"The Shape of Water" (2017)

"The Shape of Water" (2017)

"The Shape of Water" (2017)

TSG Entertainment / Double Dare You Productions

At a top secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity.

"The Shape of Water" is a 2017 American romantic dark fantasy drama film directed by Guillermo del Toro and written by del Toro and Vanessa Taylor. It stars Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Octavia Spencer. Set in Baltimore in 1962, the story follows a mute custodian at a high-security government laboratory who falls in love with a captured humanoid amphibian creature.

Contemporary (Released since yr 2000)

Molly's Game (2017)

Jessica Chastain w/Idris Elba | "Mollys Game" (2017)

"Molly's Game" (Dec. 2017)

MOLLY’S GAME is based on the true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game for a decade before being arrested in the middle of the night by 17 FBI agents wielding automatic weapons. Her players included Hollywood royalty, sports stars, business titans and finally, unbeknownst to her, the Russian mob.

Contemporary (Released since yr 2000)

"Gladiator" (2000)

"Gladiator" (2000)

"Gladiator" (2000)

When a Roman General, Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe) is betrayed, and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son (Joaquin Phoenix), he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge. In the final days of Marcus Aurelius' (Richard Harris) reign, the aging emperor arouses his son Commodus' anger when he makes known his wish that Maximus be his successor. Power-hungry Commodus kills his father and orders the death of Maximus. But the latter flees and hides his identity by becoming slave and a gladiator. Eventually, Maximus journeys back to Rome to confront his archrival.

Contemporary (Released since yr 2000)

"A Beautiful Mind" (2001)

"A Beautiful Mind" (2001)

"A Beautiful Mind" (2001)

After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish. "A Beautiful Mind" is a 2001 American biographical drama film based on the life of John Nash (Russell Crowe), a Nobel Laureate in Economics. The film was directed by Ron Howard, from a screenplay written by Akiva Goldsman. It was inspired by a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-nominated 1998 book of the same name by Sylvia Nasar. The story begins in Nash's days as a graduate student at Princeton University. Early in the film, Nash begins to develop paranoid schizophrenia and endures delusional episodes while painfully watching the loss and burden his condition brings on wife Alicia (Jennifer Connelly) and friends.

Contemporary (Released since yr 2000)