Januar 2014

1.

12 Years a Slave (2013)

  8/10  

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

Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael K. Williams, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt

 

2.

About Time (2013)

  6,5/10  

At the age of 21, Tim discovers he can travel in time and change what happens and has happened in his own life. His decision to make his world a better place by getting a girlfriend turns out not to be as easy as you might think. (123 mins.)

Director: Richard Curtis

Stars: Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Lydia Wilson

 

3.

American Hustle (2013)

  6,5/10  

A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive British partner, Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso. DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia. (138 mins.)

Director: David O. Russell

Stars: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence

 

4.

August: Osage County (2013)

  7,5/10  

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

Stars: Meryl Streep, Dermot Mulroney, Julia Roberts, Juliette Lewis

 

5.

Blue Jasmine (2013)

  7,5/10  

A New York socialite, deeply troubled and in denial, arrives in San Francisco to impose upon her sister. She looks a million, but isn't bringing money, peace, or love... (98 mins.)

Director: Woody Allen

Stars: Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Peter Sarsgaard, Sally Hawkins

 

6.

Borgman (2013)

  6,5/10  

A vagrant enters the lives of an arrogant upper-class family, turning their lives into a psychological nightmare in the process. (113 mins.)

Director: Alex van Warmerdam

Stars: Jan Bijvoet, Hadewych Minis, Jeroen Perceval, Alex van Warmerdam

 

7.

Carrie (2013)

  5,5/10  

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

Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Julianne Moore, Gabriella Wilde, Portia Doubleday

 

8.

Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

  7,5/10  

In 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is himself diagnosed with the disease. (117 mins.)

Director: Jean-Marc Vallée

Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto, Steve Zahn

 

9.

Dvojina (2013)

  5,5/10  

Due to a weather problem a plane from Denmark is forced to land at the Slovene airport. Amongst the passengers... (102 mins.)

Director: Nejc Gazvoda

Stars: Nina Rakovec, Mia Jexen, Marjan Brulc, Branko Cakarmis

 

10.

Enough Said (2013)

  6,5/10  

A divorced woman who decides to pursue the man she's interested in learns he's her new friend's ex-husband. (93 mins.)

Director: Nicole Holofcener

Stars: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, James Gandolfini, Catherine Keener, Toni Collette

 

11.

Kurnaz - Fünf Jahre Leben (2013)

  6,5/10  

How Murat Kurnaz ended up in Guantanamo Bay is a mysterious story. 5 YEARS investigates the psychological aspect of this endless and unjustified "imprisonment" where Kurnaz had to endure never ending physical and psychological torture. (95 mins.)

Director: Stefan Schaller

Stars: Sascha Alexander Gersak, Ben Miles, Marc Hodapp, Özkan Akdogan

 

12.

Srecen za umret (2013)

  6/10  

Retired music teacher, tired of life, buys himself a grave and checks into a retirement home where he finally starts to live. (100 mins.)

Director: Matevz Luzar

Stars: Evgen Car, Milena Zupancic, Vladimir Vlaskalic, Ivo Ban

 

13.

Hawaii (2013)

  5,5/10  

Martin seeks for a temporary job at Eugenio's house. When they recognize to be childhood friends, Eugenio offers him work for the summer. A power and desire game starts and their relationship grows beyond their friendship. (102 mins.)

Director: Marco Berger

Stars: Manuel Vignau, Mateo Chiarino, Luz Palazón, Antonia De Michelis

 

14.

Heli (2013)

  7/10  

Love story between a young girl and a police man, both of them had connections with drugs but in opposite ways. This will create a conflict that love will try to overcome. (105 mins.)

Director: Amat Escalante

Stars: Armando Espitia, Andrea Vergara, Linda González, Juan Eduardo Palacios

 

15.

Her (2013)

  7,5/10  

A lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with his newly purchased operating system that's designed to meet his every need. (126 mins.)

Director: Spike Jonze

Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Scarlett Johansson, Rooney Mara

 

16.

In a World... (2013)

  7/10  

An underachieving voice coach finds herself competing in the movie trailer voice-over profession against her arrogant father and his protégé. (93 mins.)

Director: Lake Bell

Stars: Lake Bell, Fred Melamed, Michaela Watkins, Rob Corddry

 

17.

No se Aceptan Devoluciones (2013)

  6,5/10  

A man who has made a new life for himself and the daughter left on his doorstep 6 years ago finds his family threatened when the birth mother resurfaces. (115 mins.)

Director: Eugenio Derbez

Stars: Eugenio Derbez, Karla Souza, Jessica Lindsey, Loreto Peralta

 

18.

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013)

  6/10  

86-year-old Irving Zisman takes a trip from Nebraska to North Carolina to take his 8 year-old grandson, Billy, back to his real father. (92 mins.)

Director: Jeff Tremaine

Stars: Johnny Knoxville, Jackson Nicoll, Greg Harris, Georgina Cates

 

19.

Le temps de l'aventure (2013)

  6,5/10  

Alix and Doug were not supposed to meet, but they did. Alix was on a train bound for Paris where she was going to audition for a film... (104 mins.)

Director: Jérôme Bonnell

Stars: Emmanuelle Devos, Gabriel Byrne, Gilles Privat, Aurélia Petit

 

20.

Kyss meg for faen i helvete (2013)

  6/10  

Some teenagers are ambitiously setting up a famous Jon Fosse-play, and hires a well known actor to be instructor, going through i life crises. He makes this hell for them all.

Director: Stian Kristiansen

Stars: Eili Harboe, Øyvind Larsen Runestad, Kristoffer Joner, Johanna Knudsen Rostad

 

21.

Lone Survivor (2013)

  6/10  

Marcus Luttrell and his team set out on a mission to capture or kill notorious al Qaeda leader Ahmad Shahd, in late June 2005. Marcus and his team are left to fight for their lives in one of the most valiant efforts of modern warfare. (121 mins.)

Director: Peter Berg

Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster

 

22.

Louis Cyr (2013)

  6/10  

Biopic of Louis Cyr, strongest man in the world at the end of the 19th Century.

Director: Daniel Roby

Stars: Antoine Bertrand, Gilbert Sicotte, Rose-Maïté Erkoreka, Guillaume Cyr

 

23.

L'écume des jours (2013)

  6/10  

A woman suffers from an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs. (125 mins.)

Director: Michel Gondry

Stars: Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Gad Elmaleh, Omar Sy

 

24.

Old Stock (2012)

  6/10  

After two years hiding out in his Grandfather's retirement residence, Stock Burton is forced back into his small town where he must come to terms with the troubled past that led to his early retirement. (85 mins.)

Director: James Genn

Stars: Noah Reid, Melanie Leishman, Meghan Heffern, Danny Wells

 

25.

On the Job (2013)

  6,5/10  

Filipino crime thriller inspired by a real-life scandal in which prison inmates are temporarily released from prison to work as contract killers on behalf of politicians and high ranking military officials. (121 mins.)

Director: Erik Matti

Stars: Piolo Pascual, Gerald Anderson, Joel Torre, Joey Marquez

 

26.

Pioneer (2013)

  6/10  

This conspiracy thriller is set in the early 80's, the beginning of the Norwegian Oil Boom. Enormous... (106 mins.)

Director: Erik Skjoldbjærg

Stars: Wes Bentley, Stephen Lang, Aksel Hennie, Jonathan LaPaglia

 

27.

Rush (2013)

  7,5/10  

The merciless 1970s rivalry between Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda. (123 mins.)

Director: Ron Howard

Stars: Daniel Brühl, Chris Hemsworth, Olivia Wilde, Alexandra Maria Lara

 

28.

Saving Mr. Banks (2013)

  7,5/10  

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

Stars: Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Annie Rose Buckley, Colin Farrell

 

29.

Short Term 12 (2013)

  7/10  

A 20-something supervising staff member of a residential treatment facility navigates the troubled waters of that world alongside her co-worker and longtime boyfriend. (96 mins.)

Director: Destin Cretton

Stars: Brie Larson, Frantz Turner, John Gallagher Jr., Kaitlyn Dever

 

30.

Mandariinid (2013)

  7/10  

War in Abkhazia 1990. An Estonian man Ivo has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo is forced to take him in. (87 mins.)

Director: Zaza Urushadze

Stars: Giorgi Nakashidze, Elmo Nüganen, Raivo Trass, Lembit Ulfsak

 

31.

Thanks for Sharing (2012)

  6/10  

A romantic comedy that brings together three disparate characters who are learning to face a challenging and often confusing world as they struggle together against a common demon: sex addiction. (112 mins.)

Director: Stuart Blumberg

Stars: Mark Ruffalo, Tim Robbins, Gwyneth Paltrow, Josh Gad

 

32.

Kvinden i buret (2013)

  6/10  

Police inspector Carl Mørck is put in charge of a department of cold cases, joined only by his assistant, Assad. They dig into a case about a disappeared woman. (97 mins.)

Director: Mikkel Nørgaard

Stars: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Fares Fares, Claus Maack Bahnsen, Marie Hammer Boda

 

33.

The Spectacular Now (2013)

  6,5/10  

A hard-partying high school senior's philosophy on life changes when he meets the not-so-typical "nice girl." (95 mins.)

Director: James Ponsoldt

Stars: Miles Teller, Shailene Woodley, Kyle Chandler, Jennifer Jason Leigh

 

34.

Deu tae-ro ra-i-beu (2013)

  5,5/10  

Young-Hwa Yoon, once a top national news anchor wants to get his title back through an exclusive live broadcast with a terrorist. (97 mins.)

Director: Byeong-woo Kim

Stars: Duek-mun Choi, Jin-ho Choi, Jung-woo Ha, Sung-chun Han

 

35.

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

  7,5/10  

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

Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey

 

36.

True Detective (2014 TV Series)

  7/10  

The lives of two detectives, Rust Cohle and Martin Hart, become entangled during a 17-year hunt for a serial killer in Louisiana. (60 mins.)

 

37.

Zwei Leben (2012)

  7/10  

Do you really know the one you love? (97 mins.)

Director: Georg Maas, Judith Kaufmann

Stars: Juliane Köhler, Liv Ullmann, Sven Nordin, Ken Duken

 

38.

You're Next (2011)

  6/10  

When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back. (95 mins.)

Director: Adam Wingard

Stars: Sharni Vinson, Joe Swanberg, AJ Bowen, Nicholas Tucci

 

39.

Jeune & jolie (2013)

  6,5/10  

The portrait of a 17 year-old girl, in 4 seasons and 4 songs. (95 mins.)

Director: François Ozon

Stars: Marine Vacth, Géraldine Pailhas, Frédéric Pierrot, Fantin Ravat

 

Poleg vseh znanih osumljencev (12 Years a Slave, August: Osage County, Blue Jasmine, Dallas Buyers Club, Enough Said, Her, Rush, Saving Mr. Banks, The Wolf of Wall Street) priporočam še: