361. Gaslight
Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Cukor
Actors: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Dame May Whitty, Angela Lansbury, Barbara Everest
Plot: Years after her aunt, a famous singer, was murdered, Paula (Ingrid Bergman) moves back to her aunt's London home with her new husband Gregory (Charles Boyer). But slowly Paula begins to lose her grip on reality. Is Paula's madness congenital, or is Gregory torturing her?
362. Secrets & Lies
Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mike Leigh
Actors: Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan, Brenda Blethyn, Claire Rushbrook, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Elizabeth Berrington
Plot: Adopted as a child, the now-grown up and successful Hortense thinks it is
time to track down her birth mother. It leads to a the rather lonely,
isolated working-class Cynthia - who does everything she can to deny the
lineage even as it exposes secrets long buried.
363. Inside Llewyn Davis
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Actors: Carey Mulligan, Oscar Isaac, Justin Timberlake, Garrett Hedlund, John Goodman, Jeanine Serralles
Plot: A trip through New York's folk music scene in the 1960s as a singer-songwriter does his best to make it through these times.
364. Ray
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Taylor Hackford
Actors: Jamie Foxx, Regina King, Harry J. Lennix, Terrence Howard, Kerry Washington, Larenz Tate
Plot: The biopic of Ray Charles, from childhood to success as a musician.
365. To Live ( Huozhe )
Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Yimou Zhang
Actors: You Ge, Li Gong, Ben Niu, Deng Fei, Wu Jiang, Tao Guo
Plot: Follows the lives of Fugui and Jiazhen in a tumultuous period in Chinese history. From wealth to poverty the two manage to survive and even raise a family in this deeply personal story.
366. Birdman of Alcatraz
Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John Frankenheimer
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Karl Malden, Thelma Ritter, Neville Brand, Telly Savalas, Edmond O'Brien
Plot: As an inmate at Leavenworth prison, Robert Stroud has a series of
confrontations with the guards and with the other convicts. When Stroud
kills a guard, he is sentenced to be executed, and only his mother's
impassioned intervention gets his sentence commuted to life
imprisonment, which he must serve in solitary confinement. As he serves
out his sentence in boredom and despair, one day he finds a helpless
baby sparrow in the exercise yard. Stroud soon takes a deep interest in
caring for birds, which gives him a new purpose in life, but which also
brings new conflicts with prison authorities.
367. Blood Simple
Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joel Coen
Actors: John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, M. Emmet Walsh, Samm-Art Williams, Deborah Neumann
Plot: A wealthy bar owner in Texas suspect his wife of cheating on him. He hire an unscrupulous private investigator to confirm and kill his wife and lover. The hired man has his own plans and soon a simple murder-for-hire takes a complex turn.
368. Battleship Potemkin ( Bronenosets Potyomkin )
Year of Release: 1925
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein
Actors: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov, Ivan Bobrov, Mikhail Gomorov, Aleksandr Levshin
Plot: A Russian naval mutiny occurs, which leads to riots in the streets.
369. Brazil
Year of Release: 1985
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Terry Gilliam
Actors: Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Ian Holm, Katherine Helmond, Robert De Niro
Plot: A 1984-ish government encases Sam Lowry who dreams of falling in love with
a normal woman. He encounters many obstacles while trying to meet her and
do what is right and lawful.
370. Prophet, A ( prophète, Un )
Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jacques Audiard
Actors: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Hichem Yacoubi, Reda Kateb, Jean-Philippe Ricci
Plot: A young Muslim man, incarcerated for attacking police officers, unwillingly becomes part of a dangerous game of racial and prison politics.
