Silence (
2016) | IMDb:
7.2
Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.
Starring:
Andrew Garfield
,
Adam Driver
,
Liam Neeson
,
Yosuke Kubozuka
,
Tadanobu Asano
,
Issey Ogata
Hugo (
2011) | IMDb:
7.5
Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.
Starring:
Asa Butterfield
,
Ben Kingsley
,
Chloë Grace Moretz
,
Sacha Baron Cohen
,
Ray Winstone
,
Emily Mortimer
Bringing Out the Dead (
1999) | IMDb:
6.8
Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn't help, yet cannot quit the job on his own.
Starring:
Nicolas Cage
,
Patricia Arquette
,
John Goodman
,
Ving Rhames
,
Tom Sizemore
,
Marc Anthony
Kundun (
1997) | IMDb:
7
The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as 'Kundun', which means 'The Presence'. He was forced to escape from his native home, Tibet, when communist China invaded and enforced an oppressive regime upon the peaceful nation. The Dalai Lama escaped to India in 1959 and has been living in exile in Dharamsala ever since.
Casino (
1995) | IMDb:
8.2
In early-1970s Las Vegas, Sam "Ace" Rothstein gets tapped by his bosses to head the Tangiers Casino. At first, he's a great success in the job, but over the years, problems with his loose-cannon enforcer Nicky Santoro, his ex-hustler wife Ginger, her con-artist ex Lester Diamond and a handful of corrupt politicians put Sam in ever-increasing danger.
The Age of Innocence (
1993) | IMDb:
7.2
In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.
Starring:
Daniel Day-Lewis
,
Michelle Pfeiffer
,
Winona Ryder
,
Alexis Smith
,
Geraldine Chaplin
,
Jonathan Pryce
Cape Fear (
1991) | IMDb:
7.3
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.
Starring:
Robert De Niro
,
Nick Nolte
,
Jessica Lange
,
Juliette Lewis
,
Joe Don Baker
,
Robert Mitchum
GoodFellas (
1990) | IMDb:
8.7
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.