American Beauty
1999
Directed by Sam Mendes
Stars; Kevin Spacey
The film won five Academy Awards
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.
American Psycho
2000
Directed by Mary Harron
Stars; Christian Bale
A wealthy New York
investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his
co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous
fantasies.
Atonement
2007
Directed by Joe Wright
Stars; Keira Knightley and James
McAvoy
The film was nominated for two
Oscars and won one
Fledgling writer
Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several
lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit.
(Based on the British romance novel by Ian McEwan).
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless
Mind
2004
Directed my Michel Gondry
Stars; Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet
The film was nominated for two
Oscars and won one
A couple undergo
a procedure to erase each other from their memories when their relationship
turns sour, but it is only through the process of loss that they discover what
they had to begin with.
Fight Club
1999
Directed by David Fincher
Stars: Brad Pitt and Edward Norton
Nominated for many awards
including an Oscar
A
ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male
aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with
underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric
gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
1975
Directed by Milos Forman
Stars: Jack Nicholson
Won five Academy Awards and six
Golden Globes
Upon arrival at a
mental institution, a brash rebel rallies the patients together to take on the
oppressive Nurse Ratched, a woman more a dictator than a nurse.
Pulp Fiction
1994
Directed by Quentin Tarantino
Stars; John Travolta and Uma
Thurman
The film was nominated for two
Oscars and won one
The lives of two
mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine
in four tales of violence and redemption.
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