Escape from L.A.

IMDB: 5.7/10

Snake Plissken is once again called in by the United States government to recover a potential doomsday device from Los Angeles, now an autonomous island where undesirables are deported.

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

IMDB: 7.0/10

An adaptation of the cult memoir of game show impresario Chuck Barris (Sam Rockwell), in which he purports to have been a C.I.A. hitman.

Excalibur

IMDB: 7.3/10

Merlin the magician helps Arthur Pendragon unite the Britons around the Round Table of Camelot, even as dark forces conspire to tear it apart.

Less Than Zero

IMDB: 6.4/10

A college freshman returns to L.A. for the holidays at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.

Upgrade

IMDB: 7.5/10

Set in the near-future, technology controls nearly all aspects of life. But when the world of Grey, a self-labeled technophobe, is turned upside down, his only hope for revenge is an experimental computer chip implant.

The Thin Red Line

IMDB: 7.6/10

Adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.

3:10 to Yuma

IMDB: 7.6/10

A small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who's awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher.

A History of Violence

IMDB: 7.4/10

A mild-mannered man becomes a local hero through an act of violence, which sets off repercussions that will shake his family to its very core.