The Professor and the Madman (
2019) | IMDb:
7.2
Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.
Directed by:
Farhad Safinia
Hacksaw Ridge (
2016) | IMDb:
8.1
WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Starring:
Andrew Garfield
,
Sam Worthington
,
Vince Vaughn
,
Teresa Palmer
,
Luke Bracey
,
Hugo Weaving
Get the Gringo (
2012) | IMDb:
6.9
A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.
Starring:
Mel Gibson
,
Kevin Hernandez
,
Daniel Giménez Cacho
,
Peter Stormare
,
Jesús Ochoa
,
Roberto Sosa
Push (
2009) | IMDb:
6.1
After his father, an assassin, is brutally murdered, Nick Gant vows revenge on Division, the covert government agency that dabbles in psychic warfare and experimental drugs. Hiding in Hong Kong's underworld, Nick assembles a band of rogue psychics dedicated to destroying Division. Together with Cassie, a teenage clairvoyant, Nick goes in search of a missing girl and a stolen suitcase that could be the key to accomplishing their mutual goal.
Starring:
Chris Evans
,
Dakota Fanning
,
Camilla Belle
,
Djimon Hounsou
,
Cliff Curtis
,
Ming-Na Wen
Butterfly on a Wheel (
2007) | IMDb:
6.6
A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.
Starring:
Pierce Brosnan
,
Maria Bello
,
Gerard Butler
,
Emma Karwandy
,
Claudette Mink
,
Desiree Zurowski
Directed by:
Mike Barker
Apocalypto (
2006) | IMDb:
7.8
Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him. Through a twist of fate and spurred by the power of his love for his woman and his family he will make a desperate break to return home and to ultimately save his way of life.
Starring:
Rudy Youngblood
,
Raoul Max Trujillo
,
Gerardo Taracena
,
Iazua Larios
,
Antonio Monroy
,
María Isabel Díaz Lago
Payback: Straight Up (
2006) | IMDb:
0
Porter is shot by his wife and best friend and is left to die. When he survives he plots revenge.
Paparazzi (
2004) | IMDb:
5.7
A rising Hollywood actor decides to take personal revenge against a group of four persistent photographers to make them pay for almost causing a personal tragedy involving his wife and son.
Starring:
Cole Hauser
,
Robin Tunney
,
Dennis Farina
,
Daniel Baldwin
,
Tom Sizemore
,
Tom Hollander
The Passion of the Christ (
2004) | IMDb:
7.2
A graphic portrayal of the last twelve hours of Jesus of Nazareth's life.
Starring:
Jim Caviezel
,
Maia Morgenstern
,
Christo Jivkov
,
Francesco De Vito
,
Monica Bellucci
,
Mattia Sbragia
We Were Soldiers (
2002) | IMDb:
7.2
The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.
What Women Want (
2000) | IMDb:
6.4
Advertising executive Nick Marshall is as cocky as they come, but what happens to a chauvinistic guy when he can suddenly hear what women are thinking? Nick gets passed over for a promotion, but after an accident enables him to hear women's thoughts, he puts his newfound talent to work against Darcy, his new boss, who seems to be infatuated with him.
Bless the Child (
2000) | IMDb:
5.1
When Maggie's sister Jenna saddles her with an autistic newborn named Cody she touches Maggie's heart and becomes the daughter she has always longed for. But six years later Jenna suddenly re-enters her life and, with her mysterious new husband, Eric Stark, abducts Cody. Despite the fact that Maggie has no legal rights to Cody, FBI agent John Travis takes up her cause when he realizes that Cody shares the same birth date as several other recently murdered children.
Starring:
Kim Basinger
,
Angela Bettis
,
Holliston Coleman
,
Rufus Sewell
,
Christina Ricci
,
Jimmy Smits
Payback (
1999) | IMDb:
7.1
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, Porter's partners and the crooked cops on his tail learn how bad payback can be.
One Eight Seven (
1997) | IMDb:
6.6
After surviving a stabbing by a student, teacher Trevor Garfield moves from New York to Los Angeles. There, he resumes teaching as a substitute teacher. The education system, where violent bullies control the classrooms and the administration is afraid of lawsuits, slowly drives Garfield mad.
Starring:
Samuel L. Jackson
,
John Heard
,
Kelly Rowan
,
Clifton Collins Jr.
,
Tony Plana
,
Karina Arroyave
Directed by:
Kevin Reynolds
Anna Karenina (
1997) | IMDb:
6.2
Anna Karenina, the wife of a Russian imperial minister, creates a high-society scandal by an affair with Count Vronsky, a dashing cavalry officer in 19th-century St. Petersburg.
Directed by:
Bernard Rose
Braveheart (
1995) | IMDb:
8.3
Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.
Starring:
Mel Gibson
,
Catherine McCormack
,
Sophie Marceau
,
Patrick McGoohan
,
Angus Macfadyen
,
Brendan Gleeson