The Hurt Locker is a 2008 American war thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal.

Seraphim Falls is a 2006 American revisionist Western film directed by television producer and director David Von Ancken in his first feature film.

Daniel "Dan" Gallagher is a successful, happily-married Manhattan lawyer whose work leads him to meet Alexandra "Alex" Forrest, an editor for a publishing company.

Writer Nick Eliot (Cary Elwes) secures a job at Pique magazine and lodging in a guest house belonging to Cliff and Liv Forrester (Kurtwood Smith and Gwynyth Walsh).

Sylvie Cooper is a young girl at a private school for the wealthy.

Unmarried English couple Colin and Mary are vacationing in Venice for a second time, in an attempt to rekindle their passionless relationship.

The film begins with a narrated map showing the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by Robert E.

Dave Garver is a KRML radio disc jockey who broadcasts nightly from a studio in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, often incorporating poetry into his program.

16-year-old Nicole Walker (Reese Witherspoon) lives in the suburbs of Seattle with her father Steven (William Petersen), his new wife Laura (Amy Brenneman), and Laura's son Toby (Christopher Gray).

Martha Farnsworth runs a girls school in Virginia during the Civil War. By 1864, almost all of the students, teachers, and enslaved persons have left.

An older man, Andrew Marsh, views a homemade pornographic tape. It is later revealed that Marsh died from complications stemming from erotic asphyxiation.

In 1969, a platoon of soldiers fight in Vietnam, ending with a soldier dying on a helicopter.

Vera (Neve Campbell) is a femme fatale for the 21st century: a beautiful, capricious young woman living in New York who begins exploring the limits of her sexual and intellectual power.

Turmoil erupts in Nigeria following a military coup d'etat in which the president and his family are killed. Foreigners evacuate the country and Lieutenant A. K.

Lily is a sheltered art student from Michigan attending college in California.

Young mother Madylyn Mabry puts her daughter to bed while her husband Jack watches golf on television.

Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Highway is nearing mandatory retirement from the Marine Corps.

In San Francisco, Freudian psychiatrist Isaac Barr treats Diana Baylor, a woman with obsessive–compulsive disorder suffering from frightening and horrific childhood memories, which include images of her drunken father and his death in a fire for which she wasn't blamed.

Ben Cronin is a star swimmer of his high school's swim team. His coach informs him that Stanford University scouts will appear at next week's swim meet.

Julie Styron (Channing) is a middle-aged business woman flying out of town to attend an important meeting.