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Director:Martin Scorsese
Starring:Asa Butterfield,Ben Kingsley,Chloe Moretz,Emily Mortimer,Jude Law,Helen McCrory,Sasha Baron Cohen The Plot:Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton. propelas's rating:
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Starring:Matt Damon,Gwyneth Paltrow,Kate Winslet,Jude Law,Lawrence Fishburne,Marion Cottilard,Bryan Cranston The Plot:"Contagion" follows the rapid progress of a lethal airborne virus that kills within days. As the fast-moving epidemic grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself. At the same time, ordinary people struggle to survive in a society coming apart. propelas's rating:
Director:Kenneth Lonergan
Starring:Matt Damon,Anna Paquin,Mark Ruffalo,Matthew Broderick,Jean Reno The Plot: Margaret centers on a 17-year-old New York City high-school student who feels certain that she inadvertently played a role in a traffic accident that has claimed a woman's life. In her attempts to set things right she meets with opposition at every step. Torn apart with frustration, she begins emotionally brutalizing her family, her f Margaret centers on a 17-year-old New York City high-school student who feels certain that she inadvertently played a role in a traffic accident that has claimed a woman's life. In her attempts to set things right she meets with opposition at every step. Torn apart with frustration, she begins emotionally brutalizing her family, her friends, her teachers, and most of all, herself. She has been confronted quite unexpectedly with a basic truth: that her youthful ideals are on a collision course against the realities and compromises of the adult world. Director:Steve McQueen
Starring:Michael Fassbender,Carey Mulligan The Plot:A drama centered on 30-something Brandon, his myriad sexual escapades, and what happens when his wayward younger sister moves in with him. Director:Lars Von Trier
Starring:Kirsten Dunst,Charlotte Gainsbourg,Charlotte Rampling,Kiefer Sutherland,John Hurt The Plot:Justine and Michael are celebrating their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of her sister and brother-in-law. Meanwhile, the planet, Melancholia, is heading towards Earth... propelas's rating:
Director:Pedro Almodovar
Starrind:Antonio Banderas,ElenA Anaya,Marisa Paredes ![]() The Plot:A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession. propelas's rating:
Directors:Rupert Wyatt
Starring:James Franco,Freida Pinto,Andy Serkis,Brian Cox,John Lithgow,Tom Felton The Plot:An origin story set in present day San Francisco, where man's own experiments with genetic engineering lead to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy. propelas's rating:
Director:Paolo Sorrentino
Starring:Sean Penn,Frances McDormand,Judd Hirsch ![]() The Plot:Cheyenne, a wealthy former rock star (Penn), now bored and jaded in his retirement embarks on a quest to find his father's persecutor, an ex-Nazi war criminal now hiding out in the U.S. Learning his father is close to death, he travels to New York in the hope of being reconciled with him during his final hours, only to arrive too late. Having been estranged for over 30 years, it is only now in death that he learns the true extent of his father's humiliation in Auschwitz at the hands of former SS Officer Aloise Muller - an event he is determined to avenge. So begins a life-altering journey across the heartland of America to track down and confront his father's nemesis. As his quest unfolds, Cheyenne is reawakened by the people he encounters and his journey is transformed into one of reconciliation and self discovery. As his date with destiny arrives and he tracks down Muller, Cheyenne must finally decide if it is redemption he seeks ....or revenge. ... Director:Phyllida Lloyd
Starring:Meryl Streep,Jim Broadbent The Plot:Tells the story of a woman who smashed through the barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world. The story concerns power and the price that is paid for power, and is a surprising and insightful portrait of an extraordinary and complex woman. propelas's rating:
Director:John Jopson
Starring:John Hurt,Tim Roth The Plot:The story of a talented young woman painter whose recognition was usurped by the prejudices of the male-dominated art scene of 19th century Paris and Florence. Director:Baz Luhrmann
Starring:Leonardo Di Caprio,Carey Mulligan,Isla Fisher,Tobey Maguire The Plot: An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await. Director:Terry Gilliam
Starring:Ewan McGregor,Robert Duvall Director:Wes Anderson
Starring:Bruce Willis,Frances McDormand,Edward Norton,Bill Murray,Harvey Keitel,Tilda Swindon The Plot:Set on an island off the coast of New England in the 1960s, as a young boy and girl fall in love they are moved to run away together. Various factions of the town mobilize to search for them and the town is turned upside down -- which might not be such a bad thing. propelas's rating:
Director:Steven Spielberg
Starring:David Thewlis,Emily Watson,Tom Hiddleston The Plot: Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War, War Horse begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets—British cavalry, German soldiers, and a French farmer and his granddaughter—before the story reaches its emotional climax in the heart of No Man's Land. Director:Bruce Robinson
Starring:Johnny Depp,Amber Heard,Aaaron Eckhart,Richard Jenkins,Amaury Nolasco ![]() The Plot:Paul Kemp is a freelance journalist who finds himself at a critical turning point in his life while writing for a run-down newspaper in the Caribbean. Paul is challenged on many levels as he tries to carve out a more secure niche for himself amidst a group of lost souls all bent on self-destruction. Director:Brad Bird
Starring:Tom Cruise,Jeremy Renner,Simon Pegg,Tom Wilkinson,Josh Holloway,Paula Patton,Ving Rhames The Plot:The IMF is shut down when it's implicated in the bombing of the Kremlin, causing Ethan Hunt and his new team to go rogue to clear their organization's name. propelas's rating:
Director:Yimou Zhang
Starring:Christian Bale,Shigeo Kobayashi The Plot:Chinese sex workers in 1937 volunteer to replace university students as escorts for invading Japanese soldiers. Director:Quentin Tarantino
Starring:Leonardo Di Caprio,Samuel L. Jackson,Kevin Costner,Christoph Waltz,Jamie Foxx The Plot:A slave-turned-bounty hunter sets out to rescue his wife from the brutal Calvin Candie, a Mississippi plantation owner. propelas's rating:
Director:Terrence Malick
Starring:Rachel McAdams,Rachel Weisz,Ben Affleck,Javier Bardem,Jessica Chastain,Barry Pepper,Amanda Peet,Olga Kurylenko Director:Lone Scherfig
Starring:Anne Hathaway,Jim Sturgess,Patricia Clarkson The Plot:After spending the night together on the night of their college graduation Dexter and Em are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, sometimes not, on that day. Director:George Clooney
Starring:George Clooney,Ryan Gosling,Evan Rachel Wood,Philip Seymour Hoffman,Paul Giamatti,Marisa Tomei The Plot:An idealistic staffer for a newbie presidential candidate gets a crash course on dirty politics during his stint on the campaign trail. Based on the play by Beau Willimon. propelas's rating:
Director:Walter Salles
Starring:Sam Riley,Garrett Hedlund,Kristen Stewart,Kirsten Dunst,Viggo Mortensen,Amy Adams The Plot:Dean and Sal are the portrait of the Beat Generation living in the here and now during the Fifties. Their search for "It" results in a fast paced, energetic roller coaster ride with highs and lows throughout the U.S. Director:Michel Hazanavicius
Starring:Malcolm McDowell,John Goodman,Missi Pyle The PlotHollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break. propelas's rating:
Director:Alexander Payne
Starring:George Clooney,Judy Greer The Plot"The Descendants" is a sometimes humorous, sometimes tragic journey for Matt King (George Clooney) an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries. propelas's rating:
Director:Larry Charles
Starring:Sacha Baron Cohen,John C.Reily,Ben Kingley,Megan Fox,Anna Faris The Plot:The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed. propelas's rating:
Director:Ridley Scott
Starring:Michael Fassbender,Noomi Rapace,Ben Foster,Guy Pearce,Charlize Theron propelas's rating:
Director:Mark Foster
Starring:Brad Pitt,Mireille Enos,James Badge Dale Director:David Cronenberg
Starring:Robert Pattinson,Jay Baruchel,Paul Giamatti,Samantha Morton,Juliette Binoche,Kevin Durand,Mathieu Amalric propelas's rating:
Director:Richard Linklater
Starring:Jack Black,Matthew McConaughey,Shirley MacLaine The Plot:In small-town Texas, the local mortician strikes up a friendship with a wealthy widow, though when he kills her, he goes to great lengths to create the illusion that she's alive. Director:Rian Johnson
Starring:Joseph Gordon Levitt,Emily Blunt,Bruce Willis,Paul Dano,Jeff Daniels The Plot:A killer who works for the mob of the future recognizes one of his targets as his future self. propelas's rating:
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totally agree with most everything here!
Dragon tattoo, dark k. rises, melancholia, war horse, damn!
great list
though I question whether it was necessary to reboot
Spider Man a mere 5 years after the last Spider Man movie,
but we shall see.
so don't wait...