically skilled, adolescent nobleman's daughter, who is at a crossroads in her life.
The Dish
A remote Australian community, populated by quirky characters, plays a key role in the first Apollo moon landing.
A Knight's Tale
A hot-headed and gifted peasant squire, fueled by his desire for food and glory, creates a new identity for himself as a knight.
Memento
A man creates a strange system to help him remember things, so he can hunt for the murderer of his wife without his short-term memory loss being an obstacle.
The Shaman's Apprentice
Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin races to save the rich medicinal lore that is the inheritance of the shamans of the tribes of the Northeast Amazon. The future of such knowledge is uncertain, as these cultures find themselves as endangered as the forest around them.
Moulin Rouge!
A poor Bohemian poet in 1890s Paris falls for a beautiful courtesan and nightclub star coveted by a jealous duke.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother.
Tortilla Soup
A Mexican-American master chef and father to three daughters has lost his taste for food, but not for life.
Waking Life
A man shuffles through a dream meeting various people and discussing the meanings and purposes of the universe.
Donnie Darko
A troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes, after narrowly escaping a bizarre accident.
A Beautiful Mind
After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.
The Royal Tenenbaums
An estranged family of former child prodigies reunites when their father announces he is terminally ill.
Ice Age
Set during the Ice Age, a sabertooth tiger, a sloth, and a wooly mammoth find a lost human infant and try to return him to his tribe.
Spider-Man
When bitten by a genetically modified spider, a nerdy, shy, and awkward high school student gains spider-like abilities that he eventually must use to fight evil as a superhero after tragedy befalls his family.
Enigma
A young genius frantically races against time to crack an enemy code and solve the mystery surrounding the woman he loves.
Minority Report
In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder.
Real Women Have Curves
Real Women Have Curves is a humorous and warmhearted look at a Mexican American teenage girl coming of age in a boiling cauldron of cultural expectations, class constrictions, family duty, and her own personal aspirations.
8 Mile
A young rapper, struggling with every aspect of his life, wants to make it big, but his friends and foes make this odyssey of rap harder than it may seem.
EO
Follow a donkey who encounters good and bad people on his journeys and experiences joy and pain, while you explore a vision of modern Europe through his eyes.
Dopamine
A San Franciscan computer programmer falls in love with one of his creations in the days after the dot-com boom.
Adaptation
A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean for the screen.
Spirited Away
During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches and spirits, a world where humans are changed into beasts.