Casino Jack (
2010) | IMDb:
6.2
Based on a true story, a hot shot Washington DC lobbyist and his protégé go down hard as their schemes to peddle influence lead to corruption and murder.
Starring:
Kevin Spacey
,
Kelly Preston
,
Hannah Endicott-Douglas
,
Rachelle Lefevre
,
Barry Pepper
,
Spencer Garrett
Watchmen (
2009) | IMDb:
7.6
In a gritty and alternate 1985, the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown. But after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered, an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited heroes set out to prevent their own destruction, but in doing so they uncover a sinister plot that puts all of humanity in grave danger.
Starring:
Malin Åkerman
,
Patrick Wilson
,
Billy Crudup
,
Matthew Goode
,
Jackie Earle Haley
,
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
300 (
2007) | IMDb:
7.6
Based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, "300" is very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians; the battle is said to have inspired all of Greece to band together against the Persians, and helped usher in the world's first democracy.
Starring:
Gerard Butler
,
Lena Headey
,
Dominic West
,
David Wenham
,
Vincent Regan
,
Michael Fassbender
Land of the Dead (
2005) | IMDb:
6.2
The world is full of zombies and the survivors have barricaded themselves inside a walled city to keep out the living dead. As the wealthy hide out in skyscrapers and chaos rules the streets, the rest of the survivors must find a way to stop the evolving zombies from breaking into the city.
Romeo + Juliet (
1996) | IMDb:
6.7
In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed. Though the film is visually modern, the bard's dialogue remains.
Starring:
Leonardo DiCaprio
,
Claire Danes
,
Jesse Bradford
,
Vondie Curtis-Hall
,
Brian Dennehy
,
John Leguizamo
Billy Madison (
1995) | IMDb:
6.3
Billy Madison is the 27 year-old son of Bryan Madison, a very rich man who has made his living in the hotel industry. Billy stands to inherit his father's empire, but only if he can make it through all 12 grades, 2 weeks per grade, to prove that he has what it takes to run the family business.
Starring:
Adam Sandler
,
Bradley Whitford
,
Josh Mostel
,
Bridgette Wilson-Sampras
,
Darren McGavin
,
Norm Macdonald
PCU (
1994) | IMDb:
6.5
Nervous high school senior Tom Lawrence visits Port Chester University, where he gets a taste of politically correct college life when he's guided by fraternity wild man Droz and his housemates at The Pit. But Droz and his pals have rivals in nasty preppy Rand McPherson and the school's steely president. With their house threatened with expulsion, Droz and company decide to throw a raging party where the various factions will collide.
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (
1986) | IMDb:
6
Tommy Jarvis, tormented by the fear that maybe Jason isn't really dead, unwittingly resurrects the mass murderer for another bloody rampage.
Days of Heaven (
1978) | IMDb:
7.8
In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer.