The Front Runner (
2018) | IMDb:
6.1
Gary Hart, former Senator of Colorado, becomes the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1987. Hart's intelligence, charisma and idealism makes him popular with young voters, leaving him with a seemingly clear path to the White House. All that comes crashing down when allegations of an extramarital affair surface in the media, forcing the candidate to address a scandal that threatens to derail his campaign and personal life.
Directed by:
Jason Reitman
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (
2010) | IMDb:
6.2
As the global economy teeters on the brink of disaster, a young Wall Street trader partners with disgraced former Wall Street corporate raider Gordon Gekko on a two tiered mission: To alert the financial community to the coming doom, and to find out who was responsible for the death of the young trader's mentor.
Starring:
Michael Douglas
,
Shia LaBeouf
,
Josh Brolin
,
Carey Mulligan
,
Frank Langella
,
Susan Sarandon
Directed by:
Oliver Stone
The Hoax (
2006) | IMDb:
6.7
In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hughes to a premiere publishing house in the early 1970s.
Starring:
Richard Gere
,
Alfred Molina
,
Marcia Gay Harden
,
Hope Davis
,
Julie Delpy
,
Stanley Tucci
Winter Passing (
2006) | IMDb:
6.2
Actress Reese Holden has been offered a small fortune by a book editor if she can secure for publication the love letters that her father, a reclusive novelist, wrote to her mother, who has since passed away. Returning to Michigan, Reese finds that an ex-grad student and a would-be musician have moved in with her father, who cares more about his new friends than he does about his own health and well-being.
Starring:
Zooey Deschanel
,
Will Ferrell
,
Ed Harris
,
Amy Madigan
,
Amelia Warner
,
John Bedford Lloyd
Directed by:
Adam Rapp
The Manchurian Candidate (
2004) | IMDb:
6.6
Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.
Starring:
Denzel Washington
,
Meryl Streep
,
Liev Schreiber
,
Jon Voight
,
Kimberly Elise
,
Jeffrey Wright
The Bourne Supremacy (
2004) | IMDb:
7.7
A CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been living. The pair run for their lives and Bourne, who promised retaliation should anyone from his former life attempt contact, is forced to once again take up his life as a trained assassin to survive.
Riding in Cars with Boys (
2001) | IMDb:
6.5
In 1965, a young woman with dreams of becoming a writer has a son at the age of 15 and struggles to make things work with the drug-addicted father.
Starring:
Drew Barrymore
,
Steve Zahn
,
Adam Garcia
,
Brittany Murphy
,
James Woods
,
Lorraine Bracco
Super Troopers (
2001) | IMDb:
7
Five bored, occasionally high and always ineffective Vermont state troopers must prove their worth to the governor or lose their jobs. After stumbling on a drug ring, they plan to make a bust, but a rival police force is out to steal the glory.
Starring:
Jay Chandrasekhar
,
Steve Lemme
,
Kevin Heffernan
,
Paul Soter
,
Brian Cox
,
Erik Stolhanske
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.
Fair Game (
1995) | IMDb:
4.3
Max Kirkpatrick is a cop who protects Kate McQuean, a civil law attorney, from a renegade KGB team out to terminate her
Starring:
William Baldwin
,
Cindy Crawford
,
Steven Berkoff
,
Christopher McDonald
,
Miguel Sandoval
,
Johann Carlo
Philadelphia (
1993) | IMDb:
7.7
Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.
Starring:
Tom Hanks
,
Denzel Washington
,
Jason Robards
,
Mary Steenburgen
,
Antonio Banderas
,
Ron Vawter
The Abyss (
1989) | IMDb:
7.5
A civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search and rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey 25,000 feet below the ocean's surface where he confronts a mysterious force that has the power to change the world or destroy it.
Starring:
Ed Harris
,
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
,
Michael Biehn
,
Leo Burmester
,
Todd Graff
,
John Bedford Lloyd
Tough Guys Don't Dance (
1987) | IMDb:
4.9
Tim Madden awakens one morning to discover a fresh tattoo on his arm, his car covered in blood, his girlfriend in bed with the town sheriff, and a woman's severed head in his weed stash. Sensing a setup and in desperate need to clear his name, he begins an investigation that soon begins to expose a web of corruption in the small coastal community of Provincetown.
Starring:
Ryan O'Neal
,
Isabella Rossellini
,
Debra Stipe
,
Wings Hauser
,
John Bedford Lloyd
,
Lawrence Tierney
Trading Places (
1983) | IMDb:
7.5
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.