The Last Castle (2001)
Action | Drama | Thriller
A court-martialed General rallies together twelve hundred inmates to rise against a corrupt and sadistic warden.
Starring: Robert Redford, James Gandolfini, Mark Ruffalo, Steve Burton, Delroy Lindo, Paul Calderon
Director: Rod Lurie
The Outpost (2020)
Action | Drama | History | War
A small team of U.S. soldiers battle against hundreds of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.
Starring: Caleb Landry Jones, Scott Eastwood, Milo Gibson, Orlando Bloom, Will Attenborough, Jacob Scipio
Director: Rod Lurie
The Contender (2000)
Drama | Thriller
Senator Laine Hanson is a contender for U.S. Vice President, but information and disinformation about her past surfaces that threatens to derail her confirmation.
Starring: Joan Allen, Jeff Bridges, Gary Oldman, Christian Slater, Sam Elliott, William Petersen
Director: Rod Lurie
Deterrence (1999)
Drama | Thriller
Forced by a freak snowstorm to take refuge in a remote diner, U.S. President Walter Emerson (Kevin Pollak) and his top aides (Timothy Hutton and Sheryl Lee Ralph) receive some shocking news: a large Iraqi offensive has been mounted in the Middle East. Now the President and his staff must try to control a constantly escalating crisis that puts the world on the brink of nuclear doomsday.
Starring: Kevin Pollak, Timothy Hutton, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Clotilde Courau, Badja Djola, Sean Astin
Director: Rod Lurie
Nothing But the Truth (2008)
Drama | Thriller
Thinking Pulitzer Prize and hoping to bring down a President, D.C. political columnist Rachel Armstrong writes that the President ignored the findings of a covert CIA operative when ordering air strikes against Venezuela. Rachel names the agent, Erica Van Doren, a woman whose young daughter is in Rachel's son's class at school. The government moves quickly to force Rachel to name her source. She's jailed for contempt when she refuses. She won't change her mind, and the days add up. Chaos descends on Van Doren's life as well. First Amendment versus national security, marriage and motherhood versus separation. What's the value of a principle?
Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Matt Dillon, Angela Bassett, Alan Alda, Vera Farmiga, David Schwimmer
Director: Rod Lurie
Straw Dogs (2011)
Action | Crime | Thriller
David and Amy Sumner, a Hollywood screenwriter and his actress wife, return to her small hometown in the deep South to prepare the family home for sale after her father's death. Once there, tensions build in their marriage and old conflicts re-emerge with the locals, including Amy's ex-boyfriend Charlie, leading to a violent confrontation.
Starring: James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, Alexander Skarsgård, Willa Holland
Director: Rod Lurie
