The Irishman (
2019) | IMDb:
7.8
Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.
Joker (
2019) | IMDb:
8.4
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
Starring:
Joaquin Phoenix
,
Robert De Niro
,
Zazie Beetz
,
Frances Conroy
,
Brett Cullen
,
Shea Whigham
Suburbicon (
2017) | IMDb:
5.8
In the quiet family town of Suburbicon during the 1950s, the best and worst of humanity is hilariously reflected through the deeds of seemingly ordinary people. When a home invasion turns deadly, a picture-perfect family turns to blackmail, revenge and murder.
Live by Night (
2016) | IMDb:
6.4
A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.
Starring:
Ben Affleck
,
Elle Fanning
,
Brendan Gleeson
,
Chris Messina
,
Sienna Miller
,
Zoe Saldaña
Directed by:
Ben Affleck
The Sweet Hereafter (
1997) | IMDb:
7.5
A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and victims' families prepare a class-action suit, but his efforts only seem to push the townspeople further apart. At the same time, one teenage survivor of the accident has to reckon with the loss of innocence brought about by a different kind of damage.
Exotica (
1994) | IMDb:
7
In the upscale Toronto strip club Exotica, dancer Christina is visited nightly by the obsessive Francis, a depressed tax auditor. Her ex-boyfriend, the club's MC, Eric, still jealously pines for her even as he introduces her onstage, but Eric is having his own relationship problems with the club's female owner. Thomas, a mysterious pet-shop owner, is about to become unexpectedly involved in their lives.
Starring:
Bruce Greenwood
,
Mia Kirshner
,
Elias Koteas
,
Don McKellar
,
Sarah Polley
,
Arsinée Khanjian