Ambition

Ambition is horsepower. Not enough and life goes essentially nowhere; too much, and it runs roughshod over those in its path (even trampling them to death). Following are excellent examples of people on all points of the continuum, experiencing varying levels of success ~ for better and worse.

Examples of Ambition in Film

• 10
• 100 Mile Rule
• 11:14
• 12 Angry Men (1957)
• 12 Monkeys
• 13 Conversations About One Thing
• 16 Blocks
• 1941
• 1984
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• 2010: The Year We Make Contact
• 2012
• 21
• 21 Grams
• 25th Hour
• 27 Dresses
• 28 Days
• 3 Women
• 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
• 300
• 48 Hrs.
• 50/50
• 500 Days of Summer
• 84 Charing Cross Road
• 88 Minutes
• 8MM
• 9 1/2 Weeks
• A Beautiful Mind
• A Better Life
• A Bronx Tale
• A Bug’s Life
• A Chorus Line
• A Clockwork Orange
• A Cry in the Dark
• A Few Good Men
• A Good Woman
• A Good Year
• A History of the World: Part 1
• A History of Violence
• A Jersey Tale
• A League of Their Own
• A Little Sex
• A Man for All Seasons
• A Map of the World
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream
• A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy
• A Mighty Wind
• A Perfect Getaway
• A Perfect Murder
• A Place in the Sun
• A Price Above Rubies
• A River Runs Through It
• A Room with a View
• A Serious Man
• A Shot in the Dark
• A Simple Plan
• A Single Man
• A Slipping Down Life
• A Soldier’s Story
• A Sound of Thunder
• A Star is Born (1954)
• A Thousand Acres
• A Time to Kill
• A Very Brady Sequel
• A View to a Kill
• A Walk in the Clouds
• About a Boy
• About Last Night…
• About Schmidt
• Absence of Malice
• Absolute Power
• Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
• Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
• Adam
• Adam’s Rib
• Adaptation
• Addicted to Love
• Adored: Diary of a Porn Star
• Adventures in Babysitting
• Affliction
• Against the Ropes
• Agnes of God
• AI Artificial Intelligence
• Air Force One
• Airplane!
• Airport
• Aladdin
• Alex and Emma
• Ali
• Alice
• Alice Adams
• Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
• Alien
• Alien 3
• Alien Nation
• Alien vs. Predator
• Alien vs. Predator 2
• Alien: Resurrection
• Aliens
• Alive
• All of Me
• All That Jazz
• All the President’s Men
• All the Pretty Horses
• All the Right Moves
• Almost Famous
• Along Came a Spider
• Along Came Polly
• Alpha Dog
• Always
• Amadeus
• Amazing Grace
• Amelia
• American Beauty
• American Dreamer
• American Gangster
• American Graffiti
• American History X
• American Psycho
• American Splendor
• American Wake
• Amos & Andrew
• An Affair to Remember
• An American Crime
• An American in Paris
• An American Werewolf in London
• An Education
• An Inconvenient Truth
• An Innocent Man
• An Officer and a Gentleman
• An Unfinished Life
• An Unmarried Woman
• Analyze This
• Anastasia
• Angel on My Shoulder
• Angela’s Ashes
• Angels & Demons
• Anna and the King
• Annie
• Annie Hall
• Anonymous
• Another 48 Hrs.
• Another Earth
• Another Woman
• Antwone Fisher
• Any Given Sunday
• Apocalypto
• Apollo 13
• Arachnophobia
• Arlington Road
• Armageddon
• Arthur (2011)
• Arthur (orig)
• Arthur 2: On the Rocks
• As Good As It Gets
• At Home at the End of the World
• Atlantic City
• Atonement
• August
• Author! Author!
• Autumn in New York
• Avatar
• Awakenings
• Away from Her
• Away We Go
• Babe
• Babel
• Baby Boom
• Bachelor Party
• Back to the Future
• Back to the Future Part II
• Backdraft
• Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
• Badlands
• Bagdad Café
• Bambi
• Bandits
• Barefoot in the Park
• Barfly
• Barfly
• Barney’s Version
• Basic Instinct
• Bastard Out of Carolina
• Batman
• Batman & Robin
• Batman Begins
• Batman Forever
• Batman Returns
• Battlefield Earth
• Beaches
• Bean: The Movie
• Beastly
• Beautiful Girls
• Beauty and the Beast
• Because I Said So
• Bedazzled
• Bedknobs and Broomsticks
• Bee Season
• Beetlejuice
• Before and After
• Before Night Falls
• Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
• Being John Malkovich
• Being Julia
• Being There
• Belle’s Magical World
• Bend It Like Beckham
• Best Friends
• Best in Show
• Betrayal
• Betsy’s Wedding
• Beverly Hills Cop
• Big
• Big Daddy
• Big Fish
• Big Night
• Big Trouble in Little China
• Billy Elliot
• Biloxi Blues
• Birdy
• Birth
• Birthday Girl
• Bitter Moon
• Black Sunday
• Black Widow
• Blade
• Blade 2
• Blade Runner
• Blast from the Past
• Blindness
• Blood & Wine
• Blood Simple
• Blow
• Blow Dry
• Blue Crush
• Blue Sky
• Blue Valentine
• Blue Velvet
• Body Double
• Body Heat
• Body of Lies
• Body Snatchers
• Boiler Room
• Bonnie and Clyde
• Boogie Nights
• Boomerang
• Born on the Fourth of July
• Born to Be Wild
• Born Yesterday (1993)
• Bound
• Bowfinger
• Boys Don’t Cry
• Boys on the Side
• Boyz N the Hood
• Brainstorm
• Bram Stoker’s Dracula
• Braveheart
• Brazil
• Breach
• Bread and Roses
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s
• Breaking Away
• Breaking the Waves
• Breaking Up
• Bride Wars
• Bridesmaids
• Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
• Bridget Jones’ Diary
• Brigadoon
• Bright Star
• Brighton Beach Memoirs
• Bring It On
• Bringing Down the House
• Broadcast News
• Brokeback Mountain
• Brokedown Palace
• Broken Flowers
• Brothers (2005)
• Brothers (2009)
• Bruce Almighty
• Buffalo ’66
• Bugsy
• Bukowski: Born Into This
• Bull Durham
• Bullets Over Broadway
• Bulworth
• Burglar
• Buried
• Burlesque
• Burn After Reading
• Burnt Offerings
• Bustin’ Down the Door
• But I’m a Cheerleader
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• Caddyshack
• Cadence
• California Suite
• Canvas
• Cape Fear
• Capote
• Capricorn One
• Captain America: The First Avenger
• Captains Courageous
• Careful, He Might Hear You
• Carlito’s Way
• Carolina
• Carrie
• Casablanca
• Casino
• Casino Royale
• Cast Away
• Casual Sex?
• Casualties of War
• Cat People (1942)
• Cat People (1982)
• Catch 22
• Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
• Chain Reaction
• Changeling
• Changing Lanes
• Chariots of Fire
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Charlie Wilson’s War
• Charlotte’s Web (1973)
• Chasing Amy
• Chicago
• Children of a Lesser God
• Children of Men
• Chinatown
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
• Chloe
• Chocolat
• Choke
• Cinderella
• Cinderella Man
• Citizen Kane
• Citizen Ruth
• Citizen X
• City by the Sea
• City of Angels
• City Slickers
• City Slickers II
• Clash of the Titans (1981)
• Clash of the Titans (2010)
• Class
• Class Action
• Clay Pigeons
• Clean and Sober
• Clear and Present Danger
• Cleopatra
• Clerks
• Cliffhanger
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Closer
• Clueless
• Coal Miner’s Daughter
• Cocktail
• Coco Before Chanel
• Cocoon
• Cocoon: The Return
• Cold Comfort Farm
• Cold Creek Manor
• Cold Mountain
• Collateral
• Coma
• Coming to America
• Conan the Barbarian
• Confessions of a Shopaholic
• Confidence
• Congo
• Consenting Adults
• Conspiracy Theory
• Contact
• Contagion
• Continental Divide
• Conviction
• Cookie’s Fortune
• Cool Hand Luke
• Copycat
• Coraline
• Corrina, Corrina
• Country
• Courage Under Fire
• Cousins
• Coyote Ugly
• Crash
• Crash
• Crazy Heart
• Crazy People
• Crazy, Stupid, Love.
• Crimes and Misdemeanors
• Crimes of the Heart
• Criminal Law
• Crimson Tide
• Crocodile Dundee
• Crossed Swords
• Crossing Delancey
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• Croupier
• Cruel Intentions
• Cry-Baby
• Dad
• Daddy’s Little Girls
• Daisy Miller
• Daisy Miller
• Damage
• Dance with Me
• Dancer in the Dark
• Dances with Wolves
• Dangerous Liaisons
• Dante’s Peak
• Dark City
• Dark Matter
• Dark Water
• Date Night
• Dave
• David and Lisa (1962)
• Day of the Jackal
• Days of Heaven
• Days of Thunder
• Days of Wine and Roses
• Deacons for Defense
• Dead Calm
• Dead Man Walking
• Dead Poets Society
• Dear God
• Death and the Maiden
• Death at a Funeral (2007)
• Death Becomes Her
• Death to Smoochy
• Deathtrap
• Deconstructing Harry
• Deep Cover
• Deep Impact (Has really grown on me over the years…)
• Defending Your Life
• Déjà Vu
• Delirious
• Deliver Us from Eva
• Deliverance
• Desert Hearts
• Desperate Measures
• Desperately Seeking Susan
• Despicable Me
• Devil
• Dial M for Murder
• Diary of a Mad Black Woman
• Die Hard
• Dinner with Friends
• Dirty Dancing
• Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
• Disclosure
• District 9
• DOA (1988)
• Doctor Detroit
• Doctor Zhivago
• Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
• Dog Day Afternoon
• Dogma
• Dogville
• Dolores Claiborne
• Dolphin Tale
• Domino
• Don Juan DeMarco
• Don’t Come Knocking
• Don’t Say a Word
• Donnie Brasco
• Double Jeopardy
• Double Take
• Doubt
• Down and Out in Beverly Hills
• Down in the Delta
• Down in the Valley
• Dr. No
• Dr. Strangelove
• Dracula: Dead and Loving It
• Drag Me to Hell
• Dragnet
• Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story
• Dressed to Kill
• Drive Angry
• Driving Miss Daisy
• Drowning Mona
• Drumline
• Duel
• Duets
• Dumb and Dumber
• Dumbo
• Dune
• Earth
• East A
• Eastern Promises
• Easy Virtue
• Edge of Darkness
• Edmond
• Edward Scissorhands
• Eight Men Out
• Election
• Elegy
• Elegy
• Elephant
• Elizabeth: The Golden Age
• Ellie Parker
• Emma
• Empire of the Sun
• Empire Records
• Enchanted
• Enduring Love
• Enemy Mine
• Enemy of the State
• Envy
• Erin Brockovich
• Escape from New York
• Escape to Witch Mountain
• ET: The Extra-Terrestrial
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Ethan Frome (1993)
• Evan Almighty
• Eve’s Bayou
• Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
• Event Horizon
• Every Time We Say Goodbye
• Everyone Says I Love You
• Everything is Illuminated
• Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex
• Evita
• Excalibur
• Extraordinary Measures
• Extreme Measures
• Extremeties
• Eye of the Needle
• Eyes Wide Shut
• F/X
• Face/Off
• Facing the Giants
• Factotum
• Failure to Launch
• Fair Game
• Fallen
• Falling Down
• Falling in Love
• Fame (1980)
• Fame (2009)
• Family Business
• Fantasia
• Far and Away
• Far from Heaven
• Fargo
• Fast Food Nation
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High
• Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
• Fatal Attraction
• Fatal Beauty
• Father of the Bride
• Fear
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• Fearless
• Feed
• Felicia’s Journey
• Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
• Fiddler on the Roof
• Field of Dreams
• Find Me Guilty
• Finding Nemo
• Finding Neverland
• Finian’s Rainbow
• Fire in the Sky
• Firefox
• Firelight
• Fireproof
• Firestarter
• Firewall
• First Daughter
• First Do No Harm
• First Knight
• Five Corners
• Five Easy Pieces
• Flash of Genius
• Flashdance
• Flashpoint
• Flatliners
• Flawless (1999)
• Flawless (2007)
• Flesh and Bone
• Flightplan
• Flipped
• Flowers in the Attic
• Fly Away Home
• Focus
• Fool’s Gold
• Footloose
• For Your Consideration
• For Your Eyes Only
• Forget Paris
• Forgetting Sarah Marshall
• Forks Over Knives
• Forrest Gump
• Four Christmases
• Four Days in September
• Four Weddings and a Funeral
• Fracture
• Frailty
• Frances
• Frankenstein: The True Story
• Frankie and Johnny
• Frantic
• Freaks
• Free Willy
• Freedom Writers
• Frequency
• Fresh Horses
• Frida
• Friday Night Lights
• Fried Green Tomatoes
• Friends with Money
• Fright Night
• From the Terrace
• Frost/Nixon
• Frozen
• Frozen River
• Funny Girl
• Funny Lady
• G.I. Jane
• Galaxy Quest
• Gallipoli
• Gandhi
• Garden State
• Gaslight
• Gattaca
• George of the Jungle
• Get Shorty
• Ghost
• Ghostbusters
• Ghostbusters 2
• Ghosts of Mississippi
• Giant
• Gigi
• Girl with a Pearl Earring
• Girl, Interrupted
• Gladiator
• Glengarry Glen Ross
• Go
• Gods and Monsters
• Godsend
• Godsend
• Going the Distance »
• GoldenEye
• Goldfinger
• Gone Baby Gone
• Gone in 60 Seconds
• Good Burger
• Good Morning, Vietnam
• Good Night, and Good Luck
• Good Will Hunting
• Goodbye Lover
• Goodfellas
• Gorky Park
• Gosford Park
• Gothika
• Gran Torino
• Grease
• Great Expectations (1946)
• Great Expectations (1998)
• Greenberg
• Greenfingers
• Gremlins
• Grey Gardens
• Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan
• Grosse Pointe Blank
• Groundhog Day
• Guarding Tess
• Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
• Guinivere
• Gung Ho
• Gus
• Hairspray (2007)
• Half Moon Street
• Hall Pass
• Halloween
• Hamlet (1990)
• Hancock
• Hannah and Her Sisters
• Hannibal
• Hannibal Rising
• Happy Birthday to Me
• Happy-Go-Lucky
• Hard Candy
• Harold and Maude
• Harry Potter and Order of the Phoenix
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
• Hawaii
• He Said, She Said
• He’s Just Not That Into You
• He’s Just Not That Into You
• Heart Like a Wheel
• Heartburn
• Hearts in Atlantis
• Heat
• Heaven
• Heaven & Earth
• Heaven Can Wait
• Heights
• Hellboy
• Hellboy II: The Golden Army
• Hello, Dolly!
• Hereafter
• Hereafter »
• Hideaway
• High Crimes
• High Fidelity
• High School Musical
• High Spirits
• Highlander
• Hoffa
• Holes
• Hollow Man
• Home Alone
• Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
• Honeymoon in Vegas
• Hoosiers
• Hop
• Hope Floats
• Hopscotch
• Horrible Bosses
• Hounddog
• House of Cards
• House of Games
• House of Sand and Fog
• House of the Spirits
• How Do You Know
• How Stella Got Her Groove Back
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• How to Deal
• How to Kill Your Neighbor’s Dog
• Howards End
• Howl
• Hud
• Husbands and Wives
• Hush
• Hysterical Blindness
• I Am Legend
• I Am Sam
• I Don’t Know How She Does It
• I Heart Huckabees
• I Love Trouble
• I Love You, Man
• I Want to Live!
• I, Robot
• I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can
• I’m Not There
• I’ve Loved You So Long
• Ice Castles
• Iceman
• Identity
• If Lucy Fell
• If Only
• Imaginary Heroes
• Imagine Me & You
• Imitation of Life
• Immortal Beloved
• Impulse
• In America
• In Bruges
• In Good Company
• In Her Shoes
• In the Bedroom
• In the Cut
• In the Line of Fire
• In the Name of the Father
• In the Weeds
• In Time
• Inception
• Indecent Proposal
• Independence Day
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
• Infinity
• Inglorious Basterds
• Ink
• Inside Man
• Insomnia
• Instinct
• Interiors
• Internal Affairs
• Interview with the Vampire
• Into the Abyss
• Into the Abyss
• Into the Wild
• Intolerable Cruelty
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
• Invictus
• IQ
• Iron Man
• Iron Man 2
• Ironweed
• Irreconcilable Differences
• It Could Happen to You
• It’s a Wonderful Life
• J. Edgar
• Jack and Sarah
• Jack Goes Boating
• Jackass 3D
• Jackass 3D (I know, crazy!?)
• Jagged Edge
• Jane Eyre (1996)
• Japanese Story
• Jarhead
• Jaws
• Jeremiah Johnson
• Jerry Maguire
• Jezebel
• JFK
• Jindabyne
• Joe Versus the Volcano
• John Q
• Joshua
• Judgment at Nuremberg
• Julia
• Julia
• Julie & Julia
• Julius Caesar
• Jumanji
• Jumpin’ Jack Flash
• Junior
• Juno
• Jurassic Park
• Jurassic Park III
• Just Between Friends
• Just Cause
• Just Like Heaven
• Just Married
• K-19: The Widowmaker
• Kabluey
• Keeping the Faith
• Killer Elite
• Kind Hearts and Coronets
• Kindergarten Cop
• King Kong (1933)
• King Kong (1976)
• King Kong (2005)
• King of Texas
• Kingdom of Heaven
• Kinky Boots
• Kiss Me Goodbye
• Kiss of the Spider Woman
• Kiss the Girls
• Klute
• Knowing
• K-PAX
• Kramer vs. Kramer
• Krull
• Kung Fu Panda
• La Bamba
• La Cage aux Folles
• LA Confidential
• La Mission
• LA Story
• La Vie en Rose
• Lackawanna Blues
• Lad: A Dog (keep the kiddos out!)
• Ladies in Lavender
• Lady and the Tramp
• Lady in the Water
• Lady Jane
• Ladyhawke
• Lantana
• Larger Than Life
• Larry Crowne
• Last Chance Harvey
• Layer Cake
• Leap of Faith
• Leaving Las Vegas
• Left Behind II: Tribulation Force
• Left Behind: The Movie
• Legal Eagles
• Legally Blonde
• Legally Blonde 2: Red, White, and Blonde
• Legend
• Legends of the Fall
• Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
• Les Miserables
• Less Than Zero
• Let the Right One In
• Lethal Weapon
• Lethal Weapon
• Lethal Weapon 2
• Lethal Weapon 3
• Lethal Weapon 4
• Letters to Juliet
• Levity
• Liar Liar
• Life is Beautiful
• Little Big Man
• Little Buddha
• Little Children
• Little Fish
• little man
• Little Man Tate
• Little Miss Sunshine
• Little Shop of Horrors
• Little Voice
• Little Women (1994)
• Living Out Loud
• Local Hero
• Lolita (1962)
• Lone Star
• Longtime Companion
• Look Who’s Talking
• Lorenzo’s Oil
• Losing Isaiah
• Lost Horizon
• Lost in America
• Lost in Space
• Lost in Translation
• Lost in Yonkers
• Lost Souls
• Love & Basketball
• Love & Sex
• Love Actually
• Love at First Bite
• Love Liza
• Love Story
• Love the Hard Way
• Lulu on the Bridge
• Lust for Life
• Lymelife
• M*A*S*H
• Mad City
• Mad Max
• Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome
• Made
• Made in Dagenham
• Magic
• Magnolia
• Major League
• Making Love
• Malcolm X
• Malice
• Mamma Mia!
• Mammoth
• Man on Fire
• Man on the Moon
• Man on Wire
• Manhattan
• Manhunter
• Mannequin
• March of the Penguins
• Margin Call
• Maria Full of Grace
• Marie
• Marley & Me
• Mars Attacks!
• Martha Marcy May Marlene
• Marvin’s Room
• Marvin’s Room
• Mary Poppins
• Mary Reilly
• Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
• Mask
• Masquerade
• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
• Match Point
• Matchstick Men
• Matewan
• Maverick
• Max Dugan Returns
• Me Myself I
• Mean Creek
• Mean Girls
• Meet Joe Black
• Meet Me in St. Louis
• Meet the Browns
• Meet the Fockers
• Meet the Parents
• Megamind
• Melinda and Melinda
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• Memphis Belle
• Men in Black
• Men of Honor
• Mercy (1999)
• Mermaids
• Miami Blues
• Michael
• Michael Clayton
• Micki and Maude
• Midnight Cowboy
• Midnight Express
• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
• Midnight Run
• Mighty Aphrodite
• Milk
• Milk Money
• Million Dollar Baby
• Mind Hunters
• Mindwalk
• Mini’s First Time
• Minority Report
• Misery
• Miss Firecracker
• Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
• Missing
• Mission to Mars
• Mission: Impossible
• Mississippi Burning
• Mississipppi Masala
• Mister Roberts
• Modern Problems
• Modern Romance
• Mommie Dearest
• Mona Lisa Smile
• Monster
• Monster’s Ball
• Monster-in-Law
• Monsters vs. Aliens
• Monte Carlo
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• Monty Python’s Life of Brian
• Moon
• Moonlight and Valentino
• Moonlight Mile
• Moonraker
• Moonstruck
• Morning Glory
• Morvern Callar
• Mother
• Moulin Rouge
• Mouse Hunt
• Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
• Mr. Holland’s Opus
• Mr. Jones
• Mr. Mom
• Mr. Popper’s Penguins
• Mr. Wonderful
• Mr. Woodcock
• Mrs. Doubtfire
• Mrs. Harris
• Mrs. Soffel
• Mrs. Winterbourne
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Munich
• Murder in the First
• Murder on the Orient Express
• Murderball
• Muriel’s Wedding
• Murphy’s Romance
• Music Box
• Music of the Heart
• Must Love Dogs
• Mutiny on the Bounty
• My Best Friend’s Wedding
• My Big Fat Greek Wedding
• My Blue Heaven
• My Bodyguard
• My Cousin Vinny
• My Dinner with Andre
• My Effortless Brilliance
• My Fair Lady
• My Family
• My Geisha
• My Girl
• My Left Foot
• My Sister’s Keeper
• My Summer of Love
• My Week with Marilyn
• Mystery, Alaska
• Mystic Pizza
• Mystic River
• Napoleon Dynamite
• Narc
• National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
• National Lampoon’s Vacation
• National Velvet
• Nell
• Network
• Never Let Me Go
• New York, New York
• Next
• Next Day Air
• Next Day Air »
• Nick of Time
• Night Shift
• ‘night, Mother
• Nights in Rodanthe
• Nine
• Nine to Five
• No Country for Old Men
• No Reservations
• No Strings Attached
• No Way Out
• Nobody’s Fool
• Norma Rae
• Normal
• North by Northwest
• North Country
• Not Without My Daughter
• Notes on a Scandal
• Nothing But the Truty
• Nothing in Common
• Nothing to Lose
• Novocaine
• Now and Then
• Nurse Betty
• Nuts
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• Ocean’s Eleven
• October Sky
• Oh God!
• Oklahoma!
• Oleanna
• Oliver!
• On Golden Pond
• Once Around
• Once Bitten
• Once Were Warriors
• One Crazy Summer
• One False Move
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
• One Hour Photo
• One Night at McCool’s
• One True Thing
• Open Water
• Ordinary People
• Oscar and Lucinda
• Othello (1995)
• Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
• Out of Africa
• Out of Sight
• Out of Sight
• Outbreak
• Overboard
• Owning Mahowny
• P.S.
• Pacific Heights
• Panic
• Panic Room
• Paper Moon
• Papillon
• Parenthood
• Party Monster
• Passion Fish
• Patch Adams
• Patriot Games
• Pay It Forward
• Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure
• Peggy Sue Got Married
• People I Know
• Perfect
• Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
• Permanent Midnight
• Personal Velocity
• Pete’s Dragon
• Phenomenon
• Philadelphia
• Phone Booth
• Picnic
• Picture Perfect
• Pinocchio
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
• Places in the Heart
• Planes, Trains and Automobiles
• Planet of the Apes (1968)
• Planet of the Apes (2001)
• Platoon
• Play Misty for Me
• Playing God
• Plaza Suite
• Pleasantville
• Please Give
• Point of No Return
• Pollock
• Poltergeist
• Polyanna
• Poseidon
• Postcards from the Edge
• Powder
• Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire
• Predator
• Predator 2
• Prelude to a Kiss
• Presumed Innocent
• Pretty Baby
• Pretty in Pink
• Pretty Woman
• Pride & Prejudice (2005)
• Pride and Glory
• Primal Fear
• Private Benjamin
• Prizzi’s Honor
• Proof (Paltrow, 2005)
• Proof (Weaving, 1991)
• Proof of Life
• Prozac Nation
• Psycho (1960)
• Pulp Fiction
• Punch-Drunk Love
• Punchline
• Puncture
• Purgatory
• Purple Rain
• Quantum of Solace »
• Quarantine
• Quest for Fire
• Quills
• Quiz Show
• Rabbit Hole
• Rabbit Proof Fence
• Race to Witch Mountain
• Rachel Getting Married
• Racing with the Moon
• Radio Flyer
• Raggedy Man
• Raging Bull
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Rails & Ties
• Rain Man
• Raising Arizona
• Raising Helen
• Rambling Rose
• Rango
• Ravenous
• Ray
• Ready to Rumble
• Ready to Wear
• Real Genius
• Real Women Have Curves
• Rear Window
• Rebecca
• Red
• Red
• Red Dawn
• Red Dragon
• Red Eye
• Red Planet
• Red Riding Hood
• Red River
• Red Rock West
• Redbelt
• Reign of Fire
• Reign Over Me
• Reindeer Games
• Remember the Titans
• Rendition
• Requiem for a Dream
• Reservation Road
• Reservoir Dogs
• Revenge
• Revenge of the Pink Panther
• Reversal of Fortune
• Revolutionary Road
• Richard III
• Riding in Cars with Boys
• Ripley’s Game
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes
• Rising Sun
• Risky Business
• River’s Edge
• Road to Perdition
• Robin Hood (1973)
• Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
• RoboCop
• RoboCop 2
• Rock Star
• Rocky
• Rocky II
• Rocky III
• Rocky IV
• Roman Holiday
• Romancing the Stone
• Romeo & Juliet
• Romeo + Juliet
• Romeo is Bleeding
• Rope
• Rosemary’s Baby
• Rounders
• Roxanne
• Royal Wedding
• Ruby in Paradise
• Rudy
• Rudy
• Rules of Engagement
• Rumor Has It
• Runaway Bride
• Runaway Jury
• Runaway Train
• Running on Empty
• Running Scared
• Running with Scissors
• Rush
• Rushmore
• Ruthless People
• Salaam Bombay!
• Salt
• Same Time, Next Year
• Sarah’s Key
• Saturday Night Fever
• Save the Last Dance
• Saved!
• Saving Grace
• Saving Private Ryan
• Saw
• Say Anything
• Scarface
• Scavenger Hunt
• Scent of a Woman
• Schindler’s List
• Scrooge
• Sea of Love
• Seabiscuit
• Searching for Debra Winger
• Secondhand Lions
• Secret Window
• Secretary
• Seems Like Old Times
• Selena
• Sense and Sensibility
• Separate Lies
• September
• Serendipity
• Serial Mom
• Serpico
• Serving in Silence
• Seven
• Seven
• Seven Days in Utopia
• Sex and the City 2
• Sex and the City: The Movie
• sex, lies, and videotape
• Sexy Beast
• Shadowlands
• Shakespeare in Love
• Shall We Dance (1937)
• Shall We Dance? (1996)
• Shampoo
• Shattered Glass
• She’s Having a Baby
• Sherlock Holmes
• SherryBaby
• Shiloh
• Shining Through
• Shirley Valentine
• Shoah
• Shocked
• Sholem Aleichim: Laughing in the Darkness
• Shopgirl
• Showgirls
• Shrek
• Shrek 2
• Shrink
• Shutter Island
• Sid & Nancy
• Sideways
• Signs
• Silent Fall
• Silent Witness
• Silkwood
• Silverado
• Simon Birch
• Simone
• Singin’ in the Rain
• Single White Female
• Sixteen Candles
• Skateland
• Sleep with me
• Sleepers
• Sleeping with the Enemy
• Sleepless in Seattle
• Sleepy Hollow
• Sleuth (1972)
• Sliding Doors
• Sling Blade
• Sliver
• Slumdog Millionaire
• Slums of Beverly Hills
• Smart People
• Smoke
• Snatch
• Sneakers
• Snow Angels
• Snow Cake
• Snow Falling on Cedars
• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
• Soapdish
• Some Kind of Wonderful
• Some version of Dangerous Liasions (any will do)
• Somebody Up There Likes Me
• Someone Like You
• Someone to Watch Over Me
• Something Borrowed
• Something New
• Something to Talk About
• Something Wicked This Way Comes
• Something’s Gotta Give
• Somewhere
• Sommersby
• Song of the South
• Sophie’s Choice
• Soul Man
• Source Code
• South Pacific
• Southern Comfort
• Spanglish
• Spartan
• Speak
• Speed
• Sphere
• Spider-Man
• Spider-Man 2
• Spinning Into Butter
• Spinning Into Butter
• Splash
• Splendor in the Grass
• Splice
• St. Elmo’s Fire
• Stage Beauty
• Stand and Deliver
• Stand By Me
• Stanley & Iris
• Star 80
• Star Trek (2009)
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
• Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
• Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
• Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
• Star Trek: First Contact
• Star Trek: Generations
• Star Trek: Insurrection
• Star Trek: Nemesis
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture
• Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace
• Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones
• Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
• Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope
• Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
• Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
• Stargate
• Starman
• Starting Over
• State and Main
• State Fair
• State of Grace
• State of Play
• Staying Alive
• Steel Magnolias
• Stella
• Stepmom
• Stir Crazy
• Stir of Echoes
• Stone
• Storyville
• Straight Talk
• Strangeland
• Stranger Than Fiction
• Strangers on a Train
• Straw Dogs (2011)
• Straw Dogs (orig)
• Stripes
• Submarine
• Summer in Genoa
• Summer of ’42
• Summer of Sam
• Sunset Boulevard
• Sunshine Cleaning
• Super 8
• Super Size Me
• Superman II
• Superman III
• Superman Returns
• Superman: The Movie
• Support Your Local Sheriff
• Suspect
• Suspect Zero
• Sweeny Todd
• Sweet and Lowdown
• Sweet Dreams
• Sweet Hearts Dance
• Sweet Home Alabama
• Sweet November
• Swimmers
• Swimming Pool
• Swimming Upstream
• Swimming with Sharks
• Swing Shift
• Swingers
• Swiss Family Robinson
• Swordfish
• Sylvia
• Synecdoche, New York
• Syrianna
• Taken
• Taking Lives
• Talk Radio
• Talk to Me
• Taps
• Target
• Taxi Driver
• Tea with Mussolini
• Tears of the Sun
• Tender Mercies
• Tequila Sunrise
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• Terminator Salvation
• Terminator: Salvation
• Terms of Endearment
• Testament
• Tex
• Texas Killing Fields
• Thank You for Smoking
• That Was Then… This Is Now
• The ‘Burbs
• The 40-Year-Old Virgin
• The Abyss
• The Accidental Tourist
• The Accused
• The Addams Family
• The Addiction
• The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
• The African Queen
• The Age of Innocence
• The Air I Breathe
• The American President
• The Amityville Horror
• The Andromeda Strain
• The Apostle
• The Aristocats
• The Art of Getting By
• The Associate
• The Astronaut’s Wife
• The Aviator
• The Bank Job
• The Basketball Diaries
• The Baxter
• The Beach
• The Beaver
• The Believers
• The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
• The Best of Times
• The Big Blue
• The Big Chill
• The Big Easy
• The Big Kahuna
• The Big Lebowski
• The Big Year
• The Birdcage
• The Birds (1963)
• The Black Dahlia
• The Blair Witch Project
• The Blind Side
• The Blue Lagoon
• The Bone Collector
• The Book of Eli
• The Boondock Saints
• The Bostonians
• The Bounty
• The Bourne Identity
• The Bourne Supremacy
• The Bourne Ultimatum
• The Box
• The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
• The Boys from Brazil
• The Brady Bunch Movie
• The Breakfast Club
• The Break-Up
• The Bridge on the River Kwai
• The Bridges of Madison County
• The Brothers Bloom
• The Browning Version (1994)
• The Butcher’s Wife
• The Butterfly Effect
• The Cable Guy
• The Caine Mutiny
• The Candidate
• The Cell
• The Chamber
• The Change-Up
• The Children’s Hour
• The China Syndrome
• The Chosen
• The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
• The Chumscrubber
• The Cider House Rules
• The Claim
• The Clearing
• The Color Purple
• The Company
• The Confession
• The Constant Gardener
• The Contender
• The Contract
• The Cooler
• The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
• The Country Girl
• The Craft
• The Crucible
• The Crying Game
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• The Darjeeling Limited
• The Dark Crystal
• The Dark Knight
• The Day After Tomorrow (Surprise!)
• The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
• The Dead Girl
• The Dead Zone
• The Debt
• The Decline of the American Empire
• The Deep End
• The Deep End of the Ocean
• The Deer Hunter
• The Departed
• The Descendants
• The Devil and Daniel Johnston
• The Devil Wears Prada
• The Devil’s Advocate
• The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
• The Doctor
• The Door in the Floor
• The Doors
• The Double
• The Edge
• The Electric Horseman
• The Elephant Man
• The End
• The End of the Affair
• The English Patient
• The Exorcism of Emily Rose
• The Exorcist
• The Experiment
• The Eyes of Tammy Faye
• The Family Stone
• The Family That Preys
• The Fan
• The Fifth Element
• The Fighter
• The Final Cut
• The Firm
• The Fisher King
• The Flamingo Kid
• The Flintstones
• The Fly
• The Forgotten
• The Four Musketeers
• The Four Seasons
• The Fox and the Hound
• The French Connection
• The French Lieutenant’s Woman
• The Fugitive
• The Full Monty
• The General’s Daughter
• The Gift
• The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (2009)
• The Girl Who Played with Fire
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
• The Glenn Miller Story
• The Godfather
• The Godfather: Part II
• The Godfather: Part III
• The Golden Child
• The Good Father
• The Good Girl
• The Good Mother
• The Good Shepherd
• The Good Son
• The Graduate
• The Great Escape
• The Great Gatsby (1974)
• The Great Gatsby (2000)
• The Great Santini
• The Greatest Story Ever Told
• The Green Mile
• The Grifters
• The Handmaid’s Tale
• The Hangover
• The Hangover, Part 2
• The Healer
• The Heist
• The Help
• The Hindenburg
• The Holcroft Covenant
• The Horse Whisperer
• The Hours
• The Human Stain
• The Hunt for Red October
• The Hurricane
• The Hurt Locker
• The Ice Storm
• The Illusionist (2006)
• The Impostors
• The Incredible Hulk
• The Informant!
• The In-Laws (1979)
• The Insider
• The International
• The Interpreter
• The Interview
• The Invasion
• The Invention of Lying
• The Island
• The Island at the Top of the World
• The Italian Job
• The Jackal
• The Jacket
• The January Man
• The Jewel of the Nile
• The Josephine Baker Story
• The Joy Luck Club
• The Jungle Book
• The Juror
• The Karate Kid
• The Killing Fields
• The Killing Room
• The King and I
• The Kite Runner
• The Lake House
• The Last Airbender
• The Last American Virgin
• The Last Emperor
• The Last King of Scotland
• The Last Mimzy
• The Last of the Mohicans
• The Last Picture Show
• The Last Samurai
• The Last Station
• The Last Station
• The Last Waltz
• The Libertine
• The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
• The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
• The Life of David Gale
• The Limey
• The Lincoln Lawyer
• The Lion in Winter
• The Lion King
• The Little Foxes
• The Little Mermaid
• The Little Prince
• The Living Daylights
• The Long, Hot Summer
• The Longest Yard (1970)
• The Lord of the Rings (full trilogy, special edition boxed set of
• course)
• The Lords of Flatbush
• The Lost City
• The Lost Weekend
• The Lost World: Jurassic park
• The Lovely Bones
• The Lovely Bones
• The Machinist
• The Madness of King George
• The Magdalene Sisters
• The Majestic
• The Maltese Falcon
• The Man from Elysian Fields
• The Man from Elysian Fields
• The Man from Snowy River
• The Man in the Moon
• The Man Who Loved Women
• The Man Without a Face
• The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
• The Matrix
• The Matrix: Reloaded
• The Mechanic (2011)
• The Messenger (2009)
• The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
• The Mexican
• The Milagro Beanfield War
• The Miracle Worker (1962)
• The Missing
• The Mission
• The Mist
• The Money Pit
• The Mosquito Coast
• The Mother
• The Mothman Prophecies
• The Mummy
• The Muppet Movie
• The Muse
• The Naked Gun
• The Name of the Rose
• The Nativity Story
• The Natural
• The Notebook
• The Number 23
• The Nun’s Story
• The Object of My Affection
• The Omen (1976)
• The Omen 666
• The Only Thrill
• The Opposite of Sex
• The Other
• The Other Boleyn Girl
• The Others
• The Out-of-Towners (1970)
• The Outsiders
• The Painted Veil
• The Paper
• The Paper Chase
• The Parallax View
• The Passion of the Christ
• The Patriot
• The Pelican Brief
• The Pentagon Wars
• The People vs. Larry Flynt
• The Perfect Storm
• The Pianist
• The Piano
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
• The Pink Panther
• The Pink Panther Strikes Again
• The Pirates of Penzance
• The Playboys
• The Polar Express
• The Presidio
• The Prestige
• The Prince of Tides
• The Princess Bride
• The Professional (Leon)
• The Proposal
• The Proposition
• The Pursuit of Happyness
• The Queen
• The Quick and the Dead
• The Rainmaker (1997)
• The Rat Pack
• The Reader
• The Reaping
• The Red Violin
• The Remains of the Day
• The Return of the Pink Panther
• The Ring
• The Rite
• The River
• The River Wild
• The Road
• The Road Warrior
• The Rock
• The Runaways
• The Rundown
• The Russia House
• The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming
• The Safety of Objects
• The Salton Sea
• The Savages
• The Scarlet Letter
• The Score
• The Secret Life of Bees
• The Secret Lives of Dentists
• The September Issue
• The Shape of Things
• The Shawshank Redemption
• The Sheltering Sky
• The Shining
• The Shipping News
• The Silence of the Lambs
• The Sixth Sense
• The Skeleton Key
• The Snapper
• The Soloist
• The Song of Bernadette
• The Sound of Music
• The Spanish Prisoner
• The Spitfire Grill
• The Squid and the Whale
• The Star
• The Star Chamber
• The Station Agent
• The Stepford Wives (2004)
• The Sting
• The Straight Story
• The Sugarland Express
• The Sum of All Fears
• The Sweet Hereafter
• The Sword in the Stone
• The Talented Mr. Ripley
• The Taming of the Shrew
• The Ten Commandments
• The Terminator
• The Thin Red Line
• The Thing (1982)
• The Thing (2011)
• The Third Man
• The Third Miracle
• The Time Machine
• The Time Traveler’s Wife
• The Tin Drum
• The Town
• The Tree of Life
• The Trip to Bountiful
• The Triplets of Belleville
• The Trouble with Harry
• The Truman Show
• The Turning Point
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• The Unsinkable Molly Brown
• The Untouchables
• The Upside of Anger
• The Usual Suspects
• The Vanishing
• The Verdict
• The Visitor
• The Watcher
• The Way We Were
• The Wedding Date
• The Wedding Singer
• The Wicker Man (1973)
• The Wicker Man (2006)
• The Winslow Boy
• The Witches of Eastwick
• The Wizard of Oz
• The Woodsman
• The World According to Garp
• The Wrestler
• The Year of Living Dangerously
• The Yearling
• Thelma & Louise
• There’s Something About Mary
• They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
• Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her
• Thirteen Days
• This Boy’s Life
• Thor
• Three Fugitives
• Three Men and a Baby
• Three Men and a Little Lady
• Throw Momma from the Train
• Thumbsucker
• Thunder Soul
• Time After Time
• TiMER
• Tin Cup
• Tin Men
• Tiptoes
• Titanic
• Titus
• To Be or Not To Be
• To Die For
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• To Live and Die in LA
• Tootsie
• Top Hat
• Torch Song Trilogy
• Total Recall
• Touch of Evil
• Touched
• Towelhead
• Tower Heist
• Toy Story
• Toy Story 2
• Trading Places
• Traffic
• Training Day
• Traitor
• Transsiberian
• Traveller
• Tremors
• Tropic Thunder
• True Grit (2010)
• True Lies
• Trust the Man
• Turn the River
• Twilight (1998)
• Twilight (2008)
• Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 1
• Twilight Saga: Eclipse
• Twilight Saga: New Moon
• Twins
• Twisted
• Twister
• Two for the Money
• Two for the Road
• Two Mules for Sister Sara
• Ulee’s Gold
• Unbreakable
• Under the Tuscan Sun
• Undertow
• Unfaithful
• Unforgiven
• Unhook the Stars
• United 93
• Unknown (2009)
• Unknown (2011)
• Untraceable
• Up
• Up Close & Personal
• Up in the Air
• Uptown Girls
• Urban Cowboy
• Urbania
• V for Vendetta
• Valentine’s Day
• Valley Girl
• Valmont
• Van Helsing
• Vanity Fair
• Vantage Point
• Vera Drake
• Vertigo
• Vicky Cristina Barcelona
• Victor/Victoria
• Wag the Dog
• Wait Until Dark
• Waiting for Guffman
• Waiting for Superman
• Waiting to Exhale
• Walk the Line
• Wall Street (the quintessential example, right?)
• Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit
• WALL-E
• Waltz Across Texas
• War of the Worlds
• WarGames
• Warrior
• Watchmen
• Water for Elephants
• Watership Down
• We Are Marshall
• We Don’t Live Here Anymore
• We’re No Angels
• Weird Science
• Wendy and Lucy
• West Side Story
• Whale Rider
• What Alice Found
• What Love Is
• What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
• What’s Love Got to Do with It
• Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
• Whatever Works
• When a Man Loves a Woman
• When Harry Met Sally…
• Where the Wild Things Are
• White Knights
• White Oleander
• White Palace
• White Squall
• Whiteout
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
• Who the #$&% is Jackson Pollock?
• Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• Wild Tigers I Have Known
• Wildcats
• Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
• Win Win
• Wind Chill
• Winter Passing
• Winter’s Bone
• Without a Trace
• Without Limits
• Witness for the Prosecution
• Wolf
• Wolfen
• Wonder Boys
• Wordplay
• Working Girl
• Wuthering Heights
• X-Men
• X-Men: First Class
• Y Tu Mama Tambien?
• Year of the Dragon
• You
• You Can Count on Me
• You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
• You’ve Got Mail
• Young @ Heart
• Young Frankenstein
• Zero Effect
• Zodiac
• Zombieland
• Zoolander