<a href="http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Beowulf_Director_s_Cut/70047105"><img src="http://cdn-0.nflximg.com/us/boxshots/small/70047105.jpg"/></a><br>Directed by Robert Zemeckis, Beowulf tells of the great 6th-century Scandinavian warrior called upon to defeat a manlike ogre named Grendel (Crispin Glover), a descendant of the biblical murderer Cain. Based on the longest surviving Anglo-Saxon poem, this film adaptation's notable cast includes Anthony Hopkins as King Hrothgar, Angelina Jolie as Grendel's tormented mother, John Malkovich as Unferth and Ray Winstone as Beowulf.