Bottle Rocket

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Romance

Starring: Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Robert Musgrave, Lumi Cavazos, Darryl Cox, Andrew Wilson, Ned Dowd

Directors: Wes Anderson

Country: USA

Year: 1996

Upon his release from a mental hospital following a nervous breakdown, the directionless Anthony joins his friend Dignan, who seems far less sane than the former. Dignan has hatched a hair-brained scheme for an as-yet-unspecified crime spree that somehow involves his former boss, the (supposedly) legendary Mr. Henry. With the help of their pathetic neighbor and pal Bob, Anthony and Dignan pull a job and hit the road, where Anthony finds love with motel maid Inez. When our boys finally hook up with Mr. Henry, the ensuing escapade turns out to be far from what anyone expected.

 

Rushmore

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Starring: Luke Wilson, Brian Cox, Bill Murray, Seymour Cassel, Stephen McCole, Marietta Marich, Connie Nielsen

Directors: Wes Anderson

Country: USA

Year: 1998

Max Fischer is a precocious 15-year-old whose reason for living is his attendance at Rushmore, a private school where he's not doing well in any of his classes, but where he's the king of extracurricular activities - from being in the beekeeping society to writing and producing plays, there's very little after school he doesn't do. His life begins to change, however, when he finds out he's on academic probation, and when he stumbles into love with Miss Cross, a pretty teacher of the elementary school at Rushmore. Added to the mix is his friendship with Herman Blume, wealthy industrialist and father to boys who attend the school, and who also ...

 

The Royal Tenenbaums

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Starring: Luke Wilson, Anjelica Huston, Alec Baldwin, Gene Hackman, Owen Wilson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Danny Glover

Directors: Wes Anderson

Country: USA

Year: 2001

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal had left them long ago, and comes back to make things right with his family.

 

Hotel Chevalier

Genres: Romance, Drama, Music

Starring: Natalie Portman, Jason Schwartzman, Waris Ahluwalia, Michel Castejon

Directors: Wes Anderson

Country: USA, France

Year: 2007

Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

Grief? Depression? Ambiguity in a Paris hotel room. Jack Whitman lies on a bed, ordering a grilled cheese sandwich from room service. His phone rings; it's a woman on her way to see him, a surprise. He readies the room, moving without affect, drawing a bath, changing his clothes. She arrives, as does the food, and the complications of their relationship emerge in bits and pieces. He invites her out on the balcony to see his view. Will they make love? Is the relationship over?

 

Bottle Rocket

Genres: Comedy, Crime, Short

Starring: Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Robert Musgrave, Temple Nash, Elissa Sommerfield, Isiah Ellis, Briggs Branning

Directors: Wes Anderson

Country: USA

Year: 1994

Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

The banality of crime. Two young men, Dignan and Anthony, walk along talking about "Starsky and Hutch." They're on their way to burglarize a house. After, they go to a café, play some pinball. They argue about the burglary and talk to their friend Bob about another scheme. They talk to a guy about buying a gun, just to intimidate. Anthony breaks into a car to steal a wallet. With Bob, they plan and stage a holdup and talk about it afterward at a burger stand: armed robbery for $183. They're pleased. The two pals race each other.

 

Moonrise Kingdom

Genres: Comedy, Romance, Drama

Starring: Tilda Swinton, Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Tommy Nelson, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Bob Balaban

Directors: Wes Anderson

Country: USA

Year: 2012

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, Hi Def

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the 1960s, as a young boy and girl fall in love they are moved to run away together. Various factions of the town mobilize to search for them and the town is turned upside down -- which might not be such a bad thing.

 

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Drama

Starring: Anjelica Huston, Noah Taylor, Willem Dafoe, Owen Wilson, Cate Blanchett, Bud Cort, Bill Murray

Directors: Wes Anderson

Country: USA

Year: 2004

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod

While making a documentary, the famous oceanographer Steve Zissou loses his dear friend, eaten by a jaguar shark. He raises funds for an expedition in his ship Belafonte to hunt the shark and make a new film. The journalist Jane Winslett-Richardson and a pilot that claims to be his unknown son, Ned Plimpton, join his crew in their journey, planned by his wife Eleanor Zissou. While making the movie, they are attacked by pirates and left without any money to finish their work.

 

The Darjeeling Limited

Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Drama

Starring: Anjelica Huston, Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, Adrien Brody, Kumar Pallana, Jason Schwartzman, Waris Ahluwalia

Directors: Wes Anderson

Country: USA

Year: 2007

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

Patricia Whitman lives in the U.S. along with her husband, and three sons, Francis, Peter, and Jack. All of a sudden she decides to re-locate to the foothills of the Himalayas in India. She does not return back even when her husband passes away. After their dad's funeral, the sons do not see each other for about a year. Then Francis invites them to India so that they can go and see their mother, who is now known as Sister Patricia. Individually, the trio boards the Darjeeling Limited train in Jodhpur, aided by Francis's assistant, Brendan, who has prepared detailed itineraries for their stay meticulously. At their first stop, they leave the t...

 

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Animation

Starring: Meryl Streep, Willem Dafoe, Owen Wilson, Bill Murray, Michael Gambon, George Clooney, Karen Duffy

Directors: Wes Anderson

Country: USA, UK

Year: 2009

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

The visually ravishing animated movie The Fantastic Mr. Fox follows a fox, voiced by George Clooney and dressed in a natty brown corduroy suit, as he cheerfully and recklessly takes his thieving ways a little too far and brings down the wrath of some sour-faced poultry farmers on his family and friends. Based on a lesser-known book by children's author Roald Dahl (who wrote Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach), the movie is the work of Wes Anderson (writer-director of Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums), who expanded and elaborated on the original story; the combination is inspired. Anderson's sensibility--his fondn...