8.6

Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi

2001, Japan

• Actors: Rumi Hîragi, Miyu Irino, Mari Natsuki, Takashi Naitô, Yasuko Sawaguchi, Tatsuya Gashûin, Ryûnosuke Kamiki, Yumi Tamai, Yô Ôizumi, Koba Hayashi, Tsunehiko Kamijô, Takehiko Ono, Bunta Sugawara, Noriko Kitou, Shiro Saito, Ken Yasuda, Daveigh Chase, Suzanne Pleshette, Jason Marsden, Susan Egan, David Ogden Stiers, Lauren Holly, Michael Chiklis, John Ratzenberger, Tara Strong, Mickie McGowan, Jack Angel, Bob Bergen, Rodger Bumpass, Jennifer Darling
• Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
• Director(s): Hayao Miyazaki
• Available languages:
  • Japanese Japanese.

Chihiro and her family are on their way to their new house in the suburbs when her father decides to take a shortcut along a lonely-looking dirt road. After getting out of the car and walking along a path for a while, they discover an open-air restaurant filled with food but with no workers or customers present. Mom and Dad don't hesitate to sit down and dig in, but Chihiro senses danger and refuses. As night falls, she is terrified to see the area fill with faceless spirits, but when she runs to find her parents, she discovers that they have been turned into pigs. She is found by a mysterious boy named Haku, who promises to help her. He gets her a job working in a nearby building, which turns out to be a bathhouse for the thousands of Japan's gods and spirits. Though the work is hard and the people strange, she does as well as she can. Her parents, however, are still waiting in the hotel's stockyard, and Chihiro must find a way to break the spell on them before they end up as the main course of some guest's dinner.

  5.9

The Lion King II: Simba's Pride

1997, USA, Australia

• Actors: Matthew Broderick, Moira Kelly, Neve Campbell, Liz Callaway, Michelle Horn, Ashley Edner, Charity Sanoy, Suzanne Pleshette, Andy Dick, Ryan O'Donohue, Jason Marsden, Gene Miller, Lacey Chabert, Crysta Macalush, Jennifer Lien, Ernie Sabella, Nathan Lane, Robert Guillaume, James Earl Jones, Edward Hibbert, Vanessa Theme Ament, Cam Clarke, Jim Cummings, Robin Frizzell, Adrienne Hampton, Seth Isler, Zoe Leader, Lisa Long, Meredith Scott Lynn, Joel Moffett
• Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Musical, Romance
• Director(s): Darrell Rooney
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Simba and Nala have a daughter, Kiara. Timon and Pumbaa are assigned to be her babysitters, but she easily escapes their care and ventures into the forbidden lands. There she meets a lion cub named Kovu and they become friends. What she and her parents do not know is that Kovu is the son of Zira - a banished follower of the now-dead Scar. She plans to raise Kovu to overthrow Simba and become the king of the Pride Lands. This tests not only Kiara and Kovu's relationship as they mature, but Simba's relationship with his daughter.

  7.9

The Birds

1962, USA

• Actors: Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette, Jessica Tandy, Tippi Hedren, Veronica Cartwright, Ethel Griffies, Charles McGraw, Ruth McDevitt, Lonny Chapman, Joe Mantell, Doodles Weaver, Malcolm Atterbury, John McGovern, Karl Swenson, Richard Deacon, Elizabeth Wilson, Bill Quinn, Doreen Lang, Morgan Brittany, Darlene Conley, Alfred Hitchcock, Mike Monteleone, Roxanne Tunis
• Genre: Horror, Romance, Thriller
• Director(s): Alfred Hitchcock
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Melanie Daniels is the modern rich socialite, part of the jet-set who always gets what she wants. When lawyer Mitch Brenner sees her in a pet shop, he plays something of a practical joke on her, and she decides to return the favor. She drives about an hour north of San Francisco to Bodega Bay, where Mitch spends the weekends with his mother Lydia and younger sister Cathy. Soon after her arrival, however, the birds in the area begin to act strangely. A seagull attacks Melanie as she is crossing the bay in a small boat, and then, Lydia finds her neighbor dead, obviously the victim of a bird attack. Soon, birds in the hundreds and thousands are attacking anyone they find out of doors. There is no explanation as to why this might be happening, and as the birds continue their vicious attacks, survival becomes the priority.