Director: Robert Zemeckis

Main Cast: Harrison Ford, Michelle Pfeiffer, Katharine Towne, Miranda Otto, James Remar, Victoria Bidewell, and Diana Scarwid

Release Date: July 21, 2000

Main Plot: A university research scientist named Norman Spencer is becoming increasingly worried about his wife, Claire. This retired concert cellist was recently in a serious car accident and just sent off her daughter Caitlin (Norman’s stepdaughter) to college. Claire was injured in an accident a year ago. Currently, Claire reports seeing the face of a young woman reflected in water, hearing voices, and experiencing other unsettling occurrences in and around their lakeside Vermont home. Claire, growing more terrified, believes the phenomenon has something to do with the neighbors, especially since the wife has vanished mysteriously. Claire begins therapy at her husband’s urging and shares her belief that a ghost is haunting the house. Claire uses an ouija board and her best friend Jody to try and uncover the truth about What Lies Beneath.

Director:  Mike Nichols

Main Cast: Jack Nicholson, Michelle Pfeiffer, James Spader, Kate Nelligan, Richard Jenkins, Christopher Plummer, and Eileen Atkins

Release Date: June 17, 1994

Main Plot: Laura is the attractive but estranged daughter of Raymond Alden. She is drawn to Will Randall, a subordinate who just recently ended his marriage to Charlotte. Will is unique because of the bite he received from a wolf that appeared to be dead. As a result, Will is now energized, his senses are sharper, and he has developed a thirst for blood. He consults Dr. Vijay Alezais, who provides him with a protective amulet in exchange for a bite from him. This will prevent him from changing into a werewolf. Although he declines, Will accepts the amulet as a gift. Will and Laura keep meeting, but Will’s rival Stewart Swinton, who has feelings for Laura, tries to get the two of them into a fight. This will be made more difficult by the police’s involvement because they believe Will killed his wife.

Director: Zack Snyder

Main Cast: Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Jamie Chung, Carla Gugino, and Oscar Isaac

Release Date: March 25, 2011

Main Plot: An action fantasy that takes place in a young girl’s vivid imagination and serves as the ultimate diversion from her grim reality. The lines between what is real and what is imagined are muddled by her incredible adventures. Babydoll has been imprisoned against her will, but she still has the choice to live. She persuades Rocket, Blondie, Amber, and the reticent Sweet Pea to band together to flee their horrifying fate at the hands of their captors, Blue, Madam Gorski, and the High Roller. With a virtual arsenal at their disposal, the girls fight fantastical battles under Babydoll’s leadership against everything from samurais to serpents. They must decide together what they are willing to give up to survive. But if they are successful, their incredible journey will set them free with the aid of a Wise Man.

Director: Charles Shyer

Main Cast: Diane Keaton, Sam Shepard, Harold Ramis, Kristina Kennedy, Michelle Kennedy, Sam Wanamaker, and James Spader

Release Date: October 30, 1987

Main Plot: When J.C. Wiatt, a prosperous businesswoman in New York known as the “tiger lady,” hears about an inheritance from a distant relative, she immediately assumes it will be money. Well, it’s a baby girl, not money. She initially refuses until the woman who delivers the baby has to catch a flight. J.C. presently has a bothersome baby girl. Her boyfriend breaks up with her because he doesn’t like the idea of a baby living with them. J.C. has had enough and brings her to a family willing to adopt her. While walking away, she hears the baby crying and must turn around. The infant has grown too dependent on her and won’t let her go. Later, her child causes trouble, and she is fired. She now has her sights set on an old two-story cottage in Vermont to escape the New York lifestyle. She finds that the house requires more assistance than anticipated. One snowy day, she makes applesauce because she’s bored.

Director: George Roy Hill

Main Cast: Chevy Chase, Madolyn Smith Osborne, Kevin O’Morrison, Joseph Maher, Jack Gilpin, Caris Corfman, and William Severs

Release Date: June 3, 1988

Main Plot: A couple leaves the city for the country. Still, their picture-perfect new hometown is slightly different from what they had anticipated. When Andy and Elizabeth purchase a farm in Vermont, they have no idea what problems will arise. To write the Great American Novel in the peace and quiet of the countryside, Andy quit his job as a sports journalist. But there isn’t much quiet or vacation from when the moving truck carrying their furniture goes missing. The town and its oddball inhabitants, including a crazy mailman and a body buried in the garden, divert Andy’s attention. His attempt at a novel is, at best, mediocre. When Elizabeth decides to write a children’s book, he feels threatened. Can the Farmers endure both the villagers and one another?

Director: Jason Reitman

Main Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Cameron Bright, Maria Bello, Joan Lunden, Eric Haberman, Mary Jo Smith, and Todd Louiso

Release Date: April 14, 2006 

Main Plot: Vice President of the Academy of Tobacco Studies Nick Naylor is the organization’s main lobbyist and spokesperson. He has a gift for public speaking and creates clever justifications to support the cigarette industry under the most trying circumstances. His closest friends are Bobby Jay Bliss, who runs the SAFETY advisory group for the gun industry, and Polly Bailey, who works for the Moderation Council in the alcohol industry. They frequently congregate in a bar and refer to themselves as the M.O.D. Squad, also known as the Merchants of Death, argues over which industry has killed the most people. Senator Ortolan Finisterre of Vermont, who supports using a skull and crossbones on cigarette packs in the Senate, is Nick’s biggest foe. Joey Naylor and Nick’s son live with his mother and can spend time with his father while he is away on business. Nick’s life is turned upside down when the ambitious reporter Heather Holloway betrays him by divulging secrets he shared in bed with her. Nick is skilled at what he does to pay the mortgage, though.

Director: Jay Chandrasekhar

Main Cast: Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, André Vippolis, Joey Kern, Geoffrey Arend, Erik Stolhanske, and Steve Lemme

Release Date: February 15, 2002 

Main Plot: Vermont’s Spurberry is a small community 50 miles from the nearest interstate. The town may not have a lot of residents. Still, it does have two police departments: the serious local police and the jovial highway patrol. Even though the state budget for the highway department is in danger of being completely cut, the department’s small staff of officers still finds ways to have fun while working. Whether it be by tricking speeders, making out with German tourists, or picking fights at the neighborhood fast food restaurant, now they have a chance to investigate a real crime that is taking place on their tiny section of highway. Although there is tension between the local police and the highway police, the latter is aware that the former is up to something but cannot identify what.

Director: Michael Ritchie

Main Cast: Walter Matthau, Robin Williams, Jerry Reed, James Wainwright, Kristen Vigard, Annie McEnroe, and Anne Pitoniak

Release Date: June 22, 1983

Main Plot: After a run-in with a robber who turns out to be a hitman with a vendetta against the two, two strangers who lost their jobs forge an unlikely friendship. Donald Quinella and Sonny Paluso are two unfortunate people. They recently lost their jobs; Donald was let go by his boss’s parrot, and Sonny’s gas station was destroyed by a bomb. But when they stop a robber from robbing a bar that day, they save lives and are hailed as heroes. Sadly, Jack (the robber) escapes. When he recognizes Donald’s face on the television, he decides to pursue them. Donald, meanwhile, develops a fascination with firearms and departs for the mountains to join a survivalist group.

Director: Lee David Zlotoff

Main Cast: Alison Elliott, Ellen Burstyn, Marcia Gay Harden, Will Patton, Kieran Mulroney, Gailard Sartain, and John M. Jackson

Release Date: September 6, 1996 

Main Plot: This critically acclaimed drama about a young woman stars Oscar-winner Ellen Burstyn (The Exorcist). Percy Talbott (Alison Elliott) visits a Maine town for a fresh start after being let out of prison. When she gets there, she discovers employment at a restaurant run by the grumpy Hannah (Ellen Burstyn). She also makes friends with Shelby (Marcia Gay Harden), a waitress, and starts dating Joe, a charming local (Kieran Mulroney). Shelby’s husband (Will Patton) questions Hannah’s motives when she gets sick, and Percy decides to help her sell the restaurant. Percy brings change to the small town, inspiring growth in some people while stirring resentment and fear in others.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Main Cast:

Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll, Rhonda Fleming, John Emery, and Norman Lloyd

Release Date: December 28, 1945 

Main Plot: Beautiful and smart young psychoanalyst Constance Peterson is well known at the Green Manors mental hospital in Vermont for being quite distant from the romantic advances of her fellow medical professionals. She only cares about her work. Elderly Dr. Murchison, the institution’s leader, is unceremoniously retiring. The board had determined that he needed to retire because he had experienced a bout of nervous exhaustion from overwork. The well-known young doctor Edwardes, who has written a highly regarded book about guilt complexes, will take his place. Between Dr. Edwardes and Dr. Peterson, there is an instant attraction. However, some disturbing things start to happen. He has an odd and inappropriate reaction to Dr. Peterson drawing the outline of a potential swimming pool on a linen napkin during dinner on the first night.

Director:  Michael Curtiz

Main Cast: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen, Dean Jagger, Mary Wickes, and John Brascia

Release Date: November 18, 1955

Main Plot: Wallace & Davis, composed of Bob and Phil, is a well-known Broadway act. During World War II, Bob and Phil met while serving in the same platoon under the leadership of the tough-talking but kind-hearted Major General Thomas F. Waverly. Bob was already a well-known solo performer at the time, but Phil used the fact that he had saved Bob’s life to persuade Bob to include the then-unknown Phil in his act. Phil wants Bob to loosen up, even if only to get Bob out of his constant hair, but Bob is all work and knows that dating showgirls is not the way to a lasting romantic life. They encounter The Haynes Sisters, Betty and Judy, an upcoming club act, and the sisters of another platoon member while traveling just before Christmas. Betty is the headstrong one, and Judy does whatever it takes to give them a competitive edge.

Director:  Jenny Bowen

Main Cast: Lukas Haas, Lea Thompson, Alan Wright, Steve Hendrickson, Dylan Baker, Jeffrey Dreisbach, and Anne Pitoniak

Release Date: March 3, 1990

Main Plot: Young Wendall (Lukas Haas) is relocated to Vermont to live with his aunt and uncle. After his father enlists in the military during World War II due to his mother’s unexpected passing. To reside under his aunt Sybil’s supervision (Lea Thompson), he begins to think he has superpowers because he is lonely and depressed. A “dead” man then appears. The irate young Wendall imagines himself as a wizard with magical abilities in these new and strange surroundings and plans a daring escape. On the other hand, Wendall finds himself feeling more at home as he warms up to his eccentric relatives.

Director: Mark Brokaw

Main Cast: Sarah Jessica Parker, Miranda Richardson, Victor Rasuk, Jake M. Smith, Becky Ann Baker, Daniel Eric Gold, and Richard Riehle

Release Date: March 27, 2009 

Main Plot: A hate crime on a college campus in New England forces the dean of the institution to confront her own racial and prejudiced feelings. While upholding her administration’s politically correct policies. While working as a teacher in Lancaster, Sarah Daniels was deeply biased against black people in particular. She accepts a job at Belmont College and decides to move to Belmont, Vermont, hoping the town will be all white. She keeps her past private. But when Simon Brick, an African-American student, is the victim of a hate crime, she quickly realizes that not only will her past come back to haunt her. But she will also be expected to serve as the liaison for minorities and to come up with a 10-point list of bullet points to end racism.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Main Cast: John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine, Edmund Gwenn, Mildred Natwick, Mildred Dunnock, Jerry Mathers, and Royal Dano

Release Date: October 3, 1955 

Main Plot:  A dead, well-dressed man lies in a meadow clearing in the hills above a small Vermont town. Captain Albert Wiles thinks he accidentally shot Harry Worp while hunting rabbits after discovering the body and learning Harry’s name from the man’s identification. Captain Wiles wants to conceal the body to handle the situation more effectively than informing the authorities. Most people who come across Harry. While he is dead, don’t appear to know him, care about him, or even notice that he is dead, as Captain Wiles observes while in the nearby forest. Ivy Gravely, a spinster, is the only person to see Captain Wiles there. She promises to uphold the Captain’s secrecy regarding Harry. The only person who knows Harry and is relieved that he is dead is Jennifer Rogers, a young single mother whom Captain Wiles also secretly sees.

Director: Edmund Goulding

Main Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ronald Reagan, Henry Travers, and Cora Witherspoon

Release Date: April 22, 1939

Main Plot: The 23-year-old wealthy sportswoman Judith Traherne suffers from excruciating headaches and double vision. Her family doctor, Dr. Parsons, persuades her to visit a renowned specialist with her best friend, Ann King. Dr. Frederick Steele diagnoses Judy with a fatal glioma brain tumor following a physical examination, and he performs an immediate operation to remove the cancer. She has less than six months to live, according to the results of the biopic examination, but Dr. Steele and Ann don’t tell Judy this. Dr. Steele and Judy also fall in love and decide to marry and relocate to Vermont. But when Judy discovers the correspondence from the lab, she becomes extremely depressed and begins to drink. She also leads a promiscuous lifestyle. Later, she realizes she should spend her final hours with her lover.