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1.
Coherence (2013)
7.2/10
Strange things begin to happen when a group of friends gather for a dinner party on an evening when a comet is passing
overhead. (89 mins.)
Director: James Ward Byrkit
Stars: Emily Baldoni, Maury Sterling, Nicholas Brendon, Elizabeth Gracen
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“ Best hacking brain ” - ryoir
2.
Mr. Nobody (2009)
7.9/10
A boy stands on a station platform as a train is about to leave. Should he go with his mother or stay with his father? Infinite
possibilities arise from this decision. As long as he doesn't choose, anything is possible. (141 mins.)
Director: Jaco Van Dormael
Stars: Jared Leto, Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger, Linh Dan Pham
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“ Nice shot time ” - ryoir
3.
Predestination (2014)
7.5/10
For his final assignment, a top temporal agent must pursue the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time. The chase turns
into a unique, surprising and mind-bending exploration of love, fate, identity and time travel taboos. (97 mins.)
Director: The Spierig Brothers, The Spierig Brothers
Stars: Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Noah Taylor, Madeleine West
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“ One life paradox ” - ryoir
4.
Triangle (2009)
6.9/10
The story revolves around the passengers of a yachting trip in the Atlantic Ocean who, when struck by mysterious weather
conditions, jump to another ship only to experience greater havoc on the open seas. (99 mins.)
Director: Christopher Smith
Stars: Melissa George, Joshua McIvor, Jack Taylor, Michael Dorman
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“ Time loop ” - ryoir
5.
Time Lapse (2014)
6.5/10
Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures twenty-four hours into the future, and conspire to use it for
personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop. (104 mins.)
Director: Bradley King
Stars: Danielle Panabaker, Matt O'Leary, George Finn, John Rhys-Davies
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“ Grandfather Paradox ” - ryoir
6.
Memento (2000)
8.5/10
A man juggles searching for his wife's murderer and keeping his short-term memory loss from being an obstacle. (113 mins.)
Director: Christopher Nolan
Stars: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Mark Boone Junior
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7.
The Butterfly Effect (2004)
7.7/10
Evan Treborn suffers blackouts during significant events of his life. As he grows up, he finds a way to remember these lost
memories and a supernatural way to alter his life by reading his journal. (113 mins.)
Director: Eric Bress, J. Mackye Gruber
Stars: Ashton Kutcher, Amy Smart, Melora Walters, Elden Henson
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8.
Interstellar (2014)
8.6/10
A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in space in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival. (169 mins.)
Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Mackenzie Foy
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“ Space time ” - ryoir
9.
As Above, So Below (2014)
6.2/10
When a team of explorers ventures into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies
within this city of the dead. (93 mins.)
Director: John Erick Dowdle
Stars: Perdita Weeks, Ben Feldman, Edwin Hodge, François Civil
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“ Ego ” - ryoir
10.
The Prestige (2006)
8.5/10
After a tragic accident two stage magicians engage in a battle to create the ultimate illusion whilst sacrificing everything they
have to outwit the other. (130 mins.)
Stars: Christian Bale, Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Michael Caine
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11.
Shutter Island (2010)
8.1/10
In 1954, a U.S. Marshal investigates the disappearance of a murderer, who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane. (138
mins.)
Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Emily Mortimer, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley
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12.
Enemy (2013)
6.9/10
A man seeks out his exact look-alike after spotting him in a movie. (91 mins.)
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon, Isabella Rossellini
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13.
Cloud Atlas (2012)
7.5/10
An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped
from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. (172 mins.)
Director: Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski
Stars: Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant, Hugo Weaving
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14.
Project Almanac (2015)
6.4/10
A group of teens discover secret plans of a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control. (106
mins.)
Director: Dean Israelite
Stars: Amy Landecker, Sofia Black-D'Elia, Virginia Gardner, Jonny Weston
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15.
Primer (2004)
6.9/10
Four friends/fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-
checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention. (77 mins.)
Director: Shane Carruth
Stars: Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Casey Gooden, Anand Upadhyaya
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16.
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
8.0/10
In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped
out most of the human population on the planet. (129 mins.)
Director: Terry Gilliam
Stars: Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, Joseph Melito
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17.
Mulholland Dr. (2001)
8.0/10
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for
clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality. (147 mins.)
Director: David Lynch
Stars: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Jeanne Bates
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18.
Identity (2003)
7.3/10
Stranded at a desolate Nevada motel during a nasty rain-storm, ten strangers become acquainted with each other when they
realize that they're being killed off one by one. (90 mins.)
Director: James Mangold
Stars: John Cusack, Ray Liotta, Amanda Peet, John Hawkes
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19.
Hide and Seek (2005)
5.9/10
As a widower tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide, his daughter finds solace -- at first -- in her
imaginary friend. (101 mins.)
Director: John Polson
Stars: Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning, Famke Janssen, Elisabeth Shue
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20.
Insomnia (2002)
7.2/10
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical
murder of a local teen. (118 mins.)
Stars: Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank, Martin Donovan
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21.
The Machinist (2004)
7.7/10
An industrial worker who hasn't slept in a year begins to doubt his own sanity. (101 mins.)
Director: Brad Anderson
Stars: Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, John Sharian
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22.
The Fountain (2006)
7.3/10
As a modern-day scientist, Tommy is struggling with mortality, desperately searching for the medical breakthrough that will save
the life of his cancer-stricken wife, Izzi. (96 mins.)
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Stars: Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Sean Patrick Thomas, Ellen Burstyn
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23.
Holy Motors (2012)
7.1/10
From dawn to dusk, a few hours in the shadowy life of a mystic man named Monsieur Oscar. (115 mins.)
Director: Leos Carax
Stars: Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue
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24.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
8.3/10
When their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a procedure to have each other erased from their memories. But it is only
through the process of loss that they discover what they had to begin with. (108 mins.)
Director: Michel Gondry
Stars: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson, Gerry Robert Byrne
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25.
The Tree of Life (2011)
6.8/10
The story of a family in Waco, Texas in 1956. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence and struggles with his parents'
conflicting teachings. (139 mins.)
Director: Terrence Malick
Stars: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain, Hunter McCracken
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26.
The Skeleton Key (2005)
6.5/10
A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's
dark past. (104 mins.)
Director: Iain Softley
Stars: Kate Hudson, Peter Sarsgaard, Joy Bryant, Gena Rowlands
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27.
Whisper (2007)
5.8/10
Sinister things begin happening to kidnappers who are holding a young boy for ransom in a remote
cabin. (94 mins.)
Director: Stewart Hendler
Stars: Jennifer Shirley, Blake Woodruff, Michael Rooker, Josh Holloway
1.
Fight Club (1999)
8.8/10
An insomniac office worker, looking for a way to change his life, crosses paths with a devil-may-care
soap maker, forming an underground fight club that evolves into something much, much more. (139
mins.)
Director: David Fincher
Stars: Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Meat Loaf, Zach Grenier
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“ "You have to give up! you have to give up!
You have to realize that someday you will die,
Until you know that, you are useless"
"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."
-Tyler Durden ” - Gourav Goyal
2.
The Prestige (2006)
8.5/10
After a tragic accident two stage magicians engage in a battle to create the ultimate illusion whilst
sacrificing everything they have to outwit the other. (130 mins.)
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3.
Inception (2010)
8.8/10
A thief, who steals corporate secrets through use of dream-sharing technology, is given the inverse
task of planting an idea into the mind of a CEO. (148 mins.)
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Ken Watanabe
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4.
The Sixth Sense (1999)
8.1/10
A boy who communicates with spirits that don't know they're dead seeks the help of a disheartened
child psychologist. (107 mins.)
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Stars: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams
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“ I see dead people! ” - Gourav Goyal
5.
7.7/10
Evan Treborn suffers blackouts during significant events of his life. As he grows up, he finds a way to
remember these lost memories and a supernatural way to alter his life by reading his journal. (113
mins.)
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6.
The Others (2001)
7.6/10
A woman who lives in a darkened old house with her two photosensitive children becomes convinced
that her family home is haunted. (101 mins.)
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Stars: Nicole Kidman, Christopher Eccleston, Fionnula Flanagan, Alakina Mann
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“ at the end of the movie u will find yourself with wide-open-jaw ” - Gourav Goyal
7.
Memento (2000)
8.5/10
A man juggles searching for his wife's murderer and keeping his short-term memory loss from being
an obstacle. (113 mins.)
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8.
Orphan (2009)
7.0/10
A husband and wife who recently lost their baby adopt a 9 year-old girl who is not nearly as innocent
as she claims to be. (123 mins.)
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Stars: Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Isabelle Fuhrman, CCH Pounder
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9.
Oldboy (2003)
8.4/10
After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he
must find his captor in five days. (120 mins.)
Director: Chan-wook Park
Stars: Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yu, Hye-jeong Kang, Dae-han Ji
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“ South korean movies are simply great!! ” - Gourav Goyal
10.
The Illusionist (2006)
7.6/10
In turn-of-the-century Vienna, a magician uses his abilities to secure the love of a woman far above
his social standing. (110 mins.)
Director: Neil Burger
Stars: Edward Norton, Jessica Biel, Paul Giamatti, Rufus Sewell
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11.
Donnie Darko (2001)
8.1/10
A troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to
commit a series of crimes, after he narrowly escapes a bizarre accident. (113 mins.)
Director: Richard Kelly
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Mary McDonnell, Holmes Osborne
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“ u will need to spend extra half n hour on google for movie's explanation and it's WORTH IT!!
http://www.donniedarko.org.uk/explanation/
P.S - that song at the end is "Mad World" by Gary Jules ” - Gourav Goyal
12.
8.1/10
In 1954, a U.S. Marshal investigates the disappearance of a murderer, who escaped from a hospital
for the criminally insane. (138 mins.)
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13.
The Uninvited (2009)
6.4/10
Anna returns home after a stint in a mental hospital, but her recovery is jeopardized by her cruel
stepmother and ghastly visions of her dead mother. (87 mins.)
Director: The Guard Brothers, The Guard Brothers
Stars: Emily Browning, Arielle Kebbel, Elizabeth Banks, David Strathairn
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14.
Dead Silence (2007)
6.2/10
A young widower returns to his hometown to search for answers to his wife's murder, which may be
linked to the ghost of a murdered ventriloquist. (89 mins.)
Director: James Wan
Stars: Ryan Kwanten, Amber Valletta, Donnie Wahlberg, Michael Fairman
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“ that music at the End :) ” - Gourav Goyal
15.
Triangle (2009)
6.9/10
The story revolves around the passengers of a yachting trip in the Atlantic Ocean who, when struck by
mysterious weather conditions, jump to another ship only to experience greater havoc on the open
seas. (99 mins.)
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16.
Interstellar (2014)
8.6/10
A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in space in an attempt to ensure humanity's

survival. (169 mins.)
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17.
The Machinist (2004)
7.7/10
An industrial worker who hasn't slept in a year begins to doubt his own sanity. (101 mins.)
Director: Brad Anderson
Stars: Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, John Sharian
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18.
8.3/10
When their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a procedure to have each other erased from
their memories. But it is only through the process of loss that they discover what they had to begin
with. (108 mins.)
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19.
The Dark Knight (2008)
9.0/10
When the menace known as the Joker emerges from his mysterious past, he wreaks havoc and chaos
on the people of Gotham, the Dark Knight must accept one of the greatest psychological and physical
tests of his ability to fight injustice. (152 mins.)
Stars: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine
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20.
The Ring (2002)
7.1/10
A journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone in a
week of viewing it. (115 mins.)
Director: Gore Verbinski
Stars: Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, Brian Cox, David Dorfman
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21.
The Game (1997)
7.8/10
After a wealthy banker is given an opportunity to participate in a mysterious game, his life is turned
upside down when he becomes unable to distinguish between the game and reality. (129 mins.)
Stars: Michael Douglas, Deborah Kara Unger, Sean Penn, James Rebhorn
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22.
Karthik Calling Karthik (2010)
7.0/10
A loner, Karthik achieves success, and even wins the heart of his gorgeous co-worker, after getting
early morning mysterious phone calls from someone claiming to be him. (135 mins.)
Director: Vijay Lalwani
Stars: Siddhartha Gupta, Swapnel Desai, Farhan Akhtar, Vipin Sharma
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“ Best Indian suspense movie! ” - Gourav Goyal
23.
American Psycho (2000)
7.6/10
A wealthy New York investment banking executive, Thomas Clyde Blackburn, hides his alternate
psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic
fantasies. (102 mins.)
Director: Mary Harron
Stars: Christian Bale, Justin Theroux, Josh Lucas, Bill Sage
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24.
Source Code (2011)
7.5/10
A soldier wakes up in someone else's body and discovers he's part of an experimental government
program to find the bomber of a commuter train. A mission he has only 8 minutes to complete. (93
mins.)
Director: Duncan Jones
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright
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25.
The Usual Suspects (1995)
8.6/10
A sole survivor tells of the twisty events leading up to a horrific gun battle on a boat, which began
when five criminals met at a seemingly random police lineup. (106 mins.)
Director: Bryan Singer
Stars: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Stephen Baldwin
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26.
Insomnia (2002)
7.2/10
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to
investigate the methodical murder of a local teen. (118 mins.)
Stars: Al Pacino, Robin Williams, Hilary Swank, Martin Donovan
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27.
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
7.6/10
Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with
a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England. (128 mins.)
Director: Guy Ritchie
Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong
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28.
Mr. Nobody (2009)
7.9/10
A boy stands on a station platform as a train is about to leave. Should he go with his mother or stay
with his father? Infinite possibilities arise from this decision. As long as he doesn't choose, anything is
possible. (141 mins.)
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29.
The Devil's Advocate (1997)
7.5/10
An exceptionally adept Florida lawyer is offered a job to work in New York City for a high-end law firm
with a high-end boss - the biggest opportunity of his career to date. (144 mins.)
Director: Taylor Hackford
Stars: Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, Charlize Theron, Jeffrey Jones
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30.
A Beautiful Mind (2001)
8.2/10
After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life
takes a turn for the nightmarish. (135 mins.)
Director: Ron Howard
Stars: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher Plummer
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31.
Identity (2003)
7.3/10
Stranded at a desolate Nevada motel during a nasty rain-storm, ten strangers become acquainted
with each other when they realize that they're being killed off one by one. (90 mins.)
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32.
Gone Girl (2014)
8.1/10
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the
spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent. (149 mins.)
Stars: Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry
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33.
Phone Booth (2002)
7.1/10
Stuart Shepard finds himself trapped in a phone booth, pinned down by an extortionist's sniper
rifle. (81 mins.)
Director: Joel Schumacher
Stars: Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Radha Mitchell
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34.
Zodiac (2007)
7.7/10
In the late 1960s/early 1970s, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed
with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with
a killing spree. (157 mins.)
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Anthony Edwards
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35.
Moon (2009)
7.9/10
Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on
the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a
resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems. (97 mins.)
Stars: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott, Rosie Shaw
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36.
Jacob's Ladder (1990)
7.5/10
Mourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam War veteran attempts to discover his past while suffering
from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams,
delusion, and perception of death. (113 mins.)
Director: Adrian Lyne
Stars: Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello, Matt Craven
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37.
The Interpreter (2005)
6.4/10
Political intrigue and deception unfold inside the United Nations, where a U.S. Secret Service agent is
assigned to investigate an interpreter who overhears an assassination plot. (128 mins.)
Director: Sydney Pollack
Stars: Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener, Jesper Christensen
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38.
Vanilla Sky (2001)
6.9/10
A self-indulgent and vain publishing magnate finds his privileged life upended after a vehicular
accident with a resentful lover. (136 mins.)
Director: Cameron Crowe
Stars: Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz, Kurt Russell
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39.
Side Effects (2013)
7.1/10
A young woman's world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side
effects. (106 mins.)
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Stars: Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Jude Law, Catherine Zeta-Jones
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40.
Groundhog Day (1993)
8.0/10
A weatherman finds himself inexplicably living the same day over and over again. (101 mins.)
Director: Harold Ramis
Stars: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott, Stephen Tobolowsky
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41.
8.0/10
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky
Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond
dreams and reality. (147 mins.)
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42.
The Double (2013)
6.5/10
A clerk in a government agency finds his unenviable life takes a turn for the horrific with the arrival of
a new co-worker who is both his exact physical double and his opposite - confident, charismatic and
seductive with women. (93 mins.)
Director: Richard Ayoade
Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Mia Wasikowska, Wallace Shawn, Noah Taylor
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43.
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
7.8/10
A washed-up Hollywood actor, who once played a famous superhero, attempts to revive his career by
writing and starring in a Broadway play. (119 mins.)
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Stars: Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough
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44.
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
8.0/10
In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the
man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet. (129 mins.)
Stars: Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, Joseph Melito
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45.
Coherence (2013)
7.2/10
Strange things begin to happen when a group of friends gather for a dinner party on an evening when
a comet is passing overhead. (89 mins.)
Director: James Ward Byrkit
Stars: Emily Baldoni, Maury Sterling, Nicholas Brendon, Elizabeth Gracen
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46.
12 Angry Men (1957)
8.9/10
A jury holdout attempts to prevent a miscarriage of justice by forcing his colleagues to reconsider the
evidence. (96 mins.)
Director: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler
1.
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
8.3/10
In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment,
but it doesn't go as planned. (136 mins.)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke
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2.
Girl, Interrupted (1999)
7.4/10
Based on writer Susanna Kaysen's account of her 18-month stay at a mental hospital in the
1960s. (127 mins.)
Stars: Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea DuVall, Brittany Murphy
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3.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
8.7/10
A criminal pleads insanity after getting into trouble again and once in the mental institution rebels
against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients. (133 mins.)
Director: Milos Forman
Stars: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco
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4.
Memento (2000)
8.5/10
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5.
Fight Club (1999)
8.8/10
mins.)
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6.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
8.3/10
Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the
intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest. (149 mins.)
Stars: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter
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7.
Inception (2010)
8.8/10
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8.
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
8.3/10
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run
deep. (102 mins.)
Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans
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9.
Pulp Fiction (1994)
8.9/10
The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four
tales of violence and redemption. (154 mins.)
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Stars: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis
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10.
Moon (2009)
7.9/10
Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on
the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a
resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems. (97 mins.)
Stars: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey, Dominique McElligott, Rosie Shaw
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11.
Donnie Darko (2001)
8.1/10
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12.
V for Vendetta (2005)
8.2/10
In a future British tyranny, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to
overthrow it with the help of a young woman. (132 mins.)
Director: James McTeigue
Stars: Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman, Rupert Graves, Stephen Rea
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13.
Ed Wood (1994)
7.9/10
Ambitious but troubled movie director, Edward D. Wood Jr, tries his best to fulfill his dream, despite
his lack of support. (127 mins.)
Director: Tim Burton
Stars: Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette
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14.
Trainspotting (1996)
8.2/10
Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure
of the drugs and influence of friends. (94 mins.)
Director: Danny Boyle
Stars: Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd
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15.
Good Will Hunting (1997)
8.3/10
Will Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find
direction in his life. (126 mins.)
Director: Gus Van Sant
Stars: Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Stellan Skarsgård
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16.
Big Fish (2003)
8.0/10
A frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life. (125 mins.)
Stars: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange
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17.
Black River (2001 TV Movie)
5.9/10
A writer visits a town that isn't what it appears to be. (84 mins.)
Director: Jeff Bleckner
Stars: Jay Mohr, Lisa Edelstein, Ann Cusack, Ron Canada
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18.
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
8.3/10
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish
U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same. (153 mins.)
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Stars: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth, Mélanie Laurent
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19.
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
8.2/10
In the falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into
an eerie but captivating fantasy world. (118 mins.)
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Stars: Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú
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20.
Daybreakers (2009)
6.5/10
In the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into vampires. Faced with a
dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher
works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind. (98 mins.)
Stars: Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Harriet Minto-Day
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21.
Gangs of New York (2002)
7.5/10
In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against
Bill the Butcher, his father's killer. (167 mins.)
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jim Broadbent
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22.
The Jacket (2005)
7.1/10
A Gulf war veteran is wrongly sent to a mental institution for insane criminals, where he becomes the
object of a doctor's experiments, and his life is completely affected by them. (103 mins.)
Director: John Maybury
Stars: Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Daniel Craig, Kris Kristofferson
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23.
Apocalypse Now (1979)
8.5/10
During the Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate
a renegade colonel who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe. (147 mins.)
Director: Francis Coppola
Stars: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest
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24.
Dracula (1992)
7.5/10
The centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker's
fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land. (128 mins.)
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Stars: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves
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25.
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
6.6/10
A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire,
whom he befriends. (155 mins.)
Director: Clint Eastwood
Stars: John Cusack, Kevin Spacey, Jack Thompson, Irma P. Hall
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26.
The Da Vinci Code (2006)
6.6/10
A murder inside the Louvre, and clues in Da Vinci paintings, lead to the discovery of a religious
mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years, which could shake the foundations of
Christianity. (149 mins.)
Stars: Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Jean Reno, Ian McKellen
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27.
Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982)
8.0/10
A confined but troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social
isolation from everyone. (95 mins.)
Director: Alan Parker
Stars: Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves, James Laurenson, Eleanor David
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28.
Almost Famous (2000)
7.9/10
A high-school boy is given the chance to write a story for Rolling Stone Magazine about an up-and-
coming rock band as he accompanies them on their concert tour. (122 mins.)
Director: Cameron Crowe
Stars: Billy Crudup, Patrick Fugit, Kate Hudson, Frances McDormand
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29.
Eastern Promises (2007)
7.7/10
A Russian teenager living in London who dies during childbirth leaves clues to a midwife in her journal
that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family. (100 mins.)
Director: David Cronenberg
Stars: Naomi Watts, Viggo Mortensen, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Josef Altin
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30.
The Beach (2000)
6.6/10
Twenty-something Richard travels to Thailand and finds himself in possession of a strange map.
Rumours state that it leads to a solitary beach paradise, a tropical bliss - excited and intrigued, he
sets out to find it. (119 mins.)
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel York, Patcharawan Patarakijjanon, Virginie Ledoyen
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31.
The Wrestler (2008)
7.9/10
A faded professional wrestler must retire, but finds his quest for a new life outside the ring a
dispiriting struggle. (109 mins.)
Stars: Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood, Mark Margolis
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32.
Gun Shy (2000)
5.7/10
An undercover DEA agent brings down the Mafia. (101 mins.)

Director: Eric Blakeney
Stars: Liam Neeson, Sandra Bullock, Oliver Platt, José Zúñiga
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33.
Carlito's Way (1993)
7.9/10
A Puerto Rican former convict, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and
violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of N.Y.C. (144 mins.)
Director: Brian De Palma
Stars: Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller, John Leguizamo
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34.
Léon: The Professional (1994)
8.6/10
Mathilda, a 12-year-old girl, is reluctantly taken in by Léon, a professional assassin, after her family is
murdered. Léon and Mathilda form an unusual relationship, as she becomes his protégée and learns
the assassin's trade. (110 mins.)
Director: Luc Besson
Stars: Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Natalie Portman, Danny Aiello
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35.
Se7en (1995)
8.6/10
Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his
motives. (127 mins.)
Stars: Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey, Andrew Kevin Walker
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36.
The Shining (1980)
8.4/10
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the
father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the
future. (146 mins.)
Stars: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd, Scatman Crothers
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37.
8.3/10
with. (108 mins.)
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38.
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
8.2/10
A botched card game in London triggers four friends, thugs, weed-growers, hard gangsters, loan
sharks and debt collectors to collide with each other in a series of unexpected events, all for the sake
of weed, cash and two antique shotguns. (107 mins.)
Director: Guy Ritchie
Stars: Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran, Jason Statham
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39.
Citizen Kane (1941)
8.4/10
Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his
final utterance. (119 mins.)
Director: Orson Welles
Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead
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40.
The Departed (2006)
8.5/10
An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish
gang in South Boston. (151 mins.)
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg
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41.
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
7.2/10
Neo and the rebel leaders estimate that they have 72 hours until 250,000 probes discover Zion and
destroy it and its inhabitants. During this, Neo must decide how he can save Trinity from a dark fate in
his dreams. (138 mins.)
Director: The Wachowski Brothers, The Wachowski Brothers
Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving
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42.
Metropolis (1927)
8.3/10
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the
city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to
mediate their differences. (153 mins.)
Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
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43.
The Truman Show (1998)
8.1/10
An insurance salesman/adjuster discovers his entire life is actually a television show. (103 mins.)
Director: Peter Weir
Stars: Jim Carrey, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich
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44.
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)
5.5/10
A remake of the 1951 classic science fiction film about an alien visitor and his giant robot counterpart
who visit Earth. (104 mins.)
Director: Scott Derrickson
Stars: Keanu Reeves, Jennifer Connelly, Kathy Bates, Jaden Smith
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45.
The Dark Knight (2008)
9.0/10
When the menace known as the Joker emerges from his mysterious past, he wreaks havoc and chaos
on the people of Gotham, the Dark Knight must accept one of the greatest psychological and physical
tests of his ability to fight injustice. (152 mins.)
Stars: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine
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46.
Goodfellas (1990)
8.7/10
The story of Henry Hill and his life through the teen years into the years of mafia, covering his
relationship with his wife Karen Hill and his Mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito in the
Italian-American crime syndicate. (146 mins.)
Stars: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco
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47.
Casino (1995)
8.2/10
A tale of greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two best friends: a mafia
enforcer and a casino executive, compete against each other over a gambling empire and over a fast
living and fast loving socialite. (178 mins.)
Stars: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods
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48.
Taxi Driver (1976)
8.3/10
A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the
perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, while attempting to save a
preadolescent prostitute in the process. (113 mins.)
Stars: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Albert Brooks
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49.
Brazil (1985)
8.0/10
A bureaucrat, in a retro-future world, tries to correct an administrative error, and becomes an enemy
of the state. (132 mins.)
Stars: Jonathan Pryce, Kim Greist, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond
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50.
Up in Smoke (1978)
7.0/10
Two stoners unknowingly smuggle a van - made entirely of marijuana - from Mexico to L.A., with
incompetent Sgt. Stedenko on their trail. (86 mins.)
Director: Lou Adler
Stars: Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Strother Martin, Edie Adams
1.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
8.3/10
Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the
intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest. (149 mins.)
Stars: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter
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2.
The Matrix (1999)
8.7/10
A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in
the war against its controllers. (136 mins.)
Director: The Wachowski Brothers, The Wachowski Brothers
Stars: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving
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3.
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
8.2/10
In the falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into
an eerie but captivating fantasy world. (118 mins.)
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Stars: Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú
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4.
Inception (2010)
8.8/10
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5.
Interstellar (2014)
8.6/10
A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in space in an attempt to ensure humanity's

survival. (169 mins.)
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6.
Memento (2000)
8.5/10
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7.
Persona (1966)
8.1/10
A nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personas are melding together. (85
mins.)
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook, Gunnar Björnstrand
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8.
8.3/10
with. (108 mins.)
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9.
The Shining (1980)
8.4/10
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the
father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the
future. (146 mins.)
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10.
8.1/10
In 1954, a U.S. Marshal investigates the disappearance of a murderer, who escaped from a hospital
for the criminally insane. (138 mins.)
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11.
Memories of Murder (2003)
8.1/10
In a small Korean province in 1986, three detectives struggle with the case of multiple young women
being found raped and murdered by an unknown culprit. (131 mins.)
Director: Joon Ho Bong
Stars: Kang-ho Song, Sang-kyung Kim, Roe-ha Kim, Jae-ho Song
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12.
Black Swan (2010)
8.0/10
A committed dancer wins the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" only to find
herself struggling to maintain her sanity. (108 mins.)
Stars: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder
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13.
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
8.1/10
A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use a young couple to fuel anguish and emotional pain
towards each other. (131 mins.)
Director: Mike Nichols
Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, George Segal, Sandy Dennis
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14.
Solaris (1972)
8.1/10
A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the
crew to go insane. (167 mins.)
Director: Andrey Tarkovskiy
Stars: Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Jüri Järvet, Vladislav Dvorzhetskiy
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15.
Life of Pi (2012)
7.9/10
A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and
discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome
Bengal tiger. (127 mins.)
Director: Ang Lee
Stars: Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Adil Hussain, Tabu
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16.
Triangle (2009)
6.9/10
The story revolves around the passengers of a yachting trip in the Atlantic Ocean who, when struck by
mysterious weather conditions, jump to another ship only to experience greater havoc on the open
seas. (99 mins.)
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17.
Identity (2003)
7.3/10
Stranded at a desolate Nevada motel during a nasty rain-storm, ten strangers become acquainted
with each other when they realize that they're being killed off one by one. (90 mins.)
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18.
8.0/10
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky
Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond
dreams and reality. (147 mins.)
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19.
Pi (1998)
7.5/10
A paranoid mathematician searches for a key number that will unlock the universal patterns found in
nature. (84 mins.)
Stars: Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman, Pamela Hart
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20.
The Exterminating Angel (1962)
8.2/10
The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave. (95 mins.)
Director: Luis Buñuel
Stars: Silvia Pinal, Jacqueline Andere, Enrique Rambal, Claudio Brook
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21.
The Prestige (2006)
8.5/10
After a tragic accident two stage magicians engage in a battle to create the ultimate illusion whilst
sacrificing everything they have to outwit the other. (130 mins.)
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22.
Mr. Nobody (2009)
7.9/10
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23.
Confessions (2010)
7.8/10
A psychological thriller of a grieving mother turned cold-blooded avenger with a twisty master plan to
pay back those who were responsible for her daughter's death. (106 mins.)
Director: Tetsuya Nakashima
Stars: Takako Matsu, Yoshino Kimura, Masaki Okada, Yukito Nishii
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24.
Open Your Eyes (1997)
7.8/10
A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face
rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured. (117 mins.)
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Stars: Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz, Chete Lera, Fele Martínez
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25.
Donnie Darko (2001)
8.1/10
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26.
3-Iron (2004)
8.1/10
A transient young man breaks into empty homes to partake of the vacationing residents' lives for a
few days. (88 mins.)
Director: Ki-duk Kim
Stars: Seung-yeon Lee, Hyun-kyoon Lee, Hyuk-ho Kwon, Jeong-ho Choi
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27.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
7.8/10
Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre
consequences. (166 mins.)
Stars: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Julia Ormond
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28.
The Tenant (1976)
7.8/10
A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous
paranoia. (126 mins.)
Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Van Fleet
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29.
7.7/10
mins.)
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30.
A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
7.3/10
A family is haunted by the tragedies of deaths within the family. (115 mins.)
Director: Kim Jee-woon
Stars: Kap-su Kim, Jung-ah Yum, Soo-jung Lim, Geun-young Moon
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31.
The Innocents (1961)
7.9/10
A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted. (100
mins.)
Director: Jack Clayton
Stars: Deborah Kerr, Peter Wyngarde, Megs Jenkins, Michael Redgrave
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32.
Caché (2005)
7.3/10
A married couple is terrorized by a series of surveillance videotapes left on their front porch. (117
mins.)
Director: Michael Haneke
Stars: Daniel Auteuil, Juliette Binoche, Maurice Bénichou, Annie Girardot
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33.
Stalker (1979)
8.1/10
A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes. (162
mins.)
Stars: Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Nikolay Grinko
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34.
The Man from Earth (2007)
8.0/10
An impromptu goodbye party for Professor John Oldman becomes a mysterious interrogation after the
retiring scholar reveals to his colleagues he has a longer and stranger past than they can imagine. (87
mins.)
Director: Richard Schenkman
Stars: David Lee Smith, Tony Todd, John Billingsley, Ellen Crawford
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35.
Being John Malkovich (1999)
7.8/10
A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich. (112
mins.)
Director: Spike Jonze
Stars: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Catherine Keener, John Malkovich
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36.
Millennium Actress (2001)
7.9/10
A TV interviewer and his cameraman meet a former actress and travel through her memories and
career. (87 mins.)
Director: Satoshi Kon
Stars: Miyoko Shôji, Mami Koyama, Fumiko Orikasa, Shôzô Îzuka
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37.
Source Code (2011)
7.5/10
A soldier wakes up in someone else's body and discovers he's part of an experimental government
program to find the bomber of a commuter train. A mission he has only 8 minutes to complete. (93
mins.)
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright
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38.
Cube (1997)
7.3/10
Six complete strangers of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in an
endless maze containing deadly traps. (90 mins.)
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Stars: Nicole de Boer, Maurice Dean Wint, David Hewlett, Andrew Miller
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39.
The Fountain (2006)
7.3/10
As a modern-day scientist, Tommy is struggling with mortality, desperately searching for the medical
breakthrough that will save the life of his cancer-stricken wife, Izzi. (96 mins.)
Stars: Hugh Jackman, Rachel Weisz, Sean Patrick Thomas, Ellen Burstyn
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40.
Timecrimes (2007)
7.2/10
A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself
will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences. (92 mins.)
Director: Nacho Vigalondo
Stars: Karra Elejalde, Candela Fernández, Bárbara Goenaga, Nacho Vigalondo
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41.
The Birds (1963)
7.7/10
A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town
that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people. (119
mins.)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette
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42.
Perfect Blue (1997)
7.9/10
A retired pop singer turned actress' sense of reality is shaken when she is stalked by an obsessed fan
and seemingly a ghost of her past. (81 mins.)
Stars: Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto, Shinpachi Tsuji, Masaaki Ôkura
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43.
The White Ribbon (2009)
7.8/10
Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I,
which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible? (144 mins.)
Stars: Christian Friedel, Ernst Jacobi, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur
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44.
Paprika (2006)
7.7/10
When a machine that allows therapists to enter their patients' dreams is stolen, all Hell breaks loose.
Only a young female therapist, Paprika, can stop it. (90 mins.)
Stars: Megumi Hayashibara, Tôru Emori, Katsunosuke Hori, Tôru Furuya
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45.
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
8.3/10
An innocent young man witnesses violence breaks out after an isolated village is inflamed by the
arrival of a circus and its peculiar attractions, a giant whale and a mysterious man named "The
Prince". (145 mins.)
Director: Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky
Stars: Lars Rudolph, Peter Fitz, Hanna Schygulla, János Derzsi
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46.
Nostalgia (1983)
8.2/10
A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy to research the life of an 18th-century
composer. (125 mins.)
Director: Andrey Tarkovsky
Stars: Oleg Yankovskiy, Erland Josephson, Domiziana Giordano, Patrizia Terreno
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47.
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)
7.8/10
A high-school girl named Makoto acquires the power to travel back in time, and decides to use it for
her own personal benefits. Little does she know that she is affecting the lives of others just as much
as she is her own. (98 mins.)
Director: Mamoru Hosoda
Stars: Riisa Naka, Takuya Ishida, Mitsutaka Itakura, Ayami Kakiuchi
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48.
Run Lola Run (1998)
7.7/10
After a botched money delivery, Lola has 20 minutes to come up with 100,000 Deutschmarks. (81
mins.)
Director: Tom Tykwer
Stars: Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri
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49.
Il Mare (2000)
7.7/10
Eun-joo moves out of her house "Il Mare", leaving behind a Christmas card for the eventual new
owner of the house in 1999... (105 mins.)
Director: Hyun-seung Lee
Stars: Jung-jae Lee, Ji-hyun Jun, Mu-saeng Kim, Seung-yeon Jo
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50.
The Mirror (1975)
8.2/10
A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments
and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation. (107 mins.)
Stars: Margarita Terekhova, Filipp Yankovskiy, Ignat Daniltsev, Oleg Yankovskiy
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51.
Lost Highway (1997)
7.6/10
After a bizarre encounter at a party, a jazz saxophonist is framed for the murder of his wife and sent
to prison, where he inexplicably morphs into a young mechanic and begins leading a new life. (134
mins.)
Stars: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, John Roselius, Louis Eppolito
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52.
The Haunting (1963)
7.6/10
A scientist doing research on the paranormal invites two women to a haunted mansion. One of the
participants soon starts losing her mind. (112 mins.)
Director: Robert Wise
Stars: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson, Russ Tamblyn
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53.
Jacob's Ladder (1990)
7.5/10
Mourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam War veteran attempts to discover his past while suffering
from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams,
delusion, and perception of death. (113 mins.)
Director: Adrian Lyne
Stars: Tim Robbins, Elizabeth Peña, Danny Aiello, Matt Craven
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54.
Doubt (2008)
7.5/10
A Catholic school principal questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young
student. (104 mins.)
Director: John Patrick Shanley
Stars: Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis
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55.
2046 (2004)
7.5/10
The women who enter a science fiction author's life, over the course of a few years, after the author
loses the woman he considers his one true love. (129 mins.)
Director: Kar Wai Wong
Stars: Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Ziyi Zhang, Faye Wong, Li Gong
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56.
Take Shelter (2011)
7.4/10
Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter
his family from a coming storm, or from himself. (121 mins.)
Director: Jeff Nichols
Stars: Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham, Tova Stewart
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57.
K-PAX (2001)
7.4/10
PROT is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries
to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations. (120 mins.)
Director: Iain Softley
Stars: Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Mary McCormack, Alfre Woodard
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58.
Moss (2010)
6.9/10
A mysterious person calls a young man and informs him that his estranged father has died in a
country village... (163 mins.)
Director: Woo-Suk Kang
Stars: Jae-yeong Jeong, Hae-il Park, Joon-sang Yoo, Seon Yu
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59.
The Tree of Life (2011)
6.8/10
The story of a family in Waco, Texas in 1956. The eldest son witnesses the loss of innocence and
struggles with his parents' conflicting teachings. (139 mins.)
Stars: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain, Hunter McCracken
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60.
Dead of Night (1945)
7.7/10
An architect senses impending doom as his half-remembered recurring dream turns into reality. The
guests at the country house encourage him to stay as they take turns telling supernatural tales. (103
mins.)
Director: Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton
Stars: Mervyn Johns, Michael Redgrave, Roland Culver, Mary Merrall
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61.
Audition (1999)
7.2/10
A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him
a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all. (115 mins.)
Director: Takashi Miike
Stars: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Tetsu Sawaki, Jun Kunimura
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62.
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
7.1/10
An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and
begins to lose his own identity as a result. (100 mins.)
Director: Richard Linklater
Stars: Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr., Rory Cochrane
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63.
The Double Life of Veronique (1991)
7.9/10
Two parallel stories about two identical women; one living in Poland, the other in France. They don't
know each other, but their lives are nevertheless profoundly connected. (98 mins.)
Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Stars: Irène Jacob, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Halina Gryglaszewska, Kalina Jedrusik
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64.
A Pure Formality (1994)
7.8/10
Onoff is a famous writer who hasn't published any new books for quite some time and has become a
recluse... (108 mins.)
Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Roman Polanski, Sergio Rubini, Nicola Di Pinto
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65.
Hour of the Wolf (1968)
7.7/10
While vacationing on a remote Scandanavian island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an
emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires. (90 mins.)
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Stars: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Gertrud Fridh, Georg Rydeberg
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66.
Kontroll (2003)
7.7/10
A tale about a strange young man, Bulcsú, the fellow inspectors on his team, all without exception
likeable characters, a rival ticket inspection team, and racing along the tracks... And a tale about
love. (105 mins.)
Director: Nimród Antal
Stars: Sándor Csányi, Eszter Balla, Zoltán Mucsi, Csaba Pindroch
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67.
The Wailing (2016)
7.5/10
A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman
is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter. (156 mins.)
Director: Hong-jin Na
Stars: Jun Kunimura, Jung-min Hwang, Do-won Kwak, Woo-hee Chun
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68.
Memories (1995)
7.6/10
"Memories" is made up of three separate science-fiction stories. In the first, "Magnetic Rose,"
four... (113 mins.)
Director: Kôji Morimoto, Tensai Okamura
Stars: Shigeru Chiba, Hisao Egawa, Kayoko Fujii, Nobuaki Fukuda
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“ Story 1: Magnetic Rose ” - d_smojver
69.
Ruby Sparks (2012)
7.2/10
A novelist struggling with writer's block finds romance in a most unusual way: by creating a female
character he thinks will love him, then willing her into existence. (104 mins.)
Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
Stars: Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Annette Bening, Antonio Banderas
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70.
In the House (2012)
7.4/10
A high school French teacher is drawn into a precocious student's increasingly transgressive story
about his relationship with a friend's family. (105 mins.)
Director: François Ozon
Stars: Fabrice Luchini, Vincent Schmitt, Ernst Umhauer, Kristin Scott Thomas
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71.
eXistenZ (1999)
6.8/10
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a
marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged. (97 mins.)
Stars: Jude Law, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ian Holm, Willem Dafoe
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72.
Spider Forest (2004)
6.6/10
A recently widowed TV producer is drawn to an isolated cabin in a mysterious woods. (112 mins.)
Director: Il-gon Song
Stars: Woo-seong Kam, Jung Suh, Kyung-hun Kang, Hyeong-seong Jang
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73.
Waking Life (2001)
7.8/10
A man shuffles through a dream meeting various people and discussing the meanings and purposes of
the universe. (99 mins.)
Stars: Ethan Hawke, Trevor Jack Brooks, Lorelei Linklater, Wiley Wiggins
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74.
Murder by Death (1976)
7.4/10
Five famous literary detective characters and their sidekicks are invited to a bizarre mansion to solve
an even stranger mystery. (94 mins.)
Director: Robert Moore
Stars: Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Eileen Brennan
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75.
The Science of Sleep (2006)
7.3/10
A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is love-struck with a French woman and feels he can
show her his world. (105 mins.)
Stars: Gael García Bernal, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Miou-Miou, Alain Chabat
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76.
Inland Empire (2006)
7.0/10
As an actress starts to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world starts to become
nightmarish and surreal. (180 mins.)
Stars: Laura Dern, Jeremy Irons, Justin Theroux, Karolina Gruszka
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77.
Blow-Up (1966)
7.7/10
A mod London photographer finds something very suspicious in the shots he has taken of a
mysterious beauty in a desolate park. (111 mins.)
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Stars: David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, John Castle
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78.
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
7.6/10
During a rural summer picnic, a few students and a teacher from an Australian girls' school vanish
without a trace. Their absence frustrates and haunts the people left behind. (115 mins.)
Director: Peter Weir
Stars: Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert, Vivean Gray, Helen Morse
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79.
Dreams (1990)
7.8/10
A collection of tales based upon the actual dreams of director Akira Kurosawa. (119 mins.)
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Stars: Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baishô, Toshie Negishi, Mieko Harada
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“ Dreams:
The Peach Orchard
The Tunnel
Crows ” - d_smojver
80.
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
7.7/10
The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What
the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to
cover up the truth. (114 mins.)
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, Montgomery Clift, Albert Dekker
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81.
Predestination (2014)
7.5/10
For his final assignment, a top temporal agent must pursue the one criminal that has eluded him
throughout time. The chase turns into a unique, surprising and mind-bending exploration of love, fate,
identity and time travel taboos. (97 mins.)
Stars: Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Noah Taylor, Madeleine West
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82.
Eraserhead (1977)
7.4/10
Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable
screams of his newly born mutant child. (89 mins.)
Stars: Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeanne Bates
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83.
Synecdoche, New York (2008)
7.5/10
A theatre director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he creates a life-size replica of
New York City inside a warehouse as part of his new play. (124 mins.)
Director: Charlie Kaufman
Stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener
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84.
The Aura (2005)
7.3/10
A deluded taxidermist plans the perfect crime. (134 mins.)

Director: Fabián Bielinsky
Stars: Ricardo Darín, Manuel Rodal, Dolores Fonzi, Pablo Cedrón
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85.
Another Earth (2011)
7.0/10
On the night of the discovery of a duplicate Earth in the Solar system, an ambitious young student and
an accomplished composer cross paths in a tragic accident. (92 mins.)
Director: Mike Cahill
Stars: Brit Marling, William Mapother, Matthew-Lee Erlbach, DJ Flava
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86.
Antarctic Journal (2005)
6.0/10
Strange things begin happening to an expedition deep in the Antarctic. (115 mins.)
Director: Yim Pil-sung
Stars: Kang-ho Song, Ji-tae Yu, Kyeong-ik Kim, Hee-soon Park
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87.
Valhalla Rising (2009)
6.0/10
Forced for some time to be a fighting slave, a pagan warrior escapes his captors with a boy and joins
a group of Crusaders on their quest to the Holy Land. (93 mins.)
Director: Nicolas Winding Refn
Stars: Mads Mikkelsen, Maarten Stevenson, Alexander Morton, Stewart Porter
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88.
Time (2006)
7.3/10
To save her relationship, a woman puts herself through extensive plastic surgery. (97 mins.)
Stars: Jung-woo Ha, Ji-Yeon Park, Jun-yeong Jang, Gyu-Woon Jung
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89.
The Jacket (2005)
7.1/10
A Gulf war veteran is wrongly sent to a mental institution for insane criminals, where he becomes the
object of a doctor's experiments, and his life is completely affected by them. (103 mins.)
Director: John Maybury
Stars: Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Daniel Craig, Kris Kristofferson
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90.
Primer (2004)
6.9/10
Four friends/fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than
the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention. (77 mins.)
Director: Shane Carruth
Stars: Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Casey Gooden, Anand Upadhyaya
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91.
Enemy (2013)
6.9/10
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92.
Sliding Doors (1998)
6.8/10
A London woman's love life and career both hinge, unknown to her, on whether or not she catches a
train. We see it both ways, in parallel. (99 mins.)
Director: Peter Howitt
Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow, John Hannah, John Lynch, Jeanne Tripplehorn
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93.
Alice Sweet Alice (1976)
6.5/10
After a young girl is brutally murdered during her first communion, her strange and withdrawn older
sister becomes the main suspect. But are the authorities mistaken? (98 mins.)
Director: Alfred Sole
Stars: Linda Miller, Mildred Clinton, Paula E. Sheppard, Niles McMaster
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94.
Anguish (1987)
6.7/10
A controlling mother uses telepathic powers to send her middle-aged son on a killing spree. (86 mins.)
Director: Bigas Luna
Stars: Zelda Rubinstein, Michael Lerner, Talia Paul, Àngel Jové
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95.
Dead Friend (2004)
6.2/10
A teenage girl suffering from amnesia discovers that she is somehow connected to a group of people
who are being killed off one by one by a vengeful ghost. (98 mins.)
Director: Tae-kyeong Kim
Stars: Ha-neul Kim, Sang-mi Nam, Hye-bin Jeon, Yi Shin
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“ a.k.a. The Ghost ” - d_smojver
96.
In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
7.2/10
An insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer's books have on his fans
is more than inspirational. (95 mins.)
Director: John Carpenter
Stars: Sam Neill, Jürgen Prochnow, Julie Carmen, David Warner
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97.
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
8.0/10
A surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their
consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together. (102 mins.)
Director: Luis Bunuel
Stars: Fernando Rey, Delphine Seyrig, Paul Frankeur, Bulle Ogier
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98.
Belle de Jour (1967)
7.8/10
A frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute. (100 mins.)
Director: Luis Bunuel
Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Sorel, Michel Piccoli, Geneviève Page
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99.
Carnival of Souls (1962)
7.2/10
After a traumatic accident, a woman becomes drawn to a mysterious abandoned carnival. (78 mins.)
Director: Herk Harvey
Stars: Candace Hilligoss, Frances Feist, Sidney Berger, Art Ellison
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100.
Strange Circus (2005)
7.1/10
The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abuse.
Her assistant, Yuji, sets on a mission to uncover the reality of this story, but the reality might be too
much to bear. (108 mins.)
Director: Sion Sono
Stars: Masumi Miyazaki, Issei Ishida, Rie Kuwana, Seiko Iwaidô
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provoking/amazing/Inspirational movies ever!
by clairelingtonnokes created 30 Aug 2011 | last updated - 25 Jun 2016
I am a huge film watcher and specially love films that move me and leave me thinking in some way.
Iv put together a collection of all my favorites. I will continue to add to my collection as and when i
watch them! Please feel free to recommend more or leave comments
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1.
Good Will Hunting (1997)
8.3/10
Will Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find
direction in his life. (126 mins.)
Director: Gus Van Sant
Stars: Robin Williams, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Stellan Skarsgård
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2.
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
8.0/10
A Mumbai teen reflects on his upbringing in the slums when he is accused of cheating on the Indian
Version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" (120 mins.)
Director: Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan
Stars: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Saurabh Shukla, Anil Kapoor
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3.
August Rush (2007)
7.5/10
A drama with fairy tale elements, where an orphaned musical prodigy uses his gift as a clue to finding
his birth parents. (114 mins.)
Director: Kirsten Sheridan
Stars: Freddie Highmore, Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Terrence Howard
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4.
50 First Dates (2004)
6.8/10
Henry Roth is a man afraid of commitment up until he meets the beautiful Lucy. They hit it off and
Henry think he's finally found the girl of his dreams, until he discovers she has short-term memory
loss and forgets him the very next day. (99 mins.)
Director: Peter Segal
Stars: Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Rob Schneider, Sean Astin
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5.
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
9.3/10
Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through
acts of common decency. (142 mins.)
Director: Frank Darabont
Stars: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler
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6.
My Sister's Keeper (2009)
7.4/10
Anna Fitzgerald looks to earn medical emancipation from her parents who until now have relied on
their youngest child to help their leukemia-stricken daughter Kate remain alive. (109 mins.)
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Stars: Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Alec Baldwin, Walter Raney
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7.
The Life of David Gale (2003)
7.6/10
A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death
row. (130 mins.)
Director: Alan Parker
Stars: Kevin Spacey, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney, Cleo King
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8.
In Her Skin (2009)
6.5/10
Tale of a 15-year-old Australian girl who goes missing. (107 mins.)

Director: Simone North
Stars: Guy Pearce, Miranda Otto, Ruth Bradley, Sam Neill
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9.
Se7en (1995)
8.6/10
Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his
motives. (127 mins.)
Stars: Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt, Kevin Spacey, Andrew Kevin Walker
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10.
Forrest Gump (1994)
8.8/10
JFK, LBJ, Vietnam, Watergate, and other history unfold through the perspective of an Alabama man
with an IQ of 75. (142 mins.)
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Stars: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field
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11.
The Lovely Bones (2009)
6.7/10
Centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from
purgatory. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal. (135
mins.)
Director: Peter Jackson
Stars: Rachel Weisz, Mark Wahlberg, Saoirse Ronan, Susan Sarandon
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12.
Stand by Me (1986)
8.1/10
After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find the body of a missing boy. (89
mins.)
Director: Rob Reiner
Stars: Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O'Connell
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13.
Gran Torino (2008)
8.2/10
Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, a Hmong teenager
who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino. (116 mins.)
Director: Clint Eastwood
Stars: Clint Eastwood, Bee Vang, Christopher Carley, Ahney Her
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14.
Awakenings (1990)
7.8/10
The victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a
new drug offers the prospect of reviving them. (121 mins.)
Director: Penny Marshall
Stars: Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, Julie Kavner, Ruth Nelson
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15.
Seven Pounds (2008)
7.7/10
A man with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing
the lives of seven strangers. (123 mins.)
Director: Gabriele Muccino
Stars: Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, Michael Ealy
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mins.)
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17.
The Postman (1997)
6.0/10
A nameless drifter dons a postman's uniform and bag of mail as he begins a quest to inspire hope to
the survivors living in post-apocalyptic America. (177 mins.)
Director: Kevin Costner
Stars: Kevin Costner, Will Patton, Larenz Tate, Olivia Williams
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18.
The Reader (2008)
7.6/10
Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end,
law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime
trial. (124 mins.)
Director: Stephen Daldry
Stars: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Jeanette Hain
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19.
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
8.6/10
Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a
paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action. (169 mins.)
Director: Steven Spielberg
Stars: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns
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20.
Deja Vu (2006)
7.0/10
After a ferry is bombed in New Orleans, an A.T.F. agent joins a unique investigation using
experimental surveillance technology to find the bomber, but soon finds himself becoming obsessed
with one of the victims. (126 mins.)
Director: Tony Scott
Stars: Denzel Washington, Paula Patton, Jim Caviezel, Val Kilmer
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21.
Pearl Harbor (2001)
6.1/10
A tale of war and romance mixed in with history. The story follows two lifelong friends and a beautiful
nurse who are caught up in the horror of an infamous Sunday morning in 1941. (183 mins.)
Director: Michael Bay
Stars: Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett, William Lee Scott
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22.
John Q (2002)
7.1/10
John Quincy Archibald takes a hospital emergency room hostage when his insurance won't cover his
son's heart transplant. (116 mins.)
Stars: Denzel Washington, Robert Duvall, Gabriela Oltean, Kimberly Elise
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23.
The Green Mile (1999)
8.5/10
The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child
murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift. (189 mins.)
Stars: Tom Hanks, Michael Clarke Duncan, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt
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24.
Phenomenon (1996)
6.4/10
An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-
intelligence and telekinesis. (123 mins.)
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Stars: John Travolta, Kyra Sedgwick, Forest Whitaker, Robert Duvall
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25.
The Sixth Sense (1999)
8.1/10
A boy who communicates with spirits that don't know they're dead seeks the help of a disheartened
child psychologist. (107 mins.)
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Stars: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams
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26.
Bicentennial Man (1999)
6.8/10
An android endeavors to become human as he gradually acquires emotions. (132 mins.)

Director: Chris Columbus
Stars: Robin Williams, Embeth Davidtz, Sam Neill, Oliver Platt
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27.
Cast Away (2000)
7.8/10
A FedEx executive must transform himself physically and emotionally to survive a crash landing on a
deserted island. (143 mins.)
Stars: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, Paul Sanchez, Lari White
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28.
Man on Fire (2004)
7.7/10
In Mexico City, a former assassin swears vengeance on those who committed an unspeakable act
against the family he was hired to protect. (146 mins.)
Director: Tony Scott
Stars: Denzel Washington, Christopher Walken, Dakota Fanning, Radha Mitchell
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29.
Hachi: A Dog's Tale (2009)
8.1/10
A college professor's bond with the abandoned dog he takes into his home. (93 mins.)
Director: Lasse Hallström
Stars: Richard Gere, Joan Allen, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Sarah Roemer
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30.
The Notebook (2004)
7.9/10
A poor yet passionate young man falls in love with a rich young woman, giving her a sense of
freedom, but they are soon separated because of their social differences. (123 mins.)
Stars: Gena Rowlands, James Garner, Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling
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31.
8.3/10
with. (108 mins.)
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32.
Inception (2010)
8.8/10
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33.
I Am Legend (2007)
7.2/10
Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters, the sole survivor in
New York City struggles valiantly to find a cure. (101 mins.)
Director: Francis Lawrence
Stars: Will Smith, Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan, Salli Richardson-Whitfield
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34.
Fight Club (1999)
8.8/10
mins.)
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35.
Never Let Me Go (2010)
7.2/10
The lives of three friends, from their early school days into young adulthood, when the reality of the
world they live in comes knocking. (103 mins.)
Director: Mark Romanek
Stars: Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, Izzy Meikle-Small
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36.
Adam (2009)
7.2/10
Adam, a lonely man with Asperger's Syndrome, develops a relationship with his upstairs neighbor,
Beth. (99 mins.)
Director: Max Mayer
Stars: Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Peter Gallagher, Amy Irving
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37.
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
8.0/10
A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional
career. (117 mins.)
Director: Gabriele Muccino
Stars: Will Smith, Thandie Newton, Jaden Smith, Brian Howe
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38.
Pay It Forward (2000)
7.2/10
A young boy attempts to make the world a better place after his teacher gives him that chance. (123
mins.)
Director: Mimi Leder
Stars: Kevin Spacey, Haley Joel Osment, Helen Hunt, Jay Mohr
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39.
The Bucket List (2007)
7.4/10
Two terminally ill men escape from a cancer ward and head off on a road trip with a wish list of to-dos
before they die. (97 mins.)
Director: Rob Reiner
Stars: Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, Sean Hayes, Beverly Todd
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40.
Field of Dreams (1989)
7.5/10
An Iowa corn farmer, hearing voices, interprets them as a command to build a baseball diamond in his
fields; he does, and the 1919 Chicago White Sox come. (107 mins.)
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
Stars: Kevin Costner, James Earl Jones, Ray Liotta, Amy Madigan
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41.
The Blind Side (2009)
7.7/10
The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football
player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family. (129 mins.)
Director: John Lee Hancock
Stars: Quinton Aaron, Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Jae Head
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42.
Steel Magnolias (1989)
7.2/10
A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a
small group of women share a close bond of friendship and welcome her into the fold. (117 mins.)
Director: Herbert Ross
Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis, Sally Field, Julia Roberts
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43.
The Book of Eli (2010)
6.9/10
A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a lone man fights his way across America in order to protect a sacred
book that holds the secrets to saving humankind. (118 mins.)
Director: The Hughes Brothers, The Hughes Brothers
Stars: Denzel Washington, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson, Gary Oldman
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44.
Ladder 49 (2004)
6.5/10
A firefighter, injured and trapped in a burning building, has flashbacks of his life as he drifts in and out
of consciousness. Meanwhile, fellow firefighters led by the Chief attempt to rescue him. (115 mins.)
Director: Jay Russell
Stars: Joaquin Phoenix, John Travolta, Jacinda Barrett, Robert Patrick
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45.
Frequency (2000)
7.4/10
An accidental cross-time radio link connects father and son across 30 years. The son tries to save his
father's life, but then must fix the consequences. (118 mins.)
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Stars: Dennis Quaid, Jim Caviezel, Shawn Doyle, Elizabeth Mitchell
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46.
The Mist (2007)
7.2/10
A freak storm unleashes a species of bloodthirsty creatures on a small town, where a small band of
citizens hole up in a supermarket and fight for their lives. (126 mins.)
Stars: Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden, Andre Braugher
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47.
American Beauty (1999)
8.4/10
A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his
daughter's best friend. (122 mins.)
Director: Sam Mendes
Stars: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley
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48.
8.2/10
After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life
takes a turn for the nightmarish. (135 mins.)
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49.
Marley & Me (2008)
7.1/10
A family learns important life lessons from their adorable, but naughty and neurotic dog. (115 mins.)
Director: David Frankel
Stars: Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Eric Dane, Kathleen Turner
Add to Watchlist
50.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
7.8/10
Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre
consequences. (166 mins.)
Stars: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Julia Ormond
Add to Watchlist
51.
Trust (2010)
6.9/10
A teenage girl is targeted by an online sexual predator. (106 mins.)

Director: David Schwimmer
Stars: Clive Owen, Catherine Keener, Liana Liberato, Jason Clarke
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52.
Rain Man (1988)
8.0/10
Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to
Charlie; they travel cross-country. (133 mins.)
Director: Barry Levinson
Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Gerald R. Molen
Add to Watchlist
53.
Reign Over Me (2007)
7.5/10
A man who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City runs into his old college
roommate. Rekindling the friendship is the one thing that appears able to help the man recover from
his grief. (124 mins.)
Director: Mike Binder
Stars: Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Jada Pinkett Smith, Liv Tyler
Add to Watchlist
54.
Heavenly Creatures (1994)
7.4/10
Two girls have an intense fantasy life; their parents, concerned the fantasy is too intense, separate
them, and the girls take revenge. (99 mins.)
Director: Peter Jackson
Stars: Melanie Lynskey, Kate Winslet, Sarah Peirse, Diana Kent
Add to Watchlist
55.
The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
6.7/10
A lawyer takes on a negligent homicide case involving a priest who performed an exorcism on a young
girl. (119 mins.)
Director: Scott Derrickson
Stars: Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Campbell Scott
Add to Watchlist
56.
What Dreams May Come (1998)
7.0/10
After he dies in a car crash, a man searches heaven and hell for his beloved wife. (113 mins.)
Director: Vincent Ward
Stars: Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr., Annabella Sciorra, Max von Sydow
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57.
Ghost (1990)
7.0/10
After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the
help of a reluctant psychic. (127 mins.)
Director: Jerry Zucker
Stars: Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn
Add to Watchlist
58.
Contact (1997)
7.4/10
Dr. Ellie Arroway, after years of searching, finds conclusive radio proof of extraterrestrial intelligence,
sending plans for a mysterious machine. (150 mins.)
Stars: Jodie Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt
Add to Watchlist
59.
Precious (2009)
7.3/10
In New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her
second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new
direction. (110 mins.)
Director: Lee Daniels
Stars: Gabourey Sidibe, Mo'Nique, Paula Patton, Mariah Carey
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60.
City of Angels (1998)
6.7/10
Inspired by the modern classic, Wings of Desire, City involves an angel (Cage) who is spotted by a
doctor in an operating room. Franz plays Cage's buddy who somehow knows a lot about angels. (114
mins.)
Director: Brad Silberling
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan, Andre Braugher, Dennis Franz
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61.
P.S. I Love You (2007)
7.1/10
A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 messages intended to help ease her
pain and start a new life. (126 mins.)
Director: Richard LaGravenese
Stars: Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler, Harry Connick Jr., Lisa Kudrow
Add to Watchlist
62.
My Girl (1991)
6.8/10
A young girl, on the threshold of her teen years, finds her life turning upside down, when she is
accompanied by an unlikely friend. (102 mins.)
Director: Howard Zieff
Stars: Anna Chlumsky, Macaulay Culkin, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis
Add to Watchlist
63.
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
7.7/10
The story of a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys, and their lives over the
years. (134 mins.)
Director: Ang Lee
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams, Randy Quaid
Add to Watchlist
64.
Titanic (1997)
7.8/10
A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated
R.M.S. Titanic. (194 mins.)
Director: James Cameron
Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates
Add to Watchlist
65.
A Walk to Remember (2002)
7.4/10
The story of two North Carolina teens, Landon Carter and Jamie Sullivan, who are thrown together
after Landon gets into trouble and is made to do community service. (101 mins.)
Director: Adam Shankman
Stars: Mandy Moore, Shane West, Peter Coyote, Daryl Hannah
Add to Watchlist
66.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
7.1/10
A highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human
mother. (146 mins.)
Stars: Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O'Connor, Sam Robards
Add to Watchlist
67.
An American Crime (2007)
7.4/10
The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the
basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s. (98 mins.)
Director: Tommy O'Haver
Stars: Ellen Page, Hayley McFarland, Nick Searcy, Romy Rosemont
Add to Watchlist
68.
Love Actually (2003)
7.7/10
Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely
interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England. (135 mins.)
Director: Richard Curtis
Stars: Hugh Grant, Martine McCutcheon, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney
Add to Watchlist
69.
The Lake House (2006)
6.8/10
A lonely doctor, who once occupied an unusual lakeside house, begins exchanging love letters with its
former resident, a frustrated architect. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their
extraordinary romance before it's too late. (99 mins.)
Director: Alejandro Agresti
Stars: Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Christopher Plummer, Ebon Moss-Bachrach
Add to Watchlist
70.
The Ledge (2011)
6.6/10
A police officer looks to talk down a young man lured by his lover's husband to the ledge of a high
rise, where he has one hour to contemplate a fateful decision. (101 mins.)
Director: Matthew Chapman
Stars: Charlie Hunnam, Terrence Howard, Patrick Wilson, Liv Tyler
Add to Watchlist
71.
I Am Sam (2001)
7.6/10
A mentally handicapped man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter, and in the process teaches
his cold hearted lawyer the value of love and family. (132 mins.)
Director: Jessie Nelson
Stars: Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dakota Fanning, Dianne Wiest
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72.
Mr. Nobody (2009)
7.9/10
Add to Watchlist
73.
The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012)
6.6/10
A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon, a
child is born, though Timothy Green is not all that he appears. (105 mins.)
Director: Peter Hedges
Stars: Jennifer Garner, Joel Edgerton, CJ Adams, Odeya Rush
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74.
War Horse (2011)
7.2/10
Young Albert enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. Albert's
hopeful journey takes him out of England and to the front lines as the war rages on. (146 mins.)
Stars: Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Benedict Cumberbatch
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75.
The Beaver (2011)
6.7/10
A troubled husband and executive adopts a beaver hand-puppet as his sole means of
communication. (91 mins.)
Director: Jodie Foster
Stars: Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, Anton Yelchin, Cherry Jones
Add to Watchlist
76.
Water for Elephants (2011)
6.9/10
Set in the 1930s, a former veterinary student takes a job in a traveling circus and falls in love with the
ringmaster's wife. (120 mins.)
Director: Francis Lawrence
Stars: Robert Pattinson, Reese Witherspoon, Christoph Waltz, Paul Schneider
Add to Watchlist
77.
Into the Wild (2007)
8.1/10
After graduating from Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his
possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the
wilderness. Along the way, Christopher encounters a series of characters that shape his life. (148
mins.)
Director: Sean Penn
Stars: Emile Hirsch, Vince Vaughn, Catherine Keener, Marcia Gay Harden
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78.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
8.0/10
An introvert freshman is taken under the wings of two seniors who welcome him to the real
world. (102 mins.)
Director: Stephen Chbosky
Stars: Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, Ezra Miller, Paul Rudd
Add to Watchlist
79.
Dragonfly (2002)
6.1/10
A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patients' near death experiences. (104
mins.)
Director: Tom Shadyac
Stars: Kevin Costner, Susanna Thompson, Joe Morton, Ron Rifkin
Add to Watchlist
80.
The Impossible (2012)
7.6/10
The story of a tourist family in Thailand caught in the destruction and chaotic aftermath of the 2004
Indian Ocean tsunami. (114 mins.)
Director: J.A. Bayona
Stars: Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland, Oaklee Pendergast
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81.
Unconditional (2012)
7.2/10
A woman's idyllic life is shattered when her husband is killed in a senseless act of violence. As she
prepares to take matters into her own hands, two unexpected encounters begin to change
everything. (92 mins.)
Director: Brent McCorkle
Stars: Lynn Collins, Michael Ealy, Bruce McGill, Kwesi Boakye
Add to Watchlist
82.
The Help (2011)
8.1/10
An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the
African American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships
they go through on a daily basis. (146 mins.)
Director: Tate Taylor
Stars: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer, Bryce Dallas Howard
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83.
Safe Haven (2013)
6.7/10
A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a
widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her. (115 mins.)
Director: Lasse Hallström
Stars: Julianne Hough, Josh Duhamel, Cobie Smulders, David Lyons
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84.
12 Years a Slave (2013)
8.1/10
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is
abducted and sold into slavery. (134 mins.)
Director: Steve McQueen
Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt
Add to Watchlist
85.
Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013)
7.2/10
As Cecil Gaines serves eight presidents during his tenure as a butler at the White House, the civil
rights movement, Vietnam, and other major events affect this man's life, family, and American
society. (132 mins.)
Director: Lee Daniels
Stars: Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, John Cusack, Jane Fonda
Add to Watchlist
86.
Gravity (2013)
7.8/10
Two astronauts work together to survive after an accident which leaves them alone in space. (91
mins.)
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
Stars: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris, Orto Ignatiussen
Add to Watchlist
87.
The Impossible (2012)
7.6/10
The story of a tourist family in Thailand caught in the destruction and chaotic aftermath of the 2004
Indian Ocean tsunami. (114 mins.)
Director: J.A. Bayona
Stars: Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, Tom Holland, Oaklee Pendergast
Add to Watchlist
88.
The Fault in Our Stars (2014)
7.8/10
Two teenage cancer patients begin a life-affirming journey to visit a reclusive author in
Amsterdam. (126 mins.)
Director: Josh Boone
Stars: Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Nat Wolff, Laura Dern
Add to Watchlist
89.
Heaven Is for Real (2014)
5.8/10
A small-town father must find the courage and conviction to share his son's extraordinary, life-
changing experience with the world. (99 mins.)
Director: Randall Wallace
Stars: Greg Kinnear, Kelly Reilly, Thomas Haden Church, Connor Corum
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90.
Still Alice (2014)
7.5/10
A linguistics professor and her family find their bonds tested when she is diagnosed with Alzheimer's
Disease. (101 mins.)
Director: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland
Stars: Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth
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91.
If I Stay (2014)
6.8/10
Life changes in an instant for young Mia Hall after a car accident puts her in a coma. During an out-of-
body experience, she must decide whether to wake up and live a life far different than she had
imagined. The choice is hers if she can go on. (107 mins.)
Director: R.J. Cutler
Stars: Chloë Grace Moretz, Mireille Enos, Jamie Blackley, Joshua Leonard
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92.
The Fundamentals of Caring (2016)
7.3/10
A man suffering an incredible amount of loss enrolls in a class about care-giving that changes his
perspective on life. (97 mins.)
Director: Rob Burnett
Stars: Craig Roberts, Paul Rudd, Selena Gomez, Alex Huff
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Thoughtful movies
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1.
The Imitation Game (2014)
8.0/10
During World War II, mathematician Alan Turing tries to crack the enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians. (114
mins.)
Director: Morten Tyldum
Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Allen Leech
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2.
The Theory of Everything (2014)
7.7/10
A look at the relationship between the famous physicist Stephen Hawking and his wife. (123 mins.)
Director: James Marsh
Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Tom Prior, Sophie Perry
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3.
The Normal Heart (2014 TV Movie)
7.9/10
A gay activist attempts to raise H.I.V. and A.I.D.S. awareness during the early 1980s. (132 mins.)
Director: Ryan Murphy
Stars: Mark Ruffalo, Jonathan Groff, Frank De Julio, William DeMeritt
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4.
The Reader (2008)
7.6/10
Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg
re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial. (124 mins.)
Director: Stephen Daldry
Stars: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Jeanette Hain
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5.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)
7.8/10
Set during WWII, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German
concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and
unexpected consequences. (94 mins.)
Director: Mark Herman
Stars: Asa Butterfield, David Thewlis, Rupert Friend, Zac Mattoon O'Brien
Add to Watchlist
6.
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
7.7/10
The story of a forbidden and secretive relationship between two cowboys, and their lives over the years. (134 mins.)
Director: Ang Lee
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Michelle Williams, Randy Quaid
Add to Watchlist
7.
Carol (2015)
7.2/10
An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York. (118 mins.)
Director: Todd Haynes
Stars: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Kyle Chandler
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8.
8.2/10
After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the
nightmarish. (135 mins.)
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9.
American Beauty (1999)
8.4/10
A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend. (122 mins.)
Director: Sam Mendes
Stars: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley
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10.
Black Swan (2010)
8.0/10
A committed dancer wins the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" only to find herself struggling to maintain
her sanity. (108 mins.)
Stars: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder
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11.
Pearl Harbor (2001)
6.1/10
A tale of war and romance mixed in with history. The story follows two lifelong friends and a beautiful nurse who are caught up
in the horror of an infamous Sunday morning in 1941. (183 mins.)
Director: Michael Bay
Stars: Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett, William Lee Scott
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12.
The Girl on the Train (2016)
6.5/10
A divorcee becomes entangled in a missing persons investigation that promises to send shockwaves throughout her life. (112
mins.)
Director: Tate Taylor
Stars: Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett, Rebecca Ferguson, Justin Theroux
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13.
The Book Thief (2013)
7.6/10
While subjected to the horrors of World War II Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with
others. In the basement of her home, a Jewish refugee is being protected by her adoptive parents. (131 mins.)
Director: Brian Percival
Stars: Sophie Nélisse, Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson, Ben Schnetzer
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14.
Life Is Beautiful (1997)
8.6/10
When an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor
and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp. (116 mins.)
Director: Roberto Benigni
Stars: Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini, Giustino Durano
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15.
The Hunger Games (2012)
7.2/10
Katniss Everdeen voluntarily takes her younger sister's place in the Hunger Games: a televised competition in which two
teenagers from each of the twelve Districts of Panem are chosen at random to fight to the death. (142 mins.)
Director: Gary Ross
Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Stanley Tucci
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16.
The Shining (1980)
8.4/10
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while
his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future. (146 mins.)
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17.
Room (2015)
8.2/10
A young boy is raised within the confines of a small shed. (118 mins.)
Director: Lenny Abrahamson
Stars: Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Sean Bridgers, Wendy Crewson
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18.
127 Hours (2010)
7.6/10
An adventurous mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near
Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive. (94 mins.)
Stars: James Franco, Amber Tamblyn, Kate Mara, Sean Bott
1. Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Artisan Entertainment
"It shows in graphic detail the harshness of addiction and the lengths that people will go to in order to
get a kick. At the same time is forces you, well, forced me, to evaluate the relationship with my
parents and how I often take them for granted. It also shows us how even the most sensible and
respectable people can change just like that. I’ve seen this film many times and each time it sticks
with me for days afterwards. A brilliant piece of cinema."
Submitted by murrays4e7b54973.
"Such an intense movie. It shows in graphic and unflinching detail the dangers of addiction and
forces you to stop and examine what you have in life. Definitely one of the most memorable films
I’ve seen."
Submitted by kezzygill.
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Focus Features
"I think about it a lot and I find the premise is easily transferred to all relationships in life. The
heartache of losing someone or even the opposite, of hating someone and wanting to erase them from
your minds? Really relatable, and Joel's regret of his choice to erase Clementine? All really heart-
wrenching."
Submitted by James Robert, Facebook.
"OK, this is so cheesy but my husband and I were going through an awful time, really bad. I
watched Eternal Sunshine and it was just like a light came on. I knew then and there I'd spend all my
days making memories with my one good and bad and I didn't want it any other way. [We've] been
together 19 years and married [for] 12 [now], I still get butterflies."
Submitted by Manda Rose Blair, Facebook.
3. Predestination (2014)
Pinnacle Films
"Thought about it for ages then forced others to watch it just so I could discuss it all with them. The
multi-layers of WTF still roll around my head now."
Submitted by Natasha Field, Facebook.
"It will mindfuck you."
Submitted by alisyadriana.
4. Being John Malkovich (1999)
USA Films
"Spike Jonze’s Being John Malkovich is the ultimate headfuck…and probably the most original film
ever made."
Submitted by joachimz.
5. Life of Pi (2012)
20th Century Fox
"This one really made me think. I mean, the ending – the cryptic ending – about the animals on the
boat… I guess it was just left open for the viewer to interpret. Idk. That movie made me think about
life differently and how I would act if I were in that position."
Submitted by Pooingpony.
6. Donnie Darko (2001)
Newmarket Films
"Seriously, BuzzFeed, Donnie Darko is my all-time favourite film. It's not just the music or the way
it’s filmed, it’s the feeling you get from watching it. It’s impacted on me so much, I’m thinking about
getting my first tattoo in homage to this film."
Submitted by alicep4f5640555.
"Donnie Darko and Ender's Game are two movies that I can constantly watch and they still raise new
questions. ... Donnie's forced to choose between himself and his loved ones, while Ender's
unknowingly forced to choose between his race and another. They really force you to think about
morals and idea of playing god."
Submitted by Nubia Jade Brice, Facebook.

7. Contagion (2011)
Warner Bros. Pictures
"It won’t be bombs that wipe us out, it’ll be a disease."
Submitted by y48ad3d274.
8. The Karate Kid (2010)
Columbia Pictures
"It's essentially the story of a child being bullied and standing up to him. Very relatable for so many
people. Also, the scene with Mr Han and the car speaks volumes about beating yourself up over your
mistakes and learning to move past them and grow as a person. Beautifully made and a story well-
told. :)"
Submitted by Lucy Thorpe, Facebook.

9. Equilibrium (2002)
Miramax Films
"In this film, most people find the regime normal and think think they have freedom and are safe.
This is a total illusion created by propaganda. This makes me wonder if my own sense of freedom
and safety is an illusion and how much propaganda is used in my country."
Submitted by tessaderoon1964.
10. Interstellar (2014)
"Interstellar makes you realise how insignificant our planet is in the universe, and how exciting and
terrifying the universe is. The physics behind it all is true which makes this movie even more
powerful. Despite possibly being hard to follow at some points, it all makes sense in the end. The
cinematography and visual effects are stunning, and combined with Hans Zimmer’s score makes for
a very visually satisfying and emotional movie!"
Submitted by holly007.
11. The Truman Show (1998)
Paramount Pictures
"The Truman Show was the last film that made me think. Not only is it fantastic but it ponders the
question whether we are being watched and how realistic it reflects on modern society through the
paparazzi and reality shows like Big Brother and [Keeping Up With] the Kardashians."
Submitted by Niall Hassett, Facebook.
"The first time I watched that film I was convinced my life wasn’t real. It made me question
everything. Pretty much messed with my head!"
Submitted by kyliematthews88.
12. Exam (2009)
Bedlam Productions
"Considering there are only nine actors and it's shot in a single room, it's one of the best-crafted, best-
acted films I've ever seen. 'Eight candidates enter a room to secure a highly sought-after job with a
prestigious company.' My life was changed. Seriously. It's right up there with Shutter
Island, Inception, and Shawshank Redemption. Maybe even better."
Submitted by Freya Teesdale, Facebook.

13. The Matrix (1999)
Warner Bros.
"It made me ask myself questions like: What is reality? Is everything destined? Does luck exist? Do
things happen randomly or do they always mean something or happen for a reason?"
Submitted by tessaderoon1964.
14. Looper (2012)
TriStar Pictures
"There is one part where a man's body is falling apart, literally, that messes with your mind."
Submitted by alexn4b0c82857.
15. Ex Machina (2015)
Universal Pictures
"Ex Machina explores the boundaries of human and artificial intelligence through an intimate Turing
test. It will really melt your brain and make you think for days about metaphysical philosophical
questions."
Submitted by Siri Skotvedt, Facebook.
"This has to be the only movie where I have not predicted the ending, and how the ending happened
really fucked me over. It really does make you think about what makes a human, human."
Submitted by chibaby612.
16. Breaking the Waves (1996)
Argus Film Produktie
"A film I can never forget. As someone who has a habit of being nice too often, highlighting the
perils of selflessness is haunting! I'm not sure I can watch it again."
Submitted by Tracy Morter, Facebook.

17. Metropolis (1927)
Paramount Pictures
"Fritz Lang’s Metropolis is still the ultimate film about class struggle and the need for mediation and
compromise in society. For a silent film it is incredibly harrowing, thought-provoking, and
suggestively sexual. A huge inspiration for many music videos, notably by Madonna and Lady
Gaga."
Submitted by joachimz.
18. V for Vendetta (2006)
"It’s all about a right-wing government controlling the British population via fear, and a vigilante
called V’s fight to expose it all. It makes you think, because there’s so many parallels with what is
actually going on in British society today."
Submitted by clairedorym.
"V for Vendetta. Especially in today’s political climate, it makes you think about your place in
society and what you will stand for…or against."
Submitted by courtneeeyj.
19. Eden Lake (2008)
The Weinstein Company
"I haven’t been the same since."
Submitted by alexn4b0c82857.
20. Cloud Atlas (2012)
"Cloud Atlas was perfection!!! A wonderful message about unity and seeing similarities rather than
differences, and the score is just too good. It's like it's too good. That film is a slightly more hopeful
and lovely visual companion to the book."
Submitted by Emily E.M. Crawford, Facebook.

21. Never Let Me Go (2010)
Fox Searchlight Pictures
"Never Let Me Go is a fantastic film. It makes you question the realities of existence and your
approach to loving someone in your life. Very moving, I absolutely recommend."
Submitted by lizziem4c5e1947d.
22. The Prestige (2006)
"The Prestige by Christopher Nolan. About magicians in the late 1800s/early 1900s. The non-linear
narrative and plot makes you want to work out what's happening before it's all revealed – definitely a
film you don't want to take your eyes off."
Submitted by caitlinbott.
"The Prestige fucked me up long after I finished watching it – I had to rewatch the ending three times
to actually realise what the hell was going on. I mean, it’s an excellent film (hello, Christian Bale and
Hugh Jackman – it’s bound to be awesome) but I totally didn’t expect that ending…"
Submitted by eliseeharveyy.
23. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
"Even though It is obvious that Jane is unstable and jealous, this movie is heartbreaking because you
are watching a woman who could never grow up. The only thing that is helping her get through life is
drinking heavily and dreaming these crazy fantasies of when she becomes a star again. She is stuck
in the present and is realising that her career is long over, and she has no idea how to move forward."
Submitted by leonharris18.
24. Memento (2000)
Summit Entertainment
"It’s so crazy. A mystery thriller about a man who suffers from short-term memory loss. But the
movie alternates between colour and black-and-white sequences, and the black-and-white proceed in
chronological order and the colour go to reverse chronological order. It puts you in the shoes of the
main character so you never know any more than he does and you really have to focus to know what
the heck is going on. (It’s really good though.)"
Submitted by katieh49136638a.
25. Performance (1970)
Warner Bros.
"It's full of conflicting surreal images about gender and sex, power and submission. The way it
combated and challenged the gender inequality of the '60s (much of which is still prominent now)
through magical realism and body swapping camera tricks is just amazing. Plus it’s grounded in one
of the best London gangster tales told in film, lampooning subtly the homoerotic tendencies of those
Kray-like men. Not to mention Mick Jagger, James Fox, and Jorge Luis Borges all rolled into one.
That film makes me question new things with every watch!"
Submitted by m4b1f251fc.
26. The Social Network (2010)
Columbia Pictures
"I've only ever seen it once, but it has stuck with me since that one viewing, and I continually keep
wondering about how one person could change the world so quickly (Facebook really did take the
world by storm)."
Submitted by Becky Martin, Facebook.

27. Gone Baby Gone (2007)
Miramax Films
"I don’t want to spoil the ending but I was really torn on who was right at the end. I thought about it
for days after seeing it."
Submitted by Ohhitscarly.
28. Possession (1981)
Gaumont
"It’s not exactly a horror film, or a suspense film, or a psychological thriller. It’s one of the most
moving (yes, I mean that) and visceral portrayals of the last stages of a relationship. It says a lot
about mental illness, as well, and throughout the film the ominous presence of the Berlin Wall adds a
political dimension to the film. I discover new layers to this film every time I watch it."
Submitted by study.
29. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
DreamWorks Pictures
"Ben Whishaw is amazing, and it also features Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman, and Rachel Hurd-
Wood. It's an incredibly interesting concept and the visual artistry is strikingly gorgeous."
Submitted by Julie Gear, Facebook.

30. Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Columbia Pictures
"A film that is so close to today’s mental health issues. For me I could relate to this film a lot."
Submitted by sarahb4f5574bd7.
31. Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Picturehouse
"Absolutely amazing movie and however you interpret the ending it’s still extremely powerful!"
Submitted by t44b54bc68.
32. The Beach (2000)
20th Century Fox
"It explores the depth of the human mind and the concept of paradise, and how it is unattainable.
Richard (Leo DiCaprio) slowly unravels and becomes detached from society whilst living in a
supposed utopia, until he is barely recognisable in his hysteria. It's fantastic and also Leo is damn
fine."
Submitted by Charlotte Farrar, Facebook.

33. Thirteen (2003)
Fox Searchlight Pictures
"Nikki Reed as Evie made me realise that maybe all those popular girls in school were fighting just
as many, if not more demons, than the troubled, weird kids. It's beautiful, but at the same time heart-
wrenching and brutally honest. Holly Hunter's performance is also something to behold."
Submitted by Lauren Parsons Jones, Facebook.

34. Amélie (2001)
UGC-Fox Distribution
"Watching it always makes me contemplate about what it would be like to see the world through
someone else’s perspective and how even the smallest decisions can have huge impacts on our lives.
Existential, yet refreshing."
Submitted by claudsab.
35. Before I Go to Sleep (2014)
20th Century Fox
"The thought of waking up and forgetting everything every day scared the crap out of me."
Submitted by beccal48e89b7ff.
36. The Fountain (2006)
20th Century Fox
"It really made me think about death and how I view it and how I’ll deal with it if ever I had
foreknowledge of it. It truly is a heartbreaking film, but also one of hope and although I’m not
religious I took a certain spirituality away from the film."
Submitted by MattyAlf.
37. American Beauty (1999)
DreamWorks Pictures
"Even though it could be argued that this movie is a bit of a downer, I still find the evolution of
Kevin Spacey's character compelling, sad, and also hilarious throughout. Each time I watch this film
I'm left feeling moved and reminded to really live my life and not just let it sail by."
Submitted by James Robert, Facebook.

38. Being There (1979)
United Artists
"It is a relatively unknown film, but it was so clever. How could a character who has spent his life
isolated from the world navigate so well when he had to? And the Jesus metaphor at the end was
extremely thought-provoking."
Submitted by Erin Sanders, Facebook.

39. Inception (2010)
"Because, really, where the hell's Leo at the ending? Still dreaming or what?"
Submitted by Annisa Rahma Bachrie, Facebook.
"Aside from the beautiful cinematography and the haunting soundtrack, the 'waiting for a train' quote
has always really stuck with me – the only thing that matters is being with the people you love."
Submitted by jacquesk3.
40. The Skin I Live In (2011)
Warners España
"It's in Spanish so be prepared for subtitles if you aren't fluent, but it's one of the most incredible
mindfuck movies I've ever seen. I watched it high the first time and couldn't sleep that night, I kept
replaying it over and over again and spent hours on the internet reading everything I could get my
hands on about it. It's not my favourite movie of all time, but I consider it the best film I've ever seen.
Not to mention it's quite possibly Antonio Banderas's best role to date."
Submitted by Emily Brouwer, Facebook.

41. Eat Pray Love (2010)
Columbia Pictures
"I watched it when I was completely lost about what to do in pursuing my future goals. I was at
complete breaking point with mental health and being in a place I couldn't find my way out of. But
somehow watching Julia Roberts explore all the emotions of being alone and being OK with that
gave me the guts to cancel the negativity in my life and explore the world in which we don't allow
ourselves to see. Still one of my favourite films, it kinda also saved me."
Submitted by Paige Stainsby, Facebook.

42. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
"Not only does the film have incredible cinematography and direction, but it also has a great story
and the ending is just a total mindfuck which left me thinking about it for days."
Submitted by Clear1996.
43. The Virgin Suicides (1999)
Paramount Classics
"In a somber way, it always reminds me of the fragility of life, in the same way that American
Beauty does. It makes me value the little things a lot more and view my life in a much more open
way."
Submitted by arewethereyeti.
44. We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
Oscilloscope Laboratories
"It addresses the age-old question of nature versus nurture, as you try and figure out if Kevin’s mum
despises him because he is evil, or if he is evil because his mum despises him. Because it doesn’t
pick a definite side, it leaves you thinking about it for weeks after viewing it. The book is even
better."
Submitted by jellyment.
45. Natural Born Killers (1994)
Warner Bros.
"Just so awesome. Really makes you think about the media's influence and also the minds of these
killers."
Submitted by CoralFang.
46. Gone Girl (2014)
20th Century Fox
"Gone Girl stuck with me for quite a while. I hadn’t read the book so I had no idea what was going to
happen, which made it better."
Submitted by D75.
47. Shutter Island (2010)

Paramount Pictures
"I had to watch that movie more than I watched Inception. It's the only movie where I actually
researched and tried to figure out what the ending meant. I recommend it to any living person. I
never am surprised by the endings of movies but this just raised my expectations for movies even
further. Leo was amazing in this one."
Submitted by fatimahfghazig.
48. The Usual Suspects (1995)
Gramercy Pictures
"The Usual Suspects and its amazing twist had me amazed for days."
Submitted by marthaj4b4ecca41.
49. Silver Linings Playbook (2012)
The Weinstein Company
"It portrays mental illness in a raw and hauntingly beautiful way that leaves you thinking about it for
days. It’s accurate and acted brilliantly. It gives an insight into the minds and thoughts of so-called
'crazy' people and shows that they are capable of love just like the rest of us."
Submitted by elizabetha435bf178d.
50. Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
"This film made me think about how much of a rollercoaster our emotions are as children and how
our imaginations are a means to escape the reality of these feelings."
Submitted by ellalucyrosem.
51. Room (2015)
A24
"It makes you appreciate the little things in life, especially as it is from the POV of a 5-year-old boy."
Submitted by l4d17ebbd0.
52. The Butterfly Effect (2004)
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New Line Cinema
"It’s just crazy to think that by doing one thing different, it could take your life down a completely
different path. Makes me sit and wonder 'what if...'"
Submitted by ashleynffcw.
1.
Triangle (2009)
6.9/10
The story revolves around the passengers of a yachting trip in the Atlantic Ocean who, when struck by mysterious weather
conditions, jump to another ship only to experience greater havoc on the open seas. (99 mins.)
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2.
4bia (2008)
6.8/10
4BIA is a Horror Anthology. The first segment, "Happiness" is about a lonely girl who corresponded with... (120 mins.)
Director: Banjong Pisanthanakun, Paween Purikitpanya
Stars: Maneerat Kham-uan, Witawat Singlampong, Apinya Sakuljaroensuk, Chon Wachananon
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3.
13 (2010)
6.1/10
A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and
chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men. (91 mins.)
Director: Géla Babluani
Stars: Sam Riley, Alice Barrett, Gaby Hoffmann, Jason Statham
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4.
30 Days of Night (2007)
6.6/10
After an Alaskan town is plunged into darkness for a month, it is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires. (113 mins.)
Director: David Slade
Stars: Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, Danny Huston, Ben Foster
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5.
1408 (2007)
6.8/10
A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after
settling in, he confronts genuine terror. (104 mins.)
Director: Mikael Håfström
Stars: John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Mary McCormack, Paul Birchard
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6.
Adventureland (2009)
6.8/10
In the summer of 1987, a college graduate takes a 'nowhere' job at his local amusement park, only to find it's the perfect course to
get him prepared for the real world. (107 mins.)
Director: Greg Mottola
Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Ryan Reynolds, Kelsey Ford
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7.
The Alamo (1960)
6.9/10
In 1836, a small band of soldiers sacrifice their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from
smashing the new Republic of Texas. (167 mins.)
Director: John Wayne
Stars: John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Frankie Avalon
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8.
Alice Sweet Alice (1976)
6.5/10
After a young girl is brutally murdered during her first communion, her strange and withdrawn older sister becomes the main
suspect. But are the authorities mistaken? (98 mins.)
Director: Alfred Sole
Stars: Linda Miller, Mildred Clinton, Paula E. Sheppard, Niles McMaster
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9.
Alien³ (1992)
6.4/10
After her last encounter, Ripley crash-lands on Fiorina Fury 161, a maximum security prison. When a series of strange and
deadly events occur shortly after her arrival, Ripley realizes that she brought along an unwelcome visitor. (114 mins.)
Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Paul McGann
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10.
All the Days Before Tomorrow (2007)
6.2/10
In this quirky episodic tale about a friendship that's almost something more, Wes and Alison are pals who ought to be
lovers... (100 mins.)
Director: François Dompierre
Stars: Joey Kern, Alexandra Holden, Richard Roundtree, Yutaka Takeuchi
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11.
All the Right Noises (1971)
6.2/10
A married man with two small children has an affair with a young teenage girl (92 mins.)
Director: Gerry O'Hara
Stars: Tom Bell, Judy Carne, Edward Higgins, Rudolph Walker
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12.
Alpha Dog (2006)
6.9/10
A drama based on the life of Jesse James Hollywood, a drug dealer who became one of the youngest men ever to be on the FBI's
most wanted list. (118 mins.)
Stars: Emile Hirsch, Justin Timberlake, Anton Yelchin, Bruce Willis
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13.
Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong (2015)
6.5/10
An attraction forms when a Chinese American girl visiting Hong Kong for the first time meets an American expat who shows her
the way... (78 mins.)
Director: Emily Ting
Stars: Jamie Chung, Bryan Greenberg, Richard Ng, Sarah Lian
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14.
Anguish (1987)
6.7/10
A controlling mother uses telepathic powers to send her middle-aged son on a killing spree. (86 mins.)
Director: Bigas Luna
Stars: Zelda Rubinstein, Michael Lerner, Talia Paul, Àngel Jové
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15.
Anna to the Infinite Power (1983)
6.6/10
Anna Hart was always an odd child, a genius, a shoplifter, desperately afraid of flickering lights, with strange prophetic
dreams... (101 mins.)
Director: Robert Wiemer
Stars: Dina Merrill, Martha Byrne, Mark Patton, Donna Mitchell
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16.
Antarctic Journal (2005)
6.0/10
Strange things begin happening to an expedition deep in the Antarctic. (115 mins.)
Director: Yim Pil-sung
Stars: Kang-ho Song, Ji-tae Yu, Kyeong-ik Kim, Hee-soon Park
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17.
Antichrist (2009)
6.6/10
A grieving couple retreat to their cabin in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes
its course and things go from bad to worse. (108 mins.)
Director: Lars von Trier
Stars: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Storm Acheche Sahlstrøm
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18.
April Snow (2005)
6.8/10
A man and a woman meet in the hospital after their respective partners are involved in a car accident. After learning that their
spouses have been having an affair, the two begin one of their own. (105 mins.)
Director: Jin-ho Hur
Stars: Yong-jun Bae, Ye-jin Son, Kook-huan Chun, Clazziquai
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19.
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
6.3/10
A police sergeant must rally the cops and prisoners together to protect themselves on New Year's Eve, just as corrupt policeman
surround the station with the intent of killing all to keep their deception in the ranks. (109 mins.)
Director: Jean-François Richet
Stars: Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne, Gabriel Byrne, Maria Bello
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20.
Bad Guy (2001)
6.8/10
One man's attempt to fill humane loneliness. But love is not for "scumbags". (100 mins.)
Stars: Jae-hyeon Jo, Won Seo, Yun-tae Kim, Duk-moon Choi
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21.
Barefoot (2014)
6.6/10
The "black sheep" son of a wealthy family meets a young psychiatric patient who's been raised in isolation her entire life. He then
takes the naive young woman home for his brother's wedding. (90 mins.)
Director: Andrew Fleming
Stars: Evan Rachel Wood, Scott Speedman, J.K. Simmons, Treat Williams
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22.
Battle of the Bulge (1965)
6.8/10
A dramatization of Nazi Germany's final Western Front counterattack of World War II. (167 mins.)
Director: Ken Annakin
Stars: Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan, Dana Andrews
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23.
Because of Winn-Dixie (2005)
6.4/10
A mischievous dog befriends a lonely young girl in a new town and helps her make new friends. (106 mins.)
Director: Wayne Wang
Stars: AnnaSophia Robb, Jeff Daniels, Eva Marie Saint, Cicely Tyson
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24.
Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)
6.0/10
Despite being under heavy sedation, a young woman tries to make her way out of the Arboria Institute, a secluded, quasifuturistic
commune. (110 mins.)
Director: Panos Cosmatos
Stars: Eva Bourne, Michael Rogers, Scott Hylands, Rondel Reynoldson
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25.
Big Love (2012)
5.5/10
Emily is 16 years old when she meets Maciek - a handsome alpha male seven years her senior. Maciek is... (95 mins.)
Director: Barbara Bialowas
Stars: Aleksandra Hamkalo, Antoni Pawlicki, Robert Gonera, Dobromir Dymecki
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26.
Black Death (2010)
6.4/10
Set during the time of the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England, a young monk is given the task of learning the truth about
reports of people being brought back to life in a small village. (102 mins.)
Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Sean Bean, Carice van Houten, Kimberley Nixon
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27.
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
6.4/10
Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving
only their footage behind. (81 mins.)
Director: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sanchez
Stars: Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, Joshua Leonard, Bob Griffin
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28.
The Bone Collector (1999)
6.7/10
A quadriplegic ex-homicide detective and his female partner try to track down a serial killer who is terrorizing New York
City. (118 mins.)
Director: Phillip Noyce
Stars: Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie, Queen Latifah, Michael Rooker
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29.
The Bridge at Remagen (1969)
6.7/10
As the Allied armies close in, the Germans decide to blow up the last Rhine bridge, trapping their own men on the wrong side.
But will it happen? (115 mins.)
Director: John Guillermin
Stars: George Segal, Robert Vaughn, Ben Gazzara, Bradford Dillman
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30.
Café (2011)
5.6/10
When tragedy strikes the community surrounding a cafe in West Philadelphia, the cafe's regulars come to realize how intertwined
their lives truly are. (95 mins.)
Director: Marc Erlbaum
Stars: Daniel Eric Gold, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Hubbel Palmer, Richard Short
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31.
The Caller (2011)
6.1/10
A young divorcee is getting her life back together by moving into an apartment. But what will she do when a strange person
repeatedly calls her, and threatens to change her new life around? (92 mins.)
Director: Matthew Parkhill
Stars: Rachelle Lefevre, Stephen Moyer, Lorna Raver, Ed Quinn
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32.
Centurion (2010)
6.4/10
A splinter group of Roman soldiers fight for their lives behind enemy lines after their legion is devastated in a guerrilla
attack. (97 mins.)
Director: Neil Marshall
Stars: Michael Fassbender, Dominic West, Olga Kurylenko, Andreas Wisniewski
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33.
The Champ (1979)
6.8/10
Billy Flynn, a former boxing champion, is now horse trainer in Hialeah. He makes just enough money to raise his little boy
T.J.... (121 mins.)
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Stars: Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway, Ricky Schroder, Jack Warden
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34.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
6.7/10
A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy
maker. (115 mins.)
Stars: Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore, David Kelly, Helena Bonham Carter
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35.
Child's Play (1988)
6.6/10
A single mother gives her son a much sought after doll for his birthday, only to discover that it is possessed by the soul of a serial
killer. (87 mins.)
Director: Tom Holland
Stars: Catherine Hicks, Chris Sarandon, Alex Vincent, Brad Dourif
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36.
City of Angels (1998)
6.7/10
Inspired by the modern classic, Wings of Desire, City involves an angel (Cage) who is spotted by a doctor in an operating room.
Franz plays Cage's buddy who somehow knows a lot about angels. (114 mins.)
Director: Brad Silberling
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Meg Ryan, Andre Braugher, Dennis Franz
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37.
Coma (1978)
6.9/10
When a young female doctor notices an unnatural amount of comas occurring in her hospital she uncovers a horrible
conspiracy. (113 mins.)
Director: Michael Crichton
Stars: Michael Douglas, Rip Torn, Geneviève Bujold, Elizabeth Ashley
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38.
The Crime of Father Amaro (2002)
6.8/10
Politics and sexual passions threaten to corrupt a young, newly-ordained priest in a small Mexican town. (118 mins.)
Director: Carlos Carrera
Stars: Gael García Bernal, Ana Claudia Talancón, Sancho Gracia, Angélica Aragón
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39.
Dark Water (2002)
6.7/10
A mother and her 6 year old daughter move into a creepy apartment whose every surface is permeated by water. (101 mins.)
Director: Hideo Nakata
Stars: Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno, Mirei Oguchi, Asami Mizukawa
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40.
Dead End (2003)
6.7/10
Christmas Eve. On his way to his in-laws with his family, Frank Harrington decides to try a shortcut, for the first time in 20
years. It turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life. (85 mins.)
Director: Jean-Baptiste Andrea, Fabrice Canepa
Stars: Ray Wise, Lin Shaye, Mick Cain, Alexandra Holden
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41.
Dead Friend (2004)
6.2/10
A teenage girl suffering from amnesia discovers that she is somehow connected to a group of people who are being killed off one
by one by a vengeful ghost. (98 mins.)
Director: Tae-kyeong Kim
Stars: Ha-neul Kim, Sang-mi Nam, Hye-bin Jeon, Yi Shin
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“ a.k.a. The Ghost ” - d_smojver
42.
Devil (2010)
6.3/10
A group of people are trapped in an elevator and the Devil is mysteriously amongst them. (80 mins.)
Director: John Erick Dowdle
Stars: Chris Messina, Caroline Dhavernas, Bokeem Woodbine, Logan Marshall-Green
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43.
Dog Soldiers (2002)
6.8/10
A routine military exercise turns into a nightmare in the Scotland wilderness. (105 mins.)
Director: Neil Marshall
Stars: Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKidd, Emma Cleasby, Liam Cunningham
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44.
Dream (2008)
6.6/10
In the aftermath of a car crash, a man discovers his dreams are tied to a stranger's sleepwalking. (95 mins.)
Stars: Joe Odagiri, Na-yeong Lee, Mi-hie Jang, Tae-hyeon Kim
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45.
Duplex (2003)
5.9/10
A young couple has a chance to move into a gorgeous duplex in the perfect New York neighborhood. All they have to do is bump
off the current tenant, a cute little old lady. (89 mins.)
Director: Danny DeVito
Stars: Ben Stiller, Drew Barrymore, Eileen Essell, Harvey Fierstein
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46.
The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
6.9/10
A German plot to kidnap Winston Churchill unfolds at the height of World War II. (135 mins.)
Director: John Sturges
Stars: Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, Jenny Agutter
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47.
Enemy (2013)
6.9/10
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48.
eXistenZ (1999)
6.8/10
A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the
game has been damaged. (97 mins.)
Stars: Jude Law, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ian Holm, Willem Dafoe
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49.
The Eye (2002)
6.7/10
A blind girl gets a cornea transplant so that she would be able to see again. However, she got more than what she bargained for
when she realized she could even see ghosts. (99 mins.)
Director: Pang Brothers, Pang Brothers
Stars: Angelica Lee, Chutcha Rujinanon, Lawrence Chou, Jinda Duangtoy
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50.
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
6.7/10
The death of Marcus Aurelius leads to a succession crisis, in which the deceased emperor's son, Commodus, demonstrates that he
is unwilling to let anything undermine his claim to the Roman Empire. (188 mins.)
Director: Anthony Mann
Stars: Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, James Mason
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51.
Fear(s) of the Dark (2007)
6.8/10
Several scary black-and-white animated segments in different styles appeal to our fear(s) of the dark. (83 mins.)
Director: Blutch, Charles Burns
Stars: Aure Atika, Guillaume Depardieu, Nicole Garcia, Gil Alma
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52.
Final Destination (2000)
6.7/10
After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death
hunt them down, one by one. (98 mins.)
Director: James Wong
Stars: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Kristen Cloke
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53.
Flowers in the Attic (1987)
5.7/10
Children are hidden away in the attic by their conspiring mother and grandmother. (93 mins.)
Director: Jeffrey Bloom
Stars: Louise Fletcher, Victoria Tennant, Kristy Swanson, Jeb Stuart Adams
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54.
The Forbidden Door (2009)
6.9/10
The life of a successful sculptor named is turned upside down when he began receiving mysterious messages from someone who
asked for his help. (115 mins.)
Director: Joko Anwar
Stars: Fachry Albar, Marsha Timothy, Ario Bayu, Tio Pakusadewo
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55.
Franklyn (2008)
6.2/10
A portrait of the broken lives of four people (a vigilante detective, a worried parent, an awkward man looking for love and a
suicidal artist) as they all struggle to cope in their religiously-dystopian city. (98 mins.)
Director: Gerald McMorrow
Stars: Eva Green, Ryan Phillippe, Sam Riley, Bernard Hill
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56.
Friday the 13th (1980)
6.5/10
A group of camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp which,
years before, was the site of a child's drowning. (95 mins.)
Director: Sean S. Cunningham
Stars: Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King, Jeannine Taylor, Robbi Morgan
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57.
Funny Games (2007)
6.5/10
Two psychopathic young men take a family hostage in their cabin. (111 mins.)
Stars: Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Michael Pitt, Brady Corbet
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58.
The Game (2008)
6.7/10
A struggling artist Hee-do is offered a million dollars to bet his life if he loses a game against a... (116 mins.)
Director: In-ho Yun
Stars: Ha-kyun Shin, Hee-Bong Byun, Hye-yeong Lee, Hyeon-ju Son
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“ a.k.a. The Devil's Game ” - d_smojver
59.
The Girl Next Door (2007)
6.7/10
Based on the Jack Ketchum novel of the same name, The Girl Next Door follows the unspeakable torture and abuses committed
on a teenage girl in the care of her aunt...and the boys who witness and fail to report the crime. (91 mins.)
Director: Gregory M. Wilson
Stars: William Atherton, Blythe Auffarth, Blanche Baker, Kevin Chamberlin
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60.
Grumpy Old Men (1993)
6.9/10
A lifelong feud between two neighbors since childhood only gets worse when a new female neighbor moves across the
street. (103 mins.)
Director: Donald Petrie
Stars: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith
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61.
Grumpier Old Men (1995)
6.6/10
John and Max resolve to save their beloved bait shop from turning into an Italian restaurant, just as its new female owner catches
Max's attention. (101 mins.)
Director: Howard Deutch
Stars: Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Ann-Margret, Sophia Loren
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62.
Hansel and Gretel (2007)
6.8/10
After meeting an mysterious girl on an dark stretch of road, a young salesman is invited to a beautiful house with bizarre secrets
and no way to escape. (117 mins.)
Director: Pil-Sung Yim
Stars: Jeong-myeong Cheon, Eun Won-jae, Eun-kyung Shim, Ji-hee Jin
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63.
High Tension (2003)
6.8/10
Best friends Marie and Alexia decide to spend a quiet weekend at Alexia's parents' secluded farmhouse. But on the night of their
arrival, the girls' idyllic getaway turns into an endless night of horror. (91 mins.)
Director: Alexandre Aja
Stars: Cécile De France, Maïwenn, Philippe Nahon, Franck Khalfoun
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64.
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
6.6/10
One year after Kevin was left home alone and had to defeat a pair of bumbling burglars, he accidentally finds himself in New
York City, and the same criminals are not far behind. (120 mins.)
Stars: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O'Hara
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65.
Hounddog (2007)
6.3/10
A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis
Presley. (102 mins.)
Director: Deborah Kampmeier
Stars: Dakota Fanning, David Morse, Piper Laurie, Granoldo Frazier
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66.
The Invisible (2007)
6.3/10
A teenager is left invisible to the living after an attack. (102 mins.)

Director: David S. Goyer
Stars: Justin Chatwin, Margarita Levieva, Marcia Gay Harden, Chris Marquette
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67.
Is-slottet (1987)
6.6/10
In a remote Norwegian mountain-area in the 1930s, two 12 year old girls Siss and Unn meet. They are friends... (78 mins.)
Director: Per Blom
Stars: Line Storesund, Hilde Nyeggen Martinsen, Merete Moen, Sigrid Huun
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68.
Joy Ride (2001)
6.6/10
Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he
turns out to be a psychotic killer. (97 mins.)
Director: John Dahl
Stars: Steve Zahn, Paul Walker, Leelee Sobieski, Jessica Bowman
Add to Watchlist
69.
Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)
6.7/10
A mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides. (92 mins.)
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Stars: Megumi Okina, Misaki Itô, Misa Uehara, Yui Ichikawa
Add to Watchlist
70.
Killer Joe (2011)
6.7/10
When a debt puts a young man's life in danger, he turns to putting a hit out on his evil mother in order to collect the
insurance. (102 mins.)
Director: William Friedkin
Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple, Thomas Haden Church
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71.
Lamb (2015)
6.4/10
When a man meets a young girl in a parking lot he attempts to help her avoid a bleak destiny by initiating her into the beauty of
the outside world. The journey shakes them in ways neither expects. (97 mins.)
Director: Ross Partridge
Stars: Ross Partridge, Oona Laurence, Jess Weixler, Tom Bower
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72.
The Lazarus Project (2008)
6.2/10
A former criminal is drawn into a criminal endeavor and subsequently finds himself living an inexplicable new life working at a
psychiatric facility. (100 mins.)
Director: John Patrick Glenn
Stars: Paul Walker, Piper Perabo, Brooklynn Proulx, Bob Gunton
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73.
Life (2017)
6.6/10
A team of scientists aboard the International Space Station discover a rapidly evolving life form that caused extinction on Mars
and now threatens all life on Earth. (104 mins.)
Director: Daniel Espinosa
Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds, Hiroyuki Sanada
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74.
Logan's Run (1976)
6.8/10
An idyllic sci-fi future has one major drawback: life must end at the age of 30. (119 mins.)
Director: Michael Anderson
Stars: Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Richard Jordan, Roscoe Lee Browne
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75.
Lucas (1986)
6.8/10
A socially inept fourteen year old experiences heartbreak for the first time when his two best friends -- Cappie, an older-brother
figure, and Maggie, the new girl with whom he is in love -- fall for each other. (100 mins.)
Director: David Seltzer
Stars: Corey Haim, Kerri Green, Charlie Sheen, Courtney Thorne-Smith
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76.
Macbeth (2015)
6.7/10
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland.
Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself. (113 mins.)
Director: Justin Kurzel
Stars: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jack Madigan, Frank Madigan
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77.
Machine Gun Preacher (2011)
6.8/10
Sam Childers is a former drug-dealing biker tough guy who found God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children
who've been forced to become soldiers. (129 mins.)
Director: Marc Forster
Stars: Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Shannon, Kathy Baker
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78.
The Mask (1994)
6.9/10
Bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss is transformed into a manic superhero when he wears a mysterious mask. (101 mins.)
Director: Charles Russell
Stars: Jim Carrey, Cameron Diaz, Peter Riegert, Peter Greene
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79.
Me, Myself & Irene (2000)
6.6/10
A nice-guy cop with dissociative identity disorder must protect a woman on the run from a corrupt ex-boyfriend and his
associates. (116 mins.)
Director: Bobby Farrelly, Peter Farrelly
Stars: Jim Carrey, Renée Zellweger, Anthony Anderson, Mongo Brownlee
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80.
Mean Dreams (2016)
6.3/10
Follows Casey and Jonas, two teenagers desperate to escape their broken and abusive homes and examines the desperation of life
on the run and the beauty of first love. (108 mins.)
Director: Nathan Morlando
Stars: Josh Wiggins, Sophie Nélisse, Joe Cobden, Bill Paxton
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81.
Midway (1976)
6.8/10
A dramatization of the battle that was widely heralded as a turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II. (132 mins.)
Director: Jack Smight
Stars: Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Glenn Ford
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82.
Moss (2010)
6.9/10
A mysterious person calls a young man and informs him that his estranged father has died in a country village... (163 mins.)
Director: Woo-Suk Kang
Stars: Jae-yeong Jeong, Hae-il Park, Joon-sang Yoo, Seon Yu
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83.
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
6.9/10
After a bitter divorce, an actor disguises himself as a female housekeeper to spend time with his children held in custody by his
former wife. (125 mins.)
Stars: Robin Williams, Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan, Harvey Fierstein
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84.
The Nameless (1999)
5.9/10
The mutilated body of a six year old girl is found in a water hole. The girl is identified as the missing daughter of Claudia... (102
mins.)
Director: Jaume Balagueró
Stars: Emma Vilarasau, Karra Elejalde, Tristán Ulloa, Toni Sevilla
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85.
The New Kid (2015)
6.7/10
Benoit, the new kid at school, is bullied by a gang of arrogant boys. Determined not to be pushed around, Benoit organizes a big
party, but only three students turn up. What if this bunch of losers was to be the best gang ever? (81 mins.)
Director: Rudi Rosenberg
Stars: Réphaël Ghrenassia, Joshua Raccah, Géraldine Martineau, Guillaume Cloud-Roussel
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86.
Nothing (2003)
6.3/10
After a terrible day, two good friends and housemates find the outside world converted into a featureless and empty white
void. (90 mins.)
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Stars: David Hewlett, Andrew Miller, Gordon Pinsent, Marie-Josée Croze
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87.
The Number 23 (2007)
6.4/10
Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him. As his obsession increases, more and
more similarities seem to arise. (101 mins.)
Director: Joel Schumacher
Stars: Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Logan Lerman, Danny Huston
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88.
Ondine (2009)
6.8/10
An Irish fisherman discovers a woman in his fishing net whom his precocious daughter believes to be a selkie. (111 mins.)
Director: Neil Jordan
Stars: Colin Farrell, Alicja Bachleda, Dervla Kirwan, Alison Barry
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89.
Open City (2008)
6.4/10
Baek Jang-Mi is the female leader of an international pickpocket gang. Her target is to broaden her territory to outside
Seoul... (112 mins.)
Director: Sang-gi Lee
Stars: Ye-jin Son, Myung-min Kim, Gi-seok Do, Dae-han Ji
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90.
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
6.7/10
Two sisters contend for the affection of King Henry VIII. (115 mins.)
Director: Justin Chadwick
Stars: Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana, Jim Sturgess
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91.
Pet Sematary (1989)
6.6/10
Behind a young family's home in Maine is a terrible secret that holds the power of life after death. When tragedy strikes, the
threat of that power soon becomes undeniable. (103 mins.)
Director: Mary Lambert
Stars: Dale Midkiff, Denise Crosby, Fred Gwynne, Brad Greenquist
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92.
Phantasm (1979)
6.8/10
A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a lethal arsenal
of terrible weapons with him. (88 mins.)
Director: Don Coscarelli
Stars: A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Reggie Bannister, Kathy Lester
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93.
Phantom: The Submarine (1999)
6.0/10
Phantom...Korea's first nuclear submarine. Armed with nuclear weapons and a crew with no record of existence, it embarks on a
do-or-die mission into the deep waters of the Pacific. (110 mins.)
Director: Byung-chun Min
Stars: Min-su Choi, Woo-sung Jung, Kyoung-gu Sul, Byeon-chul Min
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94.
Phenomena (1985)
6.9/10
A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where
her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders. (116 mins.)
Director: Dario Argento
Stars: Jennifer Connelly, Donald Pleasence, Daria Nicolodi, Fiore Argento
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95.
Planet of the Apes (2001)
5.7/10
An Air Force astronaut crash lands on a mysterious planet where evolved, talking apes dominate a race of primitive humans. (119
mins.)
Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Helena Bonham Carter, Tim Roth, Michael Clarke Duncan
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96.
The Pledge (2001)
6.8/10
A retiring police chief pledges to catch the killer of a young child. (124 mins.)
Director: Sean Penn
Stars: Jack Nicholson, Benicio Del Toro, Patricia Clarkson, Beau Daniels
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97.
Prince of Darkness (1987)
6.7/10
A research team finds a mysterious cylinder in a deserted church. If opened, it could mean the end of the world. (102 mins.)
Director: John Carpenter
Stars: Donald Pleasence, Lisa Blount, Jameson Parker, Victor Wong
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98.
Reincarnation (2005)
6.2/10
A Japanese actress begins having strange visions and experiences after landing a role in a horror film about a real-life murder
spree that took place over forty years ago. (96 mins.)
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Stars: Yûka, Karina, Kippei Shîna, Tetta Sugimoto
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99.
Resident Evil (2002)
6.7/10
A special military unit fights a powerful, out-of-control supercomputer and hundreds of scientists who have mutated into flesh-
eating creatures after a laboratory accident. (100 mins.)
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Stars: Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Ryan McCluskey, Oscar Pearce
Add to Watchlist
100.
Rio Lobo (1970)
6.8/10
After the Civil War, Cord McNally searches for the traitor whose perfidy caused the defeat of McNally's
unit and the loss of a close friend. (114 mins.)
Director: Howard Hawks
Stars: John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Jennifer O'Neill, Jack Elam
This is part one of a four volume series highlighting some of cinema’s finest
works and some of my personal favorites. Today I’m posting my first 25 picks.
Stay tuned for more.
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Kubrick’s most important work, 2001 is a film so revolutionary that many
were puzzled and pissed off by it during its initial release. Rock Hudson
stormed out of the film, shouting, “Will someone tell me what the hell this is
about?” Like A Clockwork Orange, it may have lost its ability to scandalize us,
but it’s haunting cinematic power remains.
See also: Barry Lyndon, The Shining, Eyes Wide Shut, Full Metal Jacket
2. A Separation (2011)
An early contender for film of the decade, Asghar Farhadi’s Iranian
masterpiece is a melodrama with the pacing of a thriller, a nail-biter of conflict
and raw human emotion. I’ve seen it four times and it gets better, more
profound and more gripping with every viewing.
3. All About Eve (1950)

To those who haven’t seen it, I describe All About Eve as “like Black Swan, but
without all the drug masturbation dreams.” It’s a tale of ambition and
betrayal, a caustic comedy-melodrama about the costs of success. All About
Eve also features Bette Davis’ most iconic performance, as an aging starlet
who is watching fame slip away but always manages to find time for a drink
and a zippy one-liner.
4. All About My Mother (1999)

Almodovar has lots of films that deserve to be on this list (Talk To
Her, Volver, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown), but All About
My Mother has long been the fan favorite because it’s everything you could
want in an Almodovar film. It features lots of drag queens, Penelope Cruz as a
pregnant nun and a beating heart at the center of all the mayhem. It’s kitsch
with feeling.
5. Annie Hall (1977)

Annie Hall has been long regarded as “everyone’s favorite Woody Allen movie”
for a reason. It’s a film with the power to change how you look at cinema
forever, a film that seems slight and sweet but whose emotions are bittersweet,
conflicting and true. Like the later Chasing Amy, Allen shows us that the most
meaningful relationships might be the ones that don’t last.
See also: Interiors, Manhattan, Another Woman, Midnight in Paris, Vicky
Cristina Barcelona, Sleeper, Love and Death, Bananas, Zelig, Match
Point, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Stardust Memories, Radio
Days, Husbands and Wives, Everyone Says I Love You
6. The Apartment (1960)

Some Like It Hot, Sabrina, Ninotchka and The Seven-Year Itch prove Billy
Wilder to be one of the finest comic talents of his generation, and The
Apartment (one of the only comedies to win Best Picture) shows us why. The
Apartment is a flawless study of loneliness and depression, a comedy of
manners rooted in our universal feelings of not belonging. If it sounds sad, it’s
actually lovely and wonderful, featuring Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon
at their most charming. It’s a romantic comedy with a dark side.
See also: The Lost Weekend, Marty
7. Being There (1979)

Director Hal Ashby’s crowning achievement is an absolute miracle, a film
that’s both philosophically deep and absolutely hilarious. It’s the rare movie
that completely confounds any expectations that you might have for it, ending
in one of the most quixotic and memorable finales in history. I’ve seen it at
least ten times, and I still find that surprises me each time. Peter Sellers only
gets better with age.
See also: Coming Home, The Last Detail
8. The Before Trilogy (1995, 2004, 2013)

This is the only series in history that gets better with every installment.
Richard Linklater gave us his first masterpiece, Before Sunrise, in 1995, so he
followed up with an even better one nine years later with Before Sunset.
Released a few weeks ago, Before Midnight is scoring the best reviews of the
year, because it’s one of the best films of this or any year. It’s the only movie
I’ve ever cried at, simply because I was so happy to have seen it. Time will tell,
but I have a sneaking suspicion it will end up my personal favorite movie ever.
9. Bicycle Thieves (1948)

Bicycle Thieves (aka The Bicycle Thief) is one of those movies that they make
you watch in almost every film school class — and for good reason. In addition
to being a hallmark of neorealism, it’s the kind of movie that people always
lament we don’t make anymore. That’s not exactly true. France’s Dardenne
Brothers are keeping De Sica’s proud legacy alive with films like L’Enfant and
the aptly titled The Kid With a Bike.
10. The Big Heat (1953)

I put this on the list over M not because it’s a better film but because it’s proof
that Fritz Lang didn’t stop making great movies when he came to America.
One of film noir’s strangest entries, Lang pushed the boundaries of what the
genre could do, erupting in moments of brutal and shocking violence,
sometimes involving coffee.
I don’t know how this movie passed through the censorship boards, but I’m
glad it did. It’s perfect. Just don’t drink Starbucks afterward.
11. The Big Sleep (1946)

This and The Maltese Falcon prove why Humphrey Bogart was the master of
film noir. While not being traditionally sexy, Bogart has a magnetic coolness
that’s the perfect embodiment of Raymond Chandler’s novel. It helps that in
addition to having Howard Hawks behind the camera, literary genius William
Faulkner co-wrote the screenplay.
See also with Bogart: Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The African Queen, The
Caine Mutiny, To Have and To Have Not
12. Blue Velvet (1986)

To this day, Blue Velvet is a divisive film — between those who see it as
exploitative and misogynistic and those who view it as one of the best films of
the 1980s. Like every David Lynch film, Blue Velvet is a tonal mystery, a movie
that forces you to figure it out along with its characters. You’re just as clueless
as they are. Blue Velvet was an introduction to what would become the Lynch
style and three decades later, he’s just as poetically elliptical (see: Inland
Empire). We haven’t been able to figure him out yet.
See also: Twin Peaks (his TV show), Mulholland Dr.
13. Bringing Up Baby (1938)

Cary Grant movies have a reputation for being quick in the tongue (see: His
Girl Friday), but Bringing Up Baby is on another level. In addition to being
fast of wit, Billy Wilder throws almost everything in his comic imagination at
the screen. It’s breathlessly paced and so full of gags that there’s no way to
catch every joke your first time around. Perhaps this is why the movie flopped
in its initial release and only caught on later. Without Bringing Up
Baby, Arrested Development could have never existed.
See also with Grant: Arsenic and Old Lace, Charade, Notorious, The Awful
Truth, My Favorite Wife, Operation Petticoat, Gunga Din
14. Cache (2005)

Michael Haneke has made a name for himself as the bad boy of Austrian
cinema with art house stunts like Funny Games and Oscar-bait
like Amour and The White Ribbon, but Haneke is at his best when’s at his
most Hitchcockian. Cache asks a great deal of patience from its viewers, but
the rewards are many. It’s a brutal indictment of our surveillance era and the
secrets we uncover when we only look. If there’s any foreign film I can think of
that demands an American remake, it’s this one.
See also from Haneke The Piano Teacher.
15. The Century of the Self (2005)

This is one of the best documentaries ever made, a social history of spin and
advertising and how the industry of psychotherapy shaped how we educated
desire and how we see ourselves. The Century of the Self runs 240 minutes,
but it will change the way you look at everything. Get ready for a four-hour
mindfuck.
16. Casablanca (1942)

There’s a reason that Casablanca continually tops lists of the greatest films of
all time. It’s one of the few unquestionably perfect movies ever made, a movie
that can unite film geeks, nostalgists, octogenarians and kids in utter
adoration. One day I stayed home sick and only watched Casablanca on
repeat. At the end of the day, I felt much better.
Also, yes, you should probably see Citizen Kane. But don’t you already know
that? It’s great, you’ll love it, watch it already.
17. Chinatown (1974)

Chinatown is one of those movies that the less you know about it going in, the
better. Roman Polanski’s masterpiece is a watershed moment in American
film, when movies made at the studio level could be gloriously weird, make a
bunch of money and win Oscars. Although it doesn’t quite have The
Godfather’s stature, Chinatown dared to make Hollywood dangerous again.
Fun fact: Faye Dunaway once threw urine in Roman Polanski’s face during an
on-set dispute. He wouldn’t let her go pee. If only you could have done this in
elementary school, not getting the lavatory pass would have been way more
awesome.
18. City of God (2002)

Most directors don’t make two masterpieces in their entire career. Fernando
Meirelles made two great films in a row, between this and The Constant
Gardener. City of God is a surprise entry on IMDB’s Top 100 list (currently at
#21) because it’s a crowd-pleaser with an urgent social message. For those
interested, check out the TV series and the follow-up film, City of Men.
They’re slightly derivative but worthwhile additions to the film’s depiction of
life in Rio.
19. City Lights (1931)

If you want to introduce someone to silent films, this is the movie you pick.
Although Charlie Chaplin is known for his slapstick and crack comic timing,
Chaplin (who also served as director) is a master storyteller with an eye for
cinematography. Woody Allen is said to have based his memorable Manhattan
opening on City Lights and it’s easy to see why. City Lights is a beautiful film,
from it’s surface down to the longing underneath.
Also see: Modern Times, The Great Dictator, The Kid, The Gold Rush
20. The Crying Game (1992)

Even today, The Crying Game is an extremely controversial film and a movie
that’s as much fun to watch as it is to watch people watch it. Every time you
think you know what The Crying Game is about, it changes on you. It’s also
one of the most complex and human portrayals of romance I’ve ever seen —
about what it means to love someone and to embrace their past. It might come
off as a shock film — because of a now famous twist that makes it easy to
dismiss.
I still can’t decide how I feel about some of it, but The Crying Game that needs
to be seen and discussed. It’s just simply too powerful to ignore.
21. Days of Heaven (1978)

Days of Heaven is one of the most visually stunning and rich films I’ve ever
seen — from the cinematography that would become Terrence Malick’s
trademark to Richard Gere’s sultry gaze. Like the equally
sumptuous Lawrence of Arabia, if you ever have the chance to see it on the
big screen, you must take it. Your local art theatre usually plays Days of
Heaven at least once a year.
Also see: Badlands, The Thin Red Line, Tree of Life
22. Dead Ringers (1988)

Videodrome, Scanners, The Fly, A History of Violence), but Dead Ringers
stands out not just because of the usual Cronenbergian verve. Dead Ringers
gets one of cinema’s best performances out of Jeremy Irons, who won a catch-
up Oscar two years later for the deliciously gauzy Reversal of Fortune. Irons
plays identical twins and he’s so good that you can instantly tell which he’s
playing at any given time. Dead Ringers is like the creepiest Olsen twins movie
ever.
See also: Spider, eXistenZ, Crash (but not the one you’re thinking of, trust me)
23. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

2007 was one of the best years ever for cinema — with titles
like Ratatouille, Juno, The Bourne Ultimatum, Zodiac, The Savages, Hot
Fuzz, Gone Baby Gone, Into the Wild, The Assassination of Jesse James, I’m
Not There, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead, Michael Clayton, Eastern
Promises, Knocked Up, Away From Her, The King of Kong, No End in
Sight, Persepolis, Lars and the Real Girl and Breachall garnering wide
acclaim.
There are even five on this list (none mentioned above), and The Diving Bell
and the Butterfly is one of the best, an impressionistic display of exactly how
far cinema can go. It’s like Enter the Void, but with a plot, and one of the best
films I’ve ever seen.
24. Do the Right Thing (1989)

Spike Lee’s recent career has been so spotty (see: whatever was going on in
Miracle at St. Anna) that it’s easy to forget he’s one of cinema’s most
important filmmakers. Do the Right Thing was one of the few times Siskel and
Ebert ever agreed on their Best Movie of the Year pick, the movie that
encapsulated the racial tension that would lead to the 1992 L.A. riots. Over
two decades later, it’s just as relevant as it ever was. The times have changed,
but the politics haven’t much.
Also check out from Lee’s filmography: She’s Gotta Have It, Malcolm
X, Bamboozled, Inside Man, 25th Hour, When the Levee Broke and Jungle
Fever, still as controversial today as when it was released.
25. Double Indemnity (1944)

Double Indemnity sounds like the name of a Bond film, but it’s one of Billy
Wilder’s finest cons, a thriller comprised of double crosses and shifty femme
fatales. Barbara Stanwyck steals the movie as one of cinema’s most delectable
bad girls, a reminder that as much as classic films repressed women, they
wrote real roles for them. Stanwyck might play the villain, but bad never
looked so good.
I can’t possibly put every movie on this list, but you’ve got three
more volumes ahead. In the meantime, what movies speak to you?
Which movies changed your life? Sound off in the comments.
Here are the 50 best movies of 2016.
50. Miles Ahead

Director: Don Cheadle
Director/actor Don Cheadle dismissed a pitch for a conventional biopic structure and instead
suggested making a film that captures the essence of Miles Davis’s spirit by bucking the biopic
form—a film in which, as Cheadle tells it, Davis himself would want to star. Everyone got on
board, so Cheadle proceeded to co-write, direct and star in what now amounts to a piece of Miles
Davis fan fiction: Miles Ahead is a caper film with a refreshing sense of creative authority,
chutzpah and goodwill. A musician in his past life, Cheadle makes a striking transformation in
his role, parading a crown of Jheri curls and straining and rasping his voice to the point that he
and Davis are indistinguishable. In that spirit, Miles Ahead is massively entertaining but guided
with a shaky hand, at times overly stylized and others stiflingly formulaic, a film whose quest for
innovation within its genre may have outpaced its ability to deliver. During a rehearsal scene,
Davis implores his band to “be wrong strong,” one of the many callbacks to Davis’s passion for
improvisation. If Cheadle meant to communicate the messy rebelliousness of jazz music, then he
succeeded through a messy rebellion of cinema. —Melissa Weller
49. The Prison in Twelve Landscapes

Director: Brett Story
Empathy is at the forefront in The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, director Brett Story’s masterful
collection of vignettes. There’s no central figure, Story instead using her snapshots of different
individuals to suggest something grander—namely, Americans’ inescapable entanglement with
their country’s prison system. There’s a cumulative power, a headlong rush, in watching one
vignette segue into another, the viewer trying to make connections between seemingly dissimilar
American portraits. Other filmmakers would mount a frontal assault on the classism and racism
rampant in the way we lock up so many people, but Story doesn’t want us to watch the usual
images and absorb the normal statistics. She’s asking us to see the dilemma in a new light, and
her powerful essay film never stops making us queasy—or, at the same time, alive with anger
and sorrow that the dilemma is being communicated so forcefully. —Tim Grierson
48. Men & Chicken

Director: Anders Thomas
We live in a wondrous world where a film which breaks box office records in Denmark
prominently features a chronic masturbator (the inimitable Mads Mikkelsen in his least
embraced role in a year in which he’s been part of every worthwhile blockbuster tentpole) and a
reasonable-sounding description of the logic behind certain forms of bestiality. In Men &
Chicken, Elias (Mikkelsen, mustachioed repugnantly) and his pecky milquetoast of a brother
Gabriel (David Dencik) share both a harelip and, upon trekking to a remote island estate where
they meet their estranged brood, the discovery that the foundations of their existences hinge on
a sort of nightmarish debauching of the basest tenets of life and love. What begins as a pitch-
black take on a Farrelly Brothers farce descends irrevocably into madness when director Anders
Thomas Jensen reveals—through a deeply unsettling mastery of tone—what the title of his film
really means. Jensen never once loses his sense of humor or penchant for gross setpieces as he
approaches trenchant, even transcendent ideas about what it means to be human. —Dom
Sinacola
47. Kate Plays Christine
Director: Robert Greene
This film operates under a fake conceit: actress Kate Lyn Sheil (who appeared in Listen Up
Philipand Queen of Earth) is preparing to star in a biopic about Christine Chubbuck, a Florida
TV journalist who committed suicide by shooting herself in the head on-air in 1974, and Robert
Greene will follow Sheil as she does background research for the project. But there actually is no
biopic being made; Greene and Sheil film intentionally cheesy-looking scenes from their bogus
movie, which are intercut with Sheil’s real conversations with Chubbuck’s former coworkers
and, in one particularly excellent scene, a local gun dealer.
Actress, about actress Brandy Burre as she prepares for a comeback after years away from the
business, dove deep into the ways our lives are actually just a series of roles—mother, daughter,
lover, young, old—and Kate Plays Christine is also captivated by our ability (and our need) to
create different guises. But this time, Greene wants to include us in his interrogation. The
documentary fixates on Chubbuck’s suicide—the footage of which has been locked away for the
last 42 years—but, more accurately, fixates on why an actress (or an audience) would want to
relive such a horrific, traumatic act. Kate Plays Christine builds and builds to a finale in which
Sheil must make the decision of how she will “perform” Chubbuck’s violent end, and while I
won’t reveal the resolution, it most forcefully asks the question so many documentaries this year
ponder: What are you looking at? —T.G.
46. Weiner
Directors: Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg
“Why did you let me film this?” This simple question, posed at the end of Josh Kriegman and
Elyse Steinberg’s Weiner, is as baffling to the movie’s subject as it is to everyone else. Anthony
Weiner gave a documentary crew incredible behind-the-scenes access to his 2013 New York
mayoral campaign while his political career crumbled and his personal life turned to a shambles.
If the filmmakers had an agenda besides studying Weiner’s character, they did a great job of
hiding it. Weiner shows many facets of his personality: He can be charming and funny, but he
can also be a petulant, entitled jerk. The veneer wears off as the stress mounts, making things
increasingly uncomfortable—it’s excruciating to watch this man try to salvage respect from
certain humiliation, but it makes for a devilishly intimate look into the madness of modern
politics. —Jeremy Mathews
45. Lamb
Director: Ross Partridge
Based on the novel by Bonnie Nadzam, Lamb opens on David Lamb (Partridge) as his life is
imploding. His marriage has just failed and his invalid father, whom we briefly see in a
neglected Chicago home-turned-hovel, soon passes away. Instead of earning sympathy, David
immediately proves to be an untrustworthy and unreliable protagonist. Despondent about his
father’s death and the tumult in his life, David turns his attention to an 11-year-old girl named
Tommie (Oona Laurence), a latchkey kid from a broken home. It may be easy to
compare Lamb to Lolita, but Partridge’s film is darker and more uncomfortable, devoid of the
comic undertones found in Vladimir Nabokov’s novel. Lamb toys with its audience, playing
mind games until the very last frame—and even after the credits roll, questions linger about
motive, about intention, about right and wrong. —Christine Ziemba
44. Miss Sharon Jones!

Director: Barbara Kopple
In 2013, Sharon Jones was diagnosed with Stage 2 pancreatic cancer—in itself a depressing
development, but not without a lot of optimism attached to the prognosis. Except for a by-the-
books opening segment, in which director Barbara Kopple seems to grind through all of her
blandest tendencies to make room for the grist of what’s important, the film filters Jones’s life
and career through her illness. We meet Jones’s band, the Dap-Kings, through that lens, getting
to know each musician in light of how their friend’s illness has unfortunately affected their
livelihoods. They have mortgages and alimony to pay, children to support, a record label to run.
That all of this, already precariously balanced due to the nature of the music-making business, is
so dependent on Jones’s health becomes a shadow hanging over every interview. When band
practices are occupied by 10+ people sitting patiently in a room waiting for Jones to get back
into her groove or helping the singer remember the lyrics to her songs, Kopple’s film is
heartbreaking, walking that tragic line between hopelessness and optimism, encapsulating so
clearly what it’s like to be close to someone who’s so sick.
But the real thrill of Miss Sharon Jones! is in its concert footage, Kopple letting Jones’s
performances, old and new, suffice as the best testament to the singer’s power and—
unbeknownst to anyone at the time, though the thought must have crossed their minds
incessantly—the most immediate eulogy we’ve got. If you ever had the chance to behold her on
stage, then you know how exhilarating she can be. If you hadn’t? Despite recent tragedy (Jones
succumbed to her sickness on November 18th), Kopple has some seriously life-affirming stuff
you need to see. —D.S.
43. 13th
Director: Ava DuVernay
Director Ava DuVernay has successfully made a documentary that challenges and even
dismantles our collective understanding of one of the most dangerous notions of our time:
“progress.” How do we define progress, and who precisely gets to define it? 13th is a captivating
argument against those who measure progress with laws that pretend to protect American
citizens and amendments, and even to uphold the Constitution. It is a deftly woven and defiant
look at how clauses within those amendments (specifically the lauded 13th) and the language of
our political system both veil and reveal a profound and devastating truth about America:
Slavery was never abolished here, DuVernay and the participants in the film argue. It was simply
amended, and it continues to be amended in 2016, with the constant evolution of the criminal
justice system. It’s a bold and terrifying statement to make, but in using a documentary instead
of, say, a narrative film, DuVernay is able to point directly to that history and to those people
who have defined “progress” for black Americans. In doing so, she draws a line directly from the
13th amendment, to today’s America, which has the highest rate of incarceration in the world.
Like some of the best documentaries of our time, 13th is not just a film, but a demand; it’s a call
to reject dangerous reiterations, specifically newer and newer Jim Crows. DuVernay’s work
doesn’t expressly name what we might build in their place, but it demands that those of us
watching resist the seduction of sameness disguised as slow progress, and imagine something:
actual freedom. —Shannon Houston
42. Operation Avalanche
Director: Matt Johnson
In Operation Avalanche, Canadian Matt Johnson plays American Matt Johnson, a CIA agent
who talks his way into an undercover gig at NASA, posing as a documentary filmmaker to report
back to the CIA Director the space agency’s progress on getting an astronaut onto the Moon.
When Johnson discovers that NASA is too far behind technologically to beat the Soviets to the
surface of the lunar rock, he concocts a plan to fake the landing, drawing inspiration from both
Georges Méliès and Stanley Kubrick. Shot as a handheld, faux-documentary glimpse into the
long process of what it could believably take to accomplish such a monster ruse, the film balks at
a requisite need to ever settle on one genre, skirting a (really funny) buddy comedy, light
procedural and bureaucratic farce before devolving seamlessly into bleak territory—though not
after an electrifying car chase shot with a budget that’d make the Duplass brothers cry—and
winding down to a smirking, if nihilistic, note. That Johnson and his crew actually snuck into a
NASA facility by posing as a documentary film crew fits perfectly within Operation Avalanche’s
opinion of how America writes its history: Ambition, not idealism, will always win in the end. —
D.S.
41. Hell or High Water

Director: David Mackenzie
David Mackenzie’s film gets the balance between genre and plot so right that, after a while, I
forgot I was watching a genre film and simply found myself immersed in the lives of these
characters. That is a tribute to not only the performances and Mackenzie’s direction, but also to
Taylor Sheridan’s screenplay, which finds seemingly boundless amounts of colorful human
detail and unexpected humor in what, on the surface, stands as a clichéd narrative. Hell or High
Wateris essentially a cops-and-robbers tale, with grizzled soon-to-retire veteran sheriff Marcus
Hamilton (Jeff Bridges) and his deputy, Alberto Parker (Gil Birmingham), going after a
brotherly duo of bank robbers: Toby (Chris Pine) and Tanner (Ben Foster) Howard. Sheridan’s
characters are so fully imagined that, combined with actors and a director sensitive to the
nuances in the script, we ultimately respond to them as flesh-and-blood people. But Sheridan—
who tackled the moral difficulties of the drug war with his script for Sicario—has even bigger
thematic game in mind. Hell or High Water is also meant to be a topical anti-capitalist lament,
being that it takes place in a west Texas town that looks to have been decimated by the recent
economic recession, with big billboard signs of companies advertising debt relief amid stretches
of desolation, and with Toby driven in large part by a desire to break out of what he sees as a
cycle of poverty for his loved ones, to provide a better life for his two sons and ex-wife. —Kenji
Fujishima
40. Nocturnal Animals

Director: Tom Ford
After A Single Man was (unjustly) criticized in some quarters for its preoccupation with surface
beauty, fashion designer-cum-filmmaker Tom Ford has returned with something ugly.
Aesthetically, Nocturnal Animals is still deliberately gorgeous, with its model-handsome actors,
designer costumes and career-high lensing by cinematographer Seamus McGarvey. It’s also a
film that presents two worlds—one real, one fictitious—in which people are compulsively,
perhaps inevitably, driven to do horrible things to one another. A revenge movie that features
only imagined violence, Nocturnal Animals is all the more uneasy for having a male “hero” who
seeks to mentally brutalize its heroine. This one feels personal for the filmmaker, a bundle of
ways to explore multiple anxieties: creative stagnation and infidelity; familial responsibilities
and loss of control; fear of failure and rejection. Each story thread comes with a different kind of
dread—though all of them are unified in their investigation of toxic masculinity. Male anger and
resentment drive this savage tale, a thriller as gripping as it is stomach-churningly frank. —
Brogan Morris
39. The Fits

Director: Anna Rose Holmer
It’s not difficult to imagine a different cut of Anna Rose Holmer’s The Fits that hews closer to the
arc of a traditional sports story. Hers has the makings of a familiar one, of a misfit who wants
more than anything to compete—but unlike most stories of inspirational audacity, The Fits is as
much about discomfort as the catharsis that comes with achievement. In it, Toni (Royalty
Hightower) is an 11-year-old who has more experience with stereotypically male pursuits like
lifting weights and punching speed bags than the usual interests of a pre-teen girl. She spends
nearly all of her time at the Lincoln Recreation Center alongside her boxer brother, Jermaine
(Da’Sean Minor), pushing her body to the limit. While she shows a remarkable aptitude for the
ascetical devotion required for boxing, she still dreams about competing on the dance team,
“The Lincoln Lionesses.”
Framed with a rigid sense of space by cinematographer Paul Yee, and backed by the groaning
score from veteran composers Danny Bensi and Saunder Jurriaans, The Fits is infused with such
dread that one can’t help but imagine that characters’ muscles and bones could break or shatter
at any moment. The film’s most explicit example of which may be Toni pulling off a temporary
tattoo, but The Fits is firmly a story of metaphysical body horror, an allegory about our greatest
fears of physical fragility shot brilliantly through a feminist lens. With that, the film manages to
reinvent the sports story as something both brainy and physically pure. —Michael Snydel
38. Kubo and the Two Strings

Director: Travis Knight
Kubo and the Two Strings operates in much the same way as any other Laika movie does, by
blending authentic sentimentality with equal parts dread, perception and excitement. It is often
scary, like 2009’s Coraline, though not quite as often or quite as much; it loves its genre
elements, like 2012’s ParaNorman; and it’s so oriented toward engaging our senses that we feel
as though we’re bystanders on the set, like in 2014’s The Boxtrolls. In Laika’s canon, it wouldn’t
be off base to describe Kubo and the Two Strings as “workaday.” This, philosophically, is what
we expect Laika films to be, and what we expect them to deliver on.
But the film is distinguished first with tweaks on old themes and the introduction of new ones,
and then with personality derived from its choice in setting. The film takes place in historical
Japan, or, more accurately, a fantastical version of historical Japan, but it doesn’t suffice to say
that the backdrop alone gives Kubo and the Two Strings its unique identity. Travis Knight and
his team have embraced their backdrop to the fullest extent and beyond, approaching each piece
of their mise en scène with a reverence that is at once hushed and pronounced. That speaks to
the level of the film’s refinement of craft, too: It’s more tactile even than its predecessors. Catch
a 3D screening and you’ll instinctively reach out to touch the film’s beautifully detailed
backgrounds. (Maybe you’ll shrink away from its array of supernatural hazards as well.) Kubo
and the Two Strings is better than immersive—it’s absorptive.—A.C.
37. The Witch

Director: Robert Eggers
Though The Witch ends as it must—not, it should be noted, with a “twist,” because the stakes
had already been set from the first moment we knew the titular monster to be real—it’s an
ending which, while resting on a striking final image, tips almost too readily into the
supernatural elements so much of the film tries for so much of its run-time to delicately avoid.
There is a goat named Black Philip, there is blood, there is the line you will quote for weeks after
seeing it. “Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?” It’s a fair question—because of course thou
wouldst. Because even if The Witch implies that the mortal fear to which its characters prescribe
in the face of such real evil makes plenty sense, Eggers still doesn’t buy that the puritanical
hysteria at the heart of America’s founding was anything reasonable. Why does this evil exist at
all? When the alternative is so dehumanizing, why doesn’t it?” —D.S.
36. Cameraperson
Director: Kirsten Johnson
Kirsten Johnson’s title for her latest documentary feature could not be any more nondescript.
And yet, the anonymity of that title points to perhaps the most remarkable aspect about this
film: its maker’s sheer selflessness, her devotion to her craft and her subjects, her seemingly
complete lack of ego. The film is pieced together from outtakes from the long-time documentary
filmmaker/cinematographer’s extensive body of work, but beyond occasionally hearing her voice
behind the camera (and one shot towards the end in which we finally see her face as she points
the camera toward herself), Johnson forgoes the safety net of voiceover narration to tie all this
footage together. The footage speaks for itself, and for her. Which is not to say that the film is
just a compilation of clips strung together willy-nilly. Johnson breathes an animating
intelligence into Cameraperson’s construction, employing a method that suggests a mind
processing one’s life experiences, contemplating the sum total of her work, veering off into
tangents whenever she happens upon a piece of footage that triggers broader reflections. It’s a
measure of Johnson’s overall humility that she is willing to be as brutally honest about herself
with the viewers in this way—and it’s that humility that ultimately makes Cameraperson such
an inspiring experience. —K.F.
35. Little Men

Director: Ira Sachs
In its gentle, compassionate way, the unassuming drama Little Men says as much about self-
preservation and mistrust as any hand-wringing, message-based movie. Director and cowriter
Ira Sachs uses a simple story about the friendship between two teen boys as a springboard to
address the myriad obstacles that keep people from different walks of life from seeing eye-to-
eye. Never smug in its observations and always fair to all its characters, Little Men leaves us
moved in an offhand, almost accidental manner. The film has all the breeziness of an ordinary
day, albeit one with gray clouds on the horizon. Little Men adeptly pinpoints the poisonous self-
interest that cuts us off from others, examining how being pragmatic and looking out for
ourselves undermines communities. —T.G.
34. Green Room

Director: Jeremy Saulnier
What’s perhaps most refreshing in Green Room is writer-director Jeremy Saulnier’s lack of
interest in the kind of moralizing that made his last film, Blue Ruin, ultimately seem
conventional. Instead, Saulnier simply presents us this scenario without feeling the need to lard
it up with anything as cumbersome as topical commentary or moral ambiguity. He proceeds to
wring as much tension and suspense from its pulpy retro plot as possible, adding a few
entertaining grace notes along the way, which can best be seen in its performances. In the
ensemble-based Green Room, Saulnier revels in the contrasts of personalities and styles: band
bassist Pat’s (Anton Yelchin) Bill Paxton-like desperation, for instance, set alongside the weary,
near-drugged-out deadpan of Amber (Imogen Poots), a friend of the woman whose murder sets
off the film’s violent chain of events; or the imperial calm of Darcy (Patrick Stewart), the
ruthless leader of the band of white supremacists who attempt to kill Pat, Amber and the rest.
It’d be a stretch to call these characters three-dimensional, but nevertheless, under Saulnier’s
writing and direction, they all manage to stand out just enough as individuals for us to become
emotionally involved in their fates. Meanwhile, Saulnier supports these characters and plot
turns with filmmaking that is remarkable for its economy and patience. D.P. Sean Porter gets a
lot of mileage out of the cramped quarters and grimy lighting of the bar, lending its wide (2.35:1)
frames an appropriately nightmarish feel amidst many suspenseful set pieces. In those ways, the
lean, mean Green Room stands as one of the best B-movie genre exercises in quite some time. —
K.F.
33. Midnight Special
Jeff Nichols’ fourth film continues a streak of smart, idiosyncratic genre tales that focus on
family matters. But in Midnight Special, he gets a little more cosmic, telling a very human sci-fi
story about a concerned father (Michael Shannon) trying to keep his boy (Jaeden Lieberher)
away from the Feds, who believe (correctly) that he has special powers. Midnight Special is the
sort of personal, ambitious mainstream film that seems to have all but evaporated from studios’
release schedules, which makes the fact that it was a commercial dud even more upsetting and
dispiriting. Maybe on home video people will have a chance to catch up with this emotional
drama, whose intimate contours and precise character work make it just as transporting on the
small screen. —T.G.
32. Sing Street

Director: John Carney
Sing Street spins art out of history, but you might mistake it for pop sensationalism at first
glance. If so, you’re forgiven. In sharp contrast to John Carney’s breakout movie, 2007’s sterling
adult musical Once, Sing Street aims to please crowds and overburden tear ducts. There’s a
sugary surface buoyancy to the film that helps the darkness clouding beneath its exterior go
down more easily. Here, look at the plot synopsis: A teenage boy living in Dublin’s inner city in
1985 moves to a new school, falls in love with a girl, and forms a band for the sole purpose of
winning her over. If the period Carney uses as his storytelling backdrop doesn’t make Sing
Street an ’80s movie, then the mechanics of its story certainly do. You may walk into the film
expecting to be delighted and amused. The film won’t let you down in either regard, but it’ll rob
you of your breath, too. —A.C.
31. Notfilm
Director: Ross Lipman
Some movies are the happy accident of mismatched collaborators who, against the odds,
produce a masterpiece forged in the fire of their creative clash. Then you have Film, a
misbegotten 1965 avant-garde short put together by famed playwright Samuel Beckett and
desperate-for-a-paycheck Buster Keaton. In the revelatory documentary Notfilm, director Ross
Lipman excavates this little-remembered curio, talking to everyone from cinematographer
Haskell Wexler to film historian Leonard Maltin to create a mosaic about celluloid, thwarted
ambitions and the reasons why movies still enrapture us after so many years. This is a gift for
film-lovers, even if you’re not a Film-lover. —T.G.
30. Things to Come

Director: Mia Hansen-Løve
In French director Mia Hansen-Løve’s films, nothing lasts. Life’s irritating fleetingness
dominates the proceedings, and her latest, Things to Come, takes this theme to its logical
conclusion, looking at the travails of an older woman (Isabelle Huppert) who watches one
element of her life after another get stripped away. The film’s power is its recognition that, no
matter how hard life gets, though, it just keeps going. (In fact, that’s what makes existence oddly
beautiful.) Huppert is marvelous in the role: Between this performance and the one in the far
spikier Elle, she’s made a compelling case for Actress of the Year, blending vulnerability and
defiance in inspiring ways. —T.G.
29. Right Now, Wrong Then

Director: Hong Sang-soo
Fans of Hong Sang-soo’s films can feel reasonably confident anticipating what to expect from
any new offering from the prolific South Korean writer-director: scenes of conversation in
restaurants, characters drinking and fumbling toward love, men who often act like dolts, plots
that sometimes repeat sequences with faint discrepancies. And yet, within these familiar tenets,
considerable rewards can flourish when Hong is feeling particularly inspired, which is especially
true with his latest film. The Hong trademarks are all there in Right Now, Wrong Then, but so is
a newfound optimism and romantic glow. Rarely has he been such a crowd-pleaser while also
being so bittersweet.
Ham (Jung Jae-young) is an art-house director in town to do a Q&A, but because he’s there a
day early, he’s looking for something to do. Checking out the sights, he meets Hee-jung (Kim
Min-hee), an aspiring painter who doesn’t know his work but knows his name. (Essentially,
she’s just impressed because he’s famous.) The first hour of the film, entitled “Right Then,
Wrong Now,” follows them over the course of a day as they get to know one another. The second
hour, called “Right Now, Wrong Then,” repeats the first half’s general outline, but with some
slight, meaningful revisions. Which hour you prefer of Right Now, Wrong Then will probably
say more about your philosophy on romance than it does about Hong’s. —T.G.
28. Evolution
Director: Lucile Hadžihalilovic
Hadžihalilovic’s gorgeous enigma is anything and everything: creature feature, allegory, sci-fi
headfuck, Lynchian homage, feminist masterpiece, 80 minutes of unmitigated gut-sensation—it
is an experience unto itself, refusing to explain whatever it is it’s doing so long as the viewer
understands whatever that may be on some sort of subcutaneous level. In it, prepubescent boy
Nicolas (Max Brebant) finds a corpse underwater, a starfish seemingly blooming from its
bellybutton. Which would be strange were the boy not living on a fatherless island of eyebrow-
less mothers who every night put their young sons to bed with a squid-ink-like mixture they call
“medicine.” This is the norm, until Nicolas’s boy-like curiosity begins to reveal a world of
maturity he’s incapable of grasping, discovering one night what the mothers do once their so-
called “sons” have fallen asleep. From there, Evolution eviscerates notions of motherhood,
masculinity and the inexplicable gray area between, simultaneously evoking anxiety and awe as
it presents one unshakeable, dreadful image after another. —D.S.
27. Last Days in the Desert

Director: Rodrigo García
In one of the most controversial scenes in Martin Scorsese’s landmark examination of the
duality of flesh and spirit, The Last Temptation of Christ, Jesus (Willem Dafoe) speaks to Judas
(Harvey Keitel) after addressing a fanatical crowd out for blood. He says, “I wanted to kill them,
but out came the word, ‘love’.” It’s a moment that’s been decried as blasphemy by some, but for
others it’s one of the greatest cinematic moments showing how a Christ figure reveals his limits.
It’s hard to be a god, or at least that’s what film has shown us for decades amidst various
interpretations of Jesus moping, questioning his own capacity for sin, for decency and for
having to shoulder the weight of the sins of our fathers. Rodrigo García’s Last Days in the
Desert is yet another exploration of the antagonistic relationship between temptation and some
kind of ultimate good, and it wouldn’t be a huge stretch to imagine that it takes Scorsese’s
infamous scene as a thematic foundation of sorts. Granted, García’s vision is anything but
transgressive, even if The Last Temptation of Christ is practically dogmatic compared to the
spiritual endurance test imagined by Last Days in the Desert. But both interpretations have a
refreshing openness to the purpose behind worshipping a God who demands so much pain and
suffering, as well as to an equally flexible view of the Devil. Though García’s film isn’t a new
perspective, that doesn’t mean it’s not moving, especially in bringing out the loneliness
underlying the messiah complex. And while so many interpretations of Jesus life are so
explicitly concerned with underlining his superhuman resilience, Last Days in the Desert is a
meditation about the moments between all that suffering.—M.S.
26. The Red Turtle
Director: Michaël Dudok de Wit
Wordless, The Red Turtle is an attempt to find new ways to communicate old truths—or old new
ways, ways that feel new but aren’t. There is one word in The Red Turtle, but its isolation
amongst the loud non-language of the rest of the film—the ever-present, somnambulant waves;
the fauna of the film’s tiny “deserted” island; Laurent Perez del Mar’s score, which itself feels
tuned to the natural rhythm of the world emerging within Michaël Dudok de Wit’s animated
film—makes us question if it is actually a word at all. “Hey!” our nameless main character yells,
otherwise carrying on a lifetime of subverbal communication, but it’s uttered so often amidst de
Witt’s carefully built soundscape that it’s not all that impossible for the director to convince you
there are no words in his film. Perhaps, a man of both Dutch and British descent, de Wit finds
language a barrier between the audience and the emotional breadth of his (admittedly pretty
archetypal) story, further inspired to ditch dialogue altogether by the film’s joint Japanese-
French funding, and by the fact that if there’s any feature-length cinematic medium more
forgiving of having no words, it’s animation. Consider that one simple example among many of
the film’s power: Just as The Red Turtle could make you doubt whether a word you’ve known
your whole life is actually that, so does it leave you with plenty of wonder—whether all animated
films could be so lovely, so careful, so obviously the work of one person who’s given his
everything to a single story because he might not have an opportunity to do so ever again. —D.S.
25. Arrival
Full disclosure—I’m not the biggest fan of science fiction. But this is the kind of science fiction I
can get behind, using the genre to explore larger issues in ways that are impossible outside those
bounds. This is science fiction along the lines of Contact, of Interstellar, of Inception, and at its
best, of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Arrival doesn’t scale the philosophical and spiritual heights of
that last film, of course, but it’s to his credit that director Denis Villeneuve even tries to get into
that range. The plot revolves around a linguistics expert (Amy Adams) trying to help decode the
language of aliens who have landed a dozen massive ships in various parts of the Earth. But that
plot is interwoven with a mysterious connection to a daughter she lost, and other unexplained
phenomena. Part of the fun is seeing the mysteries unravel, so I won’t go any further.
But Arrivalis certainly worth the experience if you like your sci-fi heady and pensive. And—need
it even be said?—Adams is fantastic in the lead role. —Michael Dunaway
24. Cemetery of Splendor

Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Deep into the enchanting Cemetery of Splendor, an assortment of fit-looking bodies get up, sit
down, join one another, walk away, split apart, ride bikes and trade seats, all without reason but
obviously with rhyme, as if, as a viewer, you’ve stumbled upon a reel of background footage with
the film’s main action cut out. Soon after, a sparkling shot of blue sky is calmly violated by a
giant amoeba—or not, because maybe the amoeba is normal size, because the perspective isn’t
clarified. And soon after that, a woman (Jenjira Pongpas) rises from an unperturbed nap,
unsure if she’s found her way out of the labyrinth of her dreams, or if she’s only woken into
another level of subconscious surreality. Meanwhile, a hospital of soldiers afflicted with a
mysterious sleeping sickness, who rest indefinitely under glass tubes used as part of an ill-
defined light therapy, rests indefinitely upon a sacred burial ground. At least that’s what the
modern manifestation of god-like princesses, come to life resembling the statues at the woman’s
favorite shrine, tell her. Such is the stuff of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s typical filmmaking
fodder, the Thai director not so much doing something radically different with Cemetery of
Splendor as just laying one more layer of fantasy upon his oeuvre, waiting with clairvoyant
patience to see if his characters, and by extension his viewers, will ever wake up—or if they even
want to. —D.S.
23. Christine
Director: Antonio Campos
Why did TV journalist Christine Chubbuck take her life on camera in 1974? The brilliance of this
Antonio Campos drama is that it tries to answer that question while still respecting the enormity
and unknowability of such a violent, tragic act. Rebecca Hall is momentous as Christine, a
deeply unhappy woman whose ambition has never matched her talent, and the actress is
incredibly sympathetic in the part. As we move closer to Christine’s inevitable demise, we come
to understand that Christine isn’t a morbid whodunit but, rather, a compassionate look at
gender inequality and loneliness. —T.G.
22. Elle
Director: Paul Verhoeven
Beginning with a rape scene, Elle is the latest nasty bit of business from director Paul
Verhoeven. It’s also one of his greatest films, exploring how the assaulted woman (Isabelle
Huppert) decides to turn the tables on her attacker. Darkly funny but also very astute about our
predatory, sensation-driven culture, this thriller upends societal hypocrisies—in particular, how
we all like to pretend we’re nice, normal people with no kinks at all—and gives Huppert one of
her best roles in the process. As the head of a videogame company that happily peddles gory,
shoot-’em-up games, she’s a lethal, amoral businesswoman whose personal tragedy doesn’t
cause her to even bat an eye. —T.G.
21. Swiss Army Man

Directors: The Daniels
It should be ridiculous, this. A buddy comedy built atop the premise of a man lugging around,
and bonding with, a flatulent, talking corpse—but cinema is a medium in which miracles are
possible, and many occus in Swiss Army Man. A film with such a seemingly unpalatable concept
becomes, against all odds, a near-profound existential meditation. That this is a debut feature
makes it even more of a marvel.
Even if Swiss Army Man’s reach to some extent exceeds its proudly ribald grasp, there’s
something strangely moving about the filmmakers’ sincerity. For all the increasingly absurd
gags about the utilities of Manny’s body—not just as a jet-ski propelled by bodily gas, but as a
giver of fresh water through projectile vomiting and even as a compass through its erection—
there’s not one iota of distancing irony to be found in the film. Dan Scheinert and Daniel Kwan
(a.k.a. the Daniels) are absolutely serious in their attempts to not only re-examine some of the
most universal of human experiences, but to also explore the idea of a life lived without limits,
casting off the shackles of societal constraints and realizing one’s best self. It’s a freedom that
the Daniels project exuberantly into the film itself: Swiss Army Man is a work that feels
positively lawless. Witness with amazement what bizarrely heartfelt splendors its creators will
come up with next. —K.F.
20. Jackie
Director: Pablo Larraín
It’s difficult to remember where Jackie begins, and where it ends. Even minutes after leaving it,
the moments that open the film and the moments that close it exist as diffuse notions rather
than solid, plot-shrouded happenings. We understand that, barely a week after John F.
Kennedy’s assassination, a conversation between Jacqueline Kennedy (Natalie Portman)
and Life journalist Theodore H. White (Billy Crudup, smugly zombified) frames the film, tacks it
to some semblance of spacetime—but the rest of Pablo Larraín’s biopic operates liminally. This,
most of all, the Chilean director understands: If the film is about grief, then the film must act as
grief acts. Unmoored and aimless, Jackie acts like a bad dream.
Of course, the black hole at the core of Jackie is the assassination, rendered in one graphic
image Larraín treats fairly. Throughout, the film hovers around the rim of this moment, and for
much of Jackie’s running time, that moment seems like it will never come. When it does,
though, it’s a relief we never realized we needed. Portman as Jackie pushes against the film’s
reveal of that tragic split-second, and the film pushes too, and at times you want the film to stop
pushing so much. This is grief, Larraín beautifully says—it is exhausting and relentless and dull,
and, most of all, selfish. Sorry the movie is that way too. —D.S.
19. Krisha
Director: Trey Edward Shults
You’ve seen the plot of Krisha before: self-destructive woman with a drinking problem goes to a
family gathering supposedly having made strides in putting her life back together, but finds the
tensions that arise testing her resolve to not go back to the bottle. Jonathan Demme explored
similar territory in his 2008 film Rachel Getting Married, and Trey Edward Shults’ debut film
does have a similar looseness to it, a feeling that anything can happen at any time. That,
however, is where the similarities end.
Whereas Demme’s film was warmly observational, Shults’ film aims for an expressionism that
imaginatively uses formal elements to invite us into the titular main character’s fractured
psyche. Krisha could be seen as cinematic family therapy: Shults’ way of dealing with what was
apparently a troubled home life. But you don’t need to know all that to appreciate the passion he
brought to this project. One can sense it in the film’s long takes and still setups, in the
alternation between montages of unnerving chaos and lengthy scenes of shattering
solitude. Krisha does more than announce a potentially major new talent; it shakes new, and
tragically devastating, energy into the dysfunctional family drama. —K.F.
18. Toni Erdmann

Director: Maren Ade
And now, a high concept comedy from the country that invented comedy, Germany, in which a
career woman’s ambition is pitted against her free-spirited dad’s waggishness. Maren Ade’s
third feature film is light on its feet and sick in its heart, a discontent story about the danger
capitalism poses to the human soul in our increasingly globalized corporate landscape. Its
indelible dryness belies both the anger that seethes beneath its cool exterior as well as its
cheeky, off kilter humor, defined in large part through awkward silences and bizarre but
childishly endearing pranks. You may walk away from Toni Erdmann wishing you had a father
who cared as much about your well being as Winfried Conradi (Peter Simonischek) cares about
his daughter Ines’s (Sandra Hüller). Alternately, you may be grateful that your sire doesn’t make
a habit of dressing up in big, inexplicable monster costumes that suggest the lovechild of E.T.
and Chewbacca. In either case, Toni Erdmann is a marvelous effort from Ade, a 162-minute film
that feels half as long and which makes classic parent-child reconciliation tropes feel new again.
It won’t necessarily leave you with the warm and fuzzies, but that’s okay: Happiness is, after all,
a very strong word. —A.C.
17. The Handmaiden

Director: Park Chan-wook
There are few filmmakers on Earth capable of crafting the experience of movies like The
Handmaiden so exquisitely while maintaining both plot inertia and a sense of fun. (Yes, it’s
true: Park has made a genuinely fun, and often surprisingly, bleakly funny, picture.) The film
begins somberly enough, settling on a tearful farewell scene as Sook-hee (Kim Tae-ri) is carted
off to the manor of the reclusive and exorbitantly rich aristocrat Kouzuki (Cho Jin-woong),
where she will act as servant to his niece, Lady Hideko (Kim Min-hee). But Sook-hee isn’t a
maid: She’s a pickpocket working on behalf of Fujiwara (Ha Jung-woo), a conman scheming to
get his mitts on Hideko’s assets. (That’s not a euphemism. He only wants her for her money.)
The reveal of Sook-hee’s true intentions is just the first of many on The Handmaiden’s narrative
itinerary. Park has designed the film as a puzzle box where each step taken to find the solution
answers one question while posing new ones at the same time. —A.C.
16. Love & Friendship

Director: Whit Stillman
The title of Whit Stillman’s latest comedy may be Love & Friendship, but while both are
certainly present in the film, other, more negative qualities also abound: deception,
manipulation, even outright hatred. Underneath its elegant period-picture surface—most
obviously evident in Benjamin Esdraffo’s Baroque-style orchestral score and Louise Matthew’s
ornate art direction—lies a darker vision of humanity that gives the film more of an ironic kick
than one might have anticipated from the outset. Stillman’s film is based on Lady Susan, a
posthumously published early novella by Jane Austen that, through a series of letters, chronicles
the efforts of the recently widowed Lady Susan Vernon (played in the film by Kate Beckinsale) to
get herself back into the comfort of the upper class by finding husbands for her and her
daughter, Frederica (Morfydd Clark). While the more panoramic Last Days of Disco offered
many different points-of-view to offset Charlotte’s scheming perspective, Love &
Friendship puts us more squarely in the headspace of this one cunning character who sees
people as little more than pawns in a chess game. It’s an uncompromising approach that is as
necessarily discomfiting as it is gleefully droll. Such honesty has always been a hallmark of
Stillman’s cinema, and even if Love & Friendshipfeels like more of a confection than his other
films, that frankness, thankfully, still remains. —K.F.
15. Knight of Cups

Regardless of how successfully the film explores the once-elusive director’s recently obsessive,
less universal themes like the banality of excess, Knight of Cups delivers on all things Terrence
Malick. The cinematography by Emmanuel Lubezki, who’s shot Malick’s last four projects and in
February picked up his third Oscar, opulently embosses the sterile vacuum of high-living in L.A.
One of the film’s most gratifying sequences has a dog underwater in a pool trying to retrieve an
eerily elusive tennis ball—you half expect “Scarborough Fair” to queue up on the soundtrack.
But what ultimately elevates Knight of Cups above Malick’s last film, To the Wonder, are the
performances. Wonder was left too much in the hands of Ben Affleck, an actor not known for
physical emoting. The ability to convey much while saying little is a rather crucial trait for any
actor serving as the protagonist in a Malick film, as they remain largely silent in the present
action while other players provide voiceovers explaining in teasing, arcane wisps the backstory
and dilemma du jour. Bale, so quirky and masterful in films like The Fighter and The Big Short,
has much greater carrying capacity (for lack of a better phrase) than Affleck, and he’s blessed
with a talented supporting ensemble. (The cast list has everyone from Fabio to Antonio
Banderas in it.) His Rick is far less appealing than Affleck’s homeboy, but Knight of Cups in turn
carries infinitely greater wonderment. —Tom Meek
14. Everybody Wants Some!!

Everybody Wants Some!! is intended to play like a spiritual companion piece to Linklater’s ’70s-
era Dazed and Confused, with the writer/director reveling in his turn-of-the-decade’s style and
swagger. Big lapels, bigger hair, even bigger facial hair and outright enormous egos are the norm
throughout this nostalgic saga. Boasting little in the way of plot, Linklater’s film is content to
sidle up alongside Jake (Blake Jenner) and his new friends to see where their appetites, whims
and libidos will lead. And its laid-back vibe pays dividends as it progresses, given that one-note
characters who initially appeared to be smug louts, hyper-gonzo wild cards, dim-bulb doofuses
or inane hillbillies slowly develop semi-distinct personalities of their own. Their days devoted to
slacking off, their nights spent trimming mustaches and dousing themselves in cologne before
hitting the town in search of the next woman to bed, Linklater’s play-hard-and-party-harder
characters are the embodiment of cocksure macho vitality, all of them rightly convinced that, at
least for the moment, they have the world by the balls. —Nick Schager
13. O.J.: Made in America

Director: Ezra Edelman
This installment in ESPN’s 30 for 30 series is its most obviously ambitious, transcending
superficial descriptions such as “entertaining” to get at something deeper, richer, truer—O.J.:
Made in America clocks in at seven-and-three-quarter hours, though it breezes by—but if you’re
conversant with the structure of earlier 30 for 30s, it’s also pleasingly familiar. The film
encapsulates 30 for 30 at its best: It’s endlessly riveting, smartly packaged and exceedingly
intelligent. And most important of all, the nearly eight-hour O.J. makes a pretty convincing case
to non-sports fans why the rest of us invest so much emotional energy into the exploits of men
playing children’s games. Sports are never just sports—they’re an extension of the race and class
issues we experience on a daily basis. O.J. Simpson symbolized something powerful in our
collective unconscious. And as this movie demonstrates, his fall from grace was partly ours. —
T.G.
12. Voyage of Time

For a dose of some real perspective on the incomprehensibility of the past couple
months, Terrence Malick’s Voyage of Time (the long version narrated by Cate Blanchette is
better than the Brad Pitt-voiced 60-minute cut) will reduce your ego to a sniveling speck.
Birthed from the 20-minute sequence splitting The Tree of Life in two, Malick partners
phantasmagoric CGI with digital footage of addicts scuffling amidst urban detritus and the Arab
Spring in medias res. It’s an overblown film, as big as its ideas, as audacious as it is beautiful,
saved by the clarity with which Malick puts no pressure on his audience to garner any sort of
agenda from the depths of the filmmaker’s philosophical mind. As the literal “Story of Our
Universe,” Voyage of Time is as pregnant or as bereft of salient ideas as you want it to be: Life is
symmetry; everything that rises must converge; consciousness destroyed the innocence of our
baser animal instincts; drugs are bad; whatever. If, in the wake of an election which revealed the
worst in American politics, writing about American film felt at its most futile, then we need the
cold shower of one of our greatest living American filmmakers to confirm that futility. “See,”
Malick says in each mythical narrative phrase and magnificent, cosmic visual, “You
really don’t matter.” —D.S.
11. Silence
The title of Martin Scorsese’s latest is loaded, at once a reference to God’s tendency not to reply
to the pleas and appeals of followers, a nod to the culture of secrecy maintained by Japanese
Christians during Japan’s Edo period and an acknowledgment of the state you’ll be left in after
watching. Silence isn’t an easy moviegoing experience—it isn’t an easy conversation point,
either, but that’s because it shouldn’t be. Scorsese knows it. Most likely Shusaku Endo, the
author of the text from which Scorsese adapted his film (and had sought to adapt since the
1990s), knew it too. Who is innocent in Silence? Who is guilty? If we can rule out Japanese
villagers put to death for their beliefs, and we certainly can, then that leaves culpability at the
feet of their spiritual and bureaucratic leaders, both at odds with one another while the faithful
remain suffering between them as priests and politicos treat them as fodder for proving the
illegitimacy of their opponents’ belief structures. The film’s complexity is expected from
Scorsese, one of the greatest living filmmakers of our time, but it’s also a reinvention in style, a
picture that both feels totally unlike anything he’s shot before and cannot be mistaken as
anyone’s but his. —A.C.
10. The Lobster

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
The Lobster opens with David (Colin Farrell) as he’s discovering his longtime lover is dumping
him. That would be painful enough, but in the world of this film, which is set in the near future,
the fact that he’s single means he has to report to a mysterious hotel out in the woods. Once
there, he’s informed that he has 45 days to find a new mate within the hotel’s crop of fellow
single people. If he doesn’t, he will be transformed into an animal by the hotel staff, banished to
live the rest of his days away from humanity.
It’s a funny, scary and slightly gonzo conceit, and one of the best things about it is that
Lanthimos and cowriter Efthymis Filippou don’t take it all that seriously. To be sure, The
Lobster has plenty of profound ideas, but they’re executed with a cheeky, sardonic lightness.
Even when the movie gets dark and suspenseful—and it most certainly does—Lanthimos
operates as if The Lobster is a tough-love satire. Dogtooth commented on the hell of family with
an exaggerated, worst-case-scenario stylization. For The Lobster, he’s pulled off the same trick
in an eviscerating dissection of the rituals around modern romance. —T.G.
9. Certain Women
Director: Kelly Reichardt
Silence speaks volumes in Kelly Reichardt’s films. In works like Old Joy, Wendy and
Lucy and Meek’s Cutoff, she has explored how people spend most of their day thinking, not
talking, and that perhaps those quiet moments can be as revealing of character as anything that
comes out of their mouths. (And, let’s not forget, even when we speak, we’re rarely saying
precisely what we mean.)
Reichardt’s less-is-so-much-more approach is again on display beautifully in Certain Women, a
series of three barely interconnected stories in which empty spaces are pregnant with meaning
and resonance. As usual with her films, Certain Women is so delicately but smartly constructed
that ecstatic reviews may give people the wrong idea about its greatness. Certain Women is
wonderful not because it’s some towering, imposing colossus, but because every small moment
feels thoughtfully considered, fully lived-in. Certain Women seeps into the skin and expands in
the mind. It leaves you shaken—even though nothing seemingly momentous has happened.
Reichardt treats cinema as a kind of meditation, which probably explains why her movies almost
never feature traditional endings. Lives are a process, not necessarily a destination, and
Reichardt honors her characters’ journey by letting it ebb and flow as it pleases. Like so many of
her films, Certain Women is muted and restorative. Suddenly, the real world feels too loud. —
T.G.
8. Paterson
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Like Chantal Akerman’s ascetic classic Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles,
Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson concerns itself with routine. The film conditions you to jive with its
particular rhythm, in part so you might feel the impact experienced by our hero when the
unexpected punctuates what’s regular in this average person’s life. Only, where Jeanne Dielman
depicted the day-in-day-out of working-class life as a monotonous horror show, Paterson takes
an altogether different tack. To Jarmusch, the everyday existence of blue-collar individuals like
bus driver-poet Paterson (Adam Driver)—whom we observe across a single week—is so simple
as to be near transcendent.
Paterson’s a classic nice guy, but Driver helps us realize there’s more going on beneath that
exterior that’s so cautious to offend. It’s a turn of minor gestures that lacks the obvious Best
Actor grandstanding to, say, win an Oscar, but rest assured Driver’s performance is one of the
most impressive given this year. As with Jarmusch’s beguiling film on the whole, once
acclimated, you continue to feel it long after you’ve left the cinema. —B.M.
7. One More Time With Feeling

Director: Andrew Dominik
If you’re a longtime fan of Nick Cave, if you’re a father or even if you just have some modicum of
human empathy, One More Time With Feeling is going to be a very, very hard watch. In 2015,
Cave’s 15-year-old son Arthur, under the influence of LSD, fell from a cliff and died—a tragedy
that pervades every note on Cave’s new album Skeleton Tree. Understandably reluctant to
publicize the album and subject himself to talking about the tragedy over and over, Cave agreed
to let his friend and collaborator Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James by the
Coward Robert Ford) film a documentary about the making of the record instead. Dominik shot
in the unusual combination of 3D and black and white, and as more than one reviewer noted,
the effect is ghostly. Which would be appropriate for any film about Cave, but especially this
one: It’s a devastating, gorgeous journey into a prolonged (permanent?) existential crisis. —M.D.
6. Loving
How well you like Jeff Nichols’ Loving, his second motion picture on 2016’s release slate, will
partially depend on what you look for in courtroom dramas. If you prefer judicial sagas made
with potboiling slickness and little else, you’ll probably like Loving less than Nichols likes
filming landmark legal proceedings. His film isn’t about the case of Loving v. Virginia as much
as its two plaintiffs, Richard Loving (Joel Edgerton) and Mildred Jeter Loving (Ruth Negga), the
married couple at the center of the 1967 civil rights victory over the United States’ anti-
miscegenation laws. As an effect of Nichols’ focal point, the movie speaks little to no lawyer
jargon and takes place almost entirely outside of the court rather than within.
So if you’re sick to death of courtroom dramas that insist on pantomime, and if you think those
kinds of stories demand more restraint, then you’ll probably dig on Loving. It so studiously
avoids the clichés of its genre that it feels fresh, original, a completely new idea based on a very
old, very formulaic one. It’s a disciplined, handsome, unfailingly serious screen reproduction of
an important real-life moment in the nation’s ongoing fight for civil rights; it’s hitting theaters at
a time when we’re still having cultural arguments about who gets to marry; and it’s directed by
one of the critical darlings of contemporary cinema. This is the kind of anti-prestige movie
critics yearn for, a product stripped away of non-artistic pretensions and ambitions, leaving only
the art. —A.C.
5. Manchester by the Sea

Director: Kenneth Lonergan
Loss and grief—and the messy, indirect ways people cope with the emotional fallout—were the
dramatic linchpins of writer-director Kenneth Lonergan’s first two films, You Can Count on
Meand Margaret. And so it is again with Manchester by the Sea, a movie with a grand scope but
an intimate story. An ambitious, practically novelistic exploration of the tragedies that have
greeted a blue-collar Massachusetts family, the film touches on themes that won’t be unfamiliar
to viewers, but Lonergan’s particular approach makes them unique, although not always
completely successfully. Still, Manchester by the Sea is a commanding, absorbing work in which
the sum of its impact may be greater than any individual scenes. As opposed to the intimate,
short-story quality of You Can Count on Me, Manchester by the Sea bears the same sprawling
ambition as Margaret, Lonergan draping the proceedings in a tragic grandeur that sometimes
rubs against the film’s inherently hushed modesty.
Casey Affleck as Lee Chandler is quietly magnetic as a man who can’t express himself at a time
when he really needs to step up and be the patriarchal figure. Lucas Hedges and Kyle Chandler
are also both quite good, their characters buried deep in the man’s-man culture of the East Coast
communities in which the film is set. But especially terrific is Michelle Williams as Lee’s ex-wife,
who has played haunted wives before, in Brokeback Mountain and Shutter Island. Here,
though, she really pierces the heart: Her character never stopped loving Lee, but her brain told
her she had to if she was ever going to move on with her life. In this film, she’s actually one of
the lucky ones.
Tragedies drop like bombs in Manchester by the Sea, and the ripple effects spread out in all
directions. The movie’s ending isn’t exactly happy, but after all the Chandlers have gone
through, just the possibility of acceptance can feel like a hard-earned victory. —T.G.
4. La La Land
Director: Damien Chazelle
La La Land’s exhilarating and nearly unflagging energy strives to inspire in viewers an equally
bold appreciation for all the things it celebrates: the thrill of romantic love, of dreams within
reach, of what we call “movie magic.” In this, Damien Chazelle’s follow-up to Whiplash, an
opening scene blooms into an ambitious song-and-dance number set in the midst of a Los
Angeles traffic jam. It’s there our protagonists, Sebastian and Mia (Ryan Gosling and Emma
Stone), will have a terse encounter foreshadowing their destiny as lovers, but not before a flurry
of acrobatic dancing and joyful singing erupts around them, as if heralding their own flights of
fancy to come. Cinematographer Linus Sandgren’s camera guides us through the excitement,
weaving and spinning among drivers who’ve left their cars to execute a stunning sequence of
choreography which appears to have been performed in a long, unbroken take.
The combination of song and visual is how Chazelle renders the joy of being in love and the way
love transforms the geography around those in its sway. Many of Sebastian and Mia’s scenes are
awash in pastels, swoony golden light and the deep purples of early evening. The key to the
impact and success of the musical sequences is Chazelle’s understanding that the fantastical
requires the mundane in tow. If we’re thrilled when we soar, it’s because we are usually
grounded, and Chazelle makes sure to show us enough reality—failed auditions and
performances, bitterness, blouses stained with coffee—to give La La Land’s musical numbers
surreal lift by way of contrast.
Stone and Gosling make all of Chazelle’s balancing worthwhile with realistic performances; their
musical segments are all the more transporting as they commit themselves to the old-fashioned
allure of Chazelle’s conceit. Gosling conveys an attractive air of cool (and appealing
vulnerability) without being self-satisfied. For her part, Stone endows Mia with sensitivity and
vitality that drive her to work past her self-doubt, to confront her lover when she sees him taking
the safe route in life. —Anthony Salveggi
3. The Other Side

Director: Roberto Minervini
Director Roberto Minervini has crafted a nonfiction narrative in the thick of the Louisiana
swamp, drawing on locals to tell a bifurcated story that both exploits liberals’ fears of what the
“other” America looks like and constructs a compassionate, clear-eyed account of those who are
being left behind economically and culturally.
Minervini’s film contains scenes that feel fly-on-the-wall, while others have clearly been
rehearsed and scripted. If he was trying to mock these people, that line between fiction and
reality might have been more uncomfortable, but The Other Side is actually a deeply empathetic
portrait. It obviously has its share of cultural dog-whistling—the whole movie could be a
cinematic illustration of the economically disenfranchised voters Obama was referring to in
2008 on the campaign trail when he said, “…they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or
antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as
a way to explain their frustrations”—but The Other Side brings this world to such vibrant life so
that we can see these people’s pain, and, perhaps, even understand the rage and violence
swirling around them. The Other Side has been made by an outsider who refuses to shy away
from other outsiders’ humanity. In an election year dominated by anger and disillusionment, the
movie isn’t some freak show but, instead, an incredibly moving, undeniably frightening
articulation of why so many in America want to blow the whole thing up and start all over
again. —T.G.
2. American Honey
Director: Andrea Arnold
Utterly absorbing and intensely moving, writer-director Andrea Arnold’s American Honey is
one of those big, bold, swing-for-the-fences societal portraits that few filmmakers dare attempt.
There’s good reason: Try for a definitive snapshot of a country or a generation, and you risk
overreaching or succumbing to pretension. Running nearly three hours, American
Honey doesn’t let those concerns get in its way, and the result is the sort of electric audacity that
paves over the movie’s occasional wobbles. With Red Road and Fish Tank, Arnold has looked
closely at poverty, youth and desperation in her native England. With American Honey, she
turns her attention to the United States, and what she finds is a vibrant, troubled, mesmerizing
land.
The film stars newcomer Sasha Lane as Star, who is caring for two young children (her
boyfriend’s, not hers), somewhere in the South. Dumpster diving, Star radiates the sort of
scrappy, raw energy that marks her as someone who’s never had much money and always had to
fight for everything she’s gotten. So, it’s fairly obvious why she takes a liking to Jake (Shia
LaBeouf), who drives by in a van with a group of young kids. Catching her eye, Jake is a fellow
charming survivor, explaining that he’s part of a group that travels cross-country selling
magazines door-to-door. Star can’t believe such an operation exists in the 21st century, but Jake
swears there’s decent money to be made. Impulsively, she abandons her makeshift family—her
boyfriend seems like a redneck cretin, anyway—and runs off to join another.
Lane steals the movie, this newbie projecting an almost feral vibrancy which makes her
character’s next move consistently unpredictable. One moment, she’s a real sweetheart, but then
her anger flares up, almost as if what’s upset her is actually connected to some hidden past
trauma. Cultivating her sex appeal, hoping for a place to belong, Star is looking for something
indescribable on this odyssey—she won’t know what it is until she sees it. The heartbreaking
beauty of American Honey is in its insistence that such a dream is anyone’s right. The United
States has often promoted itself as a place for second chances. All Star wants is any chance at
all. —T.G.
1. Moonlight
Director: Barry Jenkins
What’s remarkable about Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight is that it’s hardly remarkable at all. It’s
actually mundane, though its mundanity can be mitigated—or, really, delineated—via qualifiers:
buoyant, bitter, graceful, beautiful, harsh, coltish, doleful, vibrant. More to the
point: Moonlightis familiar. If you strip away its exterior particulars, you’ll be left with the bones
of a coming-of-age story. (And if you’re into fancy European labels, you might call that story a
“bildungsroman,” wherein the principal character’s emotional growth is traced over the course
of formative years, even decades.) Every film has a skeleton to support its
musculature. Moonlight’s just happens to look like Boyhood’s and The 400 Blows’.
Moonlight is painted with brushstrokes of silence: of Jenkins’ unobtrusive direction, of Chiron’s
mute trepidation, of his friends and caregivers, who speak to him in the knowledge that he’ll say
little and less to them in return (if he says anything at all). But rather than
make Moonlightinaccessible, silence opens it up. In film, silence is neither mortal nor venial
sin—it’s actually a virtue. Jenkins is fluent in silence and possesses an innate understanding of
how silent moments can communicate more than heaps of dialogue. It’s in glances that pass
between Little and his surrogate custodians, Juan (Mahershala Ali, damn near ubiquitous in
2016 and at his best here) and Teresa (Janelle Monáe), the stillness Chiron responds with when
in conversation with his chum-then-crush, Kevin.
Moonlight is nothing if not empathetic. But describing the film solely in terms of empathy is a
misguided oversimplification: All movies seek out empathy to degrees, after all, and
so Moonlightdoes what any human story on celluloid has to do. Jenkins opts for sensation in
favor of the sensational, eschewing flash and bluster while making old hat feel new again. Most
of all, he invites our empathy at the cost of our vanity. He leads us away from navel-gazing to see
the stunningly constructed drama he and his troupe have laid before us on screen. The film
encourages self-reflection, but not at the expense of either its narrative or the viewing
experience. That’s the surest sign of a deft cinematic hand. In turn, this isn’t simply Jenkins’
sophomore effort—it’s the defining pivot of his career. —A.C.

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