Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (
2002) | IMDb:
7.4
Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure and danger await when bloody writing on a wall announces: The Chamber Of Secrets Has Been Opened. To save Hogwarts will require all of Harry, Ron and Hermione’s magical abilities and courage.
Starring:
Daniel Radcliffe
,
Rupert Grint
,
Emma Watson
,
Kenneth Branagh
,
Toby Jones
,
Robbie Coltrane
The Count of Monte Cristo (
2002) | IMDb:
7.7
Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, Fernand, deceives him. After spending 13 miserable years in prison, Dantés escapes with the help of a fellow inmate and plots his revenge, cleverly insinuating himself into the French nobility.
Starring:
Jim Caviezel
,
Guy Pearce
,
Richard Harris
,
James Frain
,
Dagmara Domińczyk
,
Michael Wincott
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (
2001) | IMDb:
7.6
Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard—with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he learns to harness his newfound powers with the help of the school's kindly headmaster, Harry uncovers the truth about his parents' deaths—and about the villain who's to blame.
Starring:
Daniel Radcliffe
,
Rupert Grint
,
Emma Watson
,
Richard Harris
,
Tom Felton
,
Alan Rickman
Gladiator (
2000) | IMDb:
8.5
In the year 180, the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius throws the Roman Empire into chaos. Maximus is one of the Roman army's most capable and trusted generals, as well as a key advisor to the emperor. As Marcus' devious son Commodus ascends to the throne, Maximus is sentenced to execution. He escapes but is captured by slave traders. Renamed "Spaniard" and forced to become a gladiator, Maximus must battle to the death against other men for the amusement of paying audiences.
Starring:
Russell Crowe
,
Joaquin Phoenix
,
Connie Nielsen
,
Oliver Reed
,
Richard Harris
,
Derek Jacobi
The Barber of Siberia (
1998) | IMDb:
7.7
Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life forever: a handsome young cadet Andrej Tolstoy with whom she shares a fondness for opera, and the powerful General Radlov who is entranced by her beauty and wants to marry her.
Starring:
Julia Ormond
,
Oleg Menshikov
,
Aleksey Petrenko
,
Richard Harris
,
Vladimir Ilin
,
Marat Basharov
Smilla's Sense of Snow (
1997) | IMDb:
6.3
Smilla Jaspersen, half Danish, half Greenlander, attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has made several mysterious expeditions to Greenland. Scenes from the film were shot in Copenhagen and western Greenland. The film was entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival, where director Bille August was nominated for the Golden Bear.
Starring:
Julia Ormond
,
Gabriel Byrne
,
Richard Harris
,
Jim Broadbent
,
Tom Wilkinson
,
Robert Loggia
Patriot Games (
1992) | IMDb:
6.8
When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets Jack and his family as revenge.