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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 $9.00! new only from $14.99!
2	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 $8.99! new only from $11.05!
3	The Shell Seekers (1989) more movies like this directed by Waris Hussein featuring Angela Lansbury The made-for-TV The Shell Seekers was based on the best-selling novel by Rosamunde Pincher. Heading the cast is Angela Lansbury as Penelope Keeling, a reclusive British matron of comfortable means who suffers a near-fatal heart attack. While recovering, Penelope determines that her attack was a sign of sorts, urging her to get her life in order. ... see all copies from $4.95!
4	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!
5	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 $2.48! new only from $9.62!
6	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 $3.55!
7	The Joy Luck Club (1993) more movies like this directed by Wayne Wang featuring Tsai Chin, Kieu Chinh, Lisa Lu, France Nuyen, Rosalind Chao, Tamlyn Tomita Director Wayne Wang and screenwriter Ronald Bass effectively interweave sixteen mother-daughter tales in their silken film version of Amy Tan's best-selling novel about the clash between generations. The film takes place in present-day San Francisco, concentrating on a group of late-middle-aged Chinese women. Ever since arriving in the United ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.59!
8	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 $8.85! new only from $8.85!
9	The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) more movies like this directed by Gabriele Muccino featuring Will Smith, Jaden Christopher Syre Smith, Thandie Newton, Brian Howe, James Karen The rousing, true-life story of a single dad who went from living on the streets to owning his own brokerage firm is brought to the big screen by superstar Will Smith, appearing for the first time opposite his real-life son Jaden Smith. Set in early-'80s San Francisco, the film charts the hard times and eventual comeback of Chris Gardner, a ... see all copies from $7.14! new only from $7.14!
10	Norma Rae (1979) more movies like this directed by Martin Ritt featuring Sally Field, Beau Bridges, Ron Leibman, Pat Hingle, Barbara Baxley, Gail Strickland Norma Rae finds Sally Field cast in the title role, a minimum-wage worker in a cotton mill. The factory has taken too much of a toll on the health of Norma Rae's family for her to ignore her Dickensian working conditions. After hearing a speech by New York union organizer Reuben (Ron Leibman), Norma Rae decides to join the effort to unionize her ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.15!
11 view cover	The Dollmaker (1984) more movies like this directed by Daniel Petrie Jane Fonda stars in this made-for-TV movie, which uses the backdrop of World War II and urbanization to tell the story of one woman's fight to keep her family together. Gertie Nevels (Fonda), the wife of a Kentucky sharecropper, wants nothing more than to one day own her own farm. Thriftily hiding her savings from husband Clovis (Levon Helm), she ... see all copies from $36.58!
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 $1.99!
13 view cover	Love's Abiding Joy (2006) more movies like this directed by Michael Landon, Jr. featuring Erin Cottrell, Logan Bartholomew, John Laughlin, Dale Midkiff, Drew Tyler Bell Acclaimed author Janette Oke's bestselling series of books comes to life on the screen once again in this, the fourth feature following the continued Westward journey of settlers Missie and Willie Lahaye. Their roots now firmly planted as they set up homestead in the far West, Missie (Erin Cottrell begins to realize her passion for teaching as ... see all copies from $12.77! new only from $12.77!
14 view cover	The Evening Star (1996) more movies like this directed by Robert Harling featuring Shirley MacLaine, Bill Paxton, Juliette Lewis, Miranda Richardson, Ben Johnson Shirley MacLaine reprises her award-winning performance as Aurora Greenway in this sequel to Terms of Endearment. Fifteen years after the death of her daughter Emma, Aurora is still keeping an eye on her three grandchildren and not having very good luck with it. Tommy (George Newbern) is currently doing time on drug charges; Teddy (MacKenzie Astin ... see all copies from $1.99!
15 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 $2.49! new only from $7.78!
16 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 $2.99!
17 view cover	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 $8.49!
18 view cover	The Gathering (1977) more movies like this directed by Randal Kleiser featuring Gail Strickland, Gregory Harrison, Maureen Stapleton, Rebecca Balding The Gathering stars Ed Asner as an ill-tempered executive who long ago walked out on his family. Just before Christmas, Asner is told that he has only a few weeks to live. He confides this information to his estranged wife Maureen Stapleton, who suggests that he call his four adult children (Gail Strickland, Gregory Harrison, Rebecca Balding, ... see all copies from $10.26! new only from $49.94!
19 view cover	Everything Is Illuminated (2005) more movies like this directed by Liev Schreiber featuring Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz, Boris Leskin A young man takes a strange and unexpectedly funny journey in search of a family heroine he's never known in this screen adaptation of the novel by Jonathan Safran Foer. Jonathan (Elijah Wood) is a lifelong collector of any and all objects pertaining to his family, and he has become obsessed with a woman he's never met. The woman saved the life of ... see all copies from $14.78! new only from $15.48!
20 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!
21 view cover	Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991) more movies like this directed by Glenn Jordan featuring Glenn Close, Christopher Walken The made-for-television film Sarah, Plain & Tall is a Hallmark Hall of Fame production about a single New England schoolteacher (Glenn Close) who responds to an advertisement by a Midwestern widower, who is asking for a bride to help him raise his two children. Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide see all copies from $3.00! new only from $45.22!
22 view cover	The Jazz Singer (1927) more movies like this directed by Alan Crosland featuring Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugénie Besserer, William Demarest, Otto Lederer On the verge of receivership in 1926, Warner Bros. studio decides to risk its future by investing in the Vitaphone sound system. Warners' first Vitaphone release, Don Juan, was a silent film accompanied by music and sound effects. The studio took the Vitaphone process one step farther in its 1927 adaptation of the Samson Raphaelson Broadway hit ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $18.99!
23 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 $8.00! new only from $8.85!
24 view cover	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!
25 view cover	The Glass Menagerie (1987) more movies like this directed by Paul Newman featuring Joanne Woodward, John Malkovich, Karen Allen, James Naughton Paul Newman directed this moving adaptation of Tennessee Williams' classic play The Glass Menagerie. Joanne Woodward stars as aging Southern belle Amanda Wingfield, whose domineering parenting has driven her shy, timid daughter Laura (Karen Allen) inward and has made her adventure-hungry son Tom (John Malkovich) miserable. Newman hasn't tried to ... see all copies from $40.99!

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