13 Decent Movies of 2017 You Might Have Missed

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Lifehacker has compiled a list of excellent films that undeservedly remained in the shadow of louder premieres in the past year.

Paterson

• Drama, melodrama, comedy.
• USA, France, Germany.
• Duration: 118 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 4.

A kind and soothing film about the daily life of Paterson, a bus driver and poet. He writes poetry on the table and does not give in to his wife's persuasion to publish them. One day a small incident happens that disrupts the usual course of things and makes him change his mind.

No matter what

• Comedy, drama.
• Germany.
• Duration: 111 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 1.

A young and very ambitious guy named Salia, by all means, wants to get an internship at the most respected hotel in Munich and build a career in the hotel business. But there is only one obstacle: his vision is constantly deteriorating, he practically does not see anything. Despite this, Salia does not despair and continues to pursue her dream.

Dog life

• Fantasy, drama, comedy, adventure, family.
• USA, India.
• Duration: 100 minutes
• IMDb: 6, 9.

A golden retriever named Bailey has the ability to reincarnate. First he lives with the boy Ethan, then he is reborn as a police dog - and this continues over and over again. Living different canine lives and finding himself in the houses of different owners, Bailey gradually guesses what the meaning and purpose of his existence really is.

Zoo keeper's wife

• Drama, military, biography, history.
• Czech Republic, Great Britain, USA.
• Duration: 127 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 0.

Based on real events, the story of the heroic deed of the caretakers of the Warsaw Zoo Jan and Antonina Zhabinski. During World War II, the couple risked their own lives to provide shelter to persecuted Jews so that they would not fall into the hands of the Nazis.

Gifted

• Drama.
• USA.
• Duration: 101 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 6.

Mary is an unusually talented girl with great ability in mathematics. Her adoptive father Frank Adler strives to do everything so that the baby has a happy childhood, the same as that of all ordinary children. But the grandmother Mary wants to grow a brilliant mathematician out of her by all means. To achieve her goal, she is ready for the most desperate measures.

He and she

• Melodrama, comedy.
• France, Belgium.
• Duration: 120 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 3.

A beautiful, but very difficult love story of the writer Victor and Sarah, an MA in Classical Literature. They meet at a bar and do not even imagine that the acquaintance will last much longer than one evening.

About body and soul

• Drama, melodrama.
• Hungary.
• Duration: 116 minutes
• IMDb: 8, 0.

Maria and Endre are colleagues who lead a very withdrawn lifestyle and try to communicate with people less. One day they accidentally find out that they have exactly the same dreams. Perceiving this as a secret sign, they try to get closer in order to get to know each other better, and do not even suspect what consequences this will lead to.

Van Gogh. Love, Vincent

• Drama, crime, biography, cartoon.
• Great Britain, Poland.
• Duration: 104 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 9.

A full-length film about the life, work and death of the talented and mysterious artist Vincent Van Gogh, completely rendered in his inimitable style.

Miracle

• Drama, family.
• USA, Hong Kong.
• Duration: 113 minutes
• IMDb: 8, 1.

Auggie Pullman is a little boy who is about to go to school for the first time. Due to a rare congenital disease, Auggie's face is so deformed that he prefers to go everywhere in an astronaut's helmet so as not to frighten others. Parents do not want their child to be a black sheep, and do their best to support him, trying to help build relationships with peers.

Young Godard

• Drama, melodrama, comedy, biography.
• France.
• Duration: 107 minutes
• IMDb: 6, 9.

The famous French director Jean-Luc Godard shoots the film "Chinese Woman" and falls madly in love with Anna Vyazemsky, who plays the main role in it. Jean-Luc and Anna are very happy in marriage, but Godard's passion for youth riots and his ardent interest in the revolutionary movement do not have a very positive effect on their relationship.

Goodbye Christopher Robin

• Family, biography, history.
• United Kingdom.
• Duration: 107 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 2.

The story of the relationship between the writer Alan Milne and his son Christopher Robin, as well as where the writer got ideas and inspiration to create stories about the adventures of Winnie the Pooh.

The Catcher in the Rye

• Drama, biography.
• USA.
• Duration: 106 minutes
• IMDb: 6, 5.

A biographical drama about the life of Jerome Salinger, who dreamed of becoming a writer from a young age. Once at Columbia University, he became friends with editor and publisher Whit Burnett, who inspired him to get serious about creativity. However, all the plans of the writer were disrupted by the Second World War. Salinger volunteered for the front, where he conceived his most famous novel about Holden Caulfield.

Battle of the sexes

• Drama, comedy, biography, sports.
• Great Britain, USA.
• Duration: 121 minutes
• IMDb: 7, 0.

A true-life comedy about an important sporting duel between 29-year-old tennis player Billie Jean King and 55-year-old Wimbledon champion Bobby Riggs. It was this match that proved that female athletes have every right to compete on equal terms with men and receive the same awards.