White Bird (
2023) | IMDb:
0
After being expelled from Beecher Prep for his treatment of a classmate with a facial deformity, Julian has struggled to fit in at his new school. To transform his life, Julian's grandmother finally reveals her own story of courage of her youth in Nazi-occupied France, where a classmate shelters her from mortal danger.
Starring:
Ariella Glaser
,
Orlando Schwerdt
,
Bryce Gheisar
,
Gillian Anderson
,
Helen Mirren
,
Jo Stone-Fewings
Directed by:
Marc Forster
Stillwater (
2021) | IMDb:
6.6
Bill Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, Allison, who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a complicated legal system, Bill builds a new life for himself in France as he makes it his personal mission to exonerate his daughter.
Starring:
Matt Damon
,
Camille Cottin
,
Abigail Breslin
,
Lilou Siauvaud
,
Deanna Dunagan
,
Moussa Maaskri
Judas and the Black Messiah (
2021) | IMDb:
7.4
Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionary en route—a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.
Starring:
LaKeith Stanfield
,
Daniel Kaluuya
,
Dominique Fishback
,
Jesse Plemons
,
Ashton Sanders
,
Algee Smith
Just Mercy (
2019) | IMDb:
7.6
The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.
Starring:
Michael B. Jordan
,
Brie Larson
,
Jamie Foxx
,
O'Shea Jackson Jr.
,
Rafe Spall
,
Rob Morgan
Dark Waters (
2019) | IMDb:
7.6
A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything — his future, his family, and his own life — to expose the truth.
Captive State (
2019) | IMDb:
6
Nearly a decade after occupation by an extraterrestrial force, the lives of a Chicago neighborhood on both sides of the conflict are explored. In a working-class Chicago neighborhood occupied by an alien force for nine years, increased surveillance and the restriction of civil rights have given rise to an authoritarian system -- and dissent among the populace.
Starring:
John Goodman
,
Ashton Sanders
,
Jonathan Majors
,
Vera Farmiga
,
Kevin Dunn
,
Kevin J. O'Connor
On the Basis of Sex (
2018) | IMDb:
7.1
Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of sex discrimination.
Starring:
Felicity Jones
,
Armie Hammer
,
Justin Theroux
,
Sam Waterston
,
Kathy Bates
,
Cailee Spaeny
Wonder (
2017) | IMDb:
7.9
The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
A Monster Calls (
2016) | IMDb:
7.4
A boy imagines a monster that helps him deal with his difficult life and see the world in a different way.
Starring:
Lewis MacDougall
,
Sigourney Weaver
,
Felicity Jones
,
Toby Kebbell
,
Liam Neeson
,
Ben Moor
Deepwater Horizon (
2016) | IMDb:
7.1
A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
Starring:
Mark Wahlberg
,
Kurt Russell
,
John Malkovich
,
Gina Rodriguez
,
Dylan O'Brien
,
Kate Hudson
Spotlight (
2015) | IMDb:
8.1
The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
Starring:
Mark Ruffalo
,
Michael Keaton
,
Rachel McAdams
,
Liev Schreiber
,
John Slattery
,
Stanley Tucci
Bridge of Spies (
2015) | IMDb:
7.6
During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.
A Most Violent Year (
2014) | IMDb:
7
A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.
Starring:
Oscar Isaac
,
Jessica Chastain
,
David Oyelowo
,
Alessandro Nivola
,
Elyes Gabel
,
Albert Brooks
The Hundred-Foot Journey (
2014) | IMDb:
7.3
A story centered around an Indian family who moves to France and opens a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French restaurant.
The Fifth Estate (
2013) | IMDb:
6.2
A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the website's growth and influence led to an irreparable rift between the two friends.
Starring:
Benedict Cumberbatch
,
Daniel Brühl
,
Anthony Mackie
,
David Thewlis
,
Alicia Vikander
,
Dan Stevens
Directed by:
Bill Condon
Lincoln (
2012) | IMDb:
7.3
The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
Starring:
Daniel Day-Lewis
,
Sally Field
,
David Strathairn
,
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
,
James Spader
,
Hal Holbrook
Directed by:
Steven Spielberg