The Sunlit Night

In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. S...

Runtime

1h 42m

Director

Carl Franklin

Cast

Denzel Washington, Tom Sizemore, Jennifer Beals

Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn't help, yet cannot quit the job on his own.

Runtime

2h 1m

Director

Martin Scorsese

Cast

Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman

Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the fate and choices that defined it, when she arrives in the Mediterranean to stay with her headstrong daughter. Shifting through time, and falling into place like the pieces of a jigsaw, the truth of Penelope's rich, heartbreaking and surpr...

Runtime

2h 54m

Director

Piers Haggard

Cast

Vanessa Redgrave, Maximilian Schell, Charles Edwards

Summoned by his dying father, Miyagi returns to his homeland of Okinawa, with Daniel, after a 40-year exile. There he must confront Yukie, the love of his youth, and Sato, his former best friend turned vengeful rival. Sato is bent on a fight to the death, even if it means the destruction of their village. Daniel finds his own love in Y...

Runtime

1h 53m

Director

John G. Avildsen

Cast

Ralph Macchio, Pat Morita

The Grinch decides to rob Whoville of Christmas - but a dash of kindness from little Cindy Lou Who and her family may be enough to melt his heart...

Runtime

1h 45m

Director

Ron Howard

Cast

Jim Carrey, Taylor Momsen, Jeffrey Tambor