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Moby Dick
2011 • Drama
The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.
Why matched: genres Drama
Body Heat
1981 • Thriller • Crime
During an extreme heatwave, a beautiful Florida woman and a seedy lawyer engage in an affair while plotting the murder of her rich husband.
Why matched: genres Thriller, Crime
Lost in Space
1998 • Science Fiction • Adventure
The prospects for continuing life on Earth in the year 2058 are grim. So the Robinsons are launched into space to colonize Alpha Prime, the only other inhabitable planet in the…
Matched on: Hurt
Endgame
2009 • Drama • Crime
The time is the late '80s, a crucial period in the history of South Africa. President P.W. Botha is hanging on to power by a thread as the African National Congress (ANC) takes…
Why matched: genres Drama, Crime
The River Why
2010 • Drama • Romance
A young man abandons his family for a solitary life of fly-fishing. His goal was to find his own way in the fishing world and thereby find himself and love.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Kiss of the Spider Woman
1985 • Drama
The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs. The other is Mo…
Why matched: genres Drama
Jane Eyre
1996 • Drama • Romance
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abru…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Children of a Lesser God
1986 • Drama • Romance
Starting his new job as an instructor at a New England school for the deaf, James Leeds meets Sarah Norman, a young deaf woman who works at the school as a member of the custodi…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
Rare Birds
2001 • Drama • Mystery • Romance
A down-and-out restaurateur and his neighbor hatch a plan to lure bird watchers to their small Newfoundland town and increase tourism by announcing the presence of a rare duck.
Why matched: genres Drama, Mystery
Altered States
1980 • Thriller • Science Fiction • Horror
A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of human consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from Native American shamans, he explore…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Science Fiction
Contaminated Man
2000 • Thriller • Science Fiction
David Whitman is a chemist who lost his wife and child in a freak accident and is trying to rebuild his life on his own. While doing research, Whitman discovers a series of myst…
Why matched: genres Thriller, Science Fiction
The Doctor
1991 • Drama
Jack McKee is a doctor with it all: he's successful, he's rich, and he has no problems.... until he is diagnosed with throat cancer. Now that he has seen medicine, hospitals, an…
Why matched: genres Drama
Gorky Park
1983 • Drama • Thriller • Mystery
Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but finds his attempts to solve the crime impeded by his superiors. Working on his ow…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Eyewitness
1981 • Thriller
NYC custodian Daryll Deever is a big fan of local news reporter Tony Sokolow, so he is intrigued when she shows up to cover a story at his workplace. There's been a murder in th…
Why matched: genres Thriller
The Accidental Tourist
1988 • Drama • Romance • Comedy
After the death of his son, travel writer Macon Leary seems to be sleep walking through life. Macon's wife is having similar problems. They separate, and Macon meets a strange,…
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
The Yellow Handkerchief
2009 • Drama • Romance
A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness.
Why matched: genres Drama, Romance
The Challenger Disaster
2013 • Drama • Thriller • History
When the space shuttle Challenger blew up in 1986, it was the most shocking event in the history of American spaceflight. The deaths of seven astronauts, including the first tea…
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Trial by Jury
1994 • Drama • Thriller • Action
Valerie is a juror in the trial of a mob boss. When her young son's life is threatened, she has no option other than to see that justice isn't done.
Why matched: genres Drama, Thriller
Do Not Disturb
1999 • Thriller
Combining a family vacation with business, Walter Richmond takes his wife and their 10-year-old, mute daughter, Melissa , to the Netherlands -- where Melissa inadvertently witne…
Why matched: genres Thriller
Second Best
1994 • Drama • Family
The difficult relationship between a british postal officer and his adoptive son.
Why matched: genres Drama, Family