Release Date: 2009-10-02

Overview: It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. She has fallen in love with one of his more pompous acquaintances Sy Ableman.

Rating: 6.718 (2249 votes)

Release Date: 2013-11-12

Overview: Two brothers live in the economically-depressed Rust Belt, when a cruel twist of fate lands one in prison. His brother is then lured into one of the most violent crime rings in the Northeast.

Rating: 6.572 (2060 votes)

Release Date: 2010-12-22

Overview: Following the murder of her father by a hired hand, a 14-year-old farm girl sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find—a man with 'true grit'—Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn.

Rating: 7.306 (5559 votes)

Release Date: 2014-01-22

Overview: An unappreciated old granny magically turns 20 years old again and decides to make the most of her newfound youth.

Rating: 7.332 (119 votes)

Release Date: 1991-08-01

Overview: A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

Rating: 7.457 (1799 votes)

Release Date: 2004-09-29

Overview: A soldier returns to his small town and exacts a deadly revenge on the thugs who tormented his disabled brother while he was away.

Rating: 7.1 (573 votes)

Release Date: 2013-05-26

Overview: Based on the autobiographical novel, the tempestuous 6-year relationship between Liberace and his (much younger) lover, Scott Thorson, is recounted.

Rating: 6.598 (814 votes)

Release Date: 2007-12-21

Overview: Following a childhood tragedy, Dewey Cox follows a long and winding road to music stardom. Dewey perseveres through changing musical styles, an addiction to nearly every drug known and bouts of uncontrollable rage.

Rating: 6.615 (718 votes)

Release Date: 2013-10-03

Overview: Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer, is on her first Shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The Shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalski completely alone-tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness of space. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space.

Rating: 7.165 (15956 votes)

Release Date: 2001-10-26

Overview: A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but his wife Doris' infidelity and a mysterious opportunity presents him with a chance to change it.

Rating: 7.518 (1682 votes)

Release Date: 2007-11-09

Overview: Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.

Rating: 7.947 (12838 votes)

Release Date: 2014-12-31

Overview: A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.

Rating: 6.609 (1491 votes)

Release Date: 2005-06-03

Overview: The radical true story behind three teenage surfers from Venice Beach, California, who took skateboarding to the extreme and changed the world of sports forever. Stacy Peralta, Tony Alva and Jay Adams are the Z-Boys, a bunch of nobodies until they create a new style of skateboarding that becomes a worldwide phenomenon. But when their hobby becomes a business, the success shreds their friendship.

Rating: 7.096 (780 votes)

Release Date: 1995-06-23

Overview: Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis.

Rating: 6.952 (326 votes)

Release Date: 2011-01-22

Overview: A journalist and his girlfriend get pulled in while they investigate a cult whose leader claims to be from the future.

Rating: 6.297 (411 votes)

Release Date: 1985-02-22

Overview: Ed Okin used to have a boring life. He used to have trouble getting to sleep. Then one night, he met Diana. Now, Ed's having trouble staying alive.

Rating: 6.5 (319 votes)

Release Date: 2013-12-25

Overview: In 1857, at the height of his fame and fortune, novelist and social critic Charles Dickens meets and falls in love with teenage stage actress Nelly Ternan. As she becomes the focus of his heart and mind, as well as his muse, painful secrecy is the price both must pay.

Rating: 5.928 (209 votes)

Release Date: 2014-07-28

Overview: After a five-year hiatus, psychiatrist Yehia returns to work at Abbasiya Hospital. He’s assigned to evaluate a patient who turns out to be his old friend. As events unfold, Yehia uncovers dark secrets that challenge his understanding of reality.

Rating: 7 (97 votes)

Release Date: 1987-11-06

Overview: A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who begins to follow the activities of Stephen Biko, a courageous and outspoken black anti-apartheid activist.

Rating: 7 (224 votes)

Release Date: 2007-11-14

Overview: Set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner, a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.

Rating: 5.211 (579 votes)