2025 film priorities
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Animal Kingdom
David Michôd · 2010
Joshua “J” is taken in by his extended family after his mother dies of an overdose. The clan, ruled by J’s scheming grandmother, is heavily involved in criminal activities, and J is soon indoctrinated into their way of life. But J is given a chance to take another path when a cop seeks to help him.
Dirty Harry
Don Siegel · 1971
When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement – is tasked with hunting down the psychopath.
Moonfleet
Fritz Lang · 1955
Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old friend of his mother's, Jeremy Fox. Fox is a morally ambiguous character, an elegant gentleman involved with smugglers and pirates.
The Roses
Jay Roach · 2025
Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy and Theo: successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo's career nosedives while Ivy's own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites.
Lars and the Real Girl
Craig Gillespie · 2007
Extremely shy Lars finds it impossible to make friends or socialize. His brother and sister-in-law worry about him, so when he announces that he has a girlfriend he met on the Internet, they are overjoyed. But Lars' new lady is a life-size plastic woman. On the advice of a doctor, his family and the rest of the community go along with his delusion.
In the Company of Men
Neil LaBute · 1997
Two business executives--one an avowed misogynist, the other recently emotionally wounded by his love interest--set out to exact revenge on the female gender by seeking out the most innocent, uncorrupted girl they can find and ruining her life.
Stick It
Jessica Bendinger · 2006
Haley is a naturally gifted athlete but, with her social behavior, the teen seems intent on squandering her abilities. After a final brush with the law, a judge sentences her to an elite gymnastics academy run by a legendary, hard-nosed coach. Once there, Haley's rebellious attitude wins her both friends and enemies.
The Rivals of Amziah King
Andrew Patterson · 2025
In rural Oklahoma, Kateri loses her mother and flees foster care. She reunites with past foster parent Amziah King, who mentors her, revealing hidden skills. Facing devastating situations, Kateri relies on newfound strength to seek justice.
Materialists
Celine Song · 2025
A young, ambitious New York City matchmaker finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex.
Army of Shadows
Jean-Pierre Melville · 1969
Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must continue a quiet, seemingly endless battle against the Nazis in an atmosphere of tension, paranoia and distrust.
Mr. Vincent
Robert Celestino · 1997
Mr. Vincent is the character study of a struggling songwriter who obsesses over the women in his life. After his wife leaves him he meets Lisa who becomes his mentor, muse and lover, but lies, betrayal and finally threats gets in their way and relationships spiral out of control.
The Adjuster
Atom Egoyan · 1991
An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords.
You Only Live Once
Fritz Lang · 1937
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.
Blackhat
Michael Mann · 2015
Nicholas Hathaway, a furloughed convict, and his American and Chinese partners hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to Jakarta. As Hathaway closes in, the stakes become personal as he discovers that the attack on a Chinese nuclear power plant was just the beginning.
The Unbelievable Truth
Hal Hartley · 1990
After serving time for murder, Josh Hutton returns to his home town where he meets Audry Hugo. No one can remember exactly what Josh did...
Amateur
Hal Hartley · 1994
A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop and is befriended by a charitable ex-nun who is failing in her attempts to write marketable pornography.
The Insider
Michael Mann · 1999
A research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco.
Short Cuts
Robert Altman · 1993
Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the hospital, the boy's grandfather tells his son, Howard, about his past affairs. Meanwhile, a baker starts harassing the family when they fail to pick up the boy's birthday cake.
Random Harvest
Mervyn LeRoy · 1942
Wandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star but his amnesia makes it difficult to last.
Armageddon
Michael Bay · 1998
When an asteroid threatens to collide with Earth, NASA honcho Dan Truman determines the only way to stop it is to drill into its surface and detonate a nuclear bomb. This leads him to renowned driller Harry Stamper, who agrees to helm the dangerous space mission provided he can bring along his own hotshot crew. Among them is the cocksure A.J. who Harry thinks isn't good enough for his daughter, until the mission proves otherwise.
Times Square
Allan Moyle · 1980
When a 13-year-old girl befriends a defiant antisocial child of the streets, the mismatched runaways set off to the Big Apple to find their own adventure.
Out of Sight
Steven Soderbergh · 1998
Meet Jack Foley, a smooth criminal who bends the law and is determined to make one last heist. Karen Sisco is a federal marshal who chooses all the right moves … and all the wrong guys. Now they're willing to risk it all to find out if there's more between them than just the law.
Contact
Robert Zemeckis · 1997
A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult decisions between her beliefs, the truth, and reality.
Klute
Alan J. Pakula · 1971
A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.
Anti-Clock
Jane Arden · 1979
A complex and fascinating experimental exploration of time and identity, Anti-Clock is a film of authentic, startling originality. Brilliantly mixing film and video techniques, Arden and Bond's paranoid, psychological surveillance study of a career gambler turned clairvoyant unstuck in time captures onscreen the anxieties that have infiltrated the consciousness of so many in Western society.
Lone Star
John Sayles · 1996
When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Dito Montiel · 2006
Dito Montiel, a successful author, receives a call from his long-suffering mother, asking him to return home and visit his ailing father. Dito recalls his childhood growing up in a violent neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., with friends Antonio, Giuseppe, Nerf and Mike.
Less Than Zero
Marek Kanievska · 1987
Em atuação fantástica, Robert Downey Jr. (Chaplin) interpreta Julian, um jovem de Beverly Hills que tem de tudo, boa aparência, charme, inteligência, pai rico, e um vicio: drogas. Seu amigo e sua namorada (Andrew McCarth e Jami Gertz) estão tentando ajudá-lo, mas o mundo de Julian está desmoronando tão rapidamente que eles podem afundar junto com ele. O resultado disso tudo é a história impressionante e marcante de três jovens que começam com tudo e que estão a ponto de ficar Abaixo de Zero.
Outside Providence
Michael Corrente · 1999
In this coming-of-age comedy, Tim Dunphy is leading a go-nowhere existence, spending his days smoking pot and hanging out with his best friend, Drugs Delaney. But Tim's lazy days of getting high are jettisoned after a brush with the law convinces his blue-collar dad to send him to a Connecticut prep school. The one saving grace of the new school is Jane, a fellow student Tim falls for immediately.
Watched
Mickey 17
Bong Joon Ho · 2025
Unlikely hero Mickey Barnes finds himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.
Sinners
Ryan Coogler · 2025
Dispostos a deixar suas vidas conturbadas para trás, irmãos gêmeos retornam à sua cidade natal para recomeçar suas vidas do zero, quando descobrem que um mal ainda maior está à espera deles para recebê-los de volta.
EDtv
Ron Howard · 1999
Video store clerk Ed agrees to have his life filmed by a camera crew for a tv network.
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Joe Dante · 1990
Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But a series of accidents creates a whole new generation of Gremlins. The situation worsens when the devilish green creatures invade a top-secret laboratory and develop genetically altered powers, making them even harder to destroy!
Silent Hill
Christophe Gans · 2006
Rose, a desperate mother takes her adopted daughter, Sharon, to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to cure her of her ailment. After a violent car crash, Sharon disappears and Rose begins a desperate search to get her back. She descends into the center of the twisted reality of a town's terrible secret. Pursued by grotesquely deformed creatures and townspeople stuck in permanent purgatory, Rose begins to uncover the truth behind the apocalyptic disaster that burned the town 30 years earlier.
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Christopher McQuarrie · 2025
After escaping a calamitous train crash, Ethan realizes The Entity is stashed aboard an old Russian submarine, but a foe from his past named Gabriel is also on the trail.
The Life of Chuck
Mike Flanagan · 2025
Charles 'Chuck' Krantz experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained in all of us.
Fat City
John Huston · 1972
Two men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take opposite momentum.
My Life Without Me
Isabel Coixet · 2003
A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness.
Killer Joe
William Friedkin · 2012
A cop who moonlights as a hit man agrees to kill the hated mother of a desperate drug dealer in exchange for a tumble with the young man's virginal sister.
