January 2015 Movies

Amy Renner Amy Renner

Feb. 18, 2023

Best Movies Released January 2015

American Sniper Movie Poster
Action

62%

  • 4.3
Selma Movie Poster
Drama

64%

  • 3.6
Strange Magic Movie Poster
Animation

47%

  • 3.6
The Loft Movie Poster
Remake

25%

  • 3.5
Black Sea Movie Poster
Adventure

28%

  • 3.5
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Action

22%

  • 4.3
Predestination Movie Poster
Sci-Fi

37%

  • 3.8
Son of a Gun Movie Poster
Crime

31%

  • 3.6
Inherent Vice Movie Poster
Adaptation

18%

  • 3.2
Paddington Movie Poster
Adventure

37%

  • 4.1
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Documentary

22%

  • 3.1
Project Almanac Movie Poster
Suspense

29%

  • 3.8
Cake Movie Poster
Comedy

72%

  • 3.9
The Boy Next Door Movie Poster
Psychological

42%

  • 3.6
Timbuktu Movie Poster
Drama

45%

  • 3.8

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Forty years later in the mid 1900s, a couple encounters the vengeful ghost of The Woman in Black in the eerie Eel Marsh House.

Phoebe Fox, Jeremy Irvine, Adrian Rawlins, Simon Oakes, Tom Harper, Richard Jackson, Nigel Sinclair, Jon Croker

PG-13 Drama Sequel Thriller Horror

37%

  • 3
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Angela Vidal wakes up in a high-security quarantine facility, sole survivor and witness to the horrific events inside the building. But does she remember what happened to her? Is she carrying the virus? Distrust spreads through the isolated facility while new, even more deadly forms of evil spread even faster.

Javier Botet, Jaume Balaguero, Manuela Velasco, Paco Manzanedo

R Sequel Horror 1 hr, 36 mins

34%

  • 3.5
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Follows a displaced mother's tireless search for her son, a young Auschwitz survivor, in the aftermath of WWII.

Christopher Woodrow, Maria Cestone, Thomas Langmann, Annette Bening, Michel Hazanavicius, Berenice Bejo, Sarah E. Johnson, Molly Conners

78%

  • 2
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A drama about Martin Luther King, Jr.'s freedom marches in Selma, Alabama in the 1960s, and specifically the relationship between King and President Johnson, who signed the Voting Rights Act a few months later.

David Oyelowo, Dylan Baker, Ava DuVernay, Brad Pitt, Paul Webb, Tim Roth, Cameron McCracken, Christian Colson

Drama

64%

  • 3.6
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The film chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent (Ethan Hawke) sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.

Ethan Hawke, Noah Taylor, Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig, Sarah Snook, Christopher Kirby

R Thriller Sci-Fi 1 hr, 37 mins

37%

  • 3.8
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Larry "Doc" Sportello, a pothead private eye wanders through the Summer (and winter) of Love in 1969 Los Angeles.

Reese Witherspoon, Joaquin Phoenix, Benicio Del Toro, Owen Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Joanne Sellar, Martin Short, Katherine Waterston

R Drama Adaptation

18%

  • 3.2
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About a rebellious young man who struggles to decide between the dark path he is on and the chance at a new life.

Minka Kelly, Jeremy Irvine, Todd Labarowski, Daniel Wagner, Brad Coolidge, David Burris, Noah Wyle, Adelaide Clemens

R Drama 1 hr, 59 mins

10%

  • 2.3
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The film follows brothers Sean and Mike and Mike’s wife, Wit - a brainy anesthesiologist - who head out on a hunting trip in a nature preserve. But when the brothers are ensnared by unseen hunters, Wit must unleash her own animal instincts or else end up a trophy.

Christopher Denham, Wrenn Schmidt, Pablo Schreiber, Aaron Staton

Thriller Horror 1 hr, 30 mins

51%

  • 3.2
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No plot details have been revealed yet. As screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen explains, "We've taken everyone we can take — it's going to go in another direction. Should be interesting."

Liam Neeson, Olivier Megaton, Robert Mark Kamen, Famke Janssen, Leland Orser, Luc Besson, Maggie Grace, Forest Whitaker

PG-13 Action Sequel

65%

  • 4
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Everyone hates Ward’s wife and wants her dead, Ward (Donald Faison) most of all. But when his friends’ murderous fantasies turn into an (accidental) reality, they have to deal with a whole new set of problems — like how to dispose of the body and still make their 3 p.m. tee time. Scott Foley's directorial debut is a blackly comic caper about helping a friend out of a bad relationship by any means necessary.

Nicollette Sheridan, Dagmara Dominczyk, Donald Faison, James Carpinello, Scott Foley, Patrick Wilson, Amy Acker, Marika Dominczyk

Comedy 1 hr, 21 mins

48%

  • 3.9
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A 17-year-old is on house arrest for the summer. When his mother is away on business, a horrifying incident occurs, followed by an even more terrifying presence in the house.

Jamie Carmichael, Paul Solet, Mike Le

Horror Supernatural

47%

  • 5
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A talking bear is adopted by a London family when they find him lost at Paddington Station.

Nicole Kidman, Jim Broadbent, Sally Hawkins, Paul King, Hugh Bonneville, Kevin McCormick, David Heyman, Hamish McColl

Adventure Comedy Family Kids

37%

  • 4.1
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No plot details have been announced.

Kevin Hart, Josh Gad, Jorge Garcia, Jeremy Garelick, Kaley Cuoco, Ken Howard, Affion Crockett, Dan Gill

R Comedy

25%

  • 3.5
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A thriller about cyber crime. No plot details have been announced.

Viola Davis, Chris Hemsworth, Alex Garcia, Michael Mann, Jon Jashni, Thomas Tull, Morgan Davis Foehl, Wei Tang

R Thriller Crime 2 hrs, 13 mins

20%

  • 3.5
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From 1999 to 2009, Texas native Chris Kyle, a Navy SEAL, records the highest number of sniper kills for an American.

Steven Spielberg, Clint Eastwood, Keir O'Donnell, Bradley Cooper, Brando Eaton, Eric Ladin, Andrew Lazar, Peter Morgan

Drama Action War Biography 2 hrs, 12 mins

62%

  • 4.3
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Four undocumented Mexican-American high school students who form a robotics club and go up against MIT in the National Underwater Robotics Competition.

Alexa Vega, Sean McNamara, Marisa Tomei, Jamie Lee Curtis, Elissa Matsueda, Carlos Pena, George Lopez

Adventure Teen

27%

  • 4.2
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Set on a resort in the future, the staff are lifelike synthetic beings and the rich can live out their darkest fantasies. The pseudo-paradise has an anything goes policy since the memories of the androids reset every night. One female staffer, however, suffers a glitch and is flooded with all her memories. Realizing the horror she has been made to suffer, she vows revenge.

Jeremy Passmore, Bruce Willis, Randall Emmett, George Furla, Andre Fabrizio, Thomas Jane, Ambyr Childers, Johnathon Schaech

Action Thriller Sci-Fi 1 hr, 36 mins

58%

  • 2.3
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A cognitive psychologist faces the early onset Alzheimer’s disease.

Kate Bosworth, Julianne Moore, Kristen Stewart, Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland, Alec Baldwin, Hunter Parrish

Drama

59%

  • 4
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The movie stars Sarah Michelle Gellar as a woman who wakes up in a mental institution after a failed suicide attempt. She discovers that she has a weakened heart and only days to live. The film follows her recovery as she finds true love and a newfound will to survive.

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jonathan Tucker, Emily Young, Larry Gross, Erika Christensen

Drama Thriller Suspense

77%

  • 3
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A madcap fairy tale musical inspired by 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream.' Popular songs from the past six decades help tell the tale of a colorful cast of goblins, elves, fairies and imps, and their hilarious misadventures sparked by the battle over a powerful potion.

Maya Rudolph, David Berenbaum, Gary Rydstrom, George Lucas, Irene Mecchi, Alan Cumming, Kristin Chenoweth, Evan Rachel Wood

PG Fantasy Musical Family Animation 1 hr, 39 mins

47%

  • 3.6
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A submarine captain is laid off by a salvage company and makes a deal with a shadowy backer to look for a storied sunken submarine reputed to be loaded with gold at the bottom of the Black Sea. Since this find would get him even with his ex-bosses, he puts together a crew of English and Russian sailors for the task, taking off to uncharted depths with his motley crew. The closer they get to the prize, the riskier it becomes to trust one another.

Jude Law, David Threlfall, Ben Mendelsohn, Kevin Macdonald, Charles Steel, Dennis Kelly, Scoot McNairy, Grigoriy Dobrygin

R Adventure Thriller

28%

  • 3.5
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A single mom becomes attracted to the teenage boy who moves in next door and befriends her son. She starts and ends the romance, but he doesn’t let go so easily.

Jennifer Lopez, Barbara Curry, Rob Cohen, Kristin Chenoweth, John Corbett, Ryan Guzman, Bailey Chase, Ian Nelson

R Suspense Romance Psychological

42%

  • 3.6
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Charles Mortdecai, a debonair art dealer and part-time rogue, must traverse the globe armed only with his good looks and special charm in a race to recover a stolen painting rumored to contain the code to a lost bank account filled with Nazi gold. He also has to juggle angry Russians, the British Mi5, his impossibly leggy wife and an international terrorist.

Johnny Depp, Paul Bettany, Guy Burnet, Ewan McGregor, David Koepp, Andrew Lazar, Eric Aronson, Gwyneth Paltrow

Crime Dark Comedy

19%

  • 3.4
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Story follows the relationship between Australia’s public enemy number one and his young protege.

Julius Avery, Alicia Vikander, Ewan McGregor, Jacek Koman, John Collee, Brenton Thwaites

R Thriller Crime 1 hr, 48 mins

31%

  • 3.6
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Red Army is a feature documentary about the Soviet Union and the most successful dynasty in sports history: the Red Army hockey team. Told from the perspective of its captain Slava Fetisov, the story portrays his transformation from national hero to political enemy. From the USSR to Russia, the film examines how sport mirrors social and cultural movements and parallels the rise and fall of the Red Army team with the Soviet Union.

Gabe Polsky

Documentary

22%

  • 3.1
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Acerbic, hilarious Claire Simmons becomes fascinated by the suicide of Nina, a woman in her chronic pain support group. As she uncovers the details of Nina's suicide and develops a poignant relationship with Nina's husband, Claire also grapples with her own very raw personal tragedy.

William H. Macy, Adriana Barraza, Jennifer Aniston, Sam Worthington, Mark Canton, Daniel Barnz, Patrick Tobin, Anna Kendrick

R Drama Comedy 1 hr, 42 mins

72%

  • 3.9
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Story centers on a young woman who returns home after her brother is injured, only to meet and romantically connect with his favorite musician, who draws inspiration from the siblings.

Christopher Woodrow, Anne Hathaway, Hoyt David Morgan, Maria Cestone, Amanda Bowers, Johnny Flynn, Mary Steenburgen, Kate Barker-Froyland

Drama 1 hr, 28 mins

84%

  • 3.4
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A woman who studies butterflies and moths tests the limits of her relationship with her lover.

Sidse Babett Knudsen, Peter Strickland, Chiara D’Anna

Drama Romance Mystery

25%

  • 1
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In one of the most harrowing true stories of World War II, three US Navy airmen crash land their torpedo bomber in the South Pacific and find themselves on a tiny life raft, surrounded by open ocean. No food. No water. No hope of rescue. Against incredible odds, these three virtual strangers must survive storms, sharks, starvation - and each other - as they try to sail more than a thousand miles to safety.

Brian Falk, Mark David Keegan, Garett Dillahunt, Jake Abel, Tom Felton

PG Action War Historical True Story 1 hr, 39 mins

37%

  • 3.4
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A passionate widowed single mom (Anne Dorval) finds herself burdened with the full-time custody of her unpredictable 15-year-old ADHD son (Antoine Olivier Pilon). As they struggle to make ends meet, Kyla (Suzanne Clément), the peculiar new neighbor across the street, offers her help. Together, they strive for a new sense of balance.

Xavier Dolan

R Drama 2 hrs, 19 mins

25%

  • 1
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A famous stage actor in decline is revived when he retires to his upstate New York farmhouse and takes up with a much younger woman.

Barry Levinson, Al Pacino, Avi Lerner, Buck Henry

Drama Romance

100%

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Not far from Timbuktu, now ruled by the religious fundamentalists, Kidane lives peacefully in the dunes with his wife Satima, his daughter Toya, and Issan, their twelve-year-old shepherd. In town, the people suffer, powerless, from the regime of terror imposed by the Jihadists determined to control their faith. Music, laughter, cigarettes, even soccer have been banned. The women have become shadows but resist with dignity. Every day, the new improvised courts issue tragic and absurd sentences. Kidane and his family are being spared the chaos that prevails in Timbuktu. But their destiny changes when Kidane accidentally kills Amadou, the fisherman who slaughtered “GPS,” his beloved cow. He now has to face the new laws of the foreign occupants.

Abderrahmane Sissako

PG-13 Drama

45%

  • 3.8
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Five married friends decide to rent a loft together where they can bring their mistresses. When the body of an unknown woman is found in the loft, they realize that they don't know each other as well as they thought and begin to suspect one another of murder.

Steve Golin, Erik Van Looy, Paul Green, Matt DeRoss, Adam Shulman, Hilde DeLaere, Wesley Strick, Isabel Lucas

R Thriller Suspense Remake

25%

  • 3.5
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Widowed after the car crash death of his wife, a grandfather has raised his own bi-racial granddaughter since his daughter died in childbirth. The child's paternal grandmother surfaces to wage a custody battle over the little girl, and the thrust becomes about race and where she should grow up.

Anthony Mackie, Kevin Costner, Bill Burr, Mike Binder, Todd Lewis, Octavia Spencer, Gillian Jacobs, Jennifer Ehle

PG-13 Drama 2 hrs, 1 min

66%

  • 4
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No details about Almanac were given other than it is intended to be a found-footage project involving the creation of a time machine.

Michael Bay, Andrew Deutschman, Dean Israelite, Andrew Form, Brad Fuller, Jason Pagan, Jonny Weston, Sofia Black-D’Elia

Thriller Suspense

29%

  • 3.8
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A compulsive gambler whose addiction has led him to the streets of Vegas, Nick Escalante takes odd jobs providing “security” to support his addiction. His professional and personal lives collide when his friend is brutally beaten forcing him to take on the mob.

Jason Statham, Stanley Tucci, William Goldman, Sofia Vergara, Simon West, Michael Angarano, Anne Heche, Cedric the Entertainer

Action Thriller Crime 1 hr, 32 mins

22%

  • 4.3
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When trauma-induced phobias begin to re-emerge in five survivors a year after their horrifying tragedy, they return to the “Fear Clinic,” hoping to find the answers they need to get cured. Dr. Andover (Robert Englund), a fear doctor who runs the clinic, uses his Fear Chamber to animate their fears in the form of terrifying hallucinations. However, the good doctor soon begins to suspect that something more sinister may be at work, something that yearns to be more than just a hallucination…

Robert Englund, Robert Hall, Aaron Drane

Horror

31%

  • 3.2
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Two documentary cameramen embedded in an army unit in the most hostile place on earth, an outpost surrounded by the last remaining alien fighters (Heavies) of an invading attack force. The world may have forgotten about the Outposts, but the Heavies are planning the second invasion of Earth and the soldiers are the only ones who can stop it.

Douglas Tait, Jabbar Raisani, Adrian Paul, Rick Ravanello, Reiley McClendon, Sven Ruygrok, Matthew Holmes

1 hr, 33 mins

44%

  • 3.7
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Top January 2015 Movie Trailers

Alien Outpost Theatrical Trailer
[REC] 4: Apocalypse Theatrical Trailer
The Boy Next Door Theatrical Trailer
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