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1283   8.5   9.2 

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

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1279   8.5   9.1 

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

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880   8.5   9 

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

834   8.5   9 

(2008) 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.

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486   8.3   9 

(1966) 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.

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1930   8.2   8.9 

(1994) 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.

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1279   8.2   8.9 

(1993) 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.

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815   8.3   8.8 

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

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1564   8   8.8 

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

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308   8.1   8.8 

(1957) 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.

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657   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.

1706   8   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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393   8.6   8.8 

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

2447   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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771   8.2   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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474   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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1353   8.1   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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660   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.

256   8.3   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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2688   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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782   8.2   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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637   8   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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2105   8.3   8.7 

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

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1438   7.9   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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618   8.3   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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189   8.5   8.7 

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

338   8.2   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.

1040   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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497   8   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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2917   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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2533   7.9   8.6 

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

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476   8.2   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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433   7.8   8.6 

(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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1375   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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252   7.7   8.6 

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

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773   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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802   8.1   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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816   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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1670   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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970   8.2   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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471   8   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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1226   8.3   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.

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159   8.4   8.6 

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

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211   8.3   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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1122   8   8.5 

(2006) Two men from opposite sides of the law are undercover within the Massachusetts State Police and the Irish mafia.

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2386   7.8   8.5 

(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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336   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.

1214   8.1   8.5 

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

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939   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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107   8.1   8.5 

(1948) Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled gold prospector named Howard.

356   8   8.5 

(1974) A private detective investigating an adultery case stumbles on to a scheme of murder that has something to do with water.

167   8.1   8.5 

(1949) Arriving in Vienna, Holly Martins learns that his friend Harry Lime, who has invited him, recently died in a car accident.

217   8   8.5 

(2006) In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.

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147   8.4   8.5 

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

1227   8.1   8.5 

(1980) A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence.

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1558   8   8.5 

(2004) A couple undergo a procedure to erase each other from their memories when their relationship turns sour, but it is only through the process of loss that they discover what they had to begin with.

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722   8   8.5 

(2002) A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.

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833   8.3   8.5 

(2001) A sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and monsters; where humans are changed into animals; and a bathhouse for these creatures.

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1517   7.7   8.5 

(1998) Based on a World War II drama. US soldiers try to save their comrade, paratrooper Private Ryan, who's stationed behind enemy lines.

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956   8.1   8.5 

(2006) In the fascist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world.

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1077   8.2   8.5 

(1975) King Arthur and his knights embark on a low-budget search for the Grail, encountering many very silly obstacles.

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867   7.9   8.5 

(2000) The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control.

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510   7.5   8.4 

(1997) A shooting at an all night diner is investigated by three LA policemen in their own unique ways.

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189   7.6   8.5 

(1957) After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.

752   7.9   8.5 

(1986) The sole survivor of the Nostromo re-enters a world of sudden, unspeakable horror - one that attacks without warning again and again and again.

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195   7.9   8.5 

(1981) The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth, and sheer terror.

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1169   8.1   8.4 

(1992) After a simple jewelery heist goes terribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.

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1190   7.6   8.4 

(1991) The cyborg who once tried to kill Sarah Connor must now protect her teenager son, John Connor, from an even more powerful and advanced cyborg.

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187   8.4   8.5 

(1950) A heinous crime and its aftermath are recalled from differing points of view.

231   8   8.4 

(1941) Sam Spade, a private detective, gets involved in a murderous hunt for a valuable statuette.

380   8   8.4 

(1980) An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring, destroys his life outside it.

298   8.1   8.4 

(1927) In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

256   7.7   8.4 

(2004) Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.

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152   8.4   8.5