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
Hachi: A Dog's Tale (
2009) | IMDb:
8.1
A drama based on the true story of a college professor's bond with the abandoned dog he takes into his home.
Starring:
Richard Gere
,
Joan Allen
,
Sarah Roemer
,
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
,
Erick Avari
,
Robbie Sublett
My Life in Ruins (
2009) | IMDb:
5.9
A Greek tour guide named Georgia attempts to recapture her kefi (Greek for mojo) by guiding a ragtag group of tourists around Greece and showing them the beauty of her native land. Along the way, she manages to open their eyes to the wonders of an exotic foreign land while beginning to see the world through a new set of eyes in the process.
Starring:
Nia Vardalos
,
Richard Dreyfuss
,
Alexis Georgoulis
,
Alistair McGowan
,
Harland Williams
,
Rachel Dratch
The Lazarus Project (
2008) | IMDb:
6
After Ben Garvey foolishly turned back to crime, he thought his life was over when he was sentenced to death by lethal injection. But his death sentence isn't quite what it seems, as Ben regains consciousness near an eerie psychiatric ward, where he's told he's been hired as the groundskeeper. With the state of his soul in question, and the love for his wife and daughter all the more real and powerful, Ben must figure out if he's truly cheated death, or if he's become part of something far more sinister.
Starring:
Paul Walker
,
Piper Perabo
,
Lambert Wilson
,
Linda Cardellini
,
Shawn Hatosy
,
Bob Gunton
Smother (
2008) | IMDb:
4.6
After he's fired from his job, an everyday guy faces pressure from his wife to have a baby and from his mom, who has decided to move in with the young couple.
Directed by:
Vince Di Meglio
The Women (
2008) | IMDb:
5
The story centers on a group of gossipy, high-society women who spend their days at the beauty salon and haunting fashion shows. The sweet, happily-wedded Mary Haines finds her marriage in trouble when shop girl Crystal Allen gets her hooks into Mary's man.
Starring:
Meg Ryan
,
Annette Bening
,
Eva Mendes
,
Debra Messing
,
Jada Pinkett Smith
,
Bette Midler
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
In Bruges (
2008) | IMDb:
7.9
Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previous assignment. When the mission is revealed to Ken, it is not what he expected.
Starring:
Colin Farrell
,
Brendan Gleeson
,
Ralph Fiennes
,
Clémence Poésy
,
Thekla Reuten
,
Jordan Prentice
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
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
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
Becoming Jane (
2007) | IMDb:
7
A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.
Starring:
Anne Hathaway
,
James McAvoy
,
Julie Walters
,
James Cromwell
,
Maggie Smith
,
Joe Anderson
Smokin' Aces (
2006) | IMDb:
6.6
When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob, it seems that a whole lot of people would like to make sure he's no longer breathing.
It's a Boy Girl Thing (
2006) | IMDb:
6.2
A visit to a natural history museum proves catastrophic for two high school rivals, an overachiever and a jock, when an ancient Aztec statue casts a spell that causes them to switch bodies and see exactly what it's like to walk in the other's shoes.
Starring:
Kevin Zegers
,
Samaire Armstrong
,
Sherry Miller
,
Robert Joy
,
Sharon Osbourne
,
Maury Chaykin
Minotaur (
2006) | IMDb:
3.7
Long ago in the Iron Age, a shadow loomed over a lonely village. For generations, the village youths are stolen from their families and delivered as sacrifice to a mythical beast - the Minotaur, that dwells beneath a great palace. Theo, haunted by the loss of his love in an earlier sacrifice is convinced that the beast isn't real and that his girl still lives as a slave within the palace.
Starring:
Tom Hardy
,
Michelle Van Der Water
,
Tony Todd
,
Lex Shrapnel
,
Jonathan Readwin
,
Rutger Hauer
Directed by:
Jonathan English
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