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Mission: Impossible III

2006

J.J. Abrams

Retired from active duty to train new IMF agents, Ethan Hunt is called back into action to confront sadistic arms dealer, Owen Davian. Hunt must try to protect his girlfriend while working with his new team to complete the mission.

action adventure thriller

tom cruise espionage action

Rating: 6.704 Votes: 5,621 Budget: 150,000,000

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Spaceballs

1987

Mel Brooks

When the nefarious Dark Helmet hatches a plan to snatch Princess Vespa and steal her planet's air, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr and his clueless sidekick fly to the rescue. Along the way, they meet Yogurt, who puts Lone Starr wise to the power of The Schwartz. Can he master it in time to save the day?

comedy sci-fi

parody mel brooks spoof

Rating: 6.838 Votes: 2,467 Budget: 22,700,000

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The General

1926

Buster Keaton

During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnnie Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.

comedy war

buster keaton trains civil war

Rating: 8.02 Votes: 942 Budget: 750,000

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The Maltese Falcon

1941

John Huston

A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.

film-noir mystery

noir thriller black and white humphrey bogart

Rating: 7.763 Votes: 1,323 Budget: 375,000

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The Magnificent Seven

1960

John Sturges

An oppressed Mexican peasant village hires seven gunfighters to help defend their homes.

adventure western

steve mcqueen charles bronson remake of:seven samurai (1954)

Rating: 7.542 Votes: 1,458 Budget: 2,000,000

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Spartacus

1960

Stanley Kubrick

The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.

action drama romance

stanley kubrick rome slavery

Rating: 7.553 Votes: 1,750 Budget: 12,000,000

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Dog Day Afternoon

1975

Sidney Lumet

Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturale. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly turns sour and escalates into a hostage situation and stand-off with the police. As Sonny's motives for the robbery are slowly revealed and things become more complicated, the heist turns into a media circus.

crime drama

al pacino police true story

Rating: 7.814 Votes: 2,413 Budget: 1,800,000

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Paths of Glory

1957

Stanley Kubrick

A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.

drama war

stanley kubrick anti-war cynical

Rating: 8.296 Votes: 2,317 Budget: 935,000

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Seven Years in Tibet

1997

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Austrian mountaineer, Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war. He escapes with a fellow detainee and makes his way to Llaso, Tibet, where he meets the 14-year-old Dalai Lama, whose friendship ultimately transforms his outlook on life.

adventure drama war

tibet brad pitt mountain climbing

Rating: 7.156 Votes: 2,362 Budget: 70,000,000

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Irreversible

2002

Gaspar Noé

A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist.

crime drama mystery

rape disturbing graphic violence

Rating: 7.244 Votes: 2,303

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The Philadelphia Story

1940

George Cukor

When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

comedy drama romance

screwball comedy cary grant james stewart

Rating: 7.7 Votes: 692

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The Manchurian Candidate

1962

John Frankenheimer

Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.

crime thriller war

assassination brainwashing classic

Rating: 7.612 Votes: 549 Budget: 2,200,000

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The Man Who Would Be King

1975

John Huston

A robust adventure about two British adventurers who take over primitive Kafiristan as godlike rulers, meeting a tragic end through their desire for a native girl. Based on a short story by Rudyard Kipling.

adventure drama

sean connery michael caine india

Rating: 7.5 Votes: 493 Budget: 8,000,000

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Dirty Harry

1971

Don Siegel

When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement – is tasked with hunting down the psychopath. Harry eventually collars Scorpio in the process of rescuing a kidnap victim, only to see him walk on technicalities. Now, the maverick detective is determined to nail the maniac himself.

action crime thriller

clint eastwood gritty nudity (full frontal - brief)

Rating: 7.496 Votes: 1,964 Budget: 4,000,000

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Eraserhead

1977

David Lynch

Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.

drama horror

surreal atmospheric david lynch

Rating: 7.444 Votes: 1,992 Budget: 100,000

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Straw Dogs

1971

Sam Peckinpah

David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ostracized by the brutish men of the village, including Amy's old flame, Charlie. Eventually the taunts escalate, and two of the locals rape Amy. This sexual assault awakes a shockingly violent side of David.

drama thriller

rape disturbing revenge

Rating: 7.149 Votes: 750 Budget: 2,200,000

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Stagecoach

1939

John Ford

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.

action drama romance

criterion oscar (best supporting actor) good dialogue

Rating: 7.699 Votes: 883 Budget: 531,374

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Double Indemnity

1944

Billy Wilder

A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of distinctly Californian settings, the partners in crime plan the perfect murder to collect the insurance, which pays double if the death is accidental.

crime drama film-noir

film noir black and white noir thriller

Rating: 8.137 Votes: 1,440 Budget: 927,262

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Mulholland Drive

2001

David Lynch

Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.

crime drama film-noir

surreal david lynch nonlinear

Rating: 7.837 Votes: 5,135 Budget: 15,000,000

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Sommersby

1993

Jon Amiel

Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband, believed killed in battle. By all accounts, Jack Sommersby was not a pleasant man, thus when he suddenly returns, Laurel has mixed emotions. It appears that Jack has changed a great deal, leading some people to believe that this is not actually Jack but an imposter. Laurel herself is unsure, but willing to take the man into her home, and perhaps later into her heart.

drama mystery romance

jodie foster can't remember

Rating: 6.345 Votes: 303 Budget: 30,000,000

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The French Connection

1971

William Friedkin

Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.

action crime thriller

gene hackman oscar (best cinematography) car chase

Rating: 7.543 Votes: 1,442 Budget: 1,800,000

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Whale Rider

2002

Niki Caro

On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny.

new zealand coming of age feminism

Rating: 7.2 Votes: 312 Budget: 8,000,000

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Point Break

1991

Kathryn Bigelow

In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers who call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. Believing that the members of the gang could be surfers, the F.B.I. sends young agent Johnny Utah to the beach undercover to mix with the surfers and gather information.

action crime thriller

bank robbery undercover cop keanu reeves

Rating: 7.116 Votes: 2,919 Budget: 24,000,000

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The Thing

1982

John Carpenter

A team of American scientists investigate the empty, destroyed base of their Norwegian counterparts in Antarctica, only to discover a terrifying life force that can take the form of its prey.

action horror sci-fi

paranoia aliens horror

Rating: 8.03 Votes: 5,655 Budget: 15,000,000

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