Some Well-Connected Movies
Mission to Mars

When the first manned mission to Mars meets with a catastrophic and mysterious disaster after reporting an unidentified structure, a rescue mission is launched to investigate the tragedy and bring back any survivors.
2000
Connie Nielsen
actor
Amistad

In 1839, the revolt of Mende captives aboard a Spanish owned ship causes a major controversy in the United States when the ship is captured off the coast of Long Island. The courts must decide whether the Mende are slaves or legally free.
1997
David Franzoni
writer
8MM

"A private investigator is hired to discover if a """"snuff film"""" is authentic or not."
1999
Joaquin Phoenix
actor
Quills

In a Napoleonic era insane asylum, an inmate, the irrepressible Marquis De Sade, fights a battle of wills against a tyrannically prudish doctor.
2000
Joaquin Phoenix
actor
Lion of the Desert

In the Fascist Italy Pre-World War II of Benito Mussolini, the cruel General Rodolfo Graziani is directly assigned by Il Duce to fight in the colonial war in Libya to vanquish the Arab ...
1980
Oliver Reed
actor
G.I. Jane

A female Senator succeeds in enrolling a woman into Combined Reconnaissance Team training where everyone expects her to fail.
1997
Ridley Scott
director
Proof of Life

Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South America.
2000
Russell Crowe
actor
Gladiator
When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.
2000
Connie Nielsen
actor
David Franzoni
writer
Joaquin Phoenix
actor
Oliver Reed
actor
Ridley Scott
director
Russell Crowe
actor
One Hour Photo

A mentally unstable photo developer begins to attack a middle-class family after his obsession with them becomes more sick and disturbing than any of them could imagine.
2002
Connie Nielsen
actor
Black Hawk Down

160 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis.
2001
Ridley Scott
director
A Beautiful Mind

After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.
2001
Russell Crowe
actor