6.8

The Dead Girl

2006, USA

• Actors: Toni Collette, Piper Laurie, Don Smith, Michael Raysses, Earl Carroll, Dorothy Beatty, Eva Loseth, Giovanni Ribisi, Rose Byrne, Joanie Tomsky, James Franco, Christopher Allen Nelson, Mary Steenburgen, Bruce Davison, Kate Mulligan, Mary Beth Hurt, Nick Searcy, Dan Callahan, Gus Buktenica, Marcia Gay Harden, Bobby Hosea, Lee von Ernst, Kerry Washington, Carla Jimenez, Gillian Pernoll, Elizabeth Pernoll, Brittany Murphy, Daniel Leavitt, Lea Nicole Carranza, Amy Benedict
• Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Karen Moncrieff
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In Los Angeles, a story about a dead girl, told in five chapters. A woman, miserable in her circumscribed life caring for her domineering mother, finds a body. Somehow, this discovery allows her to change. At the morgue, the sister of a girl missing for 15 years believes the body is that of her sister; this liberates her. An older woman, married to a man who pays her little attention, finds evidence in a storage unit; how will she handle it? The mother of the dead girl, who left home some years before, visits the last place her daughter lived and makes her own discoveries. Last, we flash back to the victim's final day.

  6.6

Independence Day

1995, USA

• Actors: Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch, Robert Loggia, Randy Quaid, Margaret Colin, Vivica A. Fox, James Rebhorn, Harvey Fierstein, Adam Baldwin, Brent Spiner, James Duval, Lisa Jakub, Giuseppe Andrews, Ross Bagley, Bill Smitrovich, Mae Whitman, Harry Connick Jr., Kiersten Warren, John Storey, Frank Novak, Devon Gummersall, Leland Orser, Mirron E. Willis, Ross Lacy, David Pressman, Vivian Palermo, Raphael Sbarge
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): Roland Emmerich
• Available languages:
  • English English.

On July 2nd, communications systems worldwide are sent into chaos by a strange atmospheric interference. It is soon learned by the military that a number of enormous objects are on a collision course with Earth. At first thought to be meteors, they are later revealed to be gigantic spacecraft, piloted by a mysterious alien species. After attempts to communicate with the aliens go nowhere, David Levinson, an ex-scientist turned cable technician, discovers that the aliens are going to attack major points around the globe in less than a day. On July 3rd, the aliens all but obliterate New York, Los Angeles, and Washington. The survivors set out in convoys towards Area 51, a strange government testing ground where it is rumored the military has a captured alien spacecraft of their own. The survivors devise a plan to fight back against the enslaving aliens, and July 4th becomes the day humanity will fight for its freedom. July 4th is their Independence Day...

  4.8

Boiling Point

1993, USA, France, Japan

• Actors: Wesley Snipes, Dennis Hopper, Lolita Davidovich, Viggo Mortensen, Seymour Cassel, Jonathan Banks, Christine Elise, Tony Lo Bianco, Valerie Perrine, James Tolkan, Paul Gleason, Lorraine Evanoff, Stephanie Williams, Tobin Bell, Bobby Hosea, Dan Hedaya, George Gerdes, James Pickens Jr., Keith Leon Williams, Rick Dean, John Petievich, Mark Phelan, Nancy Sullivan, John Lander, Lisa Kaseman, Janet May, John D. Sarviss
• Genre: Crime, Drama
• Director(s): James B. Harris
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Red is an aging scam-artist who's just been released from prison together with Ronnie, a young and not-so-bright hoodlum who is easily manipulated. Their new business is to organize fake-money sales and then kill the buyer to take his money; but when Ronnie kills an undercover secret service agent, his partner Jimmy Mercer vows revenge and is given one week to catch the killers before being transferred.