Miramax Films
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
Tom Thompson is a befuddled college grad whose social life is practically D.O.A., until he's asked to be a pallbearer at the funeral of a classmate he can't remember! Comic chaos follows as Tom fends off the seductive advances of the grieving mother and tries desperately to find the nerve to ask out the beautiful girl of his dreams who can't remember him!
4) Neverwas
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
A young man finds out that his childhood fantasyland may really exist. Searching for insight into his father's life and the magical place he wrote about in the beloved children's book, Neverwas, psychiatrist Zach Riley takes a job at the institution where his father lived on and off. Once there, Zach meets Gabriel, a patient whose alternate reality is startlingly close to the world his father created.
5) Hero
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
With supernatural skill and no fear a nameless soldier embarks on a mission of revenge against the fearsome army that massacred his people. Now, to achieve the justice he seeks, he must take on the empire's most ruthless assassins and reach the enemy he has sworn to defeat.
Description
Restoration: Robert Merivel is a young man who seems to have everything...until an affair leads to scandel, suddenly leaving him heartbroken and penniless.
An ideal husband: A politician's spotless reputation is threatened by a dark secret from his past.
Her magesty, Mrs. Brown: John Brown is a lowly servant who looks after Queen Victoria's horses. Yet when circumstances bring them together, the result is a passionate friendship.
Tom & Viv: A...
7) Chocolat
Description
When a single mother and her young daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop - with Sunday hours - across the street from the local church, they are met with some resistance from the rigidly moral community. But as soon as the townspeople discover their delicious products, their attitudes begin to change.
10) Rounders
Pub. Date
2011
Description
A story of passion, risk and the extreme price of friendship. After losing a high-stakes card game, Mike gives up gambling for law school and a fresh start with his girlfriend. But then his best buddy gets out of prison and in over his head with a ruthless card shark. From there, Mike's strong sense of loyalty, and the lure of the game, draws him back to the tables in a game he cannot afford to lose.
Pub. Date
2003, [2011]
Description
A man named Amsterdam (DiCaprio) seeks to avenge the death of his father at the hands of Bill "The Butcher" Poole (Day-Lewis). Set in New York City during the period just before the Civil War, Amsterdam gets caught in the middle of the equally powerful and corrupt politician machines of Manhattan.
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Description
During the Napoleonic Wars, a British frigate, the HMS Surprise, and the larger French warship, Acheron, stalk each other off of the coast of South America. Lucky Jack, as he is referred to by his crew, is well regarded by his men, who trust him implicitly, even after the first devastating battle and an apparent personal vendetta against the French captain. The ship's surgeon balances the violence of his chosen life with the quiet demeanor of the...
13) The crying game
Pub. Date
1998
Description
A haunting, humorous and shocking romantic thriller about Irish terrorists, their hostage and the hostage's exotic girlfriend.
14) The hours
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Description
In 1929, Virginia Woolf is starting to write her novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway, ' under the care of doctors and family. In 1951, Laura Brown is planning for her husband's birthday, but is preoccupied with reading Woolf's novel. In 2001, Clarrisa Vaughn is planning an award party for her friend, an author dying of AIDS. Taking place over one day, all three stories are interconnected with the novel: one is writing it, one is reading it, and one is living it....
19) Derailed
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Two married executives' flirtation leads to a one-night stand. Their fling turns dangerous when a violent criminal threatens to expose their secret and lures them into a terrifying game with more surprises and more danger than they may survive.
Description
Einar is a crusty old rancher who does what he can to hold onto his Wyoming ranch. It's been a struggle for years; his son was killed in a car crash, his wife left him, and his longtime friend and helper, Mitch was recently mauled by a bear. Now, Einar has to care for Mitch and help him recover. Jean and her daughter, Griff, have to leave Jean's current abusive boyfriend. The only place they can go is the ranch of Griff's grandfather, Einar, who only...