5.3

Love Ranch

2010, USA, Germany

• Actors: Helen Mirren, Joe Pesci, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Gina Gershon, Taryn Manning, Scout Taylor-Compton, Ling Bai, Elise Neal, Bryan Cranston, Rick Gomez, M.C. Gainey, Gil Birmingham, Emily Rios, Melora Walters, Raoul Trujillo, Bo Brown, Wendell Pierce, Harve Presnell, Leslie Jordan, Niki J. Crawford, Esodie Geiger, Dylan Kenin, Suzanne Michaels, Roseanne Vau, Kevin Wiggins, Beth Bailey, Mia Stallard, Stephen Eiland, Mark Sivertsen, Chad Brummett
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
• Director(s): Taylor Hackford
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In the mid-70s, near Reno, Grace Bontempo runs the Love Ranch, a legal brothel. Her husband Charlie, with big dreams, a felony record, and an aptitude for spending and infidelity, is the brothel's public face. On the day Grace's doctor tells her she has cancer in an advanced state, Charlie takes on new client, Argentine boxer Armando Bruza, Charlie's ticket to fame: he hopes to promote a fight with Ali. Because of Charlie's felonies, Grace is Bruza's titular manager. With the IRS and the church ladies circling the business, Grace takes the manager's role seriously and, along the way, Bruza charms her. Secrets play out: is there love at the Love Ranch? How will Charlie respond?

  4.0

Bait Shop

2008, USA

• Actors: Bill Engvall, Vincent Martella, Mary Rachel Dudley, Billy Ray Cyrus, Richard Riehle, Maureen Preuss, Christopher Schmidt, Rus Blackwell, David Mackey, Wilbur Houston, Jim R. Coleman, Harve Presnell, Billy Joe Shaver, Tim Powell, David Neil Enfinger, David Preuss, Greg Neff, Tony Lopez, Tom Hillmann, Mikki Scanlon, Jeff Chase, Mark Zona, Keith Alan, Matthew Horohoe, Robert 'Smitty' Smith, Chris Adler, Robie Alan, Ronald Bidwell, Sandra Bidwell, Jeff Ellenburg
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): C.B. Harding
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Paradise Lake, near Kissimmee, Florida, is hosting a Professional Bass Association contest. Local bait-shop owner and former amateur champ, Bill Dugan, is in deep trouble: the bank wants $15,000 for the shop's mortgage, he doesn't tell his wife who's angry when she finds out, and his wealthy blow-hard father-in-law wants Bill to work for him. The tournament favorite is Hot Rod Johnson, a crowd-pleaser and ESPN darling who'll do anything to win. Bill's son Scott thinks Hot Rod is cool, Hot Rod opens a huge store close to Bill's, his ne'er-do-well pals are ready to desert him, and Bill may lose it all. His one hope is to enter the contest and win the prize. Time to fish or cut bait.

  5.5

Evan Almighty

2006, USA

• Actors: Steve Carell, Morgan Freeman, Lauren Graham, Johnny Simmons, Graham Phillips, Jimmy Bennett, John Goodman, Wanda Sykes, John Michael Higgins, Jonah Hill, Molly Shannon, Harve Presnell, P.J. Byrne, Ralph Louis Harris, Arden Myrin, Brian Howe, Ralph P. Martin, Maile Flanagan, Angela Martinez, Ed Helms, David Barrera, Jeremiah Birkett, Jesse Burch, Rachael Harris, Casey Strand, Wayne Wilderson, Dean Norris, Derick Alexander, Scott Rollins, Madison Mason
• Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
• Director(s): Tom Shadyac
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Buffalo newsman Evan Baxter is elected to Congress with the slogan, "Change the world." He lucks into a huge house in a new Virginia suburb. His Capitol office is also fantastic, but there's a catch: he's tapped by the powerful Congressman Long to co-sponsor a bill to allow development in national parks. In steps God, who appears to a disbelieving Evan and gently commands him to build an ark. Tools and wood arrive in Evan's yard, animal pairs follow, his beard and hair grow wildly, nomad's clothes and a staff appear. Long grows impatient, Evan starts building, his family leaves him, reporters gather, and drought grips D.C. Still, Evan believes. But will he change the world?

  7.1

Flags of Our Fathers

2005, USA

• Actors: Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, John Benjamin Hickey, John Slattery, Barry Pepper, Jamie Bell, Paul Walker, Robert Patrick, Neal McDonough, Melanie Lynskey, Thomas McCarthy, Chris Bauer, Judith Ivey, Myra Turley, Joseph Cross, Benjamin Walker, Alessandro Mastrobuono, Scott Eastwood, Stark Sands, George Grizzard, Harve Presnell, George Hearn, Len Cariou, Christopher Curry, Bubba Lewis, Beth Grant, Connie Ray, Ann Dowd, Mary Beth Peil
• Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
• Director(s): Clint Eastwood
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In 1945, the Marines attack twelve thousand Japaneses protecting the twenty square kilometers of the sacred Iwo Jima island in a very violent battle. When they reach the Mount Suribachi and six soldiers raise their flag on the top, the picture becomes a symbol in a post Great Depression America. The government brings the three survivors to America to raise funds for war, bringing hope to desolate people, and making the three men heroes of the war. However, the traumatized trio has difficulty dealing with the image built by their superiors, sharing the heroism with their mates.

  7.0

Old School

2002, USA

• Actors: Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, Jeremy Piven, Ellen Pompeo, Juliette Lewis, Leah Remini, Perrey Reeves, Craig Kilborn, Elisha Cuthbert, Seann William Scott, Matt Walsh, Artie Lange, Patrick Fischler, Sara Tanaka, Harve Presnell, Katherine Ellis, Phe Caplan, Sarah Shahi, Kristen Kerr, Dan Finnerty, Gregory Alan Williams, Ashley Jones, Bryan Callen, James Carville, Todd Phillips, Stuart Cornfeld, Corinne Kingsbury, Lisa Donatz, David Moreland
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): Todd Phillips
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Mitch, Frank and Beanie are disillusioned with their personal lives begining when Mitch's nymphomanic girlfriend, Heidi, cheats on him, then former party animal Frank gets married, but unwilling to get go of his wild life, and Beanie is a family man seeking to reclaim his wild and crazy youth. Beanie suggests that they form their own fraternity in Mitch's new house on a college campus to re-live their glory days by bringing together a variety of misfit college students, losers, middle-aged and elderly retirees as their new friends and later try to avoid being evicted by the new Dean of Students, Pritchard, whom still holds a personal grudge against all three of them.

  5.6

Mr. Deeds

2001, USA

• Actors: Adam Sandler, Winona Ryder, John Turturro, Allen Covert, Peter Gallagher, Jared Harris, Erick Avari, Peter Dante, Conchata Ferrell, Harve Presnell, Steve Buscemi, Blake Clark, John McEnroe, J.B. Smoove, Tom McNulty, Buddy Bolton, Angelito Bautista, Scott Thompson Baker, Robert Frank Telfer, Elizabeth Owens, Florence Anglin, Sylvia Kauders, Henry Hayward, Frank Weller, Karen Nation, Bruce French, Ken Forsgren, Earl Schuman, Marijan Zoric, Irina Davidoff
• Genre: Comedy, Romance
• Director(s): Steven Brill
• Available languages:
  • English English.

When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough. Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for their piece of the pie. Babe, a television tabloid reporter, poses as an innocent small-town girl to do an exposé on Deeds. Of course, Deeds' sincere naiveté has Babe falling in love with him instead. Ultimately, Deeds comes to find that money truly has the power to change things, but it doesn't necessarily need to change him.

  6.6

The Family Man

1999, USA

• Actors: Nicolas Cage, Téa Leoni, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Piven, Saul Rubinek, Josef Sommer, Makenzie Vega, Jake Milkovich, Ryan Milkovich, Lisa Thornhill, Harve Presnell, Mary Beth Hurt, Amber Valletta, Francine York, Ruth Williamson, John F. O'Donohue, Daniel Whitner, Lucy Lin, Lisa LoCicero, Wass Stevens, Thomas James Foster, Irene Roseen, Ken Leung, Mak Fai, Maggi-Meg Reed, Kate Walsh, Ray Valentine, Gianni Russo, Tom McGowan, Joel McKinnon Miller
• Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Brett Ratner
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A modern-day Frank Capra story. Jack Campbell, a successful and talented businessman, is happily living his single life. He has everything, or so he thinks. One day he wakes up in a new life where he didn't leave his college girlfriend for a London trip. He's married to Kate, lives in Jersey and has two kids. He, of course, desperately wants his life back for which he has worked 13 years for. He's president of P. K. Lassiter Investment House and not a tire salesman at Big Ed's. He drives a Ferrari and not a mini-van that never starts. And most importantly he doesn't wake up in the morning with kids jumping on the bed. After a bad start, day by day he's more confident in his new life and starts to see what he's been missing. Turns out money's good to have but that's not everything.

  6.3

Patch Adams

1997, USA

• Actors: Robin Williams, Daniel London, Monica Potter, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Bob Gunton, Josef Sommer, Irma P. Hall, Frances Lee McCain, Harve Presnell, Daniella Kuhn, Peter Coyote, James Greene, Michael Jeter, Harold Gould, Bruce Bohne, Harry Groener, Barry Shabaka Henley, Steven Anthony Jones, Richard Kiley, Douglas Roberts, Ellen Albertini Dow, Alan Tudyk, Ryan Hurst, Peter Siteri, Don West, Domenique Lozano, Ralph Peduto, Ken Hoffman, Roy Conrad, Jay Jacobus
• Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
• Director(s): Tom Shadyac
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Patch Adams is determined to become a medical doctor because he enjoys helping people. Unfortunately, the medical and scientific community does not appreciate his methods of healing the sick, while the actual patients, medical professors, and hospital nurses all appreciate the work *he* can do, because they are unable to do it.

  8.5

Saving Private Ryan

1997, USA

• Actors: Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper, Adam Goldberg, Vin Diesel, Giovanni Ribisi, Jeremy Davies, Matt Damon, Ted Danson, Paul Giamatti, Dennis Farina, Joerg Stadler, Max Martini, Dylan Bruno, Daniel Cerqueira, Demetri Goritsas, Ian Porter, Gary Sefton, Julian Spencer, Steve Griffin, William Marsh, Marc Cass, Markus Napier, Neil Finnighan, Peter Miles, Paul Garcia, Seamus McQuade, Ronald Longridge, Adam Shaw
• Genre: Action, Drama, War
• Director(s): Steven Spielberg
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Opening with the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion under Cpt. Miller fight ashore to secure a beachhead. Amidst the fighting, two brothers are killed in action. Earlier in New Guinea, a third brother is KIA. Their mother, Mrs. Ryan, is to receive all three of the grave telegrams on the same day. The United States Army Chief of Staff, George C. Marshall, is given an opportunity to alleviate some of her grief when he learns of a fourth brother, Private James Ryan, and decides to send out 8 men (Cpt. Miller and select members from 2nd Rangers) to find him and bring him back home to his mother...

  7.3

Face/Off

1996, USA

• Actors: John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen, Alessandro Nivola, Gina Gershon, Dominique Swain, Nick Cassavetes, Harve Presnell, Colm Feore, John Carroll Lynch, CCH Pounder, Robert Wisdom, Margaret Cho, James Denton, Matt Ross, Chris Bauer, Myles Jeffrey, David McCurley, Thomas Jane, Tommy Flanagan, Dana Smith, Romy Windsor, Paul Hipp, Kirk Baltz, Lauren Sinclair, Ben Reed, Lisa Boyle, Linda Hoffman, Danny Masterson, Father Michael Rocha
• Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): John Woo
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Sean Archer, a very tough, rugged FBI Agent. Who is still grieving for the dead son Michael. Archer believes that his son's killer is his sworn enemy, a very powerful criminal, Castor Troy. One day, Archer has finally cornered Castor, however, their fight has knocked out Troy cold. As Archer finally breathes easy over the capture of his enemy, he finds out that Troy has planted a bomb that will destroy the entire city of Los Angeles and all of its inhabitants. Unfortunately the only other person who knows its location is Castor's brother Pollux, and he refuses to talk. The solution, a special operation doctor that can cut off people's faces, and can place a person's face onto another person. Archer undergoes one of those surgeries to talk to Pollux. However, Castor Troy somehow regains consciousness and now wants revenge on Archer for taking his face. Not only is Troy ruining Archer's mission, but his personal life as well. Archer must stop Troy again. This time, it's personal.

  8.3

Fargo

1995, USA

• Actors: William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Frances McDormand, Peter Stormare, Kristin Rudrüd, Harve Presnell, Tony Denman, Gary Houston, Sally Wingert, Kurt Schweickhardt, Larissa Kokernot, Melissa Peterman, Steve Reevis, Warren Keith, Steve Edelman, Sharon Anderson, Larry Brandenburg, James Gaulke, J. Todd Anderson, Michelle Suzanne LeDoux, John Carroll Lynch, Bruce Bohne, Petra Boden, Steve Park, Wayne A. Evenson, Cliff Rakerd, Jessica Shepherd, Peter Schmitz, Steven I. Schafer, Michelle Hutchison
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Joel Coen
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Jerry works in his father-in-law's car dealership and has gotten himself in financial problems. He tries various schemes to come up with money needed for a reason that is never really explained. It has to be assumed that his huge embezzlement of money from the dealership is about to be discovered by father-in-law. When all else falls through, plans he set in motion earlier for two men to kidnap his wife for ransom to be paid by her wealthy father (who doesn't seem to have the time of day for son-in-law). From the moment of the kidnapping, things go wrong and what was supposed to be a non-violent affair turns bloody with more blood added by the minute. Jerry is upset at the bloodshed, which turns loose a pregnant sheriff from Brainerd, MN who is tenacious in attempting to solve the three murders in her jurisdiction.