All the King's Men (
2006) | IMDb:
6.1
The story of an idealist's rise to power in the world of Louisiana politics and the corruption that leads to his ultimate downfall. Based on the 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Robert Penn Warren, loosely based on the story of real-life politician Huey Long.
Starring:
Sean Penn
,
Jude Law
,
Kate Winslet
,
James Gandolfini
,
Patricia Clarkson
,
Anthony Hopkins
The Interpreter (
2005) | IMDb:
6.4
After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to investigate.
Starring:
Nicole Kidman
,
Sean Penn
,
Catherine Keener
,
Jesper Christensen
,
Yvan Attal
,
Earl Cameron
Vanilla Sky (
2001) | IMDb:
6.9
David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his troubles as the lines between illusion and reality, between life and death, are blurred.
Up Close & Personal (
1996) | IMDb:
6.1
Tally Atwater has a dream: to be a prime-time network newscaster. She pursues this dream with nothing but ambition, raw talent and a homemade demo tape. Warren Justice is a brilliant, hard edged, veteran newsman. He sees Tally has talent and becomes her mentor. Tally’s career takes a meteoric rise and she and Warren fall in love. The romance that results is as intense and revealing as television news itself. Yet, each breaking story, every videotaped crisis that brings them together, also threatens to drive them apart...
Starring:
Robert Redford
,
Michelle Pfeiffer
,
Stockard Channing
,
Joe Mantegna
,
Kate Nelligan
,
Glenn Plummer
The Firm (
1993) | IMDb:
6.9
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murdered. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan...
Starring:
Tom Cruise
,
Jeanne Tripplehorn
,
Gene Hackman
,
Hal Holbrook
,
Terry Kinney
,
Wilford Brimley
The Fisher King (
1991) | IMDb:
7.5
Two troubled men face their terrible destinies and events of their past as they join together on a mission to find the Holy Grail and thus to save themselves.
Starring:
Jeff Bridges
,
Robin Williams
,
Mercedes Ruehl
,
Amanda Plummer
,
Michael Jeter
,
Lara Harris
Back to the Future Part III (
1990) | IMDb:
7.4
The final installment finds Marty digging the trusty DeLorean out of a mineshaft and looking for Doc in the Wild West of 1885. But when their time machine breaks down, the travelers are stranded in a land of spurs. More problems arise when Doc falls for pretty schoolteacher Clara Clayton, and Marty tangles with Buford Tannen.
Starring:
Michael J. Fox
,
Christopher Lloyd
,
Thomas F. Wilson
,
Mary Steenburgen
,
Lea Thompson
,
Elisabeth Shue
Back to the Future Part II (
1989) | IMDb:
7.8
Marty and Doc are at it again as the time-traveling duo head to 2015 to nip some McFly family woes in the bud. But things go awry thanks to bully Biff Tannen and a pesky sports almanac. In a last-ditch attempt to set things straight, Marty finds himself bound for 1955 and face to face with his teenage parents -- again.
Starring:
Michael J. Fox
,
Christopher Lloyd
,
Lea Thompson
,
Thomas F. Wilson
,
Elisabeth Shue
,
James Tolkan
Rain Man (
1988) | IMDb:
8
When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.
Starring:
Dustin Hoffman
,
Tom Cruise
,
Valeria Golino
,
Gerald R. Molen
,
Jack Murdock
,
Michael D. Roberts
Back to the Future (
1985) | IMDb:
8.5
Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents' romance and - with the help of his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown - return to 1985.
Starring:
Michael J. Fox
,
Christopher Lloyd
,
Lea Thompson
,
Crispin Glover
,
Thomas F. Wilson
,
Claudia Wells
Witness (
1985) | IMDb:
7.4
While protecting an Amish boy - who is the sole witness to a brutal murder - and his mother, a detective is forced to seek refuge within their community when his own life is threatened.
Starring:
Harrison Ford
,
Kelly McGillis
,
Josef Sommer
,
Lukas Haas
,
Jan Rubeš
,
Alexander Godunov
Tootsie (
1982) | IMDb:
7.4
When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego – Dorothy Michaels – in order to land a part in a daytime drama, he unwittingly becomes a feminist icon and ends up in a romantic pickle.
Starring:
Dustin Hoffman
,
Jessica Lange
,
Teri Garr
,
Dabney Coleman
,
Charles Durning
,
Bill Murray
An Officer and a Gentleman (
1982) | IMDb:
7
Zack Mayo is an aloof, taciturn man who aspires to be a navy pilot. Once he arrives at training camp for his 13-week officer's course, Mayo runs afoul of abrasive, no-nonsense drill Sergeant Emil Foley. Mayo is an excellent cadet, but a little cold around the heart, so Foley rides him mercilessly, sensing that the young man would be prime officer material if he weren't so self-involved. Zack's affair with a working girl is likewise compromised by his unwillingness to give of himself.
Starring:
Richard Gere
,
Debra Winger
,
Louis Gossett Jr.
,
David Keith
,
Robert Loggia
,
Lisa Blount
Absence of Malice (
1981) | IMDb:
6.9
Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on Michael Gallagher, a suspected racketeer. He has an alibi for the time his crime was allegedly committed—but it involves an innocent party. When he tells Carter the truth and the newspaper runs it, tragedy follows, forcing Carter to face up to the responsibilities of her job when she is confronted by Gallagher.
King Kong (
1976) | IMDb:
5.9
An oil company expedition disturbs the peace of a giant ape and brings him back to New York to exploit him.
Starring:
Jeff Bridges
,
Jessica Lange
,
Charles Grodin
,
John Randolph
,
René Auberjonois
,
Julius Harris