As the leader of his fellow prisoners in a P.O.W. camp in Burma during World War II, Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness) has resisted all efforts by its ruthless commander, Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa), to get his men to construct a bridge across a gorge of the strategic River Kwai. Yet, after coming to see it as a way to restore morale among his men, Nicholson capitulates and sets out to build the best bridge possible. As Nicholson becomes obsessed with the task, Shears (William Holden), an escaped American P.O.W., makes his way to Australia where, caught impersonating an officer, he's sent by British Major Warden (Jack Hawkins) with a team of guerillas back to Burma to destroy the bridge.

A winner of two Academy Awards® among five nominations, Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia stars Tom Hanks as up-and-coming young lawyer Andrew Beckett, who has just been fired by his prestigious law firm. Andrew says he's been dismissed because he has AIDS, and prepares to sue his former employer. But his old firm is so powerful that no attorney in Philadelphia wants to take it on, until Andrew finally goes in desperation to homophobic ambulance chaser Joe Miller (Denzel Washington), who could use the money and exposure. For Andrew the battle is clear-cut: he's fighting for his reputation, for his life, for justice. But for Joe, separated from Andrew by a deep social and cultural chasm, there is a different kind of struggle as he confronts his own fears and prejudices about homosexuals.

Tom Cruise was nominated for an Oscar® for his portrayal of a successful sports agent who is fired from a high-powered agency when he develops an honorable streak. To his dismay, he finds he has also lost most of his clients and his fiancée, publicist Avery Bishop (Kelly Preston). With only the least-important client on his once-full roster, undersized wide receiver Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr. in an Oscar®-winning performance), and the one person from his ex-firm who believes in him, wistful single mother Dorothy Boyd (Renée Zellweger), Jerry must start over and rebuild his life from the ground up. Nominated for five Academy Awards® including Best Picture and Best Writing (Cameron Crowe, who also directed), with an outstanding cast including Bonnie Hunt, Jonathan Lipnicki and Regina King.

Three-time Academy Award® winner Jack Nicholson stars as Melvin Udall, a dysfunctional, crass talking novelist who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder. Melvin's daily schedule is thrown into disarray, when the only waitress at his favorite café who's able to stand him, Carol Connelly (Helen Hunt), is absent due to her son's chronic asthma. Driven initially by the compulsion to get back to his daily routine, Melvin offers to help her. But Carol's gratitude leads her deeper into the chaotic life of this misanthropic oddball. When his ailing artist neighbor, Simon (Greg Kinnear) and his tiny dog named Verdell also enter Melvin's life, Melvin, Carol and Simon begin to discover things about themselves, and each other, that they never expected to learn.

On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history... but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.

Inside Job is the first film to provide a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, the film traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation, and academia. It was made on location in the United States, Iceland, England, France, Singapore, and China.

Django is a freed slave, who, under the tutelage of a German bounty hunter, becomes a bad-ass bounty hunter himself. After taking down some bad guys for profit, they track down Django's slave wife and liberate her from an evil plantation owner.

Spotlight stars Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schrieber, and Stanley Tucci. It tells the riveting true story of the Boston Globe's Spotlight investigation team who uncovered a scandal that would rock the city and shock the world. For years, whispers of the Boston Archdioceseas cover up of sexual abuse within the Catholic church were largely ignored by the media, the police and the legal system. Against all odds, the spotlight team fought to expose the truth. Spotlight is directed by Academy Award Nominee Tom McCarthy.

After the death of his older brother, Joe (Kyle Chandler), Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck) is shocked to learn that Joe has made him sole guardian of his nephew Patrick (Lucas Hedges). Taking leave of his job, Lee reluctantly returns to Manchester–by-the-Sea to care for Patrick, a spirited 16-year-old. He is forced to deal with a past that separated him from his wife, Randi (Michelle Williams), and the community where he was born and raised. Bonded by the man who held their family together, Lee and Patrick struggle to adjust to a world without him.

It’s the summer of 1983, in the north of Italy, and Elio Perlman, (Timothée Chalamet) a 17-year-old American-Italian boy spends his days in his family's 17th century villa lazily transcribing music and flirting with his friend Marzia (Esther Garrel). One day Oliver, (Armie Hammer) a charming, 24-year-old American scholar working on his doctorate arrives as the annual summer intern tasked with helping Elio's father (Michael Stuhlbarg), an eminent professor specializing in Greco-Roman culture. Amidst the sun-drenched splendor of this sensual setting, Elio and Oliver discover the heady beauty of awakening desire over the course of a summer that will alter their lives forever.