There is a separate category of films, the success of which is determined by a single actor or actress. And it’s precisely this work that can be so deeply embedded in the memory and heart of the viewer that the budget, special effects, and star partners in the frame will recede into the background.
Presenting 10 films that one actor “made”.
10. Outcast | 2000
Chuck Noland is a fanatic of his craft. He works as an inspector of the Federal Express mail delivery service, and every day he carefully and meticulously monitors the deadlines, counting every minute.
He throws all his strength into minimizing the time of delivery of mail parcels. Among this monotonous working routine, it is very difficult for the hero to find a moment for friends and the woman he loves.
However, at one point he decides to get married. But before this important step, Chuck still wants to go on a business trip.
On the way to the destination, the plane in which the hero flew crashes under the influence of the elements. The waves of the ocean throw it on the shore of the island ...
9. Bronson | 2008
This tragicomedy is dedicated to the “UK's coolest prisoner.” In the mid-seventies, a 19-year-old guy named Michael Peterson raided the post office.
This crime ended in failure for the organizer - the grievous criminal was quickly caught and was eventually sentenced to seven years in prison.
But, instead of seven years, he spent 34 years in prison, of which 13 were in solitary confinement.
Of course, such a test could not but affect Michael's psyche - gradually the identity of the robber crushed his alter ego, whom he himself called Charles Bronson ...
8. 1408 | 2007
Mike Enslin is an expert in a variety of paranormal activities. Once he decided to write a book about mysterious ghosts that appear in hotels.
Enslin is realistic and rather ironic about the rumors about the existence of a poltergeist and other inexplicable phenomena, so when he receives an advertising card from a certain hotel “Dolphin”, with an ominous inscription: “Do not enter 1408!”, Naturally, does not shudder before mystery.
Hoping to expose the next, as he believes, advertising campaign of the hotel owners, he settles in the Dolphin hotel in the 1408 room.
Of course, Mike does not take seriously the warnings of the senior manager, who said that almost all the guests who lived in this room either committed suicide or died from natural causes. And which is quite predictable, this story not only didn’t scare Enslin, but also inflamed the curiosity of the beginning writer even more ...
7. The moon 2112 | 2009
The picture unfolds in the thirties of the XXI century. Sam Bell is an astronaut completing a 3-year solitary shift at the lunar mining complex. Very soon, a heavy realization will come to him that he is completely not the one he used to consider himself.
Sam's mental ill health, provoked by long isolation and depressing loneliness, has more long-standing reasons than it might seem at first glance.
It turns out that his pathological paranoia has a very real foundation, but the protagonist begins to understand this situation and try to find a way out of it only after meeting his double ...
6. Life Pi | 2012
A Hindu with the strange name of Pi gives an interview to a writer who wants to use his extraordinary biography for creative purposes.
As a child, Pi moved with his family from India to Canada in a cargo ship, which also contained animals from the zoo. Suddenly, a severe storm began in the sea, and the child accidentally ended up in the same boat with a hyena, zebra, orangutan and tiger.
As a result, Pi was made up of only one tiger. For a long time they were provided to each other in the vast ocean, until they approached the Mexican coast.
However, when Pi told people his fantastic story, he did not believe him, and then Pi composed a different version of the development of events ...
5. Telephone box | 2002
Advertising agent Stu - Cynic and selfish. One day he went into a telephone booth to call a young actress Pamela, whom he had lied about, which could help her successfully complete the tests just to sleep with her.
He decided to use the city payphone only so that his wife Kelly would not have guessed anything. During his conversation, a pizza delivery man turns to him, but Stu got a naughty answer.
After talking with another lover, the man hangs up, but at that moment the phone rang again ...
4. 127 hours | 2010
A desperate climber and cave explorer once again decides to go to the mountains. However, this time luck was not on his side - he was in a death trap.
He had to spend 127 hours without food, water and almost without any hope of escape. This is where the true fortitude is tested ...
3. Enough for me! | 1992
The central character of the picture is Foster. He, committing crimes one after another, moves around Los Angeles in the hope of getting to his ex-wife’s house to attend his daughter’s birthday.
On the way, several meetings make the hero respond with violence and seriously think about the meaning of life, poverty, economics and commercialization.
2. I am a legend | 2007
Robert Neville lives in a dark post-apocalyptic reality. He is probably the only surviving person in New York.
All his attempts to find someone else alive using radio communications ended in failure. Every day he has to scour the streets of the city, hoping to find food in the empty houses.
He is also looking for a formula for a serum against a deadly virus that has turned most of the planet into the walking dead.
1. Buried alive | 2010
US citizen Paul Conroy, who is contractually serving as a driver in a war zone in Iraq, is fired along with the entire convoy. Paul is taken prisoner, where he is brutally beaten.
After some time, Paul comes to his senses in the dark, in some cramped box. His arms and legs are tied, and a gag in his mouth. Looking around a bit, Conroy realizes that he is in a coffin.
Now only a miracle can save him, but with every moment of hope he has less and less ...