Nightmare Alley (
2021) | IMDb:
7
An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.
Starring:
Bradley Cooper
,
Rooney Mara
,
Cate Blanchett
,
Toni Collette
,
Richard Jenkins
,
Willem Dafoe
Directed by:
Guillermo del Toro
Crimson Peak (
2015) | IMDb:
6.5
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.
Starring:
Mia Wasikowska
,
Jessica Chastain
,
Tom Hiddleston
,
Charlie Hunnam
,
Jim Beaver
,
Burn Gorman
Next (
2007) | IMDb:
6.2
Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low under an assumed name in Vegas, performing cheap tricks and living off small-time gambling "winnings." But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a nuclear device in Los Angeles, government agent Callie Ferris must use all her wiles to capture Cris and convince him to help her stop the cataclysm.
Starring:
Nicolas Cage
,
Julianne Moore
,
Jessica Biel
,
Thomas Kretschmann
,
Jim Beaver
,
Tory Kittles
The Life of David Gale (
2003) | IMDb:
7.5
A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
Adaptation. (
2002) | IMDb:
7.7
Charlie Kaufman is a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to adapt "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orlean, Kaufman's life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman, Orlean's book, become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the others'.
Joy Ride (
2001) | IMDb:
6.6
Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer.
Starring:
Paul Walker
,
Steve Zahn
,
Leelee Sobieski
,
Michael McCleery
,
Dell Yount
,
Rachel Singer
Magnolia (
1999) | IMDb:
8
On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will each become part of a dazzling multiplicity of plots, but one story.
Starring:
Philip Baker Hall
,
Jeremy Blackman
,
Tom Cruise
,
Philip Seymour Hoffman
,
William H. Macy
,
Julianne Moore
Blue Chips (
1994) | IMDb:
6.3
Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future are secretly being paid by boosters. This practice is forbidden in the college game, but Pete is desperate and has pressures from all around.
Geronimo: An American Legend (
1993) | IMDb:
6.5
The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of corn farmers. One in particular, Geronimo, is restless. Pushed over the edge by broken promises and necessary actions by the government, Geronimo and thirty or so other warriors form an attack team which humiliates the government by evading capture, while reclaiming what is rightfully theirs.
Sliver (
1993) | IMDb:
5.1
A woman moves into an apartment in Manhattan and learns that the previous tenant's life ended mysteriously after they fell from the balcony.
Starring:
Sharon Stone
,
William Baldwin
,
Tom Berenger
,
Polly Walker
,
Colleen Camp
,
Amanda Foreman
Sister Act (
1992) | IMDb:
6.5
A Reno singer witnesses a mob murder and the cops stash her in a nunnery to protect her from the mob's hitmen. The mother superior does not trust her, and takes steps to limit her influence on the other nuns. Eventually the singer rescues the failing choir and begins helping with community projects, which gets her an interview on TV—and identification by the mob.
Starring:
Whoopi Goldberg
,
Maggie Smith
,
Kathy Najimy
,
Wendy Makkena
,
Mary Wickes
,
Harvey Keitel
In Country (
1989) | IMDb:
5.9
Samantha Hughes, a teenaged Kentucky girl, never knew her father, who died in Vietnam before her birth. Samantha lives with her uncle Emmett, who also served in Vietnam. Emmett hangs around with Tom, Earl, and Pete, three other Vietnam vets who, like Emmett, all have problems of one kind or another that relate to their war experiences. Samantha becomes obsessed with finding out about her father.
Directed by:
Norman Jewison
Turner & Hooch (
1989) | IMDb:
6.2
Detective Scott Turner has three days left in the local police department before he moves to a bigger city to get some 'real' cases—not just misdemeanors. When Amos Reed is murdered, Scott sets himself on the case, but the closest thing to a witness to the murder is Reed's dog, Hooch, which Scott has to take care of—to avoid Hooch being 'put to sleep'.
Starring:
Tom Hanks
,
Mare Winningham
,
Craig T. Nelson
,
Scott Paulin
,
John McIntire
,
David Knell
Directed by:
Roger Spottiswoode