Chevalier (
2023) | IMDb:
6.5
The illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, Joseph Bologne rises to improbable heights in French society as a celebrated violinist-composer and fencer, complete with an ill-fated love affair and a falling out with Marie Antoinette and her court.
Starring:
Kelvin Harrison Jr.
,
Samara Weaving
,
Lucy Boynton
,
Alex Fitzalan
,
Minnie Driver
,
Sian Clifford
See How They Run (
2022) | IMDb:
6.5
In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered. When world-weary Inspector Stoppard and eager rookie Constable Stalker take on the case, the two find themselves thrown into a puzzling whodunit within the glamorously sordid theater underground, investigating the mysterious homicide at their own peril.
Starring:
Sam Rockwell
,
Saoirse Ronan
,
Adrien Brody
,
Ruth Wilson
,
Reece Shearsmith
,
Harris Dickinson
The Hate U Give (
2018) | IMDb:
7.5
Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.
Star Trek Beyond (
2016) | IMDb:
7
The USS Enterprise crew explores the furthest reaches of uncharted space, where they encounter a mysterious new enemy who puts them and everything the Federation stands for to the test.
21 Jump Street (
2012) | IMDb:
7.2
When cops Schmidt and Jenko join the secret Jump Street unit, they use their youthful appearances to go under cover as high-school students. They trade in their guns and badges for backpacks, and set out to shut down a dangerous drug ring. But, as time goes on, Schmidt and Jenko discover that high school is nothing like it was just a few years earlier -- and, what's more, they must again confront the teenage terror and anxiety they thought they had left behind.
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
Lords of Dogtown (
2005) | IMDb:
7.1
The radical true story behind three teenage surfers from Venice Beach, California, who took skateboarding to the extreme and changed the world of sports forever. Stacy Peralta, Tony Alva and Jay Adams are the Z-Boys, a bunch of nobodies until they create a new style of skateboarding that becomes a worldwide phenomenon. But when their hobby becomes a business, the success shreds their friendship.
Starring:
John Robinson
,
Emile Hirsch
,
Rebecca De Mornay
,
William Mapother
,
Julio Oscar Mechoso
,
Victor Rasuk