Directed by John Carney. With Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo, Adam Levine, Hailee Steinfeld. A chance encounter between a disgraced music-business executive and a young singer-songwriter new to Manhattan turns into a promising collaboration between the two talents.

Source: Begin Again (2013) – IMDb

With Volker Bruch, Tom Schilling, Katharina Schüttler, Miriam Stein. Five friends go out to war and promise each other to be back for Christmas.

Source: Generation War (TV Mini-Series 2013– ) – IMDb

Directed by Matt Reeves. With Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, Andy Serkis, Kodi Smit-McPhee. A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier.

Source: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) – IMDb

Directed by Neill Blomkamp. With Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Sharlto Copley, Alice Braga. In the year 2154, the very wealthy live on a man-made space station while the rest of the population resides on a ruined Earth. A man takes on a mission that could bring equality to the polarized worlds.

Source: Elysium (2013) – IMDb

Directed by Niki Stein. With Ulrich Tukur, Tim Bergmann, Rolf Kanies, Arthur Klemt. The story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.

Source: Rommel (TV Movie 2012) – IMDb

Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. With Philippe Noiret, Enzo Cannavale, Antonella Attili, Isa Danieli. A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village’s theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater’s projectionist.

Source: Cinema Paradiso (1988) – IMDb

Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. With Francesco Scianna, Margareth Madè, Lina Sastri, Ángela Molina. Baaria is Sicilian slang for Bagheria where Tornatore was born and this is an autobiographic epic of three generations in the Sicilian village where he was born.

Source: Baarìa (2009) – IMDb

Directed by Ron Howard. With Daniel Brühl, Chris Hemsworth, Olivia Wilde, Alexandra Maria Lara. The merciless 1970s rivalry between Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda.

Source: Rush (2013) – IMDb

Directed by Franco Zeffirelli. With Fanny Ardant, Jeremy Irons, Joan Plowright, Jay Rodan. A fictionalized account of the last days of opera singer Maria Callas (Ardant).

Source: Callas Forever (2002) – IMDb

Directed by Wes Anderson. With Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Mathieu Amalric, Adrien Brody. The adventures of Gustave H, a legendary concierge at a famous hotel from the fictional Republic of Zubrowka between the first and second World Wars, and Zero Moustafa, the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend.

Source: The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) – IMDb

Directed by George Clooney. With George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett. An unlikely World War II platoon is tasked to rescue art masterpieces from Nazi thieves and return them to their owners.

Source: The Monuments Men (2014) – IMDb

Directed by Stephen Frears. With Judi Dench, Steve Coogan, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Mare Winningham. A world-weary political journalist picks up the story of a woman’s search for her son, who was taken away from her decades ago after she became pregnant and was forced to live in a convent.

Source: Philomena (2013) – IMDb