There are two whole days ahead to take a break from work, relax and watch new interesting films that we have collected for you in this selection.
Comedies, sci-fi, thrillers and the first Christmas story of the year await you. Well, the New Year holidays are already close – it’s time to create an atmosphere of magic.
Grab yourself an interesting movie for the evening and sit back:
1. Quiz Lady (Quiz Lady)
Genre: comedy
Audience rating: ⭐️ 6.7 (KinoPoisk)
Country: USA
Director: Jessica Yu
Starring: Awkwafina, Sandra Oh, Will Ferrell, Holland Is Watching, Jason Schwartzman, Toini Newsome
About what: The girl signed up for a game show with a big cash prize to go through and kill the bandits and her mother’s mining debt.
Since childhood, Ann has loved watching intellectual games on TV, and therefore she has a good memory and extensive knowledge on many topics. One fine day she learns that her mother, a gambling addict, has escaped from a nursing home, having also turned to bandits.
Now the gangsters demand that Anne pay off the debt, taking her as collateral for their dog. Jenny’s flighty older sister, familiar with Anne’s encyclopedic knowledge, invites her to take part in a TV quiz show with a cash prize, since this is the only option to choose an amount for a short time.
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2. T.I.M. (TIM)
Genre: fantasy, thriller
Audience rating: ⭐️ – (KinoPoisk)
Country: UK
Director: Spencer Brown
Cast: Georgina Campbell, Eamon Farren, Mark Rowley, Amara Karan, Nathaniel Parker
About what: an engineer creates a humanoid android in the rural wilderness.
Prosthetic engineer Abi comes to the countryside to work on Integrate Robotic’s newest product, a humanoid artificial intelligence called TIM – Technological Integrated Servant.
The serene solitude of a country house evokes a sense of loss in the hero, aggravated by physical separation from friends and colleagues. So over time, a curious, and even frightening, transformation occurs in Tim’s behavior.
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3. Daughter of the Marsh King (Daughter of the Marsh King)
Genre: thriller, drama
Audience rating: ⭐️ 6.1 (KinoPoisk)
Country: USA
Director: Neil Burger
Cast: Daisy Ridley, Ben Mendelsohn, Brooklyn Prince, Gil Birmingham, Karen Pistorius
About what: The adult heroine faces her childhood fears when her father escapes from prison.
Little Helena lived with her parents in a forest house. One day, when the father was gone for a while, and a lost tourist on an ATV drove out to their home, the mother suddenly grabbed her daughter and took the opportunity to escape. So the girl learned that her father was a dangerous refugee named the Swamp King, who never kidnapped a woman and took her to the forest, where she gave birth to a daughter from him and lived in captivity all these years.
After 20 years, Elena grew up and started a family, but her husband did not tell her that she was the daughter of the infamous Swamp King. Uncover your secret and apply the skills and knowledge you learned as a child to a woman when her father escapes from prison.
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4. The best of all worlds (Il migliore dei mondi)
Genre: drama, comedy
Audience rating: ⭐️ – (KinoPoisk)
Country: Italy
Director: Danilo Carlani, Maccio Capatonda
Cast: Luca Vecchi, Martin Gatti, Maccio Capatonda, Pietro Sermonti, Stefania Blandenburg
About what: A middle-aged hero looks into a parallel Universe where all technology is stuck in the 1990s.
An ordinary city dweller is surrounded by all the benefits of civilization: he has an iPhone, a smart watch, a laptop, and home appliances are controlled using voice commands. One day at work, he sets out to fix an old modem and accidentally puts his smartphone on it. The moment the modem is connected, the inexplicable happens, and the hero moves into another dimension with 90s-level technology.
He is surrounded by Internet cafes, friends’ phones, a local resident’s dream – a new Nokia 3310. The hero must survive in this other world and return to his cozy 21st century.
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5. Genie (Genie)
Genre: fantasy, comedy
Audience rating: ⭐️ – (KinoPoisk)
Country: USA
Director: Sam Boyd
Cast: Melissa McCarthy, Alan Cumming, Luis Guzman, Paapa Essiedu, Marc Maron, Tate Ellington
About what: On Christmas Eve, the hero accidentally frees Jinnah, who had been languishing in captivity for 2000 years.
Unlucky Bernard accidentally frees Jeanne Flora from her two-thousand-year prison.
Now he is trying, with the help of a magical creature, to solve problems with his family and affairs before Christmas, and the genie is trying to analyze the changed outside world.
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6. Master of the Wind
Genre: drama, adventure, biography
Audience rating: ⭐️ 6.8 (KinoPoisk)
Country: USA
Director: Igor Voloshin
Starring: Fyodor Bondarchuk, Anna Mikhalkova, Evgeny Tkachuk, Andrey Burkovsky, Daniil Vorobyov
About what: A famous traveler decides to fly around the Earth alone in a hot air balloon.
The famous Russian traveler Fyodor Konyukhov, who has conquered the earth’s poles, oceans and highest peaks, sets off on a new, most dangerous journey: he will have to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon all alone.
The flight prepares a whole team, but it is impossible to foresee all the dangers that await a traveler in extreme conditions. Konyukhov is approaching the Hurricane – without communication, without sleep, almost without air, he must go only forward in order to survive and return to those he loves.
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Source: Iphones RU
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