881. The Illusionist
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Neil Burger
Actors: Edward Norton, Paul Giamatti, Jessica Biel, Rufus Sewell, Eddie Marsan, Aaron Johnson
Plot: In Vienna around the turn of the century, fantastic magician uses his abilities to get the love of a woman.
882. Umberto D
Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Actors: Maria-Pia Casilio, Carlo Battisti, Elena Rea, Memmo Carotenuto, Lina Gennari, Ileana Simova
Plot: An old service man is trying to pay rent on his small and dwindling pension. He must deal with his landlady, and society to try and make it work in his final days of his life.
883. Mother ( Madeo )
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joon-ho Bong
Actors: Bin Won, Ku Jin, Hye-ja Kim, Yoon Jae-Moon, Mun-hee Na, Mi-sun Jun
Plot: When her mentally disabled son is accused of murder, his over protective mother takes on local hoods and a corrupt police department to find the killer.
884. Moulin Rouge
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Romance/Musical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Actors: Ewan McGregor, Nicole Kidman, Richard Roxburgh, Jim Broadbent, John Leguizamo
Plot: A writer falls in love with a prostitute as he tries to write a song for the duke who becomes jealous of the love affair and tries to put an end to it.
885. Finding Neverland
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Marc Forster
Actors: Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Dustin Hoffman, Kelly Macdonald, Julie Christie, Radha Mitchell
Plot: The biography of the creator of Peter Pan and the inspirations that helped
him.
886. Judas and the Black Messiah
Year of Release: 2021
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Shaka King
Actors: Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfield, Jesse Plemons, Martin Sheen, Dominique Fishback, Lil Rel Howery
Plot: As the Black Panther movement spread across the United States, J. Edgar
Hoover seeing a threat bigger than Communism seeks a scapegoat and finds
it in Fred Hampton, leader of the Chicago chapter. Bill O'Neal, seeking
to avoid jail for impersonating an FBI agent, is recruited to go
undercover - quickly rising to head of security and reporting on his
findings. But soon it becomes apparent jail is not good enough to stop
Hampton and O'Neal will have to decide how far he is willing to go to
appease the FBI.
887. Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Amy Heckerling
Actors: Sean Penn, Judge Reinhold, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Phoebe Cates, Ray Walston, Brian Backer
Plot: A group of southern California teenagers experience life, love, sex and rock n roll.
888. Jean de Florette
Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Claude Berri
Actors: Yves Montand, Gérard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, Elisabeth Depardieu, Margarita Lozano, Ernestine Mazurowna
Plot: An old man and his own living relative have been coveting the property
next door for its pristine spring water - perfect for watering their
flowers. When the owner dies, however, the new owner moves in. Blocking
the spring - they hope to drive the family away, but the new owner will
not give up even as his health fails and family despairs from having to
haul water from wells.
889. Collateral
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Mann
Actors: Tom Cruise, Jada Pinkett Smith, Jamie Foxx, Peter Berg, Mark Ruffalo, Bruce McGill
Plot: An innocent Cab Driver (Fox) gets caught up in the middle of hit jobs when a hit man brings him into his murders through out L.A. He tries to do the right thing but is put to the test when the hit man tries to become his friend.
890. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Crime
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky
Actors: Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky, Jessie Miskelly, Jason Baldwin, Damien Wayne Echols, Christopher Byers
Plot: When a triple murder rocks the community of West Memphis, Arkansas, three boys with ties to Satanism are charged with the crime. Seen as guilty by man before the trail began, Paradise Lost takes a look at every angle and how justice can easily be clouded.
