441. Cross of Iron
Year of Release: 1977
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Actors: James Coburn, Maximilian Schell, James Mason, David Warner, Klaus Löwitsch, Vadim Glowna
Plot: During WWII, battle-hardened Rolf Steiner leads many successful missions but when a new Prussian commander is assigned, the man wants only one thing - an Iron Cross to maintain his families honor. The two men cannot coexist as honor and arrogance collide.
442. Changeling
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan, Colm Feore, Gattlin Griffith, Devon Conti
Plot: Based on a true story, a woman's son is kidnapped and returned to her months later. Unfortunately, it's not her son and the corrupt LA police department refuse to admit the mistake.
443. 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.
444. Autumn Sonata ( Höstsonaten )
Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Lena Nyman, Halvar Björk, Marianne Aminoff, Arne Bang-Hansen
Plot: After being absent, a world-famous pianist returns home to her daughter.
When she arrives, she is surprised to discover that Eva has also taken in
her mentally-disabled sister, Helena from the institutions where she had
been left years before. After a tense number of days, a late-night
conversation will release everything that has been kept unsaid throughout
the years.
445. About Time
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Richard Curtis
Actors: Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Tom Hollander, Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie, Lisa Eichhorn
Plot: At age 21, Tim Lake is told an incredible secret by his father: all the men in their family have the ability to travel through time. Although he can't change history - he can change his his own fate - and so Tim goes about trying to find the a girlfriend. What seems to be an easy task is anything but - until he finds Mary. Despite some time-travel issues, eventually he gets things right - plans the perfect proposal and marriage - yet even after everything, there are some things you can't fix with time travel.
446. Half Nelson
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ryan Fleck
Actors: Ryan Gosling, Shareeka Epps, Karen Chilton, Monique Curnen, Anthony Mackie, Nathan Corbett
Plot: A great teacher is caught in a life of drug addiction while one young girl he teaches becomes his only friend and goes through drug problems of a different kind.
447. Au hasard Balthazar
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Bresson
Actors: Anne Wiazemsky, François Lafarge, Philippe Asselin, Nathalie Joyaut, Walter Green, Jean-Claude Guilbert
Plot: We follow the life of Balthazar, a donkey and his owner - who share a parallel life with his owner - from a loving childhood to being downtrodden and beaten later in life. But Balthazar may still end life well, as a miller believes he is the reincarnation of a saint.
448. Crimes and Misdemeanors
Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Woody Allen
Actors: Martin Landau, Anjelica Huston, Woody Allen, Alan Alda, Sam Waterston, Claire Bloom
Plot: An ophthalmologist is faced with a dilemma when his mistress of many years demands marriage or she will come clean with the affair. But will he choose murder over the destruction of his life? Meanwhile a documentary filmmaker wants to do a piece on a philosophy professor but instead is told to film a portrait of successful TV producer - his brother-in-law Lester, whom he despises.
449. Starred Up
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: David Mackenzie
Actors: Jack O'Connell, Rupert Friend, Ben Mendelsohn, Sam Spruell, David Ajala, Sian Breckin
450. Force Majeure ( Turist )
Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ruben Östlund
Actors: Brady Corbet, Kristofer Hivju, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Johannes Kuhnke, Clara Wettergren, Vincent Wettergren
Plot: A Swedish family enjoying a trip to the French Alps experiences a shakeup in the family dynamic when an avalanche threatens the resort - and finds the patriarch of the family struggling to regain his position in the eyes of his family.
