Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmate...
The Godfather
1972
Francis Ford Coppola
8.7
Drama, Crime
United States of America
175
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of blood...
The Godfather Part II
1974
Francis Ford Coppola
8.6
Drama, Crime
United States of America
202
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
The Green Mile
1999
Frank Darabont
8.5
Fantasy, Drama, Crime
United States of America
189
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's exec...
GoodFellas
1990
Martin Scorsese
8.5
Drama, Crime
United States of America
145
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
Fight Club
1999
David Fincher
8.4
Drama, Thriller
Germany
139
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975
Miloš Forman
8.4
Drama
United States of America
133
A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.
Once Upon a Time in America
1984
Sergio Leone
8.4
Drama, Crime
United States of America
229
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Gabriel's Inferno: Part II
2020
Tosca Musk
8.4
Romance, Drama
Unknown
106
Professor Gabriel Emerson finally learns the truth about Julia Mitchell's identity, but his realization comes a moment too late. Julia is done waiting for the well-respected Dante specialist to remember her and wants nothing more to do with him. Can Gabriel win back her heart before she finds lov...
The Silence of the Lambs
1991
Jonathan Demme
8.3
Crime, Thriller, Drama
United States of America
119
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have i...
Apocalypse Now
1979
Francis Ford Coppola
8.3
Drama, War
United States of America
147
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guer...
Paths of Glory
1957
Stanley Kubrick
8.3
War, Drama
United States of America
88
A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.
Shutter Island
2010
Martin Scorsese
8.2
Drama, Thriller, Mystery
United States of America
138
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.
The Help
2011
Tate Taylor
8.2
Drama
United States of America
146
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eug...
The Handmaiden
2016
Park Chan-wook
8.2
Thriller, Drama, Romance
South Korea
145
1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl, Sookee, is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress, Hideko, who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle Kouzuki. But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing ...
The Art of Racing in the Rain
2019
Simon Curtis
8.2
Drama, Romance
United States of America
109
A family dog – with a near-human soul and a philosopher's mind – evaluates his life through the lessons learned by his human owner, a race-car driver.
Witness for the Prosecution
1957
Billy Wilder
8.2
Drama, Mystery, Crime
United States of America
116
An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a socialite.
Call Me by Your Name
2017
Luca Guadagnino
8.1
Romance, Drama
Brazil
132
In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever.
Full Metal Jacket
1987
Stanley Kubrick
8.1
Drama, War
United Kingdom
117
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
Pride & Prejudice
2005
Joe Wright
8.1
Drama, Romance
France
128
A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a gentleman living in Hertfordshire with his overbearing wife and five daughters, but if he dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met, so the family's future happi...
There Will Be Blood
2007
Paul Thomas Anderson
8.1
Drama
United States of America
158
Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview'...
Metropolis
1927
Fritz Lang
8.1
Drama, Science Fiction
Germany
148
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Das Boot
1981
Wolfgang Petersen
8.1
Drama, History, War
Germany
150
A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.
Stalker
1979
Andrei Tarkovsky
8.1
Science Fiction, Drama
Soviet Union
162
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.
The Hate U Give
2018
George Tillman Jr.
8.1
Crime, Drama
United States of America
133
Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her truth.
Oppenheimer
2023
Christopher Nolan
8
Drama, History
United Kingdom
181
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
Trainspotting
1996
Danny Boyle
8
Drama, Crime
United Kingdom
94
Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he l...
Room
2015
Lenny Abrahamson
8
Drama, Thriller
Canada
118
Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.
Ford v Ferrari
2019
James Mangold
8
Drama, Action, History
United States of America
153
American car designer Carroll Shelby and the British-born driver Ken Miles work together to battle corporate interference, the laws of physics, and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford Motor Company and take on the dominating race cars of Enzo Ferrari at the 24 Hou...
Lion
2016
Garth Davis
8
Drama
Australia
118
A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
Casino
1995
Martin Scorsese
8
Crime, Drama
France
179
In Las Vegas, two best friends--a casino executive and a Mafia enforcer--compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.
The Iron Giant
1999
Brad Bird
8
Animation, Science Fiction, Family, Drama
United States of America
86
In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-old boy and ultimately finds its humanity by unselfishly saving people from their own fears and prejudices.
Society of the Snow
2023
J. A. Bayona
8
Drama, History
Spain
143
On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes.
Flipped
2010
Rob Reiner
8
Romance, Drama
United States of America
89
When Juli meets Bryce in the second grade, she knows it's true love. After spending six years trying to convince Bryce the same, she's ready to give up - until he starts to reconsider.
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
2022
Mark Gustafson
8
Animation, Fantasy, Adventure, Drama
United States of America
117
During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father's expectations.
Barry Lyndon
1975
Stanley Kubrick
8
Drama, Romance, War, History
United Kingdom
188
An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.
To Kill a Mockingbird
1962
Robert Mulligan
8
Drama
United States of America
129
Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected lawyer, defends a black man named Tom Robinson agains...
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948
John Huston
8
Adventure, Drama, Western
United States of America
126
Two jobless Americans convince a prospector to travel to the mountains of Mexico with them in search of gold. But the hostile wilderness, local bandits, and greed all get in the way of their journey.
The Wages of Fear
1953
Henri-Georges Clouzot
8
Drama, Thriller, Adventure
France
153
In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey.
Gone Girl
2014
David Fincher
7.9
Mystery, Thriller, Drama
United States of America
149
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.
