The East (2013) RT 74% / Audience 64%
DVD release: Sep 2013
An operative for an elite private intelligence firm finds her priorities irrevocably changed after she is tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group known for executing ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Thriller
DIRECTION: Zal Batmanglij
CAST: Brit Marling • Alexander Skarsgård • Ellen Page • Toby Kebbell
The Lobster (2015) RT 90% / Audience 66%
DVD release: Aug 2016
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama • Romance • Science Fiction • Thriller
DIRECTION: Giorgos Lanthimos
CAST: Léa Seydoux • Colin Farrell • John C. Reilly • Rachel Weisz
Stalker (1979) RT 100% / Audience 93%
DVD release: Oct 2002
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A Stalker guides ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Science Fiction • Thriller
DIRECTION: Andrei Tarkovsky
CAST: Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy • Anatoliy Solonitsyn • Nikolay Grinko • Alisa Freyndlikh
Network (1976)
A TV network cynically exploits a deranged ex-TV anchor's ravings and revelations about the media for their own profit. (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Sidney Lumet
CAST: Faye Dunaway • William Holden • Peter Finch • Robert Duvall
Sucker Punch (2011) RT 23% / Audience 47%
DVD release: Jun 2011
A young girl is institutionalized by her abusive stepfather. Retreating to an alternative reality as a coping strategy, she envisions a plan which will help her escape from ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Fantasy • Thriller
DIRECTION: Zack Snyder
CAST: Emily Browning • Abbie Cornish • Jena Malone • Vanessa Hudgens
Super Size Me (2004) RT 93% / Audience 72%
DVD release: Sep 2004
Morgan Spurlock subjects himself to a diet based only on McDonald's fast food three times a day for thirty days without exercising to try to prove why so many Americans are ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Documentary • Drama
DIRECTION: Morgan Spurlock
CAST: Morgan Spurlock • Daryl Isaacs • Lisa Ganjhu • Stephen Siegel
The Butterfly Effect (2004) RT 33% / Audience 81%
DVD release: Jul 2007
A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change ... (more)
GENRES: Science Fiction • Thriller
DIRECTION: Eric Bress • J. Mackye Gruber
CAST: Ashton Kutcher • Amy Smart • Nathaniel DeVeaux • Melora Walters
Spellbound (1945) RT 83% / Audience 82%
DVD release: Mar 2001
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Mystery • Thriller
DIRECTION: Alfred Hitchcock
CAST: Ingrid Bergman • Gregory Peck • Michael Chekhov • Rhonda Fleming
Food, Inc. (2008) RT 96% / Audience 86%
DVD release: Nov 2009
Documentary filmmaker Robert Kenner examines how mammoth corporations have taken over all aspects of the food chain in the United States, from the farms where our food is ... (more)
GENRES: Documentary
DIRECTION: Robert Kenner
CAST: Michael Pollan • Eric Schlosser • Richard Lobb • Vince Edwards
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011) RT 90% / Audience 71%
DVD release: Feb 2012
After several years of living with a cult, Martha finally escapes and calls her estranged sister, Lucy, for help. Martha finds herself at the quiet Connecticut home Lucy ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Thriller
DIRECTION: Sean Durkin
CAST: Elizabeth Olsen • Hugh Dancy • John Hawkes • Sarah Paulson
The Lunchbox (2013) RT 96% / Audience 86%
DVD release: Jul 2014
A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai's Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Ritesh Batra
CAST: Irrfan Khan • Nimrat Kaur • Nawazuddin Siddiqui • Denzil Smith
Crash (2004) RT 75% / Audience 88%
DVD release: Sep 2005
Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption. (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Paul Haggis
CAST: Sandra Bullock • Don Cheadle • Matt Dillon • Michael Peña
Snowpiercer (2013) RT 95% / Audience 72%
DVD release: Oct 2014
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Drama • Science Fiction
DIRECTION: Joon-ho Bong
CAST: Chris Evans • Jamie Bell • KangHo Song • John Hurt
Perfect Sense (2011) RT 54% / Audience 59%
DVD release: May 2012
Susan is a scientist searching for answers to important questions. So important that she has given up on other things, like love - until she meets Micheal. Susan and Michael ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Romance • Science Fiction
DIRECTION: David Mackenzie
CAST: Ewan McGregor • Eva Green • Ewen Bremner • Stephen Dillane
Like Stars on Earth (2007) RT 89% / Audience 96%
DVD release: Jan 2010
Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. Colours, fish, dogs, and kites don't seem important to the adults, ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Aamir Khan
CAST: Darsheel Safary • Aamir Khan • Tisca Chopra • Vipin Sharma
Better Luck Tomorrow (2002) RT 81% / Audience 79%
DVD release: Sep 2003
A group of over-achieving Asian-American high school seniors enjoy a power trip when they dip into extra-curricular criminal activities. (more)
GENRES: Crime • Drama
DIRECTION: Justin Lin
CAST: Parry Shen • Jason Tobin • Sung Kang • Karin Anna Cheung
The Wave (2008) RT 65% / Audience 80%
A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Thriller
DIRECTION: Dennis Gansel
CAST: Jürgen Vogel • Frederick Lau • Max Riemelt • Jennifer Ulrich
The Truman Show (1998) RT 94% / Audience 88%
DVD release: Jan 1999
Truman Burbank is the star of "The Truman Show", a 24-hour-a-day "reality" TV show that broadcasts every aspect of his life -- live and in color -- without his knowledge. His ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama
DIRECTION: Peter Weir
CAST: Jim Carrey • Laura Linney • Noah Emmerich • Natascha McElhone
Inside Out (2015) RT 98% / Audience 89%
DVD release: Nov 2015
Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it's no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley ... (more)
GENRES: Animation • Comedy • Family
DIRECTION: Pete Docter • Ronnie del Carmen
CAST: Amy Poehler • Bill Hader • Lewis Black • Mindy Kaling
V for Vendetta (2005) RT 73% / Audience 90%
DVD release: Aug 2006
In a world in which Great Britain has become a fascist state, a masked vigilante known only as "V" conducts guerrilla warfare against the oppressive British government. When ... (more)