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The Handmaiden

Not Rated

145 min

Drama

Romance

Thriller

Park Chan-wook

Sarah Waters, Chung Seo-kyung, Park Chan-wook

1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation, a new girl (Sookee) is hired as a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress (Hideko) who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle (Kouzuki). But the maid has a secret. She is a pickpocket recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to elope with him, rob her of her fortune, and lock her up in a madhouse. The plan seems to proceed according to plan until Sookee and Hideko discover some unexpected emotions.

Won 1 BAFTA Award69 wins & 104 nominations total

96%

179,730

movie

$2,006,788

tt0361748

Inglourious Basterds

R

153 min

Adventure

Drama

War

Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino

In German-occupied France, young Jewish refugee Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the slaughter of her family by Colonel Hans Landa. Narrowly escaping with her life, she plots her revenge several years later when German war hero Fredrick Zoller takes a rapid interest in her and arranges an illustrious movie premiere at the theater she now runs. With the promise of every major Nazi officer in attendance, the event catches the attention of the "Basterds", a group of Jewish-American guerrilla soldiers led by the ruthless Lt. Aldo Raine. As the relentless executioners advance and the conspiring young girl's plans are set in motion, their paths will cross for a fateful evening that will shake the very annals of history.

Won 1 Oscar. 134 wins & 172 nominations total

89%

1,631,919

movie

$120,540,719

tt1979320

Rush

R

123 min

Action

Biography

Drama

Ron Howard

Peter Morgan

Set against the sexy, glamorous golden age of Formula 1 racing in the 1970s, the film is based on the true story of a great sporting rivalry between handsome English playboy James Hunt (Hemsworth), and his methodical, brilliant opponent, Austrian driver Niki Lauda (Bruhl). The story follows their distinctly-different personal styles on and off the track, their loves, and the astonishing 1976 season in which both drivers were willing to risk everything to become world champion in a sport with no margin for error: if you make a mistake, you die.

Won 1 BAFTA Award6 wins & 65 nominations total

88%

524,060

movie

$26,947,624

tt10272386

The Father

PG-13

97 min

Drama

Mystery

Florian Zeller

Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller

Having just scared off his recent caregiver, Anthony, an ailing, octogenarian Londoner gradually succumbing to dementia, feels abandoned when concerned Anne, his daughter, tells him she's moving to Paris. Confused and upset, against the backdrop of a warped perspective and his rapid, heart-rending mental decline, Anthony is starting to lose his grip on reality, struggling to navigate the opaque landscape of present and past. Now, as faded memories and glimpses of lucidity trigger sudden mood swings, dear ones, Anthony's surroundings, and even time itself become distorted. Why has his younger daughter stopped visiting? Who are the strangers that burst in on Anthony?

Won 2 Oscars. 37 wins & 168 nominations total

98%

202,106

movie

$2,122,771

tt0036775

Double Indemnity

Approved

107 min

Crime

Drama

Film-Noir

Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain

In 1938, Walter Neff, an experienced salesman of the Pacific All Risk Insurance Co., meets the seductive wife of one of his clients, Phyllis Dietrichson, and they have an affair. Phyllis proposes to kill her husband to receive the proceeds of an accident insurance policy and Walter devises a scheme to receive twice the amount based on a double indemnity clause. When Mr. Dietrichson is found dead on a train track, the police accept the determination of accidental death. However, the insurance analyst and Walter's best friend Barton Keyes does not buy the story and suspects that Phyllis has murdered her husband with the help of another man.

Nominated for 7 Oscars. 2 wins & 9 nominations total

97%

171,086

movie

tt4154756

Avengers: Infinity War

PG-13

149 min

Action

Adventure

Sci-Fi

Anthony Russo, Joe Russo

Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, Stan Lee

As the Avengers and their allies have continued to protect the world from threats too large for any one hero to handle, a new danger has emerged from the cosmic shadows: Thanos. A despot of intergalactic infamy, his goal is to collect all six Infinity Stones, artifacts of unimaginable power, and use them to inflict his twisted will on all of reality. Everything the Avengers have fought for has led up to this moment, the fate of Earth and existence has never been more uncertain.

Nominated for 1 Oscar. 48 wins & 81 nominations total

85%

1,246,041

movie

$678,815,482

tt0093058

Full Metal Jacket

R

116 min

Drama

War

Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford

A two-segment look at the effect of the military mindset and war itself on Vietnam era Marines. The first half follows a group of recruits in boot camp under the command of the punishing Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. The second half shows one of those recruits, Joker, covering the war as a correspondent for Stars and Stripes, focusing on the Tet offensive.

Nominated for 1 Oscar. 8 wins & 15 nominations total

90%

805,254

movie

$46,357,676

tt0071315

Chinatown

R

130 min

Drama

Mystery

Thriller

Roman Polanski

Robert Towne, Roman Polanski

In 1937 Los Angeles, private investigator Jake 'J.J.' Gittes specializes in cheating-spouse cases. His current target is Hollis Mulwray, high-profile chief engineer for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, whose wife suspects him of infidelity. In following Mulwray, Gittes witnesses some usual business dealings, such as a public meeting for construction of a new dam to create additional water supply for Los Angeles, as fresh water is vital to the growing community during the chronic drought; Mulwray opposes the dam. Eventually Gittes sees Mulwray meeting with an unknown young woman who isn't his wife. Once news of the supposed tryst between Mulwray and this woman hits the media, additional information comes to light that makes Gittes believe that Mulwray is being framed for something and that he himself is being set up. In his investigation of the issue behind Mulwray's framing and his own setup, Gittes is assisted by Mulwray's wife Evelyn, but he thinks she isn't being forthright with him. The further he gets into the investigation, the more secrets he uncovers about the Mulwrays' professional and personal dealings, including Mulwray's former business-partnership with Evelyn's father, Noah Cross. The identity of the unknown woman may be the key to uncovering the whole story.

Won 1 Oscar. 21 wins & 24 nominations total

98%

357,037

movie

$29,200,000

tt0057565

High and Low

Not Rated

143 min

Crime

Drama

Mystery

Akira Kurosawa

Hideo Oguni, Ryûzô Kikushima, Eijirô Hisaita

A wealthy businessman is told his son has been kidnapped and he will have to pay a very large sum for him to be returned safely. It is then discovered that his son is safe at home: the kidnapper took his chauffeur's son by accident. The kidnapper says this makes no difference: pay up or the child dies. This leaves him with a moral dilemma, as he really needs the money to conclude a very important business deal.

3 wins & 3 nominations

96%

56,497

movie

$46,808

tt0120815

Saving Private Ryan

R

169 min

Drama

War

Steven Spielberg

Robert Rodat

Opening with the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944, members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion under Cpt. Miller fight ashore to secure a beachhead. Amidst the fighting, two brothers are killed in action. Earlier in New Guinea, a third brother is KIA. Their mother, Mrs. Ryan, is to receive all three of the grave telegrams on the same day. The United States Army Chief of Staff, George C. Marshall, is given an opportunity to alleviate some of her grief when he learns of a fourth brother, Private James Ryan, and decides to send out 8 men (Cpt. Miller and select members from 2nd Rangers) to find him and bring him back home to his mother...

Won 5 Oscars. 79 wins & 75 nominations total

94%

1,528,812

movie

$217,049,603

tt0050825

Paths of Glory

Approved

88 min

Drama

War

Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick, Calder Willingham, Jim Thompson

The futility and irony of the war in the trenches in WWI is shown as a unit commander in the French army must deal with the mutiny of his men and a glory-seeking general after part of his force falls back under fire in an impossible attack.

Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award5 wins & 3 nominations total

96%

218,358

movie

tt0167260

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

PG-13

201 min

Action

Adventure

Drama

Peter Jackson

J.R.R. Tolkien, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens

The final confrontation between the forces of good and evil fighting for control of the future of Middle-earth. Frodo and Sam reach Mordor in their quest to destroy the One Ring, while Aragorn leads the forces of good against Sauron's evil army at the stone city of Minas Tirith.

Won 11 Oscars. 215 wins & 124 nominations total

94%

2,024,305

movie

$381,878,219

tt2267998

Gone Girl

R

149 min

Drama

Mystery

Thriller

David Fincher

Gillian Flynn

On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?

Nominated for 1 Oscar. 64 wins & 188 nominations total

88%

1,092,865

movie

$167,767,189

tt0119217

Good Will Hunting

R

126 min

Drama

Romance

Gus Van Sant

Matt Damon, Ben Affleck

A touching tale of a wayward young man who struggles to find his identity, living in a world where he can solve any problem, except the one brewing deep within himself, until one day he meets his soul mate who opens his mind and his heart.

Won 2 Oscars. 25 wins & 61 nominations total

97%

1,099,672

movie

$138,433,435

tt0120735

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

R

107 min

Action

Comedy

Crime

Guy Ritchie

Guy Ritchie

Four Jack-the-lads find themselves heavily - seriously heavily - in debt to an East End hard man and his enforcers after a crooked card game. Overhearing their neighbours in the next flat plotting to hold up a group of out-of-their-depth drug growers, our heroes decide to stitch up the robbers in turn. In a way the confusion really starts when a pair of antique double-barrelled shotguns go missing in a completely different scam.

Won 1 BAFTA Award13 wins & 9 nominations total

75%

626,164

movie

$3,753,929

tt0245429

Spirited Away

PG

124 min

Animation

Adventure

Family

Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki

Chihiro and her parents are moving to a small Japanese town in the countryside, much to Chihiro's dismay. On the way to their new home, Chihiro's father makes a wrong turn and drives down a lonely one-lane road which dead-ends in front of a tunnel. Her parents decide to stop the car and explore the area. They go through the tunnel and find an abandoned amusement park on the other side, with its own little town. When her parents see a restaurant with great-smelling food but no staff, they decide to eat and pay later. However, Chihiro refuses to eat and decides to explore the theme park a bit more. She meets a boy named Haku who tells her that Chihiro and her parents are in danger, and they must leave immediately. She runs to the restaurant and finds that her parents have turned into pigs. In addition, the theme park turns out to be a town inhabited by demons, spirits, and evil gods. At the center of the town is a bathhouse where these creatures go to relax. The owner of the bathhouse is the evil witch Yubaba, who is intent on keeping all trespassers as captive workers, including Chihiro. Chihiro must rely on Haku to save her parents in hopes of returning to their world.

Won 1 Oscar. 58 wins & 31 nominations total

96%

880,329

movie

$15,205,725

tt0078748

Alien

R

117 min

Horror

Sci-Fi

Ridley Scott

Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett

In the distant future, the crew of the commercial spaceship Nostromo are on their way home when they pick up a distress call from a distant moon. The crew are under obligation to investigate and the spaceship descends on the moon afterwards. After a rough landing, three crew members leave the spaceship to explore the area on the moon. At the same time as they discover a hive colony of some unknown creature, the ship's computer deciphers the message to be a warning, not a distress call. When one of the eggs is disturbed, the crew realizes that they are not alone on the spaceship and they must deal with the consequences.

Won 1 Oscar. 19 wins & 22 nominations total

93%

990,929

movie

$84,206,106

tt0086190

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

PG

131 min

Action

Adventure

Fantasy

Richard Marquand

Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas

Luke Skywalker battles Jabba the Hutt and Darth Vader to save his comrades in the Rebel Alliance and triumph over the Galactic Empire. Han Solo and Princess Leia reaffirm their love, and team with Chewbacca, Lando Calrissian, the Ewoks, and droids C-3PO and R2-D2 to aid in the disruption of the Dark Side, and the defeat of the evil emperor.

Nominated for 4 Oscars. 25 wins & 23 nominations total

82%

1,141,461

movie

$316,566,101

tt0049902

A Man Escaped

Not Rated

101 min

Drama

Thriller

War

Robert Bresson

André Devigny, Robert Bresson

Captured French Resistance fighter Lieutenant Fontaine awaits a certain death sentence for espionage in a stark Nazi prison in Lyon, France. Facing malnourishment and paralyzing fear, he must plot an extraordinary escape, complicated by the questions of whom to trust, and what lies beyond the small portion of the prison they are housed in.

Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award4 wins & 3 nominations total

100%

25,877

movie

tt0353969

Memories of Murder

Not Rated

132 min

Crime

Drama

Mystery

Bong Joon Ho

Bong Joon Ho, Kwang-rim Kim, Sung-bo Shim

In 1986, in the province of Gyunggi, in South Korea, a second young and beautiful woman is found dead, raped and tied and gagged with her underwear. Detective Park Doo-Man and Detective Cho Yong-koo, two brutal and stupid local detectives without any technique, investigate the murder using brutality and torturing the suspects, without any practical result. The Detective Seo Tae-Yoon from Seoul comes to the country to help the investigations and is convinced that a serial-killer is killing the women. When a third woman is found dead in the same "modus-operandi", the detectives find leads of the assassin.

33 wins & 10 nominations

82/100

227,871

movie

$15,357

tt0816692

Interstellar

PG-13

169 min

Adventure

Drama

Sci-Fi

Christopher Nolan

Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan

Earth's future has been riddled by disasters, famines, and droughts. There is only one way to ensure mankind's survival: Interstellar travel. A newly discovered wormhole in the far reaches of our solar system allows a team of astronauts to go where no man has gone before, a planet that may have the right environment to sustain human life.

Won 1 Oscar. 44 wins & 148 nominations total

73%

2,191,773

movie

$188,020,017

tt0208092

Snatch

R

102 min

Comedy

Crime

Guy Ritchie

Guy Ritchie

Turkish and his close friend/accomplice Tommy get pulled into the world of match fixing by the notorious Brick Top. Things get complicated when the boxer they had lined up gets badly beaten by Mickey, who comes into the equation after Turkish, an unlicensed boxing promoter wants to buy a caravan off of Travellers. They then try to convince Mickey not only to fight for them, but to lose for them too. Whilst all this is going on, a huge diamond heist takes place, and a fistful of motley characters enter the story, including 'Cousin Avi', 'Boris The Blade', 'Franky Four Fingers' and 'Bullet Tooth Tony'. Things go from bad to worse as it all becomes about the money, the guns, and the damned dog.

4 wins & 7 nominations

74%

926,321

movie

$30,328,156

tt5311514

Your Name.

TV-PG

106 min

Animation

Drama

Fantasy

Makoto Shinkai

Makoto Shinkai

Mitsuha is the daughter of the mayor of a small mountain town. She's a straightforward high school girl who lives with her sister and her grandmother and has no qualms about letting it be known that she's uninterested in Shinto rituals or helping her father's electoral campaign. Instead she dreams of leaving the boring town and trying her luck in Tokyo. Taki is a high school boy in Tokyo who works part-time in an Italian restaurant and aspires to become an architect or an artist. Every night he has a strange dream where he becomes...a high school girl in a small mountain town.

17 wins & 27 nominations

98%

338,976

movie

$5,017,246

tt0042192

All About Eve

Approved

138 min

Drama

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Mary Orr

Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter) is waiting backstage to meet her idol, talented but aging Broadway star Margo Channing (Bette Davis). It seems innocent enough as Eve explains that she has seen Margo in EVERY performance of her current play. Margo and her friends take Eve under their wing but only theatre critic Addison DeWitt (George Sanders) sees through Eve's evil plan, which is to take Margo's parts and her fiancé, Bill Simpson (Gary Merrill) too.

Won 6 Oscars. 27 wins & 20 nominations total

99%

141,131

movie

$63,463

tt4154796

Avengers: Endgame

PG-13

181 min

Action

Adventure

Drama

Anthony Russo, Joe Russo

Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, Stan Lee

After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War (2018), the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers must assemble once more in order to undo Thanos's actions and undo the chaos to the universe, no matter what consequences may be in store, and no matter who they face...

Nominated for 1 Oscar. 70 wins & 133 nominations total

94%

1,311,790

movie

$858,373,000

tt0469494

There Will Be Blood

R

158 min

Drama

Paul Thomas Anderson

Paul Thomas Anderson, Upton Sinclair

The intersecting life stories of Daniel Plainview and Eli Sunday in early twentieth century California is presented. Miner turn oilman Daniel Plainview is a driven man who will do whatever it takes to achieve his goals. He works hard but he also takes advantage of those around him at their expense if need be. His business partner is his son H.W., who in reality he "acquired" when H.W.'s biological single father, who worked on one of Daniel's rigs, got killed in a workplace accident. Daniel is deeply protective of H.W. if only for what H.W. brings to the partnership. Eli Sunday is one in a pair of twins, whose family farm Daniel purchases for the major oil deposit located on it. Eli, the local preacher and a self-proclaimed faith healer, wants the money from the sale of the property to finance his own church. The lives of the two competitive men often clash as Daniel pumps oil off the property and tries to acquire all the surrounding land at bargain prices to be able to build a pipeline to the coast, and as Eli tries to build his own religious empire.

Won 2 Oscars. 114 wins & 138 nominations total

91%

655,422

movie

$40,222,514

tt0120689

The Green Mile

R

189 min

Crime

Drama

Fantasy

Frank Darabont

Stephen King, Frank Darabont

Death Row guards at a penitentiary, in the 1930's, have a moral dilemma with their job when they discover one of their prisoners, a convicted murderer, has a special gift.

Nominated for 4 Oscars. 15 wins & 37 nominations total

79%

1,447,552

movie

$136,801,374

tt0076759

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

PG

121 min

Action

Adventure

Fantasy

George Lucas

George Lucas

The Imperial Forces, under orders from cruel Darth Vader, hold Princess Leia hostage in their efforts to quell the rebellion against the Galactic Empire. Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, captain of the Millennium Falcon, work together with the companionable droid duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess, help the Rebel Alliance and restore freedom and justice to the Galaxy.

Won 6 Oscars. 69 wins & 30 nominations total

93%

1,479,635

movie

$460,998,507

tt0082971

Raiders of the Lost Ark

PG

115 min

Action

Adventure

Steven Spielberg

Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas, Philip Kaufman

The year is 1936. An archeology professor named Indiana Jones is venturing in the jungles of South America searching for a golden statue. Unfortunately, he sets off a deadly trap but miraculously escapes. Then, Jones hears from a museum curator named Marcus Brody about a biblical artifact called The Ark of the Covenant, which can hold the key to human existence. Jones has to venture to vast places such as Nepal and Egypt to find this artifact. However, he will have to fight his enemy Rene Belloq and a band of Nazis in order to reach it.

Won 4 Oscars. 38 wins & 24 nominations total

93%

1,052,696

movie

$248,159,971

tt0057012

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

PG

95 min

Comedy

War

Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern, Peter George

Paranoid Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper of Burpelson Air Force Base, believing that fluoridation of the American water supply is a Soviet plot to poison the U.S. populace, is able to deploy through a back door mechanism a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union without the knowledge of his superiors, including the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Buck Turgidson, and President Merkin Muffley. Only Ripper knows the code to recall the B-52 bombers and he has shut down communication in and out of Burpelson as a measure to protect this attack. Ripper's executive officer, RAF Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (on exchange from Britain), who is being held at Burpelson by Ripper, believes he knows the recall codes if he can only get a message to the outside world. Meanwhile at the Pentagon War Room, key persons including Muffley, Turgidson and nuclear scientist and adviser, a former Nazi named Dr. Strangelove, are discussing measures to stop the attack or mitigate its blow-up into an all out nuclear war with the Soviets. Against Turgidson's wishes, Muffley brings Soviet Ambassador Alexi de Sadesky into the War Room, and get his boss, Soviet Premier Dimitri Kisov, on the hot line to inform him of what's going on. The Americans in the War Room are dismayed to learn that the Soviets have an as yet unannounced Doomsday Device to detonate if any of their key targets are hit. As Ripper, Mandrake and those in the War Room try and work the situation to their end goal, Major T.J. "King" Kong, one of the B-52 bomber pilots, is working on his own agenda of deploying his bomb where ever he can on enemy soil if he can't make it to his intended target.

Nominated for 4 Oscars. 14 wins & 11 nominations total

98%

529,176

movie

$9,440,272

tt0032138

The Wizard of Oz

G

102 min

Adventure

Family

Fantasy

Victor Fleming, King Vidor

Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf

When a tornado rips through Kansas, Dorothy Gale and her dog, Toto, are whisked away in their house to the magical Land of Oz. They follow the Yellow Brick Road toward the Emerald City to meet the Wizard, and on the way they meet a Scarecrow who wants a brain, a Tin Man who wants a heart, and a Cowardly Lion who wants courage. The Wizard asks them to bring him the Wicked Witch of the West's broom to earn his help.

Won 2 Oscars. 13 wins & 14 nominations total

98%

437,377

movie

$24,668,669

tt5323662

A Silent Voice: The Movie

Not Rated

130 min

Animation

Drama

Taichi Ishidate, Naoko Yamada

Yoshitoki Ôima, Reiko Yoshida

The story revolves around Shôko Nishimiya, a grade school student who has impaired hearing. She transfers into a new school, where she is bullied by her classmates, especially Shôya Ishida. It gets to the point where she transfers to another school and as a result, Shôya is ostracized and bullied himself, with no friends to speak to and no plans for the future. Years later, he epicly sets himself on a path to redemption.

6 wins & 9 nominations

78/100

109,357

movie

$764,723

tt2106476

The Hunt

R

115 min

Drama

Thomas Vinterberg

Thomas Vinterberg, Tobias Lindholm

Lucas is a Kindergarten teacher who takes great care of his students. Unfortunately for him, young Klara has a run-away imagination and concocts a lie about her teacher. Before Lucas is even able to understand the consequences, he has become the outcast of the town. The hunt is on to prove his innocence before it's taken from him for good.

Nominated for 1 Oscar. 38 wins & 73 nominations total

92%

375,967

movie

$613,308

tt0167261

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

PG-13

179 min

Action

Adventure

Drama

Peter Jackson

J.R.R. Tolkien, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens

The continuing quest of Frodo and the Fellowship to destroy the One Ring. Frodo and Sam discover they are being followed by the mysterious Gollum. Aragorn, the Elf archer Legolas, and Gimli the Dwarf encounter the besieged Rohan kingdom, whose once great King Theoden has fallen under Saruman's deadly spell.

Won 2 Oscars. 132 wins & 138 nominations total

95%

1,827,039

movie

$345,518,923

tt3315342

Logan

R

137 min

Action

Drama

Sci-Fi

James Mangold

James Mangold, Scott Frank, Michael Green

In 2029 the mutant population has shrunken significantly due to genetically modified plants designed to reduce mutant powers and the X-Men have disbanded. Logan, whose power to self-heal is dwindling, has surrendered himself to alcohol and now earns a living as a chauffeur. He takes care of the ailing old Professor X whom he keeps hidden away. One day, a female stranger asks Logan to drive a girl named Laura to the Canadian border. At first he refuses, but the Professor has been waiting for a long time for her to appear. Laura possesses an extraordinary fighting prowess and is in many ways like Wolverine. She is pursued by sinister figures working for a powerful corporation; this is because they made her, with Logan's DNA. A decrepit Logan is forced to ask himself if he can or even wants to put his remaining powers to good use. It would appear that in the near-future, the times in which they were able put the world to rights with razor sharp claws and telepathic powers are now over.

Nominated for 1 Oscar. 28 wins & 82 nominations total

93%

868,490

movie

$226,277,068

tt4633694

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

PG

117 min

Animation

Action

Adventure

Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman

Phil Lord, Rodney Rothman

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the creative minds behind The Lego Movie and 21 Jump Street, bring their unique talents to a fresh vision of a different Spider-Man Universe, with a groundbreaking visual style that's the first of its kind. "Spider-Man(TM): Into the Spider-Verse" introduces Brooklyn teen Miles Morales (Shameik Moore), and the limitless possibilities of the Spider-Verse, where more than one can wear the mask.

Won 1 Oscar. 85 wins & 61 nominations total

97%

701,768

movie

$190,241,310

tt0105236

Reservoir Dogs

R

99 min

Crime

Thriller

Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary

Six thugs, who are strangers to each other, are hired by a crime boss, Joe Cabot, to carry out a diamond robbery. Right at the outset, they are given false names with the intention that they won't get too close and will concentrate on the job instead. They are completely sure that the robbery is going to be a success. But, when the police show up right at the time and the site of the robbery, panic spreads amongst the group members, and two of them are killed in the subsequent shootout, along with a few policemen and civilians. When the remaining people assemble at the premeditated rendezvous point (a warehouse), they begin to suspect that one of them is an undercover cop.

13 wins & 23 nominations

90%

1,110,362

movie

$2,832,029

tt0325980

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

PG-13

143 min

Action

Adventure

Fantasy

Gore Verbinski

Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Stuart Beattie

This swash-buckling tale follows the quest of Captain Jack Sparrow, a savvy pirate, and Will Turner, a resourceful blacksmith, as they search for Elizabeth Swann. Elizabeth, the daughter of the governor and the love of Will's life, has been kidnapped by the feared Captain Barbossa. Little do they know, but the fierce and clever Barbossa has been cursed. He, along with his large crew, are under an ancient curse, doomed for eternity to neither live, nor die. That is, unless a blood sacrifice is made.

Nominated for 5 Oscars. 38 wins & 104 nominations total

79%

1,239,039

movie

$305,413,918

tt0077416

The Deer Hunter

R

183 min

Drama

War

Michael Cimino

Michael Cimino, Deric Washburn, Louis Garfinkle

Michael, Steven and Nicky are 3 best friends who enjoy going deer hunting quite often. These men get enlisted to head to Vietnam to fight for their country and celebrate with a farewell party, as well as Steven marrying a pregnant woman named "Angela." After the horrors during the war and edge-grabbing games of Russian Roulette that these men are forced to play, Michael returns home and realizes that his deer hunting outings aren't the same as they used to be, because of the war and he eventually finds out that Steven is handicapped and Nicky hasn't returned from Vietnam, and in response, he heads back to Vietnam to rescue him.

Won 5 Oscars. 24 wins & 27 nominations total

86%

368,909

movie

$48,979,328

tt0073486

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

R

133 min

Drama

Milos Forman

Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman, Ken Kesey

McMurphy has a criminal past and has once again gotten himself into trouble and is sentenced by the court. To escape labor duties in prison, McMurphy pleads insanity and is sent to a ward for the mentally unstable. Once here, McMurphy both endures and stands witness to the abuse and degradation of the oppressive Nurse Ratched, who gains superiority and power through the flaws of the other inmates. McMurphy and the other inmates band together to make a rebellious stance against the atrocious Nurse.

Won 5 Oscars. 38 wins & 15 nominations total

93%

1,094,306

movie

$108,981,275

tt0056058

Harakiri

Not Rated

133 min

Action

Drama

Mystery

Masaki Kobayashi

Yasuhiko Takiguchi, Shinobu Hashimoto

Peace in 17th-century Japan causes the Shogunate's breakup of warrior clans, throwing thousands of samurai out of work and into poverty. An honorable end to such fate under the samurai code is ritual suicide, or hara-kiri (self-inflicted disembowelment). An elder warrior, Hanshiro Tsugumo (Tatsuya Nakadai) seeks admittance to the house of a feudal lord to commit the act. There, he learns of the fate of his son-in-law, a young samurai who sought work at the house but was instead barbarically forced to commit traditional hara-kiri in an excruciating manner with a dull bamboo blade. In flashbacks the samurai tells the tragic story of his son-in-law, and how he was forced to sell his real sword to support his sick wife and child. Tsugumo thus sets in motion a tense showdown of revenge against the house.

9 wins & 3 nominations

100%

73,923

movie

tt0050083

12 Angry Men

Approved

96 min

Crime

Drama

Sidney Lumet

Reginald Rose

The defense and the prosecution have rested, and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young man is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open-and-shut case of murder soon becomes a detective story that presents a succession of clues creating doubt, and a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, AND each other. Based on the play, all of the action takes place on the stage of the jury room.

Nominated for 3 Oscars. 16 wins & 12 nominations total

100%

891,794

movie

tt0050976

The Seventh Seal

Not Rated

96 min

Drama

Fantasy

Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman

A Knight and his squire are home from the crusades. Black Death is sweeping their country. As they approach home, Death appears to the knight and tells him it is his time. The knight challenges Death to a chess game for his life. The Knight and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused.

9 wins & 2 nominations

93%

203,224

movie

tt3170832

Room

R

118 min

Drama

Thriller

Lenny Abrahamson

Emma Donoghue

ROOM tells the extraordinary story of Jack, a spirited 5-year-old who is looked after by his loving and devoted mother. Like any good mother, Ma dedicates herself to keeping Jack happy and safe, nurturing him with warmth and love and doing typical things like playing games and telling stories. Their life, however, is anything but typical--they are trapped--confined to a 10-by-10-foot space that Ma has euphemistically named Room. Ma has created a whole universe for Jack within Room, and she will stop at nothing to ensure that, even in this treacherous environment, Jack is able to live a complete and fulfilling life. But as Jack's curiosity about their situation grows, and Ma's resilience reaches its breaking point, they enact a risky plan to escape, ultimately bringing them face-to-face with what may turn out to be the scariest thing yet: the real world.

Won 1 Oscar. 108 wins & 141 nominations total

93%

460,226

movie

$14,677,654

tt10872600

Spider-Man: No Way Home

PG-13

148 min

Action

Adventure

Fantasy

Jon Watts

Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Stan Lee

Peter Parker's secret identity is revealed to the entire world. Desperate for help, Peter turns to Doctor Strange to make the world forget that he is Spider-Man. The spell goes horribly wrong and shatters the multiverse, bringing in monstrous villains that could destroy the world.

Nominated for 1 Oscar. 35 wins & 71 nominations total

93%

912,258

movie

$814,866,759

tt0364569

Oldboy

R

120 min

Action

Drama

Mystery

Park Chan-wook

Garon Tsuchiya, Nobuaki Minegishi, Park Chan-wook

Abducted on a rainy night in 1988, the obnoxious drunk, Oh Dae-Su, much to his surprise, wakes up locked in a windowless and dilapidated hotel room, for an unknown reason. There, his invisible and pitiless captors will feed him, clothe him, and sedate him to avert a desperate suicide--and as his only companion and a window to the world is the TV in his stark cell--the only thing that helps Oh Dae-Su keep going is his daily journal. Then, unexpectedly, after fifteen long years in captivity, the perplexed prisoner is deliberately released, encouraged to track down his tormentor to finally get his retribution. However, who would hate Oh Dae-Su so much he would deny him of a quick and clean death?

40 wins & 28 nominations

82%

654,594

movie

$2,458,200

tt0055630

Yojimbo

Not Rated

110 min

Action

Drama

Thriller

Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa, Ryûzô Kikushima

Sanjuro, a wandering samurai enters a rural town in nineteenth century Japan. After learning from the innkeeper that the town is divided between two gangsters, he plays one side off against the other. His efforts are complicated by the arrival of the wily Unosuke, the son of one of the gangsters, who owns a revolver. Unosuke has Sanjuro beaten after he reunites an abducted woman with her husband and son, then massacres his father's opponents. During the slaughter, the samurai escapes with the help of the innkeeper; but while recuperating at a nearby temple, he learns of innkeeper's abduction by Unosuke, and returns to the town to confront him.

Nominated for 1 Oscar. 5 wins & 2 nominations total

96%

134,043

movie

$46,808

tt15239678

Dune: Part Two

PG-13

166 min

Action

Adventure

Drama

Denis Villeneuve

Denis Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts, Frank Herbert

Duke Paul Atreides joins the Fremen and begins a spiritual and martial journey to become Muad'dib, while trying to prevent the horrible but inevitable future he's witnessed: a Holy War in his name, spreading throughout the known universe.

6 wins & 29 nominations

92%

535,522

movie

$282,144,358

tt0071562

The Godfather Part II

R

202 min

Crime

Drama

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo

The continuing saga of the Corleone crime family tells the story of a young Vito Corleone growing up in Sicily and in 1910s New York; and follows Michael Corleone in the 1950s as he attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

Won 6 Oscars. 17 wins & 21 nominations total

96%

1,392,629

movie

$47,834,595

tt0081398

Raging Bull

R

129 min

Biography

Drama

Sport

Martin Scorsese

Jake LaMotta, Joseph Carter, Peter Savage

When Jake LaMotta steps into a boxing ring and obliterates his opponent, he's a prizefighter. But when he treats his family and friends the same way, he's a ticking time bomb, ready to go off at any moment. Though LaMotta wants his family's love, something always seems to come between them. Perhaps it's his violent bouts of paranoia and jealousy. This kind of rage helped make him a champ, but in real life, he winds up in the ring alone.

Won 2 Oscars. 24 wins & 28 nominations total

92%

387,774

movie

$23,383,987

tt0457430

Pan's Labyrinth

R

118 min

Drama

Fantasy

War

Guillermo del Toro

Guillermo del Toro

In 1944 Falangist Spain, a girl, fascinated with fairy-tales, is sent along with her pregnant mother to live with her new stepfather, a ruthless captain of the Spanish army. During the night, she meets a fairy who takes her to an old faun in the center of the labyrinth. He tells her she's a princess, but must prove her royalty by surviving three gruesome tasks. If she fails, she will never prove herself to be the true princess and will never see her real father, the king, again.

Won 3 Oscars. 109 wins & 115 nominations total

95%

714,113

movie

$37,646,380

tt0032976

Rebecca

Approved

130 min

Drama

Mystery

Romance

Alfred Hitchcock

Daphne Du Maurier, Robert E. Sherwood, Joan Harrison

A shy lady's companion, staying in Monte Carlo with her stuffy employer, meets the wealthy Maxim de Winter (Sir Laurence Olivier). She and Max fall in love, marry, and return to Manderley, his large country estate in Cornwall. Max is still troubled by the death of his first wife, Rebecca, in a boating accident the year before. The second Mrs. de Winter (Joan Fontaine) clashes with the housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers (Dame Judith Anderson), and discovers that Rebecca still has a strange hold on everyone at Manderley.

Won 2 Oscars. 7 wins & 10 nominations total

98%

149,592

movie

tt0025316

It Happened One Night

Approved

105 min

Comedy

Romance

Frank Capra

Robert Riskin, Samuel Hopkins Adams

Ellie Andrews has just tied the knot with society aviator King Westley when she is whisked away to her father's yacht and out of King's clutches. Ellie jumps ship and eventually winds up on a bus headed back to her husband. Reluctantly she must accept the help of out-of- work reporter Peter Warne. Actually, Warne doesn't give her any choice: either she sticks with him until he gets her back to her husband, or he'll blow the whistle on Ellie to her father. Either way, Peter gets what (he thinks!) he wants .... a really juicy newspaper story.

Won 5 Oscars. 11 wins & 2 nominations total

98%

114,876

movie

tt0095327

Grave of the Fireflies

Not Rated

88 min

Animation

Drama

War

Isao Takahata

Akiyuki Nosaka, Isao Takahata

The story of Seita and Setsuko, two young Japanese siblings, living in the declining days of World War II. When an American firebombing separates the two children from their parents, the two siblings must rely completely on one another while they struggle to fight for their survival.

3 wins

100%

326,076

movie

$516,962

tt0056172

Lawrence of Arabia

PG

227 min

Adventure

Biography

Drama

David Lean

Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson

Due to his knowledge of the native Bedouin tribes, British Lieutenant T.E. Lawrence is sent to Arabia to find Prince Faisal and serve as a liaison between the Arabs and the British in their fight against the Turks. With the aid of native Sherif Ali, Lawrence rebels against the orders of his superior officer and strikes out on a daring camel journey across the harsh desert to attack a well-guarded Turkish port.

Won 7 Oscars. 31 wins & 14 nominations total

93%

322,138

movie

$45,306,425

tt0317248

City of God

R

130 min

Crime

Drama

Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund

Paulo Lins, Bráulio Mantovani

Brazil, 1960s, City of God. The Tender Trio robs motels and gas trucks. Younger kids watch and learn well...too well. 1970s: Li'l Zé has prospered very well and owns the city. He causes violence and fear as he wipes out rival gangs without mercy. His best friend Bené is the only one to keep him on the good side of sanity. Rocket has watched these two gain power for years, and he wants no part of it. he keeps getting swept up in the madness. All he wants to do is take pictures. 1980s: Things are out of control between the last two remaining gangs...will it ever end? Welcome to the City of God.

Nominated for 4 Oscars. 75 wins & 50 nominations total

91%

817,002

movie

$7,564,459

tt0053125

North by Northwest

Approved

136 min

Action

Adventure

Mystery

Alfred Hitchcock

Ernest Lehman, Gerald Devriès

Madison Avenue advertising man Roger Thornhill finds himself thrust into the world of spies when he is mistaken for a man by the name of George Kaplan. Foreign spy Philip Vandamm and his henchman Leonard try to eliminate him but when Thornhill tries to make sense of the case, he is framed for murder. Now on the run from the police, he manages to board the 20th Century Limited bound for Chicago where he meets a beautiful blond, Eve Kendall, who helps him to evade the authorities. His world is turned upside down yet again when he learns that Eve isn't the innocent bystander he thought she was. Not all is as it seems however, leading to a dramatic rescue and escape at the top of Mt. Rushmore.

Nominated for 3 Oscars. 9 wins & 7 nominations total

97%

351,950

movie

$66,728

tt0059578

For a Few Dollars More

R

132 min

Drama

Western

Sergio Leone

Sergio Leone, Fulvio Morsella, Luciano Vincenzoni

Drifting from town to town, the poncho-clad Man with No Name and the lightning-fast right hand rides into the town of El Paso in search of maniacal escaped convict El Indio. It's been 18 short months since the deadly confrontation in Per un pugno di dollari (1964), and this time, the solitary stranger, now a professional bounty hunter, must go against his beliefs and do the unthinkable: join forces with hawk-eyed marksman Colonel Douglas Mortimer to collect the hefty reward. Now, as El Indio and his cut-throats have already set their sights on robbing the crammed-with-cash Bank of El Paso, the stage is set for a bloody showdown at high noon, against the backdrop of silent double-crosses and fragile allegiances. But, is it worth dicing with death for a few dollars more?

3 nominations

92%

280,847

movie

$15,000,000

tt1853728

Django Unchained

R

165 min

Comedy

Drama

Western

Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino

In 1858, a bounty-hunter named King Schultz seeks out a slave named Django and buys him because he needs him to find some men he is looking for. After finding them, Django wants to find his wife, Broomhilda, who along with him were sold separately by his former owner for trying to escape. Schultz offers to help him if he chooses to stay with him and be his partner. Eventually they learn that she was sold to a plantation in Mississippi. Knowing they can't just go in and say they want her, they come up with a plan so that the owner will welcome them into his home and they can find a way.

Won 2 Oscars. 58 wins & 158 nominations total

87%

1,742,451

movie

$162,805,434

tt0099685

Goodfellas

R

145 min

Biography

Crime

Drama

Martin Scorsese

Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese

Henry Hill might be a small time gangster, who may have taken part in a robbery with Jimmy Conway and Tommy De Vito, two other gangsters who might have set their sights a bit higher. His two partners could kill off everyone else involved in the robbery, and slowly start to think about climbing up through the hierarchy of the Mob. Henry, however, might be badly affected by his partners' success, but will he consider stooping low enough to bring about the downfall of Jimmy and Tommy?

Won 1 Oscar. 44 wins & 38 nominations total

95%

1,287,118

movie

$46,909,721

tt0021749

City Lights

G

87 min

Comedy

Drama

Romance

Charles Chaplin

Charles Chaplin, Harry Carr, Harry Crocker

A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind girl. Her family is in financial trouble. The tramp's on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.

4 wins

95%

201,167

movie

$19,181

tt0096283

My Neighbor Totoro

G

86 min

Animation

Comedy

Family

Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao Miyazaki

Two young girls, 10-year-old Satsuki and her 4-year-old sister Mei, move into a house in the country with their father to be closer to their hospitalized mother. Satsuki and Mei discover that the nearby forest is inhabited by magical creatures called Totoros (pronounced toe-toe-ro). They soon befriend these Totoros, and have several magical adventures.

5 wins & 2 nominations

94%

394,242

movie

$2,250,213

tt0395169

Hotel Rwanda

PG-13

121 min

Biography

Drama

History

Terry George

Keir Pearson, Terry George

1994. In Rwanda, the classification of the native population into Hutus and Tutsis, arbitrarily done by the colonial Belgians, is now ingrained within Rwandan mentality despite the Rwandan independence. Despite the Belgians having placed the Tutsis in a higher position during the Belgian rule, they have placed the majority Hutus in power after independence. Paul Rusesabagina, a Hutu married to a Tutsi, Tatiana Rusesabagina, is the House Manager of the Hotel Des Milles Collines in Kigali. The Milles Collines, owned by Sabena (the national airline of Belgium), is a four-star hotel catering primarily to wealthy white westerners. Paul, who knows how to work the system to run the hotel effectively for its guests and for Sabena, is proud that most of the Caucasians who he meets in this professional capacity treat him with respect. After a specific incident, the relative calm between the Tutsi guerrillas and government-backed Hutu militia takes a turn. Paul's thought that the native population as a whole who are not directly involved in the conflict will be protected as the UN peacekeeping forces and thus the world is watching doesn't happen as the western world largely evacuates from Rwanda and abandons the natives. Such begins what will become a genocide of the Tutsi population. Paul, who is able to get his immediate family to the hotel which is still largely seen as a place of sanctuary, will have to use the considerable skills he has used to run the hotel as well as he has instead to keep himself, his family and any others taking refuge at the hotel alive, whether they be Hutu or Tutsi. Meanwhile, Colonel Oliver, a Canadian heading the UN peacekeeping forces, and Pat Archer with the Red Cross do what they can to assist Paul and to get people to safety first to the hotel then out of the country, while field journalists, like photographer Jack Daglish, try to bring the genocide back into the global media to have the world once again care about what is going on.

Nominated for 3 Oscars. 16 wins & 49 nominations total

91%

378,272

movie

$23,530,892

tt2380307

Coco

PG

105 min

Animation

Adventure

Drama

Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina

Lee Unkrich, Jason Katz, Matthew Aldrich

Despite his family's baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events. Along the way, he meets charming trickster Hector, and together, they set off on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel's family history.

Won 2 Oscars. 112 wins & 42 nominations total

97%

618,005

movie

$210,460,015

tt0041959

The Third Man

Approved

93 min

Film-Noir

Mystery

Thriller

Carol Reed

Graham Greene, Orson Welles, Alexander Korda

An out of work pulp fiction novelist, Holly Martins, arrives in a post war Vienna divided into sectors by the victorious allies, and where a shortage of supplies has led to a flourishing black market. He arrives at the invitation of an ex-school friend, Harry Lime, who has offered him a job, only to discover that Lime has recently died in a peculiar traffic accident. From talking to Lime's friends and associates Martins soon notices that some of the stories are inconsistent, and determines to discover what really happened to Harry Lime.

Won 1 Oscar. 5 wins & 4 nominations total

99%

186,002

movie

$1,067,364

tt0091763

Platoon

R

120 min

Drama

War

Oliver Stone

Oliver Stone

Chris Taylor is a young, naive American who gives up college and volunteers for combat in Vietnam. Upon arrival, he quickly discovers that his presence is quite nonessential, and is considered insignificant to the other soldiers, as he has not fought for as long as the rest of them and felt the effects of combat. Chris has two non-commissioned officers, the ill-tempered and indestructible Staff Sergeant Robert Barnes and the more pleasant and cooperative Sergeant Elias Grodin. A line is drawn between the two NCOs and a number of men in the platoon when an illegal killing occurs during a village raid. As the war continues, Chris himself draws towards psychological meltdown. And as he struggles for survival, he soon realizes he is fighting two battles, the conflict with the enemy and the conflict between the men within his platoon.

Won 4 Oscars. 24 wins & 16 nominations total

89%

447,620

movie

$138,530,565

tt0062622

2001: A Space Odyssey

G

149 min

Adventure

Sci-Fi

Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke

"2001" is a story of evolution. Sometime in the distant past, someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith on Earth (presumably elsewhere throughout the universe as well). Evolution then enabled humankind to reach the moon's surface, where yet another monolith is found, one that signals the monolith placers that humankind has evolved that far. Now a race begins between computers (HAL) and human (Bowman) to reach the monolith placers. The winner will achieve the next step in evolution, whatever that may be.

Won 1 Oscar. 18 wins & 14 nominations total

92%

736,646

movie

$60,481,243

tt0047478

Seven Samurai

Not Rated

207 min

Action

Drama

Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni

A veteran samurai, who has fallen on hard times, answers a village's request for protection from bandits. He gathers 6 other samurai to help him, and they teach the townspeople how to defend themselves, and they supply the samurai with three small meals a day. The film culminates in a giant battle when 40 bandits attack the village.

Nominated for 2 Oscars. 5 wins & 9 nominations total

100%

373,943

movie

$800,916

tt0086250

Scarface

R

170 min

Crime

Drama

Brian De Palma

Oliver Stone, Howard Hawks, Ben Hecht

Tony Montana manages to leave Cuba during the Mariel exodus of 1980. He finds himself in a Florida refugee camp but his friend Manny has a way out for them: undertake a contract killing and arrangements will be made to get a green card. He's soon working for drug dealer Frank Lopez and shows his mettle when a deal with Colombian drug dealers goes bad. He also brings a new level of violence to Miami. Tony is protective of his younger sister but his mother knows what he does for a living and disowns him. Tony is impatient and wants it all however, including Frank's empire and his mistress Elvira Hancock. Once at the top however, Tony's outrageous actions make him a target and everything comes crumbling down.

8 nominations

79%

940,918

movie

$45,967,303

tt0245712

Amores Perros

R

154 min

Drama

Thriller

Alejandro G. Iñárritu

Guillermo Arriaga

On the brink of the new Millennium in the bustling City of Mexico, one horrible car accident intertwines inextricably the lives of three perfect strangers. Octavio, a rebellious adolescent who is secretly in love with his sister-in-law, dreams of escaping his miserable life, and for this reason, he enters reluctantly the obscure world of dog fighting with his lethal dog Cofi. And then unexpectedly, Valeria, a stunning woman and famous supermodel, will cross paths with Octavio, while in the meantime, her pampered little dog Richie manages to vanish into thin air in the confined space of her apartment. Lastly, Chivo, an ex-guerrilla vagabond, after abandoning his little daughter, unable to make up for lost time, he channels his love to the city's strays and a mortally wounded Rottweiler. In the end, even though all the weary characters, men and beasts, wish for a bright future, in this life-changing journey in the pursuit of love, sometimes infidelity, sin and death can get in the way.

Nominated for 1 Oscar. 55 wins & 24 nominations total

93%

256,067

movie

$5,408,467

tt0477348

No Country for Old Men

R

122 min

Crime

Drama

Thriller

Ethan Coen, Joel Coen

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, Cormac McCarthy

In rural Texas, welder and hunter Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) discovers the remains of several drug runners who have all killed each other in an exchange gone violently wrong. Rather than report the discovery to the police, Moss decides to simply take the two million dollars present for himself. This puts the psychopathic killer, Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem), on his trail as he dispassionately murders nearly every rival, bystander and even employer in his pursuit of his quarry and the money. As Moss desperately attempts to keep one step ahead, the blood from this hunt begins to flow behind him with relentlessly growing intensity as Chigurh closes in. Meanwhile, the laconic Sheriff Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) blithely oversees the investigation even as he struggles to face the sheer enormity of the crimes he is attempting to thwart.

Won 4 Oscars. 164 wins & 139 nominations total

93%

1,090,982

movie

$74,283,625

tt1205489

Gran Torino

R

116 min

Drama

Clint Eastwood

Nick Schenk, Dave Johannson

Walt Kowalski (Clint Eastwood) is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Kowalski is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy old man who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors. He is a Korean War veteran whose prize possession is a 1972 Gran Torino he keeps in mint condition. When his neighbor Thao Lor (Bee Vang), a young Hmong teenager under pressure from his gang member cousin, tries to steal his Gran Torino, Kowalski sets out to reform the youth. Drawn against his will into the life of Thao's family, Kowalski is soon taking steps to protect them from the gangs that infest their neighborhood.

21 wins & 22 nominations

81%

825,905

movie

$148,095,302

tt0435761

Toy Story 3

G

103 min

Animation

Adventure

Comedy

Lee Unkrich

John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich

Woody, Buzz and the whole gang are back. As their owner Andy prepares to depart for college, his loyal toys find themselves in daycare where untamed tots with their sticky little fingers do not play nice. So, it's all for one and one for all as they join Barbie's counterpart Ken, a thespian hedgehog named Mr. Pricklepants and a pink, strawberry-scented teddy bear called Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear to plan their great escape.

Won 2 Oscars. 63 wins & 96 nominations total

98%

912,167

movie

$415,004,880

tt0075314

Taxi Driver

R

114 min

Crime

Drama

Martin Scorsese

Paul Schrader

Travis Bickle is an ex-Marine and Vietnam War veteran living in New York City. As he suffers from insomnia, he spends his time working as a taxi driver at night, watching porn movies at seedy cinemas during the day, or thinking about how the world, New York in particular, has deteriorated into a cesspool. He's a loner who has strong opinions about what is right and wrong with mankind. For him, the one bright spot in New York humanity is Betsy, a worker on the presidential nomination campaign of Senator Charles Palantine. He becomes obsessed with her. After an incident with her, he believes he has to do whatever he needs to make the world a better place in his opinion. One of his priorities is to be the savior for Iris, a twelve-year-old runaway and prostitute who he believes wants out of the profession and under the thumb of her pimp and lover Matthew.

Nominated for 4 Oscars. 22 wins & 21 nominations total

89%

947,782

movie

$28,262,574

tt0109830

Forrest Gump

PG-13

142 min

Drama

Romance

Robert Zemeckis

Winston Groom, Eric Roth

Forrest Gump is a simple man with a low I.Q. but good intentions. He is running through childhood with his best and only friend Jenny. His 'mama' teaches him the ways of life and leaves him to choose his destiny. Forrest joins the army for service in Vietnam, finding new friends called Dan and Bubba, he wins medals, creates a famous shrimp fishing fleet, inspires people to jog, starts a ping-pong craze, creates the smiley, writes bumper stickers and songs, donates to people and meets the president several times. However, this is all irrelevant to Forrest who can only think of his childhood sweetheart Jenny Curran, who has messed up her life. Although in the end all he wants to prove is that anyone can love anyone.

Won 6 Oscars. 51 wins & 74 nominations total

75%

2,314,429

movie

$330,455,270

tt1392214

Prisoners

R

153 min

Crime

Drama

Mystery

Denis Villeneuve

Aaron Guzikowski

How far would you go to protect your family? Keller Dover is facing every parent's worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as minutes turn to hours, panic sets in. The only lead is a dilapidated RV that had earlier been parked on their street. Heading the investigation, Detective Loki arrests its driver, Alex Jones, but a lack of evidence forces his release. As the police pursue multiple leads and pressure mounts, knowing his child's life is at stake the frantic Dover decides he has no choice but to take matters into his own hands. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?

Nominated for 1 Oscar. 10 wins & 38 nominations total

81%

837,579

movie

$61,002,302

tt1028532

Hachi: A Dog's Tale

G

93 min

Biography

Drama

Family

Lasse Hallström

Stephen P. Lindsey, Kaneto Shindô

Commuting by train, music professor Parker Wilson finds an Akita puppy, whose cage broke unnoticed during shipping, leaving his destination unknown, and since the station can't care for it and the dog catcher warns even such cute ones may not be adopted in the two weeks allowed, he kindly takes it home. His bossy, jealous wife Cate initially makes Parker swear it won't stay, but by the time its' clear nobody will claim him and an adoption candidate is found, she agrees to keep the dog, who won over their daughter Andy and her fiance Michael at first sight. Parker's Japanese college friend Ken inspires naming the pup Hachi(ko), and is pleasantly surprised when Parker successfully tackles the challenge to get it to fetch, which Akitas don't usually do. Hachi makes a habit of waiting for his equally doting master at the station every evening, but after a cardiac crisis, Parker dies. Hachi refuses to accept this, being moved to Michael's home as Cate moves out, waiting for a master who can never come home again, by now collectively adopted by sympathizing town-folk. The story is told in flashbacks as class assignment 'my hero' by Michael's teen son Robbie, who also gets an Akita puppy.

1 nomination

64%

319,734

movie

tt0047396

Rear Window

PG

112 min

Mystery

Thriller

Alfred Hitchcock

John Michael Hayes, Cornell Woolrich

Professional photographer L.B. "Jeff" Jefferies breaks his leg while getting an action shot at an auto race. Confined to his New York apartment, he spends his time looking out of the rear window observing the neighbors. He begins to suspect that a man across the courtyard may have murdered his wife. Jeff enlists the help of his high society fashion-consultant girlfriend Lisa Fremont and his visiting nurse Stella to investigate.

Nominated for 4 Oscars. 6 wins & 13 nominations total

98%

532,968

movie

$36,764,313

tt0017136

Metropolis

Not Rated

153 min

Drama

Sci-Fi

Fritz Lang

Thea von Harbou, Fritz Lang

Sometime in the future, the city of Metropolis is home to a Utopian society where its wealthy residents live a carefree life. One of those is Freder Fredersen. One day, he spots a beautiful woman with a group of children, she and the children quickly disappear. Trying to follow her, he is horrified to find an underground world of workers who apparently run the machinery that keeps the Utopian world above ground functioning. One of the few people above ground who knows about the world below is Freder's father, John Fredersen, who is the founder and master of Metropolis. Freder learns that the woman is called Maria, who espouses the need to join the "hands" - the workers - to the "head" - those in power above - by a mediator who will act as the "heart". Freder wants to help the plight of the workers in their struggle for a better life. But when John learns of what Maria is advocating and that Freder has joined their cause, with the assistance of an old colleague. an inventor called Rotwang, who turns out to be But their nemesis goes to works towards quashing a proposed uprising, with Maria at the centre of their plan. John, unaware that Rotwang has his own agenda., makes plans that include shutting down the machines, with the prospect of unleashing total anarchy both above and below ground.

7 wins & 6 nominations

97%

189,180

movie

$1,236,166

tt0061512

Cool Hand Luke

Approved

127 min

Crime

Drama

Stuart Rosenberg

Donn Pearce, Frank Pierson, Hal Dresner

Luke Jackson is a cool, gutsy prisoner in a Southern chain gang, who, while refusing to buckle under to authority, keeps escaping and being recaptured. The prisoners admire Luke because, as Dragline explains it, "You're an original, that's what you are!" Nevertheless, the camp staff actively works to crush Luke until he finally breaks.

Won 1 Oscar. 5 wins & 11 nominations total

100%

191,913

movie

tt0892769

How to Train Your Dragon

PG

98 min

Animation

Action

Adventure

Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders

William Davies, Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders

Long ago up North on the Island of Berk, the young Viking, Hiccup, wants to join his town's fight against the dragons that continually raid their town. However, his macho father and village leader, Stoik the Vast, will not allow his small, clumsy, but inventive son to do so. Regardless, Hiccup ventures out into battle and downs a mysterious Night Fury dragon with his invention, but can't bring himself to kill it. Instead, Hiccup and the dragon, whom he dubs Toothless, begin a friendship that would open up both their worlds as the observant boy learns that his people have misjudged the species. But even as the two each take flight in their own way, they find that they must fight the destructive ignorance plaguing their world.

Nominated for 2 Oscars. 25 wins & 63 nominations total

99%

818,841

movie

$217,581,231

tt0051201

Witness for the Prosecution

Approved

116 min

Crime

Drama

Mystery

Billy Wilder

Agatha Christie, Billy Wilder, Harry Kurnitz

Ailing barrister Sir Wilfrid Robarts is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder case of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending Leonard Vole, a man being tried for the murder of a wealthy woman. With Robarts choosing to represent him, the two find themselves up against Leonard's cold-hearted wife, Christine - who, in a surprising turn of events, chooses to appear in court against her husband.

Nominated for 6 Oscars. 3 wins & 15 nominations total

100%

141,997

movie

tt26548265

Maharaja

141 min

Action

Crime

Drama

Nithilan Saminathan

Nithilan Saminathan

A barber seeks vengeance after his home is burglarized, cryptically telling police his "lakshmi" has been taken, leaving them uncertain if it's a person or object. His quest to recover the elusive "lakshmi" unfolds.

2 nominations

83%

51,696

movie

tt0032553

The Great Dictator

G

125 min

Comedy

Drama

War

Charles Chaplin

Charles Chaplin

20 years after the end of WWI, in which the nation of Tomainia was on the losing side, Adenoid Hynkel has risen to power as the ruthless dictator of the country. He believes in a pure Aryan state and the decimation of the Jews. This situation is unknown to a simple Jewish Tomainian barber who has been hospitalized since a WWI battle. Upon his release the barber, who had been suffering from memory loss about the war, is shown the new persecuted life of the Jews by many living in the Jewish ghetto, including a washerwoman named Hannah with whom he begins a relationship. The barber is ultimately spared such persecution by Commander Schultz, whom he saved in that WWI battle. The lives of all Jews in Tomainia are eventually spared with a policy shift by Hynkel himself, who is doing so for ulterior motives. But those motives include a desire for world domination, starting with the invasion of neighboring Osterlich, which may be threatened by Benzino Napaloni, the dictator of neighboring Bacteria. Ultimately Schultz, who has turned traitor against Hynkel's regime, and the barber may be able to join forces to take control of the situation, using Schultz's inside knowledge of the regime's workings and the barber's uncanny resemblance to one of those in power.

Nominated for 5 Oscars. 7 wins & 6 nominations total

92%

243,053

movie

tt0264464

Catch Me If You Can

PG-13

141 min

Biography

Crime

Drama

Steven Spielberg

Frank Abagnale Jr., Stan Redding, Jeff Nathanson

A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.

Nominated for 2 Oscars. 16 wins & 46 nominations total

96%

1,130,900

movie

$164,615,351

tt0172495

Gladiator

R

155 min

Action

Adventure

Drama

Ridley Scott

David Franzoni, John Logan, William Nicholson

Maximus is a powerful Roman general, loved by the people and the aging Emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Before his death, the Emperor chooses Maximus to be his heir over his own son, Commodus, and a power struggle leaves Maximus and his family condemned to death. The powerful general is unable to save his family, and his loss of will allows him to get captured and put into the Gladiator games until he dies. The only desire that fuels him now is the chance to rise to the top so that he will be able to look into the eyes of the man who will feel his revenge.

Won 5 Oscars. 60 wins & 104 nominations total

80%

1,684,075

movie

$187,705,427

tt0986264

Like Stars on Earth

PG

162 min

Drama

Family

Aamir Khan, Amole Gupte

Amole Gupte

Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old child whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appretiate are just not important in the world of adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks and neatness. And Ishaan just cannot seem to get anything right in class. When he gets into far more trouble than his parents can handle, he is packed off to a boarding school to 'be disciplined'. Things are no different at his new school, and Ishaan has to contend with the added trauma of separation from his family. One day a new art teacher bursts onto the scene, Ram Shankar Nikumbh, who infects the students with joy and optimism. He breaks all the rules of 'how things are done' by asking them to think, dream and imagine, and all the children respond with enthusiasm, all except Ishaan. Nikumbh soon realizes that Ishaan is very unhappy, and he sets out to discover why. With time, patience and care, he ultimately helps Ishaan find himself.

28 wins & 18 nominations

93%

212,257

movie

$1,223,869

tt0050986

Wild Strawberries

Not Rated

92 min

Drama

Romance

Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman, Louis Sauvat

With the exception of his elderly housekeeper Miss Agda who he treats almost like a surrogate platonic wife, widowed seventy-eight year old Dr. Isak Borg, a former medical doctor and professor, has retreated from any human contact, partly his own want but partly the decision of others who do not want to spend time with him because of his cold demeanor. He is traveling from his home in Stockholm to Lund to accept an honorary degree. Instead of flying as was the original plan, he decides to take the day long drive instead. Along for the ride is his daughter-in-law Marianne, who had been staying with him for the month but has now decided to go home. The many stops and encounters along the way make him reminisce about various parts of his life. Those stops which make him reminisce directly are at his childhood summer home, at the home of his equally emotionally cold mother, and at a gas station where the attendants praise him as a man for his work. But the lives of other people they encounter almost mirror his own, including hitchhikers Sara, Viktor and Anders - who remind him of his cousin Sara who he was going to marry, himself and his irresponsible brother Sigfrid who Sara eventually married - a bickering married couple Sten and Berit Alman, and Marianne and her husband and Isak's son Evald, whose marriage is as strained as was his own.

Nominated for 1 Oscar. 16 wins & 4 nominations total

94%

117,469

movie

tt0088247

The Terminator

R

107 min

Action

Adventure

Sci-Fi

James Cameron

James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd, William Wisher

Sent back from a dystopian 2029--where the cold machines have conquered the entire world--to 1984 Los Angeles, the indestructible cyborg-assassin known as the "Terminator" commences his deadly mission to kill humankind's most important woman: the unsuspecting Sarah Connor. However, from the same war-torn post-apocalyptic future comes a battle-scarred defender--Kyle Reese, a brave soldier of the human Resistance Army--bent on stopping the cybernetic killer from eliminating the world's last hope. But, the Terminator has no feelings, he doesn't sleep, and above all, he won't stop until he carries out his grim task. Does our future lie in our past?

8 wins & 7 nominations

100%

946,171

movie

$38,371,200

tt0095765

Cinema Paradiso

PG

174 min

Drama

Romance

Giuseppe Tornatore

Giuseppe Tornatore, Vanna Paoli

A boy who grew up in a native Sicilian Village returns home as a famous director after receiving news about the death of an old friend. Told in a flashback, Salvatore reminiscences about his childhood and his relationship with Alfredo, a projectionist at Cinema Paradiso. Under the fatherly influence of Alfredo, Salvatore fell in love with film making, with the duo spending many hours discussing about films and Alfredo painstakingly teaching Salvatore the skills that became a stepping stone for the young boy into the world of film making. The film brings the audience through the changes in cinema and the dying trade of traditional film making, editing and screening. It also explores a young boy's dream of leaving his little town to foray into the world outside.

Won 1 Oscar. 25 wins & 33 nominations total

91%

291,357

movie

$12,397,210