751. All Quiet on the Western Front
Year of Release: 1930
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lewis Milestone
Actors: Lewis Ayres, John Wray, William Bakewell, Louis Wolheim, Arnold Lucy, Ben Alexander
Plot: During WW1, a young soldier faces pride over cowardice during battle.
752. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Francis Lawrence
Actors: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Sam Claflin, Donald Sutherland
Plot: Based on the second book in Suzanne Collin's Hunger Games trilogy: Following their dual victory in the Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta find themselves on the mandatory post-games victory tour through each of the districts. Katniss also finds herself torn between her relationship with Peeta and Gale. Yet their subversive victory has stirred up some districts and rumors of rebellion run rampant. The Capitol must figure out a way to quell this growing unrest and comes up with a novel solution for the 75th Annual Hunger Games: bringing back past winners to fight once again and this time there will be no compromise.
753. Tree of Wooden Clogs, The ( Albero degli zoccoli, L' )
Year of Release: 1979
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ermanno Olmi
Actors: Luigi Ornaghi, Francesca Moriggi, Omar Brignoli, Antonio Ferrari, Teresa Brescianini, Giuseppe Brignoli
Plot: Ermanno Olmi's epic film charts the destinies of four families in an Italian peasant community in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The title refers to the landlord's tree a peasant cuts down so his son can have shoes to go to school.
754. Philadelphia
Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Jonathan Demme
Actors: Denzel Washington, Tom Hanks, Jason Robards, Antonio Banderas, Bradley Whitford, Joanne Woodward
Plot: A man with AIDS seeks a lawyer to help him sue his old employer (who happens to be a lawyer) when he knows they fired him just because he has aids.
755. Cries and Whispers ( Viskningar och rop )
Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Actors: Harriet Andersson, Kari Sylwan, Ingrid Thulin, Liv Ullmann, Anders Ek, Inga Gill
Plot: In turn-of-the-century Sweden, a dying woman's sisters visit her at her country home. However, the sisters are consumed by selfishness and fear, while the woman's maid does her best to comfort her in her final days.
756. Illusionist, The ( illusionniste, L' )
Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Animation
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Sylvain Chomet
Actors: Jean-Claude Donda, Edith Rankin, Jil Aigrot, Didier Gustin, Frédéric Lebon, Tom Urie
Plot: A French illusionist realizes he is part of a dying art as his travels
lead to more and more obscure and fringe performances. Finding himself in
Scotland, he meets a young woman, and fan, who will change life.
757. Secrets & Lies
Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Mike Leigh
Actors: Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan, Brenda Blethyn, Claire Rushbrook, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Elizabeth Berrington
Plot: Adopted as a child, the now-grown up and successful Hortense thinks it is
time to track down her birth mother. It leads to a the rather lonely,
isolated working-class Cynthia - who does everything she can to deny the
lineage even as it exposes secrets long buried.
758. Man on Wire
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: James Marsh
Actors: Philippe Petit, Annie Allix, Jean-Louis Blondeau, Alan Welner, Paul McGill, Jean François Heckel
Plot: A documentary about Phillipe Petit's exciting but very illegal death-defying tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers in 1974, with interviews from all the participants and real coverage of the event.
759. Frost/Nixon
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ron Howard
Actors: Frank Langella, Sam Rockwell, Kevin Bacon, Michael Sheen, Oliver Platt, Rebecca Hall
Plot: After three years of silence following Watergate, Richard Nixon agrees to an all-inclusive interview with an unlikely choice of interviewer: British showman David Frost. Each man wants to have the upper hand but all the planning and preparation will come down to one historical interview.
760. Boy and the Beast, The ( Bakemono no ko )
Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Anime/Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
Actors: Shôta Sometani, Kôji Yakusho, Aoi Miyazaki, Suzu Hirose, Sumire Morohoshi, Mamoru Miyano
