Movie

Year

Genre

Rating

Film
Company

Movie bio/info

Children of a Lesser God

1986

Drama

R

Paramount
Studio

Passionate, enlightening, thought provoking. A speech instructor, falls in love with a deaf student, and they must learn to communicate in a world beyond silence and sound.

Chocolat

2000

Comedy

PG-13

Miramax

Vianne opens a chocolaterie, serving up exotic confections, spiced with a little magic, designed to open minds & bring out the best in people.

City of Angels

1998

Drama

PG-13

Warner
Brothers

Remake of "Wings of Desire". Timeless and enchanting story of an angel who chooses to give up immortality for love.

Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind

1977

Sci-Fi/
Drama

PG

Columbia
Pictures

Classic Cinema. Roy becomes obsessed with finding the truth after he encounters a UFO on an abandoned road one night and travels to a mysterious mountain where the government has built a landing strip hoping to attract the aliens.

Cocoon

1985

Fantasy

PG-13

20th
Century
Fox

A fantasy that ponders the price of immortality and the power of everlasting love. A group of aliens here to rescue their stranded friends stash them in a swimming pool and a group of elderly retirees find that their youth is rejuvinated after swimming in the water.

Contact

1997

Drama/
Sci-Fi

PG

Warner
Studios

A scientist searching for messages from space, finds humanity's biggest discovery and embarks on a journey to the heart of the universe.

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

2000

Foreign

PG-13

Sony
Pictures
Classics

Subtitled. A breathtaking film set in 19th century China, that tells a story of true love, honourable warriors, magical swords and following your heart.

Dances With
Wolves

1990

Drama

PG-13

Metro-
Goldwyn-
Mayer

Story of a white soldier who singlehandedly mans a post in the 1870 Dakotas. He his befriended by a wolf and becomes a part of the Lakota Sioux community who live nearby, where he learns love and trust.

Dangerous
Beauty

1998

Drama

R

Warner
Brothers

A Venetian courtesan who insists on leading a life without compromise in a time when women had little freedoms, becomes a hero to her city, but later becomes the target of an inquisition by the Church for witchcraft.

Dead Poets Society

1989

Drama

PG

Touchstone Pictures

An unconventional teacher inspires his students with poetry and encourages them to embrace life.

Divine Secrets of
Ya-Ya Sisterhood

2002

Comedy

PG-13

Warner
Brothers

A story of life, love and family. A group of lifelong friends come together to stage a rather unorthodox intervention to help a young woman come to terms with her past, and to help her and her mother to find forgiveness.

Dogma

1999

Comedy

R

Columbia
Tri-Star

The last known descendant of Christ is called upon to save the existence of humanity from being negated by two renegade angels trying to exploit a loophole.

Don Juan DeMarco

1995

Comedy

PG-13

New
Line
Cinema

A psychiatrist is given the task of curing a young man who thinks he is the real Don Juan DeMarco, is changed by the man's romantic imagination and love for life.

Dragonfly

2002

Drama

PG-13

Universal
Pictures

A Story of the mystic mystery of the journey from life to death, and a doctor's road from fact to faith when his orderly world is changed by apparent "messages" from his dead wife.

Driving Miss Daisy

1989

Drama/
Comedy

PG

Warner
Brothers

The funny, touching and totally irresistible story of a stubborn old jewish woman and her african american chauffeur who taught her the meaning of friendship.