2013-2014 Interesting Anticipated Films
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1.
Man of Steel
(2013)
A young itinerant worker is forced to confront his secret extrastellar origin when Earth is invaded by members of his own race. (143 mins.)
Director: Zack Snyder
2.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
(2013)
The dwarves, along with Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf the Grey, continue their quest to reclaim Erebor, their homeland, from Smaug. Bilbo Baggins is in possession of a mysterious and magical ring. (161 mins.)
Director: Peter Jackson
4.
Iron Man 3
(2013)
When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution. (130 mins.)
Director: Shane Black
6.
Elysium
(2013)
In the year 2154, the very wealthy live on a man-made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth. A man takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds. (109 mins.)
Director: Neill Blomkamp
7.
The Last Stand
(2013)
The leader of a drug cartel busts out of a courthouse and speeds to the Mexican border, where the only thing in his path is a sheriff and his inexperienced staff. (107 mins.)
Director: Kim Jee-woon
8.
A Good Day to Die Hard
(2013)
John McClane travels to Russia to help out his seemingly wayward son, Jack, only to discover that Jack is a CIA operative working undercover, causing the father and son to team up against underworld forces. (98 mins.)
Director: John Moore
9.
Mary
(2015)
Under the reign of terror of Herod the Great and against all odds, Mary and Joseph survive as young...
Director: Alister Grierson
10.
The Wolverine
(2013)
When Wolverine is summoned to Japan by an old acquaintance, he is embroiled in a conflict that forces him to confront his own demons. (126 mins.)
Director: James Mangold
11.
Rush
(2013)
The merciless 1970s rivalry between Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda. (123 mins.)
Director: Ron Howard
12.
Snowpiercer
(2013)
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine. (126 mins.)
Director: Joon-ho Bong
13.
Inside Llewyn Davis
(2013)
A week in the life of a young singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961. (104 mins.)
Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
14.
Vivaldi
(????)
A biography of Antonio Vivaldi's early life, when the young priest became the music teacher at a school for the illegitimate daughters of Venice's courtesans. (120 mins.)
Director: Boris Damast
15.
Side Effects
(2013)
A young woman's world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects. (106 mins.)
Director: Steven Soderbergh
16.
Untitled Terrence Malick Project
(2014)
Two intersecting love triangles. Obsession and betrayal set against the music scene in Austin, Texas.
Director: Terrence Malick
17.
RoboCop
(2014)
In 2028 Detroit, when Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman) - a loving husband, father and good cop - is critically injured in the line of duty, the multinational conglomerate OmniCorp sees their chance for a part-man, part-robot police officer. (118 mins.)
Director: José Padilha
18.
Out of the Furnace
(2013)
When Rodney Baze mysteriously disappears and law enforcement doesn't follow through fast enough, his older brother, Russell, takes matters into his own hands to find justice. (116 mins.)
Director: Scott Cooper
19.
Escape Plan
(2013)
When a structural-security authority finds himself set up and incarcerated in the world's most secret and secure prison, he has to use his skills to escape with help from the inside. (115 mins.)
Director: Mikael Håfström
20.
Ender's Game
(2013)
Young Ender Wiggin is recruited by the International Military to lead the fight against the Formics, a genocidal alien race which nearly annihilated the human race in a previous invasion. (114 mins.)
Director: Gavin Hood
21.
Movie 43
(2013)
A series of interconnected short films follows a washed-up producer as he pitches insane story lines featuring some of the biggest stars in Hollywood. (94 mins.)
Director: Elizabeth Banks, Steven Brill
22.
August: Osage County
(2013)
A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Oklahoma house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them. (121 mins.)
Director: John Wells
23.
Stand Up Guys
(2012)
A pair of aging stickup men try to get the old gang back together for one last hurrah before one of the guys takes his last assignment - to kill his comrade. (95 mins.)
Director: Fisher Stevens
24.
Kane & Lynch
(????)
A pair of Death Row inmates, a mercenary named Kane and a schizophrenic named Lynch, escape during a prison transport and team up to retrieve a stolen fortune. Based on a video game.
Director: F. Gary Gray
Stars: Gerard Butler, Vin Diesel
25.
Behind the Candelabra
(2013 TV Movie)
Based on the autobiographical novel, the tempestuous 6-year relationship between Liberace and his (much younger) lover, Scott Thorson, is recounted. (118 mins.)
Director: Steven Soderbergh
26.
Noah
(2014)
The Biblical Noah suffers visions of an apocalyptic deluge and takes measures to protect his family from the coming flood.
Director: Darren Aronofsky
27.
The Wolf of Wall Street
(2013)
Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stockbroker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government. (180 mins.)
Director: Martin Scorsese
28.
The Bling Ring
(2013)
Inspired by actual events, a group of fame-obsessed teenagers use the internet to track celebrities' whereabouts in order to rob their homes. (90 mins.)
Director: Sofia Coppola
29.
X-Men: Days of Future Past
(2014)
The X-Men send Wolverine to the past in a desperate effort to change history and prevent an event that results in doom for both humans and mutants.
Director: Bryan Singer
31.
Last Vegas
(2013)
Three sixty-something friends take a break from their day-to-day lives to throw a bachelor party in Las Vegas for their last remaining single pal. (105 mins.)
Director: Jon Turteltaub
32.
Oz the Great and Powerful
(2013)
A small-time magician is swept away to an enchanted land and is forced into a power struggle between three witches. (130 mins.)
Director: Sam Raimi
33.
12 Years a Slave
(2013)
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. (134 mins.)
Director: Steve McQueen
34.
Silence
(2015)
In the 17th century two Jesuit priests face violence and persecution when they travel to Japan to locate their mentor and to spread the gospel of Christianity.
Director: Martin Scorsese
35.
The Host
(2013)
When an unseen enemy threatens mankind by taking over their bodies and erasing their memories, Melanie will risk everything to protect the people she cares most about, proving that love can conquer all in a dangerous new world. (125 mins.)
Director: Andrew Niccol
36.
Oblivion
(2013)
A veteran assigned to extract Earth's remaining resources begins to question what he knows about his mission and himself. (124 mins.)
Director: Joseph Kosinski
37.
The Lone Ranger
(2013)
Native American warrior Tonto recounts the untold tales that transformed John Reid, a man of the law, into a legend of justice. (149 mins.)
Director: Gore Verbinski
38.
Effie Gray
(2014)
A look at the mysterious relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teenage bride Effie Gray.
Director: Richard Laxton
39.
Very Good Girls
(2013)
Two New York City girls pact to lose their virginity during their first summer out of high school. When they both fall for the same street artist, the friends find their connection tested for the first time. (120 mins.)
Director: Naomi Foner
40.
Night Moves
(2013)
A drama centered on three environmentalists who plot to blow up a dam. (112 mins.)
Director: Kelly Reichardt
41.
The Call
(2013)
When a veteran 911 operator takes a life-altering call from a teenage girl who has just been abducted, she realizes that she must confront a killer from her past in order to save the girl's life. (94 mins.)
Director: Brad Anderson
42.
After Earth
(2013)
A crash landing leaves Kitai Raige and his father Cypher stranded on Earth, a millennium after events forced humanity's escape. With Cypher injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help. (100 mins.)
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
43.
How I Live Now
(2013)
An American girl, sent to the English countryside to stay with relatives, finds love and purpose while fighting for her survival as war envelops the world around her. (101 mins.)
Director: Kevin Macdonald
44.
A Long Way Down
(2014)
Four people meet on New Year's Eve and form a surrogate family to help one another weather the difficulties of their lives. (96 mins.)
Director: Pascal Chaumeil
45.
Carol
(????)
Set in 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
Director: Todd Haynes
46.
Madame Bovary
(2014)
The beautiful wife of a small-town doctor engages in extra marital affairs in an attempt to advance her social status.
Director: Sophie Barthes
47.
The Way Way Back
(2013)
Shy 14-year-old Duncan goes on summer vacation with his mother, her overbearing boyfriend, and her boyfriend's daughter. Having a rough time fitting in, Duncan finds an unexpected friend in Owen, manager of the Water Wizz water park. (103 mins.)
48.
Serena
(2014)
In Depression-era North Carolina, the future of George Pemberton's timber empire becomes complicated when it is learned that his wife, Serena, cannot bear children.
Director: Susanne Bier
49.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
(2013)
Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark become targets of the Capitol after their victory in the 74th Hunger Games sparks a rebellion in the Districts of Panem. (146 mins.)
Director: Francis Lawrence
50.
Crooked House
(????)
An engaged woman holds off on marriage until the identity of the person who poisoned her grandfather is found.
51.
Why We Broke Up
(????)
A high school girl falls for an upperclassman, whose the captain of the basketball team, but their whirlwind romance comes to a screeching halt.
Director: Beth McCarthy-Miller
52.
Prima
(????)
Chubby Jesse Urchin shocks everyone except her ex-dancer mother Corinne when she is accepted into the prestigious Battleboro School for Dancers...
Director: Evan Greenberg
Stars: Vera Farmiga
53.
Labor Day
(2013)
Depressed single mom Adele and her son Henry offer a wounded, fearsome man a ride. As police search town for the escaped convict, the mother and son gradually learn his true story as their options become increasingly limited. (111 mins.)
Director: Jason Reitman
54.
Machete Kills
(2013)
The U.S. government recruits Machete to battle his way through Mexico in order to take down an arms dealer who looks to launch a weapon into space. (107 mins.)
Director: Robert Rodriguez
55.
King Lear
(????)
Shakepeare's classic tale of an aging king who splits up his kingdom for his three daughters to govern, but is misled about their affections, and driven into exile.
Director: Michael Radford
Stars: Al Pacino
56.
Gotti: In the Shadow of My Father
(2015)
The story of crime boss John Gotti and his son.
Director: Joe Johnston
57.
Grudge Match
(2013)
A pair of aging boxing rivals are coaxed out of retirement to fight one final bout -- 30 years after their last match. (113 mins.)
Director: Peter Segal
58.
Red 2
(2013)
Retired C.I.A. agent Frank Moses reunites his unlikely team of elite operatives for a global quest to track down a missing portable nuclear device. (116 mins.)
Director: Dean Parisot
59.
The Invisible Woman
(2013)
At the height of his career, Charles Dickens meets a younger woman who becomes his secret lover until his death. (111 mins.)
Director: Ralph Fiennes
60.
Two Women
(2014)
A headstrong young woman is married to land baron. Her feelings for her son's tutor becomes a complex web of unrequited love.
Director: Vera Glagoleva
62.
The Counselor
(2013)
A lawyer finds himself in over his head when he gets involved in drug trafficking. (117 mins.)
Director: Ridley Scott
63.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
(2014)
Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world and battles a new threat from old history: the Soviet agent known as the Winter Soldier. (128 mins.)
Director: Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
64.
Carrie
(2013)
A reimagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White, a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother, who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom. (100 mins.)
Director: Kimberly Peirce
65.
Kick-Ass 2
(2013)
The costumed high-school hero Kick-Ass joins with a group of normal citizens who have been inspired to fight crime in costume. Meanwhile, the Red Mist plots an act of revenge that will affect everyone Kick-Ass knows. (103 mins.)
Director: Jeff Wadlow
66.
Maleficent
(2014)
The "Sleeping Beauty" tale is told from the perspective of the villainous Maleficent and looks at the events that hardened her heart and drove her to curse young Princess Aurora.
Director: Robert Stromberg
67.
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
(2014)
Unable to reconcile the grief from recently losing his wife, an introverted architect befriends a wisecracking young girl and agrees to help her build a raft to cross the Atlantic.
Director: Bill Purple
68.
The Rut
(????)
In order to win the approval of her father, a teenage girl surrounds herself with danger and adventure as she journeys into the wilderness alone to hunt deer.
69.
The Drummer
(????)
The Drummer is the story of an inimitably talented, but perennially disparaged man, Dennis Wilson, the...
70.
Maggie
(2014)
A teenage girl in the Midwest becomes infected by an outbreak of a disease that slowly turns the infected into zombies.
Director: Henry Hobson
71.
Furious Angel
(????)
Seventeen year old Lily is a high-powered assassin but when she wants to opt out of her life of violence and the chance to lead a normal life her adopted guardian isn't so keen.
72.
Virgin Mary
(????)
A comedy centered on two best friends who vow to have sex with one another if they don't lose their virginity by the time they turn 18.
Director: Beth Schacter
73.
Final Girl
(2014)
A pack of teenage boys choose the wrong girl to be the victim of their 'initiation'. (90 mins.)
Director: Tyler Shields
74.
Justin and the Knights of Valour
(2013)
A young boy becomes a man as he embarks on a quest to become a knight. (90 mins.)
Director: Manuel Sicilia
75.
Mary Queen of Scots
(2014)
Mary Stuart's attempt to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth I, Queen of England, finds her condemned to years of imprisonment before facing execution.
Director: Susanne Bier
Stars: Saoirse Ronan
76.
A Birder's Guide to Everything
(2013)
David Portnoy, a 15-year-old birding fanatic, thinks that he's made the discovery of a lifetime. So...
Director: Rob Meyer
77.
White House Down
(2013)
While on a tour of the White House with his young daughter, a Capitol policeman springs into action to save his child and protect the president from a heavily armed group of paramilitary invaders. (131 mins.)
Director: Roland Emmerich
78.
Lee Daniels' The Butler
(2013)
As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American society. (132 mins.)
Director: Lee Daniels
79.
Cali
(????)
Lovers Mya and Chris decide to return to Los Angeles to save her sister from a group of unsavory characters -- years after Mya disappeared with the cash she took from the production of a fake snuff film.
Director: Nick Cassavetes
80.
Space Warriors
(2013)
A group of kid space cadets must help in the rescue of three astronauts whose ship got stranded in space.
Director: Sean McNamara
81.
Timeless
(????)
A widower looks to travel back in time to solve a matter with his wife and he learns she has left him her fortune.
Director: Vadim Perelman
82.
Paranoia
(2013)
An entry-level employee at a powerful corporation finds himself occupying a corner office, but at a dangerous price: he must spy on his boss's old mentor to secure for him a multi-billion dollar advantage. (106 mins.)
Director: Robert Luketic
83.
Empire State
(2013)
A drama centered on two childhood friends who plan to rob an armored car depository, and the NYPD officer who stands in their way. (94 mins.)
Director: Dito Montiel
84.
Conversations with Andy
(????)
A story that follows a ten year old boy forced to face the realities of life too early when he tries to stop his parents from divorcing with the help of the only person he can turn to for advice, his friend, Andy Warhol.
Director: Rotimi Rainwater
85.
Saving Mr. Banks
(2013)
Author P.L. Travers reflects on her childhood after reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen. (125 mins.)
Director: John Lee Hancock
86.
Jack the Giant Slayer
(2013)
The ancient war between humans and a race of giants is reignited when Jack, a young farmhand fighting for a kingdom and the love of a princess, opens a gateway between the two worlds. (114 mins.)
Director: Bryan Singer
87.
Warm Bodies
(2013)
After a highly unusual zombie saves a still-living girl from an attack, the two form a relationship that sets in motion events that might transform the entire lifeless world. (98 mins.)
Director: Jonathan Levine
88.
The Place Beyond the Pines
(2012)
A motorcycle stunt rider turns to robbing banks as a way to provide for his lover and their newborn child, a decision that puts him on a collision course with an ambitious rookie cop navigating a department ruled by a corrupt detective. (140 mins.)
Director: Derek Cianfrance
89.
Pain & Gain
(2013)
A trio of bodybuilders in Florida get caught up in an extortion ring and a kidnapping scheme that goes terribly wrong. (129 mins.)
Director: Michael Bay
90.
Pacific Rim
(2013)
As a war between humankind and monstrous sea creatures wages on, a former pilot and a trainee are paired up to drive a seemingly obsolete special weapon in a desperate effort to save the world from the apocalypse. (131 mins.)
Director: Guillermo del Toro
91.
The Hobbit: There and Back Again
(2014)
The Company of Thorin has reached Smaug's lair; but, can Bilbo and the Dwarves reclaim Erebor and the treasure? And, if so, can they hold on to it?
Director: Peter Jackson
92.
Admission
(2013)
A Princeton admissions officer who is up for a major promotion takes a professional risk after she meets a college-bound alternative school kid who just might be the son she gave up years ago in a secret adoption. (107 mins.)
Director: Paul Weitz
93.
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
(2013)
When a street magician's stunts begins to make their show look stale, superstar magicians Burt Wonderstone and Anton Marvelton look to salvage on their act - and their friendship - by staging their own daring stunt. (100 mins.)
Director: Don Scardino
95.
Untitled Freddie Mercury Biopic
(????)
A chronicle of the years leading up to Queen's appearance at the Live Aid concert in 1985.
Director: Dexter Fletcher
96.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
(2014)
Katniss Everdeen reluctantly becomes the symbol of a mass rebellion against the autocratic Capitol.
Director: Francis Lawrence
97.
Guardians of the Galaxy
(2014)
In the far reaches of space, an American pilot named Peter Quill finds himself the object of a manhunt after stealing an orb coveted by the villainous Ronan.
Director: James Gunn
98.
The Wilderness of James
(2014)
A restless teenager explores the wilderness of his city while struggling with the absence of his father.
Director: Michael James Johnson
99.
Romeo and Juliet
(2013)
Romeo and Juliet secretly wed despite the sworn contempt their families hold for each another. It is not long, however, before a chain of fateful events changes the lives of both families forever. (118 mins.)
Director: Carlo Carlei
100.
Can a Song Save Your Life?
(2013)
A dejected music business executive forms a bond with a young singer-songwriter new to Manhattan.
Director: John Carney
101.
Hateship Loveship
(2013)
A wild teenage girl orchestrates a romance between her nanny and her father, who is a recovering addict.
Director: Liza Johnson
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