2024-10-07
An inept student offers to kill the ex-wife of his professor in exchange for the teacher murdering the student's mother.
In this charming romantic comedy, a man second-guesses his plans to propose to his girlfriend after a pretty coworker hits on him. When his girlfriend flees to Paris, he follows her in a last-ditch effort to salvage their relationship. (New).
A dog returns from heaven and finds love while searching for an angel's horn.
The life of a beautiful peasant dancer turned popular actress unfolds via flashbacks recalled by mourners at her funeral, including the director whose career she saved, a press agent who witnessed her tumultuous relationship and her troubled husband whose wedding-night confession devastated her. Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's screenplay was Oscar nominated.
A cop becomes a super secret agent under the tutelage of a martial-arts master.
Wildly inept L.A. cop Frank Drebin tries to foil a plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II. Inspired by the 1982 TV series, itself a spoof of detective stories.
This award-winning black comedy from the Coen brothers involves the plight of a debt-ridden salesman (William H. Macy) who arranges his own wife's kidnapping and the subsequent probe led by pregnant Sheriff Gunderson (Best Actress Frances McDormand). Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare.
The son of a recently deceased British patriarch copes with several crises as family and friends gather to attend the man's funeral at his country estate. Matthew Macfadyen stars in this outrageously funny farce. Keeley Hawes, Andy Nyman, Ewen Bremner, Daisy Donovan. Directed by Frank Oz.
An adaptation of John Guare's Tony-nominated play in which a well-to-do couple are duped by a young but shrewd con artist who palms himself off on New York socialites as the son of Sydney Poitier.
Frances O'Connor stars in this updated version of Jane Austen's novel about an independent woman. Writer-director Patricia Rozema imbues the story with a modern sensibility, making strong points about the expectations of 19th-century women to marry and look pretty. Embeth Davidtz, Jonny Lee Miller.
An antisocial dwarf takes refuge in an abandoned train depot, then is drawn out by a troubled artist and a gregarious hot-dog vendor. Funny and touching character study.
John Irving's Oscar-winning adaptation of his own novel is a poignant drama about a World War II-era orphanage in Maine, where a sensitive lad who grows up under the tutelage of the institute's kindly doctor who performs abortions on the side.
Salma Hayek's Oscar-nominated performance drives this fascinating biopic about Mexican surrealist Frida Kahlo and her fiery marriage to fellow painter Diego Rivera (Alfred Molina). The imaginative film also chronicles her political activism and the bus accident that left her in pain for the rest of her life. Geoffrey Rush, Ashley Judd, Antonio Banderas, Edward Norton.