District 9

IMDB: 7.9/10

In a future Earth in which aliens are isolated in a remote ghetto, a government agent finds himself banished there.

The Fourth Kind

IMDB: 5.9/10

A thriller involving an ongoing unsolved mystery in Alaska, where one town has seen an extraordinary number of unexplained disappearances during the past 40 years and there are accusations of a federal cover up.

The Day the Earth Stood Still

IMDB: 5.5/10

A remake of the 1951 classic science fiction film about an alien visitor and his giant robot counterpart who visit Earth.

The Piano

IMDB: 7.5/10

In the mid-19th century a mute woman is sent to New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a farmer, but is soon lusted after by a farm worker.

Eastern Promises

IMDB: 7.6/10

A teenager who dies during childbirth leaves clues in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.

Up
Up

IMDB: 8.3/10

78-year-old Carl Fredricksen travels to South America in his house equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway.

The Golden Compass

IMDB: 6.1/10

In a parallel universe, young Lyra Belacqua journeys to the far North to save her best friend and other kidnapped children from terrible experiments by a mysterious organization.

American Gangster

IMDB: 7.8/10

An outcast New York City cop is charged with bringing down Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas, whose real life inspired this partly biographical film.