7 Movies Starring Brit Marling

Another Earth

Another Earth

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2011-10-12

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

92 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

(63440 Reviews)

Director:

Mike Cahill

Fullplot:

Seventeen year-old Rhoda Williams receives an acceptance letter from MIT and she celebrates with her friends. On the same night, a planet similar and close to Earth is discovered and called Earth 2. Rhoda drives her car looking at Earth 2 and crashes with composer John Burroughs, killing his pregnant wife and his baby son. Rhoda goes to prison and four years later she is released and moves to her parents' house. She finds a job as high-school janitor, but tries to commit suicide. She survives, however, and submits an essay to a contest where the prize is a ticket to travel to Earth 2. Meanwhile the scientists discover that Earth 2 is a mirror of Earth and the synchronicity between the dwellers was interrupted when the planets were seen by each other. One day, Rhoda decides to visit John Burroughs, whose life was destroyed after the death of his family, to admit to him that she had killed his family. However she does not have the nerve to tell him the truth. So she lies and tells him he has won a free cleaning service of his home. Rhoda wins the writing contest, but meanwhile John and she have fallen in love with each other. Rhoda has to take a decision whether she goes or stays, but she wants to tell John the truth first.

Sound of My Voice

Sound of My Voice

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-08-03

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

85 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (13544 Reviews)

Director:

Zal Batmanglij

Fullplot:

Two documentary filmmakers attempt to penetrate a cult who worships a woman who claims to be from the future.

Arbitrage

Arbitrage

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-09-14

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, Poland

Runtime:

107 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (39172 Reviews)

Fullplot:

Robert Miller is a successful financial businessman with a loving wife and a smart daughter ready to take over the family business. Professional secrets involving illegal fraudulent activities start coming out at the same time that Robert's personal secrets take a turn for the worse and threaten to derail everything he has achieved.

The East

The East

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-06-28

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, UK

Runtime:

116 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (38544 Reviews)

Director:

Zal Batmanglij

Fullplot:

A successful operative for an elite private intelligence firm is tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group known for executing covert attacks upon major corporations.

The Better Angels

The Better Angels

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-11-07

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

(734 Reviews)

Director:

A.J. Edwards

Fullplot:

Indiana, 1817. The entire nation, only 40 years old and a few years removed from a second war of independence, is raw. Men, women, and children alike must battle nature and disease to survive in remote log cabins. This is young Abraham Lincoln's world. Spanning three years of the future president's childhood, The Better Angels explores his family, the hardships that shaped him, the tragedy that marked him forever, and the two women who guided him to immortality.

The Keeping Room

The Keeping Room

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2015-09-25

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

95 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (246 Reviews)

Director:

Daniel Barber

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Left without men in the dying days of the American Civil War, three Southern women - two sisters and one African-American slave - must fight to defend their home and themselves from two rogue soldiers who have broken off from the fast-approaching Union Army.

I Origins

I Origins

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-09-19

Languages:

English, Hindi

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (57945 Reviews)

Director:

Mike Cahill

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

A graduate student, Ian Gray, is researching the evolution of human eyes with Karen and Kenny, in order to discredit creationists by proving that eyes have evolved. Seven years later, when the hospital takes an iris scan of his son and enters into the database, they appear to match with another person's eyes, which suggested that their son may be some sort of reincarnation of the deceased man.

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