261. Boyhood
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Richard Linklater
Actors: Ellar Coltrane, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke, Tamara Jolaine, Nick Krause, Jordan Howard
Plot: Richard Linklater's films, 12 years in the making, follows the life of Mason as he ages from 5 to 18.
262. Ugetsu Monogatari
Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Actors: Masayuki Mori, Machiko Kyô, Kinuyo Tanaka, Eitarô Ozawa, Ikio Sawamura, Mitsuko Mito
Plot: Long hailed as one of the great achievements in Japanese cinema, Kenji
Mizoguchi's film, set against the backdrop of the civil wars of 16th
Century Japan, follow two men looking for glory: one as a potter, the
other as a would-be samurai. Their ambition causes them to abandon their
respective wives, leading to tragedy.
263. The Outlaw Josey Wales
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Western
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Chief Dan George, Sondra Locke, Bill McKinney, John Vernon, Sam Bottoms
Plot: Set after the end of the Civil War, Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood), joins a
rebel group that continues to wage war against the Union after a group of
Union soldiers murder his wife and son. He soon finds him self on his own
and running from the same group of Union soldiers chasing him to bring him
to justice. All the while Josey continues to kill (or spit tobacco) on any
man or thing that gets in his way.
264. 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.
265. Manchester by the Sea
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kenneth Lonergan
Actors: Casey Affleck, Lucas Hedges, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, C.J. Wilson, Gretchen Mol
Plot: Following the death of his father, a teen boy finds himself in the care of his closest relative, an uncle who is not prepared to take on this responsibility.
266. 1917
Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sam Mendes
Actors: Richard Madden, Benedict Cumberbatch, Mark Strong, Andrew Scott, Colin Firth, George MacKay
Plot: Two young, British soldiers, Schofield and Blake are given and important, and seemingly impossible task - deliver a message deep in the heart of enemy territory in order to stop their own men, including Blake's brother, from walking into a deadly trap.
267. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Mark Herman
Actors: Vera Farmiga, Amber Beattie, Asa Butterfield, David Hayman, Cara Horgan, David Thewlis
Plot: The young son of a Nazi death camp officer becomes friends with another young boy... who's a Jewish death camp prisoner.
268. Oslo, August 31st ( Oslo, 31. august )
Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Norwegian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joachim Trier
Actors: Hans Olav Brenner, Anders Danielsen Lie, Renate Reinsve, Andreas Braaten, Emil Lund, Ingrid Olava
Plot: In which we follow a young man named Anders for one day: a recovering addict who decides to take leave of his treatment center in order to make it to a job interview and catch up with some old friends in Oslo.
269. All About My Mother ( Todo sobre mi madre )
Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Actors: Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Penélope Cruz, Candela Peña, Antonia San Juan, Rosa Maria Sardà
Plot: A boy's mother who is a former prostitute seeks redemption again, after a terrible accident.
270. Exterminating Angel, The ( ángel exterminador, El )
Year of Release: 1962
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Silvia Pinal, Enrique Rambal, Jacqueline Andere, Antonio Bravo, Claudio Brook, José Baviera
Plot: A group of people attending an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave the room. As time passes, they degenerate into near animals in order to survive.
