IMDb Top 250 [Official]

1755   8.5   9.2 

(1994) Frank Darabont
Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.

Review: Perfect by Uber
List: Cinema's Biggest Weasels by GemLil
List: Stephen King Media Works (film) by Raven

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1757   8.6   9.2 

(1972) Francis Ford Coppola
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.

Review: Don't Forget To Love It by GemLil
List: Favorite Death Scenes by DaNameless
List: Mamma Mia by GemLil

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1226   8.5   9 

(1974) Francis Ford Coppola
The early life & career of Vito Corleone is portrayed while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on his crime syndicate.

List: Great Movie Villains by coroner
Review: none! - Please Post a Review

743   8.4   9 

(1966) Sergio Leone
A 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.

Review: Western Perfection by Prelude
List: Smoking Shootouts by coroner
List: Top Movie Body Counts by Kryptic Centurion

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2671   8.2   8.9 

(1994) Quentin Tarantino
The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.

List: Anger in Monologue by GemLil
List: Hardcore Drugs by Prelude
Review: A Powerful Pulp of Persuasion by Alexander

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1774   8.3   8.9 

(1993) Stephen Spielberg
Oskar Schindler uses Jews to start a factory in Poland during the war. He witnesses the horrors endured by the Jews, and starts to save them.

Review: Spielberg's Eternal Masterpiece by SJMJ
Review: Spielberg's Most Powerful Film by PvtCaboose
List: Recent Movies in Black & White by Harp

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480   8.4   8.9 

(1957) Sidney Lumet
A dissenting juror in a murder trial slowly manages to convince the others that the case is not as obviously clear as it seemed in court.

List: Remakes & Originals by Manling
Review: Moving, powerful, engrossing, wordy drama by PvtCaboose

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1193   8.4   8.9 

(1975) Milos Forman
Upon arrival at a mental institution, a brash rebel rallies the patients together to take on the oppressive Nurse Ratched.

List: Great Movie Villains by coroner
List: Mental Illness Movies by GemLil
Review: nothing worthy - Please Post a Review

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1644   8.5   8.9 

(2008) Christopher Nolan
Batman and James Gordon join forces with Gotham's new District Attorney, Harvey Dent, to take on a psychotic bank robber known as The Joker.

Review: A Knight's Tale by Grand Assault
Review: A Phenomenal Superhero Adventure by PvtCaboose
Review: The Godfather of Comic Book Heroes by SJMJ
List: Listal's 50 Infamous Villains of Cinema by Kryptic Centurion
List: Scarred and Dangerous by GemLil

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2020   8   8.8 

(1980) George Lucas
While Luke takes advanced Jedi training from Yoda, his friends are relentlessly pursued by Darth Vader.

Review: Dark Side Rising by Alexander
List: FIGHT!! Cool Fight Scenes by DaNameless
List: Robots, Cyborgs & Androids by KCenturion

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926   8.2   8.8 

(1942) Classic film set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

2180   7.9   8.8 

(1977) Luke Skywalker leaves his home planet, teams up with other rebels, and tries to save Princess Leia from the evil clutches of Darth Vader.

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3217   8.1   8.8 

(2003) The former Fellowship of the Ring prepare for the final battle for Middle Earth, while Frodo & Sam approach Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring.

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595   8.6   8.8 

(1954) A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves.

1113   8.3   8.8 

(1990) "As far back as I can remember, I've always wanted to be a gangster." -- Henry Hill, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1955.

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690   8.5   8.8 

(1954) Through his rear window and the eye of his powerful camera he watched a great city tell on itself, expose its cheating ways...and Murder!

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997   8.3   8.8 

(2002) Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths - one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer.

1808   8   8.7 

(1981) Renowned archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. Government to find the Ark of the Covenant.

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2875   8.3   8.8 

(1999) An office employee and a soap salesman build a global organization to help vent male aggression.

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3508   7.9   8.7 

(2001) In a small village in the Shire a young Hobbit named Frodo has been entrusted with an ancient Ring. Now he must embark on an Epic quest to the Cracks of Doom in order to destroy it.

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401   8.4   8.8 

(1968) A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin.

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1060   8.1   8.7 

(1995) A boat has been destroyed, criminals are dead, and the key to this mystery lies with the only survivor and his twisted, convoluted story.

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954   8.1   8.7 

(1960) A young woman steals $40,000 from her employer's client, and subsequently encounters a young motel proprietor too long under the domination of his mother.

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1997   8   8.7 

(1991) A young FBI cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims.

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333   8.5   8.7 

(1950) A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

3729   7.8   8.7 

(1999) A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against the controllers of it.

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1431   8   8.6 

(2000) A man, suffering from short-term memory loss, uses notes and tattoos to hunt for the man he thinks killed his wife.

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899   8.4   8.7 

(1964) An insane general starts a process to nuclear holocaust that a war room of politicians and generals frantically try to stop.

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478   8.3   8.6 

(1959) A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country.

586   8   8.7 

(1946) An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would had been like if he never existed.

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1917   8.1   8.6 

(1995) Police drama about two cops, one new and one about to retire, after a serial killer using the seven deadly sins as his motive.

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3306   7.8   8.6 

(2002) Hobbits Frodo and Sam continue on to Mordor in their mission to destroy the One Ring.

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734   8.1   8.6 

(1941) Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance.

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1189   8.2   8.6 

(1994) Professional assassin Leon reluctantly takes care of 12-year-old Mathilda, a neighbor whose parents are killed, and teaches her his trade.

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1105   8   8.6 

(1979) During the on-going Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade Green Beret who has set himself up as a God among a local tribe.

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2275   7.7   8.6 

(1999) Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation for his daughter's attractive friend.

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1196   8.2   8.6 

(1976) A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as nighttime taxi driver in a city whose perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to violently lash out, attempting to save a teenage prostitute in the process.

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1379   8.1   8.6 

(1998) A former neo-nazi skinhead tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the same wrong path that he did.

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427   8.4   8.5 

3187   7.8   8.6 

(1994) Forrest Gump, while not intelligent, has accidentally been present at many historic moments, but his true love, Jenny, eludes him.

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705   8.1   8.6 

(1958) A San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

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373   7.8   8.6 

(1962) Epic rumination on a flamboyant and controversial British military figure and his conflicted loyalties during wartime service.

1066   8.3   8.6 

(2008) In the distant future, a small waste collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.

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265   8.5   8.6 

(1957) When soldiers in WWI refuse to continue with an impossible attack, their superiors decide to make an example of them.

1760   8.2   8.6 

(2001) Amelie, an innocent and naive girl in Paris, with her own sense of justice, decides to help those around her and along the way, discovers love.

335   8.5   8.6 

(1931) When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.

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242   8.4   8.6 

(1944) An insurance agent lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions.

484   7.9   8.5 

(1962) Atticus Finch (Peck), a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his kids against prejudice.

1312   7.8   8.5 

(1979) A mining ship, investigating a suspected SOS, lands on a distant planet. The crew discovers some strange creatures and investigates.

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1747   8.2   8.5 

(1971) In future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and later volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy.

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