971. Breaking the Waves
Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Lars von Trier
Actors: Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård, Katrin Cartlidge, Jean-Marc Barr, Adrian Rawlins, Udo Kier
Plot: In a deeply religious community the naive Bess enters into a relationship with oil-rig worker Jan. When she prays to have Jan stay home for good - her prayers are answered in the form of an accident that leaves Jan paralyzed from the neck down. She stays, but there is no longer any physical contact between the two. Jan urges her to take on a lover and tell him the details - but as the trysts become more intimate and deviant, Bess if convinced it is all a part of God's plan.
972. Chaser, The ( Chugyeogja )
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Hong-jin Na
Actors: Yun-seok Kim, Jung-woo Ha, Yeong-hie Seo, In-gi Jung, Hyo-ju Park
Plot: Joong-ho is a dirty detective-turned pimp in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by a same client whom one of his girls is meeting with right now.
973. Love and Death
Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Woody Allen
Actors: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Georges Adet, Frank Adu, Edmond Ardisson, Féodor Atkine
Plot: A bumbling young man, in love with his beautiful cousin, sets off to fight for Mother Russia against the invading troops of Napoleon. Eventually, the couple hatches a madcap scheme to assassinate the warmongering leader, with hilarious, if not altogether successful, results.
974. Changeling
Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Thriller/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Clint Eastwood
Actors: Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan, Colm Feore, Gattlin Griffith, Devon Conti
Plot: Based on a true story, a woman's son is kidnapped and returned to her months later. Unfortunately, it's not her son and the corrupt LA police department refuse to admit the mistake.
975. Manon of the Spring ( Manon des sources )
Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Claude Berri
Actors: Yves Montand, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, Hippolyte Girardot, Margarita Lozano, Yvonne Gamy
Plot: Sequel to Jean de Florette - Manon, now a beautiful, grown woman seeks revenge against those responsible for the death of her father years before.
976. Adaptation
Year of Release: 2002
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Spike Jonze
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Chris Cooper, Meryl Streep, Brian Cox, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Tilda Swinton
Plot: A screenwriter and his brother try to work to gether to fulfill at least one good story. Their ordintary lives twist and turn into something that no one can even believe!
977. Viridiana
Year of Release: 1961
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Spanish
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Silvia Pinal, Francisco Rabal, Fernando Rey, José Calvo, Margarita Lozano, Victoria Zinny
Plot: A novice visits her uncle shortly before taking her vows. Events lead her to refuse her vows, and instead to stay on at her (now deceased) uncle's manor with his son. The virtuous woman takes in beggars at the manor until things get out of hand in Luis Bunuel's brilliant satire of bourgeois values and the Catholic church.
978. Tower
Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Animation
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Keith Maitland
Actors: Violett Beane, Josephine McAdam, Reece Everett Ryan
979. Anatomy of a Fall ( Anatomie d'une chute )
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Justine Triet
Actors: Sandra Hüller, Swann Arlaud, Milo Machado Graner, Antoine Reinartz, Samuel Theis, Jehnny Beth
Plot: When an author's husband turns up dead and the investigation prove inconclusive between an accident and murder, she calls upon an old friend - the only lawyer she knows - to help prepare for the impending trial.
980. An American Werewolf in London
Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Comedy
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Landis
Actors: David Naughton, Griffin Dunne, Jenny Agutter, John Woodvine, Lila Kaye, Frank Oz
Plot: Two students on a walking trip through England are attacked by a werewolf. One is killed, the other bitten. Villagers deny the existance of the beast, but the bitten student soon changes...
