Some of the best movies of 2017

Some of the best movies of 2017

Call Me by Your Name

Release Date 2017
Rating : 7.8 Production Companies: Sony Pictures Classics, Frenesy Film Director: Luca Guadagnino, Ferdinando Cito Filomarino, Rachel Griffiths Stars: Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg

Summary: In 1980s Italy, a relationship begins between seventeen-year-old teenage Elio and the older adult man hired as his father's research assistant.

Lady Bird

Release Date 2017
Rating : 7.4 Production Companies: Scott Rudin Productions, A24 Director: Greta Gerwig, Jan McWilliams, Jonas Spaccarotelli Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts

Summary: Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her upbringing are questioned and tested as she plans to head off to college.

La La Land

Release Date 2016
Rating : 8 Production Companies: Summit Entertainment, Lionsgate Director: Paula Case, Peter Kohn, Lyn Matsuda Norton Stars: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend

Summary: Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.

Dunkirk

Release Date 2017
Rating : 7.8 Production Companies: Studio Babelsberg, Marc Platt Productions Director: Sean Singery, Willem Quarles van Ufford, William Pruss Stars: Fionn Whitehead, Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance

Summary: The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.

Darkest Hour

Release Date 2017
Rating : 7.4 Production Companies: Working Title Films, Perfect World Pictures Director: Joe Wright, Dan Channing-Williams, Gayle Dickie Stars: Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Ben Mendelsohn

Summary: In May 1940, the fate of World War II hangs on Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler or fight on knowing that it could mean the end of the British Empire.

Blade Runner 2049

Release Date 2017
Rating : 8 Production Companies: 16:14 Entertainment, Columbia Pictures Director: Jessica Clothier, Dora Simko, Denis Villeneuve Stars: Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Sylvia Hoeks

Summary: Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

Manchester by the Sea

Release Date 2016
Rating : 7.8 Production Companies: Big Indie Pictures, Pearl Street Films Director: Andrea Ulrich, Kenneth Lonergan, David Blazina Stars: Casey Affleck, Lucas Hedges, Michelle Williams

Summary: After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.