Movie

Year

Genre

Rating

Film
Company

Movie bio/info

A Beautiful Mind

2001

Drama

R

Universal
Studios

A extraordinary story of a man who overcomes his mental illness using the logic that can only be found in love.

Adaptation

2002

Drama

R

Columbia
Tri-Star

Charlie Kaufman writes the way he lives... With Great Difficulty. His Twin Brother Donald Lives the way he writes... with foolish abandon. Susan writes about life... But can't live it. John's life is a book... Waiting to be adapted. One story... Four Lives... A million ways it can end.

Altered
States

1980

Sci-Fi

R

Warner
Studios

A research scientist who believes in different states of consciousness uses a sensory deprivation tank, with himself as the research subject, to find the ultimate truth of our origins.

Amistad

1997

Drama

R

Dreamworks
Skg

Emotional Drama about the 1839 revolt by Africans on the slaveship Amistad and their subsequent trial when they are taken on American soil. Reminds us to appreciate all that we have. Freedom is not given. It is our right at birth.

An American
President

1995

Drama

PG-13

Castle
Rock

A charming and inspiring comedy-drama about a widowed US president and a lobbyist who fall in love.

Before Sunrise

1995

Drama

R

Castle
Rock

Love can come as a complete surprise. A French student and an American Boy share a brief but passionate love and find beauty in the simplicity of magnificent human emotion.

Before Sunset

2004

Drama

R

Warner
Independent Pictures

The sequel to "Before Sunrise". Jesse and Celine meet again by chance, now nine years later. But now they are nine years older, and must look back and reflect over their separate lives.

Benny & Joon

1993

Comedy/
Drama

PG

Mgm/Ua
Studios

A mentally ill young woman and an eccentric young man find love and teach each other and all those around them to see beauty and joy in life.

Big

1988

Comedy

PG

20th
Century
Fox

When a boy wishes to be big at a magic wish machine, he wakes up the next morning in an adult body. He then faces the adventures and challenges of being a grown up.

Big Fish

2003

Fantasy

PG-13

Columbia
Tri-Star

An adventure as big as life itself. The story is about a son trying to learn more about his dying father by reliving stories and myths his father told him about himself.

Bruce Almighty

2003

Comedy

PG-13

Universal
Studios

A man who complains about God too often is given all of God's almighty powers, and responsibilities, to teach him a lesson.