Movies by Lists - 151 Best Movies You Have Never Seen - Leonard Maltin (144 [151]) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| 15 MinutesA homicide detective and a fire marshal must stop a pair of murderers who commit videotaped crimes to become media darlings. | 2001 | John Herzfeld | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.1 (49.9K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| American DreamzA popular television music talent competition hosted by a pompous egomaniac becomes the setting for an assassination attempt when the President of the United States becomes a celebrity judge in an attempt to rehabilitate his image. | 2006 | Paul Weitz | Comedy, Music | 5.5 (25.2K votes) | 107 | 20240407 |
| Animal FactoryA young man goes to prison and a tough, older convict takes him under his wing as a mentor. | 2000 | Steve Buscemi | Crime, Drama | 6.6 (13.5K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Aurora BorealisA troubled young man struggling to right himself after the premature death of his father. | 2005 | James C.E. Burke | Drama, Romance | 6.7 (1.8K votes) | 110 | 20240407 |
| Baadasssss! [How to Get the Man's Foot Outta Your Ass]Mario Van Peebles' half-documentary/half-homage to his father Melvin Van Peebles' movie Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971). | 2003 | Mario Van Peebles | Biography, Drama | 7.3 (4.9K votes) | 109 | 20220315 |
| Ballad of Little Jo, TheAfter being thrown out of her home, a young woman decides to disguise herself as a man to survive the ruthless Wild West. | 1993 | Maggie Greenwald | Drama, Romance, Western | 6.7 (1.6K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Better Than SexAfter a one-night stand a couple is faced with the terrifying possibility of what they really want. | 2000 | Jonathan Teplitzky | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.3 (2.3K votes) | 95 | 20240122 |
| Big Hit, TheSocially anxious hitman Melvin Smiley, an expert in his lucrative field, goes on a job and falls in love with his kidnapping victim, turning his world upside down. | 1998 | Kirk Wong | Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 6.1 (29.7K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Blood and WineA man who has failed as a father and husband commits a heist to make money for his fledging business, but things become complicated when his wife interferes. | 1996 | Bob Rafelson (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.0 (9.9K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| BrickA teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend. | 2005 | Rian Johnson | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (104.7K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Brothers [Brødre]Two brothers must negotiate changing roles and shifting family dynamics when one is sent to war in Afghanistan. | 2004 | Susanne Bier | Drama, War | 7.5 (11.2K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| C.R.A.Z.Y.A young French Canadian, one of five boys in a conservative family in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging identity with his father's values. | 2005 | Jean-Marc Vallée | Comedy, Drama | 7.9 (32.5K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Career Girls2 young women reunite and rekindle their friendship after having said goodbye at their college graduation, six years earlier. | 1997 | Mike Leigh (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.1 (5.6K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| CasanovaThe fabled romantic Giacomo Casanova, after failing to win the affection of the Venetian woman Francesca Bruni, strives to discover the real meaning of love. | 2005 | Lasse Hallström | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.5 (53.6K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Chop ShopAlejandro, a resourceful street orphan on the verge of adolescence, lives and works in an auto-body repair shop in a sprawling junkyard on the outskirts of Queens, New York. In this chaotic world of adults, Alejandro struggles to ... | 2007 | Ramin Bahrani | Drama | 7.2 (4.5K votes) | 84 | 20220723 |
| Citizen RuthAn irresponsible, drug-addicted, recently impregnated woman finds herself in the middle of an abortion debate when both parties attempt to sway her to their respective sides. | 1996 | Alexander Payne | Comedy, Drama | 7.0 (8.1K votes) | 106 | 20220414 |
| Ciudad, La - the CityThe stories of four Hispanic immigrants living in New York City. | 1998 | David Riker | Drama | 7.2 (370 votes) | 88 | 20220822 |
| Connie and CarlaA mob mix-up in Chicago sends two chanteuses screaming for L.A., where they score a perfect gig: posing as drag queens on the dinner theater/cabaret circuit. Things get extra-weird when a guy falls for one of the girls. | 2004 | Michael Lembeck | Comedy, Crime, Music | 6.2 (8.3K votes) | 98 | 20220414 |
| CriminalTwo con artists try to swindle a currency collector by selling him a counterfeit copy of an extremely rare currency bill. | 2004 | Gregory Jacobs | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.4 (10.4K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| CrushThree 40-something women in a small English town meet weekly for a ritual of gin, cigarettes, and sweets -- and swap stories arguing which of them has the most pathetic love life. Kate is the headmistress at the local school; her ... | 2001 | John McKay | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 5.7 (4K votes) | 108 | 20240407 |
| Dark DaysA cinematic portrait of the homeless population who live permanently in the underground tunnels of New York City. | 2000 | Marc Singer | Documentary | 7.8 (6.8K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Days of Glory [Indigènes]During World War II, four North African men enlist in the French army to liberate that country from German oppression, and to fight French discrimination. | 2006 | Rachid Bouchareb | Action, Drama, War | 7.0 (15.1K votes) | 120 | 20240407 |
| Dead Girl, TheThe clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated people begin to intersect. | 2006 | Karen Moncrieff | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.6 (15.1K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Delay Line [Linia opózniajaca z cyklu 'Opowiesci weekendoTwo young boys, both social outcasts in their small town, form an unlikely friendship. | 1998 | Peter Chelsom | Comedy, Drama | 7.3 (12.9K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Devil's Backbone, The [El espinazo del diablo]After Carlos - a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War - arrives at an ominous boys' orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets which he must uncover. | 2001 | Guillermo del Toro (*) | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 7.4 (64.6K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Diamond MenA thirty-years traveling diamond salesman must mentor a brash young replacement when his company downsizes him. | 2000 | Dan Cohen | Drama | 6.9 (1.8K votes) | 100 | 20230806 |
| DickAfter wandering off during a White House tour, two high school girls inadvertently become Richard Nixon's top secret advisers at the height of the Watergate scandal. | 1999 | Andrew Fleming | Comedy | 6.2 (21.1K votes) | 94 | 20231207 |
| Dinner Game, The [Le diner de Cons]A few friends have a weekly fools' dinner, where each brings a fool along. Pierre finds a champion fool for next dinner. Surprise. | 1998 | Francis Veber | Comedy | 7.7 (40.7K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Dinner RushAt a popular NYC Italian restaurant on a dramatic, busy evening, there are 2 gangsters, cop detective, food-critic, ex bookmaker owner, his chef son, indebted gambler sous-chef etc. | 2000 | Bob Giraldi | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.3 (5.2K votes) | 99 | 20220723 |
| Dish, TheA remote Australian community, populated by quirky characters, plays a key role in the first Apollo moon landing. | 2000 | Rob Sitch | Comedy, Drama, History | 7.2 (16.1K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Door in the Floor, TheA writer's young assistant becomes both pawn and catalyst in his boss's disintegrating household. | 2004 | Tod Williams | Comedy, Drama | 6.6 (16.2K votes) | 111 | 20240316 |
| Driving LessonsA coming of age story about a shy teenage boy trying to escape from the influence of his domineering mother. His world changes when he begins to work for a retired actress. | 2006 | Jeremy Brock | Comedy, Drama | 6.6 (10.9K votes) | 98 | 20221116 |
| Duck Season [Temporada de patos]Flama and Moko are fourteen years old; they have been best friends since they were kids. They have everything they need to survive yet another boring Sunday: an apartment without parents, videogames, porn magazines, soft drinks an... | 2004 | Fernando Eimbcke | Comedy, Drama | 7.2 (4.6K votes) | 90 | 20240407 |
| East Is EastIn early 1970s England, a Pakistani father finds the authority he has previously maintained challenged by his increasingly Anglicized children. | 1999 | Damien O'Donnell | Comedy, Drama | 6.9 (19.8K votes) | 96 | 20231101 |
| Everything Put TogetherThe story of a Californian couple expecting a child and their group of friends confronted with the tragedy of a big loss. | 2000 | Marc Forster | Drama | 6.1 (813 votes) | 87 | 20240407 |
| Fast, Cheap and Out of ControlAn exploration of the careers of four unrelated professionals: a lion tamer, a robotics expert, a topiary gardener, and a naked mole rat specialist. | 1997 | Errol Morris (*) | Documentary | 7.2 (3.8K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Find Me GuiltyIn the late 1980s, a low level gangster named Jackie DiNorscio defends himself in court in what became the longest criminal trial in American judicial history. | 2006 | Sidney Lumet (*) | Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama | 7.0 (34.1K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| FirelightA governess agrees to bear a child to help her father. | 1997 | William Nicholson | Drama, Romance | 7.2 (4.8K votes) | 103 | 20240407 |
| FollowingA young writer who follows strangers for material meets a thief who takes him under his wing. | 1998 | Christopher Nolan (*) | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.5 (91.4K votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| Gilles' Wife [La Femme de Gilles]Gilles' wife, Elise, who smiles when she thinks of him, cooks and scrubs and cheerfully makes love to him, suspects during her third pregnancy that he is having an affair with her coquettish younger sister, Victorine. Elise suffers, | 2004 | Frédéric Fonteyne | Drama | 6.7 (859 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Going In StyleThree friends living on the dole decide to rob a bank. | 1979 | Martin Brest (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 7.1 (3.2K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Great Buck Howard, TheA young man, much to the chagrin of his father, becomes the new assistant to an illusionist in decline. | 2008 | Sean McGinly | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 6.4 (14K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Greatest Game Ever Played, TheIn the 1913 U.S. Open, twenty-year-old Francis Ouimet played golf against his idol, 1900 U.S. Open champion, Englishman Harry Vardon. | 2005 | Bill Paxton | Biography, Drama, Sport | 7.4 (32.9K votes) | 120 | 20231207 |
| Hard Word, The3 brothers are in and out of prison in connection with heists planned by their lawyer et al. He gets them out for the heists and ""looks after"" the money and one's wife. | 2002 | Scott Roberts | Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.0 (3.8K votes) | 102 | 20220822 |
| Harmonists, The [Comedian Harmonists]The film chronicles the rise and fall of Germany's most famous a capella group, the Comedian Harmonists, in 1930s Germany. | 1997 | Joseph Vilsmaier | Biography, Drama, Music | 7.2 (3.4K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Hedwig and the Angry InchA gender-queer punk-rock singer from East Berlin tours the U.S. with her band as she tells her life story and follows the former lover/band-mate who stole her songs. | 2001 | John Cameron Mitchell | Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical | 7.7 (35K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| HidalgoIn 1890, a down-and-out cowboy and his horse travel to Arabia to compete in a deadly cross desert horse race. | 2004 | Joe Johnston | Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, Sport, Western | 6.7 (80.6K votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| Home at the End of the World, AA boy who has experienced many losses in his life grows to manhood and enters into a love triangle with a woman and his boyhood friend. | 2004 | Michael Mayer | Drama, Romance | 6.7 (13.5K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| House of Sand [Casa de Areia]A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of her life hopelessly trying to escape it. | 2005 | Andrucha Waddington | Drama | 7.3 (3.2K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| How To Lose Friends & Alienate PeopleA British writer struggles to fit in at a high-profile magazine in New York City. | 2008 | Robert B. Weide | Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.4 (69.1K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| I Served the King of England [Obsluhoval jsem anglického krále]A look at the glamorous life at an old-world Prague hotel. | 2006 | Jirí Menzel | Comedy, Drama, Romance, War | 7.4 (7.7K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| IdiocracyPrivate Joe Bauers, a decisively average American, is selected as a guinea pig for a top-secret hibernation program but is forgotten, awakening to a future so incredibly moronic he's easily the most intelligent person alive. | 2006 | Mike Judge | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.6 (156.7K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Innocent BloodMarie is a vampire with a thirst for bad guys. When she fails to properly dispose of one of her victims, a violent mob boss, she bites off more than she can chew and faces a new, immortal danger. | 1992 | John Landis (*) | Action, Comedy, Crime, Horror, Romance | 6.2 (10K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| IntermissionA variety of losers in Dublin have harrowingly farcical intersecting stories of love, greed and violence. | 2003 | John Crowley | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.8 (16.5K votes) | 105 | 20240222 |
| Island in the SkyA C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastes of Quebec, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while waiting for rescue. | 1953 | William A. Wellman (*) | Adventure, Drama | 6.8 (3.8K votes) | 109 | 20240303 |
| JuliaA woman tries to extort money, using a young boy as bait. | 2008 | Erick Zonca | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.0 (6.9K votes) | 144 | 20240210 |
| Keeping MumA pastor preoccupied with writing the perfect sermon fails to realize that his wife is having an affair, and his children are up to no good. | 2005 | Niall Johnson | Comedy, Crime | 6.8 (34.3K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Kill Me LaterA suicidal loan officer is about to jump off the bank roof after seeing her lover/boss's pregnant wife, when a bank robber grabs her as hostage. She helps him escape. | 2001 | Dana Lustig | Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.1 (2.4K votes) | 89 | 20240407 |
| King of CaliforniaAn unstable dad who after getting out of a mental institution tries to convince his daughter that there's Spanish gold buried somewhere under suburbia. | 2007 | M. Cahill | Comedy, Drama | 6.6 (23K votes) | 93 | 20220822 |
| King of Masks, The [Bian Lian]Wang Bianlian is an aging street performer known as the King of Mask for his mastery of Sichuan Change Art in a true story. His wife left him with and infant son over 30 years ago. The son died from illness at age 10. This left Wang | 1996 | Tian-Ming Wu | Drama | 7.7 (3.3K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| King of the HillA young boy struggles on his own in a run-down hotel after his parents and younger brother are separated from him in 1930s Depression-era Midwest. | 1993 | Steven Soderbergh (*) | Drama, History | 7.4 (8.2K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| KontrollA tale about a strange young man, Bulcsú, the fellow inspectors on his team, all without exception likable characters, a rival ticket inspection team and racing along the tracks - and a tale about love. | 2003 | Nimród Antal | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 7.6 (25.3K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| La PromesseRoger uses his son Igor to ruthlessly traffic and exploit undocumented immigrants. When one of the immigrants is killed, Igor is guilt-ridden and wants to care for the dead man's family against his father's orders. | 1996 | Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne | Drama | 7.8 (7.8K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Lady For A DayA gangster tries to make Apple Annie, the Times Square apple seller, a lady for a day. | 1933 | Frank Capra (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.4 (4.1K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Last Shot, TheA movie director-screenwriter finds a man to finance his latest project but soon discovers that the producer is actually an undercover FBI agent working on a mob sting operation. | 2004 | Jeff Nathanson | Comedy, Romance | 5.7 (4.4K votes) | 93 | 20240407 |
| Lawless HeartThree intersecting stories about people whose lives are affected by the death of a gay restaurateur. | 2001 | Tom Hunsinger, Neil Hunter | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.7 (1.4K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| LevityAfter two decades in prison for murder, a man is released on parole and returns to his hometown seeking redemption. | 2003 | Ed Solomon | Crime, Drama | 6.4 (6.7K votes) | 100 | 20240407 |
| Little Lili [La petite Lili]A group of cinematic spend a holiday in the French countryside. The film provides insight in their relationships, including that between a young man and a local girl, Lili. She uses the opportunity to work her way into the cinematic | 2003 | Claude Miller | Drama, Romance | 6.2 (1.7K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Look Both WaysDuring one unusually hot and tragic weekend, four people struggle after hearing some life-changing news, this in turn brings them together. | 2005 | Sarah Watt | Drama, Mystery, Romance | 6.9 (3K votes) | 100 | 20220414 |
| Lookout, TheChris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in | 2007 | Scott Frank | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.0 (58.2K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Love and Death on Long IslandGiles De'Ath (Sir John Hurt) is a widower who doesn't like anything modern. He goes to movies and falls in love with movie star Ronnie Bostock (Jason Priestly). He then investigates everything about the movie and Ronnie. After that, | 1997 | Richard Kwietniowski | Comedy, Drama | 6.9 (3.9K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Mad MoneyThree female employees of the Federal Reserve plot to steal money that is about to be destroyed. | 2008 | Callie Khouri | Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 5.9 (22.8K votes) | 104 | 20240407 |
| Maltese Falcon, The [Dangerous Woman]A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette known as the Maltese Falcon. | 1931 | Roy Del Ruth | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 6.9 (2.9K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Man from Elysian Fields, TheA failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer. | 2001 | George Hickenlooper | Drama, Romance | 6.6 (4.4K votes) | 106 | 20230806 |
| Man Push CartA night in the life of a former Pakistani rock star who now sells coffee from his push cart on the streets of Manhattan. | 2005 | Ramin Bahrani | Drama | 7.0 (3.6K votes) | 87 | 20231001 |
| Marvin's RoomAfter seventeen years, a fiercely independent woman and her rebellious son return home and together they turn the family she left behind upside down. | 1996 | Jerry Zaks | Drama | 6.7 (30K votes) | 98 | 20240407 |
| Matador, TheA globetrotting hitman and a crestfallen businessman meet in a hotel bar in Mexico City in an encounter that draws them together in a way neither expected. | 2005 | Richard Shepard | Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 6.7 (44.8K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Matchstick MenA phobic con artist and his protégé are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the former's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly. | 2003 | Ridley Scott (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.3 (128.9K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| MatewanA labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company. | 1987 | John Sayles (*) | Drama, History | 7.9 (7.9K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Maybe BabyA comedy about a couple (Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson) who are trying to conceive a child. | 2000 | Ben Elton, Hugh Laurie | Comedy, Romance | 5.7 (5.9K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Merry Gentleman, TheA woman leaves an abusive husband to start a new life in Chicago, where she befriends a man undergoing an emotional crisis, who she does not know is a professional killer, and a detective, who is investigating the hit man. | 2008 | Michael Keaton | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.4 (3.1K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| MetrolandThe sudden reappearance of his best friend Toni, after a ten year absence, causes Chris to remember his past, to question some of his lifestyle decisions and to re-evaluate his life and marriage to Marion. | 1997 | Philip Saville | Comedy, Drama | 6.4 (3.3K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Midnight Clear, AThe Ardennes Forest, December 1944. A squad of six US infantrymen is sent to occupy a house to use as an observation post as the German Army is expected to advance through that area. However, the Germans seem oddly friendly. | 1992 | Keith Gordon | Drama, War | 7.1 (9.1K votes) | 108 | 20220723 |
| MillionsEthics, being human and the soul come to the fore when a 7-year old finds a bag of Pounds just days before the currency is switched to Euros and learns what we are really made of. | 2004 | Danny Boyle (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Family | 6.9 (25.4K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| MirrorMaskIn a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a fifteen-year-old girl must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get home. | 2005 | Dave McKean | Adventure, Fantasy | 6.8 (22.8K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| MoonlightingA Polish contractor, Nowak, leads a group of workmen to London so they can provide cheap labor for a government official based there. Nowak (Irons) has to manage the project and the men as they encounter the tempations of the West an | 1982 | Jerzy Skolimowski | Drama | 7.5 (2.8K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Mountains of the MoonThe legendary true-story of Capt. Richard Francis Burton and Lt. John Hanning Speke's tumultuous expedition to find the source of the Nile river. | 1990 | Bob Rafelson (*) | Adventure, Drama, History, Mystery | 7.2 (3.7K votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| Mrs. Palfrey at the ClaremontAll but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer. | 2005 | Dan Ireland | Comedy, Drama | 7.6 (3.3K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| My First MisterA 17-year-old girl has a troubled relationship with a 49-year-old man. | 2001 | Christine Lahti | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.2 (5.6K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Mystere Picasso, LeA filmed record of Pablo Picasso painting numerous canvases for the camera, allowing us to see his creative process at work. | 1956 | Henri-Georges Clouzot (*) | Documentary, Biography, History | 7.6 (2.5K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| Nine LivesCaptives of the very relationships that define and sustain them, nine women resiliently meet the travails and disappointments of life. | 2005 | Rodrigo García | Drama | 6.7 (6.8K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Nothing But The TruthIn Washington, D.C., a reporter faces a possible jail sentence for outing a CIA agent and refusing to reveal her source. | 2008 | Rod Lurie | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (39.2K votes) | 108 | 20230806 |
| October SkyThe true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes. | 1999 | Joe Johnston | Biography, Drama, Family | 7.8 (88.3K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Off the MapAn eleven-year-old girl watches her father come down with a crippling depression. Over one summer, she learns answers to several mysteries, and comes to terms with love and loss. | 2003 | Campbell Scott | Drama | 7.2 (3.3K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Once Were WarriorsA family descended from Maori warriors is bedeviled by a violent father and the societal problems of being treated as outcasts. | 1994 | Lee Tamahori | Crime, Drama | 7.9 (33.4K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| One Fine DayThe lives of two strangers and their young children unexpectedly intersect on one hectic, stressful day in New York City. | 1996 | Michael Hoffman | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.5 (47.8K votes) | 108 | 20231013 |
| Owning MahownyA bank manager with: (a) a gambling problem and (b) access to a multimillion dollar account gets into a messy situation. Based on the story of the largest one-man bank fraud in Canadian history. | 2003 | Richard Kwietniowski | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.1 (13.3K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Painted Veil, TheA British medical doctor fights a cholera epidemic in a small Chinese village, while being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife. | 2006 | John Curran | Drama, Romance | 7.5 (91.9K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Paradise NowTwo childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. | 2005 | Hany Abu-Assad | Crime, Drama, Thriller, War | 7.4 (24.1K votes) | 91 | 20240407 |
| Peter's FriendsSix former college friends, with two new friends, gather for a New Year's Eve weekend reunion at a large English countryside manor after ten years to reminisce about the good times now long gone. | 1992 | Kenneth Branagh | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (11.2K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Phoebe In WonderlandConfounded by her clashes with the seemingly rule-obsessed world, a troubled young girl seeks enlightenment from her unconventional drama teacher. | 2008 | Daniel Barnz | Drama | 7.1 (7.8K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Pledge, TheA retiring police detective pledges to catch the killer of a young child. | 2001 | Sean Penn | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.8 (56.7K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Priceless [Hors de prix]Jean, a shy waiter who works at a high-end hotel, is mistaken for a young millionaire by the beautiful and intriguing fortune hunter Irene. | 2006 | Pierre Salvadori | Comedy, Romance | 7.0 (32.9K votes) | 106 | 20231001 |
| Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, TheIn order to support her ten children, Evelyn Ryan enters a commercial jingle-writing contest. | 2005 | Jane Anderson | Biography, Drama | 7.3 (7.4K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Queen of HeartsAn Italian couple defy both their families and marry for love. Four children later, they are running a diner in England. Humorous, dramatic, sad -- everything a movie should be. | 1989 | Jon Amiel | Comedy | 6.7 (545 votes) | 112 | 20240407 |
| QuinceañeraAs Magdalena's 15th birthday approaches, her simple, blissful life is complicated by the discovery that she's pregnant. Kicked out of her house, she finds a new family with her great-granduncle and gay cousin. | 2006 | Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland | Drama | 6.9 (4.3K votes) | 90 | 20240407 |
| Raising Victor VargasA Lower East Side teen-ager struggles to find some sanity while surrounded by an eccentric grandmother, a crazy new girlfriend, and a longing younger brother. | 2002 | Peter Sollett | Drama, Romance | 7.2 (5.7K votes) | 88 | 20240407 |
| Resurrecting The ChampUp-and-coming sports reporter rescues a homeless man ("Champ") only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect Champ's story and escape the shadow of his | 2007 | Rod Lurie | Drama, Sport | 6.7 (20.6K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| ResurrectionA woman enters the afterlife briefly after a car crash that kills her husband. But she survives - and finds herself possessing strange powers. | 1980 | Daniel Petrie | Drama, Fantasy | 7.3 (2.9K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Safe Men2 bad singers are mistaken for top safe-crackers at a bar. A gangster boss orders them to break into 3 safes or else.. | 1998 | John Hamburg | Comedy, Crime | 5.9 (3.3K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| ScarecrowAn ex-con drifter with a penchant for brawling is amused by a homeless ex-sailor, so they partner up as they head east together. | 1973 | Jerry Schatzberg | Drama | 7.3 (16.8K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Seven Men from NowA former sheriff blames himself for his wife's death during a Wells Fargo robbery and vows to track down and kill the seven men responsible. | 1956 | Budd Boetticher | Western | 7.4 (5.3K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| ShadowboxerWhen an assassin is diagnosed with terminal cancer, she decides to carry out one final killing, assisted by her lover and stepson, Mikey. | 2005 | Lee Daniels | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.5 (6.8K votes) | 93 | 20221116 |
| Something NewKenya McQueen, an accountant finds love in the most unexpected place when she agrees to go on a blind date with Brian Kelly, a sexy and free-spirited landscaper. | 2006 | Sanaa Hamri | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.6 (14.3K votes) | 99 | 20231013 |
| Son of RambowDuring a long English summer in the early 1980s, two schoolboys from differing backgrounds set out to make a film inspired by First Blood (1982). | 2007 | Garth Jennings | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family | 7.0 (31.6K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| SongcatcherAfter being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who runs a struggling rural school in Appalachia. There she stumbles upon the disco... | 2000 | Maggie Greenwald | Drama, Music | 7.3 (3.7K votes) | 109 | 20240407 |
| Spring ForwardAn ex convict befriends an elderly coworker as they both try to find meaning in life and forgiveness for their past. | 1999 | Tom Gilroy | Drama | 7.5 (1.5K votes) | 110 | 20240407 |
| Starting Out in the EveningAn ambitious graduate student convinces a writer that her thesis can resurrect his career. | 2007 | Andrew Wagner | Drama, Romance | 6.9 (3.3K votes) | 111 | 20240407 |
| State of the UnionAn industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels. | 1948 | Frank Capra (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.3 (3.8K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Steel Helmet, TheA ragtag group of American stragglers battles against superior Communist troops in an abandoned Buddhist temple during the Korean War. | 1951 | Samuel Fuller (*) | Action, Drama, War | 7.4 (4.3K votes) | 85 | 20220731 |
| Still CrazyFame, fortune and fornication drove the British rock band in the '70s until a divine end. 20 years later, Strange Fruit reunites and goes on a tour with ups and downs on the continent. | 1998 | Brian Gibson | Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance | 7.0 (8.1K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Sweet LandIn 1920, Inge, a German national, travels from Norway to rural Minnesota for her arranged marriage to Olaf, a Norwegian farmer; bureaucracy and prejudice cause major complications. | 2005 | Ali Selim | Drama, Romance | 7.1 (3.9K votes) | 110 | 20220731 |
| Tao of Steve, TheUnderachieving, overweight kindergarten teacher Dex finds a woman who forces him to reexamine his Zen-like system of seduction. | 2000 | Jenniphr Goodman | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.7 (7.8K votes) | 87 | 20240407 |
| Taste of Cherry [Ta'm e guilass]An Iranian man drives his truck in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide. | 1997 | Abbas Kiarostami (*) | Drama | 7.8 (28.5K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Teacher's PetSpot (Lane) is a dog who can talk and read. Posing as a human, he sneaks into school with his master Leonard (Flemming). Educational adventures ensue. | 2004 | Timothy Björklund | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical | 5.7 (1.9K votes) | 73 | 20240308 |
| Third Miracle, TheThe Vatican sends a priest to verify some miracles, performed by a woman who has been nominated for sainthood. During his investigation, the priest, who is experiencing a crisis of faith, re-discovers his own purpose in life. | 1999 | Agnieszka Holland | Drama | 6.5 (3.3K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| ThumbsuckerJustin throws himself and everyone around him into chaos when he attempts to break free from his addiction to his thumb. | 2005 | Mike Mills | Comedy, Drama | 6.5 (21.3K votes) | 96 | 20220414 |
| Tristram Shandy [A Cock and Bull Story]Director Michael Winterbottom (Northam) attempts to shoot the adaptation of Laurence Sterne's essentially unfilmable novel, ""The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman."" | 2005 | Michael Winterbottom | Comedy | 6.7 (12.8K votes) | 94 | 20220822 |
| TumbleweedsA woman and her daughter have been constantly moving from town to town for years, but their newest home might be different from all the others. | 1999 | Gavin O'Connor | Comedy, Drama | 6.7 (3.6K votes) | 102 | 20230806 |
| TuvaluIn a desolate and colorless landscape stands a dilapidated bathhouse run by a puffed-up blind man, his long-suffering wife, and their son Anton, who does all the work. He's lonely and unsophisticated, and he falls in love with the be | 1999 | Veit Helmer | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.4 (2.7K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| The TV SetThe story of a TV pilot as it goes through the network TV process of casting, production and finally airing. | 2006 | Jake Kasdan | Comedy, Drama | 6.5 (5.9K votes) | 88 | 20230806 |
| Two Family HouseA dreamer finds that his wife and friends are binding him to his mediocre existence. | 2000 | Raymond De Felitta | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.2 (1.7K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Two LoversA Brooklyn-set romantic drama about a bachelor torn between the family friend his parents wish he would marry and his beautiful but volatile new neighbor. | 2008 | James Gray | Drama, Romance | 7.0 (39.7K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Waking the DeadA congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge. | 2000 | Keith Gordon | Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 6.5 (7.1K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Weather Man, TheA Chicago weather man, separated from his wife and children, debates whether professional and personal success are mutually exclusive. | 2005 | Gore Verbinski | Comedy, Drama | 6.5 (79.5K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Welcome to SarajevoAmerican and British journalists Flynn and Michael Henderson, along with their respective news teams, meet at the beginning of the Bosnian war in Sarajevo. During their reports, the group find an orphanage run by the devoted Mrs. Sav | 1997 | Michael Winterbottom | Drama, War | 6.8 (7.4K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Went To Coney Island On A Mission From God Be Back By FiveTwo young men (Jon Cryer, Rick Stear) who have been friends since early childhood decide to go on a trip to find a third friend (Rafael Baez) who has long since disappeared. Stories they have heard indicate that the friend has been s | 1998 | Richard Schenkman | Drama | 5.9 (353 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| What Doesn't Kill YouTwo childhood friends from South Boston turn to crime as a way to get by, ultimately causing a strain in their personal lives and their friendship. | 2008 | Brian Goodman | Crime, Drama | 6.6 (12.3K votes) | 100 | 20220414 |
| Whole Wide World, TheIn 1933 Texas, a schoolteacher and aspiring writer meets a pulp fiction writer, and a relationship soon develops between the two, but it is doomed by his slavishly devotion to his ailing mother and insistence on his freedom. | 1996 | Dan Ireland | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.1 (3.7K votes) | 111 | 20220723 |
| Wide Blue Road, The [La grande strada azzurra]Squarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Like his fellow villagers, Squarciò struggles against harsh living conditions, a scarcity of fish in nearby waters and exploitation by t | 1957 | Gillo Pontecorvo, Maleno Malenotti | Drama, Romance | 6.9 (633 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Winter SolsticeIn this suburban drama, a widower confronts his older son's decision to leave home and his younger son's self-destructive behavior. | 2004 | Josh Sternfeld | Drama | 6.0 (1.5K votes) | 90 | 20240407 |
| Word WarsA look at the obsessive world of competitive Scrabble. | 2004 | Eric Chaikin, Julian Petrillo | Documentary, Comedy | 6.9 (1.7K votes) | 80 | 20240407 |
| Worlds Fastest Indian, TheThe story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years rebuilding a 1920 Indian motorcycle, which helped him set the land speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967. | 2005 | Roger Donaldson | Biography, Drama, Sport | 7.8 (53.9K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Zathura - a Space AdventureTwo young brothers are drawn into an intergalactic adventure when their house is hurled through the depths of space by the magical board game they are playing. | 2005 | Jon Favreau | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | 6.2 (100.9K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Bubba Ho-tep: Fit for a King | 2004 | nan | Documentary, Short | 6.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Go Tigers! | 2001 | Kenneth A. Carlson | Documentary, Sport | 7.2 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| In the Shadow of the Moon | 2007 | David Sington | Documentary, History | 8.0 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Prisoner of Paradise | 2002 | Malcolm Clarke, Stuart Sender | Documentary, Biography | 7.5 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Startup.com | 2001 | Jehane Noujaim, Chris Hegedus | Documentary | 7.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Stone Reader | 2002 | Mark Moskowitz | Documentary, Drama | 7.7 (Unkn) | | Excluded |