MELISSA LEO

SNOWDEN (2016)
Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Tom Wilkinson, Rhys Ifans, Nicholas Cage, Scott Eastwood, Logan Marshall-Green and Ben Schnetzer. Directed by Oliver Stone.

The film follows Edward Snowden, an American computer professional who leaked classified information from the National Security Agency to The Guardian in June 2013.

LONDON HAS FALLEN (2016)
Starring Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett, Melissa Leo, Jackie Earle Haley and Radha Mitchell. Directed by Babak Najafi.

The sequel to Olympus Has Fallen begins in London, where the British Prime Minister has passed away under mysterious circumstances. His funeral is a must-attend event for leaders of the western world. But what starts out as the most protected event on earth, turns into a deadly plot to kill the world's most powerful leaders, devastate every known landmark in the British capital, and unleash a terrifying vision of the future. Only three people have any hope of stopping it: the President of the United States, his formidable secret service head, and an English MI-6 agent who rightly trusts no one.

REVIEWS London Has Fallen - ...and its hero has a smart mouth and a knife

THE EQUALIZER (2014)
Starring Denzel Washington, ChloË Grace Moretz, Marton Csokas, David Harbour and Melissa Leo. Directed by Anton Fuqua.

The story of a former black ops commando who faked his death and is now living a quiet life and returns to action to rescue a prostitute from evil pimps; his actions cause the Russian mob to send rogue CIA agents to kill him; he battles back against overwhelming odds, defeating them and becoming The Equalizer.

THE BUTLER (2013)
Starring Forest Whittaker - Cecil Gaines, Oprah Winfrey, Jane Fonda, John Cusack, Cuba Gooding Jr, Robin Williams, Alan Rickman, James Marsden, Liev Schreiber and Melissa Leo. Directed by Lee Daniels.

For three decades, Cecil Gaines served as the chief butler for eight consecutive U.S. presidents, including Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. Working intimately with these world leaders at the White House, from his unique vantage point Cecil Gaines witnessed radical transformations in American history through the civil rights movement to Vietnam and the Cold War - and how those changes affected his life and family.

REVIEWS The Butler - An extraordinary slice of history

PRISONERS (2013)
Starring Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Maria Bello, Terrence Howard, Melissa Leo and Paul Dano. Directed by Denis Villeneuve.

A Boston man kidnaps the person he suspects is behind the disappearance of his young daughter and her best friend.

OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN (2013)
Starring Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Angela Bassett, Mark Gill, Radha Mitchell, Morgan Freeman, Dylan McDermott, Ashley Judd, Melissa Leo and Rick Yune. Directed by Antonie Fuqha.

A disgraced U.S. Secret Service agent is the only man who can save the President and the country when the White House is seized by Terrorists.

REVIEWS Olympus Has Fallen - Film crashes and burns

FLIGHT (2013)
Starring Denzel Washington - Whip, Melissa Leo, John Goodman and Don Cheadle. Directed by Robert Zemeckis.

A seasoned airline pilot miraculously crash-lands his plane after a mid-air catastrophe, saving nearly every soul on board. After the crash, Whip is hailed as a hero, but as more is learned, more questions than answers arise as to who or what was really at fault and what really happened on that plane?

REVIEWS Flight - An unfortunate crash-and-burn
Flight - High-flying drama narrowly avoids crash landing