Movies watched in 2011

Rewatched

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Director: Martin McDonagh
Writers: Martin McDonagh

Cast: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes, Clémence Poésy, Thekla Reuten, Jordan Prentice

Soundtrack: Carter Burwell

Tagline: Shoot first. Sightsee later.

Plot: Holed up in Bruges, Belgium after a difficult job, two hit men begin to differ on their views of life and death as they become used to local customs.

Genre: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Runtime: 107min
Country: UK | USA
Language: English | German

Director: Richard Linklater
Writers: Richard Linklater

Cast: Trevor Jack Brooks, Lorelei Linklater, Wiley Wiggins, Bill Wise, Robert C. Solomon, Kim Krizan, Eamonn Healy, J.C. Shakespeare, Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Charles Gunning

Soundtrack: Glover Gill

Plot: A man shuffles through a dream meeting various people and discussing the meanings and purposes of the universe.

Genre: Animation | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery
Runtime: 99min
Country: USA
Language: English

Director: Matthew Vaughn
Writers: Ashley Miller, Zack Stentz

Cast: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Kevin Bacon, Rose Byrne, Jennifer Lawrence, Álex González, Jason Flemyng, Zoë Kravitz, January Jones, Nicholas Hoult

Soundtrack: Henry Jackman

Plot: Before he was Professor X, he was Charles. Before he was Magneto, he was Erik. Before they were enemies, they were allies.

Genre: Action | Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi
Runtime: 132min
Country: USA
Language: English | German | French | Spanish | Russian

Director: Kenneth Branagh
Writers: Ashley Miller, Zack Stentz

Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Anthony Hopkins, Stellan Skarsgård, Kat Dennings, Clark Gregg, Idris Elba, Colm Feore, Ray Stevenson

Soundtrack: Patrick Doyle

Tagline: Two worlds. One hero.

Plot: The powerful but arrogant warrior Thor is cast out of the fantastic realm of Asgard and sent to live amongst humans on Earth, where he soon becomes one of their finest defenders.

Genre: Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Runtime: 115min
Country: USA
Language: English

Director: Rob Marshall
Writers: Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio

Cast: Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Geoffrey Rush, Ian McShane, Kevin McNally, Sam Claflin, Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Stephen Graham, Keith Richards

Soundtrack: Hans Zimmer

Plot: Jack Sparrow and Barbossa embark on a quest to find the elusive fountain of youth, only to discover that Blackbeard and his daughter are after it too.

Genre: Action | Adventure | Fantasy
Runtime: 136min
Country: USA
Language: English

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Director: Brian De Palma
Writers: Oliver Stone (screenplay), Armitage Trail (novel)

Cast: Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia, Miriam Colon, F. Murray Abraham, Paul Shenar, Harris Yulin

Soundtrack: Giorgio Moroder

Tagline: The world is yours...

Plot: In 1980 Miami, a determined Cuban immigrant takes over a drug empire while succumbing to greed.

Genre: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Runtime: 170min
Country: USA
Language: English | Spanish

Director: Joe Wright
Writers: Seth Lochhead, David Farr

Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana, Cate Blanchett, Tom Hollander, Olivia Williams, Jason Flemyng

Soundtrack: Tom Rowlands & Ed Simons (as The Chemical Brothers)

Tagline: Adapt or Die

Plot: A 16-year-old who was raised by her father to be the perfect assassin is dispatched on a mission across Europe, tracked by a ruthless intelligence agent and her operatives

Genre: Action | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Runtime: 111min
Country: USA | UK | Germany
Language: English | French | German | Italian | Arabic | Spanish

Director: Justin Lin
Writers: Chris Morgan

Cast: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, Elsa Pataky, Gal Gadot, Tego Calderon, Don Omar, Matt Schulze, Dwayne Johnson, Sung Kang, Joaquim de Almeida

Soundtrack: Brian Tyler

Plot: Dominic and his crew find themselves on the wrong side of the law once again as they try to switch lanes between a ruthless drug lord and a relentless federal agent.

Genre: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Runtime: 130min
Country: USA
Language: English

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Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Writers: Paul Attanasio, Daniel Pyne (screenplay), Tom Clancy (novel)

Cast: Ben Affleck, Morgan Freeman, James Cromwell, Ken Jenkins, Liev Schreiber, Bruce McGill, John Beasley, Richard Marner

Soundtrack: Jerry Goldsmith

Tagline: 27,000 Nuclear Weapons. One Is Missing.

Plot: CIA analyst Jack Ryan must thwart the plans of a terrorist faction that threatens to induce a catastrophic conflict between the United States and Russia's newly elected president by detonating a nuclear weapon at a football game in Baltimore.

Genre: Action | Drama | Thriller
Runtime: 124min
Country: USA
Language: English | Russian | Ukrainian | German | Arabic

Director: Phillip Noyce
Writers: Donald Stewart, Steven Zaillian, John Milius (screenplay), Tom Clancy (novel)

Cast: Harrison Ford, Willem Dafoe, Anne Archer, Joaquim de Almeida, Henry Czerny, Harris Yulin, Donald Moffat, Miguel Sandoval, Benjamin Bratt

Soundtrack: James Horner

Tagline: Truth needs a soldier.

Plot: CIA Analyst Jack Ryan is drawn into an illegal war fought by the US government against a Colombian drug cartel.

Genre: Action | Drama | Thriller
Runtime: 141min
Country: USA
Language: English

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Director: Phillip Noyce
Writers: W. Peter Iliff, Donald Stewart (screenplay) and Tom Clancy (novel)

Cast: Harrison Ford, Anne Archer, Patrick Bergin, Sean Bean, Thora Birch, James Fox, Samuel L. Jackson, Polly Walker, J.E. Freeman, James Earl Jones

Soundtrack: James Horner

Tagline: Let the Games Begin.

Plot: When CIA Analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets him and his family for revenge.

Genre: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Runtime: 117min
Country: USA
Language: English

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Director: John McTiernan
Writers: Larry Ferguson, Donald Stewart (screenplay) and Tom Clancy (novel)

Cast: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Sam Neill, James Earl Jones, Joss Ackland, Richard Jordan, Peter Firth, Tim Curry, Courtney B. Vance, Stellan Skarsgård

Soundtrack: Basil Poledouris

Tagline: Invisible. Silent. Stolen.

Plot: In 1984, the USSR's best submarine captain in their newest sub violates orders and heads for the USA. Is he trying to defect, or to start a war?

Genre: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Runtime: 134min
Country: USA
Language: English | Russian

Director: André Øvredal
Writers: André Øvredal, Håvard S. Johansen

Cast: Otto Jespersen, Glenn Erland Tosterud, Johanna Mørck, Tomas Alf Larsen, Urmila Berg-Domaas, Hans Morten Hansen

Tagline: You'll believe it when you see it!

Plot: A group of students investigate a series of mysterious bear killings, but learns that there are much more dangerous things going on. They start to follow a mysterious hunter, learning that he is actually a troll hunter.

Genre: Comedy | Fantasy | Horror
Runtime: 90min
Country: Norway
Language: Norwegian

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Director: Tony Scott
Writers: Shane Black, Greg Hicks

Cast: Bruce Willis, Damon Wayans, Chelsea Field, Noble Willingham, Taylor Negron, Danielle Harris, Halle Berry, Bruce McGill

Soundtrack: Michael Kamen

Tagline: The goal is to survive.

Plot: A down and out cynical detective teams up with a down and out ex-quarterback to try and solve a murder...

Genre: Action | Comedy | Crime | Mystery | Thriller
Runtime: 105min
Country: USA
Language: English

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Director: Rian Johnson
Writers: Rian Johnson

Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Nora Zehetner, Lukas Haas, Noah Fleiss, Matt O'Leary, Emilie de Ravin, Noah Segan, Richard Roundtree

Soundtrack: Nathan Johnson

Tagline: A detective story.

Plot: A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.

Genre: Mystery | Thriller
Runtime: 110min
Country: USA
Language: English

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Director: James Mangold
Writers: Halsted Welles, Michael Brandt

Cast: Russell Crowe, Christian Bale, Logan Lerman, Dallas Roberts, Ben Foster, Peter Fonda, Vinessa Shaw, Alan Tudyk, Luce Rains, Gretchen Mol

Soundtrack: Marco Beltrami

Tagline: Time waits for one man

Plot: A small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who's awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher.

Genre: Action | Crime | Drama | Western
Runtime: 122min
Country: USA
Language: English

Director: Jonathan Hensleigh
Writers: Jonathan Hensleigh, Jeremy Walters

Cast: Ray Stevenson, Vincent D'Onofrio, Val Kilmer, Christopher Walken, Linda Cardellini, Tony Darrow, Robert Davi

Soundtrack: Patrick Cassidy

Tagline: Based on the true story of Danny Greene the man the mob couldn't kill

Plot: The true story of Danny Greene, a tough Irish thug working for mobsters in Cleveland during the 1970's.

Genre: Biography | Crime | Thriller
Runtime: 106min
Country: USA
Language: English

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Director: Peter Jackson
Writers: Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, J.R.R. Tolkien (novel)

Cast: Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Bean, Orlando Bloom, John Rhys-Davies, Hugo Weaving, Liv Tyler, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee, Andy Serkis, Brad Dourif, Bernard Hill, Miranda Otto, Karl Urban, Ian Holm, John Noble, David Wenham

Soundtrack: Howard Shore

Tagline: The eye of the enemy is moving.

Plot: The former Fellowship of the Ring prepare for the final battle for Middle Earth, while Frodo & Sam approach Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring.

Genre: Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
Runtime: 251min
Country: New Zealand | USA
Language: English | Quenya | Old English | Sindarin

Extended Cut
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Director: Peter Jackson
Writers: Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair , Peter Jackson, J.R.R. Tolkien (novel)

Cast: Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Bean, Orlando Bloom, John Rhys-Davies, Hugo Weaving, Liv Tyler, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee, Andy Serkis, Brad Dourif, Bernard Hill, Miranda Otto, Karl Urban

Soundtrack: Howard Shore

Tagline: A New Power Is Rising.

Plot: Frodo and Sam continue on to Mordor in their mission to destroy the One Ring. Whilst their former companions make new allies and launch an assault on Isengard.

Genre: Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
Runtime: 223min
Country: New Zealand | USA
Language: English | Sindarin | Old English

Extended Cut
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Director: Peter Jackson
Writers: Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, J.R.R. Tolkien (novel)

Cast: Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, Ian Holm, Billy Boyd, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Bean, Orlando Bloom, John Rhys-Davies, Hugo Weaving, Liv Tyler, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee, Andy Serkis

Soundtrack: Howard Shore

Tagline: One ring to rule them all, One ring to find them, One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

Plot: In a small village in the Shire a young Hobbit named Frodo has been entrusted with an ancient Ring. Now he must embark on an Epic quest to the Cracks of Doom in order to destroy it.

Genre: Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy
Runtime: 208min
Country: New Zealand | USA
Language: English | Sindarin

Director: Peter Kuran
Writers: Scott Narrie, Don Pugsley

Cast: William Shatner, Edward Teller, Frank H. Shelton, Randall William Cook

Soundtrack: William T. Stromberg

Plot: A documentary presenting mankind's most ambitious effort at perfecting the means to its own annihilation...

Genre: Documentary | History
Runtime: 92min
Country: USA
Language: English

Director: Klaus Härö
Writers: Klaus Härö

Cast: Kaarina Hazard, Jukka Keinonen, Heikki Nousiainen, Kaija Pakarinen, Esko Roine

Soundtrack: Dani Strömbäck

Plot: With few options, newly pardoned convict Leila agrees to work as an assistant to a blind pastor. Father...

Genre: Drama
Runtime: 74min
Country: Finland
Language: Finnish

Director: Michel Gondry
Writers: Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg

Cast: Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Cameron Diaz, Tom Wilkinson, Christoph Waltz, David Harbour, Edward James Olmos

Soundtrack: James Newton Howard

Tagline: Break the law to protect it.

Plot: Following the death of his father, Britt Reid, heir to his father's large company, teams up with his late dad's assistant Kato to become a masked crime fighting team.

Genre: Action | Comedy | Crime | Thriller
Runtime: 119min
Country: USA
Language: English | Mandarin

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Director: Steven Spielberg
Writers: Tony Kushner, Eric Roth

Cast: Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler, Ayelet Zurer, Geoffrey Rush, Gila Almagor, Michael Lonsdale, Mathieu Amalric

Soundtrack: John Williams

Tagline: The world was watching in 1972 as 11 Israeli athletes were murdered at the Munich Olympics. This is the story of what happened next.

Plot: Based on the true story of the Black September aftermath, about the five men chosen to eliminate the ones responsible for that fateful day.

Genre: Drama | History | Thriller
Runtime: 164min
Country: USA | Canada | France
Language: English | German | French | Hebrew | Arabic | Italian | Greek | Russian

Director: Spencer Susser
Writers: Spencer Susser, David Michôd

Cast: Natalie Portman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rainn Wilson, John Carroll Lynch, Piper Laurie, Frank Collison, Devin Brochu

Soundtrack: Frank Tetaz

Tagline: Sometimes life gives you the finger and sometimes it gives you...

Plot: Hesher is a loner. He hates the world and everyone in it. He has long greasy hair and homemade tattoos...

Genre: Drama
Runtime: 106min
Country: USA
Language: English