Gran Torino (2008) RT 79% / Audience 90%
DVD release: Jun 2009
Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Kowalski is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Clint Eastwood
CAST: Clint Eastwood • John Carroll Lynch • Geraldine Hughes • Brian Haley
Life Is Beautiful (1997) RT Audience 50%
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire ... (more)
GENRES: Comedy • Drama
DIRECTION: Roberto Benigni
CAST: Nicoletta Braschi • Roberto Benigni • Giorgio Cantarini • Giustino Durano
Warrior (2011)
The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament - a path that puts the fighter ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Drama
DIRECTION: Gavin O'Connor
CAST: Tom Hardy • Jennifer Morrison • Nick Nolte • Joel Edgerton
Collateral (2004) RT 86% / Audience 84%
DVD release: Dec 2004
Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin. (more)
GENRES: Crime • Drama • Thriller
DIRECTION: Michael Mann
CAST: Tom Cruise • Jamie Foxx • Jada Pinkett Smith • Mark Ruffalo
The Great Escape (1963) RT 93% / Audience 95%
DVD release: Mar 1998
The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocates them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp ... (more)
GENRES: Adventure • Drama • History • Thriller • War
DIRECTION: John Sturges
CAST: Steve McQueen • James Garner • Richard Attenborough • James Donald
The Wrestler (2008) RT 98% / Audience 88%
DVD release: Apr 2009
Aging wrestler Randy "The Ram" Robinson is long past his prime but still ready and rarin' to go on the pro-wrestling circuit. After a particularly brutal beating, however, ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Darren Aronofsky
CAST: Mickey Rourke • Marisa Tomei • Evan Rachel Wood • Ajay Naidu
The Fighter (2010) RT 90% / Audience 89%
DVD release: Mar 2011
The Fighter, is a drama about boxer "Irish" Micky Ward's unlikely road to the world light welterweight title. His Rocky-like rise was shepherded by half-brother Dicky, a ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: David O. Russell
CAST: Mark Wahlberg • Christian Bale • Amy Adams • Melissa Leo
Disconnect (2012) RT 68% / Audience 75%
DVD release: Sep 2013
Disconnect interweaves multiple storylines about people searching for human connection in today’s wired world. Through poignant turns that are both harrowing and touching, the ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Thriller
DIRECTION: Henry Alex Rubin
CAST: Jason Bateman • Hope Davis • Frank Grillo • Paula Patton
Fruitvale Station (2013) RT 94% / Audience 87%
DVD release: Jan 2014
The true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008. (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Ryan Coogler
CAST: Michael B. Jordan • Octavia Spencer • Melonie Diaz • Ahna O'Reilly
The Theory of Everything (2014) RT 79% / Audience 84%
DVD release: Feb 2015
The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: James Marsh
CAST: Felicity Jones • Emily Watson • Harry Lloyd • David Thewlis
The Hunt (2012) RT Audience 18%
DVD release: Mar 2007
A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Thomas Vinterberg
CAST: Mads Mikkelsen • Alexandra Rapaport • Thomas Bo Larsen • Anne Louise Hassing
Fiddler on the Roof (1971) RT 81% / Audience 92%
DVD release: Jun 1998
This lavishly produced and critically acclaimed screen adaptation of the international stage sensation tells the life-affirming story of Tevye (Topol), a poor milkman whose ... (more)
GENRES: Drama • Romance
DIRECTION: Norman Jewison
CAST: Norma Crane • Leonard Frey • Molly Picon • Chaim Topol
Maleficent (2014) RT 50% / Audience 71%
DVD release: Nov 2014
A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army threatens the harmony of ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Family • Fantasy • Romance
DIRECTION: Robert Stromberg
CAST: Angelina Jolie • Elle Fanning • Juno Temple • Sharlto Copley
The Bourne Supremacy (2004) RT 81% / Audience 90%
DVD release: Dec 2004
When a CIA operation to purchase classified Russian documents is blown by a rival agent, who then shows up in the sleepy seaside village where Bourne and Marie have been ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Drama • Thriller
DIRECTION: Paul Greengrass
CAST: Matt Damon • Brian Cox • Julia Stiles • Joan Allen
Mysterious Skin (2004) RT 85% / Audience 89%
DVD release: Oct 2005
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth. (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Gregg Araki
CAST: Joseph Gordon-Levitt • Brady Corbet • Michelle Trachtenberg • Mary Lynn Rajskub
The Book Thief (2013) RT 46% / Audience 73%
DVD release: Mar 2014
While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refuge is ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Brian Percival
CAST: Roger Allam • Sophie Nélisse • Geoffrey Rush • Emily Watson
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
Gladiator (2000) RT 76% / Audience 87%
DVD release: Nov 2000
In the year 180, the death of emperor Marcus Aurelius throws the Roman Empire into chaos. Maximus is one of the Roman army's most capable and trusted generals and a key ... (more)
GENRES: Action • Adventure • Drama
DIRECTION: Ridley Scott
CAST: Russell Crowe • Joaquin Phoenix • Connie Nielsen • Oliver Reed
The Help (2011) RT 75% / Audience 89%
DVD release: Dec 2011
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American ... (more)
GENRES: Drama
DIRECTION: Tate Taylor
CAST: Emma Stone • Viola Davis • Octavia Spencer • Bryce Dallas Howard
12 Years a Slave (2013) RT 96% / Audience 90%
DVD release: Mar 2014
In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses ... (more)