2020+ Hitlist: Movies to Watch While Things Get Better
by BadSurge | created - 30 Jan 2012 | updated - 1 week ago | PublicWelcome to Bad Surge's Movie Hitlist of the Future. Have you seen one of these soon to be released (or currently released) features? Were you somehow able to notice that I've left off an upcoming film? Leave a comment below. [Previously: "2012+ Hitlist: Movies to Watch if We Survive December"; "2013+ Hitlist: Movies To Watch Since We Survived 2012"; "2014+ Hitlist: Movies to Watch Since We Keep Surviving"; "2015+ Hitlist: Movies To Watch Since Why The Hell Not?"; "2016+ Hitlist: Movies To Watch Since Movies Can Be Good"; "2017+ Hitlist: Movies to Watch Since Last Year Was Stressful"; “2018+ Hitlist: Movies to Watch Since the Industry is Dying”; "2019+ Hitlist: Movies to Watch While the World Burns"]
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1. Frank or Francis
Comedy, Musical | Announced
A satire of Hollywood set to music, where a film director feuds with a blogger.
Director: Charlie Kaufman
2. Akira
102 min | Action, Drama, Mystery | Announced
The leader of a biker gang tries to save his kidnapped friend from a powerful supernatural experiment.
Director: Taika Waititi
3. The Boondoggle
Comedy | Announced
A luxurious business trip to the tropics goes horribly wrong, sending two top American insurance executives on a psychedelic descent into madness, sex, violence, and goats.
Director: Steve Carr
4. Neverafter
Fantasy, Thriller | Announced
A spin on J.M. Barrie's tale of Peter Pan, where Pan is a villain being hunted by a police captain named Hook.
Director: Ben Shirinian
5. Icarus Factor
Thriller | Announced
A thriller that brings together three different stories from London, Mumbai, and New York as the Dow Jones nears an all time high.
Director: Roger Donaldson
6. When Worlds Collide
Action, Drama, Sci-Fi | Announced
A rogue planet is discovered on a collision course for Earth, and mass hysteria of biblical proportions will break out in the streets once knowledge of the secret and impending doom is ... See full summary »
Director: Stephen Sommers
7. King of Heists
Action, Biography, Drama | Announced
The true story of the biggest bank robbery in American history.
8. Mass Effect
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | Announced
Commander Shepard, a military hero, embarks upon an epic, galaxy-wide journey with his team, to track down and bring infamous Saren Arterius to justice, facing insurmountable odds and lethal enemies along the way.
9. The Creed of Violence
Action, Crime, Drama | Announced
Story takes place in 1910, as two men - an assassin and a government agent with a hidden connection to him - try to stop an organization behind an arms smuggling ring.
Director: Todd Field | Star: Daniel Craig
10. Star of the Morning
Drama | Announced
The epic tale of the life and loves of Lady Hester Stanhope, a female "Lawrence of Arabia", but 100 years earlier.
11. The Diarist
Drama | Announced
A chilling account of one of the most obsessive humans ever to put pen to paper. Arthur Inman (1895-1963) was a man obsessed with connectivity decades before the word was even conceived.
12. The Geography of Hope
Crime, Drama | Announced
A 1970s-set story centered on two crooks (Eckhart and Harris) hiding out in Baja, Mexico and their experiences with several American women.
Director: Neil LaBute
13. Blood (I)
Fantasy, Horror | Announced
Based on the acclaimed DC/Vertigo graphic novel. In a surreal fantasy world, Blood must battle monsters, depraved humans and his own raging bloodlust as he seeks a lost temple which may hold the key to his and humanity's salvation.
Director: Marc Rosenbush
14. Seconds of Pleasure
Drama | Announced
A series of vignettes connects the lives of people traveling on the same airplane.
Director: Neil LaBute
15. Old Man's War
Drama, Sci-Fi, War | Announced
On his 75th birthday, John Perry visited his wife's grave, and joined the army. Humans have made it to the stars, and have colonized many planets, but colonization is strictly controlled. ... See full summary »
17. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Adventure, Biography, Drama | Announced
A look at the formative years of the 26th President of the United States, from his transformation from a privileged New York politician to commander of the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War.
18. Hemingway & Fuentes
Biography, Drama | Announced
Writer Ernest Hemingway befriends boat captain, Gregorio Fuentes, who inspires him to pen the famous tale "The Old Man and the Sea."
Director: Andy Garcia | Star: Andy Garcia
19. The Treehouse (I)
90 min | Drama | Announced
To win his cousin, Thomas must enter a treacherous love quadrangle.
Director: Damian Harris
20. Napoleon and Betsy
Drama, Romance | Announced
The story of fallen French Emperor Napoleon during his last years on the island of St. Helena when he falls in love with a young English girl.
Director: Dearbhla Walsh
21. Vivaldi (II)
Biography, Drama, History | Announced
A biography of Antonio Vivaldi's early life, when the young priest became the music teacher at a school for the illegitimate daughters of Venice's courtesans.
Director: Boris Damast
22. Blonde (2022)
NC-17 | 167 min | Drama, History
The story of American actress Marilyn Monroe, covering her love and professional lives.
Director: Andrew Dominik | Stars: Ana de Armas, Lily Fisher, Julianne Nicholson, Tygh Runyan
Votes: 71,920
23. 100 Cupboards
Fantasy | Announced
100 CUPBOARDS chronicles the fantastical journeys of Henry York, who discovers that the old Kansas farmhouse where he's been relegated to live harbors mysterious cupboards leading to worlds... See full summary »
24. The Great Divorce
Drama, Fantasy, Horror | Announced
An ad executive who realizes the city where he's been living is actually Hell boards a bus headed for Elsewhere, though he soon senses there might be a place worse than his former home.
25. Sinatra
Biography, Drama, Music | Announced
The life story of legendary singer and actor, Frank Sinatra.
26. Archangels
Sci-Fi | Announced
A covert group of agents battle aliens secretly living among humans.
27. Uncharted (2022)
PG-13 | 116 min | Action, Adventure
Street-smart Nathan Drake is recruited by seasoned treasure hunter Victor "Sully" Sullivan to recover a fortune amassed by Ferdinand Magellan, and lost 500 years ago by the House of Moncada.
Director: Ruben Fleischer | Stars: Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg, Antonio Banderas, Sophia Ali
Votes: 259,027 | Gross: $148.65M
28. Fork in the Road
Announced
In this comedy, a young Irish woman who steals for a living meets and marries an American tourist. They move to America, but even this is not far enough to escape his Irish in-laws.
29. Good Time Gang
Action, Comedy | Announced
Two party-happy mercenaries decide to take on a serious case involving a terrorist, only to find their mission complicated when they discover one of them is related to the target
30. Kane & Lynch
Action, Crime, Drama | Announced
A pair of Death Row inmates, a mercenary named Kane and a schizophrenic named Lynch, escape during a prison transport and team up to retrieve a stolen fortune. Based on a video game.
31. The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)
R | 118 min | Fantasy, Horror
A crew sailing from Varna (Bulgaria) by the Black Sea to England find that they are carrying very dangerous cargo.
Director: André Øvredal | Stars: Corey Hawkins, Aisling Franciosi, Liam Cunningham, David Dastmalchian
Votes: 48,691
32. Untitled Dr. Seuss Project
Drama | Announced
The story of writer and illustrator Theodor Geisel, known for penning many well-known children's books during the 20th Century under the pen name Dr. Seuss.
34. Muppet Man
Biography, Comedy, Drama | Announced
The life and times of the late Jim Henson, the man behind Sesame Street and The Muppets.
Director: Michael Gracey
35. Untitled Martin Luther King Jr. Project
Biography, Drama | Announced
The life story of legendary civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
36. Untitled Adventures of Tintin Sequel
Animation, Action, Adventure | Announced
Based on the comic book Prisoners of the Sun, where Tintin and Haddock head to South America to find a cure for their friend professor Calculus.
Director: Peter Jackson | Stars: Andy Serkis, Jamie Bell
37. Lombardi (I)
Biography, Drama, Sport | Announced
The story of Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi and how he lead his team to victory during the 1967 National Football League Championships. Based partly on the memoir "Instant Replay" by team member Jerry Kramer and Dick Schaap.
38. Arrested Development
Comedy | Announced
Feature film based on the popular TV series, "Arrested Development."
Star: Kevin Crowley
39. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)
Comedy, Fantasy, Horror | Post-production
This is a follow-up to the comedy Beetlejuice (1988), about a ghost who's recruited to help haunt a house.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Jenna Ortega, Michael Keaton, Monica Bellucci, Winona Ryder
40. Human Nature (I)
Action, Sci-Fi | Announced
A man who is cryogenically frozen for years awakens to a world where humans are no longer the dominant species.
41. The Tiger
Adventure, Drama, Thriller | Pre-production
A Siberian tiger attacks encroaching humans in its habitat. A conservationist game warden confronts the supernaturally powerful tiger in a fight only one can survive.
Director: Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi | Stars: Alexander Skarsgård, Dane DeHaan
42. The Forever War
Sci-Fi | Announced
An elite task force returns home after a brief interstellar military operation, but discovers that 20 years have passed and the planet they once knew is completely different. Based on Joe Haldeman's 1974 novel "The Forever War".
Star: Channing Tatum
43. Brothers in Arms (I)
Drama, War | Announced
An African-American military unit in World War II overcomes prejudice and proves themselves in the Battle of the Bulge.
44. The Wind in the Willows (I)
Adventure, Family, Fantasy | Pre-production
Accounts the friendship of four friends (Rat, Mole, Badger, and Toad) whose adventures test the very fiber of their loyalty.
Director: Ray Griggs | Star: Ricky Gervais
45. Motherload (I)
Action, Drama | Announced
A woman recently released from prison seeks revenge on those who did her wrong.
Director: Franck Khalfoun
46. First Continuum
Sci-Fi, Thriller | Announced
In the far future an assassin decides the fate of the universe.
48. Unseen Shadows
Horror, Thriller | Announced
Jerimiah Johnson was a strange boy growing up. He could never decided what he wanted to be. Now he has chosen to be a ranger and help people to die.
49. The Rut
Drama, Thriller | Announced
A fearless, teenage girl surrounds herself with danger and adventure as she journeys into the forest alone to hunt. A lone huntsman ventures into the wilderness to find her.
50. The Mask of the Red Death
Horror | Announced
A postapocalyptic, steampunk version of Poe's classic story.
Director: Robert Pratten
51. Concrete Island
Drama, Thriller | Announced
An architect finds himself stranded on a man-made island between two highways with only the contents of his car in his possession.
Director: Brad Anderson
52. Paani
Drama | Announced
Shekhar Kapur's directorial venture depicts the scenario many years into the future, where the earth's water supply has run-out and the events and wars that follow as a result.
Director: Shekhar Kapur
53. Soylent Green
Sci-Fi, Thriller | Announced
In a futuristic, overpopulated world, mankind strives to come up with a new food source.
54. Wynter Dark
Adventure | Announced
The world is beset by the new ice age and the Kingdom of New York is under siege from the Kingdom of London.
55. Captain for Dark Mornings
Drama | Pre-production
Hope for victims of post-traumatic stress began in the battlefield with one man. Based on the critically acclaimed book.
Director: Scott McCullough | Star: Dan Lauria
56. Johnny Blue
108 min | Drama, Music | Announced
'Johnny Blue' is the story of two teenage boys from different backgrounds that find friendship through music and the love of playing the guitar. Johnny is an exceptional guitarist and ... See full summary »
57. Logan's Run
Action, Adventure, Drama | Announced
A young man at odds with his society's mandatory death sentence for all those turning 21 plots a daring escape on the eve of his fateful birthday.
58. Nephilim (2017)
99 min | Animation, Action, Fantasy
An atypical priest, an ex-homicide detective and a resurrected spirit form an unlikely alliance to unite against an insurgence of fallen angels and the termination of free will.
Director: Danny Wilson | Stars: John Savage, Noah Blake, Yuval David, Gulshan Grover
Votes: 40
59. Over the Wall
Drama, Thriller | Pre-production
Set in the popular world of Dirt Track Racing where true love overcomes tragedy, betrayal and guilt.
Director: Steven Christopher Young | Stars: Tony Stewart, Bootie Barker
61. The Devil's Angel
Action, Biography, Crime | Announced
Alongside a DEA agent and his CIA handler, Pablo Escobar's never-before-revealed origin story of the battle to unveil the concealed operations to fund anti-communist Contras and cocaine flood into America.
Star: John Leguizamo
62. Tarantula (I)
Crime, Mystery, Thriller | Announced
An ex motorcycle gang member escapes a life of slaughter and sacrifice to start a new life in Sweet Home, Colorado but is eventually hunted down by the Tarantula's gang leader.
Stars: Sasha Jackson, Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini, Larrs Jackson, Jules Sylvester
63. Everbrook
Action, Fantasy, Horror | Announced
The Home unfolds after a young man is nearly killed during an accident that leaves him physically and emotionally scarred. To recuperate, he is taken to a secluded nursing home where the ... See full summary »
Director: Aaron Morgan | Star: Fionnula Flanagan
64. Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
PG-13 | 130 min | Action, Drama
After thirty years, Maverick is still pushing the envelope as a top naval aviator, but must confront ghosts of his past when he leads TOP GUN's elite graduates on a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those chosen to fly it.
Director: Joseph Kosinski | Stars: Tom Cruise, Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller, Val Kilmer
Votes: 695,758 | Gross: $718.73M
65. Untitled Midnight Run Sequel
Action, Comedy, Drama | Announced
Plot kept under wraps.
Star: Regina Hall
66. Untitled Michael Banks and J. Gordon Cooney, Jr. Project
Drama | Announced
Attorneys Michael Banks and J. Gordon Cooney, Jr. spend 15 years trying to overturn a murder conviction.
67. Untitled Electronic Music Scene Documentary
Documentary, Music | Announced
A documentary that follows influential DJs over a year-long trek around the world as they prepare for a secret festival show.
Directors: Donnie Eichar, Brad Tiemann
68. Bubba Nosferatu: Curse of the She-Vampires
Comedy, Fantasy, Horror | Announced
This prequel to Bubba Ho-Tep finds Elvis shooting a film in Louisiana when he runs afoul of a coven of she-vampires.
Director: Don Coscarelli
69. The Kind One
Crime, Drama, Thriller | Announced
The film is set in the 1930s Los Angeles and follows Danny Landon, an amnesiac who works for a violent mobster (a.k.a. "The Kind One"), while he falls in love with this man's girlfriend.
70. Robopocalypse
Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | Announced
A sci-fi story set in the aftermath of a robot uprising.
Director: Michael Bay
72. Z (II)
Action, Adventure, Drama | Pre-production
The western frontier has re-emerged and, as in the past, a hero will answer the people's cry for justice.
Director: Jonás Cuarón | Stars: Gael García Bernal, Kiersey Clemons
73. Captain Planet
Adventure, Family | Announced
A story centered around an environmentally friendly superhero.
74. Machine Man
Sci-Fi | Announced
A tech firm engineer who use titanium to upgrade his body finds himself targeted by people who want to get their hands on his inventions.
75. The Devil in the White City
Drama, History, Thriller | Pre-production
An architect works to build up the 1893 World's Fair, while the serial killer H. H. Holmes uses the fair to attract and kill women.
76. Castlevania
Adventure, Fantasy, Horror | Announced
Christopher Belmont takes up the whip against the darkness of Count Dracula, which plagues the lands of Transylvania every 100 years. As he fights the evil, the origins of the Belmonts' eternal struggles are finally revealed.
78. Me and My Shadow
Animation, Comedy, Family | Announced
Me & My Shadow reveals the once secret world of shadows and their human counterparts. Shadow Dan, our hero's shadow, yearns for a more exciting life but happens to be stuck with Daniel ... See full summary »
Director: Alessandro Carloni | Star: Annelies van de Velde
79. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Captain Nemo
Action, Adventure, Drama | Announced
A look at how Jules Verne's classic character Captain Nemo created his underwater vessel, the Nautilus.
Director: James Mangold
80. By Virtue Fall
Drama, Thriller | Announced
A newly-released ex-con seeks revenge upon his mentor who framed him for a crime he didn't commit.
Director: Sheldon Turner
81. Furious Love
Drama | Announced
The story of the torrid relationship between screen legends Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.
82. St. Vincent
Action, Crime, Drama | Announced
Hitman Vincent Novena goes deep undercover portraying a priest in an attempt to get close to his target, a gangland traitor.
83. Relanxious
Comedy | Announced
A woman who suffers from anxiety attacks falls for an agoraphobic guy.
Director: Christopher Storer | Star: Gillian Jacobs
84. Tell No One (I)
Thriller | Announced
A widowed husband learns that his wife may still be alive.
Director: Guillaume Canet
85. The Ark and the Aardvark (2026)
Animation, Adventure, Comedy | Filming
An aardvark named Gilbert lands the job of shepherding all the animals onto Noah's Ark.
Director: John Stevenson | Stars: Aubrey Plaza, Miles Teller, Jenny Slate, Stephen Merchant
86. Thundercats
Animation, Action, Adventure | Announced
Follows a group of cat-like humanoid aliens from the dying planet Thundera, from which they are forced to flee.
Director: Adam Wingard
87. Spring Awakening (I)
Drama, Musical | Pre-production
A coming-of-age story set in 19th-century Germany and centered on a group of teens discovering their sexuality.
89. Who Framed Roger Rabbit 2
Animation, Adventure, Comedy | Announced
A sequel to Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).
Star: Charles Fleischer
90. Paradise Lost (II)
Action, Drama, Fantasy | Announced
The war in heaven between archangels Michael and Lucifer.
91. Emily the Strange
Animation, Adventure, Comedy | Announced
How did Emily the Strange come to gain her powers?
Director: Kealan O'Rourke
92. The Birds
Horror, Thriller | Announced
A remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 thriller about a flock of birds that take over a quiet Northern California town.
93. The Unknown Son
Mystery | Announced
Noah Prentice, a man searching for his past, has only a mysterious tattoo on his wrist from childbirth to guide him towards the answers he seeks. Fresh into the workforce, Noah is thrown ... See full summary »
Director: Nicholas Gyeney | Stars: Brandy Kopp, Ralph Steiger, Edward Michael Scott, Adrien Gamache
94. Shanghai, I Love You
100 min | Romance | Announced
This "Cities of Love" episode takes us to one of the most fascinating cities in the world. Shanghai stands for a long history of sensuality, intrigues and mystery.
Directors: Yan-Yan Mak, Nelson Lik-wai Yu | Star: Emilie Ohana
95. Arabian Nights
Action, Adventure, Drama | Announced
A young commander joins forces with Sinbad, Aladdin, and his genie to rescue Scheherazade and her kingdom from dark powers.
Director: Chuck Russell
96. Unknown Soldier
Action, Fantasy | Announced
In this sequel to`End Of Days`, Jericho Cane returns to Earth as a death-dealing arch-angel, sent from Heaven to wipe out evil.
97. Frankie Machine
Crime, Drama, Thriller | Announced
An ex mob hit man living in rural comfort is lured back into his former profession by the scheming son of a Mafia Don.
98. The Mission (I)
Action, Drama, Thriller | Announced
An action thriller about the 2008 rescue of 15 hostages from the guerrilla group in the Colombian jungle.
Director: David Mackenzie
99. King of the Nudies
Biography, Drama | Announced
The story of a filmmaker and his centerfold wife as they work together to create themselves and their movies. Based on the biography of Russ Meyer, who created such cult favorites as "The ... See full summary »
100. The Thin Man
Comedy, Crime, Drama | Announced
A former detective and his wife team up to solve a murder case.
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