Reference To 1984 The Novel
Bullets Over Broadway
HDIn New York in 1928, a struggling playwright is forced to cast a mobster's talentless girlfriend in his latest drama in order to get it produced.
Radioland Murders
HDA series of mysterious crimes threatens the existence of a new radio network.
Country Life
HDAdaptation of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" set in rural Australia in the 1920's. Jack Dickens and his niece Sally run the family farm to support brother-in-law Alexander as a (supposedly brilliant) literary critic in London. Action beg...
Prehysteria! 2
HDA rich boy desperate for attention makes friends with the dinosaurs of "Prehysteria!".
Funny Man
HDAfter winning a English stately house in a game of poker, a record producer finds it to be haunted by a demonic jester intent on murdering his family.
The Return of the Native
HDReddleman Diggory Venn drives slowly across the heath, carrying a hidden passenger in the back of his van. When darkness falls, the country folk light bonfires on the hills, emphasizing the pagan spirit of the heath and its denizens.
The Stöned Age
HDJoe and Hubbs are a pair of rockers who are on a quest for 'chicks'. This is the tale of their adventures over one night.
Nobody's Fool
HDA stubborn man past his prime reflects on his life of strict independence and seeks more from himself.
Angela
HDRebecca Miller's riveting drama examines how two sisters cope with their mother's mental illness.
Houseguest
HDIn hot water with the mob over an unpaid debt, a con man poses as a family friend in an affluent Pennsylvania suburb.
Evolver
HDA teenage boy gets a robotic opponent after winning a laser tag contest; however the robot is not what it seems!
Citizen X
HDDuring the 1980s, Soviet authorities hunt for a serial killer who picks his victims in railway stations and commuter trains and lures them into the woods.
For Better or Worse
HDA comic love triangle wherein a man falls in love with his younger brother's wife.
Tommy Boy
HDAfter his auto-parts tycoon father dies, the overweight, underachieving son teams up with a snide accountant to try and save the family business.
The Basketball Diaries
HDA teenager finds his dreams of becoming a basketball star threatened after he free falls into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
The Sacrament
HDA news team trails a man as he travels into the world of Eden Parish to find his missing sister, where it becomes apparent that this paradise may not be as it seems.
Turbo Cola
HDWith all of his friends headed to a party on the last night of 1999, Austin takes an extra shift at the Quality Mart gas station and is forced to look down the barrel of what it means to graduate high school and face a future stuc...
Violette
HDViolette Leduc, born a bastard at the beginning of last century, meets Simone de Beauvoir in the years after the war in St-Germain-des-Prés. Then begins an intense relationship between the two women that will last throughout their...
The Perez Family
HDIn 1980, USA opens to Cuban refugees. Once in Miami, Dorita tries to create a Perez "family" of 3 to get a sponsor. She wants Juan to be her "husband" - plus a "son" or "dad".
Dangerous Minds
HDAn ex-Marine turned teacher struggles to connect with her students in an inner city school.
Kill Your Darlings
HDA murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs.
Clockers
HDYoung drug pushers in the projects of Brooklyn live hard dangerous lives, trapped between their drug bosses and the detectives out to stop them.
Angus
HDA miserable fat teenager secretly has a crush on the class beauty, ends up becoming the surprising participant to dance with her at a high school dance, meaning he's got to get his act together with the help of his best friend.
As I Lay Dying
HDBased on the classic novel by William Faulkner, first published in 1930, "As I Lay Dying" is the story of the death of Addie Bundren and her family's quest to honor her last wish to be buried in the nearby town of Jefferson.
Leaving Las Vegas
HDBen Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
Fair Game
HDMax Kirkpatrick is a cop who protects Kate McQuean, a civil law attorney, from a renegade KGB team out to terminate her.
The American President
HDA widowed U.S. President running for reelection and an environmental lobbyist fall in love. It's all above-board, but "politics is perception," and sparks fly anyway.
Sense and Sensibility
HDRich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the title opposites.
Nikki and the Perfect Stranger
HDNikki Cominskey, now in her 40's and no longer a high-powered attorney, finds that the spiritual life she signed on for is not all it was cracked up to be, leading to a second, and defining, encounter with the Son of Man.
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
HDA ten-year-old scientist secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother, escapes home, and travels across the country aboard a freight train to receive an award at the Smit...
Hellbenders
HDThe Augustine Interfaith Order of Hellbound Saints, a team of blasphemous ministers who live in a constant state of debauchery, work to drag the worst of demons back to Hell.
Angels Sing
HDA father's holiday spirit was crushed by an accident when he was a child. When his son faces a tragedy, a mysterious man instills in him the courage to find the joy he lost.