2017 Movies

Hacksaw Ridge

Directed by: Mel Gibson

Starring: Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey, Teresa Palmer

Country: United States of America

Outline: WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people, and becomes the first man in American history to receive the Medal of Honor without firing a shot.

Blade Runner 2049

Written by: Hampton Fancher (screenplay), Michael Green (screenplay), Hampton Fancher (story), Philip K. Dick (c

Directed by: Denis Villeneuve

Starring: Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas, Dave Bautista

Country: United States of America

Outline: A young blade runner's discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years.

God's Own Country

Directed by: Francis Lee

Starring: Josh O'Connor, Alec Secareanu, Gemma Jones, Ian Hart

Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Outline: Spring. Yorkshire. Young farmer Johnny Saxby numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker for lambing season ignites an intense relationship that sets Johnny on a new path.

Training Day

Directed by: Antoine Fuqua

Starring: Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn, Tom Berenger

Country: United States of America

Outline: On his first day on the job as a Los Angeles narcotics officer, a rookie cop goes beyond a full work day in training within the narcotics division of the LAPD with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears to be.

Lucky

Directed by: John Carroll Lynch

Starring: Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Ron Livingston, Ed Begley Jr.

Country: United States of America

Outline: The spiritual journey of a ninety-year-old atheist.

Darkest Hour

Directed by: Joe Wright

Starring: Gary Oldman, Lily James, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Mendelsohn

Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Outline: In May 1940, the fate of Western Europe hangs on British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean a humiliating defeat for Britain and its empire.

Southpaw

Directed by: Antoine Fuqua

Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, Oona Laurence, Forest Whitaker

Country: United States of America

Outline: A champion boxer fights to get his daughter back from child protective services as well as revive his professional career, after a fatal incident sends him on a rampant path of destruction.

Split

Directed by: M. Night Shyamalan

Starring: James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Haley Lu Richardson, Jessica Sula

Country: United States of America

Outline: Three girls are kidnapped by a man with a diagnosed 23 distinct personalities. They must try to escape before the apparent emergence of a frightful new 24th.

T2 Trainspotting

Written by: Irvine Welsh (novel), John Hodge (adaptation)

Directed by: Danny Boyle

Starring: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle

Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Outline: After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud, and Begbie.

American Made

Directed by: Doug Liman

Starring: Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright, Jesse Plemons

Country: United States of America

Outline: The story of Barry Seal, an American pilot who became a drug-runner for the CIA in the 1980s in a clandestine operation that would be exposed as the Iran-Contra Affair.

The Post

Directed by: Steven Spielberg

Starring: Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk

Country: United States of America

Outline: A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between the press and the government.

Silence

Directed by: Martin Scorsese

Starring: Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson, Tadanobu Asano

Country: United States of America

Outline: In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.

Fences

Directed by: Denzel Washington

Starring: Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Stephen Henderson, Jovan Adepo

Country: United States of America

Outline: A working-class African-American father tries to raise his family in the 1950s, while coming to terms with the events of his life.

The Founder

Directed by: John Lee Hancock

Starring: Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch, Linda Cardellini

Country: United States of America

Outline: The story of Ray Kroc, a salesman who turned two brothers' innovative fast food eatery, McDonald's, into the biggest restaurant business in the world, with a combination of ambition, persistence, and ruthlessness.

The Death of Stalin

Directed by: Armando Iannucci

Starring: Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeffrey Tambor, Andrea Riseborough

Country: France

Outline: Follows the Soviet dictator's last days and depicts the chaos of the regime after his death.

Murder on the Orient Express

Directed by: Kenneth Branagh

Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Johnny Depp, Daisy Ridley, Michelle Pfeiffer, Penelope Cruz, Josh Gad, Willem Dafoe, Michael Pena, Judi Dench, Olivia Colman, Derek Jacobi

Country: United States of America

Thoroughbreds

Directed by: Cory Finley

Starring: Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Anton Yelchin, Paul Sparks

Country: United States of America

Outline: Two upper-class teenage girls in suburban Connecticut rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of growing apart. Together, they hatch a plan to solve both of their problems-no matter what the cost.

The Hitman's Bodyguard

Directed by: Patrick Hughes

Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman, Elodie Yung

Country: United States of America

Outline: The world's top bodyguard gets a new client, a hit man who must testify at the International Criminal Court. They must put their differences aside and work together to make it to the trial on time.