111. Project Nim
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: James Marsh
Actors: Bob Angelini, Bern Cohen, Reagan Leonard
Plot: In the 1970s a couple take a chimp from birth and attempt to raise it as a human child - Nim is an experiment to see if the human experience can trump animal nature, and the result is both wondrous and unsettling.
112. Faust
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Actors: Johannes Zeiler, Anton Adasinsky, Isolda Dychauk, Georg Friedrich, Hanna Schygulla, Antje Lewald
Plot: Doctor Faust eats and sleeps where he studies dead people's bodies. Gradually he ends up selling his ... soul to a deformed man who lures him into catacombs and finally to his doom.
113. Hesher
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Spencer Susser
Actors: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Natalie Portman, Rainn Wilson, Devin Brochu, Piper Laurie, Brendan Hill
Plot: After losing his mother, a troubled young boy moves in with his grandmother. A man with a troubled past himself, Hesher, becomes a surrogate father, and tormentor, of the young boy while an attractive grocery clerk becomes a protector and object of desire.
114. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Actors: Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ciarán Hinds
Plot: George Smiley, an expert in espionage, is brought out of semi-retirement during the height of the Cold War in order to sniff out a Soviet agent who has infiltrated the ranks of MI6.
115. Killer Elite
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Gary McKendry
Actors: Jason Statham, Robert De Niro, Clive Owen, Yvonne Strahovski, Dominic Purcell, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Plot: A former member of Britain's Elite Special Air Service comes out of retirement in order to save his mentor and must face three highly-skilled assassins along the way.
116. Unknown
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Actors: Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones, Frank Langella, Aidan Quinn, Bruno Ganz
Plot: A man awakens from a coma to find his life has been taken over by an impostor and no one, not even his wife, recognizes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets himself on a quest to find out the truth and reclaim his identity.
117. In Time
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Andrew Niccol
Actors: Justin Timberlake, Olivia Wilde, Amanda Seyfried, Matt Bomer, Cillian Murphy, Brendan Miller
Plot: Mankind has figured out how to turn off the aging gene. To avoid overpopulation time had become the new currency and the rich are now near immortal while the rest of the people must barter to extend their lives. When a poor man comes into a wealth of time, he comes under the watchful eye of the corrupted "Time Keepers" and must now figure out how to avoid them to enjoy his sudden extended life.
118. Melancholia
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Lars von Trier
Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Rampling, John Hurt, Alexander Skarsgård
Plot: As a new planet appears and threatens to collide with earth, two sisters find their fractured relationship stretched to the breaking point.
119. Attack the Block
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joe Cornish
Actors: Nick Frost, Jodie Whittaker, Luke Treadaway, John Boyega, Joey Ansah, Paige Meade
Plot: When aliens decide to invade the UK, a gang of South London teens bands together to protect their neighborhood.
120. Buck
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Cindy Meehl
Actors: Buck Brannaman
Plot: Documentary about Buck Brannaman, a real-life horse whisperer who endured a hard life to get where he wanted to be.
