VietNamNet Bridge - "Pompeii", "Need for Speed 3D", "Divergent" and "Noah" are the most notable films in local theaters this month.

1. Mr. Peabody & Sherman

Expected release date: 7/3

The hilarious cartoon “Mr. Peabody & Sherman” is one of the movies that open the local cinemas in March. This is a work of humor, adventure mixed with science fiction, time travel with special characters. All are connected by the relationship between the main characters - a dog and a boy.

Mr. Peabody, the most successful dog in the world, and a mischievous boy - Sherman used the WABAC time machine to embark on the exciting journeys. But when Sherman used WABAC to impress his friend - Penny, they accidentally ripped a hole in the universe, destroying many important events of the world history...

2. Winter's Tale

Expected release date: 7/3

The romantic film with the participation of the handsome star Colin Farrell will be a gift for women on the occasion of the Women’s Day - 8/3.

Adapted from the novel of the same name published in 1983, Winter's Tale is the story about Peter Lake, a super thief.

New York City is subsumed in arctic winds, dark nights, and white lights, its life unfolds, for it is an extraordinary hive of the imagination, the greatest house ever built, and nothing exists that can check its vitality. One night in winter, Peter Lake (Colin Farrell), orphan and master-mechanic, attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side. Though he thinks the house is empty, the daughter of the house is home. Thus begins the love between Peter, a middle-aged Irish burglar, and Beverly Penn (Jessica Brown Findlay), a young girl, who is dying.

3. Pompeii

Expected release date: 7/3

This is a movie for the audiences who love disaster movies with magnificent special effects.

Set in 79 A.D., POMPEII tells the epic story of Milo (Kit Harington), a slave turned invincible gladiator who finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia (Emily Browning), the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts in a torrent of blazing lava, Milo must fight his way out of the arena in order to save his beloved as the once magnificent Pompeii crumbles around him.

4. Non-Stop

Expected release date: 7/3

The audience will see veteran actor Liam Neeson in his latest action movie called “Non-Stop”.

Bill Marks is a former cop who after dealing with his daughter's death by drinking, is now an air marshal. While on a flight from London to New York, Marks gets a text telling him that unless 150 million dollars is deposited to an off shore account within 20 minutes someone will die. He tries to tell the other air marshal, Hammond but Hammond doesn't believe him.

5. The Monuments Men

Expected release date: 7/3

Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action drama focusing on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners.

It would be an impossible mission: with the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could these guys - seven museum directors, curators, and art historians, all more familiar with Michelangelo than the M-1 - possibly hope to succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time to avoid the destruction of 1000 years of culture, they would risk their lives to protect and defend mankind's greatest achievements.

From director George Clooney, the film stars George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban, Hugh Bonneville, and Cate Blanchett.

6. Need for Speed - 3D

Expected release date: 14/3

Fresh from prison, a street racer who was framed by a wealthy business associate joins a cross country race with revenge in mind. His ex-partner, learning of the plan, places a massive bounty on his head as the race begins.

Adapted from the popular racing video game of the same name, Need for Speed is one of the most promising movies in March. In the movie, actor Aaron Paul plays Tobey Marshall, a renowned street racer and a skilled auto mechanic. Being trapped by Dino Brewster (a former NASCAR racer) in a race, Tobey was sentenced to two years in prison.

After being released from prison, he was determined to taken vengeance and he had only chance: challenging Dino in the most prestigious race of the underworld, De Leon. But to participate in the race, Tobey had to pass a race against time across the United States.

7. Miss Granny

Expected release date: 14/3

Miss Granny is a new comedy of South Korea. The movie is about Oh Man-Soon (Na Moon-Hee), a widow who began to feel herself a burden to her children at the age of 74.

Incidentally, when she went to a photographic studio, she was surprised about the sudden change of her appearance. The contrast between the beauty of a young girl and the grumpy characters of an old woman would lead to tragicomedy situations.

8. 300: Rise of an Empire - 3D

Expected release date: 14/3

Part two of the “300” movie is the most anticipated movie in this month. In 2007, the introduction of the 300 action movie created a global craze. The movie was adapted from the comic by Frank Miller.

Seven years later, the second part of the film is released, with the content based on the unreleased comic entitled “Xersex”, also by Miller.

After its victory over Leonidas' 300, the Persian Army under the command of Xerxes marches towards the major Greek city-states. The Democratic city of Athens, first on the path of Xerxes' army, bases its strength on its fleet, led by Admiral Themistocles. Themistocles is forced to an unwilling alliance with the traditional rival of Athens, oligarchic Sparta whose might lies with its superior infantry troops. But Xerxes still reigns supreme in numbers over sea and land.

9. That Awkward Moment

Expected release date: 14/3

The new comedy of actor Zac Efron is an R-rated work (unsuitable for viewers under 17).

Three best friends find themselves where we've all been - at that confusing moment in every dating relationship when you have to decide "So...where is this going?"

10. A Perfect Man

Expected release date: 21/3

The movie is about the troubled love of a couple - James (Live Schreiber) and Nina (Jeanne Tripplehorn).

Too discontent because of misunderstandings and quarrels with her womanizing husband, Nina decided to temporarily be away from him for some time and came in with her best friend Lynn. During this period, when James was still alone, Nina used the phone, pretended to be a strange woman to approach and get acquainted with her husband...

11. Divergent

Expected release date: 21/3

Divergent is a film adapted from the novel of the same name, which is seen as the phenomenon of contemporary American literary circles.

Set in a futuristic dystopia where society is divided into five factions that each represent a different virtue, teenagers have to decide if they want to stay in their faction or switch to another - for the rest of their lives.

Tris Prior makes a choice that surprises everyone. Then Tris and her fellow faction-members have to live through a highly competitive initiation process to live out the choice they have made. They must undergo extreme physical and intense psychological tests that transform them all. But Tris has a secret that she is Divergent, which means she doesn't fit into any one group.

If anyone knew, it would mean a certain death. As she discovers a growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly perfect society, this secret might help her save the people she loves... or it might destroy her.

12. The Second Coming

Expected release date: 28/3

This month, the audience will also have the opportunity to experience the horror moments in The Second Coming – a new horror Chinese movie.

The film tells the story of a couple - Ming and Ai Tran, when their peaceful life ended by the erratic behavior of their 14-year-old daughter Lucy.

Their son - Sunny - returned home immediately to help but Lucy's character became increasingly violent. This family’s mysterious secrets gradually revealed.

13. The Raid 2: Berandal

Expected release date: 28/3

The movie continues to tell the story of Rama – a SWAT soldier.

He thought it was over. After fighting his way out of a building filled with gangsters and madmen - a fight that left the bodies of police and gangsters alike piled in the halls - rookie Jakarta cop Rama thought it was done and he could resume a normal life. He couldn't have been more wrong. Formidable though they may have been, Rama's opponents in that fateful building were nothing more than small fish swimming in a pond much larger than he ever dreamed possible. And his triumph over the small fry has attracted the attention of the predators farther up the food chain. His family at risk, Rama has only one choice to protect his infant son and wife: He must go undercover to enter the criminal underworld himself and climb through the hierarchy of competing forces until it leads him to the corrupt politicians and police pulling the strings at the top of the heap. And so Rama begins a new odyssey of violence, a journey that will force him to set aside his own life and history and take on...

14. Noah

Expected release date: 28/3

The Biblical Noah suffers visions of an apocalyptic deluge and takes measures to protect his family from the coming flood. Oscar-winner Russell Crowe plays Noah.

T. Van