6. Operation Argo
Year: 2012
Genre: thriller, drama, biography
Director: Ben Affleck
Duration: 120 minutes
The plot tells us how to adapt the real story. It’s about November 4, 1979. Iran – the revolution is in full swing and Islamists are seizing the US embassy in Tehran. The situation is critical, the hostages of 52 Americans, but not all were captured – six people elude and find refuge with the Canadian ambassador.
Given the complexity of the circumstances, Tony Mendes (a CIA specialist, on the secret evacuation of people from the country), understands that the discovery and, as a result, the killing of Americans is only a matter of time. Terms are compressed to the maximum and an incredible rescue operation is organized, which can happen only in the cinema.
Cinema Search: 7,516
7. Shakespeare in Love
Year: 1998
Genre: drama, melodrama, comedy
Director: John Madden
Length: 123 minutes
We are transported in 1594. The story tells of a young playwright, William Shakespeare. Things are not going well and William plunged into a creative crisis: the muse threw it, the money ran out, and the master of the theater urged on with deadlines. A new play is needed as soon as possible.
It would seem that Shakespeare reached the bottom and there is no way back, but it is at this moment that she comes to her life – the young aristocrat Viola.
The girl poses as a young actor and wants to play the main male role in the play “Romeo and Juliet”. She is an ardent admirer of Shakespeare and a fine actress, but as is usual in such stories, she is engaged to a nobleman. He, in turn, wants to send his future wife to a distant colony.
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8. The City of Thieves
Year: 2010
Genre: thriller, drama, crime
Director: Ben Affleck
Running time: 124 minutes
It’s about Boston. The criminal situation in the city is terrible. Every year more than three hundred bank robberies happen. It’s funny because those craftsmen who from year to year update the banks live nearby. Most of them live in a small town called Charleston, which has an area of no more than one square mile. Doug McRae is one of them.
Doug is different from his companions because he could avoid this grievous thievish fate. However, how not to twist – everything comes to square one, and now Doug is the leader of a gang that trades in looting. The structure includes the most daring attackers. They are proud that they can take what they want with impunity.
Cinema Search: 7,414
9. Payment
Year: 2016
Genre: action, thriller, drama
Director: Gavin O`Connor
Length: 128 minutes
The tape tells us about Christian Wulf. He is a mathematical genius, he is an auditor for the most dangerous criminal organizations. We learn his story, all the way from a sick autistic boy, jammed and troubled to a successful auditor who can find any shortcomings in huge reporting.
As soon as the Ministry of Finance sits on its tail, Christian finds the only right decision – to take an honest client and conduct an audit. The situation is regular and work goes on as usual. What secrets can the ordinary robotics company store?
A girl who noticed a multimillion-dollar “nestykovichku” introduces Christian in the course of the matter. However, as soon as he moves forward, victims immediately begin to appear.
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10. School ties
Year: 1992
Genre: Drama
Directed by: Robert Mandel
Length: 106 minutes
In the center of the story is a young man named David Green. For him – a descendant of an ordinary family, such luxury as the most prestigious college in America is something fantastic. This is not strange, because such an institution as Harvard University is a haven for the generation of children of aristocrats, as well as the offspring of the rich.
Dave was fucking lucky. For him, an ordinary person from the province made an exception. Now he must prove to everyone that he is worthy to study in a prestigious institution. Of course, for all of them he is an outcast and not equal, but besides this, Green is hampered by a mystery that in the fifties could completely change everything and bring down all his dreams.
Approximately, this happens, because everything secret becomes clear with time. Now Green needs to overcome everything and enter into a fierce struggle with all who previously seemed to his friends.
