Jodie Foster
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Maverick: Comedy about a handsome gambler, a charming lady scam artist and a lawman, all headed for a poker tournament held on a river boat with a $500,000 pot for the winner.
Wild wild West: Special government agents James West and Artemus Gordon team-up to stop legless Dr. Arliss Loveless and his diabolical plot for a disunited States of America.
2) Inside man
Pub. Date
2006.
Appears on list
Description
NYPD Detective Keith Frazier struggles to outsmart Dalton, a high-stakes bank robber who, along with a well-trained crew of accomplices, has seized control of a Wall Street bank. The robbers turn what initially looks like a hostage crisis into a personal crusade to expose some mysterious evil secrets. As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, Madaline, a power broker with her own agenda, emerges and injects even more instability into an already...
3) Elysium
Pub. Date
2013
Description
In the year 2154 two groups of people remain; the extremely wealthy who reside on an immaculate man-made space station named Elysium, and the rest, who occupy an overpopulated, destroyed Earth. Max decides to embark on a mission that could bring equality to the opposed worlds.
5) Nim's Island
Pub. Date
[2008]
Formats
Description
Nim Rusoe lives on a deserted island with her scientist father, Jack, and her best friends : Selkie, a sea lion ; Fred, a bearded dragon lizard ; and Galileo, a plucky pelican. When the island is 'invaded', Nim reaches out to the author of her favorite books.
6) Flightplan
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
Flying at 40,000 feet in a cavernous, state-of-the-art 474 aircraft that she designed, Kyle Pratt faces every mother's worst nightmare when her six year-old daughter, Julia, vanishes without a trace mid-flight from Berlin to New York. Already emotionally devastasted by the unexpected death of her husband, Kyle desperately struggles to prove her sanity to the disbelieving flight crew, pilot, and passengers while facing the very real possiblity that...
7) Flightplan
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Flying at 40,000 feet in a cavernous, state-of-the-art 474 aircraft that she designed, Kyle Pratt faces every mother's worst nightmare when her six year-old daughter, Julia, vanishes without a trace mid-flight from Berlin to New York. Already emotionally devastated by the unexpected death of her husband, Kyle desperately struggles to prove her sanity to the disbelieving flight crew, pilot, and passengers while facing the very real possibility that...
Pub. Date
2014
Formats
Description
Brooklynite Piper Chapman, whose wild past comes back to haunt her and results in her arrest and detention in a federal penitentiary. To pay her debt to society, Piper trades her comfortable New York life for an orange prison jumpsuit and finds unexpected conflict and camaraderie amidst an eccentric group of inmates.
10) Money monster
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
In the real-time high stakes thriller, financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty, are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor who has lost everything forcefully takes over their studio. During a tense standoff broadcast to millions on live TV, Lee and Patty must work furiously against the clock to unravel the mystery behind a conspiracy at the heart of today's fast-paced, high-tech global markets.
11) Hotel Artemis
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Set in riot-torn, near-future Los Angeles, a nurse operates a secret, members-only emergency room for criminals.
12) The Mauritanian
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
The true story of Slahi's fight for freedom after being detained and imprisoned without charge by the U.S. Government for years. Alone and afraid, Slahi finds allies in defense attorney Nancy Hollander and her associate Teri Duncan who battle the U.S. government in a fight for justice that tests their commitment to the law and their client at every turn. Their controversial advocacy, along with evidence uncovered by a formidable military prosecutor,...
13) Contact
Pub. Date
[1997]
Formats
Description
After an astronomer discovers communication emanating from the star Vega, she leads an international team in deciphering it, and travels through space to contact the senders of the message.
14) Sommersby
Pub. Date
c1993
Description
A Civil War veteran returns to his hometown a changed man-- leading his wife and others who knew him to doubt his identity.
15) Mesmerized
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
A young orphan's arranged marriage to a deranged, possessive businessman becomes so unbearable that she attempts to free herself of the relationship and, when her husband dies, is charged with his murder. Based on a true story.
17) Panic Room
Description
A divorced woman and her little daughter buy a house to begin their new life together. What they think is a dream house soon becomes anything but when thieves break in shortly after they move in. But, mother and daughter make it to the steel-reinforced panic room and what they think is protection from the would be thieves. As it turns out, what they're after is in that room and they're not leaving without it.
Description
A true epic story about a woman who challenged the heart of a king and inspired the destiny of a nation. English school teacher Anna Leonowens has traveled to Siam to educate the fifty-eight children of King Mongkut. If she has preconceived notions about the East, the King has similar notions about the West. But amid the danger of growing political unrest, their respect for each other slowly turns into something more.
19) The Brave One
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
New York City radio host Erica Bain is working and living a wonderful life. One night she and her fiancé, David, are brutally attacked. David is killed and Erica is almost beaten to death. Erica is traumatized and in order to cope and work past the tragic event, Erica becomes someone else. She buys a gun and begins to roam the streets at night looking to take her revenge on the men who were responsible for the attack. Late one night, Erica is in...
20) Taxi Driver
Pub. Date
2007
Description
A disturbed New York City cab driver turns to vigilante violence when he fails to connect with society.