Anna Karenina (
2012) | IMDb:
6.6
In Imperial Russia, Anna, the wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets the charming cavalry officer Vronsky to whom she is immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.
Starring:
Keira Knightley
,
Jude Law
,
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
,
Matthew Macfadyen
,
Eric MacLennan
,
Kelly Macdonald
The Reader (
2008) | IMDb:
7.6
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
Eastern Promises (
2007) | IMDb:
7.6
A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
Starring:
Viggo Mortensen
,
Naomi Watts
,
Vincent Cassel
,
Armin Mueller-Stahl
,
Sinéad Cusack
,
Donald Sumpter
Derailed (
2005) | IMDb:
6.6
When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families.
Starring:
Jennifer Aniston
,
Clive Owen
,
Vincent Cassel
,
Melissa George
,
Giancarlo Esposito
,
RZA
The Constant Gardener (
2005) | IMDb:
7.4
Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.
Starring:
Ralph Fiennes
,
Rachel Weisz
,
Danny Huston
,
Bill Nighy
,
Pete Postlethwaite
,
Richard McCabe
Beyond the Sea (
2004) | IMDb:
6.7
Based on the life and career of legendary entertainer, Bobby Darin, the biopic moves back and forth between his childhood and adulthood, to tell the tale of his life.
Starring:
Kevin Spacey
,
Kate Bosworth
,
John Goodman
,
Bob Hoskins
,
Brenda Blethyn
,
Greta Scacchi