Waves (
2019) | IMDb:
7.5
A controlling father’s attempts to ensure that his two children succeed in high school backfire after his son experiences a career-ending sports injury. Their familial bonds are eventually placed under severe strain by an unexpected tragedy.
Starring:
Kelvin Harrison Jr.
,
Taylor Russell
,
Renée Elise Goldsberry
,
Sterling K. Brown
,
Lucas Hedges
,
Alexa Demie
Honey Boy (
2019) | IMDb:
7.2
The story of a child star attempting to mend his relationship with his law-breaking, alcohol-abusing father over the course of a decade, loosely based on Shia LaBeouf’s life.
Ben Is Back (
2018) | IMDb:
6.7
19-year-old Ben Burns unexpectedly returns home to his family's suburban home on Christmas Eve morning. Ben's mother, Holly, is relieved and welcoming but wary of her son staying clean. Over a turbulent 24 hours, new truths are revealed, and a mother's undying love for her son is tested as she does everything in her power to keep him safe.
Starring:
Julia Roberts
,
Lucas Hedges
,
Courtney B. Vance
,
Kathryn Newton
,
Rachel Bay Jones
,
David Zaldivar
Boy Erased (
2018) | IMDb:
6.9
Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be permanently exiled and shunned by his family, friends, and faith.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (
2017) | IMDb:
8.1
After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.
Starring:
Frances McDormand
,
Woody Harrelson
,
Sam Rockwell
,
Lucas Hedges
,
Abbie Cornish
,
Caleb Landry Jones
Lady Bird (
2017) | IMDb:
7.4
Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her upbringing are questioned and tested as she plans to head off to college.
Starring:
Saoirse Ronan
,
Laurie Metcalf
,
Tracy Letts
,
Beanie Feldstein
,
Lucas Hedges
,
Timothée Chalamet
Manchester by the Sea (
2016) | IMDb:
7.8
After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.
Starring:
Casey Affleck
,
Lucas Hedges
,
Michelle Williams
,
Kyle Chandler
,
C.J. Wilson
,
Gretchen Mol
Kill the Messenger (
2014) | IMDb:
6.9
A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. Based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb.
Starring:
Jeremy Renner
,
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
,
Michael Sheen
,
Ray Liotta
,
Robert Patrick
,
Andy García
Directed by:
Michael Cuesta
The Grand Budapest Hotel (
2014) | IMDb:
8.1
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.
Starring:
Ralph Fiennes
,
F. Murray Abraham
,
Tony Revolori
,
Mathieu Amalric
,
Adrien Brody
,
Willem Dafoe
Labor Day (
2013) | IMDb:
6.9
Two two strangers are drawn together under incredible circumstances. What starts as an unforeseen encounter over a long holiday weekend soon becomes a second chance love story.
Starring:
Kate Winslet
,
Josh Brolin
,
Gattlin Griffith
,
Tobey Maguire
,
Tom Lipinski
,
Maika Monroe
The Zero Theorem (
2013) | IMDb:
6
A computer hacker's goal to discover the reason for human existence continually finds his work interrupted thanks to the Management; this time, they send a teenager and lusty love interest to distract him.
Starring:
Christoph Waltz
,
David Thewlis
,
Mélanie Thierry
,
Lucas Hedges
,
Matt Damon
,
Ben Whishaw
Moonrise Kingdom (
2012) | IMDb:
7.8
Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.
Starring:
Jared Gilman
,
Kara Hayward
,
Bruce Willis
,
Edward Norton
,
Bill Murray
,
Frances McDormand
Directed by:
Wes Anderson
Dan in Real Life (
2007) | IMDb:
6.8
Advice columnist Dan Burns is an expert on relationships, but somehow struggles to succeed as a brother, a son and a single parent to three precocious daughters. Things get even more complicated when Dan finds out that the woman he falls in love with is actually his brother's new girlfriend.
Starring:
Steve Carell
,
Juliette Binoche
,
Dane Cook
,
Alison Pill
,
Britt Robertson
,
Marlene Lawston
Directed by:
Peter Hedges