Chalet Girl (
2011) | IMDb:
6.2
While working a job at an exclusive ski resort to support her Dad, Kim learns to snowboard and is so good at it that she enters a competition with a huge cash prize. She has to dig deep to overcome her fears, but her life gets more complicated through her spoken-for boss, Jonny.
Vanity Fair (
2004) | IMDb:
6.2
Beautiful, funny, passionate, and calculating, Becky is the orphaned daughter of a starving English artist and a French chorus girl. She yearns for a more glamorous life than her birthright promises and resolves to conquer English society by any means possible. A mere ascension into the heights of society is simply not enough. So Becky finds a patron in the powerful Marquess of Steyne whose whims enable Becky to realise her dreams. But is the ultimate cost too high for her?
Starring:
Reese Witherspoon
,
James Purefoy
,
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
,
Romola Garai
,
Gabriel Byrne
,
Rhys Ifans
Directed by:
Mira Nair
Ghost World (
2001) | IMDb:
7.3
Two quirky, cynical teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives after high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric, middle aged record collector, one of them befriends him, which causes a rift in the girls’ friendship.
Starring:
Thora Birch
,
Steve Buscemi
,
Scarlett Johansson
,
Brad Renfro
,
Illeana Douglas
,
Bob Balaban
The Hole (
2001) | IMDb:
6.2
Four teenagers at a British private school secretly uncover and explore the depths of a sealed underground hole created decades ago as a possible bomb shelter.
Starring:
Thora Birch
,
Desmond Harrington
,
Keira Knightley
,
Laurence Fox
,
Embeth Davidtz
,
Steven Waddington
Directed by:
Nick Hamm
The House of Mirth (
2000) | IMDb:
7
In early 20th century New York City, an impoverished socialite desperately seeks a suitable husband as she gradually finds herself betrayed by her friends and exiled from high society.
Starring:
Gillian Anderson
,
Dan Aykroyd
,
Eleanor Bron
,
Terry Kinney
,
Anthony LaPaglia
,
Laura Linney
Rogue Trader (
1999) | IMDb:
6.4
Rogue Trader tells the true story of Nick Leeson, an employee of Barings Bank who--after a successful trading run--ends up accumulating $1.4 billion in losses hidden in account #88888.
Directed by:
James Dearden
The Misadventures of Margaret (
1998) | IMDb:
5.1
A timid, insecure popular author with an overly-attentive professor husband decide to write an erotic novel. With encouragement from her sister and a bi-sexual friend, she goes to France with the intent of doing research at an inn where a diary she had been using documented erotic encounters. Instead she finds the inn is now a cloister for singing nuns. However, a young, divorced sound engineer is also there taping the nuns. While attracted, she mostly succumbs only to new fantasies until he follows her home to New York.
Starring:
Parker Posey
,
Jeremy Northam
,
Craig Chester
,
Elizabeth McGovern
,
Brooke Shields
,
Alexis Denisof
Directed by:
Brian Skeet