591. The Conversation
Year of Release: 1974
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Actors: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Teri Garr, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest, Harrison Ford
Plot: A paranoid surveillance expert listens in on conversations in which he fears a couple may be killed only to find himself deeper in the mystery.
592. Black Panther
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Ryan Coogler
Actors: Chadwick Boseman, Lupita Nyong'o, Michael B. Jordan, Danai Gurira, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett
Plot: Following the death of his father, T'Challa returns home to the advanced nation of Wakanda in order to take the throne and rule his land. But he soon finds that forces from both outside and within his country conspire to bring ruin and drag Wakanda in to a new world war. But with the power of the Black Panther, along with help from CIA agent Everett K. Ross and the Dora Milaje - Wakanda's special forces, T'Challa will stop at nothing from saving his homeland - and his father's legacy.
593. Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Adventure
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Hughes
Actors: Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins, Michael McKean, Kevin Bacon, Dylan Baker
Plot: Uptight businessman Neal Page wants to get home for Thanksgiving, but when
his flight is canceled due to bad weather, he is forced to procure other
means of transportation and is joined by Del Griffith, a salesman with a
big heart and even bigger mouth.
594. Ace in the Hole
Year of Release: 1951
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Billy Wilder
Actors: Kirk Douglas, Robert Arthur, Jan Sterling, Porter Hall, Richard Benedict, Frank Cady
Plot: A film about a big time reporter who uses a disaster as his ticket back to the top.
595. Zero Dark Thirty
Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Actors: Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Mark Strong, Chris Pratt, Édgar Ramírez
Plot: Follow CIA agent Maya in her decade-long quest to hunt down Osama Bin Laden. The hard work, determination and sacrifice involved leads directly to the raid on a compound by Seal Team 6 in May of 2011.
596. Kung Fu Panda
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Mark Osborne
Actors: Jack Black, Jackie Chan, Dustin Hoffman, Lucy Liu, Angelina Jolie, Ian McShane
Plot: A young-ish panda is one of the laziest animals in the area (called the valley of peace). After a long selection process he becomes the one panda that must protect their home land from all the enemies. The sad thing is that Po doesn't really know much protection action and must learn it on the fly.
597. West Side Story
Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Jerome Robbins
Actors: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, William Bramley, Tucker Smith
Plot: Two New York City rival gangs sing their way through battles and love as they duke it out in this 1961 best picture winner.
598. Throne of Blood ( Kumonosu-jou )
Year of Release: 1957
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/Action
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Akira Kubo, Hiroshi Tachikawa, Minoru Chiaki
Plot: Inspired by a prophecy, an ambitious lord seeks to become emperor as his even more ambicious wife pushes him on.
599. Coraline
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Henry Selick
Actors: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Keith David, Ian McShane, Jennifer Saunders, John Hodgman
Plot: A young girl discovers a door in her house that leads to a parallel world that on the surface seems better, but beneath the veneer is something sinister and it will take cunning and resourcefulness to get back home and save her real family.
600. A Streetcar Named Desire
Year of Release: 1951
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Elia Kazan
Actors: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter, Rudy Bond, Nick Dennis
Plot: Set in an apartment in the French Quarter in New Orleans, Blanche Dubois visits her pregnant sister while her husband questions her finances and property that may have been left to her and her sister.
