Animal Factory (
2000) | IMDb:
6.6
Suburbanite Ron is spoiled, young and not overly worried about the marijuana charges leveled against him. But, after being made out to be a drug dealer, he faces a five-year jail sentence in San Quentin State Prison. Physically frail and unaccustomed to his rough surroundings, Ron is primed to fall victim to sexual predators and bullying guards – that is, until he's befriended by Earl, a veteran inmate who finds meaning in protecting the vulnerable new kid.
Starring:
Willem Dafoe
,
Edward Furlong
,
Danny Trejo
,
Mark Boone Junior
,
Seymour Cassel
,
Mickey Rourke
Primary Colors (
1998) | IMDb:
6.7
In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 run for the White House, the young and gifted Henry Burton is tapped to oversee the presidential campaign of Governor Jack Stanton. Burton is pulled into the politician's colorful world and looks on as Stanton -- who has a wandering eye that could be his downfall -- contends with his ambitious wife, Susan, and an outspoken adviser, Richard Jemmons.
Starring:
John Travolta
,
Emma Thompson
,
Billy Bob Thornton
,
Kathy Bates
,
Adrian Lester
,
Maura Tierney
The Prophecy (
1995) | IMDb:
6.4
The angel Gabriel comes to Earth to collect a soul which will end the stalemated war in Heaven, and only a former priest and a little girl can stop him.
Starring:
Christopher Walken
,
Elias Koteas
,
Virginia Madsen
,
Eric Stoltz
,
Viggo Mortensen
,
Amanda Plummer
CrissCross (
1992) | IMDb:
5.8
Set in 1969, a twelve-year-old grows up in Key West with his mother, who is paying the bills by stripping at the local topless bar. The boy finds out about her activities and tries to convince her to stop, to no avail. A local restaurant owner hires him to collect fish from a boat out in the bay, and the boy discovers that the restaurant owner is using the fish to bring drugs in to shore. He steals one load and goes about selling it so his mother can afford to quit her job.
Starring:
Goldie Hawn
,
Arliss Howard
,
James Gammon
,
David Arnott
,
Keith Carradine
,
Anna Thomson
Directed by:
Chris Menges
Days of Thunder (
1990) | IMDb:
6.1
Talented but unproven stock car driver Cole Trickle gets a break and with the guidance of veteran Harry Hogge turns heads on the track. The young hotshot develops a rivalry with a fellow racer that threatens his career when the two smash their cars. But with the help of his doctor, Cole just might overcome his injuries-- and his fear.
Gross Anatomy (
1989) | IMDb:
6.2
Joe Slovak is a brilliant first-year med student whose casual, nonconforming approach to life gets tested when he enrolls in Gross Anatomy, the toughest course in med school.
Starring:
Matthew Modine
,
Daphne Zuniga
,
Christine Lahti
,
Todd Field
,
John Scott Clough
,
Alice Carter
Directed by:
Thom Eberhardt
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
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
Barfly (
1987) | IMDb:
7.1
Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedded to their bar stools. But, they like each other's company—and Barfly captures their giddy, gin-soaked attempts to make a go of life on the skids.
Directed by:
Barbet Schroeder
Heartbreak Ridge (
1986) | IMDb:
6.8
A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude.
Starring:
Clint Eastwood
,
Marsha Mason
,
Everett McGill
,
Moses Gunn
,
Mario Van Peebles
,
Eileen Heckart
Maximum Overdrive (
1986) | IMDb:
5.4
When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck stop are held hostage by a gang of homicidal 18-wheelers. The frightened people set out to defeat the killer machines ... or be killed by them.
Starring:
Emilio Estevez
,
Pat Hingle
,
Laura Harrington
,
Yeardley Smith
,
John Short
,
Ellen McElduff
At Close Range (
1986) | IMDb:
6.9
Brad Whitewood Jr. lives in rural Pennsylvania and has few prospects. Against his mother's wishes, he seeks out his estranged father, the head of a gang of thieves in a nearby town. Though his new girlfriend supports his criminal ambitions, Brad Jr. soon learns that his father is a dangerous man. Inspired by the real events that led to the end of the Johnston Gang, who operated in the northeastern United States in the 1970s.
Starring:
Sean Penn
,
Christopher Walken
,
Mary Stuart Masterson
,
Chris Penn
,
Millie Perkins
,
Eileen Ryan
Places in the Heart (
1984) | IMDb:
7.4
In 1935 rural Texas, recently widowed Edna Spaulding struggles to survive with two small children, a farm to run, and very little money in the bank - not to mention a deadly tornado and the unwelcome presence of the Ku Klux Klan. Edna is aided by her beautician sister, Margaret; a blind boarder, Mr. Will; and a would-be thief, Moze, who decides to teach Edna how to plant and harvest cotton.
Directed by:
Robert Benton
Silkwood (
1983) | IMDb:
7.1
The story of Karen Silkwood, a metallurgy worker at a plutonium processing plant who was purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing blatant worker safety violations at the plant.
Brubaker (
1980) | IMDb:
7.1
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
Starring:
Robert Redford
,
Yaphet Kotto
,
Jane Alexander
,
Murray Hamilton
,
David Keith
,
Morgan Freeman