Movies Titles Starting with A (Page #40)

Follows a young female Syrian refugee’s arduous journey in search of a better life

Casey Pendergast is a "praise-seeking missile who navigates a tricky Twenty First Century career and the even trickier question of who she wants to be”.

The story follows and engaged Manhattan couple who develop "a little game" to see how their friends really feel about their relationship. They soon discover that their friends feel that the pair are a poor match, which has consequences.

A recently widowed single mom reconnects with an old flame, who happens to be her sister's husband.

A man tries to protect his daughter-in-law when he discovers his son is having an affair, touching upon a variety of issues in a changing modern South, including a woman's volition over her own body, war veterans grappling with PTSD, and the limits of patriarchal interference.

A romantic tale of two lovers who rent a beach house for the weekend, but there is more to their relationship than it seems.

Upon hearing of her mother's death, jaded teenage loner Purslane Hominy Will (Scarlett Johansson) returns to New Orleans for the first time in years, ready to reclaim her childhood home. Expecting to find her late mother's house abandoned, Pursy is shocked to discover that it is inhabited by two of her mother's friends: Bobby Long (John Travolta), a former literature professor, and his young protégé, Lawson Pines (Gabriel Macht). These broken men, whose lives took a wrong turn years before, have been firmly rooted in the dilapidated house for years, encouraged only by Lawson's faltering ambitions to write a novel about Bobby Long's life. Having no intention of leaving, Pursy, Bobby Long and Lawson are all forced to live together. Yet as time passes, their tenuous, makeshift arrangement unearths a series of buried personal secrets that challenges their bonds, and reveals just how inextricably their lives are intertwined.

Described as a Misery-esque setup that evolves into a Usual Suspects-type non-linear storyline.

Four overweight friends get fed up with dieting and decide to start a sumo wrestling team, which helps them learn to love themselves.

Formed in the 1960's, the Folksmen (Guest, McKean, Shearer) were a key group in the "Great Folk Music Scare", meeting as freshmen at Ohio Wesleyan College, and touring for 26 months as a folk trio, singing a unique type of "eclectified folk" music. It wasn't meant to last, however, and the three musicians went their separate ways. Now, thirty years later, they've reunited for a comeback tour of sorts, as long as the folk festivals they're playing at are within a day's travel of their homes, all of which leads up to a climactic memorial concert at Carnegie Hall following the death of a legendary folk music promoter, where they reunite with two other folk groups. In the tradition of This is Spinal Tap (an aging heavy metal band), Waiting for Guffman (a small town theater group), and Best in Show (the Westminster Dog Show), this is a mocking look at the world of folk music.

Otto Skorzeny, a high ranking Nazi special forces soldier and Hitler confidant, is known by the Allies as "the most dangerous man in Europe." After the war, Skorzeny is relocated and recruited by an intrepid Mossad agent to work with him as a double agent to eliminate Nazi rocket scientists working on a secret Egyptian rocket program.

Centers on a young Ernest Hemingway in post-WWI Paris in the 1920s. The prose includes tart portrayals of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein.

In Guatemala, Rodrigo Rosenberg, a wealthy businessman who watched his wife-to-be get assassinated along with her father, is later gunned down while riding his bicycle. His murder stirs up an entire country frustrated by the endless waves of violence, sometimes involving corrupt government officials

After the end of World War II, Denmark takes revenge on captured German soldiers by forcing them to clear mines without adequate training or equipment, leading to the death or maiming of hundreds of them.

A portrait of James Dean on the cusp of becoming both a great actor and an outsider icon. Set in the early 1950s and focusing on Dean’s experiences as a rising star in Los Angeles, the film’s surreal and dreamlike vignettes blend biographical and fictionalized elements to present pivotal moments in his short yet remarkable life.

The true story of Billy Moore, a young English boxer incarcerated in two of Thailand’s most notorious prisons. He is quickly thrown into a terrifying world of drugs and gang violence, but when the prison authorities allow him to take part in the Muay Thai boxing tournaments, he realizes this might be his chance to get out. Billy embarks on a relentless, action-packed journey from one savage fight to the next, stopping at nothing to do whatever he must to preserve his life and regain his freedom.