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Pride and Glory (2007)

A family of New York City police officers is torn apart by a corruption scandal.

 

I'm Not There: Suppositions on a Film Concerning Dylan (2006)

This re-enactment of the life of musician, Bob Dylan, features multiple actors embodying different stages in the singer's life.

 

Miami Vice (2006)

Vice detectives James Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs take on the Florida drug world. Two stylish detectives fight crime in South Beach, Miami. Based on the 1980s television drama.

 

Ask the Dust (2006)

In the Robert Towne-directed adaptation of John Fante's Depression Era novel, Hayek will play the fiery Mexican beauty Camilla who hopes to rise above her station by marrying a wealthy American. That is complicated by meeting Arturo Bandini (Farrell), a first-generation Italian hoping to land a writing career and a blue-eyed blonde on his arm.

 

 

 

The New World (2005)

Drama
Inspired by the legend of John Smith (Colin Farrell) and Pocahontas, acclaimed filmmaker Terrence Malick transforms this classic story into a sweeping exploration of love, loss and discovery, both a celebration and an elegy of the America that was...and the America that was yet to come. Against a historically accurate Virginia backdrop, Malick has set a dramatized tale of two strong-willed characters-a passionate and noble young native woman and an ambitious soldier of fortune-torn between the undeniable requirements of their civic duty and the inescapable demands of the human heart.

 

 

Alexander (2004)

Action/Adventure
Alexander The Great was a relentless conqueror who by the age of 32 had amassed the greatest empire the world had ever seen. Past and present collide to form the puzzle of the protagonist, a tapestry of triumphs and tragedies in which childhood memories and Alexander's rise to power unfold side by side with the later day expansion of his empire, its gradual decline and ultimate downfall. From his youth, fueled by dreams of glory and adventure, to his lonely and mysterious death as a ruler of a vast state, from the tumultuous relationship with his parents - a powerful king and a queen determined to put her child on the throne at any cost, including murder - to the rousing "band of brothers" bond with his closest companions and vast army, as they fought from the sun-scorched battlefields of the Persian Empire across the snow-peaked mountains of India, the film chronicles Alexander's journey to become a living legend. For as Virgil wrote, "Fortune favors the bold." And no king or emperor, either before or after, ever achieved such fortune, or indeed was so bold, as Alexander the Great .

 

 

A Home at the End of the World (2004)

Drama and Romance
2 hrs. 00 min.
This is the story of two best friends who grew up together in suburban Cleveland in the 1960s and 1970s who reunited in New York City's East Village in the early 1980s as the core of a romantic triangle. Bobby (Farrell) is a dark, heterosexual hipster who moves in with Jonathan (Roberts), his gay best friend, only to discover that he soon falls in love with Clare (Penn), Jonathan's eccentric and sexy roommate. As Bobby and Clare's relationship develops, it spoils Jonathan's plans to be the father of her baby, which creates tension in his friendship with Bobby. As the story develops, the trio forms a sort of family, moving to the upstate New York home of Jonathan's mother, Alice (Spacek), who has had her own relationship problems with Jonathan's father, Ned (Frewer).

 

 

Intermission (2004)

Drama and Crime/Gangster
1 hr. 45 min.
This ensemble comedy of 11 interwoven stories set in Dublin shows how the breakup of one relationship has repurcussions on the lives of the people around them. One of those people is Lehiff (Farrell), a thief trying to set his life straight by pulling off one last big heist before retiring, while Detective John Lynch (Colm Meaney) is trying to bring Lehiff down. There's also John (Murphy), who quits his job at a supermarket to join Lehiff in his plot as an effort to win back the love of Deirdre (MacDonald), who has recently moved in with a married bank manager, Sam (McElhatton), whose bank Lehiff is targeting, and whose wife, Noeleen (O'Kane) ends up being a crucial element in the heist.

 

Daredevil (2003)

Science Fiction/Fantasy
1 hr. 42 min.
Based on the popular Marvel Comics character, this is the story of Matt Murdock, son of a boxer who gets killed by petty criminals for refusing to take a dive. This drives young Matt to fight crime, despite a childhood accident that robbed him of his sight. That same accident, however, also granted him exceptionally advanced senses of hearing, touch, taste and smell, as well as providing him with a strange sort of mental radar that helps to compensate for his lack of vision. After training hard in the martial arts, as well as excelling in law school, Murdock becomes a lawyer by day and a vigilante calling himself Daredevil by night.

 

 

Phone Booth (2003)

Drama and Thriller
1 hr. 20 min.
In this intense drama, which takes place in and around a single phone booth in New York City, a man who is being watched by a rooftop killer with a sniper rifle must use the phone to save his life or else risk the consequences of leaving the booth.

 

 

The Recruit (2003)

Action/Adventure and Thriller
1 hr. 45 min.
In an era when the country's first line of defense, human intelligence, is more important than ever, comes a thriller that gives an insider's view into the CIA’s secret training ground: The Farm. James Clayton (Colin Farrell) might not have the attitude of a typical recruit, but he is one of the smartest graduating seniors in the country – and he's just the person that Walter Burke (Al Pacino) wnats in the Agency. James regards the CIA's mission as an intriguing alternative to an ordinary life, but before he becomes an Ops Officer, James has to survive the Farm, where the veteran Burke teaches him the ropes and the rules of the game. James quickly rises through the ranks and falls for Layla (Bridget Moynahan), one of his fellow recruits. But just when James starts to question his role and decides to "wash out," Burke taps him for a special assignment to root out a mole. As the suspense builds toward a gripping climax, it soon becomes clear that at The Farm, the CIA’s old maxims are true: "trust no one" and "nothing is as it seems."

 

 

S.W.A.T. (2003)

Action/Adventure, Thriller and Crime/Gangster
1 hr. 51 min.
The tables are turned when the Los Angeles Police Department's S.W.A.T. (Special Weapons and Tactics) unit must protect a dangerous criminal. A grizzled veteran SWAT officer (Jackson) is given a second chance to cobble together a new SWAT team to protect the high-profile baddie.

 

 

Veronica Guerin (2003)

Drama and Crime/Gangster
1 hr. 32 min.
Veronica Guerin (Blanchett) was an award-winning journalist for Dublin's Sunday Independent, whose investigations into the city's drug underworld puts her in increasing danger.

 

 

Hart's War (2002)

Drama
2 hrs. 05 min.
In HART’S WAR, Lieutenant Tommy Hart (Colin Farrell) is a second year law student who is enlisted as an officer’s aide in World War II due to his father’s political pull. When he is captured and thrown into a German prisoner of war camp, top ranking Colonel William McNamara (Bruce Willis) assigns him to defend Lieutenant Lincoln Scott (Terrence Howard), a black POW accused of murdering a fellow white prisoner. Hart must struggle against his privileged past to prove that he is a true man of honor, worthy of his rank. In preparing a defense for his client, Tommy stumbles upon a plot that will force him to choose between his country, his own morality and his life. Based on a novel by John Katzenbach.

 

 

Minority Report (2002)

Action/Adventure, Science Fiction/Fantasy and Thriller
2 hrs. 20 min.
Based on the short story by Philip K. Dick, MINORITY REPORT is set in a 2054 Washington D.C. judicial system in which killers are arrested and convicted before they commit murder using a psychic technology. Tom Cruise is the head of this Precrime unit and is himself accused of the future murder of a man he hasn't even met.

 

 

Ordinary Decent Criminal (2002)

Kevin Spacey stars in this Irish crime film as Michael Lynch, the leader and mastermind of a gang of Dublin thieves whose heists often double as unbelievable pranks. Though his inimitable style and generosity with have won him many admirers among the general population, his increasingly brazen robberies have provoked the ire of both the police and the IRA. Vehemently anti-establishment, Lynch refuses to placate either group, a move that complicates things when a stolen Carvaggio proves to be far too hot for him to sell. This misstep gives detective Noel Quigley, who has been after Lynch for years, the chance to catch Ireland's most famous criminal and forces Lynch to go on the run.

 

 

American Outlaws (2001)

Action/Adventure, Drama and Western
1 hr. 50 min.
When a Midwest town learns that a corrupt railroad baron has captured the deeds to their homesteads without their knowledge, a group of young ranchers join forces to take back what is rightfully theirs. In the course of their vendetta, they will become the object of the biggest manhunt in the history of the Old West and, as their fame grows, so will the legend of their leader, a young outlaw by the name of Jesse James.

 

Tigerland (2000)

Drama
1 hr. 35 min.
In the 1971, at an Army training camp in Louisiana, a rebellious yet promising young recruit seeks to avoid a trip to Vietnam and attempts to convince all the other draftees in his company to follow his lead in getting themselves ejected from the Army

 

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