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Backdraft
A blast of flames can take a life ... and hide a secret. Fireman brothers William Baldwin and Kurt Russell battle each other over past slights while trying to stop an arsonist from torching Chicago as part of a diabolical agenda. Co-starring Robert De Niro, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Donald Sutherland, director Ron Howard's epic tale will thrill you with incredible effects.
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Bad Boys
Miami narcotics cops -- wild, single Will Smith and mild, married Martin Lawrence -- are hot on the trail of a master crook (La Femme Nikita's Tchéky Karyo) who's snatched $100 million worth of heroin. To get their only witness (Téa Leoni) to talk, Smith and Lawrence must pose as each other, swapping lives as they work the case.
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Beach, The
While staying at a hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, Richard (Leonardo DiCaprio) learns of a secret beach that purportedly exemplifies paradise. Richard travels with Françoise and Étienne to the magnificent strand, finding a bohemian community intent on keeping its precious refuge a secret. But after falling in love with the beach and Françoise, Richard discovers that things aren't as idyllic as they seem.
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Beetlejuice
A couple of nice young homebody ghosts call upon "Beetlejuice", a demon to exorcise their house of a pack of pretentious human beings who threaten to make their house unlivable, even for the dead.
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Being John Malkovich
Take a hallucinogenic trip minus the drugs but with all the fun. Puppeteer Craig Schwartz (John Cusack) discovers a door that's in fact a portal into actor John Malkovich's brain. For 15 minutes, Schwartz experiences the ultimate head trip: He's John Malkovich! More wacky adventure ensues when Schwartz plans to sell trips into Malkovich's brain for $200 a pop. Not your average comedy!
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Billy Elliot
It's Rocky in reverse when 11-year-old Billy Elliot bucks the odds and quits boxing school in favor of ballet lessons. Trouble is, he lives in a mining town in northern England, and his hardworking dad isn't simpatico with the idea of his son running around in toe shoes. But when the young prodigy gets an audition for the Royal Ballet School …
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Bird on a Wire
It's Rocky in reverse when 11-year-old Billy Elliot bucks the odds and quits boxing school in favor of ballet lessons. Trouble is, he lives in a mining town in northern England, and his hardworking dad isn't simpatico with the idea of his son running around in toe shoes. But when the young prodigy gets an audition for the Royal Ballet School …
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Blade
Half-vampire, half-human hybrid Wesley Snipes pursues the bloodsuckers who killed his mother and inflicted their everlasting curse upon him. But the vampires (who've infiltrated the highest echelons of big business) aren't finished with their favorite son. They need Blade's special blood to reincarnate La Magra, a voracious god who'll inaugurate a bloody new epoch between vampires and their human hosts.
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Blade Runner
Rick Deckard prowls the steel-and-microchip jungle of 21st-century Los Angeles, a Blade Runner stalking genetically made criminal replicants. His assignment: kill them.
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Blown Away
When an explosion jolts the city of Boston, a bomb squad expert is pulled out of early retirement and into the most harrowing work of his career.
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Blues Brothers, The
John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd are on a mission to save an orphanage by reuniting with their former band mates for a one-night charity concert. After cashing in, they're chased by the Illinois police (led by John Candy), a homicidal Carrie Fisher, Illinois Nazis and Tucker McElroy -- the Good Ole Boys' lead singer and Winnebago driver. Great music and off-the-wall comedy abound.
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Bodyguard, The
A security expert is hired to protect a music/movie superstar. Each expects to be in charge. What they don't expect is to fall in love.
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Bone Collector
He takes his victims' lives and leaves behind mysterious pieces of a bizarre puzzle. And the only person who may be able to make sense of the serial killer's deranged plan is Lincoln Rhyme (Denzel Washington).
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Born on the 4th of July
Marine Ron Kovic (Tom Cruise in an Oscar-nominated performance) returns from Vietnam a quadraplegic. After months of hellish rehabilitation, he finds renewed purpose protesting the war he once proudly fought. Born on the Fourth of July stands as the middle chapter in director Oliver Stone's Vietnam trilogy (preceded by Platoon and followed by Heaven & Earth).
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Braveheart
Combine the pathos of Mad Max with the epic battle scenes and machismo of Gladiator, and you'll get a sense of Braveheart's power. Mel Gibson directed and stars in the full-throttle telling of the story of rebel Scottish warrior William Wallace and his fierce battle to rid Scotland of a tyrannical English ruler. Mythmaking at its best, Braveheart picked up Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography and more.
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Breakdown
Jeff and his wife Amy are off to California when their car's engine dies on a remote highway. Amy gets a ride from a helpful trucker while Jeff waits in the car. But when Jeff goes to meet Amy, she's not there ...
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Breakfast Club, The
Five teenagers with nothing in common are faced with spending a Saturday detention together in their high school library. By four p.m. they had bared their souls and become good friends.
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Bridget Jones's Diary
It's Monday morning. Bridget (Renée Zellweger) has woken up with a headache, a hangover and her boss. Wickedly clever, this tale of Miss Jones's yearlong odyssey from Mr. Right-here-right-now (Hugh Grant) to Mr. Right (Colin Firth) delivers a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the female mind. Zellweger, Firth and Grant are perfectly cast in this popular adaptation of Helen Fielding's best-selling novel.
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Bring it On
Torrance Shipman (Kirsten Dunst) is an ideal high school girl: She's captain of her school's decorated cheerleading squad and has a perfect college boyfriend. But pressure mounts as Torrance attempts to lead her crew to its sixth consecutive national title. She's determined to let nothing -- not family, schoolwork, boyfriend or a talented inner-city squad with a score to settle -- get in the way of winning.
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Broken Arrow
Prepare to go ballistic! John Travolta stars as stealth-fighter pilot Vic Deakins. When he deliberately drops off the radar while on maneuvers, the Air Force ends up with a "broken arrow" (a stolen nuclear warhead) and only one hope for getting it back. Deakins' co-pilot, Riley Hale (Christian Slater), teams with park ranger Samantha Mathis to put Travolta back in his box.
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