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1.
Echo Park
(2014)
Two people struggling to find their way in and out of unhappy relationships and unhappy lives, whilst a foreigner to the love equation struggles to comprehend their love-fueled decisions. (88 mins.)
Director: Amanda Marsalis
2.
Colonia
(2015)
A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend that draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody has ever escaped from. (110 mins.)
Director: Florian Gallenberger
3.
Everybody Wants Some!!
(2016)
A group of college baseball players navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood. (117 mins.)
Director: Richard Linklater
4.
Beasts of No Nation
(2015)
A drama based on the experiences of Agu, a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed African country. (137 mins.)
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
5.
Remember
(2015)
With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family. (94 mins.)
Director: Atom Egoyan
6.
Term Life
(2016)
A guy wanted around town by various hit men hopes to stay alive long enough for his life insurance policy to kick in and pay out for his estranged daughter. (93 mins.)
Director: Peter Billingsley
7.
Eye in the Sky
(2015)
Col. Katherine Powell, a military officer in command of an operation to capture terrorists in Kenya, sees her mission escalate when a girl enters the kill zone triggering an international dispute over the implications of modern warfare. (102 mins.)
Director: Gavin Hood
8.
The Last Good Time
(1994)
A reclusive aging widower struggling with tax problems has a complete change in his views of life as... (90 mins.)
Director: Bob Balaban
9.
Requiem for the American Dream
(2015 Documentary)
REQUIEM FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM is the definitive discourse with Noam Chomsky, widely regarded as the most important intellectual alive... (73 mins.)
Director: Peter D. Hutchison, Kelly Nyks
Stars: Noam Chomsky
10.
If Only
(2004)
It takes a tragedy to teach the young businessman Ian to put love ahead of work and open up to his musician girlfriend Samantha. (92 mins.)
Director: Gil Junger
11.
Love Actually
(2003)
Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England. (135 mins.)
Director: Richard Curtis
12.
Jamón, Jamón
(1992)
Jose Luis is an executive at his parents underwear factory where his girlfriend Sylvia works on the shop floor... (95 mins.)
Director: Bigas Luna
13.
Heartbeats
(2010)
The story of three close friends who are involved in a love-triangle. (101 mins.)
Director: Xavier Dolan
14.
It's in the Water
(1997)
Residents of the fictional town of Azalea Springs, Texas go into a panic after a gay local says the town's water supply is what made him gay. (100 mins.)
Director: Kelli Herd
15.
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
(2016)
A national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush. (101 mins.)
Director: Taika Waititi
16.
And So It Goes
(2014)
A self-absorbed realtor enlists the help of his neighbor when he's suddenly left in charge of the granddaughter he never knew existed until his estranged son drops her off at his home. (94 mins.)
Director: Rob Reiner
17.
The Space Between Us
(2016)
A young man raised by scientists on Mars returns to Earth to find his father.
Director: Peter Chelsom
18.
Stratton
(2016)
A British Special Boat Service commando tracks down an international terrorist cell. (95 mins.)
Director: Simon West
19.
Free State of Jones
(2016)
A disillusioned Confederate army deserter returns to Mississippi and leads a militia of fellow deserters, runaway slaves, and women in an uprising against the corrupt local Confederate government. (139 mins.)
Director: Gary Ross
20.
Deepwater Horizon
(2016)
A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
Director: Peter Berg
21.
Morgan
(2016)
A corporate risk-management consultant has to decide and determine whether or not to terminate an artificial being's life that was made in a laboratory environment.
Director: Luke Scott
22.
Collide
(2016)
An American backpacker gets involved with a ring of drug smugglers as their driver, though he winds up on the run from his employers across Cologne high-speed Autobahn.
Director: Eran Creevy
23.
Don't Think Twice
(2016)
When a member of a popular New York City improv troupe gets a huge break, the rest of the group - all best friends - start to realize that not everyone is going to make it after all. (92 mins.)
Director: Mike Birbiglia
24.
Wet and Reckless
(2013)
A reality television show goes horribly wrong forcing its ill-equipped stars to hunt for buried treasure to find a way home. (87 mins.)
Director: Jason Trost
25.
The Magnificent Seven
(2016)
Seven gun men in the old west gradually come together to help a poor village against savage thieves. (132 mins.)
Director: Antoine Fuqua
26.
Mister Frost
(1990)
Frost is arrested and committed for murder after he is apprehended burying his victims in the garden... (104 mins.)
Director: Philip Setbon
27.
Our Town
(1940)
Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get married... (90 mins.)
Director: Sam Wood
28.
The Crucible
(1996)
A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials. (124 mins.)
Director: Nicholas Hytner
29.
The Desperate Hours
(1955)
Glen, Hal and Sam are three escaped convicts who move in on and terrorize a suburban household. (112 mins.)
Director: William Wyler
30.
Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead
(2014)
Still on the run from a group of Nazi zombies, a man seeks the aid of a group of American zombie enthusiasts, and discovers new techniques for fighting the zombies. (100 mins.)
Director: Tommy Wirkola
31.
Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
(2016)
After attracting both media and police attention for accidentally knocking Kate Moss into the River Thames, Edina and Patsy hide out in the south of France. (91 mins.)
Director: Mandie Fletcher
32.
Fatrick
(2014 TV Movie)
As a thirty-something former fat kid realizes that his life isn't quite where it should be, he looks at the damage caused by years of being "Fatrick": a chubby little kid just trying to survive.
33.
The Ice Harvest
(2005)
A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. But his partner, a strip club owner, might have different plans for the cash. (92 mins.)
Director: Harold Ramis
34.
Buddymoon
(2016)
When a former child actor is dumped by his fiancé days before the wedding, his excitable German best man takes him on the honeymoon instead: a backcountry trek in the remote mountains of Oregon. (80 mins.)
Director: Alex Simmons
35.
A Company Man
(2012)
When a change of heart moves a well-trained hitman to tender his resignation to his employers, no good comes of it for anyone. (96 mins.)
Director: Sang-yoon Lim
36.
Down in the Valley
(2005)
Set in the present-day San Fernando Valley, the project revolves around a delusional man who believes he's a cowboy and the relationship that he starts with a rebellious young woman. (108 mins.)
Director: David Jacobson
37.
Sing Street
(2016)
A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes. (106 mins.)
Director: John Carney
38.
Lights Out
(2016)
When her little brother, Martin, experiences the same events that once tested her sanity, Rebecca works to unlock the truth behind the terror, which brings her face to face with an entity that has an attachment to their mother, Sophie. (81 mins.)
Director: David F. Sandberg
39.
James White
(2015)
James, a twenty-something New Yorker, struggles to take control of his self-destructive behavior in the face of momentous family challenges. (85 mins.)
Director: Josh Mond
40.
Wiener-Dog
(2016)
A dachshund passes from oddball owner to oddball owner, whose radically dysfunctional lives are all impacted by the pooch. (88 mins.)
Director: Todd Solondz
41.
Marshall
(2016)
About a young Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career-defining cases.
Director: Reginald Hudlin
42.
La La Land
(2016)
A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles. (126 mins.)
Director: Damien Chazelle
43.
Snowden
(2016)
NSA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
Director: Oliver Stone
44.
Wonder Woman
(2017)
An Amazon princess leaves her island home to explore the world, and becomes the greatest of its heroes.
Director: Patty Jenkins
45.
Nerve
(2016)
A high school senior finds herself immersed in an online game of truth or dare, where her every move starts to become manipulated by an anonymous community of "watchers." (96 mins.)
Director: Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman
46.
Stand by Me
(1986)
After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find the body of a missing boy. (89 mins.)
Director: Rob Reiner
47.
Little Men
(2016)
A new pair of best friends have their bond tested by their parents' battle over a dress shop lease. (85 mins.)
Director: Ira Sachs
48.
Towelhead
(2007)
A young Arab-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist and her strict father during the Gulf War. (124 mins.)
Director: Alan Ball
49.
The Namesake
(2006)
American-born Gogol, the son of Indian immigrants, wants to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers, despite his family's unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways. (122 mins.)
Director: Mira Nair
50.
Gaslight
(1940)
Twenty years after the murder of Alice Barlow, her house is finally occupied again. However, the husband of the couple who have moved in has a secret which he will do anything to keep hidden. (84 mins.)
Director: Thorold Dickinson
51.
The Master
(2012)
A Naval veteran arrives home from war unsettled and uncertain of his future - until he is tantalized by The Cause and its charismatic leader. (144 mins.)
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson