8.3

Batman Begins

2004, USA, UK

• Actors: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman, Cillian Murphy, Tom Wilkinson, Rutger Hauer, Ken Watanabe, Mark Boone Junior, Linus Roache, Morgan Freeman, Larry Holden, Gerard Murphy, Colin McFarlane, Sara Stewart, Gus Lewis, Richard Brake, Rade Serbedzija, Emma Lockhart, Christine Adams, Catherine Porter, John Nolan, Karen Shenaz David, Jonathan D. Ellis, Tamer Hassan, Ronan Leahy, Vincent Wong, Tom Wu, Mark Chiu
• Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Christopher Nolan
• Available languages:
  • English English.

When his parents were killed, millionaire playboy Bruce Wayne relocates to Asia when he is mentored by Henri Ducard and Ra's Al Ghul in how to fight evil. When learning about the plan to wipe out evil in Gotham City by Ducard, Bruce prevents this plan from getting any further and heads back to his home. Back in his original surroundings, Bruce adapts the image of a bat to strike fear into the criminals and the corrupt as the icon known as 'Batman'. But it doesn't stay quiet for long.

  6.0

Blue Streak

1998, USA, Germany

• Actors: Martin Lawrence, Luke Wilson, Peter Greene, Dave Chappelle, Nicole Ari Parker, Graham Beckel, Robert Miranda, Olek Krupa, Saverio Guerra, Richard C. Sarafian, Tamala Jones, Julio Oscar Mechoso, Steve Rankin, Carmen Argenziano, John Hawkes, Frank Medrano, William Forsythe, Octavia Spencer, Timothy Dale Agee, Bayani Ison, Scott Sowers, Christopher Stapleton, Eddy Donno, Troy Gilbert, Kenny Endoso, Googy Gress, Robert LaSardo, Bill Ferrell, Billy 'Sly' Williams, Greg Montgomery
• Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
• Director(s): Les Mayfield
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Miles Logan is a jewel thief who just hit the big time by stealing a huge diamond. However, after two years in jail, he comes to find out that he hid the diamond in a police building that was being built at the time of the robbery. In an attempt to regain his diamond, he poses as a LAPD detective...

  6.7

16 Blocks

2005, Germany, USA

• Actors: Bruce Willis, Mos Def, David Morse, Jenna Stern, Casey Sander, Cylk Cozart, David Zayas, Robert Racki, Patrick Garrow, Sasha Roiz, Conrad Pla, Hechter Ubarry, Richard Fitzpatrick, Peter McRobbie, Michael F. Keenan, Robert Clohessy, Jess Mal Gibbons, Tig Fong, Brenda Pressley, Kim Chan, Carmen López, Scott McCord, David Sparrow, Eduardo Gomez, Sam Kung, Angela Seto, Bernie Henry, Nick Alachiotis, Danny Lima, Claudio Masciulli
• Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Richard Donner
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Jack Mosley, a burnt-out detective, is assigned the unenviable task of transporting a fast-talking convict from jail to a courthouse 16 blocks away. However, along the way he learns that the man is supposed to testify against Mosley's colleagues, and the entire NYPD wants him dead. Mosley must choose between loyalty to his colleagues and protecting the witness, and never has such a short distance seemed so long...

  5.4

Max Payne

2007, Canada, USA

• Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges, Ludacris, Chris O'Donnell, Donal Logue, Amaury Nolasco, Kate Burton, Olga Kurylenko, Rothaford Gray, Joel Gordon, Jamie Hector, Andrew Friedman, Marianthi Evans, Nelly Furtado, Jay Hunter, Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, Kerr Hewitt, Stephen R. Hart, Martin Hindy, Herbert Johnson, Philip Williams, Warren Belle, Ted Atherton, Katie Odegaard, Rico Simonini, Pj Lazic, Brandon Carrera, Joshua Barilko, Conrad Pla
• Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): John Moore
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Three years ago, NYPD detective Max Payne's wife and baby were murdered. Max gets himself transferred to the cold case office where he can continue searching for the killer who got away. He's a loner, but two people reach out to him during a fateful week: Alex, his ex-partner who may have found a clue, and BB, the security chief at the pharmaceutical company where Max's wife worked. Meanwhile, bodies are piling up, some as a result of a drug on the street that is highly addictive and, for many who take it, brings hideous hallucinations. When one of the bodies is a woman Payne was the last to see alive, her sister comes looking for him armed to the teeth; Max must move fast.

  5.2

2 Fast 2 Furious

2002, USA, Germany

• Actors: Paul Walker, Tyrese Gibson, Eva Mendes, Cole Hauser, Ludacris, Thom Barry, James Remar, Devon Aoki, Amaury Nolasco, Michael Ealy, Jin Auyeung, Edward Finlay, Mark Boone Junior, Mo Gallini, Roberto 'Sanz' Sanchez, Eric Etebari, John Cenatiempo, Troy Brown, Corey Michael Eubanks, Sam Maloof, Troy Robinson, Jose Perez, Sincerely A. Ward, Nievecita Dubuque, Tequilla Hill, Bettina Huffer, Phuong Tuyet Vo, Felecia Rafield, Mateo Herreros, Walter 'Duke' Foster
• Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
• Director(s): John Singleton
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Former cop Brian O'Conner who teams up with his ex-con pal Roman Pearce to transport a shipment of 'dirty' money for shady Miami-based import-export dealer Carter Verone, while actually working with undercover agent Monica Fuentes to bring Verone down.

  7.4

Michael Clayton

2006, USA

• Actors: Tom Wilkinson, Michael O'Keefe, Sydney Pollack, Danielle Skraastad, Tilda Swinton, George Clooney, Wai Chan, Alberto Vazquez, Brian Koppelman, Thomas McCarthy, Denis O'Hare, Julie White, Austin Williams, Jennifer Van Dyck, Frank Wood, Richard Hecht, Bill Raymond, Jonathan Walker, Sharon Washington, Cynthia Mace, Michael Countryman, Ken Howard, Amy Hargreaves, Susan Pellegrino, Rachel Black, Matthew Detmer, John Douglas Thompson, Merritt Wever, Brian Poteat, Christopher Mann
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Tony Gilroy
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Michael Clayton, a high-priced-law-firm's fixer, leaves a late-night poker game, gets a call to drive to Westchester, and watches his car blow up as he's taking an impromptu dawn walk through a field. Flash back four days. He owes a loan shark to cover his brother's debts (Michael's own gambling habits have left him virtually broke). His law firm is negotiating a high-stakes merger, and his firm's six-year defense of a conglomerate's pesticide use is at risk when one of the firm's top litigators goes off his meds and puts the case in jeopardy. While Michael is trying to fix things, someone decides to kill him. Who? Meanwhile, his son summarizes the plot of a dark fantasy novel.

  7.6

Enter the Dragon

1972, Hong Kong, USA

• Actors: Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Kien Shih, Ahna Capri, Angela Mao, Jim Kelly, Robert Wall, Bolo Yeung, Betty Chung, Geoffrey Weeks, Peter Archer, Li Jen Ho, Marlene Clark, Allan Kent, William Keller, Mickey Caruso, Pat E. Johnson, Darnell Garcia, Mike Bissell, Hidy Ochiai, Jackie Chan, Roy Chiao, Paul M. Heller, Sammo Hung Kam-Bo, Tony Liu, Hoi Mang, Steve Sanders, Chin-lai Sung, Wei Tung, Donnie Williams
• Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Robert Clouse
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Enter the Dragon revolves around the three main characters. Lee, a man recruited by an agency to investigate a tournament hosted by Han, since they believe he has an Opium trade there. Roper and Williams are former army buddies since Vietnam and they enter the tournament due to different problems that they have. Roper is on the run from the Mafia due to his gambling debts, while Williams is harassed by racist police officers and defends himself from them and uses the car for his getaway. It is a deadly tournament that they will enter on an island. Lee's job is to get the other two out of there alive.

  7.6

Falling Down

1992, France, USA, UK

• Actors: Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey, Tuesday Weld, Rachel Ticotin, Frederic Forrest, Lois Smith, Joey Hope Singer, Ebbe Roe Smith, Michael Paul Chan, Raymond J. Barry, D.W. Moffett, Steve Park, Kimberly Scott, James Keane, Macon McCalman, Richard Montoya, Bruce Beatty, Matthew Saks, Agustin Rodriguez, Eddie Frias, Pat Romano, Julian Scott Urena, Karina Arroyave, Irene Olga López, James Morrison, Benjamin Mouton, Dean Hallo, John Fleck, Dedee Pfeiffer
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Joel Schumacher
• Available languages:
  • English English.

William (D-FENS) just wants to get home to see his daughter on her birthday. Unfortunately, nothing seems to be going right for him. First there's the traffic jam, then the unhelpful Korean shopkeeper who "doesn't give change". D-FENS begins to crack and starts to fight back against the every day "injustices" he encounters on his journey home. The film has a story running in parallel about a desk-bound cop who is about to retire. He's retiring for his wife's sake, and obviously isn't happy about it. The cop tracks down D-FENS and in the final scene.....

  7.4

Bullitt

1967, USA

• Actors: Steve McQueen, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Vaughn, Don Gordon, Simon Oakland, Norman Fell, Robert Duvall, Georg Stanford Brown, Justin Tarr, Carl Reindel, Felice Orlandi, Vic Tayback, Robert Lipton, Ed Peck, Pat Renella, Paul Genge, John Aprea, Al Checco, Bill Hickman, Mal Alberts, Scott Beach, Mary Benoit, Barbara Bosson, Roger Bowen, Joy Carlin, Brandy Carroll, Joanna Cassidy, Julie Christy, Robert Cleaves, Tony Dario
• Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Peter Yates
• Available languages:
  • English English.

High profile San Francisco Police Lieutenant Frank Bullitt is asked personally by ambitious Walter Chalmers, who is in town to hold a US Senate subcommittee hearing on organized crime, to guard Johnny Ross, a Chicago based mobster who is about to turn evidence against the organization at the hearing. Chalmers wants Ross' safety at all cost, or else Bullitt will pay the consequences. Bullitt and his team of Sergeant Delgetti and Detective Carl Stanton have Ross in protective custody for 48 hours over the weekend until Ross provides his testimony that upcoming Monday. Bullitt's immediate superior, Captain Bennet, gives Bullitt full authority to lead the case, no questions asked for any move Bullitt makes. When an incident occurs early during their watch, Bullitt is certain that Ross and/or Chalmers are not telling them the full story to protect Ross properly. Without telling Bennet or an incensed Chalmers, Bullitt clandestinely moves Ross while he tries to find out who is after Ross, and why Ross has seemingly made it so easy for "them" to find him. As Bullitt enlists the help of his live-in artist girlfriend Cathy over the weekend and as she sees for the first time with what he deals every day, she wonders if he is indeed the man with whom she should be.

  6.6

Vantage Point

2007, USA

• Actors: Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, Bruce McGill, Édgar Ramírez, Saïd Taghmaoui, Ayelet Zurer, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt, James LeGros, Eduardo Noriega, Richard T. Jones, Holt McCallany, Leonardo Nam, Dolores Heredia, Alicia Zapien, Justin Sundquist, Sean O'Bryan, José Carlos Rodríguez, Rodrigo Cachero, Guillermo Iván, Xavier Massimi, Shelby Fenner, Ari Brickman, Brian McGovern, Lisa Owen, Rocío Verdejo, Marisa Rubio, Chris Durand
• Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Pete Travis
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The President of the United States is in Salamanca, Spain, about to address the city in a public square. We see a plain-clothes cop, his girlfriend with another man, a mother and child, an American tourist with a video camera, and a Secret Service agent newly returned from medical leave. Shots ring out and the President falls; a few minutes later, we hear a distant explosion, then a bomb goes off in the square. Those minutes are retold, several times, emphasizing different characters' actions. Gradually, we discover who's behind the plot. Is the Secret Service one step ahead, or have the President's adversaries thought of everything?

  6.5

Black Rain

1988, USA

• Actors: Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia, Ken Takakura, Kate Capshaw, Yusaku Matsuda, Shigeru Kôyama, John Spencer, Guts Ishimatsu, Yûya Uchida, Tomisaburo Wakayama, Miyuki Ono, Luis Guzmán, John Costelloe, Stephen Root, Richard Riehle, Bruce Katzman, Edmund Ikeda, Tomo Nagasue, Clem Caserta, Tim Kelleher, George Kyle, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Joe Perce, Louis Cantarini, Doug Yasuda, Toshio Sato, Jun Kunimura, Roy K. Ogata, Shirô Oishi, Professor Toru Tanaka
• Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Ridley Scott
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. In Japan, however, he manages to escape. As they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game the Japanese way.

  7.3

Body Heat

1980, USA

• Actors: William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Richard Crenna, Ted Danson, J.A. Preston, Mickey Rourke, Kim Zimmer, Jane Hallaren, Lanna Saunders, Carola McGuinness, Michael Ryan, Larry Marko, Deborah Lucchesi, Lynn Hallowell, Thom Sharp, Ruth Thom, Diane Lewis, Robert Traynor, Meg Kasdan, Ruth P. Strahan, Filomena Triscari, Bruce A. Lee, Ramiro Velasco, Tomas Choy, Servio T. Moreno
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Lawrence Kasdan
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Ned Racine is a seedy small town lawyer in Florida. During a searing heatwave he's picked up by married Matty Walker. A passionate affair commences but it isn't long before they realise the only thing standing in their way is Matty's rich husband Edmund. A plot hatches to kill him but will they pull it off?

  6.1

Blue Thunder

1982, USA

• Actors: Roy Scheider, Warren Oates, Candy Clark, Daniel Stern, Paul Roebling, David Sheiner, Joe Santos, Malcolm McDowell, Ed Bernard, Jason Bernard, Mario Machado, James Murtaugh, Pat McNamara, Jack Murdock, Clifford A. Pellow, Paul Lambert, Phil Feldman, John Garber, Anthony James, Robin Braxton, Anna Forrest, Ricky Slyter, Reid Cruickshanks, Billy Ray Sharkey, Fred Slyter, John Gladstein, Ross Reynolds, Karl A. Wickman, James W. Gavin, Thomas H. Friedkin
• Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): John Badham
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Blue Thunder is a specially modified helicopter. It is for police work, but is armed and designed to counter street insurgencies. It's makers want to show what it will do, but have to train a Los Angeles Police pilot Frank Murphy, to fly and use it in order to allow it to operate in the city. Murphy and the project pilot have differences going back to Vietnam. The conflict between them continues to heat up as Murphy begins to suspect that Blue Thunder is more than has been disclosed.

  7.1

Breach

2006, USA

• Actors: Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, Laura Linney, Caroline Dhavernas, Gary Cole, Dennis Haysbert, Kathleen Quinlan, Bruce Davison, Jonathan Watton, Tom Barnett, Jonathan Potts, David Huband, Catherine Burdon, Scott Gibson, Courtenay J. Stevens, Clare Stone, Jonathan Keltz, Richard Fitzpatrick, Melissa Thomson, Craig Eldridge, Jonathan Whittaker, Reagan Pasternak, Mary Jo Deschanel, Elie Gemael, Oula Boubkraoui, Chris Owens, Jonathon Ruckman, Stan Coles, Bart Bedford, David Frisch
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Billy Ray
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In February, 2001, Robert Hanssen, a senior agent with 25 years in the FBI, is arrested for spying. Jump back two months: Eric O'Neill, a computer specialist who wants to be made an agent is assigned to clerk for Hanssen and to write down everything Hanssen does. O'Neill's told it's an investigation of Hanssen's sexual habits. Within weeks, the crusty Hanssen, a devout Catholic, has warmed to O'Neill, who grows to respect Hanssen. O'Neill's wife resents Hanssen's intrusiveness; the personal and professional stakes get higher. How they catch Hanssen and why he spies become the film's story. Can O'Neill help catch red-handed "the worst spy in history" and hold onto his personal life?

  7.5

Die Hard: With a Vengeance

1994, USA

• Actors: Bruce Willis, Jeremy Irons, Samuel L. Jackson, Graham Greene, Colleen Camp, Larry Bryggman, Anthony Peck, Nicholas Wyman, Sam Phillips, Kevin Chamberlin, Sharon Washington, Stephen Pearlman, Michael Alexander Jackson, Aldis Hodge, Mischa Hausserman, Edwin Hodge, Robert Sedgwick, Tony Halme, Bill Christ, Anthony Thomas, Glenn Herman, Kent Faulcon, Akili Prince, Ardie Fuqua, Mike Jefferson, Andre Ware, Michael Lee Merrins, Birdie M. Hale, Daryl Edwards, Barbara Hipkiss
• Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
• Director(s): John McTiernan
• Available languages:
  • English English.

John McClane is now almost a full-blown alcoholic and is suspended from the NYPD. But when a bomb goes off in the Bonwit Teller Department Store the police go insane trying to figure out what's going on. Soon, a man named Simon calls and asks for McClane. Simon tells Inspector Walter Cobb that McClane is going to play a game called "Simon Says". He says that McClane is going to do the tasks he assigns him. If not, he'll blow off another bomb. With the help of a Harlem electrician, John McClane must race all over New York trying to figure out the frustrating puzzles that the crafty terrorist gives him. But when a bomb goes off in a subway station right by the Federal Reserve (the biggest gold storage in the world) things start to get heated up.

  8.0

In Cold Blood

1966, USA

• Actors: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Paul Stewart, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Jeff Corey, John Gallaudet, James Flavin, Charles McGraw, Will Geer, John McLiam, Ruth Storey, Brenda Currin, Paul Hough, Vaughn Taylor, Duke Hobbie, Sheldon Allman, Sammy Thurman, Raymond Hatton, Sadie Truitt, Myrtle Clare, Ted Eccles, Al Christy, Don Sollars, Harriet Levitt, Rhonda Fultz, Mary Linda Rapelye, John Collins, Pamela Crosley, Nick Dimitri
• Genre: Crime, Drama, History
• Director(s): Richard Brooks
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Two young men are ineffectual individually, but when together become violent criminals. They break into a wealthy farmer's home only to find that there is nearly no money at the home and murder the entire family to avoid identification. The first part of the film details the search for them, the second, their trial and execution. Taken from the actual events chronicled by Truman Capote in his book.

  6.3

Jailhouse Rock

1956, USA

• Actors: Elvis Presley, Judy Tyler, Mickey Shaughnessy, Vaughn Taylor, Jennifer Holden, Dean Jones, Anne Neyland, Dorothy Abbott, Peter Adams, François André, Robert Bice, Bill Black, Don Burnett, Jack Chefe, George Cisar, Fred Coby, John Daheim, John Dennis, Francis De Sales, Elaine DuPont, Joan Dupuis, Bess Flowers, D.J. Fontana, William Forrest, Jo Gilbert, Bill Hale, Percy Helton, Jack Herrin, Bill Hickman, Harry Hines
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
• Director(s): Richard Thorpe
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Vince Everett is serving a one-year jail sentence for manslaughter. While in the big house, his cellmate, a former country singer, introduces him to the record business. Everett takes to it so well that he decides to become a singer when he gets out. However, he is quickly disillusioned by the record business. But with the help of a new friend, he decides to form his own label, and soon becomes an overnight sensation. But when he becomes a superstar, will his desire for fame and money cause him to forget the people who got him there?

  7.7

Lord of War

2004, France, USA

• Actors: Nicolas Cage, Bridget Moynahan, Jared Leto, Shake Tukhmanyan, Jean-Pierre Nshanian, Jared Burke, Eric Uys, David Shumbris, Stewart Morgan, Jasper Lenz, Stephen Gregor, Kobus Marx, Stephan De Abreu, Jeremy Crutchley, Ian Holm, Tanya Finch, Lize Jooste, Yaseen Abdullah, Donald Sutherland, David Harman, Neil Tweddle, Prosper Hakiziman, Chi Zhang Yi, Sajad Khan, John Sferopoulos, Gamiet Peterson, Ethan Hawke, Danie Struwig, Tony Caprari, Jack Niccol
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Andrew Niccol
• Available languages:
  • English English.

This film charts the rise and fall of Yuri Orlov, from his early days in the early 1980s in Little Odessa, selling guns to mobsters in his local neighbourhood, through to his ascension through the decade of excess and indulgence into the early 90s, where he forms a business partnership with an African warlord and his psychotic son. The film also charts his relationship through the years with his younger brother, his marriage to a famous model, his relentless pursuit by a determined federal agent and his inner demons that sway between his drive for success and the immorality of what he does.

  7.8

Lucky Number Slevin

2005, Germany, USA

• Actors: Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Lucy Liu, Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley, Michael Rubenfeld, Peter Outerbridge, Stanley Tucci, Kevin Chamberlin, Dorian Missick, Mykelti Williamson, Scott Gibson, Daniel Kash, Dmitry Chepovetsky, Sam Jaeger, Danny Aiello, Oliver Davis, Corey Stoll, Howard Jerome, J.D. Jackson, Jennifer Miller, Sebastien Roberts, Robert Forster, Shira Leigh, Janet Lane, Nicholas Rice, Bernard Kay, Sam Stone, Darren Marsman, Gerry Mendicino
• Genre: Crime, Thriller
• Director(s): Paul McGuigan
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In an airport waiting room, a man in a wheelchair tells a stranger a story about a fixed horse race in 1979 that resulted in a family's deaths. In Manhattan, two bookies and the son of a Mob boss die. A young man just out of the shower answers the door to a neighbor woman and explains that he's visiting, has had a bad week, including being mugged, and doesn't know where his pal, who lives there, is. The neighbor is chatty; she's a coroner. Two thugs arrive and, believing the visitor to be the guy who lives there, take him to see the boss with the dead son, who tells him to kill the son of his Mob rival. Mistaken identity? What connects the threads? Cops are watching.

  7.8

Boy A

2006, UK

• Actors: Andrew Garfield, Peter Mullan, Siobhan Finneran, Alfie Owen, Victoria Brazier, Skye Bennett, Madeleine Rakic-Platt, Josef Altin, Dudley Brewis, Leigh Symonds, Maria Gough, Taylor Doherty, Jeremy Swift, Shaun Evans, Carlene Hanson, Katie Lyons, James Young, Anthony Lewis, John Catterall, Tilly Vosburgh, Philip Rowson, Luke Broughton, Paul-Michael Giblin, Helen Wilding, Steven Pacey, Jared Garfield, Cyriack Stevenson, Tom Cottle, Nathan Kershaw, Josh Moran
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
• Director(s): John Crowley
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A young man is released from prison after many years and given a new identity in a new town. Aided by a supervisor who becomes like a father to him he finds a job and friends and hesitantly starts a relationship with a compassionate girl. But the secret of the heinous crime he committed as a boy weighs down on him, and he learns that it is not so easy to escape your past.

  7.8

Boyz n the Hood

1990, USA

• Actors: Hudhail Al-Amir, Lloyd Avery II, Angela Bassett, Mia Bell, Lexie Bigham, Kenneth A. Brown, Nicole Brown, Ceal, Morris Chestnut, Darneicea Corley, John Cothran Jr., Ice Cube, Na'Blonka Durden, Susan Falcon, Jessie Lawrence Ferguson, Tyra Ferrell, Laurence Fishburne, Dedrick D. Gobert, Cuba Gooding Jr., Regi Green, Kareem J. Grimes, Tammy Hanson, Valentino D. Harrison, Desi Arnez Hines II, Baha Jackson, Dee Dee Jacobs, Kirk Kinder, Meta King, Regina King, Leanear Lane
• Genre: Crime, Drama
• Director(s): John Singleton
• Available languages:
  • English English.

John Singleton's portrayal of social problems in inner-city Los Angeles takes the form of a tale of three friends growing up together 'in the 'hood.' Half-brothers Doughboy and Ricky Baker are foils for each other's personality, presenting very different approaches to the tough lives they face. Ricky is the 'All-American' athlete, looking to win a football scholarship to USC and seeks salvation through sports, while 'Dough' succumbs to the violence, alcohol, and crime surrounding him in his environment, but maintains a strong sense of pride and code of honor. Between these two is their friend Tre, who is lucky to have a father, 'Furious' Styles, to teach him to have the strength of character to do what is right and to always take responsibility for his actions.

  7.8

21 Grams

2002, USA

• Actors: Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Danny Huston, Carly Nahon, Claire Pakis, Benicio Del Toro, Nick Nichols, Charlotte Gainsbourg, John Rubinstein, Eddie Marsan, Loyd Keith Salter, Antef A. Harris, Melissa Leo, Marc Musso, Teresa Delgado, Trent Dee, Tony Guyton, Wayne E. Beech Jr., Keith Lamont Johnson, Clea DuVall, David Chattam, John Boyd West, Jeff Schmidt, Tony Vaughn, Paul Calderon, Denis O'Hare, Anastasia Herin, Carlo Alban, Hai Quang Tran, Annie Corley
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Alejandro González Iñárritu
• Available languages:
  • English English.

This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré, Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan, an ex-convict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will learn harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever.

  7.6

A Few Good Men

1991, USA

• Actors: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon, Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Pollak, James Marshall, J.T. Walsh, Christopher Guest, J.A. Preston, Matt Craven, Wolfgang Bodison, Xander Berkeley, John M. Jackson, Noah Wyle, Cuba Gooding Jr., Lawrence Lowe, Joshua Malina, Oscar Jordan, John M. Mathews, Aaron Sorkin, Alex Wexo, Frank Cavestani, Jan Munroe, Ron Ostrow, Matthew Saks, Harry Caesar, Michael DeLorenzo, Geoffrey Nauffts, Arthur Senzy
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Rob Reiner
• Available languages:
  • English English.

In this dramatic courtroom thriller, Lt. Daniel Kaffee, a Navy lawyer who has never seen the inside of the courtroom, defends two stubborn Marines who have been accused of murdering a colleague. Kaffee is known as being lazy and had arranged for a plea bargain. Downey's Aunt Ginny appoints Cmdr. Galloway to represent him. Also on the legal staff is Lt. Sam Weinberg. The team rounds up many facts and Kaffee is discovering that he is really cut out for trial work. The defense is originally based upon the fact that PFC Santiago, the victim, was given a "CODE RED". Santiago was basically a screw-up. At Gitmo, screw-ups aren't tolerated. Especially by Col. Nathan Jessup. In Cuba, Jessup and two senior officers try to give all the help they can, but Kaffee knows something's fishy. In the conclusion of the film, the fireworks are set off by a confrontation between Jessup and Kaffee.

  6.6

Backdraft

1990, USA

• Actors: Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro, Donald Sutherland, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Scott Glenn, Rebecca De Mornay, Jason Gedrick, J.T. Walsh, Anthony Mockus Sr., Cedric Young, Juan Ramírez, Kevin Casey, Jack McGee, Mark Wheeler, Richard Lexsee, Beep Iams, Ryan Todd, Robert Swan, Clint Howard, Ron West, Kevin Crowley, Carlos Sanz, Harry Hutchinson, David A.C. Saunders, Jane Jenkins, Tim Grimm, David Crosby, Mike Mangano, Rick Reardon
• Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Ron Howard
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A rookie firefighter tries to earn the respect of his older brother and other firefighters while taking part in an investigation of a string of arson/murders. This detailed look into the duties and private lives of firemen naturally features widespread pyrotechnics and special effects.

  7.7

Inside Man

2005, USA

• Actors: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Carlos Andrés Gómez, Kim Director, James Ransone, Bernie Rachelle, Peter Gerety, Victor Colicchio, Cassandra Freeman, Peter Frechette, Gerry Vichi, Waris Ahluwalia, Rafael Osorio, Rodney 'Bear' Jackson, Daryl Mitchell, Ashlie Atkinson, David Brown, Robert C. Kirk, Frank Stellato, Ken Leung, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Ed Onipede Blunt, Amir Ali Said, Lemon, Samantha Ivers, Peter Kybart
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Spike Lee
• Available languages:
  • English English.

From a cell, a man tells us he has planned the perfect bank robbery; he invites us to watch. An efficient gang enters a Manhattan bank, locks the doors, and takes hostages. They work deliberately, without haste. Detective Frazier is assigned to negotiate, but half his mind is occupied with the corruption charges he is facing. The bank's president has something to protect in a safe deposit box, so he brings in Madaline, a high-power broker with a hidden agenda. With an army of police surrounding the bank, the thief, the cop, and the plutocrat's fixer enter high-stakes negotiations. Why are the robbers asking for a plane, if they are so competent and they know they won't get one? Why aren't they in more of a hurry? If the job's perfect, why is the thieves' leader in a cell?