2017 Watchlist
by max-sv | created - 22 Dec 2016 | updated - 24 Jan 2022 | PublicThe movies I (and you) should watch from this year.
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1. Custody (2017)
93 min | Drama, Thriller
A broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the centre.
Director: Xavier Legrand | Stars: Léa Drucker, Denis Ménochet, Thomas Gioria, Mathilde Auneveux
Votes: 10,325 | Gross: $0.08M
2. One Cut of the Dead (2017)
Not Rated | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
Things go badly for a hack director and film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie in an abandoned WWII Japanese facility, when they are attacked by real zombies.
Director: Shin'ichirô Ueda | Stars: Takayuki Hamatsu, Yuzuki Akiyama, Harumi Shuhama, Kazuaki Nagaya
Votes: 29,762
3. The Wandering Soap Opera (2017)
80 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
The film revolves around the concept of soap opera. Its structure is based on the assumption that Chilean reality does not exist, but rather is an ensemble of soap operas.
Directors: Raúl Ruiz, Valeria Sarmiento | Stars: Luis Alarcón, Patricia Rivadeneira, Francisco Reyes, Consuelo Castillo
Votes: 359 | Gross: $0.00M
4. The Day After (2017)
92 min | Drama, Romance
The married Bongwan leaves home in the dark morning and sets off to work. The memories of the woman who left weigh down on him. That day Bongwan's wife finds a love note, bursts into the office, and mistakes Areum for the woman who left.
Director: Hong Sang-soo | Stars: Yunhee Cho, Kwon Hae-hyo, Ki Joabang, Taeu Kang
Votes: 2,508 | Gross: $0.02M
5. God's Own Country (2017)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Romance
Spring. Yorkshire. Young farmer Johnny Saxby numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker for lambing season ignites an intense relationship that sets Johnny on a new path.
Director: Francis Lee | Stars: Josh O'Connor, Alec Secareanu, Gemma Jones, Ian Hart
Votes: 35,571 | Gross: $0.34M
6. The Other Side of Hope (2017)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama
A poker-playing restaurateur and former traveling salesman befriends a group of refugees newly arrived to Finland.
Director: Aki Kaurismäki | Stars: Sherwan Haji, Sakari Kuosmanen, Kaija Pakarinen, Tuomari Nurmio
Votes: 13,655 | Gross: $0.18M
7. Mary and the Witch's Flower (2017)
PG | 103 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
Based on "The Little Broomstick" by Mary Stewart, a strange flower grants a girl magic powers.
Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi | Stars: Hana Sugisaki, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Yûki Amami, Fumiyo Kohinata
Votes: 16,201 | Gross: $2.42M
8. Lean on Pete (2017)
R | 121 min | Adventure, Drama, Sport
A teenager gets a summer job working for a horse trainer and befriends the fading racehorse, Lean on Pete.
Director: Andrew Haigh | Stars: Charlie Plummer, Amy Seimetz, Travis Fimmel, Steve Buscemi
Votes: 13,952 | Gross: $1.16M
9. My Journey Through French Cinema (2016)
Not Rated | 201 min | Documentary
Bertrand Tavernier's personal journey through French cinema, from films he enjoyed as a boy to his own early career, told through portraits of key creative figures.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Bertrand Tavernier, François Truffaut, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Jean Renoir
Votes: 980 | Gross: $0.04M
10. Montparnasse Bienvenüe (2017)
97 min | Comedy, Drama
In her early thirties, broke, and in the wake of a humbling breakup, a spirited, yet rudderless young woman finds herself struggling to get by in the bustling Parisian metropolis; however, if she can make it there, she'll make it anywhere.
Director: Léonor Serraille | Stars: Laetitia Dosch, Souleymane Seye Ndiaye, Grégoire Monsaingeon, Jean-Christophe Folly
Votes: 2,933
11. Love Education (2017)
Not Rated | 120 min | Drama, Music
A dying old lady reminisces about her happier moments. Her daughter, Hui Ying, decides to move her father's grave from his hometown to beside her mother's grave. However, his first wife, ... See full summary »
Director: Sylvia Chang | Stars: Sylvia Chang, Zhuangzhuang Tian, Yueting Lang, Ningfeng Song
Votes: 1,022
12. Professor Marston & the Wonder Women (2017)
R | 108 min | Biography, Drama, History
The story of psychologist William Moulton Marston, and his polyamorous relationship with his wife and their mistress who would inspire his creation of the superheroine, Wonder Woman.
Director: Angela Robinson | Stars: Luke Evans, Rebecca Hall, Bella Heathcote, Connie Britton
Votes: 28,658 | Gross: $1.59M
13. Wonder Wheel (2017)
PG-13 | 101 min | Drama, Romance
On Coney Island in the 1950s, a lifeguard tells the story of a middle-aged carousel operator, his beleaguered wife and the visitor who turns their lives upside-down.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Justin Timberlake, Juno Temple, Robert C. Kirk, Kate Winslet
Votes: 30,992 | Gross: $1.40M
14. Thelma (2017)
Not Rated | 116 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A confused religious girl tries to deny her feelings for a female friend who's in love with her. This causes her suppressed subconsciously-controlled psychokinetic powers to reemerge with devastating results.
Director: Joachim Trier | Stars: Eili Harboe, Kaya Wilkins, Henrik Rafaelsen, Ellen Dorrit Petersen
Votes: 36,634 | Gross: $0.15M
15. Tragedy Girls (2017)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
A twist on the slasher genre, following two death-obsessed teenage girls who use their online show about real-life tragedies to send their small mid-western town into a frenzy, and cement their legacy as modern horror legends.
Director: Tyler MacIntyre | Stars: Brianna Hildebrand, Alexandra Shipp, Jack Quaid, Kevin Durand
Votes: 11,617 | Gross: $0.06M
16. The Running Actress (2017)
71 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Moon So-ri | Stars: Sung Byoung-sook, Joon-Hwan Jang, Seong Jeong-seon, Lee Jung-hyun
Votes: 208
17. The Wild Boys (2017)
Not Rated | 110 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
The tale of five adolescent boys enamored by the arts but drawn to crime and transgression. After committing a brutal crime aided by Trevor, a deity of chaos, they're punished to board a boat with a captain hell-bent on taming them.
Director: Bertrand Mandico | Stars: Pauline Lorillard, Vimala Pons, Diane Rouxel, Anaël Snoek
Votes: 3,208
18. Atomic Blonde (2017)
R | 115 min | Action, Thriller
An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.
Director: David Leitch | Stars: Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman, Eddie Marsan
Votes: 206,616 | Gross: $51.69M
19. The Guardians (2017)
R | 138 min | Drama, War
Women are left behind to work a family farm during the Great War.
Director: Xavier Beauvois | Stars: Nathalie Baye, Laura Smet, Iris Bry, Cyril Descours
Votes: 2,578 | Gross: $0.18M
20. Bodied (2017)
R | 120 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A progressive graduate student finds success and sparks outrage when his interest in battle rap as a thesis subject becomes a competitive obsession.
Director: Joseph Kahn | Stars: Calum Worthy, Jackie Long, Rory Uphold, Jonnie Park
Votes: 6,126 | Gross: $0.11M
21. In the Fade (2017)
R | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Katja's life collapses after the deaths of her husband and son in a bomb attack. After a time of mourning and injustice, Katja seeks revenge.
Director: Fatih Akin | Stars: Numan Acar, Adam Bousdoukos, Diane Kruger, Denis Moschitto
Votes: 35,647 | Gross: $0.32M
22. Village Rockstars (2017)
87 min | Drama
In small-town Assam, the 10-year-old daughter of a widow defies societal norms as she befriends a group of boys and dreams of having her own rock band.
Director: Rima Das | Stars: Bhanita Das, Basanti Das, Boloram Das, Rinku Das
Votes: 1,028
23. Microhabitat (2017)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Whiskey and cigarettes, the only ways of keeping her dignity in this city.
Director: Jeon Go-Woon | Stars: Esom, Ahn Jae-hong, Jae-Hyun Choi, Choi Deok-moon
Votes: 3,057
24. The Endless (I) (2017)
Not Rated | 111 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
As kids, they escaped a UFO death cult. Now, two adult brothers seek answers after an old videotape surfaces and brings them back to where they began.
Directors: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead | Stars: Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson, Callie Hernandez, Tate Ellington
Votes: 49,456 | Gross: $0.27M
25. Love and Goodbye and Hawaii (2017)
Not Rated | 93 min | Drama
A woman slowly coming to the realization that a relationship with her ex-boyfriend may well and truly be dead and she faces the decision of whether to resurrect it or move on.
Director: Shingo Matsumura | Stars: Aya Ayano, Risa Kameda, Aoi Kato, Kentarô Tamura
Votes: 174
26. The Last Recipe: Memory of Giraffe's Tongue (2017)
126 min | Drama
Sasaki-san is a superlative cook who is on auto-control and can make wondrous meals with nary a thought anymore. In a literal case of last wish on earth, he receives a special request to ... See full summary »
Director: Yôjirô Takita | Stars: Kazunari Ninomiya, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Aoi Miyazaki, Gô Ayano
Votes: 919
27. Beast (III) (2017)
R | 107 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive outsider suspected of a series of brutal murders.
Director: Michael Pearce | Stars: Jessie Buckley, Geraldine James, Oliver Maltman, Trystan Gravelle
Votes: 15,668 | Gross: $0.80M
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