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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Peter Jackson 2003 3h 21m 8.8

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.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Peter Jackson 2001 2h 59m 8.8

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.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Peter Jackson 2002 2h 59m 8.7

Frodo and Sam continue on to Mordor in their mission to destroy the One Ring, whilst their former companions make new allies and launch an assault on Isengard.

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
Irvin Kershner 1980 2h 4m 8.7

While Luke takes advanced Jedi training from Yoda, his friends are relentlessly pursued by Darth Vader as part of his plan to capture Luke.

The Green Mile
Frank Darabont 1999 3h 9m 8.6

Paul Edgecomb is the chief guard on death row in a U.S. Southern prison in the late 1950's. A huge black inmate named John Coffey awaits his execution. Racism and prejudice are themes in this war time drama of civil courage and the power of magic.

Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi
Hayao Miyazaki 2001 2h 5m 8.8

Spirited Away is an Oscar winning Japanese animated film about a ten year old girl who wonders away from her parents along a path that leads to a world ruled by strange and unusual monster-like animals. Her parents have been changed into pigs along with others inside a bathhouse full of these creatures. Will she ever see the world how it once was?

Star Wars
George Lucas 1977 2h 1m 8.7

When Princess Leia is taken prisoner by Darth Vader, she sends her two droids on a mission to find an old Jedi Knight. Their paths cross that of Luke Skywalker who, along with Obi Wan Kenobi, Han Solo and Chewbacca, heads off to Alderaan to deliver the droids to the Rebellion.

It's a Wonderful Life
Frank Capra 1946 2h 11m 8.9

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

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Kemp Powers, Justin K. Thompson 2023 2h 20m 6.0

After reuniting with Gwen Stacy, Brooklyn’s full-time, friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is catapulted across the Multiverse, where he encounters the Spider Society, a team of Spider-People charged with protecting the Multiverse's very existence. But when the heroes clash on how to handle a new threat, Miles finds himself pitted against the other...

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey 2018 1h 57m 8.2

Miles Morales is juggling his life between being a high school student and being a spider-man. When Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk uses a super collider, others from across the Spider-Verse are transported to this dimension.

Kimi no na wa.
Makoto Shinkai 2016 1h 46m 7.9

High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen randomly, and the two must adjust their lives around each other.

Coco
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Coco

Lee Unkrich 2017 1h 45m 7.4

Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events. Along the way, he meets charming trickster Hector, and together...

Toy Story
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Toy Story

John Lasseter 1995 1h 21m 8.5

Woody the cowboy is young Andy’s favorite toy. Yet this changes when Andy get the new super toy Buzz Lightyear for his birthday. Now that Woody is no longer number one he plans his revenge on Buzz. Toy Story is a milestone in film history for being the first feature film to use entirely computer animation.

Toy Story 3
Lee Unkrich 2010 1h 43m 8.2

Woody, Buzz, and the rest of Andy's toys haven't been played with in years. With Andy about to go to college, the gang find themselves accidentally left at a nefarious day care center. The toys must band together to escape and return home to Andy.

Mononoke-hime
Hayao Miyazaki 1997 2h 14m 8.5

Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Ainu tribe, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along the way, he encounters San, a young human woman fighting to protect the forest and Lady Eboshi, who is trying to destroy it. Ashitaka must find a way to bring balance to this conflict.

Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
Richard Marquand 1983 2h 12m 8.5

After rescuing Han Solo from the palace of Jabba the Hutt, the Rebels attempt to destroy the Second Death Star, while Luke Skywalker tries to bring his father back to the Light Side of the Force.

El laberinto del fauno
Guillermo del Toro 2006 1h 58m 8.4

Pans Labyrinth is the exquisitely produced fantasy film from Mexican director Guillermo del Toro who is actually famous for his works in science-fiction and horror. The film stars a little girl lost in a fantasy world. The film won three Academy Awards in 2007.

Hauru no ugoku shiro
Hayao Miyazaki 2004 1h 59m 8.3

When Sophie, a shy young woman, is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking home.

Klaus
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Klaus

Sergio Pablos 2019 1h 37m 7.0

A selfish postman and a reclusive toymaker form an unlikely friendship, delivering joy to a cold, dark town that desperately needs it.

Spider-Man: No Way Home
Jon Watts 2021 2h 28m 5.5

Peter Parker is unmasked and no longer able to separate his normal life from the high-stakes of being a super-hero. When he asks for help from Doctor Strange the stakes become even more dangerous, forcing him to discover what it truly means to be Spider-Man.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Gore Verbinski 2003 2h 23m 8.2

Blacksmith Will Turner teams up with eccentric pirate "Captain" Jack Sparrow to save his love, the governor's daughter, from Jack's former pirate allies, who are now undead.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
David Yates 2011 2h 10m 7.8

The end begins as Harry, Ron, and Hermione go back to Hogwarts to find and destroy Voldemorts final horcruxes, but when Voldemort finds out about their mission, the biggest battle begins and life as they know it will never be the same again.

Ratatouille
Brad Bird 2007 1h 51m 8.0

Remy is a rat, with a talent and passion for cooking. He dreams of one day working in a real restaurant, when one day he gets his chance.

Monsters, Inc.
Pete Docter 2001 1h 32m 8.2

Two monsters whose job is to make human children scream accidentally let a little girl into their world and must now protect her from their own kind to return her home unscathed.

Tonari no Totoro
Hayao Miyazaki 1988 1h 26m 8.4

Two sisters move to the country with their father in order to be closer to their hospitalized mother, and discover the surrounding trees are inhabited by Totoros, magical spirits of the forest. When the youngest runs away from home, the older sister seeks help from the spirits to find her.

How to Train Your Dragon
Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois 2010 1h 38m 8.2

In the mythical world of burly Vikings and wild dragons, Hiccup is a Viking teenager who doesn’t exactly fit in with his tribe’s longstanding tradition of heroic dragon slayers. Hiccup’s world is turned upside down when he encounters a dragon that challenges him and his fellow Vikings to see the world from an entirely different point of view.

Inside Out
Pete Docter 2015 1h 35m 7.5

After a young girl is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions conflict on how best to navigate her new reality.

The Wizard of Oz
Victor Fleming 1939 1h 42m 8.3

Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives. The Wicked Witch of the West is the only thing that could stop them.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones 1975 1h 31m 8.9

The King Arthur and The Round Table saga about the search for the Holy Grail is portrayed a bit differently in his comedy from Monty Python. With a killer monster rabbit and many outrageous encounters this smart comedy has become a cult classic.

Det sjunde inseglet
Ingmar Bergman 1957 1h 36m 8.5

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to e...

Ookami kodomo no Ame to Yuki
Mamoru Hosoda 2012 1h 57m 9.0

After 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.

Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage
F. W. Murnau 1926 1h 56m 8.9

God and Satan wager on the soul of a learned and prayerful alchemist as part of their eternal war over Earth.

Dom za vesanje
Emir Kusturica 1988 2h 22m 8.6

In this luminous tale set in the former Yugoslavia, Perhan, an engaging young Romany with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime that threatens to destroy him and those he loves.

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
Fritz Lang 1924 2h 28m 8.7

Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, travels to Worms, capital of the Burgundian kingdom, to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Kriemhild.

Ugetsu monogatari
Kenji Mizoguchi 1953 1h 36m 8.2

In the civil wars of 16th century Japan, two ambitious peasants want to make their fortunes. The potter Genjuro intends to sell his wares for vast profits in the local city, while his brother-in-law Tobei wishes to become a samurai.

Scrooge
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Scrooge

Brian Desmond Hurst 1951 1h 26m 7.0

Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge learns the error of his ways through the intervention of the ghost of his former partner and of three spirits in this faithful adaptation of the Dickens classic.

The Princess Bride
Rob Reiner 1987 1h 39m 7.8

Characters come to life from a classic fairy tale book read by a grandfather to his grandson.

Akira
38.

Akira

Katsuhiro Otomo 1988 2h 4m 7.9

A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.

Soul
39.

Soul

Pete Docter 2020 1h 41m 7.0

Joe is a middle-school band teacher whose life hasn't quite gone the way he expected. His true passion is jazz. But when he travels to another realm to help someone find their passion, he soon discovers what it means to have soul.

Groundhog Day
Harold Ramis 1993 1h 41m 8.3

A comedy about an egocentric and sinister television weather reporter with a bad case of Deja-Vu. The weather reporter, Bill Murray, is sent to the famous Groundhog Day tradition in the small town of Punxsutawney were he unwillingly has to report on a little more than he expected. Let's just say he had to do a few retakes of the report.

Aladdin
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Aladdin

John Musker, Ron Clements 1992 1h 31m 8.1

Aladdin is the Walt Disney animated film based on the famous fairytale. The film would start a new era in special affects with its modern animation style and its excellent speaking parts.

Beauty and the Beast
Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise 1991 1h 24m 8.2

Belle is a girl who is dissatisfied with life in a small provincial French town, constantly trying to fend off the misplaced "affections" of conceited Gaston. The Beast is a prince who was placed under a spell because he could not love. A wrong turn taken by Maurice, Belle's father, causes the two to meet.

Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta
Hayao Miyazaki 1986 2h 5m 8.0

A young boy and a girl with a magic crystal must race against pirates and foreign agents in a search for a legendary floating castle.

Kaguyahime no monogatari
Isao Takahata 2013 2h 17m 8.2

Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthralls all who encounter her - but ultimately she must confront her fate, the punishment for her crime.

WolfWalkers
Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart 2020 1h 42m 8.2

In a time of superstition and magic, when wolves are seen as demonic and nature an evil to be tamed, a young apprentice hunter comes to Ireland with her father to wipe out the last pack. But when she saves a wild native girl, their friendship leads her to discover the world of the Wolfwalkers and transform her into the very thing her father is t...

Pink Floyd: The Wall
Alan Parker 1982 1h 35m 8.2

A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.

Song of the Sea
Tomm Moore 2014 1h 34m 8.6

Ben, a young Irish boy and his little sister, Saoirse, a girl who can turn into a seal, go on an adventure to free the fairies and save the spirit world.

Underground
Emir Kusturica 1995 2h 50m 8.9

Black marketeers Marko and Blacky manufacture and sell weapons to the Communist resistance in WWII Belgrade, living the good life along the way. Marko's surreal duplicity propels him up the ranks of the Communist Party, and he eventually abandons Blacky and steals his girlfriend. After a lengthy stay in a below-ground shelter, the couple reemerg...

A Matter of Life and Death
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger 1946 1h 44m 8.7

When a young airman miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But the officials in the other world realise their mistake, and despatch an angel to collect him.

Körkarlen
Victor Sjöström 1921 1h 48m 8.5

An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve to take the reins of Death's chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year.