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1	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) more movies like this directed by Milos Forman featuring Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Dean R. Brooks, Scatman Crothers With an insane asylum standing in for everyday society, Milos Forman's 1975 film adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel is a comically sharp indictment of the Establishment urge to conform. Playing crazy to avoid prison work detail, manic free spirit Randle P. McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) is sent to the state mental hospital for evaluation. There he ... see all copies from £2.04! new only from £6.41!
2	Good Will Hunting (1997) more movies like this directed by Gus Van Sant featuring Matt Damon, Robin Williams, Ben Affleck, Minnie Driver, Stellan Skarsgård Matt Damon and Ben Affleck co-scripted and star in this drama, set in Boston and Cambridge, about rebellious 20-year-old MIT janitor Will Hunting (Damon), gifted with a photographic memory, who hangs out with his South Boston bar buddies, his best friend Chuckie (Affleck), and his affluent British girlfriend Skylar (Minnie Driver). After MIT ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £3.39!
3	Fight Club (1999) more movies like this directed by David Fincher featuring Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, Jared Leto In this darkly comic drama, Edward Norton stars as a depressed young man (named in the credits only as "Narrator") who has become a small cog in the world of big business. He doesn't like his work and gets no sense of reward from it, attempting instead to drown his sorrows by putting together the "perfect" apartment. He can't sleep and feels ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £10.91!
4	The Truman Show (1998) more movies like this directed by Peter Weir featuring Jim Carrey, Laura Linney, Ed Harris, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone Peter Weir directed this comedy-drama, a commentary on all-pervasive media manipulation. Scripted by Andrew M. Niccol (Gattaca), the film plays like a combination of the British TV series The Prisoner and Paul Bartel's The Secret Cinema. Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) is unaware that his entire life is a hugely popular 24-hour-a-day TV series. In ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £2.77!
5	The Sopranos: Season 06 (2006) more movies like this HBO split the sixth and final season of its serial mafia drama The Sopranos into two halves, spaced 10 months apart: the first half (episodes 1-12) aired from mid-March through early June of 2006; a hiatus followed between episodes 12 and 13, before the series picked up again for its final nine episodes on April 8, 2007, purportedly thanks to ... see all copies from £12.46! new only from £18.69!
6	*What the #$! Do We Know?!** (2004) more movies like this directed by Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente, William Arntz featuring Marlee Matlin, Elaine Hendrix, John Ross Bowie, Armin Shimerman, Robert Bailey Jr., Barry Newman Part narrative, part documentary, and part animation, What the #$! Do We Know?! was filmed with the intent of expressing the neurological processes and so called "quantum uncertainty" of life. With the help of a directorial triumvirate consisting of Betsy Chasse, William Arntz, and Mark Vicente, Marlee Matlin stars as Amanda, whose uninspired ... see all copies* from £7.89! new only from £11.01!
7	What the Bleep!? Down the Rabbit Hole (2006) more movies like this directed by Betsy Chasse, William Arntz The concepts of quantum theory and spiritual well-being originally put forth in the 2004 feature What the #$! Do We Know?! are expanded upon in this extended version of the same film featuring a new opening, a variety of new interviews, and three new computer-animation segments. If audiences found themselves questioning anything and everything ... see all copies* from £11.91! new only from £16.27!
8	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) more movies like this directed by Richard Brooks featuring Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, Burl Ives, Jack Carson, Judith Anderson, Madeleine Sherwood This dynamic and commanding adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play focuses on a troubled Southern family and the discord over their dying father's millions. Wealthy plantation owner Big Daddy Pollitt (Burl Ives), celebrating his 65th birthday, is visited by his sons, Brick (Paul Newman) and Gooper (Jack Carson). He has ... see all copies from £1.64! new only from £8.30!
9	The Sopranos: Season 02 (2000) more movies like this New Jersey Mafia boss Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) continues maintaining the facade of being a respectable suburban husband and father while operating a vast criminal organization from the confines of the Bada-Bing Club during Season Two of The Sopranos. Now that the treacherous Uncle Junior (Dominic Chianese) has been placed under arrest by ... see all copies from £5.45! new only from £16.77!
10	Lost: Season 01 (2004) more movies like this A passenger jet breaks apart in mid-air, crash-landing on a tropical island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Left without the creature comforts and basic necessities of civilization, the 48 survivors are forced to rely upon one another to stay alive -- and given the personality quirks of these survivors, this won't be easy during the first season ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £5.46!
11	Of Mice and Men (1992) more movies like this directed by Gary Sinise featuring John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, Ray Walston, Casey Siemaszko, Sherilyn Fenn Gary Sinese directed this respectful re-telling of John Steinbeck's classic novel, with Sinese as the wily George and John Malkovich as the brutish, simple-minded Lennie. Set during the Depression era, the film opens as George and Lennie are running from a woman with a torn dress, who has sent a gang of ruffians to chase the two out of the county. ... see all copies from £7.12! new only from £7.12!
12 view cover	Mass Appeal (1984) more movies like this directed by Glenn Jordan featuring Jack Lemmon, Zeljko Ivanek, Charles Durning, Louise Latham Jack Lemmon stars in Mass Appeal as a popular Los Angeles parish priest, who has retained the good will of his parishioners by cracking jokes and never taking a stand on crucial matters. Enter young seminarian Zeljko Ivanek, whose rebellious reputation threatens to earn him an expulsion. Lemmon is expected to bring Ivanek around to the Church's ... see all copies from £29.08!
13 view cover	Burnt by the Sun (1994) more movies like this directed by Nikita Mikhalkov featuring Nikita Mikhalkov, Oleg Menshikov, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Vladimir Ilyin, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Avangard Leontyev, Nadia Mikhalkov, André Oumansky, Yevgeny Mironov Stalinist Russia, circa 1930, is recreated in this Russian-French film that focuses on a small, elite gathering of family and friends who appreciate the idealism of Stalin's visions because they do not have to experience its darker side of gulags and purges. The story focuses upon a single day in Soviet revolutionary hero Serguei Kotov's life. ... see all copies from £4.46!
14 view cover	A Beautiful Mind (2001) more movies like this directed by Ron Howard featuring Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris, Paul Bettany, Adam Goldberg The true story of prominent mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr. is the subject of this biographical drama from director Ron Howard. Russell Crowe stars as the brilliant but arrogant and conceited professor Nash. The prof seems guaranteed a rosy future in the early '50s after he marries beautiful student Alicia (Jennifer Connelly) and makes a ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £3.43!
15 view cover	Apt Pupil (1998) more movies like this directed by Bryan Singer featuring Kevin Pollak, Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro, Bruce Davison, Elias Koteas, Joe Morton, David Schwimmer Bryan Singer directed this Brandon Boyce adaptation of Stephen King's novella about teenager Todd Bowden (Brad Renfro), who discovers Nazi war criminal Kurt Dussander (Ian McKellen) living in his California hometown. Fascinated with Dussender's wartime atrocities, Bowden blackmails the former death-camp commandant by promising to keep his identity ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £5.13!
16 view cover	The Sopranos: Season 01 (1999) more movies like this The first season of The Sopranos finds lifelong "organization man" Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) taking over from Jackie Aprile Sr., terminally ill boss of the northern New Jersey branch of the DiMeo crime family. Tony's promotion is met with mixed reactions from his wife Carmela (Edie Falco), daughter Meadow (Jamie-Lyn DiScala) and son AJ ... see all copies from £7.61! new only from £18.69!
17 view cover	The Hours (2002) more movies like this directed by Stephen Daldry featuring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Toni Collette Three women, separated by a span of nearly 80 years, find themselves weathering similar crises, all linked by a single work of literature in this film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Michael Cunningham. In 1923, Virginia Woolf (Nicole Kidman) is attempting to start work on her novel Mrs. Dalloway, in which she chronicles one day ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £5.12!
18 view cover	Awakenings (1990) more movies like this directed by Penny Marshall featuring Robin Williams, Robert De Niro, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson, John Heard, Penelope Ann Miller Based on a true story as related by neurologist Oliver Sacks, Awakenings stars Robin Williams as the Sacks counterpart, here named Dr. Malcolm Sayer. Something of a klutz and naif, Dr. Sayer takes a job at a Bronx psychiatric hospital in 1969. Here he's put in charge of several seemingly catatonic patients who, under Sayer's painstaking guidance, ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £7.60!
19 view cover	Lost in Translation (2003) more movies like this directed by Sofia Coppola featuring Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris After making a striking directorial debut with her screen adaptation of The Virgin Suicides, Sofia Coppola offers a story of love and friendship blooming under unlikely circumstances in this comedy drama. Bob Harris (Bill Murray) is a well-known American actor whose career has gone into a tailspin; needing work, he takes a very large fee to appear ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £4.16!
20 view cover	The Horse Whisperer (1998) more movies like this directed by Robert Redford featuring Robert Redford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Sam Neill, Dianne Wiest, Scarlett Johansson Robert Redford directed himself for the first time in this romantic drama adapted from the 1995 best-seller by Nicholas Evans. Fourteen-year-old Grace MacLean (Scarlett Johansson of Manny & Lo) and her friend Judith go horseback riding in upstate New York on a winter morning, but their horses lose their footing on ice and slide onto a road, where ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £7.56!
21 view cover	Donnie Darko (2001) more movies like this directed by Richard Kelly featuring Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell, Holmes Osborne, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Drew Barrymore, Patrick Swayze Donnie (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a bright and charming high-school student who also has a dark and willfully eccentric side; he does little to mask his contempt for many of his peers and enjoys challenging the authority of the adults around him. Donnie is also visited on occasion by Frank, a monstrous six-foot rabbit that only Donnie can see who often ... see all copies from £3.18! new only from £8.44!
22 view cover	Mr. Holland's Opus (1995) more movies like this directed by Stephen Herek featuring Richard Dreyfuss, Glenne Headly, Jay Thomas, Olympia Dukakis, William H. Macy A teacher belatedly discovers just how important his job really is in this emotional drama. Glenn Holland (Richard Dreyfuss) is a man with a deep love of music and a desire to write at least one piece of lasting significance. However, playing piano in cocktail lounges while he works on his own compositions doesn't pay the bills, so in 1965 he ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £7.56!
23 view cover	A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001) more movies like this directed by Steven Spielberg featuring Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Brendan Gleeson, William Hurt Based on the 1969 short story Super-Toys Last All Summer Long, by Brian Aldiss, this science fiction fantasy bears similarities to Pinocchio (1940) and originated as a long-gestating project of director Stanley Kubrick that passed to his friend Steven Spielberg after Kubrick's death. Haley Joel Osment stars as David, a "mecha" or robot of the ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £4.84!
24 view cover	Full Body Massage (1995) more movies like this directed by Nicolas Roeg featuring Bryan Brown, Mimi Rogers In this erotic drama, Nina (Mimi Rogers) is a successful gallery owner who lives alone in a luxurious house filled with exquisite works of art. Her career is demanding, and once a week she gets a massage at home to ease her tenseness. One week she is surprised when Fitch (Bryan Brown) arrives to substitute for her regular masseur. During the ... see all copies from £22.12! new only from £22.12!
25 view cover	Phenomenon (1996) more movies like this directed by Jon Turteltaub featuring Daniel Zacapa, John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick, Forest Whitaker, Jeffrey DeMunn, Robert Duvall Director Jon Turteltaub followed up the hit While You Were Sleeping (1995) with this fantasy similar to Charly (1968) and a film from the previous year, Powder (1994). John Travolta stars as George Malley, a humble mechanic in a rural California town. On his 37th birthday, George celebrates at a pub with friends Nate (Forest Whitaker) and Doc ... see all copies from £2.77! new only from £7.56!

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