Helen (
2009) | IMDb:
6.2
On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depression, Helen finds solace through her friendship with Mathilda, a kindred spirit struggling with bipolar disorder.
Starring:
Ashley Judd
,
Goran Visnjic
,
Alexia Fast
,
Lauren Lee Smith
,
David Nykl
,
Alberta Watson
Directed by:
Sandra Nettelbeck
Away from Her (
2007) | IMDb:
7.5
Fiona and Grant have been married for nearly 50 years. They have to face the fact that Fiona’s absent-mindedness is a symptom of Alzheimer’s disease. She must go to a specialized nursing home, where she slowly forgets Grant and turns her affection to Aubrey, another patient in the home.
Starring:
Gordon Pinsent
,
Julie Christie
,
Michael Murphy
,
Olympia Dukakis
,
Kristen Thomson
,
Wendy Crewson
The Lookout (
2007) | IMDb:
7
Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.
Starring:
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
,
Jeff Daniels
,
Matthew Goode
,
Isla Fisher
,
Carla Gugino
,
Bruce McGill
Directed by:
Scott Frank
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (
2001) | IMDb:
7.7
Raised a boy in East Berlin, Hedwig undergoes a personal transformation in order to emigrate to the U.S., where she reinvents herself as an 'internationally ignored' but divinely talented rock diva, inhabiting a 'beautiful gender of one'.
Starring:
John Cameron Mitchell
,
Miriam Shor
,
Stephen Trask
,
Theodore Liscinski
,
Rob Campbell
,
Michael Aronov
Directed by:
John Cameron Mitchell
Tart (
2001) | IMDb:
4.7
A student will do anything to become part of the "in-crowd" at the exclusive school she attends in New York.
Starring:
Dominique Swain
,
Brad Renfro
,
Bijou Phillips
,
Mischa Barton
,
Alberta Watson
,
Myles Jeffrey
The Sweet Hereafter (
1997) | IMDb:
7.5
A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and victims' families prepare a class-action suit, but his efforts only seem to push the townspeople further apart. At the same time, one teenage survivor of the accident has to reckon with the loss of innocence brought about by a different kind of damage.
Hackers (
1995) | IMDb:
6.2
Along with his new friends, a teenager who was arrested by the US Secret Service and banned from using a computer for writing a computer virus discovers a plot by a nefarious hacker, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius behind the virus.
Starring:
Jonny Lee Miller
,
Angelina Jolie
,
Jesse Bradford
,
Matthew Lillard
,
Renoly Santiago
,
Fisher Stevens
The Keep (
1983) | IMDb:
5.7
Set during World War II, a German army garrison is sent to guard a mountain pass in a village in Romania's Carpathian mountains and sets up barracks in an ancient stone fortress. Two of the soldiers unwittingly release a mysterious entity that kills or corrupts those within its influence, drawing the attention of a Gestapo commander, a Jewish scholar, and a mysterious traveller.
Starring:
Scott Glenn
,
Alberta Watson
,
Jürgen Prochnow
,
Robert Prosky
,
Gabriel Byrne
,
Ian McKellen
The Soldier (
1982) | IMDb:
5.3
Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them.
Starring:
Ken Wahl
,
Alberta Watson
,
Joaquim de Almeida
,
Klaus Kinski
,
Jeremiah Sullivan
,
William Prince
Virus (
1980) | IMDb:
6.2
Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the world.
Directed by:
Kinji Fukasaku