Paramount Pictures (Firm)
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
In the role that won her Broadway’s acclaimed Tony Award, Pauline Collins is the hilariously endearing SHIRLEY VALENTINE, a wisecracking, completely unpredictable English housewife who proves it’s never too late to recapture your dreams. Bored with her suburban life, Shirley takes a chance on adventure when a friend invites her on a vacation to Greece. Within no time she’s back to her rebellious teenage roots, saying yes to a wild fling with...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
In Paris during 1890, 104-year-old Georges Bonnet is a sculptor who maintains a youthful appearance by regularly murdering women and using their parathyroid glands as an elixir to ward off the signs of age. When Bonnet requires a vital surgery to be undertaken he asks his old colleague Prof. Ludwig Weiss to perform it. He declines and Bonnet then blackmails Pierre Gerard into performing the operation by endangering the life of Janine Dubois, a young...
43) Bugsy Malone
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
A pint-sized cast with giant talents illuminates this musical that is unlike any other ever made. Set in 1929 New York City, BUGSY MALONE captures a flashy world of would-be hoodlums, showgirls, and dreamers - all played by child actors! As Tallulah, the sassy girlfriend of the owner of Fat Sam's Grand Slam Speakeasy, future superstar Jodie Foster dances and sings her way into our hearts. Award-winning pop composer Paul Williams wrote the words and...
44) Mandingo
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1975.
Description
Based on the hugely successful novel by Kyle Onstott, MANDINGO takes the audience beyond the sentimentalized South of other films with uncompromising honesty and realism to show the true brutalizing nature of slavery, which made victims of both owner and slave. Heavyweight boxer Ken Norton makes his screen debut in the title role, with Perry King (Possession of Joel Delaney) as his white owner, friend, and eventual nemesis.
45) Danger: Diabolik
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1968.
Description
The suave, psychedelic-era thief called Diabolik (John Philip Law) can't get enough of life's good - or glittery - things. Not when there are currency shipments to steal from under the noses of snooty government officials and priceless jewels to lift from the boudoirs of the superrich. The elusive scoundrel finds plenty of ways to live up to his name in this tongue-in-cheek, live-action caper inspired by Europe's popular Diabolik comics. He clambers...
46) Borsalino
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1970.
Description
When Roch Siffredi (Alain Delon) gets out of prison, the first thing he does is pick a fight with François Capella (Jean-Paul Belmondo). But the two gangsters quickly realize there is strength in numbers, and only by joining forces are they going to be able to make it big. The scams and hits pile up in a Marseille run by two mafia dons, Poli and Marello. Chases, gunfights, threats, and revenge play out on the picturesque streets of Marseille during...
47) Hit!
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
U.S. agent Nick Allen (Billy Dee Williams) has his own idea about how to fight a war on drugs: go to the source...and cut the big-time traffickers down. Embittered over the drug-related death of his teenage daughter, Nick sets out to do just that. With stone-cold intensity, he locates and trains a dirty half-dozen recruits for a commando raid on the kingpins of a French drug syndicate. Each recruit has his or her own reason for being part of the death...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
In this "elegantly polished film" (Richard Schickel, TIME magazine), a mysterious stranger is the lone passenger disembarking from a train in a sleepy French villiage. His name is Milan (French rock icon Johnny Hallyday), a criminal intent on knocking over the local bank. Upon his arrival, he is befriended by Manesquier (acclaimed French actor Jean Rochefort), a retired poetry teacher. Through their unexpected friendship, both men come to realize...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1952.
Description
A dazzling spectacle of life behind the scenes with Ringling Bros.-Barnum and Bailey Circus. Celebrating the extravagant three-ring circus, this classic film from Cecil B. DeMille depicts the passionate scenes of love and jealousy behind the greatest show on Earth. Winner of Best Picture and Best Writing, Motion Picture Story at the **Academy Awards**. Winner of Best Motion Picture - Drama, Best Director, and Best Cinematography - Color at the **Golden...
50) Hong Kong
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1952.
Description
The theft of a jeweled treasure is within an adventurer's grasp; he is restrained by his love for a good woman.
51) Lady in a Cage
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1964.
Description
Alone in her residence over a holiday weekend, a widow is accidentally trapped in her home elevator during a power failure. Her meticulous, well organized world is shattered as the stalled elevator becomes a claustrophobic torture chamber – a cage.
52) Wings
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1927.
Description
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman (Hollywood's first "It-girl," Clara Bow), become fighter pilots in World War I. Stunningly realistic flying sequences, all filmed without faking or processing shots, highlight this story of two airmen pals and an ambulance nurse they both love, first winner of an **Academy Award** for Best Picture. Winner of Best Picture and Best Effects, Engineering Effects at the **Academy...
53) Dear Frankie
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
This touching and humorous movie has earned the raves of critics and won the hearts of audiences everywhere! To spare the feelings of her fatherless boy, Lizzie (Emily Mortimer) secretly authors letters from his "father." Torn between exposing the truth and protecting her son, Lizzie gets more than anyone bargained for when she hires a handsome stranger (Gerard Butler) to play the role of a lifetime!
54) Rumpelstiltskin
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
RUMPELSTILTSKIN is a musical fantasy film, based on the fairytale by the Brothers Grimm in which a miller's daughter must spin straw into gold in order to marry a prince. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival**.
56) Detroit 9000
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1973.
Description
A fast-paced classic jam-packed with nonstop action, sexy distractions and funky music! A gang has staged a daring, big-money rip-off at a high-society fundraiser for the state's first black candidate for governor. For the two Detroit cops assigned to solve the caper, politically charged corruption and violence explode in what turns out to be the deadliest case of their careers.
57) Fist of Fury
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1972.
Description
Bruce Lee stars as Chen Zhen, a martial arts protégé who returns to his former school in Shanghai when he learns that his beloved instructor has been murdered. To avenge his master’s death, Chen must fight the greatest assassins from a rival school.
58) Iris
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
Judi Dench and Kate Winslet star in this powerful true story based on John Bayley's novels. One of the most extraordinary women of the 20th century, celebrated English author Iris Murdoch first became known as a brilliant young scholar at Oxford whose boundless spirit dazzled those around her. Then, during a remarkable career as a novelist and philosopher, she continued to prove herself a woman ahead of her time. Even in later life, as age and illness...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1992.
Description
This epic adventure and visionary film chronicles more than 20 years in the life of Christopher Columbus, one of the most celebrated, influential and mysterious men in history. Nominated for a **Golden Globe** for Best Original Score - Motion Picture.
60) Anomalisa
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
On a trip to Ohio, Michael (David Thewlis) is separated from the routine of his daily life and a chance encounter helps him realize just what he’s been missing. Love, laughter and loneliness align in Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson's critically-acclaimed masterpiece. Nominated for Best Animated Feature Film at the **Academy Awards** and **Golden Globes**. Nominated for Best FIlm at the **Film Independent Spirit Awards.** Winner of the Feature Film...