45 Years
(2015)
A married couple preparing to celebrate
their wedding anniversary receive shattering news that promises to
forever change the course of their lives. (95 mins.)
Director: Andrew Haigh
2.
99 Homes
(2014)
A recently unemployed single father
struggles to get back his foreclosed home by working for the real estate
broker who is the source of his frustration. (112 mins.)
Director: Ramin Bahrani
Stars: Andrew Garfield, Michael Shannon, Laura Dern, Clancy Brown
3.
Krigen
(2015)
Company commander Claus M. Pedersen (Pilou Asbæk) and his men are stationed in an Afghan province. Meanwhile... (115 mins.)
Director: Tobias Lindholm
Stars: Pilou Asbæk, Tuva Novotny, Dar Salim, Søren Malling
4.
Anomalisa
(2015)
A man crippled by the mundanity of his life experiences something out of the ordinary. (90 mins.)
Director: Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman
Stars: David Thewlis, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Noonan
5.
Black Mass
(2015)
The true story of Whitey Bulger, the
brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the
history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a
Mafia family invading his turf. (123 mins.)
Director: Scott Cooper
6.
Burnt
(2015)
Adam Jones (Bradley Cooper)
is a chef who destroyed his career with drugs and diva behavior. He
cleans up and returns to London, determined to redeem himself by
spearheading a top restaurant that can gain three Michelin stars. (101 mins.)
Director: John Wells
7.
Gui lai
(2014)
Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to
separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political
prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to
find that his beloved wife no longer remembers him. (109 mins.)
Director: Yimou Zhang
Stars: Li Gong, Daoming Chen, Huiwen Zhang, Tao Guo
8.
Concussion
(2015)
In Pittsburgh, accomplished pathologist
Dr. Bennet Omalu uncovers the truth about brain damage in football
players who suffer repeated concussions in the course of normal play. (123 mins.)
Director: Peter Landesman
Stars: Will Smith, Alec Baldwin, Albert Brooks, David Morse
9.
Crimson Peak
(2015)
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an
aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the
temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her
past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds - and
remembers. (119 mins.)
Director: Guillermo del Toro
10.
Dheepan
(2015)
Dheepan is a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who flees to France and ends up working as a caretaker outside Paris. (115 mins.)
Director: Jacques Audiard
11.
Gabriel
(2014)
A troubled young man searches obsessively for his first love, risking everything in an increasingly desperate pursuit. (85 mins.)
Director: Lou Howe
Stars: Rory Culkin, David Call, Deirdre O'Connell, Lynn Cohen
12.
Grandma
(2015)
A teenager facing an unplanned pregnancy
seeks help from her acerbic grandmother, a woman who is long estranged
from her daughter. (79 mins.)
Director: Paul Weitz
Stars: Lily Tomlin, Julia Garner, Marcia Gay Harden, Judy Greer
13.
Heneral Luna
(2015)
Set during the Philippine-American war, a
short-tempered Filipino general faces an enemy more formidable than the
American army: his own treacherous countrymen. (118 mins.)
Director: Jerrold Tarog
14.
In the Heart of the Sea
(2015)
A recounting of a New England whaling
ship's sinking by a giant whale in 1820, an experience that later
inspired the great novel Moby-Dick. (122 mins.)
Director: Ron Howard
15.
Irrational Man
(2015)
A tormented philosophy professor finds a will to live when he commits an existential act. (95 mins.)
Director: Woody Allen
Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, Emma Stone, Parker Posey, Joe Stapleton
16.
Last Cab to Darwin
(2015)
When Rex, a Broken Hill cab driver, is
told he doesn't have long to live, he sets out on an epic journey to
Darwin in a bid to die on his own terms. (123 mins.)
Director: Jeremy Sims
17.
Legend
(2015)
The film tells the story of the identical
twin gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray, two of the most notorious
criminals in British history, and their organised crime empire in the
East End of London during the 1960s. (132 mins.)
Director: Brian Helgeland
Stars: Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, Taron Egerton, Colin Morgan
18.
Life
(2015)
A photographer for Life Magazine is assigned to shoot pictures of James Dean. (111 mins.)
Director: Anton Corbijn
19.
Vonarstræti
(2014)
Three tales of three people who have a
lasting effect on one another. A young writer whose career is
skyrocketing finds himself in a stormy marriage... (129 mins.)
Director: Baldvin Zophoníasson
20.
Liza, a rókatündér
(2015)
Liza's a nurse, seeking love. Her only
company is a long-dead Japanese pop star, who turns her into a fox-fairy
out of jealousy. Now, every men who desires Liza shall die horribly.
Can she overcome the curse? (98 mins.)
Director: Károly Ujj Mészáros
21.
Macbeth
(2015)
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a
prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of
Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife,
Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself. (113 mins.)
Director: Justin Kurzel
22.
Pan
(2015)
12-year-old orphan Peter is spirited away
to the magical world of Neverland, where he finds both fun and danger,
and ultimately discovers his destiny -- to become the hero who will be
forever known as Peter Pan. (111 mins.)
Director: Joe Wright
Stars: Levi Miller, Hugh Jackman, Garrett Hedlund, Rooney Mara
23.
El desconocido
(2015)
A bank executive receives an anonymous
phone call informing him he has just a few hours to obtain a large
amount of money or a bomb under his seat will explode. (102 mins.)
Director: Dani de la Torre
24.
Ji-geum-eun-mat-go-geu-ddae-neun-teul-li-da
(2015)
(121 mins.)
Director: Sang-soo Hong
Stars: Jae-yeong Jeong, Min-hee Kim, Yeo-jeong Yoon, Ju-bong Gi
25.
Risttuules
(2014)
"Risttuules" is very emotional and tragic movie about mass deportation to Siberia based on memories of Erna... (90 mins.)
Director: Martti Helde
Stars: Einar Hillep, Ingrid Isotamm, Laura Peterson, Mirt Preegel
26.
Room
(2015)
After five-year-old Jack and his mother
escape from the enclosed surroundings that Jack has known his entire
life, the boy makes a thrilling discovery. (118 mins.)
Director: Lenny Abrahamson
Stars: Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Sean Bridgers, Wendy Crewson
27.
Spectre
(2015)
A cryptic message from Bond's past sends
him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles
political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the
layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE. (148 mins.)
Director: Sam Mendes
Stars: Daniel Craig, Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux, Ralph Fiennes
28.
Spotlight
(2015)
The true story of how the Boston Globe
uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within
the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to
its core. (128 mins.)
Director: Tom McCarthy
29.
Steve Jobs
(2015)
Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of
the digital revolution, to paint a portrait of the man at its epicenter.
The story unfolds backstage at three iconic product launches, ending in
1998 with the unveiling of the iMac. (122 mins.)
Director: Danny Boyle
Stars: Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, Jeff Daniels
30.
Straight Outta Compton
(2015)
The group NWA emerges from the mean
streets of Compton in Los Angeles, California, in the mid-1980s and
revolutionizes Hip Hop culture with their music and tales about life in
the hood. (147 mins.)
Director: F. Gary Gray
31.
Suffragette
(2015)
The foot soldiers of the early feminist
movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game
of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State. (106 mins.)
Director: Sarah Gavron
32.
The 33
(2015)
Based on the real-life event, when a gold and copper mine collapses, it traps 33 miners underground for 69 days. (127 mins.)
Director: Patricia Riggen
33.
The Big Short
(2015)
Four denizens in the world of high-finance
predict the credit and housing bubble collapse of the mid-2000s, and
decide to take on the big banks for their greed and lack of foresight. (130 mins.)
Director: Adam McKay
Stars: Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt
34.
Le tout nouveau testament
(2015)
Did you know that God is alive and lives in Brussels with his daughter? (113 mins.)
Director: Jaco Van Dormael
35.
The Danish Girl
(2015)
A fictitious love story loosely inspired
by the lives of Danish artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and
Gerda's marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking
journey as a transgender pioneer. (119 mins.)
Director: Tom Hooper
Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Amber Heard, Ben Whishaw
36.
Miekkailija
(2015)
Fleeing from the Russian secret police, a
young Estonian fencer is forced to return to his homeland, where he
becomes a physical education teacher at a local school. The past however
catches up and puts him in front of a difficult choice. (93 mins.)
Director: Klaus Härö
Stars: Kirill Käro, Lembit Ulfsak, Märt Avandi, Liisa Koppel
37.
Povodyr
(2014)
American boy Peter and blind minstrel Ivan are thrown together by fate amidst the turbulent mid-1930s Soviet Ukraine. (122 mins.)
Director: Oles Sanin
38.
The Hateful Eight
(2015)
In the dead of a Wyoming winter, a bounty
hunter and his prisoner find shelter in a cabin currently inhabited by a
collection of nefarious characters. (187 mins.)
Director: Quentin Tarantino
39.
The Lobster
(2015)
In a dystopian near future, single people,
according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they
are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are
transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods. (118 mins.)
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
40.
Que Horas Ela Volta?
(2015)
When the estranged daughter of a
hard-working live-in housekeeper suddenly appears, the unspoken class
barriers that exist within the home are thrown into disarray. (112 mins.)
Director: Anna Muylaert
41.
Trumbo
(2015)
In 1947, Dalton Trumbo was Hollywood's top screenwriter, until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs. (124 mins.)
Director: Jay Roach
Stars: Bryan Cranston, Diane Lane, Helen Mirren, Louis C.K.
42.
Dar donya ye to saat chand ast?
(2014)
A woman comes back from Paris to her
country after a long time. She meets a man that she hardly knows, but he
knows a lot about her life. (101 mins.)
Director: Safi Yazdanian
Stars: Leila Hatami, Ali Mosaffa, Zahra Hatami