Two Thousand and One: A Space Odyssey
10
Friday 11th April 2008
Mankind finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, artifact buried on the moon and, with the intelligent computer HAL, sets off on a quest.
The Downfall
9
Sunday 26th October 2008
Traudl Junge (Lara), the final secretary for Adolf Hitler (Ganz), tells of the Nazi dictator’s final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
The Kite Runner
9
Saturday 26th July 2008
After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
The Hunt for Red October
8
Sunday 25th October 2009
In 1984, the USSR’s best submarine captain in their newest sub violates orders and heads for the USA. Is he trying to defect, or to start a war?
The Pianist
8
Friday 3rd April 2009
A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.
Training Day
8
Friday 29th August 2008
On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn’t what he appears as.
The Deer Hunter
8
Sunday 4th May 2008
An in-depth examination of the way that the Vietnam war affects the lives of people in a small industrial town in the USA.
Cloverfield
8
Monday 4th February 2008
Revolves around a monster attack in New York as told from the point of view of a small group of people.
We Own the Night
8
Tuesday 18th December 2007
A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hit men.
Eastern Promises
8
Monday 29th October 2007
The film follows the mysterious and ruthless Nikolai, who is tied to one of London’s most notorious organized crime families. His carefully maintained existence is jarred when he crosses paths with Anna, an innocent midwife trying to right a…
The Bourne Ultimatum
8
Tuesday 28th August 2007
Bourne dodges new, superior assassins as he searches for his unknown past while a government agent tries to track him down.
Snatch
7
Tuesday 22nd September 2009
Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.
Transsiberian
7
Sunday 19th July 2009
A Trans-Siberian train journey from China to Moscow becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder when an American couple encounters a mysterious pair of fellow travelers.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
7
Saturday 27th December 2008
An insane general starts a process to nuclear holocaust that a war room of politicians and generals frantically try to stop.
2010: The Year We Make Contact
7
Sunday 27th July 2008
A joint American-Soviet space expedition is sent to Jupiter to learn what happened to the Discovery.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
7
Monday 26th May 2008
Famed archaeologist/adventurer Dr. Henry “Indiana” Jones is called back into action when he becomes entangled in a Soviet plot to uncover the secret behind mysterious artifacts known as the Crystal Skulls.
Charlie Wilson's War
7
Tuesday 15th January 2008
A drama based on a Texas congressman Charlie Wilson’s covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets have some unforeseen and long-reaching effects.
Day Watch
7
Wednesday 10th October 2007
A man (Khabensky) who serves in the war between the forces of Light and Dark comes into possession of a device that can restore life to Moscow, which was nearly destroyed by an apocalyptic event.
Night Watch
7
Tuesday 9th October 2007
A fantasy-thriller set in present-day Moscow where the respective forces that control daytime and nighttime do battle.
Stalker
7
Sunday 7th October 2007
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, an alien place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers. Over his wife’s numerous objections, a man rises in the dead of night: he’s a stalker, one of a handful who have the mental gifts (and who risk…
The 9th Company
7
Sunday 26th August 2007
Young Soviet Army recruits are stuck in the bloody war in Afghanistan, that was started by politicians.
Blade
7
Friday 3rd November 2006
A half-vampire, half-mortal man becomes a protector of the mortal race, while slaying evil vampires.
Red Eye
7
Sunday 6th August 2006
A woman is kidnapped by a stranger on a routine flight. Threatened by the potential murder of her father, she is pulled into a plot to assist her captor in offing a politician.
Hostel
7
Saturday 8th April 2006
Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.
Lord of War
7
Thursday 23rd March 2006
An arms dealer confronts the morality of his work as he is being chased by an Interpol agent.
The Terminal
7
Thursday 16th March 2006
An eastern immigrant finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.
The Sum of All Fears
7
Sunday 5th March 2006
CIA analyst Jack Ryan must thwart the plans of a terrorist faction that threatens to induce a catastrophic conflict between the United States and Russia’s newly elected president by detonating a nuclear weapon at a football game in Baltimore.
Salt
6
Monday 23rd August 2010
A CIA agent goes on the run after a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy.
The X Files: I Want to Believe
6
Sunday 22nd August 2010
Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.
Duplicity
6
Thursday 9th April 2009
A pair of corporate spies who share a steamy past hook up to pull off the ultimate con job on their respective bosses.
The Return
6
Saturday 19th January 2008
In the remote Russian wilderness, two brothers face a range of new, conflicting emotions when their father — a man they only know through a single photograph — resurfaces.
Hellboy
6
Sunday 15th April 2007
A demon, raised from infancy after being conjured by and rescued from the Nazis, grows up to become a defender against the forces of darkness.
Severance
6
Saturday 26th August 2006
A team-building weekend in the mountains of Eastern Europe goes horribly wrong for the sales division of the multi-national weapons company Palisade Defence when they become the victims of a group of crazed killers who will stop at nothing to see…
Hot Tub Time Machine
5
Sunday 18th July 2010
Four guy friends, all of them bored with their adult lives, travel back to their respective 80s heydays thanks to a time-bending hot tub.
Fifteen Minutes
5
Wednesday 5th November 2008
A homicide detective and a fire marshall must stop a pair of murderers who commit videotaped crimes to become media darlings.
Being There
5
Thursday 8th May 2008
Chance, a simple gardener, has never left the estate until his employer dies. His simple TV-informed utterances are mistaken for profundity.
Along Came a Spider
5
Saturday 24th November 2007
A congressman’s daughter under Secret Service protection is kidnapped from a private school by an insider who calls Det. Alex Cross, sucking him into the case even though he’s recovering from the loss of his partner.
Everything Is Illuminated
5
Tuesday 7th August 2007
A young Jewish American man endeavors to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II in a Ukrainian village, that was ultimately razed by the Nazis, with the help of a local who speaks weirdly funny broken English.
Solaris
4
Friday 10th April 2009
The Solaris mission has established a base on a planet that appears to host some kind of intelligence…
