The Sweet Hereafter (1997)

The Sweet Hereafter (1997)

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Ian Holm gives a career highlight performance in this Atom Egoyan adaptation of Russell Banks’ novel. Holm plays a lawyer who travels to a snowy, rural town to incite a lawsuit after a bus crash robs the community of its children. Naturally, no one trusts Holm at first, but the more he digs, the more secrets are uncovered, and the more the community unravels.

Alien (1979)

Alien (1979)

[10] Ridley Scott's sci-fi/horror opus Alien is a haunted house movie set in outer space, where a ragtag team of "space truckers" do battle with one of the most fascinating monsters in movie history. Scott is one of the finest…