June 2011 Movies

Amy Renner Amy Renner

Jan. 22, 2024

Best Movies Released June 2011

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New York

Annotates the evolution of the Feminist Art Movement in the United States from the personal perspective of feminist artist and film director Lynn Hershman Leeson.

Lynn Hershman Leeson

NR Documentary 1 hr, 23 mins

67%

  • 3.2
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In the Fall of 1940, the entire population of Friar, NH abandoned their homes and walked up an ancient trail, never to be seen alive again. Their fates have remained a mystery for over 70 years, until a team of researchers discover the trailhead and attempt to track the path the doomed citizens of Friar took.

Andy Mitton, Lee Wilkof, Jesse Holland, Cassidy Freeman, Anessa Ramsey

R Thriller Horror

60%

  • 3
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Said to be a next-gen sensibility into the superhero series. Probably focusing on young mutants with powers taught at the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning.

Lucas Till, Nicholas Hoult, Caleb Landry Jones, Rose Byrne, Ray Wise, Lauren Shuler-Donner, Bryan Singer, James McAvoy

PG-13 Action Adventure Sequel 2 hrs, 12 mins

86%

  • 4.4
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New York / Los Angeles

When an unhappily married couple learns their teenage son is the shooter in a college campus massacre, they struggle to find refuge from both the media and their mutual grief.

Maria Bello, Michael Armbruster, Mark Moran, Shawn Ku, Michael Sheen, Alan Tudyk, Richard Gabai

R Drama

86%

  • 4.1
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New York

The mining and burning of coal is at the epicenter of America's struggle to balance its energy needs and environmental concerns, so the daring solution proposed by this small Appalachian community takes on national significance when Bobby Kennedy, Jr. joins the Appalachian families to fight the extraordinary and insidious power of Big Coal.

Bill Haney, Peter Rhodes

PG Documentary

47%

  • 3.3
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New York

As a garish cruise ship travels the Mediterranean, Godard embarks on a state of the EU address in a vibrant collage of philosophical quotes, historical revelations and pure cinematographic beauty.

Jean-Luc Godard

Drama

67%

  • 5
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New York / Los Angeles

A 15-year-old boy has two objectives: To lose his virginity before his next birthday, and to stop his mother from leaving his father for her dance teacher.

Andy Stebbing, Sally Hawkins, Noah Taylor, Craig Roberts, Richard Ayoade, Ben Stiller, Mark Herbert, Mary Louise Burke

R Drama

61%

  • 3.8
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Jack Cardiff's career spanned an incredible nine of moving picture's first ten decades and his work behind the camera altered the look of films forever through his use of Technicolor photography. Craig McCall's film about the legendary cinematographer reveals a unique figure in British and international cinema.

Craig McCall

Documentary 1 hr, 26 mins

67%

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The story of Easter as seen through the eyes of a pig, horse, rat, rooster, cow and donkey.

Scott Eastwood, Michael Madsen, Deryck Broom, Roger Hawkins, Ernest Borgnine

PG Animation 3D 1 hr, 27 mins

71%

  • 3.5
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New York / Los Angeles

A family comedy-drama about love and divorce. In the story, an idealistic young newlywed who is also a marriage counselor returns from her honeymoon only to learn that her parents, whom she saw as the model for a happy marriage, are getting a divorce.

Dermot Mulroney, Michelle Chydzik, Anouska Chydzik Bryson, Kellan Lutz, Nathalie Marciano, Caprice Crane, Mandy Moore, James Brolin

PG-13 Drama Comedy

93%

  • 4.1
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China, 1899. In a land of exquisite beauty and timeless tradition a young man known as ‘Third Master’ is the heir to a banking fortune he cares little about. However, after his brother’s wife is kidnapped he reluctantly submits to the pressure of his title and his father, Lord Kang. Lord Kang is determined to prepare his son for financial leadership by molding Third Master into his own image. But the strong-willed businessman’s methods do not sit well with Third Master, who sees the salvation of his business in following the righteous path of his ancestors. Third Master and Lord Kang’s tense relationship is further complicated by the son’s feelings for his beautiful young stepmother -- his first and only love -- stolen from him by his own father.

Christina Yao, Aaron Kwok

Drama Biography Romance 1 hr, 53 mins

75%

  • 4
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New York / Los Angeles

Explores the hilarity, heartbreak and surprises of a son's discovery that his dying father is gay.

Melanie Laurent, Dean Vanech, Miranda De Pencier, Ewan McGregor, Mike Mills, Leslie Urdang, Lars Knudsen, Christopher Plummer

R Drama

46%

  • 3
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New York

A documentary that traces the evolution of Gospel through its many musical styles – the spirituals and early hymns, the four-part harmony-based quartets, the integration of blues and swing into Gospel, the emergence of Soul, and the blending of Rap and Hip Hop elements.

Joe Lauro, Don McGlynn

PG Documentary 1 hr, 45 mins

59%

  • 4.3
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Germany today. During project week, high school teacher Rainer Wenger (Jürgen Vogel) comes up with an experiment in order to explain to his students how totalitarian governments work. A role-playing game with tragic results begins. Within a few days, what began with harmless notions like discipline and community builds into a real movement: The Wave. By the third day, the students start ostracizing and threatening others. When the conflict finally erupts into violence at an intramural water polo game, the teacher decides to break off the experiment. But it's too late.

Max Riemelt, Jacob Matschenz, Dennis Gansel, Jurgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Jennifer Ulrich, Christiane Paul

R Drama Thriller 1 hr, 47 mins

65%

  • 3.8
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While her friends all head off to exotic summer camps, bummed-out third-grader Judy Moody is is stuck in town to face a boring summer with only her friend Frank and her little brother Stink for company. However, when her Aunt Opal comes to visit, the summer takes an unexpectedly adventurous turn.

Heather Graham, Gary Magness, Sarah Siegel-Magness, John Schultz, Megan McDonald, Kathy Waugh, Jordana Beatty, Jaleel White

PG Adventure Comedy Family 1 hr, 31 mins

75%

  • 3.1
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A rumored top-secret J.J. Abrams-produced movie that may be a Cloverfield sequel. No further details are known.

Steven Spielberg, Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler, A.J. Michalka, Joel Courtney, J.J. Abrams, Ron Eldard, Noah Emmerich

PG-13 Thriller Suspense Sci-Fi 1 hr, 52 mins

71%

  • 4.4
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No plot details have been announced.

Adrien Brody, Rachel McAdams, Owen Wilson, Mimi Kennedy, Steve Tenenbaum, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hiddleston, Elsa Pataky

PG-13 Drama Comedy

79%

  • 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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New York

A noirish tale of a young filmmaker who becomes enmeshed in a criminal scheme while making a movie on location.

Monte Hellman, Steven Gaydos, Dominique Swain, Shannyn Sossamon, John Diehl, Waylon Payne, Tygh Runyan

R Thriller Romance 2 hrs, 1 min

67%

  • 3.7
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New York / Los Angeles

Steve Coogan plays a food critic for the UK's Observer who is joined on a working road trip by his friend (Rob Brydon) who fills in at the last minute when Coogan's romantic relationship falls apart.

Michael Winterbottom, Andrew Eaton, Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon

Comedy

52%

  • 4.1
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Riva is a small time operator who has just returned to his hometown of Kinshasa, Congo after a decade away with a major score: a fortune in hijacked gasoline. Wads of cash in hand and out for a good time, Riva is soon entranced by beautiful night club denizen Nora, the kept woman of a local gangster. Into the mix comes an Angolan crime lord relentlessly seeking the return of his stolen shipment of gasoline.

Manie Malone, Patsha Bay, Hoji Fortuna

R Drama 1 hr, 36 mins

48%

  • 5
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Three young women – Ada (Karina Smulders), Esther (Anna Drijver), and Marjorie (Elise Schaap) – emigrate from post-WWII Holland to New Zealand for what they hope will be a better life. They are all awaited by their fiancés, who have already settled in Christchurch. On the plane trip overseas – dubbed the 'Bride Flight' – the three become fast friends and meet a dashing young man, Frank (Waldemar Torenstra), who will come to play a large role in each of their lives.

Ben Sombogaart, Waldemar Torenstra, Anna Drijver, Karina Smulders, Elise Schaap, Rutger Hauer

R Drama Foreign 2 hrs, 10 mins

57%

  • 3.4
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The documentary film uproots the widely held misconception that Arabs have no sense of humor - when in fact they laugh, and are, just like us. The documentary features Egyptian-American comedian Ahmed Ahmed, in his directorial debut, along with a host of critically acclaimed international stand-up comedians.

Ahmed Ahmed

R Documentary 1 hr, 12 mins

47%

  • 3
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A documentary that traces the evolution of Gospel through its many musical styles – the spirituals and early hymns, the four-part harmony-based quartets, the integration of blues and swing into Gospel, the emergence of Soul, and the blending of Rap and Hip Hop elements.

Joe Lauro, Don McGlynn

PG Documentary 1 hr, 45 mins

59%

  • 4.3
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Hal Jordan, a test pilo, finds a downed alien spacecraft. A dying alien passes his ring to Jordan, introducing the man to a wider world that includes an interstellar police force known as the Green Lantern Corps and its overseers, the Guardians of the Universe.

Marc Guggenheim, Angela Bassett, Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong, Geoffrey Rush, Martin Campbell

PG-13 Action Adventure Superhero 1 hr, 45 mins

90%

  • 4.2
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A house painter's dreams of Arctic exploration prompt him to write letters to real explorers. One of them sends him a penguin, which he keeps in the icebox. Before he knows it, the painter has a litter of 12 beaked birds. They eat voraciously, leading him to form Popper's Performing Penguins, a stage act that goes on tour and creates mayhem at every stop.

Jim Carrey, Joel Gotler, Mark Waters, Sean Anders, Carla Gugino, Ophelia Lovibond, David Krumholtz, John Davis

PG Adventure Family 1 hr, 34 mins

90%

  • 4.1
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Los Angeles

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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A family finds themselves as victims of an 'express kidnapping'.

Miguel Angel Vivas, Manuela Vellés, Guillermo Barrientos, Ana Wagener, Fernando Cayo

Thriller Horror 1 hr, 33 mins

64%

  • 3.6
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No plot details have been announced.

Blair Underwood, Rita Wilson, Alicia Silverstone, Gavin Weisen, Darren Goldberg, Jennifer Dana, Freddie Highmore, Emma Roberts

PG-13 Romance Teen

86%

  • 4.1
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New York

In the tradition of fly-on-the-wall documentaries, the film gains unprecedented access to the New York Times newsroom and the inner workings of the Media Desk. With the Internet surpassing print as the public's main news source and newspapers all over the country going bankrupt, Page One chronicles the transformation of the media industry at its time of greatest turmoil.

Andrew Rossi

Documentary

33%

  • 5
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New York / Los Angeles

Master horse trainer Buck Brannaman uses principles of respect and trust to tame horses and inspire their human counterparts.

Cindy Meehl, Buck Brannaman

PG Documentary 1 hr, 29 mins

78%

  • 5
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A documentary on the 40th Irish Dancing World Championships.

Sue Bourne

PG Documentary

100%

  • 3.7
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New York

Follows Earth Liberation Front group member Daniel McGowan, who in December 2005, was arrested by Federal agents and faced life in prison.

Marshall Curry, Sam Cullman

NR Documentary 1 hr, 30 mins

36%

  • 4.3
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All the world's a racetrack as racing superstar Lightning McQueen zooms back into action, with his best friend Mater in tow, to take on the globe's fastest and finest in this thrilling high-octane new installment of the "Cars" saga. Mater and McQueen will need their passports as they find themselves in a new world of intrigue, thrills and fast-paced comedic escapades around the globe.

Owen Wilson, Michael Caine, Larry the Cable Guy, John Ratzenberger, Joe Mantegna, Brad Lewis, John Lasseter, Denise Ream

G Adventure Comedy Sequel Family Kids Animation 3D Shot-In-3D 1 hr, 52 mins

88%

  • 4.2
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A foul-mouthed, gold-digging seventh-grade teacher is dumped by her sugar-daddy boyfriend and turns her attention toward a colleague, which pits her against a rival who happens to be the school's model teacher.

Justin Timberlake, Jimmy Miller, Jason Segel, John Michael Higgins, Lee Eisenberg, Lucy Punch, Jake Kasdan, Michael Aguilar

R Comedy 1 hr, 29 mins

90%

  • 4
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New York / Los Angeles

A hard-working immigrant Mexican gardener lives in Los Angeles and tries to protect his son.

Chris Weitz, Paul Witt, Christian McLaughlin, Jami Gertz, Eric Eason, Demian Bichir, Jose Julian, Erik Feig

PG-13 Drama

80%

  • 4.4
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New York

An experimental documentary that contemplates the signs of loss and change in the American South as potent metaphors of personal and collective destiny.

Robert Persons

Documentary 1 hr, 12 mins

43%

  • 5
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New York

David Guy (David Guy Levy) and Enci (Lili Bordán) play a couple who meet in a bookstore, where he catches her in the midst of shoplifting, and she sees him in the midst of furtively filming her with his flip camera. Through the course of that day and evening, they start a tentative relationship, with his omnipresent camera serving as both bridge and barrier to their connection. Things are further complicated with the inclusion of Enci's boyfriend Boris (Iván Kamarás), and David's brutally honest friend Jonathan (Jonathan Beckerman, playing himself, and unaware until the end of the film that it was fictional).

David Guy Levy, Lili Bordan, Ivan Kamaras, Jonathan Beckerman

Drama 1 hr, 31 mins

56%

  • 3
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New York

Laura is 25 years old. She’s a journalist, she’s single and lives in a small apartment in Mexico City. After a series of short-lived affairs, Laura meets Arturo. After the first time they make love, she is left deeply unsettled. They embark on an intense and passionate sexual relationship, in which pleasure, pain and love merge. As days go by which Laura conscientiously crosses out in a calendar, her secret past resurfaces, pushing Arturo to the limit.

Monica del Carmen, Gustavo Sanchez Parra, Michael Rowe, Marco Zapata

NR Drama 1 hr, 32 mins

60%

  • 3.2
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The four good-for-nothing jokers from Dhamaal - Roy, Manav, Adi and Boman are back and so is their old arch enemy - the corrupt Inspector Kabir. The four madcaps are green with envy and decide that come what may, by hook or by crook they will share Kabir's good fortune.

Indra Kumar

Comedy

91%

  • 4.4
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Covers Conan O'Brien's live concert tour following his depature from The Tonight Show.

Rodman Flender, Conan O'Brien

R Documentary

56%

  • 2.5
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New York / Los Angeles

The film centers on New York neophytes Jeff (Neil Patrick Harris) and Samantha (Bonnie Somerville) as they attempt to navigate the cutthroat waters of elite New York City kindergarten schools.

Neil Patrick Harris, Bonnie Somerville, Jenna Stern, Josh Shelov, Michael Jaeger, Amy Sedaris, Peter Serafinowicz, Christopher McDonald

R Comedy

46%

  • 2.7
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Turtle: The Incredible Journey is an award-winning film that follows the life and migration of a loggerhead turtle from hatching to maturity and a return to its original Florida nesting grounds. The loggerhead turtle, a threatened species, has one of the longest and most difficult migratory patterns of any marine animal: Sea turtles newly hatched on the East Coast of the United States (usually in Florida) make their way from the sand into the ocean, and then begin a voyage that can span the entire Atlantic Ocean, only to return decades later to that same beach.

Miranda Richardson, Nick Stringer

G Family Documentary Nature 3D

85%

  • 4.5
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The follow-up to "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen". No plot details are available yet.

Shia LaBeouf, Steven Spielberg, Michael Bay, Roberto Orci, Ken Jeong, Julie White, Patrick Dempsey, Lorenzo di Bonaventura

PG-13 Action Adventure Sequel Fantasy Sci-Fi 3D Shot-In-3D 2 hrs, 37 mins

90%

  • 4.5
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Top June 2011 Movie Trailers

The Lion of Judah Theatrical Trailer
YellowBrickRoad Theatrical Trailer
Transformers: Dark of the Moon Behind-the-Scenes Featurette
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