The Prestige (
2006) | IMDb:
8.5
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
Starring:
Christian Bale
,
Hugh Jackman
,
Michael Caine
,
Scarlett Johansson
,
Rebecca Hall
,
David Bowie
Jarhead (
2005) | IMDb:
7
Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his unit are sent to the Persian Gulf where they are eager to fight, but are forced to stay back from the action. Swofford struggles with the possibility of his girlfriend cheating on him, and as his mental state deteriorates, his desire to kill increases.
Starring:
Jamie Foxx
,
Jake Gyllenhaal
,
Peter Sarsgaard
,
Scott MacDonald
,
Chris Cooper
,
Laz Alonso
Christmas with the Kranks (
2004) | IMDb:
5.4
When their only daughter Blair leaves the family nest, Luther and Nora Krank decide to book an island cruise to beat the yuletide blues and just skip the holidays. But their decision to boycott tradition has the whole neighborhood in an uproar, and when Blair calls on Christmas Eve to announce a surprise visit with her new fiancée, the Kranks have just twelve hours to perform a miracle and pull themselves and their neighbors together to throw the best celebration ever!
Starring:
Tim Allen
,
Jamie Lee Curtis
,
Dan Aykroyd
,
M. Emmet Walsh
,
Elizabeth Franz
,
Erik Per Sullivan
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (
2003) | IMDb:
7.5
After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a captain of the British Royal Navy begins a chase over two oceans to capture or destroy the enemy, though he must weigh his commitment to duty and ferocious pursuit of glory against the safety of his devoted crew, including the ship's thoughtful surgeon, his best friend.
The Perfect Storm (
2000) | IMDb:
6.5
In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail.
Starring:
George Clooney
,
Mark Wahlberg
,
Diane Lane
,
John C. Reilly
,
William Fichtner
,
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
The Green Mile (
1999) | IMDb:
8.6
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.
Starring:
Tom Hanks
,
Michael Clarke Duncan
,
David Morse
,
Bonnie Hunt
,
Michael Jeter
,
Doug Hutchison
The Truman Show (
1998) | IMDb:
8.2
Every second of every day, from the moment he was born, for the last thirty years, Truman Burbank has been the unwitting star of the longest running, most popular documentary-soap opera in history. The picture-perfect town of Seahaven that he calls home is actually a gigantic soundstage. Truman's friends and family - everyone he meets, in fact - are actors. He lives every moment under the unblinking gaze of thousands of hidden TV cameras.
Starring:
Jim Carrey
,
Laura Linney
,
Noah Emmerich
,
Natascha McElhone
,
Holland Taylor
,
Ed Harris
Michael (
1996) | IMDb:
5.7
Tabloid reporters are sent by their editor to investigate after the paper recieves a letter from a woman claiming an angel is living with her.
Starring:
John Travolta
,
Andie MacDowell
,
William Hurt
,
Bob Hoskins
,
Robert Pastorelli
,
Jean Stapleton
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (
1995) | IMDb:
6.4
Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe. He must accomplish this before the wedding of the Wachati's Princess to the prince of the warrior Wachootoos. If Ace fails, the result will be a vicious tribal war.
Waterworld (
1995) | IMDb:
6.3
In a futuristic world where the polar ice caps have melted and made Earth a liquid planet, a beautiful barmaid rescues a mutant seafarer from a floating island prison. They escape, along with her young charge, Enola, and sail off aboard his ship. But the trio soon becomes the target of a menacing pirate who covets the map to 'Dryland'—which is tattooed on Enola's back.
Starring:
Kevin Costner
,
Dennis Hopper
,
Jeanne Tripplehorn
,
Tina Majorino
,
R. D. Call
,
Gerard Murphy
Clear and Present Danger (
1994) | IMDb:
6.9
Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, and friend of the president, is murdered on his yacht, Ryan starts discovering links between the man and drug dealers. As former CIA agent John Clark is sent to Colombia to kill drug cartel kingpins in retaliation, Ryan must fight through multiple cover-ups to figure out what happened and who's responsible.
Starring:
Harrison Ford
,
Willem Dafoe
,
Anne Archer
,
Joaquim de Almeida
,
Henry Czerny
,
Harris Yulin
2010 (
1984) | IMDb:
6.7
While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery spacecraft and its sole known survivor, the homicidal computer HAL.