An engineer with the US Army Corps is sent to New Orleans after the hurricane the assess the damage. Bizarre happenings and disappearances lead her down a path of political deceit and voodoo.

A Fortunate Man

2018

Danish

7.2

♡ 12

86%

77%

19th century

ambition

based on novel or book

Bille August Director

Esben Smed as Lykke-Per

Paul Hüttel as Oberst Bjerregrav

Jesper Ole Feit Andersen as Vagt 1, fængselsvæsnet

Laura Kjær as YMCA Lady

A gifted engineer flees his austere roots to pursue wealth and success among Copenhagen's elite. As he rises through the ranks of society, the pride propelling him threatens to be his ruin.

Box of Moonlight

1996

English

7.1

♡ 7

59%

Tom DiCillo Director

John Turturro as Al Fountain

Catherine Keener as Floatie Dupre

Sam Rockwell as The Kid

Dermot Mulroney as Wick

Al Fountain, a middle-aged electrical engineer, is on the verge of a mid-life crisis, when he decides to take his time coming home from a business trip, rents a car, and heads out looking for a lake he remembers from his childhood. But his wandering takes him into the life of Kid, a free-spirited young man who helps Al escape from the routine of everyday life and find freedom to enjoy himself.

Tokyo Gore Police

2008

Japanese

5.9

♡ 27

80%

Yoshihiro Nishimura Director

Sion Sono as

Norman England as Bar Patron

Itsuji Itao as Key Man & His Father

Shôko Nakahara as Prostitute Club Owner

In future Tokyo, a young woman in the privatized police force tracks down her father's killer while battling against mutant rebels known as engineers.

Possessed

1947

English

7.1

♡ 6

82%

Curtis Bernhardt Director

Douglas Kennedy as Asst. District Attorney

Geraldine Brooks as Carol Graham

William A. Boardway as Concert Spectator

Rory Mallinson as Coroner's Asst.

After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.

Western Union

1941

English

6.7

♡ 14

75%

Fritz Lang Director

Irving Bacon as Barber

Addison Richards as Captain Harlow

Chief John Big Tree as Chief Spotted Horse

Barton MacLane as Jack Slade

When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2000.

The Winning of Barbara Worth

1926

English

6.9

♡ 6

36%

Henry King Director

Gary Cooper as Abe Lee

E.J. Ratcliffe as James Greenfield

Bill Patton as Little Rosebud

Glen Walters as Tall Flirty Woman at Dance

While building an irrigation system for a Southwestern desert community, an engineer vies with a local cowboy for the affections of a rancher's daughter.

The Dead

2010

English

5.7

♡ 25

74%

Howard J. Ford Director

Howard J. Ford as Dying Mercenary on Beach

John Reilly as Excecutive on Plane

Rob Freeman as Lieutenant Brian Murphy

Jonathan Ford as Shotgun Mercenary

When the last evacuation flight out of war-torn Africa crashes off the coast, American Air Force Engineer Lieutenant Brian Murphy emerges as the sole survivor in a land where the dead are returning to life and attacking the living.

The Space Race

2023

English

6.7

♡ 5

88%

Lisa Cortes Director

Ralph Abernathy as Self

Nichelle Nichols as Self

Octavia Butler as Self

Victor Glover as Self

Uncover the little-known stories of the first Black pilots, engineers and scientists seeking to break the bonds of social injustice to reach for the stars, including Guion Bluford, Ed Dwight and Charles Bolden among many others.

My Night at Maud's

1969

French

7.8

♡ 17

96%

Éric Rohmer Director

Marie-Christine Barrault as Françoise

Jean-Louis Trintignant as Jean-Louis

Françoise Fabian as Maud

Marie-Claude Rauzier as Student

The Catholic Jean-Louis runs into an old friend, the Marxist Vidal, in Clermont-Ferrand around Christmas. Vidal introduces Jean-Louis to the modestly libertine, recently divorced Maud and the three engage in conversation on religion, atheism, love, morality and Blaise Pascal's life and writings on philosophy, faith and mathematics. Jean-Louis ends up spending a night at Maud's. Jean-Louis' Catholic views on marriage, fidelity and obligation make his situation a dilemma, as he has already, at the very beginning of the film, proclaimed his love for a young woman whom, however, he has never yet spoken to.

Paycheck

2003

English

6.3

♡ 79

27%

John Woo Director

Emily Holmes as Betsy - Salesgirl

Ben Affleck as Jennings

Ivana Milicevic as Maya-Rachel

Uma Thurman as Rachel

Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a three-year job, he's told he isn't getting a paycheck and instead receives a mysterious envelope. In it are clues he must piece together to find out why he wasn't paid – and why he's now in hot water.