Following the feedback and success of our 30 Films to See Before Your 30 feature, we continue our latest series, 5 Movies to Watch This Week. As the title suggests, five movies are featured each week regardless of release date along with where to watch it. Check out this week's picks below and be sure to look for The Seventh Son and Jupiter Ascending to hit theaters this Friday, February 6.
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Blood Simple (1984)
Blood Simple is a neo-noir crime film written, produced and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen in their directorial debut. The wife of a bar owner in Texas is cheating on her husband, Marty. The object of her affections is Ray, one of Marty's bartenders, causing Marty to hire an unscrupulous detective to kill them. However the detective has other, more lucrative plans of his own. So begins a calculating round of double and triple crosses that build to a surprise-filled climax.
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From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
A horror comedy-crime thriller directed by Robert Rodriguez and written by Quentin Tarantino, From Dusk till Dawn if full of nonstop thrills when George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino star as the Gecko brothers - two outlaws on a wild crime spree. After kidnapping a father (Harvey Keitel) and his two kids (including Juliette Lewis), the Geckos head south to a seedy Mexican bar to hide out in safety. But when they face the bar's notorious clientele, they're forced to team up with their hostages in order to make it out alive.
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The Game (1997)
The Game is a mystery thriller directed by David Fincher, starring Michael Douglas and Sean Penn. It tells the story of a wealthy investment banker who is given a mysterious gift: participation in a game that integrates in strange ways with his everyday life. As the lines between the banker's real life and the game become more uncertain, hints of a large conspiracy become apparent.
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La Femme Nikita (1990)
Nikita, also called La Femme Nikita, is a Franco-Italian action thriller written and directed by Luc Besson. Nikita (Anne Parillaud) is a teen who robs a pharmacy and murders a policeman. She is sentenced to life in prison, where her captors fake her death, and she is given the choice of becoming an assassin, or being killed. After training, she becomes a talented killer. Her career as an assassin goes well until a mission in an embassy goes awry.
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Sonatine (1993)
Sonatine is an original and elegiac Yakuza drama from cult actor-director Takeshi Kitano. Murakawa (Kitano) is a powerful and trusted gangster who is persuaded to travel to Okinawa to help clear up a dispute between rival gangs. The task proves anything but easy, and as bloody conflict erupts around him, Murakawa realizes that he has been set up, and decides to retreat to a secret seaside hideaway, where he and his friends kill time and play games as they wait for their enemies to arrive.
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