The Shape of Water (2017)

The Shape of Water (2017)

[7] Guillermo del Toro serves up a fantasy love story set in the 1960s in which a mute janitor at a top-secret research facility falls in love with... well, a fish man. Sally Hawkins plays the janitor and Doug Jones (a Del Toro…
If…. (1968)

If…. (1968)

[7] Malcolm McDowell stars in Lindsay Anderson's tale of schoolyard rebellion. If.... caught the zeitgeist when it was released in 1968 and took home the Palme d'Or at Cannes for its allegorical look at the class system and social upheaval. It also…
The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)

The Philadelphia Experiment (1984)

[6] A 1943 Navy experiment to cloak a ship from enemy radar accidentally sends two sailors forty-one years into the future. Once they arrive in 1984, they are pursued by the military and begin suffering a mysterious illness that threatens their lives unless…
Sneakers (1992)

Sneakers (1992)

[7] Robert Redford leads an all-star ensemble cast under the direction of Phil Alden Robinson (Field of Dreams). Redford plays a high-tech security professional who works with a team of specialists to test security systems. When government agents blackmail him into stealing…
Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (1973)

Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (1973)

[6] While vacationing separately in Spain, a teenager (Timothy Bottoms) and a woman in her thirties (Maggie Smith) strike up an unlikely friendship that blossoms into romance. Both characters are introverts who help each other come out of their shells, but their…
Home for the Holidays (1995)

Home for the Holidays (1995)

[6] Jodie Foster directs this universal story of holiday family togetherness, warts and all. Holly Hunter stars as a woman who travels to be with her parents for Thanksgiving after just being let go from her job. While she tries to obscure…
El Dorado (1967)

El Dorado (1967)

[7] John Wayne and Robert Mitchum headline this Howard Hawks western about a gunfighter-for-hire (Wayne) who teams up with a drunk sheriff (Mitchum) to help a family protect their land from a rival rancher. The plot to El Dorado was a little…
Everest (2015)

Everest (2015)

[6] Everest is the true story of a deadly 1996 expedition up Mount Everest in which two climbing parties suffered casualties after a fierce blizzard engulfed the mountain with little warning. The film is more of a dramatic biopic than a sensational…
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)

[8] Frances McDormand and Amy Adams star in this ebullient female bonding flick set in the early 1930s, about a recently fired governess (McDormand) who ingratiates herself into the employment of a ditzy actress (Adams). This film, particularly in its first half, is a serendipitous…
Blind Dating (2006)

Blind Dating (2006)

[6] Chris Pine stars as a young blind man trying to enter the dating world. His brother (American Pie's Eddie Kaye Thomas) steers him in plenty of wrong, comedic directions before Pine realizes he's attracted to the young Indian receptionist at his…