7.9/10
An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a
mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues
he never ages and has walked the earth for 14,000 years. (87 mins.)
Director: Richard
Schenkman
2.
6.8/10
The final candidates for a highly desirable corporate job are
locked together in an exam room and given a test so simple and confusing that
tension begins to unravel. (101 mins.)
Director: Stuart Hazeldine
Stars: Adar Beck, Gemma Chan, Nathalie Cox, John Lloyd Fillingham
3.
7.6/10
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one
another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer
into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a
revolution. (172 mins.)
Director: Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski
Stars: Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Hugo Weaving
4.
7.1/10
A group of very different individuals with different ideas of
how to face the end come together as the world is expected to end in six hours
at the turn of the century. (95 mins.)
Director: Don McKellar
Stars: Don McKellar, Sandra Oh, Roberta Maxwell, Robin Gammell
5.
7.1/10
A US politician visits his poet friend in Mont. St. Michael,
France. While walking through the medieval... (112 mins.)
Director: Bernt Capra
Stars: Liv Ullmann, Sam Waterston, John Heard, Ione Skye
6.
7.8/10
A boy stands on a station platform as a train is about to leave.
Should he go with his mother or stay with his father? An infinity of
possibilities rise from this decision. As long as he doesn't choose, anything
is possible. (141 mins.)
Director: Jaco Van Dormael
Stars: Jared Leto, Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger, Linh Dan Pham
7.
7.8/10
Johnny flees Manchester for London, to avoid a beating from the
family of a girl he has raped. There he finds an old girlfriend... (131
mins.)
Director: Mike Leigh
8.
7.6/10
An IRS auditor suddenly finds himself the subject of narration
only he can hear: narration that begins to affect his entire life, from his
work, to his love-interest, to his death. (113 mins.)
Director: Marc Forster
Stars: Will Ferrell, Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, Queen Latifah
9.
7.2/10
Two men in an apartment with their opposing beliefs. (91
mins.)
Director: Tommy Lee Jones
Stars: Samuel L.
Jackson, Tommy Lee Jones
10.
8.8/10
A skilled extractor is offered a chance to regain his old life
as payment for a task considered to be impossible. (148 mins.)
Director: Christopher
Nolan
11.
6.8/10
A Harvard scientist conducts experiments on himself with a
hallucinatory drug and an isolation chamber that may be causing him to regress
genetically. (102 mins.)
Director: Ken Russell
Stars: William Hurt, Blair Brown, Bob Balaban, Charles Haid
12.
7.7/10
A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he
cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with
telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans.(100 mins.)
Director: Alex Proyas
13.
6.2/10
A futuristic 'Brief Encounter', a love story in which the
romance is doomed by genetic incompatibility. (93 mins.)
Director: Michael
Winterbottom
Stars: Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton, Om Puri, Togo Igawa
14.
6.4/10
Private Joe Bauers, the definition of "average
American", is selected by the Pentagon to be the guinea pig for a
top-secret hibernation program. Forgotten, he awakes 500 years in the future.
He discovers a society so incredibly dumbed-down that he's easily the most
intelligent person alive. (84 mins.)
Director: Mike Judge
Stars: Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, Terry Crews
15.
6.6/10
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 - a connection that becomes an important part of
the way against the system. (109 mins.)
Director: Andrew Niccol
16.
7.7/10
A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers
an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely
disfigured. (117 mins.)
Director: Alejandro
Amenábar
17.
6.7/10
This movie focuses on the attempts of a psychiatrist to prevent
one of his patients from committing suicide while trying to maintain his own
grip on reality. (99 mins.)
Director: Marc Forster
Stars: Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Ryan Gosling, Kate Burton
18.
7.2/10
A team of astronauts are sent to re-ignite the dying sun 50
years into the future. (107 mins.)
Director: Danny Boyle
Stars: Cillian Murphy, Rose Byrne, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh
19.
7.6/10
A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal
their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process. (112 mins.)
Director: Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
20.
7.0/10
A Gulf war veteran is wrongly sent to a mental institution for
insane criminals, where he becomes the object of a Doctor's experiments, and
his life is completely affected by them. (103 mins.)
Director: John Maybury
21.
6.8/10
Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something
extremely important. He's about to tell the discovery to his colleague... (100
mins.)
Director: Josef Rusnak
22.
6.8/10
The story revolves around the passengers of a yachting trip in
the Atlantic Ocean who, when struck by mysterious weather conditions, jump to
another ship only to experience greater havoc on the open seas. (99 mins.)
Director: Christopher
Smith
Stars: Melissa George, Joshua McIvor, Jack Taylor, Michael Dorman
23.
8.2/10
A shadowy freedom fighter known only as "V" uses
guerrilla tactics to fight against his terrorist, totalitarian society. Upon
rescuing a girl from the secret police, he also finds his best chance at having
an ally. (132 mins.)
Director: James McTeigue
Stars: Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman, Rupert Graves, Stephen Rea
24.
7.6/10
In an alternate 1985 where former superheroes exist, the murder
of a colleague sends active vigilante Rorschach into his own sprawling
investigation, uncovering something that could completely change the course of
history as we know it. (162 mins.)
Director: Zack Snyder
25.
8.4/10
A couple undergo a procedure to erase each other from their
memories when their relationship turns sour, but it is only through the process
of loss that they discover what they had to begin with. (108 mins.)
Director: Michel Gondry
26.
8.5/10
A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of
the Warsaw ghetto of World War II. (150 mins.)
Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: Adrien Brody,
