5.5

Made of Honor

2007, USA, UK

• Actors: Patrick Dempsey, Michelle Monaghan, Kevin McKidd, Kadeem Hardison, Chris Messina, Richmond Arquette, Busy Philipps, Whitney Cummings, Emily Nelson, Kathleen Quinlan, Selma Stern, Sydney Pollack, James Sikking, Kevin Sussman, Beau Garrett, Christine Barger, Lilly McDowell, Kelly Carlson, Craig Susser, Corinne Reilly, Trip Davis, Valerie Edmond, Hannah Gordon, Cathleen McCarron, Eoin McCarthy, Clive Russell, Myra McFadyen, Iain Agnew, Mary Birdsong, Elisabeth Hasselbeck
• Genre: Comedy, Romance
• Director(s): Paul Weiland
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Made of Honor revolves around Tom and Hannah, who have been platonic friends for 10 years. He's a serial dater, while she wants marriage but hasn't found Mr. Right. Just as Tom is starting to think that he is relationship material after all, Hannah gets engaged. When she asks Tom to be her "maid" of honor, he reluctantly agrees just so he can attempt to stop the wedding and woo her.

  8.0

Mimi wo sumaseba

1995, Japan

• Actors: Youko Honna, Kazuo Takahashi, Takashi Tachibana, Shigeru Muroi, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Keiju Kobayashi, Yorie Yamashita, Maiko Kayama, Yoshimi Nakajima, Minami Takayama, Mayumi Iizuka, Mai Chiba, Satoru Takahashi, Akiko Sakaguchi, Hiromi Yasuda, Tatsuya Okada, Yoshihiro Imai, Naohisa Inoue, Suguru Egawa, Shirô Kishibe, Toshio Suzuki, David Gallagher, James Sikking, Jean Smart, Harold Gould, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Martin Spanjers, Mika Boorem, Abigail Mavity, Deanna Russo
• Genre: Animation, Drama, Family, Music, Romance
• Director(s): Yoshifumi Kondo
• Available languages:
  • Japanese Japanese.

A young girl finds that all the books she chooses in the library have been previously checked out by the same boy. Later she meets a very infuriating fellow... could it be her "friend" from the library? The boy's grandfather has a violin sales and service shop. The boy wants to be a violin maker like his grandfather.

  6.4

The Pelican Brief

1992, USA

• Actors: Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard, John Heard, Tony Goldwyn, James Sikking, William Atherton, Robert Culp, Stanley Tucci, Hume Cronyn, John Lithgow, Anthony Heald, Nicholas Woodeson, Stanley Anderson, John Finn, Cynthia Nixon, Jake Weber, Casey Biggs, Christopher Murray, Sonny Jim Gaines, Kevin Geer, Joe Chrest, Richard Bauer, Michelle O'Neill, Peter Carlin, Ralph Cosham, Terrence Currier, Edwin Newman, Helen Carey, Howard Shalwitz
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
• Director(s): Alan J. Pakula
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Two Supreme Court Justices have been killed. Now a college professor, who clerked for one of the two men, who's also having an affair with one of his students, is given a brief by her, that states who probably, wanted to see these two men dead. He then gives it to one of his friends, who works for the FBI. When the FBI director reads it, he is fascinated by it. One of the president's men who read it, is afraid that if it ever got out, the president could be smeared. So, he advises the president to tell the director to drop it, which he does. But later the professor and the girl were out and he was drunk and when he refused to give her the keys she stepped out of the car. When he started it, it blew up. She then discovers that her place has been burglarized and what was taken were her computer and her disks. Obviously, her brief has someone agitated. She then turns to her boyfriend's friend at the FBI, he agrees to come meet her but before he does someone shoots him and takes his place. At the meeting, he was about to kill her when someone shoots him. She then decides to turn to Gray Grantham, an investigative reporter, who was contacted by someone who says he has info on the killings but backed out at the last minute. He then meets her and tells her what her brief is, and basically, the man she suspects is a good friend of the president, who is trying to manipulate the outcome of a trial that is now before the Supreme Court. Grantham tells her that her brief can harm the president and all what they have are theories, he asks her to help him but she wants to leave the country. Then Grantham's editor tells him that they have nothing; that he should drop cause the man she implicated is extremely powerful. Grantham's about to drop it when she says that she will help him. But can they stay alive?

  6.4

Narrow Margin

1990, USA

• Actors: Gene Hackman, Anne Archer, James Sikking, J.T. Walsh, M. Emmet Walsh, Susan Hogan, Nigel Bennett, J.A. Preston, B.A. 'Smitty' Smith, Codie Lucas Wilbee, Barbara Russell, Antony Holland, Doreen Ramos, Kevin McNulty, Andrew Rhodes, Lon Katzman, Dana Still, Lesley Ewen, Barney O'Sullivan, Natino Bellantoni, Ted Stidder, Lindsay Bourne, Robert Rozen, Tom McBeath, Ron Cummins, Harris Yulin
• Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
• Director(s): Peter Hyams
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A woman secretly witnesses the murder of her blind date for the evening by a top Mafia boss. She immediately goes into hiding without informing the authorities. When they finally catch up with her, she is unwilling to testify to what she has seen, but the Mafia are on her trail. Accompanied by a deputy district attorney, the woman boards a train travelling through a remote part of Canada. The Mafia know him but they have never seen her.

  4.8

Soul Man

1986, USA

• Actors: C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, Arye Gross, James Earl Jones, Melora Hardin, Leslie Nielsen, Ann Walker, James Sikking, Max Wright, Jeff Altman, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Maree Cheatham, Wallace Langham, Eric Schiff, Ron Reagan, Mark Neely, David Reynolds, Wolfe Perry, Jerry Pavlon, Laurel Green, John David Bland, Jonathan 'Fudge' Leonard, Felix Nelson, Betty Cole, Bo Mancuso, Donald Hotton, Linda Hoy, Robert Burleigh, Jonathan Wise, Amy Stock-Poynton
• Genre: Comedy, Romance
• Director(s): Steve Miner
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Mark doesn't expect any problems in going to college: he and his friend have reserved places in Harvard and his parents have the money to pay for his education there. But suddenly his father's neurotic psychiatrist advises him to go on vacation in Hawaii instead of spending more money on his son. Since Mark wants to keep his lifestyle, including a fancy car and a flat shared with his friend, he seeks financial support. The only foundation which still accepts applications is for blacks only -- no problem, with lots of bronzing pills and "soul in his voice" he sets out to Harvard. Soon he has to realize that being black will cause some people to handle him differently.

  7.1

Von Ryan's Express

1965, USA

• Actors: Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Raffaella Carrà, Brad Dexter, Sergio Fantoni, John Leyton, Edward Mulhare, Wolfgang Preiss, James Brolin, John Van Dreelen, Adolfo Celi, Vito Scotti, Richard Bakalyan, Michael Goodliffe, Michael St. Clair, Ivan Triesault, Ian Abercrombie, William Berger, Arthur Brauss, William Conroy, John Daheim, Domenick Delgarde, Horst Ebersberg, Barry Ford, Brian Gaffikin, Donald F. Glut, Gino Gottarelli, Joe Gray, Peter Hellman, Robert 'Buzz' Henry
• Genre: Action, Drama, Adventure, War
• Director(s): Mark Robson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Ryan, an American POW, leads his fellow prisoners on a dangerous escape from the Germans in Italy. Having seemingly made errors of judgement, Ryan has to win the support of the mainly British soldiers he is commanding.