151. Munich
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Historical/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Steven Spielberg
Actors: Eric Bana, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Geoffrey Rush, Daniel Craig, Hanns Zischler
Plot: Based on the track down and assignation of those responsible for the masacre during the Olympics in the 1970's.
152. Zodiac
Year of Release: 2007
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: David Fincher
Actors: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Edwards, Chloe Sevigny, John Carroll Lynch
Plot: A serial killer in San Fransisco torments the media and the police while a cartoonist and an obsessed police officer try to catch him spanning 3 decades.
153. Tale of Two Sisters, A ( Janghwa, Hongryeon )
Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Horror/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ji-woon Kim
Actors: Kap-su Kim, Jung-ah Yum, Su-jeong Lim, Seung-bi Lee, Geun-yeong Mun
Plot: Two girls return from a hospital stay to a foreboding house where their cold, distant father, a seemingly unstable step mother and a vengeful ghost make their lives dark and mysterious.
154. Pride and Prejudice
Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Joe Wright
Actors: Keira Knightley, Talulah Riley, Rosamund Pike, Jena Malone, Carey Mulligan, Donald Sutherland
Plot: Young and beautiful but too spirited Elizabeth Bennet will find her equal in mind of proud Mr. Darcy, who considers himself much above her class and yet finds himself enchanted by her.
155. The Fall
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tarsem Singh
Actors: Lee Pace, Catinca Untaru, Justine Waddell, Julian Bleach, Kim Uylenbroek, Aiden Lithgow
Plot: A stunt man in 1920's Los Angeles is met in a hospital by a young girl with a broken arm. He begins to tell her a story of 5 mythical people. The story becomes more vivid and more tied together between the two as the film goes on. What was the purpose of the story and how do they relate to the two characters is the real question.
156. Love Actually
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Richard Curtis
Actors: Bill Nighy, Colin Firth, Sienna Guillory, Liam Neeson, Emma Thompson, Gregor Fisher
Plot: Follows the the love lives of eight different couples, and their loosely interrelated interactions, in one, frantic month before Christmastime in London.
157. Lost in Translation
Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sofia Coppola
Actors: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris, Nancy Steiner
Plot: An actor past his prime and a bored, young wife form an unlikely companionship in Tokyo.
158. Ip Man ( Yip Man )
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action/Biography
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wilson Yip
Actors: Donnie Yen, Simon Yam, Siu-Wong Fan, Ka Tung Lam, Yu Xing, You-Nam Wong
Plot: An occupying Japanese general challenges Chinese men to duels so he can prove the superiority of the Japanese. Ip Man refuses to fight, but can resist for only so long.
159. Battle Royale ( Batoru rowaiaru )
Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Actors: "Beat" Takeshi Kitano, Chiaki Kuriyama, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Aki Maeda, Taro Yamamoto, Sousuke Takaoka
Plot: In a bleak future, 42 ninth-grade classmates are stranded on a deserted island each with a weapon and a choice: kill or be killed. This is Battle Royale, three days, one survivor, no escape.
160. The Royal Tenenbaums
Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wes Anderson
Actors: Gene Hackman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller, Anjelica Huston, Luke Wilson, Own Wilson
Plot: A distant family, including three child prodigies long forgotten, are brought together by patriarch Royal Tenenbaum who is hoping to mend past mistakes.
