The Town (
2010) | IMDb:
7.5
Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the group kidnapping an attractive branch manager, he takes on the role of monitoring her – but their burgeoning relationship threatens to unveil the identities of Doug and his crew to the FBI Agent who is on their case.
Inception (
2010) | IMDb:
8.8
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.
Starring:
Leonardo DiCaprio
,
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
,
Ken Watanabe
,
Tom Hardy
,
Elliot Page
,
Dileep Rao
Clash of the Titans (
2010) | IMDb:
5.8
Born of a god but raised as a man, Perseus is helpless to save his family from Hades, vengeful god of the underworld. With nothing to lose, Perseus volunteers to lead a dangerous mission to defeat Hades before he can seize power from Zeus and unleash hell on earth. Battling unholy demons and fearsome beasts, Perseus and his warriors will only survive if Perseus accepts his power as a god, defies fate and creates his own destiny.
Starring:
Sam Worthington
,
Gemma Arterton
,
Mads Mikkelsen
,
Alexa Davalos
,
Jason Flemyng
,
Ralph Fiennes
Solomon Kane (
2009) | IMDb:
6.1
A nomadic 16th century warrior, condemned to hell for his brutal past, seeks redemption by renouncing violence, but finds some things are worth burning for as he fights to free a young Puritan woman from the grip of evil.
Starring:
James Purefoy
,
Pete Postlethwaite
,
Alice Krige
,
Mackenzie Crook
,
Max von Sydow
,
Jason Flemyng
Closing the Ring (
2007) | IMDb:
6.5
During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a crashed plane. He travels to Michigan, where the grown Ethel Ann, who married another man after Teddy was killed in battle, now lives. Ethel Ann must decide whether to go with Jimmy to meet the soldier who last saw Teddy alive.
Starring:
Shirley MacLaine
,
Christopher Plummer
,
Pete Postlethwaite
,
Martin McCann
,
Neve Campbell
,
Allan Hawco
The Omen (
2006) | IMDb:
5.5
A diplomatic couple adopts the son of the devil without knowing it. A remake of the classic horror film of the same name from 1976.
Starring:
Liev Schreiber
,
Julia Stiles
,
Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick
,
David Thewlis
,
Pete Postlethwaite
,
Mia Farrow
Directed by:
John Moore
Æon Flux (
2005) | IMDb:
5.4
400 years into the future, disease has wiped out the majority of the world's population, except one walled city, Bregna, ruled by a congress of scientists. When Æon Flux, the top operative in the underground 'Monican' rebellion, is sent on a mission to kill a government leader, she uncovers a world of secrets.
Starring:
Charlize Theron
,
Marton Csokas
,
Jonny Lee Miller
,
Sophie Okonedo
,
Frances McDormand
,
Pete Postlethwaite
The Constant Gardener (
2005) | IMDb:
7.4
Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.
Starring:
Ralph Fiennes
,
Rachel Weisz
,
Danny Huston
,
Bill Nighy
,
Pete Postlethwaite
,
Richard McCabe
Dark Water (
2005) | IMDb:
5.6
Dahlia Williams and her daughter Cecelia move into a rundown apartment on New York's Roosevelt Island. Dahlia is in the midst of divorce proceedings, and the apartment, though near an excellent school for her daughter, is all she can afford. From the time she arrives, there are mysterious occurrences—and there is a constant drip from the ceiling in her daughter's bedroom…
Starring:
Jennifer Connelly
,
John C. Reilly
,
Tim Roth
,
Dougray Scott
,
Pete Postlethwaite
,
Ariel Gade
The Shipping News (
2001) | IMDb:
6.7
An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.
Starring:
Kevin Spacey
,
Julianne Moore
,
Cate Blanchett
,
Judi Dench
,
Pete Postlethwaite
,
Scott Glenn
Animal Farm (
1999) | IMDb:
6
Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and they cannot avoid corruption.
Starring:
Kelsey Grammer
,
Ian Holm
,
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
,
Julia Ormond
,
Pete Postlethwaite
,
Paul Scofield
Directed by:
John Stephenson
Alice in Wonderland (
1999) | IMDb:
6.3
Alice follows a white rabbit down a rabbit-hole into a whimsical Wonderland, where she meets characters like the delightful Cheshire Cat, the clumsy White Knight, a rude caterpillar, and the hot-tempered Queen of Hearts and can grow ten feet tall or shrink to three inches. But will she ever be able to return home?
Starring:
Tina Majorino
,
Robbie Coltrane
,
Ben Kingsley
,
Miranda Richardson
,
Martin Short
,
Christopher Lloyd
Amistad (
1997) | IMDb:
7.3
In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are then held prisoner in Connecticut, and their release becomes the subject of heated debate. Freed slave Theodore Joadson wants Cinque and the others exonerated and recruits property lawyer Roger Baldwin to help his case. Eventually, John Quincy Adams also becomes an ally.
Starring:
Morgan Freeman
,
Nigel Hawthorne
,
Anthony Hopkins
,
Djimon Hounsou
,
Matthew McConaughey
,
David Paymer
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (
1997) | IMDb:
6.5
Four years after Jurassic Park's genetically bred dinosaurs ran amok, multimillionaire John Hammond shocks chaos theorist Ian Malcolm by revealing that he has been breeding more beasties at a secret location. Malcolm, his paleontologist ladylove and a wildlife videographer join an expedition to document the lethal lizards' natural behavior in this action-packed thriller.
Starring:
Jeff Goldblum
,
Julianne Moore
,
Pete Postlethwaite
,
Arliss Howard
,
Richard Attenborough
,
Vince Vaughn
DragonHeart (
1996) | IMDb:
6.4
In an ancient time when majestic fire-breathers soared through the skies, a knight named Bowen comes face to face and heart to heart with the last dragon on Earth, Draco. Taking up arms to suppress a tyrant king, Bowen soon realizes his task will be harder than he'd imagined: If he kills the king, Draco will die as well.
Starring:
Dennis Quaid
,
Sean Connery
,
David Thewlis
,
Dina Meyer
,
Pete Postlethwaite
,
Jason Isaacs
James and the Giant Peach (
1996) | IMDb:
6.7
When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to strange lands.
Starring:
Paul Terry
,
Miriam Margolyes
,
Joanna Lumley
,
Pete Postlethwaite
,
Simon Callow
,
Richard Dreyfuss
Directed by:
Henry Selick