Babylon (
2022) | IMDb:
7.1
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (
2011) | IMDb:
7.8
Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.
Starring:
Daniel Craig
,
Rooney Mara
,
Christopher Plummer
,
Stellan Skarsgård
,
Robin Wright
,
Yorick van Wageningen
The Social Network (
2010) | IMDb:
7.8
The tale of a new breed of cultural insurgent: a punk genius who sparked a revolution and changed the face of human interaction for a generation, and perhaps forever. Chronicling the formation of Facebook and the battles over ownership that followed upon the website's unfathomable success, The Social Network bears witness to the birth of an idea that rewove the fabric of society even as it unraveled the friendship of its creators.
Starring:
Jesse Eisenberg
,
Andrew Garfield
,
Justin Timberlake
,
Armie Hammer
,
Max Minghella
,
Rooney Mara
Public Enemies (
2009) | IMDb:
7
Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover and the fledgling FBI. Desperate to capture the elusive outlaw, Hoover makes Dillinger his first Public Enemy Number One and assigns his top agent, Melvin Purvis, the task of bringing him in dead or alive.
Starring:
Johnny Depp
,
Christian Bale
,
Marion Cotillard
,
Jason Clarke
,
Rory Cochrane
,
Billy Crudup
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (
2008) | IMDb:
7.8
Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward.
Starring:
Brad Pitt
,
Cate Blanchett
,
Taraji P. Henson
,
Julia Ormond
,
Jason Flemyng
,
Mahershala Ali
Panic Room (
2002) | IMDb:
6.8
Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul and Junior - during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.
Starring:
Jodie Foster
,
Kristen Stewart
,
Forest Whitaker
,
Jared Leto
,
Dwight Yoakam
,
Patrick Bauchau
Fight Club (
1999) | IMDb:
8.8
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
Con Air (
1997) | IMDb:
6.9
Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.
Starring:
Nicolas Cage
,
John Malkovich
,
John Cusack
,
Ving Rhames
,
Mykelti Williamson
,
Dave Chappelle
The Crucible (
1996) | IMDb:
6.8
A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.
Starring:
Daniel Day-Lewis
,
Winona Ryder
,
Paul Scofield
,
Joan Allen
,
Bruce Davison
,
Rob Campbell
Home for the Holidays (
1995) | IMDb:
6.5
After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces spending the holiday with her unhinged family.
Starring:
Holly Hunter
,
Robert Downey Jr.
,
Anne Bancroft
,
Charles Durning
,
Dylan McDermott
,
Geraldine Chaplin