When New York attorney Gordon Hocheiser meets Louise Callan, the girl of his dreams, he schemes to eliminate his aging, senile mother, even though he promised his late father that he'd always take care of her. He fears that his batty mom's eccentricities will shortly lead to Louise's departure.

Sacrifice

2016

English

5.3

♡ 52

29%

27%

Action

based on novel or book

Peter A. Dowling Director

Ian McElhinney as D.I. McKie

Radha Mitchell as Dr. Tora Hamilton

Peter Vollebregt as Kenn Wickliff

Joanne Crawford as Sgt. Dana Tulloch

Sacrifice is the story of consultant surgeon, Tora Hamilton, who moves with her husband, Duncan, to the remote Shetland Islands, 100 miles off the north-east coast of Scotland. Deep in the peat soil around her new home, Tora discovers the body of a young woman with rune marks carved into her skin and a gaping hole where her heart once beat. Ignoring warnings to leave well alone, Tora uncovers terrifying links to a legend that might never have been confined to the pages of the story-books.

The Great Gilly Hopkins

2015

English

6.5

♡ 81

65%

70%

Action

based on novel or book

Stephen Herek Director

Dann Fink as Additional Voices

Julia Stiles as Courtney Rutherford Hopkins

Billy Magnussen as Ellis

Glenn Close as Nonnie Hopkins

Young and feisty Gilly Hopkins devises a scheme to escape from her new foster home and reunite with her birth mother.

A Kind of Murder

2016

English

5.3

♡ 83

35%

18%

Action

architect

based on novel or book

Andy Goddard Director

Jessica Biel as Clara Stackhouse

Haley Bennett as Ellie

Eddie Marsan as Kimmel

Patrick Wilson as Walter Stackhouse

In 1960s New York, Walter Stackhouse is a rich, successful architect and unhappily married to the beautiful but damaged Clara. His desire to be free of her feeds his obsession with Kimmel, a man suspected of brutally murdering his own wife. When Walter and Kimmel's lives become dangerously intertwined, a ruthless police detective becomes convinced he has found the murderer. But as the lines blur between innocence and intent, who, in fact, is the real killer?

Barry Munday

2010

English

5.8

♡ 23

47%

37%

Action

based on novel or book

Chris D'Arienzo Director

Patrick Wilson as Barry Munday

Marcelo Tubert as Dr. Shriver

Judy Greer as Ginger Farley

Colin Hanks as Heavy Metal Greg

Barry Munday, a libido-driven wage slave who spends all his time either ogling, fantasizing about or trying to pick up women, wakes up in hospital after a freak attack only to find that his testicles have been removed.

All We Had

2016

English

6.0

♡ 18

40%

49%

Action

based on novel or book

Drama

mother daughter relationship

poverty

woman director

Katie Holmes Director

Michael Cavadias as Doctor

Luke Wilson as Lee

Judy Greer as Patti

Katie Holmes as Rita Carmichael

A mother struggles to make a better life for her daughter.

The Sea Shall Not Have Them

1954

English

6.3

♡ 8

Action

based on novel or book

Lewis Gilbert Director

James Kenney as Cpl. Skinner

Nigel Patrick as Flight Sgt. Singsby

Jack Watling as Flying Officer Harding

Joan Sims as Hilda Tebbitt

During the autumn of 1944, RAF Hudson, carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information, is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and trying to keep up morale, the occupants of the aircraft's dinghy talk about their lives awaiting the rescue they hope will come. The film's title reflects the motto of the RAF's Air Sea Rescue Service, one of whose high speed launches battles against its own mechanical problems, enemy action, time and the weather to locate and rescue the downed crew and the vital secret papers they carry.

Dragonwyck

1946

English

6.9

♡ 12

67%

70%

Action

based on novel or book

Joseph L. Mankiewicz Director

Trevor Bardette as Farmer

Addison Richards as Head Farmer

Vincent Price as Nicholas Van Ryn

Walter Baldwin as Tom Wilson - Farmer

For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas, seems like a dream. However, the situation gradually becomes nightmarish. She observes Nicholas' troubled relationship with his tenant farmers, as well as with his daughter, to whom Miranda serves as governess. Her relationship with Nicholas intensifies after his wife dies, but his mental imbalance threatens any hope of happiness.

Zorba the Greek

1964

Greek

7.6

♡ 34

79%

86%

Action

based on novel or book

Mihalis Kakogiannis Director

Anthony Quinn as Alexis Zorba

Alan Bates as Basil

Takis Emmanuel as Manolakas

Anna Kyriakou as Soul

An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.

Hopscotch

1980

English

7.1

♡ 22

80%

78%

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

central intelligence agency (cia)

Ronald Neame Director

Sam Waterston as Cutter

Glenda Jackson as Isobel

Joe Dorsey as Security Guard

George Baker as Westlake

When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to retire him. Kendig beats him to it, however, destroying his own records and traveling to Austria where he begins work on a memoir that will expose all his former agency's covert practices. The CIA catches wind of the book and sends other agents after him, initiating a frenetic game of cat and mouse that spans the globe.

The Wizard of Lies

2017

English

6.8

♡ 162

73%

64%

Action

based on novel or book

Barry Levinson Director

Kelly AuCoin as Agent Cacioppi

Robert De Niro as Bernie Madoff

Tom Brokaw as Himself

Michelle Pfeiffer as Ruth Madoff

A look behind the scenes at Bernie Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme, how it was perpetrated on the public and the trail of destruction it left in its wake, both for the victims and Madoff's family.

White Palace

1990

English

6.5

♡ 43

50%

63%

Action

advertising executive

based on novel or book

Drama

love

older woman younger man relationship

passion

Romance

waitress

Luis Mandoki Director

Jeremy Piven as Kahn

Jonathan Penner as Marv Miller

James Spader as Max Baron

Susan Sarandon as Nora Baker

Max Baron is a Jewish advertising executive in his 20s who's still getting over the death of his wife. Nora Baker is a 40-something diner waitress who enjoys the wilder side of life. Mismatched or not, their attraction is instant and smoldering. With time, however, their class and age differences become an obstacle in their relationship, especially since Max can't keep Nora a secret from his Jewish friends and upper-crust associates forever.

Lady Macbeth

2016

English

6.8

♡ 104

89%

71%

Action

arranged marriage

based on novel or book

William Oldroyd Director

Christopher Fairbank as Boris

Bill Fellows as Dr. Burdon

Florence Pugh as Katherine

Cosmo Jarvis as Sebastian

Rural England, 1865. Katherine, suffocated by her loveless marriage to a bitter man and restrained by his father's tyranny, unleashes an irresistible force within her, so powerful that she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.

Captain from Castile

1947

English

6.8

♡ 6

62%

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

Henry King Director

Thomas Gomez as Father Bartolome Romero

Lee J. Cobb as Juan Garcia

Alan Mowbray as Prof. Botello

Robert Adler as Reyes

Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition. Forced to flee, Pedro, friend Juan Garcia, and adoring servant girl Catana join Cortez' first expedition to Mexico. Arriving in the rich new land, Cortez decides to switch from exploration to conquest...with only 500 men. Embroiled in continuous adventures and a romantic interlude, Pedro almost forgets he has a deadly enemy...

The Eternal Road

2017

Finnish

7.0

♡ 30

60%

Action

based on novel or book

Antti-Jussi Annila Director

Tommi Korpela as Jussi Ketola

Amalia Holm as Kathy

Sidse Babett Knudsen as Sara

Irina Björklund as Sofia

Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road towards a foreign Soviet Russia, where cruelty seems to know no end, his only dream is to return to his family cost it what it may. Hope dies last.

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk

2016

English

6.2

♡ 136

44%

41%

Action

american football

based on novel or book

Drama

post traumatic stress disorder

post-traumatic stress disorder

post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)

Ang Lee Director

Beau Knapp as Crack

Garrett Hedlund as Dime

Kristen Stewart as Kathryn

Vin Diesel as Shroom

19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad – contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.

The Monkey King 2

2016

Chinese

5.9

♡ 54

100%

based on novel or book

Soi Cheang Director Li Gong

Li Gong as Baigujing / White-Boned Demon Lu Wei

Lu Wei as Evil spirit snake

Kelly Chen as Guanyin

Aaron Kwok as Sun Wukong / Monkey King

Taking place 500 years after the Havoc in Heaven, the Tang Priest is appointed by Buddha to go to the West to fetch the sacred scriptures, only to accidentally free the Monkey King. With Lady White aiming to break up the team assembled to defeat her, the Monkey King must fight in order to save his world!

The Left Hand of God

1955

English

6.4

♡ 8

48%

Action

based on novel or book

Edward Dmytryk Director

Agnes Moorehead as Beryl Sigman

Philip Ahn as Jan Teng

Victor Sen Yung as John Wong

Lee J. Cobb as Mieh Yang

A man in priestly robes, seemingly the long-awaited Father O'Shea, arrives at a little-frequented Catholic mission in 1947 China. Though the man seems curiously uncomfortable with his priestly duties, his tough tactics prove very successful in the Seven Villages, as around them China disintegrates in civil war and revolution. But he has a secret, and his friendship with mission nurse Anne (an attractive war widow) seems to be taking on an unpriestly tone.

Dear Etranger

2017

Japanese

7.0

♡ 9

Action

based on novel or book

Yukiko Mishima Director

Shinobu Terajima as

Tadanobu Asano as

Shingo Mizusawa as

Kankurô Kudô as

Makoto Tanaka is 40-years-old and has remarried. His wife is Nanae and they care for 2 daughters from Nanae's prior marriage. Makoto tries to have an ordinary family. Nanae then becomes pregnant. Afterwards, things begin to change among the family members.