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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, a Best Picture Golden Globe and Oscar winner in 1976, made such an indelible impression on viewers that for decades since its release, it has colored an audience’s view of both mental institutions and movies that take place within them. Based on a true story, A State of Madness slowly and subtly upends some of those expectations, using its setting as a means by which to explore the larger moral rot of the system that surrounds it.

Based on by Luke Mogelson’s 2017 New Yorker article “The Desperate Battle to Destroy ISIS”, Mosul is a true to life action movie about a renegade Iraqi police SWAT team who disobey orders. They push fiercely against ISIS guerrilla street fights in order to save what’s left of their beloved home city of Mosul, in Northern Iraq.

Like so many foreign films this year, Canción Sin Nombre (the original title of this film) is a debut feature by a female director. Peruvian filmmaker Melina León chose a painful subject from her country’s history: in the late 1980s, Peru was a hotbed of politically motivated violence, its society in turmoil, with no oversight of its institutions, a corrupt and outdated legal system, a wealth gap of epic proportions and an outlook stuck in the dark ages when it came to women’s rights – and that’s not even taking into consideration the racist government policies affecting the indigenous part of its population.

Your Iron Lady tells the story of Teresa, played by a great Victoria del Rosal, a single mother navigating her recent move to the United States to escape a 22-year abusive marriage in Mexico. With one adult child still in Mexico and three living with her, Teresa struggles to make a new life for her family in Los Angeles.

A murder mystery set in 1955 Buenos Aires, Argentina, during the administration of President Peron, when different political forces were trying to overthrow his government. Mariano Turek and Lujan Loioco's About a Woman (Algo con una mujer) is a whodunit in which the detective is curiously a housewife, Rosa, played by Maria Soldi, a skillful seamstress who becomes the only witness of a murder.

Zendaya goes through an emotional roller coaster, psychological games, twists and turns in her movie Malcolm & Marie. The situation is triggered when her boyfriend, a film director (John David Washington) forgets to thank her during his speech at a premiere.

If ever a visionary was worthy of a lifetime achievement award, that individual has to be Norman Lear. Not only did he change the face of American television but through his political activism and philanthropy, he set an example for all America.

Tenoch Huerta’s career has taken a giant leap with a slew of first class roles in his native Mexican cinema. He won an Ariel Award and was nominated four other times, in productions like the renowned Sin nombre (by Cary Joji Fukunaga), and the streaming series Narcos: México, where he played Rafael Caro Quintero, as well as the upcoming The Forever Purge.

No crowds in front of the Egyptian Theatre, no snowboot-clad film fans drudging through the wintery town of Park City and no bustling Main Street. But also, no traffic jams on the first weekend and no waiting in long lines in front of the Eccles, Marc, or other screening locations, freezing and shivering in the hopes of getting in.

With 125 credits in film and television at just 50 years old, it's clear that Clifton Collins Jr, who started his career in 1990 as Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez, has been really busy. Even if he has been featured in series such as Westworld, Veronica Mars and Ballers, and studio titles as The Mule, Trascendence, Pacific Rim and Star Trek (plus the upcoming Nightmare Alley, his second time for director Guillermo del Toro), the best roles in his career came from independent cinema, such as the condemned killer in Capote or the prisoner in The Last Castle.