The Descendants

6.8

2011

115 mins

ComedyDrama

With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron Matt King takes his daughters on a trip from Oahu to Kauai to confront a young real estate broker, who was having an affair with Elizabeth before her misfortune.

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Year : 2004Rating : ⭐ 7.1

Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member of his crew. In addition to his regular team, he is joined on his boat by Ned, a man who believes Zissou to be his father, and Jane, a journalist pregnant by a married man. They travel the sea, all too often running into pirates and, perhaps more traumatically, various figures from Zissou's past, including his estranged wife, Eleanor.

A Hole in the Head

Year : 1959Rating : ⭐ 6.2

An impractical widower tries to hang onto his Miami hotel and his 12-year-old son.

Sleeping with the Enemy

Year : 1991Rating : ⭐ 6.5

A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.

Short Cuts

Year : 1993Rating : ⭐ 7.2

Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the hospital, the boy's grandfather tells his son, Howard, about his past affairs. Meanwhile, a baker starts harassing the family when they fail to pick up the boy's birthday cake.

Butterfly on a Wheel

Year : 2007Rating : ⭐ 6.5

A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.

I Love My Dad

Year : 2022Rating : ⭐ 5.9

A hopelessly estranged father catfishes his son in an attempt to reconnect.

Wild Things

Year : 1998Rating : ⭐ 6.4

When teen-socialite Kelly Van Ryan and troubled bad girl Suzie Toller accuse guidance counselor Sam Lombardo of rape, he's suspended by the school, rejected by the town, and fighting to get his life back. One cop suspects conspiracy, but nothing is what it seems...

Why Him?

Year : 2016Rating : ⭐ 6.4

A dad forms a bitter rivalry with his daughter's young rich boyfriend.

Splitsville

Year : 2025Rating : ⭐ 6.3

After Ashley asks for a divorce, good-natured Carey runs to his friends, Julie and Paul, for support. He’s shocked to discover that the secret to their happiness is an open marriage, that is until Carey crosses the line and throws all of their relationships into chaos.

The Big Short

Year : 2015Rating : ⭐ 7.4

The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.

Arbitrage

Year : 2012Rating : ⭐ 6.3

A troubled hedge fund magnate, desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire, makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help.

South Park the Streaming Wars Part 2

Year : 2022Rating : ⭐ 7.0

A drought has brought the town of South Park to the brink of disaster.

Careful What You Wish For

Year : 2015Rating : ⭐ 6.1

A guy gets more than he bargained for after entering into an affair with the wife of an investment banker. Soon, a suspicious death and substantial life insurance policy embroil him in a scandal.

Pacific Heights

Year : 1990Rating : ⭐ 6.3

A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.

Limbo

Year : 1999Rating : ⭐ 6.6

Traumatized by a fishing boat accident many years before, Joe Gastineau has given up his hopes for a life beyond the odd jobs he takes to support himself. That quickly changes when nomadic club singer Donna de Angelo and her troubled teen-age daughter enter Joe’s life. Both mother and daughter fall for Joe, increasing the friction between them. The tension continues to build when Joe invites them on a pleasure cruise up the Alaskan coast, discovering too late that the trip may cost them their lives.

The Hateful Eight

Year : 2015Rating : ⭐ 7.8

Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.

Hesher

Year : 2010Rating : ⭐ 6.8

A young boy has lost his mother and is losing touch with his father and the world around him. Then he meets Hesher who manages to make his life even more chaotic.

Grandma

Year : 2015Rating : ⭐ 6.4

Self-described misanthrope Elle Reid has her protective bubble burst when her 18-year-old granddaughter, Sage, shows up needing help. The two of them go on a day-long journey that causes Elle to come to terms with her past and Sage to confront her future.

The Door in the Floor

Year : 2004Rating : ⭐ 6.1

A writer's young assistant becomes both pawn and catalyst in his boss's disintegrating household.

Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar

Year : 2021Rating : ⭐ 6.0

The story of best friends Barb and Star, who leave their small midwestern town for the first time to go on vacation in Vista Del Mar, Florida, where they soon find themselves tangled up in adventure, love, and a villain’s evil plot to kill everyone in town.