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.

  6.7

8 Mile

2001, USA, Germany

• Actors: Eminem, Brittany Murphy, Mekhi Phifer, Kim Basinger, Evan Jones, Omar Benson Miller, De'Angelo Wilson, Eugene Byrd, Taryn Manning, Larry Hudson, Proof, Mike Bell, DJ Head, Michael Shannon, Chloe Greenfield, Mary Hannigan, Anthony Mackie, Strike, Nashawn 'Ox' Breedlove, Na'Keya Snoddy, Malik Barnhardt, Day Golfin, Allen Adams, Hom, Obie Trice, Njeri Earth, Jennifer Kitchen, Kyla Womack, Melissa Zaglanikzny, Rockey Black
• Genre: Drama, Music
• Director(s): Curtis Hanson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A rap version of "Saturday Night Fever." B-Rabbit, a wannabe rapper from the wrong side of Detroit's 8 Mile, has problems: he dumps his girlfriend when she tells him she's pregnant; to save money to make a demo tape, he moves into his alcoholic mom's trailer; his job's a dead end, and he's just choked at the local head-to-head rap contest. Things improve when he meets Alex - an aspiring model headed for New York - and a fast-talking pal promises to set up the demo. Then new setbacks: Alex isn't faithful, mom rejects him, rifts surface with his friends, and he's mugged by rivals. Everything hinges on the next rap showdown at the club. Can B-Rabbit pull truth out of his cap?

  7.5

Wonder Boys

1999, UK, Germany, USA, Japan

• Actors: Michael Douglas, Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Robert Downey Jr., Katie Holmes, Rip Torn, Richard Knox, Jane Adams, Michael Cavadias, Richard Thomas, Alan Tudyk, Philip Bosco, George Grizzard, Kelly Bishop, Bill Velin, Charis Michelsen, Yusuf Gatewood, June Hildreth, Elisabeth Granli, Richard Hidlebird, Screamer, Bingo O'Malley, Patricia Cray, Marita Golden, Victor Quinaz, James Ellroy, Lenora Nemetz, Tracey D. Turner, James Kisicki, Rob McElhenney
• Genre: Drama, Comedy
• Director(s): Curtis Hanson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Grady Tripp is a professor/writer living in Pittsburgh who is struggling with writer's block. Whilst doing this, he also manages to get the chancellor pregnant. In the meantime, he and a college student, James Leer are trying to find a rare jacket once owned by Marilyn Monroe, and a college girl, Hannah Green boarding with Grady has a bit of a crush on him.

  8.4

L.A. Confidential

1996, USA

• Actors: Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe, Guy Pearce, James Cromwell, Kim Basinger, Danny DeVito, David Strathairn, Ron Rifkin, Matt McCoy, Paul Guilfoyle, Paolo Seganti, Elisabeth Granli, Sandra Taylor, Steve Rankin, Graham Beckel, Allan Graf, Precious Chong, Symba Smith, Bob Clendenin, Lennie Loftin, Will Zahrn, Amber Smith, Darrell Sandeen, Michael Warwick, Simon Baker, Shawnee Free Jones, Matthew Allen Bretz, Thomas Rosales Jr., Shane Dixon, Norman Howell
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Curtis Hanson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

1950's Los Angeles is the seedy backdrop for this intricate noir-ish tale of police corruption and Hollywood sleaze. Three very different cops are all after the truth, each in their own style: Ed Exley, the golden boy of the police force, willing to do almost anything to get ahead, except sell out; Bud White, ready to break the rules to seek justice, but barely able to keep his raging violence under control; and Jack Vincennes, always looking for celebrity and a quick buck until his conscience drives him to join Exley and White down the one-way path to find the truth behind the dark world of L.A. crime.

  6.2

The River Wild

1994, USA

• Actors: Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon, David Strathairn, Joseph Mazzello, John C. Reilly, Benjamin Bratt, Elizabeth Hoffman, William Lucking, Stephanie Sawyer, Victor Galloway, Diane Delano, Thomas F. Duffy, Paul Cantelon, Glenn Morshower
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
• Director(s): Curtis Hanson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Gail, an expert at white water rafting, takes her family on a trip down the river to their family's house. Along the way, the family encounters two men who are unexperienced rafters that need to find their friends down river. Later, the family finds out that the pair of men are armed robbers. The men then physically force the family to take them down the river to meet their accomplices. The rafting trip for the family is definitely ruined, but most importantly, their lives are at stake.

  6.3

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

1991, USA

• Actors: Annabella Sciorra, Rebecca De Mornay, Matt McCoy, Ernie Hudson, Julianne Moore, Madeline Zima, John de Lancie, Kevin Skousen, Mitchell Laurance, Justin Zaremby, Eric Melander, Jennifer Melander, Ashley Melander, Cliff Lenz, Penny LeGate, Mary Anne Owen, Therese Tinling, Todd Jamieson, Laura Ferri, Dee Dee Van Zyl, Cristine McMurdo-Wallis, Sara Jennifer Sharp, Susan Chin, Kimberly Hill, Jane Jones, Ericka Matson, Robert James, Aimee Kanemori, Elane Micklesen, Brian Finney
• Genre: Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Curtis Hanson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Peyton Flanders seemed to be the perfect nanny, but secretly she was out to wreck the lives of the family she was supposed to be helping. Before becoming the nanny, Peyton had a miscarriage, and blamed it on Claire (the mother). Claire suspects nothing, having never met Peyton before.

  4.6

Losin' It

1983, Canada, USA

• Actors: Tom Cruise, Jackie Earle Haley, John Stockwell, John P. Navin Jr., Shelley Long, Henry Darrow, Hector Elias, Daniel Faraldo, Mario Marcelino, Rick Rossovich, James Victor, Kale Browne, Enrique Castillo, Cornelio Hernandez, Hector Morales, Santos Morales, John Valby, Laura James, Victoria Wells, Martha E. Martinez, Irma García, Sosimo Hernandez, Jesse Aragon, Margarita García, Joe Spinell, Susan Saldivar, Bell Hernandez, Ricky Powell, Dean R. Miller, Jack M. Nietzsche Jr.
• Genre: Action, Comedy
• Director(s): Curtis Hanson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Teen sex comedy set in 1965 which follows four Los Angeles school friends, Woody, Dave, Spider, Wendell and the series of misadventures they get into when they travel south of the border to Tijuana, Mexico for a night of cruisin', causing trouble, and to settle a pact to lose their virginity before the night is over, while a young woman, named Kathy, accompanies them for different reasons: to arrange a quick divorce from her husband.