5.8

Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief

2010, Canada, USA

• Actors: Logan Lerman, Brandon T. Jackson, Alexandra Daddario, Jake Abel, Sean Bean, Pierce Brosnan, Steve Coogan, Rosario Dawson, Melina Kanakaredes, Catherine Keener, Kevin McKidd, Joe Pantoliano, Uma Thurman, Maria Olsen, Julian Richings, Bonita Friedericy, Annie Ilonzeh, Marie Avgeropoulos, Luisa D'Oliveira, Christie Laing, Marielle Jaffe, Elisa King, Tania Saulnier, Crystal Tisiga, Alexis Knapp, Charlie Gallant, Chelan Simmons, Andrea Brooks, Jocelyn Ott, Max Van Ville
• Genre: Adventure, Fantasy
• Director(s): Chris Columbus
• Available languages:
  • English English.

When his lightning bolt is stolen, Zeus accuses Poseidon's son Percy Jackson and gives Poseidon's son fourteen days to return it, otherwise he will initiate a war amongst the gods. Meanwhile the teenager, Percy, who is dyslexic and has ADHD is visiting The Museum of Metropolitan of Art and is attacked by a Fury disguised in his teacher. His crippled best friend Grover reveals that Percy is a demigod and that he is his protector and his teacher Mr Brunner gives him a pen telling him that it is a powerful weapon. They go to Percy's house and together with his mother Sally they drive to the Camp Half-Blood. However Sally is attacked by a Minotaur and vanishes before Percy can help her. In the camp, Percy befriends the gorgeous Annabeth; when they are attacked by Hades who wants the lighting bolt for himself, Percy discovers that his mother is in the Underworld with Hades. Percy decides to travel on a dangerous quest to retrieve the lightning bolt and save his mother. Grover and Annabeth join him and Luke gives a powerful shield of his own to protect Percy. Will they be able to succeed?

  6.5

Cyrus

2010, USA

• Actors: John C. Reilly, Jonah Hill, Marisa Tomei, Catherine Keener, Matt Walsh, Diane Mizota, Kathy Wittes, Katie Aselton, Jamie Donnelly, Tim Guinee, Charlie Brewer, Steve Zissis, Newell Alexander, Steve Alterman, Mitch Carter, David Cowgill, Elisa Gabrielli, Bridget Hoffman, Edie Mirman, Michelle Ruff, Jerald Garner, Justin Wilczynski
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Jay Duplass
• Available languages:
  • English English.

With John's social life at a standstill and his ex-wife about to get remarried, a down on his luck divorcé finally meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover she has another man in her life - her son. Still single seven years after the breakup of his marriage, John has all but given up on romance. But at the urging of his ex-wife and best friend Jamie, John grudgingly agrees to join her and her fiancé Tim at a party. To his and everyone else's surprise, he actually manages to meet someone: the gorgeous and spirited Molly. Their chemistry is immediate. The relationship takes off quickly but Molly is oddly reluctant to take the relationship beyond John's house. Perplexed, he follows her home and discovers the other man in Molly's life: her son, Cyrus. A 21-year-old new age musician, Cyrus is his mom's best friend and shares an unconventional relationship with her. Cyrus will go to any lengths to protect Molly and is definitely not ready to share her with anyone, especially John. Before long, the two are locked in a battle of wits for the woman they both love-and it appears only one man can be left standing when it's over.

  6.7

Please Give

2010, USA

• Actors: Rebecca Hall, Elizabeth Keener, Elise Ivy, Catherine Keener, Josh Pais, Sarah Steele, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Griffin Frazen, Reggie Austin, Scott Cohen, Paul Sparks, Lois Smith, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Harmonica Sunbeam, Amy Wright, Arthur French, Neal Lerner, Mandy Olsen, Maddie Corman, Alice Spivak, John Srednicki, Timothy Doyle, Emma Myles, Rebecca Budig, Romy Rosemont, Kathleen Doyle, Sarah Vowell, Jason Mantzoukas
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Director(s): Nicole Holofcener
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Two families, sort of neighbors in Manhattan, cross paths as they navigate marriage, parenthood of a teen, ennui, a first date, and end-of-life care. Rebecca and Mary are sisters; their cranky 91-year-old grandmother's neighbors, Kateand Alex, run an upscale retro-furniture business, and will expand into her flat after she dies. Rebecca is quiet, without a boyfriend until a patient at the clinic where she works introduces her grandson. Mary is acerbic, stung by a recent breakup. Kate looks for meaning in her life, wondering if she should volunteer. Alex, too, is at loose ends. Their daughter, Abby, has zits and teenage moods. What does it mean to be good?

  7.0

Trust

2010, USA

• Actors: Clive Owen, Catherine Keener, Viola Davis, Liana Liberato, Noah Emmerich, Jason Clarke, Chris Henry Coffey, Brandon Molale, Nicole Forester, Garrett Ryan, Noah Crawford, Jordan Trovillion, Inga R. Wilson, Laura Niemi, Sarab Kamoo, Gordon Michaels, Chameria Law, Tristan Peach, Spencer Curnutt, Milica Govich, Zanny Laird, Jennifer Kincer, Aislinn DeButch, Ron Causey, Nancy Doetsch, Jacqueline Forton, Yolanda Mendoza, Lise Lacasse, Sean Rogers, Larry C. Fenn
• Genre: Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): David Schwimmer
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A suburban family is torn apart when fourteen-year-old Annie (Liana Liberato) meets her first boyfriend online. After months of communicating via online chat and phone, Annie discovers her friend (Chris Henry Coffey) is not who he originally claimed to be. Shocked into disbelief, her parents (Clive Owen and Catherine Keener) are shattered by their daughter's actions and struggle to support her as she comes to terms with what has happened to her once innocent life.

  0.0

Nailed

2009, USA

• Actors: Jessica Biel, Jake Gyllenhaal, James Marsden, Catherine Keener, James Brolin, Paul Reubens, Kirstie Alley, Tracy Morgan, Jon Stewart, Kurt Fuller, David Ramsey, Malinda Williams, Catherine Dyer, Olivia Crocicchia, Conrad Goode, Bonnie Aarons, Kendrick Cross, Mellie Boozer, Michael Harding, Jenny Gulley, Erin Hunter, Erin Rhea Berson, Albert Gore III, Mary Firestone, Catherine Trail, Rachel Mower, Cal Johnson, Jerry Cashman, Barbara Weetman, Mert Hatfield
• Genre: Comedy, Romance
• Director(s): David O. Russell
• Available languages:
  • English English.

An original political satire about a naive small town waitress who accidentally gets a nail buried in her head, causing erratic and outrageous behavior that leads her to Washington DC. There she falls for a dashing, but clueless, Congressman who searches for the courage to save her.

  7.0

Where the Wild Things Are

2009, USA, Germany

• Actors: Max Records, Pepita Emmerichs, Max Pfeifer, Madeleine Greaves, Joshua Jay, Ryan Corr, Catherine Keener, Steve Mouzakis, Mark Ruffalo, James Gandolfini, Vincent Crowley, Paul Dano, Sonny Gerasimowicz, Catherine O'Hara, Nick Farnell, Forest Whitaker, Sam Longley, Michael Berry Jr., Angus Sampson, Mark McCracken, Chris Cooper, John Leary, Lauren Ambrose, Alice Parkinson, Garon Michael, James Epinfaniou, Joshua Evans, Tess Grimshaw Lloyd, Lucas Haynes, Nathan Veal
• Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
• Director(s): Spike Jonze
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A young boy named Max has an active imagination, and he will throw fits if others don't go along with what he wants. Max - following an incident with Claire (his sister) and her friends, and following a tantrum which he throws as a result of his Mother paying more attention to her boyfriend than to him - runs away from home. Wearing his wolf costume at the time, Max not only runs away physically, but runs toward a world in his imagination. This world, an ocean away, is inhabited by large wild beasts, including one named Carol who is much like Max himself in temperament. Instead of eating Max like they normally would with creatures of his type, the wild things befriend Max after he proclaims himself a king who can magically solve all their problems.

  6.7

The Soloist

2008, UK, USA, France

• Actors: Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr., Catherine Keener, Tom Hollander, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Nelsan Ellis, Rachael Harris, Stephen Root, Lorraine Toussaint, Justin Martin, Kokayi Ampah, Patrick Tatten, Susane Lee, Marcos De Silvas, Ilia Volok, Michael Bunin, Michael Nowak, Jena Malone, Octavia Spencer, David Jean Thomas, Lemon, Kevin Michael Key, Moya Brady, Orlando Ashley, Artel Great, J.J. Boone, Annie McKnight, Bernadette Speakes, Anna Levin, Steve Foster
• Genre: Drama, Biography, Music
• Director(s): Joe Wright
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In 2005, the only thing hurting Los Angeles Times columnist Steve Lopez more than his face from a recent bike accident was his pressing need for story ideas. That is when he discovers Nathaniel Ayers, a mentally ill, homeless street musician who possesses extraordinary talent, even through his half-broken instruments. Inspired by his story, Lopez writes an acclaimed series of articles about Ayers and attempts to do more to help both him and the rest of the underclass of LA have a better life. However, Lopez's good intentions run headlong in the hard realities of the strength of Ayers' personal demons and the larger social injustices facing the homeless. Regardless, Lopez and Ayers must find a way to conquer their deepest anxieties and frustrations to hope for a brighter future for both of them.

  7.3

Synecdoche, New York

2008, USA

• Actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Sadie Goldstein, Tom Noonan, Peter Friedman, Charles Techman, Josh Pais, Daniel London, Robert Seay, Michelle Williams, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Samantha Morton, Hope Davis, Frank Girardeau, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Amy Wright, Paul Sparks, Jerry Adler, Lynn Cohen, Deirdre O'Connell, Kat Peters, John Rothman, Amanda R. Phillips, Frank Wood, Deanna Storey, Elizabeth Marvel, Laura Odeh, Mark Lotito, Daisy Tahan, Erica Berg
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Director(s): Charlie Kaufman
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Theater director Caden Cotard is mounting a new play. Fresh off of a successful production of Death of a Salesman, he has traded in the suburban blue-hairs and regional theater of Schenectady for the cultured audiences and bright footlights of Broadway. Armed with a MacArthur grant and determined to create a piece of brutal realism and honesty, something into which he can put his whole self, he gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in Manhattan's theater district. He directs them in a celebration of the mundane, instructing each to live out their constructed lives in a small mockup of the city outside. As the city inside the warehouse grows, Caden's own life veers wildly off the tracks. The shadow of his ex-wife Adele, a celebrated painter who left him years ago for Germany's art scene, sneers at him from every corner. Somewhere in Berlin, his daughter Olive is growing up under the questionable guidance of Adele's friend, Maria. He's helplessly driving his marriage to actress Claire into the ground. Sammy Barnathan, the actor Caden has hired to play himself within the play, is a bit too perfect for the part, and is making it difficult for Caden to revive his relationship with the alluringly candid Hazel. Meanwhile, his therapist, Madeline Gravis, is better at plugging her best-seller than she is at counseling him. His is second daughter, Ariel, is disabled. And a mysterious condition is systematically shutting down each of his autonomic functions, one by one. As the years rapidly pass, Caden buries himself deeper into his masterpiece. Populating the cast and crew with doppelgangers, he steadily blurs the line between the world of the play and that of his own deteriorating reality. As he pushes the limits of his relationships, both personally and professionally, a change in creative direction arrives in Millicent Weems, a celebrated theater actress who may offer Caden the break he needs.

  6.1

Genova

2008, UK

• Actors: Andrea Acquarone, Stefano Barabino, Livio Basou, Monica Bennati, Riccardo Cauda, Dante Ciari, Federico Cigarini, Gherardo Crucitti, Olivia Cumming, Hope Davis, Lucio Dellagiacoma, Giulio Enante, Colin Firth, Sune Frontani, Alessandro Giuggioli, Demetri Goritsas, Kyle Griffin, Perla Haney-Jardine, Willa Holland, Laura Iadeluca, Catherine Keener, Angelica Moretti, Carlo Moretti, Kieran O'Brien, Abree Peterson, Kyle Peterson, Lauren Peterson, Matteo Repetto, Margherita Romeo, Gabriella Santinelli
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Michael Winterbottom
• Available languages:
  • English English.

How do children respond to tragedy? On an icy road near Chicago, Marianne dies in a crash, leaving Joe and their daughters, Kelly, about 16, and Mary, about 9. That summer, a friend from Joe's graduate student days, 20 years before, arranges a teaching job for him in Genoa. When they arrive in June, Joe starts teaching and the girls have the summer before school starts: Kelly quickly falls in with youths her age; their club and beach life leads to sexual awakening. Mary, burdened by guilt for her mother's death, is solitary. The girls take piano lessons, Mary draws, and she also sees and talks to her mother. Joe asks them, "Are you okay?", but is that enough?

  5.9

What Just Happened

2007, USA

• Actors: Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Bruce Willis, John Turturro, Robin Wright, Stanley Tucci, Kristen Stewart, Michael Wincott, Jason Kravits, Mark Ivanir, Remy K. Selma, Christopher Evan Welch, Lily Rabe, Sam Levinson, Logan Grove, Alessandra Daniele, Karina Friend Buck, Peter Jacobson, Moon Bloodgood, Ari Barak, Paul Herman, Jonathan Charles Kaplan, Brandon Keener, Terrance Yates, Ron Li-Paz, Jacques Maroun, Dey Young, Emily Alpren, Marin Hinkle
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Director(s): Barry Levinson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A week in the life of Ben, a powerful Hollywood producer, as he juggles negotiations with a studio head so that his newest picture can open at Cannes in two weeks, with a high-strung director who must make edits to the film, with an actor and his agent because the star has arrived on the set of a new picture with a full beard, and with his most recent ex-wife, Kelly, whom he discovers may have a lover. He also notices that his 17-year old daughter, from another marriage, has probably been crying. What's up? Can Ben keep it all together, get the green light from the studio to go to Cannes, move his new picture past the beard crisis, and maybe return to Kelly's good graces?

  8.2

Into the Wild

2006, USA

• Actors: Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, Jena Malone, Brian H. Dierker, Catherine Keener, Vince Vaughn, Kristen Stewart, Hal Holbrook, Jim Gallien, James O'Neill, Malinda McCollum, Paul Knauls, Zach Galifianakis, Craig Mutsch, Jim Beidler, John Decker, John Hofer, Jerry Hofer, Terry Waldner, Robin Mathews, Candice Campos, Steven Wiig, Thure Lindhardt, Signe Egholm Olsen, Floyd Wall, Bryce Walters, Jim Davis, Cheryl Francis Harrington, R.D. Call
• Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
• Director(s): Sean Penn
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Based on a true story. After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandoned his possessions, gave his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhiked to Alaska to live in the wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters who shape his life.

  7.3

An American Crime

2006, USA

• Actors: Ellen Page, Hayley McFarland, Nick Searcy, Romy Rosemont, Catherine Keener, Ari Graynor, Scout Taylor-Compton, Tristan Jarred, Hannah Leigh, Bradley Whitford, Michael O'Keefe, Carlie Westerman, Michelle Benes, Patricia Place, Calvin Keet, Jeremy Sumpter, James Franco, Brian Geraghty, Channing Nichols, Eliza Dean, Michael Welch, Evan Peters, Amy Ferguson, Scott Eastwood, Will Carter, Edward James Gage, Kuma, James Meehan, Paul Palo, Isabel Shaw
• Genre: Crime, Drama
• Director(s): Tommy O'Haver
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Based on a true story that shocked the nation in 1965, the film recounts one of the most shocking crimes ever committed against a single victim. Sylvia and Jennie Fae Likens, the two daughters of traveling carnival workers are left for an extended stay at the Indianapolis (3850 E. New York St. is hardly suburban, nor was it in 1965, by any stretch of the imagination.) home of single mother Gertrude Baniszewski and her six children. Times are tough, and Gertrude's financial needs cause her to make this arrangement before realizing how the burden will push her unstable nature to a breaking point. What transpires in the next three months is both riveting and horrific, leaving one child dead and the rest scarred for life.

  6.0

Friends with Money

2005, USA

• Actors: Catherine Keener, Jason Isaacs, Timm Sharp, Joan Cusack, Greg Germann, Hailey Noelle Johnson, Simon McBurney, Frances McDormand, Jake Cherry, Jennifer Aniston, Bob Stephenson, Marin Hinkle, Scott Caan, Troy Ruptash, Elizabeth Keener, John Srednicki, Mitch Rouse, Christine Mourad, Jenn Fee, Max Burkholder, Alejandra Flores, Maulik Pancholy, Ty Burrell, Jane Elizabeth Mendez, Kristin Minter, Bobby Coleman, Tonita Castro, Ileen Getz, Reggie Austin, Yaffit Hallely
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Nicole Holofcener
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Four women friends: three are wealthy and married plus there's Olivia, a former teacher who's now a maid. The marriages are in various states of health: Franny and Matt are happy and very rich. Christine and David write screenplays together, are remodeling their house, and argue. Jane is angry all the time and Aaron, who's an attentive husband, strikes everyone as gay. Franny sets up Olivia with a friend of hers, Mike, a personal trainer, and Olivia takes him with her to a couple of housecleaning jobs. A benefit dinner for ALS, an awkward guy named Marty whose place Olivia cleans, and a French maid's outfit figure in the story. Is there more to life than its problems?

  7.5

Capote

2004, Canada, USA

• Actors: Allie Mickelson, Kelci Stephenson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Craig Archibald, Bronwen Coleman, Kate Shindle, David Wilson Barnes, Michael J. Burg, Catherine Keener, Kwesi Ameyaw, Andrew Farago, Ken Krotowich, Chris Cooper, R.D. Reid, Rob McLaughlin, Harry Nelken, Jon Ted Wynne, Jonathan Barrett, Christopher Read, Edward Sutton, Mia Faircloth, Ainsley Balcewich, Kerr Hewitt, Bruce Greenwood, John Warkentin, Amy Ryan, Avery Tiplady, Nazariy Demkowicz, John B. Destry, Clifton Collins Jr.
• Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
• Director(s): Bennett Miller
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In 1959, Truman Capote, a popular writer for The New Yorker, learns about the horrific and senseless murder of a family of four in Holcomb, Kansas. Inspired by the story material, Capote and his partner, Harper Lee, travel to the town to research for an article. However, as Capote digs deeper into the story, he is inspired to expand the project into what would be his greatest work, In Cold Blood. To that end, he arranges extensive interviews with the prisoners, especially with Perry Smith, a quiet and articulate man with a troubled history. As he works on his book, Capote feels some compassion for Perry which in part prompts him to help the prisoners to some degree. However, that feeling deeply conflicts with his need for closure for his book which only an execution can provide. That conflict and the mixed motives for both interviewer and subject make for a troubling experience that would produce an literary account that would redefine modern non-fiction.

  7.4

The 40 Year Old Virgin

2004, USA

• Actors: Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Paul Rudd, Romany Malco, Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Leslie Mann, Jane Lynch, Gerry Bednob, Shelley Malil, Kat Dennings, Jordy Masterson, Chelsea Smith, Jonah Hill, Erica Vittina Phillips, Marika Dominczyk, Mindy Kaling, Mo Collins, Gillian Vigman, Kimberly Page, Siena Goines, Charlie Hartsock, Nancy Carell, Cedric Yarbrough, David Koechner, Jeff Kahn, Nick Lashaway, Loren Berman, Julian Foster, Loudon Wainwright III
• Genre: Comedy, Romance
• Director(s): Judd Apatow
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Andy at the age of 40 still hasn't had sex. He lets his secret slip at a poker game with his buds from work. After the revealing all his friends are on a mission to help get him laid. Along the way Andy meets a nice mom: Trish who fall head over heels for each other.

  6.5

The Interpreter

2004, UK, USA, France

• Actors: Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Jesper Christensen, Yvan Attal, Earl Cameron, George Harris, Michael Wright, Clyde Kusatsu, Eric Keenleyside, Hugo Speer, Maz Jobrani, Yusuf Gatewood, Curtiss Cook, Byron Utley, Robert Clohessy, Terry Serpico, David Wolos-Fonteno, John Knox, David Zayas, Lynne Deragon, Christopher Evan Welch, Manuel Mawele, Dino Mulima, Litto, Adrian Martinez, Tsai Chin, Francine Roussel, Enid Graham, Lou Ferguson
• Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Sydney Pollack
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Escalating events begin when U.N. interpreter Silvia Broome alleges that she has overheard a death threat against an African head of state, spoken in a rare dialect few people other than Silvia can understand. With the words "The Teacher will never leave this room alive," in an instant, Silvia's life is turned upside down as she becomes a hunted target of the killers. Placed under the protection of federal agent Tobin Keller, Silvia's world only grows more nightmarish. As Keller digs deeper into his eyewitnesses' past and her secretive world of global connections, the more suspicious he becomes that she herself might be involved in the conspiracy. With every step of the way, he finds more reasons to mistrust her. Is Sylvia a victim? A suspect? Or something else entirely? And can Tobin, coping with his own personal heartache, keep her safe? Though they must depend on one another, Silvia and Tobin couldn't be more different. Silvia's strengths are words, diplomacy and the subtleties of meaning, while Tobin is all about instinct, action and reading into the most primal human behaviors. Now, as the danger of a major assassination on U.S. soil grows and Silvia's life hangs in the balance, Silvia and Tobin play out a gripping dance of evasion and revelation that keeps them both guessing as they race to stop a terrifying international crisis before it's too late.

  6.2

Death to Smoochy

2002, USA, UK, Germany

• Actors: Robin Williams, Edward Norton, Catherine Keener, Danny DeVito, Jon Stewart, Pam Ferris, Danny Woodburn, Michael Rispoli, Harvey Fierstein, Vincent Schiavelli, Craig Eldridge, Judy White, Tim MacMenamin, Bruce McFee, Glen Cross, Bill Lake, Nick Taylor, Richard Cocchiaro, Tracey Walter, Louis Giambalvo, Colin Moult, Nikolai Tichtchenko, Martin Klebba, Tonya Reneé Banks, Christy Artran, Philip Craig, Natasha Kinne, Richard Hamilton, Shawn Byfield, Todd Graff
• Genre: Comedy, Crime, Musical, Thriller
• Director(s): Danny DeVito
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Fired in disgrace, kids show host Randolph Smiley finds himself out on the street, while his replacement Sheldon Mopes, finds himself on the fast track to success with a new hit show as the proud purple rhino Smoochy. But things take a turn for the worst when Sheldon finds out that some of the people that he works with, and some he doesn't know he's working for, are all in it for the money. Meanwhile, Randolph is slowly turning insane with his only thoughts focusing on killing Smoochy and getting back to his life of luxury.

  7.8

Adaptation.

2001, USA

• Actors: Nicolas Cage, Tilda Swinton, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Jay Tavare, Litefoot, Roger Willie, Jim Beaver, Cara Seymour, Doug Jones, Stephen Tobolowsky, Gary Farmer, Peter Jason, Gregory Itzin, Curtis Hanson, Agnes NaDene Baddoo, Paul Fortune, Paul Jasmin, Lisa Love, Wendy Mogel, David O. Russell, Judy Greer, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Bob Stephenson, Bob Yerkes, Lynn Court, Roger E. Fanter, Sandra Lee Gimpel, Caron Colvett, Larry Krask
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Director(s): Spike Jonze
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Frequently cynical screenwriter Charlie Kaufman has just taken on a new assignment. That is, to adapt writer Susan Orlean's "The Orchid Thief" into a screenplay, all of it based on the life of the eccentric John Laroche, an exotic plant collector based out of Florida. While his easygoing twin brother Donald, is writing scripts with ease, Charlie finds himself on a perpetual struggle that never seems to end.

  6.1

S1m0ne

2001, USA

• Actors: Al Pacino, Benjamin Salisbury, Winona Ryder, Darnell Williams, Jim Rash, Ron Perkins, Jay Mohr, Catherine Keener, Evan Rachel Wood, Jeffrey Pierce, Jeff Williams, Rachel Roberts, Mitzi Martin, Carole Androsky, Christopher Neiman, Jolie Jenkins, Derrex Brady, Lisa Cerasoli, Darin Heames, Patrick J. Dancy, Adrian R'Mante, David Doty, Maureen Mueller, Barry Papick, James Gleason, Andi Carnick, Richard Saxton, Vincent Boling, Mark Thompson, Keith MacKechnie
• Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
• Director(s): Andrew Niccol
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The career of a disillusioned producer, who is desperate for a hit, is endangered when his star walks off the film set. Forced to think fast, the producer decides to digitally create an actress "Simone" to sub for the star--the first totally believable synthetic actress. The "actress" becomes an overnight sensation, with a major singing career as well, and everyone thinks she's a real person. However, as Simone's fame skyrockets, he cannot bear to admit his fraud to himself or the world.

  6.3

8MM

1998, USA, Germany

• Actors: Nicolas Cage, Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini, Peter Stormare, Anthony Heald, Chris Bauer, Catherine Keener, Myra Carter, Amy Morton, Jenny Powell, Anne Gee Byrd, Jack Betts, Luis Oropeza, Rachel Singer, Don Creech, Norman Reedus, Fran Bennett, Wilma Bonet, Luis Saguar, Walter K. Jordan, Norm Compton, Brian Keith Russell, John Robb, Devan Brown, Doris Brent, Robert Amico, Kiva Dawson, Eva Minemar, Rachel Wolfe, Suzy Nakamura
• Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Joel Schumacher
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, Welles relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife, family and simple life as a small-town private eye.

  7.9

Being John Malkovich

1998, USA

• Actors: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Ned Bellamy, Eric Weinstein, Madison Lanc, Octavia Spencer, Mary Kay Place, Orson Bean, Catherine Keener, K.K. Dodds, Reginald C. Hayes, Byrne Piven, Judith Wetzell, John Malkovich, Kevin Carroll, Willie Garson, W. Earl Brown, Charlie Sheen, Gerald Emerick, Bill M. Ryusaki, Carlos Jacott, Richard Fancy, Patti Tippo, Daniel Hansen, Gregory Sporleder, Mariah O'Brien, Kelly Teacher, Jacqueline Benoît, William Buck, Christine D. Coleman
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
• Director(s): Spike Jonze
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Craig, a puppeteer, takes a filing job in a low-ceilinged office in Manhattan. Although married to the slightly askew Lotte, he hits on a colleague, the sexually frank Maxine. She's bored but snaps awake when he finds a portal leading inside John Malkovich: for 15 minutes you see, hear, and feel whatever JM is doing, then you fall out by the New Jersey Turnpike. Maxine makes it commercial, selling trips for $200; also, she's more interested in Lotte than in Craig, but only when Lotte is inside JM. JM finds out what's going on and tries to stop it, but Craig sees the portal as his road to Maxine and to success as a puppeteer. Meanwhile, Lotte discovers others interested in the portal.

  7.1

Out of Sight

1997, USA

• Actors: George Clooney, Jim Robinson, Mike Malone, Donna Frenzel, Manny Suárez, Dennis Farina, Keith Hudson, Luis Guzmán, Paul Soileau, Isaiah Washington, Scott Allen, Catherine Keener, Ving Rhames, Susan Hatfield, Jennifer Lopez, Steve Zahn, Don Cheadle, Brad Martin, Albert Brooks, James Black, Wendell B. Harris Jr., Chuck Castleberry, Chic Daniel, Connie Sawyer, Philip Perlman, Keith Loneker, Paul Calderon, Gregory Alpert, Viola Davis, Mark Brown
• Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance, Thriller
• Director(s): Steven Soderbergh
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A career bank robber busts out of jail (Clooney) with the help of his buddy (Rhames) and kidnaps a US Marshal (Lopez) in the process. When the two cons head for Detroit to pull off their final big scam, the Marshal is put on their case but she finds she is attracted to one of them and has second thoughts about bringing them in.

  5.4

Switch

1990, USA

• Actors: Ellen Barkin, Jimmy Smits, JoBeth Williams, Lorraine Bracco, Tony Roberts, Perry King, Bruce Payne, Lysette Anthony, Victoria Mahoney, Basil Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Kevin Kilner, David Wohl, James Harper, John Lafayette, Jim J. Bullock, Diana Chisney, Joe Flood, Emma Walton, Louis Eppolito, Yvette Freeman, Dennis Paladino, Téa Leoni, Rick Aiello, F. William Parker, Ben Hartigan, David Gale, Robert Clotworthy, Jessie Jones, Herb Tanney
• Genre: Crime, Fantasy, Comedy
• Director(s): Blake Edwards
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Steve Brooks is a sexist and the prototype macho. Unfortunately one day he is killed by one of his girlfriends. In heaven, though, there is no place for men like him and he is sent back to earth in the body of a woman so that he can see how women are treated by men like the one he once was.