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Perhaps this middling film might play better in England, where audiences can pick up on cultural cues invisible to us dumb Yanks. But for those of us here Stateside, its hard to buy the conceit that the little guy in the big city will triumph with integrity. We know better. Out here in the real world, intelligence and wit are no match for towering stupidity.

After a plane crash, a young therapist, Claire Anne Hathaway, is assigned by her mentor Andre Braugher to counsel the flights five survivors. When they share their recollections of the incident -- which some say include an explosion that the airline claims never happened -- Claire is intrigued by Eric Patrick Wilson, the most secretive of the passengers. Just as Claires professional relationship with Eric -- despite her better judgment -- blossoms into a romance, the survivors begin to disappear mysteriously, one by one. Claire suspects that Eric may hold all the answers and becomes determined to uncover the truth,

In The International, a gripping thriller, Interpol Agent Louis Salinger Clive Owen and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman Naomi Watts are determined to bring to justice one of the worlds most powerful banks. Uncovering myriad and reprehensible illegal activities, Salinger and Whitman follow the money from Berlin to Milan to New York to Istanbul. Finding themselves in a high-stakes chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives at risk as their targets will stop at nothing -- even murder -- to continue financing terror and war. Directed by Tom Tykwer Run Lola Run from an original

Based on Washington Post columnist David Ignatius 2007 novel about a CIA operative, Roger Ferris Leonardo DiCaprio, who uncovers a lead on a major terrorist leader suspected to be operating out of Jordan. When Ferris devises a plan to infiltrate his network, he must first win the backing of cunning CIA veteran Ed Hoffman Russell Crowe and the collegial, but perhaps suspect, head of Jordanian intelligence.