Director: Guy Ritchie
Written by:
Michael Robert Johnson
Anothony Peckham
Tagline:
Nothing Escapes Him
Plot:
After finally catching serial killer and occult “sorcerer” Lord Blackwood, legendary sleuth Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson can close yet another successful case. But when Blackwood mysteriously returns from the grave and resumes his killing spree, Holmes must take up the hunt once again. Contending with his partner’s new fiancée and the dimwitted head of Scotland Yard, the dauntless detective must unravel the clues that will lead him into a twisted web of murder, deceit, and black magic – and the deadly embrace of temptress Irene Adler.
Runtime: 128 min
Award: Won Golden Globe. Another 1 nomination
Director: Michael Haneke
Written by:
Michael Haneke
Tagline:
War causes an uprising drama.
Plot:
Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery.The worries and the dramas of the village are soon lost in the strange excitement of the coming war. Later, the schoolteacher ponders over it again: didn’t those events contain the germs of the tragedies that followed? Weren’t the barbaric acts of the children, deep down, the natural consequences of what they had been taught?
Runtime: 144 min
Award: Won Golden Globe. Another 12 wins & 10 nominations
Director: Marcus Dunstan
Written by:
Patrick Melton (screenplay)
Marcus Dunstan (screenplay)
Tagline:
He always takes one
Plot:
Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer’s country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
Runtime: 88 min
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Written by:
Guy Hibbert
Tagline:
To face the future, they must face the past.
Plot:
The story of former UVF member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffen’s brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.
Runtime: 90 min
Awards: 2 wins & 1 nomination
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Written by:
Scott Z. Burns (screenplay)
Kurt Eichenwald (book)
Tagline:
Un-believ-able
Plot:
Mark Whitacre has worked for lysine developing company ADM for many years and has even found his way into upper management. But nothing has prepared him for the job he is about to undertake – being a spy for the FBI. Unwillingly pressured into working as an informant against the illegal price-fixing activities of his company, Whitacre gradually adopts the idea that he’s a true secret agent. But as his incessant lies keep piling up, his world begins crashing down around him.
Runtime: 108 min
Director: Troy Duffy
Written by:
Troy Duffy (screenplay)
Troy Duffy (story)
Taylor Duffy (story)
Plot:
For the last 8 years the brothers have been living with their father on a sheep farm deep in isolated Ireland. One day their uncle tells them that they have been framed for the murder of a Bostonian Catholic priest. The boys must return to Boston to not only clear their names but find the men who framed them.
Runtime: 117 min
Director: Dominic Sena
Written by:
Jon & Erich Hoeber (screenplay)
Chad & Carey Hayes (screenplay)
Greg Rucka & Steve Lieber (graphic novel)
Tagline:
See Your Last Breath.
Plot:
A U.S. marshal (Kate Beckinsale), the only one assigned to Antarctica, must investigate a murder there within three days before the Antarctic winter begins. She crosses paths with a U.N. operative (Gabriel Macht), also investigating the murder.She must chase down suspects and find more murders. Early in the story, Steko is attacked by the killer and left for dead in a storm. She saves herself but loses two fingers due to severe cold-related injuries.
Runtime: 101 min
Director: Kevin Greutert
Written by:
Marcus Dunstan
Patrick Melton
Tagline:
The Game Comes Full Circle
Plot:
Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw’s legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw’s grand scheme is finally understood.
Runtime: 90 min
Director: F. Gary Gray
Written by:
Kurt Wimmer
Tagline:
The System Must Pay
Plot:
Law Abiding Citizen is a thriller about a brilliant sociopath who orchestrates a series of high-profile murders that grip the city of Philadelphia – all from inside his jail cell – and the prosecutor assigned to his case who realizes he is the only one who can end the reign of terror.
The plot focuses on a man who, ten years after his wife and daughter are brutally murdered, returns to extract justice from the assistant district attorney who prosecuted the case against their killers. His vengeance threatens not only the man who allowed mercy to supersede justice, but also the system and the city that made it so.
Runtime: 109 min
Director:Tony Kaye
Written by:
David McKenna
Tagline:
His father taught him to hate. His friends taught him rage. His enemies gave him hope.
Plot:
Derek Vinyard (Edward Norton), who lives in Venice Beach with his younger brother and mother, raised to believe supremacy of white race is second-in-command of a neo-Nazi gang. Admiring his older brother Danny Vinyard (Edward Furlong) follows the same path as his brother. After killing two of three black robbers Derek finds himself in jail for three years. Meanwhile Danny’s history teacher Dr. Bob Sweeney (Avery Brooks) tries to influence Danny about stupidity of racism. Getting out of jail Derek will be Dr. Sweeney’s best supporter.
Runtime: 119 min
Awards: Nominated for Oscar. Another 2 wins & 9 nominations
