471. Escape from Alcatraz
Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Don Siegel
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Fred Ward, Bruce M. Fischer, Paul Benjamin, Roberts Blossom , Frank Ronzio
Plot: A group of incarcerated men discover a way to escape from the unescapeable Alcatraz Prison in which they try to dig and decoy their way out.
472. Atonement
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joe Wright
Actors: Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Romola Garai, Vanessa Redgrave, Saoirse Ronan, Brenda Blethyn
Plot: A young girl accuses her sisters boyfriend of a crime he did not commit - which sentences him to years of banishment. Based on the novel by Ian McEwan.
473. Coherence
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: James Ward Byrkit
Actors: Hugo Armstrong, Emily Baldoni, Nicholas Brendon, Elizabeth Gracen, Lauren Maher, Maury Sterling
Plot: A group of eight friends at a dinner party must deal with the aftermath of a cosmic anomaly when a comet passes overhead.
474. The Big Short
Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Adam McKay
Actors: Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Brad Pitt, Finn Wittrock, John Magaro
Plot: As the US approaches an invetable housing and credit meltdown, a group of calculating and unscrupulous men take advantage before the bubble bursts and make millions off the misery that follows.
475. Red Circle, The ( cercle rouge, Le )
Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Actors: Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volontè, Yves Montand, Paul Crauchet, Paul Amiot
Plot: An aristocratic just-paroled thief, an escaped murderer and an alcoholic ex-police sharpshooter form an unlikely trio bent on pulling off a daring jewel heist. Standing in their way is a vengeful mob boss, a persistent police superintendent. In this world, no on is innocent.
476. Krisha
Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Family
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Trey Edward Shults
Actors: Olivia Grace Applegate, Bryan Casserly, Alex Dobrenko, Chris Doubek, Billie Fairchild, Krisha Fairchild
477. Man Escaped, A ( condamné à mort s'est échappé ou Le vent souffle où il veut, Un )
Year of Release: 1957
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Bresson
Actors: François Leterrier, Charles Le Clainche, Maurice Beerblock, Roland Monod, Jacques Ertaud, Jean Paul Delhumeau
Plot: Captured by Nazis, a member of the French Resistance is determined to risk everything in order to escape.
478. Chaser, The ( Chugyeogja )
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hong-jin Na
Actors: Yun-seok Kim, Jung-woo Ha, Yeong-hie Seo, In-gi Jung, Hyo-ju Park
Plot: Joong-ho is a dirty detective-turned pimp in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by a same client whom one of his girls is meeting with right now.
479. American Fiction
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Cord Jefferson
Actors: Jeffrey Wright, Sterling K. Brown, Issa Rae, Adam Brody, Elle Sciore, Miriam Shor
480. The Reader
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Stephen Daldry
Actors: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz, David Kross, Volker Bruch
Plot: A teenager in post WWII Germany is nursed back to health by Hanna, a woman twice his age. He discovers she like to be read to, and as their bond and passion deepen, they begin an affair until she suddenly disappears. Years later as a law student at the Nazi criminal trials, Hanna comes back into his life, as a defendant at the proceedings.
