2016
by PoppyTransfusion | created - 16 Oct 2015 | updated - 25 Jul 2020 | PublicFilms I have seen and those I want to see.
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1. American Honey (2016)
R | 163 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.
Director: Andrea Arnold | Stars: Sasha Lane, Shia LaBeouf, Riley Keough, McCaul Lombardi
Votes: 46,450 | Gross: $0.66M
2. Ascent (II) (2016)
80 min | Drama
Through a gray blanket of cloud the contours of a mountain can be barely discerned. This is Mount Fuji, a volcano with many faces and of immeasurable cultural and symbolic significance. We ... See full summary »
Director: Fiona Tan | Star: Hiroki Hasegawa
Votes: 184
3. Certain Women (2016)
R | 107 min | Drama
The lives of three women intersect in small-town America, where each is imperfectly blazing a trail.
Director: Kelly Reichardt | Stars: Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, James Le Gros
Votes: 15,634 | Gross: $1.03M
4. Dancer (II) (2016)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, Biography
Sergei Polunin is a breathtaking ballet talent who questions his existence and his commitment to dance just as he is about to become a legend.
Director: Steven Cantor | Stars: Sergei Polunin, Galyna Polunina, Galina Ivanovna, Larysa Lavrikova
Votes: 3,198 | Gross: $0.04M
5. Divines (2016)
105 min | Crime, Drama
A street teenager from a dysfunctional family from a banlieue (HLMs) in Paris comes across a young dancer who turns her life upside down.
Director: Houda Benyamina | Stars: Oulaya Amamra, Déborah Lukumuena, Kévin Mischel, Jisca Kalvanda
Votes: 10,524
6. The Eagle Huntress (2016)
G | 87 min | Documentary, Adventure, Sport
Thirteen-year-old Aisholpan trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her nomad family to become an eagle huntress.
Director: Otto Bell | Stars: Aisholpan Nurgaiv, Daisy Ridley, Rys Nurgaiv
Votes: 4,185 | Gross: $3.17M
7. Elle (I) (2016)
R | 130 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A successful businesswoman gets caught up in a game of cat and mouse as she tracks down the unknown man who raped her.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny, Charles Berling
Votes: 71,143
8. Ethel & Ernest (2016)
Not Rated | 94 min | Animation, Drama, History
The life and times of the parents of the hailed British graphic novelist Raymond Briggs.
Director: Roger Mainwood | Stars: Jim Broadbent, Brenda Blethyn, Luke Treadaway, Macready Massey
Votes: 3,932
9. Fast Convoy (2016)
Not Rated | 102 min | Action, Thriller
A "go fast" convoy shipping a ton of cannabis Malaga in southern Spain is disrupted following a shoot out that results in the kidnapping of a tourist.
Director: Frédéric Schoendoerffer | Stars: Benoît Magimel, Reem Kherici, Tewfik Jallab, Madi Belem
Votes: 862
10. Fonko (2016)
87 min | Documentary, Music
In the Manding language Fonko means "the thing", in Wolof "to take care of each other". The great musical revolution of today takes place in Africa, where urban club music is merging with ... See full summary »
Directors: Lamin Daniel Jadama, Lars Lovén, Göran Hugo Olsson | Stars: Nneka Egbuna, Sister Fa, Neo Muyanga, Wanlov The Kubulor
Votes: 61
11. Free Fire (2016)
R | 91 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Set in Boston in 1978, a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two gangs turns into a shoot-out and a game of survival.
Director: Ben Wheatley | Stars: Sharlto Copley, Brie Larson, Armie Hammer, Cillian Murphy
Votes: 50,714 | Gross: $1.80M
12. Gimme Danger (2016)
R | 108 min | Documentary, Music
An in-depth look at legendary punk band The Stooges.
Director: Jim Jarmusch | Stars: Iggy Pop, Jim Jarmusch, Bob Waller, The Stooges
Votes: 6,508 | Gross: $0.44M
13. Hail, Caesar! (2016)
PG-13 | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio's stars in line.
Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Stars: Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Alden Ehrenreich, Ralph Fiennes
Votes: 143,152 | Gross: $30.50M
Funny and quaint story about Tinsletown. Ralph Fiennes is a film stealer!
8.5/10
14. Hell or High Water (II) (2016)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Toby is a divorced father who's trying to make a better life. His brother is an ex-con with a short temper and a loose trigger finger. Together, they plan a series of heists against the bank that's about to foreclose on their family ranch.
Director: David Mackenzie | Stars: Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Jeff Bridges, Gil Birmingham
Votes: 252,523 | Gross: $27.01M
15. Hermia & Helena (2016)
Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy, Drama
Hermia & Helena is a film of dead ends and new beginnings, navigating different hemispheres and languages with amorous detours, where the written words of Shakespeare clash with the entanglements of modern, digital life.
Director: Matías Piñeiro | Stars: Agustina Muñoz, María Villar, Mati Diop, Keith Poulson
Votes: 494 | Gross: $0.04M
16. In Between (2016)
R | 103 min | Drama
Three Palestinian women living in an apartment in Tel Aviv try to find a balance between traditional and modern culture.
Director: Maysaloun Hamoud | Stars: Mouna Hawa, Sana Jammelieh, Shaden Kanboura, Mahmud Shalaby
Votes: 3,097 | Gross: $0.11M
17. In the Last Days of the City (2016)
118 min | Drama
A documentary filmmaker in Cairo is having difficulty finishing his film, so his friends send him footage from the cities they live in: Baghdad, Beirut, and Berlin.
Director: Tamer El Said | Stars: Khalid Abdalla, Laila Samy, Hanan Youssef, Mariam Saleh Saad
Votes: 594
18. It's Only the End of the World (2016)
97 min | Drama
Louis (Gaspard Ulliel), a terminally ill writer, returns home after a long absence to tell his family that he is dying.
Director: Xavier Dolan | Stars: Gaspard Ulliel, Marion Cotillard, Léa Seydoux, Vincent Cassel
Votes: 25,196
19. La La Land (2016)
PG-13 | 128 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
While navigating their careers in Los Angeles, a pianist and an actress fall in love while attempting to reconcile their aspirations for the future.
Director: Damien Chazelle | Stars: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Rosemarie DeWitt, J.K. Simmons
Votes: 671,342 | Gross: $151.10M
20. Life After Life (2016)
80 min | Drama
The spirit of a deceased mother takes over her son's body in order to oversee the task of replanting a very important tree, only after which it will be able to leave the earthly limits.
Director: Hanyi Zhang | Stars: Zhang Li, Zhang Mingjun
Votes: 161
21. London Town (I) (2016)
R | 92 min | Drama, Music
In '70s London, a 14 year-old boy is introduced to the Clash by his estranged mother. It changes his life forever.
Director: Derrick Borte | Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Daniel Huttlestone, Dougray Scott, Natascha McElhone
Votes: 2,555
22. Manchester by the Sea (2016)
R | 137 min | Drama
A depressed uncle is asked to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy's father dies.
Director: Kenneth Lonergan | Stars: Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges
Votes: 313,709 | Gross: $47.70M
23. You're Killing Me Susana (2016)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
"Me Estas Matando Susana" takes us on Eligio's quest to find and recover his wife, Susana, who without a word, left Mexico City behind for a writer's conference held in the chilly U.S. heartland.
Director: Roberto Sneider | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Verónica Echegui, Ashley Hinshaw, Jadyn Wong
Votes: 2,341
24. Mimosas (2016)
Not Rated | 96 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
A dying Sheikh travels across the Moroccan Atlas in a caravan escorted by two rogues.
Director: Óliver Laxe | Stars: Ahmed Hammoud, Shakib Ben Omar, Said Aagli, Ikram Anzouli
Votes: 974
25. Neruda (2016)
R | 107 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Luis Gnecco, Mercedes Morán, Emilio Gutiérrez Caba
Votes: 11,050 | Gross: $0.94M
26. On the Milky Road (2016)
125 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A story that stretches across war, blossoming love and living as a recluse.
Director: Emir Kusturica | Stars: Emir Kusturica, Monica Bellucci, Sloboda Micalovic, Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic
Votes: 4,889
27. 150 Milligrams (2016)
128 min | Biography, Drama
Dr. Irène Frachon from Brest discovers, that Mediator pills cause heart valve problems/deaths. In 2009, she starts an uphill battle against the producer and the French health authorities.
Director: Emmanuelle Bercot | Stars: Sidse Babett Knudsen, Benoît Magimel, Charlotte Laemmel, Isabelle de Hertogh
Votes: 1,511
28. Sarah Winchester, Phantom Opera (2016)
Not Rated | 23 min | Short
An opera ballet that doesn't exist. A ghost-like piece, played in Opera Bastille and danced at Opera Garnier, An almost mystical link between both scenes, A musician is testing sounds in ... See full summary »
Director: Bertrand Bonello | Stars: Reda Kateb, Marie-Agnès Gillot, Juliette Vial
Votes: 150
29. Slack Bay (2016)
Unrated | 122 min | Comedy, Fantasy
In the early 20th century, at the Pas de Calais, people mysteriously disappear as Ma Loute, son of the local fishermen family, and Billie, daughter of the snobbish Van Peteghems, fall in love each other.
Director: Bruno Dumont | Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Juliette Binoche, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Jean-Luc Vincent
Votes: 4,880 | Gross: $0.11M
30. Souvenir (I) (2016)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A forgotten European Song Contest singer, fading away in a pâté factory, falls in love with a young aspiring boxer. Together they decide to attempt her comeback.
Director: Bavo Defurne | Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Kévin Azaïs, Johan Leysen, Muriel Bersy
Votes: 1,166 | Gross: $0.01M
31. The Salesman (2016)
PG-13 | 124 min | Drama, Thriller
While Ranaa and Emad, a married couple, are participating in a production of "Death of a Salesman," she is assaulted in their new home, which leaves him determined to find the perpetrator over his wife's traumatized objections.
Director: Asghar Farhadi | Stars: Shahab Hosseini, Taraneh Alidoosti, Mina Sadati, Babak Karimi
Votes: 64,713 | Gross: $2.40M
32. These Days (2016)
120 min | Drama
When Caterina accepts a job offer in a Hotel in Belgrade, her three friends decide to follow her despite their problems, starting an on the road adventure which will mark a turning point in their lives.
Director: Giuseppe Piccioni | Stars: Margherita Buy, Maria Roveran, Marta Gastini, Caterina Le Caselle
Votes: 329
33. The Son of Joseph (2016)
113 min | Drama
A discontented Parisian teenager in search of a father with (Mathieu Amalric) and (Fabrizio Rongione) as his, respectively, callous and gentle alternative paternal options, and (Natacha Régnier) as his single mother.
Director: Eugène Green | Stars: Victor Ezenfis, Natacha Régnier, Fabrizio Rongione, Mathieu Amalric
Votes: 899 | Gross: $0.03M
34. The Unknown Girl (2016)
Unrated | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A doctor gets obsessed with the case of a dead woman after learning that the woman had died shortly after having rung her door for help.
Directors: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne | Stars: Adèle Haenel, Olivier Bonnaud, Jérémie Renier, Louka Minnella
Votes: 10,338 | Gross: $0.15M
35. The Wedding Ring (2015)
96 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman from Niger returns to her home village after finishing college abroad.
Director: Rahmatou Keïta | Stars: Aïchatou Lamine Fofana, Sandor Funtek, Mariam Kaba, Aïchatou Moussa
Votes: 65
36. Those Who Jump (2016)
80 min | Documentary
Mount Gurugu overlooks the Spanish enclave of Melilla on northern Africa's Mediterranean coast. The European Union and Africa are separated here by a high-security border facility ... See full summary »
Directors: Abou Bakar Sidibé, Moritz Siebert, Estephan Wagner
Votes: 105
37. Trespass Against Us (I) (2016)
R | 99 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A man looks to find a way to escape the criminal ways of his outlaw family.
Director: Adam Smith | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Brendan Gleeson, Lyndsey Marshal, Georgie Smith
Votes: 9,149
38. Trolls (2016)
PG | 92 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
After the Bergens invade Troll Village, Poppy, the happiest Troll ever born, and the curmudgeonly Branch set off on a journey to rescue her friends.
Directors: Mike Mitchell, Walt Dohrn | Stars: Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Zooey Deschanel, Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Votes: 91,994 | Gross: $153.71M
39. Wolf and Sheep (2016)
86 min | Drama
Based upon unpublished diaries, the film assumes the role of an anthropologist observing remote shepherd communities in Afghanistan where wolves and sheep have equal importance.
Director: Shahrbanoo Sadat | Stars: Qodrat, Amina, Sahar, Masuma
Votes: 343
40. Wùlu (2016)
Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama
A young man begins trafficking cocaine and quickly becomes embroiled in the Malian drug ring.
Director: Daouda Coulibaly | Stars: Ibrahim Koma, Inna Modja, Ismaël N'Diaye, Jean-Marie Traoré
Votes: 421
41. Zootopia (2016)
PG | 108 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
In a city of anthropomorphic animals, a rookie bunny cop and a cynical con artist fox must work together to uncover a conspiracy.
Directors: Byron Howard, Rich Moore, Jared Bush | Stars: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba, Jenny Slate
Votes: 546,232 | Gross: $341.27M
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