20 Best Movies That Start With A
When it comes to movies, there are countless options to choose from, spanning different genres, themes, and styles. However, if you’re looking for a starting point, movies that begin with the letter “A” can be a great place to begin your movie-watching journey. These movies offer something for everyone, from action-packed adventures to emotional dramas and everything in between.
Some of the best movies that start with the letter “A” include critically acclaimed films such as “Apocalypse Now,” as well as fan favorites like “Avengers: Endgame” and “Aladdin.” Whether you’re in the mood for a classic film or a modern blockbuster, there are plenty of options. So, grab your popcorn and settle in for an exciting journey through the world of movies that begin with the letter “A.”
A Christmas Story (1983)
Ralphie Parker (P. Billingsley) grows up in a small town in the 1940s. He lives with his mom (M. Dillon), dad (D. McGavin) and younger brother Randy (I. Petrella). His best friends are Flick (S. Schwartz) and Schwartz (R. D. Robb), and the biggest problem is the bully boy Scut Farkus (Z. Ward), who greets him and his friends on the way to school and often beats them up. His brother Randy never wants to eat, his mother never manages to eat food while it’s still warm because of it, and his father is obsessed with the ugly lamp in the shape of a woman’s leg that he received as a reward. All Ralphie wants from Santa is a 200-yard model BB carbine rifle with a compass, but his mother doesn’t think that’s a very good gift.
The teacher (T. Moore), who gave Ralphie a low grade for his essay on “What I Want for Christmas,” thinks the same way. Even Santa Claus says: “Kid, you’re going to put your eye out!”. Ralphie is desperate because if everyone thinks he shouldn’t get a gun, he won’t get one, and he doesn’t want another gift. But there is someone who thinks otherwise. Meanwhile, Flick will get his tongue stuck to a pillar of ice, Ralphie will swear in front of his father and, worst of all, in a moment of rage, despair and fear, he will beat Scut to a bloody pulp.
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
Reclusive gunslinger Joe (C. Eastwood) arrives in a secluded place in New Mexico where the peace is disturbed by the conflicts of two rival families, Baxter and Rojo. Aware of his gunslinger skills, both families want to hire him. Although neither of them is sympathetic to him, Joe accepts both offers and skillfully manipulates the conflicting ones, until the critical moment when he finds himself in danger.
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) notices that she, like several of her friends, is increasingly having terrifying nightmares in which she is being hunted by an unknown man armed with a glove containing sharp knives.
When the first victims appear, Nancy realizes that the unknown killer is becoming more and more powerful, so she decides to pull him out of his dreams to finally stop him.
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
Ace Ventura is the comedy that launched Jim Carrey among the most sought-after comedians of today. In this film, Carrey portrays a private detective specializing in finding missing pets, who is tasked with finding Fluffy, the dolphin mascot of the Miami Dolphins rugby team, who was stolen from a stadium pool.
Airplane! (1980)
Ted Striker (Robert Hayes) is a traumatized war pilot who likes to peek into the cup, and this time he boards a passenger plane to win back his ex-girlfriend and flight attendant (Julie Hagerty). Due to food poisoning, the crew and pilots of the plane become incapacitated, so it falls to Ted the difficult task of landing the plane.
With the help of an air traffic controller (Lloyd Bridges) and Ted’s former wartime commander (Robert Stack), who leads him off the ground, he must overcome his fear and save lives.
Aladdin (1992)
Aladdin is a poor young man from Baghdad, who spends his days on the city streets in the company of his best friend, the monkey Abu. Princess Jasmina is very sad in the same city, in the royal palace. Namely, she cannot do anything she would like because the laws oblige her to blindly obey her father’s orders, which even concern her marriage.
Eager to live, she sneaks out of the palace and heads to the city, where she runs into Aladdin. However, the king’s grand vizier Jafar began a search for her. Learning that there is a young Aladdin, he throws him into a dungeon and uses him to bring him a magic lamp from the cave of wonders, in which the spirit of superhuman powers is hidden. The naive young man agrees, but things will get complicated.
Alien (1979)
Far future. The seven-member crew of the commercial space freighter “The Nostromo”, loaded with twenty million tons of mineral ores, returns to Earth. The crew members led by Captain Dallas (T. Skerritt) wake up from cryogenic sleep convinced that the company that owns the ship will pay them more money for a job well done. In addition to Dallas, officer Ripley (S. Weaver), her colleague Lambert (V. Cartwright), then Parker (Y. Koto), Brett (H. D. Stanton), Kane (J. Hurt), and the only android in the human team Ash (I. Holm).
And although their return home seemed to be a routine matter, a sudden call for help from a nearby planet forces the captain to follow the rules and immediately find out what’s going on. Landing, the crew discovers an abandoned spaceship where Kane is attacked by a primitive creature and attached to his face.
Despite the opposition of Officer Ripley, the other members decide to return Kane to the ship, unaware that the being that attacked him is only the initial life form of an intelligent and bloodthirsty monster that the Company knows about and how much.
Aliens (1986)
The capsule of the only surviving member of the crew of the cargo cruiser Nostromo, Ellen Ripley (Weaver), after a fatal encounter with an alien, floated in space for 57 long years. When she is finally rescued, Ripley is shocked that no one believes her story. Meanwhile, the planet where the crew of the Nostromo discovered the original alien breeding ground has become a new Earth colony.
Ripley, who has lost her pilot’s license, suffers from terrible nightmares in which she daily encounters the creature that killed the crew of her ship. As expected, she soon learns that all contact with the colony has been lost and that Weyland-Yutani, a powerful company, is sending a squad of marines to scout the situation.
Carter J. Burke (Reiser), one of the scientists working for the company, invites Ripley to join them. In exchange for her experience, he will restore her pilot’s license. Brave Ripley sees this as an opportunity to face her own fears and accepts the invitation.
All About My Mother (1999)
A Greek proverb says that only a woman whose eyes are washed with tears can see clearly. But that’s not true for Manuela (Cecillia Roth). The night a car ran over her son Estaban (Eloy Azorin), Manuela cried until her tears dried up. And she was far from seeing clearly then.
The present and the future became one, in the depth of her being. That same night, while waiting in the hospital, she read the last sentences her son had written in the diary he always carried with him. “That morning I found a stack of photographs in my mother’s room. They were all cut in half. My father, I guess. I felt that it was that half that was missing from my life. I want to meet him, I don’t care what he is or how he treated my mother. Nobody he can’t take that right away from me”.
Manuela never told her son who his real father was. In memory of his dead son Manuel, he leaves Madrid and goes to Barcelona in search of his father.
Amélie (2001)
Amélie Poulain (A. Tatou) is a sensitive, imaginative and timid waitress of the “Two Windmills” cafe-bar in Paris, who lives completely isolated in her world, enjoying small everyday joys, such as breaking the crust of creme brulee with a spoon or dipping her palm into a basket of cereals. Like a good fairy, guardian angel or saint from the suburbs, she watches over Montmartre’s unhappy, little people, making them happy with simple solutions. An isolated childhood without a mother made her more of an observer than a participant in life.
Yet, she never does it directly, but invisibly, in a roundabout way. The turning point in her life was the discovery of an old box from the childhood of a boy who long ago lived in the apartment where Amélie is now. Amélie wants to find that former boy, now a middle-aged man, and cheer him up with a box. After that event, she easily found other people whose lives needed to be enriched and cheered up…
American Beauty (1999)
Lester Burnham’s (Kevin Spacey) life is a complete failure. His perfectly dressed, well-dressed wife, Carolyn (Annette Bening), blames him for everything, his daughter Jane (Thora Birch) does not communicate with him, and work is hell. Nevertheless, the inconsolable Lester experiences a small renaissance one seemingly ordinary day: noticing his daughter’s colleague from the cheer team, Angela (Mena Suvari), awakens his forgotten passions. Shaken by strong feelings for Angela, Lester embarks on a journey of no return and quits his job, blackmailing his boss along the way, and starts lifting weights in the garage and reminiscing about the things that made him happy in his youth.
At the same time, Carolyn cheats on Lester with the realtor, “King” (Peter Gallagher), and daughter Jane begins an unusual relationship with the peer next door, the withdrawn Ricky (Wes Bentley). And while the beautiful Angela surprises Lester with a return of affection, his shocking fate will surprise and shock the family…
American Graffiti (1973)
California, the early sixties. High school seniors Curt and Steve want one more wild night before heading to college. Curt is still thinking about leaving his hometown. Steve is completely sure of his decision and explains to his girlfriend Laurie that it is time for them to start dating others because it will be difficult to maintain a long-distance relationship. Steve leaves his car in the care of the clumsy geek Terry, who immediately goes on the hunt for girls.
The first one he comes across is the beautiful Debbie, who chooses guys based on the car they drive. John, a handsome rebel, is also looking for a potential girlfriend and stumbles upon the arrogant thirteen-year-old Carol, who is impossible to get rid of. Meanwhile, Curt spends the night looking for a beautiful, mysterious blonde who spoke to him from another car while passing by and then disappeared without a trace.
American Pie (1999)
Jim Levenstein (J. Biggs) is a high school senior and, like most of his peers, obsessed with sex. Since he doesn’t have a girlfriend, he only has porn movies left. His father (E. Levy) likes to give him old-fashioned sex lessons when it’s most inconvenient for Jim. So Jim makes a deal with his best friends Kevin (T.I. Nicholas), Finch (E.K. Thomas) and Oz (C. Klein) to lose their virginity until the prom.
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However, Kevin has problems with his girlfriend Vicky (T. Reid), Finch is attracted to the mother (J. Coolidge) of their acquaintance Steve (S. W. Scott), Oz falls in love with the beautiful Heather (M. Suvari) who is not even close to a ‘girl for one’ night’, as Jim tries to seduce exchange student Nadia (S. Elizabeth). After the disaster with Nadia, Jim gets closer to Michelle (A. Hannigan), who gives him friendly sexual instructions…
An American Werewolf in London (1981)
Wandering the English wastelands during vacation, American students David (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne) come across an unusual inn whose owner warns them not to stray after nightfall. Ignoring her advice, as all characters in horror movies do, the two of them decide to find a shortcut… David wakes up in the hospital with a nasty bite wound on his shoulder, and the recently deceased and already slightly decayed Jack soon brings him the terrible news.
If he does not commit suicide, David will turn into a werewolf on the first night of the full moon. David dismisses the encounter as an ordinary hallucination, but all indications point to a werewolf, and evenings full of blood and howling soon follow.
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Paul Bigler (J. Stewart) is a former public prosecutor who retired to private practice. Now he is a lawyer who doesn’t really have much to do, and he fills up his excess free time with frequent fishing trips. His good friend and once-famous lawyer McCarthy has given up on drinking and remembers his glory days with nostalgia.
One day, Paula gets a call from Laure Manion and asks her to take over the defense of her husband, Lt. Manion. He is in prison for murdering the thug who raped her. Laura still bears the marks of the rapist’s blows, but the prosecution maintains that there was no rape.
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
A respected TV journalist from San Diego, the popular Ron Burgundy (Will Ferrell) is a mean womanizer whose intellectual abilities are not quite up to par. His place as the undisputed king of the small screen is threatened by a new, ambitious, young editorial colleague, Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate).
At first, he is not worried about his colleague’s reports from cat fashion shows, cooking shows and similar not-too-important tasks. But Veronica, who knows something about journalism, refuses to settle for a supporting role, which begins the real battle for the microphone. It’s no longer just a clash between two people with really good hair – it’s war!
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Captain Willard (Martin Sheen), a marine deeply shaken by the horrors of war, is sent on a seemingly impossible mission by the US military. He must find and overthrow the infamous former lieutenant Walter E. Kurtz (Marlon Brando) who, at the head of a tribe of natives, controls a part of the jungle in neutral Cambodia.
The longer his journey lasts, the more his unit is taken over by drugs and the jungle, which drives fear into the bones. One by one, his soldiers are killed as Willard slowly realizes that he has been sent on a journey into the very heart of darkness.
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
Los Angeles. Police Lieutenant Bishop has been assigned to take over the supervision of a police station that is in the process of moving, which still has only one policeman and two female officers. A bus arrives at the station with three dangerous prisoners, including the death row inmate Napoleon Wilson. Suddenly, a man bursts in there, unable to utter a single word due to shock.
He is running away from members of the ruthless Cholo gang, one of whose members he killed, after they killed his daughter. As six gang members recently died in a police ambush, a massive night attack follows on the station, which is defended only by Bishop, the brave officer Leigh, and two prisoners armed by Bishop…
Atonement (2007)
The year is 1935. The Tallis family is preparing for a special dinner. Briony is thirteen years old and wants to become a writer. Her older sister Cecilia attends Cambridge University, and along with her is Robbie Turner, whose mother works for the Tallis family. There is something more between Cecilia and Robbie but both are uncomfortable admitting their feelings.
Also visiting the Tallis family is Lola Quincey, and her two younger twin brothers. Leon Tallis is also on the property and brought his friend Paul to visit. Leon invites Robbie to a party, which he gladly accepts. A series of misunderstandings soon arise between Briony, Cecilia, and Robbie, leading to tragic events. Robbie is accused of a crime he did not commit and ends up in prison.
Five years later, in the heart of World War II, we meet those three characters again. Robbie, who is preparing for the Battle of Dunkirk, and two feuding sisters who work as nurses in London.
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
As the Avengers and their allies protect the world from threats too great for any single hero, a new threat has emerged from the cosmic shadows: Thanos. This intergalactic infamous despot aims to collect all six Infinity Stones, artifacts of unimaginable power, and use them to impose his twisted will on all of reality. Everything the Avengers have fought for has led to this moment – the fate of Earth and existence itself has never been more uncertain.
