The Man from Earth (2007)
Director: Richard Schenkman
Plot: An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he never ages and has walked the earth for 14,000 years.
My rating: 7 / 10
Movie rating: 7.9 / 10
Drama, Sci-Fi
Miami Vice (2006)
Director: Michael Mann
Plot: Based on the 1980s TV action/drama, this update focuses on vice detectives Crockett and Tubbs as their respective personal and professional lives become dangerously intertwined.
My rating: 7 / 10
Movie rating: 6.0 / 10
Action, Crime, Thriller
Rush Hour 3 (2007)
Director: Brett Ratner
Plot: After an attempted assassination on Ambassador Han, Lee and Carter head to Paris to protect a French woman with knowledge of the Triads' secret leaders.
My rating: 7 / 10
Movie rating: 6.2 / 10
Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Aşk Tutulması (2008)
Director: Murat Seker
Plot: Ugur who is a fan of the football team, Fenerbahce, meets Pinar incidentally, and he falls in love with her.
My rating: 7 / 10
Movie rating: 5.5 / 10
Comedy, Romance
Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Plot: The daughter of orthodox Sikh rebels against her parents' traditionalism by running off to Germany with a football team (soccer in America).
My rating: 8 / 10
Movie rating: 6.7 / 10
Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
The Soloist (2009)
Director: Joe Wright
Plot: A Los Angeles journalist befriends a homeless Juilliard-trained musician, while looking for a new article for the paper.
My rating: 7 / 10
Movie rating: 6.7 / 10
Biography, Drama, Music
Twilight (2008)
Director: Catherine Hardwicke
Plot: A teenage girl risks everything when she falls in love with a vampire.
My rating: 8 / 10
Movie rating: 5.3 / 10
Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Valkyrie (2008)
Director: Bryan Singer
Plot: A dramatization of the 20 July assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Hitler during World War II.
My rating: 9 / 10
Movie rating: 7.1 / 10
Drama, Thriller, War
American History X (1998)
Director: Tony Kaye
Plot: A former neo-nazi skinhead tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the same wrong path that he did.
My rating: 8 / 10
Movie rating: 8.5 / 10
Crime, Drama
The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
Director: Robert Redford
Plot: A down-and-out golfer attempts to recover his game and his life with help from a mystical caddy.
My rating: 7 / 10
Movie rating: 6.7 / 10
Drama, Fantasy, Sport
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
Director: David Yates
Plot: As Harry Potter begins his sixth year at Hogwarts, he discovers an old book marked as "the property of the Half-Blood Prince" and begins to learn more about Lord Voldemort's dark past.
My rating: 8 / 10
Movie rating: 7.6 / 10
Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
A Touch of Spice (2003)
Director: Tassos Boulmetis
Plot: "A Touch of Spice" is a story about a young Greek boy (Fanis) growing up in Istanbul, whose grandfather...
My rating: 7 / 10
Movie rating: 7.5 / 10
Comedy, Drama
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
Director: Mike Newell
Plot: Harry finds himself mysteriously selected as an under-aged competitor in a dangerous tournament between three schools of magic.
My rating: 9 / 10
Movie rating: 7.7 / 10
Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Life Is Beautiful (1997)
Director: Roberto Benigni
Plot: When an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.
My rating: 9 / 10
Movie rating: 8.6 / 10
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Flawless (2007)
Director: Michael Radford
Plot: Set in 1960 London, where a soon to retire caretaker convinces a glass-ceiling constrained American executive to help him steal a handful of diamonds from their employer, the London Diamond Corporation.
My rating: 8 / 10
Movie rating: 6.7 / 10
Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Plot: A boy who communicates with spirits that don't know they're dead seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist.
My rating: 9 / 10
Movie rating: 8.2 / 10
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Closer (2004)
Director: Mike Nichols
Plot: The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.
My rating: 8 / 10
Movie rating: 7.2 / 10
Drama, Romance
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Plot: The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions become stronger.
My rating: 7 / 10
Movie rating: 8.3 / 10
Drama
Babam ve Oglum (2005)
Director: Çagan Irmak
Plot: Sadik is one of the rebellious youth who has been politically active as a university student and became a left-wing journalist in the 70's...
My rating: 9 / 10
Movie rating: 8.2 / 10
Drama
Léon: The Professional (1994)
Director: Luc Besson
Plot: Mathilda, a 12-year-old girl, is reluctantly taken in by Léon, a professional assassin, after her family is murdered. Léon and Mathilda form an unusual relationship, as she becomes his protégée and learns the assassin's trade.
My rating: 9 / 10
Movie rating: 8.5 / 10
Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Pianist (2002)
Director: Roman Polanski
Plot: A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.
My rating: 9 / 10
Movie rating: 8.5 / 10
Biography, Drama, War
Hulk Vs. (2009)
Director: Sam Liu, Frank Paur
Plot: Two stories featuring Marvel's anti-hero The Incredible Hulk and his encounters with the X-Man Wolverine and the god known as Thor.
My rating: 7 / 10
Movie rating: 6.9 / 10
Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009)
Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak
Plot: When a teenager, Chun-Li witnesses the kidnapping of her father by wealthy crime lord M. Bison. When she grows up, she goes into a quest for vengeance and becomes the famous crime-fighter of the Street Fighter universe.
My rating: 7 / 10
Movie rating: 3.7 / 10
Action, Crime, Fantasy, Thriller
In Bruges (2008)
Director: Martin McDonagh
Plot: Guilt-stricken after a job gone wrong, hitman Ray and his partner await orders from their ruthless boss in Bruges, Belgium, the last place in the world Ray wants to be.
My rating: 8 / 10
Movie rating: 7.9 / 10
Comedy, Crime, Drama
A Good Year (2006)
Director: Ridley Scott
Plot: A British investment broker inherits his uncle's chateau and vineyard in Provence, where he spent much of his childhood. He discovers a new laid-back lifestyle as he tries to renovate the estate to be sold.
My rating: 7 / 10
Movie rating: 6.9 / 10
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Love Me If You Dare (2003)
Director: Yann Samuell
Plot: A love story between two psychopaths that turns into a dare-or-not-dare game.
My rating: 7 / 10
Movie rating: 7.5 / 10
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Good Will Hunting (1997)
Director: Gus Van Sant
Plot: Will Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life.
My rating: 7 / 10
Movie rating: 8.3 / 10
Drama
Changeling (2008)
Director: Clint Eastwood
Plot: A grief-stricken mother takes on the LAPD to her own detriment when it stubbornly tries to pass off an obvious impostor as her missing child, while also refusing to give up hope that she will find him one day.
My rating: 9 / 10
Movie rating: 7.8 / 10
Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Angels & Demons (2009)
Director: Ron Howard
Plot: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon works to solve a murder and prevent a terrorist act against the Vatican.
My rating: 7 / 10
Movie rating: 6.7 / 10
Mystery, Thriller
Seven Pounds (2008)
Director: Gabriele Muccino
Plot: A man with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
My rating: 9 / 10
Movie rating: 7.6 / 10
Drama