1. AWAKENINGS (1990)
In the 60s, Parkinson’s Disease was treated with a drug called L-dopa. When Dr. Malcolm Sayer (Robin Williams) visits the Bronx hospital and sees a group of catatonic patients
2. DEAD POETS SOCIETY (1989)
Another Robin Williams classic, Dead Poets Society, follows an English teacher, John Keating, trying to teach his students to go against the status quo.
3. ROOM (2015)
A woman named Joy (Brie Larson), and her five-year-old son, Jack, are captives of a man who keeps them in a room. He routinely abuses Joy.
4. MYSTIC RIVER (2003)
The daughter of an ex-con, Jimmy, is murdered, and two of his childhood friends from the neighborhood are involved. Detective Sean takes up the homicide.
5. THE FOUNTAIN (2006)
This epic romantic drama shows three people living in different centuries searching for the tree of life to gain immortality. A man travels through time to save the woman he loves.
This movie is an adaptation of the autobiography The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man’s Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945, by Wladyslaw Szpilman.