1st of December "12 Monkeys" (USA, 1995)

12 Monkeys is a 1995 science fiction film shot mostly in Philadelphia and Baltimore, where the story was set.

An unknown and lethal virus has wiped out five billion people in 1996. Only 1% of the population has survived by the year 2035, and is forced to live underground. A convict (James Cole) reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to 1996 to gather information about the origin of the epidemic (who he's told was spread by a mysterious "Army of the Twelve Monkeys") and locate the virus before it mutates so that scientists can study it. Unfortunately Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990, six years earlier than expected, and is arrested and locked up in a mental institution, where he meets Dr. Kathryn Railly, a psychiatrist, and Jeffrey Goines, the insane son of a famous scientist and virus expert.
The film was released to critical praise and grossed approximately $168.4 million worldwide.
Director: Terry Gilliam
Writers: Chris Marker (film La Jetée), David Webb Peoples(screenplay)
Stars: Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe and Brad Pitt

Brad Pitt was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and won a Golden Globe for his performance. The film also won and was nominated for various categories at the Saturn Awards.

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28th of Novemeber "Kandehar" (Iran, 2001)

"Kandahar" or "Kandahar Journey" [Safar-e Ghandehar in Farsi]  is a 2001 Iranian film directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, set in Afghanistan during the rule of the Taliban. After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her. This journey takes us to Afghanistan's situation before 9/ll. Time magazine selected this film as one of top 100 films of all time.

Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Writer: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Stars: Nelofer Pazira, Hassan Tantai and Ike Ogut

18th of November "Metropolis" (Germany, 1927)

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class, who live in poor conditions but are the basic force for the city's work, and the upper class, which is mainly integrated by the city planners and their families, two persons from each class fall in love with each other. One of them is a working class prohet, a woman who gives hope to the city's workers. She predicts the coming of a savior, a savior who will mediate the differences between the social groups and give the city the start of new era. The other is the son of the city's mastermind. But the prophet is kidnapped by a crazy inventor, who wants to use her to make a robot work. The robot is given the same physical appearence the prophet has. Following orders from the crazy inventor, the robot creates a lot of problems for the working class. The son of the city's mastermind and the prophet will have to stop the robot and its crazy inventor for creating more problems for Metropolis, and achieve the goal of making Metropolis an harmonius place. for more click here.

Director: Fritz Lang
Writers: Thea von Harbou (screenplay), Thea von Harbou(novel)
Stars: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel and Gustav Fröhlich

3rd of November "In Cold Blood" (America, 1967)

In Cold Blood is a 1967 film based on Truman Capote's book of the same name. It pictures after a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.

Director: Richard Brooks
Writers: Truman Capote (based on the book by), Richard Brooks (written for the screen by)
Stars: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson and John Forsythe

This was also the first commercially released film in the US to use the word 'shit'. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards: Director, Original Score, Cinematography and Adapted Screenplay.

In 2008, In Cold Blood was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".