Movies by Lists - NY Times Top 1000 (1012 [1014]) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| 7 UpA group of British children aged 7 from widely ranging backgrounds are interviewed about a range of subjects. | 1964 | Paul Almond | Documentary, Short, Biography | 8.0 (3.9K votes) | 40 | 20211228 |
| 8½A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies. | 1963 | Federico Fellini (*) | Drama | 8.0 (115.2K votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
| 10A Hollywood composer goes through a mid-life crisis and becomes infatuated with a sexy, newly married woman. | 1979 | Blake Edwards (*) | Comedy, Romance | 6.1 (17.4K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| 12 Angry MenThe jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single member whose skeptical caution forces them to more carefully consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict. | 1957 | Sidney Lumet (*) | Crime, Drama | 9.0 (749.3K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| 39 Steps, TheA man in London tries to help a counter-espionage Agent. But when the Agent is killed, and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring which is trying to steal top secret information. | 1935 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.6 (55.5K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| 400 BlowsA young boy, left without attention, delves into a life of petty crime. | 1959 | François Truffaut (*) | Crime, Drama | 8.1 (113.8K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| 1900 [Novecento]The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides. | 1976 | Bernardo Bertolucci (*) | Drama, History | 7.7 (25K votes) | 317 | 20211228 |
| 2001 A Space Odyssey The Monoliths push humanity to reach for the stars; after their discovery in Africa generations ago, the mysterious objects lead mankind on an awesome journey to Jupiter, with the help of H.A.L. 9000: the world's greatest supercomput | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Adventure, Sci-Fi | 8.3 (642.5K votes) | 149 | 20211228 |
| A.I. Artificial IntelligenceA highly advanced robotic boy longs to become "real" so that he can regain the love of his human mother. | 2001 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Drama, Sci-Fi | 7.2 (301.7K votes) | 146 | 20211228 |
| About SchmidtA recently retired man embarks on a journey to his estranged daughter's wedding, only to discover more about himself and life than he ever expected. | 2002 | Alexander Payne | Comedy, Drama | 7.1 (127.4K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Absence of MaliceWhen a prosecutor leaks a false story that a liquor warehouse owner is involved in the murder of a union head, the man's life begins to unravel. | 1981 | Sydney Pollack (*) | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.9 (13.1K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Adams RibDomestic and professional tensions mount when a husband and wife work as opposing lawyers in a case involving a woman who shot her husband. | 1949 | George Cukor (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.5 (20.8K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| AdaptationA lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt 'The Orchid Thief' by Susan Orlean for the screen. | 2002 | Spike Jonze (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.7 (188.2K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Adjuster, TheA family with the lack of sincerity faces a crisis. | 1991 | Atom Egoyan (*) | Comedy, Drama | 6.7 (3.4K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Adventures of Robin Hood, TheWhen Prince John and the Norman Lords begin oppressing the Saxon masses in King Richard's absence in 1190s England, a Saxon lord fights back as the outlaw leader of a resistance movement. | 1938 | Michael Curtiz, William Keighley | Action, Adventure, Romance | 7.9 (50K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| AfflictionA deeply troubled small-town cop investigates a suspicious hunting death while other events jeopardize his sanity. | 1997 | Paul Schrader (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.9 (16.9K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| African Queen, TheIn WWI East Africa, a gin-swilling Canadian riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced English missionary to undertake a trip up a treacherous river and use his boat to attack a German gunship. | 1951 | John Huston (*) | Adventure, Drama, Romance, War | 7.8 (77.1K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Aguirre The Wrath Of God [Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes]In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado. | 1972 | Werner Herzog (*) | Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History | 7.9 (55.7K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| AirplaneA man afraid to fly must ensure that a plane lands safely after the pilots become sick. | 1980 | Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker | Comedy | 7.7 (229.7K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| AladdinA kindhearted street urchin and a power-hungry Grand Vizier vie for a magic lamp that has the power to make their deepest wishes come true. | 1992 | Ron Clements, John Musker | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance | 8.0 (393.7K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Alexander NevskyThe story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights. | 1938 | Sergei M. Eisenstein, Dmitriy Vasilev | Action, Biography, Drama, History, War | 7.6 (11.1K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Alice Doesn't Live Here AnymoreA recently widowed woman is on the road with her precocious young son, determined to make a new life for herself as a singer. | 1974 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.3 (23.1K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Alice's RestaurantA cinematic adaption of Arlo Guthrie's classic song story. | 1969 | Arthur Penn (*) | Comedy, Drama, Music | 6.3 (4.2K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| AliensFifty-seven years after surviving an apocalyptic attack aboard her space vessel by merciless space creatures, Officer Ripley awakens from hyper-sleep and tries to warn anyone who will listen about the predators. | 1986 | James Cameron (*) | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 8.3 (691K votes) | 137 | 20211228 |
| All About EveA seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends. | 1950 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz (*) | Drama | 8.2 (128K votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
| All About My Mother [Todo Sobre Mi Madre]Young Esteban wants to become a writer and also to discover the identity of his second mother, a trans woman, carefully concealed by his mother Manuela. | 1999 | Pedro Almodóvar (*) | Drama | 7.9 (94.3K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| All Quiet on the Western FrontA German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror. | 1930 | Lewis Milestone | Drama, War | 8.1 (60.2K votes) | 152 | 20211228 |
| All That Heaven AllowsAn upper-class widow falls in love with a much younger, down-to-earth nurseryman, much to the disapproval of her children and criticism of her country club peers. | 1955 | Douglas Sirk (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.6 (14.4K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| All the King's MenThe rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal. | 1949 | Robert Rossen (*) | Drama, Film-Noir | 7.5 (14.6K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| All the President's Men"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation. | 1976 | Alan J. Pakula (*) | Drama, History, Thriller | 8.0 (111.6K votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
| AmadeusThe life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him. | 1984 | Milos Forman (*) | Biography, Drama, Music | 8.3 (388.6K votes) | 160 | 20211228 |
| AmarcordA series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian coastal town. | 1973 | Federico Fellini (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.9 (42.5K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| AmelieAmélie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love. | 2001 | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Comedy, Romance | 8.3 (735.1K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| America AmericaA young Greek stops at nothing to secure a passage to America. | 1963 | Elia Kazan (*) | Drama | 7.8 (5.4K votes) | 174 | 20211228 |
| American Friend, TheTom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man. | 1977 | Wim Wenders (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.4 (15.7K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| American GraffitiA group of teenagers in California's central valley spend one final night after their 1962 high school graduation cruising the strip with their buddies before they pursue their varying goals. | 1973 | George Lucas (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.4 (87.2K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| American MovieDocumentary about an aspiring filmmaker's attempts to finance his dream project by finally completing the low-budget horror film he abandoned years before. | 1999 | Chris Smith | Documentary, Comedy | 7.9 (17.7K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Americanization of Emily, TheAn American Naval Officer's talent for living the good life in wartime is challenged when he falls in love and is sent on a dangerous mission. | 1964 | Arthur Hiller | Comedy, Drama, Romance, War | 7.4 (5.1K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Amores PerrosA horrific car accident connects three stories, each involving characters dealing with loss, regret, and life's harsh realities, all in the name of love. | 2000 | Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Drama, Thriller | 8.1 (235.1K votes) | 154 | 20211228 |
| An American in ParisThree friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman. | 1951 | Vincente Minnelli (*) | Drama, Musical, Romance | 7.2 (32.8K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| AnastasiaAn opportunistic businessman tries to pass off a mysterious impostor as the Grand Duchess Anastasia, and she is so convincing that even the biggest skeptics believe her. | 1956 | Anatole Litvak (*) | Biography, Drama, History, Romance | 7.1 (8.4K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Anatomy of a MurderAn upstate Michigan lawyer defends a soldier who claims he killed an innkeeper due to temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth, and will he win his case? | 1959 | Otto Preminger (*) | Drama, Mystery | 8.0 (64.6K votes) | 161 | 20211228 |
| And Your Mother Too [Y Tu Mama Tambien]In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other. | 2001 | Alfonso Cuarón | Drama | 7.6 (120.7K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Angry Silence, TheA young factory worker decides to stand up against his workmates and fellow union members when they want to hold a wildcat strike. | 1960 | Guy Green | Drama | 7.3 (1.4K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Animal HouseAt a 1962 college, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him. | 1978 | John Landis (*) | Comedy | 7.5 (118.4K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Anna and the King of SiamIn 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King. | 1946 | John Cromwell | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (2.4K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Anna Christie [Brown]A young woman reunites with her estranged father and falls in love with a sailor, but struggles to tell them about her dark past. | 1930 | Clarence Brown | Drama, Romance | 6.6 (3.1K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Anne and Muriel [Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent]At the beginning of the 20th century, Claude Roc, a young middle-class Frenchman meets in Paris Ann Brown, a young Englishwoman. They become friends and Ann invites him to spend holidays at the house where she lives with her mother a | 1971 | François Truffaut (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.3 (5.3K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Annie HallAlvy Singer, a divorced Jewish comedian, reflects on his relationship with ex-lover Annie Hall, an aspiring nightclub singer, which ended abruptly just like his previous marriages. | 1977 | Woody Allen (*) | Comedy, Romance | 8.0 (260.6K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Apartment, TheA Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue. | 1960 | Billy Wilder (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 8.3 (175.7K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Apocalypse NowA U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god. | 1979 | Francis Ford Coppola (*) | Drama, Mystery, War | 8.4 (641.8K votes) | 147 | 20211228 |
| Apollo 13NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy. | 1995 | Ron Howard | Adventure, Drama, History | 7.6 (285.9K votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
| Apostle, TheAfter his happy life spins out of control, a preacher from Texas changes his name, goes to Louisiana and starts preaching on the radio. | 1997 | Robert Duvall | Drama | 7.2 (14.1K votes) | 134 | 20211228 |
| Apur Sansar [The World of Apu]This final installment in Satyajit Ray's Apu Trilogy follows Apu's life as an orphaned adult aspiring to be a writer. | 1959 | Satyajit Ray (*) | Drama | 8.5 (14K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Ashes and Diamonds [Popiól i diament]As WWII and the German occupation ends, the Polish resistance and the Russian forces turn on each other in an attempt to take over leadership in Communist Poland. | 1958 | Andrzej Wajda (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 7.8 (11.7K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Asphalt Jungle, TheA major heist goes off as planned, but then double crosses, bad luck and solid police work cause everything to unravel. | 1950 | John Huston (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.9 (26K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Atanarjuat - The Fast Runner [Atanarjuat]The telling of an Inuit legend of an evil spirit causing strife in the community and one warrior's endurance and battle of its menace. | 2001 | Zacharias Kunuk | Drama | 7.5 (6.5K votes) | 172 | 20211228 |
| Atlantic CityIn a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves thrown together in an escapade of love, money, drugs and danger. | 1980 | Louis Malle (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.3 (16.4K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Au Revoir, Les EnfantsA French boarding school run by priests seems to be a haven from World War II until a new student arrives. Occupying the next bed in the dormitory to the top student in his class, the two young boys begin to form a bond. | 1987 | Louis Malle (*) | Drama, War | 8.0 (33.1K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Awful Truth, TheA married couple file an amicable divorce, but find it harder to let go of each other than they initially thought. | 1937 | Leo McCarey (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.7 (19.2K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Babette's FeastDuring the late 19th century, a strict religious community in a Danish village takes in a French refugee from the Franco-Prussian War as a servant to the late pastor's daughters. | 1987 | Gabriel Axel | Drama | 7.8 (19.6K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Baby DollAn immature child bride holds her anxious husband at bay while flirting with an amorous Sicilian farmer. | 1956 | Elia Kazan (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.3 (7.5K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Back to the FutureMarty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent thirty years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the eccentric scientist Doc Brown. | 1985 | Robert Zemeckis (*) | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi | 8.5 (1.1M votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Bad and the Beautiful, TheAn unscrupulous movie producer uses an actress, a director and a writer to achieve success. | 1952 | Vincente Minnelli (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.8 (14.5K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Bad Day at Black RockA one-armed stranger comes to a tiny town possessing a terrible past they want to keep secret, by violent means if necessary. | 1955 | John Sturges (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Western | 7.7 (21.2K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| BadlandsAn impressionable teenage girl from a dead-end town and her older greaser boyfriend embark on a killing spree in the South Dakota badlands. | 1973 | Terrence Malick (*) | Action, Crime, Drama | 7.8 (71.1K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Baker's Wife, The [La Femme du Boulanger]A small village rejoices at the arrival of a new baker. But when his young wife runs off with another man, he is unable to keep baking and the village is thrown into disarray. | 1938 | Marcel Pagnol (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.5 (2K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| Ball of FireA group of professors working on a new encyclopedia while living in a Manhattan mansion take in a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover. | 1941 | Howard Hawks (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.8 (12.1K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Ballad of Cable Hogue, TheA hobo accidentally stumbles onto a water spring, and creates a profitable way station in the middle of the desert. | 1970 | Sam Peckinpah (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance, Western | 7.3 (9.3K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| BambiThe story of a young deer growing up in the forest. | 1942 | James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, David Hand, Graham Heid, Bill Roberts | Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family | 7.3 (138.6K votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Band Wagon, TheA pretentiously artistic director is hired for a new Broadway musical and changes it beyond recognition. | 1953 | Vincente Minnelli (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 7.5 (11.1K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Bang The Drum SlowlyThe story of the friendship between a worldly-wise star pitcher and a half-wit catcher as they cope with the catcher's terminal illness through a baseball season. | 1973 | John D. Hancock | Drama, Sport | 6.9 (5.8K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Bank Dick, TheHenpecked Egbert Sousé has comic adventures as a substitute film director and unlikely bank guard. | 1940 | Edward F. Cline | Comedy | 7.2 (7.1K votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| BarflyBased on the life of successful poet Charles Bukowski and his exploits in Hollywood during the 60s, 70s, and 80s. | 1987 | Barbet Schroeder | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.2 (19.9K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Barry LyndonAn Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England. | 1975 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Adventure, Drama, History, War | 8.1 (161.6K votes) | 185 | 20211228 |
| Barton FinkA renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood. | 1991 | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Comedy, Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (118.7K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Battle of Algiers, TheIn the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government. | 1966 | Gillo Pontecorvo (*) | Drama, War | 8.1 (58.1K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Beautiful PeopleIn London, during October 1993, England is playing Holland in the preliminaries of the World Cup. The Bosnian War is at its height, and refugees from the ex-Yugoslavia are arriving. Football rivals, and political adversaries from the | 1999 | Jasmin Dizdar | Comedy, Drama, War | 6.7 (2.5K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Beauty and the BeastA prince cursed to spend his days as a hideous monster sets out to regain his humanity by earning a young woman's love. | 1991 | Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise | Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance | 8.0 (434.2K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Beauty and the Beast [La Belle et la Bête]A beautiful young woman takes her father's place as the prisoner of a mysterious beast, who wishes to marry her. | 1946 | Jean Cocteau, René Clément | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 7.9 (25.9K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Bed and Board [Domicile conjugal]Antoine Doinel works dying flowers in the courtyard outside his apartment. He is married to Christine, who is pregnant. He has an affair with a Japanese woman, jeopardising his marriage. | 1970 | François Truffaut (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.5 (9.3K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| BeetlejuiceThe spirits of a deceased couple are harassed by an unbearable family that has moved into their home, and hire a malicious spirit to drive them out. | 1988 | Tim Burton (*) | Comedy, Fantasy | 7.5 (286.2K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Before Night FallsThe life of Cuban poet and novelist, Reinaldo Arenas. | 2000 | Julian Schnabel | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.2 (24.9K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| Before The RainThree interconnected stories of love under the threat of civil war in Macedonia and London. | 1994 | Milcho Manchevski | Drama, Romance, War | 8.0 (14.7K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Being John MalkovichA puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of movie star John Malkovich. | 1999 | Spike Jonze (*) | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 7.7 (327.1K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Being ThereAfter the death of his employer forces him out of the only home he's ever known, a simpleminded, sheltered gardener becomes an unlikely trusted advisor to a powerful tycoon and an insider in Washington politics. | 1979 | Hal Ashby (*) | Comedy, Drama | 8.0 (70.9K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Belle de JourA frigid young housewife decides to spend her midweek afternoons as a prostitute. | 1967 | Luis Buñuel (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.7 (43.2K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Ben HurAfter a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge. | 1959 | William Wyler (*) | Adventure, Drama, History | 8.1 (232.2K votes) | 212 | 20211228 |
| Berlin AlexanderplatzIn late-1920s Berlin, Franz Biberkopf is released from prison and vows to go straight. However, he soon finds himself embroiled in the city's criminal underworld. | 1980 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder (*) | Crime, Drama | 8.5 (4.4K votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| Best Years of Our Lives, TheThree World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed. | 1946 | William Wyler (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 8.1 (62K votes) | 170 | 20211228 |
| Beverly Hills CopA freewheeling Detroit cop pursuing a murder investigation finds himself dealing with the very different culture of Beverly Hills. | 1984 | Martin Brest (*) | Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 7.3 (177.6K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Bicycle Thief [Ladri di Biciclette]In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it. | 1948 | Vittorio De Sica (*) | Drama | 8.3 (158.6K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Big Chill, TheA group of seven former college friends gather for a weekend reunion at a South Carolina vacation home after the funeral of another of their college friends. | 1983 | Lawrence Kasdan (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.2 (36.1K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Big Clock, TheA magazine tycoon commits a murder and pins it on an innocent man, who then tries to solve the murder himself. | 1948 | John Farrow | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 7.6 (8.4K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Big Deal on Madonna Street [I Soliti Ignoti]A motley quintet of inept small-time thieves attempt the burglary of a local pawnshop in this Italian farce. | 1958 | Mario Monicelli | Comedy, Crime | 8.0 (10.2K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Big Heat, TheTough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate. | 1953 | Fritz Lang (*) | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.9 (26K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Big NightNew Jersey, 1950s. Two brothers run an Italian restaurant. Business is not going well as a rival Italian restaurant is out-competing them. In a final effort to save the restaurant, the brothers plan to put on an evening of incredible | 1996 | Campbell Scott, Stanley Tucci | Drama, Romance | 7.3 (19.8K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Big Red One, TheA hardened sergeant and the four core members of his infantry unit try to survive World War II as they move from battle to battle throughout Europe. | 1980 | Samuel Fuller (*) | Drama, War | 7.1 (19.5K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Big Sky, TheThe success of the journey focuses on keeping the Indian girl alive as well as themselves to complete trade with the Blackfeet. | 1952 | Howard Hawks (*) | Adventure, Drama, Western | 7.0 (4.2K votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
| Big Sleep, ThePrivate detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love. | 1946 | Howard Hawks (*) | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 7.9 (83.8K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Billy LiarA lazy, irresponsible young clerk (Sir Tom Courtenay) in provincial Northern England lives in his own fantasy world and makes emotionally immature decisions as he alienates friends and family. | 1963 | John Schlesinger (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.3 (6.5K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Biloxi BluesA group of young recruits go through boot camp during the Second World War in Biloxi, Mississippi. From the play by Neil Simon. | 1988 | Mike Nichols (*) | Comedy, Drama | 6.6 (15.3K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Birds, TheA 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. | 1963 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance | 7.7 (182.9K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| BirdyAfter two friends return home from the Vietnam War one becomes mentally unstable and obsesses with becoming a bird. | 1984 | Alan Parker | Drama, War | 7.3 (22.8K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Black NarcissusA group of nuns struggle to establish a convent in the Himalayas, while isolation, extreme weather, altitude, and culture clashes all conspire to drive the well-intentioned missionaries mad. | 1947 | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Drama | 7.8 (24.1K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Black OrpheusA retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro. | 1959 | Marcel Camus (*) | Drama, Fantasy, Music, Romance | 7.5 (10.9K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Black RobeIn the 17th century, a Jesuit missionary nicknamed Black Robe by the natives and his small party of companions try reaching the Huron tribe in Canada all while facing mistrust, Iroquois warring parties and harsh winter conditions. | 1991 | Bruce Beresford | Adventure, Drama, History, War | 7.1 (7K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Blazing SaddlesIn order to ruin a western town, a corrupt politician appoints a black Sheriff, who promptly becomes his most formidable adversary. | 1974 | Mel Brooks (*) | Comedy, Western | 7.7 (134.5K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Bloody SundayA dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972. | 2002 | Paul Greengrass | Drama, History, War | 7.6 (24.4K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Blow-UpA fashion photographer unknowingly captures a death on film after following two lovers in a park. | 1966 | Michelangelo Antonioni (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.6 (60.3K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Blue CollarWhen three workers try to steal from the local union, they instead discover corruption and decide to use this information for blackmail. | 1978 | Paul Schrader (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.5 (8.3K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Blue VelvetThe discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child. | 1986 | David Lynch (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.7 (192.4K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Bob & Carol & Ted & AliceA light-hearted picture of middle-aged love and friendship. | 1969 | Paul Mazursky | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.8 (6.5K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Bob Dylan - Dont Look BackDocumentary covering Bob Dylan's 1965 tour of England, which includes appearances by Joan Baez and Donovan. | 1967 | D.A. Pennebaker | Documentary, Music | 8.0 (9.2K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Bob le flambeurAfter losing big, an aging gambler decides to assemble a team to rob a casino. | 1956 | Jean-Pierre Melville (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (11.7K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Body HeatIn the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman persuades her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband. | 1981 | Lawrence Kasdan (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 7.4 (34.2K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Bonnie and ClydeBored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks. | 1967 | Arthur Penn (*) | Action, Biography, Crime, Drama | 7.8 (109.8K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Boogie NightsBack when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, an idealistic porn producer aspires to elevate his craft to an art when he discovers a hot young talent. | 1997 | Paul Thomas Anderson (*) | Drama | 7.9 (255.6K votes) | 155 | 20211228 |
| Born on the Fourth of JulyThe biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for. | 1989 | Oliver Stone (*) | Biography, Drama, War | 7.2 (103.7K votes) | 145 | 20211228 |
| Born YesterdayA tycoon hires a tutor to teach his lover proper etiquette, with unexpected results. | 1950 | George Cukor (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.6 (10.9K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Boucher, LeAn unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town. | 1970 | Claude Chabrol (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.4 (8.4K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Bound for GloryThe early life of Woody Guthrie as a vagabond folk singer. | 1976 | Hal Ashby (*) | Biography, Drama, Music | 7.3 (5K votes) | 147 | 20211228 |
| Boys Don't CryA young man named Brandon Teena navigates love, life, and being transgender in rural Nebraska. | 1999 | Kimberly Peirce | Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.5 (96K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Boyz n The HoodFollows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence, and future prospects. | 1991 | John Singleton (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.8 (135.7K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| BrazilA bureaucrat in a dystopic society becomes an enemy of the state as he pursues the woman of his dreams. | 1985 | Terry Gilliam (*) | Drama, Sci-Fi | 7.9 (197.1K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| Bread, Love and Dreams [Pane Amore e Fantasia]When a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed "Frisky". | 1953 | Luigi Comencini | Comedy, Romance | 6.9 (1.7K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Breaker MorantThree Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers. | 1980 | Bruce Beresford | Drama, History, War | 7.9 (13.2K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Breakfast Club, TheFive high school students meet in Saturday detention and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought. | 1985 | John Hughes (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.8 (379.9K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Breaking AwayA working-class Indiana teen obsessed with the Italian cycling team vies for the affections of a college girl while searching for life goals with his friends. | 1979 | Peter Yates | Comedy, Drama, Sport | 7.7 (23.1K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Breaking The WavesOilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan urges her to have sex with another. | 1996 | Lars von Trier (*) | Drama | 7.8 (65.5K votes) | 159 | 20211228 |
| BreathlessA small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he reunites with a hip American journalism student and attempts to persuade her to run away with him to Italy. | 1960 | Jean-Luc Godard (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.8 (78.8K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Bride Wore Black, The [La mariée était en noir]Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves the town. She will track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal? What is her purpose? | 1968 | François Truffaut (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 7.3 (9.2K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Bridge on the River Kwai, TheBritish POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it. | 1957 | David Lean (*) | Adventure, Drama, War | 8.1 (214.6K votes) | 161 | 20211228 |
| Brief EncounterMeeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband. | 1945 | David Lean (*) | Drama, Romance | 8.0 (38.9K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Brief History of Time, AA film about the life and work of the cosmologist, Stephen Hawking, who despite his near total paralysis, was one of the great minds of all time. | 1991 | Errol Morris (*) | Documentary, Biography | 7.3 (5.5K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Bringing Up BabyWhile trying to secure a $1 million donation for his museum, a befuddled paleontologist is pursued by a flighty and often irritating heiress and her pet leopard, Baby. | 1938 | Howard Hawks (*) | Comedy | 7.9 (60K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Broadcast NewsTake two rival television reporters: one handsome, one talented, both male. Add one producer, female. Mix well, and watch the sparks fly. | 1987 | James L. Brooks (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.2 (29.9K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| Brother's KeeperThis compelling documentary details the strange-but-true murder trial of Delbert Ward, accused of the mercy killing of his brother in rural upstate NY. This real-life murder mystery won the Audience Award at Sundance. | 1992 | Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky | Documentary, Crime, Mystery | 7.5 (4K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Buddy Holly Story, TheThe story of the life and career of the early rock and roll singer, from his meteoric rise to stardom, to his marriage and untimely death. | 1978 | Steve Rash | Biography, Drama, Music | 7.2 (8.9K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Bull DurhamA fan who has an affair with one minor-league baseball player each season meets an up-and-coming pitcher and the experienced catcher assigned to him. | 1988 | Ron Shelton (*) | Comedy, Romance, Sport | 7.1 (52.6K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| BullittAn all-guts, no-glory San Francisco cop becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection. | 1968 | Peter Yates | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.4 (66.8K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Bus StopA naive but stubborn cowboy falls in love with a saloon singer and tries to take her away against her will to get married and live on his ranch in Montana. | 1956 | Joshua Logan | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.4 (11.5K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Butch Cassidy and the Sundance KidWyoming, early 1900s. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid are the leaders of a band of outlaws. After a train robbery goes wrong they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels. Their solution - escape to Bolivia. | 1969 | George Roy Hill (*) | Biography, Crime, Drama, Western | 8.0 (211.5K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Butcher Boy, TheThe antisocial son of an alcoholic father and a bipolar mother grows up in 1960s Ireland. | 1997 | Neil Jordan | Comedy, Drama | 7.1 (10.9K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Bye Bye BrasilThe Caravana Rolidei rolls into town with the Gypsy Lord at the mike: he does magic tricks, the erotic Salomé dances, and the mute Swallow performs feats of strength. A young accordion player is completely enamored of Salomé, and he | 1980 | Carlos Diegues | Drama | 7.4 (1.7K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Bye Bye Brazil [Bye Bye Brasil]The Caravana Rolidei rolls into town with the Gypsy Lord at the mike: he does magic tricks, the erotic Salomé dances, and the mute Swallow performs feats of strength. A young accordion player is completely enamored of Salomé, and he | 1980 | Carlos Diegues | Drama | 7.4 (1.7K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| CabaretA female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them. | 1972 | Bob Fosse (*) | Drama, Music, Musical, Romance | 7.8 (53K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Caine Mutiny, TheWhen a U.S. Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardizes the ship, the first officer relieves him of command and faces court martial for mutiny. | 1954 | Edward Dmytryk (*) | Drama, War | 7.7 (27.1K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| California SuiteMisadventures of four groups of guests at the Beverly Hills Hotel. | 1978 | Herbert Ross | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.2 (7.2K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Calle 54A film featuring performances of several stars of the Latin Jazz music scene. | 2000 | Fernando Trueba | Documentary, Music | 7.4 (790 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| CamelotThe story of the marriage of England's King Arthur to Guinevere. The plot of illegitimate Mordred to gain the throne and Guinevere's growing attachment to Sir Lancelot, threaten to topple Arthur and destroy his "round table" of knigh | 1967 | Joshua Logan | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Romance | 6.7 (6.6K votes) | 179 | 20211228 |
| CamilleA Parisian courtesan must choose between the young man who loves her and the callous baron who wants her, even as her own health begins to fail. | 1936 | George Cukor (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.4 (7.9K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Captains CourageousA spoiled brat who falls overboard from a steamship in the 1920s gets picked up by a New England fishing boat, where he's made to earn his keep by joining the crew in their work. | 1937 | Victor Fleming (*) | Adventure, Drama, Family | 8.0 (9.4K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Carmen JonesContemporary version of the Bizet opera, with new lyrics and an African-American cast. | 1954 | Otto Preminger (*) | Drama, Musical, Romance | 6.8 (5.1K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Carnal KnowledgeChronicling the lifelong sexual development of two men who meet and become friends in college. | 1971 | Mike Nichols (*) | Drama | 7.0 (12.7K votes) | 98 | 20220423 |
| CasablancaA cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco. | 1942 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 8.5 (558.2K votes) | 102 | 20220423 |
| Cat on a Hot Tin RoofBrick is an alcoholic ex-football player who drinks his days away and resists the affections of his wife. A reunion with his terminal father jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son. | 1958 | Richard Brooks | Drama | 8.0 (48.7K votes) | 108 | 20220414 |
| Catch-22A man is trying desperately to be certified insane during World War II, so he can stop flying missions. | 1970 | Mike Nichols (*) | Comedy, Drama, War | 7.1 (24.9K votes) | 122 | 20220414 |
| CavalcadeA portrayal of the triumphs and tragedies of two English families, the upper-crust Marryots and the working-class Bridgeses, from 1899 to 1933. | 1933 | Frank Lloyd | Drama, Romance, War | 5.9 (5.1K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Celebration, The [Festen]At Helge's 60th birthday party, some unpleasant family truths are revealed. | 1998 | Thomas Vinterberg (*) | Drama | 8.1 (84.7K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Chan is MissingTwo cab drivers search San Francisco's Chinatown for the mysterious Chan, who disappeared with their $4000. | 1982 | Wayne Wang | Drama, Mystery | 7.1 (1.2K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Chariots of FireTwo British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, are driven to win in the 1924 Olympics as they wrestle with issues of pride and conscience. | 1981 | Hugh Hudson | Biography, Drama, Sport | 7.2 (58.5K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Charley VarrickA man, his wife and their friend stage a bloody bank robbery without realizing they are stealing from the Mob. | 1973 | Don Siegel (*) | Drama | 7.5 (12.1K votes) | 111 | 20220414 |
| ChicagoTwo death-row murderesses develop a fierce rivalry while competing for publicity, celebrity, and a sleazy lawyer's attention. | 2002 | Rob Marshall | Comedy, Crime, Musical | 7.2 (225.3K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Chicken RunWhen a cockerel apparently flies into a chicken farm, the chickens see him as an opportunity to escape their evil owners. | 2000 | Peter Lord, Nick Park | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family | 7.0 (186.3K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Children of Paradise [Les enfants du paradis]The theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan in 1830s Paris and the four men who love her. | 1945 | Marcel Carné (*) | Drama, Romance | 8.4 (19.4K votes) | 189 | 20211228 |
| ChinatownA private detective hired to expose an adulterer in 1930s Los Angeles finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption, and murder. | 1974 | Roman Polanski (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.2 (315K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Chloe in the Afternoon [L'Amour l'apres-midi]Though he has an adoring wife, a bourgeois man is still tempted to pursue other women. | 1972 | Éric Rohmer (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.7 (7.8K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| ChocolatA French woman and her young daughter open up a chocolate shop in a small remote village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community. | 2000 | Lasse Hallström | Drama, Romance | 7.2 (187.2K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Cider House Rules, TheA compassionate young man, raised in an orphanage and trained to be a doctor there, decides to leave to see the world. | 1999 | Lasse Hallström | Drama, Romance | 7.4 (97K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Citadel, TheAn enthusiastic young doctor happily embarks on his career, but it isn't long before he finds out what being a doctor really entails. | 1938 | King Vidor (*) | Drama | 7.1 (2.1K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Citizen KaneFollowing the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance; 'Rosebud'. | 1941 | Orson Welles (*) | Drama, Mystery | 8.3 (429.4K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Citizens BandThis movie interlaces the stories of several characters in a small town united by their use of CB (citizen's band) radio. Paul LeMat is the local CB coordinator who has time for little else in his life. His father, Roberts Blossom... | 1977 | Jonathan Demme (*) | Comedy, Drama | 6.4 (883 votes) | 98 | 20231101 |
| Citizen's Band [Handle With Care]This movie interlaces the stories of several characters in a small town united by their use of CB (citizen's band) radio. Paul LeMat is the local CB coordinator who has time for little else in his life. His father, Roberts Blossom is | 1977 | Jonathan Demme (*) | Comedy, Drama | 6.5 (796 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Claire's Knee [Le Genou de Claire]On lakeside summer holiday, a conflicted older man is dared to have a flirt with two beautiful teenage stepsisters despite his betrothal to a diplomat's daughter and the fact that the girls have boyfriends. | 1970 | Éric Rohmer (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.6 (10.7K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Clockmaker of St. Paul [L'horloger de Saint-Paul]A Watchmaker finds out one day that his son has become a murderer. He tries to understand for whom and why. | 1974 | Bertrand Tavernier | Crime, Drama | 7.1 (2.5K votes) | 105 | 20220723 |
| Clockwork Orange, AIn the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned. | 1971 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Crime, Sci-Fi | 8.3 (799.7K votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| Close Encounters of the Third KindRoy Neary, an Indiana electric lineman, finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches. | 1977 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Drama, Sci-Fi | 7.6 (195.8K votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
| Close-UpThe true story of Hossain Sabzian, a cinephile who impersonated the director Mohsen Makhmalbaf to convince a family they would star in his so-called new film. | 1990 | Abbas Kiarostami (*) | Biography, Crime, Drama | 8.3 (18.6K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| CluelessShallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. | 1995 | Amy Heckerling (*) | Comedy, Romance | 6.9 (204.3K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Coal Miner's DaughterThe fictionalized life of singer Loretta Lynn, a girl who rose from humble beginnings to become a country music star in the 1960s/70s. | 1980 | Michael Apted | Biography, Drama, Music | 7.5 (18.1K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Color of Money, TheFast Eddie Felson teaches a cocky but immensely talented protégé the ropes of pool hustling, which in turn inspires him to make an unlikely comeback. | 1986 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Drama, Sport | 7.0 (80.4K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Come Back Little ShebaAn emotionally remote recovering alcoholic and his dowdy, unambitious wife face a personal crisis when they take in an attractive lodger. | 1952 | Daniel Mann | Drama, Romance | 7.5 (4.8K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Coming HomeA woman whose husband is fighting in Vietnam falls in love with another man who suffered a paralyzing combat injury there. | 1978 | Hal Ashby (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 7.3 (13.3K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Conformist, TheA weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident. | 1970 | Bernardo Bertolucci (*) | Drama | 8.0 (29.5K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Conquest Of Everest, TheDocumentary that covers the famous and successful expedition of the Everest conquest by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, the first climbers to reach its peak. | 1953 | George Lowe | Documentary, Adventure | 7.2 (582 votes) | 78 | 20220414 |
| Contempt [Le Mepris]Screenwriter Paul Javal's marriage to his wife Camille disintegrates during movie production as she spends time with the producer. Layered conflicts between art and business ensue. | 1963 | Jean-Luc Godard (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.6 (31.1K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Conversation, TheA paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered. | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.8 (108K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Cool Hand LukeA laid back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform. | 1967 | Stuart Rosenberg (*) | Crime, Drama | 8.1 (172.7K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Count of Monte Cristo, TheAfter greedy men have Edmound Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him, he escapes to get his revenge on them. | 1934 | Rowland V. Lee | Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller | 7.4 (2.8K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Country Girl., TheA director hires an alcoholic has-been and strikes up a stormy relationship with the actor's wife, who he believes is the cause of all the man's problems. | 1954 | George Seaton | Drama, Music | 7.3 (5.9K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Cranes Are Flying, The [Letyat zhuravli]Veronica plans a rendezvous with her lover, Boris, at the bank of river, only for him to be drafted into World War II shortly thereafter. | 1957 | Mikhail Kalatozov (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 8.3 (16.8K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Cries and WhispersWhen a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface. | 1972 | Ingmar Bergman (*) | Drama | 8.1 (33K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| CrossfireA man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of demobilized soldiers he met in a bar. But which one? And why? | 1947 | Edward Dmytryk (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 7.3 (8.4K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| CrumbAn intimate portrait of controversial cartoonist Robert Crumb and his traumatized family. | 1994 | Terry Zwigoff | Documentary, Biography, Comedy, Drama | 8.0 (19.8K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Cry, the Beloved CountryIn the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo (Canada Lee) journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and his son a criminal. Reverend Misimangu (Sidney Poitier) | 1951 | Zoltan Korda | Drama | 7.0 (761 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Crying Game, TheA British soldier kidnapped by IRA terrorists soon befriends one of his captors, who then becomes drawn into the soldier's world. | 1992 | Neil Jordan | Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 7.3 (54.3K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Damn Yankees!A frustrated fan of the hopeless Washington Senators makes a pact with the Devil to help the baseball team win the league pennant. | 1958 | George Abbott, Stanley Donen | Comedy, Musical, Romance, Sport | 7.1 (2.9K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Damned, The [La caduta degli dei Götterdämmerung]The dramatic collapse of a wealthy, industrialist/Junker family during the reign of the Third Reich. | 1969 | Luchino Visconti (*) | Drama, War | 7.5 (8.5K votes) | 156 | 20211228 |
| Dance With A StrangerA stormy relationship, complicated by the strictures of 1950s social class and gender roles, ends in death. Based on the life of Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain. | 1985 | Mike Newell (*) | Biography, Crime, Drama | 6.7 (2.7K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Dangerous LiaisonsA scheming widow and her manipulative ex-lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. | 1988 | Stephen Frears (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.6 (68.3K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Dangerous Love Affairs [Les liaisons dangereuses]Juliette Merteuil and Valmont is a sophisticated couple, always looking for fun and excitement. Both have sexual affairs with others and share their experiences with one another. But there is one rule: never fall in love. But this ti | 1959 | Roger Vadim (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.8 (1.4K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| DanielDaniel Isaacson attempts to determine the true complicity of his parents Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed for espionage in the 1950s. | 1983 | Sidney Lumet (*) | Drama | 6.6 (1.3K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| DantonIn 1793, as the Terror begins in France, Georges Danton, a champion-of-the-people, returns to clash against Maximilien Robespierre and his extremist party. | 1983 | Andrzej Wajda (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 7.5 (6.9K votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| Dark EyesAn Italian tells his story of love to a Russian. In a series of flashbacks, Romano Patroni leaves his wife to visit a spa where he falls in love with a Russian woman. He returns to Italy resolved to leave his wife and marry his love. | 1987 | Nikita Mikhalkov | Comedy, Romance, Drama | 7.4 (3.2K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Dark VictoryA young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and must decide whether or not she'll meet her final days with dignity. | 1939 | Edmund Goulding | Drama, Romance | 7.6 (10.9K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| DarlingBeautiful but amoral model Diana Scott sleeps her way to the top of the London fashion scene at the height of the Swinging Sixties. | 1965 | John Schlesinger (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.1 (6.6K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| David CopperfieldA gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world. | 1935 | George Cukor (*) | Adventure, Drama, Family, Romance | 7.4 (4.2K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| David Holzman's DiaryA young filmmaker decides to make a movie of his life. | 1967 | Jim McBride (*) | Comedy, Drama | 6.5 (1.6K votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Dawn Of The DeadFollowing an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia S.W.A.T. team members, a traffic reporter, and his television executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall. | 1978 | George A. Romero (*) | Horror, Thriller | 7.9 (117.7K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Day for Night [La Nuit Americaine]A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew. | 1973 | François Truffaut (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 8.0 (22.1K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Day of The Jackal, TheIn the aftermath of France allowing Algeria's independence, a group of resentful military veterans hire a professional assassin codenamed "Jackal" to kill President Charles de Gaulle. | 1973 | Fred Zinnemann (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.8 (40K votes) | 143 | 20211228 |
| Day the Earth Stood Still, TheAn alien lands in Washington, D.C. and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets. | 1951 | Robert Wise (*) | Drama, Sci-Fi | 7.7 (80.5K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Days of HeavenA hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune. | 1978 | Terrence Malick (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.8 (56.5K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Days of Wine and RosesAn alcoholic marries a young woman and systematically addicts her to booze so that they can share his "passion" together. | 1962 | Blake Edwards (*) | Drama | 7.9 (12.5K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Dead CalmAfter a tragedy, John Ingram and his wife Rae are spending some time isolated at sea, when they come across a stranger who has abandoned a sinking ship. | 1989 | Phillip Noyce | Horror, Thriller | 6.8 (39.5K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Dead EndThe lives of a young man and woman, an infamous gangster and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum. | 1937 | William Wyler (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 7.3 (7.3K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Dead Man WalkingA nun, while comforting a convicted killer on death row, empathizes with both the killer and his victim's families. | 1995 | Tim Robbins | Crime, Drama | 7.5 (93.1K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Dead of NightThe guests invited to weekend in the country share their supernatural stories, beginning with Walter Craig , who senses impending doom as his half-remembered recurring dream turns into reality. | 1945 | Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer | Drama, Horror | 7.6 (12.3K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Dead RingersTwin gynecologists take full advantage of the fact that nobody can tell them apart, until their relationship begins to deteriorate over a woman. | 1988 | David Cronenberg (*) | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 7.3 (45.3K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Dead, TheGabriel Conroy and wife Greta attend an early January dinner with friends at the home of his spinster aunts, an evening which results in an epiphany for both of them. | 1987 | John Huston (*) | Drama | 7.3 (7.9K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Death In VeniceWhile recovering in Venice, sickly composer Gustav von Aschenbach becomes dangerously fixated with teenager Tadzio. | 1971 | Luchino Visconti (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.4 (20.5K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Death of a SalesmanAn over-the-hill salesman faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family. | 1951 | Laslo Benedek | Drama | 7.2 (1K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Deep End15-year-old dropout Mike takes a job at Newford Baths, where inappropriate sexual behaviour abounds, and becomes obsessed with his coworker Susan. | 1970 | Jerzy Skolimowski | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.2 (5.9K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Deer Hunter, TheAn in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania. | 1978 | Michael Cimino (*) | Drama, War | 8.1 (329.7K votes) | 183 | 20211228 |
| Defiant Ones, TheTwo escaped convicts chained together, white and black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture. | 1958 | Stanley Kramer (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.6 (15.1K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| DekalogTen television drama films, each one based on one of the Ten Commandments. | 1989 | Krzysztof Kieslowski (*) | Drama | 9.0 (24.2K votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| DeliveranceIntent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country. | 1972 | John Boorman (*) | Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (105.2K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Desperately Seeking SusanA bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself. | 1985 | Susan Seidelman | Comedy, Drama | 6.0 (22.9K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Destry Rides AgainDeputy sheriff Destry tames the town of Bottle Neck, including saloon singer Frenchy. | 1939 | George Marshall (*) | Comedy, Western | 7.7 (11.2K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Diaboliques, LesThe wife and mistress of a loathed school principal plan to murder him with what they believe is the perfect alibi. | 1955 | Henri-Georges Clouzot (*) | Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 8.1 (64.7K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Dial M For MurderA former tennis player tries to arrange his wife's murder after learning of her affair. | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Crime, Thriller | 8.2 (169.9K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Diary of a Chambermaid, TheA sophisticated and self-assured woman from Paris joins a middle-class rural estate as a maid and causes quite a stir among the variously uptight, perverse and violent inhabitants. | 1964 | Luis Buñuel (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.4 (9K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Diary of a Country PriestA young priest taking over the parish at Ambricourt tries to fulfill his duties even as he fights a mysterious stomach ailment. | 1951 | Robert Bresson (*) | Drama | 7.9 (11K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Die Hard I - Die HardAn NYPD officer tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by German terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles. | 1988 | John McTiernan (*) | Action, Thriller | 8.2 (847.3K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| DinerA group of college-age buddies struggle with their imminent passage into adulthood in 1959 Baltimore. | 1982 | Barry Levinson (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.1 (20.6K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Dinner at EightAffluent Millicent and Oliver Jordan throw a dinner for a handful of wealthy and/or well-born acquaintances, each of whom has much to reveal. | 1933 | George Cukor (*) | Drama | 7.5 (8.2K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Dirty Dozen, TheDuring World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers. | 1967 | Robert Aldrich (*) | Action, Adventure, War | 7.7 (71.1K votes) | 150 | 20211228 |
| Dirty HarryWhen a madman calling himself "the Scorpio Killer" menaces the city, tough-as-nails San Francisco Police Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan is assigned to track down and ferret out the crazed psychopath. | 1971 | Don Siegel, Clint Eastwood | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.7 (151.8K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Dirty Rotten ScoundrelsTwo con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can swindle a young American heiress out of fifty thousand dollars first. | 1988 | Frank Oz | Comedy, Crime | 7.4 (69.7K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, TheA surreal, virtually plotless series of dreams centered around six middle-class people and their consistently interrupted attempts to have a meal together. | 1972 | Luis Buñuel (*) | Comedy | 7.9 (41.8K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| DisraeliPrime Minister of Great Britain Benjamin Disraeli outwits the subterfuge of the Russians and chicanery at home in order to secure the purchase of the Suez Canal. | 1929 | Alfred E. Green | Biography, Drama, History | 6.1 (1.2K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Distant Thunder [Ashani Sanket]As food shortages reach catastrophic proportions, Gangacharan attempts to preserve his privileged situation, while his generous wife, Ananga, conversely tries to help and support the community. | 1973 | Satyajit Ray (*) | Drama | 8.1 (1.5K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| DivaTwo tapes, two Parisian mob killers, one corrupt policeman, an opera fan, a teenage thief, and the coolest philosopher ever filmed all twist their way through an intricate and stylish French-language thriller. | 1981 | Jean-Jacques Beineix | Comedy, Crime, Music, Romance, Thriller | 7.2 (12.8K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Divorce, Italian StyleA married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife. | 1961 | Pietro Germi | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 8.0 (12.5K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Do the Right ThingOn the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence. | 1989 | Spike Lee (*) | Comedy, Drama | 8.0 (98.7K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Doctor ZhivagoThe life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution. | 1965 | David Lean (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 8.0 (74.6K votes) | 197 | 20211228 |
| DodsworthA retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life. | 1936 | William Wyler (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.8 (8.9K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Donnie BrascoAn FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life, at the expense of his regular one. | 1997 | Mike Newell (*) | Biography, Crime, Drama | 7.7 (296.1K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Double IndemnityA Los Angeles insurance representative lets an alluring housewife seduce him into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, an insurance investigator. | 1944 | Billy Wilder (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 8.3 (152.5K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Down By LawTwo men are framed and sent to jail, where they meet a murderer who helps them escape and leave the state. | 1986 | Jim Jarmusch (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 7.7 (50.6K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeDr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that transforms him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde. | 1931 | Rouben Mamoulian (*) | Horror, Sci-Fi | 7.6 (13.6K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Dr. StrangeloveAn insane American general orders a bombing attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop. | 1964 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Comedy, War | 8.4 (474.6K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| DraculaTransylvanian vampire Count Dracula bends a naive real estate agent to his will, then takes up residence at a London estate where he sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential victims by night. | 1931 | Tod Browning, Karl Freund | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 7.5 (50.7K votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Dreamlife of Angels, The [La Vie Revee des Anges]The lives of two dissimilar girls turned out in different ways. | 1998 | Erick Zonca | Drama | 7.4 (7.5K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Dressed to KillA mysterious blonde woman kills one of a psychiatrist's patients, and then goes after the high-class call girl who witnessed the murder. | 1980 | Brian De Palma (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.1 (40K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Dresser, ThePersonal assistant Norman struggles to get deteriorating veteran actor Sir through a difficult performance of King Lear. | 1983 | Peter Yates | Drama | 7.6 (5.2K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Driving Miss DaisyAn old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years. | 1989 | Bruce Beresford | Drama | 7.4 (107K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Drowning by NumbersThree generations of women all share the same problem: marriage woes, and they want to put an end to it. | 1988 | Peter Greenaway (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.2 (10K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Drugstore CowboyA pharmacy-robbing dope fiend and his crew pop pills and evade the law. | 1989 | Gus Van Sant (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.3 (36.2K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Duck SoupRufus T. Firefly is named the dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of his wealthy backer Mrs. Teasdale, contending with two inept spies who can't seem to keep straight which side they' | 1933 | Leo McCarey (*) | Comedy, Musical | 7.8 (59.3K votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| Duellists, TheFrance, 1801. Due to a minor perceived slight, mild-mannered Lieutenant d'Hubert is forced into a duel with hot-headed irrational Lieutenant Feraud. The disagreement ultimately results in scores of duels spanning several years. | 1977 | Ridley Scott (*) | Drama, War | 7.4 (23.2K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| DumboRidiculed because of his enormous ears, a young circus elephant is assisted by a mouse to achieve his full potential. | 1941 | Samuel Armstrong, Norman Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Bill Roberts | Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical | 7.2 (127.9K votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| E.T. - The Extra-TerrestrialA troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home world. | 1982 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi | 7.8 (394.3K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Earrings of Madame De..., TheWhen an aristocratic woman known only as "Madame de . . ." sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay some debts, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despa | 1953 | Max Ophüls (*) | Drama, Romance | 8.0 (9.7K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Earth Trembles, The [La terra trema]In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently. | 1948 | Luchino Visconti (*) | Drama | 7.9 (4.9K votes) | 160 | 20211228 |
| East of EdenTwo brothers in 1910s California struggle to maintain their strict, Bible-toting father's favor as an old secret about their long-absent mother comes to light. | 1955 | Elia Kazan (*) | Drama | 7.9 (44.4K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Easy LivingWhen a wealthy banker throws his wife's expensive fur coat off a roof and it lands on the head of a stenographer, everyone assumes she is his mistress and has access to his millions. | 1937 | Mitchell Leisen | Comedy, Romance | 7.6 (3.4K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Eat Drink Man WomanA senior chef lives with his three grown daughters; the middle one finds her future plans affected by unexpected events and the life changes of the other household members. | 1994 | Ang Lee (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.8 (20.3K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Effi Briest [Fontane Effi Briest]In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town. She soon bears a daughter, Annie, and hi... | 1974 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder (*) | Drama, History | 6.9 (2.5K votes) | 135 | 20220723 |
| Eight Men OutA dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series. | 1988 | John Sayles (*) | Drama, History, Sport | 7.2 (20K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Elephant Man, TheA Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man who is mistreated while scraping a living as a side-show freak. Behind his monstrous façade, there is revealed a person of kindness, intelligence and sophistication. | 1980 | David Lynch (*) | Biography, Drama | 8.1 (234.2K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Elmer GantryA fast-talking traveling salesman with a charming, loquacious manner convinces a sincere evangelist that he can be an effective preacher for her cause. | 1960 | Richard Brooks | Drama | 7.7 (11.5K votes) | 146 | 20220414 |
| Empire of the SunA young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation of China during World War II. | 1987 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Drama, History, War | 7.7 (122.4K votes) | 153 | 20211228 |
| Enemies, A Love StoryA ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife. | 1989 | Paul Mazursky | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.6 (2.2K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| English Patient, TheAt the close of World War II, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair. | 1996 | Anthony Minghella | Drama, Romance, War | 7.4 (186.4K votes) | 162 | 20211228 |
| Entertainer, TheArchie Rice, an old-time British music hall performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business. | 1960 | Tony Richardson | Drama | 7.1 (3.3K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Entre NousA Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries him. | 1983 | Diane Kurys | Biography, Drama, War | 7.1 (1.9K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Europa EuropaA boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth. | 1990 | Agnieszka Holland | Drama, History, War | 7.6 (16K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Every Man for Himself [Sauve qui peut la vie]An examination of sexual relationships, in which three protagonists interact in different combinations. | 1980 | Jean-Luc Godard (*) | Drama | 6.8 (3.3K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Exorcist, TheWhen a 12-year-old girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her. | 1973 | William Friedkin (*) | Horror | 8.0 (384.5K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Exterminating Angel, TheThe guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave. | 1962 | Luis Buñuel (*) | Drama, Fantasy | 8.1 (32.4K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Face in the Crowd, AA female radio reporter turns a folk-singing drifter into a powerful media star. | 1957 | Elia Kazan (*) | Drama, Music | 8.2 (15.3K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Face to Face [Ansikte mot ansikte]A married couple of psychiatrists has their relationship tested when one suffers a mental breakdown. | 1976 | Ingmar Bergman (*) | Drama, Fantasy | 7.6 (5.4K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| FacesA middle-aged man leaves his wife for another woman. Shortly after, his ex-wife also begins a relationship with a younger partner. The film follows their struggles to find love amongst each other. | 1968 | John Cassavetes (*) | Drama | 7.6 (10.4K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Family Game, The [Kazoku gêmu]A sendup of the stereo-typical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to anyone; mom is a hopeless housewife; the older son is a moderate academic success; but the younger son is a rebellious goof-off for whom a t | 1983 | Yoshimitsu Morita | Comedy, Drama | 7.1 (926 votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Fanny and AlexanderTwo young Swedish children in the 1900s experience the many comedies and tragedies of their lively and affectionate theatrical family, the Ekdahls. | 1982 | Ingmar Bergman (*) | Drama | 8.1 (62.4K votes) | 188 | 20211228 |
| FantasiaA collection of animated interpretations of great works of Western classical music, ranging from the abstract to depictions of mythology and fantasy, and settings including the prehistoric, supernatural and sacred. | 1940 | James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, Ford Beebe Jr., Norman Ferguson, David Hand | Animation, Family, Fantasy, Music, Musical | 7.7 (93.5K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Far from HeavenIn 1950s Connecticut, a flustered housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world. | 2002 | Todd Haynes (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.4 (45.8K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Farewell My ConcubineTwo boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and will endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history. | 1993 | Kaige Chen | Drama, History, Music, Romance | 8.1 (27.5K votes) | 171 | 20211228 |
| Farewell to Spring [Sekishunchô]An aspiring white actress takes in an African-American widow whose mixed-race daughter is desperate to be seen as white. | 1959 | Douglas Sirk (*) | Drama | 7.8 (15.8K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| FargoMinnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson. | 1996 | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Crime, Thriller | 8.1 (654.8K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| 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 |
| Fat CityTwo men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take opposite momentum. | 1972 | John Huston (*) | Drama, Sport | 7.3 (8.8K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Fatal AttractionA married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family. | 1987 | Adrian Lyne (*) | Drama, Thriller | 6.9 (83K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Father of The BrideThe father of a young woman deals with the emotional pain of her getting married, along with the financial and organizational trouble of arranging the wedding. | 1950 | Vincente Minnelli (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.2 (11.1K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Fellini's SatyriconA series of disjointed mythical tales set in first-century Rome. | 1969 | Federico Fellini (*) | Drama, Fantasy, History | 6.9 (15.8K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Fisher King, TheA former radio DJ, suicidally despondent because of a terrible mistake he made, finds redemption in helping a deranged homeless man who was an unwitting victim of that mistake. | 1991 | Terry Gilliam (*) | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 7.5 (83.6K votes) | 137 | 20211228 |
| Fists in the Pocket [I Pugni in Tasca]A young man takes drastic measures to rid his dysfunctional family of its various afflictions. | 1965 | Marco Bellocchio | Drama | 7.8 (4.2K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| FitzcarraldoThe story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle. | 1982 | Werner Herzog (*) | Adventure, Drama | 8.1 (34K votes) | 158 | 20211228 |
| Five Easy PiecesA dropout from upper-class America picks up work along the way on oil rigs when his life isn't spent in a squalid succession of bars, motels, and other points of interest. | 1970 | Bob Rafelson (*) | Drama | 7.4 (35.9K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Flamingo Kid, TheA recent high-school graduate unsure of his future gets a summer job at the Flamingo beach club, and meets the charismatic Phil Brody. | 1984 | Garry Marshall (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.2 (5.4K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Fly, TheA scientist has a horrific accident when he tries to use his newly invented teleportation device. | 1958 | Kurt Neumann | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi | 7.1 (22.6K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| For Whom The Bell TollsDuring the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge. | 1943 | Sam Wood (*) | Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War | 6.9 (9.2K votes) | 170 | 20211228 |
| Forbidden GamesA young French girl orphaned in a Nazi air attack is befriended by the son of a poor farmer, and together they try to come to terms with the realities of death. | 1952 | René Clément (*) | Comedy, Drama, War | 8.1 (11.9K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Force Of EvilAn unethical lawyer, with an older brother he wants to help, becomes a partner with a client in the numbers racket. | 1948 | Abraham Polonsky (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 7.3 (6.6K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Foreign Affair, AIn occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the U.S. congresswoman investigating her. | 1948 | Billy Wilder (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.3 (7.5K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Fortune Cookie, TheA crooked lawyer persuades his brother-in-law to feign a serious injury. | 1966 | Billy Wilder (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.3 (14K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| FrankensteinDr. Frankenstein dares to tamper with life and death by creating a human monster out of lifeless body parts. | 1931 | James Whale (*) | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.8 (70.2K votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Freedom for Us [À nous la liberté]Seeking better life, two convicts escape from prison. | 1931 | René Clair (*) | Comedy, Musical | 7.4 (5K votes) | 83 | 20241019 |
| French Connection, TheA pair of NYPD detectives in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles, but stopping them and capturing their leaders proves an elusive goal. | 1971 | William Friedkin (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (118.5K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| FrenzyA serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man. | 1972 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Thriller | 7.4 (44.4K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Friendly PersuasionThe pacifist attitude of a Quaker family is tested as a result of the American Civil War. | 1956 | William Wyler (*) | Drama, Family, Romance, War, Western | 7.4 (6.9K votes) | 137 | 20211228 |
| From Here To EternityAt a U.S. Army base in 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his commanding officer's wife and top aide begin a tentative affair. | 1953 | Fred Zinnemann (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 7.6 (45.9K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Fugitive, TheAnti-Catholic and anti-cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary government to persecute the state's last remaining priest. | 1947 | John Ford, Emilio Fernández | Drama, History | 6.3 (2.3K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Full Metal JacketA pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue. | 1987 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Drama, War | 8.3 (713.8K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Full Monty, TheSix unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity. | 1997 | Peter Cattaneo | Comedy, Drama | 7.2 (103.9K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Funny FaceAn impromptu fashion shoot at a book store brings about a new fashion model discovery in the shop clerk. | 1957 | Stanley Donen (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 7.0 (29.4K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Funny GirlThe life of Fanny Brice, famed comedienne and entertainer of the early 1900s. We see her rise to fame as a Ziegfeld girl, subsequent career, and her personal life, particularly her relationship with Nick Arnstein. | 1968 | William Wyler (*) | Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance | 7.4 (22K votes) | 151 | 20211228 |
| FuryWhen a wrongly accused prisoner barely survives a lynch mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to fake his death and frame the mob for his supposed murder. | 1936 | Fritz Lang (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.9 (12.3K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| GallipoliTwo Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I. | 1981 | Peter Weir (*) | Adventure, Drama, History, War | 7.4 (38.9K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| GandhiThe life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest. | 1982 | Richard Attenborough (*) | Biography, Drama | 8.0 (225.5K votes) | 191 | 20211228 |
| Gangs of New YorkIn 1862, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher, his father's killer. | 2002 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.5 (428.4K votes) | 167 | 20211228 |
| Garden of the Finzi-Continis, The [Il giardino dei Finzi Contini]The story of the Finzi-Continis, a noble family of Ferrara, during the Jewish persecution in Italy's 1930s. | 1970 | Vittorio De Sica (*) | Drama, History, War | 7.4 (6.6K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Gas, Food, LodgingA waitress lives with her two teen daughters in a trailer park in New Mexico. They all want a boyfriend. | 1992 | Allison Anders | Drama, Romance | 6.7 (3.9K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| GaslightTen years after her aunt was murdered in their London home, a woman returns from Italy in the 1880s to resume residence with her new husband. His obsessive interest in the home rises from a secret that may require driving his wife in | 1944 | George Cukor (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 7.8 (27.4K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Gate Of Hell [Jigokumon]A samurai pursues a married lady-in-waiting. | 1953 | Teinosuke Kinugasa | Drama, History | 7.2 (3.6K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Geisha, A [Gion bayashi]A seasoned geisha and her apprentice maiko are forced to give in to their clients' sexual advances to survive. | 1953 | Kenji Mizoguchi (*) | Drama | 7.6 (2.1K votes) | 85 | 20220414 |
| General Della Rovere [Il Generale Della Rovere]Bardone, a petty con man, is arrested by the Gestapo and coerced into impersonating a partisan leader in order to expose another resistance organizer. | 1959 | Roberto Rossellini (*) | Drama, War | 7.8 (3.2K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| General, TheThe real-life story of Dublin folk hero and criminal Martin Cahill, who pulled off two daring robberies in Ireland with his team, but attracted unwanted attention from the police, the I.R.A., the U.V.F., and members of his own team. | 1998 | John Boorman (*) | Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.3 (8.6K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| GenevieveTwo British couples pit their vintage automobiles against each other in an exciting cross-country race. | 1953 | Henry Cornelius | Comedy | 7.1 (3.1K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Gentlemen Prefer BlondesShowgirls Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw travel to Paris, pursued by a private detective hired by the suspicious father of Lorelei's fiancé, as well as a rich, enamored old man and many other doting admirers. | 1953 | Howard Hawks (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 7.2 (35.8K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Georgy GirlA traditional girl (Lynn Redgrave) resists the advances of a swinger (James Mason) who wants her as his mistress in 1960s London. | 1966 | Silvio Narizzano | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.9 (3.7K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Get CarterWhen his brother dies under mysterious circumstances in a car accident, London gangster Jack Carter travels to Newcastle to investigate. | 1971 | Mike Hodges (*) | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.4 (32.5K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Get Out Your HandkerchiefsA worried husband finds a lover for his depressed wife, but she falls in love with a bullied thirteen-year-old math prodigy and wants to have the boy's baby. | 1978 | Bertrand Blier | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.9 (3.8K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Ghost WorldWith only the plan of moving in together after high school, two unusually devious friends seek direction in life. As a mere gag, they respond to a man's newspaper ad for a date, only to find it will greatly complicate their lives. | 2001 | Terry Zwigoff | Comedy, Drama | 7.3 (118.9K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| GiantSprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates. | 1956 | George Stevens (*) | Drama, Western | 7.6 (37.6K votes) | 201 | 20211228 |
| GigiWeary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship which may not stay platonic for long. | 1958 | Vincente Minnelli, Charles Walters | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.7 (22.3K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Gimme ShelterWhen three hundred thousand members of the Love Generation collided with a few dozen Hells Angels at San Francisco's Altamont Speedway, the bloody slash that transformed a decade's dreams into disillusionment was immortalized on this | 1970 | Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin | Documentary, Music, Thriller | 7.8 (11.7K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Girl Can't Help It, TheA gangster hires a down-and-out press agent to make his airheaded girlfriend a singing star. | 1956 | Frank Tashlin | Comedy, Music | 6.8 (3.3K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Girl With A Suitcase [La Ragazza Con La Valigia]A girl pursues a guy who fooled her, but fascinates his younger brother instead. | 1961 | Valerio Zurlini | Drama, Romance | 7.6 (2K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Gleaners & I, The [Les glaneurs et la glaneuse]Varda films and interviews gleaners in France in all forms, from those picking fields after the harvest to those scouring the dumpsters of Paris. | 2000 | Agnès Varda (*) | Documentary | 7.7 (7.1K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, The [Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter]Goalkeeper Josef Bloch is ejected during a game for foul play. He leaves the field and goes to spend the night with a cinema cashier. | 1972 | Wim Wenders (*) | Drama, Sport | 6.6 (1.9K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Go-Between, TheA tale of torrid and forbidden love between a couple in the English countryside. | 1971 | Joseph Losey (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.3 (5.7K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Godfather Part I, TheThe aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty in postwar New York City transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant youngest son. | 1972 | Francis Ford Coppola (*) | Crime, Drama | 9.2 (1.7M votes) | 175 | 20211228 |
| Godfather Part II, TheThe early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate. | 1974 | Francis Ford Coppola (*) | Crime, Drama | 9.0 (1.2M votes) | 202 | 20211228 |
| Going My WayWhen young Father O'Malley arrives at St. Dominic's, old Father Fitzgibbon doesn't think much of the church's newest member. | 1944 | Leo McCarey (*) | Comedy, Drama, Music | 7.1 (11.7K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| GoldfingerWhile investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve. | 1964 | Guy Hamilton (*) | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 7.7 (184.9K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Gone with the WindThe manipulative daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a turbulent romance with a roguish profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction periods. | 1939 | Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood | Drama, History, Romance, War | 8.1 (306.3K votes) | 238 | 20211228 |
| Good Earth, TheAlthough married Chinese farmers Wang and O-Lan initially experience success, their lives are complicated by declining fortunes and lean times, as well as the arrival of the beautiful young Lotus. | 1937 | Sidney Franklin, Victor Fleming, Gustav Machatý, Sam Wood | Drama, Romance | 7.5 (4.9K votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
| Good marriage [Le Beau Mariage]Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy lawyer from Paris. Sabine pursues Edmond, with the encouragement of Clarisse, but E | 1982 | Éric Rohmer (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (3.3K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Good The Bad and The Ugly, TheA bounty hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery. | 1966 | Sergio Leone (*) | Adventure, Western | 8.8 (732.4K votes) | 178 | 20211228 |
| Goodbye Mr. ChipsAn aged teacher and former headmaster of a boarding school recalls his career and his personal life over the decades. | 1939 | Sam Wood, Sidney Franklin | Drama, Romance | 7.9 (10.4K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| GoodfellasThe story of Henry Hill and his life in the mob, covering his relationship with his wife Karen Hill and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito in the Italian-American crime syndicate. | 1990 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Biography, Crime, Drama | 8.7 (1.1M votes) | 146 | 20211228 |
| Gosford ParkSet in the 1930s, this movie brings a group of pretentious rich and famous together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, each one of these interesting characters becomes a suspect. | 2001 | Robert Altman (*) | Comedy, Drama, Mystery | 7.2 (85.5K votes) | 137 | 20211228 |
| Graduate, TheA disillusioned college graduate finds himself torn between his older lover and her daughter. | 1967 | Mike Nichols (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 8.0 (266.7K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Grand HotelA group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas. | 1932 | Edmund Goulding | Drama, Romance | 7.4 (18.8K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Grand Illusion, The [La Grande Illusion]During WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress. | 1937 | Jean Renoir (*) | Drama, War | 8.1 (35.8K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Grapes of Wrath, TheAn Oklahoma family driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression. | 1940 | John Ford (*) | Drama | 8.1 (90.3K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Great Dictator, TheDictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime. | 1940 | Charles Chaplin (*) | Comedy, Drama, War | 8.4 (217.2K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Great ExpectationsA humble orphan boy in 1810s Kent is given the opportunity to go to London and become a gentleman, with the help of an unknown benefactor. | 1946 | David Lean (*) | Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Romance | 7.8 (23.8K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Great Man, TheJoe Harris, preparing a eulogy for popular radio commentator Herb Fuller, finds that nobody has a good word to say about him. | 1956 | José Ferrer | Drama | 6.9 (359 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Great McGinty, TheDan McGinty has great success in his chosen field of crooked politics, but he endangers it all in one crazy moment of honesty. | 1940 | Preston Sturges (*) | Comedy | 7.3 (3.9K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Greatest Show on Earth, TheThe dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer are told against a background of circus spectacle. | 1952 | Cecil B. DeMille (*) | Drama, Family, Romance | 6.6 (14.2K votes) | 152 | 20211228 |
| Green For DangerAfter the nurse who declares that a recent surgical death was a murder dies also, an enigmatic Scotland Yard inspector arrives to investigate. | 1946 | Sidney Gilliat | Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.5 (4.8K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Green ray [Le rayon Vert]It's July, and Delphine has nowhere to go for the summer. She feels very bored and "empty", but this won't last; one day she accidently meets someone who seems to be totally made for her... | 1986 | Éric Rohmer (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.7 (8.5K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Gregory's GirlGregory is a normal teen who is infatuated with a classmate. He must work to win her affection. | 1980 | Bill Forsyth (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.1 (8.4K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Grifters, TheA small-time conman has torn loyalties between his estranged mother and new girlfriend, both of whom are high-stakes grifters with their own angles to play. | 1990 | Stephen Frears (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.9 (27.3K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Groundhog DayA self-centered Pittsburgh weatherman finds himself inexplicably trapped in a small town as he lives the same day over and over again. | 1993 | Harold Ramis (*) | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 8.0 (603.6K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Gunfighter, TheNotorious gunfighter Jimmy Ringo rides into town to find his true love, who doesn't want to see him. He hasn't come looking for trouble, but trouble finds him around every corner. | 1950 | Henry King | Western | 7.7 (10.8K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Gunga DinIn 19th century India, three British soldiers and a native waterbearer must stop a secret mass revival of the murderous Thuggee cult before it can rampage across the land. | 1939 | George Stevens (*) | Adventure, Comedy, War | 7.3 (11.7K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Hail The Conquering HeroWoodrow is discharged from the military for hay fever, but fabricates receiving a heroic honorable discharge before returning home. | 1944 | Preston Sturges (*) | Comedy, War | 7.7 (4.6K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| HairClaude Bukowski leaves the family ranch in Oklahoma for New York where he is rapidly embraced into the hippie group of youngsters led by Berger, yet he's already been drafted. He soon falls in love with Sheila Franklin, a rich girl b | 1979 | Milos Forman (*) | Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance, War | 7.6 (37K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| HamletPrince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former king. | 1948 | Laurence Olivier (*) | Drama | 7.6 (16.5K votes) | 154 | 20211228 |
| HamletModern-day New York City adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal story about Hamlet's plight to avenge his father's murder. | 2000 | Michael Almereyda | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.0 (9.5K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Hannah And Her SistersBetween two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly. | 1986 | Woody Allen (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.9 (70.3K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| HappinessThe lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection. | 1998 | Todd Solondz | Comedy, Drama | 7.7 (69.1K votes) | 134 | 20211228 |
| Hard Days Night, AOver two "typical" days in the life of The Beatles, the boys struggle to keep themselves and Sir Paul McCartney's mischievous grandfather in check while preparing for a live TV performance. | 1964 | Richard Lester (*) | Comedy, Musical | 7.6 (44.2K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Harlan County U.S.A.A heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line. | 1976 | Barbara Kopple | Documentary | 8.3 (5.6K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Harry and TontoWhen his apartment building is torn down, a retired lifelong New Yorker goes on a cross-country odyssey with his beloved cat Tonto. | 1974 | Paul Mazursky | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.4 (5.6K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Hatful of Rain, AA Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family. | 1957 | Fred Zinnemann (*) | Drama | 7.2 (1.3K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Heartbreak Kid, TheA newlywed man on his honeymoon has second thoughts about his marriage and falls for a different woman. | 1972 | Elaine May (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (4.7K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| HeartlandA widow with a young daughter travels to a ranch in Wyoming to manage the household of a rancher. After a while the man and woman develop a relationship that leads to a marriage. But life in the harsh place takes its toll. | 1979 | Richard Pearce | Western, Drama | 7.3 (988 votes) | 96 | 20220414 |
| Heat and DustAnne is investigating the life of her grand-aunt Olivia, whose destiny has always been shrouded with scandal. As Anne delves into the history of her grand-aunt, she is led to reconsider her own life. | 1983 | James Ivory (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.6 (1.7K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| HeathersAt Westerburg High where cliques rule, jocks dominate and all the popular girls are named Heather, it's going to take a Veronica and mysterious new kid to give teen angst a body count. | 1988 | Michael Lehmann | Comedy, Crime | 7.2 (98.4K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Heavy TrafficAn underground cartoonist contends with life in the inner city, where various unsavory characters serve as inspiration for his art. | 1973 | Ralph Bakshi | Animation, Comedy, Drama | 6.6 (3.2K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Heimat - A Chronicle of Germany [Heimat - Eine Chronik in elf Teilen]The village of Schabbach experiences the shifting fortunes of Germany from 1919 to 1982. | 1984 | Edgar Reitz | Drama, History, War | 8.6 (3.3K votes) | 2 | 20240622 |
| Heiress, TheA young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter. | 1949 | William Wyler (*) | Drama, Romance | 8.2 (15.4K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Henry FoolAn introverted garbageman writes his thoughts in a notebook after Henry Fool, writer and ex-con, rents the basement and gives him a notebook and the idea. He writes poetry and Henry helps him along. | 1997 | Hal Hartley | Comedy, Drama | 7.2 (7.2K votes) | 137 | 20211228 |
| Henry VIn the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415. | 1944 | Laurence Olivier (*) | Biography, Drama, History, War | 7.1 (6.3K votes) | 137 | 20211228 |
| Henry VIn the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415. | 1989 | Kenneth Branagh | Drama, History, War | 7.5 (29.5K votes) | 137 | 20211228 |
| Here Comes Mr. JordanBoxer Joe Pendleton dies 50 years too soon due to a heavenly mistake, and is given a new life as a millionaire playboy. | 1941 | Alexander Hall | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance | 7.6 (6.3K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| High and Low [Tengoku to jigoku]An executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom. | 1963 | Akira Kurosawa (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.4 (41.4K votes) | 143 | 20211228 |
| High and The Mighty, TheWhen a commercial airliner develops engine problems on a trans-Pacific flight and the pilot loses his nerve, it is up to the washed-up co-pilot Dan Roman to bring the plane in safely. | 1954 | William A. Wellman (*) | Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 6.8 (5.8K votes) | 147 | 20211228 |
| High ArtA young female intern at a small magazine company and a drug-addicted lesbian photographer slowly fall in love while exploiting each other to advance their respective careers. | 1998 | Lisa Cholodenko | Drama, Romance | 6.6 (10.4K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| High HopesThe life of a working class couple living in London and their complicated relationships with other members of the family. | 1988 | Mike Leigh (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.4 (5.1K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| High NoonA town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must face a gang of deadly killers alone at high noon when the gang leader, an outlaw he sent up years ago, arrives on the noon train. | 1952 | Fred Zinnemann (*) | Drama, Thriller, Western | 8.0 (102.2K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| High SierraAfter being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort. | 1941 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Action, Adventure, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.5 (16.5K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Hill, TheIn a North African military prison during World War II, five new prisoners struggle to survive in the face of brutal punishment and sadistic guards. | 1965 | Sidney Lumet (*) | Drama, War | 7.9 (13.7K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| Hiroshima Mon AmourA French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war. | 1959 | Alain Resnais (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.9 (30.9K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| His Girl FridayA newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying. | 1940 | Howard Hawks (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.9 (57.2K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Homecoming, TheIn a dreary North London flat, the site of perpetual psychological warfare, a philosophy professor visits his family after a nine-year absence, and introduces the four men, father, uncle, and two brothers, to his wife. | 1973 | Peter Hall | Drama | 6.9 (768 votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Hope and GloryBill, a young boy living on the outskirts of London experiences the exhilaration of World War II. During this period, Bill learns about sex, death, love, hypocrisy, and the faults of adults as he prowls the ruins of bombed houses. | 1987 | John Boorman (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.3 (13.3K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Hôtel TerminusA documentary about Klaus Barbie, the Gestapo chief of Lyon, and his life after the war. | 1988 | Marcel Ophüls (*) | Documentary, Biography, History, War | 7.7 (1.4K votes) | 267 | 20211228 |
| Hours, TheThe story of how the novel "Mrs. Dalloway" affects three generations of women, all of whom, in one way or another, have had to deal with suicide in their lives. | 2002 | Stephen Daldry | Drama, Romance | 7.5 (129.5K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| House of GamesA psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men. | 1987 | David Mamet | Crime, Thriller | 7.3 (22.1K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Household SaintsUnsettling drama about three generations of Italian-American women struggling to get by in post-World War II New York's Little Italy. | 1993 | Nancy Savoca | Drama | 6.9 (898 votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| How Green Was My ValleyAt the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life. | 1941 | John Ford (*) | Drama, Family | 7.7 (23.4K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| How to Marry a MillionaireThree women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process. | 1953 | Jean Negulesco | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.9 (22K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Howards EndA businessman thwarts his wife's bequest of an estate to another woman. | 1992 | James Ivory (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.4 (31.5K votes) | 142 | 20211228 |
| HudHonest and hard-working Texas rancher Homer Bannon has a conflict with his unscrupulous, selfish, arrogant and egotistical son Hud, who sank into alcoholism after accidentally killing his brother in a car crash. | 1963 | Martin Ritt (*) | Drama, Western | 7.8 (21.3K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Huey LongKen Burns' portrait of Louisiana governor/U.S. senator Huey Long. | 1985 | Ken Burns | Documentary, Biography | 7.5 (490 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Husbands and WivesWhen their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their own marriage. | 1992 | Woody Allen (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.5 (28.9K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Hustler, TheAn up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match. | 1961 | Robert Rossen (*) | Drama, Sport | 8.0 (80.3K votes) | 134 | 20211228 |
| I Know Where I'm GoingA young Englishwoman goes to the Hebrides to marry her older, wealthier fiancé. When the weather keeps them separated on different islands, she begins to have second thoughts. | 1945 | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Drama, Romance | 7.5 (8.6K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| I Remember MamaA young writer recalls her ups and downs of growing up as one of four children to Norwegian immigrant parents in 1910s San Francisco. | 1948 | George Stevens (*) | Drama, Family | 7.9 (5.4K votes) | 134 | 20211228 |
| I Want to Live!A prostitute, sentenced to death for murder, pleads her innocence. | 1958 | Robert Wise (*) | Biography, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 7.5 (6.4K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| If...In this allegorical story, a revolution led by pupil Mick Travis takes place at an old established private school in England. | 1968 | Lindsay Anderson (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.5 (23.4K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| IkiruA bureaucrat tries to find meaning in his life after he discovers he has terminal cancer. | 1952 | Akira Kurosawa (*) | Drama | 8.3 (75.5K votes) | 143 | 20211228 |
| I'm All Right, JackA naive aristocrat in search of a career becomes caught up in the struggles between his profit-minded uncle and an aggressive labor union. | 1959 | John Boulting | Comedy | 7.2 (3.8K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Imitation of LifeAn aspiring white actress takes in an African-American widow whose mixed-race daughter is desperate to be seen as white. | 1959 | Douglas Sirk (*) | Drama | 7.8 (15.9K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| In Cold BloodTwo ex-cons murder a family in a robbery attempt, before going on the run from the authorities. The police try to piece together the details of the murder in an attempt to track down the killers. | 1967 | Richard Brooks | Biography, Crime, Drama, History | 7.9 (26.1K votes) | 134 | 20211228 |
| In the BedroomA New England couple's college-aged son dates an older woman who has two small children and an unwelcome ex-husband. | 2001 | Todd Field | Crime, Drama | 7.4 (39.9K votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| In The Heat of The NightA black Philadelphia police detective is mistakenly suspected of a local murder while passing through a racially hostile Mississippi town, and after being cleared is reluctantly asked by the police chief to investigate the case. | 1967 | Norman Jewison (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.9 (73.3K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Informer, TheIn 1922, an Irish rebel informs on his friend, then feels doom closing in. | 1935 | John Ford (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.4 (6.3K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Inherit the WindBased on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a Tennessee science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution. | 1960 | Stanley Kramer (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 8.1 (29.5K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Insider, TheA research chemist comes under personal and professional attack when he decides to appear in a 60 Minutes exposé on Big Tobacco. | 1999 | Michael Mann (*) | Biography, Drama, Thriller | 7.8 (167.8K votes) | 157 | 20211228 |
| Internal AffairsAn Internal Affairs agent becomes obsessed with bringing down a cop who has managed to maintain a spotless reputation despite being involved in a web of corruption. | 1990 | Mike Figgis | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.5 (19.4K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Ipcress File, TheIn London, a counter espionage Agent deals with his own bureaucracy while investigating the kidnapping and brainwashing of British scientists. | 1965 | Sidney J. Furie | Thriller | 7.2 (15.4K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| It Happened One NightA renegade reporter trailing a young runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York, and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops. | 1934 | Frank Capra (*) | Comedy, Romance | 8.1 (100.7K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Its a GiftA henpecked New Jersey grocer makes plans to move to California to grow oranges, despite the resistance of his overbearing wife. | 1934 | Norman Z. McLeod (*) | Comedy | 7.2 (5.3K votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| It's a Wonderful LifeAn angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed. | 1946 | Frank Capra (*) | Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy | 8.6 (438.9K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Jailhouse RockAfter serving time for manslaughter, young Vince Everett becomes a teenage rock star. | 1957 | Richard Thorpe | Drama, Music, Musical, Romance | 6.6 (8.4K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| JawsWhen a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Long Island, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down. | 1975 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Adventure, Thriller | 8.0 (573.2K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Jazz Singer, TheThe son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer. | 1927 | Alan Crosland | Drama, Music, Musical, Romance | 6.5 (9.8K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Jean de FloretteA greedy landowner and his backward nephew conspire to block the only water source for an adjoining property in order to bankrupt the owner and force him to sell. | 1986 | Claude Berri | Comedy, Drama | 8.0 (25.3K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Jerry MaguireWhen a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent agent with the only athlete who stays with him and his former colleague. | 1996 | Cameron Crowe | Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport | 7.3 (256.9K votes) | 139 | 20211228 |
| Johnny GuitarAfter helping a wounded gang member, a strong-willed female saloon owner is wrongly suspected of murder and bank robbery by a lynch mob. | 1954 | Nicholas Ray (*) | Drama, Western | 7.6 (17.2K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Ju DouA woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage in this circular tragedy. | 1990 | Yimou Zhang, Fengliang Yang | Drama, Romance | 7.7 (8.2K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Judge and the Assassin, The [Le juge et l'assassin]An unstable former French Sergeant commits many atrocities. A judge considers how this case could benefit or damage his career. | 1976 | Bertrand Tavernier | Crime, Drama, History | 7.4 (2K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Judgement At NurembergIn 1948, an American court in occupied Germany tries four Nazis judged for war crimes. | 1961 | Stanley Kramer (*) | Drama, War | 8.2 (75.1K votes) | 179 | 20211228 |
| Jules et Jim [Jules and Jim]Decades of a love triangle concerning two friends and an impulsive woman. | 1962 | François Truffaut (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.8 (40.3K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Juliet of the Spirits [Giulietta degli spirit]Visions, memories, and mysticism all help a 40-something woman to find the strength to leave her cheating husband. | 1965 | Federico Fellini (*) | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 7.6 (13.3K votes) | 137 | 20211228 |
| Junior BonnerAce Bonner returns to Arizona several years after he abandoned his family, Junior Bonner is a wild young man. Against the typical rodeo championship, family drama erupts. | 1972 | Sam Peckinpah (*) | Drama, Western | 6.9 (6.2K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| KagemushaA petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place. | 1980 | Akira Kurosawa (*) | Drama, History, War | 8.0 (34.9K votes) | 162 | 20211228 |
| Killers, TheHit men kill an unresisting victim, and investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins. | 1946 | Robert Siodmak (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 7.8 (20.7K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Killing Fields, TheA journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians. | 1984 | Roland Joffé (*) | Biography, Drama, History, War | 7.8 (54.5K votes) | 141 | 20211228 |
| Kind Hearts and CoronetsA distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession. | 1949 | Robert Hamer (*) | Comedy, Crime | 8.0 (36.6K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| King And I, TheA widow accepts a job as a live-in governess to the King of Siam's children. | 1956 | Walter Lang | Biography, Drama, Musical, Romance | 7.4 (25.5K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| King KongA film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot and discovers a colossal ape who takes a shine to their female blonde star. He is then captured and brought back to New York City for public exhibition. | 1933 | Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi | 7.9 (83.6K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| King LearThe Shakespeare tragedy that gave us the expression "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child." King Lear has not one but two ungrateful children, and it's especially galling because he turned over his entir | 1970 | Peter Brook | Drama | 7.2 (834 votes) | 137 | 20211228 |
| King of ComedyRupert Pupkin is a passionate yet unsuccessful comic who craves nothing more than to be in the spotlight and to achieve this, he stalks and kidnaps his idol to take the spotlight for himself. | 1982 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.8 (98.8K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| King of Marvin Gardens, TheA daydreamer convinces his radio personality brother to help fund one of his get-rich-quick schemes. | 1972 | Bob Rafelson (*) | Drama | 6.5 (5.4K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Kiss of the Spider WomanA gay man and a political prisoner are together in a prison. The gay man narrates the stories of two fake movies and his own life. | 1985 | Hector Babenco (*) | Drama | 7.3 (15.3K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| KluteA small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute. | 1971 | Alan J. Pakula (*) | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.2 (25.1K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Knife In The WaterA couple pick up a hitchhiker on the way to their yacht. The husband invites the young man to come along for their day's sailing. As the voyage progresses, the antagonism between the two men grows. A violent confrontation is inevitab | 1962 | Roman Polanski (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.5 (21.5K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Kramer vs KramerAfter his wife leaves him, a work-obsessed Manhattan advertising executive is forced to learn long-neglected parenting skills, but a heated custody battle over the couple's young son deepens the wounds left by the separation. | 1979 | Robert Benton (*) | Drama | 7.8 (141.4K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| L.A. ConfidentialAs corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice. | 1997 | Curtis Hanson (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.2 (563.7K votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
| La An' a LampA gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner. Romantic entanglements and jealousies confuse the scheme. | 1932 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Comedy, Crime, Romance | 8.0 (14.3K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| La CeremonieA newly hired maid for a rich countryside family befriends a post-office clerk who encourages her to rebel against her employers. | 1995 | Claude Chabrol (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.5 (11.4K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| La ChienneA woman and her pimp exploit a painter for money. | 1931 | Jean Renoir (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.6 (4.1K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| La Dolce VitaA series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome. | 1960 | Federico Fellini (*) | Comedy, Drama | 8.0 (71.2K votes) | 174 | 20211228 |
| La Femme NikitaConvicted felon, Nikita, isn't going to jail; she's given a new identity and trained, stylishly, as a top secret spy/assassin. | 1990 | Luc Besson (*) | Action, Thriller | 7.3 (70.9K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| La StradaA care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way. | 1954 | Federico Fellini (*) | Drama | 8.0 (61.7K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Lacombe LucienIn 1944, an 18-year old boy from small-town France, collaborates with the Nazi-regime and subsequently falls in love with a Jewish girl. | 1974 | Louis Malle (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 7.7 (7K votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
| Lady Eve, TheA trio of classy card sharps targets the socially awkward heir to brewery millions for his money, until one of them falls in love with him. | 1941 | Preston Sturges (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.8 (20.9K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Lady Vanishes, TheWhile travelling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train. | 1938 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Mystery, Thriller | 7.8 (51.1K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Ladybird LadybirdThis Ken Loach docu-drama relates the story of a British woman's fight with Social Services over the care of her children. Maggie has a history of bouncing from one abusive relationship to another. She has four children, of four diff | 1994 | Ken Loach (*) | Drama | 7.4 (3.5K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| L'Age d'OrA surrealist tale of a man and a woman who are passionately in love with each other, but their attempts to consummate that passion are constantly thwarted by their families, the Church, and bourgeois society. | 1930 | Luis Buñuel (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.3 (13.6K votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| LamericaImmediately after the fall of communism in Albania, two Italians go there to embezzle investment money by creating a fake company. As the chairman/fall guy, they pick a former political prisoner who turns out to be more than meets th | 1994 | Gianni Amelio | Comedy, Drama | 7.5 (2.2K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| L'argentA forged 500-franc note is passed from person to person until carelessness leads to tragedy. | 1983 | Robert Bresson (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.5 (9.5K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Last American Hero, TheA young hellraiser quits his moonshine business to try to become the best NASCAR racer the south has ever seen. | 1973 | Lamont Johnson | Drama, Sport | 6.4 (1.7K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Last Emperor, TheThe story of the final Emperor of China. | 1987 | Bernardo Bertolucci (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 7.7 (100.2K votes) | 163 | 20211228 |
| Last Metro [Le dernier metro], TheIn occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs. | 1980 | François Truffaut (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 7.4 (13.8K votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| Last Picture Show, TheIn 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied North Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically. | 1971 | Peter Bogdanovich (*) | Drama, Romance | 8.0 (46.6K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Last Seduction, TheA devious sexpot steals her husband's drug money and hides out in a small town where she meets the perfect dupe for her next scheme. | 1994 | John Dahl | Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller | 7.1 (22.9K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Last Tango in ParisA young Parisian woman meets a middle-aged American businessman who demands their clandestine relationship be based only on sex. | 1972 | Bernardo Bertolucci (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.0 (52.7K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Last Temptation of Christ, TheThe life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross. | 1988 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Drama | 7.5 (55.8K votes) | 164 | 20211228 |
| Last Temptation, The [O teleftaios peirasmos]The life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross. | 1988 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Drama | 7.5 (55.6K votes) | 164 | 20211228 |
| Last Waltz, TheA film account and presentation of the final concert of The Band. | 1978 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Documentary, Biography, Music | 8.2 (17.4K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| L'AtalanteNewly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'atalante along with the captain's first mate Le père Jules and a cabin boy. | 1934 | Jean Vigo (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.8 (15.5K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| LauraA police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he is investigating. | 1944 | Otto Preminger (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 8.0 (46.1K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Lavender Hill Mob, TheA meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers. | 1951 | Charles Crichton (*) | Comedy, Crime | 7.6 (13.9K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| L'AvventuraA woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. During the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other. | 1960 | Michelangelo Antonioni (*) | Drama, Mystery, Romance | 7.8 (28.8K votes) | 144 | 20211228 |
| Lawrence of ArabiaThe story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks. | 1962 | David Lean (*) | Adventure, Biography, Drama, War | 8.3 (284.5K votes) | 228 | 20211228 |
| League of Their Own, ATwo sisters join the first female professional baseball league and struggle to help it succeed amidst their own growing rivalry. | 1992 | Penny Marshall (*) | Comedy, Drama, Sport | 7.3 (101.7K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Leaving Las VegasBen Sanderson, a Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his alcoholism, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera. | 1995 | Mike Figgis | Drama, Romance | 7.5 (120.9K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Leopard, TheThe Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily. | 1963 | Luchino Visconti (*) | Drama, History | 8.0 (25.1K votes) | 186 | 20211228 |
| Les CousinsA pair of cousins share a flat, but animosity begins to build between the two when a woman gets involved. | 1959 | Claude Chabrol (*) | Drama | 7.3 (2.8K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Les MiserablesIn early 19th Century France an ex-convict who failed to report to parole is relentlessly pursued over a 20 year period by an obsessive policeman. | 1935 | Richard Boleslawski | Drama, History, Romance | 7.7 (3.5K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Letter to Three Wives, AA letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands - but she does not say which one. | 1949 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.7 (9.3K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Letter, TheThe wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense, but a letter in her own hand may prove her undoing. | 1940 | William Wyler (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance | 7.6 (12.8K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Liaisons Dangereuses, LesJuliette Merteuil and Valmont is a sophisticated couple, always looking for fun and excitement. Both have sexual affairs with others and share their experiences with one another. But there is one rule: never fall in love. But this ti | 1959 | Roger Vadim (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.8 (1.4K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, TheFrom the Boer War through World War II, a soldier rises through the ranks in the British military. | 1943 | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Drama, Romance, War | 8.1 (14.4K votes) | 163 | 20211228 |
| Life is SweetA shop assistant, her cook husband, and their twin daughters ponder their lives over a few weeks in a working-class suburb north of London. | 1990 | Mike Leigh (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.5 (10K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Life of Emile Zola, TheThe biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfus Affair. | 1937 | William Dieterle (*) | Biography, Drama | 7.2 (8K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Life With FatherA straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost. | 1947 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Comedy, Family | 7.2 (5.3K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Like Water for ChocolateWhen tradition prevents her from marrying the man she loves, a young woman discovers she has a unique talent for cooking. | 1992 | Alfonso Arau | Drama, Romance | 7.1 (17.8K votes) | 105 | 20220414 |
| LiliAn orphaned young woman becomes part of a puppet act and forms a relationship with the anti-social puppeteer. | 1953 | Charles Walters (*) | Drama, Musical, Romance | 7.4 (3.6K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Little Big ManJack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer. | 1970 | Arthur Penn (*) | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Western | 7.6 (34.6K votes) | 139 | 20211228 |
| Little CaesarA small-time criminal moves to a big city to seek bigger fortune. | 1931 | Mervyn LeRoy (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.2 (13K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Little Foxes, TheThe ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan lives in, and poisons, their part of the deep South at the turn of the twentieth century. | 1941 | William Wyler (*) | Drama, Romance | 8.0 (11.6K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Little FugitiveA young boy fears that he shot his older brother, who is only faking. He then runs away to Coney Island, a crowded beach area, and gets money by returning soda bottles for their deposits. | 1953 | Ray Ashley, Morris Engel, Ruth Orkin | Drama, Family | 7.5 (2.7K votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Little Kidnappers, The [The Kidnappers]A Scotsman, Jim MacKenzie, living on a primitive homestead in Nova Scotia, is raising his two grandsons, Harry and Davy, following the death of their father in the Boer War. His son's death has developed antagonism by MacKenzie towar | 1953 | Philip Leacock | Drama, Family, Romance, War | 7.1 (493 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Little Theatre of Jean Renoir, The [Le petit théâtre de Jean Renoir]Made for television, this film consists of four parts: Part One, "The Last Christmas Dinner," is about the relationship between an old man and an old woman, both homeless. Part Two, "The Electric Floor Polisher," is an opera-like sto | 1970 | Jean Renoir (*) | Drama | 7.1 (255 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Little Vera [Malenkaya Vera]A teenage girl, who has just finished school feels trapped and aimless in her ordinary Russian family, supported by an alcoholic father, in a dull industrial town. | 1988 | Vasili Pichul | Drama, Romance | 7.0 (1.9K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Little WomenA chronicle of the lives of a group of sisters growing up in nineteenth-century America. | 1933 | George Cukor (*) | Drama, Family, Romance, War | 7.2 (6.9K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Little WomenThe March sisters live and grow in post-Civil War America. | 1994 | Gillian Armstrong | Drama, Family, Romance | 7.3 (57.5K votes) | 115 | 20220414 |
| Lives Of A Bengal Lancer, TheThree British soldiers on the Northwest Frontier of India struggle against the enemy - and themselves. | 1935 | Henry Hathaway | Adventure, Drama, War | 7.1 (2.9K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Living In OblivionThis ultimate tribute to all independent filmmakers takes place during one day on the set of a non-budget movie. | 1995 | Tom DiCillo | Comedy, Drama | 7.5 (18.1K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Local HeroAn American oil company has plans for a new refinery and sends someone to Scotland to buy up an entire village, but things don't go as expected. | 1983 | Bill Forsyth (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.4 (23.5K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| LolaA seductive cabaret singer-prostitute pits a corrupt building contractor against the new straight-arrow building commissioner, launching an outrageous plan to elevate herself in a world where everything-and everyone-is for sale. | 1981 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.5 (5.9K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Lola MontesWhen she is reduced to appearing in a circus, a notorious beauty thinks back on her past loves. | 1955 | Max Ophüls (*) | Biography, Drama, Romance | 7.3 (5.3K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| LolitaA middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a fourteen-year-old nymphet. | 1962 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.5 (98.6K votes) | 153 | 20211228 |
| Lone StarWhen the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town. | 1996 | John Sayles (*) | Drama, Mystery, Western | 7.4 (29.3K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner, TheA young thief takes up long-distance running when he is sent to a borstal. | 1962 | Tony Richardson | Drama, Sport | 7.6 (8.5K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Long Day's Journey Into NightAt the end of a long and hot summer day, members of one family gather in a large house. Everyone has something painful and offensive to say, and their silence is even worse. | 1962 | Sidney Lumet (*) | Drama | 7.6 (5.1K votes) | 174 | 20211228 |
| Long Good Friday, TheAn up-and-coming gangster is tested by the insurgence of an unknown, very powerful threat. | 1980 | John Mackenzie | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.6 (21.2K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Long Goodbye, ThePrivate investigator Philip Marlowe helps a friend out of a jam, but in doing so gets implicated in his wife's murder. | 1973 | Robert Altman (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.5 (30.5K votes) | 112 | 20220414 |
| Long Voyage Home, TheA merchant ship's crew tries to survive the loneliness of the sea and the coming of war. | 1940 | John Ford (*) | Drama, War | 7.0 (4.2K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Longest Day, TheThe events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view. | 1962 | Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Gerd Oswald, Bernhard Wicki, Darryl F. Zanuck | Action, Drama, History, War | 7.8 (54.6K votes) | 178 | 20211228 |
| Look Back in AngerA disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values. | 1959 | Tony Richardson | Drama | 7.0 (3.8K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Los OlvidadosA group of juvenile delinquents lives a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, and the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others. | 1950 | Luis Buñuel (*) | Crime, Drama | 8.3 (19.8K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Lost HorizonWhen a revered diplomat's plane is diverted and crashes in the peaks of Tibet, he and the other survivors are guided to an isolated monastery at Shangri-La, where they wrestle with the invitation to stay. | 1937 | Frank Capra (*) | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery | 7.7 (12.8K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| Lost in AmericaA husband and wife in their 30s decide to quit their jobs, live as free spirits and cruise America in a Winnebago. | 1985 | Albert Brooks (*) | Comedy | 7.0 (8.7K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Lost Weekend, TheThe desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout. | 1945 | Billy Wilder (*) | Drama, Film-Noir | 7.9 (36K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| LoveThe wife of a political prisoner tends to her mother-in-law and keeps from the old woman the truth about her son, whom she believes is in New York making a film. | 1971 | Károly Makk | Drama | 7.9 (1.9K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Love [Szerelem]The wife of a political prisoner tends to her mother-in-law and keeps from the old woman the truth about her son, whom she believes is in New York making a film. | 1971 | Károly Makk | Drama | 7.9 (1.9K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Love AffairA French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. | 1939 | Leo McCarey (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.3 (5K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Love and DeathIn czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon. | 1975 | Woody Allen (*) | Comedy, War | 7.7 (37.9K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Love in Germany, A [Eine Liebe in Deutschland]In May of 1983, a man turns 49 and, with his 17-year old son, journeys to the village in Baden that he left 40 years before. He wants to discover what happened then, the truth about an affair his mother had with a young Polish pri... | 1983 | Andrzej Wajda (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 6.5 (410 votes) | 110 | 20240622 |
| Love In The AfternoonA middle-aged playboy becomes fascinated by the daughter of a private detective who has been hired to entrap him with the wife of a client. | 1957 | Billy Wilder (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.2 (15.2K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Love in the Afternoon [L'Amour l'apres-midi]Though he has an adoring wife, a bourgeois man is still tempted to pursue other women. | 1972 | Éric Rohmer (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.7 (7.8K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Love on the Run [L'amour en fuite]Antoine Doinel is now more than thirty. He divorces from Christine. He is a proofreader, and is in love with Sabine, a record seller. Colette, his teenager love, is now a lawyer. She buys Antoine's first published autobiographical no | 1979 | François Truffaut (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.1 (6.7K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Lovely & AmazingSelf-esteem and insecurity are at the heart of this comedy about the relationship between a mother and her three confused daughters. | 2001 | Nicole Holofcener | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.8 (7.2K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Lover, Come BackA series of misunderstandings leaves an advertising executive with a campaign for a product which has not yet been invented, while he romances his rival in the guise of its inventor. | 1961 | Delbert Mann (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.2 (7.8K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Lovers, The [Les Amants]Saddled with a dull husband and a foolish lover, a woman has an affair with a stranger. | 1958 | Louis Malle (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.1 (5.4K votes) | 90 | 20220315 |
| Loves Of A Blonde [Lásky jedné plavovlásky]A factory manager in rural Czechoslovakia bargains with the army to send men to the area, to boost the morale of his young female workers, deprived of male company since the local boys have been conscripted. The army sends reservists | 1965 | Milos Forman (*) | Comedy, Romance, Drama | 7.6 (8.4K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| LovingIn this romantic comedy/drama, George Segal stars as a freelance artist who's attempting to revitalize his career just as his marriage to Eva Marie Saint begins to fall apart. Co-starring David Doyle, Sterling Hayden and Kennan Wynn. | 1970 | Irvin Kershner (*) | Comedy, Drama | 6.0 (655 votes) | 89 | 20220414 |
| Lust for LifeThe life of brilliant but tortured artist Vincent van Gogh. | 1956 | Vincente Minnelli, George Cukor | Biography, Drama | 7.4 (11.5K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| MWhen the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt. | 1931 | Fritz Lang (*) | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 8.3 (153.3K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Mad MaxIn a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang. | 1979 | George Miller (*) | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.9 (201.7K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Mad Max 2 - The Road WarriorIn the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline-rich community escape a horde of bandits. | 1981 | George Miller (*) | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.6 (175.5K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Madness of King George, TheWhen King George III goes mad, his Lieutenants try to adjust the rules to run the country without his participation. | 1994 | Nicholas Hytner | Biography, Comedy, Drama, History | 7.2 (16.4K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Magic Flute [Trollflojten], TheThe story of the prince Tamino and his zestful sidekick Papageno, who are sent on a mission to save a beautiful princess from the clutches of evil. | 1975 | Ingmar Bergman (*) | Comedy, Fantasy, Music, Romance | 7.6 (4.7K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Major and The Minor, TheA frustrated city girl disguises herself as a youngster in order to get a cheaper train ticket home. But little "Sue Sue" finds herself in a whole heap of grown-up trouble when she hides out in a compartment with a handsome Major. | 1942 | Billy Wilder (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.4 (6.8K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Major BarbaraA young and idealistic woman, who has adopted the Salvation Army and whose father is an armament industrialist, will save more souls directing her father's business. A comedy with social commentary. | 1941 | Gabriel Pascal, Harold French, David Lean | Comedy | 6.8 (1.3K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Make Way For TomorrowAn elderly couple are forced to live hundreds of miles apart when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in. | 1937 | Leo McCarey (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 8.2 (8.2K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Malcolm XBiographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam. | 1992 | Spike Lee (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 7.7 (92K votes) | 202 | 20211228 |
| Maltese Falcon, TheSan Francisco private detective Sam Spade takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered. | 1941 | John Huston (*) | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance | 8.0 (155.4K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Man For All Seasons, AThe story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry. | 1966 | Fred Zinnemann (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 7.7 (33.8K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Man HuntBritish hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by German agents and aided by a young woman. | 1941 | Fritz Lang (*) | Drama, Romance, Thriller, War | 7.3 (5.3K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Man Who Came to Dinner, TheAn acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a Midwestern family. | 1942 | William Keighley | Comedy, Romance | 7.6 (7.7K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Man Who Loved Women, The [Homme qui aimait les femmes]Bertrand Morane's burial is attended by all the women the forty-year-old engineer loved. We then flash back to Bertrand's life and love affairs, told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel. A film about romantic relations | 1977 | François Truffaut (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.4 (6.7K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Man Who Wasn't There, TheA laconic, chain-smoking barber blackmails his wife's boss and lover for money to invest in dry cleaning, but his plan goes terribly wrong. | 2001 | Joel Coen (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.5 (107.9K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Man with the Golden Arm, TheA junkie must face his true self to kick his drug addiction. | 1955 | Otto Preminger (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.4 (10.9K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Manchurian Candidate, TheAn American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy. | 1962 | John Frankenheimer (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.9 (74.3K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| ManhattanThe life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress. | 1979 | Woody Allen (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.9 (137.9K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Manon of the SpringA beautiful but shy shepherdess plots vengeance on the men whose greedy conspiracy to acquire her father's land caused his death years earlier. | 1986 | Claude Berri | Drama | 8.0 (21.9K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Marriage Italian StyleThe rich man Domenico and Filumena, a penniless prostitute, share great part of their lives in the immediate post WWII Italy. | 1964 | Vittorio De Sica (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.5 (9.6K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Married to The MobA mobster's wife hates her lifestyle, but gets a chance to change it when her husband is killed - if the Long Island mob and the FBI let her. | 1988 | Jonathan Demme (*) | Comedy, Crime, Romance | 6.2 (17.4K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Marrying Kind, TheFlorence and Chet Keefer have had a troublesome marriage. Whilst in the middle of a divorce hearing the judge encourages them to remember the good times they have had hoping that the marriage can be saved. | 1952 | George Cukor (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.0 (1.4K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| MartyA middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love meet at a dance and fall for each other. | 1955 | Delbert Mann (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.7 (23.5K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Mary PoppinsIn turn of the century London, a magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father. | 1964 | Robert Stevenson (*) | Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical | 7.8 (167.2K votes) | 139 | 20211228 |
| MASHThe staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and high jinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war. | 1970 | Robert Altman (*) | Comedy, Drama, War | 7.4 (71.2K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Match Factory Girl, The [Tulitikkutehtaan Tyttö]A woman's terribly dull life is upended by a one-night stand pregnancy, causing her to seek retribution. | 1990 | Aki Kaurismäki (*) | Drama, Comedy | 7.5 (9.8K votes) | 69 | 20220414 |
| Matter Of Life And Death, AA British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl. | 1946 | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Drama, Fantasy, Romance, War | 8.1 (21.4K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| MayerlingRudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, is fettered on all sides. He's bored; his father, the emperor, is domineering; his politics are more liberal than his father's, but he knows his views carry no weight. He agrees to marry a princess to | 1936 | Anatole Litvak (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.0 (806 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| McCabe & Mrs. MillerA gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene. | 1971 | Robert Altman (*) | Drama, Western | 7.7 (24.3K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Mean StreetsA small-time hood tries to keep the peace between his friend Johnny and Johnny's creditors. | 1973 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.2 (106.5K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Meet Me in St LouisYoung love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family. | 1944 | Vincente Minnelli (*) | Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance | 7.6 (23.7K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Melvin and HowardThe story of hard-luck Melvin E. Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes. | 1980 | Jonathan Demme (*) | Comedy, Drama | 6.8 (4.8K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Memories of Underdevelopment [Memorias del subdesarrollo]A Cuban man cycles through his opinions and memories as the threat of foreign invasion intensifies and the rest of his family moves to Miami. | 1968 | Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (*) | Drama | 7.7 (4.1K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Memory of Justice, TheExplores the subject of atrocities during wartime, especially during World War II and the Vietnam War. | 1976 | Marcel Ophüls (*) | Documentary, War | 8.5 (346 votes) | 278 | 20211228 |
| Men, TheA paralyzed war vet tries to adjust to the world without the use of his limbs. | 1950 | Fred Zinnemann (*) | Drama | 7.1 (4.6K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Ménage [Tenue de soirée]A bisexual petty criminal named Bob encounters a married couple arguing in a bar. Bob breaks up the fight and proceeds to seduce first the wife and then the husband. Then Bob teaches the couple how to be burglars and they join him in | 1986 | Bertrand Blier | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 6.9 (3K votes) | 84 | 20220414 |
| MetropolitanA group of young upper-class Manhattanites are blithely passing through the gala debutante season, when an unusual outsider joins them and stirs them up. | 1990 | Whit Stillman | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.3 (11.1K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| MidnightA chorus girl stranded in Paris is set up by a millionaire to break up his wife's affair with another man, while being romantically pursued by a cab driver. | 1939 | Mitchell Leisen | Comedy, Romance | 7.9 (4.9K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Midnight CowboyA naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process. | 1969 | John Schlesinger (*) | Drama | 7.8 (108.2K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Minnie and MoskowitzA museum curator falls in love with a crazy parking attendant. | 1971 | John Cassavetes (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.3 (4.7K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Miracle of Morgan's Creek, TheAfter an all-night send-off party for the troops, a small-town girl with an awkward boyfriend wakes up to find herself married and pregnant, but with no memory of her husband's identity. | 1944 | Preston Sturges (*) | Comedy, Romance, War | 7.6 (7.4K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Miracle on 34th StreetAfter a divorced New York mother hires a nice old man to play Santa Claus at Macy's, she is startled by his claim to be the genuine article. When his sanity is questioned, a lawyer defends him in court by arguing that he's not mistak | 1947 | George Seaton | Comedy, Drama, Family | 7.9 (47K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Miracle Worker, TheThe story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind and deaf Helen Keller how to communicate. | 1962 | Arthur Penn (*) | Biography, Drama | 8.1 (18.4K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Misfits, TheA divorcée falls for an over-the-hill cowboy who is struggling to maintain his romantically independent lifestyle. | 1961 | John Huston (*) | Drama, Romance, Western | 7.2 (20.2K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| MissingWhen an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him. | 1982 | Costa-Gavras (*) | Biography, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller | 7.7 (21K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Mister RobertsIn the waning days of World War II, the cargo officer of a Navy supply ship chafes at its role far from the action in the Pacific's backwater areas, his frustration rising when its captain denies the crew liberty over petty irritatio | 1955 | John Ford, Mervyn LeRoy, Joshua Logan | Comedy, Drama, War | 7.7 (16.4K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| Mon OncleMonsieur Hulot visits the technology-driven world of his sister, brother-in-law, and nephew, but he can't quite fit into the surroundings. | 1958 | Jacques Tati (*) | Comedy | 7.8 (21.6K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Mona LisaA man recently released from prison manages to get a job driving a call girl from customer to customer. | 1986 | Neil Jordan | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.3 (16.2K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Monsieur VerdouxA suave but cynical man supports his family by marrying and murdering rich women for their money, but the job has some occupational hazards. | 1947 | Charles Chaplin (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 7.9 (17.1K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Monsters IncIn order to power the city, monsters have to scare children so that they scream. However, the children are toxic to the monsters, and after a child gets through, two monsters realize things may not be what they think. | 2001 | Pete Docter, David Silverman, Lee Unkrich | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy | 8.1 (869K votes) | 92 | 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 |
| MoonstruckLoretta Castorini, a bookkeeper from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the brother of the man she has agreed to marry. | 1987 | Norman Jewison (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.1 (57.2K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| More the Merrier, TheDuring the World War II housing shortage in Washington, two men and a woman share a single apartment and the older man plays Cupid to the other two. | 1943 | George Stevens (*) | Comedy, Romance, War | 7.7 (6.4K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Morgan A Suitable Case for TreatmentAfter his wife leaves him for his former best friend, a failed London artist begins his descent into madness in trying to win her back. | 1966 | Karel Reisz | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy | 6.7 (1.9K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Mortal Storm, TheThe Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. When the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Breitner, a family friend, is caught up in the turmoil. | 1940 | Frank Borzage (*) | Drama | 7.8 (5.2K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| MotherA neurotic, twice-divorced sci-fi writer moves back in with his mother to solve his personal problems. | 1996 | Albert Brooks (*) | Comedy, Drama | 6.9 (6.2K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Moulin RougeFictional account of French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. | 1952 | John Huston (*) | Biography, Drama, Music, Romance | 7.1 (5.4K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Mouthpiece, TheProsecutor becomes a defense attorney after an innocent man is sent to an electric chair. | 1932 | James Flood, Elliott Nugent | Drama | 7.1 (503 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Mr. & Mrs. BridgeSet during World War II, an upper-class family begins to fall apart due to the conservative nature of the patriarch and the progressive values of his children. | 1990 | James Ivory (*) | Drama | 6.6 (3.1K votes) | 126 | 20220324 |
| Mr. Deeds Goes to TownA unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him. | 1936 | Frank Capra (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.9 (21K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Mr. Hulot's HolidayMonsieur Hulot comes to a beachside hotel for a vacation and accidentally, but good-naturedly, causes havoc. | 1953 | Jacques Tati (*) | Comedy | 7.4 (18.1K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Mr. Smith Goes to WashingtonA naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his char | 1939 | Frank Capra (*) | Comedy, Drama | 8.1 (113.2K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Mrs. MiniverA British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II. | 1942 | William Wyler (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 7.6 (17.2K votes) | 134 | 20211228 |
| Much Ado About NothingYoung lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well. | 1993 | Kenneth Branagh | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.3 (47.3K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Mulholland DrAfter 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. | 2001 | David Lynch (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.9 (343.7K votes) | 147 | 20211228 |
| Murmur of the HeartAs France is nearing the end of the first Indochina War, an open-minded teenage boy finds himself torn between a rebellious urge to discover love, and the ever-present, almost dominating affection of his beloved mother. | 1971 | Louis Malle (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.7 (9.7K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Mutiny on the BountyFirst mate Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against his sadistic commander, Captain Bligh, in this classic seafaring adventure, based on the real-life 1789 mutiny. | 1935 | Frank Lloyd | Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance | 7.7 (22.3K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| My American Uncle [Mon Oncle d'Amérique]The intersecting stories of three people who face difficult choices in life-changing situations are used to illustrate the theories espoused by Henri Laborit about human behavior and the relationship between the self and society. | 1980 | Alain Resnais (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.7 (5.8K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| My Beautiful LaundretteAn ambitious Pakistani Briton and his white boyfriend strive for success and hope when they open a glamorous laundromat. | 1985 | Stephen Frears (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.8 (15.6K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| My Darling ClementineAfter their cattle are stolen and their brother murdered, the Earp brothers have a score to settle with the Clanton family. | 1946 | John Ford (*) | Drama, Romance, Western | 7.8 (23.1K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| My Dinner with AndreTwo old friends meet for dinner; as one tells anecdotes detailing his experiences, the other notices their differing worldviews. | 1981 | Louis Malle (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.8 (20.6K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| My Fair LadyIn 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make crude flower girl Eliza Doolittle presentable in high society. | 1964 | George Cukor (*) | Drama, Family, Musical, Romance | 7.8 (93K votes) | 170 | 20211228 |
| My Left FootChristy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot. | 1989 | Jim Sheridan (*) | Biography, Drama | 7.9 (72.5K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| My Life As A Dog [Mitt liv som hund]A boy and his brother don't get along well. In order to let their ill mother rest, they're separated and sent each one with their relatives. | 1985 | Lasse Hallström | Drama, Comedy | 7.6 (20.8K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| My Man GodfreyA scatterbrained socialite hires a vagrant as a family butler - but there's more to Godfrey than meets the eye. | 1936 | Gregory La Cava (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 8.0 (23.2K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| My Night at Maud's [Ma nuit chez Maud]The rigid principles of a devout Catholic man are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality. | 1969 | Éric Rohmer (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.9 (12.4K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| My Own Private IdahoTwo best friends living on the streets of Portland as hustlers embark on a journey of self discovery and find their relationship stumbling along the way. | 1991 | Gus Van Sant (*) | Drama | 7.0 (54.7K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| My Twentieth Century [Az en XX. szazadom]Two twin sisters, who grew up separately, Dóra, a pseudo-aristocrat, and Lili, an anarchist bomber, are reunited through Z, a mysterious traveller of the luxurious Orient-Express. | 1989 | Ildikó Enyedi | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi | 7.1 (1.7K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Naked Gun - From the Files of Police Squad, TheIncompetent police Detective Frank Drebin must foil an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II. | 1988 | David Zucker (*) | Comedy, Crime | 7.6 (163.5K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| NashvilleOver the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention. | 1975 | Robert Altman (*) | Comedy, Drama, Music | 7.7 (25.6K votes) | 160 | 20211228 |
| National VelvetA jaded former jockey helps a young girl prepare a wild but gifted horse for England's Grand National Sweepstakes. | 1944 | Clarence Brown | Drama, Family, Sport | 7.3 (7K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| NetworkA television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit, but finds that his message may be difficult to control. | 1976 | Sidney Lumet (*) | Drama | 8.1 (154.7K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Never on sunday [Pote tin kyriaki]An American scholar in Greece sets about improving the prostitute with whom he is infatuated. | 1960 | Jules Dassin | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.4 (5.6K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Night MovesLos Angeles private investigator Harry Moseby is hired by a client to find her runaway teenage daughter. Moseby tracks the daughter down, only to stumble upon something much more intriguing and sinister. | 1975 | Arthur Penn (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.1 (14.4K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Night of the HunterA religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery. | 1955 | Charles Laughton (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 8.0 (87K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Night of the Living DeadA ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls that are ravaging the East Coast of the United States. | 1968 | George A. Romero (*) | Horror, Thriller | 7.9 (124.5K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Night to Remember, AOn its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean. | 1958 | Roy Ward Baker | Drama, History | 7.9 (15K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| Nightmare on Elm Street, ATeenager Nancy Thompson must uncover the dark truth concealed by her parents after she and her friends become targets of the spirit of a serial killer with a bladed glove in their dreams, in which if they die, it kills them in real l | 1984 | Wes Craven (*) | Horror | 7.5 (226.5K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| NinotchkaA stern Soviet woman sent to Paris to supervise the sale of jewels seized from Russian nobles finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest. | 1939 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.9 (20.6K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Nobody's FoolA stubborn man past his prime reflects on his life of strict independence and seeks more from himself. | 1994 | Robert Benton (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.4 (19.9K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Norma RaeA young single mother and textile worker agrees to help unionize her mill despite the problems and dangers involved. | 1979 | Martin Ritt (*) | Drama | 7.3 (11.3K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| North by NorthwestA New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt. | 1959 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Adventure, Mystery, Thriller | 8.3 (317.8K votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| Nothing But the BestSuccess has James Brewster's name written all over it, and he also has his heart set on his boss' daughter. A con artist hires him to help out on a bank scheme, but then again, James will do anything to get rich and be the most succe | 1964 | Clive Donner | Comedy | 6.8 (350 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| NotoriousThe daughter of a convicted Nazi spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of Nazi scientists in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them? | 1946 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller | 8.0 (98.8K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Nous la Liberte, ASeeking better life, two convicts escape from prison. | 1931 | René Clair (*) | Comedy, Musical | 7.5 (4.4K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Now, VoyagerA frumpy spinster blossoms under therapy and becomes an elegant, independent woman. | 1942 | Irving Rapper | Drama, Romance | 7.9 (16.5K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Nun's Story, TheAfter leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II. | 1959 | Fred Zinnemann (*) | Drama | 7.5 (10.4K votes) | 149 | 20211228 |
| Obsession [Ossessione]Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna, and they plan to get rid of her older husband. | 1943 | Luchino Visconti (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.6 (7.4K votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
| Odd Man OutA wounded Irish nationalist leader attempts to evade police following a failed robbery in Belfast. | 1947 | Carol Reed (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (9.9K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Of Mice and MenA mentally disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America. | 1939 | Lewis Milestone | Adventure, Drama | 7.9 (5.9K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| OklahomaIn Oklahoma, several farmers, cowboys and a traveling salesman compete for the romantic favors of various local ladies. | 1955 | Fred Zinnemann (*) | Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance, Western | 7.1 (12.5K votes) | 145 | 20211228 |
| Oliver TwistIn Charles Dickens' classic tale, an orphan wends his way from cruel apprenticeship to den of thieves in search of a true home. | 1948 | David Lean (*) | Drama | 7.8 (12.2K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| On the BeachAfter a global nuclear war, the residents of Australia must come to terms with the fact that all life will be destroyed in a matter of months. | 1959 | Stanley Kramer (*) | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi | 7.2 (12.8K votes) | 134 | 20211228 |
| On the TownThree sailors wreak havoc as they search for love during a whirlwind 24-hour leave in New York City. | 1949 | Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 7.4 (17.2K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| On The WaterfrontAn ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims. | 1954 | Elia Kazan (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 8.1 (150.9K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| One False MoveA small town police chief awaits the arrival of a gang of killers. | 1992 | Carl Franklin | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.1 (11.4K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoos NestA criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients. | 1975 | Milos Forman (*) | Drama | 8.7 (970.7K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| One Foot in HeavenEpisodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another. | 1941 | Irving Rapper | Biography, Drama | 6.8 (1.3K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| One Hour With YouAn unhappily married couple try to come between a happy one. | 1932 | George Cukor, Ernst Lubitsch | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 7.2 (2.5K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| One Night of LoveMary Barrett is an aspiring Opera singer who is taken under the wings of a famous operatic maestro, Guilio Monterverdi. After spending endless working hours together and arguing, their relationship develops into love. But, jealousy a | 1934 | Victor Schertzinger | Music, Romance | 5.7 (591 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| One Potato, Two PotatoStudy of interracial marriage in the 1960's. A white divorcée falls in love with and marries an African-American man. When her ex-husband sues for custody of her child, arguing that a mixed household is an improper place to raise the | 1964 | Larry Peerce | Drama | 7.2 (784 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| One, Two, ThreeIn West Berlin during the Cold War, a Coca-Cola executive is given the task of taking care of his boss' socialite daughter. | 1961 | Billy Wilder (*) | Comedy | 7.9 (20.7K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Only Angels Have WingsAt a remote South American trading port, the manager of an air-freight company is forced to risk his pilots' lives in order to win an important contract as a traveling American showgirl stops in town. | 1939 | Howard Hawks (*) | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 7.7 (13.7K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Operation CrossbowAllied agents attempt to infiltrate the Nazis' rocket research site. | 1965 | Michael Anderson | Action, Drama, War | 6.6 (4.7K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Opposite of Sex, TheA 16-year-old girl visits her gay half-brother and ends up seducing his boyfriend, thus wreaking havoc on all of their lives. | 1998 | Don Roos | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.4 (20.9K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Ordinary PeopleThe accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son. | 1980 | Robert Redford (*) | Drama | 7.7 (50.4K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| OthelloThe Moorish General Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his Lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality, it is all part of the scheme of a bitter Ensign named Iago. | 1951 | Orson Welles (*) | Drama, History, Romance | 7.6 (8.4K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Our TownChange comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. | 1940 | Sam Wood (*) | Drama, Family, Romance | 6.6 (2.6K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Out of the PastA private eye escapes his past to run a gas station in a small town, but his past catches up with him. Now he must return to the big city world of danger, corruption, double crosses and duplicitous dames. | 1947 | Jacques Tourneur (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller | 8.0 (36K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Outlaw Josey Wales, TheMissouri farmer Josey Wales joins a Confederate guerrilla unit and winds up on the run from the Union soldiers who murdered his family. | 1976 | Clint Eastwood (*) | Western | 7.8 (71.4K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Overlanders, TheIt's the start of WWII in Northern Australia. The Japanese are getting close. People are evacuating and burning everything in a "scorched earth" policy. Rather than kill all their cattle, a disparate group decides to drive them overl | 1946 | Harry Watt | Adventure, Western | 6.6 (459 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Ox-Bow Incident, TheWhen a posse captures three men suspected of killing a local farmer, they become strongly divided over whether or not to lynch the men. | 1942 | William A. Wellman (*) | Drama, Western | 8.0 (22.7K votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Paint Your WagonTwo unlikely prospector partners share the same wife in a California gold rush mining town. | 1969 | Joshua Logan | Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance, Western | 6.6 (13.4K votes) | 164 | 20211228 |
| Paisan [Paisa]American military personnel interact warily with a variety of Italian locals over a year and a half in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces make their retreat. | 1946 | Roberto Rossellini (*) | Drama, War | 7.7 (8.3K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Palm Beach Story, TheA New York inventor needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire with a capricious high-society sister. | 1942 | Preston Sturges (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.5 (11.7K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Parallax View, TheAn ambitious reporter gets in way-over-his-head trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines. | 1974 | Alan J. Pakula (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.1 (17.9K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Passage to India, ACultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator. | 1984 | David Lean (*) | Adventure, Drama, History | 7.3 (18.4K votes) | 164 | 20211228 |
| Passion of Anna, The [En Passion]A recently divorced man meets an emotionally devastated widow and they begin a love affair. | 1969 | Ingmar Bergman (*) | Drama | 7.7 (9.3K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Pather PanchaliImpoverished priest Harihar Ray, dreaming of a better life for himself and his family, leaves his rural Bengal village in search of work. | 1955 | Satyajit Ray (*) | Drama | 8.4 (30.2K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Paths of GloryAfter refusing to attack an enemy position, a general accuses the soldiers of cowardice and their commanding officer must defend them. | 1957 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Drama, War | 8.4 (190.5K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| PattonThe World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton. | 1970 | Franklin J. Schaffner (*) | Biography, Drama, War | 7.9 (100K votes) | 172 | 20211228 |
| Pawnbroker, TheA Jewish pawnbroker, victim of Nazi persecution, loses all faith in his fellow man until he realizes too late the tragedy of his actions. | 1964 | Sidney Lumet (*) | Drama | 7.7 (9.3K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| PaydayMaury Dann (Rip Torn, in one of his most memorable performances) is a not-so-nice country-Western singer. He ruthlessly manipulates everyone around him to suit his selfish needs...he even gets his limo driver to take the blame for th | 1973 | Daryl Duke | Drama, Music | 7.1 (900 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Pelle the Conqueror [Pelle erobreren]When his wife dies, Lasse takes his 12-year-old son, Pelle, from their home in Sweden to Denmark in search of a better life. | 1987 | Bille August | Drama | 7.8 (10.8K votes) | 157 | 20211228 |
| People vs. Larry Flynt, TheThe story of controversial pornography publisher Larry Flynt, and how he became a defender of free speech. | 1996 | Milos Forman (*) | Biography, Drama | 7.3 (92.9K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| PersonaA nurse is put in charge of a mute actress and finds that their personae are melding together. | 1966 | Ingmar Bergman (*) | Drama, Thriller | 8.1 (113.5K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| PersuasionEight years ago, Anne Elliot rejected Frederick Wentworth, the man she loved, out of a sense of duty and obedience. Now an ignored and faded spinster, she follows her financially stricken family from their home, only to be reintroduc | 1995 | Roger Michell | Drama | 7.7 (10.5K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| PetuliaAn unhappily married socialite finds solace in the company of a recently divorced doctor. | 1968 | Richard Lester (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.0 (3.1K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Philadelphia Story, TheWhen a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself. | 1940 | George Cukor (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.9 (67.5K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Pianist, TheA Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II. | 2002 | Roman Polanski (*) | Biography, Drama, Music, War | 8.5 (790.4K votes) | 150 | 20211228 |
| Piano, TheIn the mid-19th century, a mute woman is sent to New Zealand along with her young daughter and prized piano for an arranged marriage to a wealthy landowner, but is soon lusted after by a local worker on the plantation. | 1993 | Jane Campion (*) | Drama, Music, Romance | 7.6 (85.1K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Pickup on South StreetA pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring. | 1953 | Samuel Fuller (*) | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.7 (14.2K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Pillow Book, TheA woman with a body writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher. | 1996 | Peter Greenaway (*) | Drama | 6.7 (12.9K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Pillow TalkAn interior decorator and a playboy songwriter share a telephone party line and size each other up. | 1959 | Michael Gordon | Comedy, Romance | 7.4 (17K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Pink Panther, TheThe bumbling Inspector Clouseau travels to Rome to catch a notorious jewel thief known as "The Phantom" before he conducts his most daring heist yet: a princess' priceless diamond with one slight imperfection, known as "The Pink Pant | 1963 | Blake Edwards (*) | Comedy, Crime, Romance | 7.1 (51.2K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| PinocchioA living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy. | 1940 | Norman Ferguson, T. Hee, Wilfred Jackson, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical | 7.4 (139.9K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| PixoteThe life of a boy on the streets of Sao Paulo, involved with crimes, prostitution, and drugs. | 1980 | Hector Babenco (*) | Crime, Drama | 8.0 (7.6K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Place In The Sun, AA poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women. | 1951 | George Stevens (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.8 (22K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| Places in the HeartIn central Texas in the 1930s, a widow with two small children tries to save her small 40-acre farm with the help of a blind boarder and an itinerant black handyman. | 1984 | Robert Benton (*) | Drama | 7.4 (11.7K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| PlatoonChris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict. | 1986 | Oliver Stone (*) | Drama, War | 8.1 (401.4K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Play Misty For MeThe life of a disc jockey is turned upside down after a romantic encounter with an obsessed fan. | 1971 | Clint Eastwood (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.0 (27.7K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Player, TheA Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected, but which one? | 1992 | Robert Altman (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.5 (58.5K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| PlaytimeMonsieur Hulot curiously wanders around a high-tech Paris, paralleling a trip with a group of American tourists. Meanwhile, a nightclub/restaurant prepares its opening night, but it's still under construction. | 1967 | Jacques Tati (*) | Comedy | 7.9 (21.8K votes) | 155 | 20211228 |
| Point BlankAfter being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the money that was stolen from him. | 1967 | John Boorman (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.3 (20.4K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| PoltergeistA family's home is haunted by a host of demonic ghosts. | 1982 | Tobe Hooper (*) | Horror, Thriller | 7.3 (156.3K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| PonetteA four-year-old girl tries to come to terms with the sudden death of her mother. | 1996 | Jacques Doillon | Drama | 7.5 (4.5K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Postman Always Rings Twice, TheA married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband. | 1946 | Tay Garnett | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 7.5 (20.2K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Postman, The [Il postino]A simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet, and then uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice. | 1994 | Michael Radford, Massimo Troisi | Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.7 (35.7K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Pretty BabyA teenage girl lives as a prostitute in New Orleans in 1917. | 1978 | Louis Malle (*) | Drama | 6.6 (10.6K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Pride and PrejudiceThe arrival of wealthy bachelors in town causes an uproar when families with single daughters aggressively seek engagements, including the Bennet family, with five eligible daughters. | 1940 | Robert Z. Leonard | Drama, Romance | 7.4 (8.1K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Pride of the Yankees, TheThe story of the life and career of famed baseball player Lou Gehrig. | 1942 | Sam Wood (*) | Biography, Drama, Romance, Sport | 7.7 (10.7K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Prince of the CityA New York City narcotics detective reluctantly agrees to cooperate with a special commission investigating police corruption, and soon realises he's in over his head, and nobody can be trusted. | 1981 | Sidney Lumet (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.5 (8.1K votes) | 167 | 20211228 |
| Prisoner, TheA Cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. As a Prince of his church, and a popular hero of this people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war, and afterward his resistance when his country again fell to anot | 1955 | Peter Glenville | Drama | 6.9 (981 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Private Life of Henry VIII, TheKing Henry VIII marries five more times after his divorce from his first wife Catherine of Aragon. | 1933 | Alexander Korda | Drama | 7.1 (4.2K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Prizzi's HonorTwo professional assassins fall in love. | 1985 | John Huston (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.7 (24.1K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Producers, TheA stage-play producer devises a plan to make money by producing a sure-fire flop. | 1967 | Mel Brooks (*) | Comedy, Music | 7.6 (54.8K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| PsychoA Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother. | 1960 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 8.5 (643.8K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Public Enemy, TheAn Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime. | 1931 | William A. Wellman (*) | Crime, Drama | 7.6 (20.6K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Pulp FictionThe lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption. | 1994 | Quentin Tarantino (*) | Crime, Drama | 8.9 (2M votes) | 154 | 20211228 |
| Purple Rose of Cairo, TheIn New Jersey in 1935, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world. | 1985 | Woody Allen (*) | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance | 7.7 (50.7K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| PygmalionA phonetics and diction expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society. | 1938 | Anthony Asquith, Leslie Howard | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.8 (8.5K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| QuadropheniaJimmy loathes his job and parents. He seeks solace with his mod clique, scooter riding and drugs, only to be disappointed. | 1979 | Franc Roddam | Drama, Music | 7.3 (18.6K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Quiet Man, TheA retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in 1920s Ireland, where he falls for a spirited redhead whose brother is contemptuous of their union. | 1952 | John Ford (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.8 (37.4K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Raging BullThe life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it. | 1980 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Biography, Drama, Sport | 8.2 (341.4K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Raiders of the Lost ArkIn 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before Adolf Hitler's Nazis can obtain its awesome powers. | 1981 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Action, Adventure | 8.4 (932.2K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Rain ManAfter a selfish L.A. yuppie learns his estranged father left a fortune to an autistic savant brother in Ohio that he didn't know existed, he absconds with his brother and sets out across the country, hoping to gain a larger inheritan | 1988 | Barry Levinson (*) | Drama | 8.0 (497.3K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| Raise the Red LanternA young woman becomes the fourth wife of a wealthy lord, and must learn to live with the strict rules and tensions within the household. | 1991 | Yimou Zhang (*) | Drama, History, Romance | 8.1 (31.7K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Raising ArizonaWhen a childless couple of an ex-con and an ex-cop decide to help themselves to one of another family's quintuplets, their lives become more complicated than they anticipated. | 1987 | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Comedy, Crime | 7.3 (135K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| RanIn Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him. | 1985 | Akira Kurosawa (*) | Action, Drama, War | 8.2 (121.7K votes) | 162 | 20211228 |
| Rapture, TheA telephone operator living an empty, amoral life finds God and loses him again. | 1991 | Michael Tolkin (*) | Drama, Mystery | 6.3 (5.3K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| RashomonThe rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter. | 1950 | Akira Kurosawa (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 8.2 (163.2K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Re-AnimatorAfter an odd new medical student arrives on campus, a dedicated local and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue. | 1985 | Stuart Gordon | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi | 7.2 (61.9K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Rear WindowA wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his Greenwich Village courtyard apartment window, and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder, despite the skepticism of his fashion-model girlfriend. | 1954 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Mystery, Thriller | 8.5 (474.2K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| RebeccaA self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence. | 1940 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 8.1 (133.3K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Rebel Without a CauseA rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies. | 1955 | Nicholas Ray (*) | Drama | 7.7 (88.3K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Red Badge of Courage, TheTruncated adaptation of Stephen Crane's novel about a Civil War Union soldier who stuggles to find the courage to fight in the heat of battle. | 1951 | John Huston (*) | Drama, War | 7.2 (4.3K votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| Red RiverDunson leads a cattle drive, the culmination of over 14 years of work, to its destination in Missouri. But his tyrannical behavior along the way causes a mutiny, led by his adopted son. | 1948 | Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson | Drama, Western | 7.8 (30.4K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| Red Shoes, TheA young ballet dancer is torn between the man she loves and her pursuit to become a prima ballerina. | 1948 | Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Drama, Music, Romance | 8.1 (33.8K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| RedsA radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States. | 1981 | Warren Beatty (*) | Biography, Drama, History, Romance | 7.3 (22.4K votes) | 195 | 20211228 |
| Remains of The Day, TheA butler who sacrificed body and soul to service in the years leading up to World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty was to his lordly employer. | 1993 | James Ivory (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.8 (71.8K votes) | 134 | 20211228 |
| Repo ManA young punk recruited by a car repossession agency finds himself in pursuit of a Chevrolet Malibu that is wanted for a $20,000 bounty - and has something otherworldly stashed in its trunk. | 1984 | Alex Cox | Action, Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.9 (36.6K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| RepulsionA sex-repulsed woman who disapproves of her sister's boyfriend sinks into depression and has horrific visions of rape and violence. | 1965 | Roman Polanski (*) | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 7.6 (52.5K votes) | 105 | 20220414 |
| Reservoir DogsWhen a simple jewelry heist goes horribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant. | 1992 | Quentin Tarantino (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 8.3 (976.6K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Return of Martin Guerre, The [Le retour de Martin Guerre]In medieval France, some villagers challenge a man's claim of identity when he (as he says) returns home from some time in the army. | 1982 | Daniel Vigne | Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance | 7.4 (4.4K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Reuben, ReubenA drunken Scottish poet, who has not written a word in years, feels compelled to regain control of his life and work after meeting a beautiful young woman. | 1983 | Robert Ellis Miller | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.1 (1.2K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Reversal of FortuneWealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal. | 1990 | Barbet Schroeder | Biography, Drama, Mystery | 7.2 (16.2K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Richard IIIShakespeare's powerful tale of the wicked deformed King and his conquests, both on the battlefield and in the boudoir. | 1955 | Laurence Olivier (*) | Biography, Drama, History, War | 7.4 (4.5K votes) | 161 | 20211228 |
| Ride the High CountryAn ex-union soldier is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him. | 1962 | Sam Peckinpah (*) | Drama, Western | 7.5 (13K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| RififiFour men plan a technically perfect crime, but the human element intervenes... | 1955 | Jules Dassin | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 8.1 (33.2K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Right Stuff, TheThe U.S. space program's development from the breaking of the sound barrier to selection of the Mercury 7 astronauts, from a group of test pilots with a more seat-of-the-pants approach than the program's more cautious engineers prefe | 1983 | Philip Kaufman (*) | Adventure, Biography, Drama, History | 7.8 (60.2K votes) | 193 | 20211228 |
| Risky BusinessA Chicago teenager is looking for fun at home while his parents are away, but the situation quickly gets out of hand. | 1983 | Paul Brickman | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.8 (86.7K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| River's EdgeA high school slacker commits a shocking act and proceeds to let his friends in on the secret. However, the friends' reaction is almost as ambiguous and perplexing as the crime itself. | 1986 | Tim Hunter | Crime, Drama | 7.0 (17.6K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| RoboCopIn a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories. | 1987 | Paul Verhoeven (*) | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.6 (248.7K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Rocco and His Brothers [Rocco e i Suoi Fratelli]Having recently been uprooted to Milan, Rocco and his four brothers each look for a new way in life when a prostitute comes between Rocco and his brother Simone. | 1960 | Luchino Visconti (*) | Crime, Drama, Sport | 8.3 (18.4K votes) | 179 | 20211228 |
| Roger & MeAfter General Motors closes its factory in Flint, Michigan, eliminating 35,000 jobs, filmmaker Michael Moore undertakes a quixotic quest to interview General Motors' chairman, Roger B. Smith. | 1989 | Michael Moore | Documentary | 7.5 (26.4K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Roman HolidayA bored and sheltered princess escapes her guardians and falls in love with an American newsman in Rome. | 1953 | William Wyler (*) | Comedy, Romance | 8.0 (135.2K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Rome Open CityDuring the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the Resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi, is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape. | 1945 | Roberto Rossellini (*) | Drama, Thriller, War | 8.1 (25.6K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Romeo and JulietWhen two young members of feuding families meet, forbidden love ensues. | 1968 | Franco Zeffirelli | Drama, Romance | 7.6 (31.1K votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
| Romeo and JulietYoung love is poisoned by a generations long feud between two noble families. | 1936 | George Cukor (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.5 (2K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Room at The TopAn ambitious young accountant plots to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter despite falling in love with a married older woman. | 1959 | Jack Clayton (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.5 (6K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Room With A View, ALucy meets George in a Florence pensione and the two share a brief romance before Lucy returns home, where she becomes engaged to Cecil. However, it isn't long before George unexpectedly enters her life again. | 1985 | James Ivory (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.3 (42.6K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Rose Tattoo, TheA Sicilian seamstress who idolizes her husband must deal with several family crises upon his sudden death. | 1955 | Daniel Mann | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (3.9K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Rosemary's BabyA young couple trying for a baby move into an aging, ornate apartment building on Central Park West, but find themselves surrounded by peculiar neighbors. | 1968 | Roman Polanski (*) | Drama, Horror | 8.0 (207.9K votes) | 137 | 20211228 |
| Round MidnightA troubled, but talented musician flees the US to escape his problems, finding refuge and support in Paris. | 1986 | Bertrand Tavernier | Drama, Music | 7.4 (5K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| Ruggles of Red GapAn English valet brought to the American west assimilates into the American way of life. | 1935 | Leo McCarey (*) | Comedy, Romance, Western | 7.6 (3.9K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Rules of the Game, TheA bourgeois life in France at the onset of World War II, as the rich and their poor servants meet up at a French chateau. | 1939 | Jean Renoir (*) | Comedy, Drama | 8.0 (28.4K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Ruling Class, TheA member of the House of Lords dies, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son thinks he is Jesus Christ. Their other, somewhat more respectable, family members plot to steal the estate from him; murder and mayhem ensue. | 1972 | Peter Medak | Comedy, Drama, Musical | 7.4 (6.2K votes) | 154 | 20211228 |
| RushmoreA teenager at Rushmore Academy falls for a much older teacher and befriends a middle-aged industrialist. Later, he finds out that his love interest and his friend are having an affair, which prompts him to begin a vendetta. | 1998 | Wes Anderson (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.7 (180.5K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Ruthless PeopleA couple cheated by a vile businessman kidnaps his wife in retaliation, not knowing that their enemy is delighted that they did. | 1986 | Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker | Comedy, Crime | 6.9 (27.8K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| SaharaAfter the fall of Tobruk in 1942, during the Allied retreat in the Libyan desert, an American tank picks-up a motley group of survivors but they face advancing Germans and a lack of water. | 1943 | Zoltan Korda | Action, Drama, War | 7.5 (8.6K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Salaam Bombay!Young Krishna struggles to survive among the drug dealers, pimps, and prostitutes in the back alleys and gutters of India. | 1988 | Mira Nair | Crime, Drama | 7.9 (9.3K votes) | 113 | 20220414 |
| SalesmanFour dogged door-to-door Bible salesmen travel from Boston to Florida on a seemingly futile quest to sell luxury editions of the Good Book to working-class Catholics. | 1969 | Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin | Documentary, Drama | 7.7 (5.2K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| SanjuroA crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen trying to save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent. | 1962 | Akira Kurosawa (*) | Action, Drama, Thriller | 8.1 (37.2K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Sansho the BailiffIn medieval Japan, a compassionate governor is sent into exile. His wife and children try to join him, but are separated, and the children grow up amid suffering and oppression. | 1954 | Kenji Mizoguchi (*) | Drama | 8.4 (16K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Saturday Night and Sunday MorningA rebellious, hard-living factory worker juggles relationships with two women, one of whom is married to another man but pregnant with his child. | 1960 | Karel Reisz | Drama, Romance | 7.5 (8.4K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Saturday Night FeverAnxious about his future after high school, a 19-year-old Italian-American from Brooklyn tries to escape the harsh reality of his bleak family life by dominating the dance floor at the local disco. | 1977 | John Badham (*) | Drama, Music | 6.8 (77.5K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Saving Private RyanFollowing the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action. | 1998 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Drama, War | 8.6 (1.3M votes) | 169 | 20211228 |
| Say AnythingA noble underachiever and a beautiful valedictorian fall in love the summer before she goes off to college. | 1989 | Cameron Crowe | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.3 (87.5K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| SayonaraA US Air Force major in Kobe confronts his own opposition to marriages between American servicemen and Japanese women when he falls for a beautiful performer. | 1957 | Joshua Logan | Drama, Romance | 7.1 (6.7K votes) | 147 | 20211228 |
| Scenes from a Marriage [Scener ur ett äktenskap]Ten years within the marriage of Marianne and Johan. | 1973 | Ingmar Bergman (*) | Drama | 8.5 (17.3K votes) | 0 | 20240412 |
| Schindlers ListIn German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis. | 1993 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 8.9 (1.3M votes) | 195 | 20211228 |
| Scoundrel, TheA ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a "restless" spirit for being unloved. A heavenly power gives him a month on Earth to find one person to shed a tear for him before his fate is sealed. | 1935 | Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur | Drama, Fantasy | 6.3 (348 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Search, TheIn post-war Berlin, an American private helps a lost Czech boy find his mother. | 1948 | Fred Zinnemann (*) | Drama, War | 7.8 (4.3K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Searchers, TheAn American Civil War veteran embarks on a years-long journey to rescue his niece from the Comanches after the rest of his brother's family is massacred in a raid on their Texas farm. | 1956 | John Ford (*) | Adventure, Drama, Western | 7.9 (86.6K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Secret HonorA fictionalized former President Richard M. Nixon offers a solitary, stream-of-consciousness reflection on his life and political career - and the "true" reasons for the Watergate scandal and his resignation. | 1984 | Robert Altman (*) | Biography, Comedy, Drama, History | 7.3 (2.9K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Secrets & LiesFollowing the death of her adoptive parents, a successful young black optometrist establishes contact with her biological mother -- a lonely white factory worker living in poverty in East London. | 1996 | Mike Leigh (*) | Comedy, Drama | 8.0 (42K votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| Sense and SensibilityRich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the title opposites. | 1995 | Ang Lee (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.7 (111.8K votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| Sergeant YorkA Tennessee farmer and marksman is drafted in World War I, and struggles with his pacifist inclinations before becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes. | 1941 | Howard Hawks (*) | Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War | 7.7 (17.8K votes) | 134 | 20211228 |
| SerpicoAn honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him. | 1973 | Sidney Lumet (*) | Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (119K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Servant, TheUpper-class Tony hires servant Hugo Barrett, who turns out to have a hidden agenda. | 1963 | Joseph Losey (*) | Drama | 7.9 (11.6K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Set-Up, TheExpecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter. | 1949 | Robert Wise (*) | Crime, Film-Noir, Sport | 7.9 (8.6K votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Seven BeautiesThe defense of honor, a strong value in Neapolitan society, and its effects on the life of everyman Pasquale Frafuso. | 1975 | Lina Wertmüller | Comedy, Drama, War | 7.8 (5.7K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Seven Brides for Seven BrothersIn 1850 Oregon, when a backwoodsman brings a wife home to his farm, his six brothers decide that they want to get married too. | 1954 | Stanley Donen (*) | Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance, Western | 7.4 (24.4K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Seven Days To NoonWhen a scientist threatens to detonate a powerful bomb in the heart of London, Scotland Yard has just seven days to find him before it is too late. | 1950 | John Boulting, Roy Boulting | Drama, Thriller | 7.0 (1.7K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Seven SamuraiA poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves. | 1954 | Akira Kurosawa (*) | Action, Drama | 8.6 (334.9K votes) | 207 | 20211228 |
| Seven Year Itch, TheWhen his family goes away for the summer, a hitherto faithful husband with an overactive imagination is tempted by a beautiful neighbbor. | 1955 | Billy Wilder (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.1 (37.7K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Seventh Seal, TheA knight returning to Sweden after the Crusades seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague. | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman (*) | Drama, Fantasy, History | 8.2 (179.1K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Sex, Lies and VideotapeA sexually repressed woman's husband is having an affair with her sister. The arrival of a visitor with a rather unusual fetish changes everything. | 1989 | Steven Soderbergh (*) | Drama | 7.2 (53.7K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Sexy BeastBrutal gangster Don Logan recruits "retired" safecracker Gal for one last job, but it goes badly for both of them. | 2000 | Jonathan Glazer | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.3 (60.2K votes) | 89 | 20220414 |
| Shadow of a DoubtA teenage girl, overjoyed when her favorite uncle comes to visit the family in their quiet California town, slowly begins to suspect that he is in fact the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities. | 1943 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Film-Noir, Thriller | 7.8 (63.8K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| ShaftCool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter. | 1971 | Gordon Parks (*) | Action, Crime, Thriller | 6.6 (18.4K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Shakespeare in LoveThe world's greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays. | 1998 | John Madden | Comedy, Drama, History, Romance | 7.1 (221.3K votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
| ShaneA weary gunfighter in 1880s Wyoming begins to envision a quieter life after befriending a homestead family with a young son who idolizes him, but a smoldering range war forces him to act. | 1953 | George Stevens (*) | Drama, Western | 7.6 (39.6K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| She Wore a Yellow RibbonCaptain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled. | 1949 | John Ford (*) | Western | 7.3 (17.1K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Sherman's MarchDocumentary filmmaker Ross McElwee sets out to make a movie about Union General Sherman's March to the Sea towards the end of the American Civil War, but keeps getting sidetracked by his own love life. | 1985 | Ross McElwee | Documentary, Biography, Comedy, History, Romance | 7.3 (2.5K votes) | 157 | 20211228 |
| She's Gotta Have ItStory of a woman and her three lovers. | 1986 | Spike Lee (*) | Comedy, Romance | 6.8 (14K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Shining, TheA family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future. | 1980 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Drama, Horror | 8.4 (968K votes) | 146 | 20211228 |
| Ship of FoolsA varied group of passengers boarding a ship bound for pre-WWII Germany represents a microcosm of early 1930s society. | 1965 | Stanley Kramer (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 7.1 (5.9K votes) | 149 | 20211228 |
| ShoahClaude Lanzmann's epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses - perpetrators as well as survivors. | 1985 | Claude Lanzmann (*) | Documentary, History, War | 8.7 (9.2K votes) | 566 | 20211228 |
| Shock CorridorBent on winning a Pulitzer Prize, a journalist commits himself to a mental institution to solve a strange and unclear murder. | 1963 | Samuel Fuller (*) | Drama, Mystery | 7.4 (11.8K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Shoeshine [Sciuscià Ragazzi]Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship. | 1946 | Vittorio De Sica (*) | Drama | 8.0 (7.2K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Shoot the Piano Player [Tirez sur le pianiste]Charlie is approached by his crook brother Chico, who is chased by two gangsters. Charlie helps him to escape, but he upsets the criminals, so when his brother Fido is kidnapped, Charlie has to take an attitude with tragic consequenc | 1960 | François Truffaut (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.5 (18.8K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Shooting Party, TheWhile Europe stands on the brink of World War I in Autumn 1913, Sir Randolph Nettleby hosts a weekend of shooting on his estate for European aristocrats. | 1985 | Alan Bridges | Drama, Romance | 6.9 (1.4K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Shootist, TheA dying gunfighter spends his last days looking for a way to die with a minimum of pain and a maximum of dignity. | 1976 | Don Siegel (*) | Drama, Romance, Western | 7.6 (23.9K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Shop Around The Corner, TheTwo employees at a gift shop can barely stand each other, without realizing that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal. | 1940 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 8.1 (32K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Shop on Main Street, TheA carpenter in the Fascist Slovak State is appointed "Aryan controller" of a Jewish widow's store. | 1965 | Ján Kadár, Elmar Klos | Drama, War | 8.2 (8.6K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Shot in the Dark, AInspector Jacques Clouseau investigates the murder of Mr. Benjamin Ballon's driver at a country estate. | 1964 | Blake Edwards (*) | Comedy, Mystery | 7.5 (27.7K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| ShrekA mean lord exiles fairytale creatures to the swamp of a grumpy ogre, who must go on a quest and rescue a princess for the lord in order to get his land back. | 2001 | Andrew Adamson, Vicky Jenson | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance | 7.9 (650K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Sid & JudyThe relationship between Sid Vicious, bassist for British punk group Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen is portrayed. | 1986 | Alex Cox | Biography, Drama, Music, Romance | 7.0 (31.2K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Sid and NancyThe relationship between Sid Vicious, bassist for British punk group Sex Pistols, and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen is portrayed. | 1986 | Alex Cox | Biography, Drama, Music, Romance | 7.0 (31.3K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Silence of the Lambs, TheA young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims. | 1991 | Jonathan Demme (*) | Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller | 8.6 (1.4M votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| Silence, The [Tystnaden]Two estranged sisters, Ester and Anna, and Anna's 10-year-old son travel to the Central European country on the verge of war. Ester becomes seriously ill and the three of them move into a hotel in a small town called Timoka. | 1963 | Ingmar Bergman (*) | Drama | 7.9 (19.3K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Silent World, The [Le monde du silence]A documentary about the undersea explorers and how they penetrate into the underwater world. | 1956 | Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Louis Malle | Documentary, Adventure, Biography | 7.0 (1.6K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Silk StockingsA musical remake of Ninotchka: After three bumbling Soviet agents fail in their mission to retrieve a straying Soviet composer from Paris, the beautiful, ultra-serious Ninotchka is sent to complete their mission and to retrieve them. | 1957 | Rouben Mamoulian (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.9 (3.9K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| SilkwoodA worker at a plutonium processing plant is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing worker safety violations at the plant. | 1983 | Mike Nichols (*) | Biography, Drama, History, Thriller | 7.2 (19.7K votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| Singin in the RainA silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood. | 1952 | Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 8.3 (233.6K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Sitting PrettyA family that hires a live-in babysitter is surprised when he turns out to be a man who's a quirky genius. | 1948 | Walter Lang | Comedy, Family | 7.5 (2.3K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| SleeperA nerdish store owner is revived out of cryostasis into a future world to fight an oppressive government. | 1973 | Woody Allen (*) | Comedy, Sci-Fi | 7.2 (42.5K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Slight Case of Murder, AFormer bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses. | 1938 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Comedy, Crime | 7.0 (2.2K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Smash PalaceAfter the break-up of his marriage, a racing driver sets out to get back his daughter - at any cost. | 1981 | Roger Donaldson | Drama, Thriller | 7.0 (1K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| SmileA social comedy about a beauty pageant for young Californian women, held annually in Santa Rosa, and how it affects the locals and participants. | 1975 | Michael Ritchie | Comedy | 7.1 (2.3K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Smiles of a Summer NightIn Sweden at the turn of the century, members of the upper class and their servants find themselves in a romantic tangle that they try to work out amidst jealousy and heartbreak. | 1955 | Ingmar Bergman (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.8 (13.4K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Snake Pit, TheA detailed chronicle of a woman during her stay in a mental institution. | 1948 | Anatole Litvak (*) | Drama, Mystery | 7.6 (7.5K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Snow White and the Seven DwarvesExiled into the dangerous forest by her wicked stepmother, a princess is rescued by seven dwarf miners who make her part of their household. | 1937 | William Cottrell, David Hand, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce | Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance | 7.6 (192.9K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Some Like It HotAfter two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in. | 1959 | Billy Wilder (*) | Comedy, Music, Romance | 8.2 (258.9K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Sorrow and the Pity The [Le chagrin et la pitié]An in-depth exploration of the various reactions by the French people to the Vichy government's acceptance of Nazi invasion. | 1969 | Marcel Ophüls (*) | Documentary, History, War | 8.2 (3.8K votes) | 251 | 20211228 |
| Sound of Music, TheA young novitiate is sent by her convent in 1930s Austria to become a governess to the seven children of a widowed naval officer. | 1965 | Robert Wise (*) | Biography, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance | 8.0 (221.6K votes) | 172 | 20211228 |
| South PacificOn a South Pacific island during World War II, love blooms between a young nurse and a secretive Frenchman who's being courted for a dangerous military mission. | 1958 | Joshua Logan | Musical, Romance, War | 6.8 (8.7K votes) | 157 | 20211228 |
| SpartacusThe slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising. | 1960 | Stanley Kubrick (*) | Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, War | 7.9 (131.8K votes) | 197 | 20211228 |
| SpellboundA psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory. | 1945 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 7.5 (47.5K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Spiral Staircase, TheIn 1916, a shadowy serial killer is targeting women with "afflictions"; one night during a thunderstorm, the mute Helen feels menaced. | 1946 | Robert Siodmak (*) | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.4 (9.8K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Spirited AwayDuring her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts. | 2001 | Hayao Miyazaki (*) | Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery | 8.6 (715.3K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Splendor In The GrassA fragile Kansas girl's love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness. | 1961 | Elia Kazan (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.8 (20.5K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Stage DoorA chronicle of the ambitions, dreams, and disappointments of aspiring actresses who all live in the same boarding house. | 1937 | Gregory La Cava (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.8 (8.3K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| StagecoachA group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process. | 1939 | John Ford (*) | Adventure, Drama, Western | 7.9 (47.4K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Stalag 17After two Americans are killed while escaping from a German P.O.W. camp in World War II, the barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer. | 1953 | Billy Wilder (*) | Comedy, Drama, War | 8.0 (54.8K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Star Is Born, AA young woman comes to Hollywood with dreams of stardom, and achieves them only with the help of an alcoholic leading man whose best days are behind him. | 1937 | William A. Wellman, Jack Conway, Victor Fleming | Drama, Romance | 7.3 (9.5K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Star WarsLuke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vad | 1977 | George Lucas (*) | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | 8.6 (1.3M votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| StarmanAn alien takes the form of a young Wisconsin widow's husband and makes her drive him to his departure point in Arizona. Distrustful government agents, along with a more ambivalent scientist, give pursuit in hopes of intercepting them | 1984 | John Carpenter (*) | Romance, Sci-Fi | 7.0 (46.1K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Stars Look Down, TheDavey Fenwick (Sir Michael Redgrave) leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny (Margaret Lockwood) who gets him to marry | 1940 | Carol Reed (*) | Drama | 7.0 (1K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| State FairAn Iowa family finds adventure, love and heartbreak when they spend a week at the state fair. | 1933 | Henry King | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.8 (850 votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| StevieThis biographical film has Glenda Jackson portraying a British poet with emotional problems. | 1978 | Robert Enders | Biography, Drama | 6.9 (545 votes) | 102 | 20240622 |
| Stolen Kisses [Baisers volés]After being discharged from the army, Antoine Doinel centers a screwball comedy where he applies for different jobs and tries to make sense of his relationships with women. | 1968 | François Truffaut (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.6 (13.4K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Stop Making SenseAn innovative concert movie for the rock group Talking Heads. | 1984 | Jonathan Demme (*) | Documentary, Music | 8.6 (14.9K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Stormy MondayA crooked American businessman tries to push the shady influential owner of a nightclub in Newcastle, England to sell him the club. The club's new employee and the American's ex lover fall in love and inadvertently stir the pot. | 1988 | Mike Figgis | Crime, Drama, Music, Romance | 6.2 (4K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Story of Adele H, The [L'histoire d'Adèle H]The story of Adèle Hugo's unrequited love for a lieutenant. | 1975 | François Truffaut (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 7.3 (8K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Story of G.I. JoeAt the close of WWII, Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Ernie Pyle travels with the U.S. Army's Company C Division during their liberation of Italy. | 1945 | William A. Wellman (*) | Biography, Drama, War | 7.2 (3.2K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Story of Qiu Ju, The [Qiu Ju da guan si]A peasant woman seeks justice after the headman of her village has kicked her husband in the groin. | 1992 | Yimou Zhang (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.6 (5.9K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Story of Women [Une affaire de femmes]A housewife in Nazi-occupied France struggles to make ends meet when her husband returns home after being wounded in the war. | 1988 | Claude Chabrol (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.5 (4.5K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| StorytellingCollege and high school serve as the backdrop for two stories about dysfunction and personal turmoil. | 2001 | Todd Solondz | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.8 (17.6K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Straight Story, TheAn old man makes a long journey by lawnmower to mend his relationship with an ill brother. | 1999 | David Lynch (*) | Biography, Drama | 8.0 (88.3K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Straight TimeAfter being released on parole, a career burglar assaults his former probation officer, returns to a life of crime, and goes on the run. | 1978 | Ulu Grosbard, Dustin Hoffman | Crime, Drama | 7.4 (8.5K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Stranger Than ParadiseA New Yorker's life is thrown into a tailspin when his younger cousin surprise-visits him, starting a strange, unpredictable adventure. | 1984 | Jim Jarmusch (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.5 (36.9K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Strangers on a TrainA psychopath forces a tennis star to comply with his theory that two strangers can get away with murder. | 1951 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 8.0 (131K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Straw DogsA young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment. | 1971 | Sam Peckinpah (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.5 (59K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Streetcar Named Desire, ADisturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her. | 1951 | Elia Kazan (*) | Drama | 8.0 (105.5K votes) | 122 | 20211228 |
| StroszekIn Berlin, an alcoholic man, recently released from prison, joins his elderly friend and a prostitute in a determined dream to leave Germany and seek a better life in Wisconsin. | 1977 | Werner Herzog (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.8 (14K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Suddenly, Last SummerA surgeon is assigned the case of a young woman whose aunt wants her lobotomized to cover up a family secret. | 1959 | Joseph L. Mankiewicz (*) | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.6 (15.2K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Sugarland Express, TheA woman attempts to reunite her family by helping her husband escape prison and together kidnapping their son. But things don't go as planned when they are forced to take a police hostage on the road. | 1974 | Steven Spielberg (*) | Crime, Drama | 6.8 (16.8K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Sullivans TravelsHollywood director John L Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie. | 1941 | Preston Sturges (*) | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.9 (25.8K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| SummertimeAn American spinster's dream of romance finally becomes a bittersweet reality when she meets a handsome--but married--Italian man while vacationing in Venice. | 1955 | David Lean (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.2 (8.3K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Sunday Bloody SundayThe emotional intricacies of a polyamorous relationship between young artist Bob and his two lovers: a lonely male doctor and a frustrated female office worker. | 1971 | John Schlesinger (*) | Drama | 7.1 (6.1K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Sundays and CybeleStory of a lonely young girl who is befriended by an innocent but emotionally disabled veteran of the French Indochina War. | 1962 | Serge Bourguignon | Drama | 8.1 (4.4K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Sundays and Cybele [Cybèle ou Les Dimanches De Ville D'Avray]Story of a lonely young girl who is befriended by an innocent but emotionally disabled veteran of the French Indochina War. | 1962 | Serge Bourguignon | Drama | 8.1 (4.4K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Sunset BlvdA screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return. | 1950 | Billy Wilder (*) | Drama, Film-Noir | 8.4 (214.8K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| SuspicionA shy young heiress marries a charming gentleman, and soon begins to suspect he is planning to murder her. | 1941 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 7.3 (37.3K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Sweet Hereafter, TheA bus crash in a small town brings a lawyer to the town to defend the families, but he discovers that everything is not what it seems. | 1997 | Atom Egoyan (*) | Drama | 7.5 (34.8K votes) | 112 | 20220414 |
| Sweet Smell of SuccessPowerful but unethical Broadway columnist J.J. Hunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney Falco into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician. | 1957 | Alexander Mackendrick (*) | Drama, Film-Noir | 8.0 (30.8K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Sweet Sweetbacks Baadasssss SongAfter saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from "the man" with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels. | 1971 | Melvin Van Peebles (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.5 (5.1K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Swept Away [Travolti da un insolito destino nell'azzurro mare d'agosto]A trip into the Mediterranean sea becomes a trip into the discovery of how society's frameworks of the rich and poor are delicate and temporary. | 1974 | Lina Wertmüller | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 7.6 (6K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Swing TimeRoguish gambler/dancer "Lucky" Garnett is challenged by his fiance's father to come up with $25,000 to prove he's worthy of her hand. But after he falls in love with a dance instructor, Lucky'll do anything to keep from earning the b | 1936 | George Stevens (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 7.5 (13.3K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 TheFour armed men hijack a New York City subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. The city's police are faced with a conundrum: Even if it's paid, how could they get away? | 1974 | Joseph Sargent | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.7 (29.7K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Talk To Her [Hable Con Ella]Two men share an odd friendship while they care for two women who are both in deep comas. | 2002 | Pedro Almodóvar (*) | Drama, Mystery, Romance | 7.9 (110K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| TampopoA truck driver stops at a small family-run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business. The story is intertwined with various vignettes about the relationship of love and food. | 1985 | Jûzô Itami | Comedy | 8.0 (18K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| 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 |
| Taste of Honey, AA pregnant teenage girl must fend for herself when her mother remarries, leaving the girl with only a new male friend for support. | 1961 | Tony Richardson | Drama | 7.5 (5.5K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Taxi DriverA mentally unstable veteran works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where the perceived decadence and sleaze fuels his urge for violent action. | 1976 | Martin Scorsese (*) | Crime, Drama | 8.2 (780.5K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Taxing Woman, A [Marusa no onna]If tax evasion is an art, wheeler-dealer Hideki Gondo is Rembrandt. And so, a determined taxing woman gets the tough assignment of trying to catch him. | 1987 | Jûzô Itami | Comedy, Crime | 7.3 (1.9K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Taxing Woman's Return, A [Marusa no onna 2]Ryoko Itakura returns as the government tax agent willing to tackle the toughest cases. This time she takes on a fanatical but lucrative religious cult run by a vile lecher. | 1988 | Jûzô Itami | Comedy, Crime | 6.8 (609 votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Tell Them Willie Boy Is HereIn 1909, when young Paiute Indian Willie Boy returns to his California reservation to be with Lola, whose father disapproves of him, a killing in self defense takes place, triggering a massive man hunt for Willie. | 1969 | Abraham Polonsky (*) | Drama, Western | 6.3 (2.9K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Ten Commandments, TheMoses, raised as a prince of Egypt in the Pharaoh's household, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people from slavery. | 1956 | Cecil B. DeMille (*) | Adventure, Drama, Family | 7.9 (68.3K votes) | 220 | 20211228 |
| Tender MerciesA broken-down, middle-aged country singer gets a new wife, reaches out to his long-lost daughter, and tries to put his troubled life back together. | 1983 | Bruce Beresford | Drama, Music | 7.4 (10.4K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Tender Trap, TheSuccessful theater agent Charlie Reader lives a playboy's life in New York City. When his childhood friend shows up with a desire to leave his wife, the two are awestruck by each other's lifestyle. | 1955 | Charles Walters (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.4 (2.6K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Terms of EndearmentFollows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love, and her daughter's family problems. | 1983 | James L. Brooks (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.4 (58.8K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| TessA strong-willed young peasant girl attracts the affection of two men. | 1979 | Roman Polanski (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.3 (16.3K votes) | 186 | 20211228 |
| That Night in Varennes [La Nuit De Varennes]During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps. | 1982 | Ettore Scola | Drama, History | 7.3 (2.2K votes) | 150 | 20211228 |
| That Obscure Object Of DesireRecounted in flashback are the romantic perils of Mathieu, a middle-aged French sophisticate as he falls for his nineteen-year-old former chambermaid Conchita. | 1977 | Luis Buñuel (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.9 (22.2K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| That's Life!A wealthy yet depressed architect and his sympathetic wife strive to conquer their life issues in anticipation of Harvey Fairchild's (Jack Lemmon's) 60th birthday party. | 1986 | Blake Edwards (*) | Comedy, Drama | 6.0 (1.5K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Thelma & LouiseTwo best friends set out on an adventure, but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the police, as these two girls escape for the crimes they committed. | 1991 | Ridley Scott (*) | Adventure, Crime, Drama | 7.5 (148.2K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| These ThreeTwo school teachers and the man they both love face ruin when a malicious student cooks up a lie. | 1936 | William Wyler (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.4 (2.6K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| They Live by NightAn escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning. | 1948 | Nicholas Ray (*) | Crime, Film-Noir, Romance | 7.5 (8K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| They Shoot Horses Dont TheyThe lives of a disparate group of contestants intertwine in an inhumanely grueling dance marathon. | 1969 | Sydney Pollack (*) | Drama | 7.9 (18.8K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| They Were ExpendableA Navy commander fights to prove the battle-worthiness of the PT boat at the start of World War II. | 1945 | John Ford, Robert Montgomery | Drama, War | 7.2 (8.2K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| They Won't ForgetA politically ambitious district attorney, unscrupulous tabloid journalists, and regional prejudice combine to charge a teacher with the murder of his student. | 1937 | Mervyn LeRoy (*) | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery | 7.2 (1.6K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Thief of Bagdad, TheAfter being tricked and cast out of Bagdad by the evil Jaffar, King Ahmad joins forces with a thief named Abu to reclaim his throne, the city, and the Princess he loves. | 1940 | Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan, Alexander Korda, Zoltan Korda | Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance | 7.5 (12.9K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Thin Blue Line, TheA film that successfully argued that a man was wrongly convicted for murder by a corrupt justice system in Dallas County, Texas. | 1988 | Errol Morris (*) | Documentary, Crime | 8.0 (24.1K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Thin Man, TheFormer detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora investigate a murder case, mostly for the fun of it. | 1934 | W.S. Van Dyke (*) | Comedy, Mystery | 8.0 (28.8K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Thin Red Line, TheAdaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War. | 1998 | Terrence Malick (*) | Drama, History, War | 7.6 (183.1K votes) | 170 | 20211228 |
| Third Generation, The [Die dritte Generation]A wildly anarchic satire of urban guerrilla warfare in which a band of leftist radicals inadvertently become puppets of the West German government, which uses them to justify its authoritarian policies. | 1979 | Rainer Werner Fassbinder (*) | Crime, Drama | 6.9 (2.4K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Third Man, ThePulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime. | 1949 | Carol Reed (*) | Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller | 8.1 (167.7K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn GouldA collection of vignettes highlighting different aspects of the life, work, and character of the acclaimed Canadian classical pianist. | 1993 | François Girard | Biography, Drama, Music | 7.4 (3.7K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| This Is Spinal TapSpinal Tap, one of England's loudest bands, is chronicled by film director Marty DiBergi on what proves to be a fateful tour. | 1984 | Rob Reiner (*) | Comedy, Music | 7.9 (136.6K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| This Man Must Die [Que La Bete Meure]A man asserts himself within the life of an actress he believes is somehow responsible for his son's death. | 1969 | Claude Chabrol (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (4.4K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| This Sporting LifeDespite success on the field, a rising rugby star senses the emerging emptiness of his life as his inner angst begins to materialize through aggression and brutality, so he attempts to woo his landlady in hopes of finding reason to l | 1963 | Lindsay Anderson (*) | Drama, Sport | 7.6 (6.4K votes) | 134 | 20211228 |
| Three Colors - RedA model discovers a retired judge is keen on invading people's privacy. | 1994 | Krzysztof Kieslowski (*) | Drama, Mystery, Romance | 8.1 (100.2K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Three ComradesThe close friendship of three German soldiers is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman, who is dying of tuberculosis. | 1938 | Frank Borzage (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.2 (1.8K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Three Days of the CondorA bookish CIA researcher in Manhattan finds all his co-workers dead, and must outwit those responsible until he figures out who he can really trust. | 1975 | Sydney Pollack (*) | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.4 (53.2K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Throne of BloodA war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle. | 1957 | Akira Kurosawa (*) | Drama, History | 8.1 (50.7K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Tin Drum, TheIn 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II breaks out. | 1979 | Volker Schlöndorff | Drama, War | 7.5 (23.6K votes) | 142 | 20211228 |
| To Be or Not to BeDuring the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy. | 1942 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Comedy, Romance, War | 8.2 (35.1K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| To Catch a ThiefA retired jewel thief sets out to prove his innocence after being suspected of returning to his former occupation. | 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 7.4 (70.8K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| To Have and Have NotDuring World War II, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sensuous lounge singer. | 1944 | Howard Hawks (*) | Adventure, Comedy, Film-Noir, Romance, Thriller, War | 7.8 (33.7K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| To Kill a MockingbirdAtticus Finch, a widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice. | 1962 | Robert Mulligan (*) | Crime, Drama | 8.2 (308.4K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| To LiveAfter Fugui and Jiazhen lose their personal fortunes, they raise a family and survive difficult cultural changes during 1940s to 1970s China. | 1994 | Yimou Zhang (*) | Drama, War | 8.3 (17.5K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| Tokyo Marigold [Tôkyô Marîgôrudo]In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other. | 2001 | Alfonso Cuarón | Drama | 7.6 (120.4K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Tokyo Story [Tôkyô monogatari]An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city, but receive little attention. | 1953 | Yasujirô Ozu (*) | Drama | 8.2 (59.2K votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| Tom JonesThe romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th-century England. | 1963 | Tony Richardson | Adventure, Comedy, History, Romance | 6.5 (12.7K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| TootsieMichael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor, disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap. | 1982 | Sydney Pollack (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.4 (103.6K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Top HatAn American dancer comes to Britain and falls for a model whom he initially annoyed, but she mistakes him for his goofy producer. | 1935 | Mark Sandrich (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 7.8 (18.8K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| TopazA French Intelligence Agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring. | 1969 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Drama, Thriller | 6.2 (17.9K votes) | 143 | 20211228 |
| TopkapiA conman gets mixed up with a group of thieves who plan to rob an Istanbul museum to steal a jewelled dagger. | 1964 | Jules Dassin | Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller | 7.0 (9.5K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Total RecallWhen a man goes in to have virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars implanted in his mind, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real - or is he? | 1990 | Paul Verhoeven (*) | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 7.5 (320K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Touch of EvilA stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in a Mexican border town. | 1958 | Orson Welles (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller | 8.0 (102.7K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Toy StoryA cowboy doll is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's room. | 1995 | John Lasseter (*) | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy | 8.3 (947.3K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| TrafficA conservative judge is appointed by the President to spearhead America's escalating war against drugs, only to discover that his teenage daughter is a crack addict. Two DEA agents protect an informant. A jailed drug baron's wife att | 2000 | Steven Soderbergh (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.6 (204K votes) | 147 | 20211228 |
| Train, TheIn 1944, a German colonel loads a train with French art treasures to send to Germany. The Resistance must stop it without damaging the cargo. | 1964 | John Frankenheimer (*) | Thriller, War | 7.8 (15.9K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| TrainspottingRenton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends. | 1996 | Danny Boyle (*) | Drama | 8.1 (665.9K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Treasure of the Sierra Madre, TheTwo down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains. | 1948 | John Huston (*) | Adventure, Drama, Western | 8.2 (121.7K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Tree Grows In Brooklyn, AEncouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s. | 1945 | Elia Kazan (*) | Drama, Family, Romance | 8.0 (7.6K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Tree of Wooden Clogs, The [L'albero Degli Zoccoli]Peasant life in a feudal farm in rural Italy at the end of the 19th century. | 1978 | Ermanno Olmi (*) | Drama, History | 7.9 (6K votes) | 186 | 20211228 |
| Trip to Bountiful, TheIn 1940s Texas, an elderly woman is determined to visit her childhood home for one last time. | 1985 | Peter Masterson | Drama | 7.5 (4.6K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| TristanaShortly after her mother's death, an innocent and youthful woman will find refuge into the household of her middle-aged aristocratic guardian, who will submit her to his sexual advances. | 1970 | Luis Buñuel (*) | Drama | 7.5 (11.5K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Trouble in ParadiseA gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner. Romantic entanglements and jealousies confuse the scheme. | 1932 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Comedy, Crime, Romance | 8.0 (14.3K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Trouble with Harry, TheThe trouble with Harry is that he is dead and, while no one really minds, everyone feels responsible. After Harry's body is found in the woods, several locals must determine not only how and why he was killed but what to do with the | 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Comedy, Mystery | 7.1 (37.4K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| True GritA drunken, hard-nosed U.S. Marshal and a Texas Ranger help a stubborn teenager track down her father's murderer in Indian Territory. | 1969 | Henry Hathaway | Adventure, Drama, Western | 7.4 (46.3K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| True LoveDonna and Michael are getting married. But first, they have to plan the reception, get the tux, buy the rings, and cope with their own uncertainty about the decision. Michael fears commitment. Donna has her doubts about Michael's imm | 1989 | Nancy Savoca | Comedy, Romance | 6.0 (764 votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| TrustAfter being thrown out of her house, Maria encounters a married woman who complains of not having children. Maria ends up in an abandoned house, where she meets Matthew. When a baby is kidnapped Maria sets out to find the woman. | 1990 | Hal Hartley | Comedy, Drama | 7.4 (11.1K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Tunes of GloryAfter World War II, a Highland Regiment's acting Commanding Officer, who rose from the ranks, is replaced by a peace-time Oxford-educated Commanding Officer, leading to a dramatic conflict between the two. | 1960 | Ronald Neame | Drama | 7.5 (4K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Twelve O'Clock HighA hard-as-nails general takes over a bomber unit suffering from low morale and whips them into fighting shape. | 1949 | Henry King | Drama, War | 7.7 (14.3K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| Twentieth CenturyA flamboyant Broadway impresario who has fallen on hard times tries to get his former lover, now a Hollywood diva, to return and resurrect his failing career. | 1934 | Howard Hawks (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.4 (6.4K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Two Women [La Ciociara]In the Italy of WWII, a widow and her lonely daughter seek for distance between them and the horrors of war. | 1960 | Vittorio De Sica (*) | Drama, War | 7.8 (10.6K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Ugetsu [Ugetsu monogatari]A tale of ambition, family, love, and war set in the midst of the Japanese Civil Wars of the sixteenth century. | 1953 | Kenji Mizoguchi (*) | Drama, Fantasy, War | 8.2 (22.8K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Ulzana's RaidAfter fierce war chief Ulzana and a small war party jump the reservation bent on murder and terror, an inexperienced young lieutenant is assigned to track him down. | 1972 | Robert Aldrich (*) | Adventure, Western | 7.1 (5.6K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Umberto DAn elderly man and his dog struggle to survive on his government pension in Rome. | 1952 | Vittorio De Sica (*) | Drama | 8.2 (25.1K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Unbearable Lightness of Being, TheCentral Europe, 1968: A Czech doctor with an active sex life meets a woman who wants monogamy, and then the Soviet invasion further disrupts their lives. | 1988 | Philip Kaufman (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.3 (35.5K votes) | 171 | 20211228 |
| Unfaithful Wife, The [La Femme Infidele]A man begins to believe his wife is cheating on him. | 1969 | Claude Chabrol (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.4 (4.1K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| UnforgivenRetired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help of his old partner Ned Logan and a young man, The "Schofield Kid." | 1992 | Clint Eastwood (*) | Drama, Western | 8.2 (398.7K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Usual Suspects, TheA 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. | 1995 | Bryan Singer (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.5 (1M votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Vanya on 42nd StreetNew York actors rehearse Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" in a dilapidated theatre. | 1994 | Louis Malle (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.4 (4.6K votes) | 119 | 20211228 |
| Verdict, TheAn outcast, alcoholic Boston lawyer sees the chance to salvage his career and self-respect by taking a medical malpractice case to trial rather than settling. | 1982 | Sidney Lumet (*) | Drama | 7.7 (38.9K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| VertigoA former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed. | 1958 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 8.3 (389.4K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| VideodromeA programmer at a TV station that specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast. | 1983 | David Cronenberg (*) | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.2 (89.6K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Violette NoziereIn an interwar France struggling with profound social and political change, 18-year-old Violette Noziere rebels against the constraints of her claustrophobic, working-class (and possibly incestuous) family, with troubling consequence | 1978 | Claude Chabrol (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.2 (2.3K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| ViridianaViridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior. | 1961 | Luis Buñuel (*) | Drama | 8.1 (23.8K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Viva Zapata!The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of President Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century. | 1952 | Elia Kazan (*) | Biography, Drama, History, Western | 7.3 (11.1K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Voice of the Turtle, TheA soldier spends the weekend with an actress after being stood up by her friend. Will he be able to change her cynical attitude towards love? | 1947 | Irving Rapper | Comedy, Romance | 6.8 (694 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Wages Of Fear, TheIn a decrepit South American village, four men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe. | 1953 | Henri-Georges Clouzot (*) | Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 8.1 (59.2K votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| Waking LifeA man shuffles through a dream meeting various people and discussing the meanings and purposes of the universe. | 2001 | Richard Linklater (*) | Animation, Drama, Fantasy | 7.8 (63.1K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Walk in the Sun, ADuring WWII, a platoon of American soldiers trudge through the Italian countryside in search of a bridge they have been ordered to blow up, encountering danger and destruction along the way. | 1945 | Lewis Milestone | Drama, War | 7.0 (3.5K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| WalkaboutTwo city-bred siblings are stranded in the Australian Outback, where they learn to survive with the aid of an Aboriginal boy on his "walkabout": a ritual separation from his tribe. | 1971 | Nicolas Roeg (*) | Adventure, Drama | 7.6 (24.8K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| War Game, TheA docudrama depicting a hypothetical nuclear attack on Britain. | 1966 | Peter Watkins (*) | Drama, War | 8.0 (6.6K votes) | 48 | 20211228 |
| War of the Roses, TheA married couple try everything to get each other to leave the house in a vicious divorce battle. | 1989 | Danny DeVito | Comedy, Romance | 6.8 (51.8K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Warriors, TheIn the near future, a charismatic leader summons the street gangs of New York City in a bid to take it over. When he is killed, The Warriors are falsely blamed and now must fight their way home while every other gang is hunting them | 1979 | Walter Hill | Action, Crime, Thriller | 7.6 (99.9K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Watch on the RhineA German-born engineer, his American wife and their children travel from Mexico to the United States to visit her family but their plans are complicated by a Romanian count. | 1943 | Herman Shumlin, Hal Mohr | Drama, Thriller | 7.3 (4.3K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Waterdance, TheA young man learns how to come to terms with his disability after becoming paralyzed in a hiking accident. | 1992 | Neal Jimenez, Michael Steinberg | Drama, Romance | 6.8 (4K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Way We Were, TheIn pre-WWII, McCarthyism, a diametrically opposed couple come together only to find out that geniune friendship and physical attraction is not enough to overcome fundamental societal beliefs. | 1973 | Sydney Pollack (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.1 (24.3K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| WeekendA surreal tale of a married couple going on a road trip to visit the wife's parents with the intention of killing them for the inheritance. | 1967 | Jean-Luc Godard (*) | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 7.1 (14.1K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Welcome To The DollhouseAn awkward seventh-grader struggles to cope with inattentive parents, snobbish class-mates, a smart older brother, an attractive younger sister and her own insecurities in suburban New Jersey. | 1995 | Todd Solondz | Comedy, Drama | 7.4 (33.6K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Well-Digger's Daughter, The [La fille du puisatier]A rural maiden's two suitors go off to war, leaving her pregnant. | 1940 | Marcel Pagnol (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.3 (686 votes) | 142 | 20240412 |
| West Side StoryTwo youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy. | 1961 | Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise | Crime, Drama, Musical, Romance | 7.5 (108.1K votes) | 153 | 20211228 |
| Whales of August, TheTwo aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine. | 1987 | Lindsay Anderson (*) | Drama | 7.3 (4.7K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| What Ever Happened to Baby JaneA former child star torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion. | 1962 | Robert Aldrich (*) | Drama, Horror, Thriller | 8.0 (54.8K votes) | 134 | 20220414 |
| Whats Eating Gilbert GrapeA young man in a small Midwestern town struggles to care for his mentally-disabled younger brother and morbidly obese mother while attempting to pursue his own happiness. | 1993 | Lasse Hallström | Drama | 7.7 (229.3K votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
| What's Up DocThe accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations. | 1972 | Peter Bogdanovich (*) | Comedy | 7.7 (23.1K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| When Harry Met SallyHarry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the friendship. | 1989 | Rob Reiner (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.6 (210.2K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Whisky GaloreScottish islanders try to plunder 50,000 cases of whisky from a stranded ship. | 1949 | Alexander Mackendrick (*) | Comedy, Crime | 7.2 (5.8K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| White HeatA psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. | 1949 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 8.1 (32K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Who Framed Roger RabbitA toon-hating detective is a cartoon rabbit's only hope to prove his innocence when he is accused of murder. | 1988 | Robert Zemeckis (*) | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Fantasy, Mystery | 7.7 (194.3K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Whos Afraid of Virginia WoolfA bitter middle-aged couple, her derisive of his lowly position at a New England college, ask a new colleague and his wife over for drinks, and use them to fuel anguish and emotional pain toward each other through a distressing night | 1966 | Mike Nichols (*) | Drama | 8.0 (73.6K votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| Wild Bunch, TheAn aging group of outlaws look for one last big score as the "traditional" American West is disappearing around them. | 1969 | Sam Peckinpah (*) | Action, Adventure, Western | 7.9 (82.6K votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Wild Child [L' enfant sauvage], TheIn a French forest in 1798, a child is found who cannot walk, speak, read or write. A doctor becomes interested in the child and patiently attempts to civilize him. | 1970 | François Truffaut (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 7.5 (8.1K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Wild Reeds [Les roseaux sauvages]The fates of two homosexual partners are divided. | 1994 | André Téchiné | Drama | 7.4 (5.7K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Wild StrawberriesAfter living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence. | 1957 | Ingmar Bergman (*) | Drama, Romance | 8.2 (104.2K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| WilsonA chronicle of the political career of US President Woodrow Wilson. | 1944 | Henry King | Biography, Drama, History, Music, Romance | 6.4 (1.6K votes) | 154 | 20211228 |
| Wings of DesireAn angel tires of his purely ethereal life of merely overseeing the human activity of Berlin's residents, and longs for the tangible joys of physical existence when he falls in love with a mortal. | 1987 | Wim Wenders (*) | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 8.0 (69.1K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Wise BloodFresh out of the army, Hazel Motes attempts to open the first Church Without Christ in the small town of Taulkinham. | 1979 | John Huston (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.0 (5.7K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Wizard of Oz, TheYoung Dorothy Gale and her dog are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz, and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the others' wishe | 1939 | Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy, Norman Taurog, Richard Thorpe | Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical | 8.0 (384.7K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Woman in the Dunes [Suna no onna]An entomologist on vacation is trapped by local villagers into living with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them. | 1964 | Hiroshi Teshigahara | Drama, Thriller | 8.5 (19.3K votes) | 147 | 20211228 |
| Woman of the YearRival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess' hectic lifestyle. | 1942 | George Stevens (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport | 7.2 (9.9K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Women In LoveTwo best friends fall in love with a pair of women, but the relationships soon go in very different directions. | 1969 | Ken Russell (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.2 (7.6K votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| Women on the Verge of a Nervous BreakdownA television actress encounters a variety of eccentric characters after embarking on a journey to discover why her lover abruptly left her. | 1988 | Pedro Almodóvar (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.6 (39.5K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Women, TheA study of the lives and romantic entanglements of various interconnected women. | 1939 | George Cukor (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.8 (13.6K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| WoodstockOscar-winning musical chronicle that brilliantly captures the three-day rock concert and celebration of peace and love that became a capstone for the Sixties. | 1970 | Michael Wadleigh | Documentary, History, Music | 8.2 (17K votes) | 184 | 20211228 |
| Working GirlWhen a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss' job. | 1988 | Mike Nichols (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.8 (55.7K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| World of Henry Orient, TheA mischievous, adventuresome fourteen-year-old girl and her best friend begin following an eccentric concert pianist around New York City after she develops a crush on him. | 1964 | George Roy Hill (*) | Comedy, Drama | 6.7 (3.5K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Wrath of Khan, TheWith the assistance of the Enterprise crew, Admiral Kirk must stop an old nemesis, Khan Noonien Singh, from using the life-generating Genesis Device as the ultimate weapon. | 1982 | Nicholas Meyer | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 7.7 (118.3K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| Written On The WindAlcoholic playboy Kyle Hadley marries the woman secretly loved by his poor but hard-working best friend, who in turn is pursued by Kyle's nymphomaniac sister. | 1956 | Douglas Sirk (*) | Drama | 7.4 (11.1K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Wuthering HeightsA servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff. | 1939 | William Wyler (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.6 (17.7K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Yankee Doodle DandyThe life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer, and singer George M. Cohan. | 1942 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Biography, Drama, Family, Music, Musical | 7.7 (15.2K votes) | 126 | 20211228 |
| Year of Living Dangerously, TheA young Australian reporter tries to navigate the political turmoil of Indonesia during the rule of President Sukarno with the help of a diminutive photographer. | 1982 | Peter Weir (*) | Drama, Romance, War | 7.1 (20.9K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Yearling, TheA boy persuades his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misbehaves? | 1946 | Clarence Brown | Drama, Family, Western | 7.2 (5.8K votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Yellow SubmarineThe Beatles agree to accompany Captain Fred in his yellow submarine and go to Pepperland to free it from the music-hating Blue Meanies. | 1968 | George Dunning | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical | 7.4 (25.8K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| Yi YiEach member of a middle-class Taipei family seeks to reconcile past and present relationships within their daily lives. | 2000 | Edward Yang (*) | Drama, Romance | 8.2 (23.2K votes) | 173 | 20211228 |
| YojimboA crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town. | 1961 | Akira Kurosawa (*) | Action, Drama, Thriller | 8.2 (119.3K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| You Can Count on MeA single mother's life is thrown into turmoil after her struggling, rarely seen younger brother returns to town. | 2000 | Kenneth Lonergan | Drama | 7.5 (29.7K votes) | 111 | 20220414 |
| You Only Live OnceThe public defender's secretary and an ex-convict get married and try to make a life together, but a series of disasters sends their lives spiraling out of control. | 1937 | Fritz Lang (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 7.3 (6.6K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Young And The Damned [Los Olivados]A group of juvenile delinquents lives a violent and crime-filled life in the festering slums of Mexico City, and the morals of young Pedro are gradually corrupted and destroyed by the others. | 1950 | Luis Buñuel (*) | Crime, Drama | 8.3 (19.8K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Young FrankensteinAn American grandson of the infamous scientist, struggling to prove that his grandfather was not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body. | 1974 | Mel Brooks (*) | Comedy | 8.0 (154K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Young Mr LincolnA fictionalized account of the early life of the American president as a young lawyer facing his greatest court case. | 1939 | John Ford (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 7.6 (8K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| ZThe public murder of a prominent politician and doctor amid a violent demonstration is covered up by military and government officials. A tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it. | 1969 | Costa-Gavras (*) | Crime, Drama, History, Thriller | 8.2 (27.3K votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Zero De ConduiteIn a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the direction on a celebration day. | 1933 | Jean Vigo (*) | Short, Comedy, Drama | 7.3 (8.4K votes) | 44 | 20211228 |
| Zero for Conduct [Zéro de conduite - Jeunes diables au collège]In a repressive boarding school with rigid rules of behavior, four boys decide to rebel against the direction on a celebration day. | 1933 | Jean Vigo (*) | Short, Comedy, Drama | 7.3 (8.4K votes) | 44 | 20211228 |
| Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse | 1991 | George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola, Fax Bahr | Documentary | 8.1 (Unkn) | | Excluded |
| Hoop Dreams | 1994 | Steve James | Documentary, Drama, Sport | 8.3 (Unkn) | | Excluded |