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Se7en
1.

Se7en

David Fincher 1995 2h 7m 8.7

Just before retiring from the force a disillusioned detective, along with his successor, must solve one last case. They are hunting down a psychotic serial killer who chooses his victims according to the seven deadly sins. A masterpiece from director David Fincher that set new standards for the thriller genre.

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.

Seppuku
3.

Seppuku

Masaki Kobayashi 1962 2h 15m 9.0

When a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord's palace is told of the brutal suicide of another ronin who previously visited, he reveals how their pasts are intertwined - and in doing so challenges the clan's integrity.

The Prestige
Christopher Nolan 2006 2h 10m 8.5

A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.

The Usual Suspects
Bryan Singer 1995 1h 46m 8.6

A boat has been destroyed, criminals are dead, and the key to this mystery lies with the only survivor and his twisted, convoluted story beginning with five career crooks in a seemingly random police lineup.

Psycho
6.

Psycho

Alfred Hitchcock 1960 1h 49m 8.7

Psycho is one of the most famous masterpieces from Hitchcock and for it’s time was unparalleled in it’s horror effect. A chilling score sets the pace for an introverted killer and a mystery thriller case of multiple dimensions. The credits for the film directed by Saul Bass were revolutionary for their time.

Memento
7.

Memento

Christopher Nolan 2000 1h 53m 8.7

This is the twisting and scattered story of a man with a condition that makes him unable to make new memories. The last memory he has is the murder of his wife and every second of his life is dedicated to finding the killer and getting revenge. Yet with no short-term memory his task is very difficult.

Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola 1979 2h 27m 8.7

During the Vietnam War, the assigned mission of Captain Willard take him through some strange and seemingly impossible scenarios in the jungle of Vietnam. Little by little Willard forgets his mission’s purpose as he becomes more and more hallucinatory and starts to lose sense of reality.

Coco
9.

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...

Das Leben der Anderen
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck 2006 2h 17m 8.2

The tragic love story in the East Berlin with the backdrop of an undercover Stasi controlled culture. Stasi captain Wieler is ordered follow author Dreyman and plunges deeper and deeper into his life until he reaches the threshold of doubting the system.

Rear Window
Alfred Hitchcock 1954 1h 53m 9.0

Jefferies has had his leg in a cast for weeks and has nothing to do but watch his neighbors from his window. His voyeurism leads him to think that he’s witnessed a murder. Together with his girlfriend Lisa and his nurse Stella they try to solve the mystery and possibly a murder.

Witness for the Prosecution
Billy Wilder 1957 1h 56m 8.7

Witness for the Prosecution was to be a work from Hitchcock yet Billy Wilder got to film it in the end. The film with Marlene Dietrich as Femme Fatale is a thrilling and amusing classic drama.

Tengoku to jigoku
Akira Kurosawa 1963 2h 22m 8.7

An executive on the outs with his company gets in deeper when he pays off kidnappers who have abducted the wrong boy.

Incendies
14.

Incendies

Denis Villeneuve 2010 2h 11m 8.4

A mother's last wishes send twins Jeanne and Simon on a journey to Middle East in search of their tangled roots. Adapted from Wajdi Mouawad's acclaimed play, Incendies tells the powerful and moving tale of two young adults' voyage to the core of deep-rooted hatred, never-ending wars and enduring love.

North by Northwest
Alfred Hitchcock 1959 2h 17m 8.4

North by Northwest is one of Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest works. The master of suspense is at it again as we follow the protagonist Roger Thornhill from Manhattan to Mount Rushmore Memorial Park.

Oldeuboi
16.

Oldeuboi

Park Chan-wook 2003 2h 8.8

Oldboy is the revenge drama from Director Park Chan-wook. Based on a Manga comic it depicts the suffering path of a man who must deal with the never ending torment of having unknowingly made someone his enemy.

M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder
Fritz Lang 1931 1h 50m 8.5

M is German director Fritz Lang’s masterpiece that illustrates the portrait of a child murderer that has caused an entire city to begin rioting. The film is based on actual events.

Double Indemnity
Billy Wilder 1944 1h 47m 8.5

Double Indemnity is a film noir thriller from directory Billy Wilder from 1944 in which the protagonist sets up an insurance fraud.

Vertigo
19.

Vertigo

Alfred Hitchcock 1958 2h 8m 8.9

An ex-police officer is asked to follow an old friends wife who thinks she is being followed by ghosts. A classic Hitchcock about a man who’s afraid of heights and a woman he must unfortunately follow to great heights.

Prisoners
20.

Prisoners

Denis Villeneuve 2013 2h 33m 7.9

A Pennsylvania man kidnaps the person he suspects is behind the disappearance of his young daughter and her best friend.

Shutter Island
Martin Scorsese 2010 2h 18m 8.2

Drama is set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.

The Sixth Sense
M. Night Shyamalan 1999 1h 47m 8.1

A psychological thriller about an eight year old boy named Cole Sear who believes he can see into the world of the dead. A child psychologist named Malcolm Crowe comes to Cole to help him deal with his problem, learning that he really can see ghosts of dead people. A film that has you on the edge of your seat till the end when you fall off.

The Thing
23.

The Thing

John Carpenter 1982 1h 49m 8.4

Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills.

A Beautiful Mind
Ron Howard 2001 2h 15m 7.9

In this Oscar crowning work, director Ron Howard puts the magnified glass on mathematician and Nobel Prize winner John Forbes Nash. With respect to Hollywood conformity the film details the life of a paranoid schizophrenic genius which caused the film much critique.

L.A. Confidential
Curtis Hanson 1997 2h 18m 8.3

Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner in this lush tribute to tough film noir crime films. Based on the multi-layered James Ellroy novel.

Citizen Kane
Orson Welles 1941 1h 59m 8.9

Orson Wells was 26 when he made his first feature film Citizen Kane. The film became known as one of the greatest of all time and earned him international celebrity. The story is about the publishing business and how one thrill-seeker’s struggle for power negatively affected everybody he came in contact with and eventually lead to a merciless war.

The Father
Florian Zeller 2020 1h 37m 8.0

A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.

El secreto de sus ojos
Juan José Campanella 2009 2h 10m 8.2

A man wants to solve a murder committed many years ago.

Gone Girl
29.

Gone Girl

David Fincher 2014 2h 29m 7.3

With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

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.

Salinui chueok
Bong Joon Ho 2003 2h 11m 8.4

Based on the true story of the country's first known serial murders, which took place between 1986 and 1991 in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province, the movie begins with a series of raped and murdered women. Two bumbling, incompetent local detectives realizes a serial killer is on the loose and begins to chase after the murderer.

Chinatown
32.

Chinatown

Roman Polanski 1974 2h 10m 8.3

Chinatown is a classic US American film from 1974 Directed by Roman Polanski and starring Jack Nicholson. A plot about a conspiracy of the water and land use in the state of California.

The Third Man
Carol Reed 1949 1h 45m 8.2

An American pulp writer arrives in post-WWII Vienna only to find that the friend who waited for him is killed under mysterious circumstances. The ensuing mystery entangles him in his friend's involvement in the black market, with the multinational police, and with his Czech girlfriend.

Dial M for Murder
Alfred Hitchcock 1954 1h 45m 8.0

Inspector Hubbard has to explain an extremely tricky case of keeping Mrs. Margot Wendice from capital punishment. Hitchcock has created with this film an almost perfect Murder, and made Grace Kelly famous.

Rashômon
35.

Rashômon

Akira Kurosawa 1950 1h 28m 7.7

In ancient Japan a crime take place as told from three different travelers who have experienced the crime: a man being killed and his wife being raped. Which if any of the stories is true? A Akira Kurosawa film about morals, truth, and communication.

Trois couleurs: Rouge
Krzysztof Kieślowski 1994 1h 40m 7.9

Red This is the third film from the trilogy by Kieślowski. “Red” meaning brotherliness. Here Kieślowski masterly tells strange coincidentally linked stories in the most packed work.

Les diaboliques
Henri-Georges Clouzot 1955 1h 58m 8.6

Les Diaboliques is a Horror mystery thriller from French director Henri-Georges Clouzot about a triangle relationship that leads to murder.

A Wednesday
Neeraj Pandey 2008 1h 43m 6.7

A retiring police officer reminisces about the most astounding day of his career and a case that was never filed but continues to haunt his memories: the case of a man and a Wednesday.

Blade Runner 2049
Denis Villeneuve 2017 2h 44m 6.8

Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

Donnie Darko
Richard Kelly 2001 1h 54m 8.6

A troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes, after narrowly escaping a bizarre accident.

Zootopia
41.

Zootopia

Byron Howard, Rich Moore 2016 1h 49m 7.9

In the animal city of Zootopia, a fast-talking fox who's trying to make it big goes on the run when he's framed for a crime he didn't commit. Zootopia's top cop, a self-righteous rabbit, is hot on his tail, but when both become targets of a conspiracy, they're forced to team up and discover even natural enemies can become best friends.

Twelve Monkeys
Terry Gilliam 1995 2h 9m 8.4

In a post apocalyptic future the imprisoned James Cole is sent back in time to try and prevent a catastrophic event from killing 5 billion people.

Contratiempo
Oriol Paulo 2016 1h 47m 7.3

"The Invisible Guest” turns on a young businessman who wakes up in a hotel room locked from the inside with the dead body of his lover next to him. He hires a prestigious lawyer, and over one night they work together to clarify what happened in a frenetic race against time.

Pâfekuto burû
Satoshi Kon 1998 1h 21m 8.4

Rising pop star Mima Kirigoe quits singing to pursue a career as an actress. After she takes up a role on a popular detective show, her handlers and collaborators begin turning up murdered. Harboring feelings of guilt and haunted by visions of her former self, Mima's reality and fantasy meld into a frenzied paranoia.

The Bourne Ultimatum
Paul Greengrass 2007 1h 55m 7.7

Bourne is once again brought out of hiding by reporter Simon Ross who is trying to unveil Operation Blackbriar an upgrade to Project Treadstone in a series of newspaper columns.Information from the reporter stirs a new set of memories, and Bourne must finally uncover his dark past whilst dodging The Company's best efforts to eradicate him.

Anatomy of a Murder
Otto Preminger 1959 2h 41m 8.0

Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. Over the course of an extensive trial, Biegler parries with District Attorney Lodwick and out-of-town prosecutor Claude Dancer to set his client free, but his case rests on the victim's mysterious ...

Rebecca
47.

Rebecca

Alfred Hitchcock 1940 2h 10m 8.2

Rebecca is the first Hollywood film from Alfred Hitchcock and received the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1941. A timeless tale of a woman who marries a widower and fears that she will never live up to the deceased wife. With excellently played rolls and a story that never seems wrong this film is a true classic.

Mou gaan dou
Alan Mak Siu-Fai, Andrew Lau Wai-Keung 2002 1h 41m 8.2

Chan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their older counterparts, Chen Wing Yan and Inspector Lau Kin Ming, respectively, race against time to expose the mole within their midst.

Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
Robert Wiene 1920 1h 17m 8.4

Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.

Spalovac mrtvol
Juraj Herz 1969 1h 41m 8.7

In 1930s Prague, a Czech cremator who firmly believes cremation relieves one from earthly suffering is drawn inexorably to Nazism.