Released Date:
1994-08-24
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, France
Runtime:
114 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.7 (8929 Reviews)
Director:
Boaz YakinMichael (or Fresh as he's well known) is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a crowded housing project with his cousins and aunt. His father has become a street bum, but still meets with Fresh on occasion to play chess. Fresh is rather quiet in a crazy world. Fresh's sister is a junkie who sleeps with the dealers who Fresh sells for. As the story progresses Fresh realizes that he doesn't want to sell drugs anymore, he wants out.
Released Date:
1995-05-19
Languages:
English, German, Romanian
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
131 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (277747 Reviews)
Director:
John McTiernanJonathan Hensleigh
Roderick Thorp (certain original characters)
John McClane is now almost a full-blown alcoholic and is suspended from the NYPD. But when a bomb goes off in the Bonwit Teller Department Store the police go insane trying to figure out what's going on. Soon, a man named Simon calls and asks for McClane. Simon tells Inspector Walter Cobb that McClane is going to play a game called "Simon Says". He says that McClane is going to do the tasks he assigns him. If not, he'll blow off another bomb. With the help of a Harlem electrician, John McClane must race all over New York trying to figure out the frustrating puzzles that the crafty terrorist gives him. But when a bomb goes off in a subway station right by the Federal Reserve (the biggest gold storage in the world) things start to get heated up.
Released Date:
1995-06-02
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
96 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (4852 Reviews)
Director:
Carlo CarleiJames Herbert (novel)
Carlo Carlei (screenplay)
James Carrington (screenplay)
Workaholic Thomas Johnson dies in a car accident and comes back to life as a dog. Remembering some of who he was, he returns to his wife and son to protect them from the man who caused his accident. But, as time goes by, he remembers more of his life, and realizes he wasn't such a good husband or father.
Released Date:
1995-04-21
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
101 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.9 (13532 Reviews)
Director:
Barbet SchroederEleazar Lipsky (story)
Ben Hecht
Charles Lederer
Richard Price (screenplay)
Jimmy Kilmartin's an ex-con who's trying to go straight. But he can't say no to a quick driving job because his so called friend's life is threatened. The job is for Little Junior Brown, a violent and powerful villain. When things go wrong, Jimmy is left to do the time, and his whole life is turned upside-down, but if that wasn't enough, the cops won't leave Jimmy alone when he gets out... They want 'Little Junior'
Released Date:
1996-10-11
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
121 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (56952 Reviews)
Director:
Renny HarlinSamantha Caine, suburban homemaker, is the ideal mom to her 8 year old daughter Caitlin. She lives in Honesdale, PA, has a job teaching school and makes the best Rice Krispie treats in town. But when she receives a bump on her head, she begins to remember small parts of her previous life as a lethal, top-secret agent. Her old chums in the Chapter are now out to kill her so she enlists the help of a cheap detective named Mitch. As Samantha remembers more and more of her previous life, she becomes deadlier and more resourceful. Both Mitch and Charly proceed to do the killing thing, the bleeding thing and the shooting thing.
Released Date:
1996-07-24
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
149 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (90592 Reviews)
Director:
Joel SchumacherJohn Grisham (novel)
Akiva Goldsman (screenplay)
In Canton, Mississippi, 10-year-old Tonya Hailey is viciously brutalized by two white racist rednecks -- James Louis "Pete" Willard and Billy Ray Cobb. Almost immediately after Tonya is found and rushed to a hospital, Pete and Billy Ray are found at a roadside bar, where they had been bragging about what they did to Tonya. Tonya's understandably distraught and enraged father, Carl Lee Hailey, remembers a case from a year ago, when four white men raped an African-American girl in a nearby town, and got acquitted. Carl is determined to not let that happen in this case. While deputy Dwayne Powell Looney is escorting Pete and Billy Ray up a flight of stairs to a court room, Carl emerges from the building's basement with an assault rifle, and he kills Pete and Billy Ray for what they did to Tonya. Carl is later arrested at his house by African-American sheriff Ozzie Walls, and Carl is scheduled to be placed on trial. Despite the efforts of the NAACP and local African-American leaders to persuade Carl to choose some of their high-powered attorneys, Carl wants to be represented by his friend Jake Tyler Brigance, who has a wife named Carla and a daughter named Hannah. Presiding over the trial is white judge Omar Noose, and the prosecution attorney is Rufus Buckley, who would like nothing more than to win the case and swim in the publicity that a win would generate, because Rufus realizes that a murder conviction could help him gain higher office. Helping Jake on the case are his former law professor Lucien Wilbanks, fellow attorney Harry Rex Vonner, and law student Ellen Roark. Ellen has had experience with death penalty cases, and that's exactly what Rufus may be seeking. To start things off, Noose denies bail and denies Jake's petition for a change of venue. Carl has also been fired from his job. Billy Ray Cobb's brother Freddie Lee Cobb wants revenge on Carl, so Freddy gets the help of the Mississippi branch of the KKK, led by Mississippi grand dragon Stump Sisson. Carl's wife Gwen tells Carl that a doctor has said that because of Pete and Billy Ray, Tonya's reproductive organs are damaged enough to where she won't be able to have kids when she grows up. That night, a KKK member is found trying to plant a bomb under Jake's porch. Jake's secretary Ethel Twitty and her husband Bud are also attacked by the KKK. Still, Jake, Harry, Lucien, and Ellen continue to help Carl. On the day the trial begins, there is a riot outside the court building between the KKK and the area's African-American residents, and Stump Sisson is killed by a molotov cocktail that was dropped from a roof by one of Carl's sons, who was not seen dropping it. Freddy and the KKK start burning crosses throughout Canton, and one of the crosses burns Jake's house down while Jake and his family are not home. As a result, the National Guard is called to Canton to keep the peace during the trial. But Freddy is not about to let that stop him. While Freddy continues his efforts to get revenge on Carl for Billy Ray's death, Carl's attorneys put everything they've got into Carl's defense.
Released Date:
1997-07-30
Languages:
English, Spanish
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
119 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (16795 Reviews)
Director:
Kevin ReynoldsHigh school teacher Trevor Garfield is stabbed by bad-boy student. Fifteen months later, he moves to Los-Angeles to the unruly, predominantly Latino school. He has to tame wolf-like students.
Released Date:
1997-11-07
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
109 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (6605 Reviews)
Director:
Kasi LemmonsGenres:
DramaThe story is set in 1962 Louisiana. The Batiste family is headed by charming doctor Louis. Though he is married to beautiful Roz, he has a weakness for attractive female patients. One night Louis trysts with married and sexy Metty Mereaux, not knowing that he is observed by his youngest daughter Eve, who is there by accident. Eve can not forget the traumatic incident and shares a secret with older sister Cisely. Lies start to roll...
Released Date:
1997-02-28
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
101 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (25983 Reviews)
Director:
Paul Thomas AndersonJohn has lost all his money. He sits outside a diner in the desert when Sydney happens along, buys him coffee, then takes him to Reno and shows him how to get a free room without losing much money. Under Sydney's fatherly tutelage, John becomes a successful small-time professional gambler, and all is well, until he falls for Clementine, a cocktail waitress and sometimes hooker.
Released Date:
1997-12-25
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
154 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (217634 Reviews)
Director:
Quentin TarantinoQuentin Tarantino (written for the screen by)
Elmore Leonard (novel)
The middle age stewardess Jackie Brown smuggles money from Mexico to Los Angeles for the arms dealer Ordell Robbie. When she gets caught by the agents Ray Nicolette and Mark Dargus with ten thousand dollars and cocaine in her purse, they propose a deal to her to help them to arrest Ordell in exchange of her freedom. Meanwhile Ordell asks the fifty-six year-old Max Cherry, who runs a bail bond business, to release Jackie Brown with the intention of eliminating her. Jackie suspects of Ordell's intention and plots a complicate confidence game with Max to steal half a million dollar from Ordell.
Released Date:
1998-02-13
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
134 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
(74718 Reviews)
Director:
Barry LevinsonMichael Crichton (novel)
Kurt Wimmer (adaptation)
Stephen Hauser (screenplay)
Paul Attanasio (screenplay)
1000 feet below the ocean, navy divers discover an object half-a-mile long. A crack team of scientists are deployed to the site in Deepsea Habitats. What they find boggles the mind as they discover a perfect metal sphere. What is the secret behind the sphere? Will they survive the mysterious 'manifestations'? Who or what is creating these? They may never live to find out.
Released Date:
1998-07-29
Languages:
English
Countries:
Germany, USA
Runtime:
140 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (100971 Reviews)
Director:
F. Gary GrayIn the midst of an elaborate conspiracy, an expert negotiator is driven to the edge when he's framed for the murder of his partner, as well as embezzling money from his department's pension fund. His only chance to prove his innocence is to take hostages himself, acquire the services of another expert negotiator, and find out who's running the conspiracy before it's too late.
Released Date:
1999-07-28
Languages:
English, Spanish
Countries:
USA, Australia
Runtime:
105 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.8 (92347 Reviews)
Director:
Renny HarlinDuncan Kennedy
Donna Powers
Wayne Powers
A businessman sinks $200 million into a special project to help fight Alzheimer's disease. As part of this project, medical biologist Susan McAlester rather naughtily figures out a way to genetically enlarge shark brains, so that disease-battling enzymes can be harvested. However, the shark subjects become super smart and decide they don't much like being cooped up in pens and being stabbed with hypodermics, so they figure a way to break out and make for the open sea...
Released Date:
2000-04-07
Languages:
English, Arabic
Countries:
UK, Germany, Canada, USA
Runtime:
128 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (35946 Reviews)
Director:
William FriedkinJim Webb (story)
Stephen Gaghan (screenplay)
Hayes Hodges finds his career aspirations dashed when he's wounded in Vietnam combat. He then returns to America and becomes a disillusioned lawyer who goes up against the service to defend Colonel Terry Childers, who is accused of inciting an incident that leaves many demonstrators dead. Hodges in no position to decline: Childers heroically saved his life back in Vietnam.
Released Date:
1999-07-28
Languages:
English, Spanish
Countries:
USA, Australia
Runtime:
105 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.8 (92217 Reviews)
Director:
Renny HarlinDuncan Kennedy
Donna Powers
Wayne Powers
A businessman sinks $200 million into a special project to help fight Alzheimer's disease. As part of this project, medical biologist Susan McAlester rather naughtily figures out a way to genetically enlarge shark brains, so that disease-battling enzymes can be harvested. However, the shark subjects become super smart and decide they don't much like being cooped up in pens and being stabbed with hypodermics, so they figure a way to break out and make for the open sea...
Released Date:
2000-06-16
Languages:
English, German, Spanish
Countries:
Germany, USA
Runtime:
99 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.9 (55680 Reviews)
Director:
John SingletonErnest Tidyman (novel)
John Singleton (story)
Shane Salerno (story)
Richard Price (screenplay)
John Singleton (screenplay)
Shane Salerno (screenplay)
Cool and deadly NYPD detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade, Jr. in a racially-motivated slaying. The eye witness disappears, Wade jumps bail for Switzerland, and Shaft is livid. Two years later, Wade returns to face trial, confident his father's money and influence (and racial politics) guarantee an innocent verdict. Shaft looks hard for the witness, so Wade wants someone to kill her. He turns to a ghetto drug king, Peoples Hernandez, who's willing to kill for money, use Wade as a route to rich drug customers, and shaft Shaft. Can Shaft find the witness, convince her to testify, and shepherd her through the hail of bullets that Peoples is sure to let fly?
Released Date:
2001-09-20
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, Canada
Runtime:
105 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(5463 Reviews)
Director:
Kasi LemmonsGeorge Dawes Green (novel)
George Dawes Green (screenplay)
Romulus is mentally ill, a troglodyte in a New York City park. He's also a gifted composer and the father of a city cop. On Valentine's Day, a young man freezes in a tree near his cave. The police determine it's the accidental death of someone behaving bizarrely, but Romulus believes a friend of the dead youth who says that noted avant-garde photographer, David Leppenraub, murdered him. Romulus, urged on by hallucinations of his wife as a young woman, resolves to catch the killer and manages to be invited to Leppenraub's farm to play a new composition. Can Romulus hold it together long enough to get to the bottom of the death and also to make a breakthrough with his daughter?
Released Date:
2000-11-22
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
106 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (230682 Reviews)
Director:
M. Night ShyamalanThis suspense thriller unfolds as the audience is introduced to David Dunn. Not only is he the sole survivor of a horrific train-crash that killed 131 people he doesn't have a scratch on him. Elijah Price is an obscure character who approaches Dunn with a seemingly far fetched theory behind it all.
Released Date:
2002-10-18
Languages:
English
Countries:
UK, Canada
Runtime:
93 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.3 (41498 Reviews)
Director:
Ronny YuElmo McElroy is a streetwise American master chemist who heads to England to sell his special new formula - a powerful, blue concoction guaranteed to take you to 'the 51st state.' McElroy's new product delivers a feeling 51 times more powerful than any thrill, any pleasure, any high in history. But his plans for a quick, profitable score go comically awry when he gets stuck in Liverpool with an unlikely escort and his ex-girlfriend and becomes entangled in a bizarre web of double-dealing and double-crosses.
Released Date:
2003-08-08
Languages:
English, Spanish, French
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
117 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
(113365 Reviews)
Director:
Clark JohnsonRobert Hamner (characters)
Ron Mita (story)
Jim McClain (story)
David Ayer (screenplay)
David McKenna (screenplay)
Based off of a one time T.V. show, two Los Angeles S.W.A.T. officers Jim Street and Brian Gamble were sent in to foil an extremely violent bank robbery. Although they thwarted the robbery, they shot a hostage in the process. Street was suspended from S.W.A.T. while Gamble was fired altogether. After 6 months, a veteran S.W.A.T. officer, Daniel Harrelson or "Hondo", is told to assemble a S.W.A.T. team for his division. He chooses other S.W.A.T. officers as well as 3 rookies. However, after they pass the S.W.A.T. training, they receive a message that a French crime boss, known as Alex Montell is trying to escape from prison. This will not be easy to prevent, especially after Montell promises $100 Million to his rescuers.
Released Date:
2003-03-28
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, Germany
Runtime:
98 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (47193 Reviews)
Director:
John McTiernanTom Hardy, an ex-Army Ranger turned DEA agent, is drawn into an ever-widening mystery surrounding the disappearance of the feared and often hated Sgt. Nathan West, as well as several of his elite Special Forces trainees on what appears, at first, to have been a routine training exercise during a hurricane in the jungles of Panama. Only two survivors are found, Dunbar, and a badly wounded Kendall, the son of a high-profile Joint Chiefs of Staff official. Neither is willing to cooperate with Capt. Julia Osborne's investigation. So base commander Col. Bill Styles calls in ex-Ranger Hardy, an old friend and a persuasive interrogator. Osborne disapproves of Hardy who is on leave from the D.E.A. after having come under suspicion of accepting bribes from local drug traffickers. She is also uneasy when she learns that Hardy once trained under West and hates him almost as passionately as his current recruits. With time running out, Hardy and Osborne call a temporary, if uneasy, truce. Hardy cajoles a confession out of Dunbar, who claims that Sgt. West and the missing Rangers have been murdered and their bodies blown away by the hurricane. When they later interview Kendall, he confirms that the other Rangers and West are dead. But, in almost every other way, his story contradicts Dunbar's. What happened to West and his Ranger team? And what were they really doing out there in the jungle? As each layer reveals more lies and greater deceptions, Hardy and Osborne inch towards the horrible truth about the fate of the missing Rangers.
Released Date:
2002-04-12
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
98 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (54299 Reviews)
Director:
Roger MichellChap Taylor (story)
Chap Taylor (screenplay)
Michael Tolkin (screenplay)
An attorney in a rush to make a court appointment to file legal papers involving a multi-million dollar trust accidentally collides with an alcoholic insurance salesman, who also is a rush for a court appointment involving the custody of his children. The attorney leaves the scene of the accident and strands the salesman, causing him to miss his custody hearing. During the process of the post-crash discussion, the attorney accidentally drops the papers he needs to present in court. The judge gives him until the end of the day to present the papers and thus begins a cat and mouse game between the proponents. A few questionable actions later on both parties' part, they finally start questioning their actions and their lives. In the end, both come to new understanding of what is important and appear to be set in new ethical and moral directions. Contains mild violence and profanity.
Released Date:
2002-10-25
Languages:
English
Countries:
Germany, USA
Runtime:
103 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.5 (5728 Reviews)
Director:
Bob RafelsonDashiell Hammett (story)
Christopher Canaan (screenplay)
Steve Barancik (screenplay)
About a police detective, Jack, who, while doing a friend a favor and searching for a runaway teenager on Turk Street, stumbles upon a bizarre band of criminals about to pull off a bank robbery. Jack finds himself being held hostage while the criminals decide what to do with him, and the leader's beautiful girlfriend, Erin, is left alone to watch Jack. Erin, who we discover is a master manipulator of the men in the gang, reveals another side to Jack - a melancholy romantic who could have been a classical cellist. She finds Jack's captivity an irresistible turn-on and he can't figure out if she's for real, or manipulating him, too. Before the gang returns, Jack and Erin's connection intensifies and who ends up with the money is anyone's guess.
Released Date:
2002-10-25
Languages:
English
Countries:
Germany, USA
Runtime:
103 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.5 (5709 Reviews)
Director:
Bob RafelsonDashiell Hammett (story)
Christopher Canaan (screenplay)
Steve Barancik (screenplay)
About a police detective, Jack, who, while doing a friend a favor and searching for a runaway teenager on Turk Street, stumbles upon a bizarre band of criminals about to pull off a bank robbery. Jack finds himself being held hostage while the criminals decide what to do with him, and the leader's beautiful girlfriend, Erin, is left alone to watch Jack. Erin, who we discover is a master manipulator of the men in the gang, reveals another side to Jack - a melancholy romantic who could have been a classical cellist. She finds Jack's captivity an irresistible turn-on and he can't figure out if she's for real, or manipulating him, too. Before the gang returns, Jack and Erin's connection intensifies and who ends up with the money is anyone's guess.
Released Date:
2002-08-09
Languages:
English, German, Spanish, Russian, Czech
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
124 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
5.8 (134070 Reviews)
Director:
Rob CohenXander Cage is your standard adrenaline junkie with no fear and a lousy attitude. When the US Government "recruits" him to go on a mission, he's not exactly thrilled. His mission: to gather information on an organization that may just be planning the destruction of the world, led by the nihilistic Yorgi.
Released Date:
2004-02-27
Languages:
English, Italian, Spanish
Countries:
Germany, USA
Runtime:
97 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.2 (16211 Reviews)
Director:
Philip KaufmanJessica Shepard is an on the rise police officer of San Francisco's esteemed police department, after having solved a big case about a serial killer. Her mentor John Mills is proud of Jessica as a father would be of his daughter, since Mills was the partner of Jessica's late father. With a newly established promotion, Jessica finds that she might once again have to prove herself in a department that takes no prisoners. Not to mention a new partner named Mike Delmarco, who might be Jessica's next closest thing to a confidant. However, a man has been found dead and the two officers are brought into the investigation. What they find is a surprise when the dead in question was a man Jessica slept with, he being part of a list of one night stands that Jessica has engaged in. Now under suspicion and a terrible drinking problem gnawing at her, Jessica will have to prove to her superiors and to her skeptical partner that she's not the one behind the murders and Mills is one of the few people standing behind her. This is a story about a woman trying to find the perpetrator of these horrible crimes, before she herself might end as one of them.
Released Date:
2004-11-05
Languages:
English, French
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
115 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
(429984 Reviews)
Director:
Brad BirdBob Parr (A.K.A. Mr. Incredible), and his wife Helen (A.K.A. Elastigirl), are the world's greatest famous crime-fighting superheroes in Metroville. Always saving lives and battling evil on a daily basis. But fifteen years later, they have been forced to adopt civilian identities and retreat to the suburbs where they have no choice but to retire as superheroes to live a "normal life" with their three children Violet, Dash and Jack-Jack (who were secretly born with superpowers). Itching to get back into action, Bob gets his chance when a mysterious communication summons him to a remote island for a top secret assignment. He soon discovers that it will take a super family effort to rescue the world from total destruction.
Released Date:
2005-04-29
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
101 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
4.3 (47331 Reviews)
Director:
Lee TamahoriRich Wilkes (characters)
Simon Kinberg
Agent Augustus Gibbons has selected an imprisoned former US Navy SEAL Darius Stone, a new agent in the XXX program, travels to Washington D.C., where they track a splinter faction of the U.S. military that attempts to overthrow the U.S. government and assassinate the President, led by Secretary of Defense and former 4-Star General George Deckert, Stone's former commanding officer whom he once led a mutiny against. But he's been targeted for assassination by a radical splinter group of dissenters deep within the United States government. The new XXX agent must uncover the insurgents from within. It is the nation's only hope to stop the first coup d'etat in American history.
Released Date:
2004-05-07
Languages:
English, Afrikaans
Countries:
UK, Ireland, South Africa
Runtime:
105 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(2134 Reviews)
Director:
John BoormanAntjie Krog (book)
Ann Peacock (screenplay)
Langston Whitfield is a Washington Post journalist. His editor provocatively sends him to South Africa to cover the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings, in which the perpetrators of murder and torture on both sides during Apartheid are invited to come forward and confront their victims. By telling the unvarnished truth and expressing contrition, they may be granted amnesty. Can the deep wounds of Apartheid be healed through reconciliation? Langston is deeply skeptical. He tracks down Col. De Jager, the most notorious torturer in the SA Police and tries to penetrate the mind of a monster, an experience that obliges him to confront his own demons. Anna Malan is an Afrikaans poet who is covering the hearings for radio. As a white South African she is shattered by the accounts of the cruelty and depravity committed by her fellow countrymen. Anna and Langston must both question their sense of identity. Where do they each belong? How responsible are they for what is done in the name of their respective countries? The moving testimony of the victims affects them deeply. In different ways they are both estranged from their families, and their shared experience draws them ever closer to each other. It is a story charting the unfathomable depths of human cruelty and the redeeming power of forgiveness and love.
Released Date:
2006-02-17
Languages:
English, Italian
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
113 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.1 (12981 Reviews)
Director:
Joe RothRichard Price (screenplay)
Richard Price (novel)
When her son disappears and is believed to be dead, a single mother blames an African-American man from the projects for the kidnapping, creating a racial controversy. An African-American detective and a white missing child researcher team up to investigate the case, which they discover may be more complicated than they expected.
Released Date:
2005-01-14
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, Germany
Runtime:
136 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (84055 Reviews)
Director:
Thomas CarterIn 1999, Ken Carter, a successful sporting goods store owner, accepts the job of basketball coach for his old high school in a poor area of Richmond, CA, where he was a champion athlete. As much dismayed by the poor attitudes of his players as well as their dismal play performance, Carter sets about to change both. He immediately imposes a strict regime typified in written contracts that include stipulations for respectful behavior, a dress code and good grades as requisites to being allowed to participate. The initial resistance from the boys is soon dispelled as the team under Carter's tutelage becomes a undefeated competitor in the games. However, when the overconfident team's behavior begins to stray and Carter learns that too many players are doing poorly in class, he takes immediate action. To the outrage of the team, the school and the community, Carter cancels all team activities and locks the court until the team shows acceptable academic improvement. In the ensuing debate, Carter fights to keep his methods, determined to show the boys that they need to rely on more than sports for their futures and eventually finds he has affected them more profoundly than he ever expected.
Released Date:
2005-09-09
Languages:
English
Countries:
Germany, USA
Runtime:
83 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
5.5 (21087 Reviews)
Director:
Les MayfieldJim Piddock (screenplay)
Margaret Oberman (screenplay)
Stephen Carpenter (screenplay)
Jim Piddock (story)
Margaret Oberman (story)
A federal agent turns up dead and a hardcore undercover agent, known as Derrick Vann heads off to try and recover the stolen arms and find the killers. Andy Fiddler is an ordinary family man and a dentist, and is out heading to a conference, when he gets stuck in the same mess. Criminal Kane believes Fiddler is 'The Man' behind it all and offers him a gun. Vann spots him and drags him across town, with him posing as the actual 'Man'.
Released Date:
2007-08-24
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
112 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (17650 Reviews)
Director:
Rod LurieMichael Bortman (screenplay)
Allison Burnett (screenplay)
Michael Bortman (screen story)
Allison Burnett (screen story)
J.R. Moehringer (Los Angeles Times Magazine article)
A young journalist comes to the aid of a homeless man who claims he is a former heavy weight title contender. Seeing a chance to redeem his struggling career, the writer's story of the champ's life raises questions about the past that will threaten all he holds dear.
Released Date:
2006-08-18
Languages:
English
Countries:
Germany, USA, Canada
Runtime:
105 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.6 (111148 Reviews)
Director:
David R. EllisJohn Heffernan (screenplay)
Sebastian Gutierrez (screenplay)
David Dalessandro (story)
John Heffernan (story)
While practicing motocross in Hawaii, Sean Jones witnesses the brutal murder of an important American prosecutor by the powerful mobster Eddie Kim. He is protected and persuaded by the FBI agent Neville Flynn to testify against Eddie in Los Angeles. They embark in the red-eye Flight 121 of Pacific Air, occupying the entire first-class. However, Eddie dispatches hundred of different species of snakes airborne with a time operated device in the luggage to release the snakes in the flight with the intent of crashing the plane. Neville and the passengers have to struggle with the snakes to survive.
Released Date:
2007-03-02
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
116 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
(49859 Reviews)
Director:
Craig BrewerIn rural Mississippi, Lazarus, a former blues musician who survives by truck farming, finds a young girl nearly beaten to death near his home. She's the white-trash town tramp, molded by a life of sexual abuse at the hands of her father and verbal abuse from her mother, who seems to delight in reminding Rae of her mistake in not aborting her. Lazarus, who is also facing personal crisis at the dissolution of his marriage, nurses Rae back to health, providing her with gentle, fatherly advice as well as an education in blues music. Rae's boyfriend, Ronnie, goaded by the man who nearly beat Rae to death, misunderstands the relationship between Lazarus and Rae, and vows to kill him. Lazarus, exhibiting a street-smart understanding of violence and its motives, calls Ronnie's bluff, senses that he is as troubled as Rae, and becomes a guiding force in the young couple's resurrection.
Released Date:
2007-03-01
Languages:
English, Spanish, Arabic
Countries:
USA, Morocco
Runtime:
106 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.6 (9039 Reviews)
Director:
Irwin WinklerMark Friedman (screenplay)
Mark Friedman (story)
Irwin Winkler (story)
The day after they get the word they'll go home in two weeks, a group of soldiers from Spokane are ambushed in an Iraqi city. Back stateside we follow four of them - a surgeon who saw too much, a teacher who's a single mom and who lost a hand in the ambush, an infantry man whose best friend died that day, and a soldier who keeps reliving the moment he killed a civilian woman. Each of the four has come home changed, each feels dislocation. Group therapy, V.A. services, halting gestures from family and colleagues, and regular flashbacks keep the war front and center in their minds. They're angry, touchy, and explosive: can a warrior find peace back home?
Released Date:
2008-01-18
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
88 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.1 (30970 Reviews)
Director:
Renny HarlinA former cop who now earns a wage as a crime scene cleaner unknowingly participates in a cover-up at his latest job.
Released Date:
2008-09-19
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
6.1 (38211 Reviews)
Director:
Neil LaButeDavid Loughery (screenplay)
Howard Korder (screenplay)
David Loughery (story)
In California, the Caucasian Chris Mattson and his African-American wife Lisa Mattson move to a house in a gated community. The racist and dysfunctional next-door neighbor is the abusive LAPD Officer Abel Turner who feels uncomfortable with the relationship of the newcomers and transforms their lives into Hell on Earth.
Released Date:
2008-11-07
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
100 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (7361 Reviews)
Director:
Malcolm D. LeeWhen R&B legend Marcus Hooks dies suddenly, VH-1 invites his original back up duo, Floyd Henderson and Louis Hinds, "The Real Deal," to appear at a memorial tribute at the Apollo Theater. Floyd, who's bored in retirement, wants this more than anything; Louis, a philosophical ex-con, does not. Plus, there's bad blood between them (Louis's wife Odetta left him to marry Floyd - then left Floyd). Floyd begs, Louis consents but won't fly, so they leave L.A. in Floyd's flashy Cadillac with five days to get to New York. On the road, they must get back their vocal chops, renew their friendship, and sort out the past. With Floyd's bad hip and Louis's bad kidneys, will they even make it?
Released Date:
2011-04-22
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
89 min
Rated:
G
IMDB Ratings:
7.6 (4846 Reviews)
A nature documentary centered on two cat families and how they teach their cubs the ways of the wild.
Released Date:
2009-01-25
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA, Japan
Runtime:
101 min
Rated:
TV-MA
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (6244 Reviews)
Director:
Fuminori KizakiEric S. Calderon
Leo Chu
Eric Garcia
Yasuyuki Muto
Takashi Okazaki
When his father's body is stolen from its grave, Afro takes up his sword again to tear through an army of deadly foes led by a sadistic leader.
Released Date:
2013-11-27
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
104 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.7 (44513 Reviews)
Director:
Spike LeeGaron Tsuchiya (manga)
Nobuaki Minegishi (manga)
Mark Protosevich (screenplay)
An advertising executive is kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement. When he is inexplicably released, he embarks on an obsessive mission to discover who orchestrated his punishment, only to find he is still trapped in a web of conspiracy and torment.
Released Date:
2013-11-27
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
104 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.7 (44538 Reviews)
Director:
Spike LeeGaron Tsuchiya (manga)
Nobuaki Minegishi (manga)
Mark Protosevich (screenplay)
An advertising executive is kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement. When he is inexplicably released, he embarks on an obsessive mission to discover who orchestrated his punishment, only to find he is still trapped in a web of conspiracy and torment.
Released Date:
2011-02-12
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
91 min
Rated:
TV-MA
IMDB Ratings:
7.4 (19122 Reviews)
Director:
Tommy Lee JonesGenres:
DramaTwo men in an apartment with their opposing beliefs in this play by Cormac McCarthey. The black guy, a former convict who believes in God, just saved the white agnostic professor from jumping in front of the express train. He won't let the depressed man leave, without following him, and feel he's in this situation for a reason, decided by God. An intense chamber play about belief or unbelief, and a conversation about what's true and important in life, or not.
Released Date:
2014-04-04
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
136 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
7.8 (398260 Reviews)
Christopher Markus (screenplay)
Stephen McFeely (screenplay)
Joe Simon (based on the Marvel comic by)
Jack Kirby (based on the Marvel comic by)
For Steve Rogers, awakening after decades of suspended animation involves more than catching up on pop culture; it also means that this old school idealist must face a world of subtler threats and difficult moral complexities. That becomes clear when Director Nick Fury is killed by the mysterious assassin, the Winter Soldier, but not before warning Rogers that SHIELD has been subverted by its enemies. When Rogers acts on Fury's warning to trust no one there, he is branded as a traitor by the organization. Now a fugitive, Captain America must get to the bottom of this deadly mystery with the help of the Black Widow and his new friend, The Falcon. However, the battle will be costly for the Sentinel of Liberty, with Rogers finding enemies where he least expects them while learning that the Winter Soldier looks disturbingly familiar.
Released Date:
2013-07-17
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
96 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (55754 Reviews)
Director:
David SorenDarren Lemke (screenplay)
Robert D. Siegel (screenplay)
David Soren (screenplay)
David Soren (story)
From the makers of MADAGASCAR and KUNG FU PANDA, TURBO is a high-velocity 3D comedy about a snail who dares to dream big - and fast. After a freak accident infuses him with the power of super-speed, Turbo kicks into overdrive and embarks on an extraordinary journey to achieve the seemingly impossible: competing in the world's fastest race, the Indianapolis 500. With the help of his tricked-out streetwise snail crew, this ultimate underdog puts his heart and shell on the line to prove that no dream is too big, and no dreamer too small.
Released Date:
2012-04-20
Languages:
English
Countries:
Canada
Runtime:
90 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.6 (7236 Reviews)
Director:
David WeaverElan Mastai (screenplay)
David Weaver (screenplay)
After twenty years in prison, Foley is finished with the grifter's life. When he meets an elusive young woman named Iris, the possibility of a new start looks real. But his past is proving to be a stubborn companion.
Released Date:
2015-06-26
Languages:
English, Finnish
Countries:
Finland, UK, Germany
Runtime:
110 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
5.5 (12282 Reviews)
Director:
Jalmari HelanderWhen Air Force One is shot down by terrorists leaving the President of the United States stranded in the wilderness, there is only one person around who can save him - a 13-year old boy called Oskari. In the forest on a hunting mission to prove his maturity to his kinsfolk, Oskari had been planning to track down a deer, but instead discovers the most powerful man on the planet in an escape pod. With the terrorists closing in to capture their own "Big Game" prize, the unlikely duo must team up to escape their hunters. As anxious Pentagon officials observe the action via satellite feed, it is up to the President and his new side-kick to prove themselves and survive the most extraordinary 24 hours of their lives.
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