Beneath the Shadow

20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. It is supposed to be about aggressive behavior in an artificial prison situation. A journalist senses a story behind the ad and smuggles himself in among the test subjects. They are randomly divided into prisoners and guards. What seems l...

Runtime

2h

Director

Oliver Hirschbiegel

Cast

Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Berkel, Oliver Stokowski

Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with relentless focus, she is forced to destroy anything and anyone that may stand in her way, regardless of t...

Runtime

1h 46m

Director

Gus Van Sant

Cast

Nicole Kidman, Matt Dillon, Joaquin Phoenix

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.

Runtime

3h 1m

Director

Kevin Costner

Cast

Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney A. Grant

The story of three women searching for more potent, meaningful lives. Each is alive at a different time and place, all are linked by their yearnings and their fears. Their stories intertwine, and finally come together in a surprising, transcendent moment of shared recognition.

Runtime

1h 54m

Director

Stephen Daldry

Cast

Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep

A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.

Runtime

2h 47m

Director

Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast

Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet