Life Is Beautiful - (1997) A Jewish man has a wonderful romance with the help of his humour, but must use that same quality to protect his son in a Nazi death camp.

City Of God - (2002) Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer.

American History X - (1998) A former neo-nazi skinhead tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the same wrong path that he did.

North By Northwest - (1959) A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive.

Memento - (2000) A man, suffering from short-term memory loss, uses notes and tattoos to hunt for the man he thinks killed his wife.

Vertigo - (1958) A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's much-younger wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb - (1964) An insane general starts a process to nuclear holocaust that a war room of politicians and generals frantically try to stop.

The Usual Suspects - (1995) A boat has been destroyed, criminals are dead, and the key to this mystery lies with the only survivor and his twisted, convoluted story beginning with five career crooks in a seemingly random police lineup.

Princess Mononoke - (1997) On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and Tatara, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime.

Alien: Resurrection (1997) Special Edition - Two centuries after her death, Ellen Ripley is revived as a powerful human/alien hybrid clone who must continue her war against the aliens.