The Stunt Man

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Year:1980
Director:Richard Rush
Written by:Richard Rush (Adaptation), Paul Brodeur (Novel), Lawrence B. Marcus (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:While on the run from the police, Steve Railsback hides in a group of moviemakers where he pretends to be a stunt man. Both aided and endangered by the director (Peter O'Toole) he avoids both the police and sudden death as a stuntman. The mixture of real danger and fantasy of the movie is an interesting twist for the viewer as the two blend in individual scenes.
*6102

The Thin Man

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Year:1934
Director:W.S. Van Dyke
Written by:Dashiell Hammett (Novel), Albert Hackett (Screenplay), Frances Goodrich (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A husband-and-wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
*6103

The Time Machine

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Year:1960
Director:George Pal
Written by:H. G. Wells (Novel), David Duncan (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.
*6104

Thief

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Year:1981
Director:Michael Mann
Written by:Michael Mann (Screenplay), Frank Hohimer (Novel), Michael Mann (Screenstory)

Script Synopsis:Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime and build a nice life for himself complete with a home, wife and kids. To accelerate the process, he signs on with a top gangster for a big score.
*6106

The Number 23

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Year:2007
Director:Joel Schumacher
Written by:Fernley Phillips (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:Walter Sparrow is an animal control officer that becomes obsessed with a mysterious book that seems to be based on his own life. As soon as he opens the book, he notices strange parallels between what he reads and what he's experienced. But now he's worried that a fictional murder might materialize.
*6099

The Queen

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Year:2006
Director:Stephen Frears
Written by:Peter Morgan (Author)

Script Synopsis:The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an overt display of mourning.
*6100

The Relic

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Year:1997
Director:Peter Hyams
Written by:Douglas Preston (Novel), Lincoln Child (Novel), Amy Holden Jones (Screenplay), John Raffo (Screenplay), Rick Jaffa (Screenplay), Amanda Silver (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:A homicide detective and an anthropologist try to destroy a South American lizard-like god, who's on a people eating rampage in a Chicago museum.
*6101

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

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Year:1943
Director:Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Written by:Michael Powell (Writer), Emeric Pressburger (Writer)

Script Synopsis:General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.
*6097

The Limey

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Year:1999
Director:Steven Soderbergh
Written by:Lem Dobbs (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:The Limey follows Wilson, a tough English ex-con who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death. Upon arrival, Wilson goes to task battling Valentine and an army of L.A.'s toughest criminals, hoping to find clues and piece together what happened. After surviving a near-death beating, getting thrown from a building and being chased down a dangerous mountain road, the Englishman decides to dole out some bodily harm of his own.
*6098

The Hebrew Hammer

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Year:2003
Director:Jonathan Kesselman
Written by:Jonathan Kesselman (Writer)

Script Synopsis:A Jewish blaxploitation hero saves Hanukkah from the clutches of Santa Claus's evil son.
*6093