This critically acclaimed 1976 documentary by the Maysles brothers explores the home life of Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, who share their ramshackle East Hampton mansion with an assortment of cats and wild raccoons. Both ladies have entertainment pretensions and mug for the camera, often competing with each other for screen time, but the Mayleses' deft production is able to peer behind the staged personas, revealing the strange reality of these women's lives.

While Oliver Stone’s grand epic failed to impress critics and bombed in the box office, sometimes you’re just in the mood to see Colin Farrell on a horse. Of course, your choices in this case are limited to American Outlaws and Alexander. So all of a sudden Alexander is looking pretty good, isn’t it?

Everyone liked this movie, and what’s not to like? Great animation, all-star cast, cars, comedy, and lots of fast-paced action. Pixar, once again, leaves other big-studio animation in the dust.

This French film takes place in a part of Paris we don’t usually get to see in feature films—the grimy suburban landscape where immigrant families try to reconcile their heritage and beliefs with contemporary French society. This award-winning film focuses on two very different Algerian Orthodox Jewish sisters challenging their upbringing by finding love in the wrong places. Directed by Karin Albou.

Al Gore's scary movie without monsters, knife-wielding psychopaths or aliens from outer space. Gore exhorts the viewer the set politics aside and recognize the the looming threat of global warming. Directed by Davis Guggenheim.

Henry Fonda. John Wayne. Shirley Temple. What? You’ve never seen this? What have you been doing? John Ford directed this cowboys and Indians and soldiers film, the first in his Cavalry Trilogy (with She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Rio Grande).

This is not your everyday, run of the mill, creature-from-outer-space horror movie. This gross-out, scary, backwoods and backwards film is funny. Honestly. Just when you are completely freaked out by nasty slimy slug-like creatures and the havoc they wreak on small-town America you will laugh and it will be okay. Just remember that when you turn off the lights and go to bed.

If you don’t think that crosswords and the people who do them could make compelling cinema, then you haven’t seen Patrick Creadon’s treatment of the subject. Featuring New York Times puzzle editor Will Shortz and an array of famous and not-so famous puzzlers, you will either see crosswords in a new light or finally realize you are not the only one whose day is ruined if the Sunday Times doesn’t get delivered.

Playwright Ken Hanes adapted his successful play for the screen in this 2006 drama. At the urging of his partner, reporter Frank Johnston goes undercover to expose the supposed sham methods of a psychotherapist who claims his conversion therapy can turn gay men straight. What starts as a search-and-destroy mission on behalf of his partner (himself a psychotherapist), however, ends with Frank deeply conflicted—doubting in his long-term loving relationship and finding sense in the questionable but persuasive mind games Dr. Apsey plays.

It's a musical! It's a comedy! It's a drama! A little bit of everything goes into this Outkast vehicle staged in Prohibition-era Virgina. A talented cast exhibits boundless energy in a movie you'll swear you have seen done before.

Terry Zwigoff takes on Daniel Clowes again in this silver screen adaptation of Clowes' comic story. Starring Max Minghella as Jerome (the graphic artist's stand-in); with Sophia Myles, John Malkovich and Anjelica Huston. Jerome is a first year student in a small, competitive East coast art school where pettiness, favoritism and a serial killer compete with his desire to be a great artist.

Based on Evelyn Waugh's bitingly satirical novel Vile Bodies, Bright Young Things follows the party people of 1930s London through the late nights, drinking, clubs, drugs and love affairs that the old folk just don't understand. In the middle of all the frenzy is Adam Fenwick-Symes, an aspiring author deep in debt, and his many foiled attempts to marry his fiancee, Nina Blount. As paparazzi beset these well-known-for-doing-little media darlings we realize that the more things change, the more they stay the same.

Cate Blanchett as British teacher in Italy who sets off a bomb in order to kill the drug-dealer who has ruined the lives of her friends and her husband. Things go from bad to worse until she befriends a sympathetic police officer (Giovanni Ribisi) who helps her go underground. Directed by Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run and Winter Sleepers).

Silent Waters
The quiet lives of a son, his mother and the young woman he loves are violently disrupted when religions clash in a rural Pakistani village. Set in the late 1970s, Sabiha Sumar's film addresses very real and current issues by looking back at a troubling time in Pakistan's history.

You may think that outrunning the police one minute and auditioning for a movie role the next is just another day in the life of Robert Downey, Jr., but rest assured, this is the scenario for a character played by Downey, petty thief Harry Lockhart. In a clever mistaken identity/assumed identity thriller Downey, paired with Val Kilmer, makes the transition from actor playing a thief playing an actor playing a private eye a whole lot of fun. Critics loved the snappy dialogue and wink and grin knowingness of this neo-noir satire.

2006 is the 25th anniversary of this epic movie directed by and starring Warren Beatty. The film won three Oscars, including the Best Director award for Beatty (this was his directorial debut) and was nominated for an additional nine. Beatty stars as radical journalist and activist John Reed who traveled to Moscow with his wife Louise Bryant to report on the Russian Revolution.

Jason Reitman directed this adaptation of Christopher Buckley's novel. Described by critics as a "fun and smart" satire, this film follows a Big Tobacco spokesman as he spins, lies, bends the truth, and otherwise manipulates reality in an effort to protect the "defenseless" corporations which employ him.

Politics impinge on the personal life of a young Israeli woman when she realizes that marrying her Syrian fiance in his home country will prevent her from returning to her own.

The White Soup
Right before Christmas in a small Polish town, Halina sets out to find the identity of her grandchild's father so the baby can be christened before the holiday. The baby's mother can't, or won't, tell, but Halina gets help from some gentleman admirers.