Foxcatcher (
2014) | IMDb:
7
The greatest Olympic Wrestling Champion brother team joins Team Foxcatcher led by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988 games in Seoul - a union that leads to unlikely circumstances.
Starring:
Steve Carell
,
Channing Tatum
,
Mark Ruffalo
,
Sienna Miller
,
Vanessa Redgrave
,
Anthony Michael Hall
The Butler (
2013) | IMDb:
7.2
A look at the life of Cecil Gaines, who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made.
Starring:
Forest Whitaker
,
Oprah Winfrey
,
Mariah Carey
,
John Cusack
,
Jane Fonda
,
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Anonymous (
2011) | IMDb:
6.8
Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.
Starring:
Jamie Campbell Bower
,
Rhys Ifans
,
David Thewlis
,
Joely Richardson
,
Vanessa Redgrave
,
Sebastian Armesto
Cars 2 (
2011) | IMDb:
6.2
Star race car Lightning McQueen and his pal Mater head overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix race. But the road to the championship becomes rocky as Mater gets caught up in an intriguing adventure of his own: international espionage.
Starring:
Larry the Cable Guy
,
Owen Wilson
,
Michael Caine
,
Emily Mortimer
,
John Turturro
,
Eddie Izzard
Letters to Juliet (
2010) | IMDb:
6.5
An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are typically answered by the "secretaries of Juliet" -- and she goes on a quest to find the lovers referenced in the letter.
Starring:
Amanda Seyfried
,
Gael García Bernal
,
Vanessa Redgrave
,
Franco Nero
,
Luisa Ranieri
,
Milena Vukotić
Atonement (
2007) | IMDb:
7.8
As a 13-year-old, fledgling writer Briony Tallis irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
Starring:
Keira Knightley
,
James McAvoy
,
Romola Garai
,
Saoirse Ronan
,
Brenda Blethyn
,
Vanessa Redgrave
The Pledge (
2001) | IMDb:
6.8
A police chief about to retire pledges to help a woman find her daughter's killer.
Starring:
Jack Nicholson
,
Helen Mirren
,
Aaron Eckhart
,
Robin Wright
,
Sam Shepard
,
Benicio del Toro
Directed by:
Sean Penn
Girl, Interrupted (
1999) | IMDb:
7.3
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belong inside or the difficult world of reality outside.
Starring:
Winona Ryder
,
Angelina Jolie
,
Brittany Murphy
,
Clea DuVall
,
Elisabeth Moss
,
Whoopi Goldberg
Cradle Will Rock (
1999) | IMDb:
6.8
A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.
Directed by:
Tim Robbins
Deep Impact (
1998) | IMDb:
6.2
A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to save the world. He appoints a tough-as-nails veteran astronaut to lead a joint American-Russian crew into space to destroy the comet before impact. Meanwhile, an enterprising reporter uses her smarts to uncover the scoop of the century.
Starring:
Robert Duvall
,
Téa Leoni
,
Elijah Wood
,
Vanessa Redgrave
,
Morgan Freeman
,
Maximilian Schell
Smilla's Sense of Snow (
1997) | IMDb:
6.3
Smilla Jaspersen, half Danish, half Greenlander, attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has made several mysterious expeditions to Greenland. Scenes from the film were shot in Copenhagen and western Greenland. The film was entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival, where director Bille August was nominated for the Golden Bear.
Starring:
Julia Ormond
,
Gabriel Byrne
,
Richard Harris
,
Jim Broadbent
,
Tom Wilkinson
,
Robert Loggia
Mission: Impossible (
1996) | IMDb:
7.2
When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the prime suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.
The House of the Spirits (
1993) | IMDb:
6.9
A rancher, his clairvoyant wife and their family face turbulent years in South America.
Starring:
Meryl Streep
,
Glenn Close
,
Jeremy Irons
,
Winona Ryder
,
Antonio Banderas
,
Armin Mueller-Stahl