OETA Movie Club Podcast

Akeelah, a young gifted girl, comes from a dysfunctional family and is on the verge of quitting school. She discovers that she has a high aptitude for spellings and enters a spelling bee contest.Support the showOETA - Home

A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.Support the showOETA - Home

After he's suddenly laid off, a husband switches roles with his wife. She returns to the workforce, and he becomes a stay-at-home dad, and he has to take care of three young children, a job he has no clue how to do.Support the showOETA - Home

Rebel Without a CauseA rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies.Cat on a Hot Tin RoofBrick is an alcoholic ex-football player who drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife. A reunion with his terminally ill father jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.Support the showOETA - Home

A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.Support the showOETA - Home

Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman.Support the showOETA - Home

Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier, documents the tense interactions between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during the production of The Prince and the Showgirl (1957).Support the showOETA - Home

The father of a young woman deals with the emotional pain of her getting married, along with the financial and organizational trouble of arranging the wedding.Support the showOETA - Home

A star-pilot for hire and his trusty half-dog sidekick must come to the rescue of a spoiled princess and save Planet Druidia from the clutches of the evil Spaceballs.Support the showOETA - Home

Anchors Aweigh:A pair of sailors on leave try to help a movie extra become a singing star.On the Town:Three sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City.Support the showOETA - Home

Follows Lucy and Desi as they face a crisis that could end their careers--and another that could end their marriage.Support the showOETA - Home

A jaded former jockey helps a young girl prepare a wild but gifted horse for England's Grand National Sweepstakes.Starring Mickey Rooney and Elizabeth TaylorSupport the showOETA - Home

In Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1964, the rivalry between two gangs, the poor Greasers and the rich Socs, heats up when one gang member accidentally kills a member of the other.Support the showOETA - Home

The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.Support the showOETA - Home

A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.Support the showOETA - Home

A Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, but it's not long before he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.Support the showOETA - Home

An all-star, large scale epic movie that chronicles the life and ministry of Jesus Christ.Support the showOETA - Home

A Mighty Wind:Mockumentary captures the reunion of 1960s folk trio the Folksmen as they prepare for a show at The Town Hall to memorialize a recently deceased concert promoter.Hoosiers:A coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small-town high school basketball team to become a top contender for the state championship in 1950s Indiana.Support the showOETA - Home

Neil Jordan's historical biopic of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins, the man who led a guerrilla war against the UK, helped negotiate the creation of the Irish Free State, and led the National Army during the Irish Civil War.Support the showOETA - Home

Young lovers, and soon to wed, Hero and Claudio conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles, Benedick and Beatrice, to wed as well.Support the showOETA - Home

CasablancaA cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.ANDLove AffairTwo people meet on a flight to Sydney. Although both are engaged to others, they fall in love during their evacuation after a forced landing and agree to meet in New York City three months later if the attraction lasts.Support the showOETA - Home

A fictional account of one incredible night where icons Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown gathered discussing their roles in the Civil Rights Movement and cultural upheaval of the 60s.Support the showOETA - Home

Allied officers in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II make a daring plan for a mass escape by hundreds of POWs hoping to draw German personnel and resources away from combat operations.Support the showOETA - Home

Legendary performer Judy Garland arrives in London in the winter of 1968 to perform a series of sold-out concerts.Support the showOETA - Home

Private detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora are back home at last and hoping for a quiet New Year when there is a murder. The obvious suspect is his wife, Nora's cousin, Selma.Support the showOETA - Home

Former detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora investigate a murder case, mostly for the fun of it.Support the showOETA - Home

A down-on-his-luck inventor turns a broken-down Grand Prix car into a fancy vehicle for his children, and then they go off on a magical fantasy adventure to save their grandfather in a far-off land.Support the showOETA - Home

Emma:While matchmaking for friends and neighbors, a young 19th Century Englishwoman nearly misses her own chance at love.Mans Field Park:Fanny, born into a poor family, is sent away to live with wealthy uncle Sir Thomas, his wife and their four children, where she'll be brought up for a proper introduction to society.Support the showOETA - Home

At a big city Catholic school, Father O'Malley and Sister Benedict indulge in friendly rivalry and succeed in extending the school through the gift of a building.Support the showOETA - Home

Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier, documents the tense interactions between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during the production of The Prince and the Showgirl (1957).Support the showOETA - Home

A couple search for each other years after the night they first met, fell in love, and separated, convinced that one day they'd end up together.Support the showOETA - Home

A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965.Support the showOETA - Home

Arnold rescued Thomas from a fire when he was a child. Thomas thinks of Arnold as a hero, while Arnold's son Victor resents his father's alcoholism, violence and abandonment of his family.Support the showOETA - Home

Original 1956 black & white versionA small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.Support the showOETA - Home

After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.Support the showOETA - Home

Six guests are anonymously invited to a strange mansion for dinner, but after their host is killed, they must cooperate with the staff to identify the murderer as the bodies pile up. Based on the board game.Support the showOETA - Home

2005 versionA widowed Coast Guard Admiral and a widowed handbag designer fall in love and marry, much to the dismay of his 8 and her 10 children.Support the showOETA - Home

Instead of coming in from field work during the Cold War and taking a desk job, British intelligence agent Alec Leamas chooses to take on another assignment.Support the showOETA - Home

The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician, recently deceased, tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father's ex-students, who wants to search through his papers, and her estranged sister, who shows up to help settle his affairs.Support the showOETA - Home

During the summer of 1979, a group of friends witness a train crash and investigate subsequent unexplained events in their small town.Support the showOETA - Home

Linguist Louise Banks leads a team of investigators when gigantic spaceships touch down around the world. As nations teeter on the verge of global war, Banks and her crew must find a way to communicate with the extraterrestrial visitors.Support the showOETA - Home

"Letters to Juliet"Sophie travels to Verona where she finds an old unanswered letter asking for love advice. She answers it and when the recipient shows up along with her grumpy grandson, they head off to find the old long lost love while a young love sparks"Some Like it Hot"After two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.Support the showOETA - Home

A wily Roman slave schemes to earn his freedom by romantically uniting his master with a courtesan. But matters get complicated and he ends up dragging in his neighbors around him, leading to chaos.Support the showOETA - Home

Barely 17 yet, Frank is a skilled forger who has passed as a doctor, lawyer and pilot. FBI agent Carl becomes obsessed with tracking down the con man, who only revels in the pursuit.Support the showOETA - Home

1988A selfish, cynical television executive is haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve.Support the showOETA - Home

1980After the crew becomes sick with food poisoning, a neurotic ex-fighter pilot must safely land a commercial airplane full of passengers.Support the showOETA - Home

A town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must face a gang of deadly killers alone at "high noon" when the gang leader, an outlaw he "sent up" years ago, arrives on the noon train.Support the showOETA - Home

Lawman Wyatt Earp and outlaw Doc Holliday form an unlikely alliance which culminates in their participation in the legendary Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.Support the showOETA - Home

An English Duke from 1876 is inadvertently dragged to modern day New York where he falls for a plucky advertising executive.Support the showOETA - Home

Alcatraz is the most secure prison of its time. It is believed that no one can ever escape from it, until three daring men make a possibly successful attempt at escaping from one of the most infamous prisons in the world.Support the showOETA - Home