The Dressmaker (
2015) | IMDb:
7
In 1950s Australia, beautiful, talented dressmaker Tilly returns to her tiny hometown to right wrongs from her past. As she tries to reconcile with her mother, she starts to fall in love while transforming the fashion of the town.
Starring:
Kate Winslet
,
Liam Hemsworth
,
Caroline Goodall
,
Judy Davis
,
Hayley Magnus
,
Hugo Weaving
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (
2013) | IMDb:
7
A 10-year-old child prodigy cartographer secretly leaves his family's ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country on board a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.
Starring:
Kyle Catlett
,
Helena Bonham Carter
,
Judy Davis
,
Callum Keith Rennie
,
Niamh Wilson
,
Jakob Davies
Directed by:
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
To Rome with Love (
2012) | IMDb:
6.3
Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful incident from his own youth; retired opera director Jerry discovers a mortician with an amazing voice, and he seizes the opportunity to rejuvenate his own flagging career; a young couple have separate romantic interludes; a spotlight shines on an ordinary man.
Starring:
Woody Allen
,
Roberto Benigni
,
Penélope Cruz
,
Alec Baldwin
,
Judy Davis
,
Jesse Eisenberg
The Break-Up (
2006) | IMDb:
5.8
Pushed to the breaking-up point after their latest 'why can't you do this one little thing for me?' argument, Brooke calls it quits with her boyfriend Gary. What follows is a hilarious series of remedies, war tactics, overtures and undermining tricks – all encouraged by the former couple's friends and confidantes …and the occasional total stranger! When neither ex is willing to move out of their shared apartment, the only solution is to continue living as hostile roommates until one of them reaches breaking point.
Starring:
Jennifer Aniston
,
Vince Vaughn
,
Joey Lauren Adams
,
Ann-Margret
,
Jason Bateman
,
Judy Davis
Marie Antoinette (
2006) | IMDb:
6.5
The retelling of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marriage to Louis XVI at 15 to her reign as queen at 19 and ultimately the fall of Versailles.
Celebrity (
1998) | IMDb:
6.3
The career and personal life of writer Lee are at a standstill, so he divorces his bashful wife, Robin, and dives into a new job as an entertainment journalist. His assignments take him to the swankiest corners of Manhattan, but as he jumps from one lavish party to another and engages in numerous empty romances, he starts to doubt the worth of his work. Meanwhile, top TV producer Tony falls for Robin and introduces her to the world of celebrity.
Starring:
Kenneth Branagh
,
Judy Davis
,
Joe Mantegna
,
Leonardo DiCaprio
,
Charlize Theron
,
Winona Ryder
Deconstructing Harry (
1997) | IMDb:
7.3
Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.
Starring:
Woody Allen
,
Judy Davis
,
Stephanie Roth Haberle
,
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
,
Lynn Cohen
,
Richard Benjamin
Absolute Power (
1997) | IMDb:
6.7
A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder—in which the President of the United States is involved—occurs in front of his eyes. He is forced to run, while holding evidence that could convict the President.
Blood and Wine (
1996) | IMDb:
6
A man who has failed as a father and husband commits a heist to make money for his fledging business, but things become complicated when his wife interferes.
Starring:
Jack Nicholson
,
Stephen Dorff
,
Jennifer Lopez
,
Judy Davis
,
Michael Caine
,
Harold Perrineau
The Ref (
1994) | IMDb:
6.9
A cat burglar is forced to take a bickering, dysfunctional family hostage on Christmas Eve.
Starring:
Denis Leary
,
Judy Davis
,
Kevin Spacey
,
Glynis Johns
,
Robert J. Steinmiller Jr.
,
Raymond J. Barry
Naked Lunch (
1991) | IMDb:
6.9
Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends up in a constantly mutating Mediterranean city and learns that his hip friends have published his work -- which he doesn't remember writing.
Directed by:
David Cronenberg
Barton Fink (
1991) | IMDb:
7.6
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
Kangaroo (
1986) | IMDb:
6.2
A mild-mannered English conscientious objector moves to what he feels will be the relative calm of Australia after World War I, but gets caught in the middle of violent battles between the rising trade unions and fascist groups.
A Passage to India (
1984) | IMDb:
7.3
Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested, who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate named Ronny Heaslop. She and Ronny's mother, Mrs. Moore, befriend an Indian doctor, Aziz H. Ahmed.
Directed by:
David Lean