James Caan
1) Thief
Pub. Date
1981.
Description
Michael Mann ("Manhunter") directs a stunning piece of neo-noir set in the rain-soaked streets of Chicago and starring James Caan ("Rollerball") at his toughest. Caan plays Frank, a jewel thief and former convict who is looking to settle down with his girlfriend (Tuesday Weld, "Who'll Stop The Rain?") and begin a family. But when his ‘fence’ is thrown from a window and the Chicago mafia begin to flex their muscles, his hopes of a quiet life become...
Pub. Date
1999
Description
Paul Quinn scripted and made his directorial debut with this period drama about middle-aged schoolteacher Kieran Johnson (James Caan), who finds evidence indicating that his real father was an Irish farmer and not a French seaman as he had been told. Since his mute and paralyzed mother offers no answers, he investigates by traveling to an Irish village with his teenage nephew (Jacob Tierney). After this prologue, the film flashes back to the family...
6) Holy Lands
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
A Jewish American doctor leaves everything behind to become a pig farmer in Israel, a move that deeply shocks his family and puts him at odds with the local community there.
7) Elf
Pub. Date
2007
Formats
Description
A human baby accidently ends up at the North Pole and grows up among the elf community. Buddy, as he comes to be known, knows that he's "special". When he's 30, Buddy learns from Santa that he's really a human. He decides to go in search of his father, to find out where he belongs. He walks to Manhattan, and is immediately run over by a cab. His father at first rejects him and Buddy ends up in a department store where other elves are working. But...
8) Detachment
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
Oscar-winners Adrien Brody and Marcia Gay Harden star in this award-winning drama about a substitute teacher at a troubled high school. From the Tony Kaye, director of *American History X*. Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival**. "*Harrowing depiction of the American educational system features a superb performance by Adrien Brody.*"- Frank Scheck, ***Hollywood Reporter***
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
In this hilarious indie comedy, Franklin Franklin (Matt Lucas) is surrounded by strange events and odd neighbors played by stars like Billy Crystal, Johnny Knoxville, Rebel Wilson, and James Marsden. SMALL APARTMENTS was adapted from a Chris Millis' novel and nominated for the Narrative Spotlight Audience Award at the **SXSW Film Festival**. *"The brazen, colorful nature of the characters is the strength of this black comedy from Jonas Åkerlund -...
10) Bottle rocket
Pub. Date
1996
Description
Three best friends try to escape their suburban boredom through a life of crime. But these bickering, bumbling thieves are no match for the local 'godfather,' who leads them into the biggest heist of their careers.
12) El Dorado
Pub. Date
2000.
Description
A sheriff fights cattlemen and empire builders as he tries to tame the West.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Inventor Flint Lockwood thought he saved the world when he destroyed his machine that turned water into food causing cheeseburger rain and spaghetti tornadoes. But Flint soon learns that his invention survived and is now creating food-animals. Flint and his friends embark on a dangerously delicious mission to battle hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees, hippotatomuses, cheespiders and other foodimals to save the world again!
14) A bridge too far
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
A dramatic recreation of an Allied airdrop behind German lines in Holland, and the subsequent disastrous Battle of Arnhem.
15) Misery
Pub. Date
2000
Description
After an almost fatal car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon finds himself being nursed by a deranged fan who holds him captive.
16) Queen bees
Pub. Date
2021
Description
While her house undergoes repairs, fiercely independent senior Helen temporarily moves into a nearby retirement community. Once behind the doors of Pine Grove Senior Community, she encounters lusty widows, cutthroat bridge tournaments and a hotbed of bullying 'mean girls' the likes of which she hasn't encountered since high school, all of which leaves her yearning for the solitude of home. But somewhere between flower arranging and water aerobics...
18) Dogville
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Description
Grace arrives in the isolated town of Dogville, on the run from gangsters. The townspeople agree to hide her. However, when outsiders start looking for the fugitive, the locals make demands of Grace in exchange for the risk of harboring her. But Grace has a secret and its a dangerous one. Dogville may regret it ever decided to bare its teeth.
Pub. Date
2015
Description
In The Godfather, the aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son. In The Godfather Part II, the early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate. In The Godfather Part III, in the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in New York City and Italy in 1979, aging...