8.0

The Social Network

2010, USA

• Actors: Jesse Eisenberg, Rooney Mara, Bryan Barter, Brenda Song, Dustin Fitzsimons, Armie Hammer, Joseph Mazzello, Patrick Mapel, Max Minghella, Andrew Garfield, Toby Meuli, Alecia Svensen, Calvin Dean, Jami Owen, James Dastoli, Denise Grayson, Robert Dastoli, Scotty Crowe, Jayk Gallagher, Marcella Lentz-Pope, Aria Noelle Curzon, Trevor Wright, Barry Livingston, Marybeth Massett, Randy Evans, John Getz, Rashida Jones, Carrie Armstrong, Henry Roosevelt, David Selby
• Genre: Biography, Drama, History
• Director(s): David Fincher
• Available languages:
  • English English.

On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history... but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.

  7.1

Agora

2008, Spain

• Actors: Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella, Oscar Isaac, Ashraf Barhom, Michael Lonsdale, Rupert Evans, Richard Durden, Sami Samir, Manuel Cauchi, Homayoun Ershadi, Oshri Cohen, Harry Borg, Charles Thake, Yousef 'Joe' Sweid, Andre Agius, Paul Barnes, Christopher Dingli, Clint Dyer, Wesley Ellul, Angele Galea, George Harris, Jordan Kiziuk, Ray Mangion, Alan Meadows, Samuel Montague, Alan Paris, Christopher Raikes, Amber Rose Revah, Charles Sammut, Nikovich Sammut
• Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
• Director(s): Alejandro Amenábar
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Alexandria, 391 CE: Hypatia teaches astronomy, mathematics, and philosophy. Her student Orestes is in love with her, as is Davus, her personal slave. As the city's Christians, led by Ammonius and Cyril, gain political power, the great institutions of learning and governance may not survive. Jump ahead 20 years: Orestes, the city's prefect, has an uneasy peace with Christians, led by Cyril. The Christians enforce public morality; first they see the Jews as their obstacle, then nonbelievers. Hypatia has no interest in faith; she's concerned about the movement of celestial bodies and the brotherhood of all. What place is there for her?

  6.7

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

2007, UK

• Actors: Kelan Pannell, Janette Scott, Simon Pegg, Megan Fox, Gillian Anderson, Kelly Jo Charge, Christian Smith, Katherine Parkinson, Felicity Montagu, Thandie Newton, John Lightbody, Ian Bonar, James Corden, Fenella Woolgar, Chris O'Dowd, Hugh Thompson, Emily Thorling, Jeff Bridges, Miquel Brown, Miriam Margolyes, Nathalie Cox, Kirsten Dunst, Sam Douglas, Charlotte Devaney, Gillian King, Danny Huston, Margo Stilley, Isabella Calthorpe, Hannah Waddingham, Diana Kent
• Genre: Comedy, Romance
• Director(s): Robert B. Weide
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Sidney Young is a disillusioned intellectual who both adores and despises the world of celebrity, fame and glamor. His alternative magazine, Post Modern Review, pokes fun at the media obsessed stars and bucks trends, and so when Young is offered a job at the diametrically opposed conservative New York based Sharps magazine its something of a shock! It seems Sharps editor Clayton Harding is amused by Young's disruption of a post-BAFTA party with a pig posing as Babe. Thus begins Sidney's descent into success - his gradual move from derided outsider to confidante of starlet Sophie Maes. Initially helping him out at Sharps is colleague Alison Olsen, who has her own secret. Wither their friendship?

  6.3

Art School Confidential

2006, USA

• Actors: Max Minghella, Sophia Myles, John Malkovich, Jim Broadbent, Matt Keeslar, Ethan Suplee, Joel Moore, Nick Swardson, Anjelica Huston, Adam Scott, Jack Ong, Scoot McNairy, Jeremy Guskin, Monika Ramnath, Isaac Laskin, Jeanette Brox, Finneus Egan, Shelly Cole, Jean St. James, Cristen Coppen, Michael Shamus Wiles, Katherine Moennig, Ezra Buzzington, Lauren Lee Smith, Travis Walck, Paul Collins, Marshall Bell, Chris McKenna, Marc Vann, Roxanne Day
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Director(s): Terry Zwigoff
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Jerome, a kid from the suburbs who loves to draw, goes to New York City's Strathmore College for his freshman year as a drawing major. Competition and petty jealousy consume faculty and students, with an end-of-first-semester best-student award held out as a grand plum. Worse, a strangler is on the loose, killing people on or next to campus. The idealistic Jerome falls in love with Audrey, a student who models for life-drawing classes and who responds to his sweetness. But he has a rival: the clean-cut, manly Jonah, also a first-year drawing student, whose primitive work draws raves and Audrey's attention. As cynicism seems to corrode everything, Jerome is desperate to win.

  7.1

Syriana

2004, USA

• Actors: Kayvan Novak, George Clooney, Amr Waked, Christopher Plummer, Jeffrey Wright, Chris Cooper, Robert Foxworth, Nicky Henson, Nicholas Art, Matt Damon, Amanda Peet, Steven Hinkle, Daisy Tormé, Peter Gerety, Richard Lintern, Jocelyn Quivrin, Mazhar Munir, Shahid Ahmed, Bikram Singh Bhamra, Roger Yuan, Jayne Atkinson, Thomas McCarthy, Jamey Sheridan, Randall Boffman, Tony French, Max Minghella, Katie Foster, Nadim Sawalha, Alexander Siddig, Ozzie Yue
• Genre: Drama, Thriller
• Director(s): Stephen Gaghan
• Available languages:
  • English English.

A missile disappears in Iran, but the CIA has other problems: the heir to an Emirate gives an oil contract to China, cutting out a US company that promptly fires its immigrant workers and merges with a small firm that has landed a Kazakhstani oil contract. The Department of Justice suspects bribery, and the oil company's law firm finds a scapegoat. The CIA also needs one when its plot to kill the Emir-apparent fails. Agent Bob Barnes, the fall guy, sorts out the double cross. An American economist parlays the death of his son into a contract to advise the sheik the CIA wants dead. The jobless Pakistanis join a fundamentalist group. All roads start and end in the oil fields.