Cover: Avengers: Age of Ultron
Looking back: Movies Celebrating Anniversaries in Calendar Week 17/2020
Every Wednesday we take a look back into film history for you and put together the most famous & popular movies that will celebrate a special birthday today and in the next few days. Avengers: Age of Ultron (5 years), Iron Man 2 (10 years), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (15 years), The Back-Up Plan (10 years), xXx: State of the Union (15 years), Frequency (20 years) and The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (20 years) are among them this week. Many of these 82 classics are also directly available on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, iTunes Store etc. What's your favorite this week?
- Welcome to Happiness (Fantasy/Comedy/Drama, Release date US: 04/27/2015) - Directed by Oliver Thompson.
- WWE Extreme Rules 2015 (Release date US: 04/26/2015)
- Game Face (Documentary, Release date US: 04/26/2015) - With Fallon Fox.
- Honeyglue (Romance / Love/Drama, Release date US: 04/26/2015) - Directed by James Bird.
- Lake Placid vs. Anaconda (Action/Horror/TV Movie, Release date US: 04/25/2015) - With Corin Nemec, Yancy Butler and Robert Englund.
- About Scout (Kids & Family/Drama, Release date US: 04/25/2015) - With India Ennenga.
- Living in the Age of Airplanes (Documentary, Release date US: 04/25/2015)
- Brotherly Love (Drama, Release date US: 04/24/2015) - With Keke Palmer, Cory Hardrict and Romeo Miller. Directed by Jamal Hill.
- See You In Valhalla (Drama/Comedy, Release date US: 04/24/2015)
- Helicopter Mom (Comedy, Release date US: 04/24/2015) - Directed by Salomé Breziner.
- Far from the Madding Crowd (Drama/Romance / Love, Release date US: 05/01/2015, World premiere: 04/23/2015) - With Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts and Tilly Vosburgh. Directed by Thomas Vinterberg.
- Little Boy (Comedy/Drama/War, Release date US: 04/23/2015) - With David Henrie, Emily Watson and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. Directed by Alejandro Gomez Monteverde.
- Tig (Documentary, Release date US: 07/17/2015, World premiere: 04/23/2015) - With Tig Notaro.
- Avengers: Age of Ultron (Action/Adventure/Science Fiction, Release date US: 05/01/2015, World premiere: 04/22/2015) - With Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Evans and Mark Ruffalo. Directed by Joss Whedon.very popular
- She's Funny That Way (Comedy, Release date US: 08/21/2015, World premiere: 04/22/2015) - With Owen Wilson, Imogen Poots and Jennifer Aniston. Directed by Peter Bogdanovich.
- Iron Man 2 (Adventure/Action/Science Fiction, Release date US: 05/07/2010, World premiere: 04/28/2010) - With Robert Downey, Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow and Don Cheadle. Directed by Jon Favreau.very popular
- Anton Chekhov's The Duel (Drama, Release date US: 04/28/2010) - With Andrew Scott, Fiona Glascott and Tobias Menzies. Directed by Dover Kosashvili.
- Shadows & Lies (Drama/Action/Romance / Love, Release date US: 04/25/2010) - With James Franco, Julianne Nicholson and Josh Lucas.
- Mothman (Horror/Science Fiction, Release date US: 04/24/2010) - With Jewel Staite.
- Monogamy (Drama/Romance / Love, Release date US: 04/24/2010) - With Chris Messina, Rashida Jones and Meital Dohan. Directed by Dana Adam Shapiro.
- Spork (Comedy/Music, Release date US: 04/24/2010) - With Savannah Stehlin, Sydney Park and Rachel G. Fox.
- No Woman, No Cry (Documentary, Release date US: 04/24/2010)
- Violet Tendencies (Comedy/Drama/Romance / Love, Release date US: 04/24/2010) - With Mindy Cohn and Marcus Patrick. Directed by Casper Andreas.
- The Losers (Action/Adventure/Crime/Mystery/Thriller, Release date US: 04/23/2010) - With Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldana and Chris Evans. Directed by Sylvain White.
- The Back-Up Plan (Comedy/Romance / Love, Release date US: 04/23/2010) - With Jennifer Lopez, Alex O'Loughlin and Eric Christian Olsen. Directed by Alan Poul.
- Burning Palms (Comedy/Drama/Kids & Family, Release date US: 04/23/2010) - With Dylan McDermott, Shannen Doherty and Zoe Saldana. Directed by Christopher Landon.
- DC Showcase: The Spectre (Animation/Crime/Mystery/Fantasy, Release date US: 04/23/2010) - With Gary Cole and Alyssa Milano. Directed by Joaquim Dos Santos.
- In My Sleep (Thriller/Mystery/Drama, Release date US: 04/23/2010) - With Philip Winchester, Lacey Chabert and Abigail Spencer. Directed by Allen Wolf.
- Behind the Burly Q (Documentary, Release date US: 04/23/2010)
- My Girlfriend's Boyfriend (Comedy, Release date US: 04/22/2010) - With Alyssa Milano, Beau Bridges and Michael Landes. Directed by Daryn Tufts.
- Five Star Day (Drama/Romance / Love, Release date US: 04/22/2010)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Adventure/Comedy/Kids & Family/Science Fiction, Release date US: 04/29/2005, World premiere: 04/28/2005) - With Zooey Deschanel, Mos Def and Sam Rockwell. Directed by Garth Jennings.very popular
- xXx: State of the Union (Action/Adventure/Crime/Drama/Mystery/Thriller, Release date US: 04/29/2005, World premiere: 04/27/2005) - With Ice Cube, Willem Dafoe and Scott Speedman. Directed by Lee Tamahori.
- Runaway (Drama/Thriller, Release date US: 04/26/2005) - With Aaron Stanford. Directed by Tim McCann.
- Adam & Steve (Comedy/Romance / Love, Release date US: 04/24/2005) - With Craig Chester, Malcolm Gets and Parker Posey. Directed by Craig Chester.
- The Baxter (Comedy/Romance / Love, Release date US: 04/24/2005) - With Michael Showalter, Elizabeth Banks and Michelle Williams. Directed by Michael Showalter.
- Locusts (Action/Science Fiction/Horror, Release date US: 04/24/2005) - With Lucy Lawless. Directed by David Jackson.
- The Sisters (Horror/Drama, Release date US: 04/23/2005) - With Maria Bello, Mary Stuart Masterson and Erika Christensen. Directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman.
- A Lot Like Love (Comedy/Drama, Release date US: 04/22/2005) - With Ashton Kutcher, Amanda Peet and Kal Penn. Directed by Nigel Cole.
- Duma (Adventure/Drama/Kids & Family, Release date US: 04/22/2005) - With Alexander Michaeletos, Eamonn Walker and Hope Davis. Directed by Carroll Ballard.
- Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (Documentary, Release date US: 04/22/2005) - With Andrew Fastow, Jeffrey Skilling and Kenneth Lay. Directed by Alex Gibney.
- Dead Birds (Horror/Thriller/Western, World premiere: 04/22/2005) - With Henry Thomas, Nicki Aycox and Isaiah Washington. Directed by Alex Turner.
- The Game of Their Lives (Drama, Release date US: 04/22/2005) - With Gerard Butler, Wes Bentley and Zachery Ty Bryan. Directed by David Anspaugh.
- The Great New Wonderful (Comedy/Drama, Release date US: 04/22/2005) - With Naseeruddin Shah, Tony Shalhoub and Jim Gaffigan. Directed by Danny Leiner.
- Red Doors (Comedy/Drama, Release date US: 04/22/2005) - With Tzi Ma, Jacqueline Kim and Elaine Kao. Directed by Georgia Lee.
- Frequency (Crime/Drama/Science Fiction/Thriller, Release date US: 04/28/2000) - With Dennis Quaid, Jim Caviezel and Andre Braugher. Directed by Gregory Hoblit.
- The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (Comedy/Kids & Family/Romance / Love, Release date US: 04/28/2000) - With Mark Addy, Stephen Baldwin and Kristen Johnston. Directed by Brian Levant.
- The Big Kahuna (Comedy/Drama, Release date US: 04/28/2000) - With Kevin Spacey, Danny DeVito and Peter Facinelli.
- Where the Heart Is (Comedy/Drama/Romance / Love, Release date US: 04/27/2000) - With Natalie Portman, Ashley Judd and Joan Cusack. Directed by Matt Williams.
- The Rowdy Girls (Action/Comedy/Western/Romance / Love, Release date US: 04/25/2000) - With Shannon Tweed, Julie Strain and Daniel Murray.
- The Isle ( "섬", Drama/Thriller, World premiere: 04/22/2000) - With Suh Jung, Kim Yu-seok and Jo Jae-hyeon. Directed by Kim Ki-duk.
- Village of the Damned (Thriller/Horror/Science Fiction, Release date US: 04/28/1995) - With Christopher Reeve, Kirstie Alley and Linda Kozlowski. Directed by John Carpenter.
- The Underneath (Thriller/Crime/Drama, Release date US: 04/28/1995) - With Peter Gallagher, Alison Elliott and William Fichtner. Directed by Steven Soderbergh.
- Top Dog (Action/Adventure/Comedy/Kids & Family/Thriller, Release date US: 04/28/1995) - With Chuck Norris, Erik von Detten and Carmine Caridi. Directed by Aaron Norris.
- Friday (Comedy, Release date US: 04/26/1995) - With Chris Tucker, Nia Long and Bernie Mac. Directed by F. Gary Gray.
- Crying Freeman (Action/Crime, Release date US: 09/13/1995, World premiere: 04/23/1995) - With Mark Dacascos, Julie Condra and Rae Dawn Chong. Directed by Christophe Gans.
- Fist of the North Star (Action/Science Fiction/Thriller, Release date US: 02/02/1996, World premiere: 04/22/1995) - With Gary Daniels, Costas Mandylor and Chris Penn. Directed by Tony Randel.
- The Enchanted Cottage (Drama/Romance / Love, Release date US: 04/28/1945) - With Robert Young, Dorothy McGuire and Herbert Marshall. Directed by John Cromwell.
- The Horn Blows at Midnight (Music/Fantasy/Comedy, Release date US: 04/28/1945) - With Jack Benny, Alexis Smith and Allyn Joslyn. Directed by Raoul Walsh.
- Blood on the Sun (Action/Drama/War, Release date US: 04/26/1945) - With James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney and Porter Hall. Directed by Frank Lloyd.
- Dillinger (Drama/Action/Thriller/Crime, Release date US: 04/25/1945) - With Anne Jeffreys, Edmund Lowe and Eduardo Ciannelli. Directed by Max Nosseck.
- Betrayal from the East (Thriller/Action/Drama, Release date US: 04/24/1945) - With Lee Tracy and Nancy Kelly. Directed by William Berke.
- Circumstantial Evidence (Crime, Release date US: 04/22/1945) - With Michael O'Shea and Lloyd Nolan.