Sally Field
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
American Betty Mahmoody goes with her daughter and her Iranian-born husband to his native Iran for a vacation. Soon Betty discovers her husband doesn't intend to ever return to America. He will let her go, but her daughter must stay. As a stranger in a foreign police state, Betty has no money, no friends, no rights, and makes a desperate, heroic bid to escape with her child.
24) Steel magnolias
Pub. Date
c1990
Description
A young diabetic's decision to have a baby may cost her life. This choice leaves her own mother torn between love and anger, while her loyal friends support her and try to deal with their own feelings.
25) Stay hungry
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Description
A syndicate wants to buy a whole district and rebuild it. The only one not selling is a gym called 'Olympic', where Mr. Austria trains. They send in someone to buy it but he starts to like the people and falls in love with Mr. Austria's friend.
27) Murphy's romance
Pub. Date
2000
Description
Emma Moriarty, a divorced horse trainer living in a small town in Arizona, is courted by widower, Murphy Jones, and faces a difficult choice when her ex-husband appears on the scene.
28) Hooper
Author
Pub. Date
1978
Description
A behind-the-scenes look at the bruising world of the stuntman.
29) Lincoln
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
A revealing drama that focuses on the 16th president's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country, and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
31) Norma Rae
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Grinding out her life in a small southern town as a worker in a non-union textile shop, Norma Rae (Sally Field) joins forces with a New York labor organizer to unionize the southern mill. Based on the true story of Crystal Lee Sutton.
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Coal Miner's Daughter : The story of Loretta Lynn and her ambitious husband Mooney who takes Loretta away from her backwoods Appalachian home to be his child bride.
Smokey and the Bandit : Two truckers trying to transport 400 cases of beer from Texas to Atlanta get pursued by a sheriff after they pick up a hitch-hiking runaway bride-to-be who happens to have left the sheriff's son.
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas : A famous brothel, the "Chicken...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
When Doris Miller meets John Fremont, sparks fly--at least for Doris. When Doris begins showing up at John's regular haunts, she wins over his Williamsburg friends. Her new life brings Doris a thrilling perspective, but also creates a rift between her and her longtime friends and family, who believe she's making a fool of herself over a guy half her age.
35) Forrest Gump
Pub. Date
1994.
Description
Through three turbulent decades, Forrest rides a tide of events that whisks him from physical disablility to football stardom, from Vietnam hero to shrimp tycoon, from White House honors to the arms of his one true love.
36) 80 for Brady
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
"As the New England Patriots reach the Super Bowl in Houston, four female fans become determined to go to the game and meet quarterback Tom Brady, which proves a more memorable experience than they anticipated after the Patriots fall behind by four touchdowns." --
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Join master of mystery Rod Serling (The Twilight Zone) as he invites you into the transfixing world of fantasy, horror and science fiction. In its third and final season, Serling once again presents stories that still leave an undeniable chill, filled with restless spirits, murderous spouses and unidentified terrors that go bump in the night.
39) Back roads
Pub. Date
2005
Description
A hooker with a heart of gold winds up on the road to California with a crooked former prizefighter with maybe one good fight left in him. Sharing a turbulent relationship, the pair heads west from the Deep South -- each banking on the new beginnings that beckon and the dreams that may come true once they reach the Golden State.