2015 films
by PoppyTransfusion | created - 02 Oct 2014 | updated - 22 Dec 2020 | PublicThe ones I've seen in order of preference from most to least favourite.
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1. Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
Not Rated | 125 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The story of the relationship between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of forty years to search the Amazon for a sacred healing plant.
Director: Ciro Guerra | Stars: Nilbio Torres, Jan Bijvoet, Antonio Bolívar, Brionne Davis
Votes: 24,454 | Gross: $1.33M
2. Amy (III) (2015)
R | 128 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Archival footage and personal testimonials present an intimate portrait of the life and career of British singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse.
Director: Asif Kapadia | Stars: Amy Winehouse, Mitch Winehouse, Mark Ronson, Russell Brand
Votes: 55,030 | Gross: $8.41M
3. Listen to Me Marlon (2015)
Unrated | 103 min | Documentary, Biography
A documentary that utilizes hundreds of hours of audio that Marlon Brando recorded over the course of his life to tell the screen legend's story.
Director: Stevan Riley | Stars: Marlon Brando, Stella Adler, Bernardo Bertolucci, Michael Borne
Votes: 7,918 | Gross: $0.43M
4. Very Big Shot (2015)
107 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Intending to smuggle drugs across the borders, a small-time Lebanese drug-dealer slyly manipulates public opinion with the help of an underrated filmmaker.
Director: Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya | Stars: Alain Saadeh, Fouad Yammine, Wissam Fares, Tarek Yaacoub
Votes: 1,545
5. High-Rise (2015)
R | 119 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control.
Director: Ben Wheatley | Stars: Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans
Votes: 45,169 | Gross: $0.34M
6. They Will Have to Kill Us First (2015)
Not Rated | 100 min | Documentary
In 2012, jihadists took control of Northern Mali, imposing one of the harshest interpretations of sharia law in recent years and, crucially for Mali, banning music. Radio stations were ... See full summary »
Director: Johanna Schwartz | Stars: Aliou Touré, Oumar Touré, Garba Touré, Nathanael Dembélé
Votes: 138
7. The Club (2015)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A crisis counselor is sent by the Catholic Church to a small Chilean beach town where disgraced priests and nuns, suspected of crimes ranging from child abuse to baby-snatching from unwed mothers, live secluded, after an incident occurs.
Director: Pablo Larraín | Stars: Alfredo Castro, Roberto Farías, Antonia Zegers, Marcelo Alonso
Votes: 11,986 | Gross: $0.03M
8. Chicken (III) (2015)
86 min | Drama
A 15-year-old's optimistic view becomes difficult to maintain when his brother's behavior worsens, and he feels torn between loyalty to his brother or getting closer to his first female friend.
Director: Joe Stephenson | Stars: Scott Chambers, Morgan Watkins, Yasmin Paige, Kirsty Besterman
Votes: 537
9. Desierto (2015)
R | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A group of people trying to cross the border from Mexico into the United States encounter a racist man who has taken border patrol duties into his own hands.
Director: Jonás Cuarón | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Alondra Hidalgo, Diego Cataño
Votes: 10,757 | Gross: $1.83M
Stunning film. Beautiful and ugly, crisp and salty.
10. Mustang (2015)
PG-13 | 97 min | Drama
When five orphan girls are seen innocently playing with boys on a beach, their scandalized conservative guardians confine them while forced marriages are arranged.
Director: Deniz Gamze Ergüven | Stars: Günes Sensoy, Doga Zeynep Doguslu, Tugba Sunguroglu, Elit Iscan
Votes: 40,896 | Gross: $0.85M
11. Mediterranea (2015)
Unrated | 107 min | Drama
Two men make the dangerous journey from Africa to Italy for a better life, but then face hostility and violence in this shocking look at the life-and-death struggle of refugees.
Director: Jonas Carpignano | Stars: Alassane Sy, Koudous Seihon, Adam Gnegne, Mary Elizabeth Innocence
Votes: 1,791 | Gross: $0.01M
12. Dheepan (2015)
R | 115 min | Crime, Drama
Dheepan is a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who flees to France and ends up working as a caretaker outside Paris.
Director: Jacques Audiard | Stars: Jesuthasan Antonythasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan, Claudine Vinasithamby, Vincent Rottiers
Votes: 16,817 | Gross: $0.25M
13. 3000 Nights (2015)
103 min | Drama
A young Palestinian schoolteacher gives birth to her son in an Israeli prison where she fights to protect him, survive and maintain hope.
Director: Mai Masri | Stars: Maisa Abd Elhadi, Nadira Omran, Rakeen Saad, Raida Adon
Votes: 1,088
14. Nebesnyy verblyud (2015)
90 min | Adventure, Family
In the boundless steppes of Kalmykia, a fearless 12-year-old boy sets off on an epic adventure to retrieve his extraordinary baby camel, as dangerous situations and a true friendship will eventually turn him into a young man.
Director: Yuriy Feting | Stars: Mikhail Gasanov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Petr Novikov, Irina Hurgunova
Votes: 196
15. The Exquisite Corpus (2015)
18 min | Documentary, Short
A sunbathing woman has a phantasmagoric vision of ecstasy, derived from various found footage sources.
Director: Peter Tscherkassky
Votes: 374
Not what I would describe as a documentary ... An entirely fictional film re-creating a dream world.
16. Above and Below (I) (2015)
Not Rated | 118 min | Documentary, Adventure, Drama
Filmmaker Nicolas Steiner documents the exploits of three homeless people in Las Vegas, a man who lives in a military bunker in the California desert and a woman at a Utah research station that simulates life on Mars.
Director: Nicolas Steiner | Stars: Edward Cardenas, Cynthia Goodwin, Richard F. Ethredge, April Davis
Votes: 460
17. La mujer de los perros (2015)
Not Rated | 98 min | Drama
A woman walks through the field. Surrounding her, the dogs run, and whirl, and roll, and spread all over the frame, undoing fiction like the legendary Penelope's weaving. Further, the world... See full summary »
Directors: Laura Citarella, Verónica Llinás | Stars: Verónica Llinás, Juliana Muras, Germán De Silva, Juana Zalazar
Votes: 238
18. Son of Saul (2015)
R | 107 min | Drama, War
A Jewish-Hungarian concentration camp prisoner sets out to give a child he mistook for his son a proper burial.
Director: László Nemes | Stars: Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn, Todd Charmont
Votes: 51,944 | Gross: $1.78M
19. The Revenant (I) (2015)
R | 156 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team.
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter, Domhnall Gleeson
Votes: 874,139 | Gross: $183.64M
20. Spy (2015)
R | 120 min | Action, Comedy
A desk-bound CIA analyst volunteers to go undercover to infiltrate the world of a deadly arms dealer and prevent diabolical global disaster.
Director: Paul Feig | Stars: Melissa McCarthy, Rose Byrne, Jude Law, Jason Statham
Votes: 258,755 | Gross: $110.83M
21. Eddie the Eagle (2015)
PG-13 | 106 min | Adventure, Biography, Comedy
The story of Eddie Edwards, the notoriously tenacious British underdog ski jumper who charmed the world at the 1988 Winter Olympics.
Director: Dexter Fletcher | Stars: Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman, Tom Costello, Jo Hartley
Votes: 100,206 | Gross: $15.79M
22. Maryland (2015)
Unrated | 98 min | Drama, Thriller
Vincent is an ex-soldier with PTSD who is hired to protect the wife and child of a wealthy Lebanese businessman while he's out of town. Despite the apparent tranquility in Maryland, Vincent perceives an external threat.
Director: Alice Winocour | Stars: Matthias Schoenaerts, Diane Kruger, Paul Hamy, Zaïd Errougui-Demonsant
Votes: 6,721 | Gross: $0.01M
23. Bridge of Spies (2015)
PG-13 | 142 min | Drama, History, Thriller
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.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda, Amy Ryan
Votes: 327,687 | Gross: $72.31M
24. Censored Voices (2015)
Not Rated | 84 min | Documentary, History
CENSORED VOICES combines raw original recordings of Israeli soldiers recounting their fears and doubts following Israel's 1967 Six-Day War, using archival newsreel footage as a stark reminder of how far the region remains from peace.
Director: Mor Loushy | Star: Amos Oz
Votes: 321 | Gross: $0.03M
25. Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)
PG-13 | 119 min | Drama, Romance
In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor.
Director: Thomas Vinterberg | Stars: Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge
Votes: 53,706 | Gross: $12.23M
26. Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015)
PG | 85 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets a little more action than he bargained for. A mix up with the Farmer, a caravan and a very steep hill lead them all to the Big City and it's up to Shaun and the flock to return everyone safely to the green grass of home.
Directors: Mark Burton, Richard Starzak | Stars: Justin Fletcher, John Sparkes, Omid Djalili, Richard Webber
Votes: 43,425 | Gross: $19.38M
Charming film.
7/10
27. The Pearl Button (2015)
Not Rated | 82 min | Documentary
Delving into the nearly-religious significance of water, this profound rumination on memory and loss bridges the gap between its mystical origins, Pinochet's coup d'état, and the secret of a mother-of-pearl button at the bottom of the sea.
Director: Patricio Guzmán | Stars: Martín Calderón, Cristina, Patricio Guzmán, Ema Malig
Votes: 2,898
28. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
PG-13 | 141 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
When Tony Stark and Bruce Banner try to jump-start a dormant peacekeeping program called Ultron, things go horribly wrong and it's up to Earth's mightiest heroes to stop the villainous Ultron from enacting his terrible plan.
Director: Joss Whedon | Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth
Votes: 921,527 | Gross: $459.01M
29. From Afar (2015)
Unrated | 93 min | Drama, Romance
Armando, a 50 year man, seeks young men in Caracas and pays them just for company. One day he meets Elder, a 17 years boy that is the leader of a criminal gang, and that meeting changes their lives forever.
Director: Lorenzo Vigas | Stars: Alfredo Castro, Luis Silva, Jericó Montilla, Catherina Cardozo
Votes: 4,056 | Gross: $0.03M
30. Slow West (2015)
R | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A young Scottish man travels across America in pursuit of the woman he loves, attracting the attention of an outlaw who is willing to serve as a guide.
Director: John Maclean | Stars: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Caren Pistorius, Aorere Paki, Jeffrey Thomas
Votes: 47,962 | Gross: $0.23M
31. Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015)
PG-13 | 79 min | Documentary
Filmmakers discuss how Francois Truffaut's 1966 book "Cinema According to Hitchcock" influenced their work.
Director: Kent Jones | Stars: Wes Anderson, Peter Bogdanovich, David Fincher, Bob Balaban
Votes: 7,181 | Gross: $0.30M
32. The Movement (2015)
70 min | Drama
During the first half of the 19th century in a vast and desolated land fallen into anarchy, several armed groups drift along the infinite Pampas demanding support and food from the peasants.
Director: Benjamín Naishtat | Stars: Pablo Cedrón, Céline Latil, Francisco Lumerman, Marcelo Pompei
Votes: 157
33. The Endless River (2015)
Not Rated | 108 min | Drama
Gilles and Tiny are both mourning recent deaths. Their grief unites them but hiding beneath the grief are darker shadows that connect their losses.
Director: Oliver Hermanus | Stars: Nicolas Duvauchelle, Crystal-Donna Roberts, Clayton Evertson, Darren Kelfkens
Votes: 269
34. We Were Young (2015)
TV-14 | 86 min | Comedy, Drama
Five long-term pals confront ageing and mortality as they enjoy their last weeks together before taking different paths.
Director: Philippe Guillard | Stars: Kad Merad, Charles Berling, Benoît Magimel, Vincent Moscato
Votes: 379
35. The Mud Woman (2015)
92 min | Drama
A woman returns to employment as a seasonal fruit picker. She encounters a man with whom there is a troubled history.
Director: Sergio Castro San Martín | Stars: Catalina Saavedra, Maite Neira, Elsa Poblete, Paola Lattus
Votes: 47
36. Deux Rémi, deux (2015)
66 min | Comedy, Mystery
Thirty years, a small job, Rémi is a bit lost in life. Until he must share it with his double, another himself, invasive and not so nice. Which will be the true Rémi?
Director: Pierre Léon | Stars: Serge Bozon, Pascal Cervo, Luna Picoli-Truffaut, Antoine Tergal
Votes: 129
37. Aferim! (2015)
Not Rated | 108 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Set in early 19th century Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife.
Director: Radu Jude | Stars: Teodor Corban, Mihai Comanoiu, Toma Cuzin, Alexandru Dabija
Votes: 7,766 | Gross: $0.10M
38. Beasts of No Nation (2015)
TV-MA | 137 min | Drama, War
A drama based on the experiences of Agu, a child soldier fighting in the civil war of an unnamed African country.
Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga | Stars: Abraham Attah, Emmanuel Affadzi, Ricky Adelayitor, Andrew Adote
Votes: 86,816 | Gross: $0.08M
39. Macbeth (I) (2015)
R | 113 min | Drama, History, War
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
Director: Justin Kurzel | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jack Madigan, Frank Madigan
Votes: 59,503 | Gross: $1.11M
40. The Demons (2015)
Not Rated | 118 min | Drama
A young boy begins to experience the adult world as he enters adolescence.
Director: Philippe Lesage | Stars: Édouard Tremblay-Grenier, Pier-Luc Funk, Vassili Schneider, Sarah Mottet
Votes: 1,276
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