The Boys in the Boat (
2023) | IMDb:
0
The triumphant underdog story of the University of Washington men's rowing team, who stunned the world by competing at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
80 for Brady (
2023) | IMDb:
5.8
Four longtime best friends decide to live life to the fullest by embarking on a wild trip to Super Bowl LI to see their hero, quarterback Tom Brady play. Inspired by a true story.
Hidden Figures (
2016) | IMDb:
7.8
The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.
Starring:
Taraji P. Henson
,
Octavia Spencer
,
Janelle Monáe
,
Kevin Costner
,
Kirsten Dunst
,
Jim Parsons
Silver Linings Playbook (
2012) | IMDb:
7.7
After spending eight months in a mental institution, a former teacher moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife.
Starring:
Bradley Cooper
,
Jennifer Lawrence
,
Robert De Niro
,
Jacki Weaver
,
Chris Tucker
,
Anupam Kher
I Don't Know How She Does It (
2011) | IMDb:
5
As an employee at a Boston-based financial firm, Kate Reddy struggles daily to balance the demands of her high-powered career with the needs of her husband, Richard, and their two children. When she gets an account that requires frequent trips to New York and her husband gets a new job, Kate finds herself spread even thinner. Complicating Kate's life even more is her new business associate Jack Abelhammer, who throws temptation into the mix.
Starring:
Sarah Jessica Parker
,
Pierce Brosnan
,
Greg Kinnear
,
Christina Hendricks
,
Kelsey Grammer
,
Seth Meyers
Let Me In (
2010) | IMDb:
7.1
A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian. A remake of the movie “Let The Right One In” which was an adaptation of a book.
Starring:
Kodi Smit-McPhee
,
Chloë Grace Moretz
,
Richard Jenkins
,
Elias Koteas
,
Sasha Barrese
,
Dylan Kenin
Directed by:
Matt Reeves
Shanghai (
2010) | IMDb:
6.4
An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.
Directed by:
Mikael Håfström
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.
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
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
Devil in a Blue Dress (
1995) | IMDb:
6.8
In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. Strapped for money and facing house payments, Easy takes the job, but soon finds himself in over his head.
Starring:
Denzel Washington
,
Tom Sizemore
,
Jennifer Beals
,
Don Cheadle
,
Maury Chaykin
,
Terry Kinney
Directed by:
Carl Franklin