Love & Other Drugs (
2010) | IMDb:
6.7
Maggie is an alluring free spirit who won't let anyone – or anything – tie her down. But she meets her match in Jamie, whose relentless and nearly infallible charm serves him well with the ladies and the cutthroat world of pharmaceutical sales. Maggie and Jamie's evolving relationship takes them both by surprise, as they find themselves under the influence of the ultimate drug: love.
Defiance (
2008) | IMDb:
7.1
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in the ghettos of Poland.
Starring:
Daniel Craig
,
Liev Schreiber
,
Jamie Bell
,
Alexa Davalos
,
Allan Corduner
,
Mark Feuerstein
Blood Diamond (
2006) | IMDb:
8
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.
Starring:
Leonardo DiCaprio
,
Djimon Hounsou
,
Jennifer Connelly
,
Kagiso Kuypers
,
Arnold Vosloo
,
Antony Coleman
The Last Samurai (
2003) | IMDb:
7.8
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.
Abandon (
2002) | IMDb:
4.8
A psychological thriller about a senior at one of America's most prestigious universities. Under enormous pressure to complete her thesis and earn a top job at one of the world's most competitive consulting firms, Katie is still coping with the sudden unexplained disappearance of her first love two years prior. As the investigation continues, Katie is forced to choose between past passions and new possibilities, even as new facts are uncovered.
Starring:
Katie Holmes
,
Benjamin Bratt
,
Charlie Hunnam
,
Zooey Deschanel
,
Fred Ward
,
Mark Feuerstein
Directed by:
Stephen Gaghan
I Am Sam (
2001) | IMDb:
7.6
Sam, a neurodivergent man, has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. But as Lucy grows up, Sam's limitations as a parent start to become a problem and the authorities take her away. Sam convinces high-priced lawyer Rita to take his case pro bono and in turn teaches her the value of love and family.
Starring:
Sean Penn
,
Michelle Pfeiffer
,
Dianne Wiest
,
Dakota Fanning
,
Richard Schiff
,
Loretta Devine
Traffic (
2000) | IMDb:
7.6
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin's sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband's ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.
Starring:
Michael Douglas
,
Benicio del Toro
,
Catherine Zeta-Jones
,
Don Cheadle
,
Erika Christensen
,
Jacob Vargas
Shakespeare in Love (
1998) | IMDb:
7.1
Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," before it's even written. When a lovely noblewoman auditions for a role, they fall into forbidden love -- and his play finds a new life (and title). As their relationship progresses, Shakespeare's comedy soon transforms into tragedy.
Starring:
Joseph Fiennes
,
Gwyneth Paltrow
,
Geoffrey Rush
,
Tom Wilkinson
,
Judi Dench
,
Imelda Staunton
Directed by:
John Madden
The Siege (
1998) | IMDb:
6.4
The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist from his Middle East homeland leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York. An FBI senior agent and his team attempt to locate and decommission the enemy cells, but must also deal with an Army General gone rogue and a female CIA agent of uncertain loyalties.
Starring:
Denzel Washington
,
Annette Bening
,
Bruce Willis
,
Tony Shalhoub
,
Sami Bouajila
,
Aasif Mandvi
Legends of the Fall (
1994) | IMDb:
7.5
In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons, Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. Eventually, the unconventional but close-knit family are bound by loyalty, tested by war, and torn apart by love, as told over the course of several decades in this epic saga.