Paramount Pictures
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
From the Oscar®-winning Director of An Inconvenient Truth comes the groundbreaking feature film that provides an engaging and inspiring look at public education in the United States. WAITING FOR “SUPERMAN” has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of five unforgettable students such as Emily, a Silicon Valley eighth-grader who is afraid of being labeled as unfit for college and Francisco,...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1964.
Description
Spun from Daniel DeFoe's tale of the titular character, this sci-fi story involves a spaceship commander, Chris Draper (Paul Mantee) in a similar situation to the original Robinson Crusoe — but rather than being stranded on an island, our hero is on a hostile planet. Draper, Colonel Dan McReady (Adam West), and a test monkey look as if they are going to collide with a meteor. Draper and the chimp are able to eject themselves from the vessel, but...
43) Son of Rambow
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Imagination, fantasy, and the irreplaceable bonds of childhood friendship highlight this “comedy that’s full of heart” (Joe Neumaier, NY Daily News). Will Proudfoot (Bill Milner) is looking for an escape from his family’s stifling home life when he encounters Lee Carter (Will Poulter), the school bully. Armed with a video camera and a copy of Rambo: First Blood, Lee plans to make cinematic history by filming his own action-packed video epic....
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1953.
Description
The call goes out: "Dooley's down!" The frozen, unforgiving terrain of subarctic Canada is the setting as screen giant John Wayne heads an all-star cast in this meticulously restored adventure drama. Set after World War II, Wayne plays Dooley, a former Army pilot flying transport missions, who is forced to crash-land his fuel-starved plane on a frozen lake after it strays from its course. A desperate game of survival begins as Dooley and his men confront...
45) Bug
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1975.
Description
A massive earth tremor opens a deep crevasse in the California dessert, releasing a bizarre and deadly breed of foot-long cockroaches which threaten to destroy the city of Riverside before spreading across the country. Entomologist Bradford Dillman tried to find a way to deal with these virtually indestructible creatures. The roaches also seem to have a high intelligence which makes Dillman's task nearly hopeless. This is a creepy crawler right out...
46) Into the West
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1993.
Description
Two kids receive a gift beyond their wildest dreams - a magical horse. But when a rich breeder tries desperately to take the horse away from them, their only hope is to escape and become the coolest outlaws ever to ride...INTO THE WEST!
47) Enduring Love
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Joe (Daniel Craig) is an accomplished writer and professor whose rational life is thrust into a downward spiral of guilt after witnessing a freak, fatal ballooning accident while picnicking with girlfriend Claire (Samantha Morton). Jed (Rhys Ifans), another man involved in that fateful day, seeks out Joe looking for consolation and a way to make sense of this tragedy they’ve both witnessed. Jed soon becomes as inescapable to Joe as his guilt, and...
48) Bopha!
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1993.
Description
Micah Mangena is sitting on a powder keg and doesn’t know it. He’s a sergeant in South Africa’s police force, a supporter of the powers that be. But the strife tearing at the fabric of 1980 South Africa is about to rip Micah’s own world apart.
49) Rat Race
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
An all-star comedy cast brings laughs from start to finish when a casino tycoon gives six money-crazed contestants the chance to win {dollar}2 million in a race from Las Vegas to New Mexico. Who will win this dash for the cash is anybody's guess, but one thing is for sure - it's going to be a hilarious ride.
50) Phase IV
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1974.
Description
This eerie tale about super-intelligent ants marks the feature film directorial debut of noted designer Saul Bass (Psycho). The story concerns two scientists who install themselves in an ant-proof dome full of computer equipment that interprets the ants' communications. When the men spread yellow poison over the area, annihilating millions of ants, the surviving ants find an antidote to the poison and, even stronger, they strike back.
51) The Confession
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1970.
Description
Anton Ludvik, aka Gerard, is vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia. He realizes he is watched and followed. One day, he is arrested and put into jail, in solitary confinement. Will be shown the mental tortures during the investigations and how a faithful top-ranking civil servant is made to confess to treason. Based on the true story of Czechoslovakian communist Artur London, this is not an anticommunist film but a plea against totalitaism....
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was remade in 1951 by George Stevens as A PLACE IN THE SUN. Montgomery Clift stars as George Eastman, a handsome and charming but basically aimless young man who goes to work in a factory run by a distant, wealthy relative. Feeling lonely one evening, he has a brief rendezvous with assembly-line worker Alice Tripp (Shelley Winters),...
53) Carrie
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1952.
Description
Based on the Theodore Dreiser novel that publishers deemed "too immoral," William Wyler's Carrie is a power-house of human passions transformed into soul-withering frailties. As Carrie, the smalltown girl come to Chicago, Jennifer Jones "seems to have stepped out of the pages of the book" (Time). And Laurence Olivier gives one of his finest portrayals as love-doomed Hurstwood. "Olivier has always given credit to Wyler for teaching him how to act in...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1965.
Description
Forget James Bond for a moment and step into the real, dour and chilling world of spies and counterspies. Richard Burton was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award for his role as the burned-out British agent who refuses to "come in from the cold" to take a desk job. Instead, he launches into the most dangerous assignment of his career, stalking East German agent (and Golden Globe winner) Oskar Werner. John Le Carre's best-selling novel provides...
56) Suburbicon
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
From director George Clooney, SUBURBICON is the perfect place for Gardner Lodge (Matt Damon) to raise a family. But the tranquil surface masks a disturbing reality, as Gardner must navigate the town's dark underbelly of betrayal, deceit and violence.
57) Operation Condor
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1991.
Description
Get ready for Jackie Chan's most spectacular adventure ever...starring and directed by Jackie Chan himself! Risking everything and performing all his own deathdefying stunts, Chan ignites the big screen as the world's greatest secret agent, code name Condor. Sent to track down stolen Nazi gold buried beneath the Sahara, Condor is pursued by a ruthless band of treasurehunting terrorists. With the help of three sexy sidekicks, Jackie takes off on a...
58) Prospero's Books
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1991.
Description
Prospero is a magician who gets to keep only a small fragment of his enormous library when he is exiled with his daughter to an enchanted island. Soon problems arise when Prospero's daughter falls in love with the wrong man.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1972.
Description
Legendary Bruce Lee's only complete directorial film is packed action and epic fight scenes. Lee pays a visit to family members who own a restaurant in Italy. But mobsters who want the land the eatery is built on harass the owners, forcing Lee to defend his family as only he can. Lee, for the sake of his loved ones, must battle a U.S. karate expert (Chuck Norris) in an epic fight at a Roman coliseum.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1974.
Description
In a small village in the remote English countryside, several young maidens have been found dead – their beautiful faces horribly aged almost beyond recognition. Suspecting a supernatural evil at work, the local doctor calls on Army friend and famed vampire hunter Captain Kronos, an expert swordsman formerly of the King’s Imperial Guard. Aided by his expert assistant Professor Grost, the two quickly confirm the gruesome murders are the work of...