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Breakfast at Tiffany's
- This is about two young adult friends, Holly Golightly and Paul Varjak, discovering their love for each other in the 1960's.
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The Color Purple
- Taking place in the Southern United States during the early 1900s to mid-1930s, the movie tells the life of a poor African American woman, Celie Harris, whose abuse begins when she is young. By the time she is fourteen, she has already had two children by her father. He takes them away from her at childbirth and forces the young Celie to marry a wealthy young local widower Albert Johnson, known to her only as "Mister", who treats her like a slave.
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Of Mice and Men
- George Milton is in a train boxcar, reminiscing upon the events that have just happened. He thinks back to when he and his companion Lennie Small, who has an intellectual disability, are fleeing from their previous employment in Weed.
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Forrest Gump
- The movie starts with Forrest Gump telling his life story to strangers at a bus stop. He starts with telling about the braces he wore on his legs as a child, which caused other children to bully him. At school, Forrest met Jenny, an abused girl who became his lifelong friend. Her advice to Forrest was to "run" whenever he got into trouble. Forrest ran constantly, eventually allowing him to discard his leg braces and "run like the wind blows."
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Apollo 13
- On 20 July 1969, veteran astronaut Jim Lovell hosts a party for other astronauts and their families, who watch on television as their colleague Neil Armstrong takes his first steps on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission. Lovell, who orbited the Moon on Apollo 8, tells his wife Marilyn that he intends to return, to walk on its surface. (This was realeased on my first birthday!)
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- In 1799, New York City police constable Ichabod Crane is dispatched by his superiors to the Westchester County hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, to investigate a series of brutal slayings in which the victims have been found decapitated.
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The Green Mile
- In a Louisiana nursing home in 1999, Paul Edgecomb begins to cry while watching the film Top Hat. His elderly friend Elaine shows concern for him and he tells her that the film reminded him of when he was a corrections officer in charge of Death Row inmates at Cold Mountain Penitentiary during the summer of 1935. The cell block Paul works in is called the "Green Mile" by the guards.
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The Butterfly Effect
- In the year 1998, Evan Treborn, who suffered severe sexual abuse and traumas as a boy and teenager, blacks out frequently, often at moments of high stress. He finds that when he reads from his adolescent journals, he travels back in time, and he is able to "redo" parts of his past, thereby causing the blackouts he experienced as a child.The actions he takes, and those he enables others to take during his blackouts, change the timeline in the new future
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V for Vendetta
- A shadowy freedom fighter known only as "V" uses terrorist tactics to fight against his totalitarian society. Upon rescuing a girl from the secret police, he also finds his best chance at having an ally.
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The Pianist
- In 1939, Władysław Szpilman, a Polish Jewish pianist, has his radio station rocked from German bombing with Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland and the subsequent outbreak of World War II. Hoping for a quick victory, Szpilman and Agterberg rejoice with family at home when learning that Britain and France have declared war on Germany. However, German forces capture Warsaw.
