A Night in Heaven (1983)

A Night in Heaven (1983)

[4] Christopher Atkins (The Blue Lagoon) and Lesley Ann Warren (Clue) star in this incredibly unfocused drama about a young community college teacher who enters into an affair with a handsome student failing her class. The tawdriness begins when she catches the…
Gambling Ship (1933)

Gambling Ship (1933)

[4] Cary Grant stars as a gambling boss who leaves New York after getting acquitted by a jury. He intends to turn over a new leaf, especially when he falls in love with a charming woman (Benita Hume) on a cross-country train…
Sylvia Scarlett (1935)

Sylvia Scarlett (1935)

[6] In the first and least successful of their screen pairings, Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant star as swindlers who end up running a traveling vaudeville show on the shores of England. Hepburn's character disguises herself as a young man in order…
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 Douglas stars…
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 can two…
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 sexual past,…
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 coming-of-age story…
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 make up,…
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 to wonder…
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 -- specificity of…