15 most anticipated must-see films of winter

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

Not to miss out on anything else, take a look at this list of high-profile movie premieres for the winter season. Several promising and completely different films await us - from epic blockbusters to beautiful love stories.

1. Rogue One: Star Wars. Stories

Star Wars is back this year. But the next film does not continue the plot of the movie saga, but tells about the events that took place between its third and fourth parts. The focus is on a whole bunch of new characters as they try to steal blueprints for the Empire's most formidable weapon.

2. Phantom beauty

Will Smith plays an advertiser struggling with family grief. To get him back to normal, sympathetic colleagues devise an unusual plan. This is how a dramatic story of love, time and death begins. The film also stars Keira Knightley, Edward Norton, Kate Winslet and other movie stars.

3. Passengers

The spaceship takes the colonists to a distant planet. Until the end of the long-term flight, the life of all people on board should be prolonged by artificial sleep, but two of them come to their senses ahead of time. There is still 90 years before landing, and the two passengers, played by Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt, will have to while away this time together.

4. Viking

An ambitious project for Russian cinema. The events of this historical adventure picture unfold in the Middle Ages and describe the ascent to the throne of Vladimir Svyatoslavich, prince and baptist of Kievan Rus. Cast: Danila Kozlovsky, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Maxim Sukhanov and other famous actors.

5. Assassin's Creed

Fantastic action movie by Justin Kurzel based on the Assassin's Creed series of games. In the story, some powerful corporation rescues the criminal Callum Lynch, played by Michael Fassbender, from execution. With the help of special technology, he is forced to relive the events of the distant past, and then use the acquired knowledge for the purposes of organization.

6. Law of the night

Prohibition America. The main character of the film, Joe Coglin, becomes one of the bootleggers - underground alcohol dealers. This is how his path begins in the world of the criminal business. The leading actor, director and screenwriter of the picture is Ben Affleck.

7. Along the Milky Way

Historical drama filmed by Emir Kusturica according to his own script. The action of the film covers several periods in the life of the protagonist and his woman, including the years of the Bosnian War. The main roles are played by the director himself and Monica Bellucci.

8. Three X's: World Domination

Vin Diesel returns as extreme special agent Xander Cage. Having gathered a team of the same notorious daredevils like himself, Cage sets off in search of a secret weapon. All this spills over into spectacular pursuits, insane gunfights and a world-class conspiracy.

9. Silence

Historical drama by Martin Scorsese. It is the 17th century in the courtyard. Two Christian priests travel to Japan to preach their religion. Here they will feel all the hostility of a closed conservative country to the values of the Western world. The main roles are played by Andrew Garfield and Liam Neeson.

10. T2: Trainspotting

Director Danny Boyle returns to the screens the characters of his cult film Trainspotting, and even in the guise of the same actors. Crazy drug addicts from the first picture have matured for twenty years and are now trying to make money on porn. Like the previous part, the second is also based on the work of the writer Irwin Welch.

11. Calls

The story told in "Call" and "Call 2" continues. The young man is interested in dark rumors around the tape, which killed everyone who watched it, in the first two parts. When a hobby becomes dangerous for a guy, his girlfriend comes to the rescue. Taking a hit on herself, she reveals a frightening secret.

12. Great Wall

A fantasy blockbuster by Chinese director Zhang Yimou with Hollywood actors. Events take place in Ancient China. A horde of fierce monsters is approaching the world, which can only be stopped in the battle on the Great Wall. Two foreign mercenaries come to the aid of the Chinese. The latter are portrayed by Matt Damon and Pedro Pascal.

13. John Wick 2

Keanu Reeves again plays the virtuoso hitman John Wick. Circumstances force the hero to return to the old business and again embark on the warpath. But his new enemies can be much more insidious than the previous ones.

14. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter

The sixth part of "Resident Evil", a series of action films about the consequences of a biological catastrophe. Agent Alice, played by Milla Jovovich, continues to fight the sinister bio-corporation Umbrella. Apparently, we are waiting for the final confrontation, which will complete the storyline of the film franchise.

15. Tulip fever

A romantic drama based on the novel of the same name by Deborah Moggak. The plot of the film is set in the Netherlands in the 17th century and consists of love affairs in a narrow circle of the poor and aristocrats. The cast includes Alicia Vikander, Dane DeHaan, Christopher Waltz and Cara Delevingne.