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La vita è bella
Roberto Benigni 1997 1h 56m 8.3

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.

Back to the Future
Robert Zemeckis 1985 1h 56m 8.8

The first film of the trilogy as teenager Marty Mcfly travels back in time with help from his friend and time machine inventor Dr. Brown. Marty travels from 1985 back to 1955 running into people he knows like his parents. When it’s time to go back to the future Marty runs into a few unforeseen problems and time is running out.

Intouchables
Éric Toledano, Olivier Nakache 2011 1h 53m 7.9

A true story of two men who should never have met - a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.

Modern Times
Charlie Chaplin 1936 1h 27m 9.0

The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.

City Lights
Charlie Chaplin 1931 1h 27m 8.5

City Lights is the first silent film that Charlie Chaplin directed after he established himself with sound accompanied films. The film is about a penniless man who falls in love with a flower girl. The film was a great success and today is deemed a cult classic.

Flåklypa Grand Prix
Ivo Caprino 1975 1h 28m 9.0

100 miles north, a bit east and up, is Flåklypa... home of bicycle repairman Reodor Felgen and his two assistants - Solan Gundersen, morning bird and natural born optimist, and Ludvig who is a true pessimist. Sponsored by oil sheik Ben Redic Fy Fazan, they build the car "Il Tempo Gigante" and the race of the decade is a fact.

3 Idiots
Rajkumar Hirani 2009 2h 51m 8.1

Rascal. Joker. Dreamer. Genius... You've never met a college student quite like "Rancho." From the moment he arrives at India's most prestigious university, Rancho's outlandish schemes turn the campus upside down—along with the lives of his two newfound best friends. Together, they make life miserable for "Virus," the school’s uptight and heartl...

The Great Dictator
Charlie Chaplin 1940 2h 5m 8.4

The Great Dictator is a cult film from Charlie Chaplin that satires German Nationalism and Adolf Hitler. The movie was filmed during the Nazi power and if Chaplin would have known what they were doing in German at the time he says he probably wouldn’t have made the film.

Hababam Sinifi: Sinifta Kaldi
1975 1h 31m

A young and beautiful female teacher starts working in an all boys high school.

Toy Story
10.

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.

Up
12.

Up

Pete Docter 2009 1h 36m 8.0

By tying thousands of balloons to his home, 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America. Right after lifting off, however, he learns he isn't alone on his journey. Russell, an 8 year old wilderness explorer, has inadvertently become a stowaway on the adventure.

The Apartment
Billy Wilder 1960 2h 6m 8.6

The Apartment came out shortly after the success of ‘Some Like it Hot’ from director Billy Wilder and thus making it the most successful films of the year. Full of trivialities this comedy is a harsh critic of coporate world and the American way of life.

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Stanley Kubrick 1964 1h 35m 8.8

An insane general starts a process to nuclear holocaust that a war room of politicians and generals frantically try to stop. A classic black and white war satire from director Stanley Kubrick starring Peter Sellers.

Singin' in the Rain
Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly 1952 1h 43m 8.6

Hollywood's attempts to move from the 'silent' era to the 'Talkies' are not going as planned.

The Wolf of Wall Street
Martin Scorsese 2013 3h 8.0

A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.

The Truman Show
Peter Weir 1998 1h 43m 8.4

The Truman Show is a film about a man who unknowing has been watched by cameras and living in a fictitious world ever since birth. Millions of people watch Truman, played by Jim Carrey, 24 hours a day, everyday, on television. The film caricatures the force the media.

Snatch.
18.

Snatch.

Guy Ritchie 2000 1h 43m 8.5

Snatch (2000) is a gangster comedy film, written and directed by Guy Ritchie, about the search for a stolen diamond, in London.

Green Book
Peter Farrelly 2018 2h 10m 7.3

Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.

Finding Nemo
Andrew Stanton 2003 1h 40m 8.2

A father-son underwater adventure featuring Nemo, a boy clownfish, captured from his coral reef home. His timid father must venture into the deep ocean and travel to Sydney, Australia to rescue him.

Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain
Jean-Pierre Jeunet 2001 2h 2m 8.6

At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a handsome stranger, will she find the courage to become the star of her very own love story?

The Sting
22.

The Sting

George Roy Hill 1973 2h 9m 8.3

Set in the 1930's this intricate caper deals with an ambitious small-time crook and a veteran con man who seek revenge on a vicious crime lord who murdered one of their gang.

Some Like It Hot
Billy Wilder 1959 2h 3m 8.8

PLEASE DELETE, EXISTS ALREADY!

Klaus
24.

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.

Gangs of Wasseypur
Anurag Kashyap 2012 2h 40m 7.1

In 1970s India, Sardar Khan vows to take revenge on the man who killed his father decades earlier.

The Kid
26.

The Kid

Charlie Chaplin 1921 1h 8m 8.2

The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put that relationship in jeopardy.

Banshun
27.

Banshun

Yasujirō Ozu 1949 1h 48m 8.1

Noriko is perfectly happy living at home with her widowed father, Shukichi, and has no plans to marry -- that is, until her aunt Masa convinces Shukichi that unless he marries off his 27-year-old daughter soon, she will likely remain alone for the rest of her life. When Noriko resists Masa's matchmaking, Shukichi is forced to deceive his daughte...

Munnabhai M.B.B.S.
Rajkumar Hirani 2003 2h 36m 7.5

A gangster sets out to fulfill his father's dream of becoming a doctor.

Il sorpasso
Dino Risi 1962 1h 45m 9.4

Roberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who takes him for a drive through the Roman and Tuscany countries in the summer. When their journey starts to blend into their daily lives though, the pair’s newfound friendship is tested.

Ivan Vasilevich menyaet professiyu
Leonid Gaidai 1973 1h 28m 7.9

Shurik Timofeev builds a working model of a time machine. By accident, Ivan Bunsha, an apartment complex manager...

Brilliantovaya ruka
Leonid Gaidai 1969 1h 34m 7.0

Semyon Gorbunkov goes on a cruise. In Istanbul, he slips and breaks his arm. What he didn't know is that this was a signal for a gang of smugglers (a real smuggler - Gena - was also on board the same ship).

Relatos salvajes
Damián Szifron 2014 2h 2m 8.4

A story about love deception, the return of the past, a tragedy, or even the violence contained in an everyday detail, appear themselves to push them towards the abyss, into the undeniable pleasure of losing control.

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.

The Grand Budapest Hotel
Wes Anderson 2014 1h 40m 7.8

A writer encounters the owner of an aging high-class hotel, who tells him of his early years serving as a lobby boy in the hotel's glorious years under an exceptional concierge.

The Big Lebowski
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen 1998 1h 57m 8.7

The Coen Brothers bring to life a ficticious day in the life of "The Dude” through Bowling, Joints, and an endless supply of “White Russian” cocktails. An off the wall adventure of mix-ups, dirty carpets, pornography producers, Nihilists, and psychopaths make this one of the most celebrated films of the ninties.

Dead Poets Society
Peter Weir 1989 2h 9m 7.9

Dead Poets Society tells the story of a group of college friends who grow an extremely close bond with their English professor. The professor, Keating, tells them of a secret society of people who go against the status quo and encourages them to each go on their own path and ‘seize the day.’

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Martin McDonagh 2017 1h 55m 8.3

After 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 viol...

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.

Before Sunrise
Richard Linklater 1995 1h 41m 8.3

A dialogue marathon of a film, this fairy tail love story of an American boy and French girl. During a day and a night together in Vienna their two hearts collide.

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.

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Guy Ritchie 1998 1h 45m 8.4

A fast paced British comedy about four friends who need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. Lots of British humor, off the wall characters, and a line up of unbelievable scenes put director Guy Ritchie on the map.

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.

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.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Frank Capra 1939 2h 10m 8.2

A naive man is appointed to fill a vacancy in the US Senate. His plans promptly collide with political corruption, but he doesn't back down.

PK
45.

PK

Rajkumar Hirani 2014 2h 33m 7.0

A stranger in the city asks questions no one has asked before. Known only by his initials, the man's innocent questions and childlike curiosity take him on a journey of love, laughter and letting go.

Mary and Max
Adam Elliot 2009 1h 32m 8.4

A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.

Paper Moon
Peter Bogdanovich 1973 1h 42m 7.9

During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.

It Happened One Night
Frank Capra 1934 1h 45m 8.0

Comic romance between a down-to-earth newspaper reporter and a spoiled runaway heiress.

The Gold Rush
Charlie Chaplin 1925 1h 35m 8.4

A lone prospector ventures into Alaska looking for gold. He gets mixed up with some burly characters and falls in love with the beautiful Georgia. He tries to win her heart with his singular charm.

The General
Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton 1926 1h 19m 8.3

The General is an American silent film comedy from Buster Keaton from 1927. The film was in its time a flop yet now days is regarded as the height of silent film comedy. The film is based on events from America’s civil war.