A Most Violent Year (
2014) | IMDb:
7
A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.
Starring:
Oscar Isaac
,
Jessica Chastain
,
David Oyelowo
,
Alessandro Nivola
,
Elyes Gabel
,
Albert Brooks
Flight (
2012) | IMDb:
7.3
Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's managed to complete his flights safely. His luck runs out when a disastrous mechanical malfunction sends his plane hurtling toward the ground. Whip pulls off a miraculous crash-landing that results in only six lives lost. Shaken to the core, Whip vows to get sober -- but when the crash investigation exposes his addiction, he finds himself in an even worse situation.
Starring:
Denzel Washington
,
Don Cheadle
,
Kelly Reilly
,
John Goodman
,
Bruce Greenwood
,
Brian Geraghty
Get the Gringo (
2012) | IMDb:
6.9
A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.
Starring:
Mel Gibson
,
Kevin Hernandez
,
Daniel Giménez Cacho
,
Peter Stormare
,
Jesús Ochoa
,
Roberto Sosa
Public Enemies (
2009) | IMDb:
7
Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover and the fledgling FBI. Desperate to capture the elusive outlaw, Hoover makes Dillinger his first Public Enemy Number One and assigns his top agent, Melvin Purvis, the task of bringing him in dead or alive.
Starring:
Johnny Depp
,
Christian Bale
,
Marion Cotillard
,
Jason Clarke
,
Rory Cochrane
,
Billy Crudup
Paul Blart: Mall Cop (
2009) | IMDb:
5.3
Mild-mannered Paul Blart has always had huge dreams of becoming a State Trooper. Until then, he patrols the local mall as a security guard. With his closely cropped moustache, personal transporter and gung-ho attitude, only Blart seems to take his job seriously. All that changes when a team of thugs raids the mall and takes hostages. Untrained, unarmed and a super-size target, Blart has to become a real cop to save the day.
Starring:
Kevin James
,
Keir O'Donnell
,
Jayma Mays
,
Raini Rodriguez
,
Shirley Knight
,
Stephen Rannazzisi
Changeling (
2008) | IMDb:
7.8
Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mother and son. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, her quest for truth exposes a world of corruption.
Starring:
Angelina Jolie
,
John Malkovich
,
Jeffrey Donovan
,
Michael Kelly
,
Colm Feore
,
Jason Butler Harner
Stop-Loss (
2008) | IMDb:
6.4
A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return to field duty by the Army.
Starring:
Ryan Phillippe
,
Abbie Cornish
,
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
,
Channing Tatum
,
Josef Sommer
,
Timothy Olyphant
Charlie Wilson's War (
2007) | IMDb:
7
In the 1980s U.S. Rep. Charlie Wilson, Texas socialite Joanne Herring and CIA agent Gust Avrakotos form an unlikely alliance to boost funding for Afghan freedom fighters in their war against invading Soviets. The trio's successful efforts to finance these covert operations contributes to the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.
Inside Man (
2006) | IMDb:
7.6
When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective assigned to effect their release enters negotiations preoccupied with corruption charges he is facing.
Starring:
Denzel Washington
,
Clive Owen
,
Jodie Foster
,
Christopher Plummer
,
Willem Dafoe
,
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Syriana (
2005) | IMDb:
6.9
The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty. Meanwhile, veteran CIA agent Bob Barnes uncovers an assassination plot with unsettling origins.
War of the Worlds (
2005) | IMDb:
6.5
Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
People I Know (
2002) | IMDb:
5.4
A New York press agent must scramble when his major client becomes embroiled in a huge scandal.
Produced by:
Michael Nozik
K-PAX (
2001) | IMDb:
7.4
Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.
Starring:
Jeff Bridges
,
Kevin Spacey
,
Mary McCormack
,
Alfre Woodard
,
Ajay Naidu
,
Vincent Laresca
The Legend of Bagger Vance (
2000) | IMDb:
6.7
World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, however, he needs to get it back to play in a tournament to save the financially ravaged golf course of a long-ago sweetheart. Help arrives in the form of mysterious caddy Bagger Vance.
Starring:
Matt Damon
,
Will Smith
,
Charlize Theron
,
Bruce McGill
,
Joel Gretsch
,
J. Michael Moncrief
Mrs. Winterbourne (
1996) | IMDb:
6.2
Connie Doyle is eighteen, pregnant and alone. She accidentally ends up on a train where she meets Hugh Winterbourne and his wife pregnant Patricia. The train wrecks and she wakes up in the hospital to find out that it's been assumed that she's Patricia. Hugh's mother takes her in and she falls in love with Hugh's brother Bill. Just when she thinks everything is going her way, her ex-boyfriend shows up.
Starring:
Shirley MacLaine
,
Ricki Lake
,
Brendan Fraser
,
Miguel Sandoval
,
Loren Dean
,
Peter Gerety
Directed by:
Richard Benjamin
Wolf (
1994) | IMDb:
6.2
Aging publisher Will Randall is at the end of his rope when a younger co-worker snatches his job out from under his nose. But after being bitten by a wolf, Will suddenly finds himself full of youthful vigor. As he struggles to regain his position, he becomes enthralled with Laura Alden, his former boss's daughter. And, as increasingly animal-like urges begin to overwhelm him, Randall worries that he may be turning into the creature that bit him.
Starring:
Jack Nicholson
,
Michelle Pfeiffer
,
James Spader
,
Kate Nelligan
,
Richard Jenkins
,
Christopher Plummer