Some Well-Connected Movies
The English Patient

At the close of WWII, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.
1996
Anthony Minghella
director
Elizabeth

A film of the early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch.
1998
Cate Blanchett
actor
An Ideal Husband

Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed....
1999
Cate Blanchett
actor
Sliding Doors

A London woman's love life and career both hinge, unknown to her, on whether or not she catches a train. We see it both ways, in parallel.
1998
Gwyneth Paltrow
actor
eXistenZ

A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.
1999
Jude Law
actor
Rounders

A young man is a reformed gambler who must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks, while balancing his relationship with his girlfriend and his commitments to law school.
1998
Matt Damon
actor
The Talented Mr. Ripley
In late 1950s New York, Tom Ripley, a young underachiever, is sent to Italy to retrieve Dickie Greenleaf, a rich and spoiled millionaire playboy. But when the errand fails, Ripley takes extreme measures.
1999
Anthony Minghella
director
Cate Blanchett
actor
Gwyneth Paltrow
actor
Jude Law
actor
Matt Damon
actor
Patricia Highsmith
writer
Cold Mountain

In the waning days of the American Civil War, a wounded soldier embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with his sweetheart.
2003
Anthony Minghella
director
The Royal Tenenbaums

An estranged family of former child prodigies reunites when their father announces he is terminally ill.
2001
Gwyneth Paltrow
actor
Titan A.E.

A young man learns that he has to find a hidden Earth ship before an enemy alien species does in order to secure the survival of humanity.
2000
Matt Damon
actor
Ripley's Game

A dying family man in need of money is being persuaded to assassinate a European crime boss.
2002
Patricia Highsmith
writer