Little Boy (
2015) | IMDb:
7.3
An eight-year-old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home. The story reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his father.
Starring:
Jakob Salvati
,
Emily Watson
,
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
,
Michael Rapaport
,
David Henrie
,
Ben Chaplin
You and I (
2011) | IMDb:
4.5
Janie Sawyer, an American teenager, is forced to live in Moscow because of her father's job. Janie is trying to escape her lonely life in Moscow through her deep love of music and the internet. Janie and Lana Starkova meet on a fansite for the pop-band t.A.T.u. Trapped in a small Russian town, Lana wants desperately nothing more than to flee her mundane life causing the two girls to develop an instant connection through their love of t.A.T.u.'s music.
Starring:
Mischa Barton
,
Shantel VanSanten
,
Anton Yelchin
,
Alex Kaluzhsky
,
Charlie Creed-Miles
,
Helena Mattsson
Directed by:
Roland Joffé
The World's Fastest Indian (
2005) | IMDb:
7.8
The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle—a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.
Starring:
Anthony Hopkins
,
Walton Goggins
,
Diane Ladd
,
Bruce Greenwood
,
Iain Rea
,
Tessa Mitchell
Directed by:
Roger Donaldson
Elektra (
2005) | IMDb:
4.7
Elektra the warrior survives a near-death experience, becomes an assassin-for-hire, and tries to protect her two latest targets, a single father and his young daughter, from a group of supernatural assassins.
Starring:
Jennifer Garner
,
Goran Visnjic
,
Will Yun Lee
,
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
,
Terence Stamp
,
Natassia Malthe
Spider-Man 2 (
2004) | IMDb:
7.5
Peter Parker is going through a major identity crisis. Burned out from being Spider-Man, he decides to shelve his superhero alter ego, which leaves the city suffering in the wake of carnage left by the evil Doc Ock. In the meantime, Parker still can't act on his feelings for Mary Jane Watson, a girl he's loved since childhood. A certain anger begins to brew in his best friend Harry Osborn as well...
Starring:
Tobey Maguire
,
Kirsten Dunst
,
James Franco
,
Alfred Molina
,
Rosemary Harris
,
J.K. Simmons
Thirteen Days (
2000) | IMDb:
7.3
The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missile bases established on the Soviet-allied island of Cuba.
Starring:
Kevin Costner
,
Bruce Greenwood
,
Steven Culp
,
Dylan Baker
,
Michael Fairman
,
Henry Strozier
The Thin Red Line (
1998) | IMDb:
7.6
The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal. It follows their journey, from the surprise of an unopposed landing, through the bloody and exhausting battles that follow, to the ultimate departure of those who survived.
Volcano (
1997) | IMDb:
5.5
An earthquake shatters a peaceful Los Angeles morning and opens a fissure deep into the earth, causing lava to start bubbling up. As a volcano begins forming in the La Brea Tar Pits, the director of the city's emergency management service, working with a geologist, must then use every resource in the city to try and stop the volcano from consuming LA.
Blood and Wine (
1996) | IMDb:
6
A man who has failed as a father and husband commits a heist to make money for his fledging business, but things become complicated when his wife interferes.
Starring:
Jack Nicholson
,
Stephen Dorff
,
Jennifer Lopez
,
Judy Davis
,
Michael Caine
,
Harold Perrineau
Kazaam (
1996) | IMDb:
3.1
When Max fools a gang of local toughs, he finds himself in big trouble. Fleeing from the thugs, Max runs into an old warehouse and bumps into a boom box. By doing that, he manages to release Kazaam, a genie who has been held captive for thousands of years.
Starring:
Shaquille O'Neal
,
Francis Capra
,
Ally Walker
,
Efren Ramirez
,
Wade Robson
,
James Acheson
Hackers (
1995) | IMDb:
6.2
Along with his new friends, a teenager who was arrested by the US Secret Service and banned from using a computer for writing a computer virus discovers a plot by a nefarious hacker, but they must use their computer skills to find the evidence while being pursued by the Secret Service and the evil computer genius behind the virus.
Starring:
Jonny Lee Miller
,
Angelina Jolie
,
Jesse Bradford
,
Matthew Lillard
,
Renoly Santiago
,
Fisher Stevens
Almost an Angel (
1990) | IMDb:
5.5
Terry Dean is an electronics wizard and thief. After he is released from jail, he is hit by a car while saving a little girl's life. While in the hospital, he dreams that God visits him and tells him he's an Angel, and must start doing good things to make up for his past life. Not believing it at first, he soon becomes convinced he must be an Angel. Not having any Angel powers yet, he must use his own experiences and talents to make good things happen.
Directed by:
John Cornell
Stanley & Iris (
1990) | IMDb:
6.3
An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. When he is fired, she takes on trying to teach him to read in her kitchen each night.
Starring:
Jane Fonda
,
Robert De Niro
,
Swoosie Kurtz
,
Martha Plimpton
,
Jamey Sheridan
,
Feodor Chaliapin Jr.
Black Rain (
1989) | IMDb:
6.6
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. However, in Japan he manages to escape, and as they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game—the Japanese way.
Starring:
Michael Douglas
,
Andy García
,
Ken Takakura
,
Kate Capshaw
,
Yūsaku Matsuda
,
Shigeru Kōyama
Howard the Duck (
1986) | IMDb:
4.7
A scientific experiment unknowingly brings extraterrestrial life forms to the Earth through a laser beam. First is the cigar smoking drake Howard from the duck's planet. A few kids try to keep him from the greedy scientists and help him back to his planet. But then a much less friendly being arrives through the beam...
Starring:
Lea Thompson
,
Jeffrey Jones
,
Tim Robbins
,
Ed Gale
,
Holly Robinson Peete
,
David Paymer
Blue Thunder (
1983) | IMDb:
6.4
Los Angeles, California. Officer Murphy, a veteran Metropolitan Police helicopter pilot suffering from severe trauma due to his harsh experiences during the Vietnam War, and Lymangood, his resourceful new partner, are tasked with testing an advanced and heavily armed experimental chopper known as Blue Thunder.