Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans (
2009) | IMDb:
6.6
Terrence McDonagh is a New Orleans Police sergeant, who receives a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. Due to his heroic act, McDonagh injures his back and becomes addicted to prescription pain medication. He then finds himself involved with a drug dealer who is suspected of murdering a family of African immigrants.
Runaway Jury (
2003) | IMDb:
7.1
After a workplace shooting in New Orleans, a trial against the gun manufacturer pits lawyer Wendell Rohr against shady jury consultant Rankin Fitch, who uses illegal means to stack the jury with people sympathetic to the defense. But when juror Nicholas Easter and his girlfriend Marlee reveal their ability to sway the jury into delivering any verdict they want, a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game begins.
Don't Say a Word (
2001) | IMDb:
6.3
When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he is horrified to discover that the abductors' demand is that he break through to a young woman, suffering from PTSD, who knows a secret six digit code number.
Starring:
Michael Douglas
,
Sean Bean
,
Brittany Murphy
,
Skye McCole Bartusiak
,
Guy Torry
,
Jennifer Esposito
Kiss the Girls (
1997) | IMDb:
6.6
Forensic psychologist and detective Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to submit to his demands. The trail leads to Los Angeles, where the duo discovers that the psychopath may not be working alone.
Bean (
1997) | IMDb:
6.5
Childlike Englishman, Mr. Bean, is an incompetent watchman at the Royal National Gallery. After the museum's board of directors' attempt to have him fired is blocked by the chairman, who has taken a liking to Bean, they send him to Los Angeles to act as their ambassador for the unveiling of a historic painting to humiliate him. Fooled, Mr. Bean must now successfully unveil the painting or risk his and a hapless Los Angeles curator's termination.
Starring:
Rowan Atkinson
,
Peter MacNicol
,
Pamela Reed
,
Tricia Vessey
,
Andrew Lawrence
,
Harris Yulin
Orlando (
1992) | IMDb:
7.1
England, 1600. Queen Elizabeth I promises Orlando, a young nobleman obsessed with poetry, that she will grant him land and fortune if he agrees to satisfy a very particular request.
Starring:
Tilda Swinton
,
Billy Zane
,
Lothaire Bluteau
,
John Wood
,
Charlotte Valandrey
,
Heathcote Williams
Mississippi Masala (
1991) | IMDb:
6.7
Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda, twentysomething Mina finds herself helping to run a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. It's there that a passionate romance with the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius challenges the prejudices of their conservative families and exposes the rifts between the region's Indian and African American communities.
Starring:
Denzel Washington
,
Sarita Choudhury
,
Roshan Seth
,
Sharmila Tagore
,
Charles S. Dutton
,
Joe Seneca
Maurice (
1987) | IMDb:
7.6
After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.
Starring:
James Wilby
,
Hugh Grant
,
Rupert Graves
,
Denholm Elliott
,
Simon Callow
,
Billie Whitelaw
Another Country (
1984) | IMDb:
7
In Moscow in 1983, an American journalist interviews Guy Bennett, who recalls his last year at public school, fifty years before, and how it contributed to him becoming a spy.
Starring:
Rupert Everett
,
Colin Firth
,
Michael Jenn
,
Robert Addie
,
Rupert Wainwright
,
Cary Elwes
Reds (
1981) | IMDb:
7.3
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant.
Starring:
Warren Beatty
,
Diane Keaton
,
Edward Herrmann
,
Jerzy Kosiński
,
Jack Nicholson
,
Paul Sorvino