681. Late Spring ( Banshun )
Year of Release: 1949
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Actors: Chishû Ryû, Setsuko Hara, Yumeji Tsukioka, Haruko Sugimura, Hohi Aoki, Jun Usami
Plot: A young woman cares for her father, a widower. While those around her try to convince her to get married, she is happy where she is in life and doesn't want to leave her father.
682. They Shall Not Grow Old
Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Jackson
Plot: A ground-breaking documentary that takes original footage from WWI, that has been colorized along with adding sound, allowing us to hear voices from the previously voiceless and giving audiences an unprecedented look of the trials, triumph and brutality of this war, and the people who experienced it first hand.
683. Red Turtle, The ( tortue rouge, La )
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Genre: Animation/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Michael Dudok de Wit
Plot: The life of a castaway is told in major life stages in this dialogue-free animated film.
684. Promising Young Woman
Year of Release: 2020
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Emerald Fennell
Actors: Carey Mulligan, Bo Burnham, Laverne Cox, Clancy Brown, Jennifer Coolidge, Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Plot: A tragic event in her past causes a young woman to seek vengeance against the men who enter her life.
685. The 39 Steps
Year of Release: 1935
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Mystery/Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Peggy Ashcroft, Wylie Watson
Plot: In this classic Hitchcockian thriller, Robert Donat is an innocent man who becomes accidentally embroiled in an insidious spy ring and is forced to run for his life.
686. Legends of the Fall
Year of Release: 1994
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Romance/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Edward Zwick
Actors: Brad Pitt, Aidan Quinn, Julia Ormond, Anthony Hopkins, Gordon Tootoosis, Karina Lombard
Plot: The story of three brothers living in the northern west who all have
differing personalities as they fight for war, love, and nature in near
seclussion.
687. High Plains Drifter
Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill, Mitch Ryan, Jack Ging, Stefan Gierasch
Plot: Eastwood stars as the Fury of Vegence is this savage tale of blood and hypocracy. In a role similiar to his legendary Man With No Name in A Fistful of Dollars, Clint rides into a town terrorized by a band of ruthless gunmen who promise to wreck havac the moment they are released from prison. But this town harbors a flithy secret . . . and only blood will wash it clean. Eastwood's darkest role.
688. The Iron Giant
Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Brad Bird
Actors: Jennifer Aniston, Harry Connick Jr., Vin Diesel, James Gammon, Cloris Leachman, Christopher McDonald
Plot: A giant alien robot falls into a small Maine town in 1958. A 9-year-old boy becomes fast friends with the machine, but soon the government arrives with the intent to destroy the machine at any cost.
689. High Fidelity
Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Stephen Frears
Actors: John Cusack, Jack Black, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Tim Robbins, Joan Cusack, Iben Hjejle
Plot: A record store owner has trouble with relationships as he recalls his last 5 break ups.
690. Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The ( Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, Das )
Year of Release: 1920
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert Wiene
Actors: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Rudolf Lettinger
Plot: Dr. Caligari and his somnambulist predict deadly things.
