Movies Worth Watching

Annie

Young Annie is an orphanage. A wealthy man's assistant picks her to live in the man's palatial home for the Christmas Holidays. The film is a musical and it talks about Annie's time with the rich guy and how they are initially uncomfortable with each other, but soon come to love each other.

Catch Me If You Can

Is a 2002 comedy-drama crime film based on the life of Frank Abagnale Jr, who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars by posing as a Pan American World Airways pilot, a Georgia doctor and Louisiana attorney and parish prosecutor. His primary crime was check forgery, becoming so skillful that the FBI eventually turned to him for help.

Chariots Of Fire

The movie is based on the true story of two British athletes competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. Englishman Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross), who is Jewish, overcomes anti-semitism and class prejudice in order to compete against the "Flying Scotsman", Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson), in the 100 metre race.

Gladiator

Is a 2000 American epic film. Russel Crowe portrays General Maximus Decimus Meridius, favorite of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius who is betrayed and murdered by his unhinged son, Commodus (Phoenix). Captured and enslaved along the outer fringes of the Roman empire, Maximus rises through the ranks of the gladiatorial arena to avenge the murder of his family and his Emperor.

Life Is Beautiful

Is a 1997 Italian language film which tells the story of a Jewish Italian, Guido Orefice, who must employ his fertile imagination to help his son survive their internment in a Nazi concentration camp.

Spirit Of The Marathon

Is a 2007 documentary film directed by Jon Dunham. The film chronicles the journey six marathon runners experience while training, and eventually competing in the 2005 Chicago Marathon.

Touching The Void

Is a 2003 documentary film based on the book of the same name by Joe Simpson about Simpson's and Simon Yates' disastrous and near fatal attempt to climb the 6,344 metre (20,813 foot) Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985. The film combines documentary footage of interviews conducted with Simpson, Yates and Richard Hawking with a reenactment

Twelve Angry Men

A 1957 American drama film adapted from a play by Reginald Rose. Directed by Sidney Lumet, the film tells the story of a jury made up of twelve jurors (all male, mostly middle-aged, white, and generally of middle-class status) who are uncomfortably brought together to deliberate after hearing the 'facts' in a seemingly open-and-shut murder trial case. They retire to a jury room to do their civic duty and serve up a just verdict for the indigent minority defendant (with a criminal record) whose life is in the balance. The film is a powerful indictment, denouncement and expose of the trial by jury system. The frightened, teenaged defendant is on trial, as well as the jury and the American judicial system with its purported sense of infallibility, fairness and lack of bias.

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