2020 Watchlist
by derekzhangfan | created - 17 Jan 2020 | updated - 23 Jul 2021 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood (2019)
R | 161 min | Comedy, Drama
A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the final years of Hollywood's Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch
Votes: 847,484 | Gross: $142.50M
2. Meeting Gorbachev (2018)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The life of Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and final President of the Soviet Union in chronological order.
Directors: Werner Herzog, André Singer | Stars: Mikhail Gorbachev, Werner Herzog, André Singer, Leonid Brezhnev
Votes: 2,731 | Gross: $0.25M
3. Ford v Ferrari (2019)
PG-13 | 152 min | Action, Biography, Drama
American car designer Carroll Shelby and driver Ken Miles battle corporate interference and the laws of physics to build a revolutionary race car for Ford in order to defeat Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966.
Director: James Mangold | Stars: Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Jon Bernthal, Caitríona Balfe
Votes: 473,976 | Gross: $117.62M
4. The Two Popes (2019)
PG-13 | 125 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Behind Vatican walls, the conservative Pope Benedict XVI and the liberal future Pope Francis must find common ground to forge a new path for the Catholic Church.
Director: Fernando Meirelles | Stars: Jonathan Pryce, Anthony Hopkins, Juan Minujín, Luis Gnecco
Votes: 132,948
5. Gone with the Light (2019)
131 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
'Gone With The Light' is a 2019 Chinese sci-fi thriller, revolves around a group of people that disappear after a mysterious light falls upon the city, leaving the survivors to try and unravel the mystery.
Director: Runnian Dong | Stars: Huang Bo, Luodan Wang, Zhuo Tan, White-K
Votes: 450
6. I Lost My Body (2019)
16+ | 81 min | Animation, Drama, Fantasy
A story of Naoufel, a young man who is in love with Gabrielle. In another part of town, a severed hand escapes from a dissection lab, determined to find its body again.
Director: Jérémy Clapin | Stars: Hakim Faris, Victoire Du Bois, Patrick d'Assumçao, Alfonso Arfi
Votes: 36,603
7. Only Cloud Knows (2019)
132 min | Drama, Romance
The film revolves around a Chinese man who returns to New Zealand following the death of his wife and begins to discover that she harbored a number of secrets.
Director: Xiaogang Feng | Stars: Xuan Huang, Caiyu Yang, Lydia Peckham, Fan Xu
Votes: 375
8. Girls Always Happy (2018)
117 min | Drama
Girls Always Happy confronts the contemporary city life with a brand new perspective, and portrays with astonishing precision, the spectacle of mutual repulsion, hatred, and harm in a ... See full summary »
Director: Yang Mingming | Stars: Nai An, Yang Mingming, Xianmin Zhang, Qinqin Li
Votes: 139
9. Jinpa (2018)
86 min | Drama
On an isolated road passing through the vast barren plains of Tibet, a truck driver who has accidentally run over a sheep chances upon a young man who is hitching a ride. As they drive and ... See full summary »
Director: Pema Tseden | Stars: Jinpa, Genden Phuntsok, Sonam Wangmo, Kunde
Votes: 820
10. A Rainy Day in New York (2019)
PG-13 | 92 min | Comedy, Romance
A young couple arrives in New York for a weekend where they are met with bad weather and a series of adventures.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Timothée Chalamet, Elle Fanning, Liev Schreiber, Suzanne Smith
Votes: 51,739
11. Us (II) (2019)
R | 116 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Adelaide Wilson and her family are attacked by mysterious figures dressed in red. Upon closer inspection, the Wilsons realize that the intruders are exact lookalikes of them.
Director: Jordan Peele | Stars: Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker
Votes: 340,977 | Gross: $175.08M
12. The Wild Goose Lake (2019)
113 min | Crime, Drama
A gangster on the run sacrifices everything for his family and a woman he meets while on the lam.
Director: Yi'nan Diao | Stars: Ge Hu, Gwei Lun-Mei, Fan Liao, Regina Wan
Votes: 7,873
13. A Sun (2019)
156 min | Crime, Drama
A family of four fractures under the weight of unmet expectations, unexpected tragedy, and uncompromising pride.
Director: Mong-Hong Chung | Stars: Chien-Ho Wu, Yi-Wen Chen, Samantha Shu-Chin Ko, Kuan-Ting Liu
Votes: 10,199
14. Jojo Rabbit (2019)
PG-13 | 108 min | Comedy, Drama, War
A young German boy in the Hitler Youth whose hero and imaginary friend is the country's dictator is shocked to discover that his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home.
Director: Taika Waititi | Stars: Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Scarlett Johansson, Taika Waititi
Votes: 441,194 | Gross: $33.37M
15. The Great War of Archimedes (2019)
130 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
In 1933, a young naval officer and math prodigy uncovers a conspiracy regarding the construction of Japanese warships for the ongoing World War 2.
Director: Takashi Yamazaki | Stars: Minami Hamabe, Masaki Suda, Jun Kunimura, Min Tanaka
Votes: 1,197
16. Bait (I) (2019)
89 min | Drama
Martin is a fisherman without a boat, his brother Steven having re-purposed it as a tourist tripper. With their childhood home now a get-away for London money, Martin is displaced to the estate above the harbour.
Director: Mark Jenkin | Stars: Edward Rowe, Giles King, Chloe Endean, Janet Thirlaway
Votes: 5,314
17. Atlantics (2019)
TV-14 | 106 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
In a popular suburb of Dakar, workers on the construction site of a futuristic tower, without pay for months, decide to leave the country by the ocean for a better future. Among them is Souleiman, the lover of Ada, promised to another.
Director: Mati Diop | Stars: Mame Bineta Sane, Amadou Mbow, Traore, Nicole Sougou
Votes: 10,499
18. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
R | 122 min | Drama, Romance
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
Director: Céline Sciamma | Stars: Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami, Valeria Golino
Votes: 109,564 | Gross: $3.76M
19. 1917 (2019)
R | 119 min | Action, Drama, History
April 6th, 1917. As an infantry battalion assembles to wage war deep in enemy territory, two soldiers are assigned to race against time and deliver a message that will stop 1,600 men from walking straight into a deadly trap.
Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Daniel Mays, Colin Firth
Votes: 675,321 | Gross: $159.23M
20. Wet Season (2019)
103 min | Drama, Romance
A teacher and student at a Singapore high school form a special, self-affirming bond.
Director: Anthony Chen | Stars: Yann Yann Yeo, Jia Ler Koh, Christopher Ming-Shun Lee, Shi Bin Yang
Votes: 1,502
21. Synapses (2019)
116 min | Drama
There are many problems in the Zhang family, but one eventful summer changes many things. Zhang Junxiong is diagnosed with Alzheimer's, and that weighs heavily on his wife Wang Feng and the... See full summary »
Director: Tso-chi Chang | Stars: Meng Li, Hong-Chi Lee, Jen-Shuo Cheng, Hsueh-Feng Lu
Votes: 129
22. Les Misérables (2019)
R | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A cop from the provinces moves to Paris to join the Anti-Crime Brigade of Montfermeil, discovering an underworld where the tensions between the different groups mark the rhythm.
Director: Ladj Ly | Stars: Damien Bonnard, Alexis Manenti, Djebril Zonga, Issa Perica
Votes: 28,286 | Gross: $0.33M
23. Spring Tide (2019)
124 min | Drama
Journalist Guo lives together with her mother and daughter in the same residence. The relation of three generations looks placid but there is actually a fierce undercurrent of rebellion and resistance.
Director: Tian-yi Yang | Stars: Lei Hao, Elaine Jin, Junxi Qu, Wenbo Li
Votes: 236
24. Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)
PG-13 | 101 min | Drama
A pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an unintended pregnancy.
Director: Eliza Hittman | Stars: Sidney Flanigan, Talia Ryder, Théodore Pellerin, Eliazar Jimenez
Votes: 31,151
25. A Hidden Life (2019)
PG-13 | 174 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The Austrian Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector, refuses to fight for the Nazis in World War II.
Director: Terrence Malick | Stars: August Diehl, Valerie Pachner, Maria Simon, Karin Neuhäuser
Votes: 28,154
26. Undine (2020)
Unrated | 91 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Undine works as a historian lecturing on Berlin's urban development. But when the man she loves leaves her, the ancient myth catches up with her. Undine has to kill the man who betrays her and return to the water.
Director: Christian Petzold | Stars: Paula Beer, Franz Rogowski, Maryam Zaree, Jacob Matschenz
Votes: 9,217
27. Da 5 Bloods (2020)
R | 154 min | Adventure, Drama, War
Four African-American vets battle the forces of man and nature when they return to Vietnam seeking the remains of their fallen squad leader and the gold fortune he helped them hide.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Delroy Lindo, Jonathan Majors, Clarke Peters, Norm Lewis
Votes: 55,135
28. Summer Detective (2019)
98 min | Drama
Sherlock on the Plains is an absurd comedy film produced by Rao Xiaozhi and directed by Xu Lei. The film tells that a super-British house was flipped over, a friend Shuhe came to help with ... See full summary »
Director: Xu Lei | Stars: Chaoying Xu, Zhanyi Zhang, Shuhe Su
Votes: 564
29. Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains (2019)
150 min | Drama, Romance
A feature film shot over the course of two years intended to capture the changing of the seasons along the river in a town in the Fuyang district of Hangzhou city.
Director: Xiaogang Gu | Stars: Zhenyang Dong, Hongjun Du, Wei Mu, Luqi Peng
Votes: 1,130
30. The Eight Hundred (2020)
Not Rated | 149 min | Action, Drama, History
In 1937, 800 Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army.
Director: Hu Guan | Stars: Zhizhong Huang, Junyi Zhang, Hao Ou, Xiaoguang Hu
Votes: 7,190 | Gross: $0.37M
31. Tenet (2020)
PG-13 | 150 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Armed with only the word "Tenet," and fighting for the survival of the entire world, CIA operative, The Protagonist, journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a global mission that unfolds beyond real time.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Juhan Ulfsak
Votes: 592,480 | Gross: $58.46M
32. Manor House (2020)
201 min | Drama, History
A landowner, a politician, a countess, a General and his wife gather in a spacious manor house and discuss death, war, progress and morality. As time passes by, the discussion becomes more serious and heated.
Director: Cristi Puiu | Stars: Agathe Bosch, Ugo Broussot, Frédéric Schulz-Richard, Diana Sakalauskaité
Votes: 1,360
33. The Human Voice (2020)
R | 30 min | Short, Drama
A woman watches time passing next to the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up, but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master has abandoned him. Two living beings facing abandonment.
Director: Pedro Almodóvar | Stars: Tilda Swinton, Agustín Almodóvar, Miguel Almodóvar, Pablo Almodóvar
Votes: 8,645
34. Days (2020)
Unrated | 127 min | Drama
Kang lives alone in a big house, Non in a small apartment in town. They meet, and then part, their days flowing on as before.
Director: Tsai Ming-liang | Stars: Kang-sheng Lee, Anong Houngheuangsy
Votes: 1,909
35. The Disciple (2020)
TV-MA | 129 min | Drama, Music
Self-doubt, sacrifice and struggle converge into an existential crisis for a devoted classical vocalist as the mastery he strives for remains elusive.
Director: Chaitanya Tamhane | Stars: Aditya Modak, Arun Dravid, Sumitra Bhave, Deepika Bhide Bhagwat
Votes: 3,063
36. Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue (2020)
112 min | Documentary, History
Filmmaker Jia Zhangke chronicles his local literature festival in Shanxi, China which includes a multi-generational roster of the country's most esteemed writers.
Director: Zhangke Jia | Stars: Huifang Duan, Liang Hong, Yu Hua, Pingwa Jia
Votes: 526
37. All About ING (2019)
106 min | Drama
The life of a family of three was changed by the diagnosis of terminal liver cancer by his father Weiming. The seemingly peaceful family is shrouded in haze. Mother Mu Ling carried the ... See full summary »
Director: Zi Huang | Stars: Hang-Ying Pang, Howard Sit, Hon-Man Ko, Alma Kwok
Votes: 208
38. I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)
R | 134 min | Drama, Thriller
Full of misgivings, a young woman travels with her new boyfriend to his parents' secluded farm. Upon arriving, she comes to question everything she thought she knew about him, and herself.
Director: Charlie Kaufman | Stars: Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, Toni Collette, David Thewlis
Votes: 100,027
39. Ju shui yue zai shou (2019)
120 min | Documentary
Like the Dyer's Hand documents the life of traditional Chinese literature scholar Florence Chia-ying YEH (1924-), a master of Chinese classical poetry. She went through war and political ... See full summary »
Director: Tsun-Shing Chen | Stars: Jiaying Ye, Hsien-Yung Pai, Murong Xi, Ya Hsien
Votes: 93
40. On the Rocks (2020)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young mother reconnects with her larger-than-life playboy father on an adventure through New York.
Director: Sofia Coppola | Stars: Bill Murray, Rashida Jones, Marlon Wayans, Jessica Henwick
Votes: 36,430
41. The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
R | 129 min | Drama, History, Thriller
The story of 7 people on trial stemming from various charges surrounding the uprising at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
Director: Aaron Sorkin | Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Alex Sharp, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeremy Strong
Votes: 193,295
42. My Prince Edward (2019)
92 min | Drama
A story on a woman struggling on whether to enter into a marriage or not.
Director: Norris Wong | Stars: Stephy Tang, Pak Hon Chu, Hee Ching Paw, Kaijie Jin
Votes: 948
43. Balloon (2019)
102 min | Drama
A family struggles against the conflicting dictates of nature, spirituality, politics, and free will.
Director: Pema Tseden | Stars: Sonam Wangmo, Jinpa, Yangshik Tso, Druklha Dorje
Votes: 962
44. Twilight's Kiss (2019)
Not Rated | 92 min | Drama
SUK SUK is a quiet portrayal of a gay relationship between two men in their twilight years. PAK, 70, a married taxi driver who refuses to retire meets HOI 65, a retired single father. ... See full summary »
Director: Ray Yeung | Stars: Tai-Bo, Ben Yuen, Patra Au, Chun Yip Lo
Votes: 1,568
45.
Small Axe (2020)
Episode:
Lovers Rock
(2020)
TV-MA | 70 min | Drama, History
A single evening at a house party in 1980s West London sets the scene, developing intertwined relationships against a background of violence, romance and music.
Director: Steve McQueen | Stars: Dennis Bovell, Saffron Coomber, Frankie Fox, Daniel Francis-Swaby
Votes: 5,295
46. Wolfwalkers (2020)
PG | 103 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
A young apprentice hunter and her father journey to Ireland to help wipe out the last wolf pack. But everything changes when she befriends a free-spirited girl from a mysterious tribe rumored to transform into wolves by night.
Directors: Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart | Stars: Honor Kneafsey, Eva Whittaker, Sean Bean, Simon McBurney
Votes: 38,642
47. David Byrne's American Utopia (2020)
TV-14 | 105 min | Documentary, Music, Musical
Spike Lee documents the former Talking Heads frontman's brilliant, timely 2019 Broadway show, based on his recent album and tour of the same name.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: David Byrne, Jacqueline Acevedo, Gustavo Di Dalva, Daniel Freedman
Votes: 5,248
48. My Missing Valentine (2020)
119 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A girl who does everything so quickly that she's always one step ahead of others found out that her Valentine's Day has mysteriously passed when she wakes up the next morning.
Director: Yu-Hsun Chen | Stars: Patty Pei-Yu Lee, Yu Chun Lin, Xiao-Ying Bai, Tom Lin
Votes: 1,901
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