Margaret (
2011) | IMDb:
6.5
A young woman witnesses a bus accident, and is caught up in the aftermath, where the question of whether or not it was intentional affects many people's lives.
Starring:
Anna Paquin
,
J. Smith-Cameron
,
Mark Ruffalo
,
Jeannie Berlin
,
Jean Reno
,
John Gallagher Jr.
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.
Michael Clayton (
2007) | IMDb:
7.2
A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit.
Starring:
George Clooney
,
Tom Wilkinson
,
Tilda Swinton
,
Michael O'Keefe
,
Sydney Pollack
,
Danielle Skraastad
Catch a Fire (
2006) | IMDb:
6.7
The true story of anti-apartheid activists in South Africa, and particularly the life of Patrick Chamusso, a timid foreman at Secunda CTL, the largest synthetic fuel plant in the world. Patrick is wrongly accused, imprisoned and tortured for an attempt to bomb the plant, with the injustice transforming the apolitical worker into a radicalised insurgent, who then carries out his own successful sabotage mission.
Starring:
Tim Robbins
,
Derek Luke
,
Bonnie Mbuli
,
Mncedisi Shabangu
,
Tumisho Masha
,
Sithembiso Khumalo
Directed by:
Phillip Noyce
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
The Quiet American (
2002) | IMDb:
7
Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her attention. In retaliation, Fowler informs the communists that the American is selling arms to their enemy.
Starring:
Michael Caine
,
Brendan Fraser
,
Do Thi Hai Yen
,
Tzi Ma
,
Rade Šerbedžija
,
Robert Stanton
Directed by:
Phillip Noyce
Heaven (
2002) | IMDb:
7
Cate Blanchett stars as Philippa, a British teacher living in Turin, Italy, who has seen many friends, including her husband, fall victim to drug overdoses. Philippa has repeatedly contacted the police with information about Turin's biggest drug dealer but, complicit in his dealings, they have completely ignored her. So Philippa decides to dole out her own form of justice with a homemade bomb -- setting her off on a journey from young widow to fugitive on the run.
Starring:
Cate Blanchett
,
Giovanni Ribisi
,
Remo Girone
,
Stefania Rocca
,
Alessandro Sperduti
,
Mattia Sbragia
Directed by:
Tom Tykwer
Iris (
2001) | IMDb:
7
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Starring:
Kate Winslet
,
Judi Dench
,
Jim Broadbent
,
Hugh Bonneville
,
Penelope Wilton
,
Samuel West
Directed by:
Richard Eyre