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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Plot Summary:
Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Spider-Verse saga, an epic adventure that will transport Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man across the Multiverse to join forces with Gwen Stacy and a new team of Spider-People to face off with a villain more powerful than anything they have ever encountered
Duration: 140 min
IMDB Rating: 8.7/10
IMDB Votes: 312000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Plot tags: superhero, peter parker character, african american, villain, alternate universe, teen superhero, alternate dimension, fight, police, laboratory, father son relationship, superheroine, death of friend, teenager, superhero team, superpower, spider man, child, anthropomorphism, loss of son, parallel universe, secret identity, multiverse, revenge, escape
Godzilla Minus One (2023)
Plot Summary:
In postwar Japan, a new terror rises. Will the devastated people be able to survive... let alone fight back?
Duration: 124 min
IMDB Rating: 8.5/10
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Plot tags: godzilla, kaiju, monster, giant monster, airplane, post war japan, world war two, ocean, giant, island, escape, water, death, running, hospital, orphan, mine, post war, boat, baby, photograph, city, kamikaze, disappearance, little girl
Oppenheimer (2023)
Plot Summary:
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II
Duration: 180 min
IMDB Rating: 8.4/10
IMDB Votes: 548000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA, UK
Plot tags: nuclear, american politics, world war two, atomic bomb, physics, quantum physics, historical event, moral dilemma, guilt, sex scene, based on real people, betrayal, husband wife relationship, top secret, scientist, politics, male protagonist, jewish american, female nudity, desert, president, secret laboratory, communist, brother brother relationship, mastermind
Past Lives (2023)
Plot Summary:
Two childhood friends are separated after one’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one week as they confront notions of destiny, love and the choices that make a life
Duration: 105 min
IMDB Rating: 8.0/10
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, South Korea
Plot tags: coming of age, friendship, meaning of life, childhood, pain, facebook, childhood friend, ferry, korean american, immigrant, love, travel, city, interracial relations, memory, nostalgia, language barrier, regret, retreat, playwright, fate, children, life, writers, reincarnation
The Holdovers (2023)
Plot Summary:
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them — a damaged, brainy troublemaker — and with the school’s head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam
Duration: 133 min
IMDB Rating: 8.0/10
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Plot tags: boarding school, alcoholism, christmas, vietnam war, holiday, mental illness, teacher student relationship, grief, cooking, teacher, mental institution, depressed man, winter, troubled youth, loss of son, new year, football, school, loneliness, food, doctor, book, boy, teenage girl, taxi
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
Plot Summary:
Peter Quill, still reeling from the loss of Gamora, must rally his team around him to defend the universe along with protecting one of their own. A mission that, if not completed successfully, could quite possibly lead to the end of the Guardians as we know them
Duration: 150 min
IMDB Rating: 7.9/10
IMDB Votes: 351000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, New Zealand, France, Canada
Plot tags: raccoon, superhero, outer space, team, villain, heartache, god complex, animal testing, friendship, space opera, kidnapping, female alien, supernatural, save the world, danger, space, mad scientist, love and romance, journey, shooting, extraterrestrial, multiverse, holiday, superhero team, comic book
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
Plot Summary:
When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery
Duration: 206 min
IMDB Rating: 7.9/10
IMDB Votes: 121000
Genere: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Plot tags: courtroom, murder, genocide, greed, native american, oil, interracial marriage, oil field, fbi, diabetes, poisoning, true crime, hunting, corruption, interwar period, money, wedding, investigation, wealth, fbi agent, serial murder, american indian, modern western, interracial romance, hired killer
Anatomy of a Fall (2023)
Plot Summary:
A woman is suspected of her husband’s murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the sole witness
Duration: 151 min
IMDB Rating: 7.9/10
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Plot tags: snow, boy dog relationship, law, courtroom drama, bisexual woman, lawyer, trial, winter, lgbt, mother son relationship, bisexuality, autopsy, dog, investigation, food, violence, writers, death, boy, suicide, adultery, photograph, female writer, anger, blood
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
Plot Summary:
The seventh installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise
Duration: 163 min
IMDB Rating: 7.8/10
IMDB Votes: 200000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: spy, espionage, secret agent, mission impossible, disguise, black ops, heroes, cia, undercover agent, rescue, cia agent, teamwork, spy mission, agent, one against many, hitman, mercenary, hi-tech, good versus evil, top secret, terrorist group, supernatural, secret service, organized crime, political conspiracy
John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)
Plot Summary:
With the price on his head ever increasing, John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes
Duration: 169 min
IMDB Rating: 7.7/10
IMDB Votes: 307000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Plot tags: one man army, organized crime, contract killer, fight, hitman, chase, final showdown, dog, assassin, secret society, showdown, gunfight, near death experience, killer, mercenary, bandit, criminal's revenge, vengeance, superhero, martial arts, supernatural, shooter, corruption, underworld, die hard
Sound of Freedom (2023)
Plot Summary:
The story of Tim Ballard, a former US government agent, who quits his job in order to devote his life to rescuing children from global sex traffickers
Duration: 131 min
IMDB Rating: 7.7/10
IMDB Votes: 89000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Plot tags: rescue, children, dangerous mission, brother sister relationship, vigilante, spy, pedophilia, slavery, mission, little boy, race against time, gay, kidnapping, scam, child kidnapping, sex maniac, undercover, brothel, christian, social problems, fighting crime, controversy, conservative, smiling, computer
The Boy and the Heron (2023)
Plot Summary:
While the Second World War rages, the teenage Mahito, haunted by his mother's tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the boy's mother. As he tries to adjust, this strange new world grows even stranger following the appearance of a persistent gray heron, who perplexes and bedevils Mahito, dubbing him the "long-awaited one."
Duration: 124 min
IMDB Rating: 7.7/10
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Plot tags: world war two, bullying, spirituality, poverty, courage, education, teenage boy, traumatic childhood, coming of age, magic, school, ghost, king, sailor, student, life, shipwreck, death, mother, meteorite, beach, bird, fire, father, power
Nimona (2023)
Plot Summary:
A knight framed for a tragic crime teams with a scrappy, shape-shifting teen to prove his innocence
Duration: 101 min
IMDB Rating: 7.6/10
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: shapeshifting, magic, teenager, knight, monster, lgbt, medieval, lesbian subtext, werewolf, metamorphosis, shark, gay, dancing, dragon, strong female lead, fight, mutant, train, heroes, warrior, castle, kingdom, technology, villain, weapons
Saltburn (2023)
Plot Summary:
Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton, who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family's sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten
Duration: 131 min
IMDB Rating: 7.5/10
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Plot tags: male masturbation, college, sex, teenage boy, student, butler, drug use, college student, male nudity, obsession, university, brother sister relationship, sexual content, lgbt, suicide, mental illness, lust, country house, gay subtext, gay interest, mental health, eating disorder, bisexual man, boys love, male pubic hair
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (2023)
Plot Summary:
During the war in Afghanistan, a local interpreter risks his own life to carry an injured sergeant across miles of grueling terrain
Duration: 123 min
IMDB Rating: 7.5/10
IMDB Votes: 144000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Spain, USA
Plot tags: taliban, war in afghanistan, military, shooter, translator, jihad, ambush, soldier, sniper, friendship, helicopter, brotherhood, rescue, war, revenge, mountain, reconnaissance, cia, desert, us military, muslim, weapons, hospital, world war three, traitor
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba - To the Swordsmith Village (2023)
Plot Summary:
After his family is viciously murdered, a kind-hearted boy named Tanjiro Kamado resolves to become a Demon Slayer in hopes of turning his younger sister Nezuko back into a human. Together with his comrades, Zenitsu and Inosuke, along with one of the top-ranking members of the Demon Slayer Corps, Tengen Uzui, Tanjiro embarks on a mission within the Entertainment District, where they encounter the formidable, high-ranking demons, Daki and Gyutaro
Duration: 110 min
IMDB Rating: 7.5/10
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Plot tags: demon, female nudity, battles, skinny dipping, battle
Air (2023)
Plot Summary:
Discover the game-changing partnership between a then undiscovered Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and culture with the Air Jordan brand
Duration: 111 min
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
IMDB Votes: 153000
Genere: Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Plot tags: business, biopic, past, economist, gambling, athlete, casino, basketball, baseball, golf, breakdance, midlife crisis, profanity, ghost hunter, skateboard, telephone call, rookie, male protagonist, cheerleader, therapist, craps, based on real people, moses, shoes, arrival
Tetris (2023)
Plot Summary:
In 1988, American video game salesman Henk Rogers discovers the video game Tetris. When he sets out to bring the game to the world, he enters a dangerous web of lies and corruption behind the Iron Curtain
Duration: 118 min
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
IMDB Votes: 75000
Genere: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Plot tags: cold war, biopic, economist, video game, salesman, business, game, friendship, designer, puzzle, computer, job, engineer, corruption, father daughter relationship, translator, legal, disco, father son relationship, japanese schoolgirl, husband wife relationship, male protagonist, surveillance, contract, kgb agent
BlackBerry (2023)
Plot Summary:
Two mismatched entrepreneurs – egghead innovator Mike Lazaridis and cut-throat businessman Jim Balsillie – joined forces in an endeavour that was to become a worldwide hit in little more than a decade. The story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone
Duration: 120 min
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Canada
Plot tags: rise and fall, travel, business, technology, anger, cell phone, male protagonist, meeting, yelling, mobile phone, satire, biopic, silicon valley, life, businessman, marketing, job, profanity, arrogance, office, telephone, smartphone, private plane, iphone, business executive
Wonka (2023)
Plot Summary:
The origin of Willy Wonka and his adventures into Loompa Land
Duration: 116 min
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Plot tags: chocolate, genius, greed, giraffe, dog, ship, tiger, slavery, police officer, police, food, snow, magician, businessman, cartel, castle, inventor, tribe, priest, fire, church, conspiracy, theft, orphan, singing
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
Plot Summary:
A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people
Duration: 134 min
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10
IMDB Votes: 205000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada, UK, Iceland, Ireland, Australia
Plot tags: dungeons and dragons, dragon, magic, medieval, witchcraft, father daughter relationship, heist gone wrong, gang of thieves, wizard, superhero, future war, white supremacy, witch, barbarian, female warrior, druid, magical power, dragonfly, platonic, role playing, prison, horse, martial arts, spy, knight
Ponniyin Selvan: Part Two (2023)
Plot Summary:
968 AD. The Pandyan assassins gather once again to destroy the Chola dynasty. Now the mighty Chola princes must fight the Pandyas, the Rashtrakutas and other Chola enemies who have joined forces. Also, at play are the rumours of Ponniyin Selvan’s death at sea, the powerful Pazhuvettarayar’s betrayal, and the tragic destiny of Aditha Karikalan, whose heart was long lost to the vengeful Nandini
Duration: 164 min
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: India
Plot tags: heir to the throne, fight, king, violence, sword, empire, chase, decapitation, flashback, action violence, regicide, hand to hand combat, historical epic, axe
A Million Miles Away (2023)
Plot Summary:
The life of engineer and former NASA astronaut José M. Hernández, the first migrant farmworker to go to space
Duration: 121 min
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Plot tags: astronaut, nasa, underdog, migrant worker, space program, cigarette smoking, farm hand, based on real people, mexican american, mud, covered in mud
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023)
Plot Summary:
When her family moves from the city to the suburbs, 11-year-old Margaret navigates new friends, feelings, and the beginning of adolescence
Duration: 106 min
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Plot tags: menstruation, puberty, mother daughter relationship, adolescence, coming of age, grandmother granddaughter relationship, religion, female friendship, christianity, insecurity, love, school, life, studying, mother, faith, church, boy, father, neighbor, summer camp, father daughter relationship, grownups, parents, city
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)
Plot Summary:
After years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers through heroic acts. Their new friend April O'Neil helps them take on a mysterious crime syndicate, but they soon get in over their heads when an army of mutants is unleashed upon them
Duration: 99 min
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Japan, Canada
Plot tags: superhero, ninja turtle, ninja, turtle, anthropomorphic animal, fight, master, friend, animal, skateboard, sibling relationship, crime fighter, teenager, horse, martial arts, monster, swat team, giant, mutant, heroes, gang, scientist, subway, warrior, villain
The Little Mermaid (2023)
Plot Summary:
The youngest of King Triton’s daughters, and the most defiant, Ariel longs to find out more about the world beyond the sea, and while visiting the surface, falls for the dashing Prince Eric. With mermaids forbidden to interact with humans, Ariel makes a deal with the evil sea witch, Ursula, which gives her a chance to experience life on land, but ultimately places her life – and her father’s crown – in jeopardy
Duration: 135 min
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10
IMDB Votes: 146000
Genere: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Plot tags: mermaid, sea, magic spell, little mermaid, witch, ocean, king, castle, kingdom, swimming, fish, storm at sea, crab, female protagonist, evil witch, merman, advisor, transformation, sailing, human, talking animal, white male black female relationship, dog, princess, ship
Rye Lane (2023)
Plot Summary:
Two twenty-somethings, both reeling from bad break-ups, connect over the course of an eventful day in South London – helping each other deal with their nightmare exes, and potentially restoring their faith in romance
Duration: 82 min
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Plot tags: breakup, accountant, ex boyfriend, ex girlfriend, art exhibition, love, life, couples, male female relationship, partner, crisis, karaoke, black british
Gran Turismo (2023)
Plot Summary:
The plot is undisclosed at this time; the project is based off of the popular video game series
Duration: 134 min
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, Japan
Plot tags: car, superhero, conflict, racing, economist, teenager, professional, teenage boy, son, young boy, love, race, airplane, game, police, life, racecar driver, death, car race, car chase, gamer, mother, coach, motor sport, career
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023)
Plot Summary:
Years before he becomes the tyrannical president of Panem, 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow sees a chance for a change in fortunes when he mentors Lucy Gray Baird, the female tribute from District 12
Duration: 157 min
IMDB Rating: 7.1/10
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA, Canada
Plot tags: fight to the death, death, murder, mentor, arena, dystopia, love, snake, betrayal, singing, television, execution, survival, fight, snow, academy, riot, teenager, supernatural, battles, president, creature, exploration, forest, water
The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
Plot Summary:
After finding himself in a world known as the Mushroom Kingdom, A Brooklyn plumber Mario must travel through this world with a princess named Peach and a mushroom named Toad to find his brother Luigi and save the world from a ruthless fire-breathing monster called Bowser
Duration: 92 min
IMDB Rating: 7.1/10
IMDB Votes: 211000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Japan
Plot tags: princess, brother brother relationship, mushroom, evil, turtle, rainbow, magical power, sibling relationship, alternate world, alternate universe, canceled wedding, unlikely hero, alternate dimension, fictional kingdom, plumber, magic mushroom, anthropomorphism, evil king, superhero, gorilla, holiday, piano, adaptation, siblings, dinosaur