Based upon a novel by Lisa Reardon published in 1998 and described by "Daily Variety" magazine as a "murder mystery that portrays a troubled, working-class Michigan family and the long pent-up secrets of violence and incest that emerge in the aftermath of a brother's death."

A wily arms dealer dodges bullets and betrayal as he schemes his way to the top of his profession, only to come face to face with his conscience. But it's not easy to leave a life of girls, guns and glamour when nobody wants you to stop, not even your enemies.

Action/Adventure and Crime/Gangster
1 hr. 49 min. During a snowy New Year's Eve, a mobster is temporarily incarcerated at Precinct 13, the soon-to-close police station. As the sun sets and a long night begins, a motley crew of policemen and prisoners reluctantly captained by a cop must band together to fight off a rogue gang that wants to free the mobster.

Comedy and Romance
1 hr. 20 min. Nine years after he first met and hung out with her for a single night (in the film "Before Sunrise"), American author Jesse (Hawke) once again meets up with Celine (Delpy) in Paris while there on a book tour.

Action/Adventure, Drama, Thriller and Crime/Gangster
1 hr. 42 min. When Montreal detectives handling a local homicide investigation reluctantly ask for an outsider’s help to get inside the head of a cunning serial killer, top FBI profiler Illeana Scott (Angelina Jolie) joins the case. With meticulous insight, she theorizes that the chameleon-like killer is "life-jacking" – assuming the lives and identities of his victims. Her seemingly cold demeanor alienates her from the territorial local police force - she’s at her best when she’s working alone. But when an unexpected attraction sparks a complicated romantic entanglement, the consummate specialist begins to doubt her finely-honed instincts. Alone in an unfamiliar city with no one she can trust, Agent Scott suddenly finds herself on a twisted and terrifying journey, surrounded by suspects in a case that has become chillingly personal.

Comedy and Drama
1 hr. 33 min. Set in the 1970's and 1980's, this is the story of a failed New Jersey inventor who embarks on a career as a standup comedian. As he hits the amateur-comedy circuit, with disastrous results, he turns to drink and labors to keep his family together.

Drama
1 hr. 52 min. The Chelsea Hotel used to be grand, the place to live for New York City artists. Mark Twain, Thomas Wolfe, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix…they all passed through the hotel's halls. Still, even though the iron faחade has become rusty, new dreamers come every day, hoping to be inspired by the ghosts of the past. Grace (Uma Thurman) and Audrey (Rosaria Dawson) are young poets, who constantly struggle with issues of art and love. Never learning from experience, they always seem to let the wrong men into their hearts. Grace should love Frank (Vincent D'Onofrio), an artist who respects and understands her. But she still responds to the siren call of the lover who went to Hollywood. Similarly, Audrey lets impenetrable Val (Mark Webber) back into her life, knowing he will leave again and maybe never return. Down the hall, Bud (Kris Kristofferson) is a writer who faces more endings than beginnings. He pretends that his wife, Greta, (Tuesday Weld) and his mistress, Mary, (Natasha Richardson) are his muses. But his novel is really fueled by an endless supply of alcohol, memories, and unfulfilled dreams. For every worn out writer, there are two new musicians who come to town. Ross (Steve Zahn) and Terry (Robert Sean Leonard) have just driven in from Minnesota, eager to experience the sights and sounds of the Chelsea Hotel. These new hotel residents, young and full of expectations, mingle with the old hotel ghosts and guests, ultimately becoming interchangeable. They form a community, linked by their dreams. The Chelsea Hotel never really leaves the people who live there, nor do they ever really leave it.

Drama
1 hr. 24 min. Within the confines of a tawdry motor lodge in Lansing, Michigan, three old friends come together to play out the unresolved drama of their final days in high school. John, a first-time filmmaker, is in Michigan to present his film at a local film festival. Vince, now a volunteer firefighter and small-time drug dealer, comes to support John on his big day, or so it seems. But after their initial greetings, an undercurrent of tension remains. Gradually, it becomes clear that Vince still resents what he sees as John having stolen his girlfriend years before, and as the two men debate, a more serious accusation emerges.

Action/Adventure and Drama
2 hrs. 03 min. A veteran officer (Denzel Washington) escorts a rookie (Ethan Hawke) on his first day with the LAPD's tough inner-city narcotics unit.

Drama and Animation
1 hr. 37 min. In this animated drama, a man walks through what may be a dream, flowing in and out of scenarios and encounters with strange characters.

Drama
1 hr. 53 min. An updated version of Shakespeare's classic tragedy has Ethan Hawke playing the title role, only instead of a Danish prince, he is an upscale video artist living in modern day New York. Director Michael Almereyda manages to craft the centuries-old tale of madness and revenge into a convincing drama of contemporary times.

Drama
A sensitive, uncompromising portrait of a resilient young boy trying to navigate the loneliness and confusion of adolescence and the harsh circumstances of his dysfunctional family life in a small blue collar town in upstate New York during the 1970s. Whaley's first directorial effort shows his inexperience at various moments, but it is this exact lack of expertise that lifts the film above standard coming-of-age fare into a realm of honesty that most major motion pictures never attain. The fact that the friends he recruited to help fill integral roles just so happen to be Kilmer, Hawke, and Leguizamo didn't hurt matters either.

Drama and Romance
2 hrs. 07 min. On a wintry Pacific Northwest island community in 1950, a quiet fisherman stands trial for murder. It looks like a straightforward case of cold-blooded homicide. But as the trial unfolds, the simple story of the man's death unravels into a deeply haunting mystery and an extraordinary tale about the persistence of hate and the power of love.

Drama
A rising artist, flourishing with the help of a benefactor, falls fruitlessly in love with his wealthy childhood playmate, who has grown to be a beautiful coquette. But the nefarious influence of her eccentric, spiteful maiden aunt taints their relationship. A stylish, heavily romantic updating of the eponymous Dickens classic, staged in 1970s south Florida. Bancroft, as the "Miss Havisham" character, steals the show.

Drama
2 hrs. 01 min. Ragtime cowboys turn bank robbers, in a hyper-stylized romp around the not-so-Old West. Amusing, fact-based story, about the most successful bank robbers in U.S. history.

Comedy and Romance
1 hr. 40 min. Gary (Vincent D'onofrio) is a young man struggling to stay alive on the streets of contemporary urban America. But things begin to change when he meets the sexy and charismatic Valentino (Thomas Jane), an actor in porn movies and the king of society castaways. Their relationship is complicated by a waitress named Mary Carmen (Salma Hayek), a free-spirited woman and Valentino's ever-present girlfriend.

Drama
2 hrs. 01 min. In the near future, where corporations screen their employees based on their genetic makeup, a man with a congenital heart condition tries to assume the identity of a former athlete with perfect genes in order to fulfill his dream of traveling in space.

Comedy
When a young American (Ethan Hawke) traveling through Europe by train meets a beautiful French student (Julie Delpy), he convinces her to spend the day with him in Vienna so the two can get to know each other better. They spend their day exploring the city and before they know it, they find themselves falling in love. Richard Linklater's romantic daydream is a warm and witty comedy that uses the beautiful streets of Vienna as a perfect backdrop for the characters' youthful, budding romance.

Comedy
In this cinematic version of Howard Korder's darkly satiric stage play, a small-time loser becomes convinced his destiny is to produce a New York-set screen epic. Stumbling his way toward his dream, he doesn't realize his life is falling apart. Produced by Martin Scorsese.

Comedy
A group of going-nowhere twentysomethings in Los Angeles come face-to-face with society's ills in this subversive satire set in the wake of the 1992 riots. The soundtrack features songs by Stan Ridgeway, Red House, Sebadoh, the Saw Doctors and more. Look for a slew of counterculture cameos, from the likes of Ted Raimi and Alex Cox, Exene Cervenka, Zander Schloss, and former Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro.

Comedy
Lelaina Pierce (Winona Ryder) faces life after college, using a video documentary about her confused and drifting friends to advance her ambitions in the entertainment industry. When a video executive (Ben Stiller, also making his directorial debut) becomes romantically interested in her, she is forced to choose between her slacker boyfriend (Ethan Hawke) and the big cruel world of adulthood lurking ahead.

Drama
Director Bruce Beresford's adaptation of the Josephine Humphrey novel about an eccentric Charleston family in turmoil is considered the third in his southern trilogy, following DRIVING MISS DAISY and CRIMES OF THE HEART. Starring Albert Finney as charming retiree Warren Odom, the film is narrated by his sensitive adolescent daughter, Lucille (Kathryn Erbe). When his wife, Helen (Jill Clayburgh), walks out on the family leaving only a laconic farewell note, Warren goes into shock, unable to accept her departure. But after he and Lucille have searched the surrounding area, he realizes that she's gone for good and sinks into a depression. Lucille, an honors student, must leave high school to care for her despondent father. Gradually they learn to live with the loss, as Warren strikes up a romance with widowed hairdresser Vera Delmage (Piper Laurie) and Lucille develops a relationship with Wayne Frobiness (Ethan Hawke). As soon as the waters appear calm, Warren's other daughter, the world-weary Rae (Suzy Amis) arrives with husband Billy McQueen (Kyle MacLachlan), announcing that she's pregnant and will be around for awhile.

Drama
Tom Crick (Jeremy Irons) is a withered history teacher whose students don't find his lessons on the French Revolution worthwhile. So instead, Tom spends class time telling his students about 30 year-old family skeletons he's trying, hopelessly, to forget. Though he shares them with his students, Tom's problems are wholly intimate: his wife, Mary is on the brink of insanity due to painful memories that haunt her. But as Tom continues to talk, he goes further and further back in time, narrating a personal and social history filled with jealously, madness and death.

Action/Adventure
The true-life adventure of a Uruguayan team of rugby players who survive a plane crash in the desolate Andes Mountains in 1972. For 10 weeks they struggled against impossible odds and freezing temperatures to stay alive. See also the documentary ALIVE: 20 YEARS LATER.

Action/Adventure
In 1944, a six-man American intelligence and reconnaissance unit is sent by their reckless major on a mission in a remote part of the Ardennes forest on the German front. Isolated in a remote villa in the dead of winter, they wind up developing a cryptic relationship with a small band of German soldiers nearby who've all but given up on the war effort. The disillusioned soldiers come face-to-face with one another in a beautifully filmed series of events, sharing Christmas carols, snowball fights, and a mutual desire to stay alive. Ethan Hawke stars as Will Knot, the young leader of the American unit who agrees to fake a battle with the German soldiers, who want to surrender peaceably but save their reputation. The cast includes Gary Sinise, Peter Berg, Kevin Dillon, Arye Gross, and Frank Whaley as Will's fellow recon officers. Against the hauntingly beautiful landscape of the Alpine tundra, the young men must face their darkest fears while trying to escape the horrors of war. This powerful and quietly stylish ensemble drama features lyrically beautiful voice-overs delivered by Hawke as he questions the validity of war and his spiritual place in the world. The film is based on the autobiographical novel by William Wharton.

Comedy
After spending an entire summer obsessing over the beautiful girl housesitting next door, shy Tom allows his slick, more confident brother Craig to set him up on a date with her. The operation involves a "Craig" makeover, the theft of Craig's classic car, borrowed identification, and, unfortunately, three dead bodies, a psychotic florist, and lethal threats from a Chinatown mob boss. An above-average teen "caper" romance, with a few unusually grim plot points.

Action/Adventure
A young man tries to fulfill his father's dying wish to find gold in the treacherous Yukon Valley. His journey begins when he meets a veteran goldminer who guides him to his father's claim. Along the way, he discovers a kindred spirit who will change his life forever...a wolf-dog named White Fang.

Drama
Not having seen his father Jake for over two years, John is shocked to discover how Jake has deteriorated under the overprotective eye of his mother. With careful nurturing, John is able to revitalize his father and their relationship. Academy Award Nominations: Best Makeup.

Drama
An unconventional New England prep school teacher inspires his students with poetry and encourages them to embrace life. Academy Award Nominations: 4, including Best Picture, Best Actor--Robin Williams, Best (Original) Screenplay. Academy Awards: Best Original Screenplay.

Science Fiction/Fantasy
This adventurous space tale stars Ethan Hawke (in his film debut at the age of 14) and young star River Phoenix as misfit best friends whose dreams of space travel become a reality when they create an interplanetary spacecraft in their homemade laboratory. Ben Crandall (Hawke) is a young visionary who dreams of space travel while watching late-night B monster movies, pouring over comic books, and playing Galaga in the confines of his bedroom. But one night he has a vivid dream of flying over a space-like circuit board and shares his visions with his best friend Wolfgang (Phoenix), a young scientific genius who is able to translate his dreams into a complex computer program that actually works. With the help of their new friend (Jason Presson), they create a homemade spacecraft and embark on a secret adventure to another galaxy where they find that things are not always as different as they seem. EXPLORERS features highly imaginative special effects and entertaining space creations from George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic.