This taut drama stars Bobby Hosea (Pensacola: Wings of Gold) as a Vietnam vet turned clergyman who must come to terms with the legacy of the war when confronted by a former comrade in arms (Michael Ironside) who has been missing for more than 30 years. Ally Sheedy (The Breakfast Club) also stars. Sidney J. Furie (The Boys in Company C) directed.

Based on a true story, this breezy British feature stars rocker Phil Collins as a small-time crook who finds himself a wanted man after a daring heist. With Julie Walters. David Green directed.

Donald Sutherland stars as a complacent South African schoolteacher who confronts the true face of apartheid when tragedy strikes close to home. With Marlon Brando and Susan Sarandon. Euzhan Palcy directed.

Alfred Molina (Spider-Man 2) stars as a Cuban exile who joins a makeshift “family” fashioned by a fellow refugee (Marisa Tomei) in the hope of exploiting an immigration loophole. With Anjelica Huston and Chazz Palminteri. Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding, Amelia) directed.

Meg Ryan, Kevin Kline and the French countryside star in this soufflé of a screwball comedy about a neurotic American schoolteacher who falls for a scruffy but charming Gallic thief. With Timothy Hutton and Jean Reno. Lawrence Kasdan directed.

Brad Pitt is at his most bronzed and beautiful in this true story of Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountaineer who befriended the young Dalai Lama. In 1939, during an expedition to the Himalayas, Harrer and his team are captured by the British and spend the next five years in a POW camp. Escaping with fellow climber Peter Aufschnaiter (David Thewlis), Harrer makes his way to the sacred Tibetan city of Lhasa. Fascinated by this exotic stranger – one of the first Europeans ever to enter the city – the teenage Dalai Lama (Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk) asks Harrer to tutor him in the mysterious ways of the outside world. Jean-Jacques Annaud (The Name of the Rose) directed, from a script by Becky Johnston (The Prince of Tides). With B.D. Wong (Law & Order: SVU) and Mako. The Andean foothills of Argentina stand in for the Himalayas. John Williams composed the music. **Part of VisionTV's Birthday Tribute to the Dalai Lama [more]

Jon Voight stars in the inspirational tale of a young schoolteacher struggling to break through to a group of underprivileged black students who live on an isolated island off the coast of South Carolina. With Paul Winfield and Hume Cronyn. Martin Ritt directed.

Arrrrrr! Who doesn’t love a good pirate movie? Geena Davis stars as a buccaneer’s feisty daughter bent on finding – what else? – a fabulous buried treasure. With Matthew Modine and Frank Langella. Renny Harlin directed.

Tracey Needham and Dana Ashbrook star in this made-for-TV movie about the infamous thieves whose daring exploits at the height of the Great Depression turned them into folk heroes. With Doug Savant (Desperate Housewives) and Betty Buckley. Gary Hoffman wrote and directed.

This family feature, set in the heart of Sarah Palin country, stars Torquil Campbell as Eric, a lonely Alaskan 10-year-old who tries to protect a seal and her young pup from poachers. Frank Zuniga directed.

Gary Sinise (CSI: NY) directed and co-stars, with John Malkovich, in this adaptation of the John Steinbeck novel about a pair of itinerant farmhands whose dreams are undone by a tragic chain of events. With Ray Walston, Casey Siemaszko and Sherilyn Fenn. Pulitzer Prize winner Horton Foote wrote the screenplay.

John Savage, Treat Williams and Beverly D’Angelo star in this screen adaptation of the celebrated Broadway-meets-the-counterculture musical. Savage plays a fresh-faced young army draftee who has a life-changing encounter with a tribe of hippies led by the charismatic Williams. Milos Forman directed. The choreography is by Twyla Tharp.

Sean Connery stars as a British mercenary who arrives in Cuba at the height of the revolution to help the faltering Batista regime, only to lose his moral bearings as the country descends into chaos. With Brooke Adams, Hector Elizondo and Denholm Elliott. Richard Lester directed

This romantic comedy stars Sally Field as a young widow who moves back into her old house and tries to re-start her life with a new fiancé (Jeff Bridges), only to be haunted by the meddling ghost of her late husband (James Caan). Robert Mulligan directed. 

Based on a true story, this beautifully photographed family feature stars William Hurt as a gruff entomologist who reluctantly agrees to take a terminally ill boy (Marc Donato) on an expedition into the Costa Rican rainforest to search for a rare butterfly. Pascale Bussieres and Raoul Trujillo also star. Lea Pool (Lost and Delirious) directed.

The definitive Woody Allen film, and a cinematic love letter to the city of New York. Allen, who directed and co-wrote, plays Isaac, a twice-divorced television writer in his forties whose hopeless self-absorption proves fatal to his relationships. Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway and Meryl Streep are the women in his life. With the music of George Gershwin.

Bill Murray stars as a second-rate motivational speaker who inherits a trained elephant from his long-lost father, a former circus clown, and embarks on a cross-country odyssey with his 8,000-pound charge. With Janeane Garofolo and Matthew McConaughey. Howard Franklin directed.