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.
The Professor and the Madman (
2019) | IMDb:
7.2
Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.
Directed by:
Farhad Safinia
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
A Hologram for the King (
2016) | IMDb:
6.1
Alan Clay, a struggling American businessman, travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a new technology to the King, only to be challenged by endless Middle Eastern bureaucracy, a perpetually absent monarch, and a suspicious growth on his back.
Starring:
Tom Hanks
,
Sarita Choudhury
,
Sidse Babett Knudsen
,
Ben Whishaw
,
Tom Skerritt
,
Tracey Fairaway
Directed by:
Tom Tykwer