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24: Redemption
An rated TV-14 action movie starring Kiefer Sutherland, Cherry Jones and Bob Gunton
Jack Bauer confronts African general/aspiring dictator Benjamin Juma, whose forces have been ordered to capture the children Bauer oversees for malicious military training.
Citizen Kane (1941)
A drama starring Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten and Dorothy Comingore
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
Black Rain (1989)
A thriller starring Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia and Ken Takakura
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. However, in Japan he manages to escape, and as they try to track him down, they get deeper and deeper into the Japanese Mafia scene and they have to learn that they can only win by playing the game—the Japanese way.
When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)
A drama starring Andy Garcia, Meg Ryan and Tina Majorino
An airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addictions threaten her life and their daughter's safety. While the woman enters detox, her husband must face the truth of his enabling behavior.
Beasts of No Nation (2015)
A war movie starring Abraham Attah, Idris Elba and Emmanuel Nii Adom Quaye
Based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of a West African country. Follows Agu's journey as he's forced to join a group of soldiers. While he fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination.
Ran (1985)
A history movie starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao and Jinpachi Nezu
Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.