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95% of Google users liked this movie A man (Gong Yoo), his estranged daughter and other passengers become trapped on a speeding train during a zombie outbreak in South Korea. Release date: July 22, 2016 (USA) Director: Yeon Sang-ho Starring: Gong Yoo; Ma Dong-seok; Jung Yu-mi; Kim Su-an; Kim Eui-sung; Choi Woo-shik; Ahn So-hee Sequel: Peninsula Prequel: Seoul Station Awards: Baeksang Arts Award for Best Supporting Actor in Film

85% of Google users liked this movie A Scottish lord becomes convinced by a trio of witches that he will become the next King of Scotland. His ambitious wife will do anything to support him in his plans of seizing power. Release date: December 25, 2021 (USA) Director: Joel Coen Starring: Denzel Washington; Frances McDormand; Bertie Carvel; Alex Hassell; Corey Hawkins; Harry Melling; Brendan Gleeson Adapted from: Macbeth Cinematography: Bruno Delbonnel Music by: Carter Burwell

78% of Google users liked this movie The Eternals, a race of immortal beings with superhuman powers who have secretly lived on Earth for thousands of years, reunite to battle the evil Deviants. Release date: November 5, 2021 (USA) Director: Chloé Zhao Budget: $200 million Screenplay by: : Chloé Zhao; Patrick Burleigh; Ryan Firpo; Kaz Firpo Cinematography: Ben Davis

92% of Google users liked this movie When a single mother and her two children move to a new town, they soon discover they have a connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.Description Release date: November 19, 2021 (USA) Director: Jason Reitman Music by: Rob Simonsen Production companies: Columbia Pictures; Bron Creative; Ghost Corps; The Montecito Picture Company; Right of Way Films Produced by: Ivan Reitman Written by: Gil Kenan; Jason Reitman

82% of Google users liked this movie Two low-level astronomers must go on a giant media tour to warn mankind of an approaching comet that will destroy planet Earth.Description Initial release: December 5, 2021 Director: Adam McKay Story by: Adam McKay; David Sirota; Budget: $75 million Music by: Nicholas Britell Box office: $782,826

63% Google users liked this movie To find out if his reality is a physical or mental construct, Mr. Anderson, aka Neo, will have to choose to follow the white rabbit once more. If he's learned anything, it's that choice, while an illusion, is still the only way out of -- or into -- the Matrix. Neo already knows what he has to do, but what he doesn't yet know is that the Matrix is stronger, more secure and far more dangerous than ever before. Release date: December 22, 2021 (USA) Director: Lana Wachowski Music by: Johnny Klimek; Tom Tykwer Budget: $190 million Production companies: Village Roadshow Pictures; Venus Castina Productions Prequel: The Matrix Revolutions 97% Google users liked this movie With Spider-Man's identity now revealed, our friendly neighborhood web-slinger is unmasked and no longer able to separate his normal life as Peter Parker from the high stakes of being a superhero. When Peter asks for help from Doctor Strange, the stakes become even more dangerous, forcing him to discover what it t

86% Google users liked this movie A gadget salesman is looking for a special gift for his son and finds one at a store in Chinatown. The shopkeeper is reluctant to sell him the `mogwai' but sells it to him with the warning to never expose him to bright light, water, or to feed him after midnight. All of this happens and the result is a gang of gremlins that decide to tear up the town on Christmas Eve. Release date: June 8, 1984 (USA) Director: Joe Dante Music by: Jerry Goldsmith Box office: $212.9 million Production companies: Warner Bros. Amblin Entertainment; Produced by: Michael Finnell

90% Google users liked this movie  Following the death of his wife, Los Angeles police detective Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) becomes reckless and suicidal. When he is reassigned and partnered with Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover), Riggs immediately clashes with the older officer. Together they uncover a massive drug-trafficking ring. As they encounter increasingly dangerous situations, Riggs and Murtaugh begin to form a bond. Riggs' volatile behavior might just help them apprehend the criminals -- if it doesn't kill them both first. Release date: March 6, 1987 (USA) Director: Richard Donner Sequel: Lethal Weapon 2 Music by: Michael Kamen; Eric Clapton Box office: $120.2 million Written by: Shane Black

92% Google users liked this movie  New York City policeman John McClane (Bruce Willis) is visiting his estranged wife (Bonnie Bedelia) and two daughters on Christmas Eve. He joins her at a holiday party in the headquarters of the Japanese-owned business she works for. But the festivities are interrupted by a group of terrorists who take over the exclusive high-rise, and everyone in it. Very soon McClane realizes that there's no one to save the hostages -- but him. Release date: July 22, 1988 (USA) Director: John McTiernan Music by: Michael Kamen Budget: $25–35 million Box office: $139.8–141.5 million Adapted from: Nothing Lasts Forever

88% Google users liked this movie Eddie Brock is still struggling to coexist with the shape-shifting extraterrestrial Venom. When deranged serial killer Cletus Kasady also becomes host to an alien symbiote, Brock and Venom must put aside their differences to stop his reign of terror.Description Release date: October 1, 2021 (USA) Director: Andy Serkis Box office: $469.7 million Music by: Marco Beltrami Story by: Tom Hardy; Kelly Marcel Production companies: Columbia Pictures; Marvel Entertainment; Avi Arad Productions; Matt Tolmach Productions; Pascal Pictures

89% liked this movie Google users James Bond is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica after leaving active service. However, his peace is short-lived as his old CIA friend, Felix Leiter, shows up and asks for help. The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond on the trail of a mysterious villain who's armed with a dangerous new technology.Description Release date: October 8, 2021 (USA) Trending Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga

93% liked this movie Google users Martial-arts master Shang-Chi confronts the past he thought he left behind when he's drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization.Description Release date: September 3, 2021 (USA) Director: Destin Daniel Cretton Box office: $431.3 million Music by: Joel P. West Produced by: Kevin Feige; Jonathan Schwartz Production company: Marvel Studios

In rural Iceland, a childless couple discover a strange and unnatural newborn in their sheep barn. They decide to raise her as their own, but sinister forces are determined to return the creature to the wilderness that birthed her. Release date: October 8, 2021 (USA) Director: Valdimar Jóhannsson Icelandic: Dýrið Distributed by: A24 (North America) Editor: Agnieszka Glinska Costume design: Margrét Einarsdóttir

Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence, only those who can conquer their own fear will survive. Release date: October 22, 2021 (USA) Trending Director: Denis Villeneuve HBO release: October 21, 2021 newsweek.com Cinematography: Greig Fraser Music by: Hans Zimmer Adapted from: Dune

The nightmare isn't over as unstoppable killer Michael Myers escapes from Laurie Strode's trap to continue his ritual bloodbath. Injured and taken to the hospital, Laurie fights through the pain as she inspires residents of Haddonfield, Ill., to rise up against Myers. Taking matters into their own hands, the Strode women and other survivors form a vigilante mob to hunt down Michael and end his reign of terror once and for all. Release date: October 15, 2021 (USA) Director: David Gordon Green Music by: John Carpenter; Cody Carpenter; Daniel Davies; Location: Wilmington starnewsonline.com Budget: $20 million Produced by: Malek Akkad; Jason Blum; Bill Block

A thriller about a family on a tropical holiday who discover that the secluded beach where they are relaxing for a few hours is somehow causing them to age rapidly reducing their entire lives into a single day. Release date: July 23, 2021 (USA) Director: M. Night Shyamalan Budget: $18 million Based on: Sandcastle; by: Pierre Oscar Levy; Frederik Peeters Production companies: Perfect World Pictures; Blinding Edge Pictures Cinematography: Michael Gioulakis

For decades, the housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini-Green were terrorized by a ghost story about a supernatural, hook-handed killer. In present day, an artist begins to explore the macabre history of Candyman, not knowing it would unravel his sanity and unleash a terrifying wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny. Release date: August 27, 2021 (USA) Director: Nia DaCosta Produced by: Ian Cooper; Win Rosenfeld; Jordan Peele Production companies: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; Bron Creative; Monkeypaw Productions Box office: $77 million Adapted from: Books of Blood

In mid-1980s Texas, electrician Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey) is stunned to learn that he has AIDS. Though told that he has just 30 days left to live, Woodroof refuses to give in to despair. He seeks out alternative therapies and smuggles unapproved drugs into the U.S. from wherever he can find them. Woodroof joins forces with a fellow AIDS patient (Jared Leto) and begins selling the treatments to the growing number of people who can't wait for the medical establishment to save them. Release date: November 22, 2013 (USA) Director: Jean-Marc Vallée Box office: $55.7 million Based on: Life of Ron Woodroof Awards: Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, MORE Nominations: Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, MORE

Los Angeles denizen Louis Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) survives by scavenging and petty theft. He stumbles into a new career as a cameraman and -- armed with a camcorder and police scanner -- begins nocturnal forays across the city in search of shocking and grisly crimes. When he catches the eye of a shopworn news director (Rene Russo) who welcomes the chance to raise her station's ratings, Louis goes to increasingly greater lengths to catch the "money shot." Release date: October 31, 2014 (USA) Director: Dan Gilroy Box office: $50.3 million Music by: James Newton Howard

After paintings by an unknown artist are discovered, a supernatural force enacts revenge on those who have allowed their greed to get in the way of art. Initial release: January 27, 2019 Director: Dan Gilroy Music by: Marco Beltrami; Buck Sanders Budget: $21.2 million Produced by: Jennifer Fox Production; companies: Netflix