Dunkirk The evacuation of thousands of surrounded Allied troops on the beach of Dunkirk during World War II was kind of a miracle. Everything had to go just right to avoid total disaster. Oh, and if youve ever dreamed of Harry Styles in uniform, you're welcome. The former boy band member/teen heartthrob makes his acting debut as a soldier with a bit of a mean streak. Watch Here See the original post on Youtube Warner Bros. Pictures@Youtube
Lion Ready to cry over a movie that heavily involves Google Maps? Sounds weird at first, but makes total sense. The story follows Saroo Brierley (Dev Patel) as he uses the app to find his family 25 years after being separated from them. Have tissues at the ready. Watch Here See the original post on Youtube Movieclips Trailers@Youtube
Hidden Figures Girl bosses unite! A power trifecta of Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Mone play Katherine Goble Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jacksonthree black female mathematicians (and complete rockstars) who broke racial and gender barriers to help NASA send astronauts to space in the 1960s. See the original post on Youtube 20th Century Studios@Youtube
Spotlight A newsroom drama with a suspenseful punch, Spotlight follows the Pulitzer Prize-winning team of Boston Globe journalists who broke a landmark story about pedophile priests and a Catholic Church cover-up. Watch Here See the original post on Youtube Movieclips Coming Soon@Youtube
The Theory of Everything The life of Stephen Hawking was nothing short of extraordinary. This biopic based on his ex-wifes memoir describes Hawkings relationship, diagnosis with ALS, and the inspiring work that blew the universe wide open. Watch Here See the original post on Youtube Universal Pictures UK@Youtube
The Imitation Game Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Alan Turing, a mathematician (cant relate) who was enough of a genius to break the German intelligence code during WWII. The inspiring line? "Sometimes, it is the people whom no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine." See the original post on Youtube Movieclips Trailers@Youtube
Wild Some of us work through a major life change with a new haircut, but Cheryl Strayed literally went off the beaten path. Played by Reese Witherspoon, the film follows Strayeds hike across the 1,000 mile Pacific Crest Trail. An Eat, Pray, Love of sorts set in the wilderness, itll make you wonder what you can discover wandering alone. Watch Here See the original post on Youtube Movieclips Trailers@Youtube
Selma In 1965, demonstrators marched three times from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery to exercise their right to vote, led in part by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The movie is a powerful and strong testament to the protests against racial injustice. Watch Here See the original post on Youtube Movieclips Trailers@Youtube
The Wolf Of Wall Street Sex, drugs, and corruption (not much rock n roll here)... Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a stockbroker who goes off the rails and commits fraud after drug-soaked fraud. Also, it was the movie that broke the world record for cursing in a film. Watch Here See the original post on Youtube Paramount Pictures@Youtube
12 Years A Slave This film is an intense retelling of Soloman Northrups 1853 memoir. Born a free man in New York, Northrup was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the pre-Civil War era. Its another film thats so much more than just a movie. Watch Here See the original post on Youtube SearchlightPictures@Youtube
American Hustle If you love scammer stories (and tbh, who doesn't?), this is your next Friday night watch. Based on the FBI Abscam operation, two con artists (Christian Bale and Amy Adams) take down corrupt politicians (like Jeremy Renner). The all-star cast also includes Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper, so yeah, the hustle is life. Watch Here See the original post on Youtube Movieclips Coming Soon@Youtube
Lincoln Is it possible that Daniel Day-Lewis brought Abraham Lincoln back to life? Okay, obvs not, but his acting is so perfect it'll give you serious pause. Heres your history lesson: The year is 1865, and Lincoln is trying to bring the Civil War to an end but wants to make sure the 13th Amendment passes first. Watch Here See the original post on Youtube Movieclips Trailers@Youtube
Moneyball In the early aughts, the Oakland As general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) teams up with Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) to make a great baseball team. They dont have money or talent, but they have data. And, uh, it actually worked? Turns out they were onto something, since sports analytics are totally a thing now. Watch Here See the original post on Youtube Movieclips Trailers@Youtube
127 Hours Hiking through Utahs Canyonlands National Park, Aron Ralston (James Franco) gets trapped under a boulder (ouch). He has to amputate his arm and escape, or die. Tbh, this is what nightmares are made of. If youre queasy, watch with a trustworthy friend wholl tell you when **that** scene is. Watch Here See the original post on Youtube SearchlightPictures@Youtube
Julie & Julia Before Instagram foodies, there was Julie Powell, a blogger who sought to cook every single recipe in Julia Childs first cookbook (major props, since its hard enough to get myself to make dinner on a lazy Sunday). The film jumps between Julias (Meryl Streep) start as a chef and Julies (Amy Adams) tumultuous New York life. Watch Here See the original post on Youtube Sony Pictures Entertainment@Youtube
The Blind Side In spite of a tough upbringing, Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron) found new life in footballone that took him to the NFL. The flick shows Leigh Anne (Sandra Bullock) and Sean (Tim McGraw) take Oher under their wing and onto the football field. One things for sure: Itd be a win to have Leigh Anne (well, Sandra Bullock, tbh) in your corner. Watch Here See the original post on Youtube Movieclips Classic Trailers@Youtube
Milk This biopic takes on the political campaigns, romantic relationships, and **spoiler alert** eventual assassination of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected politician in California in the 1970s. Watch Here See the original post on Youtube Movieclips Classic Trailers@Youtube
Zodiac True crime lovers, listen up. From the late 1960s to the 70s, the still-a-mystery Zodiac Killer murdered victims across Northern California and delivered way too many creepy letters. The search for the serial killer inspired this flick starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, and Robert Downey Jr. Watch Here See the original post on Youtube Movieclips Classic Trailers@Youtube
Into The Wild Christopher McCandless (Emile Hirsch) says goodbye to family, society, and material objects (like, burns his car-level commitment) and hitchhikes to Alaska. Was solitary life in the Alaskan wilderness really what dreams were made of? You'll just have to see to find out. See the original post on Youtube YouTube Movies@Youtube
Capote Philip Seymour Hoffman plays Truman Capote, a writer who reports on the murders of a family in small town Kansas. He can't get enough of the storyor the murderers responsibleand begins writing about it. Maybe youve heard of a little book called In Cold Blood? Watch Here See the original post on Youtube YouTube Movies@Youtube
Seabiscuit Who can resist an underdog story? Not me. And you probs can't either. Seabiscuit is the underrated horse that exceeds all odds and steals hearts, a glimmering good story in the midst of the Great Depression. He's a legend. Watch Here See the original post on Youtube YouTube Movies@Youtube
Gotta Kick It Up! A feel-good flick through and through, Gotta Kick It Up! follows a middle school teacher who coaches a Latina cheerleading squad (including America Ferrera) thats just trying really hard to find its rhythm (I get that, I really do). It was inspired by the co-producers own experience and hooked fans with the awesome mantra: "Si se puede!" Watch Here See the original post on Youtube iamthecee@Youtube
The Pianist World-class Jewish musician Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody) lives in Poland and is forced into the Warsaw ghetto during the Holocaust. Its a story of resilience and human will, and doesnt shy away from the violent, horrifying details. Watch Here See the original post on Youtube Movieclips Classic Trailers@Youtube
Catch Me If You Can Scammer alert, scammer alert! Is it a pilot? A doctor? No, its a con man! Frank Abagnale Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio) is an expert forger, a talent that catches the attention of an FBI agent (Tom Hanks) and puts him hot on Franks tail. You cant help but have fun with this wild tale. Watch Here See the original post on Youtube YouTube Movies@Youtube
Erin Brockovich Julia Roberts stars as the titular character, a legal clerk who notices somethings not quite right with the water in a small California town. She takes matters into her own hands and takes on the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, spitting fire the whole way through. Talk about badass. Watch Here See the original post on Youtube Movieclips Classic Trailers@Youtube
Almost Famous Wearing your best Penny Lane shearling coat? Perfect. Cameron Crowe directs this semi-autobiographical film about a teenager Rolling Stone writer who goes on tour with a (fictionalized) rock n roll band. Watch Here See the original post on Youtube YouTube Movies@Youtube
Girl, Interrupted Based on the memoir of the same name, Winona Ryder stars as Susanna Kaysen, a young girl who lives in a mental institution in the late 1960s. There, she befriends Lisa (Angelina Jolie), a long-term resident and diagnosed sociopath. Watch Here See the original post on Youtube YouTube Movies@Youtube
Apollo 13 Houston, we have a problem. During a 1970 mission to the moon, an oxygen tank explodes in the aircraft, forcing the three astronauts on board (Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton) to try to get back to Earth safely. Uh, no problem. Strap in, because things get tenseeven if you already know how the story ends. Watch Here See the original post on Youtube Movieclips Classic Trailers@Youtube
Schindler's List Here's a haunting film you need to mentally prepare for. During the Holocaust, a Nazi party member named Oskar Schindler lets Jewish refugees work at his factories to save their lives. Its not for the faint of heart, but a must-watch. See the original post on Youtube Movieclips Classic Trailers@Youtube
A League Of Their Own Is this the best sports movie of all time? Id go up to bat for it. A story based on the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League of 1943 to 1954, sisters Dottie (Geena Davis) and Kit (Lori Petty) are coached by no-crying-in-baseball Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks). Watch Here See the original post on Youtube Movieclips@Youtube
Goodfellas This quintessential gangster flick is adapted from Wiseguy, penned by crime reporter Nicholas Pileggi. Mobster Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) sees mob life as glamorous, but he's got another thing coming once hes actually in "the family." Between cocaine binges and a big sting operation, theres juicy drama, betrayals, and uh, mob violence galore. (Not to mention the '70s fashion is to die for.) Watch Here See the original post on Youtube Movieclips Classic Trailers@Youtube
Out Of Africa In a love story for the ages, Meryl Streep plays Karen Blixen, a woman who moves to Kenya to marry and become an aristocrat (not a bad life plan, tbh). When the marriage goes awry, and he turns out to be a scrub, she falls in love with a hunter (Robert Redford). What could go wrong? Watch Here See the original post on Youtube Movieclips Classic Trailers@Youtube
All The President's Men Is there anything the ever-dreamy Robert Redford can't do? Doesn't seem like it. This film follows two Washington Post reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, respectively) as they investigate the great Watergate scandal. Political dramas can sometimes be a snooze, but this one will keep you on your toes. See the original post on Youtube Movieclips Classic Trailers@Youtube
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