The Pursuit of Happyness (
2006) | IMDb:
8
A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.
Superman Returns (
2006) | IMDb:
6.1
Superman returns to discover his 5-year absence has allowed Lex Luthor to walk free, and that those he was closest to felt abandoned and have moved on. Luthor plots his ultimate revenge that could see millions killed and change the face of the planet forever, as well as ridding himself of the Man of Steel.
Starring:
Brandon Routh
,
Kevin Spacey
,
Kate Bosworth
,
James Marsden
,
Parker Posey
,
Frank Langella
Mulholland Drive (
2001) | IMDb:
7.9
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.
Starring:
Naomi Watts
,
Laura Harring
,
Justin Theroux
,
Ann Miller
,
Mark Pellegrino
,
Robert Forster
Thirteen Days (
2000) | IMDb:
7.3
The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missile bases established on the Soviet-allied island of Cuba.
Starring:
Kevin Costner
,
Bruce Greenwood
,
Steven Culp
,
Dylan Baker
,
Michael Fairman
,
Henry Strozier
Any Given Sunday (
1999) | IMDb:
6.9
A star quarterback gets knocked out of the game and an unknown third stringer is called in to replace him. The unknown gives a stunning performance and forces the aging coach to reevaluate his game plans and life. A new co-owner/president adds to the pressure of winning. The new owner must prove herself in a male dominated world.
Apt Pupil (
1998) | IMDb:
6.7
One day in 1984, Todd Bowden, a brilliant high school boy fascinated by the history of Nazism, stumbles across an old man whose appearance resembles that of Kurt Dussander, a wanted Nazi war criminal. A month later, Todd decides to knock on his door.
Shadow of Doubt (
1998) | IMDb:
5.2
An attorney uncovers a political conspiracy in the brutal killing of a wealthy young woman.
Starring:
Melanie Griffith
,
Tom Berenger
,
Craig Sheffer
,
Huey Lewis
,
Wade Dominguez
,
James Morrison
Up Close & Personal (
1996) | IMDb:
6.1
Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tape. Warren Justice is a brilliant, hard edged, veteran newsman. He sees Tally has talent and becomes her mentor. Tally’s career takes a meteoric rise and she and Warren fall in love. The romance that results is as intense and revealing as television news itself. Yet, each breaking story, every videotaped crisis that brings them together, also threatens to drive them apart...
Starring:
Robert Redford
,
Michelle Pfeiffer
,
Stockard Channing
,
Joe Mantegna
,
Kate Nelligan
,
Glenn Plummer
Nixon (
1995) | IMDb:
7.1
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spanning his troubled boyhood in California to the shocking Watergate scandal that would end his Presidency.
Congo (
1995) | IMDb:
5.3
Eight people embark on an expedition into the Congo, a mysterious expanse of unexplored Africa where human greed and the laws of nature have gone berserk. When the thrill-seekers -- some with ulterior motives -- stumble across a race of killer apes.
Starring:
Laura Linney
,
Dylan Walsh
,
Ernie Hudson
,
Tim Curry
,
Grant Heslov
,
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Return of the Living Dead Part II (
1988) | IMDb:
5.7
A group of kids discover one of the drums containing a rotting corpse and release the 2-4-5 Trioxin gas into the air, causing the dead to once again rise from the grave and seek out brains.
Starring:
James Karen
,
Thom Mathews
,
Suzanne Snyder
,
Michael Kenworthy
,
Marsha Dietlein
,
Dana Ashbrook
Wall Street (
1987) | IMDb:
7.3
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider whom takes the youth under his wing.
Starring:
Charlie Sheen
,
Michael Douglas
,
Martin Sheen
,
Daryl Hannah
,
John C. McGinley
,
Hal Holbrook
Directed by:
Oliver Stone
Invaders from Mars (
1986) | IMDb:
5.5
In this remake of the classic 1950s sci-fi tale, a boy tries to stop an invasion of his town by aliens who take over the the minds of his parents, his least-liked schoolteacher and other townspeople. With the aid of the school nurse the boy enlists the aid of the U.S. Marines.
Jagged Edge (
1985) | IMDb:
6.5
After a wealthy heiress is murdered in her beach house, her devastated husband becomes the prime suspect. He hires a lawyer who hasn’t taken a criminal case in years, and as they work together, a complicated romance develops amidst the trial.
Starring:
Glenn Close
,
Jeff Bridges
,
Peter Coyote
,
Lance Henriksen
,
Robert Loggia
,
Michael Dorn
Directed by:
Richard Marquand
Produced by:
Martin Ransohoff
The Return of the Living Dead (
1985) | IMDb:
7.3
When foreman Frank shows new employee Freddy a secret military experiment in a supply warehouse in Louisville, Kentucky, the two klutzes accidentally release a gas that reanimates corpses into flesh-eating zombies. As the epidemic spreads throughout the town, and the creatures satisfy their hunger in gory and outlandish ways, Frank and Freddy fight to survive with the help of their boss and a mysterious mortician.
Starring:
Clu Gulager
,
James Karen
,
Don Calfa
,
Thom Mathews
,
Miguel A. Núñez Jr.
,
Beverly Randolph
Frances (
1982) | IMDb:
7.2
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.
Starring:
Jessica Lange
,
Sam Shepard
,
Kim Stanley
,
Bart Burns
,
Christopher Pennock
,
James Karen