Trees of Peace

Precocious teenager Juliet moves to New Zealand with her family and soon befriends the quiet, brooding Pauline through their shared love of fantasy and literature. This friendship gradually develops into an intense and obsessive bond.

Runtime

1h 49m

Director

Peter Jackson

Cast

Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse

Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband, believed killed in battle. By all accounts, Jack Sommersby was not a pleasant man, thus when he suddenly returns, Laurel has mixed emotions. It appears that Jack has changed a great deal, leading some people to believe ...

Runtime

1h 49m

Director

Jon Amiel

Cast

Jodie Foster, Richard Gere, Bill Pullman

The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an overt display of mourning.

Runtime

1h 43m

Director

Stephen Frears

Cast

Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.

Runtime

2h 21m

Director

Clint Eastwood

Cast

Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Tsuyoshi Ihara

An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed ...

Runtime

2h 23m

Director

Edward Zwick

Cast

Leonardo DiCaprio, Djimon Hounsou, Jennifer Connelly