Movies Titles Starting with A (Page #57)

Anita Hemmings, a light skinned African American woman and the daughter of a janitor, is passed as white so she can attend Vassar at the turn of the century.

In a remote Icelandic town, an off-duty police chief (a chilling Ingvar Sigurdsson, who received Cannes’ Critics’ Week award for Best Actor for his performance) begins to suspect a local man of having had an affair with his late wife, who died in a tragic accident two years earlier. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth takes over his life and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones.

When a-ha's breakthrough hit "Take on Me" shot to #1 on the Billboard charts in 1985, it turned its three young band members into global superstars overnight. While the iconic song and its groundbreaking music video remain ubiquitous to this day, the story of a-ha didn't end there. After 35 years, a deep catalog of 11 studio albums and 55 million units sold – despite controversies and disagreements – a-ha continues to record music and play to packed arenas around the world.

Years after the discovery of a genetic cure for death, one man starts to question everything, leading him on a mind-bending journey that will bring him face-to-face with his past and his own mortality.

Goya is an artist whose powerful vision and technical prowess makes him one of the most admired icons of the artistic world. Not only a brilliant observer of everyday life and Spain’s troubled past, he was a gifted portrait painter and social commentator par excellence. Francisco Goya’s work takes the genre of portraiture to new heights and his genius is reappraised in a landmark exhibition at The National Gallery in London.

Centers on a rebellious, slightly bad-ass Goth girl (India Ennenga) who convinces a suicidal young man (James Frecheville), to go on a road trip with her across Texas to track down her little sister (Onata Aprile) who’s been taken from her great-grandmother’s (Ellen Burstyn) home. Danny Glover portrays a Texas Ranger.

After a family tragedy, 15-year-old Billy Conway has become the de facto glue between his bitter mom, distant brother, and stoic dad. But when Billy starts to act out, everything changes for him and his family.

The son of an eccentric detective Ace Ventura steps into his father's shoes after his mother is wrongly arrested for stealing a baby panda.

Italian police inspector Guido Brunetti investigates the beating of an American art historian living on the Venetian lagoon with her lesbian lover, the reigning diva of La Scala.

Stephan James is Mattie, a talented hockey player selected by a top NHL team, but his plans are jeopardized by his hustling brother and the corrosive racial tension at his school. Sarah Jeffery is Jayme, is a beautiful but tough biracial teen who is standing squarely on the line between two cultures and must decide which one she belongs in.

A group of nerds attempt to steal Nicolas Cage's copy of the "Action Comics No. 1," the landmark 1938 comic that introduced the world to the Man of Steel/Superman. The issue stays missing until 2011, when it is discovered among the contents of an abandoned storage locker. The issue sells for a record $2.1 million at auction in November 2011.

An awkward teen experiences love, friendship and hard truths during the summer of 2006.

The story focuses on a former Nazi collaborator who later becomes the head of an asylum.

A documentary made over the course of 15 years telling the story of Victor DeNoble's journey from research scientist to star informant against the tobacco industry.

A Stanford graduate feels she’s destined to be a great poet but winds up working as a clerk in a mom-and-pop adult bookstore.

Twelve-year-old Finn and his best friend dog Jake fight fiercely in a quest to protect their beloved Land of Ooo, usually from the Ice King who is searching high and low for his Princess Bubblegum.

A socially awkward home-schooled kid forces his way into public-school when he falls for the popular one-legged girl (Siobhan Williams). Much to his mother's (Judy Greer) chagrin, he gets a crash course in sex, drugs, and social mayhem.

"Afro Samurai" is the tale of a black samurai futuristic, yet feudal Japan who is on a mission to avenge the wrongful death of his father. Samuel L. Jackson stars as Afro, a warrior who travels a solitary path encountering a myriad of enemies, friends and challenges beyond imagination.

When two bus crash survivors awake to discover that they are the only people left in their small town, they must form an unlikely alliance in a race to unravel the truth behind their isolation. As strange events begin to unfold, they start to question whether the town they know so well is really what it seems.

Doug Parker is a widower at age twenty-nine, and in his quiet suburban town, that makes him something of a celebrity — the object of sympathy, curiosity, and, in some cases, unbridled desire. But Doug has other things on his mind. First there's his sixteen-year-old stepson, Russ: a oncesweet kid who now is getting into increasingly serious trouble on a daily basis. Then there are Doug's sisters: his bossy twin, Claire, who's just left her husband and moved in with Doug, determined to rouse him from his grieving stupor. And Debbie, who's engaged to Doug's ex-best friend and maniacally determined to pull off the perfect wedding at any cost.