7.0

The Secret Life of Bees

2007, USA

• Actors: Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys, Sophie Okonedo, Paul Bettany, Hilarie Burton, Tristan Wilds, Nate Parker, Shondrella Avery, Renée Clark, Sharon Morris, Nicky Buggs, Jasmine Burke, Emma Sage Bowman, Emily Alyn Lind, Addy Miller, Taylor Kowalski, Bob Hungerford, Richard Todd Sullivan, Chris Moore, Bill Oberst Jr., Cullen Moss, Walt Elder, Dan Beene, Joe Chrest, Robin Mullins, Tom Conder, Jay S. Pearson, Dan Cox
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Gina Prince-Bythewood
• Available languages:
  • English English.

set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and only friend, to a South Carolina town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by the intelligent and independent Boatwright sisters, Lily finds solace in their mesmerizing world of beekeeping.

  6.8

Martian Child

2007, USA

• Actors: John Cusack, Bobby Coleman, Amanda Peet, Sophie Okonedo, Joan Cusack, Oliver Platt, Bud, Richard Schiff, Taya Calicetto, David Kaye, Braxton Bonneville, Samuel Charles, Zak Ludwig, Samuel Patrick Chu, Ryan Morrissette, Nimet Kanji, Howard Hesseman, Carmen Moore, Beverley Breuer, Jonathan Holmes, Andrew McIlroy, Kimani Ray Smith, Peter Bryant, David Lewis, Edmond Kato Wong, Joanna Reid, Simon Hayama, Alberto Ghisi, Hrothgar Mathews, Robert Clarke
• Genre: Drama, Family
• Director(s): Menno Meyjes
• Available languages:
  • English English.

What's the nature of being a parent and of being a child? David is a widower grieving for two years. He writes science fiction and was considered weird as a boy. He meets Dennis, a foster child who claims to be on a mission from Mars, stays in a large box all day, fears sunlight, and wears a belt of flashlight batteries so he won't float away. David takes the six-year-old home on a trial. His sister and his wife's best friend offer support, but the guys are basically alone to figure this out. Dennis takes things, is expelled, and is coached by David in being normal. Will the court approve the adoption, and will Dennis stay? Can a man become a father and a child become a son?

  5.1

Stormbreaker

2005, Germany, USA, UK

• Actors: Sarah Bolger, Robbie Coltrane, Stephen Fry, Damian Lewis, Ewan McGregor, Bill Nighy, Sophie Okonedo, Alex Pettyfer, Missi Pyle, Mickey Rourke, Andy Serkis, Alicia Silverstone, Ashley Walters, Alex Barrett, Richard Huw, Richard James, Jimmy Carr, Julian Bucknall, Martin Herdman, Morgan Walters, David Royle, Jamie Kenna, Kolade Agboke, Dave Legeno, Bohdan Poraj, Del Synnott, William Tapley, Vivien Creegor, Simon McCoy, Michael Webber
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Family
• Director(s): Geoffrey Sax
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Alex Rider thinks he is a normal school boy, until his uncle is killed. He discovers that his uncle was actually spy on a mission, when he was killed. Alex is recruited by Alan Blunt to continue the mission. He is sent to Cornwall to investigate a new computer system, which Darrius Sayle has created. He plans to give the new computer systems to every school in the country, but Mr. Blunt has other ideas and Alex must find out what it is.

  5.4

Æon Flux

2004, USA, Germany

• Actors: Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas, Jonny Lee Miller, Sophie Okonedo, Frances McDormand, Pete Postlethwaite, Amelia Warner, Caroline Chikezie, Nikolai Kinski, Paterson Joseph, Yangzom Brauen, Aoibheann O'Hara, Thomas Huber, Weijian Liu, Maverick Quek, Ralph Herforth, Megan Gay, Rainer Will, Charlie Beall, Bruno Bruni Jr., Ronald Marx, Axel Schreiber, Katie Mullins, Shaun Lawton, Terry Bartlett, Betty Okino, Anatole Taubman, Lavinia Wilson, Khira Lilli Pobanz, William Morts
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Director(s): Karyn Kusama
• Available languages:
  • English English.

400 years in the future, set in the year 2415, Aeon Flux is a mysterious assassin. Four centuries after a virus nearly annihilated the human race, leaving only five million survivors in a utopian city called Bregna. Aeon is struggling to destroy the Goodchild regime led by its namesake, Trevor Goodchild, the ruler of Bregna and a descendant of the man who found a cure for the deadly virus. As instructed by the Handler, Aeon is assigned to assassinate Goodchild, but there are deeper secrets to be discovered, and conspiracies to be foiled.

  8.3

Hotel Rwanda

2004, UK, USA, Italy, South Africa

• Actors: Xolani Mali, Don Cheadle, Desmond Dube, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Tony Kgoroge, Rosie Motene, Neil McCarthy, Mabutho 'Kid' Sithole, Nick Nolte, Fana Mokoena, Jeremiah Ndlovu, Sophie Okonedo, Lebo Mashile, Antonio David Lyons, Leleti Khumalo, Kgomotso Seitshohlo, Lerato Mokgotho, Mosa Kaiser, Mathabo Pieterson, Ofentse Modiselle, David O'Hara, Joaquin Phoenix, Lennox Mathabathe, Mothusi Magano, Noxolo Maqashalala, Thulani Nyembe, Simo Mogwaza, Mirriam Ngomani, Cara Seymour, Harriet Lenabe
• Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
• Director(s): Terry George
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Ten years ago some of the worst atrocities in the history of mankind took place in the country of Rwanda--and in an era of high-speed communication and round the clock news, the events went almost unnoticed by the rest of the world. In only three months, one million people were brutally murdered. In the face of these unspeakable actions, inspired by his love for his family, an ordinary man summons extraordinary courage to save the lives of over a thousand helpless refugees, by granting them shelter in the hotel he manages.

  7.5

Dirty Pretty Things

2002, UK

• Actors: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kriss Dosanjh, Israel Aduramo, Yemi Ajibade, Nizwar Karanj, Deobia Oparei, Jeffery Kissoon, Zlatko Buric, Audrey Tautou, Sophie Okonedo, Sergi López, Benedict Wong, Kenan Hudaverdi, Damon Younger, Paul Bhattacharjee, Darrell D'Silva, Sotigui Kouyaté, Abi Gouhad, Jeillo Edwards, Rita Hamill, Ron Stenner, Jemanesh Solomon, Naomi Simpson, Barber Ali, Jean-Philippe Écoffey, Josef Altin, Fisun Burgess, Sabina Michael, Michael Mellinger, Noma Dumezweni
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Stephen Frears
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Okwe, a kind-hearted Nigerian doctor, and Senay, a Turkish chambermaid, work at the same West London hotel. The hotel is run by Senor Sneaky and is the sort of place where dirty business like drug dealing and prostitution takes place. However, when Okwe finds a human heart in one of the toilets, he uncovers something far more sinister than just a common crime.

  6.0

The Jackal

1997, USA, UK, France, Germany, Japan

• Actors: Bruce Willis, Richard Gere, Sidney Poitier, Diane Venora, Mathilda May, J.K. Simmons, Richard Lineback, John Cunningham, Jack Black, Tess Harper, Leslie Phillips, Stephen Spinella, Sophie Okonedo, David Hayman, Steve Bassett, Yuri Stepanov, Walt MacPherson, Ravil Isyanov, Maggie Castle, Karen Kirschenbauer, Terrence Currier, Daniel Dae Kim, Michael Caton-Jones, Laura Viederman, Peter Sullivan, Richard Cubison, Jim Grimshaw, Greg Miller, Bob Kingdom, Murphy Guyer
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
• Director(s): Michael Caton-Jones
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Russian mobster Terek Murad has declared open season on the Russian militia and the United States FBI over the shooting of his brother in a Moscow nightclub. He hires "The Jackal" -- an elusive, nasty assassin -- to kill FBI Director Donald Brown. Present at the shooting of Murad's brother were FBI Deputy Director Carter Preston and Major Valentina Koslova of the Russian militia. Nearly no one has ever seen The Jackal, save for Declan Mulqueen, an imprisoned IRA sniper. Upon learning that the Director Brown is a target, Preston and Koslova enlist the services of the reluctant Mulqueen to track down the Jackal before he can assassinate Brown.

  5.7

Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls

1995, USA

• Actors: Jim Carrey, Ian McNeice, Simon Callow, Maynard Eziashi, Bob Gunton, Sophie Okonedo, Tommy Davidson, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Danny D. Daniels, Sam Motoana Phillips, Damon Standifer, Andrew Steel, Bruce Spence, Tom Grunke, Arsenio 'Sonny' Trinidad, Kristin Norton, Michael Reid MacKay, Kayla Allen, Ken Kirzinger, Dev Kennedy, Patti Tippo, Sabrinah Christie, Warren Sroka, Luke Benko, Stacie Kellie, Patrick Michael Strange, Leif Tilden, Gene Williams
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery
• Director(s): Steve Oedekerk
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Ace Ventura, emerging from self-imposed exile in a remote Himalayan hideaway, travels to Africa with explorer Fulton Greenwall to find a sacred bat which is told will avert a war between with Wachootoo and Wachati tribes. Of course, when Ace gets involved, all hell breaks loose...