Category: Writing

Few Presidential candidates have appeared to be faltering more than Joe Biden. The U.S. Presidential election is seven months away, and Biden’s prospects look dismal. His cognitive abilities have been up for question these last few months, with Biden losing his train of thoughts mid-speech several times.

Biden has long had a reputation for being the drunk-uncle-at-the-picnic type, a “lovable deviant,” according to the Washington Post in relation to The Onion’s portrayal of Biden. The Onion famously portrayed Biden as a freewheeling, unpredictable man of the people in its Diamond Joe series of articles beginning in 2009 when Biden was Vice-President to Obama.  Shirtless Biden Washes Trans Am In White House Driveway is the first and the funniest of this series.

To combat accusations that Biden is a bit too touchy-feely, not the man for America, The Onion has been put in the uncomfortable position this spring of keeping the series live on the site while simultaneously walking it back. Writer Joe Garden wrote on VICE that he regretted creating the meme.

Whether the product of a secret master plan or the product of circumstances, Biden might be the vehicle for a different, better-qualified Democrat to assume the office of the President. Call it the Joe Biden Trojan Horse Project?

Michael A.Walsh in the NY Post article “How the Obamas Could Easily Win Eight More Years in the White House” describes the inner workings of this machine with conspiracy-thriller-like detail.

It could go this way. Joe Biden is elected, survives the November-to-January stretch to the inauguration, then quickly abdicates to his Vice-President by dying or stepping down due to health reasons.

Are there provisions in the 25th Amendment to prevent a political party from slipping in their true choice under the Vice-President guise?

What about a President who, desperate to please his or her party, agrees to be killed soon after inauguration?

Or a party that, without agreement or knowledge by the President, kills the President to slip the Vice-President into that position?

For fiction or scriptwriters, it’s the age-old problem of balancing the creative right-brain side of masterful prose, characters, inner thoughts, and scene descriptions–what I collectively will call “writing”–with the structured left-brain planning side of making and moving around chunks of plot. The balance always seems to be off: you’re always too far in one direction or the other.

Then I found Causality, and I’m kind of in love with it. Designed largely as story sequencing software to help you build plots without losing touch on so-called writing part of the script, Causality helps me hit that perfect balance between writing and plotting.

Final Draft vs. Causality

Let’s first get the obvious out of the way. Final Draft is apparently considered the gold standard for script-writing software. If you are a serious script-writer, no doubt you would need to eventually find your way to Final Draft to make sure that your script is perfectly formatted.

Causality isn’t so much about script formatting. It does produce a formatted screenplay. But not being a screenwriter, I cannot comment on the accuracy of Causality’s Final Script formatting.

In terms of structuring, though, compared to Causality the vaunted Final Draft is rinky-dink clown world. The following eye-melting, brain-searing image that looks like it was created in a 1995 version of Microsoft Paint is what passes for structuring in Final Draft in their example script “Airship.”

It might be possible to adjust Final Draft so that it makes more sense and looks better, but I couldn’t be bothered. Final Draft strikes me as a legacy product still resting on its laurels that needs some serious competition to come along and oust it from its position.

What Does Causality Do?

Causality does so much that it is difficult to describe in one blog post. But three features stand out:

Causality Simultaneously Plots and Writes

No, Causality doesn’t actually plot and write for you, but it sure feels that way.

As you create those fat, featureless chunks of the plot on the right side, the left side follows along. So, the Beat called “Martin on run from life in NY,” from the Rod Serling masterpiece script “Walking Distance,” automatically writes the “Martin on run from life in NY” on the left side.

The important point is that plotting and writing activities both exist in the same view and that it is quick and easy to bounce back and forth between the two. Not only that, they have some meshing capabilities.

Causality Lets You Set Up Connections

The image above shows a feature called Connection which lets you link beats when they somehow relate. If an earlier Beat describes, for example, a Mom buying a faulty hairdryer that might result in electric shocks, the other (linked) Beat shows the child playing with the hairdryer and being fatally shocked. Connection allows you to highlight lower-level cause-and-effect relationships, among other things.

Causality Turns Multiple Layers of a Story Into a One Linear Story

How does a multi-layered story work? Imagine playing chess on a three-level, semi-transparent chessboard. When you look at each layer individually, each layer has its own separate story. But when you look at it from above, all of the layers merge to form one board.

Multi-layered stories work the same way (and nearly all stories are multi-layered; it’s just a matter of how layered they are). Even without using Causality, you can craft a story with multiple layers. For ages, writers have plotted stories with walls pinned with index cards separated by lines, long strips of paper, or comparable systems. Causality isn’t inventing anything new. What it does, though, is it automates the process of layering. Simply by dragging a Beat, Group, or Block left or right, you cause it to weave into the overall story in different ways.

Causality Does Not Force You Into a Certain Type of Storytelling

It’s also worth saying what Causality doesn’t do. Some commenters (Reddit, et al) seem to think that Causality forces the writer into a “mechanical, technical” and “meticulous” mode of story-telling. That is completely wrong. Causality is a tool, and make of it what you will. Criticisms like this are akin to saying that a Ferrari, because it can go 200 MPH, forces you to drive 200 MPH. Really?

At one extreme, if you really wanted, you could write the entire screenplay in Script mode, using no Beats, Blocks, Groups, or anything related to structuring. You wouldn’t do this, but you could.

My Opinion of Causality

Causality is a commercial venture bordering on charity for screenwriters or fiction writers who need a better way to plot. Writers who are experts at plotting can only improve with Causality. Writers who are weak at plotting may achieve a respectable level of plotting skill.

Causality is the first story-building software that is truly unique and game-changing, as it helps writers expertly navigate that narrow pathway between plotting and writing.

Try it, buy it. You’ll spend the first few hours lost, but pull up one of their sample files and begin playing around. You can’t break anything. Check out the YouTube tutorials, as well. The online manual is especially helpful.

Even if you are a dedicated user of another platform, Causality will be a valuable supplement.

While I do have a nice, fat 32-inch monitor that serves my needs for my professional writing work, Causality is the first anything that I’ve encountered that has prompted me to immediately start shopping for a couple of extra monitors to create a Causality triptych on my desk.

Bug, Suggestion, and Improvement Log-File

If you’re a hardcore user of Causality, you’ll find this log-file interesting. If you’re still considering Causality, don’t read this as it may give you the impression that the program is riddled with bugs. Rather, Causality is currently a living, breathing thing, continually being improved.

02/01/2020 Update:

Per Holmes has made frequent changes and updates to Causality since the log-file below was published December 2019.

IMPROVEMENT/BUG: Need a Warning to Protect Against User Error When Changing Lane Settings

I’m not sure what to call this one, since it all hinges on user error. But: do not toggle between Freestyle and Using Blocks in the Lane Settings, or you will lose your Block information. Here’s how it all happened:

My Lane, well-populated with many Blocks was, of course, in Using Blocks mode. I went in the dialog, switched over to Freestyle just for the hell of it. All of the Blocks disappeared, leaving only Beats in that Lane. This was expected.

But when I tried to go back, my Blocks were not recovered. They were gone forever. On one hand, this makes sense: “Dude, you obliterated your Blocks; what did you expect?” On the other hand, we need a warning.

But here’s the weird thing. One random Block (out of the original 15 or so) returned. It was not a fresh, new Block but one remnant of the old Blocks, and it encompassed all of the Beats in that one Lane.

I recovered my information only by clicking Redo several times.

IMPROVEMENT: Causality Needs a Cloud-Based Version

Causality is downloaded to your machine. Keeping the program local does make it a faster program, and you can use it when you are offline. But I find myself lacking Causality on my laptop when I am not at home (at home is the desktop computer with the software installed on it), and I cannot download multiple versions of Causality on my two computers, at least as far as I know.

IMPROVEMENT: Users Should Be Able to Create a Character at the Beat Level

Currently, when you start a Beat, you can only Add a pre-existing character. Causality should have a feature that lets you create a character on the fly; this is often how our brains work–by impulse. Instead, it’s a circuitous process. Add a Beat. Close it. Then go up to the Characters list, right-click, Create a Character. Close it. Now, go back to your Beat and Add that character.

IMPROVEMENT: Users Should Have Pre-Set Views

Normally, I scoff at features like pre-set views. I’m usually fine with multiple clicking to move between different views. But Causality often has such a circuitious character that I find it a time-waster to create a view, then switch to another view (say, Final Script), then try to re-create the first view.

In the menu bar there should be space for three pre-set views. This would save much time.

IMPROVEMENT: Users Should Have a Thinner Dead Zone

My own personal bete noir: the dead zone. A dead zone sometimes appears above the Main Lane. It’s not a true Lane, and nothing can be dropped here. It has been described by the company as a type of buffer zone. In the above image, I have dragged down the dead zone as far as possible and highlighted it with a red rectangle. I’m learning to live with it.

IMPROVEMENT: Causality Needs to Graphically Promote Scene Headers in Normal Snippets Mode

In the image above, where does the “INT. DRUGSTORE…” scene heading belong? To the text above or to the text below? Of course, you say, “Below,” because you’re a smart-alecky screenwriter and you know this is the way these things work. Yet if you actually look at this with fresh eyes, you see that visually it attaches itself to the scene above. To my eye, this view is not great at visually identifying taxonomy on script level. Is there a logic behind it? Well, yes. The reason is that the color-banded Snippet is actually an intrusion in the true text: the script. I get it, but it still doesn’t look right and it could be better.

IMPROVEMENT: Users Should Be Able to Change Character Icons

Currently, Characters are represented by a default icon that looks like a time-bomb. Users should ideally be able to change it to a .jpeg icon avatar, so that they can grab a screenshot of an actor, friend, or any real person and use that face. Short of that, users should be able to change the icon to something else.

BUG: Sometimes Headers Cannot Be Created

Sometimes, when you are in the left-hand pane, you click Insert Scene Heading, and nothing happens.

IMPROVEMENT: Users Should Be Able to Set Up Connections by Pressing Object

Connection is one of the coolest features of Causality. But setting up a Connection is a logical hiccup. You set up the first half of the operation one way but complete it another way. So, the first half of the operation is accomplished by clicking on the object, but you set up the second half of the operation with a keyboard operation.

This is not an end-of-the-world problem. But it strikes me as a logical wrinkle. Imagine that you’re in a room and you want to lock the door. You lock the door by sliding the latch shut. To unlock the door, it would make sense to do so with the opposite action: by sliding the latch back. But no. You actually unlock the door by turning on the cold water on the sink.

You’ll get accustomed to this, but it doesn’t follow.

IMPROVEMENT: Causality Needs to Time Out Its Title Page

Reportedly, the company will change this. Currently, the front page sticks and doesn’t leave until you click somewhere on the screen.

IMPROVEMENT: Users Need to Have a One-Click-Only “Move All Left” or “Eliminate Spaces” Option

This would be enormously helpful. Over time, as you work on the Whiteboard and add, delete, and move items, everything sprawls rightward. You only need to hit the Fit All magnifying glass to see how sprawled and gappy everything is. Causality does have a Push feature that lets you slide multiple elements either left or right. But an improved version of that would be a magical “squeeze all” or “move all left” or “eliminate spaces” button, whatever you want to do, that does it all at once.

BUG: Causality Needs to Fix Its Inoperable Upper Area in Full Screen

When you are on Full Screen (thus eliminating the left-hand panel that shows the script), the upper area with Acts, Scenes, Characters, etc. is frozen and inoperable. The area cannot be enlarged or diminished vertically. You cannot scroll that area up or down. However, you can eliminate it by clicking on the double up arrows. Even though this area is frozen, the dead zone below it can be resized.

IMPROVEMENT: Causality Needs to Let Users Rearrange Characters on the Character List

Currently with Causality, if your hero happens to have the name Zachary Zuckerman, he is automatically dropped to the bottom of the character list since it automatically rearranges alphabetically. Users should also have the option to rearrange the characters manually. At the very least, Causality should also have the option of auto-rearranging characters by frequency: characters that show up more frequently at the top, less frequently at the bottom.

IMPROVEMENT: Causality Needs to Do a Better Job of Graphically Distinguishing Between Groups and Blocks

Few things about Causality can I describe as bothersome. Yet I have a hard time with this one. Groups and Blocks: In terms of hierarchy, one is higher than the other, but which? Here is the way it works.

• Block cannot go into a Block
• Block cannot go into a Group
• Group cannot go into a Group
• Group can go into a Block
• Beats can go into Blocks
• Beats can go into Groups

All of that does make sense, but it’s also hard for the user to keep straight. With practice, you do learn. But it seems like it should have a more intuitive aspect.

Not only that, the Blocks and Groups icons look very much alike. The two should graphically be different–markedly so.

BUG: Scrolling Zoom to the Smallest View Freezes Up Your View

When you CTRL + mouse scroll to the smallest possible view, you cannot back out the same way. You need to click on one of the magnifying glasses at the bottom of the program.

IMPROVEMENT: Users Should Have a Way to See All Connections at Once

Once you set up a Connection, it does not remain visible all the time. Understandable. You don’t want to clog up this already-busy screen with even more stuff.

To make a single A-to-B connection visible, you almost have to already know that one is there. Then you locate one end of it via a small triangle. Click the triangle and the dotted connection line shows.

Causality should have an option for clicking one button to see all Connections simultaneously. Preferably, this button should be on the menu bar.

IMPROVEMENT: Users Should Be About to Change Beat Font Size

In this granular world, Beats are the smallest grain. So, font size needs to remain on the smaller size. Yet it would help if Beat font size could be scaled up and down, if even a little.

NITPICKY IMPROVEMENTS

• The dictionary has so few words that it is almost unusable. Yet there seems to be no easy way to populate it with more words on a mass scale.
• No forum? Users should have a forum to trade ideas.

Causality Needs to Let Users Change Lane Settings After Lane-Creation

When you create a Lane, you can set certain aspects like the name and the color of Beats created within it. Yet once the Lane is created, you can no longer change settings.

Update: Found out that double-clicking on the Lane name will bring up the Lane Settings dialog. So, change that to: Causality Needs to Add a Right-Click Option to Change Lane Settings.

Latest Update

2.0.21 (Release)

New Features

• Causations (see https://www.hollywoodcamerawork.com/causality-videos.html)
• French translation by Valery Lambert.
• Italian translation by Chabel Ander.
• Mini timeline in full screen script view.

Improvements

• Page count is now accurate based on background rendering of script.
• Items in whiteboard now align against a hard upper edge.
• Create groups by attaching beats above/below each other.
• Setups/Payoffs are now called Dependencies.
• Dependency lines between beats now hide/show based on line-of-sight.
• Dependency lines now show to/from collapsed lanes.
• Use red color for dependencies that have errors on their endpoints.
• Script now scrolls to location of dropped beat.
• Animations when manipulating whiteboard are now shorter/smoother.
• Disable vertical snapping of visual logic objects.
• Fixed filter checkbox layout.
• Convert to group now stacks beats vertically when possible.
• Change timeline snippet default to 2-lines.
• Lane mode (freestyle/using blocks) is now persisted for future lanes.
• Added a “Delete” context menu option for scene headings.
• Improved inline editing of beats.
• Select document types directly from file menu when creating new doc.
• Allow creating Story Beat or Subtext Beat directly from whiteboard context menu.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed could be difficult to reset selection in certain cases.
• Fixed dropping research items in groups placed them at the end.
• Fixed snippets could assume scene heading of last snippet in script when dropping beat in group.
• Fixed “forbidden” cursor when dropping snippets.
• Fixed bug in upgrader that would refuse to upgrade documents without Characters/Story Tracks.
• Fixed extra space at bottom of freestyle lanes.
• Fixed printing could crash if paragraph text contained separate characters.
• Fixed overview mode for collapsed lanes.
• Fixed bad drop location on collapsed lanes.
• Fixed couldn’t create Lane by dragging in icon from whiteboard toolbar.
• Fixed crash at exit due to undefined behavior.
• Fixed crash on snippet DnD.
• Fixed crash on research object rename.
• Fixed crash caused by using special name for character folder.
• Fixed bad offset when moving concurrent items.
• Fixed defocusing issue in script view.
• Improved fix for undo crash.
• Updated collapsed snippet state handling.
• Fixed wasn’t auto-deleting split beats when deleting their timeslice.
• Fixed clipping issues when moving items into groups.
• Fixed beat type change cancel not working when X-ing the dialog.
• Fixed snippet editor cursor continuing into background areas.
• Fixed Research collapse/expand being swapped.
• Fixed double-click editing option for script breaks in script.
• Fixed accidental snippet creation on new subtext beat.
• Fixed invisible freestyle block title that responded to mouse dragging.
• Fixed that beats dragged from research into whiteboard were placed at end of script.
• Fixed empty group collapse while adding a beat.

If you cannot get your story premise pounded into solid shape, you don’t have a story. So why should you proceed?

When constructing your own story premise, it helps to use other premises as models. Here are almost 500 story premises arranged by genre.

	Story Premise / Logline	Genre
1	Terrorists kidnap the Vice President of the United States and threaten to blow up the entire stadium during the final game of the NHL Stanley Cup. There is only one way and one man to stop them…	Action
2	James Bond teams up with the lone survivor of a destroyed Russian research center to stop the hijacking of a nuclear space weapon by a fellow agent formerly believed to be dead.	Action
3	Two criminals and their hostages unknowingly seek temporary refuge in an establishment populated by vampires, with chaotic results.	Action
4	Angela Bennett’s a software engineer type who works from home and has few friends outside of cyberspace. Taking her first vacation in years, she becomes embroiled in a web of computer espionage.	Action
5	A young cop must prevent a bomb exploding aboard a city bus by keeping its speed above fifty-mph.	Action
6	A police officer is brought out of suspended animation in prison to pursue an old ultra-violent nemesis who is loose in a non-violent future society.	Action
7	Broken Arrow is the term used to describe a nuclear device that has been lost. In this movie, two nuclear missiles are stolen by rogue US pilot Deakins, but hot on his trail is his co-pilot Hale and a Park Ranger, Terry. The action takes place in Utah’s canyon country; a high stakes game of cat and mouse.	Action
8	When his secret bride is executed for assaulting an English soldier who tried to rape her, William Wallace begins a revolt against King Edward I of England.	Action
9	Casey Ryback hops on a Colorado to LA train to start a vacation with his niece. Early into the trip, terrorists board the train and use it as a mobile HQ to hijack a top secret destructive US satellite.	Action
10	CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.	Action
11	Nelson Crowe is a CIA operative under the thumb of the Company for a disputed delivery of gold. They blackmail him into working for the Grimes Organization, which is set up as a …	Action
12	An American agent, under false suspicion of disloyalty, must discover and expose the real spy without the help of his organization.	Action
13	Bill and Jo Harding, advanced storm chasers on the brink of divorce, must join together to create an advanced weather alert system by putting themselves in the cross-hairs of extremely violent tornadoes.	Action
14	A Witness Protection specialist becomes suspicious of his co-workers when dealing with a case involving high-tech weapons.	Action
15	Disaster in a New York tunnel as explosions collapse both ends of it. One hero tries to help the people inside find their way to safety.	Action
16	A drifting gunslinger-for-hire finds himself in the middle of an ongoing war between the Irish and Italian mafia in a Prohibition era ghost town.	Action
17	John McClane, officer of the NYPD, tries to save his wife Holly Gennaro and several others that were taken hostage by German terrorist Hans Gruber during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.	Action
18	Cole Trickle enters the high-pressure world of Nascar racing. He’s a hot driver with a hot temper, and this attitude gets him into trouble not only with other drivers, but members of his own team as well.	Action
19	When the US President crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him.	Action
20	During the Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade colonel who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe.	Action
21	Convicted felon Nikita, instead of going to jail, is given a new identity and trained, stylishly, as a top secret spy/assassin.	Action
22	John McClane attempts to avert disaster as rogue military operatives seize control of Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C.	Action
23	A former S.E.A.L., now cook, is the only person who can stop a gang of terrorists when they seize control of a U.S. Navy battleship.	Action
24	Batman & Robin try to keep their relationship together even as they must stop Mr. Freeze and Poison Ivy from freezing Gotham City.	Action
25	A female Senator succeeds in enrolling a woman into Combined Reconnaissance Team training where everyone expects her to fail.	Action
26	A vengeful barbarian warrior sets off to avenge his tribe and his parents whom were slain by an evil sorcerer and his warriors when he was a boy.	Action
27	Wealthy San Francisco financier Nicholas Van Orton gets a strange birthday present from wayward brother Conrad: a live-action game that consumes his life.	Action
28	A group of martial arts warriors have only six days to save the Earth from an extra-dimensional invasion.	Action
29	James Bond heads to stop a media mogul’s plan to induce war between China and the UK in order to obtain exclusive global media coverage.	Action
30	Mulder and Scully must fight the government in a conspiracy and find the truth about an alien colonization of Earth.	Action
31	Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh, after escaping death from the previous movies are put on a hit list by The Triads. When blood thirsty mercenaries are on their tail they team up again with Leo Getz and Lorna Cole, a newcomer (Chris Rock) to finally put an end to the Triads for good.	Action
32	A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.	Action
33	Martin Riggs is an L.A. cop with suicidal tendencies and Roger Murtaugh is the unlucky police officer with whom Riggs is assigned. Together they uncover a huge drug-smuggling operation, and as their success rate grows so does their friendship.	Action
34	Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats who are using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.	Action
35	Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh pursue an arms dealer who is a former LAPD officer.	Action
36	Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.	Action
37	A half-vampire, half-mortal man becomes a protector of the mortal race, while slaying evil vampires.	Action
38	After a fundraiser for a black politician is robbed, Detroit police put two detectives, one white and one black, on the case, who try to work together under boiling political pressure.	Action
39	Former Green Beret John Rambo is pursued into the mountains surrounding a small town by a tyrannical sheriff and his deputies, forcing him to survive using his combat skills.	Action
40	When his friend Colonel Trautman is captured by Soviets during a mission in Afghanistan, John Rambo sets out to rescue him while taking on the brutal tyrant and his army who rule that region.	Action
41	A romance writer sets off to Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure.	Action
42	After iron man Drago, a highly intimidating huge Soviet athlete, kills Apollo Creed in an exhibition match, Rocky comes to the heart of Russia for fifteen pile-driving boxing rounds of revenge.	Action
43	Porter is shot by his wife and best friend and is left to die. When he survives he plots revenge.	Action
44	An American serving in the French Foreign Legion on an archaeological dig at the ancient city of Hamunaptra accidentally awakens a mummy.	Action
45	What happens when a man-eating crocodile begins picking off tourists in beautiful Lake Placid? What if the crocodile wants to make it his home?	Action
46	The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic.	Action
47	Private Luc Deveraux and his sadistic sergeant, Andrew Scott, got killed in Vietnam. The army uses their bodies for a secret project – reanimating dead soldiers as deadly obedient cyborgs. However, their memories come back too.	Action
48	Investigating a gold magnate’s smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve.	Action
49	An anonymous, but deadly man rides into a town torn by war between two factions, the Baxters and the Rojo’s. Instead of fleeing or dying, as most other would do, the man schemes to play the two sides off each other, getting rich in the bargain.	Action
50	A young boy accidentally joins a band of dwarves as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal.	Action
51	The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.	Action
52	A tough-as-nails cop teams up with an undercover agent to shut down a sinister mobster and his crew.	Action
53	A British team is sent to cross occupied Greek territory and destroy the massive German gun emplacement that commands a key sea channel.	Action
54	Two bounty hunters with the same intentions team up to track down a Western outlaw.	Action
55	In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline rich, community escape a band of bandits.	Action
56	After being exiled from the most advanced town in post apocalyptic Australia, a drifter travels with a group of abandoned children to rebel against the town’s queen.	Action
57	Two mutants come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.	Action
58	In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots… and his son becomes a target.	Action
59	Three women, detectives with a mysterious boss, retrieve stolen voice-ID software, using martial arts, tech skills, and sex appeal.	Action
60	Futuristic action about a man who meets a clone of himself and stumbles into a grand conspiracy about clones taking over the world.	Action
61	A chase film in which cops try to catch a master of disguise. This is a film as much about the joy of filmmaking as it is about a deadly pursuit.	Action
62	Train with medical supplies and small U.S. Army unit is heading through Rocky mountains towards plagued Fort Humboldt. Among its passengers are territory governor, priest, doctor and U.S. Marshal with his prisoner, John Deakin. However, nothing on that train is what it seems.	Action
63	A black nurse takes vigilante justice against inner-city drug dealers after her sister becomes their latest victim.	Action
64	Los Angeles police officer Brian O’Connor must decide where his loyalties really lie when he becomes enamored with the street racing world he has been sent undercover to destroy.	Action
65	A betrayed intelligence officer enlists the aid of a prostitute to prove his innocence from a deadly conspiracy while returning a favor to her.	Action
66	A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord who killed his partner and fled the country.	Action
67	When Frank Castle’s family is murdered by criminals, he wages war on crime as a vigilante assassin known only as the Punisher.	Action
68	Carter and Lee head to Hong Kong for vacation, but become embroiled in a counterfeit money scam.	Action
69	A special military unit fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-eating creatures after a laboratory accident.	Action
70	Blade forms an uneasy alliance with the vampire council in order to combat the Reaper vampires who feed on vampires.	Action
71	A divorced woman and her diabetic daughter take refuge in their newly-purchased house’s safe room, when three men break-in, searching for a missing fortune.	Action
72	A desert warrior rises up against the evil army that is destroying his homeland. He captures the enemy’s key sorcerer, takes her deep into the desert and prepares for a final showdown.	Action
73	A brood of fire-breathing dragons emerges from the earth and begins setting everything ablaze, establishing dominance over the planet.	Action
74	A variety of horrible poisonous spiders get exposed to a noxious chemical that causes them to grow to monumental proportions.	Action
75	The Cortez siblings set out for a mysterious island, where they encounter a genetic scientist and a set of rival spy kids.	Action
76	An extreme sports athlete, Xander Cage, is recruited by the government on a special mission.	Action
77	A routine military exercise turns into a nightmare in the Scotland wilderness.	Action
78	A son of the leader of a legendary group of an urban biker gang tries to retain his championship title.	Action
79	Two loose-cannon narcotics cops investigate the flow of Ecstasy into Florida.	Action
80	Adventuress Lara Croft goes on a quest to save the mythical Pandora’s Box before an evil scientist and recruits a former Marine turned mercenary to assist her.	Action
81	An imprisoned drug kingpin offers a huge cash reward to anyone that can break him out of police custody and only the LAPD’s Special Weapons and Tactics team can prevent it.	Action
82	A government agent trains Cody Banks in the ways of covert operations that require younger participants.	Action
83	A retired elite Black Ops Commando launches a one man war against a group of South American criminals who have kidnapped his daughter to blackmail him into starting a revolution and getting an exiled dictator back into power.	Action
84	Selene, a beautiful vampire warrior, entrenched in a war between the vampire and werewolf races. Although she is aligned with the vampires, she falls in love with Michael, a human who is sought by werewolves for unknown reasons.	Action
85	A tough aspiring chef is hired to bring home a mobster’s son from the Amazon but becomes involved in the fight against an oppressive town operator and the search for a legendary treasure.	Action
86	A Moscow police officer investigates a triple homicide and stumbles upon a high-level political conspiracy in the local government.	Action
87	A mercenary goes after his ex-girlfriend, a singer who has been kidnapped by a gang.	Action
88	A police detective cracks down on organized crime in Chinatown after the murders of Triad and Mafia leaders.	Action
89	Allan Quatermain is a fortune hunter who is convinced by Jesse Huston to help her find her father, who’s been lost somewhere in the African jungle during his last exploration.	Action
90	A former U.S. soldier returns to his hometown to find it overrun by crime and corruption, which prompts him to clean house.	Action
91	The Bride continues her quest of vengeance against her former boss and lover Bill, the reclusive bouncer Budd and the treacherous, one-eyed Elle.	Action
92	The story of Easy Company of the US Army Airborne division and their mission in WWII Europe from Operation Overlord through V-J Day.	Action
93	Peter Parker is beset with troubles in his failing personal life as he battles a brilliant scientist named Doctor Otto Octavius.	Action
94	Nine Koryo warriors, envoys exiled by Imperial China, battle to protect a Chinese Ming Princess from Mongolian troops.	Action
95	During an archaeological expedition on Bouvetya Island in Antarctica, a team of archaeologists and other scientists find themselves caught up in a battle between the two legends. Soon, the team realize that only one species can win.	Action
96	A young man receives an emergency phone call on his cell phone from an older woman. The catch? The woman claims to have been kidnapped; and the kidnappers have targeted her husband and child next.	Action
97	A power hungry sorcerer transforms a princess into a swan by day in this tale of everlasting love.	Animation
98	Jack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town, but doesn’t quite understand the concept.	Animation
99	With the help of a smooth talking tomcat, a family of Parisian felines set to inherit a fortune from their owner try to make it back home after a jealous butler kidnaps them and leaves them in the country.	Animation
100	An orphan with terrible aunts for guardians, befriends human like bugs who live inside a giant peach, who take the boy on a journey to New York City.	Animation
101	When Wallace and Gromit go over to wash windows, Wallace falls in love with a wool store owner named Wendolene. Meanwhile, Gromit is framed for killing sheep and is put in jail. So with help from the sheep and Wendolene, Wallace must get him out of prison.	Animation
102	Ridiculed because of his enormous ears, a young circus elephant is assisted by a mouse to achieve his full potential.	Animation
103	Alice stumbles into the world of Wonderland. Will she get home? Not if the Queen of Hearts has her way.	Animation
104	A collection of animated interpretations of great works of Western classical music.	Animation
105	A confined but troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.	Animation
106	Danny, an ambitious singing/dancing cat, goes to Hollywood and overcomes several obstacles to fulfill his dream of becoming a movie star.	Animation
107	The son of the Greek Gods Zeus and Hera is stripped of his immortality as an infant and must become a true hero in order to reclaim it.	Animation
108	The last surviving child of the Russian Royal Family joins two con men to reunite with her grandmother, the Dowager Empress, while the undead Rasputin seeks her death.	Animation
109	An adventurous girl, a young blind hermit and a goofy two headed dragon race to find the lost sword Excalibur to save King Arthur and Camelot from disaster.	Animation
110	The story of a young deer growing up in the forest after his mother is shot by hunters.	Animation
111	In Victorian London, England, a little mouse girl’s toymaker father is abducted by a peg legged bat. She enlists the aid of Basil of Baker Street, the rodent world’s answer to Sherlock Holmes. The case expands as Basil uncovers the crime’s link to a plot against the Crown itself.	Animation
112	The romantic tale of a sheltered uptown Cocker Spaniel dog and a streetwise downtown Mutt.	Animation
113	After being snubbed by the royal family, a malevolent fairy places a curse on a princess which only a prince can break, along with the help of three good fairies.	Animation
114	A dog returns from the dead looking for revenge on his killer using an orphan girl who can talk to animals.	Animation
115	A group of rabbits flee their doomed warren and face many dangers to find and protect their new home.	Animation
116	Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Lil and newborn baby Dil get lost in the forest.	Animation
117	A misfit ant, looking for warriors to save his colony from greedy grasshoppers, recruits a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troupe.	Animation
118	Traveling to the exotic kingdom of Siam, English schoolteacher Anna Leonowens soon discovers that her most difficult challenge is the stubborn, imperious King himself.	Animation
119	After a botched money delivery, Lola has twenty minutes to come up with one hundred-thousand Deutschmarks.	Animation
120	A young boy befriends a giant robot from outer space that a paranoid government agent wants to destroy.	Animation
121	A young boy whose dreams transcend reality is sucked into his own fantasy, which is everything he has dreamed of until he unleashes a century old secret that may not only destroy this perfect dream world but reality itself.	Animation
122	The Beatles agree to accompany Captain Fred in his Yellow Submarine and go to Pepperland to free it from the music hating Blue Meanies.	Animation
123	When Woody is stolen by a toy collector, Buzz and his friends vow to rescue him, but Woody finds the idea of immortality in a museum tempting.	Animation
124	An update of the original film with new interpretations of great works of classical music.	Animation
125	Two swindlers get their hands on a map to the fabled city of gold, El Dorado.	Animation
126	A young man learns that he has to find a hidden Earthship before an enemy alien species does in order to secure the survival of humanity.	Animation
127	Jiminy Cricket hosts two Disney animated shorts: Bongo, about a circus bear escaping to the wild, and Mickey and the Beanstalk, a take on the famous fairy tale.	Animation
128	Jimmy Neutron is a boy genius and way ahead of his friends, but when it comes to being cool, he’s a little behind. All until one day when his parents, and parents all over Earth are kidnapped by aliens, it’s up to him to lead all the children of the world to rescue their parents.	Animation
129	In this animated tale, a tiny village is destroyed by a surging glacier, which serves as the deadly domain for the evil Ice Lord, Nekron. The only survivor is a young warrior, Larn, who …	Animation
130	A Hawaiian girl adopts an unusual pet who is actually a notorious extra-terrestrial fugitive from the law.	Animation
131	A tragic film covering a young boy and his little sister’s struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.	Animation
132	Two wannabe heroes and their friends must stop a madman from giving everyone nightmares.	Animation
133	Underneath the sands of Egypt, Anubis, an ancient evil spirit, has awakened. It’s up to Yugi, who defeated Anubis centuries ago, to use his skill and determination to rid the world of evil once again.	Animation
134	A young boy embarks on a magical adventure to the North Pole on the Polar Express. During his adventure he learns about friendship, bravery, and the spirit of Christmas.	Animation
135	Ace Ventura, emerging from self-imposed exile in a remote Himalayan hideaway, travels to Africa with explorer Fulton Greenwall to find a sacred bat which is told will avert a war. Of course, when Ace gets involved, all hell breaks loose…	Comedy
136	A rejected hockey player puts his skills to the golf course to save his grandmother’s house.	Comedy
137	Samuels life is perfect. That is, until he finds out his girlfriend is pregnant. Now he must face the issues that come with being an expecting father, in a most entertaining way.	Comedy
138	An incompetent, immature, and dimwitted heir to an auto parts factory must save the business to keep it out of the hands of his new, con-artist relatives and big business.	Comedy
139	After a bitter divorce, an actor disguises himself as a female housekeeper to spend time with his children held in custody by his former wife.	Comedy
140	After losing her job, making out with her soon to be ex-boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson has to face spending the holiday with her family. She wonders if she can survive their crazy antics.	Comedy
141	Two homies, Smokey and Craig, smoke a dope dealer’s weed and try to figure a way to get the money they owe to the dealer by ten p.m. that same night. In that time, they smoke more weed, get jacked, and they get shot at in a drive-by.	Comedy
142	Both dumped by their girlfriends, two best friends seek refuge in the local mall.	Comedy
143	A day in the lives of two convenience clerks named Dante and Randal as they annoy customers, discuss movies, and play hockey on the store roof.	Comedy
144	A woman flies to France to confront her straying fiance, but gets into trouble when the charming crook seated next to her uses her for smuggling.	Comedy
145	In this live-action feature of the cartoon show, Fred Flintstone finally gets the job he’s always wanted, but it may just come at a price.	Comedy
146	Bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss is transformed into a manic superhero when he wears a mysterious mask.	Comedy
147	Bret Maverick, needing money for a poker tournament, faces various comic mishaps and challenges, including a charming woman thief.	Comedy
148	Frank Drebin comes out of retirement to help Police Squad infiltrate a gang of terrorists planning to detonate a bomb at the Academy Awards.	Comedy
149	Three band members hoping for a big break head to a radio station to play their demo tape and wind up holding everyone hostage with plastic guns when the head DJ refuses to play them.	Comedy
150	Jimmy Dolan is a college basketball coach who wants a big promotion. To get it, he needs to make a dramatic find. He ends up deep in Africa, hoping to recruit Saleh, a huge basketball …	Comedy
151	Rambo parody in which Topper Harley leads a rescue team into Iraq to save Iraqi war prisoners and all of their previous rescue teams.	Comedy
152	A cat burglar is forced to take a bickering, dysfunctional family hostage on Christmas Eve.	Comedy
153	A recently widowed man’s son calls a radio talk-show in an attempt to find his father a partner.	Comedy
154	Charlie, a poet, hasn’t had much luck with women, but then he meets Harriet, the girl of his dreams.. or is it his nightmares. Charlie begins to suspect that Harriet is Ms X, a woman who marries then kills her husbands.	Comedy
155	Two Brooklyn plumbers, Mario and Luigi, must travel to another dimension to rescue a princess from the evil dictator King Koopa and stop him from taking over the world.	Comedy
156	An -year old troublemaker must protect his home from a pair of burglars when he is accidentally left home alone by his family during Christmas vacation.	Comedy
157	A medieval nobleman and his squire are accidentally transported to contemporary times by a senile sorcerer. He enlists the aid of his descendent to try to find a way to return home, all the while trying to cope with the cultural and technological changes distinguishing his time from ours.	Comedy
158	A collection of some of the most popular work featuring Wallace and Gromit.	Comedy
159	Richard Clark has just left the well-known Wellington Academy to teach at Marion Barry High School. Now, he will try to inspire the D-average students into making good grades and try to woo a fellow teacher.	Comedy
160	Thrown out by his girlfriend from her apartment, Axel lives for a while with Norbert, a gay man he met some days before.	Comedy
161	A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.	Comedy
162	When two musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.	Comedy
163	In occupied Poland during WWII, a troupe of ham stage actors match wits with the Nazis. A spy has information which would be very damaging to the Polish resistance and they must prevent it’s being delivered to the Germans.	Comedy
164	A scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler…but there’s more to Godfrey than meets the eye.	Comedy
165	When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified to the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach to start the first Jamaican Bobsled Team.	Comedy
166	When a popular daredevil proposes an automobile race across three continents, his arch rival vows to beat him, while an ambitious female reporter has her own plans for victory.	Comedy
167	A partially idealized film of the controversial pornography publisher and how he became a defender of free speech for all people.	Comedy
168	Post-apocalyptic surrealist black comedy about the landlord of an apartment building who occasionally prepares a delicacy for his odd tenants.	Comedy
169	Wallace and Gromit have run out of cheese and this provides an excellent excuse for the animated duo to take their holiday on the moon, where, as everyone knows, there is ample cheese.	Comedy
170	Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.	Comedy
171	A disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter.	Comedy
172	A woman kidnaps puppies to kill them for their fur, but various animals then gang up against her and get their revenge in slapstick fashion.	Comedy
173	A group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. But when Billy takes their authority too far, they become the hunted.	Comedy
174	When a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent with the only athlete who stays with him.	Comedy
175	A beautician in America is mistakenly thought to be an academic teacher by a representative of an Eastern European dictator. She is invited to their country on that mistaken belief and is asked to be the tutor of the dictator’s children. While there, she tries to Westernize the whole country.	Comedy
176	A National Geographic film crew is taken hostage by an insane hunter, who takes them along on his quest to capture the world’s largest – and deadliest – snake.	Comedy
177	Two dense, inseparable friends hit the road for their ten-year high school reunion and concoct an elaborate lie about their lives in order to impress their classmates.	Comedy
178	Two friends who are dissatisfied with their jobs decide to join the army for a bit of fun.	Comedy
179	Wallace Ritchie is mistaken for a spy and must stop a plot to assassinate international leaders at a banquet.	Comedy
180	Shortly before an election, a spin-doctor and a Hollywood producer join efforts to fabricate a war in order to cover up a presidential sex scandal.	Comedy
181	The story of three not so bright men who come up with a series of crazy schemes to get a friend out of jail.	Comedy
182	Robbie, the singer and Julia, the waitress are both engaged to be married but to the wrong people. Fortune intervenes to help them discover each other.	Comedy
183	A single mother/waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery..	Comedy
184	A man gets a chance to meet up with his dream girl from highschool, even though his date with her back then was a complete disaster.	Comedy
185	The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage.	Comedy
186	A boy inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town.	Comedy
187	A babysitter must leave her safe suburban surroundings and head for the heart of the big city to rescue a stranded friend, unaware of the perilous adventures that await her and the kids she’s looking after who have tagged along.	Comedy
188	Two high school nerds attempt to create the perfect woman, but she turns out to be more than that.	Comedy
189	Teenager Andie is one of the not-so-popular girls in high school. She usually hangs out with her friends Iona or Duckie. Duckie has always had a crush on her, but now she has met a new guy at school, Blane. He’s one of the rich and popular guys but can the two worlds meet?	Comedy
190	A comic allegory about a traveling Bushman who encounters modern civilization and its stranger aspects, including a clumsy scientist and a band of revolutionaries.	Comedy
191	Mitch and Sam have to come up with $ and fast! The only problem is neither one can hold down a job. Mitch finds a way to money by exploiting the only talents the two have, by opening a Revenge For Hire business.	Comedy
192	Man on the run from a murder charge enlists a beautiful stranger who must put herself at risk for his cause.	Comedy
193	High school senior Lloyd Dobler wants nothing more than to go out with beautiful and intelligent Diane Court. Lloyd attempts to win her heart over the objections of her over-protective father before Diane leaves for a scholarship in England.	Comedy
194	A couple of escaped convicts on the run find refuge with the Church when they are mistaken for two priests. The two are keen to flee but are unable to do so without the help of Molly.	Comedy
195	Two cops team up to get back a kidnapped daughter.	Comedy
196	Two New Yorkers are accused of murder in rural Alabama while on their way back to college, and one of their cousins–an inexperienced, loudmouth lawyer not accustomed to Southern rules and manners–comes in to defend them.	Comedy
197	Bobby Boucher is the lowly waterboy for a college football team, until the coach discovers his amazing talent for tackling people much bigger than him. He signs the Waterboy as the new star player, but Bobby must keep it secret from his overbearing and domineering mother.	Comedy
198	A group of good-hearted but incompetent misfits enter the police academy, but the instructors there are not going to put up with their pranks.	Comedy
199	Mahoney and friends have graduated from the Police Academy and are issued with their first assignments. As before, their cheerfulness and devotion to duty outweigh any shortcomings, but are they ready to do battle with a band graffiti daubing terrorists?	Comedy
200	The alumni of Commandant Lassard’s Police Academy return to the school to train new recruits and prevent its closure.	Comedy
201	Three actors accept an invitation to a Mexican village to perform their onscreen bandit fighter roles, unaware that it is the real thing.	Comedy
202	Three company workers who hate their jobs decide to rebel against their greedy boss.	Comedy
203	A portrait of a fictional town in the mid west that is home to a group of idiosyncratic and slightly neurotic characters. Dwayne Hoover is a wealthy car dealership owner that’s on the …	Comedy
204	A new kid must find a guy to date the meanest girl in school, the older sister of the girl he has a crush on, who cannot date until her older sister does.	Comedy
205	Told from three perspectives, a story of a bunch of young Californians trying to get some cash, do and deal some drugs, score money and sex in Las Vegas, and generally experience the rush of life.	Comedy
206	Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed….	Comedy
207	A group of inept amateur superheroes must try to save the day when a supervillain threatens to destroy a major superhero and the city.	Comedy
208	Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He lives with his parents, his aunt, two cousins, and his brother, Stanley, whom he looks up to …	Comedy
209	A very rich and successful playboy amuses himself by stealing artwork, but may have met his match in a seductive detective.	Comedy
210	When a desperate movie producer fails to get a major star for his bargain basement film, he decides to shoot the film secretly around him.	Comedy
211	A comedy about four teenagers in the Seventies who try to scam their way into a KISS concert.	Comedy
212	A man afraid to fly must ensure that a plane lands safely after the pilots become sick.	Comedy
213	The Griswold family are on a quest. A quest to a Walley World theme park for a family vacation, but things aren’t going to go exactly as planned, especially when Clark Griswold is losing all thought towards a mysterious blonde in a red Ferrari.	Comedy
214	When Andy and Elizabeth buy a farm in Vermont, they can’t imagine the trouble that awaits them. Andy has quit his job as a sports journalist and is planning to use the peace and quiet of …	Comedy
215	When a boy wishes to be big at a magic wish machine, he wakes up the next morning and finds himself in an adult body.	Comedy
216	A ‘typical’ day in the life of the Beatles, including many of their famous songs.	Comedy
217	Basketball superstar Dennis Rodman stars as a hip Interpol agent attempting to defeat the deadly plans of a crazed arms dealer.	Comedy
218	In the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War, four soldiers set out to steal gold that was stolen from Kuwait, but they discover people who desperately need their help.	Comedy
219	Planet Spaceballs’ President Skroob sends Lord Dark Helmet to steal planet Druidia’s abundant supply of air to replenish their own, and only Lone Starr can stop them.	Comedy
220	A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.	Comedy
221	A selfish, cynical T.V. executive is haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve.	Comedy
222	Due to his insistence that he has an invisible six foot-tall rabbit for a best friend, a whimsical middle-aged man is thought by his family to be insane – but he may be wiser than anyone knows.	Comedy
223	An accountant is chased by bounty hunters, the FBI, and the Mafia after jumping bail.	Comedy
224	A man becomes a male gigolo after being mistaken for one while housesitting a male gigolo’s house.	Comedy
225	The Little family adopt a charming young mouse named Stuart, but the family cat wants rid of him.	Comedy
226	Two slacker friends try to promote their public-access cable show.	Comedy
227	Black and white basketball hustlers join forces to double their chances.	Comedy
228	With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.	Comedy
229	At an early Sixties college, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those trouble-makers have other plans for him.	Comedy
230	John and Max are elderly men living next door to each other. They’re continuously arguing and insulting each other, and have been this way for over years. One day, Ariel, moves into the street. Both men are attracted to her, and their rivalry steps up a gear.	Comedy
231	The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.	Comedy
232	A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor’s ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit.	Comedy
233	The Buckman family is a midwestern family all dealing with their lives: estranged relatives, raising children, pressures of the job, and learning to be a good parent and spouse.	Comedy
234	An exclusive golf course has to deal with a brash new member and a destructive dancing gopher.	Comedy
235	When eccentric man-child Pee-Wee Herman gets his beloved bike stolen in broad daylight, he sets out across the U.S. on the adventure of his life.	Comedy
236	A treasure hunt. An aging ex-nobleman of the Czarist regime has finally adjusted to life under the commissars in Russia. Both he and the local priest find that the family jewels were hidden in a chair, one of a set of twelve. They return separately to Moscow to find the hidden fortune.	Comedy
237	A Chinese man who travels to the Wild West to rescue a kidnapped princess. After teaming up with a train robber, the unlikely duo takes on a Chinese traitor and his corrupt boss.	Comedy
238	A prospector goes to the Klondike in search of gold and finds it and more.	Comedy
239	To protect a beautiful woman (Nia Long) and her son (Jascha Washington) from a robber (Terrence Howard), a male FBI agent (Martin Lawrence) disguises as a large grandmother.	Comedy
240	An alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that transform their hosts into killer zombies.	Comedy
241	An ambitious TV soap actress connives with her producer to scuttle the career of the show’s long-time star, but nothing works as they plan.	Comedy
242	A nice-guy cop with dissociative identity disorder must protect a woman on the run from a corrupt ex-boyfriend and his associates.	Comedy
243	In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.	Comedy
244	During a pro football strike, the owners hire substitute players.	Comedy
245	Male nurse Greg Focker meets his girlfriend’s parents before proposing, but her suspicious father is every date’s worst nightmare.	Comedy
246	After two of the devil’s three sons escape Hell to wreak havoc on Earth, the devil must send his third son, the mild-mannered Nicky, to bring them back before it’s too late.	Comedy
247	A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving with an obnoxious slob of a shower curtain ring salesman as his only companion.	Comedy
248	An FBI agent must go undercover in the Miss United States beauty pageant to prevent a group from bombing the event.	Comedy
249	In the deep south during the s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.	Comedy
250	Five friends travel to a cabin in the woods, where they unknowingly release flesh-possessing demons.	Comedy
251	A man tries to transport an ancient gun called The Mexican, believed to carry a curse, back across the border, while his girlfriend pressures him to give up his criminal ways.	Comedy
252	After serving time for murder, Josh Hutton returns to his hometown where he meets Audrey Hugo. No one can remember exactly what Josh did, but they are all wary of him, especially Audry’s …	Comedy
253	A crooked lawyer persuades his brother-in-law to feign a serious injury.	Comedy
254	The mummified body of Imhotep is shipped to a museum in London, where he once again wakes and begins his campaign of rage and terror.	Comedy
255	King Henry II’s three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won’t commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him.	Comedy
256	An African prince goes to Queens, New York City to find a wife whom he can respect for her intelligence and will.	Comedy
257	Two seemingly dumb teens struggle to prepare a historical presentation with the help of a time machine.	Comedy
258	A group of actors putting on an interpretive Passion Play in Montreal begin to experience a meshing of their characters and their private lives as the production takes form against the growing opposition of the Catholic church.	Comedy
259	Two cops are framed and must clear their names.	Comedy
260	A detective must adopt the dog of a dead man to help him find the murderer.	Comedy
261	Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try conceal their lifestyle and their ownership of …	Comedy
262	The sequel to the hit comedy American Pie, the high school students are now in college. These close friends decide to meet up at the beach house for some fun.	Comedy
263	Two fraternity pledges go to a sleazy bar looking for strippers to entertain their college friends. They have problems with transportation, Biker gangs, and worst of all, the staff of the …	Comedy
264	During WW a man persuaded to live on an isolated island and spot aircraft finds himself responsible for a teacher and several students, all female.	Comedy
265	A spoiled schoolgirl runs away from home, gets pregnant while hitchhiking, and ends up as a fashion model for a pair of beauticians who like to photograph women committing crimes.	Comedy
266	A single mother, with dreams of becoming a writer, has a son at the age of fifteen and goes through a failed marriage with the drug-addicted father.	Comedy
267	Martin Lawrence plays Jamal, an employee in Medieval World amusement park. After sustaining a blow to the head, he awakens to find himself in th century England.	Comedy
268	An estranged family of former child prodigies reunites when their father announces he is terminally ill.	Comedy
269	A rough-around-the-edges martial arts master seeks revenge for his parent’s death.	Comedy
270	Five Vermont state troopers, avid pranksters with a knack for screwing up, try to save their jobs and out-do the local police department by solving a crime.	Comedy
271	It’s April somewhere in Serbia. A group of people go on a bus to Belgrade, on a journey that will change their lives forever.	Comedy
272	Skip and Harry are framed for a bank robbery and end up in a western prison. The two eastern boys are having difficulty adjusting to the new life until the warden finds that Skip has a natural talent for riding broncos with the inter-prison rodeo coming up.	Comedy
273	The most popular kid on campus meets a beautiful journalist who makes him realize that maybe he’s afraid to graduate.	Comedy
274	A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.	Comedy
275	A chemist finds his personal and professional life turned upside down when one of his chimpanzees finds the fountain of youth.	Comedy
276	Jack Worthing and Algernon Moncrieff are two men that are both pretending to be someone they are not.	Comedy
277	Topper Harley, a top gun fighter pilot, is recalled to serve on the SS Essess. Topper’s mission is to destroy Saddam Hussein’s nuclear plants. Unfortunately, Topper is psychologically imbalanced and is sure to crack under pressure.	Comedy
278	Set in the Thirties, an honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother’s skyrocketing medical bills.	Comedy
279	A family in Chicago inherits the yacht formerly owned by Clark Gable. They decide to sail it from the island of Ste. Pomme de Terre to Miami, and they sail with the assistance of Captain Ron and their lives will never be the same again.	Comedy
280	A professional athlete has to help a U.S. government agent recover a missing jet.	Comedy
281	Mobster Paul Vitti is released into Dr. Ben Sobol’s care, where only more chaos ensues.	Comedy
282	The true story of Frank Abagnale Jr. who successfully conned millions of dollars’ worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor.	Comedy
283	Two mismatched security guards are thrown together to bust a smuggling operation.	Comedy
284	The Topalovic family has been in the burial business for generations. When the old Pantelija dies, five generations of his heirs start to fight for the inheritance.	Comedy
285	Dave Buznik is a businessman who is wrongly sentenced to an anger-management program, where he meets an aggressive instructor.	Comedy
286	A New York district attorney works and flirts with his adversary and her kooky artist client, who is on trial for a murder she didn’t commit.	Comedy
287	A guy who complains about God too often is given almighty powers to teach him how difficult it is to run the world.	Comedy
288	A worn-out businessman and a beautician on the run collide in a Paris airport. Love arrives, all its hurdles be damned.	Comedy
289	Rowan plays the eponymous lead character in a spoof spy thriller. During the course of the story we follow our hero as he attempts to single-handedly save the country from falling into the hands of a despot.	Comedy
290	Set in West Berlin during the Cold War, a Coca-Cola executive is given the task of taking care of his boss’ socialite daughter.	Comedy
291	After a fateful mistake costing his career, an ex-soccer player bum meets a shaolin kung fu student trying to spread the word of kung fu. The ex-soccer player helps reconcile with his five brothers, and teaches them soccer, adding shaolin kung fu as a twist.	Comedy
292	When a young man agrees to housesit for his boss, he thinks it’ll be the perfect opportunity to get close to the woman he desperately has a crush on – his boss’s daughter. But he doesn’t …	Comedy
293	A phobic con artist and his protg are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the former’s teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.	Comedy
294	Jerry Falk learns a lesson the hard way when he falls head over heels in love with a beautiful but flighty girl, Amanda.	Comedy
295	A young couple has a chance to move into a gorgeous duplex in the perfect New York neighborhood. All they have to do is bump off the current tenant, a cute little old lady.	Comedy
296	A bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau.	Comedy
297	Beethoven becomes a father. But the puppies owner wants to use them and the mother in her divorce bargaining. But the Newton kids steal the puppies. Will they be allowed to keep them? And will they be able to rescue the puppies mother and reunite her with her family?	Comedy
298	In the third installment of the Scary Movie franchise, Cindy has to investigate mysterious crop circles and video tapes, and help the President in preventing an alien invasion.	Comedy
299	In this remake of the Spencer Tracy classic, George and Nina Banks are the parents of young soon-to-be-wed Annie. George is a nervous father unready to face the fact that his little girl is now a woman. The preparations for the extravagant wedding provide additional comic moments.	Comedy
300	Eddie Hawkins, called Hudson Hawk has just been released from ten years of prison and is planning to spend the rest of his life honestly. But then the crazy Mayflower couple blackmail him to steal some of the works of Leonardo da Vinci. If he refuses, they threaten to kill his friend Tommy.	Comedy
301	A tough cop is given his most difficult assignment ever: to masquerade as a kindergarten teacher in order to find a drug dealer.	Comedy
302	As the only relative to take over the Royal throne, a down on his luck American slob must learn the ways of the English.	Comedy
303	A high-school gym teacher has big plans for the summer, but is forced to cancel them to teach a bonehead English class for misfit goof-off students. Fortunately, his unconventional brand of teaching fun field trips begins to connect with them, and even inspires ardor in some.	Comedy
304	A struggling high school student with problems discovers that his family has an unusual pedigree when he finds himself turning into a werewolf.	Comedy
305	white kids get lost in the hood looking for da hip hop witch, a year later their footage was found.	Comedy
306	A teenage girl is convinced that her home city revolves around her until her family packs up and moves to the suburbs, where she finds herself competing for attention.	Comedy
307	Dumped by his girlfriend, a high school grad decides to embark on an overseas adventure in Europe with his friends.	Comedy
308	A teenager’s dreams come true when a former porn star moves in next door and they fall in love.	Comedy
309	A remake of the comedy, the story revolves around a Southern professor who puts together a group of thieves to rob a casino. They rent a room in an old woman’s house, but soon she discovers the plot and they must kill her, a task that is more difficult than it seems.	Comedy
310	When a young woman investigates her town’s Nazi past, the community turns against her.	Comedy
311	German louts Stefan and Kai run a pizzeria, but it’s mainly a front for their more lucrative self-grown cannabis trade, allowing them to deliver at home. When the plants get sick, the dealers bring in pest control expert Achim, but that changes everything.	Comedy
312	Armed with a How to… manual, an ambitious window washer seeks to climb the corporate ladder.	Comedy
313	It’s late nineteenth century Sweden. Middle aged lawyer Fredrik Egerman and his nineteen year old current wife Anne Egerman’s two-year marriage has not yet been consummated. Fredrik wants …	Comedy
314	A listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home.	Comedy
315	Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and a tough journalist, that each is the real father in order to obtain their help.	Comedy
316	A group of misfits enter a Las Vegas dodgeball tournament in order to save their cherished local gym from the onslaught of a corporate health fitness chain.	Comedy
317	An eastern immigrant finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.	Comedy
318	Two hosting prehistoric dinosaurs guide you along a typical small town’s Christmas choral celebration. There’s just one catch, the entire town population is made out of clay! Special Guest Stars: The California Raisins!	Comedy
319	When a small town police station is threatened with shutting down because of too little crime, the police realise that something has to be done…	Comedy
320	Ron Burgundy is San Diego’s top rated newsman in the male-dominated broadcasting of the Seventies, but that’s all about to change for Ron and his cronies when an ambitious woman is hired as a new anchor.	Comedy
321	An Asian-American office worker and his Indian stoner friend embark on a quest to satisfy their desire for White Castle burgers.	Comedy
322	When two kids find and play a magical board game, they release a man trapped for decades in it and a host of dangers that can only be stopped by finishing the game.	Fantasy
323	In an anonymous Dutch village, a sturdy, strong-willed matriarch looks back upon her life, the generations of family and friends gathered around her table, and ponders the cyclical nature of time.	Fantasy
324	A living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy.	Fantasy
325	The last dragon and a disillusioned dragonslaying knight must cooperate to stop an evil king who was given partial immortality.	Fantasy
326	An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have been like if he never existed.	Fantasy
327	While home sick in bed, a young boy’s grandfather reads him a story called The Princess Bride.	Fantasy
328	A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.	Fantasy
329	An immortal Scottish swordsman must confront the last of his immortal opponent, a murderously brutal barbarian who lusts for the fabled Prize.	Fantasy
330	An Iowa corn farmer, hearing voices, interprets them as a command to build a baseball diamond in his fields; he does, and the Chicago White Sox come.	Fantasy
331	A selfish teenager is given sixteen hours to solve a labyrinth and rescue her baby brother when her wish for him to be taken away is granted by the Goblin King.	Fantasy
332	Survivors of undead serial killer Freddy Krueger – who stalks his victims in their dreams – learn to take control of their own dreams in order to fight back.	Fantasy
333	Centuries ago, in the land of Prydain, a young man named Taran is given the task of protecting Hen Wen, a magical oracular pig, who knows the location of the mystical black cauldron. This is not an easy task, for The Evil Horned King will stop at nothing to get the cauldron.	Fantasy
334	Wayne Szalinski is your average nutty scientist, working on a top secret machine that shrinks objects. When it unexpectedly starts working, he’s so amazed he forgets to tell his family to be careful. And when they wander into his lab…	Fantasy
335	A young man must stop the Lord of Darkness from both destroying daylight and marrying the woman he loves.	Fantasy
336	A young boy with a distant father enters a world of make-believe and magic through a portal within an antique book.	Fantasy
337	A vengeful woman sets out to retrieve a magic orb from an evil queen whom she vows vengeance upon after the evil queen slain her family and her loyal warriors raped her.	Fantasy
338	On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami’s curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime.	Fantasy
339	When a princess is shrunken by an evil wizard, Sinbad must undertake a quest to an island of monsters to cure her and prevent a war.	Fantasy
340	Philippe Gastone, a thief, escapes from the dungeon at Aquila, sparking a manhunt. He is nearly captured when Captain Navarre befriends him. Navarre has been hunted by the Bishop’s men for …	Fantasy
341	An accidental cross-time radio link connects father and son across thirty years. The son tries to save his father’s life, but then must fix the consequences.	Fantasy
342	An account of Baron Munchausen supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.	Fantasy
343	After a single, career-minded woman is left on her own to give birth to the child of a married man, she finds a new romantic chance in a cab driver. Meanwhile the point-of-view of the newborn boy is narrated through voice over.	Fantasy
344	A meek Hobbit and eight companions set out on a journey to destroy the One Ring and the Dark Lord Sauron.	Fantasy
345	A young wizarding apprentice is sent to kill a dragon which has been devouring girls from a nearby kingdom.	Fantasy
346	Conan leads a ragtag group of adventurers on a quest for a princess.	Fantasy
347	Three characters in present-day Havana must choose between clinging to their self-restricting beliefs, or getting rid of them to live more freely. Ballerina Mariana has promised God …	Fantasy
348	While Frodo and Sam, now accompanied by a new guide, continue their hopeless journey towards the land of shadow to destroy the One Ring, each member of the broken fellowship plays their part in the battle against the evil wizard Saruman and his armies of Isengard.	Fantasy
349	When two girls move to the country to be near their ailing mother, they have adventures with the wondrous forest spirits who live nearby.	Fantasy
350	Gawain was a squire in King Arthur’s court when the Green Knight burst in and offered to play a game with a brave knight. No knights stand to defend their king’s honor. Except for the …	Fantasy
351	A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.	Fantasy
352	A cop in a dystopian Europe investigates a serial killings suspect using controversial methods written by his now disgraced former mentor.	Fantasy
353	Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron’s army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.	Fantasy
354	The Darling family children receive a visit from Peter Pan, who takes them to Never Never Land where an ongoing war with the evil Pirate Captain Hook is taking place.	Fantasy
355	A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.	Fantasy
356	Two Americans on a hunting trip in Scotland become lost. They encounter a small village, not on the map, called Brigadoon, in which people harbor a mysterious secret, and behave as if they were still living two hundred years in the past.	Fantasy
357	An Aussie becomes a national sensation when he lifts off in his deck chair tied to balloons.	Fantasy
358	An ugly duckling having undergone a remarkable change, still harbors feelings for her crush: a carefree playboy, but not before his business-focused brother has something to say about it.	Romance
359	A psychiatrist must cure a young patient that presents himself as Don Juan, the greatest lover in the world.	Romance
360	Two close friends who share a love of fantasy and literature, who conspire to kill Pauline’s mother when she tries to end the girls’ intense and obsessive relationship.	Romance
361	A rich high school student tries to boost a new pupil’s popularity, but reckons without affairs of the heart getting in the way.	Romance
362	Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson, for four days in the Sixties.	Romance
363	A Walk in the Clouds depicted a story about a young-married US military soldier, named Paul, who returned home after the World War II. In the middle of the way back home, he accidentally …	Romance
364	A young man and woman meet on a train in Europe, and wind up spending one evening together in Vienna. Unfortunately, both know that this will probably be their only night together.	Romance
365	Francis, whose daughter was murdered a few years ago, is always watching Christina dance in the night club Exotica. One night he is dared to touch the girl and ends up being thrown out. He then sends in Thomas to try and find explanations.	Romance
366	Albert Einstein helps a young man who’s in love with Einstein’s niece to catch her attention by pretending temporarily to be a great physicist.	Romance
367	A man in a legal but hurtful business needs an escort for some social events, and hires a beautiful prostitute he meets… only to fall in love.	Romance
368	Howard W. Campbell, Jr., an American expatriate playwright, Nazi radio propagandist, and Allied spy, writes his memoirs during his pre-trial confinement in Haifa and learns that people are what they pretend to be.	Romance
369	A young New York socialite becomes interested in a young man who has moved into her apartment building.	Romance
370	A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.	Romance
371	A bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome.	Romance
372	A woman is asked to spy on a group of Nazi friends in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?	Romance
373	Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long.	Romance
374	A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating.	Romance
375	A somewhat romanticized account of the career of the notoriously violent bank robbing couple and their gang.	Romance
376	A Chicago playwright uses self-hypnosis to find the actress whose vintage portrait hangs in a grand hotel.	Romance
377	When Keith goes out with Amanda, the girl of his dreams, Amanda’s ex-boyfriend plans to get back at Keith. Meanwhile, Keith’s best friend, tomboy Watts, realizes she has feelings for Keith.	Romance
378	A light-hearted story of two working-class brothers courting three wealthy and beautiful sisters in a small Illinois town.	Romance
379	Shohei Sugiyama has attained all that he has wanted in life. But he is still depressed and unhappy. One day, he gathers up the courage to sign up for dancing lessons. He hopes they will rid his depression and help him get his life back together.	Romance
380	A woman who, by a promise made years earlier, is supposed to marry her best friend in three weeks, even though she doesn’t want to. When she finds out that he’s marrying someone else, she becomes jealous and tries to break off the wedding.	Romance
381	A man heading to Vegas to pay off his gambling debt before the Russian mafia kills him, is forced to stop in an Arizona town where everything that can go wrong, does go wrong.	Romance
382	A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind, but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.	Romance
383	Robin Monroe, a New York magazine editor, and the gruff pilot Quinn Harris must put aside their mutual dislike if they are to survive after crash landing on a deserted South Seas island.	Romance
384	Follows the life of Karen Blixen, who establishes a plantation in Africa. Her life is complicated by a husband of convenience, a true love, troubles on the plantation, schooling of the natives, war, and catching VD from her husband.	Romance
385	The real story of Cinderella. A refreshing new take on the classic fairy tale.	Romance
386	A high school jock makes a bet that he can turn an unattractive girl into the school’s prom queen.	Romance
387	A woman finds a romantic letter in a bottle washed ashore and tracks down the author, a widowed shipbuilder whose wife died tragically early. As a deep and mutual attraction blossoms, the man struggles to make peace with his past so that he can move on and find happiness.	Romance
388	The life of a simple bookshop owner changes when he meets the most famous film star in the world.	Romance
389	A man’s obsession with his dead wife drives a wedge between him and his new bride.	Romance
390	A boy from Rhode Island, caught up in the drug scene of the mid-Seventies, gets in trouble one too many times with the law. To stave off a jail term, his father arranges for him to be placed into a prep school in Cornwall, Connecticut. The terms: Graduate, or else.	Romance
391	A trio of classy cardsharps targets the socially awkward heir to brewery millions for his money, till one of them falls in love with him.	Romance
392	A former Secret Service agent takes on the job of bodyguard to a pop singer, whose lifestyle is most unlike a President’s.	Romance
393	When a ‘Single White Female’ places an ad in the press for a similar woman to rent a room (to replace the boyfriend she’s just left), all the applicants seem weird. Then along comes a level headed woman who seems to be just right. The new lodger has a secret past which haunts her.	Romance
394	Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map. Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss – excited and intrigued, he sets out to find it.	Romance
395	An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.	Romance
396	A man who falls in love with the woman who received his wife’s heart must decide which woman it is who holds his heart.	Romance
397	Jenny Hayden never did get over the death of her husband. So when an alien life form decides to model himself on the husband, Jenny is understandably confused if not terrified. The alien, or Starman, as he is called, has a deadline to meet, and kidnaps Jenny in order to meet it.	Romance
398	Two warriors in pursuit of a stolen sword and a notorious fugitive are led to an impetuous, physically skilled, adolescent nobleman’s daughter, who is at a crossroads in her life.	Romance
399	After an accident, a chauvinistic executive gains the ability to hear what women are really thinking.	Romance
400	A fast-lane investment broker, offered the opportunity to see how the other half lives, wakes up to find that his sports car and girlfriend have become a minivan and wife.	Romance
401	After being dumped by his girlfriend, a boy runs away to California. But he ends up in heaven because he dies after trying to help a family from drowning in a river. In heaven he’ll meet a beautiful girl, who has never reincarnated before.	Romance
402	Janey is new in town, and soon meets Lynne, who shares her passion for dancing in general, and Dance TV in particular. When a competition is announced to find a new Dance TV regular …	Romance
403	A crucified body dated back to the st century A.D is uncovered at an ancient cave in Jerusalem. Trouble ensues as word spreads.	Romance
404	A shallow man falls in love with a huge woman because of her inner beauty.	Romance
405	A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he reunites with a hip American journalism student and attempts to persuade her to run away with him to Italy.	Romance
406	A Boston spinster blossoms under therapy and finds an impossible romance.	Romance
407	Still recovering from a heart transplant, a retired FBI profiler returns to service when his own blood analysis offers clues to the identity of a serial killer.	Romance
408	A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.	Romance
409	A psychologically troubled novelty supplier is nudged towards a romance with an English woman, all the while being extorted by a phone-sex line run by a crooked mattress salesman, and purchasing stunning amounts of pudding.	Romance
410	A journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone in a week of viewing it.	Romance
411	A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous marriage into her work.	Romance
412	Napoleon’s tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.	Romance
413	A French boy (Daniel) and an American girl (Lauren), who goes to school in Paris, meet and begin a little romance. They befriend Julius who enchants them with his storytelling. In an attempt to ensure the teens’ love forever, the three journey to Venice.	Romance
414	A love story set in Thirties England that follows young Cassandra Mortmain, and the fortunes of her eccentric family, struggling to survive in a decaying English castle.	Romance
415	Passionada is a romantic comedy about a Portuguese widow whose husband, a fisherman, died at sea. The widow’s naive teenage daughter wants to be a professional gambler and she convinces her…	Romance
416	A writer impulsively buys a villa in Tuscany in order to change her life.	Romance
417	In Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too.	Romance
418	A beautiful gold digger matches wits with a shrewd Beverly Hills divorce lawyer who is increasingly attracted to her.	Romance
419	Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner now living on Long Island, finds himself fascinated by the mysterious past and lavish lifestyle of his neighbor, the nouveau riche Jay Gatsby. He is drawn into Gatsby’s circle, becoming a witness to obsession and tragedy.	Romance
420	An aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades.	Romance
421	A spiritual love story set in the majestic landscape of Ladakh, Himalayas. Samsara is a quest; one man’s struggle to find spiritual Enlightenment by renouncing the world. And one woman’s …	Romance
422	A United States Navy destroyer escort participates in a Navy invisibility experiment that inadvertently sends two sailors years into the future.	Romance
423	Nine years after Jesse and Celine first met, they encounter each other again on the French leg of Jesse’s book tour.	Romance
424	Routinely exploited by her wicked stepmother, the downtrodden Sam Montgomery is excited about the prospect of meeting her Internet beau at the school’s Halloween dance.	Romance
425	A quietly troubled young man returns home for his mother’s funeral after being estranged from his family for a decade.	Romance
426	In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.	Sci-Fi
427	In a dystopian future, Joseph Dredd, the most famous Judge (a police officer with instant field judiciary powers), is convicted for a crime he did not commit and must face his murderous counterpart.	Sci-Fi
428	In a future where the polar ice-caps have melted and Earth is almost entirely submerged, a mutated mariner fights starvation and outlaw smokers, and reluctantly helps a woman and a young girl try to find dry land.	Sci-Fi
429	On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as…	Sci-Fi
430	A young boy sets out on an adventure with an old Jedi named Obi-Wan Kenobi as his mentor to save Princess Leia from the ruthless Darth Vader and Destroy the Death Star built by the Empire which has the power to destroy the entire galaxy.	Sci-Fi
431	An interstellar teleportation device, found in Egypt, leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians who worship the god Ra.	Sci-Fi
432	A U.S. secret agent is sent to the distant space city of Alphaville where he must find a missing person and free the city from its tyrannical ruler.	Sci-Fi
433	A cyborg policewoman and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master.	Sci-Fi
434	Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. and sets off on a quest.	Sci-Fi
435	A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home-world.	Sci-Fi
436	A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and face danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.	Sci-Fi
437	After the rebels have been brutally overpowered by the Empire on their newly established base, Luke Skywalker takes advanced Jedi training with Master Yoda, while his friends are pursued by Darth Vader as part of his plan to capture Luke.	Sci-Fi
438	After rescuing Han Solo from the palace of Jabba the Hutt, the rebels attempt to destroy the second Death Star, while Luke struggles to make Vader return from the dark side of the Force.	Sci-Fi
439	A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.	Sci-Fi
440	An alien lands and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets.	Sci-Fi
441	A young man is accidentally sent thirty years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his friend, Dr. Emmett Brown, and must make sure his high-school-age parents unite in order to save his own existence.	Sci-Fi
442	A starship crew goes to investigate the silence of a planet’s colony only to find two survivors and a deadly secret that one of them has.	Sci-Fi
443	With the assistance of the Enterprise crew, Admiral Kirk must stop an old nemesis, Khan Noonien Singh, from using the life-generating Genesis Device as the ultimate weapon.	Sci-Fi
444	Something unspeakably chilling is ultimately starting to heat up at The City of Los Angeles! Beneath the famed La Brea Tar Pits, a raging volcano has formed, raining a storm of deadly fire bombs and an endless tide of white-hot lava upon the stunned city!	Sci-Fi
445	A group of teenagers try to sort out their lives and emotions while bizarre experiences happen to each one, including alien abductions, bad acid trips, bisexual experiences, suicides, bizarre deaths, and a rape by a TV star. All of this happens before the greatest party of the year.	Sci-Fi
446	A rescue crew investigates a spaceship that disappeared into a black hole and has now returned…with someone or something new on-board.	Sci-Fi
447	In the distant future high school kids are encouraged to become citizens by joining the military. What they don’t know is that they’ll soon be engaged in a full scale war against a planet of alien insects. The fight is on to ensure the safety of humanity.	Sci-Fi
448	A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun.	Sci-Fi
449	There is a gigantic monstrous creature who came from the sea that is set loose in Manhattan. Can anyone defeat this monster and kill its babies.	Sci-Fi
450	In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city’s mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.	Sci-Fi
451	A boy goes missing in the late Seventies only to reappear once more in a few years later. In the eight years that have passed, he hasn’t aged. It is no coincidence that at the time he comes back, a flying saucer is found, entangled in power lines.	Sci-Fi
452	A computer hacker is abducted into the digital world and forced to participate in gladiatorial games where his only chance of escape is with the help of a heroic security program.	Sci-Fi
453	George Orwell’s novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.	Sci-Fi
454	It’s the first week of winter. An American Research Base is greeted by an alien force, that can assimilate anything it touches. It’s up to the members to stay alive, and be sure of who is human, and who has become one of the Things.	Sci-Fi
455	A horror tale set in a High School where the students suspect the teaching staff of being aliens, who are intent on making the students their victims.	Sci-Fi
456	A sarcastic humanoid duck is pulled from his homeworld to Earth where he must stop an alien invader.	Sci-Fi
457	A robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park.	Sci-Fi
458	Cornelius and Zira’s son Caesar leads apes to revolution in this installment of the apes saga. Dogs and cats have been wiped out by a plague and now apes are household pets that are treated like slaves. Caesar has the intelligence to fight this oppression.	Sci-Fi
459	A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers.	Sci-Fi
460	A comet wipes out most of life on Earth, leaving two Valley Girls to fight the evil types who survive.	Sci-Fi
461	Scientists at an Arctic research station discover a spacecraft buried in the ice. Upon closer examination, they discover the frozen pilot. All hell breaks loose when they take him back to their station and he is accidentally thawed out!	Sci-Fi
462	Adventurer/surgeon/rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, take on evil alien invaders from the th dimension.	Sci-Fi
463	The alumni cast of a space opera television series have to play their roles as the real thing when an alien race needs their help.	Sci-Fi
464	After an encounter with U.F.O.s, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.	Sci-Fi
465	Four Medical students experiment on near death experiences that involve past tragedies until the dark consequences begin to jeopardize their lives.	Sci-Fi
466	A mute alien with the appearance of a black human is chased by outer-space bounty hunters through the streets of Harlem.	Sci-Fi
467	In a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang.	Sci-Fi
468	A scientist makes a last stand on Earth with the help of a ragtag team of soldiers against an invasion of alien phantoms.	Sci-Fi
469	A young man hears a chance phone call telling him that a nuclear war has started and missiles will hit his city in minutes.	Sci-Fi
470	Years in the future, a Martian police unit is sent to pick up a highly dangerous criminal at a remote mining post. Upon arrival, the cops find that the post has become a charnel house.	Sci-Fi
471	As a new star and planet hurtle toward a doomed Earth, a small group of survivalists frantically work to complete the rocket which will take them to their new home.	Sci-Fi
472	PROT is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a faraway planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.	Sci-Fi
473	When Scott Carey begins to shrink because of exposure to a combination of radiation and insecticide, medical science is powerless to help him.	Sci-Fi
474	In a futuristic London, the rising sea levels mean that large areas are under feet of water. Hauer plays a cop who previously lost his partner to some strange creature. Now the creature is back and its after him.	Sci-Fi
475	Ten years after initially meeting, Anakin Skywalker shares a forbidden romance with Padm, while Obi-Wan investigates an assassination attempt on the Senator and discovers a secret clone army crafted for the Jedi.	Sci-Fi
476	A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.	Sci-Fi
477	Plastic surgeon Larry Roberts performs a series of minor alterations on a group of models who are seeking perfection. The operations are a resounding success. But when someone starts …	Sci-Fi
478	During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home.	Sci-Fi
479	A scientist sends a man with extraordinary psychic powers to hunt others like him.	Sci-Fi
480	A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet.	Sci-Fi
481	In a Fascist future where all forms of feeling are illegal, a man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.	Sci-Fi
482	The Enterprise is diverted to the Romulan homeworld Romulus, supposedly because they want to negotiate a peace treaty.	Sci-Fi
483	The only way to save Earth from catastrophe is to drill down to the core and set it spinning again.	Sci-Fi
484	A terrorist explosion releases a deadly virus on the masses, and it’s up the bounty-hunting Bebop crew to catch the cold-blooded culprit.	Sci-Fi
485	The X-Men band together to find a mutant assassin who has made an attempt on the President’s life, while the Mutant Academy is attacked by military forces.	Sci-Fi
486	Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.	Sci-Fi
487	In San Francisco, a group of people discover the human race is being replaced one by one, with clones devoid of emotion.	Sci-Fi
488	What seemed like a breezy idea for an engineer to net him millions of dollars, leaves him on the run for his life and piecing together why he’s being chased.	Sci-Fi
489	Evan Treborn suffers blackouts during significant events of his life. As he grows up, he finds a way to remember these lost memories and a supernatural way to alter his life by reading his journal.	Sci-Fi
490	A dedicated scientist, aided by his clueless wife, rolls up his shirt sleeves and tries to save the world from a radioactive monster, curious space aliens, an evil scientist and a crabby skeleton in this send-up of the best of the B movies of the Fifties.	Sci-Fi
491	In a dystopian future, a cross country automobile race requires contestants to run down innocent pedestrians to gain points that are tallied based on each kill’s brutality.	Sci-Fi
492	In a technophobic cop investigates a crime that may have been perpetrated by a robot, which leads to a larger threat to humanity.	Sci-Fi
493	A futuristic Brief Encounter, this is a love story in which the romance is doomed by genetic incompatibility.	Sci-Fi
494	Determined to solve the coincidence of seeing the same conspicuous stranger three times in a day, Albert hires a pair of existentialist detectives, who insist on spying on his everyday life while sharing their views on life and the nature of the universe.	Sci-Fi
495	Set in a world with memory implants, Robin Williams plays a cutter, someone with the power of final edit over people’s recorded histories. His latest assignment is one that puts him in danger.	Sci-Fi

Source/Notes

This table contains 500 story premise examples derived from an anonymous list I found online. The original list included over 1,000 premises. I have trimmed down the list to story premises that are only 50 words or less and are generally one to two sentences long.

The genre designation is from the source, not me. Not all of these story premises are perfect.

The original list did not include the movie titles, but I’ve found that it’s fun to see how many I can identify.

Get your story premise right, and the rest of the story-writing experience will go much smoother. Crafting a solid story premise is your come-to-Jesus moment. It’s the moment of reckoning. It’s your story skeleton’s skeleton. Do this first. Do not write the story, the novel, the screenplay, and then reverse-engineer the premise to fit the unwieldy monster you have created.

What Is a Story Premise?

A story premise or log-line is a basic map to your story. We’re going to work off of John Truby’s definition:

The premise is your story stated in one sentence. It is the simplest combination of character and plot and typically consists of some event that starts the action, some sense of the main character, and some sense of the outcome of the story.

Hold on. Let’s back up and peel that apart, because every word is important.

Your Story Stated in One Sentence

Limiting yourself to one sentence forces you to stick to the basics. In reality, I think you can do two sentences, as long as you stay within reason. In that case, aim for 20 t0 30 words, with 50 words as the maximum.

This premise is 21 words and does the job:

The hot-headed youngest son of a Mafia family takes revenge on the men who shot his father and becomes the new Godfather.

This premise is 25 words:

After a bitter divorce, an actor disguises himself as a female housekeeper to spend time with his children held in custody by his former wife.

Event That Starts the Story

Sometimes this is called the Inciting Incident, the thing that kicks off the story and sends the Hero on his or her journey.

shot his father

Character

The character named in the story premise is always the main character, the hero.

son of a Mafia family

Sense of Main Character

This is simply an adjective or two that rounds off the character and helps us see that character better.

hot-headed younger

Plot

What does the Hero do in the story?

takes revenge on the men

Sense of Outcome of the Story

And finally a hint of how the story ends.

becomes the new Godfather

Examples of Story Premises

Find 500 examples of story premises on this page.

How to Construct Your Story Premise

Fill out the table with around 2 to 6 words per space:

Event That Starts the Story
Character
Sense of Main Character
Plot
Sense of Outcome of the Story

For example:

Event That Starts the Story	agrees to a wager
Character	phonetics professor
Sense of Main Character	misogynistic and snobbish
Plot	transform a flower girl
Sense of Outcome of the Story	make her presentable in high society

Link the information with connecting words:

A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can transform a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

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