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2010Movie113 min

HDR

2010 6.6 113 min

Country: UK

A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.

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2007Movie105 min

Borderland

HDR

2007 5.3 105 min

Country: Mexico

Genre: Crime, Horror

Three college students, Phil, Ed, and Henry take a road trip into Mexico for a week of drinking and carefree fun only to have Phil find himself a captive of a group of satanic Mexican ...

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2004Movie95 min

The Clearing

HDR

2004 5.8 95 min

Country: Germany

Genre: Drama, Mystery

When affluent executive Wayne Hayes is kidnapped by a disgruntled employee and held for ransom in a forest, Wayne’s wife is forced to reckon with the FBI agents as they negotiate with ...

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2003Movie112 min

Soldier’s Girl

HDR

2003 7 112 min

Country: USA

Genre: Crime, Drama

This true story, which takes place in Fort Campbell, KY, tells the heart-wrenching story of the life and tragic death of soldier Barry Winchell. His love for Calpernia Addams, a ...

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2001Movie185 min

The Legend of Suriyothai

HDNR

2001 5.5 185 min

Country: Thailand

Genre: Action, Drama

During the 16th century, as Thailand contends with both a civil war and Burmese invasion, a beautiful princess rises up to help protect the glory of the Kingdom of Ayothaya. Based on ...

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1999Movie102 min

Excellent Cadavers

HDNR

1999 6 102 min

Country: Italy

Genre: Crime, Drama

Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former mobster, to defeat the clan of Corleone, the ruthless Mafia faction that rules Cosa ...

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1996Movie103 min

I Shot Andy Warhol

HDR

1996 6.2 103 min

Country: UK

Genre: Drama

Based on the true story of Valerie Solanas who was a 1960s radical preaching hatred toward men in her "Scum" manifesto. She wrote a screenplay for a film that she wanted Andy Warhol to ...

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2010Movie120 min

71: Into the Fire

HDNR

2010 7.5 120 min

Country: South Korea

Genre: War

In August 1950, waiting for UN troops to arrive, the South Korean army assembled to protect Nakdong River. Only 71 student-soldiers are left behind to guard the city of Pohang. Now they ...

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2006Movie117 min

Amazing Grace

HDPG

2006 6.9 117 min

Country: USA

Genre: Drama

The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along the way, Wilberforce meets intense opposition, but his minister urges him to see the ...

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2005Movie95 min

Saint Ralph

HDNR

2005 6.8 95 min

Country: Canada

Genre: Comedy, Drama

This Canadian made comedy/drama, set in Hamilton, Ontario in 1954, is a sweet and - at times - goofy story that becomes increasingly poignant as the minutes tick by. It's the fictional ...

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2001Movie92 min

The Lost Battalion

HDNR

2001 6.7 92 min

Country: USA

Genre: Drama, History

Fact-based war drama about an American battalion of over 500 men which gets trapped behind enemy lines in the Argonne Forest in October 1918 France during the closing weeks of World War I.

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2000Movie93 min

Britannic

HDNR

2000 6.8 93 min

Country: USA

Genre: Action, Drama

It was the sister ship of the infamous Titanic... and its final destiny was the same. Experience the true untold story of Britannic, a tumultuous, epic voyage of human passion, courage ...

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1999Movie124 min

Music of the Heart

HDPG

1999 6.7 124 min

Country: USA

Genre: Drama, Music

Story of a schoolteacher's struggle to teach violin to inner-city Harlem kids.

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1998Movie122 min

The Newton Boys

HDPG-13

1998 6.1 122 min

Country: USA

Genre: Action, Crime

The four Newton brothers are a poor farmer family in the 1920s. One day, the oldest of them, Willis, realizes that there's no future in the fields and offers his brothers to become bank ...

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1999Movie95 min

In Too Deep

HDR

1999 6.4 95 min

Country: USA

Genre: Action, Crime

Drug lord Dwayne Gittens rules Cincinnati with an iron fist. No wonder he's known as "God" on the streets. Determined to break Gittens' stranglehold on the city is undercover cop ...

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1997Movie112 min

The Truce

HDNR

1997 6.1 112 min

Country: France

Genre: Drama, History

After the liberation of Auschwitz, an Italian prisoner of War begins a torturous voyage home to Turin, through a Europe caught between war and peace.

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1993Movie92 min

I Can Make You Love Me

HDNR

1993 6.5 92 min

Country: USA

Genre: Horror, Thriller

A beautiful young computer technician starting off her career in Silicon Valley during the Eighties, is stalked and harassed by a nerdy, dangerous and mentally-unstable colleague with a ...

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2002Movie104 min

Auto Focus

HDR

2002 6.3 104 min

Country: USA

Genre: Crime, Drama

A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona as a sex addict who records and ...

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2001Movie95 min

Prozac Nation

HDR

2001 6.3 95 min

Country: Canada

Genre: Drama, Romance

When talented young writer Elizabeth Wurtzel earns a scholarship to Harvard, she sees it as her chance to escape the pressures of her working-class background and concentrate on her ...

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1995Movie106 min

Something to Talk About

HDR

1995 5.6 106 min

Country: USA

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Grace King Bichon, who is managing her father's riding-stable, discovers that her husband Eddie is deceiving her with another woman. After confronting him in the middle of the night on ...

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1994Movie107 min

The Madness of King George

HDPG-13

1994 6.7 107 min

Country: UK

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of confusion and near-violent outbursts of ...

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1991Movie102 min

HDR

1991 5.6 102 min

Country: Japan

Genre: Action, Adventure

They call it the savage mountain. 27 people have perished trying to reach the summit on K2, the world's second highest peak. A U.S. climbing team, funded by millionaire Clairborne is ...

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1999Movie98 min

The Trench

HDNR

1999 5.4 98 min

Country: France

Genre: History, War

The Trench tells the story of a group of young British soldiers on the eve of the Battle of the Somme in the summer of 1916, the worst defeat in British military history. Against this ...

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1990Movie115 min

The Krays

HDR

1990 6.0 115 min

Country: UK

Genre: Crime, Drama

The Krays is a film based on the lives and crimes of the British gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray, twins who are often referred to as The Krays and were active in London in the 1960s.

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1990Movie112 min

White Hunter, Black Heart

HDPG

1990 6.3 112 min

Country: USA

Genre: Adventure, Drama

Renowned filmmaker John Wilson travels to Africa to direct a new movie, but constantly leaves to hunt elephants and other game, to the dismay of his cast and crew. He eventually becomes ...

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1992Movie121 min

Newsies

HDPG

1992 6.7 121 min

Country: USA

Genre: Drama, Family

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When their publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, tries to squeeze a little more profit out of their ...

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1990Movie94 min

I Love You to Death

HDR

1990 6.3 94 min

Country: USA

Genre: Comedy, Crime

Joey Boca is the owner of a pizza parlour, and has been married to Rosalie for years. When Rosalie discovers that Joey is a womanizer and has been cheating on her for a long time, she ...

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2012Movie90 min

Bad Ass

HDR

2012 5.8 90 min

Country: USA

Genre: Action, Drama

Decorated Vietnam hero, Frank Vega returns home only to get shunned by society leaving him without a job or his high school sweetheart. It's not until forty years later when an incident ...

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