The Old Woman with the Knife

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slo...

Runtime

2h 38m

Director

Paul Thomas Anderson

Cast

Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor

When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polite man. Things go south when the man turns out to be abusive, endangering their lives. As the mother struggles to maintain hope in an impossible situation, the son has plans to escape.

Runtime

1h 55m

Director

Michael Caton-Jones

Cast

Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin, Leonardo DiCaprio

Cynical British journalist Fowler falls in love with a young Vietnamese woman but is dismayed when a naïve U.S. official also begins vying for her attention. In retaliation, Fowler informs the communists that the American is selling arms to their enemy.

Runtime

1h 41m

Director

Phillip Noyce

Cast

Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser, Đỗ Thị Hải Yến

A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and ...

Runtime

2h 22m

Director

James Ivory

Cast

Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter, Anthony Hopkins

When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.

Runtime

2h 1m

Director

Fernando Meirelles

Cast

Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Danny Glover