Tag: somber

  • The Entity

    Carla Moran begins experiencing violent attacks by an unseen force. Her psychiatrist, Dr. Phil Sneiderman, believes the events stem from psychological trauma, while Carla becomes increasingly convinced something supernatural is at play.

  • Star 80

    Paul Snider is a narcissistic, small time hustler who fancies himself a ladies man. His life changes when he meets Dorothy Stratten working behind the counter of a Dairy Queen. Under his guidance Dorothy grows to fame as a Playboy Playmate. But when Dorothy begins pursuing an acting career, the jealous Paul finds himself elbowed…

  • Ran

    Shakespeare’s King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.

  • Dead Poets Society

    At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.

  • Dances with Wolves

    Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he’s assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.

  • Backdraft

    Firemen brothers Brian and Stephen McCaffrey battle each other over past slights while trying to stop an arsonist with a diabolical agenda from torching Chicago.

  • JFK

    Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.

  • Philadelphia

    Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.

  • Rome

    A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.

  • Set It Off

    Four inner-city Black women, determined to end their constant struggle, decide to live by one rule — get what you want or die trying. So the four women take back their lives and take out some banks in the process.

  • Memento

    Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife’s killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes…

  • An American Werewolf in Paris

    An American man unwittingly gets involved with werewolves who have developed a serum allowing them to transform at will.

  • From Hell

    Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper’s prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper’s true identity.

  • Black Hawk Down

    When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and the Americans suffer heavy casualties, facing intense fighting from the militia on the ground.

  • Elephant

    Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent.

  • Cold Mountain

    In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind to tend their farm. As Inman makes his perilous journey home,…

  • Kill Bill: Vol. 1

    An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.

  • Lackawanna Blues

    In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy’s life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he lives in 1960s Lackawanna, New York.

  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    Dr. Henry Jekyll is a well-regarded physician whose evenings are spent researching a rare and sacred Amazonian flower so potent it’s said to literally separate the soul, giving life to man’s Dark Self. The obsessive experiments to isolate its psychotropic properties happen to coincide with a series of brutal murders gripping the city with fear.…

  • The Orphanage

    A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.

  • Coraline

    Wandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, 11-year-old Coraline discovers a hidden door to a strangely idealized version of her life. In order to stay in the fantasy, she must make a frighteningly real sacrifice.