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Shadowlands

Shadowlands (1993) more movies like this

directed by Richard Attenborough
featuring Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Edward Hardwicke, Michael Denison, John Wood

This lavishly mounted adaptation of the play by William Nicholson tells the true story of the doomed love affair between novelist and noted Christian scholar C.S. Lewis and a Jewish-American poet. Anthony Hopkins stars as C.S. "Jack" Lewis, an Oxford professor and successful author of the Chronicles of Narnia series of children's fantasy novels. A ...

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Howards End

Howards End (1992) more movies like this

directed by James Ivory
featuring Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Vanessa Redgrave, Helena Bonham Carter, James Wilby, Samuel West

One of the best Ismail Merchant/James Ivory films, this adaptation of E. M. Forster's classic 1910 novel shows in careful detail the injuriously rigid British class consciousness of the early 20th century. The film's catalyst is "poor relation" Margaret Schlegel (Emma Thompson), who inherits part of the estate of Ruth Wilcox (Vanessa Redgrave), an ...

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A Beautiful Mind

A Beautiful Mind (2001) more movies like this

directed by Ron Howard
featuring Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Paul Bettany, Adam Goldberg

The true story of prominent mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. is the subject of this biographical drama from director Ron Howard. Russell Crowe stars as the brilliant but arrogant and conceited professor Nash. The prof seems guaranteed a rosy future in the early '50s after he marries beautiful student Alicia (Jennifer Connelly) and makes a ...

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The Color Purple

The Color Purple (1985) more movies like this

directed by Steven Spielberg
featuring Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey, Willard E. Pugh

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Alice Walker, The Color Purple spans the years 1909 to 1949, relating the life of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), a Southern black woman virtually sold into a life of servitude to her brutal husband, sharecropper Albert (Danny Glover). Celie pours out her innermost thoughts in letter form to her sister Nettie ...

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The Painted Veil

The Painted Veil (2006) more movies like this

directed by John J. Curran
featuring Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, Toby Jones, Diana Rigg

A couple with a broken relationship learns some valuable lessons about love, life, and sacrifice in this romantic drama based on a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It's 1925, and Dr. Walter Fane (Edward Norton) is a physician and bacteriologist who has become smitten with Kitty (Naomi Watts), the beautiful daughter of a wealthy and socially prominent ...

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Two for the Road

Two for the Road (1967) more movies like this

directed by Stanley Donen
featuring Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney, Eleanor Bron, William Daniels, Claude Dauphin

In preparing his romantic comedy Two For the Road, director Stanley Donen decided to utilize many of the cinematic techniques popularized by the French "nouvelle vague" filmmakers. Jump cutting back and forth in time with seeming abandon, Donen and scriptwriter Frederic Raphael chronicle the 12-year relationship between architect Wallace (Albert ...

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The Lion in Winter

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, ...

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When a Man Loves a Woman

When a Man Loves a Woman (1994) more movies like this

directed by Luis Mandoki
featuring Andy Garcia, Meg Ryan, Lauren Tom, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Tina Majorino

A dramatic treatment of a family torn apart by alcoholism and recovering from it, this was a star vehicle for popular actress Meg Ryan, who plays Alice Green, a school counselor who has a serious drinking problem. Her husband is Michael (Andy Garcia), an airline pilot. Though she's lighthearted and loving, Alice is often reckless and, when drunk, ...

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Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story

Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story (2000) more movies like this

directed by Stefan Scaini
featuring Megan Follows, Jonathan Crombie, Cameron Daddo, Schuyler Grant, Patricia Hamilton

Megan Follows, who literally grew up before the viewers' eyes as star of the Canadian TV series Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea, returns to the role of Lucy Maud Montgomery's plucky Canadian lass Anne Shirley in this four-hour TV miniseries. In the second decade of the 20th century, all grown up and a professional schoolteacher, Anne ...

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Kramer vs. Kramer

Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) more movies like this

directed by Robert Benton
featuring Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Justin Henry, Jane Alexander, Howard Duff, JoBeth Williams

Robert Benton's Oscar-winning adaptation of Avery Corman's bestseller takes on contemporary problems of divorce and shifting gender roles, as a jilted husband learns how to be a nurturing father. Manhattan housewife Joanna Kramer (Meryl Streep) walks out on her workaholic ad man husband Ted (Dustin Hoffman), leaving their young son Billy (Justin ...

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What's Love Got to Do with It?

What's Love Got to Do with It? (1993) more movies like this

directed by Brian Gibson
featuring Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Jenifer Lewis, Phyllis Stickney

What's Love Got to Do With It? is the filmed biography of R&B/pop singer Tina Turner (Angela Bassett), documenting her efforts to break away from her abusive husband Ike (Laurence Fishburne). After a few scenes detailing Tina's life as a young singer in Nutbush, TN, she's discovered by Ike Turner, an already established songwriter, guitarist, and ...

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Eyes Wide Shut (1999) more movies like this

directed by Stanley Kubrick
featuring Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack, Marie Richardson, Rade Serbedzija, Todd Field, Vinessa Shaw

The final work of legendary director Stanley Kubrick, who died within a week of completing the edit, stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, at the time Hollywood's most bankable celebrity couple, and was shot on a open-ended schedule (finally totaling over 400 days), with closed sets in London standing in for New York City. Cruise and Kidman play ...

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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) more movies like this

directed by Richard Brooks
featuring Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, Burl Ives, Jack Carson, Judith Anderson, Madeleine Sherwood

This dynamic and commanding adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play focuses on a troubled Southern family and the discord over their dying father's millions. Wealthy plantation owner Big Daddy Pollitt (Burl Ives), celebrating his 65th birthday, is visited by his sons, Brick (Paul Newman) and Gooper (Jack Carson). He has ...

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A History of Violence (2005) more movies like this

directed by David Cronenberg
featuring Viggo Mortensen, Maria Bello, Ashton Holmes, William Hurt, Stephen McHattie

David Cronenberg directed this screen adaptation of a graphic novel by John Wagner and Vince Locke which explores how an act of heroism unexpectedly changes a man's life. Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) lives a quiet life in a small Indiana town, running the local diner with his wife, Edie (Maria Bello), and raising their two children. But the quiet ...

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A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) more movies like this

directed by Elia Kazan
featuring Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden, Rudy Bond

In the classic play by Tennessee Williams, brought to the screen by Elia Kazan, faded Southern belle Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) comes to visit her pregnant sister, Stella (Kim Hunter), in a seedy section of New Orleans. Stella's boorish husband, Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando), not only regards Blanche's aristocratic affectations as a royal ...

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Raise the Red Lantern (1992) more movies like this

directed by Zhang Yimou
featuring Gong Li, He Caifei, Ma Jingwu, Cao Cuifeng, Jin Shuyuan, Kong Lin

The phenomenal success and international acclaim of Raise the Red Lantern, cemented Zhang Yimou's status as a leading figure in world cinema and reaffirmed the vibrancy of Chinese cinema. Though the film was the topic of great political controversy in China upon its release, it received armfuls of awards from Belgium, Italy, the United Kingdom ...

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Indecent Proposal (1993) more movies like this

directed by Adrian Lyne
featuring Robert Redford, Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, Oliver Platt, Seymour Cassel

Adrian Lyne buffs the premise of Honeymoon in Vegas to a fine gloss in this yuppie melodrama that poses the conundrum of whether the loving husband of an equally loving wife will accept $1 million to allow his wife to spend one night with a billionaire who looks like Robert Redford. All the cynics please take a number and form a line at the right. ...

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The Story of Us (1999) more movies like this

directed by Rob Reiner
featuring Bruce Willis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Tim Matheson, Rob Reiner, Rita Wilson, Paul Reiser

Bruce Willis and Michelle Pfeiffer star in this romantic comedy as Ben and Katie Jordan, a couple who have been married for fifteen years. They have two great kids, a nice home, and a comfortable life, but somewhere down the line, the spark went out of their marriage, and they find that they don't really love each other anymore. With their ...

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Henry & June (1990) more movies like this

directed by Philip Kaufman
featuring Maria de Medeiros, Fred Ward, Uma Thurman, Richard E. Grant, Kevin Spacey

The real-life relationship between two of the most controversial literary figures of the 20th century forms the basis for this drama. Anaïs Nin (Maria de Medeiros) is a struggling author trying to finish her first book, a study of the work of D.H. Lawrence. She also has a keen sexual curiosity that is not being satisfied by her sweet but ...

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De-Lovely (2004) more movies like this

directed by Irwin Winkler
featuring Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd, Jonathan Pryce, Kevin McNally, Alan Corduner

The public and private lives of famed songwriter Cole Porter are both explored in this musical drama, in which the aging Porter (played by Kevin Kline) looks back on his life while watching a rehearsal of a stage musical based on his story. As Porter compares notes on the play with director Gabe (Jonathan Pryce), he shares thoughts on his rise to ...

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Unfaithful (2002) more movies like this

directed by Adrian Lyne
featuring Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Olivier Martinez, Erik Per Sullivan

Diane Lane is a wayward wife and Richard Gere is her suspicious husband in Adrian Lyne's Unfaithful. Connie (Lane) leaves her suburban home on an errand, venturing into Manhattan during a wicked windstorm. On a trash-strewn Soho street, she literally runs into Paul Martel (Olivier Martinez), a handsome young Frenchman carrying a huge stack of ...

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The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) more movies like this

directed by Philip Kaufman
featuring Daniel Day-Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, Derek de Lint, Erland Josephson

In Philip Kaufman's surprisingly successful film adaptation of Czech author Milan Kundera's demanding 1984 bestseller, Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Tomas, an overly amorous Prague surgeon, while Juliette Binoche plays Tereza, the waiflike beauty whom he marries. Even though he's supposedly committed, Tomas continues his wanton womanizing, notably ...

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Urban Cowboy (1980) more movies like this

directed by James Bridges
featuring John Travolta, Debra Winger, Scott Glenn, Madolyn Smith, Barry Corbin

"You a real cowboy?" John Travolta traded disco for a mechanical bull in this adaptation by James Bridges and Aaron Latham of Latham's article on Western nightlife. Texas country boy Bud (Travolta) moves to Houston to work on an oil rig with his Uncle Bob (Barry Corbin), and he swiftly becomes indoctrinated in the nighttime rituals of drinking, ...

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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) more movies like this

directed by Mike Nichols
featuring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis

"You are cordially invited to George and Martha's for an evening of fun and games." Thus read the ad copy for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, which in 1966 went farther than any previous big-studio film in its use of profanity and sexual implication. George (Richard Burton) is an alcoholic college professor; Martha (Oscar-winner Elizabeth Taylor) ...

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Sweet Dreams (1985) more movies like this

directed by Karel Reisz
featuring Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ann Wedgeworth, David Clennon, James Staley

Patsy Cline was one of the first great female stars of country music, and her best-known hits (such as "Sweet Dreams" and "Walking After Midnight") not only broadened the audience for country but brought a new sophistication to the Nashville sound. Cline was at the peak of her popularity when she died in a plane crash in 1963, and Sweet Dreams is ...

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