The Forgiven (
2018) | IMDb:
6
After the end of Apartheid, Archbishop Desmond Tutu meets with a brutal murderer seeking redemption.
Starring:
Forest Whitaker
,
Eric Bana
,
Jeff Gum
,
Debbie Sherman
,
Terry Norton
,
Dominika Jablonska
Directed by:
Roland Joffé
The Lovers (
2015) | IMDb:
4.6
The Lovers is an epic romance time travel adventure film. Helmed by Roland Joffé from a story by Ajey Jhankar, the film is a sweeping tale of an impossible love set against the backdrop of the first Anglo-Maratha war across two time periods and continents and centred around four characters — a British officer in 18th century colonial India, the Indian woman he falls deeply in love with, an American present-day marine biologist and his wife.
Starring:
Josh Hartnett
,
Simone Kessell
,
Tamsin Egerton
,
Alice Englert
,
Bipasha Basu
,
Abhay Deol
You and I (
2011) | IMDb:
4.5
Janie Sawyer, an American teenager, is forced to live in Moscow because of her father's job. Janie is trying to escape her lonely life in Moscow through her deep love of music and the internet. Janie and Lana Starkova meet on a fansite for the pop-band t.A.T.u. Trapped in a small Russian town, Lana wants desperately nothing more than to flee her mundane life causing the two girls to develop an instant connection through their love of t.A.T.u.'s music.
Starring:
Mischa Barton
,
Shantel VanSanten
,
Anton Yelchin
,
Alex Kaluzhsky
,
Charlie Creed-Miles
,
Helena Mattsson
Directed by:
Roland Joffé
Captivity (
2007) | IMDb:
4.6
The sought-after images of top model Jennifer adorn magazine covers and billboards worldwide. When alone at a club, she is abducted and incarcerated in a cell with another prisoner. When their captor subjects the two to torture, they commit to escaping the chamber of horrors before they're killed.
Starring:
Elisha Cuthbert
,
Daniel Gillies
,
Pruitt Taylor Vince
,
Laz Alonso
,
Chrysta Olson
,
Michael Harney
Goodbye Lover (
1999) | IMDb:
5.6
Police investigate when a man having an affair with his brother's wife disappears suddenly.
Starring:
Patricia Arquette
,
Dermot Mulroney
,
Mary-Louise Parker
,
Ellen DeGeneres
,
John Neville
,
Ray McKinnon
The Scarlet Letter (
1995) | IMDb:
5.3
Set in puritanical Boston in the mid 1600s, the story of seamstress Hester Prynne, who is outcast after she becomes pregnant by a respected reverend. She refuses to divulge the name of the father, is "convicted" of adultery and forced to wear a scarlet "A" until an Indian attack unites the Puritans and leads to a reevaluation of their laws and morals.
Starring:
Demi Moore
,
Gary Oldman
,
Robert Duvall
,
Robert Prosky
,
Edward Hardwicke
,
Joan Plowright
City of Joy (
1992) | IMDb:
6.5
Max Lowe is a Houston surgeon who has grown weary of the bureaucracy of American medicine. When he loses a patient on the operating table, Max impulsively decides to leave America and travel to India in the hope of finding himself. Not long after he arrives in Calcutta, Max is attacked by a group of thugs and left without money or a passport.
The Mission (
1986) | IMDb:
7.4
When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors.
The Killing Fields (
1984) | IMDb:
7.8
New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran and American photojournalist Al Rockoff. When the U.S. Army pulls out amid escalating violence, Schanberg makes exit arrangements for Pran and his family. Pran, however, tells Schanberg he intends to stay in Cambodia to help cover the unfolding story — a decision he may regret as the Khmer Rouge rebels move in.
Starring:
Sam Waterston
,
Haing S. Ngor
,
John Malkovich
,
Julian Sands
,
Craig T. Nelson
,
Spalding Gray