801. Secret Agent, The ( O Agente Secreto )
Year of Release: 2025
Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Portuguese
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Actors: Wagner Moura, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Gabriel Leone, Carlos Francisco, Alice Carvalho, Robério Diógenes
802. Empire of the Sun
Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers, Joe Pantoliano, Leslie Phillips
Plot: A young, privileged boy is separated from his family after the Japanese invade British-controlled areas of China. Sent to a British internment camp where is attempts to capture some of his former life while affecting the adults around him.
803. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Richard Brooks
Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives, Jack Carson, Judith Anderson, Madeleine Sherwood
Plot: A drunk man, who hurt himself hurtling on his old high school track, has a lack-luster marriage and a father, that he doesn't really know, who is about to die.
804. Lady Bird
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Greta Gerwig
Actors: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Lucas Hedges, Timothée Chalamet, Tracy Letts, Beanie Feldstein
Plot: A rebellious girls attending a conservative Catholic high school in Sacramento looks to escape both her rote life and family by planning to attend college in New York.
805. Duck Amuck
Year of Release: 1953
Overall Rating: 3.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Chuck Jones
Actors: Mel Blanc
Plot: What will Daffy Duck do when everything in his skit starts to change at whim?
806. Lion
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Biography
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Garth Davis
Actors: Dev Patel, Sunny Pawar, Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara, David Wenham, Divian Ladwa
Plot: As a five-year-old, young Saroo finds himself alone on the bustling streets of Calcutta, separated from his family and far from home. After surviving many hardships, he finds himself adopted by an Australian couple. Fast-forward 25 years and he is ready to make the journey to track down his lost family.
807. Doctor Strange
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Scott Derrickson
Actors: Benedict Cumberbatch, Tilda Swinton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, Mads Mikkelsen, Michael Stuhlbarg
Plot: Brilliant, but arrogant, Dr. Stephen Strange is talented, but is willing to bend in order to make more money. An accident leaves his hands injured - and accident he never truly recovers from. After bottoming out - he hears about an Ancient One - a supposed sorcerer who may be able to finally give him back his life. But once he finds him, he finds the plans for him are much grander.
808. The Shape of Water
Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Actors: Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon, Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones
Plot: Set against the backdrop of the Cold War - Elisa works in a highly
classified and isolated secret government facility. Her days are as cold
and lonely as the place she works but everything changes when she and her
co-worker, Zelda, uncover secret classified experiment.
809. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Actors: Bob Hoskins, Kathleen Turner, Charles Fleischer, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy, Stubby Kaye
Plot: A washed-up, toon-hating private eye investigates the murder of Toontown owner Marvin Acme and finds scandal and corruption behind every door.
810. Scrooge ( Christmas Carol, A 1951 )
Year of Release: 1951
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Fantasy/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
Actors: Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Michael Hordern, George Cole
Plot: Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge learns the error of his ways through the intervention of the ghost of his former partner and of three spirits in this faithful adaptation of the Dickens classic.
