The American President (1995)

The American President (1995)

[6] What if a widowed U.S. president started dating again during an election year? This question is the premise for director Rob Reiner (Stand By Me, Misery) and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network, Moneyball) in The American President. Michael…
Trick (1999)

Trick (1999)

[6] One night in the Big Apple, two young gay guys -- one a timid writer of musicals, the other a go-go dancer -- try to hook up for a one night stand. With both their apartments otherwise occupied, where…
Chasing Amy (1997)

Chasing Amy (1997)

[6] Ben Affleck stars as an indie comic book artist who falls in love with a fellow artist (Joey Lauren Adams), despite the fact that she's a lesbian. She decides to give him a chance, but when he discovers her…
Dirty Dancing (1987)

Dirty Dancing (1987)

[7] One of the ultimate 'little movies that could,' Dirty Dancing is a low-budget sleeper sensation that is arguably the most popular and enduring movie released in its year. Set in a Catskills resort in 1963, the film is a…
About Last Night (1986)

About Last Night (1986)

[5] Edward Zwick (Glory, Legends of the Fall) directs this yuppie 'windy city' romance starring brat-packers Rob Lowe and Demi Moore. It's your typical boy-meets-girl story. They have sex, they fall in love, they move in together, they fight, they…
Female (1933)

Female (1933)

[6] Ruth Chatterton (Frisco Jenny) stars as a powerful automobile executive who plucks young men out of her workforce to have sex with and vows never to marry. But when a rival businessman (George Brent) refuses her advances, she begins…
Licorice Pizza (2021)

Licorice Pizza (2021)

[8] Hollywood often waters down characters and storylines to make them universally appealing. Filmmakers like Paul Thomas Anderson with Licorice Pizza, or David O. Russell with Joy and The Fighter, are challenging that notion with stories of tremendous specificity --…
Shopworn (1932)

Shopworn (1932)

[4] Barbara Stanwyck plays a poor waitress who falls in love with a rich man (Regis Toomey), but his mother (Clara Blandick) is determined to keep the two apart. She even goes so far as to have a judge arrest…
Something to Talk About (1995)

Something to Talk About (1995)

[6] Screenwriter Callie Khouri's much anticipated follow-up to her Oscar-winning script for Thelma & Louise is a more conventional romantic comedy, but not one without bite. Julia Roberts stars as Grace, a busy wife and mother who discovers her husband…
The Woman Accused (1933)

The Woman Accused (1933)

[5] Nancy Carroll (Hot Saturday) murders an ex-lover after he threatens to put out a hit on her new fiancée (Cary Grant). She and Grant escape on a three day pleasure cruise, but a lawyer friend of the deceased crashes…