2024-10-06
This drama is based on the true story of Sir Nicholas Winton and his heroic deeds during World War II. As a young British broker, he traveled to Prague in 1938, three months after the war broke out. He found destitute Jews who fled Nazi persecution in Austria and Germany. Families were willing to send their children away before the borders closed. Nicholas helps them ship the children out. But in
Riveting docudrama about millionaire John du Pont and his relationship with brothers Dave and Mark Schultz, Olympic wrestlers who train at his estate. Mark initially idolizes du Pont, but slowly realizes the depths of his benefactor's madness. (Repeat).
An English professor borrows money from a vicious gangster in an attempt to pay off his gambling debts in this poignant psychological drama. At the same time, he must contend with his disappointed mother and his affair with a precocious student. (Repeat).
In this raucous action-movie spoof, actors (including Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr. and Jack Black) are on location in the jungle playing Vietnam War soldiers when they run afoul of real-life drug traders. Stiller co-wrote the screenplay and also directed. Nick Nolte, Tom Cruise, Matthew McConaughey, Steve Coogan. (Repeat).
A former slave-turned-hired gun teams up with a German bounty hunter in order to free his wife from a tyrannical plantation owner. However, their mission is complicated by the plantation's traitorous house slave. (Repeat).
A shady Brooklyn nightclub owner clashes with his police-chief father and cop brother in 1988 in this riveting crime thriller starring Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg and Robert Duvall. Written and directed by James Gray. (Repeat).
An English professor borrows money from a vicious gangster in an attempt to pay off his gambling debts in this poignant psychological drama. At the same time, he must contend with his disappointed mother and his affair with a precocious student. (Repeat).
Director Sidney Lumet, at age 83, proves that he still has what it takes to enthrall an audience. This riveting crime thriller follows financially strapped brothers (Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke) whose foolproof jewelry-store heist goes awry in tragic ways that leave two people dead. Albert Finney is superb as the siblings' father, and owner of the targeted shop. The film's title comes from
Riveting docudrama about millionaire John du Pont and his relationship with brothers Dave and Mark Schultz, Olympic wrestlers who train at his estate. Mark initially idolizes du Pont, but slowly realizes the depths of his benefactor's madness. (Repeat).
Harrowing and inspiring account of two New York City Port Authority policemen who became trapped under the rubble of the Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001, after they volunteered to go in and rescue others. (Repeat).
This spirited semiautobiography rocks! Writer-director Cameron Crowe, who wrote for Rolling Stone as a 15-year-old, charts a teen's coming of age around the Age of Aquarius. Patrick Fugit is wonderful as the young incarnation of Crowe, who learns all about life, love, sex, drugs and especially rock and roll while touring with a rising band. Kate Hudson, Billy Crudup, Frances McDormand. (Repeat).
In this inventive sci-fi film set in a society where the population is segregated by personality, a teenager classified as "divergent" uncovers a plot to kill everyone in her category and races to find out why they are considered so uniquely dangerous. (Repeat).