241. Au revoir les enfants
Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Louis Malle
Actors: Gaspard Manesse, Raphael Fejtö, Francine Racette, Stanislas Carré de Malberg, Philippe Morier-Genoud, François Berléand
Plot: A boarding school in Nazi-occupied France seems to be immune to the horrors of WWII - but a new student, who becomes rivals, then friends, with the top student hides a secret that will challenge this peace.
242. Before Sunrise
Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Richard Linklater
Actors: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Andrea Eckert, Hanno Pöschl, Karl Bruckschwaiger, Tex Rubinowitz
Plot: Two people meet on a train and have one night to spend together before they must go back to their regular lives.
243. The Day the Earth Stood Still
Year of Release: 1951
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Robert Wise
Actors: Michael Rennie, Billy Gray, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe, Frances Bavier
Plot: A man from another planet, lands on earth to pretend that he is one of them. Because of the way humans act towards each other, he feels they must be destroyed unless they can be convinced otherwise.
244. The Substance
Year of Release: 2024
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Coralie Fargeat
Actors: Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid, Hugo Diego Garcia, Joseph Balderrama, Oscar Lesage
Plot: Actress Elizabeth Sparkle is facing the harsh realization that her best
days are behind her but finds a new lease on life with an illicit black
market drug that allows a younger version of herself to emerge - for a
short time anyway. But as Elizabeth begins to to bask longer and longer in
this younger form it becomes harder to return to her older self - and it
is not without consequences.
245. 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.
246. The Hurt Locker
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Actors: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Guy Pearce, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse, Evangeline Lilly
Plot: An elite bomb squad in Iraq is assigned a new sergeant who wastes no time taking his unit into the deadly urban chaos with reckless abandon. As his men struggle to understand his death wish, his true character is revealed that will affect every man.
247. Good Time
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ben Safdie, Joshua Safdie
Actors: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Robert Pattinson, Barkhad Abdi, Ben Safdie, Buddy Duress, Rose Gregorio
Plot: Over one neon-drenched night in New York City, Connie Nikas finds himself turning to increasingly desperate efforts in order to save his younger brother from a stint on Riker's Island following a botched bank robbery.
248. Sicario
Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Actors: Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Daniel Kaluuya, Victor Garber, Jon Bernthal
Plot: Sicario translates to hitman in Mexico. When an idealistic FBI agent is
paired up with a consultant with a checkered past, she will have to learn
the hard way that combating the new war on drugs sometimes means getting
your hands dirty.
249. Lincoln
Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader
Plot: Steven Spielberg's long-in-the-work biography of the sixteenth President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, as he presides over nation, and family, during the Civil War.
250. 45 Years
Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Andrew Haigh
Actors: Charlotte Rampling, Dolly Wells, Geraldine James, Tom Courtenay, Hannah Chalmers, Richard Cunningham
