Under the Tuscan Sun (
2003) | IMDb:
6.7
After a rough divorce, Frances, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany at the urgings of her friends. On a whim she buys Bramasole, a run down villa in the Tuscan countryside and begins to piece her life together starting with the villa and finds that life sometimes has unexpected ways of giving her everything she wanted.
The Talented Mr. Ripley (
1999) | IMDb:
7.4
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
Starring:
Matt Damon
,
Jude Law
,
Gwyneth Paltrow
,
Cate Blanchett
,
Jack Davenport
,
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Lost Highway (
1997) | IMDb:
7.6
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
Starring:
Bill Pullman
,
Patricia Arquette
,
Balthazar Getty
,
Robert Blake
,
Natasha Gregson Wagner
,
Richard Pryor
The Black Stallion (
1979) | IMDb:
7.4
While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion that is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks both he and the horse survive only to be stranded on a deserted island. He befriends it, so when finally rescued both return to his home where they soon meet Henry Dailey, a once successful trainer. Together they begin training the horse to race against the fastest ones in the world.
Directed by:
Carroll Ballard
Apocalypse Now (
1979) | IMDb:
8.4
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.
Starring:
Martin Sheen
,
Frederic Forrest
,
Albert Hall
,
Laurence Fishburne
,
Sam Bottoms
,
Marlon Brando