1) Desert Flower
The autobiography of a Somalian nomad circumcised at 3, sold in marriage at 13, fled from Africa a while later to become finally an American supermodel and is now at the age of 38, the UN spokeswoman against female genital mutilation (FGM).
Director: Sherry Hormann
Writers: Smita Bhide (script revisions), Waris Dirie(novel), 3 more credits »
Stars: Soraya Omar-Scego, Idriss Abdillahi Houfaneh, Awa Saïd Darar | See full cast and crew »
Released: 2009
2) Letters to Juliet
An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are typically answered by a the "secretaries of Juliet" -- and she goes on a quest to find the lovers referenced in the letter.
Director: Gary Winick
Writers: Jose Rivera, Tim Sullivan
Stars: Amanda Seyfried, Gael García Bernal, Vanessa Redgrave | See full cast and crew »
Released: 2010
3) The Bodyguard
A pop singer has been receiving threatening notes, and her manager hires a bodyguard known for his good work. The bodyguard ruffles the singer's feathers and most of her entourage by tightening security more than they feel is necessary. The bodyguard is haunted by the fact that he was on Reagan's secret service staff but wasn't there to prevent the attack by Hinckley. Eventually the bodyguard and the singer start an affair, and she begins to believe his precautions are necessary when the stalker strikes close to home.
Director: Mick Jackson
Writer: Lawrence Kasdan
Stars: Kevin Costner, Whitney Houston, Gary Kemp |See full cast and crew »
Released: 1992
4) Dear John
South Carolina US Army Special operations soldier John is on summer leave from his German base, visiting his widowed father. Being gallant on the pier, he befriends college student Savannah, a college student, and her buddies, a terminal father and his angelic son. John falls in love with Savannah, who diagnoses his beloved, gentle but weird father as mildly autistic. He plans not to sign up again, but 9/11 changes that, and she won't wait idly while their friends desperately need help.
Director: Lasse Hallström
Writers: Jamie Linden (screenplay), Nicholas Sparks(novel)
Stars: Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried, Richard Jenkins| See full cast and crew »
Released: 2010
5) Twilight
Bella Swan has always been a little bit different. Never one to run with the crowd, Bella never cared about fitting in with the trendy, plastic girls at her Phoenix, Arizona high school. When her mother remarried and Bella chooses to live with her father in the rainy little town of Forks, Washington, she didn't expect much of anything to change. But things do change when she meets the mysterious and dazzlingly beautiful Edward Cullen. For Edward is nothing like any boy she's ever met. He's nothing like anyone she's ever met, period. He's intelligent and witty, and he seems to see straight into her soul. In no time at all, they are swept up in a passionate and decidedly unorthodox romance - unorthodox because Edward really isn't like the other boys. He can run faster than a mountain lion. He can stop a moving car with his bare hands. Oh, and he hasn't aged since 1918. Like all vampires, he's immortal. That's right - vampire. But he doesn't have fangs - that's just in the movies. And he...
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Writers: Melissa Rosenberg (screenplay), Stephenie Meyer(novel)
Stars: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke |See full cast and crew »
Released: 2008
6) City of Angels
Seth is an angel who accompanies the spirits of the recently dead to the ever after. Seth has never been human and so has has never experienced touch or taste. When in the hospital however he comes across Dr. Maggie Rice, a brilliant young heart surgeon who is devoted to her profession and her patients. Seth has the power to let himself be seen but Maggie finds him far too mysterious. Seth also meets a patient, Nathaniel Messinger, who has news for him - he too was once an angel like Seth but chose to fall to Earth and become human. Seth makes a decision on his future, which does not turn out as he had expected.
Director: Brad Silberling
Writers: Wim Wenders (screenplay), Peter Handke(screenplay), 2 more credits »
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan, Andre Braugher |See full cast and crew »
Released: 1998
7) Gone with the Wind
Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Scarlett is beautiful. She has vitality. But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going to marry his placid cousin, Melanie. Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself at the party at Twelve Oaks. There is a new man there that day, the day the Civil War begins. Rhett Butler. Scarlett does not know he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her instead of Melanie.
Directors: Victor Fleming, George Cukor (uncredited) , 1 more credit »
Writers: Margaret Mitchell (story), Sidney Howard (screen play), 4 more credits »
Stars: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell |See full cast and crew »
Released: 1939
8) The Ugly Truth
A romantically challenged morning show producer is reluctantly embroiled in a series of outrageous tests by her chauvinistic correspondent to prove his theories on relationships and help her find love. His clever ploys, however, lead to an unexpected result.
Director: Robert Luketic
Writers: Nicole Eastman (screenplay), Karen McCullah(screenplay), 2 more credits »
Stars: Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler, Bree Turner |See full cast and crew »
Released: 2009
9) Sleepless in Seattle
After his wife Maggie passes away, Sam Baldwin and his 8-year-old son Jonah relocate from Chicago to Seattle to escape the grief associated with Maggie's death. Eighteen months later Sam is still grieving and can't sleep. Although Jonah misses his mother, he wants his father to get a new wife despite Sam having not even contemplated dating again. On Christmas Eve, Sam (on Jonah's initiative) ends up pouring his heart out on a national radio talk show about his magical and perfect marriage to Maggie, and how much he still misses her. Among the many women who hear Sam's story and fall in love with him solely because of it is Annie Reed, a Baltimore-based newspaper writer. Annie's infatuation with Sam's story and by association Sam himself is despite being already engaged. But Annie's relationship with her straight-laced fiancé Walter is unlike her dream love life in the movieAn Affair to Remember (1957). She even writes to Sam proposing they meet atop the Empire State Building on ...
Director: Nora Ephron
Writers: Jeff Arch (story), Nora Ephron (screenplay), 2 more credits »
Stars: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, Ross Malinger |See full cast and crew »
Released: 1993
10) 10 Things I hate About You
Adapted from William Shakespeare's play "The Taming of the Shrew," 10 Things I Hate About You starts off with Cameron, new student at Padua High, sitting in the office of the quirky guidance counselor Ms. Perky. He is then shown around the school by Michael, who will become his best friend. During his tour is when Cameron first sees Bianca Stratford, a beautiful sophomore with one problem: she isn't allowed to date. And neither is her "shrew" sister, Katarina, a senior who loves indie rock and feminist prose and hates conformity. But Kat and Bianca's father alters his house rule: now, Bianca can date... as long as Kat has a date, too. Now, in order for Cameron to date Bianca, he has to find someone to date Kat. So Michael helps him enlist the help of pretty-boy/jerk/model Joey Donner, tricking him into thinking that *he* will get to take Bianca out if he pays someone to take out Kat. His choice: Patrick Verona, a bad-boy with a mysterious reputation--some say he ate a live duck once...
Director: Gil Junger
Writers: Karen McCullah, Kirsten Smith, 1 more credit »
Stars: Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt |See full cast and crew »
Released: 1999
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