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Woman in Gold
Maria Altmann (Dame Helen Mirren) sought to regain a world famous painting of her aunt plundered by the Nazis during World War II. She did so not just to regain what was rightfully hers, but also to obtain some measure of justice for the death, destruction, and massive art theft perpetrated by the Nazis.

- Metascore51
- 2015
American Assassin
Twenty three-year-old Mitch lost his parents to a tragic car accident at the age of fourteen, and his girlfriend to a terrorist attack just as they were engaged. Seeking revenge, he is enlisted by CIA Deputy Director Irene Kennedy as a black ops recruit. Kennedy then assigns Cold War veteran Stan Hurley to train Mitch. Together they will later on investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on military and civilian targets. The discovery of a pattern in the violence leads them to a joint mission with a lethal Turkish agent to stop a mysterious operative intent on starting a world war in the Middle East.

- Metascore45
- 2017
Coach Carter
In 1999, Ken Carter accepts the job of basketball coach for his old high school in a poor area of Richmond, CA. As much dismayed by the poor attitudes of his players as well as their dismal play performance, Carter sets about to change both. He imposes a strict regime typified in written contracts that demand respectful behavior, a dress code and good grades for players. Any initial resistance is soon dispelled as the team under Carter's tutelage becomes a undefeated competitor. However, when the overconfident team's behavior begins to stray with too many doing poorly in class, Carter takes immediate action. To the outrage of the team, the school and the community, Carter cancels all team activities and locks the court until the team shows acceptable academic improvement. In the ensuing debate, Carter fights to keep his methods, determined to show the boys that they need good values for their futures and eventually finds he has affected them more profoundly than he ever expected.

- Metascore57
- 2005
Happy Feet Two
Mumble the penguin has a problem: his son Erik, who is reluctant to dance, encounters The Mighty Sven, a penguin who can fly! Things get worse for Mumble when the world is shaken by powerful forces, causing him to bring together the penguin nations and their allies to set things right.

- Metascore50
- 2011
To Catch a Thief
American expatriate John Robie, living in high style on the Riviera, is a retired cat burglar. He must find out who a copycat is to keep a new wave of jewel thefts from being pinned on him. High on the list of prime victims is Jessie Stevens, in Europe to help daughter Frances find a suitable husband.

- Metascore82
- 1955
Just Like Heaven
Elizabeth Masterson, a dedicated doctor in San Francisco, had almost no time for anything. When she gets into a tragic car crash and goes into a coma, a landscape architect moves into Elizabeth's apartment for rent - where he meets her amnesiac ethereal form.

- Metascore47
- 2005
Steel Magnolias
Pivoting around the lively Truvy Jones' Louisiana beauty parlour, a tightly-knit band of friends, confront griefs, loss, life's unforeseen tragedies and heartaches with what they do best: gossiping and sharing. The spirited diabetic and bride-to-be, Shelby; her always supportive mother, M'Lynn; Truvy's gawky assistant, Annelle; the city's curmudgeon, Ouiser; and the town's former first lady, Clairee, are the warm Southern belles who know how to survive life's challenges with their unwavering friendship. But when Shelby decides to conceive, things will turn upside down..

- Metascore56
- 1989
- 2013
Finding Your Feet
Approaching their senior years, British sisters Sandra and Bif have been estranged for 10 years because of their differences. Sandra, newly-minted Lady Abbott as her lawyer husband Mike has just been knighted, does whatever necessary to present a perfect upper-crust life and marriage, including maintaining proper decorum. Older Bif is the carefree one, living for the moment, including not caring that her council-estate apartment in inner-city London is a pigsty, as long as she can find whatever she needs. While Sandra has no place for someone like Bif in her life, Bif laments what Sandra has become since marrying Mike, because she once had a real zest for life. When Sandra learns first-hand that Mike has been having an affair for five years with Pamela (one of her closest friends) and eventually asks for a divorce so he can marry her, Sandra feels like her planned retirement life with Mike has been pulled out from under her and turns to Bif for emotional support, too ashamed to turn to any of her friends. While Bif does whatever she can to accommodate Sandra, Sandra feels like a fish out of water in Bif's environs, which includes the adult community dance class she attends, which is populated by her closest friends, like Charlie Glover, who is also at a crossroads in his marriage: his institutionalized, Alzheimer's-stricken wife Lilly is slowly slipping away from him. In finally opening up to the joys of the dance and making connections with Bif's friends, including Charlie, Sandra needs to evaluate her life in its entirety, including whether she's ready to put her upper-crust life behind her and embrace a new life with someone caring like Charlie. Bif going through her own challenges might provide a deeper perspective for Sandra in what she really wants.

- Metascore53
- 2017
The Out-Laws
Owen Browning (Adam Devine) is a straight-laced bank manager about to marry the love of his life, Parker (Nina Dobrev). When his bank is held up by the infamous Ghost Bandits during his wedding week, he believes his future in-laws (Pierce Brosnan, Ellen Barkin) who just arrived in town, are the infamous Out-Laws.

- Metascore36
- 2023
Fiddler on the Roof
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Jews and Orthodox Christians live in the little village of Anatevka in the pre-revolutionary Russia of the Czars. Among the traditions of the Jewish community, the matchmaker arranges the match and the father approves it. The milkman Reb Tevye is a poor man that has been married for twenty-five years with Golde and they have five daughters. When the local matchmaker Yente arranges the match between his older daughter Tzeitel and the old widow butcher Lazar Wolf, Tevye agrees with the wedding. However Tzeitel is in love with the poor tailor Motel Kamzoil and they ask permission to Tevye to get married that he accepts to please his daughter. Then his second daughter Hodel (Michele Marsh) and the revolutionary student Perchik decide to marry each other and Tevye is forced to accept. When Perchik is arrested by the Czar troops and sent to Siberia, Hodel decides to leave her family and homeland and travel to Siberia to be with her beloved Perchik. When his third daughter Chava decides to get married with the Christian Fyedka, Tevye does not accept and considers that Chava has died. Meanwhile the Czar troops evict the Jewish community from Anatevka.

- Metascore67
- 1971
Juice
Four Harlem teens--Q, Bishop, Raheem, and Steel--are out skipping school one day when they find out that an old friend was killed in a shootout at a bar. After this, Bishop tells his friends that they have no respect, or juice. To get some, they rob a corner grocery store, but things take an unexpected turn. Only the four friends know what happened, but one of them is out for himself.

- Metascore60
- 1992
Brian's Song
Gale Sayers joins the Chicago Bears and is befriended by Brian Piccolo, an over-achieving running back. Although they compete for the same spot on the team, and despite the fact that Sayers is black and Piccolo white, they become roommates on the road and very close friends, especially when Sayers is injured and Piccolo helps his recovery. Later, they and their wives must both deal with the harsh reality of Piccolo's cancer.

- Metascore62
- 1971
Jumping the Broom
Two very different families converge on Martha's Vineyard one weekend for a wedding.

- Metascore56
- 2011
Lady Jane
The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because of succession disputes. His weak son King Edward VI is on his deathbed. Anxious to keep England true to the Reformation, a scheming minister John Dudley marries off his son, Guilford, to Lady Jane Grey, whom he places on the throne after Edward dies. At first hostile to each other, Guilford and Jane fall in love. But they cannot withstand the course of power which will lead to their ultimate downfall.

- Metascore64
- 1986
Flower Shop Mystery: Dearly Depotted
Former lawyer turned floral shop owner/operator Abby Knight is not only supplying the flowers but, much to her chagrin, is in the bridal party of her shallow cousin Jillian Knight in her marriage to wealthy Claymore Osbourne. Abby is able to convince her "not boyfriend", former detective turned bar owner Marco Salvare, to be a last minute fill-in groomsman, ostensibly her date. While some potential fireworks at the wedding are already averted in Abby's retired police officer father Jeffrey Knight being disinvited in he and Clay's mother Glory Osbourne having a not so pleasant history, other issues also have the potential to derail the day, including Glory regardless overtaking the event, or Jillian actually making it to the altar this time in she already having called off weddings at the last minute with a plethora of other men. But something does overtake the day: the murder on site of a wedding attendee, who was killed by blunt force trauma to the head with a crystal punch bowl. Abby and Marco can't help but investigate on their own outside of the police investigation, they having an upper hand in Abby knowing many of the players. Abby has some difficult discussions in some suspects being friends or relatives, who would have had motive. But their investigation places them in danger at the hands of the murderer.

- 2016
Death of a Salesman
Salesman Willy Loman is in a crisis. He's about to lose his job, he can't pay his bills, and his sons Biff and Happy don't respect him and can't seem to live up to their potential. He wonders what went wrong and how he can make things up to his family.

- 1985
Marie Antoinette
The story of Marie-Antoinette, a naive, 14-year-old Austrian who married Louis XVI, and was unprepared for the woes of politics involved in being the Queen of France during the French Revolution.

- Metascore64
- 2006
Thor: Love and Thunder
Thor's retirement is interrupted by a galactic killer known as Gorr the God Butcher, who seeks the extinction of the gods. To combat the threat, Thor enlists the help of King Valkyrie, Korg and ex-girlfriend Jane Foster, who - to Thor's surprise - inexplicably wields his magical hammer, Mjolnir, as the Mighty Thor. Together, they embark upon a harrowing cosmic adventure to uncover the mystery of the God Butcher's vengeance and stop him before it's too late.

- Metascore57
- 2022
The Best Man Holiday
Mia Sullivan (Monica Calhoun), wife of Lance Sullivan (Morris Chestnut), has written letters requesting that the old gang should join them for Christmas: Harper Stewart (Taye Diggs) and his almost-nine-month-pregnant wife Robyn (Sanaa Lathan), Julian "Murch" Murchison (Harold Perrineau) and wife Candace Sparks (Regina Hall), her best friend Jordan Armstrong (Nia Long) and boyfriend Brian McDonald (Eddie Cibrian), Quentin "Q" Spivey (Terrence Howard), and Shelby Taylor (Melissa De Sousa). All the friends arrive at the house, the first time they've come together in 14 years, and the celebration begins. At dinner, the old friends catch up while tensions grow between Shelby and Candace. Years after his debut novel, Harper is struggling with writer's block, financial difficulties, and pressure from his publisher to come up with newer and better material for his next book. He has also been recently relieved of his faculty position at New York University, further complicating the couple's financial position. He kept all this from Robyn, as she is finally pregnant with their first child after years of expensive fertility treatments and the baby is almost full-term. His agent suggests he write a biography on his estranged friend, Lance, who is set to retire from football. Harper reluctantly agrees, but keeps the biography a secret..

- Metascore59
- 2013
Southpaw
Billy Hope (played by Jake Gyllenhaal) is the undisputed light-heavyweight boxing champion of the world. He is unbeaten over a career of 43 fights. He is happily married to beautiful Maureen (Rachel McAdams) and has a young daughter, Leila (Oona Laurence). His life seems perfect, but then, during a fracas with a rival boxer, his wife is shot and killed. They had known each other since they were 12 years old, and now the bottom has fallen out of his world. The death of his wife sends Billy into a downward spiral, resulting in him being barred from professional boxing for a year, the loss of his house and almost all his possessions and, most painfully, the loss of his daughter to the custody of Social Services. In order to gain back his daughter and restart his life, he seeks out a particular trainer, Tick Wills (Forest Whitaker). Now he is starting his life again, at the bottom.

- Metascore57
- 2015
Fifty Shades Freed
Believing they have left behind shadowy figures from their past, newlyweds Christian (Jamie Dornan) and Ana (Dakota Johnson) fully embrace an inextricable connection and shared life of luxury. But just as she steps into her role as Mrs. Grey and he relaxes into an unfamiliar stability, new threats could jeopardize their happy ending before it even begins.

- Metascore31
- 2018
Annihilation
A biologist searches for her husband who goes missing while on an expedition. She soon discovers a dangerous creature out in the wilderness.

- Metascore79
- 2018
Take Me to the River
A Californian teenager's plan to come out at his Nebraskan family reunion gets derailed when a bloodstain on his young cousin's dress makes him the unwitting suspect of abuse.

- Metascore65
- 2015