Carnage (2011)
Comedy | Drama
Two sets of parents meet to discuss their sons' involvement in a schoolyard fight. The meeting quickly becomes an argument in which the parents attack each other's parenting skills and expose problems in their marriages.
Starring: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, John C. Reilly
Director: Roman Polanski
A Very Long Engagement / Un long dimanche de fiançailles (2004)
Drama | Mystery | Romance | War
Set in France near the end of World War I in the deadly trenches of the Somme, in the gilded Parisien halls of power, and in the modest home of an indomitable provincial girl and her relentless search to find her fiancée, who has disappeared. He is one of five French soldiers believed to have been court-martialed under mysterious circumstances and pushed out of an allied trench into an almost-certain death in no-man's land. All an investigation into the arbitrary nature of secrecy, the absurdity of war, and the enduring passion, intuition and tenacity of the human heart.
Starring: Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Dominique Pinon, Marion Cotillard, Jodie Foster
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Contact (1997)
Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster stars in this visionary drama based on Carl Sagan's novel about human kind's first encounter with extraterrestial life, directed by another Oscar winner, Robert Zemeckis.
Starring: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, David Morse, Jena Malone
Director: Robert Zemeckis
The Beaver (2011)
Comedy | Drama
A troubled husband and executive adopts a beaver hand-puppet as his sole means of communicating.
Starring: Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, Anton Yelchin, Cherry Jones, Jennifer Lawrence, Zachary Booth
Director: Jodie Foster
Nim's Island (2008)
Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Anything can happen on Nim's Island, a magical place ruled by a young girl's imagination. It is an existence that mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rover – the world's greatest adventurer. But Alexandra, the author of the Rover books, leads a reclusive life in the big city. When Nim's father goes missing from their island, a twist of fate brings her together with Alexandra. Now they must draw courage from their fictional hero, Alex Rover, and find strength in one another to conquer Nim's Island.
Starring: Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, Gerard Butler, Michael Carman, Mark Brady
Director: Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin
Inside Man (2006)
Crime | Drama | Thriller
Four people dressed in painters' outfits march into the busy lobby of Manhattan Trust, a cornerstone Wall Street Branch of a worldwide financial institution. Within seconds, the costumed robbers place the bank under a surgically planned siege, and the 50 patrons and staff become unwitting pawns in an airtight heist. NYPD hostage negotiators Detectives Keith Frazier and Bill Mitchell are dispatched to the scene with orders to establish contact with the heist's ringleader, Dalton Russell, and ensure safe release of the hostages. Working alongside Emergency Services Unit (ESU) Captain John Darius, all are hopeful that the situation can be peacefully diffused and that control of the bank and release of those inside can be secured in short order. But Russell proves an unexpectedly canny opponent–clever, calm and totally in command–a puppet master with a meticulous plan to disorient and confuse not only the hostages, but also the authorities. But just what are the robbers after? Why is nothing working to alleviate the standoff? Detecetive Frazier becomes convinced that invisible strings are being pulled and secret negotiations are taking place while the powder keg situation grows more unstable by the moment.
Starring: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe
Director: Spike Lee
