Films I've seen for the first time in 2024

Wallace and his dog, Gromit, open a bakery and get tied up with a murder mystery. But when Wallace falls in love, Gromit is left to solve the case.

The misadventures of Buster in three separate historical periods.

On a transatlantic crossing, The Marx Brothers get up to their usual antics and manage to annoy just about everyone on board the ship.

A sly business manager and the wacky friends of two opera singers in Italy help them achieve success in America while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.

Monsieur Hulot comes to a beachside hotel for a vacation and accidentally, but good-naturedly, causes havoc.

The stooges become doctors, at a large hospital, where they disrupt patients and staff alike.

Quincy Adams Wagstaff, Huxley University's new president, accidentally hires bumblers Baravelli and Pinky to help his school win the big football game against their rival, Darwin University.

A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world.

This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the revenge of its former samurai on the perpetrator of the catastrophe.

In the wake of his mother's death and his father's remarriage, a headstrong boy ventures into a dreamlike world shared by the living and the dead in search of his missing stepmother.

A boy raised by wild animals tries to adapt to human village life.

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist Cleopatra agrees to marry Hans the leader of side-show performers, but Hans' deformed friends discover that she is only marrying him for his inheritance. So they seek revenge.

The Red Army aims to assassinate the Daka Lama in Singapore. Ling May, with a rare blood type, encounters them. Terrorists strike. Authorities seek a donor match as Ling's boyfriend and a conman intervene, racing against time.

A charismatic ronin gets snared into a conflict between officials at a waystation, and gains the enmity of a group of thugs.

Four men sneak into Hong Kong to rob a jewelry store. Before the robbery, they're hired by a local triad to kill a man, who turns out to be a cop. They have to execute the heist while hiding from the police hunting them down.

Kiba is caught in the intrigue between a crooked goldmine owner, a cynical, betrayed swordsman, a manipulative lady and an arrogant dojo master.

In a Chinese royal court, an army commander secretly trains a "shadow" to retake a city against the wishes of the king.

A Hong Kong Special Branch cop and a CIA agent reluctantly team up to bring down a major international terrorist.

A dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity.

An anti-drug enforcement agency stages a massive drug bust in the slums of Manila.

A South African gold mine foreman is unwittingly manipulated by an unscrupulous gang of financiers who want to flood the mine to raise the price of gold on the world market.

An engineer seeks vigilante justice against the gangsters who took him hostage, and forms an unlikely partnership with a young robber to bring them down.

A cabal of international criminals plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II during a state visit to Hong Kong, which the police attempt to prevent whilst managing a refugee crisis.

A Chinese-American cop, skilled in martial arts, battles the most powerful criminal gang in San Francisco that is responsible for the death of his partner.

San Francisco private detective Sam Spade takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered.