Cillian Murphy
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Business is booming for Birmingham's Peaky Blinders gang, but that's not enough for its dangerous leader, Tommy Shelby. As Shelby battles to keep a strong hold on his evil underworld, he risks his life encroaching on the turf of volatile gang leader Alfie Solomons. Prepare for action as ambition, corruption, violence, and desire collide.
2) Broken
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
11 year-old Skunk's innocence begins to vanish as her home, neighborhood and school all become treacherous environments where the happy certainties of childhood give way to fear-filled doubt. Official Selection at the **Cannes Film Festival**.
3) Aloft
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Follow a mother and her son into a past marred by an accident that tears them apart. She will become a renowned artist and healer, and he will come into his own as a peculiar falconer who bears the marks of abandonment. In the present, a young journalist will bring about an encounter between the two that puts the very meaning of life and art into question.
4) Red Lights
Series
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A psychologist investigates a renowned psychic who resurfaces years after his toughest critic mysteriously passed away. With Sigourney Weaver, Cillian Murphy, Robert De Niro and Elizabeth Olsen. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival**.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham that follows the notorious gang, who got their name from sewing razor blades into the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, a man dead set on moving up in the world, no matter the cost.
7) Anna
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.
Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following the death of Lee and armed with the new weapon discovered by Reagan, the Abbots must venture off the sand path with the newest member of their family in order to protect themselves and offer a solution to the outside world. They soon are faced with the grim reality that the invading creatures are not the only threats lurking in the unknown.
9) Anthropoid
Series
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A historical war-drama based on the extraordinary true story of two soldiers from the Czechoslovakian army-in-exile, Josef Gabčík (Cillian Murphy) and Jan Kubiš (Jamie Dornan), who are parachuted into their occupied homeland in December 1941. With limited intelligence and little equipment in a city under lockdown, they must find a way to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, an operation that would change the face of Europe forever. Nominated for Best...
10) The Trench
Series
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In the vein of 1917, this epic drama is set against the ill-fated WWI backdrop where a restless platoon receives word that they will soon join the first wave of an attack. Led by a war-hardened Sargent, these young men, confined to a trench on the front lines and the dark abyss, face their destiny on the day the British Army lost the greatest number of soldiers in a single day in history.
11) Free fire
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In a colorful yet gritty 1970s Boston, Justine, a mysterious American businesswoman, and her wise-cracking associate Ord, arrange a black-market weapons deal in a deserted warehouse between IRA arms buyer Chris and shifty South African gun runner Vernon. What starts as a polite if uneasy exchange soon goes south when tensions escalate and shots are fired, quickly leading to a full-on Battle Royale where it's every man (and woman) for themselves.
12) Anthropoid
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Based on the extraordinary true story of Operation Anthropoid, the code name for the secret Czechoslovakian mission to assassinate Nazi SS officer Reinhard Heydrich. Heydrich, the main architect behind the Final Solution to the Jewish question, was the Reich's third in command and the leader of Nazi forces in Czechoslovakia.
13) Peacock
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
John Skillpa, a quiet bank clerk living in tiny Peacock, Nebraska, prefers to live an invisible life. Then, in a moment, everything changes. A train caboose runs off its tracks and crashes into John's backyard and destroys more than the weathered planks of his wood fence. When neighbors descend on the scene, they discover John's other personality, Emma, for the first time and mistakenly believe her to be John's wife. John is launched into the spotlight...
14) Oppenheimer
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
15) Sunshine
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
It is the year 2057, the sun is dying and mankind faces extinction. Earth's last hope rests with a courageous crew of eight men and women on a mission to ignite the fading star with a massive nuclear weapon. Deep into their voyage, out of radio contact with Earth, their mission begins to unravel and they find themselves fighting not only for their lives, but for the future of us all.
Publisher
Sixteen Films
Pub. Date
©2007
Language
English
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Description
Ireland, 1920. Damien O'Donovan is leaving for London for an internship, until the dreaded Black and Tans attack his hurling mates, killing one for not speaking English. Thus sidetracked by the Irish War for Independence, Damien is convinced by his brother Teddy to throw his lot in with the IRA. Damien is a purist, an idealist, and therefore marked for a tragic destiny, while Teddy is a fatefully pragmatic politician. These differences between the...
17) In time
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In a future where people stop aging at 25, but are engineered to live only one more year, having the means to buy your way out of the situation is a shot at immortal youth. Here, Will Salas finds himself accused of murder and on the run with a hostage. Together, they must bring down the corrupt system before their time runs out.
18) Dunkirk
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A World War II thriller about the evacuation of Allied troops from the French city of Dunkirk before Nazi forces can take hold.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. But that told only half the story. This story reveals the encounter's harrowing aftermath, as the ship's surviving crew is pushed to their limits and forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham that follows the notorious gang, who got their name from sewing razor blades into the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, a man dead set on moving up in the world, no matter the cost.