When Prince Judah Ben-Hur discovers that Messala, his childhood friend, has been chosen to command the Jerusalem Roman garrison, he is delighted. However, he soon learns that his friend has changed and has become an arrogant conqueror, full of Rome’s greatness. Messala tries to make an example of him and sends him off as a galley … Read more
A fourth network struggles with ratings and moves its news department to the entertainment department. The news Anchor is fired as one of the ramifications of that change. With a beautifully daffy rant and rave session, he goes on the air, resulting in his demanding that people go to the windows and scream, “I’m as … Read more
Swedish knight Antonius Block and his squire Jöns return home from the Crusades and find the land devastated by the plague. Block notices that people are living in terror everywhere, thinking it is the retribution of God and that the end has come. Block has lost his confidence and is searching for answers, so the … Read more
A film that parallels the lives of a lonely TV obsessed widow, Sara Goldfarb, and her son, Harry, his mother, Marion, and his drug dealer, Tyrone. Sara attempts to lose weight so that she can fit into her prized red dress after discovering that she will make an appearance on a TV game show, and … Read more
A Belarusian boy is plunged into the horrors of war during WWII, fighting against brutal German forces with a hopelessly unequipped Soviet resistance movement. He loses his innocence and then his mind by experiencing scenes of abject horror and overcoming horrifying circumstances. Release Date 9 July 1985 (Moscow) Language English Running time 142minutes File type SRT (zip file) … Read more
Small-town California teen Marty McFly is thrown back into the ’50s in this 1980s sci-fi classic when an experiment goes wrong by his quirky scientist friend Doc Brown. Marty meets young versions of his parents travelling through time in a modified DeLorean car, and must ensure that they fall in love or he will cease … Read more
A homely, polite Australian girl of eight chooses a name out of a Manhattan phone book in the mid-1970s and writes to him; she has a chocolate bar. She’s Mary Dinkle, an alcoholic mother’s only child, and a distracted father. This is Max Horowitz, an overweight man, living alone in New York with Asperger’s. He’s … Read more
Chris Taylor is a young, naive American who, in Vietnam, gives up college and volunteers to fight. He soon learns that his presence is very unessential upon arrival, and is considered irrelevant to the other soldiers, since he has not fought for as long as the rest of them and has felt the effects of … Read more
On what transforms into a glorious journey to discover the wonders and wonder of the world, a young man bravely sets out alone. He explores and eventually finds pleasure and joy in his journeys, which ultimately lead him into the wild and wilderness, along with a sense of reality and meaning he has longed for … Read more
Walt Kowalski is a widower who, amid the shifts in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him, holds onto his biases. Kowalski is a grumpy, hard-minded, miserable old man who is unable to get along with either his neighbors or his children. He is a veteran of the Korean War whose prize possession is … Read more