Must-see: Best 2017 Oscar Nominated Films

La La Land

Musical, drama, melodrama, comedy.
USA.
Duration: 128 minutes
IMDb: 8, 6.
Premiere date (RF): January 12, 2017.

Young actress Mia and jazz pianist Sebastian, despite huge competition, are struggling to achieve success and fame in the huge Los Angeles. They fail, follow the lead of easy success, fall in love and become disillusioned, but to the last they remain true to their dreams.

Manchester by the sea

Drama.
USA.
Duration: 137 minutes
IMDb: 8, 3.
Premiere date (RF): March 23, 2017.

Lee Chandler leads an extremely solitary life, preferring alcohol and drunken fights to normal human communication. Everything changes when he learns about the sudden death of his older brother. Lee is forced to return to his hometown of Manchester, with which he is associated with not the most pleasant memories, and get along with his underage nephew, whose guardian he is now.

Moonlight

Drama.
USA.
Duration: 110 minutes
IMDb: 8, 2.
Premiere date (RF): February 16, 2017.

A young black boy from birth is forced to fight for survival in Miami - a city ruled by drugs, money and villains. Despite the bad and contradictory people who surround him, he still decides to try to find his life path and change his fate.

Arrival

Science fiction, thriller, drama, detective.
USA.
Duration: 116 minutes
IMDb: 8, 2.
Premiere date (RF): November 11, 2016.

When 12 space alien ships descend to Earth, the American government begins to worry and instructs the team, led by linguistics teacher Louise Banks, to find a common language with them in any possible way and find out why they came.

For reasons of conscience

Drama, military, history.
USA, Australia.
Duration: 139 minutes
IMDb: 8, 4.
Premiere date (RF): November 17, 2016.

Desmond Doss is an ordinary guy. Since childhood, he dreamed of becoming a doctor, but he did not have enough knowledge for admission. However, his dream was still destined to come true: in the midst of the Second World War, where, overcoming difficulties, he would save many soldiers, maintaining faith in his pacifist beliefs.

Hidden figures

Drama, biography, history.
USA.
Duration: 127 minutes
IMDb: 8, 0.
Premiere date (RF): March 16, 2017.

The film takes place in the early 1960s, when the rivalry between the United States and the USSR in the space race was in full swing. Al Harrison, who was tasked to send the device with a man on board into Earth orbit as quickly as possible, decides to take a desperate step and recruits three brave and very talented African American women. Carrying out secret missions, they will be forced to face racism, sexism and total mistrust.

a lion

Drama.
USA, Australia, UK.
Duration: 118 minutes
IMDb: 8, 0.
Premiere date (RF): February 16, 2017.

At the age of five, a boy named Sarah from an Indian slum is lost at the train station. He ends up in an orphanage, but by a happy coincidence he is adopted by a family from distant Australia. After 25 years, an adult Sarah is making an attempt to find his own family again.

Fences

Drama.
USA.
Duration: 139 minutes
IMDb: 7, 7.
Premiere date (RF): unknown.

Troy Maxson, formerly a successful baseball player, is losing his job and livelihood. In order to somehow support his family, he is forced to look for a new job, which in America of the 60s is not so easy to do. The situation is complicated by the fact that Troy is African American, and no one has canceled racial discrimination.

At any cost

Drama, crime, western.
USA.
Duration: 102 minutes
IMDb: 7, 7.
Premiere date (RF): August 18, 2016.

Two failed brothers go all out to save the family ranch, which belonged to their deceased mother, and pay off a huge debt for it. To collect the necessary amount, they are forced to break the law more than once and outwit the harsh Texas ranger who is trying to track them down.