101. Silence
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, Adam Driver, Ciarán Hinds, Tadanobu Asano, Nana Komatsu
Plot: During the 17th Century a pair of Jesuit priests find their faith put to the ultimate test when they go in search of their mentor in Japan - during a time when Catholicism is outlawed and their very presence anathema.
102. Short Term 12
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Destin Cretton
Actors: Brie Larson, John Gallagher Jr., Kaitlyn Dever, Stephanie Beatriz, Rami Malek, Alex Calloway
Plot: A 20-something works as a supervising staff member in the foster care system and she navigates this world while also dealing with her co-worker, and longtime boyfriend.
103. The Manchurian Candidate
Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: John Frankenheimer
Actors: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh, Angela Lansbury, Henry Silva, James Gregory
Plot: Former POW's recall the same events of a heroic moment, but have nightmares that the event occurred different than remembered.
104. Network
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sidney Lumet
Actors: William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Ned Beatty, Robert Duvall, Peter Finch, Wesley Addy
Plot: A soon to be retired news anchor is exploited by the Network he has worked
for, for so long as he spouts off at the media.
105. The Killing
Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Actors: Sterling Hayden, Vince Edwards, Coleen Gray, Jay C. Flippen, Elisha Cook Jr., Marie Windsor
Plot: A group of men try to knock off a horse track in an elaborate plan to make them all rich when something goes wrong.
106. Trainspotting
Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Danny Boyle
Actors: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Macdonald
Plot: A man is deep into drugs and drug dealing as he tries to get out despite the influence of his addict and his pals.
107. Dead Poets' Society
Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Peter Weir
Actors: Ethan Hawke, Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, Josh Charles, Dylan Kussman, Gale Hansen
Plot: A English Teacher convinces his students to love poetry and invites them
into a secret club where they can read poetry and express themselves in a
manly way.
108. A Few Good Men
Year of Release: 1992
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Rob Reiner
Actors: Jack Nicholson, Tom Cruise, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon, Kevin Pollak, J.T. Walsh
Plot: A marine lawer defends fellow marines against a muder they claim they did not commit.
109. Boyz n the Hood
Year of Release: 1991
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Singleton
Actors: Laurence Fishburne, Cuba Gooding Jr., Ice Cube, Morris Chestnut, Nia Long, Angela Bassett
Plot: In South Central Los Angeles three friends grow up in an inner-city
neighborhood characterized by drugs, violence and crime. Escape, adapt,
survive - there are no easy choices and every action has its consequence.
110. All the President's Men
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Alan J. Pakula
Actors: Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Robards, Ned Beatty, Jack Warden, Hal Holbrook
Plot: A leaked report to Washington Post reporters causes Bernstein and Woodward
to investigate further into the Watergate Scandal to force Nixon to
resign.
