July 2011 Movies

Amy Renner Amy Renner

Apr. 27, 2023

Best Movies Released July 2011

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Three Midwestern schoolteachers ditch a disappointing no-frills holiday in Paris and pose as wealthy women vacationing in Monaco.

Nicole Kidman, Selena Gomez, Rick Schwartz, Denise Di Novi, Alison Greenspan, Tom Bezucha, Maria Maggenti, April Blair

PG Drama Comedy Romance Teen 1 hr, 49 mins

88%

  • 4.2
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Story centers on a man forced to reinvent himself and find a new career as he navigates the second act of his life.

Bryan Cranston, Wilmer Valderrama, Gary Goetzman, Bob Stephenson, Tom Hanks, Philippe Rousselet, Nia Vardalos, Julia Roberts

PG-13 Drama Comedy 1 hr, 39 mins

88%

  • 3.9
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A criminal on the run cons his way into the wrong dinner party where the host is anything but ordinary.

David Hyde Pierce, Helen Reddy, Nick Tomnay, Clayne Crawford, Nathaniel Parker, Megahn Perry

R Thriller

54%

  • 3.9
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Focuses on a group of students who discover what they believe is a government conspiracy to keep the existence of trolls in the north of Norway hidden from the general public.

Andre Ovredal, John M. Jacobsen, Otto Jespersen, Tomas Alf Larsen, Hans Morten Hansen

PG-13 Thriller Horror Documentary Foreign Mockumentary 1 hr, 30 mins

63%

  • 3.6
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Documentary on the legal battle to free Debbie Peagler, a woman imprisoned for over a quarter century due to her connection to the murder of the man who abused her. She finds her only hope for freedom when two rookie attorneys with no background in criminal law step forward to take her case.

Yoav Potash

Crime Documentary 1 hr, 35 mins

34%

  • 4.3
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Follows the relationship between Terri (Jacob Wysocki), an oversized teen misfit, and the garrulous but well-meaning vice principal (John C. Reilly) who takes an interest in him.

Azazel Jacobs, Jacob Wysocki, Patrick Dewitt, John C. Reilly, Creed Bratton

Comedy

53%

  • 3.7
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New York

Five different relationship stories: high school sweethearts, octogenarian lovebirds, the divorced father of two teenagers, a gay single man and a traditional Indian wedding.

Jill Andresevic

Documentary

71%

  • 2.3
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New York

Yvan Attal stars as a millionaire who is kidnapped and held for ransom.

Lucas Belvaux, Yvan Attal

Thriller Foreign

36%

  • 4
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New York

Eighteen years after disappearing without a trace, Cornelius Rawlings returns to his family's farm.

Michael Tully, Rachel Korine, Robert Longstreet, John Maringouin, Mark Darby Robinson

Drama Comedy 1 hr, 20 mins

11%

  • 3.7
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Three best friends come together and agree to kill their horrible bosses.

Jason Bateman, Charlie Day, Kevin Spacey, Jamie Foxx, Brett Ratner, Julie Bowen, Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis

R Comedy Crime 1 hr, 33 mins

82%

  • 3.4
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A lonely, misguided zookeeper gets unexpected romantic help from the animals in his care.

Jon Favreau, Adam Sandler, Sylvester Stallone, Kevin James, Jennifer Eatz, Rosario Dawson, Frank Coraci, Walt Becker

PG Comedy Romance 1 hr, 42 mins

89%

  • 3.9
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No plot details have been announced.

Jessica Chastain, Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Terrence Malick, Tye Sheridan

PG-13 Drama

66%

  • 3.3
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Ironclad is a castle epic based on the true story of the great siege of Rochester castle.

Odette Yustman, Erick Kastel, Paul Giamatti, James Purefoy, Jonathan English, Rick Bennatar, Chris Curling, Andrew J. Curtis

R Action Adventure

89%

  • 3.9
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Los Angeles

Documentary on the legal battle to free Debbie Peagler, a woman imprisoned for over a quarter century due to her connection to the murder of the man who abused her. She finds her only hope for freedom when two rookie attorneys with no background in criminal law step forward to take her case.

Yoav Potash

Crime Documentary 1 hr, 35 mins

34%

  • 4.3
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The disturbing experience of a young woman in an institution who is terrorized by a ghost.

Amber Heard, Shawn Rasmussen, Danielle Panabaker, Lyndsy Fonseca, John Carpenter, Doug Mankoff, Mike Marcus, Andy Spaulding

R Suspense Horror

86%

  • 3.6
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New York / Los Angeles

Not plot details are known regarding this thriller.

Matthew Chapman, Michael Mailer, Mark Damon, Terrence Howard, Patrick Wilson, Liv Tyler, Charlie Hunnam, Moshe Diamant

R Thriller

81%

  • 4
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New York / Los Angeles

A young man defends his town from evil forces, aided by a magic sword.

Brian Metcalf, Karoline Kautz, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Jordan Matthews

R Fantasy Horror

47%

  • 4.3
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New York / Los Angeles

Documents the inner workings and behind-the-scenes drama that follow the band, A Tribe Called Quest, even today and explores what’s next for a group many claim are the pioneers of alternative rap. Having helped to pave the way for innovative hip hop artists, A Tribe Called Quest has kept a generation hungry for more of its groundbreaking music since the group’s much-publicized breakup in 1998

Michael Rapaport

R Documentary Music

44%

  • 5
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New York

The reunion of a young man and his family after being positively identified in an unsolved missing-persons case. The reunion turns bittersweet when suspicions arise about whether he really is their son.

Ram Bergman, Famke Janssen, Nick Stahl, Jean Paul Salome, Bill Perkins, Cooper Richey, Marie-Castille Mention-Schaar, Pierre Kubel

R Drama Thriller 1 hr, 46 mins

44%

  • 3
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The life of a chimpanzee who was raised like a human child as part of a pioneering 1970s experiment. The film combines interviews with participants in the experiment and archival footage to depict the chimpanzee's experience.

Simon Chinn, James Marsh

PG-13 Documentary 1 hr, 33 mins

53%

  • 3.3
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Coco (Daniel Hendler) has just moved to a new apartment with his wife Pipi (Jazmin Stuart), who’s seven months pregnant. At first, they don’t seem to notice the growing chaos around them, but when authorities quarantine their building after a deadly pandemic breaks out, Coco joins forces with his off-kilter, but well-prepared and stocked next-door neighbor Horacio to defend his refrigerator and keep Pipi safe.

Steven Schneider, Nicolas Goldbart

Horror

47%

  • 3.4
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A hand-drawn animated "Winnie the Pooh" film, which will be released theatrically. The film will feature five previously unadapted stories from the original books.

Burny Mattinson, Craig Ferguson, Don Hall, Stephen J. Anderson, Clark Spencer, Jim Cummings, Max Burkholder, Gilbert Gottfried

G Sequel Family Animation 1 hr, 10 mins

84%

  • 4.6
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The final adventure of Harry Potter as he attempts to bring an end to his nemesis, Lord Voldemort.

Ralph Fiennes, David Thewlis, Rupert Grint, David Yates, Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, John Hurt, David Heyman

PG-13 Action Adventure Sequel Fantasy 3D Post-3D 2 hrs, 10 mins

87%

  • 4.6
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New York / Los Angeles

Ben wins the Iowa State Lottery and uses the money to pursue his life-long crush while hiding that he's a fledgling serial killer.

Colin Hanks, Jeffrey Tambor, Gil Cates Jr., Caitlin Murney, Kent Sublette, Ari Graynor, Ann Margret

R Comedy

50%

  • 4.8
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New York / Los Angeles

A private detective investigates the killing of a professor and it becomes a clash of faiths: The detective is a born-again Christian, the dead man an atheist, the accused killer an Islamic foreign student and the D.A. is Jewish.

Pierce Brosnan, Douglas Stone, Ed Harris, Greg Kinnear, Marisa Tomei, George Ratliff, Cathy Schulman, Celine Rattray

R Drama Crime Adaptation Mystery

69%

  • 4
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The salacious adventures of a beauty queen with an IQ of 168, whose single-minded devotion to the man of her dreams leads her on a labyrinthine crusade for love. Down a surreal rabbit hole of kidnapping, masochistic Mormons, risque photography, magic underwear, celestial sex, jail time and a cloning laboratory in South Korea, Joyce's fantastic exploits were constant headlines.

Errol Morris

R Documentary 1 hr, 28 mins

42%

  • 3.8
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Set in 19th century remote China, the movie revolves around the lifelong friendship of Lily and Snow Flower and their imprisonment by rigid cultural codes of conduct for women.

Zhang Ziyi, Li Bingbing, Wendi Murdoch, Florence Sloan, Ron Bass, Angela Workman

PG-13 Drama

88%

  • 4.8
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New York

On their way to a wedding, Danny and Irene pick up a hitchhiker and find themselves against a conniving gang of kidnappers

David Barker

Thriller

33%

  • 3.7
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A documentary on Sarah Palin inspired by her book Going Rogue.

Stephen K. Bannon

PG-13 Documentary

21%

  • 4.3
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New York

After the sudden death of her father, 8-year-old Simone shares a secret with her mother Dawn. She’s convinced her father speaks to her through the leaves of her favourite tree and he’s come back to protect them. But the new bond between mother and daughter is threatened when Dawn starts a relationship with George, the plumber, called in to remove the tree’s troublesome roots.

Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marton Csokas, Julie Bertuccelli, Morgana Davies, Christian Byers

Drama Romance 1 hr, 40 mins

New York

A young man with Down's Syndrome romantically pursues a small town single mom who is still mixed up with her volatile ex-boyfriend.

Shannon Marie Woodward, Justin Lerner, Jackson Rathbone, Patch Mackenzie, Evan Sneider, Amanda Plummer

Drama

76%

  • 3.7
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New York / Los Angeles

A drama, based on the novel Chanda's Secrets, about AIDS orphans in South Africa.

Oliver Schmitz

PG-13 Drama

38%

  • 4.5
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Her father ends up in one of Stalin's prison camps and then young Svetlana experiences the German invasion. In order to survive she learns German at home in Kiev and gets work as a translator before ending up in a German camp in 1943. Now, 65 years later, she is a renowned translator who in her twilight years has translated the great works of Dostoevsky. For the first time in all these years, she returns to Kiev together with her granddaughter.

Vadim Jendreyko

Documentary

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Born during the Great Depression, Steve Rogers grew up a frail youth in a poor family. Horrified by the newsreel footage of the Nazis in Europe, Rogers was inspired to enlist in the army. However, because of his frailty and sickness, he was rejected. Overhearing the boy's earnest plea, General Chester Phillips offered Rogers the opportunity to take part in a special experiment... Operation: Rebirth. After weeks of tests, Rogers was at last administered the Super-Solider Serum and bombarded by "vita-rays." Steve Rogers emerged from the treatment with a body as perfect as a body can be and still be human. Rogers was then put through an intensive physical and tactical training program. Three months later, he was given his first assignment as Captain America. Armed with his indestructible shield and battle savvy, Captain America has continued hiswar against evil both as a sentinel of liberty and as leader of the Avengers.

Sebastian Stan, Neal McDonough, Avi Arad, Stanley Tucci, Toby Jones, Alan Fine, David Maisel, Joe Johnston

PG-13 Action Adventure Superhero 3D Post-3D 2 hrs, 4 mins

88%

  • 4.4
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Story centers on a headhunter who recruits a magazine editor for a job, and realizing each is too busy to find a mate, they agree to sleep together with no strings attached. However, things start to get complicated when the guy falls for the girl, who’s started dating someone else.

Jenna Elfman, Emma Stone, Justin Timberlake, Andy Samberg, Mila Kunis, Patricia Clarkson, Richard Jenkins, Will Gluck

R Comedy Romance

86%

  • 4.1
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New York

Storyline follows four teens on the last night of summer.

David Robert Mitchell, Adele Romanski

Drama Comedy Teen 1 hr, 37 mins

52%

  • 4.8
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New York / Los Angeles

An American, living in Paris, researching the arrests of Jewish families in 1942 discovers she shares a connection with a 10-year-old Jewish girl and their stories unfold in parallel.

Gilles Paquet-Brenner, Kristin Scott Thomas, Niels Arestrup

PG-13 Drama Adaptation 1 hr, 51 mins

80%

  • 3.5
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Bajirao Singham (Ajay Devgn) is a police sub- inspector who hails from a small town of Sawantwadi in Maharashtra. He fights against corruption with the valor of lion. When Kavya (Kaajal Aggarwal) comes to Sawantwadi, from Goa to visit her grandparents on a vacation she is charmed by Bajirao’s bold and courageous demeanor. Everything goes well for Singham until there is a clash with a goon that eventually escalates into a full blown fight. Singham eventually gets promoted & is transferred to Goa which also happens to be the operational hub of the goon. While this move brings Singham closer to Kavya, it also brings him in the clutches of the very same goon who is on a mission to destroy him. How Singham rises to the challenge to expose this crook and put an end to his malicious activities forms the rest of the story.

Rohit Shetty

Drama Action

67%

  • 3.8
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New York / Los Angeles

Rhonda, an ambitious MIT astrophysics student, kills a man's family in a car accident after leaning out of the window to catch sight of a newly discovered planet. After she spends four years in prison, she returns home compelled to meet the bereaved husband and father.

Brit Marling, Mark Cahill, William Mapother, Jordan Baker

PG-13 Drama

68%

  • 3.3
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A recently widowed single mom reconnects with an old flame, who happens to be her sister's husband.

Michael J. Weithorn, Dena Hysell, Joe Gressis, Jenna Fischer

R Drama Comedy 1 hr, 45 mins

65%

  • 2.5
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For six months of the year, renowned Spanish chef Ferran Adria closes his restaurant El Bulli -- repeatedly voted the world's best -- and works with his culinary team to prepare the menu for the next season.

Gereon Wetzel

NR Documentary

60%

  • 3
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Shot by filmmakers all around the world, the documentary aims to show future generations what it was like to be alive on the July 24, 2010.

Kevin Macdonald, Liza Marshall

Documentary

61%

  • 4.6
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"The Smurfs" are little blue creatures that live in mushroom houses in a forest inhabited mainly by their own kind.

Audrey Wells, Neil Patrick Harris, Hank Azaria, Sofia Vergara, Anton Yelchin, Paul Reubens, Kenan Thompson, Raja Gosnell

PG Adventure Comedy Fantasy Family Kids Animation 3D Live-Action/CGI 1 hr, 49 mins

81%

  • 4
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A father deals with a marital crises while managing a relationship with his children.

Ryan Gosling, Liza Lapira, Emma Stone, Julianne Moore, Steve Carell, Kevin Bacon, Marisa Tomei, Tracy Weaver

PG-13 Comedy 1 hr, 53 mins

90%

  • 3.8
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Set in 1800s Arizona, a battle between cowboys and Apaches is interrupted by the crash landing of a space ship. The alien commander plans to tame the Old West and enslave everyone, but the cowboys and Native Americans turn their six-guns against the alien invaders.

Steven Spielberg, Paul Dano, Jon Favreau, Ron Howard, Sam Rockwell, Roberto Orci, Olivia Wilde, Harrison Ford

PG-13 Drama Action Adventure Western Sci-Fi 1 hr, 52 mins

87%

  • 3.9
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In a remote South American town, the women remake their world when all the town's men are forcibly recruited by communist guerrillas.

Christian Slater, Gabriela Tagliavini, Eva Longoria, Paul Rodriguez, Judy Reyes, Yvette Yates

R Comedy

71%

  • 3.3
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New York

Children who work as many as 12 hours a day, six months a year in the scorching hot sun, without the protection of child labor laws. These children are not toiling in the fields in some far away land. They are working here, in our back yard, in America.

U. Roberto Romano

Documentary

50%

  • 3.7
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New York / Los Angeles

Set in the dead of winter, Good Neighbors tells the story of a serial killer on the loose. Three residents of a small apartment building retreat indoors, but they might not be any safer there.

Emily Hampshire, Jay Baruchel, Jacob Tierney, Kevin Tierney, Scott Speedman

R Thriller Suspense

77%

  • 4.3
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New York

In a small Texas town, a high school student enters a powerlifting competition in order to earn a college scholarship.

Julio Cedillo, Amy Wendel, Daniel Meisel

Drama

66%

  • 4.2
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An American, living in Paris, researching the arrests of Jewish families in 1942 discovers she shares a connection with a 10-year-old Jewish girl and their stories unfold in parallel.

Gilles Paquet-Brenner, Kristin Scott Thomas, Niels Arestrup

PG-13 Drama Adaptation 1 hr, 51 mins

80%

  • 3.5
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New York

A story about a thirtysomething couple grappling with their personal and professional malaise, which is narrated by a talking shelter cat named Paw Paw.

Gerhard Meixner, Miranda July, Roman Paul, Gina Kwon, Hamish Linklater

R Drama

31%

  • 2.8
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A hospital nurse forced to do the bidding of a criminal after his pregnant wife is kidnapped.

Gerard Lanvin, Fred Cavaye, Gilles Lellouche, Roschdy Zem, Elena Anaya, Mireille Perrier

R Thriller Crime 1 hr, 24 mins

71%

  • 3.5
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New York / Los Angeles

A small-town cop gets pulled into the investigation of an international drug smuggling ring.

Ed Guiney, John Michael McDonagh, Andrew Lowe, Brendan Gleeson, Mark Strong, Fionnula Flanagan, David Wilmot, Chris Clark

R Action Comedy

78%

  • 3.6
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A gang of South London teenagers defends their housing project against an alien attack.

Nick Frost, Luke Treadaway, Joe Cornish, Nira Park, Edgar Wright, Tessa Ross, Jodie Whittaker, John Boyega

R Comedy 1 hr, 28 mins

87%

  • 3.8
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New York / Los Angeles

The story centers on the inner circle of Suddam Hussein, and the love triangle between Hussein’s son, Uday, his body double Latif Yahia, and the concubine they both loved.

Paul Breuls, Michael Thomas, Amber Rose Revah, Mem Ferda, Lee Tamahori, Catherine Vandeleene, Emjay Rechsteiner, Dominic Cooper

R Thriller

69%

  • 3.4
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New York

The stories of three Violence Interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed.

Steve James

Documentary

Top July 2011 Movie Trailers

Girlfriend Theatrical Trailer
Friends with Benefits Restricted Trailer
The Smurfs Theatrical Teaser #1
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