851. The Defiant Ones
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Stanley Kramer
Actors: Tony Curtis, Sidney Poitier, Theodore Bikel, Lon Chaney Jr., Charles McGraw, King Donovan
Plot: Two men on a chain gang - one white, one black - hate each other. Yet
after an accident, they finds themselves free - but still chained
together. The two men will have to learn to work together to avoid
capture.
852. Before Sunset
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Richard Linklater
Actors: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Vernon Dobtcheff, Louise Lemoine Torres, Rodolphe Pauly, Mariane Plasteig
Plot: 9 years have passed since Jesse and Celine first met ("Before Sunrise") as
they meet each other again in France to discuss their past and what could
have been.
853. Munich
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Historical/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Eric Bana, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Geoffrey Rush, Daniel Craig, Hanns Zischler
Plot: Based on the track down and assignation of those responsible for the masacre during the Olympics in the 1970's.
854. Day for Night ( nuit américaine, La )
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: François Truffaut
Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Dani, Alexandra Stewart, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Jean Champion
Plot: Truffaut's seriocomic, strangely documentarian, and always affectionate look at the trials and travails of filmmaking.
855. The Omen
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Richard Donner
Actors: Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Billie Whitelaw, Harvey Stephens, Patrick Troughton
Plot: A diplomat secretly exchanges his wife's stillborn child with an orphaned boy. As he grows up, disturbing signs and events lead him to believe this boy is the antichrist and needs to be killed.
856. The Batman
Year of Release: 2022
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Crime
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Matt Reeves
Actors: Robert Pattinson, Colin Farrell, Zoë Kravitz, Andy Serkis, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright
Plot: It has been two years since Bruce Wayne took on the alter ego of Batman in order to protect Gotham City. But now he faces something he could never foresee - corruption at the highest echelons that lead back to his own family as well as taking on a deranged serial killer known as The Riddler.
857. A Place in the Sun
Year of Release: 1951
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Stevens
Actors: Montgomery Clift, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Taylor, Shepperd Strudwick, Keefe Brasselle, Frieda Inescort
Plot: A blue collar worker is quickly promoted in his uncle's business where he meets a beautiful girl of upper class and dumps his lower class girlfriend.
858. Winnie the Pooh
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Family
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Stephen J. Anderson, Don Hall
Actors: Jim Cummings, Craig Ferguson, John Cleese, Tom Kenny, Bud Luckey, Travis Oates
Plot: On an ordinary day in the Hundred Acre Woods, everyone tries to find the
right tail for Eeyore who has lost his, and Pooh wants his honey. But when
Pooh goes to get Christopher Robin he finds a note, which Owl misreads and
convinces the team of fuzzy creatures that their dear friend has been
captured by the 'Backson', and they set out to capture the great beast and
save their friend.
859. The Fabelmans
Year of Release: 2022
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Gabriel LaBelle, Paul Dano, Julia Butters, Oakes Fegley
Plot: A semi-autobiographical film based on the childhood of Steven Spielberg from ages 7 - 18 set in post-war Arizona and a look into the people and events that will shape his life.
860. Hoop Dreams
Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Sport
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Steve James
Actors: William Gates, Arthur Agee, Emma Gates, Curtis Gates, Sheila Agee, Arthur 'Bo' Agee
Plot: A documentary detailing the lives of two high school basketball players.
