The Defiant Ones (1958)
A crime movie starring Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier and Theodore Bikel
Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other.
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
A drama starring Hugo Weaving, Guy Pearce and Terence Stamp
Two drag queens and a transgender woman contract to perform a drag show at a resort in Alice Springs, a town in the remote Australian desert ... (more)
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
A mystery movie starring Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep and Liev Schreiber
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being ... (more)
The Madness of King George (1994)
A drama starring Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren and Ian Holm
Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of confusion and near-violent outbursts of temper, his hapless doctors attempt the ineffectual cures of the day ... (more)
Moby Dick (1956)
A drama starring Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart and Leo Genn
In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian who exhorts his men to find Moby Dick, the great white whale. Ahab lost his his leg to that creature and is desperate for revenge. As the crew soon learns, he will stop at nothing to gain satisfaction.
Yentl (1984)
A drama starring Barbra Streisand, Mandy Patinkin and Amy Irving
In a time when girls were forbidden to study religious scriptures, a Jewish girl masquerades as a boy to enter religious training and unexpectedly finds love along the way.