Best Movies on Foxtel to Watch

Overview

Waking up in an unfamiliar city, a man with no memory must confront the mysteries of his own identity. However, his desperate search to uncover the past pits him against a powerful enemy, leading to a showdown that ultimately reveals the truth.

Director

James Bamford

Duration

103 minutes

Overview

Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs — and it’s absolutely impossible to contain.

Director

Danny Boyle

Cast

Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Brendan Gleeson, Megan Burns, Christopher Eccleston

Duration

118 minutes

Overview

A young sex worker from Brooklyn gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch. Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as his parents set out to get the marriage annulled.

Director

Sean Baker

Cast

Mikey Madison, Mark Eydelshteyn, Karren Karagulian, Yuriy Borisov, Vache Tovmasyan

Duration

139 minutes

Overview

An unprecedented series of violent tornadoes is sweeping across Oklahoma. Tornado chasers, headed by Dr. Jo Harding, attempt to release a groundbreaking device that will allow them to track them and create a more advanced warning system. They are joined by Jo’s soon to be ex-husband Bill, a former tornado chaser himself, and his girlfriend Melissa.

Director

Jan de Bont

Cast

Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes, Jami Gertz, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Duration

113 minutes

Overview

Hutch Mansell, a suburban dad, overlooked husband, nothing neighbor — a “nobody.” When two thieves break into his home one night, Hutch’s unknown long-simmering rage is ignited and propels him on a brutal path that will uncover dark secrets he fought to leave behind.

Director

Ilya Naishuller

Cast

Bob Odenkirk, Connie Nielsen, Christopher Lloyd, Aleksey Serebryakov, RZA

Duration

93 minutes

Overview

In the land of Oz, ostracized and misunderstood green-skinned Elphaba is forced to share a room with the popular aristocrat Glinda at Shiz University, and the two’s unlikely friendship is tested as they begin to fulfill their respective destinies as Glinda the Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.

Director

Jon M. Chu

Cast

Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum

Duration

161 minutes

Overview

Escaping post-war Europe, visionary architect László Toth arrives in America to rebuild his life. On his own in a strange new country, a wealthy industrialist recognizes his talent. But power and legacy come at a heavy cost…

Director

Brady Corbet

Cast

Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy

Duration

215 minutes

Overview

The Dashwood sisters, sensible Elinor and passionate Marianne, whose chances at marriage seem doomed by their family’s sudden loss of fortune. When Henry Dashwood dies unexpectedly, his estate must pass on by law to his son from his first marriage, John and wife Fanny. But these circumstances leave Mr. Dashwood’s current wife, and daughters Elinor, Marianne and Margaret, without a home and with barely enough money to live on. As Elinor and Marianne struggle to find romantic fulfillment in a society obsessed with financial and social status, they must learn to mix sense with sensibility in their dealings with both money and men.

Director

Ang Lee

Cast

Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, James Fleet

Duration

136 minutes

Overview

Grace lives an idyllic life in a British seaside town, but her world soon comes crashing down when her husband of 29 years tells her he’s leaving her for another woman. Through stages of shock, disbelief and anger — and with support from her son — Grace ultimately regains her footing while learning it’s never too late to be happy.

Director

William Nicholson

Cast

Annette Bening, Bill Nighy, Josh O’Connor, Aiysha Hart, Nicholas Burns

Duration

96 minutes

Overview

The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

Director

Christopher Nolan

Cast

Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Ellen Burstyn, John Lithgow

Duration

169 minutes

Overview

John, a 35-year-old window cleaner, has dedicated his life to bringing up his 4-year-old son, Michael, after the child’s mother left them soon after giving birth. When John is given only a few months left to live, he attempts to find a new, perfect family for Michael, determined to shield him from the terrible reality of the situation.

Director

Uberto Pasolini

Cast

James Norton, Daniel Lamont, Eileen O’Higgins, Valerie O’Connor, Stella McCusker

Duration

96 minutes

Overview

The Zodiac murders cause the lives of Paul Avery, David Toschi and Robert Graysmith to intersect.

Director

David Fincher

Cast

Mark Ruffalo, Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Edwards, Chloë Sevigny

Duration

158 minutes

Overview

As New York City is invaded by alien creatures who hunt by sound, a woman named Sam fights to survive with her cat.

Director

Michael Sarnoski

Cast

Lupita Nyong’o, Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff, Djimon Hounsou, Cain Aiden

Duration

99 minutes

Director

Nick Waterman

Duration

117 minutes

Overview

To take down South Boston’s Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there’s a mole among them.

Director

Martin Scorsese

Cast

Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg, Vera Farmiga

Duration

151 minutes

Overview

A child from the Mumbai slums is accused of fraud after victory in India’s Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Director

Danny Boyle

Cast

Dev Patel, Saurabh Shukla, Anil Kapoor, Rajendranath Zutshi, Jeneva Talwar

Duration

115 minutes

Overview

Follow the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a path of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, Paul endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee.

Director

Denis Villeneuve

Cast

Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler

Duration

167 minutes

Overview

In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer, purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user’s every need. To Theodore’s surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. This unconventional love story blends science fiction and romance in a sweet tale that explores the nature of love and the ways that technology isolates and connects us all.

Director

Spike Jonze

Cast

Joaquin Phoenix, Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, Olivia Wilde

Duration

126 minutes

Overview

Jamaican singer-songwriter Bob Marley overcomes adversity to become the most famous reggae musician in the world.

Director

Reinaldo Marcus Green

Cast

Kingsley Ben-Adir, Lashana Lynch, Jesse Cilio, Tosin Cole, Michael Gandolfini

Duration

104 minutes

Overview

After Dr. Bill Harford’s wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings — and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.

Director

Stanley Kubrick

Cast

Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack, Madison Eginton, Vinessa Shaw

Duration

146 minutes