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 Hot Tub Time Machine 2 o hit theaters this Friday, February 20.
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The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
The Bridge on the River Kwai is a World War II epic film directed by David Lean. The film is a work of fiction but borrows the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942–43 for its historical setting. When British POWs build a vital railway bridge in enemy-occupied Burma, Allied commandos are assigned to destroy it.
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The Corporation (2003)
The Corporation is a Canadian documentary written by Joel Bakan, and directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott. The documentary is critical of the modern-day corporation, considering its legal status as a class of person and evaluating its behavior towards society and the world at large as a psychiatrist might evaluate an ordinary person.
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Raging Bull (1980)
A biographical sports drama directed by Martin Scorsese, Raging Bull stars Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta, an Italian American middleweight boxer whose self-destructive and obsessive rage, sexual jealousy, and animalistic appetite destroyed his relationship with his wife and family.
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Rashomon (1950)
Rashomon is a 1950 Japanese period drama directed by Akira Kurosawa, and starring Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori and Takashi Shimura. The film is a psychological thriller that investigates the nature of truth and the meaning of justice. The film is known for a plot device which involves various characters providing alternative, self-serving and contradictory versions of a man’s murder and the rape of his wife.
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The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)
The Secret in Their Eyes is an Argentine crime thriller directed, produced and edited by Juan José Campanella. The story unearths the buried romance between a retired judiciary employee and a judge who worked together a quarter century ago. They recount their efforts on an unsolved rape and murder that is an obsession not only for them, but for the victim's husband and the killer.
