On weekend evenings it’s great to settle down and watch some great film. In this selection you will find the latest film releases, which can already be found on the Internet in excellent quality, so you can spend your weekend with pleasure.
Action films, thrillers, dramas are waiting for you – for every taste. The filmmakers tried their best, but our task is to appreciate their work.
Just don’t forget the popcorn:
1. Recipe for love (La Passion de Dodin Bouffant)
Genre: drama, melodrama, history
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.7 (KinoPoisk)
Country: France
Director: Tran Anh Hung
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Benoit Magimel, Emmanuel Salinge, Patrick d’Asumção, Galatea Bellugi.
About what: A love story between two talented chefs.
Eugenie and Daudin are a gifted chef duo who create exquisite dishes that can impress even the best chefs from around the world.
Daudin has long been in love with Eugenie and wants to marry her: he intends to win the heart of his beloved, at the same time changing the world of cooking forever.
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2. The Maiden and the Dragon (Maiden)
Genre: fantasy, action
Audience rating: ⭐️ 6.3 (KinoPoisk)
Country: USA
Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Cast: Millie Bobby Brown, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Ray Winstone, Angela Bassett, Brooke Carter, Nick Robinson
About what: A fairy tale about a princess, a not-so-handsome prince and a dragon.
Princess Elodie from a country suffering from crop failures is passed off as the prince of a prosperous kingdom.
The girl is glad to save her people from hunger, and the groom seems quite attractive to her. But she doesn’t even suspect that a place has been prepared for her not in the prince’s bedroom as a legal wife, but in the dragon’s mouth as ritual victims.
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3. House by the Road (House by the Road)
Genre: action, drama, crime
Audience rating: ⭐️ 6.8 (KinoPoisk)
Country: USA
Director: Doug Liman
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Daniela Melchior, Billy Magnussen, Conor McGregor, Jessica Williams
About what: A former professional fighter is hired as a bouncer at a roadside bar.
Former UFC fighter Elwood Dalton is going through some tough times. He lives in a car and takes part in underground battles without mistakes.
The owner of the Roadhouse bar, which is located in the Florida Keys, offers Dalton a job as a bouncer, since members of local gangs are constantly causing pogroms in the establishment.
On topic: I watched the new film “Road House” (2024). Conor McGregor moved out with coils
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4. Commander
Genre: drama, action
Audience rating: ⭐️ 7.1 (KinoPoisk)
Country Russia
Director: Alexander Guryanov, Timur Khvan
Cast: Kirill Zaitsev, Alexander Zhukov, Nikita Bureev, Artyom Tkachenko, Valery Barinov
About what: The story of the founder of the anti-terrorist unit Alpha Group.
Gennady Zaitsev is an ordinary teenager in a remote Ural village. He grew up in a large family without a father, but managed to overcome the difficulties of his wartime childhood and post-war devastation, and became the founder of the anti-terrorist unit Alpha Group.
On December 1, 1988, in the city of Ordzhonikidze (now Vladikavkaz), terrorists take hostage 32 children, a teacher and a driver. Under the leadership of Zaitsev, a complex operation is taking place, as a result of which all the hostages were freed, and the terrorists became radicals.
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5. The Master and Margarita
Genre: drama, fantasy, melodrama
Audience rating: ⭐️ 8.0 (KinoPoisk)
Country Russia
Director: Mikhail Lokshin
Cast: August Diehl, Yulia Snigir, Evgeny Tsyganov, Claes Bang, Yuri Kolokolnikov.
About what: film adaptation of Bulgakov’s immortal novel.
Moscow, 1930s. A popular playwright acts anti-Soviet: the performance of his plays is canceled, and he himself is expelled from the mix of writers.
At not the best moment of his life, he meets the beautiful Margarita, deeply unhappy in her marriage, and starts a new romance, with heroes who become people from his circle, including the mystical character Woland, written with a foreigner he knows.
On topic: I watched the new film “The Master and Margarita” (2024) in the cinema. What was this all about, what does the book have to do with it?
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A few more selections with various films:
▸ 5 new films in 2023. The plot is such that you will be pleasantly nervous until the very end.
▸ 6 new Russian films this year, which are a hundred times more interesting than foreign ones
▸ 5 great films this year. Goosebumps from what I saw
Source: Iphones RU
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