Christmas at Cartwright's

Graeme Campbell Director

Gabrielle Miller as Fiona Ron Lea

Ron Lea as Mr. Mathews

Alicia Witt as Nicky

Linda Kash as Peg

With Christmas approaching, a struggling single mom finds herself working as a department store Santa Claus, as a real-life angel delivers good fortune and the possibility of holiday romance.

The Girl from Chicago

♡ 2

Oscar Micheaux Director

Edwin Cary as A numbers collector

Cherokee Thornton as A Switch

Minto Cato as Mary's sister

Starr Calloway as Norma Shepard

An undercover government agent on a case in Mississippi meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman who's being menaced by a local crime boss.

Sinners

2025

English

♡ 360

97%

Ryan Coogler Director

Delroy Lindo as Delta Slim

Hailee Steinfeld as Mary

Jack O'Connell as Remmick

Michael B. Jordan as Smoke

Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.

Holy Trinity

82%

A queer femme dominatrix huffs a magic aerosol can and develops the ability to speak to the dead.

Pools

♡ 6

underwater photography

university

Kennedy has one day to get her shit together or get kicked out of school for good. Instead of buckling down, she rallies a ragtag crew for a midnight pool-hopping adventure through the lavish estates of her college town. But under the surface, Kennedy is searching for answers to the questions tearing her up inside in the wake of her father's death. As the secrets spill, this wild escape becomes a cathartic journey of self-discovery.

Things Are Tough All Over

1982

English

5.8

♡ 8

62%

Thomas K. Avildsen Director

Senta Moses Mikan as Kid in Laundromat

Don Bovingloh as Maitre D'

Dorothy Neumann as Mom

Rip Taylor as Self

Everybody has problems these days, and Cheech and Chong are no exceptions. They're hired by Slyman and Habib to drive a limousine to Las Vegas with $5 million secretly stashed in the front seat. In order to get there, the pair sells off the car piece by piece, including the seven-figure front seat. Cheech and Chong then have a much bigger problem - Slyman and Habib are after them, swearing to kill them after the appropriate torture.

Out of the Loop

2023

English

6.0

♡ 1

100%

Michael Alexander Director

Pete Holmes as Self

Deon Cole as Self

Marsha Warfield as Self

Judy Tenuta as Self

Chicago comics talk about the trials and tribulations of developing their acts in the Windy City.

Chi-Raq

2015

English

5.9

♡ 16

82%

Spike Lee Director

Nick Cannon as Chi-Raq

Samuel L. Jackson as Dolmedes

David Patrick Kelly as General King Kong

Angela Bassett as Miss Helen

A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago.

Straight Talk

1992

English

5.8

♡ 23

46%

Barnet Kellman Director

Paula Newsome as Ellen

Deirdre O'Connell as Lily

Charles Fleischer as Tony

John Gegenhuber as Waiter

Honest and straightforward small-town Shirlee Kenyon chucks her boyfriend and heads for Chicago. Accidentally having to host a radio problem phone-in show, it is clear she is a natural and is hired on the spot. But the station insists she call herself Doctor, and as her popularity grows a local reporter starts digging for the truth. Problem is, the more he is around her the more he fancies her.

The Front Page

1974

English

7.3

♡ 15

57%

Billy Wilder Director

Joshua Shelley as Cab Driver

Austin Pendleton as Earl Williams

Allen Garfield as Kruger

Susan Sarandon as Peggy Grant

A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn’t like the idea one bit.

Time Travelers

1976

English

5.8

♡ 4

Alexander Singer Director

Victoria Paige Meyerink as Betty

Booth Colman as Dr. Amos Cummings

Francine York as Dr. Helen Sanders

Richard Basehart as Dr. Joshua Henderson

When a novel virus devastates the world in 1976, Dr. Earnshaw notices that it resembles a virus that a Dr. Henderson found a cure for in 1871 Chicago. However, the doctor perished and his notes were destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire. Earnshaw is approached by a government agent, Jeffrey Adams, who informs him of a Top Secret time traveling technology and asks for his assistance in finding Dr. Henderson and his cure. But their adventure becomes a race against time when a glitch sends them back to the day before the fire instead of the planned four days.

Who Gets the Dog?

2016

English

4.9

♡ 11

24%

Huck Botko Director

Suzy Brack as Festival Organizer

Randall Batinkoff as Glenn Hannon

Alicia Silverstone as Olive Greene

Maury Cooper as Squatter

Six years after saying "I do," Olive and Clay call it quits. Although they split amicably, both want custody of their beloved dog Wesley and they end up in court. With everything at stake, can man's best friend find a way to reunite the couple?

The Package

1989

English

6.4

♡ 22

68%

Andrew Davis Director

Reni Santoni as Chicago Police Lieutenant

John Heard as Col. Glen Whitacre

Ron Dean as Karl Richards

Tommy Lee Jones as Thomas Boyette

Experienced Green Beret sergeant Johnny Gallagher is escorting a prisoner, Airborne Ranger Thomas Boyette, back to the US, but Boyette escapes and Gallagher must risk life and limb to catch him.

The Snake Pit

1948

English

7.5

♡ 17

100%

Anatole Litvak Director

Lee Patrick as Asylum Inmate

Dorothy Neumann as Champion - Miss Neumann

Barbara Pepper as Patient

Ann Doran as Valerie

Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions and unable to even recognize her husband, Robert, she is treated by Dr. Mark Kik, who is determined to get to the root of her mental illness. As her treatment progresses, flashbacks depict events in Virginia's life that may have contributed to her instability.

Syncopation

1942

English

6.3

♡ 4

38%

William Dieterle Director

Adolphe Menjou as George Latimer

Sonny Bupp as Newsboy

Frank Jenks as Smiley Jackson

Walter Baldwin as Tom Jones

A young trumpeter rises through the jazz world and finds love.

Connie and Carla

2004

English

6.3

♡ 9

43%

Michael Lembeck Director

Toni Collette as Carla

Dash Mihok as Mikey

Veena Sood as Mrs. Morse

Ian Gomez as Stanley

After accidentally witnessing a mafia hit in the Windy City, gal pals Connie and Carla skip town for L.A., where they go way undercover as singers working the city's dinner theater circuit ... disguised as drag queens. Now, it's not enough that they become big hits on the scene; things get extra-weird when Connie meets Jeff -- a guy she'd like to be a woman with.

A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon

1988

English

5.5

♡ 18

29%

41%

1960s

Action

based on novel or book

older woman seduces younger guy

Romance

William Richert Director

E.J. Murray as Alice

River Phoenix as Jimmy Reardon

Ann Magnuson as Joyce Fickett Louanne

Louanne as Suzie Middleberg

A recent high school graduate is faced with two options, either go to a business school where his father wants him to go to, or get a full time job. However he decides to defy his father and go to Hawaii. Trouble is he has no money. Along the way he comes to understand his parents and eventually bonds with his father.

My Bodyguard

1980

English

7.1

♡ 21

79%

Tony Bill Director

John Houseman as Dobbs

Matt Dillon as Moody

Bruce Jarchow as Roberto

Joan Cusack as Shelley

Clifford Peache, an easygoing teenager, is finding less than easy to fit in at his new high school, where a tough-talking bully terrorizes his classmates and extorts their lunch money. Refusing to pay up, Clifford enlist the aid of an overgrown misfit whose mere presence intimidates students and teachers alike. But their "business relationship" soon turns personal as Clifford and the troubled loner forge a winning alliance against their intimidators - and a very special friendship with each other.

Pardon My Sarong

1942

English

6.8

♡ 8

55%

Erle C. Kenton Director

Irving Bacon as Gas Station Proprietor

George Chandler as George Peabody

William A. Boardway as Nightclub Patron

Maria Montez as (scenes deleted)

A pair of bus drivers accidentally steal their own bus. With the company issuing a warrant for their arrest, they tag along with a playboy on a boat trip that finds them on a tropical island, where a jewel thief has sinister plans for them.

Lies and Deception

2005

English

5.3

♡ 8

60%

Louis Bélanger Director

Joseph Kell as Chris Schwartzman

Andrew W. Walker as Eddie Fate

Mädchen Amick as Jean Brooks

Millie Tresierra as Lab Technician

Six years after her husband's suicide, Jean Bruckner is dumbfounded by the news that he has recently been murdered! With the help of a private investigator, she heads to Chicago to uncover the truth behind her spouse's charade. The deeper she digs, the more danger she puts herself in. The truth may be out there, but she may get killed before she finds it!

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Christmas at Cartwright's

The Girl from Chicago

Sinners

Holy Trinity

Pools

Things Are Tough All Over

Out of the Loop

Chi-Raq

Straight Talk

The Front Page

Time Travelers

Who Gets the Dog?

The Package

The Snake Pit

Syncopation

Connie and Carla

A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon

My Bodyguard

Pardon My Sarong

Lies and Deception