Great movies from the 21st century

Dallas Buyers Club

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

Starring - Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto, Jennifer Garner

Gone Girl

With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

Starring - Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris

The King's Speech

The story of King George VI of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch become worthy of it.

Starring - Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush

Prisoners

When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?

Starring - Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis

127 Hours

An adventurous mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive.

Starring - James Franco, Kate Mara

Minority Report

In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder.

Starring - Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Max von Sydow

Gran Torino

Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.

Starring - Clint Eastwood

Bridge of Spies

During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.

Starring - Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance

Mud

Two young boys encounter a fugitive and form a pact to help him evade the vigilantes that are on his trail and to reunite him with his true love.

Starring - Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan, Reese Witherspoon

Fury

In April 1945, the Allies are making their final push in the European theater. A battle-hardened Army sergeant named Don "Wardaddy" Collier, leading a Sherman tank and a five-man crew, undertakes a deadly mission behind enemy lines.

Starring - Brad Pitt, Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman

Rush

The merciless 1970s rivalry between Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda.

Starring - Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Bruhl, Olivia Wilde

John Wick

An ex-hitman comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.

Starring - Keanu Reeves, Alfie Allen, Willem Dafoe

Inception

A thief, who steals corporate secrets through use of dream-sharing technology, is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a CEO.

Starring - Leonardo DeCaprio, Joseph Gordon- Levitt, Tom Hardy

American Sniper

Navy S.E.A.L. sniper Chris Kyle's pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and turns him into a legend. Back home to his wife and kids after four tours of duty, however, Chris finds that it is the war he can't leave behind.

Starring - Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller

The Prestige

Two stage magicians engage in competitive one-upmanship in an attempt to create the ultimate stage illusion.

Starring - Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansonn

Django Unchained

With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

Starring - Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio

Snowpiercer

Set in a future where a failed climate-change experiment kills all life on the planet except for a lucky few who boarded the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe, where a class system emerges.

Starring - Chris Evans, Jamie Bell, Tilda Swinton

Drive

Starring - Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston

V for Vendetta

In a future British tyranny, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow it with the help of a young woman.

Starring - Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman

Tropic Thunder

Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.

Starring - Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr.

Black Hawk Down

123 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis.

Starring - Ewan McGregor, Eric Bana, WIlliam Fichtner

Inglourious Basterds

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.

Starring - Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Diane Kruger

Source Code

A soldier wakes up in someone else's body and discovers he's part of an experimental government program to find the bomber of a commuter train. A mission he has only 8 minutes to complete.

Starring - Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga

True Grit

A tough U.S. Marshal helps a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer.

Starring - Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin

Sicario

An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.

Starring - Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin

Whiplash

A promising young drummer enrolls at a cut-throat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.

Starring - Miles Teller, J.K Simmons

Looper

In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent into the past, where a hired gun awaits - someone like Joe - who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by sending back Joe's future self for assassination.

Starring - Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt

Contagion

Healthcare professionals, government officials and everyday people find themselves in the midst of a worldwide epidemic as the CDC works to find a cure.

Starring - Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law

Ex Machina

A young programmer is selected to participate in a ground-breaking experiment in synthetic intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a breath-taking humanoid A.I.

Starring - Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac

Memento

A man creates a strange system to help him remember things; so he can hunt for the murderer of his wife without his short-term memory loss being an obstacle.

Starring - Guy Pearce, Carrie-Ann Moss

'71

In 1971, a young and disorientated British soldier is accidentally abandoned by his unit following a riot on the deadly streets of Belfast.

Starring - Jack O'Connell

End of Watch

Shot documentary-style, this film follows the daily grind of two young police officers in LA who are partners and friends, and what happens when they meet criminal forces greater than themselves.

Starring - Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Pena, Anna Kendrick

The Walk

In 1974, high-wire artist Philippe Petit recruits a team of people to help him realize his dream: to walk the immense void between the World Trade Center towers.

Starring - Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Midnight Special

A father and son go on the run, pursued by the government and a cult drawn to the child's special powers.

Starring - Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst

The Town

As he plans his next job, a longtime thief tries to balance his feelings for a bank manager connected to one of his earlier heists, as well as the FBI agent looking to bring him and his crew down.

Starring - Ben Affleck, Jeremy Renner, Jon Hamm

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Illustrated upon the progress of his latest Broadway play, a former popular actor's struggle to cope with his current life as a wasted actor is shown.

Starring - Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton

Black Mass

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.

Starring - Johnny Depp, Benedict Cumberbatch, Joel Edgerton

The Hateful Eight

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.

Starring - Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Interstellar

A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in space in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival.

Starring - Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain

Mad Max: Fury Road

A woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in postapocalyptic Australia in search for her home-land with the help of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshipper, and a drifter named Max.

Starring - Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult

No Country for Old Men

Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.

Starring - Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem

Argo

Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1980.

Starring - Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman

A Beautiful Mind

After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.

Starring - Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly

Edge of Tomorrow

A soldier fighting aliens gets to relive the same day over and over again, the day restarting every time he dies.

Starring - Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton

The Nice Guys

A mismatched pair of private eyes investigate the apparent suicide of a porn star in 1970s Los Angeles.

Starring - Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling

Predestination

For his final assignment, a top temporal agent must pursue the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time. The chase turns into a unique, surprising and mind-bending exploration of love, fate, identity and time travel taboos.

Starring - Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Noah Taylor

The Fighter

A look at the early years of boxer "Irish" Micky Ward and his brother who helped train him before going pro in the mid 1980s.

Starring - Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams

Zodiac

A San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac killer.

Starring - Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr, Mark Ruffalo

The Grey

After their plane crashes in Alaska, six oil workers are led by a skilled huntsman to survival, but a pack of merciless wolves haunts their every step.

Starring - Liam Neeson, Frank Grillo

Enemy at the Gates

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.

Starring - Jude Law, Ed Harris, Rachel Weisz

The Dark Knight

When the menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, the caped crusader must come to terms with one of the greatest psychological tests of his ability to fight injustice.

Starring - Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart

Everest

A climbing expedition on Mt. Everest is devastated by a severe snow storm.

Starring - Jason Clarke, Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin

The Hurt Locker

During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.

Starring - Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Guy Pearce

12 Years a Slave

In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

Starring - Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt

Gravity

A medical engineer and an astronaut work together to survive after an accident leaves them adrift in space.

Starring - Sandra Bullock, George Clooney

Guardians of the Galaxy

A group of intergalactic criminals are forced to work together to stop a fanatical warrior from taking control of the universe.

Starring - Chris Pratt, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper

Steve Jobs

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.

Starring - Michael Fassbender, Seth Rogen, Jeff Daniels

Gladiator

When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.

Starring - Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix

The Imitation Game

During World War II, mathematician Alan Turing tries to crack the enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians.

Starring - Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Mark Strong