Great Movies Most People Have Never Heard Of
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- DirectorPaul WeitzStarsHugh GrantDennis QuaidMandy MooreA popular television music talent competition hosted by a pompous egomaniac becomes the setting for an assassination attempt when the President of the United States becomes a celebrity judge in an attempt to rehabilitate his image.
- DirectorSam MendesStarsJohn KrasinskiMaya RudolphAllison JanneyA couple expecting their first child travels the U.S. seeking the perfect "family home." They have misadventures and find fresh connections with relatives and old friends who help them discover "home" on their own terms for the first time.
- DirectorAnjelica HustonStarsJennifer Jason LeighRon EldardGlenne HeadlyA mother and daughter find their lives adversely affected when a new man enters the picture. Will their family ever be what they expect?
- DirectorMatthew RobbinsStarsCindy WilliamsDavid RascheRobert J. Steinmiller Jr.A runaway circus dog befriends a young boy who has trouble fitting in with his friends.
- DirectorEd KaplanStarsBrandon DouglasNed VaughnPaxton WhiteheadMisfits Danny Stauffer and Chips (a chicken-chasing German shepherd) are teamed up in the Army's "Dogs for Defense" program during WWII.
- DirectorRichard FriedenbergStarsJames CromwellJoseph AshtonTantoo CardinalLittle Tree is an 8-year-old Cherokee boy who loses his parents during The Great Depression and begins living with his Indian grandparents and learning the Cherokee way of life.
- StarsElaine CassidySally HawkinsImelda StauntonIn Victorian England, Sue, a young thief, participates in a scam to defraud a rich heiress by becoming her maid. Things take an unexpected turn and Sue's plan goes horribly wrong.
- DirectorPaul SirmonsStarsJulie HarrisDan ByrdMickey RooneyEleven-year-old Cory (Dan Byrd) is a foster child nobody wants. Carlotta (Academy Award-nominee Julie Harris) is an elderly woman the world has forgotten.
- DirectorPeter WernerStarsTom GuiryChristine LahtiKevin DunnYoung Christopher Millard fantasizes about being a squire of the Round Table and studies the stars. But when his difficulty breathing turns out to be caused by a tumor, his fantasies turn into a means to battle the disease. Chemotherapy eats his summer and instead of writing the standard "What I did during my summer vacation", his teacher lets him write a fictional story, and Chris makes characters from the people around him. As Chris battles with doctor, treatments, and the illness, Squire Millard goes on a quest against an evil sorceress to gain the four diamonds of Courage, Wisdom, Honesty, and Strength: qualities that Chris himself attains as his health fails.
- DirectorKevin James DobsonStarsChristina RicciAnna ChlumskyPolly DraperA city girl teams up with a tomboy to solve the mystery of Bear Mountain, Molly Morgan, and the buried treasure as well as learn about true friendships.
- DirectorPeter HewittStarsChristopher WalkenJoseph McKennaWynn EverettA comedy centered on three museum security guards who devise a plan to steal back the artworks to which they have become attached after they are transferred to another museum.
- DirectorJoshua MarstonStarsCatalina Sandino MorenoGuilied LopezOrlando TobónA pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately-needed money for her family.
- DirectorRichard LoncraineStarsMaggie SmithRonnie BarkerChris CooperAn unlikely group of people find solace and friendship after being thrown together in the wake of a terrorist attack.
- DirectorRichard GlatzerWash WestmorelandStarsEmily RiosJesse GarciaChalo GonzálezAs Magdalena's 15th birthday approaches, her simple, blissful life is complicated by the discovery that she's pregnant. Kicked out of her house, she finds a new family with her great-granduncle and gay cousin.
- DirectorPhillip NoyceStarsEverlyn SampiTianna SansburyKenneth BranaghIn 1931, three half-white, half-Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their houses to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a journey across the Outback.
- DirectorBrian DannellyStarsJena MaloneMandy MooreMacaulay CulkinWhen a girl attending a Christian high school becomes pregnant, all of her former friends turn on her and she is ostracized and demonized.
- DirectorRobert StevensonStarsDean JonesSuzanne PleshetteTim ConwayWilby Daniels, now all grown up and running for district attorney, finds himself once again turning into a shaggy dog at inopportune moments.
- DirectorJessica SharzerStarsKristen StewartElizabeth PerkinsRichard HagermanAfter a blurred trauma over the summer, Melinda enters high school a selective mute. Struggling with school, friends, and family, she tells the dark tale of her experiences, and why she has chosen not to speak.
- DirectorKevin WilliamsonStarsHelen MirrenMarisa CoughlanKatie HolmesThe story of a girl who is willing to do anything to become Valedictorian, even if it means murdering the teacher that stands in her way.
- DirectorDuncan TuckerStarsFelicity HuffmanKevin ZegersFionnula FlanaganA transgender woman takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she had a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.
- DirectorNorman TokarStarsDean JonesSuzanne PleshetteCharles RugglesThe Garrisons live with a Great Dane who thinks he's a dainty dachshund. His identity crisis results in an uproarious series of household crises that reduce the Garrisons' house to shambles.
- DirectorSyd MacartneyStarsTruan MunroNic KnightKaren SaltPrince Horace is the spoiled and arrogant heir to the throne whose continual pranks are designed to get his distant father's attention. Young Jemmy is a desperate streetwise orphan trying to survive with his sister.
- DirectorM. Night ShyamalanStarsJoseph CrossTimothy ReifsnyderDana DelanyA 10-year-old boy goes on a search for God after his grandfather dies.