2024-09-20
In this millennial screwball comedy, a mousy college freshman living on her own in New York City meets Brooke, her stepsister-to-be, and is soon entranced by her worldliness and flummoxed by her impulsive nature.
Teenager Daniel spends a summer in Cape Cod. He gets into the drug-dealing business, but gets romantically involved with his business partner's sister at the same time. During a summer that is filled with parties and arcades, tensions rise during an incoming hurricane.
Searing docudrama about whistle-blower Edward Snowden, who decided to leak classified information from the NSA in order to expose a massive, covert surveillance program orchestrated by the U.S. government. The film traces Snowden's career in both the NSA and CIA as he becomes disillusioned with his work and receives support from his idealistic girlfriend.
The staff and visitors of the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel struggle to deal with the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Over the course of a few days, they try to survive an encounter with Pakistani terrorists who are each armed with high-end weapons and explosives.
In this arresting drama, an ambitious young doctor who's eager to impress his colleagues treats an 18-year-old patient with a kidney infection. Before long, his enthusiasm becomes something closer to an obsession.
When a team of hijackers take over an airplane in an attempt to steal a stash of diamonds, two passengers—an FBI agent and an expert thief—work together to foil their plot in this white-knuckle action thriller.
This heartrending and provocative drama from director Nick Cassavetes focuses on a couple who need a bone-marrow donor for their gravely ill daughter. Desperate, they conceive another child to provide a genetic match. But moral and ethical dilemmas chip away at the foundation of their once-happy relationship, while their second daughter resents the reason for her conception.
A dysfunctional young woman working as Santa's elf at a year-round Christmas store in London finds her life taking an unexpectedly optimistic turn after becoming romantically entangled with a handsome and mysterious stranger over the holiday season.
In this amusing sex romp, a womanizing poetry professor tries to get his life together as he deals with a domineering father, apathetic pupils and his relationships with a cute grad student and her older sister.
A driven police detective and his partner track down a major international drug dealer. They begin by following a couple they suspect because the duo lives far above their apparent means. They continue to follow a trail of clues that leads to a French criminal responsible for a large percentage of the drugs that come into New York City. Best Picture winner.
Gene Hackman repeats his Oscar-winning detective role in this sequel about tracking a heroin czar in Marseilles. Directed on location by John Frankenheimer. Charnier: Fernando Rey. Barthelemy: Bernard Fresson. Diron: Jean-Pierre Castaldi. Miletto: Charles Millot. Old Lady: Cathleen Nesbitt.
Ben Kingsley earned an Oscar nomination for his work in this compelling drama. He plays an Iranian-American who buys a seaside cottage at auction. Jennifer Connelly is the house's irate former owner, who feels the county took her property away unjustly. Best Supporting Actress nominee Shohreh Aghdashloo plays Kingsley's wife. Ron Eldard, Frances Fisher, Jonathan Ahdout.
This quirky thriller follows Mark Whitacre, who discovers that his company is involved in price-fixing and turns informant for the FBI. Convinced he'll be a hero, he wears a wire to gather the evidence needed to convict his bosses. Unfortunately, both the case and Whitacre's integrity are compromised when FBI agents discover that he isn't the saintly figure he made himself out to be.