Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (
2014) | IMDb:
7.6
A group of scientists in San Francisco struggle to stay alive in the aftermath of a plague that is wiping out humanity, while Caesar tries to maintain dominance over his community of intelligent apes.
Locke (
2014) | IMDb:
7.1
Ivan Locke has worked hard to craft a good life for himself. Tonight, that life will collapse around him. On the eve of the biggest challenge of his career, Ivan receives a phone call that sets in motion a series of events that will unravel his family, job, and soul.
Centurion (
2010) | IMDb:
6.3
Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the Earth and destroy their leader, Gorlacon.
Starring:
Michael Fassbender
,
Olga Kurylenko
,
David Morrissey
,
Liam Cunningham
,
Dominic West
,
Imogen Poots
Dreaming of Joseph Lees (
1999) | IMDb:
6.3
Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva (Samantha Morton) fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousin Joseph Lees (Rupert Graves), with whom she fell in love as a girl. However, stuck in a closed community she becomes the object of someone else's fantasy, Harry (Lee Ross). When Harry learns that Eva is planning to leave the village in order to live with and look after the injured Lees, he devises a gruesome scheme in order to force her to stay and look after him.
Starring:
Rupert Graves
,
Samantha Morton
,
Nicholas Woodeson
,
Lee Ross
,
Felix Billson
,
Vernon Dobtcheff
Rogue Trader (
1999) | IMDb:
6.4
Rogue Trader tells the true story of Nick Leeson, an employee of Barings Bank who--after a successful trading run--ends up accumulating $1.4 billion in losses hidden in account #88888.
Directed by:
James Dearden
The English Patient (
1996) | IMDb:
7.4
In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.
Starring:
Ralph Fiennes
,
Juliette Binoche
,
Willem Dafoe
,
Kristin Scott Thomas
,
Naveen Andrews
,
Colin Firth
Secrets & Lies (
1996) | IMDb:
8
After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white woman.
Starring:
Brenda Blethyn
,
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
,
Timothy Spall
,
Phyllis Logan
,
Claire Rushbrook
,
Lee Ross