December 2017 Movies

Amy Renner Amy Renner

Jan. 14, 2023

Best Movies Released December 2017

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A rich girl meets a poor boy on the ill-fated voyage of the 'unsinkable' ship.

Kate Winslet, James Cameron, Leonardo DiCaprio, Billy Zane, Victor Garber, Rae Sanchini, Al Giddings, Jon Landau

PG-13 Drama Action Adventure Historical Romance 3D Post-3D Re-Release 3 hrs, 14 mins

47%

  • 4.4
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The paths of multiple serial killers cross over one single, blood soaked night. Which psychopath will survive through to morning? Follow the soul of a recently executed serial killer as he descends back to earth and possesses his many followers beneath the full moon. There’s Alice, an escaped mental patient who thinks she’s living in the 1950s glamour world, Blondie, a beautiful seductress who lures men down into her suburban basement, the Midnight Strangler, first seen claiming a victim in a seedy hotel, and an enigmatic masked contract killer who stalks the city with his own deadly agenda.

Mickey Keating, Helen Rogers, Ashley Bell, James Landry Hebert, Mark Kassen, Angela Trimbur, Ivana Shein, Sam Zimmerman

Thriller Horror 1 hr, 21 mins

65%

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A behind-the-scenes drama about Tommy Wiseau’s cult favorite The Room.

Zac Efron, Bryan Cranston, James Franco, Sugar Lyn Beard, Seth Rogen, Scott Neustadter, Dave Franco, Josh Hutcherson

R Drama

64%

  • 2.2
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New York / Los Angeles

A career assassin is given a chance at redemption after his employer brings him back to life temporarily, just after being killed on the job.

Ethan Hawke, Brian Smrz, Basil Iwanyk, Mark Gao, Gregory Ouanhon, Zach Dean, Ron Mita, Jim McClain

Action Thriller 1 hr, 33 mins

77%

  • 4
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New York

Set against the backdrop of Cold War-era America circa 1963.

Michael Shannon, Guillermo del Toro, Sally Hawkins, Vanessa Taylor, Richard Jenkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Doug Jones

R Drama Romance Period

72%

  • 3
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New York / Los Angeles

An imperial guard searches for the truth behind a conspiracy that framed him and his partners. The proof of his innocence lies with a wanted woman named Bei Zhai... but will she reveal what she knows?

Lei Jiayin, Lu Yang, Yang Mi, Chen Chang, Zhang Yi

NR Action Prequel

86%

  • 1
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An aspiring hip-hop artist discovers the world of slam poetry.

John David Washington, Common, Nicole Asher, Lorraine Toussaint, RZA, Hana Mae Lee, Azealia Banks, Jill Scott

R Drama Music

61%

  • 3.7
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Set in the affluent beach community of Palos Verdes, California, two teenagers, Medina and Jim, move to the beach town from Michigan with their parents. Medina turns to surfing to escape her troubled home life.

Karen Croner, Jennifer Garner, Maika Monroe, Emmett Malloy, Brendan Malloy, Justin Kirk, Noah Silver, Elisabeth Rohm

Drama Teen 1 hr, 45 mins

84%

  • 4
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Like all his recent films, plot details are being heavily guarded.

Kate Winslet, Justin Timberlake, Woody Allen, Letty Aronson, Edward Walson, James Belushi, Juno Temple, Tony Sirico

Drama Comedy

48%

  • 4
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An aggressive race of aliens took over Planet Earth and humanity's at its end, living in giant bunkers below ground. Young Military rookie S.U.M.1 (Iwan Rheon) is sent to the surface to save a group of unprotected survivors.

Iwan Rheon, Christian Pasquariello, Christian Alvart, André Hennicke

Thriller Sci-Fi

80%

  • 2
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High stakes and fast talk are the game in this crime caper that brings together an all-star cast (Yoo Ji-tae, Hyun Bin, Bae Seong-woo, Park Sung-woong, Nana) as unlikely allies from different sides of the law. Each member of the team has their own motives, but they’ll have to work together to achieve their common goal - trapping the world’s most legendary con man.

Jang Chang-Won, Yoo Ji-Tae, Hyun Bin, Bae Seong-Woo, Park Sung-Woong, Nana, Ahn Sae-Ha

Drama Thriller

86%

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Set in 1303 AD medieval India, Padmavati is the story of honor, valour and obsession. Queen Padmavati is known for her exceptional beauty and is the wife of Maharawal Ratan Singh and pride of the Kingdom of Chittor, a prosperous kingdom in the northwest of India. The legend of her beauty reaches the reigning sultan of Hindustan – Allaudin Khilji. The sultan, who is a tyrant, is fixated with wanting anything that is of exceptional beauty for himself. He lays siege on the impregnable fortress of Chittorgarh. After a grueling six months, he returns to Delhi empty-handed. He becomes obsessed and now wants to capture Chittor and its Queen at any cost. He returns back with a bigger army and raging fury. He attacks Chittor with brutal force, and a bloody and fearsome battle takes place between the righteous Maharawal Ratan Singh, defending his kingdom and the honor of his queen, and Sultan Allaudin Khilji. Khilji manages to breach the fortress but in vain, as the Queen chooses to make the ultimate sacrifice to protect her dignity.

Deepika Padukone, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Shahid Kapoor, Ranveer Singh

Drama Historical

85%

  • 4.6
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Showcases the 2016 SCORE World Desert Championship racing season, including the epic SCORE Baja 1000, the world’s toughest point-to-point desert race across a one-thousand-mile course in Mexico’s untamable Baja California Peninsula.

Dana Brown, Bud Brutsman

PG-13 Action Sequel Sports Documentary 1 hr, 50 mins

87%

  • 5
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Follows rookie journalist Bahadur (Evan Peters), who, after having a chance encounter with an experienced war correspondent (Pacino), uproots his life and moves to Somalia looking for the story of a lifetime. Hooking up with a local fixer (Abdi), Bahadur attempts to embed himself with the local Somali pirates, getting in way over his head.

Barkhad Abdi, Al Pacino, Bryan Buckley, Evan Peters, Melanie Griffith

Action Thriller Adaptation

87%

  • 3
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A behind-the-scenes drama about Tommy Wiseau’s cult favorite The Room.

Zac Efron, Bryan Cranston, James Franco, Sugar Lyn Beard, Seth Rogen, Scott Neustadter, Dave Franco, Josh Hutcherson

R Drama

64%

  • 2.2
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An ex-FBI agent and an ex-mob lawyer in the witness protection program have to put aside their petty rivalry on the golf course to fend off a mob hit.

Morgan Freeman, Billy Gerber, Joe Pantoliano, Elizabeth Ashley, Graham Beckel, Mel Raido, Nick Peine, Ron Shelton

Action Comedy

61%

  • 4
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Los Angeles

Set against the backdrop of Cold War-era America circa 1963.

Michael Shannon, Guillermo del Toro, Sally Hawkins, Vanessa Taylor, Richard Jenkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Doug Jones

R Drama Romance Period

72%

  • 3
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The story is set in Washington D.C. and follows a rebellious teenager who finds himself leading his own investigation into the murder of a classmate.

Catherine Keener, Steven Knight, Sacha Gervasi, Chloë Grace Moretz, Ansel Elgort, David Strathairn

Drama Thriller 1 hr, 26 mins

89%

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Three career criminals trap themselves in a warehouse with the law closing in, and run into the attack dog named DeNiro.

Adrien Brody, Les Weldon, Ori Pfeffer, Paul Solet, Yariv Lerner, Milos Djukelic, Rick Benattar, Raphael Swann

R Action Crime 1 hr, 33 mins

73%

  • 3.8
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The story of ice skater Tonya Harding who rose to top of the sport of figure skating, and then fell from grace.

Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Bryan Unkeless, McKenna Grace, Craig Gillespie, Caitlin Carver, Len Blavatnik, Vince Holden

R Drama Biography Sports 1 hr, 59 mins

75%

  • 4.2
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A portrait of a class of migrant children at a primary school in a Dutch village. Under the wing of their teacher Miss Kiet, they learn Dutch, fight, fall in love and process their traumas.

Petra Lataster Czisch

NR Documentary 1 hr, 55 mins

76%

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The film continues the saga after the events of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Rian Johnson, Benicio Del Toro, Daisy Ridley, Jimmy Vee, Andy Serkis, Ram Bergman, Lawrence Kasdan, Carrie Fisher

PG-13 Action Adventure Sequel Fantasy Sci-Fi 2 hrs, 30 mins

82%

  • 4.1
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Ferdinand, a little bull, prefers sitting quietly under a cork tree just smelling the flowers versus jumping around, snorting, and butting heads with other bulls. As Ferdinand grows big and strong, his temperament remains mellow, but one day five men come to choose the “biggest, fastest, roughest bull” for the bullfights in Madrid and Ferdinand is mistakenly chosen.

John Cena, David Tennant, Karla Martínez, Kate McKinnon, Daveed Diggs, Sally Phillips, Carlos Saldanha, Gina Rodriguez

PG Adaptation Family Animation 3D 1 hr, 46 mins

59%

  • 4.1
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New York / Los Angeles

There is light and beauty, even in the darkest of worlds. Stranded on an island in a post-apocalyptic world, teenager Dinky and her friends hatch a dangerous plan to escape in the hope of finding a better life. Meanwhile, her old friend Birdboy has shut himself off from the world, pursued by the police and haunted by demon tormentors. But unbeknownst to anyone, he contains a secret inside him that could change the world forever.

Jon Goiri, Alberto Vázquez, Pedro Rivero, Farruco Castromán, Carlos Juárez, Luis Tosar, Pedro Rivera, Andrea Alzuri

NR Fantasy Animation 1 hr, 20 mins

76%

  • 5
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A Moomins winter adventure movie.

Bill Skarsgard, Małgorzata Więckowicz-Zyla, Alicia Vikander, Stellan Skarsgard, Piotr Szczepanowicz, Ira Carpelan

Animation Stop-Motion

79%

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A mischievous hedgehog named Bobby leaves his wilderness home and joins Hubert, a featherbrained pigeon, on a wild, unpredictable journey. They make their way to the big city, where stressed-out humans are losing their minds. Bobby and Hubert must calm the nervous citizens by being their cute, cuddly selves.

Huang Jianming, Wu Xiaoyu, Jen McAllister, Anthony Padilla, Ian Hecox, Jon Heder, Chevy Chase

PG Family Animation 1 hr, 34 mins

40%

  • 3.3
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A period film set in 1889 after Congress declared the frontier closed.

Kathy Baker, Jared Moshe, Bill Pullman, Jim Caviezel, Peter Fonda, Tommy Flanagan, Joe Anderson, Diego Josef

Drama Period

83%

  • 3
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When the population of Los Angeles is vacuumed off the face of the earth, Detective Mark Corley (Frank Grillo) storms his way onto an alien ship to rescue his estranged son. But after crashing the ship in Southeast Asia, he must forge an alliance with a band of survivors to discover the key to saving his son and taking back the planet once and for all.

Frank Grillo, Liam O'Donnell, Bojana Novakovic, Jonny Weston, Yayan Ruhian, Iko Uwais

R Action Adventure Sequel Fantasy Sci-Fi 1 hr, 46 mins

27%

  • 5
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Set in 1983 in small town Virginia, Permanent centers around a 13 year old and her family. The story of a hairstyle gone incredibly wrong and a young girl's plight to fit in while encountering bullies at a new school.

Colette Burson, Patricia Arquette, Rainn Wilson, Kira McLean

Comedy

82%

  • 1
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Dao, a naïve young constable, discovers a secret society with supernatural abilities that has protected mankind for centuries. As he’s drawn into a power struggle within their ranks, they learn that an ancient creature with the power to destroy the world is rising - and it will take all of their powers combined to stop it.

Yuen Wo Ping, Aarif Lee, Dongyu Zhou, Ni Ni, Da Peng

Action

93%

  • 3.3
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Two kids play a magical game and release a man trapped for decades in it as well as many dangers that can only be stopped by finishing the game.

Jack Black, Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Erik Sommers, Karen Gillan, Ser'Darius Blain, Matt Tolmach, Jeff Pinkner

PG-13 Adventure Fantasy Remake Family Reboot

89%

  • 3.6
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PT Barnum rises from a shopkeeper to a charismatic showman who builds the circus he calls "The Greatest Show on Earth."

Zac Efron, Laurence Mark, Michael Arndt, Michael Gracey, Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Ferguson, John Palermo, Jenny Bicks

PG Drama Comedy Musical

81%

  • 4.6
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A married couple, who is low on money, decides they can have a much nicer life retiring as little people. The wife decides to pull out at the last minute, leaving the husband as the sole tiny person in the union.

Christoph Waltz, Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig, Neil Patrick Harris, Jason Sudeikis, Alexander Payne, Mark Johnson, Jim Taylor

R Drama Comedy 2 hrs, 15 mins

80%

  • 3.1
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Another Pitch Perfect collegiate a cappella adventure.

Hailee Steinfeld, Elizabeth Banks, Mike White, Rebel Wilson, Trish Sie, Max Handelman, Kay Cannon, Anna Kendrick

PG-13 Comedy Sequel Musical

95%

  • 3.6
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Fraternal twin brothers find out that their mother's been lying to them for years about their allegedly deceased father. She confesses she slept around with politicians, athletes and movie stars she met at Studio 54 in the 1970s, one of whom may be their father. The twins set out to find their real dad.

Justin Malen, Owen Wilson, J.K. Simmons, Ed Helms, Ving Rhames, Katt Williams, Lawrence Sher, Ivan Reitman

R Comedy 1 hr, 53 mins

80%

  • 3.1
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A classified study about the Vietnam War reveals unreported facts about a secret dramatic escalation of troops and bombings in what was appearing to be an unwinnable war.

Steven Spielberg, Jesse Plemons, Bob Odenkirk, Meryl Streep, David Cross, Alison Brie, Tracy Letts, Sarah Paulson

PG-13 Drama True Story

64%

  • 4
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The story centers on a Native American-hating soldier, nearing retirement, who is given one last assignment: to escort an Indian chief back to his Montana reservation. In the process, which includes coming across a young widow and fighting back attacks by Comanche tribes, he learns to respect the race he hates.

Rosamund Pike, Jesse Plemons, Christian Bale, Scott Cooper, Jon Lesher, Ken Kao, Rory Cochrane, Adam Beach

R Drama Western 2 hrs, 7 mins

77%

  • 3.8
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Set in a world where Orcs and fairies live among humans.

Brad William Henke, Bryan Unkeless, Ike Barinholtz, Veronica Ngo, David Ayer, Max Landis, Joel Edgerton, Margaret Cho

NR Action Adventure Fantasy Thriller 1 hr, 57 mins

84%

  • 3
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Decorated homicide detective Ray Archer (Al Pacino) partners with criminal profiler Will Ruiney (Karl Urban) to catch one of the city's notoriously vicious serial killers, who is playing a twisted version of murder using the child's game… HANGMAN, while journalist Christi Davies (Brittany Snow) reports on the crime spree, shadowing the detectives.

Karl Urban, Al Pacino, Johnny Martin, Brittany Snow, Michael Caissie, Charles Hutting, Phil Hawkins

R Action Crime 1 hr, 38 mins

80%

  • 3.4
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After dying unexpectedly, firefighter Ja-hong is taken to the afterlife by three guardians, where only after passing seven trials and proving he lived a noble life will he be able to reincarnate.

Yong-hwa Kim

Fantasy

94%

  • 3.5
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Focuses on a wealthy family in northern France, oblivious to the misery of the migrant camps in the nearby city of Calais.

Isabelle Huppert, Michael Haneke, Matthieu Kassovitz, Jean-Louis Trintignant

R Drama 1 hr, 50 mins

40%

  • 2.8
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Set in 1950s New York and revolves around the fashion industry.

Megan Ellison, Joanne Sellar, Lesley Manville, Paul Thomas Anderson, Daniel Day-Lewis, Vicky Krieps

R Drama 2 hrs, 2 mins

57%

  • 2.7
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The story of skier-turned-underground poker madam Molly Bloom.

Jessica Chastain, Kevin Costner, Aaron Sorkin, Mark Gordon, Idris Elba, Bill Camp, Joe Keery, Amy Pascal

R Drama Adaptation

66%

  • 3.6
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After John Paul Getty III is kidnapped, his mother Gail Harris makes a desperate attempt to get the boy’s grandfather to pay the ransom. While that grandfather, oilman John Paul Getty Sr, is reputed to be the richest man in the world, he initially refuses to pay.

Charlie Plummer, Dan Friedkin, Mark Wahlberg, Bradley Thomas, Ridley Scott, Quentin Curtis, Chris Clark, Mark Huffam

R Drama Crime True Story 2 hrs, 12 mins

77%

  • 3
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Out of nowhere, Katja’s life falls apart when her husband Nuri and little son Rocco are killed in a bomb attack. Her friends and family try to give her the support she needs, and Katja somehow manages to make it through the funeral. But the mind numbing search for the perpetrators and reasons behind the senseless killing complicate Katja’s painful mourning, opening wounds and doubts. Danilo, a lawyer and Nuri’s best friend, represents Katja in the eventual trial against the two suspects: a young couple from the neo-Nazi scene. The trial pushes Katja to the edge, but there’s simply no alternative for her: she wants justice.

Fatih Akin, Hark Bohm, Diane Kruger, Denis Moschitto, Nuan Acar, Johannes Krisch

R Drama

27%

  • 5
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A vibrant affair between a legendary femme fatale and her young lover grows into a deeper relationship.

Paul McGuigan, Colin Vaines, Annette Bening, Barbara Broccoli, Matt Greenhalgh, Jamie Bell, Julie Walters

R Drama Biography Romance 1 hr, 45 mins

35%

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Top December 2017 Movie Trailers

Molly's Game Theatrical Trailer
Father Figures Theatrical Trailer
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