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tt2278388 | The Grand Budapest Hotel | 2,014 | R | 99 min | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Wes Anderson | Stefan Zweig, Wes Anderson, Hugo Guinness | This movie recounts the adventures of M. Gustave (Ralph Fiennes), a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars, and Zero Moustafa (Tony Revolori), the lobby boy who becomes his most trusted friend. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting and the battle for an enormous family fortune - all against the backdrop of a suddenly and dramatically changing continent. | Won 4 Oscars. 135 wins & 226 nominations total | 8.1 | 92% | 88 | 907,125 | movie | $59,301,324 | 99 | 9.5 | null |
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tt0033467 | Citizen Kane | 1,941 | PG | 119 min | Drama | Mystery | null | Orson Welles | Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles, John Houseman | A group of reporters are trying to decipher the last word ever spoken by Charles Foster Kane, the millionaire newspaper tycoon: "Rosebud". The film begins with a news reel detailing Kane's life for the masses, and then from there, we are shown flashbacks from Kane's life. As the reporters investigate further, the viewers see a display of a fascinating man's rise to fame, and how he eventually fell off the top of the world. | Won 1 Oscar. 11 wins & 13 nominations total | 8.3 | 99% | 100 | 474,164 | movie | $1,627,530 | 99 | 99 | null |
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tt0031381 | Gone with the Wind | 1,939 | G | 238 min | Drama | Romance | War | Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood | Margaret Mitchell, Sidney Howard, Oliver H.P. Garrett | Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Scarlett is beautiful. She has vitality. But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going to marry his placid cousin, Melanie. Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself at the party at Twelve Oaks. There is a new man there that day, the day the Civil War begins. Rhett Butler. Scarlett does not know he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her instead of Melanie. | Won 8 Oscars. 21 wins & 9 nominations total | 8.2 | 90% | 97 | 340,002 | movie | $200,882,193 | 99 | 99 | null |
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tt0482571 | The Prestige | 2,006 | PG-13 | 130 min | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Christopher Nolan | Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan, Christopher Priest | In the end of the nineteenth century, in London, Robert Angier, his beloved wife Julia McCullough, and Alfred Borden are friends and assistants of a magician. When Julia accidentally dies during a performance, Robert blames Alfred for her death, and they become enemies. Both become famous and rival magicians, sabotaging the performance of the other on the stage. When Alfred performs a successful trick, Robert becomes obsessed trying to disclose the secret of his competitor with tragic consequences. | Nominated for 2 Oscars. 6 wins & 44 nominations total | 8.5 | 77% | 66 | 1,477,853 | movie | $53,089,891 | 99 | 99 | null |
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tt0075148 | Rocky | 1,976 | PG | 120 min | Drama | Sport | null | John G. Avildsen | Sylvester Stallone | Rocky Balboa is a struggling boxer trying to make the big time, working as a debt collector for a pittance. When heavyweight champion Apollo Creed visits Philadelphia, his managers want to set up an exhibition match between Creed and a struggling boxer, touting the fight as a chance for a "nobody" to become a "somebody". The match is supposed to be easily won by Creed, but someone forgot to tell Rocky, who sees this as his only shot at the big time. | Won 3 Oscars. 22 wins & 23 nominations total | 8.1 | 93% | 70 | 642,936 | movie | $117,235,147 | 99 | 99 | null |
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tt0043014 | Sunset Boulevard | 1,950 | Approved | 110 min | Drama | Film-Noir | null | Billy Wilder | Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D.M. Marshman Jr. | In Hollywood of the 50's, the obscure screenplay writer Joe Gillis is not able to sell his work to the studios, is full of debts and is thinking in returning to his hometown to work in an office. While trying to escape from his creditors, he has a flat tire and parks his car in a decadent mansion in Sunset Boulevard. He meets the owner and former silent-movie star Norma Desmond, who lives alone with her butler and driver Max Von Mayerling. Norma is demented and believes she will return to the cinema industry, and is protected and isolated from the world by Max, who was her director and husband in the past and still loves her. Norma proposes Joe to move to the mansion and help her in writing a screenplay for her comeback to the cinema, and the small-time writer becomes her lover and gigolo. When Joe falls in love for the young aspirant writer Betty Schaefer, Norma becomes jealous and completely insane and her madness leads to a tragic end. | Won 3 Oscars. 19 wins & 20 nominations total | 8.4 | 98% | 94 | 241,427 | movie | $299,645 | 99 | 99 | null |
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tt0372784 | Batman Begins | 2,005 | PG-13 | 140 min | Action | Crime | Drama | Christopher Nolan | Bob Kane, David S. Goyer, Christopher Nolan | When his parents are killed, billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne relocates to Asia, where he is mentored by Henri Ducard and Ra's Al Ghul in how to fight evil. When learning about the plan to wipe out evil in Gotham City by Ducard, Bruce prevents this plan from getting any further and heads back to his home. Back in his original surroundings, Bruce adopts the image of a bat to strike fear into the criminals and the corrupt as the icon known as "Batman". But it doesn't stay quiet for long. | Nominated for 1 Oscar. 15 wins & 79 nominations total | 8.2 | 85% | 70 | 1,613,697 | movie | $206,863,479 | 7.75 | 7.25 | null |
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tt0017925 | The General | 1,926 | Passed | 78 min | Action | Adventure | Comedy | Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton | Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman, Al Boasberg | Johnnie loves his train ("The General") and Annabelle Lee. When the Civil War begins he is turned down for service because he's more valuable as an engineer. Annabelle thinks it's because he's a coward. Union spies capture The General with Annabelle on board. Johnnie must rescue both his loves. | 3 wins & 1 nomination | 8.1 | 92% | null | 100,246 | movie | null | 99 | 99 | null |
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tt0035446 | To Be or Not to Be | 1,942 | Approved | 99 min | Comedy | Romance | War | Ernst Lubitsch | Melchior Lengyel, Edwin Justus Mayer, Ernst Lubitsch | Joseph and Maria Tura operate and star in their own theater company in Warsaw. Maria has many admirers including a young lieutenant in the Polish air force, Stanislav Sobinski. When the Nazis invade Poland to start World War II, Sobinski and his colleagues flee to England while the Turas find themselves now having to operate under severe restrictions, including shelving a comical play they had written about Adolf Hitler. In England meanwhile, Sobinski and his friends give Professor Siletski - who is about to return to Poland - the names and addresses of their closest relatives so the professor can carry messages for them. When it's learned that Siletski is really a German spy, Sobinski parachutes into Poland and enlists the aid of the Turas and their fellow actors to get that list back. | Nominated for 1 Oscar. 2 wins & 2 nominations total | 8.1 | 96% | 86 | 44,769 | movie | $3,270,000 | 99 | 99 | null |
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tt0381681 | Before Sunset | 2,004 | R | 80 min | Drama | Romance | null | Richard Linklater | Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke | Early thirty-something American Jesse Wallace is in a Paris bookstore, the last stop on a tour to promote his best selling book, This Time. Although he is vague to reporters about the source material for the book, it is about his chance encounter nine years earlier on June 15-16, 1994 with a Parisienne named Celine, and the memorable and romantic day and evening they spent together in Vienna. At the end of their encounter at the Vienna train station, which is also how the book ends, they, not providing contact information to the other, vowed to meet each other again in exactly six months at that very spot. As the media scrum at the bookstore nears its conclusion, Jesse spots Celine in the crowd, she who only found out about the book when she earlier saw his photograph promoting this public appearance. Much like their previous encounter, Jesse and Celine, who is now an environmental activist, decide to spend time together until he is supposed to catch his flight back to New York, this time only being about an hour. Beyond the issue of the six month meeting, what has happened in their lives in the intervening nine years, and their current lives, they once again talk about their philosophies of life and love, this time with the knowledge of their day together and how it shaped what has happened to them. | Nominated for 1 Oscar. 9 wins & 32 nominations total | 8.1 | 94% | 91 | 295,164 | movie | $5,820,649 | 99 | 99 | null |
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tt0407887 | The Departed | 2,006 | R | 151 min | Crime | Drama | Thriller | Martin Scorsese | William Monahan, Alan Mak, Felix Chong | In this crime-action tour de force, the South Boston state police force is waging war on Irish-American organized crime. Young undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate run by gangland chief Frank Costello. While Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence, Colin Sullivan, a hardened young criminal who has infiltrated the state police as an informer for the syndicate is rising to a position of power in the Special Investigation Unit. Each man becomes deeply consumed by their double lives, gathering information about the plans and counter-plans of the operations they have penetrated. But when it becomes clear to both the mob and the police that there is a mole in their midst, Billy and Colin are suddenly in danger of being caught and exposed to the enemy - and each must race to uncover the identity of the other man in time to save themselves. But is either willing to turn on their friends and comrades they've made during their long stints undercover? | Won 4 Oscars. 99 wins & 141 nominations total | 8.5 | 91% | 85 | 1,454,689 | movie | $132,399,394 | 99 | 99 | null |
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tt0071853 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 1,975 | PG | 91 min | Adventure | Comedy | Fantasy | Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones | Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle | History is turned on its comic head when, in tenth-century England, King Arthur travels the countryside to find knights who will join him at the Round Table in Camelot. Gathering up the men is a tale in itself but after a bit of a party at Camelot, many decide to leave only to be stopped by God, who sends them on a quest: to find the Holy Grail. After a series of individual adventures, the knights are reunited but must face a wizard named Tim the Enchanter, killer rabbits and lessons in the use of holy hand grenades. Their quest comes to an end however when the Police intervene - just what you would expect in a Monty Python movie. | 2 wins & 2 nominations | 8.2 | 96% | 91 | 579,253 | movie | $2,562,392 | 7.5 | 99 | null |
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tt0015324 | Sherlock Jr. | 1,924 | Passed | 45 min | Action | Comedy | Romance | Buster Keaton | Jean C. Havez, Joseph A. Mitchell, Clyde Bruckman | A meek and mild projectionist, who also cleans up after screenings, would like nothing better than to be a private detective. He becomes engaged to a pretty girl but a ladies man known as the Sheik vies for her affection. He gets rid of the projectionist by stealing a pocket watch belonging to the girl's father - which he pawns to buy her an expensive box of candy. He then slips the pawn ticket into the projectionist's pocket and subsequently is found by the police. He doesn't have much luck but in his dreams, he the debonair and renowned detective Sherlock Jr. who faces danger and solves the crime. In real life, the girl solves crimes quickly. | 2 wins | 8.2 | 86% | null | 58,930 | movie | $977,375 | 99 | 99 | null |
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tt0031679 | Mr. Smith Goes to Washington | 1,939 | Approved | 129 min | Comedy | Drama | null | Frank Capra | Sidney Buchman, Lewis R. Foster, Myles Connolly | Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed on a lark by the spineless governor of his state. He is reunited with the state's senior senator--presidential hopeful and childhood hero, Senator Joseph Paine. In Washington, however, Smith discovers many of the shortcomings of the political process as his earnest goal of a national boys' camp leads to a conflict with the state political boss, Jim Taylor. Taylor first tries to corrupt Smith and then later attempts to destroy Smith through a scandal. | Won 1 Oscar. 5 wins & 12 nominations total | 8.1 | 85% | 73 | 123,127 | movie | $144,738 | 99 | 99 | null |
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tt0088763 | Back to the Future | 1,985 | PG | 116 min | Adventure | Comedy | Sci-Fi | Robert Zemeckis | Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale | Marty McFly, a typical American teenager of the Eighties, is accidentally sent back to 1955 in a plutonium-powered DeLorean "time machine" invented by a slightly mad scientist. During his often hysterical, always amazing trip back in time, Marty must make certain his teenage parents-to-be meet and fall in love - so he can get back to the future. | Won 1 Oscar. 25 wins & 25 nominations total | 8.5 | 93% | 87 | 1,343,792 | movie | $214,077,472 | 99 | 9.75 | null |
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tt0080684 | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back | 1,980 | PG | 124 min | Action | Adventure | Fantasy | Irvin Kershner | Leigh Brackett, Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas | Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia and Chewbacca face attack by the Imperial forces and its AT-AT walkers on the ice planet Hoth. While Han and Leia escape in the Millennium Falcon, Luke travels to Dagobah in search of Yoda. Only with the Jedi Master's help will Luke survive when the Dark Side of the Force beckons him into the ultimate duel with Darth Vader. | Won 1 Oscar. 27 wins & 20 nominations total | 8.7 | 95% | 82 | 1,410,938 | movie | $292,753,960 | 99 | 99 | null |
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tt0468569 | The Dark Knight | 2,008 | PG-13 | 152 min | Action | Crime | Drama | Christopher Nolan | Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan, David S. Goyer | Set within a year after the events of Batman Begins (2005), Batman, Lieutenant James Gordon, and new District Attorney Harvey Dent successfully begin to round up the criminals that plague Gotham City, until a mysterious and sadistic criminal mastermind known only as "The Joker" appears in Gotham, creating a new wave of chaos. Batman's struggle against The Joker becomes deeply personal, forcing him to "confront everything he believes" and improve his technology to stop him. A love triangle develops between Bruce Wayne, Dent, and Rachel Dawes. | Won 2 Oscars. 164 wins & 164 nominations total | 9 | 94% | 84 | 2,947,373 | movie | $534,987,076 | 9 | 8.5 | null |
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tt1675434 | The Intouchables | 2,011 | R | 112 min | Comedy | Drama | null | Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano | Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano, Philippe Pozzo di Borgo | In Paris, the aristocratic and intellectual Philippe is a quadriplegic millionaire who is interviewing candidates for the position of his carer, with his red-haired secretary Magalie. Out of the blue, Driss cuts the line of candidates and brings a document from the Social Security and asks Phillipe to sign it to prove that he is seeking a job position so he can receive his unemployment benefit. Philippe challenges Driss, offering him a trial period of one month to gain experience helping him. Then Driss can decide whether he would like to stay with him or not. Driss accepts the challenge and moves to the mansion, changing the boring life of Phillipe and his employees. | Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award38 wins & 40 nominations total | 8.5 | 76% | 57 | 953,565 | movie | $10,198,820 | 99 | 99 | null |
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tt0993846 | The Wolf of Wall Street | 2,013 | R | 180 min | Biography | Comedy | Crime | Martin Scorsese | Terence Winter, Jordan Belfort | In the early 1990s, Jordan Belfort teamed with his partner Donny Azoff and started brokerage firm Stratton Oakmont. Their company quickly grows from a staff of 20 to a staff of more than 250 and their status in the trading community and Wall Street grows exponentially. So much that companies file their initial public offerings through them. As their status grows, so do the amount of substances they abuse, and so do their lies. They draw attention like no other, throwing lavish parties for their staff when they hit the jackpot on high trades. That ultimately leads to Belfort featured on the cover of Forbes Magazine, being called "The Wolf Of Wall St.". With the FBI onto Belfort's trading schemes, he devises new ways to cover his tracks and watch his fortune grow. Belfort ultimately comes up with a scheme to stash their cash in a European bank. But with the FBI watching him like a hawk, how long will Belfort and Azoff be able to maintain their elaborate wealth and luxurious lifestyles? | Nominated for 5 Oscars. 37 wins & 179 nominations total | 8.2 | 79% | 75 | 1,629,645 | movie | $116,900,694 | 8.75 | 99 | null |
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tt0052357 | Vertigo | 1,958 | PG | 128 min | Mystery | Romance | Thriller | Alfred Hitchcock | Alec Coppel, Samuel A. Taylor, Pierre Boileau | Following his early retirement as a detective from the San Francisco Police Department, John Ferguson - Scottie to his friends - becomes obsessed with two women in succession, those obsessions which trouble his long time friend and former fiancée, Midge Wood, a designer of women's undergarments. The first is wealthy and elegant platinum blonde Madeleine Elster, the wife of his college acquaintance Gavin Elster, who hires John to follow her in Gavin's belief that she may be a danger to herself in thinking that she has recently been possessed by the spirit of Carlotta Valdes, Madeleine's great-grandmother who she knows nothing about, but who Gavin knows committed suicide in being mentally unbalanced when she was twenty-six, Madeleine's current age. The second is Judy Barton, who John spots on the street one day. Judy is a working class girl, but what makes John obsessed with her is that, despite her working class style and her brunette hair, she is the spitting image of Madeleine, into who he tries to transform Judy. The initial question that John has is if there is some connection between Madeleine and Judy. What happens between John and individually with Madeleine and Judy is affected by the reason John took that early retirement: a recent workplace incident that showed that he is acrophobic which leads to a severe case of vertigo whenever he looks down from tall heights. | Nominated for 2 Oscars. 9 wins & 7 nominations total | 8.3 | 93% | 100 | 436,994 | movie | $7,705,225 | 99 | 99 | null |
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tt0044741 | Ikiru | 1,952 | Not Rated | 143 min | Drama | null | null | Akira Kurosawa | Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni | Kanji Watanabe is a civil servant. He has worked in the same department for 30 years. His life is pretty boring and monotonous, though he once used to have passion and drive. Then one day he discovers that he has stomach cancer and has less than a year to live. After the initial depression he sets about living for the first time in over 20 years. Then he realises that his limited time left is not just for living life to the full but to leave something meaningful behind... | Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award6 wins & 2 nominations total | 8.3 | 98% | 92 | 90,685 | movie | $60,239 | 99 | 99 | null |
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tt7286456 | Joker | 2,019 | R | 122 min | Crime | Drama | Thriller | Todd Phillips | Todd Phillips, Scott Silver, Bob Kane | Arthur Fleck works as a clown and is an aspiring stand-up comic. He has mental health issues, part of which involves uncontrollable laughter. Times are tough and, due to his issues and occupation, Arthur has an even worse time than most. Over time these issues bear down on him, shaping his actions, making him ultimately take on the persona he is more known as...Joker. | Won 2 Oscars. 121 wins & 247 nominations total | 8.4 | 68% | 59 | 1,554,927 | movie | $335,477,657 | 8.75 | 6.5 | null |
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tt0133093 | The Matrix | 1,999 | R | 136 min | Action | Sci-Fi | null | Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski | Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski | Thomas A. Anderson is a man living two lives. By day he is an average computer programmer and by night a hacker known as Neo. Neo has always questioned his reality, but the truth is far beyond his imagination. Neo finds himself targeted by the police when he is contacted by Morpheus, a legendary computer hacker branded a terrorist by the government. As a rebel against the machines, Neo must confront the agents: super-powerful computer programs devoted to stopping Neo and the entire human rebellion. | Won 4 Oscars. 42 wins & 52 nominations total | 8.7 | 83% | 73 | 2,105,403 | movie | $172,076,928 | 7.75 | 8.75 | null |
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tt0097576 | Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade | 1,989 | PG-13 | 127 min | Action | Adventure | null | Steven Spielberg | Jeffrey Boam, George Lucas, Menno Meyjes | An art collector appeals to Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. He learns that another archaeologist has disappeared while searching for the precious goblet, and the missing man is his own father, Dr. Henry Jones. The artifact is much harder to find than they expected, and its powers are too much for those impure of heart. | Won 1 Oscar. 9 wins & 24 nominations total | 8.2 | 84% | 65 | 824,688 | movie | $197,171,806 | 99 | 8.75 | null |
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tt0268978 | A Beautiful Mind | 2,001 | PG-13 | 135 min | Biography | Drama | Mystery | Ron Howard | Akiva Goldsman, Sylvia Nasar | From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash, Jr. experienced it all. A mathematical genius, he made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over his tragedy, and finally - late in life - received the Nobel Prize. | Won 4 Oscars. 37 wins & 69 nominations total | 8.2 | 74% | 72 | 1,005,100 | movie | $170,742,341 | 99 | 99 | null |
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tt0046268 | The Wages of Fear | 1,953 | Not Rated | 156 min | Adventure | Drama | Thriller | Henri-Georges Clouzot | Georges Arnaud, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Jérôme Géronimi | In the Central American jungle supplies of nitroglycerin are needed at a remote oil field. The oil company pays four men to deliver the supplies in two trucks. A tense rivalry develops between the two sets of drivers and on the rough remote roads the slightest jolt can result in death. | Won 1 BAFTA Award6 wins & 1 nomination total | 8.1 | 100% | 85 | 68,261 | movie | null | 99 | 99 | null |
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tt0110912 | Pulp Fiction | 1,994 | R | 154 min | Crime | Drama | null | Quentin Tarantino | Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary | Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) and Vincent Vega (John Travolta) are two hit men who are out to retrieve a suitcase stolen from their employer, mob boss Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames). Wallace has also asked Vincent to take his wife Mia (Uma Thurman) out a few days later when Wallace himself will be out of town. Butch Coolidge (Bruce Willis) is an aging boxer who is paid by Wallace to lose his fight. The lives of these seemingly unrelated people are woven together comprising of a series of funny, bizarre and uncalled-for incidents. | Won 1 Oscar. 69 wins & 72 nominations total | 8.9 | 92% | 95 | 2,277,294 | movie | $107,928,762 | 7.5 | 8 | null |
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tt3011894 | Wild Tales | 2,014 | R | 122 min | Comedy | Drama | Thriller | Damián Szifron | Julian Loyola, Damián Szifron, Germán Servidio | The film is divided into six segments. (1) "Pasternak": While being on a plane, a model and a music critic realise they have a common acquaintance called Pasternak. Soon they discover that every passenger and crew member on board know Pasternak. Is this coincidence? (2) "The Rats": A waitress recognizes her client - it's the loan shark who caused a tragedy in her family. The cook suggests mixing rat poison with his food, but the waitress refuses. The stubborn cook, however, decides to proceed with her plan. (3) "The Strongest": Two drivers on a lone highway have an argument with tragic consequences. (4) "Little Bomb": A demolition engineer has his car towed by a truck for parking in a wrong place and he has an argument with the employee of the towing company. This event destroys his private and professional life, and he plots revenge against the corrupt towing company and the city hall. (5) "The Proposal": A reckless son of a wealthy family has an overnight hit-and-run accident, in which a pregnant woman gets killed. He wakes his parents up and his father calls the lawyer. The parents propose to pay the groundkeeper to take the blame for the boy. Soon the father discovers that he is a victim of extortion of his lawyer and the public prosecutor in charge of the investigation. What will be his decision? (6) "Until Death Do Us Apart": During the wedding party, the bride discovers that her newlywed husband has been cheating on her with one of the guests, and she decides to pay him back. | Nominated for 1 Oscar. 51 wins & 58 nominations total | 8.1 | 94% | 77 | 221,791 | movie | $3,106,530 | 99 | 99 | null |
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tt0046912 | Dial M for Murder | 1,954 | PG | 105 min | Crime | Thriller | null | Alfred Hitchcock | Frederick Knott, Charles Dorat | In London, wealthy Margot Mary Wendice had a brief love affair with the American writer Mark Halliday while her husband and professional tennis player Tony Wendice was on a tennis tour. Tony quits playing to dedicate to his wife and finds a regular job. She decides to give him a second chance for their marriage. When Mark arrives from America to visit the couple, Margot tells him that she had destroyed all his letters but one that was stolen. Subsequently she was blackmailed, but she had never retrieved the stolen letter. Tony arrives home, claims that he needs to work and asks Margot to go with Mark to the theater. Meanwhile Tony calls Captain Lesgate (aka Charles Alexander Swann who studied with him at college) and blackmails him to murder his wife, so that he can inherit her fortune. But there is no perfect crime, and things do not work as planned. | Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award5 wins & 3 nominations total | 8.2 | 90% | 75 | 193,443 | movie | $24,845 | 99 | 99 | null |
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tt0084787 | The Thing | 1,982 | R | 109 min | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | John Carpenter | Bill Lancaster, John W. Campbell Jr. | A US research station, Antarctica, early-winter 1982. The base is suddenly buzzed by a helicopter from the nearby Norwegian research station. They are trying to kill a dog that has escaped from their base. After the destruction of the Norwegian chopper the members of the US team fly to the Norwegian base, only to discover them all dead or missing. They do find the remains of a strange creature the Norwegians burned. The Americans take it to their base and deduce that it is an alien life form. After a while it is apparent that the alien can take over and assimilate into other life forms, including humans, and can spread like a virus. This means that anyone at the base could be inhabited by The Thing, and tensions escalate. | 5 nominations | 8.2 | 85% | 57 | 481,701 | movie | $19,857,465 | 99 | 99 | null |
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tt1375666 | Inception | 2,010 | PG-13 | 148 min | Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | Christopher Nolan | Christopher Nolan | Dom Cobb is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobb's rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved. Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption. One last job could give him his life back but only if he can accomplish the impossible, inception. Instead of the perfect heist, Cobb and his team of specialists have to pull off the reverse: their task is not to steal an idea, but to plant one. If they succeed, it could be the perfect crime. But no amount of careful planning or expertise can prepare the team for the dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move. An enemy that only Cobb could have seen coming. | Won 4 Oscars. 159 wins & 220 nominations total | 8.8 | 87% | 74 | 2,615,361 | movie | $292,587,330 | 8.5 | 7.75 | null |
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tt0120586 | American History X | 1,998 | R | 119 min | Crime | Drama | null | Tony Kaye | David McKenna | Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for brutally killing two black men who tried to break into/steal his truck. Through his brother's, Danny Vineyard, narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader of a violent white supremacist gang that committed acts of racial crime throughout L.A. and his actions greatly influenced Danny. Reformed and fresh out of prison, Derek severs contact with the gang and becomes determined to keep Danny from going down the same violent path as he did. | Nominated for 1 Oscar. 4 wins & 15 nominations total | 8.5 | 84% | 62 | 1,206,855 | movie | $6,719,864 | 8.75 | 99 | null |
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tt0056592 | To Kill a Mockingbird | 1,962 | Approved | 129 min | Crime | Drama | null | Robert Mulligan | Harper Lee, Horton Foote | Small-town Alabama, 1932. Atticus Finch (played by Gregory Peck) is a lawyer and a widower. He has two young children, Jem and Scout. Atticus Finch is currently defending Tom Robinson, a black man accused of raping a white woman. Meanwhile, Jem and Scout are intrigued by their neighbours, the Radleys, and the mysterious, seldom-seen Boo Radley in particular. | Won 3 Oscars. 14 wins & 16 nominations total | 8.3 | 93% | 88 | 338,396 | movie | $592,237 | 99 | 99 | null |
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tt0118799 | Life Is Beautiful | 1,997 | PG-13 | 116 min | Comedy | Drama | Romance | Roberto Benigni | Vincenzo Cerami, Roberto Benigni | In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish waiter named Guido starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman from a nearby city. Guido and his wife have a son and live happily together until the occupation of Italy by German forces. In an attempt to hold his family together and help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration Camp, Guido imagines that the Holocaust is a game and that the grand prize for winning is a tank. | Won 3 Oscars. 72 wins & 52 nominations total | 8.6 | 81% | 59 | 757,812 | movie | $57,563,264 | 99 | 99 | null |
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tt0054215 | Psycho | 1,960 | R | 109 min | Horror | Mystery | Thriller | Alfred Hitchcock | Joseph Stefano, Robert Bloch | Phoenix office worker Marion Crane is fed up with the way life has treated her. She has to meet her lover Sam in lunch breaks, and they cannot get married because Sam has to give most of his money away in alimony. One Friday, Marion is trusted to bank forty thousand dollars by her employer. Seeing the opportunity to take the money and start a new life, Marion leaves town and heads towards Sam's California store. Tired after the long drive and caught in a storm, she gets off the main highway and pulls into the Bates Motel. The motel is managed by a quiet young man called Norman who seems to be dominated by his mother. | Nominated for 4 Oscars. 8 wins & 14 nominations total | 8.5 | 97% | 97 | 734,194 | movie | $32,000,000 | 99 | 99 | null |
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tt0105695 | Unforgiven | 1,992 | R | 130 min | Drama | Western | null | Clint Eastwood | David Webb Peoples | After escaping death by the skin of her teeth, the horribly disfigured prostitute, Delilah Fitzgerald, and her appalled and equally furious co-workers summon up the courage to seek retribution in 1880s Wyoming's dangerous town of Big Whiskey. With a hefty bounty on the perpetrators' heads, triggered by the tough Sheriff "Little Bill" Daggett's insufficient sense of justice, the infamous former outlaw and now destitute Kansas hog farmer, William Munny, embarks on a murderous last mission to find the men behind the hideous crime. Along with his old partner-in-crime, Ned Logan, and the brash but inexperienced young gunman, the "Schofield Kid", Munny enters a perilous world he has renounced many years ago, knowing that he walks right into a deadly trap; however, he still needs to find a way to raise his motherless children. Now, blood demands blood. Who is the hero, and who is the villain? | Won 4 Oscars. 51 wins & 47 nominations total | 8.2 | 96% | 85 | 443,386 | movie | $101,167,799 | 99 | 99 | null |
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tt0137523 | Fight Club | 1,999 | R | 139 min | Drama | null | null | David Fincher | Chuck Palahniuk, Jim Uhls | A nameless first person narrator (Edward Norton) attends support groups in attempt to subdue his emotional state and relieve his insomniac state. When he meets Marla (Helena Bonham Carter), another fake attendee of support groups, his life seems to become a little more bearable. However when he associates himself with Tyler (Brad Pitt) he is dragged into an underground fight club and soap making scheme. Together the two men spiral out of control and engage in competitive rivalry for love and power. | Nominated for 1 Oscar. 12 wins & 38 nominations total | 8.8 | 81% | 67 | 2,397,013 | movie | $37,030,102 | 99 | 7.25 | null |
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tt0019254 | The Passion of Joan of Arc | 1,928 | Passed | 114 min | Biography | Drama | History | Carl Theodor Dreyer | Joseph Delteil, Carl Theodor Dreyer | Giovanna is taken to the Inquisition court. . After the accusation of blasphemy continues to pray in ecstasy . A friar thinks that Giovanna is a saint, but is taken away by the soldiers. Giovanna sees a cross in the shadow and feels comforted. She is not considered a daughter of God but a daughter of the devil and is sentenced to torture. Giovanna D 'Arco says that even if she dies she will not deny anything. The eyes are twisted by terror in front of the torture wheel and faint. Giovanna is taken to a bed where they are bleeding. Giovanna feels that she is about to die and asks to be buried in a consecrated area. Giovanna burns at the stake while devoted ladies cry. | 4 wins & 1 nomination | 8.1 | 98% | 98 | 62,578 | movie | $21,877 | 99 | 99 | null |
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tt0111161 | The Shawshank Redemption | 1,994 | R | 142 min | Drama | null | null | Frank Darabont | Stephen King, Frank Darabont | Chronicles the experiences of a formerly successful banker as a prisoner in the gloomy jailhouse of Shawshank after being found guilty of a crime he did not commit. The film portrays the man's unique way of dealing with his new, torturous life; along the way he befriends a number of fellow prisoners, most notably a wise long-term inmate named Red. | Nominated for 7 Oscars. 21 wins & 42 nominations total | 9.3 | 89% | 82 | 2,957,050 | movie | $28,767,189 | null | 8.5 | 10 |
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tt1345836 | The Dark Knight Rises | 2,012 | PG-13 | 164 min | Action | Drama | Thriller | Christopher Nolan | Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan, David S. Goyer | Despite his tarnished reputation after the events of The Dark Knight (2008), in which he took the rap for Dent's crimes, Batman feels compelled to intervene to assist the city and its Police force, which is struggling to cope with Bane's plans to destroy the city. | Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award45 wins & 103 nominations total | 8.4 | 87% | 78 | 1,867,630 | movie | $448,149,584 | null | 8 | 6 |
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tt0113277 | Heat | 1,995 | R | 170 min | Action | Crime | Drama | Michael Mann | Michael Mann | Hunters and their prey--Neil and his professional criminal crew hunt to score big money targets (banks, vaults, armored cars) and are, in turn, hunted by Lt. Vincent Hanna and his team of cops in the Robbery/Homicide police division. A botched job puts Hanna onto their trail while they regroup and try to put together one last big 'retirement' score. Neil and Vincent are similar in many ways, including their troubled personal lives. At a crucial moment in his life, Neil disobeys the dictum taught to him long ago by his criminal mentor--'Never have anything in your life that you can't walk out on in thirty seconds flat, if you spot the heat coming around the corner'--as he falls in love. Thus the stage is set for the suspenseful ending.... | 15 nominations | 8.3 | 83% | 76 | 736,991 | movie | $67,436,818 | null | 99 | 7.5 |
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tt6751668 | Parasite | 2,019 | R | 132 min | Drama | Thriller | null | Bong Joon Ho | Bong Joon Ho, Han Jin-won | The Kims - mother and father Chung-sook and Ki-taek, and their young adult offspring, son Ki-woo and daughter Ki-jung - are a poor family living in a shabby and cramped half basement apartment in a busy lower working class commercial district of Seoul. Without even knowing it, they, especially Mr. and Mrs. Kim, literally smell of poverty. Often as a collective, they perpetrate minor scams to get by, and even when they have jobs, they do the minimum work required. Ki-woo is the one who has dreams of getting out of poverty by one day going to university. Despite not having that university education, Ki-woo is chosen by his university student friend Min, who is leaving to go to school, to take over his tutoring job to Park Da-hye, who Min plans to date once he returns to Seoul and she herself is in university. The Parks are a wealthy family who for four years have lived in their modernistic house designed by and the former residence of famed architect Namgoong. While Mr. and Mrs. Park are all about status, Mrs. Park has a flighty, simpleminded mentality and temperament, which Min tells Ki-woo to feel comfortable in lying to her about his education to get the job. In getting the job, Ki-woo further learns that Mrs. Park is looking for an art therapist for the Parks' adolescent son, Da-song, Ki-woo quickly recommending his professional art therapist friend "Jessica", really Ki-jung who he knows can pull off the scam in being the easiest liar of the four Kims. In Ki-woo also falling for Da-hye, he begins to envision himself in that house, and thus the Kims as a collective start a plan for all the Kims, like Ki-jung using assumed names, to replace existing servants in the Parks' employ in orchestrating reasons for them to be fired. The most difficult to get rid of may be Moon-gwang, the Parks' housekeeper who literally came with the house - she Namgoong's housekeeper when he lived there - and thus knows all the little nooks and crannies of it better than the Parks themselves. The question then becomes how far the Kims can take this scam in their quest to become their version of the Parks. | Won 4 Oscars. 316 wins & 266 nominations total | 8.5 | 99% | 96 | 1,008,905 | movie | $53,369,749 | null | 9.5 | 9 |
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tt8503618 | Hamilton | 2,020 | PG-13 | 160 min | Biography | Drama | History | Thomas Kail | Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ron Chernow | "Hamilton" is the story of America then, told by America now. Featuring a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, R&B, and show tunes, "Hamilton" has taken the story of American founding father Alexander Hamilton and created a revolutionary moment in theater--a musical that has had a profound impact on culture, politics, and education. Captured at the Richard Rodgers Theater on Broadway in June 2016, the film transports its audience into the world of the Broadway show in a uniquely intimate way. | Won 2 Primetime Emmys. 19 wins & 46 nominations total | 8.3 | 98% | 89 | 120,639 | movie | null | null | 99 | 99 |
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tt0053291 | Some Like It Hot | 1,959 | Approved | 121 min | Comedy | Music | Romance | Billy Wilder | Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond, Robert Thoeren | After two Chicago musicians, Joe and Jerry, witness the the St. Valentine's Day massacre, they want to get out of town and get away from the gangster responsible, Spats Colombo. They're desperate to get a gig out of town but the only job they know of is in an all-girl band heading to Florida. They show up at the train station as Josephine and Daphne, the replacement saxophone and bass players. They certainly enjoy being around the girls, especially Sugar Kane Kowalczyk who sings and plays the ukulele. Joe in particular sets out to woo her while Jerry/Daphne is wooed by a millionaire, Osgood Fielding III. Mayhem ensues as the two men try to keep their true identities hidden and Spats Colombo and his crew show up for a meeting with several other crime lords. | Won 1 Oscar. 11 wins & 13 nominations total | 8.2 | 95% | 98 | 288,169 | movie | null | null | 99 | 2 |
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tt0118849 | Children of Heaven | 1,997 | PG | 89 min | Drama | Family | Sport | Majid Majidi | Majid Majidi | Zahra's shoes are gone; her older brother Ali lost them. They are poor, there are no shoes for Zahra until they come up with an idea: they will share one pair of shoes, Ali's. School awaits. Will the plan succeed? | Nominated for 1 Oscar. 17 wins & 5 nominations total | 8.2 | 83% | 77 | 83,008 | movie | $933,933 | null | 99 | 10 |
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tt0036868 | The Best Years of Our Lives | 1,946 | Approved | 170 min | Drama | Romance | War | William Wyler | Robert E. Sherwood, MacKinlay Kantor | The story concentrates on the social re-adjustment of three World War II servicemen, each from a different station of society. Al Stephenson returns to an influential banking position, but finds it hard to reconcile his loyalties to ex-servicemen with new commercial realities. Fred Derry is an ordinary working man who finds it difficult to hold down a job or pick up the threads of his marriage. Having had both hands burnt off during the war, Homer Parrish is unsure that his fiancée's feelings are still those of love and not those of pity. Each of the veterans faces a crisis upon his arrival, and each crisis is a microcosm of the experiences of many American warriors who found an alien world awaiting them when they came marching home. | Won 7 Oscars. 21 wins & 3 nominations total | 8.1 | 98% | 93 | 72,322 | movie | $23,650,000 | null | 99 | 99 |
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tt0116282 | Fargo | 1,996 | R | 98 min | Crime | Drama | Thriller | Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Jerry works in his father-in-law's car dealership and has gotten himself in financial problems. He tries various schemes to come up with money needed for a reason that is never really explained. It has to be assumed that his huge embezzlement of money from the dealership is about to be discovered by father-in-law. When all else falls through, plans he set in motion earlier for two men to kidnap his wife for ransom to be paid by her wealthy father (who doesn't seem to have the time of day for son-in-law). From the moment of the kidnapping, things go wrong and what was supposed to be a non-violent affair turns bloody with more blood added by the minute. Jerry is upset at the bloodshed, which turns loose a pregnant sheriff from Brainerd, MN who is tenacious in attempting to solve the three murders in her jurisdiction. | Won 2 Oscars. 83 wins & 58 nominations total | 8.1 | 95% | 86 | 740,126 | movie | $24,611,975 | null | 99 | 5.25 |
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tt0027977 | Modern Times | 1,936 | G | 87 min | Comedy | Drama | Romance | Charles Chaplin | Charles Chaplin | Chaplin's last 'silent' film, filled with sound effects, was made when everyone else was making talkies. Charlie turns against modern society, the machine age, (The use of sound in films ?) and progress. Firstly we see him frantically trying to keep up with a production line, tightening bolts. He is selected for an experiment with an automatic feeding machine, but various mishaps leads his boss to believe he has gone mad, and Charlie is sent to a mental hospital - When he gets out, he is mistaken for a communist while waving a red flag, sent to jail, foils a jailbreak, and is let out again. We follow Charlie through many more escapades before the film is out. | 4 wins & 1 nomination | 8.5 | 98% | 96 | 266,037 | movie | $163,577 | null | 99 | 99 |
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tt0092005 | Stand by Me | 1,986 | R | 89 min | Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Rob Reiner | Stephen King, Raynold Gideon, Bruce A. Evans | It's the summer of 1959 in Castlerock, Oregon and four 12 year-old boys - Gordie, Chris, Teddy and Vern - are fast friends. After learning of the general location of the body of a local boy who has been missing for several days, they set off into the woods to see it. Along the way, they learn about themselves, the meaning of friendship and the need to stand up for what is right. | Nominated for 1 Oscar. 6 wins & 12 nominations total | 8.1 | 92% | 75 | 452,247 | movie | $52,287,414 | null | 99 | 5.25 |
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tt0103064 | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | 1,991 | R | 137 min | Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi | James Cameron | James Cameron, William Wisher | Over 10 years have passed since the first machine called The Terminator tried to kill Sarah Connor and her unborn son, John. The man who will become the future leader of the human resistance against the Machines is now a healthy young boy. However, another Terminator, called the T-1000, is sent back through time by the supercomputer Skynet. This new Terminator is more advanced and more powerful than its predecessor and its mission is to kill John Connor when he's still a child. However, Sarah and John do not have to face the threat of the T-1000 alone. Another Terminator (identical to the same model that tried and failed to kill Sarah Connor in 1984) is also sent back through time to protect them. Now, the battle for tomorrow has begun. | Won 4 Oscars. 39 wins & 33 nominations total | 8.6 | 91% | 75 | 1,200,133 | movie | $205,881,154 | null | 99 | 7 |
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