261. Lincoln
Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader
Plot: Steven Spielberg's long-in-the-work biography of the sixteenth President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, as he presides over nation, and family, during the Civil War.
262. The Substance
Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Coralie Fargeat
Actors: Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid, Hugo Diego Garcia, Joseph Balderrama, Oscar Lesage
Plot: Actress Elizabeth Sparkle is facing the harsh realization that her best
days are behind her but finds a new lease on life with an illicit black
market drug that allows a younger version of herself to emerge - for a
short time anyway. But as Elizabeth begins to to bask longer and longer in
this younger form it becomes harder to return to her older self - and it
is not without consequences.
263. Tokyo Story ( Tôkyô monogatari )
Year of Release: 1953
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
Actors: Chishu Ryu, Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, Chieko Higashiyama, Kuniko Miyake
Plot: An older couple head to Tokyo to visit their children and grandchildren, but are greeted with indifference and shipped off to a resort in this touching meditation on the sorrows of growing older.
264. Like Stars on Earth ( Taare Zameen Par )
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Hindi
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Aamir Khan
Actors: Darsheel Safary, Aamir Khan, Tanay Chheda, Sachet Engineer, Tisca Chopra, Vipin Sharma
Plot: An 8-year-old boy has issues at school but an art teacher takes the time to uncover the truth behind his problems and unlocks the true potential within him.
265. Road, The ( strada, La )
Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Federico Fellini
Actors: Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart, Aldo Silvani, Marcella Rovere, Livia Venturini
Plot: A free spirited girl is sold by her poor mother to a cruel traveling entertainer.
266. Badlands
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Terrence Malick
Actors: Sissy Spacek, Martin Sheen, Alan Vint, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri, Gary Littlejohn
Plot: Loosely based on the Starkweather serial killer, a young girl and her much
older boy friend kill several people including her family and run from the
law in South Dakota during the 1950's.
267. Breathless ( À Bout de souffle )
Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Seberg, Daniel Boulanger, Jean-Pierre Melville, Henri-Jacques Huet, Claude Mansard
Plot: Traditional cinematic form is cast aside to brilliant effect in his inaugural entry of the French New Wave, an homage to the gangster and crime films of 1930s/40s Hollywood.
268. Ugetsu Monogatari
Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Actors: Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Eitarô Ozawa, Ikio Sawamura, Mitsuko Mito
Plot: Long hailed as one of the great achievements in Japanese cinema, Kenji
Mizoguchi's film, set against the backdrop of the civil wars of 16th
Century Japan, follow two men looking for glory: one as a potter, the
other as a would-be samurai. Their ambition causes them to abandon their
respective wives, leading to tragedy.
269. Boyhood
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Richard Linklater
Actors: Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Tamara Jolaine, Nick Krause, Jordan Howard
Plot: Richard Linklater's films, 12 years in the making, follows the life of
Mason as he ages from 5 to 18.
270. Brokeback Mountain
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ang Lee
Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway, Scott Michael Campbell, Randy Quaid
Plot: Two broke farm hands get a job herding sheep in Montana during the 70's. They uncover their secret love for each other on Brokeback Mountain then later marrying women as they plan yearly secret trips to rekindle their relationship.
