The Darkest Hour (
2011) | IMDb:
4.9
In Moscow, five young people lead the charge against an alien race which has attacked Earth via our power supply.
Starring:
Emile Hirsch
,
Rachael Taylor
,
Olivia Thirlby
,
Joel Kinnaman
,
Max Minghella
,
Veronika Ozerova
Unstoppable (
2004) | IMDb:
4.9
The deranged military and former CIA agent Dean Cage is in a rehab program, trying to forget the traumatic loss of his best friend Scott in Bosnia. When he dates with his girl-friend and Scott's sister, Detective Amy Knight, in a dinning restaurant, he is mistakenly taken as being the CIA agent that is investigating the robbery of the military experiment EX by a man called Sullivan. He is injected with the drug and abducted by the thieves. Amy has six hours to find the also stolen antidote and save Dean's life.
Starring:
Wesley Snipes
,
Stuart Wilson
,
Mark Sheppard
,
David Schofield
,
Nicholas Aaron
,
Kim Thomson
Directed by:
David Carson
The Ladykillers (
2004) | IMDb:
6.2
An eccentric, if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a band in order to rob a casino, all under the nose of his unsuspecting landlord – a sharp old woman.
Big Trouble (
2002) | IMDb:
6.4
The story of how a mysterious suitcase brings together, and changes, the lives of a divorced dad, an unhappy housewife, two hitmen, a pair of street thugs, two love struck teens, two FBI men and a psychedelic toad. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist Dave Barry's best-selling first novel, "Big Trouble."
Mission to Mars (
2000) | IMDb:
5.7
When contact is lost with the crew of the first Mars expedition, a rescue mission is launched to discover their fate.
Starring:
Gary Sinise
,
Tim Robbins
,
Don Cheadle
,
Connie Nielsen
,
Jerry O'Connell
,
Peter Outerbridge
Mighty Joe Young (
1998) | IMDb:
5.7
As a child living in Africa, Jill Young saw her mother killed while protecting wild gorillas from poachers led by Andrei Strasser. Now an adult, Jill cares for an orphaned gorilla named Joe -- who, due to a genetic anomaly, is 15 feet tall. When Gregg O'Hara arrives from California and sees the animal, he convinces Jill that Joe would be safest at his wildlife refuge. But Strasser follows them to the U.S., intent on capturing Joe for himself.
Starring:
Bill Paxton
,
Charlize Theron
,
Rade Šerbedžija
,
Regina King
,
Peter Firth
,
Naveen Andrews
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (
1989) | IMDb:
7.5
It's Christmastime, and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration. But things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen, and their two kids. Clark's continual bad luck is worsened by his obnoxious family guests, but he manages to keep going, knowing that his Christmas bonus is due soon.
Starring:
Chevy Chase
,
Beverly D'Angelo
,
Juliette Lewis
,
Johnny Galecki
,
John Randolph
,
Diane Ladd
The Great Outdoors (
1988) | IMDb:
6.6
It's vacation time for outdoorsy Chicago man Chet Ripley, along with his wife, Connie, and their two kids, Buck and Ben. But a serene weekend of fishing at a Wisconsin lakeside cabin gets crashed by Connie's obnoxious brother-in-law, Roman Craig, his wife, Kate, and the couple's two daughters. As the excursion wears on, the Ripleys find themselves at odds with the stuffy Craig family.
Explorers (
1985) | IMDb:
6.4
Middle schooler Ben spends his free time watching sci-fi films, playing video games and reading comic books. Surprisingly, his affinity for all things fantastical yields a real result – when he has a vivid dream about technology, his prodigy best friend Wolfgang manages to create a working spacecraft. Joined by their buddy Darren, the boys take off into outer space and encounter some very odd extraterrestrial life.
Directed by:
Joe Dante