Blu-ray - Drama

A chance run-in with an old college roommate becomes the catalyst for healing in writer/director Mike Binder's tale of friendship and understanding in post-9/11 New York. When the Twin Towers went down on that fateful morning in 2001, Charlie Fineman (Adam Sandler) lost everything that he had to live for. Five years have passed since Charlie lost his family, and now the once-successful and sociable man has become a withdrawn shadow of his former self. When fate brings Charlie and his former college roommate Alan Johnson (Don Cheadle) together once again on a Manhattan street corner, Alan is sh...

Actors: Adam Sandler » Don Cheadle » Jada Pinkett Smith » Liv Tyler » Saffron Burrows » Donald Sutherland » Robert Klein » Melinda Dillon » Mike Binder »

Director: Mike Binder »

Movie category: Drama »

Acclaimed filmmaker Werner Herzog returns to direct his first feature since 2001's Invincible with this dramatic action film inspired by his own 1997 documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly and detailing the escape efforts of a German-American pilot who was taken as a prisoner-of-war after being shot down over Laos during the Vietnam War. When U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler (Christian Bale) escaped death after being shot down over one of the most intense front lines in the Vietnam War, his troubles were only beginning. Subsequently taken captive by the enemy and forced to endure a harrowing ...

Actors: Christian Bale » Steve Zahn » Jeremy Davies » Zach Grenier » Yuttana Muenwaja » Kriangsak Ming-Olo » Teerawat Mulvilai »

Director: Werner Herzog »

Movie category: Drama » War »

Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone), a Philadelphia boxer, is but one step removed from total bum-hood. A once-promising pugilist, Rocky is now taking nickel-and-dime bouts and running strongarm errands for local loan sharks to survive. Even his supportive trainer, Mickey (Burgess Meredith), has given up on Rocky. All this changes thanks to Muhammad Ali-like super-boxer Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers). With the Bicentennial celebration coming up, Creed must find a "Cinderella" opponent for the big July 4th bout -- some unknown whom Creed can "glorify" for a few minutes before knocking him cold. Roc...

Actors: Silvester Stallone » Talia Shire » Burt Young » Carl Weathers » Burgess Meredith »

Director: John G. Avildsen »

Movie category: Action & Adventure » Drama »

Sylvester Stallone returns to the director's chair for Rocky Balboa, the fifth sequel to the film that made him a superstar 30 years before. The movie begins with Rocky (Stallone) still mourning the death of his loyal and beloved wife, Adrian, who died three years previously after losing a battle against cancer. Rocky owns an Italian restaurant and spends his days living in his working-class Philadelphia neighborhood, visiting with his customers, and telling stories about his past. His grown son has a job as a business professional, but the relationship between the two is strained. Rocky's gro...

Actors: Sylvester Stallone » Burt Young » Antonio Tarver » Geraldine Hughes » Milo Ventimiglia » Tony Burton » A.J. Benza » James Francis Kelly III » Talia Shire » Lou DiBella » Mike Tyson » Henry G. Sanders » Pedro Lovell »

Director: Sylvester Stallone »

Movie category: Action & Adventure » Drama »

Trying to explain the wildly accelerated plot of this non-stop action thriller would be like convincing Quentin Tarantino to retell the saga of The Sopranos in 15-minutes or less. Don't misunderstand, Running Scared wastes little time on the nuanced details that make the violent, narratively precise, and intricately characterized world of The Sopranos so stylish and compelling. But boy, does it have style to spare, not to mention plenty of violence, narrative, and a cast of characters that all engage in a heady battle for your attention. Paul Walker has the unenviable task of fleshing out the ...

Actors: Paul Walker » Chazz Palminteri » Vera Farmiga » Michael Cudlitz » Cameron Bright » Ivana Milicevic » Johnny Messner » John Noble » Alex Neuberger » David Warshofsky »

Director: Wayne Kramer »

Movie category: Action & Adventure » Drama » Thriller »

The producers of Left Behind: The Movie craft this tale of a preacher attempting to make amends for his violent past by reaching out to a young drug dealer with no future. Armstrong Cane was the son of a respected preacher, but he took a different path in life and winding up serving fifteen years for manslaughter. Now that Cane is back on the streets, he's determined take over his father's old church and lead the congregation to salvation. But that's going to be no simple task, with the amount of drugs and gangs out on the streets anyone who was able has long since abandoned the neighborhood t...

Actors: Ving Rhames » Dean McDermott » Ricardo Chavira » Dwain Murphy » Genelle Williams » Kate Todd » K.C. Collins » Richard Leacock » Phillip Jarrett » Egidio Tari » Tosh Robertson » Kathy Maloney » Ardon Bess »

Director: Duane Crichton »

Movie category: Drama » Thriller »

A man comes face to face with the rage he didn't know he had in this comedy. Dave Buznick (Adam Sandler) is an even-tempered businessman who, after a series of strange misunderstandings on an airline flight, finds himself accused of air rage. A judge sentences Dave to undergo anger management therapy, and he soon finds himself in the care of Dr. Buddy Rydell (Jack Nicholson), a celebrated therapist. However, Dave's group therapy sessions with a handful of truly disturbed individuals -- among them jumpy ex-con Chuck (John Turturro), obsessive sports fan Nate (Jonathan Loughran), slow-burning Lo...

Actors: Jack Nicholson » Adam Sandler » Marisa Tomei » Luis Guzmán » Lynne Thigpen » Woody Harrelson » John Turturro »

Director: Peter Segal »

Movie category: Drama » Comedy » Lovestory »

Academy Award nominee Will Smith reunites with the director and producers of The Pursuit of Happyness for this emotional drama concerning an IRS agent whose quest for redemption is unexpectedly complicated after he inadvertently falls in love. Ben Thomas is an IRS agent with a fateful secret. Assuming the identity of his younger brother, Ben sets out in search of redemption. Instead, Ben discovers true love while forever changing the lives of seven complete strangers. Woody Harrelson, Rosario Dawson, Michael Ealy, and Barry Pepper co-star.

Actors: Will Smith » Rosario Dawson » Woody Harrelson » Barry Pepper » Michael Ealy » Elpidia Carrillo » Robinne Lee » Joe Nunez » Bill Smitrovich »

Director: Gabriele Muccino »

Movie category: Drama » Thriller »

Academy Award nominee Will Smith reunites with the director and producers of The Pursuit of Happyness for this emotional drama concerning an IRS agent whose quest for redemption is unexpectedly complicated after he inadvertently falls in love. Ben Thomas is an IRS agent with a fateful secret. Assuming the identity of his younger brother, Ben sets out in search of redemption. Instead, Ben discovers true love while forever changing the lives of seven complete strangers. Woody Harrelson, Rosario Dawson, Michael Ealy, and Barry Pepper co-star.

Actors: Will Smith » Rosario Dawson » Woody Harrelson » Barry Pepper » Michael Ealy » Elpidia Carrillo » Robinne Lee » Joe Nunez » Bill Smitrovich »

Director: Gabriele Muccino »

Movie category: Drama » Thriller »

Typically impressive natural vistas from director Jean-Jacques Annaud (some secretly filmed on location in Tibet) highlight this adaptation of the memoir by Heinrich Harrer. Brad Pitt stars as the arrogant Heinrich, a famed Austrian mountain climber who leaves behind his wife and infant son to head a Himalayan expedition in 1939, only to fall into the hands of Allied forces as a prisoner of war. He and a fellow escapee, Peter Aufschnaiter (David Thewlis), make their way to the Forbidden City in Tibet, where Peter finds a wife and Heinrich befriends the Western culture-obsessed teenage Dalai La...

Actors: Brad Pitt » B.D. Wong » David Thewlis » Ingeborga Dapkunaite » Danny Denzongpa » Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk » Lhakpa Tsamchoe » Jetsun Pema » Ama Ashe Dongtse » Sonam Wangchuk » Victor Wong » Dorjee Tsering » Ric Young »

Director: Jean-Jaques Annaud »

Movie category: Action & Adventure » Drama »

Director Jon M. Chu takes the helm for this Step Up sequel set at the Maryland School for the Arts and following the journey of a rebellious street dancer who struggles to fit in at the prestigious school. Andie (Briana Evigan) may show great promise as a dancer, but she just can't seem to let go of her old life and get a fresh start. With Baltimore's hottest underground dance contest looming on the horizon, Andie joins forces with top dancer Chase (Robert Hoffman) while simultaneously helping to sharpen the skills of her outcast classmates. Perhaps if Andie, Chase, and their talented team of ...

Actors: Briana Evigan » Robert Hoffman » Will Kemp » Sonja Sohn » Adam G. Sevani » Cassie Ventura » Channing Tatum »

Director: Jon Chu »

Movie category: Drama » Lovestory » Music films »

Something got lost in translation from 1996's critically acclaimed Japanese comedy, but the American remake of Shall We Dance? is not without charms of its own. In being transplanted from Tokyo to Chicago, the original version's subtle humor is shaken out of its cultural context, but this is an otherwise faithful adaptation in which a weary lawyer (Richard Gere) battles his mid-life crisis with ballroom dancing lessons, while his wife (Susan Sarandon) hires a private detective to see if he's cheating. Those expecting a Jennifer Lopez showcase will be disappointed; her role as the melancholy da...

Actors: Richard Gere » Jennifer Lopez » Susan Sarandon » Anita Gillette » Bobby Cannavale » Lisa Ann Walter » Nick Cannon » Omar Benson Miller » Richard Jenkins » Stanley Tucci »

Director: Peter Chelsom »

Movie category: Drama » Lovestory »

Directed by Alexander Payne, Sideways follows Miles (Paul Giamatti), who is distressed about his lack of success as a novelist, and Jack (Thomas Haden Church), an equally unsuccessful actor with a rapidly approaching wedding. In a last-ditch effort to sow their wild oats, Jack and Miles take off on a final road trip to California's wine country the week prior to Jack's wedding. Both men have goals for the vacation -- Miles wants to turn Jack on to the art of wine tasting, while Jack is concerned with exploiting his last days as a bachelor -- but when the two men come across two fascinating wom...

Actors: Virginia Madsen » M.C. Gainey » Paul Giamatti » Thomas Haden Church » Sandra Oh » Jessica Hecht » Marylouise Burke » Missy Doty » Alysia Reiner » Duke Moosekian »

Director: Alexander Payne »

Movie category: Drama » Comedy »

Director Jon M. Chu takes the helm for this Step Up sequel set at the Maryland School for the Arts and following the journey of a rebellious street dancer who struggles to fit in at the prestigious school. Andie (Briana Evigan) may show great promise as a dancer, but she just can't seem to let go of her old life and get a fresh start. With Baltimore's hottest underground dance contest looming on the horizon, Andie joins forces with top dancer Chase (Robert Hoffman) while simultaneously helping to sharpen the skills of her outcast classmates. Perhaps if Andie, Chase, and their talented team of ...

Actors: Briana Evigan » Robert Hoffman » Will Kemp » Sonja Sohn » Adam G. Sevani » Cassie Ventura » Channing Tatum »

Director: Jon Chu »

Movie category: Drama » Lovestory » Music films »

In the wake of the L.A. riots, an LAPD vice detective who always went above and beyond the call of duty to keep the streets safe receives a startling wake-up call that leaves him convinced he can no longer employ the tactics that made him so effective in his work. LAPD veteran Tom Ludlow (Keanu Reeves) has borne personal witness to the worst that the streets have to offer, and when his partner, Detective Terrance Washington (Terry Crews), is killed the violence strikes a bit too close to home. Now Ludlow is on a mission to bring his partner's killer to justice, though Captain Walker (Forest Wh...

Actors: Keanu Reeves » Forest Whitaker » Naomie Harris » Hugh Laurie » Chris Evans » Cedric the Entertainer » Jay Mohr »

Director: David Ayer »

Movie category: Drama » Thriller »

A career soldier is forced to choose between following orders and saving lives in this action thriller. Lt. A.K. Waters (Bruce Willis) is a veteran Navy SEAL whose commander (Tom Skerritt) has given his team a special assignment. A Central African nation is expected to explode into war at any moment, and Waters and his cohorts are to escort any American citizens in the area to safety, most notably Dr. Lena Kendricks (Monica Bellucci), a doctor from the United States who has set up a clinic in the jungle. Waters and his men find Kendricks, but she refuses to leave with them unless she can bring...

Actors: Bruce Willis » Monica Bellucci » Cole Hauser » Tom Skerrit » Paul Francis » Malick Bowens » Eamonn Walker » Fionnula Flanagan » Nick Chinlund » Johnny Messner »

Director: Antoine Fuqua »

Movie category: Drama » War »

Four stories, representing the emotional principles of love, pleasure, sorrow, and happiness, come together in this episodic drama from first-time director Jieho Lee. A powerful crime boss, Fingers (Andy Garcia), subtly controls the destinies of four people whose circumstances have brought them to a crossroads in their lives. A quiet business executive (Forest Whitaker) is told that an upcoming horse race has been rigged and bets everything he has on his belief that the story is true. A noted pop singer (Sarah Michelle Gellar) discovers her career is hanging in the balance when she's forced to...

Actors: Forest Whitaker » Sarah Michelle Gellar » Brendan Fraser » Kevin Bacon » Andy Garcia » Clark Gregg » Emile Hirsch » Julie Delpy »

Director: Jieho Lee »

Movie category: Drama » Thriller »

Experience the peril and intensity of free-diving, the world's most perilous sport, in The Big Blue. Jacques (Jean-Marc Barr, Breaking The Waves) and his friendly rival Enzo (Jean Reno, The Professional) are considered masters of free-diving and have made a career out of this one-of-a-kind competition. Jacques' life-long obsession with diving comes from his unusual bond with the sea, while Enzo thrives on the challenges of its inherent danger. In his travels, Jacques meets Johanna (Rosanna Arquette, Pulp Fiction), who is attracted to his innocent qualities and follows him across Europe to shar...

Actors: Jean Bouise » Jean Reno » Jean-Marc Barr » Paul Shenar » Rosanna Arquette » Sergio Castellitto »

Director: Luc Besson »

Movie category: Drama » Lovestory »

In THE BUCKET LIST cancer doesn't discriminate in its choice of victims. It's equally eager in its attacks on kindly sage of a mechanic Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman) and mean-spirited millionaire Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson). When the unlikely pair shares a room at a hospital they learn that they both have less than a year to live as a result of the deadly disease. Inspired by the words of a college professor Carter begins to make a "bucket list" of things he wants to accomplish before he dies. With Edward's limitless funds at their disposal the men embark on an adventure that takes them fr...

Actors: Jack Nicholson » Morgan Freeman » Serena Reeder » Jonathan Mangum » Beverly Todd » Sean Hayes »

Director: Rob Reiner »

Movie category: Drama » Comedy »

A man discovers a deadly secret when he tries to find out who killed the woman he loves in this suspense drama based on a novel by John Le Carré. Justin Quale (Ralph Fiennes) is a low-level British diplomat who has been given a new assignment in Kenya. Justin's wife, Tessa (Rachel Weisz), is an activist with a keen interest in issues of poverty and social justice; Justin urges her to avoid getting too deeply involved in the people living in Kenya, who are constantly dogged by poverty, but she shows little interest in obeying these instructions. This isn't the only area where Tessa has disrega...

Actors: Ralph Fiennes » Rachel Weisz » Danny Huston » Bill Nighy » Pete Postlethwaite » Pernilla August »

Director: Fernando Meirelles »

Movie category: Drama » Thriller »

Attempting to recover from a recent family trauma by escaping into the woods for a peaceful hiking trip, an ex-lawman and his young son stumble across a dangerous contract killer in director Bruce Beresford's forest-bound thriller. Ray Keene (John Cusack) has lost his wife, and now the grieving father is looking to reconnect with his young son (Jamie Anderson) with a much-needed hike into the wilderness. But Ray and his son aren't alone in nature, because high profile assassin Frank Cardin (Morgan Freeman) has ventured into nature with the malevolent intentions of fulfilling a contract to kill...

Actors: John Cusack » Morgan Freeman » Jonathan Hyde » Ned Bellamy » Alice Krige » Cory Hardrict » Didem Erol » Doug Dearth » Ian Shaw » Jamie Anderson » Megan Dodds » Mircea Monroe »

Director: Bruce Beresford »

Movie category: Drama » Thriller »

David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's story, re-teams the director with Brad Pitt, who takes on the title role. What makes Button such a curious case is that when he is born in New Orleans just after World War I, he is already in his eighties, and proceeds to live his life aging in reverse. This sweeping film follows the character's unusual life into the 21st century as he experiences joy and sadness, loves lost and found, and the meaning of timelessness. Cate Blanchett co-stars along with Tilda Swinton, Elias Koteas, and Julia Ormond.

Actors: Brad Pitt » Cate Blanchett » Tilda Swinton » Taraji P. Henson » Julia Ormond » Jason Flemyng » Mahershalalhashbaz Ali » Jared Harris »

Director: David Fincher »

Movie category: Drama » Lovestory »

David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's story, re-teams the director with Brad Pitt, who takes on the title role. What makes Button such a curious case is that when he is born in New Orleans just after World War I, he is already in his eighties, and proceeds to live his life aging in reverse. This sweeping film follows the character's unusual life into the 21st century as he experiences joy and sadness, loves lost and found, and the meaning of timelessness. Cate Blanchett co-stars along with Tilda Swinton, Elias Koteas, and Julia Ormond.

Actors: Brad Pitt » Cate Blanchett » Tilda Swinton » Taraji P. Henson » Julia Ormond » Jason Flemyng » Mahershalalhashbaz Ali » Jared Harris »

Director: David Fincher »

Movie category: Drama » Lovestory »

Dan Brown's controversial best-selling novel about a powerful secret that's been kept under wraps for thousands of years comes to the screen in this suspense thriller from director Ron Howard. The stately silence of Paris' Louvre museum is broken when one of the gallery's leading curators is found dead on the grounds, with strange symbols carved into his body and left around the spot where he died. Hoping to learn the significance of the symbols, police bring in Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou), a gifted cryptographer who is also the victim's granddaughter. Needing help, Sophie calls on Robert Lan...

Actors: Tom Hanks » Audrey Tautou » Ian McKellen » Alfred Molina » Jürgen Prochnow » Paul Bettany » Jean Reno » Etienne Chicot » Jean-Pierre Marielle » Clive Carter » Seth Gabel » Marie-Françoise Audollent » Jean-Yves Berteloot »

Director: Ron Howard »

Movie category: Drama » Thriller »

Legendary director Martin Scorsese takes the helm for this tale of questionable loyalties and blurring identities set in the South Boston organized crime scene and inspired by the wildly popular 2002 Hong Kong crime film Infernal Affairs. As the police force attempts to reign in the increasingly powerful Irish mafia, authorities are faced with the prospect of sending in an undercover agent or seeing their already frail grip on the criminal underworld slip even further. Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a young cop looking to make a name for himself in the world of law enforcement. Collin S...

Actors: Alec Baldwin » Mark Wahlberg » Jack Nicholson » Matt Damon » Leonardo DiCaprio » Vera Farmiga » Ray Winstone » Martin Sheen »

Director: Martin Scorsese »

Movie category: Action & Adventure » Drama » Thriller »

Director Saul Dibb takes the helm for this period drama adapted from Amanda Foreman's best-selling novel Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, documenting the romantic entanglements of Georgiana Cavendish (Keira Knightley), a beautiful and clever woman who becomes a celebrity of British high society when she marries the Duke of Devonshire (Ralph Fiennes) and becomes consort to one of the most powerful men in England. Beloved for her trend-setting fashion designs as well as her political activism, Georgiana's fire and wit make her a beloved figure everywhere but her own home, where her cold and dis...

Actors: Keira Knightley » Ralph Fiennes » Charlotte Rampling » Dominic Cooper » Hayley Atwell » Simon McBurney » Aidan McArdle » John Shrapnel » Alistair Petrie » Patrick Godfrey » Michael Medwin » Justin Edwards » Richard McCabe »

Director: Saul Dibb »

Movie category: Action & Adventure » Drama »

A decorated Coast Guard search and rescue specialist still haunted by the death of his teammates during a disastrous mission off the coast of Alaska is charged with the task of training the next generation of Coast Guard rescue swimmers in director Andrew Davis' ocean-bound adventure drama. Ben Randall (Kevin Costner) was the best swimmer of his graduating class, but upon surfacing as the sole survivor of an Alaskan rescue mission attempted during a Category Three storm, his outlook on life has grown increasingly jaded. Now, as hotshot young swimmer Jake Fischer (Ashton Kutcher) arrives at Coa...

Actors: Ashton Kutcher » Kevin Costner » Shelby Fenner » Bonnie Bramlett » Brian Geraghty » Joe Arquette » Dule Hill » Neal McDonough » Sela Ward » John Heard » Clancy Brown » Melissa Sagemiller »

Director: Andrew Davis »

Movie category: Action & Adventure » Drama »

Lady in the Water director M. Night Shyamalan puts PG-13 suspense on pause to tell this grim apocalyptic tale about a family fleeing a natural disaster that poses a grave threat to the whole of humanity. Philadelphia high-school science teacher Elliot Moore (Mark Wahlberg) is discussing the disappearance of the bees with his students when the staff is summoned to the theater and briefed about a mysterious event that is currently unfolding in New York City. According to reports, citizens in the vicinity of Central Park have suddenly and inexplicably begun seizing up just before killing themselv...

Actors: Mark Wahlberg » Zooey Deschanel » John Leguizamo » Ashlyn Sanchez » Spencer Breslin » Betty Buckley » Robert Bailey Jr. »

Director: M. Night Shyamalan »

Movie category: Drama » Horror » Sci-Fi & Fantaisie »

A supernaturally talented magician attempts to undermine the rigid social structure of turn-of-the-century Vienna by using his powers to win the love of his upper-class, childhood sweetheart in director Neil Burger's cinematic adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steven Millhauser's short story. Though the ill-fated childhood romance between cabinetmaker's son Eisenheim (Edward Norton) and upper-class Sophie von Teschen (Jessica Biel) eventually resulted in the heartbroken young man leaving Austria to explore the world, his dreams of one day reuniting with the beautiful duchess never fa...

Actors: Edward Norton » Paul Giamatti » Jessica Biel » Rufus Sewell » Eddie Marsan » Tom Fisher » Jake Wood » Karl Johnson » Aaron Johnson » Eleanor Tomlinson »

Director: Neil Burger »

Movie category: Drama » Thriller »

Robin Swicord's adaptation of the novel The Jane Austen Book Club concerns a group of women and a man who meet regularly to discuss the works of the popular author, but soon discover their lives are playing out much like one of the author's fictional worlds. Among the members of the club are Sylvia (Amy Brenneman), a recent divorcee; Bernadette (Kathy Baker) who has decided to accept her advancing age; and Prudie (Emily Blunt) who feels guilty about her persistent fantasies of cheating on her loving husband.

Actors: Maria Bello » Emily Blunt » Kathy Baker » Amy Brenneman » Jimmy Smits » Marcus Blucas » Hugh Dancy » Maggie Grace » Kevin Zegers » Lynn Redgrave »

Director: Robin Swicord »

Movie category: Drama » Comedy » Lovestory »

A pair of young men living in the 21st century relive the tales of one of their ancient forbearers in this historical drama. Kamran (Adam Echahly) is a 12-year-old boy of Iranian heritage whose older brother, Nader (Puya Behinaein), is slowly dying. Kamran and Nader's family puts a great value on preserving the oral history of their ancestors, and Nader is passing on this responsibility by telling his brother the story of their distant relative, the great scientist and poet Omar Khayyam (Bruno Lastra). In the 11th century, Omar is close friends with Hassan Sabbeh (Christopher Simpson), a passi...

Actors: Adam Echahly » Moritz Bleibtreu » Vanessa Redgrave » Bruno Lastra » Rade Serbedzija »

Director: Kayvan Mashayekh »

Movie category: Action & Adventure » Drama »

In the aftermath of a deadly attack on American forces in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, diplomats are slow to act, but meanwhile, FBI special agent Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx) assembles a secret team of U.S. counter-terrorism investigators to enter the city and find the criminal behind what has quickly become an international incident. The crew, however, finds their attempt to capture the perpetrators stalled by bureaucracy and their presence unwelcome. Desperate to gain the trust they need to accomplish their mission in just five days, the team enlists the aid of a Saudi Arabian police officer (Ashraf...

Actors: Jamie Foxx » Jennifer Garner » Chris Cooper » Jason Bateman » Jeremy Piven » Danny Huston »

Director: Peter Berg »

Movie category: Drama » Thriller »

Two people develop an unusual relationship that bends the boundaries of time and place in this romantic fantasy. Kate Forster (Sandra Bullock) is a doctor who lives in a beautiful home by a lake. Forced to move elsewhere, she requests that any correspondence that arrives at the lake house be passed on to her new address. To her surprise, she soon receives a romantic note from Alex Burnham (Keanu Reeves), an architect who lives in the cottage she once called home. However, a look at the postmark on the letter reveals that he lived at the home two years before she did, and that somehow they've c...

Actors: Keanu Reeves » Sandra Bullock » Shohreh Aghdashloo » Willeke van Ammelrooy » Mike Bacarella » April Chancy » Lynn Collins » Brandon DeShazer » Lori Ann Gerdisch » Thaddeus Griebel » Jeremy Irons » Justin D. Jones » Alexandra LoRusso »

Director: Alejandro Agresti »

Movie category: Drama » Lovestory »

Edward Zwick returned to the director's chair for the first time since 1998's The Siege with this sweeping period drama set in 19th-century Japan. After centuries of relying on hired samurai for national defense, the Japanese monarchy has decided to do away with the warriors in favor of a more contemporary military. Tom Cruise stars as Nathan Algren, a veteran of the U.S. Civil War who is hired by the Emperor Meiji to train an army capable of wiping out the samurai. But when Algren is captured by the samurai and taught about their history and way of life, he finds himself conflicted over who h...

Actors: Tom Cruise » Tony Goldwyn » William Atherton » Timothy Spall » Chad Lindberg » Billy Connolly » John Koyama » Ken Watanabe »

Director: Edward Zwick »

Movie category: Action & Adventure » Drama »

A Manhattan archeologist teams with an FBI agent to uncover the buried secrets of the legendary Knights Templar in this romantic adventure mini-series starring Mira Sorvino and Scott Foley. Based on Raymond Khoury's international bestseller, The Last Templar opens in 1921, as Sultan's army burns the city of Acre to the ground. The Latin Kingdom's reign has come to a close. All that's left of its legacy is a single galley, which drifts out to sea carrying young Templar Knight Martin of Carmax, his mentor Aimard of Villiers, and an enigmatic chest entrusted to the pair by the order's dying Grand...

Actors: Mira Sorvino » Scott Foley » Omar Sharif » Stephane Demers » Danny Bianco Hall » Anthony Lemke » Claudia Ferri » Kenneth Welsh » Victor Garber »

Director: Paolo Barzman »

Movie category: Drama » Thriller »

Life, it seems, could not possibly improve for Ben Garvey (Paul Walker). Though officially an ex-criminal (a reformed thief), he's worked extra-diligently to bury the past and start over - via a promising job, a gorgeous wife (Piper Perabo) and a lovely daughter. Tragically, though, the past comes back to haunt Ben when others learn of his history and rip his job away; he travels from bad to worse by making the ill-advised decision to join his shyster brother in a "get rich quick" burglary scheme that goes tragically awry, leads to several deaths, and lands Ben on death row, poised for lethal ...

Actors: Paul Walker » Brooklynn Proulx » Linda Cardellini » Malcolm Goodwin » Tony Curran » Bob Gunton » Piper Perabo »

Director: Scott Glenn »

Movie category: Drama » Thriller »

Brad Anderson directs the psychological thriller The Machinist, a production of Spain's Filmax company. Christian Bale plays Trevor Reznik, a factory lathe operator who has developed a serious case of insomnia. Lack of sleep has already started to wear down on his brain and his body. When he's involved in an accident at work, his co-workers turn against him. He starts to find strange notes in his apartment and see people that apparently aren't there. Jennifer Jason Leigh stars as call girl Stevie. The Machinist premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004.

Actors: Christian Bale » Jennifer Jason Leigh » Aitana Sánchez-Gijón » John Sharian » Michael Ironside » Larry Gilliard Jr. » Reg E. Cathey » Anna Massey » Matthew Romero Moore » Robert Long » Colin Stinton » Craig Stevenson » Ferrán Lahoz »

Director: Brad Anderson »

Movie category: Drama » Thriller »

Directed by Nick Cassavetes, this adaptation of author Nicholas Sparks' bestselling novel revolves around Noah Calhoun's (James Garner) regular visits to a female patron (Gena Rowlands) of an area nursing home. Rather than bore her with the inanities of everyday life, Calhoun reads from an old, faded notebook containing the sweeping account of a young couple (Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams) whose love affair was tragically put to a halt after their separation in the midst of World War II. Seven years later, the couple was reunited, and, despite having taken radically different paths, they fou...

Actors: Ryan Gosling » Rachel McAdams » Gena Rowlands » James Garner » James Marsden » Joan Allen » Sam Shepard » Kevin Connolly »

Director: Nick Cassavetes »

Movie category: Drama » Lovestory »

A young Argentine mathematician visiting the United Kingdom is drawn into a complex murder mystery when his landlady is brutally slain in director Alex de la Iglesia's tense and stylish thriller. John Hurt stars in a film scripted by longtime de la Iglesia collaborator Jorge Guerricaechevarría.

Actors: Elijah Wood » John Hurt » Leonor Watling » Alan David » Anna Massey » Burn Gorman » Dominique Pinon »

Director: Alex de la Iglesia »

Movie category: Drama » Thriller »

A couple with a broken relationship learns some valuable lessons about love, life, and sacrifice in this romantic drama based on a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. It's 1925, and Dr. Walter Fane (Edward Norton) is a physician and bacteriologist who has become smitten with Kitty (Naomi Watts), the beautiful daughter of a wealthy and socially prominent family. Walter proposes marriage to Kitty and she accepts; however, while he clearly loves her, Kitty is more interested in her reputation than Walter's feelings, as she's recently turned 25, an age by which most of her peers have already wed. Kitty ...

Actors: Edward Norton » Naomi Watts » Liev Schreiber » Toby Jones » Catherine An » Diana Rigg » Li Bin » Alan » David » Marie-Laure Descoureaux » Wu Bin »

Director: John Curran »

Movie category: Action & Adventure » Drama »

One of the most popular stage musicals in the history of Broadway and London's West End makes its long-awaited arrival on the motion-picture screen in this lavish adaptation directed by Joel Schumacher. Christine (Emmy Rossum) is a beautiful and gifted young woman who longs to join the company of the Paris Opera House. During rehearsals for one of the opera's grand productions, a backdrop falls and crashes to the floor, nearly crushing leading lady Carlotta (Minnie Driver). When several members of the company suggest this could be the work of the "Phantom of the Opera," a spectral presence sai...

Actors: Miranda Richardson » Minnie Driver » Gerard Butler » Simon Callow » Emmy Rossum » Ciaran Hinds » Patrick Wilson » Victor McGuire » Jennifer Ellison » Murray Melvin »

Director: Joel Schumacher »

Movie category: Drama » Music films »

In German occupied Poland at the dawn of World War II, Oskar, a young German officer, and Rachel, the daughter of a Rabbi, fall in love. Forced apart by violent village massacres, they embark on a perilous journey to find one another. Pregnant, and resigned to the fact she will never be re-united with Oskar, Rachel marries Bernard, an honorable Jewish man who is willing to be the father in hopes of earning her love. At the dangerous Russian front line, where violent skirmishes herald a great battle ahead, a chance reunion between Rachel and Oskar leads to tragedy, hope and one man's ultimate s...

Actors: Kim Coates » Nina Dobrev » Roy Scheider » Daryl Hannah » Colm Feore » Jonathan Scarfe » Zachary Bennett » Lara Daans »

Director: Damian Lee »

Movie category: Drama » War » Lovestory »

Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes star in The Hours director Stephen Daldry's haunting period drama concerning the relationship between a 15-year-old German boy and a mysterious woman twice his age, and the way that it grows doubly complex when the man reencounters the woman years later and discovers a shocking truth about her past. Based on author Bernhard Schlink's best-selling novel of the same name, the film opens on the character of Michael Berg (Ralph Fiennes) in middle age -- cold, remote, and emotionally withdrawn. It then moves back in time to 1950s Berlin, where ailing teenager Michael ...

Actors: Kate Winslet » David Kross » Ralph Fiennes » Lena Olin » Bruno Ganz » Jeanette Hain » Susanne Lothar » Matthias Habich » Jürgen Tarrach » Hannah Herzsprung » Karoline Herfurth »

Director: Stephen Daldry »

Movie category: Drama » Lovestory »

Andy Dufresne is a young and successful banker whose life changes drastically when he is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife and her lover. Set in the 1940's, the film shows how Andy, with the help of his friend Red, the prison entrepreneur, turns out to be a most unconventional prisoner.

Actors: Morgan Freeman » Tim Robbins » Clancy Brown » Gil Bellows » William Sadler »

Director: Frank Darabont »

Movie category: Drama » Thriller »

The Tudors presents the rarely dramatized tumultuous early years of King Henry VIII s nearly 40 year omnipotent reign (1509-1547). In addition to his famous female consorts and 20+ year marriage to Catherine of Aragon to the infamous dalliance with Anne Boleyn the series delves in to Henry s most notable political relationship and the deconstruction of the Roman Catholic Church in England.

Actors: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers » Sam Neill » Jeremy Northam » Gabrielle Anwar » Callum Blue » Henry Cavill » Henry Czerny » Natalie Dormer »

Director: Steve Shill » Ciaran Donnelly » Brian Kirk » Alison Maclean » Charles McDougall »

Movie category: Drama » Lovestory »

The Tudors presents the rarely dramatized tumultuous early years of King Henry VIII s nearly 40 year omnipotent reign (1509-1547). In addition to his famous female consorts and 20+ year marriage to Catherine of Aragon to the infamous dalliance with Anne Boleyn the series delves in to Henry s most notable political relationship and the deconstruction of the Roman Catholic Church in England.

Actors: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers » Sam Neill » Jeremy Northam » Gabrielle Anwar » Callum Blue » Henry Cavill » Henry Czerny » Natalie Dormer »

Director: Steve Shill » Ciaran Donnelly » Brian Kirk » Alison Maclean » Charles McDougall »

Movie category: Drama » Lovestory »

The Tudors presents the rarely dramatized tumultuous early years of King Henry VIII s nearly 40 year omnipotent reign (1509-1547). In addition to his famous female consorts and 20+ year marriage to Catherine of Aragon to the infamous dalliance with Anne Boleyn the series delves in to Henry s most notable political relationship and the deconstruction of the Roman Catholic Church in England.

Actors: Jonathan Rhys-Meyers » Sam Neill » Jeremy Northam » Gabrielle Anwar » Callum Blue » Henry Cavill » Henry Czerny » Natalie Dormer »

Director: Steve Shill » Ciaran Donnelly » Brian Kirk » Alison Maclean » Charles McDougall »

Movie category: Drama » Lovestory »

Writer/director Jake Kasdan's showbiz comedy The TV Set stars David Duchovny as Mike Klein, a television producer who in the beginning of the film successfully sells a network on a story idea. The film follows Klein as he must actually put the show together, navigate the corporate minefield of the network, and figure out what aspects of his show he is willing to compromise. Sigourney Weaver plays the demanding president of the network, Justine Bateman plays Klein's wife, and Judy Greer plays his manager. The TV Set had its world premiere at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival.

Actors: David Duchovny » Sigourney Weaver » Ioan Gruffudd » Judy Greer » Fran Kranz » Lindsay Sloane » Justine Bateman » Lucy Davis »

Director: Jake Kasdan »

Movie category: Drama » Comedy »

With The Walker, Paul Schrader unofficially updates themes and tropes first explored by his controversial erotic thriller American Gigolo (1980). Woody Harrelson stars as Carter Page III, an overtly gay, Virginia senator's son, paid as an asexual escort of middle-aged women in the upper-crust circles of Washington, D.C. Carter's regular clients include three politicos' wives: Natalie Van Miter (Lauren Bacall), Abigail Delorean (Lily Tomlin), and Lynn Lockner (Kristin Scott Thomas), to whom Carter is closest - so close that he squires her, regularly, to sexual rendezvous with her lover, the lob...

Actors: Woody Harrelson » Willem Dafoe » Moritz Bleibtreu » Kristin Scott Thomas » Lily Tomlin » Lauren Bacall » Ned Beatty » William Hope »

Director: Paul Schrader »

Movie category: Drama » Thriller »

It's a heroic tale of three blood brothers and their struggle in the midst of war and political upheaval. It is based on "The Assassination of Ma," a Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) story about the killing of general Ma Xinyi. The story was filmed by Zhang Che in 1973 as The Blood Brothers.

Actors: Jet Li » Takeshi Kaneshiro » Andy Lau » Jinglei Xu » Yachao Wang » Guo Xiao Dong » Jacky Heung » Wei Zong Wan »

Director: Peter Chan »

Movie category: Drama » War »