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1	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) more movies like this directed by Robert Mulligan featuring Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Philip Alford, John Megna, Frank Overton, Robert Duvall Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiographical novel was translated to film in 1962 by Horton Foote and the producer/director team of Robert Mulligan and Alan J. Pakula. Set a small Alabama town in the 1930s, the story focuses on scrupulously honest, highly respected lawyer Atticus Finch, magnificently embodied by Gregory Peck. Finch puts ... see all copies from $4.45! new only from $8.95!
2	October Sky (1999) more movies like this directed by Joe Johnston featuring Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Laura Dern, Chris Owen, William Lee Scott NASA engineer Homer H. Hickam, Jr.'s autobiography provided the basis for this drama about a teenager coming of age at the dawn of the space race. In 1957, Homer Hickam (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a high school student in Coalwood, West Virginia when the Soviet Union launches Sputnik, the first man-made satellite. While most of his friends and neighbors ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.89!
3	The Grapes of Wrath (1940) more movies like this directed by John Ford featuring Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charles Grapewin, Doris Bowden The adaptation of Nobel Prize-winner John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of dirt-poor Dust Bowl migrants by 4-time Oscar-winning director John Ford starred Henry Fonda as Tom Joad, who opens the movie returning to his Oklahoma home after serving jail time for manslaughter. En route, Tom meets family friend Casey (John Carradine), a ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $10.67!
4	Rain Man (1988) more movies like this directed by Barry Levinson featuring Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Jerry Molen, Jack Murdock Self-centered, avaricious Californian Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) is informed that his long-estranged father has died. Expecting at least a portion of the elder Babbitt's $3 million estate, Charlie learns that all he's inherited is his dad's prize roses and a 1949 Buick Roadmaster. Discovering that the $3 million is being held in trust for an ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
5	Babette's Feast (1988) more movies like this directed by Gabriel Axel featuring Stéphane Audran, Jean-Philippe Lafont, Gudmar Wivesson, Jarl Kulle, Bibi Andersson, Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel The Danish/French Babette's Feast is based on a story by Isak Dinesen, also the source of the very different Out of Africa (1985). Stephane Audran plays Babette, a 19th century Parisian political refugee who seeks shelter in a rough Danish coastal town. Philippa (Bodil Kjer) and Martina (Birgitte Federspiel), the elderly daughters of the town's ... see all copies from $11.05! new only from $11.05!
6	Little Women (1994) more movies like this directed by Gillian Armstrong featuring Winona Ryder, Gabriel Byrne, Trini Alvarado, Samantha Mathis, Susan Sarandon, Kirsten Dunst, Claire Danes, Eric Stoltz, John Neville Louisa May Alcott's classic novel about a family of women in Civil War-era New England is again brought to the screen in this adaptation. The focus is on the March sisters, four young girls raised by their mother (Susan Sarandon) after their father leaves for battle as part of the Union Army. At the center is Jo March (Winona Ryder), an ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95!
7	Billy Elliot (2000) more movies like this directed by Stephen Daldry featuring Julie Walters, Jamie Bell, Gary Lewis, Jean Heywood Brassed Off meets My Name Is Joe in this gritty coming-of-age drama about a young son of a poor English coal miner who dreams of being a ballet dancer. The film is set during a 1984 miners' strike in Durham county, where angry clashes between picketers and cops in riot gear are nearly daily occurrences. Among the most vociferous protestors are ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50!
8	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) more movies like this directed by William Wyler featuring Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Harold Russell, Virginia Mayo The postwar classic The Best Years of Our Lives, based on a novel in verse by MacKinlay Kantor about the difficult readjustments of returning World War II veterans, tells the intertwined homecoming stories of ex-sergeant Al Stephenson (Fredric March), former bomber pilot Fred Derry (Dana Andrews), and sailor Homer Parrish (Harold Russell). Having ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $10.67!
9	Imitation of Life (1959) more movies like this directed by Douglas Sirk featuring Lana Turner, John Gavin, Juanita Moore, Sandra Dee, Dan O'Herlihy, Robert Alda, Susan Kohner This glamorized remake of the 1934 film Imitation of Life bears only a passing resemblance to its source, the best-selling novel by Fannie Hurst. Originally, the heroine was a widowed mother who kept the wolf from the door by setting up a successful pancake business with her black housemaid. In the remake, Lana Turner stars as a would-be actress ... see all copies from $3.91! new only from $10.66!
10	Brideshead Revisited (1981) more movies like this directed by Charles Sturridge, Michael Lindsay-Hogg Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited was offered to television viewers in this 11-part adaptation that originally aired on the U.K.'s ITV network. The miniseries, like the book, lays bare the eccentricities of the young British aristocracy, concentrating upon several Oxford students. The story is told from the point-of-view of Charles ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $45.34!
11 view cover	Friendly Persuasion (1956) more movies like this directed by William Wyler featuring Gary Cooper, Dorothy McGuire, Anthony Perkins, Marjorie Main, Robert Middleton, Richard Eyer Adapted from the best-selling novel by Jessamyn West, Friendly Persuasion is set in Southern Indiana in the early days of the Civil War. Gary Cooper plays Jess Birdwell, patriarch of a Quaker family which does not believe in warfare. Birdwell's son Josh (Anthony Perkins) wishes to adhere to his family's pacifism, but is afraid that if he doesn't ... see all copies from $6.03! new only from $16.32!
12 view cover	Legends of the Fall (1994) more movies like this directed by Edward Zwick featuring Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn, Henry Thomas, Julia Ormond, Tantoo Cardinal The sweeping, melodramatic saga of three brothers, their powerful father, and a beautiful woman, the popular period drama Legends of the Fall presents a romanticized view of rugged masculinity against lush Montana scenery. Based on a novel by Jim Harrison, the film covers decades in the lives of Alfred (Aidan Quinn), Tristan (Brad Pitt), and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.01!
13 view cover	On Golden Pond (1981) more movies like this directed by Mark Rydell featuring Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, Doug McKeon, Dabney Coleman There's little that happens in On Golden Pond that isn't thoroughly predictable from the start, but the film is blessed with so much star power, charm and honest sentiment that everyone in the audience is willing to ignore the cliches and go the distance. In his last film, Henry Fonda plays Norman Thayer, a cranky 80-year-old retired professor, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.45!
14 view cover	The Godfather (1972) more movies like this directed by Francis Ford Coppola featuring Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, John Cazale, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton Popularly viewed as one of the best American films ever made, the multi-generational crime saga The Godfather is a touchstone of cinema: one of the most widely imitated, quoted, and lampooned movies of all time. Marlon Brando and Al Pacino star as Vito Corleone and his youngest son, Michael, respectively. It is the late 1940s in New York and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.95!
15	The Sopranos: Season 06 (2006) more movies like this HBO split the sixth and final season of its serial mafia drama The Sopranos into two halves, spaced 10 months apart: the first half (episodes 1-12) aired from mid-March through early June of 2006; a hiatus followed between episodes 12 and 13, before the series picked up again for its final nine episodes on April 8, 2007, purportedly thanks to ... see all copies from $41.88! new only from $41.88!
16 view cover	Death of a Salesman (1985) more movies like this directed by Volker Schlöndorff featuring Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, Kate Reid, Stephen Lang, Charles Durning In 1984, actor Dustin Hoffman starred in a critically-acclaimed Broadway revival of playwright Arthur Miller's classic Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Death of a Salesman. A year later, Hoffman and most of his fellow cast members starred in this made-for-TV production, the first English-language film by German director Volker Schlondorff. Hoffman ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $19.64!
17 view cover	Roots (1977) more movies like this directed by David Greene, Gilbert Moses, John Erman, Marvin J. Chomsky featuring LeVar Burton, Louis Gossett, Jr., John Amos, Ben Vereen This award-winning six-part historical epic was one of the first examples of the miniseries format and one of the highest-rated television programs in broadcasting history. Based on the best-selling novel by author Alex Haley, Roots chronicles the progress of Haley's own family across many generations, from the kidnapping of an African warrior by ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $2.95!
18 view cover	Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) more movies like this directed by Vincente Minnelli featuring Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Tom Drake, Marjorie Main Sally Benson's short stories about the turn-of-the-century Smith family of St. Louis were tackled by a battalion of MGM screenwriters, who hoped to find a throughline to connect the anecdotal tales. After several false starts (one of which proposed that the eldest Smith daughter be kidnapped and held for ransom), the result was the charming ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.95!
19 view cover	A River Runs Through It (1992) more movies like this directed by Robert Redford featuring Craig Sheffer, Brad Pitt, Tom Skerritt, Brenda Blethyn, Emily Lloyd, Joseph Gordon-Levitt Robert Redford's lyrical direction sets the tone for this evocative adaptation of author Norman MacLean's memoir of his idyllic Montana youth. The MacLean family is presided over by the strict but encouraging Rev. MacLean (Tom Skerritt) and his loving wife (Brenda Blethyn). Craig Sheffer stars as the young Norman, the older son in his family, who ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00!
20 view cover	Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002) more movies like this directed by Callie Khouri featuring Sandra Bullock, Ellen Burstyn, Ashley Judd, Fionnula Flanagan, Maggie Smith, Cherry Jones, Shirley Knight, James Garner Screenwriter Callie Khouri makes her directorial debut with this adaptation of a pair of popular novels by author Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and Little Altars Everywhere. Sandra Bullock stars as Sidda Lee Walker, a New York playwright who opens a can of emotional worms with her estranged, boozy mother, Vivi (Ellen ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.75!
21 view cover	American Beauty (1999) more movies like this directed by Sam Mendes featuring Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Chris Cooper Noted theater director Sam Mendes, who was responsible for the acclaimed 1998 revival of Cabaret and Nicole Kidman's turn in The Blue Room, made his motion picture debut with this film about the dark side of an American family, and about the nature and price of beauty in a culture obsessed with outward appearances. Kevin Spacey plays Lester ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.94!
22 view cover	Fly Away Home (1996) more movies like this directed by Carroll Ballard featuring Jeff Daniels, Anna Paquin, Dana Delany, Terry Kinney, Holter Ford Graham Inspired by a true story, Fly Away Home is a family drama about Amy Alden (Anna Paquin), a 13-year-old girl who, after the tragic death of her mother, is sent to live with her father Thomas (Jeff Daniels), a sculptor. Amy misses her mother and has never enjoyed a very warm relationship with her father, so the first few months in her new home are ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.14!
23 view cover	The Lion in Winter (1968) more movies like this directed by Anthony Harvey featuring Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Jane Merrow, John Castle, Timothy Dalton, Anthony Hopkins, Nigel Terry The year is 1183. Like many a modern-day politician, Britain's King Henry II (Peter O'Toole) finds it occasionally useful to take his wife out of mothballs and parade her before the public. Henry's Queen Eleanor (Katharine Hepburn), long exiled to a faraway castle, is "invited" to join Henry and their three sons for a family reunion. In this way, ... see all copies from $3.95! new only from $9.62!
24 view cover	The Sopranos: Season 01 (1999) more movies like this The first season of The Sopranos finds lifelong "organization man" Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) taking over from Jackie Aprile Sr., terminally ill boss of the northern New Jersey branch of the DiMeo crime family. Tony's promotion is met with mixed reactions from his wife Carmela (Edie Falco), daughter Meadow (Jamie-Lyn DiScala) and son AJ ... see all copies from $5.75! new only from $30.30!
25	Bonanza [TV Series] (1959) more movies like this The first hour-long network Western series telecast in color, Bonanza was also the granddaddy of all "property" Westerns, future examples of which included The Virginian, The Big Valley, and The High Chaparral. The series took place during and after the Civil War in Virginia City, NV. Lorne Greene starred as Ben Cartwright, silver-haired owner of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!

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