Some Well-Connected Movies
Lost in Space

The Robinson family was going into space to fight for a chance for humanity. Now they are fighting to live long enough to find a way home.
1998
Akiva Goldsman
writer
Dracula 2000

A group of thieves break into a chamber expecting to find paintings, but instead they release the count himself, who travels to New Orleans to find his nemesis' daughter, Mary Van Helsing.
2000
Christopher Plummer
actor
Enemy at the Gates

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.
2001
Ed Harris
actor
Buffalo Soldiers

A criminal subculture operates among U.S. soldiers stationed in West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin wall.
2001
Ed Harris
actor
Requiem for a Dream

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep.
2000
Jennifer Connelly
actor
How the Grinch Stole Christmas

On the outskirts of Whoville, there lives a green, revenge-seeking Grinch who plans on ruining the Christmas holiday for all of the citizens of the town.
2000
Ron Howard
director
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
Russell Crowe
actor
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
Akiva Goldsman
writer
Christopher Plummer
actor
Ed Harris
actor
Jennifer Connelly
actor
Ron Howard
director
Russell Crowe
actor
The Da Vinci Code

A murder inside the Louvre and clues in Da Vinci paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years -- which could shake the foundations of Christianity.
2006
Akiva Goldsman
writer
Ararat

Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.
2002
Christopher Plummer
actor
House of Sand and Fog

An abandoned wife is evicted from her house and starts a tragic conflict with her home's new owners.
2003
Jennifer Connelly
actor
Cinderella Man

The story of James Braddock, a supposedly washed-up boxer who came back to become a champion and an inspiration in the 1930s.
2005
Ron Howard
director
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

During the Napoleonic Wars, a brash British captain pushes his ship and crew to their limits in pursuit of a formidable French war vessel around South America.
2003
Russell Crowe
actor