The Counselor (
2013) | IMDb:
5.4
A lawyer finds himself in far over his head when he attempts to get involved in drug trafficking.
Starring:
Michael Fassbender
,
Penélope Cruz
,
Cameron Diaz
,
Javier Bardem
,
Brad Pitt
,
Bruno Ganz
Directed by:
Ridley Scott
Unknown (
2011) | IMDb:
6.8
A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.
The Reader (
2008) | IMDb:
7.6
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
The Baader Meinhof Complex (
2008) | IMDb:
7.3
'Der Baader Meinhof Komplex' depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "Deutschen Herbst" in 1977. The movie approaches the events based on Stefan Aust's standard work on the Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF). The story centers on the leadership of the self named anti-fascist resistance to state violence: Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin.
Starring:
Martina Gedeck
,
Moritz Bleibtreu
,
Johanna Wokalek
,
Nadja Uhl
,
Stipe Erceg
,
Niels-Bruno Schmidt
Directed by:
Uli Edel
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
Luther (
2003) | IMDb:
6.6
During the early 16th century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.
Directed by:
Eric Till