7.1

Burn After Reading

2007, USA, UK, France

• Actors: George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Richard Jenkins, Elizabeth Marvel, David Rasche, J.K. Simmons, Olek Krupa, Michael Countryman, Kevin Sussman, J.R. Horne, Hamilton Clancy, Armand Schultz, Pun Bandhu, Karla Mosley, Jeffrey DeMunn, Richard Poe, Carmen M. Herlihy, Raul Aranas, Judy Frank, Sándor Técsy, Yury Tsykun, Brian O'Neill, Robert Prescott, Matt Walton, Lori Hammel, Crystal Bock, Patrick Boll
• Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
• Director(s): Ethan Coen
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Osbourne Cox, a Balkan expert, is fired at the CIA, so he begins a memoir. His wife wants a divorce and expects her lover, Harry, a philandering State Department marshal, to leave his wife. A diskette falls out of a gym bag at a Georgetown fitness center. Two employees there try to turn it into cash: Linda, who wants money for elective surgery, and Chad, an amiable goof. Information on the disc leads them to Osbourne who rejects their sales pitch; then they visit the Russian embassy. To sweeten the pot, they decide they need more of Osbourne's secrets. Meanwhile, Linda's boss likes her, and Harry's wife leaves for a book tour. All roads lead to Osbourne's house.

  7.4

Michael Clayton

2006, USA

• Actors: Tom Wilkinson, Michael O'Keefe, Sydney Pollack, Danielle Skraastad, Tilda Swinton, George Clooney, Wai Chan, Alberto Vazquez, Brian Koppelman, Thomas McCarthy, Denis O'Hare, Julie White, Austin Williams, Jennifer Van Dyck, Frank Wood, Richard Hecht, Bill Raymond, Jonathan Walker, Sharon Washington, Cynthia Mace, Michael Countryman, Ken Howard, Amy Hargreaves, Susan Pellegrino, Rachel Black, Matthew Detmer, John Douglas Thompson, Merritt Wever, Brian Poteat, Christopher Mann
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
• Director(s): Tony Gilroy
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Michael Clayton, a high-priced-law-firm's fixer, leaves a late-night poker game, gets a call to drive to Westchester, and watches his car blow up as he's taking an impromptu dawn walk through a field. Flash back four days. He owes a loan shark to cover his brother's debts (Michael's own gambling habits have left him virtually broke). His law firm is negotiating a high-stakes merger, and his firm's six-year defense of a conglomerate's pesticide use is at risk when one of the firm's top litigators goes off his meds and puts the case in jeopardy. While Michael is trying to fix things, someone decides to kill him. Who? Meanwhile, his son summarizes the plot of a dark fantasy novel.

  6.8

The Good Shepherd

2005, USA

• Actors: Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Alec Baldwin, Tammy Blanchard, Billy Crudup, Robert De Niro, Keir Dullea, Michael Gambon, Martina Gedeck, William Hurt, Timothy Hutton, Mark Ivanir, Gabriel Macht, Lee Pace, Joe Pesci, Eddie Redmayne, John Sessions, Oleg Shtefanko, John Turturro, Yelena Shmulenson, Jack Martin, Anne-Marie Cusson, Robert Bermudez Cordell, David Crommett, Michael Arden, Justin Bohon, Justin Daniel, Michael Flanigan, John Hill, Will Reynolds
• Genre: Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Robert De Niro
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Laconic and self-contained, Edward Wilson heads CIA covert operations during the Bay of Pigs. The agency suspects that Castro was tipped, so Wilson looks for the leak. As he investigates, he recalls, in a series of flashbacks, his father's death, student days at Yale (poetry; Skull and Bones), recruitment into the fledgling OSS, truncated affairs, a shotgun marriage, cutting his teeth on spy craft in London, distance from his son, the emergence of the Cold War, and relationships with agency, British, and Soviet counterparts. We watch his idealism give way to something else: disclosing the nature of that something else is at the heart of the film's narration as he closes in on the leak.

  6.9

Spaceballs

1986, USA

• Actors: Mel Brooks, John Candy, Rick Moranis, Bill Pullman, Daphne Zuniga, Dick Van Patten, George Wyner, Michael Winslow, Joan Rivers, Lorene Yarnell, John Hurt, Sal Viscuso, Ronny Graham, Jim J. Bullock, Leslie Bevis, Jim Jackman, Mike Pniewski, Sandy Helberg, Stephen Tobolowsky, Jeff MacGregor, Henry Kaiser, Denise Gallup, Dian Gallup, Gail Barle, Dey Young, Rhonda Shear, Robert Prescott, Jack Riley, Tom Dreesen, Rudy De Luca
• Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
• Director(s): Mel Brooks
• Available languages:
  • English English.

King Roland of the planet Druidia is trying to marry his daughter Princess Vespa to Prince Valium, but Vespa is kidnapped by the evil race of the Spaceballs. The Spaceballs ask Roland a tremendous ransom: all the air of Druidia (you see, the air of Spaceball had serious pollution problems...). The King decides to offer a generous amount of money to a space rogue, Lone Starr, to persuade him to save Vespa. What follows is the parody of a _LOT_ of famous SF movies.

  6.8

Real Genius

1985, USA

• Actors: Val Kilmer, Gabriel Jarret, Michelle Meyrink, William Atherton, Jon Gries, Patti D'Arbanville, Stacy Peralta, Daniel Ades, Andres Aybar, Louis Giambalvo, Ed Lauter, Charles Shull, Beau Billingslea, Charles Parks, Sean Frye, JoAnn Willette, Ina Gould, Nadine Vix, Paul Tulley, Joanne Baron, Chip Johnson, Monte Landis, Sandy Martin, Severn Darden, Randy Lowell, Robert Prescott, John Shepherd Reid, Tommy Swerdlow, Mark Kamiyama, Martin Gundersen
• Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
• Director(s): Martha Coolidge
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Mitch is one of the youngest students ever accepted to a university known for its programs for geniuses. He's partnered up with his roommate, science club legend Chris Knight, on a project to develop a high-powered laser. Together with their hyper-kinetic friends, they employ their intellects in the pursuit of bigger blasts, practical jokes, and a deeper understanding of what real genius is. When their final, functional laser is stolen by their teacher for a military weapon, they decide to get even.

  5.9

Bachelor Party

1984, USA

• Actors: Tom Hanks, Tawny Kitaen, Adrian Zmed, George Grizzard, Barbara Stuart, Robert Prescott, William Tepper, Wendie Jo Sperber, Barry Diamond, Gary Grossman, Michael Dudikoff, Bradford Bancroft, Martina Finch, Deborah Harmon, Tracy Smith, Florence Schauffler, Sumant, John Bloom, Kenneth Kimmins, Gerard Prendergast, Brett Baxter Clark, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Rosanne Katon, Dani Douthette, Katie Mitchell, Christopher Morley, Toni Alessandrini, Monique Gabrielle, Angela Aames, Richard Lorenzo Hernandez
• Genre: Comedy, Romance
• Director(s): Neal Israel
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Rick Gassko is about to marry Debbie Thompson. Her parents hate him. Her old boyfriend hates him. They all have money and he gets a cut of the crap games on the catholic school bus he drives. His friends decide to give him the bachelor party of all bachelor parties with an expensive hotel, booze, movies and hookers. As the players catch wind of the elements of the party, each adds a little monkey wrench so that one set of hookers ends up giving demos at the bride's shower, the brides friends end up dressed as hookers in a room with a number of non English speaking Japanese business men, and so on as things get out of hand.