6.7

Shrink

2008, USA

• Actors: Kevin Spacey, Joe Nunez, Mark Webber, Keke Palmer, Sierra Aylina McClain, Ada Luz Pla, Saffron Burrows, Jack Huston, Pell James, Mei Melançon, Dallas Roberts, Andrew Sibner, Troy Metcalf, Kendall Clement, Jesse Plemons, Robert Loggia, Clayton Rohner, Ken Weiler, Joel Gretsch, Aimee Garcia, Tiernan Burns, Mystro Clark, Justin Alston, Brian Palermo, Philip Pavel, Michelle Columbia, Laura Ramsey, Ashley Greene, Robert Farrior, Branden R. Morgan
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Jonas Pate
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In Hollywood, people in need revolve around Dr. Henry Carter, a shrink: Jack, an aging star wants permission to cheat on his wife; Shamus is a director who's a cokehead; Patrick is a high-powered germophobic producer; Jeremy is a young writer looking for a break; Jemma, a high-school student, is skipping school; and Kate is an actress facing her mid-30s. Henry's wife recently died; he's grieving, blaming himself, smoking lots of pot. Henry's friends try an intervention; someone steals a patient's file from Henry; Patrick's assistant, the pregnant Daisy, sees promise in Jeremy's work; and, Jesus, Henry's drug dealer, sells him some potent weed. Can anything good come of this?

  7.3

Obscene

2007, USA

• Actors: Amiri Baraka, Lenny Bruce, William S. Burroughs, Jim Carroll, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Al Goldstein, Erica Jong, Ray Manzarek, John Rechy, Barney Rosset, Ed Sanders, John Sayles, Joseph Strick, Gore Vidal, John Waters
• Genre: Documentary, Biography
• Director(s): Daniel O'Connor
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A look at the life and work of American publisher Barney Rosset, who struggled to bring controversial works like "Tropic of Cancer" and "Naked Lunch" to publication.

  8.1

Why We Fight

2004, USA, France, UK, Canada, Denmark

• Actors: Ken Adelman, John Ashcroft, Osama Bin Laden, George Bush, George W. Bush, Robert Byrd, Frank Capra, Dick Cheney, Joseph Cirincione, Bill Clinton, Anh Duong, Gwynne Dyer, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John S.D. Eisenhower, Susan Eisenhower, Donna Ellington, Dennis Hastert, Saddam Hussein, Chalmers Johnson, Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy, Ayatollah Khomeini, William Kristol, Karen Kwiatkowski, Charles Lewis, John McCain, Richard Nixon, Bill O'Reilly, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Richard Perle
• Genre: Documentary, History, War
• Director(s): Eugene Jarecki
• Available languages:
  • English English.

He may have been the ultimate icon of 1950s conformity and postwar complacency, but Dwight D. Eisenhower was an iconoclast, visionary, and the Cassandra of the New World Order. Upon departing his presidency, Eisenhower issued a stern, cogent warning about the burgeoning "military industrial complex," foretelling with ominous clarity the state of the world in 2004 with its incestuous entanglement of political, corporate, and Defense Department interests.

  7.0

Igby Goes Down

2002, USA

• Actors: Kieran Culkin, Claire Danes, Jeff Goldblum, Jared Harris, Amanda Peet, Ryan Phillippe, Bill Pullman, Susan Sarandon, Rory Culkin, Peter Anthony Tambakis, Bill Irwin, Kathleen Gati, Gannon Forrester, Celia Weston, Elizabeth Jagger, Nicholas Wyman, Amber Gross, Cassidy Ladden, Erin Fritch, Jim Gaffigan, Arnie Burton, Eric Bogosian, Cynthia Nixon, Michael Formica Jones, Glenn Fitzgerald, Reg Rogers, Danny Tamberelli, David Arrow, Ronobir Lahiri, Delancey Birzin
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Director(s): Burr Steers
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Igby Goes Down is a personal tale about a 17 year old misfit boy who copes with his mother's cancer and his father's insanity by pursuing relationships with older women. Truly an intellectual, Igby is a modern day Holden Caulfield, and the world he lives in is far removed from the high standards of expectation he holds for it.

  7.8

Gattaca

1997, USA

• Actors: Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Gore Vidal, Xander Berkeley, Jayne Brook, Loren Dean, Maya Rudolph, Una Damon, Elizabeth Dennehy, Blair Underwood, Mason Gamble, Vincent Nielson, Chad Christ, William Lee Scott, Clarence Graham, Ernest Borgnine, Tony Shalhoub, Jude Law, Alan Arkin, Carlton Bembry, Cynthia Martells, Grace Sullivan, Ken Marino, Gabrielle Reece, Ryan Dorin, Dean Norris, Steve Bessen, Russell Milton, George Marshall Ruge, Lindsey Ginter
• Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): Andrew Niccol
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In the not-too-distant future, a less-than-perfect man wants to travel to the stars. Society has categorized Vincent Freeman as less than suitable given his genetic make-up and he has become one of the underclass of humans that are only useful for menial jobs. To move ahead, he assumes the identity of Jerome Morrow, a perfect genetic specimen who is a paraplegic as a result of a car accident. With professional advice, Vincent learns to deceive DNA and urine sample testing. Just when he is finally scheduled for a space mission, his program director is killed and the police begin an investigation, jeopardizing his secret.

  7.0

Bob Roberts

1991, USA, UK

• Actors: Tim Robbins, Giancarlo Esposito, Alan Rickman, Ray Wise, Brian Murray, Gore Vidal, Rebecca Jenkins, Harry Lennix, John Ottavino, Robert Stanton, Kelly Willis, Merrilee Dale, Tom Atkins, David Strathairn, James Spader, Pamela Reed, Helen Hunt, Eva Amurri, Jim West, Peter Gallagher, Lynne Thigpen, Bingo O'Malley, Kathleen Chalfant, Ruth Lesko, Jack Black, Matthew Faber, Matt McGrath, Anita Gillette, Susan Sarandon, Fred Ward
• Genre: Comedy
• Director(s): Tim Robbins
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Documentary-style look at the fictional Senatorial campaign of Bob Roberts, an arch-conservative folk singer turned politician. This political satire includes several original songs co-written and performed by writer/director/star Tim Robbins, and cameo appearances by other stars as reporters and news anchors.