Soundtrack: Mark Isham

Direction Paul Haggis

Cast Sandra Bullock · Don Cheadle · Matt Dillon · Jennifer Esposito

Synopsis Crash (2004) weaves together multiple interconnected stories in Los Angeles, exploring themes of racism, prejudice, and human connection. Over 36 hours, a diverse group of strangers—including cops, criminals, wealthy elites, and immigrants—collide in unexpected ways. Their lives intersect through tense,...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Madeleine Stowe · Julianne Moore · Jennifer Jason Leigh · Tim Robbins

Synopsis Short Cuts (1993) weaves together the intersecting lives of 22 Los Angeles residents over a few days, blending humor, tragedy, and mundane reality. Directed by Robert Altman, the film explores themes of love, infidelity, mortality, and chance encounters. From a...

Direction David Frankel · Michael Grossman · Jon Turteltaub

Cast Nick Searcy · Lane Smith · David Andrews · Daniel Hugh Kelly

Synopsis A 12-episode miniseries based on Andrew Chaikin's book. It tells the story of the Apollo expeditions to the Moon during the 60s and 70s.

Direction Gavin O'Connor

Cast Joel Edgerton · Tom Hardy · Nick Nolte · Jennifer Morrison

Synopsis The youngest son (Hardy) of an alcoholic former boxer (Nolte) returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament -- a path that puts the fighter on a collision corner with his older...

Direction John Ridley · Clement Virgo · Gregg Araki · Julie Hébert

Cast Felicity Huffman · Timothy Hutton · Regina King · Lili Taylor

Synopsis It takes place in Indianapolis, Indiana, where a public high school student accuses several members of a private school's championship basketball team of sexually assaulting him and then taking photos of the incident and posting them online.

Direction Rob Epstein

Synopsis The development of political activism on the part of San Francisco homosexuals is the underlying subject of this documentary, which chronicles the political life and assassination of San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk, who was killed by colleague Dan White on...

Direction Paul Haggis · Robert Moresco · Kevin Bray · Anthony Hemingway

Cast Tom Guiry · Michael Stahl-David · Jonathan Tucker · Billy Lush

Synopsis Four very different Irish-American brothers - Kevin, Jimmy, Tommy and Sean - have sworn to live by the code of "family first." But as they become increasingly involved in the ruthless world of New York organized crime, their loyalties to...

Direction George Tillman Jr.

Cast Skylan Brooks · Ethan Dizon · Jordin Sparks · Jeffrey Wright

Synopsis During a sweltering summer in New York City, 14-year-old Mister’s hard-living mother is apprehended by the police, leaving the boy and nine-year-old Pete alone to forage for food while dodging child protective services and the destructive scenarios of the Brooklyn...

Direction George Tillman Jr.

Cast Robert De Niro · Cuba Gooding Jr. · Charlize Theron · Michael Rapaport

Synopsis Men of Honor (2000) tells the inspiring true story of Carl Brashear, the first African American to become a U.S. Navy Master Diver. Facing relentless racial prejudice and physical challenges, Brashear's unwavering determination and resilience drive him to overcome immense...

Direction Ericson Core

Cast Willem Dafoe · Julianne Nicholson · Christopher Heyerdahl · Richard Dormer

Synopsis The story of the sled dog, Togo, who led the 1925 serum run, but was considered by most to be too small and weak to lead such an intense race.

Direction Robert Redford

Cast Ralph Fiennes · Rob Morrow · John Turturro · Paul Scofield

Synopsis This acclaimed drama, directed by Robert Redford, tells the true story behind the quiz show scandal of 1959. Herbert Stempel (John Turturro), a disgruntled former champion, prompts a congressional investigation into the popular game show TWENTY-ONE with his charge that...

Direction Joe Johnston

Cast Jake Gyllenhaal · Laura Dern · Chris Cooper · Natalie Canerday

Synopsis In a 1950's mining town called Coalwood, Homer Hickam is a kid with only one future in sight, to work in the local coal mine like his father. However in October 1957, everything changes when the first artificial satellite, Sputnik...

Direction John Ridley · Gloria Muzio · Joshua Marston · Hanelle M. Culpepper

Cast Felicity Huffman · Timothy Hutton · Regina King · Lili Taylor

Synopsis TV Series (2015-2017). 3 Seasons. 29 Episodes. A crime tv series with same actors (Felicity Hoffman, Timothy Hutton, Regina King, Lili Taylor) but different characters. In the first season, a young couple in Modesto, California, were attacked in their home....

Direction Gary Sinise

Cast John Malkovich · Gary Sinise · Ray Walston · Casey Siemaszko

Synopsis Based on John Steinbeck's 1937 classic tale of two travelling companions, George and Lennie, who wander the country during the Depression, dreaming of a better life for themselves. Then, just as heaven is within their grasp, it is inevitably yanked...

Direction Howard Franklin

Cast Joe Pesci · Barbara Hershey · Richard Riehle · Bryan Travis Smith

Synopsis Leon Bernstein is New York's best news photographer in 1942, equally at home with cops or crooks. The pictures are often of death and pain, but they are the ones the others wish they had got. Then glamorous Kay Levitz...

Direction Carroll Ballard

Cast Charles Martin Smith · Brian Dennehy · Zachary Ittimangnaq · Martha Ittimangnaq

Synopsis Carroll Ballard follows up his beloved THE BLACK STALLION with NEVER CRY WOLF, another inspiring adventure story that deals with the all-important concept of man versus nature. The film opens as the government dispatches Tyler (Charles Martin Smith), a solitary...

Direction John Ridley · Clement Virgo · Gregg Araki · Julie Hébert

Cast Felicity Huffman · Timothy Hutton · Regina King · Lili Taylor

Synopsis TV Series (2017). 8 Episodes. When a father, Luis Salazar, travels illegally from Mexico into the United States to search for his missing son, he discovers that modern servitude is thriving in the farmlands and agricultural communities. Promised a job...

Direction Paul Haggis

Cast Tommy Lee Jones · Charlize Theron · Susan Sarandon · Jason Patric

Synopsis In the Valley of Elah (2007) follows Hank Deerfield, a retired military investigator, as he searches for his son Mike, a soldier who recently returned from Iraq but has gone missing. When Mike's body is found brutally dismembered and burned,...

Direction Kevin Reynolds

Cast Jason Patric · George Dzundza · Steven Bauer · Stephen Baldwin

Synopsis The director of Waterworld teams up with playwright William Mastrosimone for a story of a lost Russian tank during the Afghan war; doesn't sound like your normal action fare, does it? Despite its awkward origins, The Beast is a satisfying...

Direction Richard LaGravenese

Cast Hilary Swank · Patrick Dempsey · Scott Glenn · Imelda Staunton

Synopsis In Freedom Writers (2007), a young, idealistic teacher named Erin Gruwell takes on a challenging class of at-risk students in a racially divided high school. Faced with hostility and indifference, she uses unconventional methods to connect with them, encouraging them...