191. Dancer in the Dark
Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Lars von Trier
Actors: Björk, Catherine Deneuve, David Morse, Peter Stormare, Joel Grey, Cara Seymour
Plot: A woman with a very mundane life accidentally kills her neighbor.
192. Audition ( Ôdishon )
Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Horror/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Takashi Miike
Actors: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Tetsu Sawaki, Jun Kunimura, Renji Ishibashi, Miyuki Matsuda
Plot: When a widower decides to hold a fake movie audition to find the pefect replacement, what starts out as the pefect dream relationship turns into a nightmare.
193. Experiment, The ( Experiment, Das )
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Actors: Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Berkel, Oliver Stokowski, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Danny Richter, Stephan Szasz
Plot: Based on the "Stanford Prison Experiment" conducted in 1971 - a group of 20 ordinary males are asked to take part in paid study. One group will be "prisoners" the others will be "guards" - the set of rules to follow are mild, anyone can quit at any time - yet what starts off as an amicable study soon devolves into a struggle for power as those in authority take things ever farther.
194. Ice Age
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Family/Animation
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Carlos Saldanha
Actors: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Goran Visnjic, Jack Black, Cedric the Entertainer
Plot: In a time of cavemen and dinosaurs, a small baby goes on a fantastic journey with a Saber-toothed Tiger, a goofy Sloth and a Wooly Mammoth.
195. Dead Man's Shoes
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Shane Meadows
Actors: Paddy Considine, Gary Stretch, Toby Kebbell, Jo Hartley, Seamus O'Neill, Stuart Wolfenden
196. Up in the Air
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Jason Reitman
Actors: George Clooney, Jason Bateman, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Melanie Lynskey, Danny McBride
Plot: A corporate downsizing expert finds his job, and frequent flyer-mile goal, on the line when he learns his company plans to switch to firing over the Internet. Although is life is empty, he plans on showing that this is a face-to-face job and just may find solace in a female frequent flyer.
197. House of Flying Daggers ( Shi mian mai fu )
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Action/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Yimou Zhang
Actors: Ziyi Zhang, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Andy Lau, Dandan Song, Hongfei Zhao, Jun Guo
Plot: A heroic warrior breaks an friend out of prison from a rival when romance, possible betrayal and deception occurs.
198. 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.
199. Tokyo Godfathers
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Satoshi Kon, Shôgo Furuya
Actors: Toru Emori, Aya Okamoto, Yoshiaki Umegaki, Shôzô Îzuka, Seizô Katô, Hiroya Ishimaru
Plot: On Christmas a group of homeless outcasts in Tokyo find an abandoned child. They band together to care for it, but who does it belong to and how could anyone abandon a baby at Christmas?
200. 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.
