MARTIN SCORSESE’s- BRINGING OUT THE DEAD
Rotten Tomatoes
71%
Bringing Out the Dead is a 1999 American supernatural drama film written by Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull).Nicholas Cage is Frank, a mentally strained and overworked paramedic from Manhattan, tries to maintain his sanity as he tends to various emergencies and hallucinates about all the people whose lives he could not save.
BRIAN DE PALMA’s – BLOW OUT
Rotten Tomatoes
85%
This stylish Brian De Palma thriller plays off the theme of the unsuspecting witness who discovers a crime and is thereby put in grave danger, but with a novel twist. Jack Terry is a master audio technician who makes his living by recording unique sounds for grade-B horror movies. Late one evening, he is recording sounds for use in his movies when he hears something unexpected through his sound equipment and records it. Curiosity gets the better of him when the media become involved, and he begins to unravel the pieces of a nefarious conspiracy. As he struggles to survive against his shadowy enemies and expose the truth, he does not know whom he can trust.
AKIRA KUROSAWA’s – RAN
Rotten Tomatoes
97%
In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other…and him.
RIDLEY SCOTT’s – MATCHSTICK MEN
Rotten Tomatoes
82%
A phobic con artist and his protégé are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the former’s teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly
WILLIAM FRIEDKIN’s- SOCERER
Rotten Tomatoes
79%
Four unfortunate men from different parts of the globe agree to risk their lives transporting gallons of nitroglycerin across dangerous South American jungle.
PAUL GREENGRASS- UNITED 93
Rotten Tomatoes
90%
The passengers of a flight are shocked when their plane is hijacked by a few terrorists. They decide to fight the terrorists after learning about the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
GRETA GERWIG’s- FRANCES HA
Rotten Tomatoes
92%
A story that follows a New York woman, who doesn’t really have an apartment. She apprentices for a dance company although she’s not really a dancer, and throws herself headlong into her dreams.
BONG JOON-HO’s- MOTHER
Rotten Tomatoes
96%
A widow (Kim Hye-ja) resides with her mentally challenged son (Won Bin) in a small South Korean town, where she scrapes out a living selling medicinal herbs. Mother and son are plunged into a nightmare when the body of a murdered young girl is discovered. Circumstantial evidence indicates the son’s involvement, and he becomes the prime suspect during the sloppy police investigation. Betrayed by the legal system, the mother takes the law into her own hands to clear her son’s name
MICHEAL MANN’s- THE INSIDER
Rotten Tomatoes
96%
The Insider is a 1999 American drama film directed by Michael Mann, from a script adapted by Eric Roth and Mann from Marie Brenner’s 1996 Vanity Fair article “The Man Who Knew Too Much”. The film stars Al Pacino and Russell Crowe, with supporting actors including Christopher Plummer, Bruce McGill, Diane Venora and Michael Gambon
JOEL SCHUMACHER’s – 8mm
Rotten Tomatoes
22%
8mm is a 1999 crime mystery film directed by Joel Schumacher and written by Andrew Kevin Walker. The film stars Nicolas Cage as a private investigator who delves into the world of snuff films. Joaquin Phoenix, James Gandolfini, Peter Stormare, and Anthony Heald appear in supporting roles.
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