The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
❤93Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)
❤109John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.
2010 (1984)
❤128While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery spacecraft and it's sole known survivor, the homicidal computer HAL.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
❤106Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward.
RV (2006)
❤122Climbing aboard their mammoth recreational vehicle for a cross-country road trip to the Colorado Rockies, the McNeive family – led by dysfunctional patriarch, Bob – prepares for the adventure of a lifetime. But spending two weeks together in one seriously small space has a way of cramping their style.
Gridiron Gang (2006)
❤106Teenagers at a juvenile detention center, under the leadership of their counselor, gain self-esteem by playing football together.
After Hours (1985)
❤105An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop.
Fanboys (2009)
❤98In 1999, Star Wars fanatics take a cross-country trip to George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch so their dying friend can see a screening of The Phantom Menace before its release.
The Producers (1967)
❤115Broadway producer, Max Bialystock and his accountant, Leo Bloom plan to make money by charming little old ladies to invest in a production many times over what it will actually cost, and then put on a sure-fire flop, so nobody will ask for their money back – and what can be a more certain flop than a tasteless musical celebrating Hitler.
Wolf Children (2012)
❤105After her werewolf lover unexpectedly dies in an accident, a woman must find a way to raise the son and daughter that she had with him. However, their inheritance of their father's traits prove to be a challenge for her.
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
❤100The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods as they join forces with their younger selves in an epic battle that must change the past – to save our future.
The Lunchbox (2013)
❤89A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai's Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015)
❤99The story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.
Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)
❤109It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless. Vindicated by the victory at the Breach, the Jaeger program has evolved into the most powerful global defense force in human history. The PPDC now calls upon the best and brightest to rise up and become the next generation of heroes when the Kaiju threat returns.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
❤121After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.
High Life (2018)
❤105Monte and his baby daughter are the last survivors of a damned and dangerous mission to the outer reaches of the solar system. They must now rely on each other to survive as they hurtle toward the oblivion of a black hole.
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
❤113Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.
Red Sparrow (2018)
❤108Prima ballerina, Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career. She soon turns to Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people to use their minds and bodies as weapons. Dominika emerges as the most dangerous Sparrow after completing the sadistic training process. As she comes to terms with her new abilities, she meets a CIA agent who tries to convince her that he is the only person she can trust.
Glass (2019)
❤108In a series of escalating encounters, security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities. Meanwhile, the shadowy presence of Elijah Price emerges as an orchestrator who holds secrets critical to both men.
Arctic (2018)
❤123A man stranded in the Arctic is finally about to receive his long awaited rescue. However, after a tragic accident, his opportunity is lost and he must then decide whether to remain in the relative safety of his camp or embark on a deadly trek through the unknown for potential salvation.
The Intruder (2019)
❤88A psychological thriller about a young married couple who buys a beautiful Napa Valley house on several acres of land only to find that the man they bought it from refuses to let go of the property.
After (2019)
❤100A young woman falls for a guy with a dark secret and the two embark on a rocky relationship.
Black Widow (2019)
❤107Victorya Byron has a mission in life, so secret and lugubrious, that not even her own conscience is aware of its magnitude or consequences. Driven by her Handler, a mysterious Colonel, this 'femme fatale', clothed always in black, embarks on a killing spree across the major cities of Europe, in vileness acts that shows no mercy nor boundaries, guided by an irresistible instinct for extermination. In her wake, she falls in love with a doctor. This Psychiatrist becomes her only solace in a world of blood and wretchedness, clouded by the despicableness of a fragile heart. Through this doctor, the reckless Victorya will unravel one of the mysteries of her life, that her thirst for blood is nothing but the vague vestiges of an old rancor buried deep in her past. As she becomes aware of this bitter truth, it gets clearer than ever, that her mission is to avenge that old repressed memory, embarking on the darkest chapter of her life: to take the life of the man who made her......a Black ...
Stanley Kubrick Considers the Bomb (2019)
❤101A short documentary about how the threat of nuclear war prompted Kubrick to make Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.