The Brass Ring

A solitary nurse bonds with a badly burned patient who survived an accident on an oil rig.

Runtime

1h 55m

Director

Isabel Coixet

Cast

Sarah Polley, Tim Robbins, Javier Cámara

An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying o...

Runtime

1h 48m

Director

Richard Brooks

Cast

Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, Burl Ives

The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named Maude who also lives in her own world yet one in which she is having the time of her life. When the two opposites meet they realize that their differences...

Runtime

1h 32m

Director

Hal Ashby

Cast

Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles

Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes...

Runtime

2h 19m

Director

Federico Fellini

Cast

Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo

After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean climate to rest. The young empress’ mother takes her from Austria to recover in Madeira.

Runtime

1h 49m

Director

Ernst Marischka

Cast

Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Böhm, Magda Schneider

Beverly is the perfect happy homemaker, along with her doting husband and two children, but this nuclear family just might explode when her fascination with serial killers collides with her ever-so-proper code of ethics.

Runtime

1h 34m

Director

John Waters

Cast

Kathleen Turner, Sam Waterston, Ricki Lake

'Pleasantly plump' teenager Tracy Turnblad achieves her dream of becoming a regular on the Corny Collins Dance Show. Now a teen hero, she starts using her fame to speak out for the causes she believes in, most of all integration. In doing so, she earns the wrath of the show's former star, Amber Von Tussle, as well as Amber's manipulati...

Runtime

1h 32m

Director

John Waters

Cast

Sonny Bono, Divine, Ruth Brown

Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".

Runtime

1h 33m

Director

John Waters

Cast

Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce

A Baltimore teenager who picks up a second-hand camera starts snapping his way to stardom, soon turning into a nationwide sensation, with a fateful choice between his life and his art.

Runtime

1h 26m

Director

John Waters

Cast

Edward Furlong, Christina Ricci, Bess Armstrong

Dawn Davenport progresses from a teenage nightmare hell-bent on getting cha-cha heels for Christmas to a fame monster whose egomaniacal impulses land her in the electric chair.

Runtime

1h 38m

Director

John Waters

Cast

Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce