Life Is Beautiful

Apu and his family have moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Benares. As he progresses from wide-eyed child to intellectually curious teenager, eventually studying in Kolkata, we witness his academic and moral education, as well as the growing complexity of his relationship with his mother.

Runtime

1h 50m

Director

Satyajit Ray

Cast

Karuna Banerjee, Pinaki Sengupta, Smaran Ghosal

Lewis, a brilliant young inventor, is keen on creating a time machine to find his mother, who abandoned him in an orphanage. Things take a turn when he meets Wilbur Robinson and his family.

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Stephen J. Anderson

Cast

Daniel Hansen, Jordan Fry, Wesley Singerman

When a young boy makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big, he wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight, but he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how to cope with the unfamiliar world of grown-ups, including getting a job and having his first rom...

Runtime

1h 44m

Director

Penny Marshall

Cast

Tom Hanks, Elizabeth Perkins, Robert Loggia

Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer's modern attitude disrupts Pleasantville's peaceful but boring routine, she literally brings color into its l...

Runtime

2h 4m

Director

Gary Ross

Cast

Tobey Maguire, Reese Witherspoon, William H. Macy

A militant performance-artist and a tall Korean foreign-exchange student become trapped in a small Southern town.

Runtime

1h 44m

Director

Charles Chu, Gavin Kelly

Cast

Ryan O'Nan, Caitlin Stasey, Alan Cumming