Movies to Watch In 2013
by harvey-taylor | created - 08 Mar 2013 | updated - 07 Apr 2013 | PublicMovies for Kristen to watch while you are very sick and in hospital to pass the time and keep you very well entertained.
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1. The Terminator (1984)
R | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A human soldier is sent from 2029 to 1984 to stop an almost indestructible cyborg killing machine, sent from the same year, which has been programmed to execute a young woman whose unborn son is the key to humanity's future salvation.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn, Paul Winfield
Votes: 923,747 | Gross: $38.40M
Classic Arnold, brought to 1984 to kill the mother of the leader of the human resistance to the robots that had taken over the world. Linda Hamilton is targeted to get Terminated, but she gets help from Michael Biehn, who comes from the future to protector her. Great way to start movie watching in 2013. Bonus: All three main actors full frontal nudity.
2. Troy (2004)
R | 163 min | Adventure, Drama
An adaptation of Homer's great epic, the film follows the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces and chronicles the fates of the men involved.
Director: Wolfgang Petersen | Stars: Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Julian Glover
Votes: 570,207 | Gross: $133.38M
Not sure if it is completely historically acurrate, but very close. Based on the writings of Homer. Brad Pitt is reluctantly pitted again Eric Bana in the epic battle of Troy after Orlando Bloom has an affair with Diane Kruger who is married to the Spartan king. Bana discovers he and Bloom are taking Kruger home to Troy. The battle begins after they arrive home. Pitt discovers he no longer wants to fight until Bana kills his younger family member.
3. 1941 (1979)
PG | 118 min | Action, Comedy, War
Hysterical Californians prepare for a Japanese invasion in the days after Pearl Harbor.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Treat Williams, Nancy Allen
Votes: 36,250 | Gross: $31.76M
Funny movie about the fear of a Japanese attack of California. Dan Aykroyd leads a team homeland defenders as they comically protect the land of South California. John Belushi is in ace pilot that is on the trail of what he believes is a Japanese Zero flying over Los Angeles.
4. Argo (2012)
R | 120 min | Biography, Drama, History
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 1979.
Director: Ben Affleck | Stars: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Alan Arkin
Votes: 638,934 | Gross: $136.03M
Ben Affleck and John Goodman create a fake movie in order to free 6 escaped hostages in Iran after the embassy is taken over by students.
5. Ghosts of Mars (2001)
R | 98 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
In 2176, a Martian police unit is sent to pick up a highly dangerous criminal at a remote mining post. Upon arrival, the cops find that the post has become a charnel house.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: Natasha Henstridge, Ice Cube, Pam Grier, Jason Statham
Votes: 57,956 | Gross: $8.43M
Mars police are sent to a small town mining town on Mars to transfer Ice Cube for trial. They soon discover that the locals have had they bodies taken over by the spirits of Mars previous residents.
6. Here Comes the Boom (2012)
PG | 105 min | Action, Comedy, Sport
A high-school biology teacher looks to become a successful mixed martial arts fighter in an effort to raise money to prevent extracurricular activities from being axed at his cash-strapped school.
Director: Frank Coraci | Stars: Kevin James, Salma Hayek, Henry Winkler, Greg Germann
Votes: 95,461 | Gross: $45.29M
Kevin James helps to save the school music program after he discovers that Henry Winkler will lose his job, due to school budget cuts. James tries to go back to being teaching a citizenship class where he learns that there is big money in UFC fighting.
7. Lincoln (2012)
PG-13 | 150 min | Biography, Drama, History
As the Civil War rages on, U.S President Abraham Lincoln struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on his decision to emancipate the slaves.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Votes: 272,549 | Gross: $182.21M
Daniel Day-Lewis plays Lincoln who is needs to win the Civil War in the form of an amendment to the Constitution. An inspiring performance by Lewis, who gets a team of men to work with Congress to convince them to pass the amendment.
8. Ocean's Eleven (2001)
PG-13 | 116 min | Crime, Thriller
Danny Ocean and his ten accomplices plan to rob three Las Vegas casinos simultaneously.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon
Votes: 618,864 | Gross: $183.42M
George Clooney and Brad Pitt get a team together in order to rob a large Las Vegas casino. Using various methods they try to pull off the great $160,000,000 + robbery.
9. Revolver (2005)
R | 111 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Gambler Jake Green enters into a game with potentially deadly consequences.
Director: Guy Ritchie | Stars: Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, André 3000, Vincent Pastore
Votes: 102,697 | Gross: $0.08M
Two men take over the mind of Jason Statham in order to rob Ray Liotta, who got Statham send to prison.
10. Ronin (1998)
R | 122 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A freelancing former U.S. Intelligence Agent tries to track down a mysterious package that is wanted by the Irish and the Russians.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone, Stellan Skarsgård
Votes: 195,061 | Gross: $41.62M
Robert De Niro and Jean Reno battle Russian and Irish assassins throughout France in order to get a mysterious package.
11. The Score (2001)
R | 124 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An aging thief hopes to retire and live off his ill-gotten wealth with his lover when a young kid convinces him into doing one last heist that comes with a large payout.
Director: Frank Oz | Stars: Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Marlon Brando, Angela Bassett
Votes: 134,058 | Gross: $71.07M
Robert De Niro and Edward Norton reluctantly partner together in order to rob a Canadian Customs holding area.
12. Westworld (1973)
PG | 88 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
A robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park.
Director: Michael Crichton | Stars: Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin, Norman Bartold
Votes: 62,942 | Gross: $16.06M
Richard Benjamin is chased by Yul Brynner, after robots in a realistic theme park go haywire.
13. Underworld: Awakening (2012)
R | 88 min | Action, Fantasy, Thriller
When human forces discover the existence of the Vampire and Lycan clans, a war to eradicate both species commences. The vampire warrior Selene leads the battle against humankind.
Directors: Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein | Stars: Kate Beckinsale, Michael Ealy, India Eisley, Stephen Rea
Votes: 161,174 | Gross: $62.32M
Kate Beckinsale battles a clan of super Lycans after she survives human forces who have discovered and tried to end the Lycans and Vampire races.
14. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
G | 143 min | Adventure, Mystery, Sci-Fi
When an alien spacecraft of enormous power is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk resumes command of the overhauled USS Enterprise in order to intercept it.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan
Votes: 96,583 | Gross: $82.26M
The crew of the starship Enterprise battles an alien electrical storm which is actually an race of robot aliens in search of the creator of a lost NASA satellite.
15. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
PG | 113 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
With the assistance of the Enterprise crew, Admiral Kirk must stop an old nemesis, Khan Noonien Singh, from using the life-generating Genesis Device as the ultimate weapon.
Director: Nicholas Meyer | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan
Votes: 129,179 | Gross: $78.91M
Ricardo Montalban seeks revenge on Captain Kirk, who is out with students on a cadet training flight. Spock gives his life an attempt to save the crew.
16. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
R | 137 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A cyborg, identical to the one who failed to kill Sarah Connor, must now protect her ten year old son John from an even more advanced and powerful cyborg.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick
Votes: 1,173,491 | Gross: $204.84M
Arnold is back, this time he has better one-liners. In the battle for the future Arnold is sent back to battle Robert Patrick, to protect Linda Hamilton and Edward Furlong from the machines.
17. Boiling Point (I) (1993)
R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A pair of sociopath killers take on the police and the mob in order to make one last big score.
Director: James B. Harris | Stars: Wesley Snipes, Dennis Hopper, Lolita Davidovich, Viggo Mortensen
Votes: 6,563 | Gross: $10.06M
Wesley Snipes attempts to track down Dennis Hooper who is on a quest for the big score. Hooper enlists Viggo Mortensen to rid him of anyone who stands in the way.
18. Snatch (2000)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Crime
Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.
Director: Guy Ritchie | Stars: Jason Statham, Brad Pitt, Stephen Graham, Vinnie Jones
Votes: 910,470 | Gross: $30.33M
Jason Statham is forced to hire Brad Pitt as a fighter who needs to fight in a fixed fight. Statham then finds himself in debt to Alan Ford who along with Vinnie Jones and Dennis Farina are in search of a diamond and Benicio Del Toro who stole them. Several strange twists on the way.
19. From Paris with Love (2010)
R | 92 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
In Paris, a young employee in the office of the US Ambassador hooks up with an American spy looking to stop a terrorist attack in the city.
Director: Pierre Morel | Stars: John Travolta, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Kasia Smutniak, Richard Durden
Votes: 121,572 | Gross: $23.98M
John Travolta is teamed up Jonathan Rhys Meyers, aid to the French ambassador, to stop a terrorist cell operating in Paris.
20. Repo Men (2010)
R | 111 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Set in the near future when artificial organs can be bought on credit, it revolves around a man who struggles to make the payments on a heart he has purchased. He must therefore go on the run before said ticker is repossessed.
Director: Miguel Sapochnik | Stars: Jude Law, Forest Whitaker, Alice Braga, Liev Schreiber
Votes: 110,668 | Gross: $13.79M
Jude Law and Forest Whitaker, friends since childhood, are hired to repo artificial organs. Law finds himself scheduled for repo after an on-the-job accident.
21. Men at Work (1990)
PG-13 | 98 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Two garbage men uncover a conspiracy involving illegal toxic waste dumping and decide to bring the whole operation down.
Director: Emilio Estevez | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Leslie Hope, Keith David
Votes: 26,738 | Gross: $16.25M
Charlie Sheen and Amilio Estevez are misfit trash men. Keith David is hired to observe them to keep them out of trouble. After they discover a dead city councilman whom they shot with a pellet gun, things get funny.
22. The Wolfman (2010)
R | 103 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Upon his return to his ancestral homeland, an American man is bitten and subsequently cursed by a werewolf.
Director: Joe Johnston | Stars: Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt, Simon Merrells
Votes: 111,713 | Gross: $61.98M
Benicio Del Toro returns to his estranged father's home to help bury his brother. While in the small town he discovers his family has many secrets and becomes the prime suspect of Hugo Weaving, everyone's favorite cop from the Matrix.
23. The Gauntlet (1977)
R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A hard but mediocre cop is assigned to escort a prostitute into custody from Las Vegas to Phoenix, so that she can testify in a mob trial. But a lot of people are literally betting that they won't make it into town alive.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, William Prince
Votes: 25,064 | Gross: $35.40M
Clint Eastwood is sent on a mission to get Sondra Locke to a Phoenix courthouse to testify against the mob. In order to get to the courthouse they are tasked with battling group after group of corrupt police officers.
24. Hitchcock (2012)
PG-13 | 98 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the filming of Psycho (1960) in 1959 is explored.
Director: Sacha Gervasi | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Scarlett Johansson, Danny Huston
Votes: 79,205 | Gross: $6.01M
Anthony Hopkins plays a really believable Alfred Hitchcock who battles with Paramount studios, personal demons and at times Helen Mirren (his wife) to produce the classic Psycho.
25. Wreck-It Ralph (2012)
PG | 101 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A video game villain wants to be a hero and sets out to fulfill his dream, but his quest brings havoc to the whole arcade where he lives.
Director: Rich Moore | Stars: John C. Reilly, Jack McBrayer, Jane Lynch, Sarah Silverman
Votes: 458,242 | Gross: $189.42M
John C. Reilly is a video game villain who wants to be a hero. Slowly other characters realize the implications that this will cause throughout the arcade.
26. The X Files (1998)
PG-13 | 121 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Mulder and Scully must fight the government in a conspiracy and find the truth about an alien colonization of Earth.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, John Neville, William B. Davis
Votes: 110,153 | Gross: $83.90M
David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson are FBI agents who are searching for the truth. No matter how strange it may turn out to be.
27. xXx: State of the Union (2005)
PG-13 | 101 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Darius Stone, a new agent in the xXx program, is sent to Washington, D.C. to stop a coup attempt against the President of the United States.
Director: Lee Tamahori | Stars: Ice Cube, Samuel L. Jackson, Willem Dafoe, Scott Speedman
Votes: 73,602 | Gross: $26.87M
The XXX program is under attack and it's up to Ice Cube to save the day.
28. Salt (2010)
PG-13 | 100 min | Action, Thriller
A CIA agent goes on the run after a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy.
Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Daniel Olbrychski
Votes: 330,032 | Gross: $118.31M
Is she an undercover KGB agent in the CIA? Or a CIA agent that is trying to save the world? Angelina Jolie runs all over Washington, DC fighting the CIA, Russian spies and police.
29. Zodiac (2007)
R | 157 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Between 1968 and 1983, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards
Votes: 598,032 | Gross: $33.08M
Jake Gyllenhaal portrays a newspaper cartoonist that sets out to solve the famous Zodiac killer. Based on an almost true story.
30. Nighthawks (1981)
R | 99 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
When one of Europe's most lethal terrorists shows up in New York, an elite undercover cop is assigned to take him down by any means necessary.
Directors: Bruce Malmuth, Gary Nelson | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Rutger Hauer, Billy Dee Williams, Lindsay Wagner
Votes: 21,709 | Gross: $14.91M
Sylvester Stallone chases Rutger Hauer, an international terrorist who is going after targets in New York.
31. xXx (2002)
PG-13 | 124 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
The US government recruits extreme sports athlete Xander Cage to infiltrate a Russian criminal ring, which is plotting the destruction of the world.
Director: Rob Cohen | Stars: Vin Diesel, Asia Argento, Marton Csokas, Samuel L. Jackson
Votes: 186,465 | Gross: $142.11M
Vin Diesel plays an internet extreme action star that is recruited by the CIA to help bring down a group of Russian terrorists that wanna cause mass chaos to the world.
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