6.1

Quid Pro Quo

2007, USA

• Actors: Nick Stahl, Rachel Black, Jessica Hecht, Jacob Pitts, Ashlie Atkinson, Jamie McShane, Pablo Schreiber, Jeane Fournier, Carmela Marner, Phil LaMarr, Matthew Carey, Ben Siegler, Michal Sinnott, Joshua Leonard, Vera Farmiga, For Chan, James Frain, Aimee Mullins, Dylan Bruno, Kate Burton, Ellen Marlow, Tommy Nelson, Josh Folan, Tia Dionne Hodge, Richard Serlen
• Genre: Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Carlos Brooks
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Isaac Knott is a public radio reporter in New York, in a wheelchair since an auto accident in which his parents died. He's on the rebound from a relationship when he gets a tip about people who want to be disabled, who offer money to interns to cut off a limb. He searches out a group of these wannabes, but none will talk to him. Then he meets his tipster, Fiona Ankany, an art conservator, attractive and attracted to him. She discloses her desire to be disabled, to be in a wheelchair. Meanwhile, Isaac tries on a pair of wing-tips, spectators, that restore feeling to his feet. What are the connections? What's Fiona's quid pro quo? Will Isaac get his story?

  7.4

Michael Clayton

2006, USA

• Actors: Tom Wilkinson, Michael O'Keefe, Sydney Pollack, Danielle Skraastad, Tilda Swinton, George Clooney, Wai Chan, Alberto Vazquez, Brian Koppelman, Thomas McCarthy, Denis O'Hare, Julie White, Austin Williams, Jennifer Van Dyck, Frank Wood, Richard Hecht, Bill Raymond, Jonathan Walker, Sharon Washington, Cynthia Mace, Michael Countryman, Ken Howard, Amy Hargreaves, Susan Pellegrino, Rachel Black, Matthew Detmer, John Douglas Thompson, Merritt Wever, Brian Poteat, Christopher Mann
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Tony Gilroy
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Michael Clayton, a high-priced-law-firm's fixer, leaves a late-night poker game, gets a call to drive to Westchester, and watches his car blow up as he's taking an impromptu dawn walk through a field. Flash back four days. He owes a loan shark to cover his brother's debts (Michael's own gambling habits have left him virtually broke). His law firm is negotiating a high-stakes merger, and his firm's six-year defense of a conglomerate's pesticide use is at risk when one of the firm's top litigators goes off his meds and puts the case in jeopardy. While Michael is trying to fix things, someone decides to kill him. Who? Meanwhile, his son summarizes the plot of a dark fantasy novel.

  7.7

Inside Man

2005, USA

• Actors: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Carlos Andrés Gómez, Kim Director, James Ransone, Bernie Rachelle, Peter Gerety, Victor Colicchio, Cassandra Freeman, Peter Frechette, Gerry Vichi, Waris Ahluwalia, Rafael Osorio, Rodney 'Bear' Jackson, Daryl Mitchell, Ashlie Atkinson, David Brown, Robert C. Kirk, Frank Stellato, Ken Leung, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Ed Onipede Blunt, Amir Ali Said, Lemon, Samantha Ivers, Peter Kybart
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Spike Lee
• Available languages:
  • English English.

From a cell, a man tells us he has planned the perfect bank robbery; he invites us to watch. An efficient gang enters a Manhattan bank, locks the doors, and takes hostages. They work deliberately, without haste. Detective Frazier is assigned to negotiate, but half his mind is occupied with the corruption charges he is facing. The bank's president has something to protect in a safe deposit box, so he brings in Madaline, a high-power broker with a hidden agenda. With an army of police surrounding the bank, the thief, the cop, and the plutocrat's fixer enter high-stakes negotiations. Why are the robbers asking for a plane, if they are so competent and they know they won't get one? Why aren't they in more of a hurry? If the job's perfect, why is the thieves' leader in a cell?