8.5

Requiem for a Dream 2000

Genres: Drama

Country: USA

Directors: Darren Aronofsky

Actors: Christopher McDonald, Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans, Louise Lasser, Marcia Jean Kurtz

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

Year: 2000

Drugs. They consume mind, body and soul. Once you're hooked, you're hooked. Four lives. Four addicts. Four failures. Doing their best to succeed in the world, but failing miserably, four people get hooked on various drugs. Despite their aspirations of greatness, they succumb to their addictions. Watching the addicts spiral out of control, we bear witness to the dirtiest, ugliest portions of the underworld addicts reside in. It is shocking and eye-opening but demands to be seen by both addicts and non-addicts alike.

8.1

The Wrestler 2008

Genres: Drama, Sport

Country: USA, France

Directors: Darren Aronofsky

Actors: Marcia Jean Kurtz, Mark Margolis, Evan Rachel Wood, Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Todd Barry, Wass Stevens

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

Year: 2008

This is a drama about an aging professional wrestler, decades past his prime, who now barely gets by working small wrestling shows in VFW halls and as a part-time grocery store employee. As he faces health problems that may end his wrestling career for good he attempts to come to terms with his life outside the ring: by working full time at the grocery store, trying to reconcile with the daughter he abandoned in childhood and forming a closer bond with a stripper he has romantic feelings for. He struggles with his new life and an offer of a high-profile rematch with his 1980s arch-nemesis, The Ayatollah, which may be his ticket back to stardo...

7.4

The Fountain 2006

Genres: Romance, Drama, Sci-Fi

Country: USA

Directors: Darren Aronofsky

Actors: Donna Murphy, Hugh Jackman, Ellen Burstyn, Mark Margolis, Cliff Curtis, Rachel Weisz, Ethan Suplee

Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def

Year: 2006

Three stories - one each from the past, present, and future - about men in pursuit of eternity with their love. A conquistador in Mayan country searches for the tree of life to free his captive queen; a medical researcher, working with various trees, looks for a cure that will save his dying wife; a space traveler, traveling with an aged tree encapsulated within a bubble, moves toward a dying star that's wrapped in a nebula; he seeks eternity with his love. The stories intersect and parallel; the quests fail and succeed.

7.5

Pi 1998

Genres: Thriller, Drama, Sci-Fi

Country: USA

Directors: Darren Aronofsky

Actors: Joanne Gordon, Mark Margolis, Ajay Naidu, Ben Shenkman, Stephen Pearlman, Lauren Fox, Stanley Herman

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

Year: 1998

Max is a genius mathematician who's built a supercomputer at home that provides something that can be understood as a key for understanding all existence. Representatives both from a Hasidic cabalistic sect and high-powered Wall Street firm hear of that secret and attempt to seduce him.

6.9

Fortune Cookie 1991

Genres: Comedy, Short

Country: USA

Directors: Darren Aronofsky

Actors: Stanley B. Herman

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

Year: 1991

8.2

Black Swan 2010

Genres: Thriller, Drama

Country: USA

Directors: Darren Aronofsky

Actors: Winona Ryder, Mark Margolis, Barbara Hershey, Vincent Cassel, Natalie Portman, Kristina Anapau, Tina Sloan

Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def

Year: 2010

Nina (Portman) is a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her obsessive former ballerina mother Erica (Hershey) who exerts a suffocating control over her. When artistic director Thomas Leroy (Cassel) decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre (Ryder) for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice. But Nina has competition: a new dancer, Lily (Kunis), who impresses Leroy as well. Swan Lake requires a dancer who can play both the White Swan with innocence and grace, and the Black Swan, who represents ...