1. Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom
In this short subject , a stuffy owl teacher lectures his feathered flock on the origins of Western musical instruments. Starting with cavepeople, whose crude implements could only "toot, whistle, plunk and boom," the owl explains how these beginnings led to the development of the four basic types of Western musical instruments: brass, woodwinds, strings, and percussion.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
2. Boom Bust Boom
Terry Jones presents Boom Bust Boom. The result of a meeting between writer, director, historian and Python Terry Jones and economics professor and entrepreneur Theo Kocken. Co-written by Jones and Kocken and featuring John Cusack, Nobel Prize winners Daniel Kahneman, Robert J Shiller and Paul Krugman, the film is part of a global movement to change the economic system through education to protect the world from boom and bust. A unique look at why economic crashes happen, Boom Bust Boom is a multimedia documentary combining live action with animation and puppetry to explain economics to everyone.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
3. Bachelor Party in the Bungalow of the Damned
The story focuses on a group of thirtysomething guys who head up to the Hamptons to a buddy's bungalow to throw a bachelor party for another friend. Once there, a group of middle-aged, overweight hookers stop by randomly and give the boys a show. Unfortunately, they're possessed by some type of evil/demonic force and they started to kill the guys off one by one.
It has an average vote of 3.4 on TMDB.
4. Meier (Meier)
Meier, a paperhanger in East Berlin, inherits from his father in West Berlin. With this money he wants to fulfil himself the dream of his life: a journey around the world. He buys a forged West German passport and pretends to go on a trip to Bulgaria while he really is off to see the free world. When he wants to return to East Berlin he finds himself in an unbelievable predicament and his double life begins. He can't keep away from his East German friends. As with all the best comedies, the action builds up to an eventual crisis. It's a light comedy, which won several national Film Academy Awards. The film is very political, with lots of political jokes/innuendos which only Germans will understand. One is left feeling what a total obscenity that stupid Wall was, dividing one people for 30 years simply by the coincidence on where you just happen to be in the early morning on the 13th August 1961.
It has an average vote of 4.3 on TMDB.
5. Crooked Arrows
A native-American lacrosse team makes its way through a prep school league tournament.
It has an average vote of 6.2 on TMDB.
6. The Baker's Wife (La Femme du boulanger)
In this little Provencal village, a new baker, Aimable, settles down. His wife Aurelie is beautiful and much younger than he. She departs with a shepherd the night after Aimable produces his first breads. Aimable is so afflicted that he can not work anymore. Therefore, the villagers, who initially laughed at his cuckoldry, take the matter very seriously and organize a plan to find Aurelie and to bring her back to the bakery.
It has an average vote of 7.5 on TMDB.
7. Speedy
Speedy loses his job as a soda jerk, then spends the day with his girl at Coney Island. He then becomes a cab driver and delivers Babe Ruth to Yankee Stadium, where he stays to see the game. When the railroad tries to run the last horse-drawn trolley out of business, Speedy organizes the neighborhood old-timers to thwart their scheme.
It has an average vote of 7.333 on TMDB.
8. Fat City
Two men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take opposite momentum.
It has an average vote of 7.056 on TMDB.
9. The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner. Threatened with jail, Nugent agrees to date Susan until the crush abates.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
10. The Hanging Tree
Joseph "Doc" Frail is a doctor with a past he's trying to outrun. While in Montana, he comes across a mining camp with a hanging tree and rescues a man named Rune from the noose. With Rune as his servant, Frail decides to settle down, and he takes over as town doctor. He meets Elizabeth, who is suffering from shock, and the two soon fall in love. But when Elizabeth is attacked, Frail's attempt to help her lands them both in trouble.
It has an average vote of 6.631 on TMDB.
11. The Phantom Tollbooth
The Phantom Tollbooth, based upon the children's adventure novel by Norton Juster, tells the story of a bored young boy named Milo. Unexpectedly receiving a magic tollbooth and, having nothing better to do, Milo drives through it and enters a kingdom in turmoil following the loss of its princesses, Rhyme and Reason.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
12. Hamlet
Modern day adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal story about Hamlet's plight to avenge his father's murder in New York City.
It has an average vote of 5.8 on TMDB.
13. The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother
After spending decades living in the shadow of his more famous and successful sibling, Consulting Detective Sigerson Holmes is called upon to help solve a crucial case that leads him on a hilarious trail of false identities, stolen documents, secret codes... and exposed backsides.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
14. Legal Eagles
District Attorney Tom Logan is set for higher office, at least until he becomes involved with defence lawyer Laura Kelly and her unpredictable client Chelsea Deardon. It seems the least of Chelsea's crimes is the theft of a very valuable painting, but as the women persuade Logan to investigate further and to cut some official corners, a much more sinister scenario starts to emerge.
It has an average vote of 5.993 on TMDB.
15. Luis and the Aliens (Luis und die Aliens)
The story 11-year-old Luis who makes friends with three loveable little aliens, who crash their UFO into his house. In return for Luis' help in finding the home-shopping channel stuff they came for, they save Luis from boarding school - and an exciting adventure follows.
It has an average vote of 6.5 on TMDB.
16. Mais qui a re-tué Pamela Rose ? (Mais qui a re-tué Pamela Rose ?)
French filmmaker Eric Lartigau directs the anarchic buddy comedy Bullit and Riper, originally released as Mais qui a tue Pamela Rose? French comedic television stars Kad Merad and Olivier Barroux are both the protagonists and the screenwriters. As a parody of Hollywood cop films, the story is set somewhere in the American Midwest as fabricated by the French. After losing his regular partner, FBI agent Richard Bullit gets assigned to the book-learned cop Riper to investigate the death of a stripper. American movie stereotypes abound, such as shock jock Phil Canon and sheriff Steve Marley .
It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.
17. The Thirteenth Year
A teen learns that his birth mother is a mermaid after he begins to grow fins and slimy scales on his thirteenth birthday.
It has an average vote of 6.6 on TMDB.
18. Here Comes the Boom
A high school biology teacher moonlights as a mixed-martial arts fighter in an effort to raise money to save the school's music program.
It has an average vote of 6.185 on TMDB.
19. Exposed
After witnessing a miracle, a young Latina woman experiences strange things as a police detective searches for the truth behind his partner's death.
It has an average vote of 4.886 on TMDB.
