Best Movies of 2017
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Best Movies of 2017
TOP Movies: Gifted (2017), Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), Baby Driver (2017), War for the Planet of the Apes (2017), Coco (2017), Wonder (2017), John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017), Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Detroit (2017), Annabelle: Creation (2017), Atomic Blonde (2017), The Shape of Water (2017), Get Out (2017), Logan (2017), The Boss Baby (2017), Dunkirk (2017), Kong: Skull Island (2017), Logan Lucky (2017), Happy Death Day (2017).
List of Best Movies
157K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Frank, a single man raising his child prodigy niece Mary, is drawn into a custody battle with his mother.
Style:
inspirational, touching, emotional, sweet, light ...
Audience:
kids, teens, chick flick, family friendly, girls' night
Plot:
mathematics, genius, child prodigy, childhood, friendship, trial, school, child custody, happiness, children, teacher, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, year 1998
Place:
persia, boston, florida, california
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
Rey develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled by the strength of her powers. Meanwhile, the Resistance prepares to do battle with the First Order.
Style:
action adventure, exciting, anamorphic, futuristic, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family friendly, family outing, adult
Plot:
star wars, deception, battlefield, chubby, fat woman, good versus evil, sabotage, space opera, master apprentice relationship, flashback, space battle, betrayal ...
Time:
year 2017, future, 2010s
Place:
space western
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676K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.
Style:
suspense, noir, aesthetic, neo noir, action packed ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
car, heist, car chase, bank robbery, robbery, chase, sign language, twists and turns, caper, gangster, music, crime boss ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, 90s, 20th century, year 1998 ...
Place:
georgia, usa, north america, atlanta georgia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. As the ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, psychotronic, futuristic, intense ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
post apocalypse, ape, gorilla, talking animal, planet of the apes, future war, chimpanzee, revenge, near death experience, journey, animal, killer animal ...
Time:
2010s, near future, future, 2040s, year 2017
Place:
north america
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695K
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Music, Mystery
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead ...
Style:
touching, feel good, sincere, sweet, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot:
day of the dead, music, afterlife, musician, death, childhood, memory, boy, life after death, betrayal, life & death, dog ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017
Place:
mexico, tibet, north america
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195K
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
Style:
inspirational, touching, uplifting, sincere, thought provoking ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly
Plot:
bullying, friendship, school, child, happy ending, middle school, truancy, deformity, family relations, father son relationship, science teacher, disability ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
coney island brooklyn new york city, new york, manhattan new york city, pennsylvania
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy, Hong Kong, Canada
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
John Wick is forced out of retirement by a former associate looking to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to aid him, Wick travels to Rome and does battle against some of the world’s most dangerous ...
Style:
bloody, suspense, neo noir, brutal, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
revenge, hitman, assassin, one man army, one against many, violence, lone hero, blood, vengeance, tough guy, betrayal, chase ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
italy, new york, north america, manhattan new york city, rome italy ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The tables are turned as four teenagers are sucked into Jumanji's world - pitted against rhinos, black mambas and an endless variety of jungle traps and puzzles. To survive, they'll play as characters from the game.
Style:
breathtaking, biting, funny, exciting, saga ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick, family friendly, teens
Plot:
jungle, adventurer, game, zoologist, friendship, video game, magic, high school, surrealism, archaeologist, teenage boy, team ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017, year 1996, year 2016, jurassic ...
Place:
new hampshire, hawaii
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Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Spain
Duration: 164 min.
Story:
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, ...
Style:
futuristic, neo noir, detective, tech noir, thought provoking ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, dystopia, investigation, dark future, technology, robot, flying car, bounty hunter, violence, police detective, memory ...
Time:
future, near future, 2040s, distant future, year 2017 ...
Place:
california, nevada, space western, san diego california, los angeles ...
Is relevant?
59K
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizens' uprisings in the history of the United States.
Style:
suspense, social, hood, suspenseful, factual ...
Plot:
racism, police violence, police brutality, racial tension, trial, fear, motel, murder, african american, revenge, racial segregation, looting ...
Time:
year 2017, year 1967, 2010s, year 1969, year 1943 ...
Place:
detroit, michigan
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief ...
Style:
black comedy, ambiguous ending, dark comedy, crime drama, psychological ...
Plot:
small town, revenge, rape, small town life, loss of daughter, billboard, police brutality, regret, death of daughter, anger, violence, guilty conscience ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017, 21st century
Place:
missouri, idaho, persia, america, usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the dollmaker's possessed creation, Annabelle.
Style:
spooky, religious horror, psychological, suspense, saga ...
Plot:
ghost, evil doll, supernatural horror, supernatural, doll, nun, demonic possession, haunted, orphan, evil spirit, demon, loss of daughter ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, year 1955, 1950s, 50s
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219K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Sweden, Hungary
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.
Style:
sexy, surprise ending, exciting, suspense, harsh ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
spy, cold war, female spy, assassin, female killer, lgbt, female assassin, female agent, female warrior, rogue agent, lesbian, secret agent ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, year 1989, 80s, 20th century ...
Place:
berlin germany, east berlin, germany, eastern europe, german democratic republic ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.
Style:
touching, romantic, biting, fairy tale, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
sign language, interspecies romance, creature, love story, female protagonist, rescue, supernatural, interspecies sex, laboratory, cold war, scientist, friendship ...
Time:
year 1962, year 2017, 60s, future, 2010s
Place:
maryland, baltimore, los angeles, america, pittsburgh ...
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804K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend ...
Style:
twist ending, psychological, psychological thriller, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
racism, hypnosis, brainwashing, interracial romance, kidnapping, paranoia, survival, female villain, african american, revenge, african american protagonist, neurosurgeon ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 2017, 21st century
Place:
brooklyn new york city, southern usa, indiana, new york
Is relevant?
917K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hideout on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are upended when a young mutant arrives, pursued by dark forces.
Style:
emotional, harsh, suspense, intense, road movie ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
mutant, superhero, x men, fight scenes, protector, comic book, road trip, rage, invulnerability, one against many, assassin, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
future, near future, distant future, year 2017, 2020s ...
Place:
north dakota, el paso texas, texas, oklahoma city, north america ...
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156K
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A story about how a new baby's arrival impacts a family, told from the point of view of a delightfully unreliable narrator, a wildly imaginative 7 year old named Tim.
Style:
funny, touching, 3d animation, stylized, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, toddlers, preschool
Plot:
sibling rivalry, baby, boy, job promotion, child, little boy, child as adult, love, brothers, ceo, family relations, parenthood ...
Time:
year 2017, 20th century, 2010s
Place:
las vegas, nevada
Is relevant?
799K
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Netherlands, France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the German army from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk between May 26th and June 4th 1940 during World War II.
Style:
atmospheric, dramatic, epic, cerebral, visually stunning ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
world war two, military, war, survival, wartime, evacuation, soldier, beach, military officer, shell shock, air attack, combat ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940, 2010s, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
france, england, english channel, dover england, dunkirk ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, China, Vietnam
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Explore the mysterious and dangerous home of the king of the apes as a team of explorers ventures deep inside the treacherous, primordial island.
Style:
suspense, intense, scenic, harsh, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens
Plot:
monster, king kong, giant monster, creature, giant animal, island, survival, giant creature, monster versus monster, chase, expedition, jungle ...
Time:
70s, 1940s, year 2017, 2010s, year 1944 ...
Place:
vietnam, fictional island, washington d.c., pacific ocean, thailand ...
Is relevant?
176K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Trying to reverse a family curse, brothers Jimmy and Clyde Logan set out to execute an elaborate robbery during the legendary Coca-Cola 600 race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Style:
black comedy, suspense, exciting, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly, date night
Plot:
prison, heist, prison escape, prison riot, bartender, father daughter relationship, robbery, auto racing, mountain, money problems, ex husband ex wife relationship, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017
Place:
west virginia, north carolina
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A college student relives the day of her murder over and over again as she tries to discover her killer's identity.
Style:
slasher, suspense, surprise ending, twist ending, horror comedy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, horror for children
Plot:
time loop, time travel, college, college student, mystery killer, murder, dying repeatedly, twists and turns, repeated event, surprise birthday party, masked villain, masked killer ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017
Place:
arizona, louisiana
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
After working as a drug courier and getting into a brutal shootout with police, a former boxer finds himself at the mercy of his enemies as they force him to instigate violent acts that turn the prison he resides in into a battleground.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, rough, exciting ...
Plot:
prison, revenge, maximum security prison, kidnapping, prison guard, prison warden, murder, prisoner, extreme violence, violence, boxer, police shootout ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Fuelled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne and Diana Prince assemble a team of metahumans consisting of Barry Allen, Arthur Curry and Victor Stone to face the catastrophic threat of ...
Style:
exciting, entertaining, saga, psychotronic, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, family friendly
Plot:
superhero, superhuman powers, justice league, batman, superhuman, warrior, superhero team, super powers, superman, costumed hero, super speed, superheroine ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, future
Place:
fictional island, russia, kansas, london, tower bridge london
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
The Guardians must fight to keep their newfound family together as they unravel the mysteries of Peter Quill's true parentage.
Style:
entertaining, exciting, humorous, visually stunning, saga ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot:
superhero, alien, outer space, comic book, patricide, megalomaniac, father son relationship, chase, space battle, space, space travel, space pirate ...
Time:
2010s, future, year 2017, year 2014, 80s ...
Place:
space western, missouri
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A look behind the scenes at Bernie Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme, how it was perpetrated on the public and the trail of destruction it left in its wake, both for the victims and Madoff's family.
Style:
realistic, captivating, political, serious, tense ...
Plot:
wall street, scam, financier, stock exchange, fraud, money, investor, financial crisis, finance, businessman, corporate world, workplace ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
new york, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Desperate to pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, three lifelong pals risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.
Style:
feel good, entertaining, touching, humorous, buddy comedy ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
elderly, bank robbery, old man, money, retired, senior citizen, plan, swearing, masked robber, tattoo, bank, caper ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Thor is on the other side of the universe and finds himself in a race against time to get back to Asgard to stop Ragnarok, the prophecy of destruction to his homeworld and the end of Asgardian civilization, at the hands of an all-powerful new ...
Style:
entertaining, action comedy, saga, funny, action adventure ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, family friendly
Plot:
superhero, female villain, alien planet, monster, supernatural power, warrior, rebellion, goddess, deity, norse mythology, norse god, medieval ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017, 21st century
Place:
new york
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Following the events of Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker, with the help of his mentor Tony Stark, tries to balance his life as an ordinary high school student in Queens, New York City, with fighting crime as his superhero alter ego ...
Style:
entertaining, saga, suspense, funny, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night, chick flick, family friendly ...
Plot:
superhero, technology, teenager, teenage life, costumed hero, violence, high school, supernatural power, mentor, tony stark character, school, vigilante ...
Time:
year 2017, year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, america, washington d.c., north america, maryland ...
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Gru and his wife Lucy must stop former '80s child star Balthazar Bratt from achieving world domination.
Style:
3d animation, entertaining, sweet, funny, computer animated ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family friendly, toddlers, girls' night ...
Plot:
minion, fantasy world, happy ending, villain, prison escape, twin brother, prison, brother brother relationship, fired from the job, kidnapping, siblings, twins ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
california, new york
Is relevant?
360K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A California high school student plans to escape from her family and small town by going to college in New York.
Style:
gothic, cute, art house, sexual, frightening ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, family friendly, teen drama, adult
Plot:
coming of age, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, first love, loss of virginity, father daughter relationship, prom, female protagonist, teenager, closeted homosexual, high school, friendship ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, year 2002, year 2003, near future ...
Place:
sacramento california, california, new york, usa
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