Mark Ruffalo
Author
Description
Gwyneth Paltrow, Mark Ruffalo, Tim Robbins, Josh Gad and Alecia "Pink" Moore shine in an unconventional romantic comedy that follows the topsy-turvy lives and loves of three obsessive characters: an overachieving environmental consultant (Ruffalo), a stubborn small-business owner (Robbins), and a wisecracking ER doctor (Gad). They meet in a support group-and set into motion a life-changing journey.
4) Foxcatcher
Description
The dark and fascinating story of the unlikely and ultimately tragic relationship between an eccentric multi-millionaire and two champion wrestlers.
"Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo and Channing Tatum give superb performances in Bennett Miller's powerfully disturbing true-crime saga."--Variety
"A superbly modulated study of a twisted mind with a career-changing performance by Steve Carell."--Hollywood Reporter
"There is plenty here to draw and hold...
6) Collateral
Description
Vincent is a contract killer who hijacks Max's taxi. Max becomes collateral as Vincent forces him to drive to different locations as he kills five witnesses. With the LAPD and the FBI after them, they each become dependent on the other to survive.
"***...sharp, artistic, and deeply satisfying popcorn flick. Recommended."--Video Librarian
"Tom Cruise has never been this convincingly wicked."--Toronto Star
"An expertly-made thriller."--Chicago Tribune
"This...
8) XX/XY
Description
One night at a party, Coles (Mark Ruffalo) meets college roommates Sam (Maya Stange) and Thea (Kathleen Robertson), and the three of them have a wild sexual encounter. However, when Coles and Sam start a relationship, it is soon ruined by jealousy and mistrust. Eight years later, Sam runs into Coles, which prompts a reunion with Thea. Although Thea is married and Coles has a live-in girlfriend, there are still unresolved feelings between them that...
9) Dark waters
Description
Inspired by a shocking true story, a tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths due to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything, his future, his family, and his own life to expose the truth.
10) Reservation Road
Description
Two fathers are forced to live with the same tragedy in two very different ways after an incident that involves them both on the same road.
11) Spotlight
Description
It tells the riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world's oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper's tenacious 'Spotlight' teams of reporters delve into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the highest levels of Boston's religious, legal, and government establishment.
"No...
12) Blindness
Description
From acclaimed director Fernando Meirelles comes this extraordinarily intense and gritty thriller based on Nobel Prize-winning Jose Saramago's novel. Led by a powerful all-star cast featuring Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo and Danny Glover, this unflinching story begins when a plague of blindness strikes and threatens all of humanity. One woman (Moore) feigns the illness to share an uncertain fate in quarantine, where society is breaking down as fast...
Description
Nic and Jules are in a long term, committed, loving but by no means perfect relationship. Nic, a physician, needs to wield what she believes is control, whereas Jules, under that control, is less self-assured. They have two teen-aged children, Joni, who is Nic's biological child, and Laser, who is Jules' biological child. A big-hearted, sexy and uproariously funny movie that combines comedic surprise with poignant emotional truth.
14) Chicago 10
Description
Written and directed by Brett Morgen (The Kid Stays in the Picture), CHICAGO 10 presents contemporary history with a forced perspective, mixing bold and original animation with extraordinary archival footage that explores the build-up to and unraveling of the Chicago Conspiracy Trial. CHICAGO 10 is a parable of hope, courage, and ultimate victory.
15) Shutter island
Formats
Description
When U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels arrives at the asylum for the criminally insane on Shutter Island, what starts as a routine investigation quickly takes a sinister turn. As the investigation unfolds and Daniels uncovers more shocking and terrifying truths about the island, he also learns there are some places that never let you go.
"The film's primary effect is on the senses. Everything is brought together into a disturbing foreshadow of dreadful...
Description
Jack and Terry. Hank and Edith. They're two married couples and best friends with much in common. Jack and Hank are professors at Cedar County College. Terry and Edith are both stay-at-home moms. What will split them apart is that Jack and Edith are secret lovers. The interlocked foursome go into uncharted realms of anger, confrontation and lust - and making decisions that may or may not let love slip away.
Description
Childhood friends Brian and Paulie do whatever it takes to survive in the dog-eat-dog neighborhood they live in. As they grow up they find themselves involved in organized crime and jail becomes part of doing business on the streets they call home. Brian uses his time in jail to get clean while Paulie makes plans for one last job that requires Brian's help. Brian must decide if he should stand by his friend or salvage his family.
18) Blindness
Description
A city is ravaged by an epidemic of 'white blindness.' Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital where societal norms quickly breaks down. Criminals and the physically powerful prey upon the weak, hording the meager food rations and committing horrific acts. Inside the hospital is one eyewitness to the nightmare. Following her husband into the hospital, a woman whose sight is unaffected by the plague...
19) Now you see me
Formats
Description
An elite FBI squad in a game of cat and mouse against ‘The Four Horsemen’, a super-team of the world's greatest illusionists. ‘The Four Horsemen’ pull off a series of daring heists against corrupt business leaders during their performances, showering the stolen profits on their audiences while staying one step ahead of the law.
Description
Sammy is a single mom living in a small Catskill town with her eight-year-old son. A lot happens all at once to Sammy as she, sort of, picks up with an old boyfriend, gets a new boss and her wayward brother finally shows up after months of no communication. A crisis of sorts ensues when the son meets his estranged father.