211. Earth
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield
Actors: Patrick Stewart, James Earl Jones
212. Sophie Scholl - Die letzten Tage
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Marc Rothemund
Actors: Julia Jentsch, Gerald Alexander Held, Fabian Hinrichs, Johanna Gastdorf, André Hennicke, Florian Stetter
Plot: This movie is a historical recreation of the last days of Sophie Scholl, a member of a non-violent German resistance movement during WWII.
After the German army suffered heavy losses at the battle of Stalingrad, a small number of University students, appalled with the stories of Nazi atrocities that were filtering through to them, set up an anti-war group called the White Rose.
In and around Munich University, a campaign is Spearheaded by the students as they organise leaflet handouts and daub graffiti over government buildings attacking Hitler and his policies.
213. Cowboy Bebop
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Action
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Shinichirô Watanabe
Actors: Steven Jay Blum, Beau Billingslea, Wendee Lee, Melissa Fahn, Jennifer Hale, Nicholas Guest
Plot: Three bounty hunters investigate a truck explosion in order to get an enormous bounty.
214. Triplets of Belleville, The ( triplettes de Belleville, Les )
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Animation/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Sylvain Chomet
Actors: Béatrice Bonifassi, Lina Boudreau, Mari-Lou Gauthier, Charles Linton, Michel Robin, Michèle Caucheteux
Plot: A grandmother raises her lone grandson. In an effort to find something that makes the boy happy, she buys him a bike. With Grandma has his trainer, the boy grows to enter the Tour de France. A sinister mobster kidnaps the boy and it's up to Grandma, the boy's dog, and three over-the-hill singing sisters to rescue him.
215. Stardust
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Matthew Vaughn
Actors: Claire Danes, Charlie Cox, Sienna Miller, Jason Flemyng, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert De Niro
Plot: Based on the best-selling graphic novel by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess. A young man promises to retrieve a fallen star for his love. He must travel to a magical land full of adventures.
216. Michael Clayton
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tony Gilroy
Actors: George Clooney, Pamela Gray, Sydney Pollack, Tom Wilkinson, Michael O'Keefe, Tilda Swinton
Plot: Michael Clayton is a "Clean up man" or a "Fixer" at a law firm that fixes people's legal problems by pulling strings of politicians and powerful people.
He gets involved in a case that wreaks of corruption. He tries desperately to get to the bottom of why the lead attorney has quit the case and gone missing.
217. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Adventure
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Gore Verbinski
Actors: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Bill Nighy, Jack Davenport, Tom Hollander
Plot: Jack Sparrow's debt to Davy Jones is due, but, with a little help from his friends, he hopes to do the impossible and escape his fate.
218. In the Loop
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Armando Iannucci
Actors: Peter Capaldi, Tom Hollander, Paul Higgins, Anna Chlumsky, Chris Addison, James Gandolfini
Plot: When the US and UK decide to go to war, it takes the right group of people, along with a lot of spin, backroom politics and gossip, to make the war go away.
219. Partly Cloudy
Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Comedy
MPAA Rating: G
Director: Peter Sohn
Actors: Tony Fucile, Lori Richardson
220. Sideways
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alexander Payne
Actors: Paul Giamatti, Thomas Haden Church, Virginia Madsen, Sandra Oh, M.C. Gainey, Marylouise Burke
Plot: Two buddies take a road trip in California's wine country before one of them gets married.
