491. Bride of Frankenstein
Year of Release: 1935
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: James Whale
Actors: Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Ernest Thesiger, Gavin Gordon
Plot: Dr. Frankenstein builds his monster a mate, The Monster's Bride.
492. Grizzly Man
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Werner Herzog
Actors: Timothy Treadwell, Franc G. Fallico, Amie Huguenard
Plot: Timothy Treadwell spent 13 summers in the Alaskan wilderness in what he saw as a quest to understand and protect grizzly bears but he would find out his good intentions could not tame the wild animals.
493. 127 Hours
Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Danny Boyle
Actors: James Franco, Lizzy Caplan, Kate Mara, Amber Tamblyn, Clémence Poésy, Darin Southam
Plot: When a mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder in a remote area near Moab, Utah, he must resort to extreme measures in order to survive.
494. Ed Wood
Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tim Burton
Actors: Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jeffrey Jones, Patricia Arquette, Vincent D'Onofrio
Plot: The life and times of Master of Schlock Ed Wood and his relationship with an aging and drug-addicted Bela Lugosi (which won Martin Landau a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award in 1994).
495. The Brutalist
Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Brady Corbet
Actors: Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin
Plot: László Toth and his wife Erzsébet leave post-war Europe for a new start in
an emerging modern America. Toth, a visionary architect, finds a life-
altering opportunity when he is hired by a mysterious but very wealthy
benefactor.
496. Hero ( Ying xiong )
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Yimou Zhang
Actors: Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung, Donnie Yen, Ziyi Zhang, Daoming Chen
Plot: The story told through flashbacks of a Samurai type man shows how he kills three assassins who tried to murder the lord of china - before it was china.
497. High and Low ( Tengoku to jigoku )
Year of Release: 1963
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyôko Kagawa, Takashi Shimura, Isao Kimura, Kenjiro Ishiyama
Plot: An executive of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.
498. Why Don't You Play in Hell? ( Jigoku de naze warui )
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.4 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Shion Sono
Actors: Jun Kunimura, Fumi Nikaidô, Shin'ichi Tsutsumi, Hiroki Hasegawa, Gen Hoshino, Tomochika
Plot: A renegade film crew, dubbed The F*%k Bombers, finally realizes their decades-long passion to make a film - as long as they don't mind being embroiled in Yakuza clan feud where several parties will surely wind up dead.
499. Three Colors: Blue ( Trois couleurs: Bleu )
Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Actors: Juliette Binoche, Benoît Régent, Florence Pernel, Charlotte Véry, Hélène Vincent, Philippe Volter
Plot: The first in Krzysztof Kieslowski trilogy, Blue deals with the French concept of "Liberty" as a female composer deals with the grief of losing her husband and daughter in a car accident by withdrawing from the world, but finds the world is not going to withdraw from her.
500. Kiki's Delivery Service ( Majo no takkyûbin )
Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Family
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Debbie Reynolds, Phil Hartman, Janeane Garofalo, Tress MacNeille, Matthew Lawrence
Plot: A young witch sets off on her own for a year of training in a far-away city and finds adventure and challenges await.
