Titanic (1997)

Director: James Cameron
Writer: James Cameron
Cast:
Leonardo DiCaprio
Kate Winslet
Billy Zane
Kathy Bates
Frances Fisher
Gloria Stuart
Bill Paxton
Bernard Hill
David Warner
Victor Garber
Jonathan Hyde
Suzy Amis
Release Date: 14 December 1997
Awards: Won 11 Oscars. Another 76 wins & 48 nominations
Tagline: A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets more

Plot: Fictional romantic tale of a rich girl and poor boy who meet on the ill-fated voyage of the 'unsinkable' ship.

Valkyrie (2008)

Director: Bryan Singer
Writers : Christopher McQuarrie & (written by)
Cast:
Tom Cruise
Kenneth Branagh
Bill Nighy
Tom Wilkinson
Carice van Houten
Thomas Kretschmann
Terence Stamp
Eddie Izzard
Kevin McNally
Christian Berkel
Jamie Parker
David Bamber
Tom Hollander
David Schofield
Kenneth Cranham
Release Date: USA 25 December 2008
Tagline: Many saw evil. They dared to stop it.
Awards: 8 nominations

Plot: Based on actual events, a plot to assassinate Hitler is unfurled during the height of WWII.

Life Is Beautiful - la Vita e Bella (1998)

Director: Roberto Benigni
Writers: Vincenzo Cerami & Roberto Benigni
Cast:
Roberto Benigni
Nicoletta Braschi
Giorgio Cantarini
Giustino Durano
Sergio Bini Bustric
Marisa Paredes
Horst Buchholz
Lidia Alfonsi
Release Date: 23 October 1998 USA
Tagline:
An unforgettable fable that proves love, family and imagination conquer all.

Plot: A Jewish man has a wonderful romance with the help of his humour, but must use that same quality to protect his son in a Nazi death camp.

Awards: Won 3 Oscars. Another 52 wins & 27 nominations

The Hurt Locker (2009)

Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Writer : Mark Boal
Cast:
Jeremy Renner
Anthony Mackie
Brian Geraghty
Guy Pearce
Ralph Fiennes
David Morse
Evangeline Lilly
Christian Camargo
Release Date: 17 & 28 March 2009
Genre:
Action | Drama | Thriller | War more
Tagline: You'll know when you're in it. more

Plot: Iraq. Forced to play a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse in the chaos of war, an elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.

Awards: 5 wins & 4 nominations

Director: Sam Mendes
Writer : Alan Ball
Cast:
Kevin Spacey
Annette Bening
Thora Birch
Wes Bentley
Mena Suvari
Chris Cooper
Peter Gallagher
Allison Janney
Scott Bakula
Release Date: October 1999 (USA)

Tagline: ... look closer
Plot: Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation for his daughter's attractive friend.

Awards: Won 5 Oscars. Another 83 wins & 74 nominations

Public Enemies (2009)

Director: Michael Mann
Writers: Ronan Bennett (screenplay) and Michael Mann (screenplay)
Cast:
Christian Bale
Johnny Depp
Channing Tatum
Emilie de Ravin
Leelee Sobieski
Marion Cotillard
Billy Crudup
Giovanni Ribisi
David Wenham
Stephen Dorff
Rory Cochrane
Release Date: 1 July 2009 (USA)
Plot: The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s.
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Adaptation (2002)

Director: Spike Jonze
Writers: Susan Orlean (book) Charlie Kaufman (screenplay)
Cast:
Nicolas Cage
Tilda Swinton
Meryl Streep
Chris Cooper
Jay Tavare
Litefoot
Roger Willie
Jim Beaver
Cara Seymour
Doug Jones
Stephen Tobolowsky
Release Date: 10 January 2003 (USA)

Tagline: Charlie Kaufman writes the way he lives... With Great Difficulty. His Twin Brother Donald Lives the way he writes... with foolish abandon. Susan writes about life... But can't live it. John's life is a book... Waiting to be adapted. One story... Four Lives... A million ways it can end.
Plot: A lovelorn screenwriter turns to his less talented twin brother for help when his efforts to adapt a non-fiction book go nowhere.

Awards: Won Oscar. Another 39 wins & 48 nominations
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Monster (2003)

Director: Patty Jenkins
Writer: Patty Jenkins (written by)
Cast:
Charlize Theron
Christina Ricci
Bruce Dern
Lee Tergesen
Annie Corley
Pruitt Taylor Vince
Marco St. John
Marc Macaulay
Release Date: 30 January 2004 (USA)
Tagline: Based on a true story
Plot: Based on the life of Aileen Wuornos, a Daytona Beach prostitute who became a serial killer.
Awards: Won Oscar. Another 16 wins & 13 nominations

The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)

Director: Niels Mueller
Writers: Kevin Kennedy, Niels Mueller
Cast:
Sean Penn
Naomi Watts
Don Cheadle
Jack Thompson
Brad William Henke
Nick Searcy
Michael Wincott
Mykelti Williamson
April Grace
Release Date: USA 29 December 2004 (limited)
Tagline:

The mad story of a true man. more
Plot: Based on real life events, Assassination is set in 1974 and centers on a businessman who decides to take extreme measures to achieve his American dream.

Awards:
1 win & 3 nominations

The Matador (2005)

Director: Richard Shepard
Writer: Richard Shepard
Cast:
Pierce Brosnan
Arlin Miller
Azucena Medina
Jonah Meyerson
Wiveca Bonerais
Greg Kinnear
Hope Davis
Adam Scott
Portia Dawson
Release Date: 27 January 2006 (USA)
Tagline: A hitman and a salesman walk into a bar...

Plot: A globetrotting hitman and a crestfallen businessman meet in a hotel bar in Mexico City in an encounter that draws them together in a way neither expected.

Awards:
Nominated for Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 2 nominations

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

Director: Tom Tykwer
Writers: Andrew Birkin (screenplay) & Bernd Eichinger (screenplay)
Cast:
Ben Whishaw
Alan Rickman
Dustin Hoffman
Rachel Hurd-Wood
Release Date: 5 January 2007 (USA)
Tagline: He lived to find beauty. He killed to possess it.
Plot:

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born with a superior olfactory sense, creates the world's finest perfume. His work, however, takes a dark turn as he searches for the ultimate scent.

Awards: 12 wins & 12 nominations
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There Will Be Blood (2007)

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson
Writers: Paul Thomas Anderson (screenplay) Upton Sinclair (novel)
Cast:
Daniel Day-Lewis
Barry Del Sherman
Paul F. Tompkins
Dillon Freasier
Kevin Breznahan
Jim Meskimen
Erica Sullivan
Release Date: 11 January 2008 (USA)
Tagline: When Ambition Meets Faith
Plot:

A story about family, greed, religion, and oil, centered around a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.

Awards: Won 2 Oscars. Another 54 wins & 51 nominations
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Defiance (2008)

Director:Edward Zwick
Writers : Clayton Frohman (screenplay) and Edward Zwick (screenplay)
Cast:
Daniel Craig
Liev Schreiber
Jamie Bell
Alexa Davalos
George MacKay
Allan Corduner
Mark Feuerstein
Tomas Arana
Release Date: USA 16 January 2009
Tagline: Freedom begins with an act of defiance!

Plot: Jewish brothers in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe escape into the Belarussian forests, where they join Russian resistance fighters and endeavor to build a village in order to protect themselves and about 1,000 Jewish non-combatants.

Awards: Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win & 2 nominations more
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