W

What Maisie Knew :Julianne Moore Steve Coogan Joanne Vanderham


Delves into the effect of a bitter divorce on a couple's 6-year-old daughter.

Loved it!
 

Y
You've Got Mail : Tom Hanks Meg Ryan Jean Stapleton

The film tells of Kathleen Kelly, who owns a children's bookstore in New York. It is a small but profitable labor of love -- until Fox books, a mega-chain of super-sized bookstores, begins building across the street. Joe Fox, an executive with the family-owned firm, is directly responsible for this particular branch.

Z

Zachariah

1971

A

Akeelah and the Bee

The story revolves around the efforts of an English professor (Laurence Fishburne) to coach a promising young girl (Keke Palmer) to victory at the National Spelling Bee, much to the chagrin of the girl's mother and friends.

B

Babe

1995

C

Crossing Delancey

Crossing Delancey is generally an affable, thoroughly charming little romance that benefits substantially from Amy Irving's compelling performance. The story revolves around a successful bookseller named Isabelle (Irving) whose inability to find a husband greatly concerns her meddling grandmother, with the matchmaking efforts that ensue leading Isabelle straight to kindly pickle-maker Sam Posner.

D

Damien: Omen II

1978

E

Extremely Loud and Incredible Close

Eleven-year-old Oskar Schell is an exceptional child: amateur inventor, Francophile, pacifist. And after finding a mysterious key that belonged to his father, who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11, he embarks on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York. As Oskar roams the city, he encounters a variety of individuals, all survivors in their own way. Ultimately, Oskar’s journey ends where it began, but with the solace of that most human experience: community.

F

Failure To Launch

2006

G

Ghost : Whoopie Goldberg Demi Moore Patrick Swayze

While out on the town one evening, New York couple Sam and Molly are confronted by a mugger. After submitting to his demands, Sam is murdered anyway. He then finds himself a disembodied spirit, invisible to the living world, wandering without hope until he finds a spiteful spirit aboard the subway.

H

Hall of Mirrors

2001

I

In The Valley of Elah

Tommy Lee Jones plays a career soldier whose son mysteriously goes AWOL, shortly after returning to the U.S. from the front lines in Iraq. Charlize Theron plays a local police detective who helps him get to the bottom of the soldier's disappearance

J

Jabberwocky

1977

K

Key Largo 1948

Bogie and Bacall

(I hope that one didn't already show up..)

It has shown up, but I think that's okay since there's no way to keep track of what's already been listed. Also, there are only so many movies that start with K or X, so it's inevitable that there will be duplicates.

L
 

L

Last Exit to Brooklyn

Stars: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stephen Lang, Burt Young

1989

M:
Mississippi Burning
(excellent film)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095647/

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mississi...0-years-later/

http://vault.fbi.gov/Mississippi%20B...%20of%209/view

O

Oasis of the Zombies

1981

P

Pariah

A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.

q:quints (disney movie)
 

R

Return to Me Bonnie Hunt David Duchovny, Minnie Driver, Carroll O'Connor

A man who falls in love with the woman who received his wife's heart must decide which woman it is who holds his heart.

s: snow white and the huntsman
 

T

Times of Harvey Milk

The Times of Harvey Milk is a tremendously entertaining and surprisingly moving look at the life and death of San Francisco's first openly gay councillor

U

Uncommon Valor

1983

v: a view to a kill
 

W

White Place Susan Sarandon, James Spader, Jason Alexande. Kathy Bates

Max Baron is a 27-year-old high flying advertising executive still recovering from the death of his wife. One night he is in a bar when he meets Nora Baker a 43-year-old waitress. The couple gradually fall in love, though age and social differences mean that the path of true love is strewn with problems.

X

Xica

1976

Xica (Portuguese: Xica da Silva) is a 1976 Brazilian comedy film directed and written by Carlos Diegues, based on the novel by João Felício dos Santos. It stars Zezé Motta, Walmor Chagas and José Wilker.

Y
Yentl : Barbra Streisand, Amy Irving, Mandy Patinkin

A Jewish girl disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training.

A

Aberdeen

2000

Stellan Skarsgård
Lena Headey
Charlotte Rampling

b: boys on the side
 

A

Anita

Anita tells the story about a young, brilliant African American Anita Hill who accuses the Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of unwanted sexual advances during explosive Senate Hearings.

C

Cabin Fever

2003

D

Days of Wine and Roses : Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Charles Bickford

An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.

E

Ed Wood : Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker Director: Tim Burton

The mostly true story of the legendary director of awful movies and his strange group of friends and actors.

F

Frankie and Johnny

Stars: Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer, Hector Elizondo

1991

G
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner:Sidney Poitier Katherine Hepburn Spencer Tracey

Matt and Christina Drayton are a couple whose attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.

h: hollow man