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“Alone” (2021, dir. Dmitry Suvorov)
Larisa Savitskaya (Nadezhda Kaleganova) and her husband were returning to Blagoveshchensk. Half an hour before landing, a Tu-16 military missile carrier crashes into the plane. Of all the passengers, only Larisa survives, she is alone in the middle of the wild nature of the Amur Territory, and it is many kilometers to the nearest settlement.
The film is based on real events, more detailed information about the disaster can be found in the documentary “8 minutes to the ground”, where the real Larisa Savitskaya recalls the events of forty years ago.
12 Years a Slave (2013, dir. Steve McQueen)
1841, New York, Solomon Northup (Chivetel Ejiofor) is a successful musician. Solomon is invited on tour to Washington, where unknown people poison him, put him in chains and take him south. In New Orleans, a man is passed off as a runaway slave Plath and sold to a wealthy planter.
“Lady Bird” (2017, dir. Greta Gerwig)
Christine (Saoirse Ronan) has big dreams: she wants to move to New York and attend a prestigious college. While she lives in a remote town, goes to a Catholic school, she has few friends and no cool boyfriend, and her parents are on the verge of divorce. The ordinary life of an ordinary girl who, with all her heart, wants to escape from the outback to the metropolis.
“Mania” (2021, dir. Lauren Hadaway)
The perfect movie for fans of Obsession (2013, dir. Damien Chazelle). Alex (Isabelle Fuhrman) is one of the best students in college, but she needs money to pay for higher education. Therefore, she enrolls in the rowing team – the winner of the competition will be presented with a grant. Her body is completely unprepared for sports, but the girl does not care – she will achieve what she wants at any cost.
“Million Dollar Baby” (2004, dir. Clint Eastwood)
Waitress Maggie (Hilary Swank) dreams of becoming a boxer, joins a seedy boxing club in Los Angeles, but its owner Frankie (Clint Eastwood) refuses to train her: too old for a beginner, and even a woman. This does not stop Maggie, Frank’s friend Eddie (Morgan Freeman) decides to help her.
“Cloud Atlas” (2012, directed by The Wachowski Sisters and Tom Tykwer)
Big almanac about the human desire for freedom. The Wachowski sisters (The Matrix) and Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run) filmed David Mitchell’s multi-story bestseller of the same name. Some tell about the struggle of people for truth and universal equality in the past, while others fantasize about the fate of civilization in the future.
“Hope” (2019, dir. Maria Sedal)
Theater director Anja Richter (Andrea Bruhn Hovig) returns home from a tour where she’s been plagued by headaches and strange, short-term vision loss. With her husband Thomas (Stellan Skarsgård), she goes to the doctor and learns that she has a cancerous tumor in her brain. The operation can be fatal, but Anya agrees to it. Before her, a woman must do the most difficult thing – to warn her family about a possible death.
“The Pursuit of Happyness” (2006, dir. Gabriele Muccino)
The poor man has one idea of happiness – a lot of money. They are trying to earn the loser Chris (Will Smith), from whom his wife left because of debts. He single-handedly takes care of the life of his son Christopher (Jaden Smith) and goes on an unpaid internship at a stock exchange firm.
“Harry Haft: The Last Stand” (2021, dir. Barry Levinson)
Harry Haft (Ben Foster) is a Polish Jew who survived the Auschwitz concentration camp. He has a successful boxing career in New York, winning fight after fight until he has panic attacks. Colleagues, friends and journalists are trying to find out the reasons for his suffering, but he does not want to tell anyone about his past, preferring to drown him in alcohol.
The Hunger Games franchise (2012–2015)
The main teenage dystopia of the 2010s. In an alternate future universe, the country of Panem exists, divided into twelve districts with the Capitol in the center. In memory of the failed revolution, the annual Hunger Games Tournament is held, where children representing the regions fight to the death. The main character Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) lives in the poorest coal-mining district. She is an excellent hunter, so she becomes a volunteer when they want to send her younger sister to the tournament.
Source: Hellomagazine
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