Henry Bumstead
#1
Mystic River
Synopsis:
The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them has a family tragedy.
Starring:
Laurence Fishburne,
Kevin Chapman,
Emmy Rossum
#2
Space Cowboys
Synopsis:
Frank Corvin, ‘Hawk’ Hawkins, Jerry O'Neill and ‘Tank’ Sullivan were hotdog members of Project Daedalus, the Air Force's test program for space travel, but their hopes were dashed in 1958 with the formation of NASA and the use of trained chimps. They blackmail their way into orbit when Russia's mysterious ‘Ikon’ communications satellite's orbit begins to degrade and threatens to crash to Earth.
Starring:
Tommy Lee Jones,
Donald Sutherland,
Loren Dean
#3
Home Alone 3
Synopsis:
9-year-old Alex Pruitt is home alone with the chicken pox. Turns out, due to a mix-up among nefarious spies, Alex was given a toy car concealing a top-secret microchip. Now Alex must fend off the spies as they try break into his house to get it back.
Starring:
Scarlett Johansson,
Alex D. Linz,
Olek Krupa
#4
A Perfect World
Synopsis:
A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.
Starring:
Clint Eastwood,
Ray McKinnon,
Laura Dern
Plot:
escaped convict,
anti hero,
police officer,
criminal,
police,
getaway,
friendship,
neo noir,
gun violence,
texas
...
#5
Unforgiven
Synopsis:
William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute. Joined by his former partner and a cocky greenhorn, he takes on a corrupt sheriff.
Starring:
Clint Eastwood,
Morgan Freeman,
Frances Fisher
#6
Cape Fear
Synopsis:
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach S…
Starring:
Nick Nolte,
Robert De Niro,
Jessica Lange
Plot:
revenge,
violence,
houseboat,
home invasion,
bible quote,
torture,
family relationships,
finger sucking,
sexual violence,
adultery
...
#7
The Front Page
Synopsis:
A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn’t like the idea one bit.
Starring:
Susan Sarandon,
Austin Pendleton,
David Wayne
Plot:
chicago illinois,
journalism,
based on play,
screwball comedy,
reporter,
1920s,
prostitute,
taxi,
newspaper editor,
taxi driver
...
#8
The Sting
Synopsis:
Set in the 1930s this intricate caper deals with an ambitious small-time crook and a veteran con man who seek revenge on a vicious crime lord who murdered one of their gang.
Starring:
Harold Gould,
Robert Redford,
Paul Newman
Plot:
con,
con man,
illegal activity,
playing golf,
con artist,
caper,
sting operation,
gangster,
burlesque dancer,
violence
...
#9
High Plains Drifter
Synopsis:
A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the Stranger to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.
Starring:
Clint Eastwood,
Geoffrey Lewis,
Verna Bloom
Plot:
anti hero,
revisionist western,
outlaw,
revenge,
small town,
rape,
gunfighter,
gravestone,
man with no name,
beating
...
#10
Joe Kidd
Synopsis:
A band of Mexicans find their U. S. land claims denied and all the records destroyed in a courthouse fire. Their leader, Louis Chama, encourages them to use force to regain their land. A wealthy landowner wanting the same decides to hire a gang of killers with Joe Kidd to track Chama.
Starring:
Clint Eastwood,
John Saxon,
Robert Duvall
Plot:
train,
western town,
revolutionary,
land deed,
hostage,
posse,
landowner,
mexican,
sharpshooter,
telescopic rifle
...
#11
Topaz
Synopsis:
Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and bloody spy war in which his own family will play a decisive role.
Starring:
Michel Piccoli,
John Vernon,
Philippe Noiret
Plot:
1960s,
cold war,
spy,
defection,
cuban missile crisis,
year 1962,
secret agent,
surveillance,
intrigue,
interrogation
...
#12
To Kill a Mockingbird
Synopsis:
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson against fabricated rape charges, the trial and tangent events expose the children to evils of racism and ste…
Starring:
Rosemary Murphy,
Gregory Peck,
Paul Fix
#13
Vertigo
Synopsis:
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
Starring:
James Stewart,
Henry Jones,
Lee Patrick
#14
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Synopsis:
A widescreen, Technicolor remake by Hitchcock of his 1934 film of the same title. A couple vacationing in Morocco with their young son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot. When the child is kidnapped to ensure their silence, they have to take matters into their own hands to save him.
Starring:
James Stewart,
Bernard Miles,
Alan Mowbray