This week on DStv BoxOffice: Dumb and Dumber To, The Drop, The Captive and more…

Here are some hot BoxOffice movies you cannot afford to miss this week.

Dumb and Dumber To

Twenty years after the dimwits set out on their first adventure, they head out in search of one of their long lost children in the hope of gaining a new kidney.

Starring: Jim Carrey, Jeff Daniels, Rob Riggle
Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly

Available to rent on BoxOffice from 16 March 2015.

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Eleven-year-old Alexander experiences the most terrible and horrible day of his young life but when he tells his upbeat family about his misadventures, he finds little sympathy and wonders if bad things only happen to him.

Starring: Steve Carell, Jennifer Garner, Ed Oxenbould
Director: Miguel Arteta

The Boxtrolls

A family event movie from the creators of Coraline and ParaNorman that introduces audiences to a new breed of family – the Boxtrolls, a community of quirky, mischievous creatures who have lovingly raised an orphaned human boy named Eggs (voiced by Isaac Hempstead-Wright) in the amazing cavernous home they’ve built beneath the streets of Cheesebridge.

Starring: Ben Kingsley, Toni Collette, Elle Fanning
Director: Anthony Stacchi, Graham Annable

Available to rent on BoxOffice from 17 March 2015.

The Drop

Bob Saginowski funnels cash to local gangsters in the underworld of Brooklyn bars under the heavy hand of his employer and cousin Marv. Bob however finds himself at the centre of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighbourhood’s past.

Starring: Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, James Gandolfini
Director: Michaël R. Roskam

The Good Lie

They were known simply as “The Lost Boys”. Orphaned by the brutal Civil war in Sudan that began in 1983, these young victims traveled as many as a thousand miles on foot in search of safety. Fifteen years later, a humanitarian effort took 3600 lost boys and girls to America. This is the story of their survival and triumph in life.

Starring: Reese Witherspoon, Arnold Oceng, Ger Duany
Director: Philippe Falardeau

Available to rent on BoxOffice from 20 March 2015.

The Captive

A pick-up truck pulls off the highway at a diner. Confident that his young daughter is safe in the back seat and promising to return with ice cream, the father slips out of his truck and into the diner. When he returns, she is gone.

Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Scott Speedman, Rosario Dawson
Director: Atom Egoyan

Available to rent on BoxOffice from 20 March 2015.