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Watchmen(2009)

2h 43min | Action, Mystery, Science Fiction
3.7/5 (with 4,120 votes)

In a gritty and alternate 1985 the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown, but after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered, an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited heroes set out to prevent their own destruction, but in doing so uncover a sinister plot that puts all of humanity in grave danger.

Directed by Zack Snyder - With Billy Crudup, Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Malin Åkerman, Carla Gugino, Matthew Goode, ...
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Cars(2006)

G
| 1h 57min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.5/5 (with 6,286 votes)

Lightning McQueen, a hotshot rookie race car driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the journey, not the finish line, when he finds himself unexpectedly detoured in the sleepy Route 66 town of Radiator Springs. On route across the country to the big Piston Cup Championship in California to compete against two seasoned pros, McQueen gets to know the town's offbeat characters.

Directed by John Lasseter, Joe Ranft
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Looper(2012)

1h 58min | Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
3.4/5 (with 4,661 votes)

In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self for assassination.

Directed by Rian Johnson - With Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Piper Perabo, Jeff Daniels, ...

RED(2010)

1h 51min | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 3,168 votes)

After surviving an assault from a squad of hit men, retired CIA black ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team for an all-out war. Frank reunites with old Joe, crazy Marvin and wily Victoria to uncover a massive conspiracy that threatens their lives. Only their expert training will allow them to survive a near-impossible mission -- breaking into CIA headquarters.

Directed by Robert Schwentke - With Bruce Willis, Mary-Louise Parker, Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren, Karl Urban, ...
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Battle: Los Angeles(2011)

14A
| 1h 56min | Science Fiction, Action
2.9/5 (with 1,543 votes)

When once distant UFOs become a terrifying threat attacking Earth, a Marine staff sergeant and his team take it upon themselves to face the enemy and protect what remains of the planet.

Directed by Jonathan Liebesman - With Aaron Eckhart, Michelle Rodriguez, Ramón Rodríguez, Ne-Yo, Bridget Moynahan, Will Rothhaar, ...
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Tombstone(1993)

2h 10min | Western, Action
3.8/5 (with 912 votes)

Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help from his notorious pal Doc Holliday when a gang of renegade brigands and rustlers begins terrorizing the town.

Directed by George P. Cosmatos, Kevin Jarre - With Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe, Michael Biehn, ...
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Falling Down(1993)

1h 53min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 1,558 votes)

An ordinary man frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.

Directed by Joel Schumacher - With Michael Douglas, Robert Duvall, Barbara Hershey, Tuesday Weld, Frederic Forrest, Rachel Ticotin, ...
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Tokyo Story(1953)

2h 17min | Drama
4.1/5 (with 429 votes)

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.

Directed by Yasujirō Ozu - With Chishū Ryū, Setsuko Hara, Chieko Higashiyama, Eijirō Tōno, Sugimura Haruko, Kyōko Kagawa, ...
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3 Days to Kill(2014)

1h 53min | Action, Drama, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 966 votes)

A dangerous international spy is determined to give up his high stakes life to finally build a closer relationship with his estranged wife and daughter. But first, he must complete one last mission - even if it means juggling the two toughest assignments yet: hunting down the world's most ruthless terrorist and looking after his teenage daughter for the first time in ten years, while his wife is out of town.

Directed by McG - With Amber Heard, Kevin Costner, Connie Nielsen, Hailee Steinfeld, Tao Okamoto, Hiroyuki Sanada, ...

Dying of the Light(2014)

1h 34min | Thriller, Drama
2.4/5 (with 140 votes)

Evan Lake, a veteran CIA agent, has been ordered to retire. But when his protégé uncovers evidence that Lake's nemesis, the terrorist Banir, has resurfaced, Lake goes rogue, embarking on a perilous, intercontinental mission to eliminate his sworn enemy.

Directed by Paul Schrader - With Nicolas Cage, Anton Yelchin, Irène Jacob, Victor Webster, Alexander Karim, Geff Francis, ...

The Shootist(1976)

1h 40min | Western, Drama
3.6/5 (with 146 votes)

Afflicted with a terminal illness John Bernard Brooks, the last of the legendary gunfighters, quietly returns to Carson City for medical attention from his old friend Dr. Hostetler. Aware that his days are numbered, the troubled man seeks solace and peace in a boarding house run by a widow and her son. However, it is not Brooks' fate to die in peace, as he becomes embroiled in one last valiant battle.

Directed by Don Siegel - With John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Ron Howard, Harry Morgan, James Stewart, Richard Boone, ...
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Hopscotch(1980)

1h 44min | Action, Comedy, Thriller
3.5/5 (with 61 votes)

When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to retire him. Kendig beats him to it, however, destroying his own records and traveling to Austria where he begins work on a memoir that will expose all his former agency's covert practices. The CIA catches wind of the book and sends other agents after him, initiating a frenetic game of cat and mouse that spans the globe.

Directed by Ronald Neame - With Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Sam Waterston, Ned Beatty, Herbert Lom, George Baker, ...
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Elliot: The Littlest Reindeer(2018)

1h 29min | Animation, Kids & Family, Adventure
3.1/5 (with 30 votes)

When Blitzen announces his retirement on December 21st, a miniature horse has 3 days to fulfill his lifelong dream of earning a spot on Santa's team at the North Pole try-outs.

Nobody's Fool(1994)

1h 50min | Drama, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 121 votes)

Sully is a rascally ne'er-do-well approaching retirement age. While he is pressing a worker's compensation suit for a bad knee, he secretly works for his nemesis, Carl, and flirts with Carl's young wife Toby. Sully's long- forgotten son and family have moved back to town, so Sully faces unfamiliar family responsibilities. Meanwhile, Sully's landlady's banker son plots to push through a new development and evict Sully from his mother's life.

Directed by Robert Benton - With Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Dylan Walsh, ...
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Conversation Piece(1974)

2h 1min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 53 votes)

A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her lover, her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend, and forced to rent to them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. From this point on his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants' machinations, and everybody's life takes an unexpected but inevitable turn.

Directed by Luchino Visconti - With Burt Lancaster, Helmut Berger, Silvana Mangano, Claudia Marsani, Stefano Patrizi, Umberto Raho, ...
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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon(1949)

1h 43min | Western
3.5/5 (with 139 votes)

After Custer and the 7th Cavalry are wiped out by Native Americans, everyone expects the worst. Capt. Nathan Brittles is ordered out on patrol but he's also required to take along Abby Allshard, wife of the Fort's commanding officer, and her niece Olivia Dandridge, who are being evacuated. Brittles is only a few days away from retirement and Olivia has caught the eye of two of the young officers in the Company. She's taken to wearing a yellow ribbon in her hair, a sign that she has a beau in the Cavalry, but refuses to say for whom she is wearing it.

Directed by John Ford - With John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Victor McLaglen, Ben Johnson, Harry Carey, ...
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Winter Sleep(2014)

3h 16min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 229 votes)

Aydin, a retired actor, owns a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal and his sister Necla, who is coping with her recent divorce. During the winter, snow covers the ground and boredom brings the return of old memories, pushing Aydin to flee….

Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan - With Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sözen, Demet Akbağ, Ayberk Pekcan, Serhat Kılıç, Nejat İşler, ...

Falling(2020)

1h 52min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 79 votes)

John Peterson lives with his partner Eric and their adopted daughter in Southern California. When he is visited by his aging father Willis from Los Angeles who is searching for a place to retire, their two very different worlds collide.

Directed by Viggo Mortensen - With Viggo Mortensen, Lance Henriksen, Terry Chen

The Beekeeper(1987)

2h 2min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 23 votes)

Feeling himself an outsider in contemporary Greece, a schoolteacher Spyros leaves his job and family to return to his hometown, where he intends to take up the occupation of his ancestors as a beekeeper. Over the course of his road trip he visits the sites and friends of his childhood, hoping to gather the pollen of his past, but instead meets and becomes obsessed with a young hitchhiker who represents the empty hedonism of the present.

Directed by Thodoros Angelopoulos - With Marcello Mastroianni, Serge Reggiani, Karyofyllia Karambeti, Nikos Kouros, Christoforos Nezer, Dimitris Poulikakos, ...

The Gendarme Takes Off(1970)

1h 30min | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 219 votes)

The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her castle - and is bored almost to death. He fights with the butler, because he isn't even allowed to do the simple works. But when one of the clique suffers from amnesia after an accident, all of the others reunite and kidnap him, to take him on a tour to their old working places and through their memories. In their old uniforms they turn St. Tropez upside down.

Directed by Jean Girault - With Louis de Funès, Michel Galabru, Claude Gensac, Sara Franchetti, Ugo Fangareggi, Jean Lefebvre, ...

The Last Shift(2020)

1h 30min | Comedy, Drama
2.8/5 (with 32 votes)

Stanley, an aging fast food worker, prepares to work his final graveyard shift after 38 years. When he's asked to train his replacement, Jevon, Stanley's weekend takes an unexpected turn.

Directed by Andrew Cohn

Touchez Pas au Grisbi(1954)

1h 35min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 92 votes)

Gentleman gangster Max and his partner, Riton, pull off their last, most successful heist and find themselves comfortable enough to retire in the style they enjoy. However, Max confides the details of the theft to his younger mistress, Josey -- who has secretly taken up with ambitious young rival gangster Angelo. Angelo then has Riton kidnapped and demands the stash of gold as ransom, which threatens Max's dreams of the perfect retirement.

Directed by Jacques Becker - With Jean Gabin, Lino Ventura, René Dary, Vittorio Sanipoli, Delia Scala, Jeanne Moreau, ...

The Executioner(1963)

1h 27min | Comedy, Drama
3.8/5 (with 68 votes)

An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement.

Directed by Luis García Berlanga - With Nino Manfredi, Guido Alberti, José Isbert, Emma Penella, José Luis López Vázquez, Ángel Álvarez, ...
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My New Partner(1984)

1h 47min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 98 votes)

A streetwise Paris policeman who takes kickbacks from the minor criminals on his beat to allow them to continue is assigned an idealistic new partner fresh from police academy. He sets out to corrupt his new partner and, after a slow start, succeeds spectacularly.

Directed by Claude Zidi - With Philippe Noiret, Thierry Lhermitte, Régine Zylberberg, Julien Guiomar, Abbes Zahmani, Albert Simono, ...

Finding Your Feet(2017)

1h 51min | Comedy, Drama, Kids & Family, Music, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 75 votes)

A lady has her prim and proper life turned upside down after discovering her husband's affair.

Directed by Richard Loncraine - With Imelda Staunton, Timothy Spall, Celia Imrie, Joanna Lumley
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The Flock(2007)

1h 45min | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
2.9/5 (with 105 votes)

Erroll Babbage has spent his career tracking sex offenders and his unorthodox methods are nearly as brutal as the criminals he monitors. When he links one of his deranged parolees to the disappearance of a local girl, he and his new partner must scour the S&M underground to find her before it's too late.

Directed by Andrew Lau - With Richard Gere, Claire Danes, KaDee Strickland, Ray Wise, Avril Lavigne

The Good Thief(2003)

1h 48min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 50 votes)

An aging gambler on a losing streak attempts to rob a casino in Monte Carlo. But someone's already tipped off the cops before he even makes a move.

Directed by Neil Jordan - With Nick Nolte, Tchéky Karyo, Saïd Taghmaoui, Nutsa Kukhianidze, Emir Kusturica, Marc Lavoine, ...

Wrestling Ernest Hemingway(1993)

2h 3min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 16 votes)

Frank, a retired Irish seaman, and Walter, a retired Cuban barber, are two lonely old men trapped in the emptiness of their own lives. When they meet in a park Frank is able to start a conversation after several attempts. They begin to spend time together and become friends. But because of their different characters they often quarrel with each other and finally seperate after Frank misbehaves to Walter's friend Elaine.

Directed by Randa Haines - With Robert Duvall, Richard Harris, Piper Laurie, Sandra Bullock, Shirley MacLaine, Micole Mercurio, ...

Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki(2016)

1h 10min | Documentary, TV Movie
3.7/5 (with 23 votes)

A look at legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki following his retirement in 2013.

Directed by Kaku Arakawa - With Hayao Miyazaki, Atsushi Okui, Michiyo Yasuda, Nobuo Kawakami, Toshio Suzuki, Yuhei Sakuragi, ...

Short Time(1990)

1h 37min | Action, Comedy, Crime
3.3/5 (with 20 votes)

As a result of a misdiagnosis, Detective Burt Simpson is told he has just weeks to live. He gains a new respect for his life and loved ones but learns that in order for his wife, Carolyn, and son, Dougie, to collect any insurance money, he must be killed in the line of duty. He then becomes the most reckless man on the police force, volunteering for dangerous assignments over the objections of his by-the-book partner.

Directed by Gregg Champion - With Dabney Coleman, Matt Frewer, Teri Garr
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