Best 2016 Movies
Split
Split
Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him — as well as everyone around him — as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.
Country: United States of America
Genre: Best 2016, Best Horror 2017
20th Century Women
20th Century Women
In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women – Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields\' home and Julie, a savvy and provocative teenage neighbour – to help with Jamie\'s upbringing.
Country: United States of America
Genre: Best 2016
Silence
Silence
Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.
Genre: Best 2016
Fences
Fences
In 1950s Pittsburgh, a frustrated African-American father struggles with the constraints of poverty, racism, and his own inner demons as he tries to raise a family.
Country: Canada, United States of America
Genre: Best 2016
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
A rogue band of resistance fighters unite for a mission to steal the Death Star plans and bring a new hope to the galaxy.
Country: United States of America
Patriots Day
Patriots Day
In the aftermath of an unspeakable act of terror, Police Sergeant Tommy Saunders joins courageous survivors, first responders and investigators in a race against the clock to hunt down the Boston Marathon bombers before they strike again.
Country: Hong Kong, United States of America
Genre: Best 2016
Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures
The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.
Country: United States of America
Genre: Best 2016, Best Family 2016
La La Land
La La Land
Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.
Country: United States of America
Miss Sloane
Miss Sloane
An ambitious lobbyist faces off against the powerful gun lobby in an attempt to pass gun control legislation.
Country: France, United States of America
Genre: Best 2016, Best Thriller 2016
Lion
Lion
A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
Sing
Sing
A koala named Buster recruits his best friend to help him drum up business for his theater by hosting a singing competition.
Country: United States of America
Moana
Moana
In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by Maui reaches an impetuous Chieftain\'s daughter\'s island, she answers the Ocean\'s call to seek out the demigod to set things right.
Country: United States of America
Manchester by the Sea
Manchester by the Sea
After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.
Country: United States of America
Genre: Best 2016, Best Drama 2016
The Edge of Seventeen
The Edge of Seventeen
Two high school girls are best friends until one dates the other\'s older brother, who is totally his sister\'s nemesis.
Country: United States of America
Genre: Best 2016
Paterson
Paterson
A week in the life of a bus driver and poet named Paterson, and his supportive wife Laura.
Genre: Best 2016
Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them
Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them
In 1926, Newt Scamander arrives at the Magical Congress of the United States of America with a magically expanded briefcase, which houses a number of dangerous creatures and their habitats. When the creatures escape from the briefcase, it sends the American wizarding authorities after Newt, and threatens to strain even further the state of magical and non-magical relations.
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Best 2016
Arrival
Arrival
Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
Country: United States of America
Nocturnal Animals
Nocturnal Animals
Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.
Country: United States of America
Genre: Best 2016, Best Thriller 2016
Doctor Strange
Doctor Strange
After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing and trains him to defend the world against evil.
Country: United States of America
Moonlight
Moonlight
The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
Country: United States of America
The Accountant
The Accountant
As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities and the body count starts to rise.
Country: United States of America
A Monster Calls
A Monster Calls
A boy imagines a monster that helps him deal with his difficult life and see the world in a different way.
Genre: Best 2016
Hacksaw Ridge
Hacksaw Ridge
WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Country: Australia, United States of America
Genre: Best 2016, Best Drama 2016
M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story
Queen of Katwe
Queen of Katwe
A young girl overcomes her disadvantaged upbringing in the slums of Uganda to become a Chess master.
Country: United States of America
Genre: Best 2016, Best Family 2016
Snowden
Snowden
CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
Country: Germany, United States of America
Genre: Best 2016, Best Thriller 2016
The Founder
The Founder
The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.
Country: United States of America
Genre: Best 2016
Sully
Sully
On 15 January 2009, the world witnessed the \'Miracle on the Hudson\' when Captain \'Sully\' Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and career.
Country: United States of America
Genre: Best 2016, Best Drama 2016
Your Name (Kimi no Na wa)
Your Name (Kimi no Na wa)
High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must adjust their lives around each other.
Country: Japan
Kubo and the Two Strings (Latino Audio
Kubo and the Two Strings (Latino Audio
Kubo mesmerizes the people in his village with his magical gift for spinning wild tales with origami. When he accidentally summons an evil spirit seeking vengeance, Kubo is forced to go on a quest to solve the mystery of his fallen samurai father and his mystical weaponry, as well as discover his own magical powers.
Country: United States of America
Hell or High Water
Hell or High Water
A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family\'s farm in West Texas.
Country: United States of America
Train to Busan
Train to Busan
Martial law is declared when a mysterious viral outbreak pushes Korea into a state of emergency. Those on an express train to Busan, a city that has successfully fended off the viral outbreak, must fight for their own survival…
Country: South Korea
Captain Fantastic
Captain Fantastic
A father living in the forests of the Pacific Northwest with his six young kids tries to assimilate back into society.
Country: United States of America
The Salesman
The Salesman
Forced out of their apartment due to dangerous works on a neighboring building, Emad and Rana move into a new flat in the center of Tehran. An incident linked to the previous tenant will dramatically change the young couple’s life.
Finding Dory
Finding Dory
Dory is reunited with her friends Nemo and Marlin in the search for answers about her past. What can she remember? Who are her parents? And where did she learn to speak Whale?
Country: United States of America
Me Before You
Me Before You
A small town girl is caught between dead-end jobs. A high-profile, successful man becomes wheelchair bound following an accident. The man decides his life is not worth living until the girl is hired for six months to be his new caretaker. Worlds apart and trapped together by circumstance, the two get off to a rocky start. But the girl becomes determined to prove to the man that life is worth living and as they embark on a series of adventures together, each finds their world changing in ways neither of them could begin to imagine.
Country: United States of America
Genre: Best 2016, Best Romantic 2016
The Handmaiden
The Handmaiden
1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a young woman is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering uncle. But, the maid has a secret: she is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese count to help him seduce the heiress to elope with him, rob her of her fortune, and lock her up in a madhouse. The plan seems to proceed according to plan until the women discover some unexpected emotions.
Country: South Korea
Genre: Best 2016, Best Erotic
The Nice Guys
The Nice Guys
A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.
Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
The Conjuring 2
The Conjuring 2
Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.
Country: United States of America
Captain America: Civil War
Captain America: Civil War
Following the events of Age of Ultron, the collective governments of the world pass an act designed to regulate all superhuman activity. This polarizes opinion amongst the Avengers, causing two factions to side with Iron Man or Captain America, which causes an epic battle between former allies.
Country: United States of America
The Jungle Book
The Jungle Book
A man-cub named Mowgli fostered by wolves. After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan, Mowgli is forced to flee the jungle, by which he embarks on a journey of self discovery with the help of the panther, Bagheera and the free-spirited bear, Baloo.
Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive.
Country: New Zealand
Genre: Best 2016, Best Family 2016
Sing Street
Sing Street
A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.
Eddie The Eagle
Eddie The Eagle
Inspired by true events, Eddie the Eagle is a feel-good story about Michael \"Eddie\" Edwards (Taron Egerton), an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself - even as an entire nation was counting him out. With the help of a rebellious and charismatic coach (played by Hugh Jackman), Eddie takes on the establishment and wins the hearts of sports fans around the world by making an improbable and historic showing at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics.
Genre: Best 2016
Zootopia
Zootopia
Determined to prove herself, Officer Judy Hopps, the first bunny on Zootopia\'s police force, jumps at the chance to crack her first case - even if it means partnering with scam-artist fox Nick Wilde to solve the mystery.
Country: United States of America
Deadpool
Deadpool
Deadpool tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.
Country: United States of America
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.
Genre: Best 2016