Some Well-Connected Movies
Romeo + Juliet

Shakespeare's famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona still retaining its original dialogue.
1996
Baz Luhrmann
director
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace

Two Jedi Knights escape a hostile blockade to find allies and come across a young boy who may bring balance to the Force, but the long dormant Sith resurface to claim their old glory.
1999
Ewan McGregor
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
Ewan McGregor
actor
Iris

True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
2001
Jim Broadbent
actor
What's the Worst That Could Happen?

A rich man catches a thief burglarizing his home and steals the thief's lucky ring, who then tries to get it back.
2001
John Leguizamo
actor
The Others

A woman who lives in a darkened old house with her two photosensitive children becomes convinced that her family home is haunted.
2001
Nicole Kidman
actor
Birthday Girl

A thirtysomething bank clerk from St Albans has his small-town life exploded by the arrival of his Russian mail-order bride.
2001
Nicole Kidman
actor
Moulin Rouge!
A poet falls for a beautiful courtesan whom a jealous duke covets.
2001
Baz Luhrmann
director
Baz Luhrmann
writer
Craig Pearce
writer
Ewan McGregor
actor
Jim Broadbent
actor
John Leguizamo
actor
Nicole Kidman
actor
The Great Gatsby

A writer and wall street trader, Nick, finds himself drawn to the past and lifestyle of his millionaire neighbor, Jay Gatsby.
2013
Baz Luhrmann
writer
Australia

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand.
2008
Baz Luhrmann
director
Charlie St. Cloud

Charlie's brother, Sam, dies in a car crash that Charlie survives. Charlie is given the gift of seeing his dead brother, but when the girl he falls in love with's life is at risk, he must choose between his girlfriend and his brother.
2010
Craig Pearce
writer
Gangs of New York

In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher, his father's killer.
2002
Jim Broadbent
actor
Ice Age

Set during the Ice Age, a sabertooth tiger, a sloth, and a wooly mammoth find a lost human infant, and they try to return him to his tribe.
2002
John Leguizamo
actor