6.6

Stake Land

2010, USA

• Actors: Danielle Harris, Kelly McGillis, Connor Paolo, Bonnie Dennison, Michael Cerveris, Chance Kelly, Sean Nelson, Marianne Hagan, Adam Scarimbolo, Nick Damici, Stuart Rudin, Traci Hovel, Gregory Jones, Lou Sumrall, Eilis Cahill, Jean Brassard, Brian Spears, Adam Folk, Vonia Arslanian, Graham Reznick, Tim House, Phyllis Bash, Lou Lou, Gibson, Chris DeCicco
• Genre: Horror
• Director(s): Jim Mickle
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Martin was a normal teenage boy before the country collapsed in an empty pit of economic and political disaster. A vampire epidemic has swept across what is left of the nation's abandoned towns and cities, and it's up to Mister, a death dealing, rogue vampire hunter, to get Martin safely north to Canada, the continent's New Eden.

  7.2

Too Big to Fail

2010, USA

• Actors: James Woods, John Heard, William Hurt, Erin Dilly, Amy Carlson, Topher Grace, Ayad Akhtar, Cynthia Nixon, Kathy Baker, Edward Asner, Paul Giamatti, Beau Baxter, Ben Livingston, Erin Burnett, Chance Kelly, Chil Kong, Daniel K. Isaac, Billy Crudup, James Saito, Maria Bartiromo, Michael O'Keefe, Victor Slezak, Chandra Thomas, Tom Mason, Peter Hermann, Joey Slotnick, Bill Pullman, Evan Handler, Tony Shalhoub, Matthew Modine
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Curtis Hanson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A close look behind the scenes, between late March and mid-October, 2008: we follow Richard Fuld's benighted attempt to save Lehman Brothers; conversations among Hank Paulson (the Secretary of the Treasury), Ben Bernanke (chair of the Federal Reserve), and Tim Geithner (president of the New York Fed) as they seek a private solution for Lehman's; and, back-channel negotiations among Paulson, Warren Buffet, investment bankers, a British regulator, and members of Congress as almost all work to save the U.S. economy. By the end, with the no-strings bailout arranged, modest confidence restored on Wall Street, and a meltdown averted, Paulson wonders if banks will lend.

  6.4

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3

2008, USA, UK

• Actors: Denzel Washington, John Travolta, Luis Guzmán, Victor Gojcaj, John Turturro, Michael Rispoli, Ramon Rodriguez, James Gandolfini, John Benjamin Hickey, Alex Kaluzhsky, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Katherine Sigismund, Jake Richard Siciliano, Jason Butler Harner, Gary Basaraba, Tonye Patano, Aunjanue Ellis, Anthony Annarumma, Glen Tortorella, Bobby Bojorklund, Saidah Arrika Ekulona, Jasmin M. Tavarez, Alice Kremelberg, Sean Meehan, Todd Susman, Robert Vataj, J. Bernard Calloway, Chip Brookes, Zach Poole, Reuben Jackson
• Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
• Director(s): Tony Scott
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In early afternoon, four armed men hijack a subway train in Manhattan. They stop on a slight incline, decoupling the first car to let the rest of the train coast back. Their leader is Ryder; he connects by phone with Walter Garber, the dispatcher watching that line. Garber is a supervisor temporarily demoted while being investigated for bribery. Ryder demands $10 million within an hour, or he'll start shooting hostages. He'll deal only with Garber. The mayor okays the payoff, the news of the hostage situation sends the stock market tumbling, and it's unclear what Ryder really wants or if Garber is part of the deal. Will hostages, kidnappers, and negotiators live through this?

  8.6

Fringe

2008,

• Actors: Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, Lance Reddick, Blair Brown, Jasika Nicole, John Noble, Kirk Acevedo, Michael Cerveris, Mark Valley, Ari Graynor, Lily Pilblad, Jacqueline Beaulieu, Sebastian Roché, Leonard Nimoy, Ryan Mcdonald, Chance Kelly, Darby Lynn Totten, Seth Gabel, Kevin Corrigan, Jared Harris, Michael Gaston, Ash Roeca, Stefan Arngrim, Eugene Lipinski, Matthew Martin, Roger R. Cross, Peter Woodward, Meghan Markle, Gerard Plunkett, Kenneth Tigar
• Director(s): Brad Anderson
• Available languages:

The FBI teams up with a formerly-institutionalized scientist - who was performing experiments on the fringe of real science - and his son to investigate weird crimes that are seemingly part of a larger pattern, and may be connected with a global company called Massive Dynamics.

  8.5

The Departed

2005, USA, Hong Kong

• Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga, Anthony Anderson, Alec Baldwin, Kevin Corrigan, James Badge Dale, David O'Hara, Mark Rolston, Robert Wahlberg, Kristen Dalton, Thomas B. Duffy, J.C. MacKenzie, Mary Klug, Peg Holzemer, Robert 'Toshi' Kar Yuen Chan, Gurdeep Singh, Armen Garo, John Cenatiempo, Joseph Riccobene, Billy Smith, Lyman Chen, Kevin P. McCarthy, Chris Fischer, Brian Smyj, William Severs
• Genre: Crime, Mystery
• Director(s): Martin Scorsese
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In South Boston, the state police force is waging war on Irish-American organized crime. Young undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate run by gangland chief Frank Costello. While Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence, Colin Sullivan, a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the state police as an informer for the syndicate, is rising to a position of power in the Special Investigation Unit. Each man becomes deeply consumed by his double life, gathering information about the plans and counter-plans of the operations he has penetrated. But when it becomes clear to both the mob and the police that there's a mole in their midst, Billy and Colin are suddenly in danger of being caught and exposed to the enemy-and each must race to uncover the identity of the other man in time to save himself. But is either willing to turn on the friends and comrades they've made during their long stints undercover?

  7.0

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

2005, USA

• Actors: Dianne Wiest, Robert Downey Jr., Shia LaBeouf, Melonie Diaz, Julia Garro, Eleonore Hendricks, Adam Scarimbolo, Peter Anthony Tambakis, Channing Tatum, Anthony Tirado, Erick Rosado, Steve Payne, Chazz Palminteri, Tibor Feldman, Martin Compston, Marc Castle, Steven Randazzo, George DiCenzo, Olga Merediz, Teresa Kelsey, Sammy Rhee, Jermel Wilson, Michael Rivera, David Castro, Federico Castelluccio, Anthony DeSando, Scott Michael Campbell, Rosario Dawson, Kyle Benitez, Iraida Polanco
• Genre: Crime, Drama
• Director(s): Dito Montiel
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Dito, a writer in L.A., goes home to Astoria, Queens, after a 15-year absence when his mother calls to say his father's ill. In a series of flashbacks we see the young Dito, his parents, his four closest friends, and his girl Laurie, as each tries to navigate family, race, loyalty, sex, coming of age, violence, and wanting out. A ball falls onto the subway tracks at a station, small things get out of hand. Can Dito go home again?

  5.0

Freedomland

2005, USA

• Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Julianne Moore, Edie Falco, Ron Eldard, William Forsythe, Aunjanue Ellis, Anthony Mackie, LaTanya Richardson, Clarke Peters, Peter Friedman, Domenick Lombardozzi, Aasif Mandvi, Philip Bosco, Fly Williams III, Portia, Haneefah Wood, Dorian Missick, Joe Forbrich, Donna Cutugno, Genevieve Hudson-Price, Calvin Hart, Marlon Sherman, Bill Walsh, Patricia Mauceri, Richard Price, Catrina Ganey, Liza Colón-Zayas, Colman Domingo, Teodorina Bello, D.C. Benny
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Joe Roth
• Available languages:
  • English English.

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.

  7.8

Little Children

2005, USA

• Actors: Kate Winslet, Patrick Wilson, Jennifer Connelly, Gregg Edelman, Sadie Goldstein, Ty Simpkins, Noah Emmerich, Jackie Earle Haley, Phyllis Somerville, Helen Carey, Catherine Wolf, Mary B. McCann, Trini Alvarado, Marsha Dietlein, Jane Adams, Raymond J. Barry, Sarah Buxton, Thomas Greaney, Anna Audia, Celestial Hakim, Hunter Reid, Chadwick Brown, Phil McGlaston, Bruce Kirkpatrick, Adam Mucci, Chance Kelly, Rebecca Schull, Crystal Field, Lola Pashalinski, Walker Ryan
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Todd Field
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Echoes of "Madame Bovary" in the American suburbs. Sarah's in a loveless marriage, long days with her young daughter at the park and the pool, wanting more. Brad is a househusband, married to a flinty documentary filmmaker. Ronnie is just out of prison - two years for indecent exposure - living with his mother; Larry is a retired cop, fixated on driving Ronnie away. Sarah and Brad connect, a respite of adult companionship at the pool. Ronnie and Larry have their demons. Brad should be studying for the bar; Larry misses his job; Ronnie's mom thinks he needs a girlfriend. Sarah longs to refuse to be trapped in an unhappy life. Where can these tangled paths lead?

  6.7

Duane Hopwood

2005, USA

• Actors: Daisy Ang, Bill Buell, Dick Cavett, Rachel Covey, Mia Dillon, Marty Dunn, Josh Flitter, Judah Friedlander, Jim Fyfe, Janeane Garofalo, Jerry Grayson, Joan Griffith, Chance Kelly, John Krasinski, Susan Lynch, Bernie McInerney, Sayra Player, Ramya Pratt, Vincent Riviezzo, Steve Schirripa, David Schwimmer, Irma St. Paule, Brian Tarantina, Jeffery V. Thompson, Pauline Tully, Lenny Venito, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Jama Williamson, Nicole Sapello, Lou Bottino
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Director(s): Matt Mulhern
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A down-on-his-luck, divorced father works the night shift at an Atlantic City casino. When his relationship with his young daughters and ex-wife is jeopardized by a run-in with the law, he struggles to get his life - and family - back together before it's too late. A moving and humorous look at the limits of unconditional love and what defines a family.

  7.1

L.I.E.

2001, USA

• Actors: Paul Dano, Bruce Altman, Billy Kay, James Costa, Tony Michael Donnelly, Michelle Carano, Tatiana Burgos, Brian Cox, B. Constance Barry, Walter Masterson, Brad Silnutzer, Bob Gerardi, Adam LeFevre, Frank Rivers, Anthony F. Peragine, Jude LoBasso, Marcia DeBonis, Gladys Dano, Emilio Cuesta, Christine Toy Johnson, Francis Leik, Chuck Ardezzone, Risa Ziegler, Ray Garvey, Angela Pietropinto, Chance Kelly, Luis G. Moreno
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Michael Cuesta
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Fifteen-year-old Howie loses just about everything and everyone in the space of a single week, but ends up finding himself in the process. His mother has just died. His father, a building contractor, can barely keep tabs on his young girlfriend, let alone his own son. Thusly, the teen must navigate his adolescence virtually unsupervised. Floating towards an ill-behaved existence, Howie and his crowd begin robbing houses in the middle-class neighborhoods off the Long Island Expressway. Together, he and his best friend Gary break into a place belonging to an old guy named Big John, a local man who is a respected pillar of the community. When Big John fingers Gary for the crime, Howie learns that his pal has been leading a secret, dangerous but also alluring double life. Subsequently, we also discover that Big John has secrets of his own.

  7.3

Unbreakable

1999, USA

• Actors: Bruce Willis, Samuel L. Jackson, Robin Wright, Spencer Treat Clark, Charlayne Woodard, Eamonn Walker, Leslie Stefanson, Johnny Hiram Jamison, Michaelia Carroll, Bostin Christopher, Elizabeth Lawrence, Davis Duffield, Laura Regan, Chance Kelly, Michael Kelly, Firdous Bamji, Johanna Day, James Handy, Sally Parrish, Richard Council, Damian Young, Sherman Roberts, Whitney Sugarman, Dianne Cotten Murphy, M. Night Shyamalan, Sasha Neulinger, Jose L. Rodriguez, Samantha Savino, Ukee Washington, Susan Wilder
• Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): M. Night Shyamalan
• Available languages:
  • English English.

This 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.

  5.9

The Devil's Own

1996, USA

• Actors: Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, Margaret Colin, Rubén Blades, Treat Williams, George Hearn, Mitch Ryan, Natascha McElhone, Paul Ronan, Simon Jones, Julia Stiles, Ashley Carin, Kelly Singer, David O'Hara, David Wilmot, Anthony Brophy, Shane Dunne, Martin Dunne, Gabrielle Reidy, Samantha Conroy, Baxter Harris, Hassan Johnson, Scott Nicholson, Jonathan Earl Peck, Sixto Ramos, Mya Michaels, Jessica Marie Kavanagh, Brendan Kelly, Kevin Nagle, Gregory Salata
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Alan J. Pakula
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A thriller about an IRA gunman who draws an American family into the crossfire of terrorism. Frankie McGuire is one of the IRA's deadliest assassins. But when he is sent to the U.S. to buy weapons, Frankie is housed with the family of Tom O'Meara, a New York cop who knows nothing about Frankie's real identity. Their surprising friendship, and Tom's growing suspicions, force Frankie to choose between the promise of peace of a lifetime of murder.