Don’t get lockdown, dull your spirits! While
you follow the new norm of social distancing, Lionsgate Play, a premium
streaming service from Lionsgate India, showcases best of Hollywood cinema that
you can binge watch while you stay safe at home with your family and create
memories for a lifetime.Lionsgate Play has curated collection of movies to keep
your kids and elders in the house occupied during such tough times.
Log onto Vodafone Play, Idea Movies&
Airtel Extreme and indulge in some critically and commercially acclaimed movies
across genres on Lionsgate Play without any subscriptions. Here is a list of our
top 10 moviesthat will create a fun bonding experience for your entire family.
Check out these must-watch gems, one a day, or back to back, and you are sure
to be entertained through them all.
1. Knives Out
2. La La Land
3. The Hunger Games
4. American Assassin
5. Now You See Me 2
6. P.S. I Love You
7. The Twilight Saga: New Moon
8. Perfume: The Story Of A Murder
9. Astro Boy
10. Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow
1. Knives Out
Acclaimed
writer and director Rian Johnson pays tribute to mystery mastermind Agatha
Christie in Knives Out, a fresh, modern-day murder mystery where everyone is a
suspect. Knives Out is an American whodunnit mystery film. Described as a
modern take on the murder mystery genre, the film follows a family gathering
gone horribly awry, after the family patriarch's death leads a master detective
to investigate. The film stars an ensemble cast, including Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jamie Lee
Curtis, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, Lakeith
Stanfield, Katherine Langford, Jaeden Martell, and Christopher Plummer. The
film was nominated at Oscars for best original screenplay
2. La La
Land
La La Land is a 2016 American romantic musical
film written and directed by Damien Chazelle. It stars Ryan Gosling as a jazz
pianist and Emma Stone as an aspiring actress, who meet and fall in love
while pursuing their dreams in Los Angeles. John Legend, Rosemarie DeWitt, Finn
Wittrock, and J. K. Simmons also star. It won a record-breaking seven awards from
its seven nominations at the 74th Golden Globes and received eleven nominations
at the 70th British Academy Film Awards, winning five awards, including Best
Film. It also received record-tying fourteen nominations at the 89th Academy
Awards, winning in six categories, including Best Director for Damien Chazelle
and Best Actress for Stone.
3. The
Hunger Games
The Hunger
Games is a 2012 American dystopian science fiction-adventure film directed by
Gary Ross and based on Suzanne Collins’s 2008 novel of the same name. It is the
first installment in The Hunger Games film series and was produced by Nina
Jacobson and Jon Kilik, with a screenplay by Ross, Collins, and Billy Ray. The
film stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson,
Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz, Stanley Tucci, and Donald Sutherland. The story
takes place in a dystopian post-apocalyptic future in the nation of Panem,
where a boy and a girl from each of the nation's 12 Districts are chosen
annually as "tributes" and forced to compete in The Hunger Games, an
elaborate televised fight to the death. Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence)
volunteers to take her younger sister's place, and with her district's male
tribute, Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson), travels to the Capitol to train and
compete in the games.
4. American Assassin
American Assassin is a 2017 American action thriller film
directed by Michael Cuesta and starring Dylan O'Brien, Michael Keaton, Sanaa
Lathan, Shiva Negar, and Taylor Kitsch. It was written by Stephen Schiff,
Michael Finch, Edward Zwick, and Marshall Herskovitz. Based on Vince Flynn's
2010 novel of the same name, its plot is about young CIA black ops recruit
Mitch Rapp, who helps a Cold War veteran try to stop the detonation of a rogue
nuclear weapon.
5. Now You See Me 2
Now You See Me 2, also known as Now You See
Me: The Second Act, is a 2016 American heist film directed by Jon M. Chu and
written by Ed Solomon. The film stars an ensemble cast that includes Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody
Harrelson, Dave Franco, Daniel Radcliffe,
Lizzy Caplan, Jay Chou, Sanaa Lathan, Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman. A sequel to the 2013 film Now You See Me and
the second installment of the film series, the plot has the Four Horsemen, and
their leader Dylan Rhodes, recruited by Walter Mabry, a criminal mastermind, to
steal a data chip.
6.
P.S. I Love You
P.S. I Love You is a 2007 American tragedy
romance film directed by Richard LaGravenese. The screenplay by LaGravenese and
Steven Rogers is based on the 2004 novel of the same name by Cecelia Ahern. It
stars Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler,
Lisa Kudrow, Gina Gershon, James Marsters, Harry Connick Jr. and Jeffrey Dean
Morgan. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and Momentum Pictures. The
film was critically panned, with criticism being directed at Swank's
performance (she was considered miscast); cliches; and emotionally manipulative
writing. Despite the reviews, it was a box office success and grossed $156
million on a $30 million budget.
7.The
Twilight Saga: New Moon
The
Twilight Saga: New Moon (commonly referred to as New Moon) is a 2009 American
romantic fantasy film based on Stephenie Meyer's 2006 novel New Moon. It is the
second film in The Twilight Saga film series and is the sequel to 2008's
Twilight.
8. Perfume: The Story Of A Murder
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a 2006
German period psychological thriller film directed by Tom Tykwer and starring
Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-Wood, and Dustin Hoffman. The film is
about a man who with his incredible talent for discerning scents, Jean-Baptiste
Grenouille (Ben Whishaw) is one of 18th-century France's finest perfumers. He
becomes obsessed with capturing an elusive aroma: the scent of young womanhood.
His search takes a deadly turn, and when the bodies of 12 young females are
found, panic breaks out, with families rushing to lock up their daughters.
9. Astro Boy
Astro Boy is a 2009 American CGI
superhero film loosely based on the manga series of the same name by the
Japanese writer and illustrator Osamu Tezuka. Directed by David Bowers. With
Freddie Highmore, Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell, Charlize Theron. When an android
replica of a boy is rejected by his aggrieved creator, he goes off to find his
own identity in an adventure that would make him the greatest hero of his time.
10. Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow
Directed by Jay Oliva, Gary Hartle. With Noah
Crawford, Brenna O'Brien, Aidan Drummond, Dempsey Pappion. The children of
the Avengers hone their powers and go head to head with the very enemy
responsible for their parents' demise. The Avengers are defeated and killed by
Ultron in a battle. However, their children, the Next Avengers, decide to take
on the enemy and avenge their parents' death.
About Lionsgate Play
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and Starz, offers curated Hollywood content for Indian consumers, with much of
the content available in multiple Indian languages. Lionsgate India, one of the
most recent entrants in the South Asian market, distributes premium content to
linear and digital platforms across the region. It develops and produces
original local Indian language content as well as adaptations of globally
successful content. Starz, a Lionsgate subsidiary, is a leading global media
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offers subscribers more than 7,500 distinct premium television episodes and
feature films, including STARZ original series, first-run movies and other
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