Paramount Pictures (Firm)
81) The Pawnbroker
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1964.
Language
English
Description
Sol (Rod Steiger), is a Jewish pawnbroker, and Holocaust survivor. He has lost all faith in his fellow man and ultimately realizes the tragedy of his own actions. Nominated for Best Actor at the **Academy Awards,** and the **Golden Globes**. Winner of Best Actor at the **BAFTA Awards** and the **Berlin International Film Festival.** *"...a dark and haunting drama of a man who has reasonably eschewed a role of involvement and compassion in a brutal...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Martin Scorsese directs one of his most compelling and unforgettable movies, reteaming him with screenwriter Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver), and starring Nicolas Cage. A paramedic on the brink of madness from too many years of reviving and losing lives meets the daughter of a man he tried to save. Together, they confront the ghosts of the past, and discover that redemption can be found among the living. *"An exciting, invigorating return to old preoccupations..."...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
English
Description
Comedy legend Jerry Lewis directed, co-wrote and starred in this riotously funny movie that set a new standard for screen comedy and inspired the hit remake. Lewis plays a timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher who discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo. The "Jekyll and Hyde" game works well enough until the concoction starts to wear off at the most embarrassing times, and the professor begins to suffer hilarious...
84) Indiscreet
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In this classic romantic comedy Cary Grant plays Philip Adams, a suave American diplomat who pretends to be married in order to preserve his bachelor status. Ingrid Bergman is Anna Kalman, a glamorous leading lady of the London stage who has no scruples about having an affair with a married man. Soon their blazing romance is the talk of the town, but when Bergman discovers that Grant is not married, sparks really begin to fly. Nominated for Best Motion...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1962.
Language
English
Description
Love arrives with a splash when a handsome and eligible tycoon (Cary Grant) and a beautiful working woman (Doris Day) meet over a curbside mud puddle. He’s enchanted by her small town ways; she’s captivated by his romantic, debonair manner. But when it comes to marriage, they have decidedly different views – she wants it and he doesn’t! What ensues is a game of cat-and-mouse as each tries to win the other – with hilarious and heartwarming...
86) Holy Smoke!
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
PJ Waters is a cult deprogrammer who meets his match when he is hired to “cure” the beautiful, intelligent, and iron-willed Ruth. It’s no holds barred in this darkly hilarious electric battle of the sexes!
87) Game of Death
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
Billy Lo, a champion fighter and movie star, fakes his death to escape and then expose the crime syndicate that wants to control him. When his fiancée Ann is kidnapped, Billy comes out of hiding and infiltrates the gang's headquarters, a restaurant where Billy engages in one-on-one combat with a number of increasingly deadly opponents.
88) The Piano
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Winner of three 1993 Oscars®, including Best Actress (Holly Hunter), THE PIANO arouses fiery passions and vengeful jealousies when Ada, a young mute woman (Hunter), is desired by two men - her husband by an arranged marriage (Sam Neill) and her darkly intense neighbor (Harvey Keitel). Violent emotions erupt, but only one man understands that Ada's heart can only be won through her beloved piano.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1961.
Language
English
Description
Among the stately homes of England lives British earl Victor Rhyall (Cary Grant), who opens his home to American tourists in order to make ends meet. One such tourist is wealthy Texan Charles Delacro (Robert Mitchum), who sets his sights upon Victor's lovely wife, Hilary (Deborah Kerr). In his efforts to win back his wife's attention, Victor presses his former girlfriend Hattie Durant (Jean Simmons) into service. Nominated for Best Motion Picture...
90) Eagle vs Shark
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
From Academy Award-winning director Taika Waititi comes a wicked and witty offbeat comedy for the closet romantic in all of us. When Lily, a lonely, oddball fast-food waitress and hopeless romantic, and Jarrod, another forsaken eccentric who has spent the last decade plotting revenge against a bully from high school, connect at a "dress as your favorite animal" party, it's a match seemingly made in outcast heaven. But as Jarrod bumbles his way to...
91) American Teen
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Popularity is everything; breakups and missed jump-shots are the end of the world; a college acceptance is a dream come true; and an email forwarded to the wrong person is your worst nightmare. Now experience senior year of high school through the eyes of five real-life Indiana teenagers: the Prom Queen, the Heartthrob, the Jock, the Rebel and the Geek. This revealing year-in-the-life feature delivers the real heartbreak, hilarity and – OMG –...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1962.
Language
English
Description
Eugene O'Neill's magnificent autobiographical account of his turbulent family life is brought to the screen with an overpowering wealth of talent. Katharine Hepburn as the mother - lonely, ravaged by narcotics and frightened by a world with which she cannot cope. Ralph Richardson as the alcoholic father, a miser embittered by his expired career. Jason Robards as the tortured older brother, a failure to everyone including himself. And Dean Stockwell...
93) Golden Door
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When a Sicilian family is visited by a man who tells them that America is a land of plenty, the Mancusos cautiously accept his offer to take them to America in 1913. After a dangerous voyage aboard an ocean liner, the family arrives in New York to face a number of new challenges, as they abandon their old lives and struggle to assimilate in a massive city that is now their home.
94) Bound
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
The lesbian romance between a newly-released ex-con, and the girlfriend of a Mafia money-launderer, has a mercenary dynamic. The girls plan to walk off with a suitcase of {dollar}2 million cash, but the Mafioso finds out a little too soon.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Language
English
Formats
Description
Allan Felix is a film critic who gets dumped by his wife. Now, his married friends Dick and Linda try in vain to fix him up. His dating skills are less than stellar, even with the advice from a recurring hallucination of the cool, charismatic film noir star Humphrey Bogart. Winner of Best Foreign Movie Performer (Woody Allen) at **Fotogramas de Plata**. *"... As comedies go, this is a very funny one. Woody Allen is one of those rare comedians who...
97) The Last Tycoon
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1976.
Language
English
Description
F. Scott Fitzgerald's fascinating tale of studio politics in early Hollywood is breathtakingly adapted to the big screen by Elia Kazan and scriptwriter Harold Pinter. Robert De Niro heads a powerhouse cast as studio head Monroe Stahr, a thinly disguised Irving Thalberg character in command of his studio but haunted by a love lost to the past. Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jeanne Moreau, Theresa Russell, Anjelica Huston and Jack Nicholson contribute...
98) Muriel's Wedding
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
The hit Australian movie that launched the careers of Toni Collette and Rachel Griffiths, and put ABBA back on the charts years before Mamma Mia was a musical. Small-town girl Muriel spends every day alone in her room listening to ABBA and dreaming of her wedding day. Slight problem, Muriel has never had a date. When she finds the courage to leave on a tropical vacation, she meets a wacky new friend, changes her name to Mariel, and turns her world...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1947.
Language
English
Description
Quirt Evans (John Wayne), a notorious gunman is on the run and in need of some help. He finds himself on a farm owned by a Quaker family, the Worths. Ignoring the advice of people around town, they take Quirt in and attempt to nurse him back to health.
100) Rio Grande
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1950.
Language
English
Description
In this John Ford classic, John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara are embroiled in an epic battle with the Apaches and each other. Lt. Col. Yorke (John Wayne) leads his cavalry troops to the Rio Grande to fight a warring tribe. Yorke’s toughest battle lies ahead when his unorthodox plan to outwit the elusive Apaches leads to possible court-martial. Locked in a bloody war, he must fight not only to save his family, but also to redeem his honor.