171. Son of Saul ( Saul fia )
Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Hungarian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: László Nemes
Actors: Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn, Todd Charmont, Jerzy Walczak, Sándor Zsótér
Plot: Saul is a Hungarian prisoner worker in the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp. We follow two days in his life - the Sonderkommando leads people to their death, but on this day he takes a young boy, who nearly survived the ordeal, as his own son. He wants to give the boy a proper burial, but even as he seeks his own redemption a group of prisoners plans an escape, but must have Saul's help for any chance of success.
172. 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.
173. Rush
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ron Howard
Actors: Olivia Wilde, Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Brühl, Natalie Dormer, Alexandra Maria Lara, Joséphine de La Baume
Plot: The story of Formula 1 driver Niki Lauda who, throughout the 1970s, shared
a rivalry with English playboy James Hunt. On and off the track, the two
shared a much different approach to racing and life but nothing topped the
1976 in which Lauda was involved in crash that nearly claimed his life,
but weeks later, challenged Hunt once again.
174. Oslo, August 31st ( Oslo, 31. august )
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Norwegian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joachim Trier
Actors: Hans Olav Brenner, Anders Danielsen Lie, Renate Reinsve, Andreas Braaten, Emil Lund, Ingrid Olava
Plot: In which we follow a young man named Anders for one day: a recovering addict who decides to take leave of his treatment center in order to make it to a job interview and catch up with some old friends in Oslo.
175. The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Actors: Barry Keoghan, Nicole Kidman, Alicia Silverstone, Colin Farrell, Raffey Cassidy, Bill Camp
Plot: A brilliant surgeon and his tranquil domestic life with his wife and two children is thrown in to upheaval with the arrival of a 16-year-old boy - leading the good doctor to make a sacrifice to save himself and his family.
176. They Shall Not Grow Old
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Jackson
Plot: A ground-breaking documentary that takes original footage from WWI, that has been colorized along with adding sound, allowing us to hear voices from the previously voiceless and giving audiences an unprecedented look of the trials, triumph and brutality of this war, and the people who experienced it first hand.
177. Red Turtle, The ( tortue rouge, La )
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Genre: Animation/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Michael Dudok de Wit
Plot: The life of a castaway is told in major life stages in this dialogue-free animated film.
178. The Hateful Eight
Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Actors: Samuel L. Jackson, Walton Goggins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kurt Russell, Demián Bichir, Tim Roth
Plot: A blizzards strands together a group of bounty hunters and ne'er-do-wells in a Wyoming cabin. But the small group is about to face a trail of betrayal and deception - and survival is certainly not guaranteed.
179. The Shape of Water
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Actors: Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon, Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones
Plot: Set against the backdrop of the Cold War - Elisa works in a highly
classified and isolated secret government facility. Her days are as cold
and lonely as the place she works but everything changes when she and her
co-worker, Zelda, uncover secret classified experiment.
180. Midnight in Paris
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Woody Allen
Actors: Rachel McAdams, Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard, Adrien Brody, Michael Sheen, Kathy Bates
Plot: A family travels to Paris for business where the relationship of a young couple comes into focus when they are forced to look into a life beyond their own.
