Mamma Mia! The Movie (2008) Genre : Comedy, Musical, Romance Plot : The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told using hit songs by the popular '70s group ABBA.
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Doubt (2008) Genre : Drama, Mystery Plot : Set in 1964, Doubt centers on a nun who confronts a priest after suspecting him of abusing a black student. He denies the charges, and much of the play's quick-fire dialogue tackles themes of religion, morality, and authority.
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Evening (2007) Genre : Drama, Romance Plot : A drama exploring the romantic past and emotional present of Ann Grant and her daughters, Constance and Nina. As Ann lays dying, she remembers, and is moved to convey to her daughters, the defining moments in her life 50 years prior, when she was a young woman. Harris is the man Ann loves in the 1950s and never forgets.
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Dark Matter (2007) Genre : Drama Plot : Based on actual events, a Chinese university student responds violently when his chances for a Nobel Prize are dashed by school politics.
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The Devil Wears Prada (2006) Genre : Comedy, Drama Plot : A naive young woman comes to New York and scores a job as the assistant to one of the city's biggest magazine editors, the ruthless and cynical Miranda Priestly.
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A Prairie Home Companion (2006) Genre : Comedy, Drama, Musical Plot : A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren (Streep), and a host of others hold court.
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Prime (2005) Genre : Comedy, Drama, Romance Plot : A career driven professional from Manhattan (Thurman) who is wooed by a young painter, who also happens to be the son of her psychoanalyst (Streep).
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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) Genre : Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy Plot : Three wealthy children's parents are killed in a fire. When they are sent to a distant relative, they find out that he is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune.
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Adaptation (2003) Genre : Comedy, Drama Plot : A lovelorn screenwriter turns to his less talented twin brother for help when his efforts to adapt a non-fiction book go nowhere.
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Stuck On You (2003) Genre : Comedy, Drama Plot : Conjoined twins from Martha's Vineyard move to Los Angeles so that one of them can pursue an acting career.
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Music of the Heart (1999) Genre : Biography, Drama, Musical Plot : Story of a schoolteacher's struggle to teach violin to inner-city Harlem kids.
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One True Thing (1998) Genre : Drama Plot : A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.
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Defending Your Life (1991) Genre : Comedy, Fantasy, Romance Plot : In an afterlife resembling the present-day US, people must prove their worth by showing in court how they have demonstrated courage.
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Postcards from the Edge (1990) Genre : Comedy, Drama Plot : Having a wonderful time, wish I were here.
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She-Devil (1989) Genre : Comedy Plot : An awkward and fat woman lives in the suburbs with her husband. She becomes a a monster who wants to revenge that her husband was seduced by an authoress who writes trash fiction.
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Out of Africa (1985) Genre : Drama, Romance Plot : In 20th century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate but ultimately doomed love affair with a free-sprited big-game hunter.
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Sophie's Choice (1982) Genre : Drama, Romance Plot : Between the innocent, the romantic, the sensual, and the unthinkable. There are still some things we have yet to imagine.
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Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) Genre : Drama Plot : A just divorced man must learn to care for his son on his own, and then must fight in court to keep custody of him.
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The Deer Hunter (1979) Genre : Drama, War Plot : An in-depth examination of the way that the Vietnam war affects the lives of people in a small industrial town in the USA.
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Julia (1977) Genre : Drama Plot : At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.
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