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1	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!
2	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!
3	An Affair to Remember (1957) more movies like this directed by Leo McCarey featuring Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Richard Denning, Neva Patterson, Cathleen Nesbitt An Affair to Remember, director Leo McCarey's scene-for-scene remake of his own 1939 film Love Affair, isn't really an improvement on the original, but it's equally as enjoyable. Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, high-profile types both engaged to be married to other people, meet and fall in love during an ocean voyage. To test the depth of their ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.24!
4	Cruel Intentions (1999) more movies like this directed by Roger Kumble featuring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, Selma Blair, Louise Fletcher, Swoosie Kurtz, Christine Baranski In an adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' novel, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Kathryn Merteuil (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Sebastian Valmont (Ryan Phillippe) are step-brother and step-sister living in Manhattan. With their absent parents travelling in Europe, the wealthy pair have the family penthouse to themselves as they while away their summer ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.57!
5	Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955) more movies like this directed by Henry King featuring William Holden, Jennifer Jones, Torin Thatcher, Isobel Elsom, Murray Matheson, Virginia Gregg Based on the autobiographical novel by Han Suyin, Love is a Many Splendored Thing was evocatively location-filmed in Hong Kong. Jennifer Jones plays Ms. Suyin, a Eurasian doctor and the widow of a Chinese general. She falls in love with American news correspondent Mark Elliot (William Holden), who unfortunately cannot obtain a divorce from his ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $7.32!
6	Intolerance (1916) more movies like this directed by D.W. Griffith featuring Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Miriam Cooper, Walter Long, Tully Marshall, Alfred Paget Sometime during the shooting of the landmark The Birth of a Nation, filmmaker D.W. Griffith probably wondered how he could top himself. In 1916, he showed how, with the awesome Intolerance. The film began humbly enough as a medium-budget feature entitled The Mother and the Law, wherein the lives of a poor but happily married couple are disrupted ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $5.00!
7	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!
8	The Little Princess (1939) more movies like this directed by Walter Lang featuring Shirley Temple, Richard Greene, Anita Louise, Ian Hunter, Cesar Romero Shirley Temple's first Technicolor feature, The Little Princess was inspired by the oft-filmed novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Set in turn-of-the-century England, the film finds Temple being enrolled in a boarding school by her wealthy widowed father (Ian Hunter), who must head off to fight in the Boer War. At first, Temple is treated like ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.42!
9	A Walk to Remember (2002) more movies like this directed by Adam Shankman featuring Mandy Moore, Shane West, Peter Coyote, Daryl Hannah, Lauren German The best-seller by sentimental novelist Nicholas Sparks becomes this teen melodrama set in a coastal North Carolina port. Cocky, popular high school student Landon Carter (Shane West) is the big man on campus at Beaufort High School until a hazing incident leaves a fellow student paralyzed. Sentenced to community service and membership in his ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.24!
10	A Summer Place (1959) more movies like this directed by Delmer Daves featuring Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee, Arthur Kennedy, Troy Donahue The Jorgensons are a wealthy family spending the summer on a resort island. Ken (Richard Egan), Helen (Constance Ford) and daughter Molly (Sandra Dee) settle in to a beach house on the island where Ken was a young lifeguard twenty years ago. He rediscovers Sylvia (Dorothy McGuire), with whom he had an earlier affair before she married Bart Hunter ... see all copies from $3.63! new only from $15.04!
11 view cover	Cinema Paradiso (1988) more movies like this directed by Giuseppe Tornatore featuring Philippe Noiret, Salvatore Cascio, Marco Leonardi, Jacques Perrin, Antonella Attili, Pupella Maggio, Agnese Nano Cinema Paradiso offers a nostalgic look at films and the effect they have on a young boy who grows up in and around the title village movie theater in this Italian comedy drama that is based on the life and times of screenwriter/director Giuseppe Tornatore. The story begins in the present as a Sicilian mother pines for her estranged son, Salvatore ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $20.53!
12 view cover	Breaking the Waves (1996) more movies like this directed by Lars von Trier featuring Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge, Jean-Marc Barr, Adrian Rawlins With Breaking The Waves, director Lars von Trier fashions an often disturbing tale of the singular power of love. Bess (the Oscar-nominated Emily Watson) is a naïve, borderline simple young woman who lives in a Scottish coastal town ruled by the religious doctrine of its council of elders. Recovering from a mental breakdown caused by the death of ... see all copies from $2.95!
13 view cover	This Property Is Condemned (1966) more movies like this directed by Sydney Pollack featuring Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Charles Bronson, Kate Reid, Mary Badham Sydney Pollack's tawdry potboiler, adapted from a one-act play by Tennessee Williams, was rife with production problems, culminating in Williams' failed attempt to have his name removed from the credits. The story is set by a framing device as thirteen-year-old Willie Starr (Mary Badham) sits on an abandoned railroad track with her friend Tom (Jon ... see all copies from $7.12! new only from $7.12!
14 view cover	Love Story (1970) more movies like this directed by Arthur Hiller featuring Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal, John Marley, Ray Milland, Russell Nype In director Arthur Hiller's hit tearjerker -- based on Erich Segal's novella -- Ryan O'Neal plays Oliver Barrett IV, a comfortably off Harvard pre-law student who falls in love with Radcliffe music student Jenny Cavilleri (Ali MacGraw), a freewheeling, delightfully profane product of a blue-collar Italian-American family. Oliver's father (Ray ... see all copies from $4.99! new only from $5.99!
15 view cover	I Am Sam (2001) more movies like this directed by Jessie Nelson featuring Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dakota Fanning Sean Penn stars in this drama as Sam Dawson, a developmentally disabled adult who has been working at a coffee shop and raising his daughter Lucy (Dakota Fanning) for seven years. Sam receives help in his parenting duties from a circle of trusted confidantes, including his ADD-afflicted best friend Ifty (Doug Hutchison), the paranoid Robert ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.94!
16 view cover	The Prince of Tides (1991) more movies like this directed by Barbra Streisand featuring Nick Nolte, Barbra Streisand, Blythe Danner, Kate Nelligan, Jeroen Krabbé Barbra Streisand directed and stars in this love story about two people of dissimilar backgrounds who form a connection based on their unhappy experiences. Adapted from the novel by Pat Conroy, the story concerns Tom Wingo (Nick Nolte), a rudderless, unemployed football coach. Stuck in a loveless marriage with a wife (Blythe Danner) who feels ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.49!
17 view cover	The Bells of St. Mary's (1945) more movies like this directed by Leo McCarey featuring Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Travers, Ruth Donnelly, William Gargan, Rhys Williams In this follow-up to director Leo McCarey's Going My Way (1944), Bing Crosby repeats his Oscar-winning characterization of happy-go-lucky priest Father O'Malley. The good father is sent to help out financially strapped St. Mary's Academy, a parochial school presided over by lovely nun Sister Benedict (Ingrid Bergman). The film is constructed in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95!
18 view cover	A Farewell to Arms (1932) more movies like this directed by Frank Borzage featuring Gary Cooper, Helen Hayes, Adolphe Menjou, Mary Philips, Jack LaRue This first film version of Ernest Hemingway's novel A Farewell to Arms stars Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes. Cooper plays Lt. Frederick Henry, a World War I officer who falls in love with English Red Cross nurse Catherine Barkley (Hayes)-after first mistaking her for a woman of ill repute. Henry's friend, Major Rinaldi, is envious of the romance, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
19 view cover	Sling Blade (1996) more movies like this directed by Billy Bob Thornton featuring Billy Bob Thornton, Dwight Yoakam, J.T. Walsh, John Ritter, Lucas Black, Natalie Canerday Sling Blade marked the directorial debut of country singer turned actor Billy Bob Thornton, who also authored the script (expanding George Hickenlooper's acclaimed short Some Folks Call it a Sling Blade) and stars in the picture. Thornton plays Karl Childers, a mildly retarded man who spent most of his life in a mental institution. When Karl was a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.99!
20 view cover	Strictly Ballroom (1992) more movies like this directed by Baz Luhrmann featuring Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice, Bill Hunter, Barry Otto, Pat Thompson, Gia Carides This wildly off-beat comedy is about a male dancer (Paul Mercurio) who refuses to follow the accepted rules of ballroom dancing and creates his own style of choreography, which infuriates the ballroom dancing establishment. Before he's scheduled to compete in the Pan-Pacific ballroom championships, he's forced to take up a new partner (Tara Morice ... see all copies from $6.57! new only from $10.95!
21 view cover	Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) more movies like this directed by Rob Marshall featuring Zhang Ziyi, Ken Watanabe, Michelle Yeoh, Koji Yakusho, Youki Kudoh This film, based on the novel by Arthur Golden, unfolds from the perspective of Chiyo (Zhang Ziyi), a girl who, at the age of nine, is sold to a geisha house in Kyoto in the early 1930s. Here, she learns that becoming a geisha can be the single path to wealth and independence for a woman. The head geisha of her house, however, Hatsumomo (Gong Li), ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $7.99!
22 view cover	Girl, Interrupted (1999) more movies like this directed by James Mangold featuring Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea Duvall, Brittany Murphy, Elisabeth Moss, Jared Leto, Jeffrey Tambor, Vanessa Redgrave, Whoopi Goldberg In 1967, 19-year-old Susanna (Winona Ryder) feels that "reality is becoming too dense" and is diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. The doctor suggests to her parents that she be committed to the Claymore Hospital, and she spends the next 18 months struggling with her troubled psyche and the bizarre world of the institution. Susanna ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
23 view cover	Monster's Ball (2001) more movies like this directed by Marc Forster featuring Billy Bob Thornton, Heath Ledger, Halle Berry, Peter Boyle, Sean Combs Director Marc Forster, winner of Best Feature at Slamdance for his debut film Loungers (1996) and the "Someone to Watch" Independent Spirit Award for his indie drama Everything Put Together (2000), follows up those acclaimed projects with this intense, racially charged romance. Billy Bob Thornton stars as Georgia prison guard Hank Grotowski, a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.65!
24 view cover	Message in a Bottle (1999) more movies like this directed by Luis Mandoki featuring Kevin Costner, Robin Wright Penn, Paul Newman, John Savage, Illeana Douglas Based on the novel by Nicholas Sparks, Message In A Bottle stars Robin Wright Penn as Theresa Osborne, a writer for the Chicago Tribune. While her son visits her cheating ex-husband, Theresa goes on a vacation by herself. One day, while running on the beach, she finds a bottle washed up on the shore. She opens it and inside finds a love letter ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $4.98!
25 view cover	Now, Voyager (1942) more movies like this directed by Irving Rapper featuring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Bonita Granville, Gladys Cooper, Ilka Chase Olive Higgins Prouty's popular novel was transformed into nearly two hours of high-grade soap opera by several masters of the trade: Warner Bros., Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, director Irving Rapper, and screenwriter Casey Robinson. Davis plays repressed Charlotte Vale, dying on the vine thanks to her domineering mother (Gladys Cooper). All-knowing ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.48!

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