Nightcrawler (
2014) | IMDb:
7.8
When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.
Crash (
2005) | IMDb:
7.7
In post-Sept. 11 Los Angeles, tensions erupt when the lives of a Brentwood housewife, her district attorney husband, a Persian shopkeeper, two cops, a pair of carjackers and a Korean couple converge during a 36-hour period.
Starring:
Sandra Bullock
,
Don Cheadle
,
Matt Dillon
,
Michael Peña
,
Jennifer Esposito
,
Brendan Fraser
House on Haunted Hill (
1999) | IMDb:
5.6
An amusement park mogul offers a random group of diverse people $1 million to spend the night in a decrepit former mental institution.
The Straight Story (
1999) | IMDb:
8
A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in Wisconsin, while Alvin is stuck in Iowa with no car and no driver's license. Then he hits on the idea of making the trip on his old lawnmower, thus beginning a picturesque and at times deeply spiritual odyssey.
Starring:
Richard Farnsworth
,
Sissy Spacek
,
Harry Dean Stanton
,
Everett McGill
,
Kevin Farley
,
John Farley
Lost Highway (
1997) | IMDb:
7.6
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
Starring:
Bill Pullman
,
Patricia Arquette
,
Balthazar Getty
,
Robert Blake
,
Natasha Gregson Wagner
,
Richard Pryor
Leaving Las Vegas (
1995) | IMDb:
7.5
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.