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Upcoming-I Cant' Wait-Films

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People who added this item 3870 Average listal rating (2615 ratings) 7.7 IMDB Rating 8.4
Director:Christopher Nolan

Starring:Christian Bale,Anne Hathaway,Gary Oldman,Tom Hardy,Joseph Gordon Levitt,Morgan Freeman,Marion Cottilard,Michael Caine



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People who added this item 2100 Average listal rating (1311 ratings) 7.4 IMDB Rating 7.5
Hugo (2011)
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.


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People who added this item 2473 Average listal rating (1606 ratings) 6.4 IMDB Rating 6.9
Director:Marc Webb

Starring:Andrew Garfield,Rhys Ifans,Emma Stone,Embeth Davidtz,Martin Sheen



The Plot: The film will focus on a teenager grappling with both contemporary human problems and amazing super-human crises.



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People who added this item 824 Average listal rating (477 ratings) 6.2 IMDB Rating 6.5
J. Edgar (2011)
Director:Clint Eastwood

Starring:Leonardo Di Caprio,Naomi Watts,Judi Dench,Josh Lucas



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People who added this item 1200 Average listal rating (752 ratings) 7.1 IMDB Rating 7
Director:Tomas Alfredson

Starring:Tom Hardy,Gary Oldman,Colin Firth,John Hurt,Mark Strong



The Plot:n the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6's echelons.


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People who added this item 1410 Average listal rating (907 ratings) 6.3 IMDB Rating 6.8
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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.


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People who added this item 279 Average listal rating (124 ratings) 6.6 IMDB Rating 6.5
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.
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People who added this item 496 Average listal rating (257 ratings) 7.1 IMDB Rating 7.1
Perfect Sense (2011)
Director:David Mackenzie

Starring:Ewan McGregor,Eva Green,Ewen Bremner



The Plot:A chef and a scientist fall in love as an epidemic begins to rob people of their sensory perceptions.



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People who added this item 2045 Average listal rating (1287 ratings) 7.6 IMDB Rating 7.8
Director:David Fincher

Starring:Daniel Graig,Rooney Mara,Embeth Davidtz,Robin Wright,Stellan Skarsgård,Christopher Plummer



The Plot:Journalist Mikael Blomkvist is aided in his search for a woman who has been missing for forty years by Lisbeth Salander, a young computer hacker.


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People who added this item 2121 Average listal rating (1227 ratings) 6.2 IMDB Rating 6.2
Dark Shadows (2012)
Director:Tim Burton

Starring:Johnny Depp,Helena Bonham Carter,Chloe Moretz,Eva Green,Jackie Earle Halley,Michelle Pheiffer



The Plot: gothic-horror tale centering on the life of vampire Barnabas Collins and his run-ins with various monsters, witches, werewolves and ghosts.
People who added this item 1408 Average listal rating (872 ratings) 7.2 IMDB Rating 7.2
Shame (2011)
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.


People who added this item 1631 Average listal rating (955 ratings) 7.4 IMDB Rating 7.2
Melancholia (2011)
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...


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People who added this item 526 Average listal rating (263 ratings) 6.9 IMDB Rating 6.8
Restless (2011)
Director:Gus Van Sant

Starring:Mia Wasikowska,Henry Hopper,Ryo Kase



The Plot:The story of a terminally ill teenage girl who falls for a boy who likes to attend funerals and their encounters with the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot from WWII.




People who added this item 1201 Average listal rating (735 ratings) 7.6 IMDB Rating 7.6
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.


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People who added this item 1961 Average listal rating (1376 ratings) 7.2 IMDB Rating 7.6
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.


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People who added this item 473 Average listal rating (285 ratings) 6.8 IMDB Rating 6.7
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. ...


People who added this item 56 Average listal rating (26 ratings) 5.4 IMDB Rating 5.8
The Monk (2011)
Director:Dominik Moll

Starring:Vincent Cassel,Déborah François,Sergi Lopez,Geraldine Chaplin



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People who added this item 690 Average listal rating (428 ratings) 6.3 IMDB Rating 6.4
The Iron Lady (2011)
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.


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People who added this item 830 Average listal rating (463 ratings) 6.8 IMDB Rating 6.9
Director:Simon Curtis

Starring:Michelle Williams,Emma Watson,Dominic Cooper,Kenneth Branagh



The Plot:Colin Clark, an employee of Sir Laurence Olivier's, documents the tense interaction between Olivier and Marilyn Monroe during production of The Prince and the Showgirl.
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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.
People who added this item 1664 Average listal rating (962 ratings) 6.9 IMDB Rating 7.2
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.
People who added this item 160 Average listal rating (67 ratings) 6.3 IMDB Rating 6.4
Director:Terry Gilliam

Starring:Ewan McGregor,Robert Duvall
People who added this item 1702 Average listal rating (1139 ratings) 7.7 IMDB Rating 7.8
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.
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People who added this item 666 Average listal rating (433 ratings) 7.3 IMDB Rating 7.4
Take Shelter (2011)
Director:Jeff Nichols

Starring:Michael Shannon,Jessica Jessica Chastain



The Plot:Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.


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People who added this item 1031 Average listal rating (654 ratings) 7 IMDB Rating 7.2
War Horse (2011)
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.


People who added this item 2611 Average listal rating (1852 ratings) 7.8 IMDB Rating 7.8
Drive (2011)
Director:Nicolas Winding Refn

Starring:Ryan Gosling,Carey Mullligan,Ron Perlman



The Plot:A Hollywood stunt performer who moonlights as a wheelman discovers that a contract has been put on him after a heist gone wrong.


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People who added this item 897 Average listal rating (462 ratings) 5.9 IMDB Rating 6.2
The Rum Diary (2011)
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.


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People who added this item 317 Average listal rating (156 ratings) 7.5 IMDB Rating 7.5
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.
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People who added this item 997 Average listal rating (651 ratings) 7.1 IMDB Rating 7.1
Carnage (2011)
Director:Roman Polanski

Starring:Kate Winslet,Christoph Waltz,Jodie Foster,John C. Reilly



The Plot:Tells the story of two sets of parents who decide to have a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a schoolyard brawl.

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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.
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People who added this item 353 Average listal rating (177 ratings) 6.4 IMDB Rating 5.9
To the Wonder (2013)
Director:Terrence Malick

Starring:Rachel McAdams,Rachel Weisz,Ben Affleck,Javier Bardem,Jessica Chastain,Barry Pepper,Amanda Peet,Olga Kurylenko
People who added this item 951 Average listal rating (569 ratings) 6.8 IMDB Rating 7
One Day (2011)
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.


People who added this item 1125 Average listal rating (635 ratings) 6.3 IMDB Rating 6.4
Director:David Cronenberg

Starring:Viggo Mortensen,Keira Knightley,Michael Fassbender,Vincent Cassel



The Plot:A look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gives birth to psychoanalysis.


People who added this item 1026 Average listal rating (627 ratings) 6.8 IMDB Rating 7.1
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.
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People who added this item 628 Average listal rating (281 ratings) 6.3 IMDB Rating 6
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.
People who added this item 1548 Average listal rating (946 ratings) 7.8 IMDB Rating 7.9
The Artist (2011)
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.



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People who added this item 1196 Average listal rating (810 ratings) 7.1 IMDB Rating 7.6
Director:Bennett Miller

Starring:Brad Pitt,Jonah Hill,Philip Seymour Hoffman,Robin Wright



The Plot:The story of Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.




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People who added this item 1207 Average listal rating (816 ratings) 7.1 IMDB Rating 7.3
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.


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Director:Lynne Ramsay

Starring:John C. Reily,Tilda Swindon,Ezra Miller



The Plot:The mother of a teenage boy who went on a high-school killing spree tries to deal with her grief -- and feelings of responsibility for her child's actions -- by writing to her estranged husband.


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Director:Sean Durkin

StarringElizabeth Olsen,Sarah Paulson,John Hawkes



The Plot:Haunted by painful memories and increasing paranoia, a damaged woman struggles to re-assimilate with her family after fleeing an abusive cult.


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People who added this item 2008 Average listal rating (1350 ratings) 6.9 IMDB Rating 7.1
Brave (2012)
Director:Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman

Starring:Robbie Coltrane,Kelly Macdonald,Emma Thompson



The Plot:Scottish princess, Merida, defies her parents by persuing an interest in archery, but inadvertently jeopardizes her father's kingdom in the process.


People who added this item 631 Average listal rating (405 ratings) 6.3 IMDB Rating 6.2
Director:Andrew Dominik

Starring:Brad Pitt,Ray Liotta,James Gandolfini



Jackie Cogan is a professional enforcer who investigates a heist that went down during a mob-protected poker game.

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People who added this item 1147 Average listal rating (802 ratings) 5.7 IMDB Rating 6.4
The Dictator (2012)
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.
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People who added this item 2167 Average listal rating (1495 ratings) 6.7 IMDB Rating 7
Prometheus (2012)
Director:Ridley Scott

Starring:Michael Fassbender,Noomi Rapace,Ben Foster,Guy Pearce,Charlize Theron
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People who added this item 1644 Average listal rating (1111 ratings) 6.3 IMDB Rating 7
World War Z (2013)
Director:Mark Foster

Starring:Brad Pitt,Mireille Enos,James Badge Dale
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People who added this item 558 Average listal rating (325 ratings) 5.7 IMDB Rating 5.1
Cosmopolis (2012)
Director:David Cronenberg

Starring:Robert Pattinson,Jay Baruchel,Paul Giamatti,Samantha Morton,Juliette Binoche,Kevin Durand,Mathieu Amalric
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People who added this item 334 Average listal rating (229 ratings) 6.5 IMDB Rating 6.8
Bernie (2011)
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.
People who added this item 112 Average listal rating (57 ratings) 6.5 IMDB Rating 6.4
Alps (2011)
Director:Giorgos Lanthimos

Starring:Aris Servetalis,Johnny Vekris,Aggeliki Papoulia,Ariane Labed

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People who added this item 1841 Average listal rating (1245 ratings) 7.2 IMDB Rating 7.4
Looper (2012)
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.
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