About Schmidt (2002)
Jack Nicholson is a 66-year-old insurance man, recently widowed and retired, in Omaha, Nebraska
Cinema 16: American Short Films (2006)
A collection of early shorts from renowned American directors
The Descendants (2011)
A father is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future.
Downsizing (2017)
Satire about a man who starts to think he would have a better life if only he could shrink himself.
Election (1999)
Scathing high school comedy.
The Holdovers (2023)
An unpopular teacher, a talented but badly behaved student and a cook who recently lost her son in Vietnam spend Christmas together in an otherwise empty boarding school.
Nebraska (2013)
An alcoholic father and his resentful son travel cross-country together to collect big sweepstake winnings.
Paris Je T'Aime (2006)
Twenty different glimpses of Paris.
Sideways (2004)
The adventures of two middle-age men on a wine-drinking stag weekend.
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