The Zookeeper's Wife (
2017) | IMDb:
7
The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
Starring:
Jessica Chastain
,
Daniel Brühl
,
Johan Heldenbergh
,
Michael McElhatton
,
Timothy Radford
,
Efrat Dor
Directed by:
Niki Caro
Doomsday (
2008) | IMDb:
5.9
The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarantine the country but, three decades later, the virus resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.
Starring:
Rhona Mitra
,
Bob Hoskins
,
Adrian Lester
,
Alexander Siddig
,
David O'Hara
,
Malcolm McDowell
Eastern Promises (
2007) | IMDb:
7.6
A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
Starring:
Viggo Mortensen
,
Naomi Watts
,
Vincent Cassel
,
Armin Mueller-Stahl
,
Sinéad Cusack
,
Donald Sumpter
Closing the Ring (
2007) | IMDb:
6.5
During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a crashed plane. He travels to Michigan, where the grown Ethel Ann, who married another man after Teddy was killed in battle, now lives. Ethel Ann must decide whether to go with Jimmy to meet the soldier who last saw Teddy alive.
Starring:
Shirley MacLaine
,
Christopher Plummer
,
Pete Postlethwaite
,
Martin McCann
,
Neve Campbell
,
Allan Hawco
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
The Constant Gardener (
2005) | IMDb:
7.4
Justin Quayle is a low-level British diplomat who has always gone about his work very quietly, not causing any problems. But after his radical wife Tessa is killed he becomes determined to find out why, thrusting himself into the middle of a very dangerous conspiracy.
Starring:
Ralph Fiennes
,
Rachel Weisz
,
Danny Huston
,
Bill Nighy
,
Pete Postlethwaite
,
Richard McCabe
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (
2004) | IMDb:
5
The Bridge of San Luis Rey is American author Thornton Wilder's second novel, first published in 1927 to worldwide acclaim. It tells the story of several interrelated people who die in the collapse of an Inca rope-fiber suspension bridge in Peru, and the events that lead up to their being on the bridge. A friar who has witnessed the tragic accident then goes about inquiring into the lives of the victims, seeking some sort of cosmic answer to the question of why each had to die.
Starring:
Gabriel Byrne
,
F. Murray Abraham
,
Kathy Bates
,
Robert De Niro
,
Harvey Keitel
,
Pilar López de Ayala
Directed by:
Mary McGuckian
The Phantom of the Opera (
2004) | IMDb:
7.2
A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House.
Starring:
Gerard Butler
,
Emmy Rossum
,
Patrick Wilson
,
Miranda Richardson
,
Minnie Driver
,
Ciarán Hinds