Jan Sardi

An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths.

Dir. Nick Cassavetes · With Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, Gena Rowlands

Pianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.

Dir. Scott Hicks · With Geoffrey Rush, Noah Taylor, Armin Mueller-Stahl

At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he falls in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.

Dir. Bruce Beresford · With Bruce Greenwood, Kyle MacLachlan, Joan Chen