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1.
The Adjustment Bureau
(2011)
The affair between a politician and a ballerina is affected by mysterious forces keeping the lovers apart. (106 mins.)
Director: George Nolfi
“ Best movie of the 2011 year. ” - mihneag
2.
Invictus
(2009)
Nelson Mandela, in his first term as the South African President, initiates a unique venture to unite the apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup. (134 mins.)
Director: Clint Eastwood
3.
Mr. Nobody
(2009)
A tale that spans different time zones of the 20th and 21st centuries. (141 mins.)
Director: Jaco Van Dormael
4.
Admiral
(2008)
This is a story of a great love facing the greatest drama of the history of Russia. (124 mins.)
Director: Andrey Kravchuk
5.
Waltz with Bashir
(2008 Documentary)
An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict. (90 mins.)
Director: Ari Folman
6.
Kung Fu Panda
(2008)
In the Valley of Peace, Po the Panda finds himself chosen as the Dragon Warrior despite the fact that he is obese and a complete novice at martial arts. (90 mins.)
Director: Mark Osborne, John Stevenson
7.
California Dreamin'
(2007)
A railway chief delays a NATO train transporting military equipment during the war in Kosovo in 1999. (155 mins.)
Director: Cristian Nemescu
8.
3:10 to Yuma
(2007)
A small-time rancher agrees to hold a captured outlaw who's awaiting a train to go to court in Yuma. A battle of wills ensues as the outlaw tries to psych out the rancher. (122 mins.)
Director: James Mangold
9.
Lions for Lambs
(2007)
Injuries sustained by two Army ranger behind enemy lines in Afghanistan set off a sequence of events involving a congressman, a journalist and a professor. (92 mins.)
Director: Robert Redford
10.
Babel
(2006)
Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families. (143 mins.)
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
11.
Little Miss Sunshine
(2006)
A family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their VW bus. (101 mins.)
Director: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
12.
Sin City
(2005)
A film that explores the dark and miserable town, Basin City, and tells the story of three different people, all caught up in violent corruption. (124 mins.)
Director: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez
14.
The World's Fastest Indian
(2005)
The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle -- a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967. (127 mins.)
Director: Roger Donaldson
15.
Shinobi: Heart Under Blade
(2005)
After more than four hundred years of war between the Shinobi warriors of the Manjidani Koga and Tsubagakure Iga clans... (107 mins.)
Director: Ten Shimoyama
16.
Memoirs of a Geisha
(2005)
Nitta Sayuri reveals how she transcended her fishing-village roots and became one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. (145 mins.)
Director: Rob Marshall
17.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
(2004)
A couple undergo a procedure to erase each other from their memories when their relationship turns sour, but it is only through the process of loss that they discover what they had to begin with. (108 mins.)
Director: Michel Gondry
18.
Closer
(2004)
The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other. (104 mins.)
Director: Mike Nichols
19.
Crash
(2004)
Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption. (112 mins.)
Director: Paul Haggis
20.
Wicker Park
(2004)
A young Chicago advertising executive believes a woman he sees in a café is his long-lost love. His conviction leads to obsession, as he puts his life on hold to trail her. (114 mins.)
Director: Paul McGuigan
21.
Mindhunters
(2004)
Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their midst. (106 mins.)
Director: Renny Harlin
22.
The Polar Express
(2004)
On Christmas Eve, a doubting boy boards a magical train that's headed to the North Pole and Santa Claus's home. (100 mins.)
Director: Robert Zemeckis
23.
The Dreamers
(2003)
A young American studying in Paris in 1968 strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. Set against the background of the '68 Paris student riots. (115 mins.)
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
24.
Angels in America
(2003 Mini-Series)
Playwright Tony Kushner adapts his political epic about the AIDS crisis during the mid-eighties, around a group of separate but connected individuals.
25.
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
(2003)
Aragorn leads the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw the dark lord's gaze from Frodo and Sam who are on the doorstep of Mount Doom with the One Ring. (201 mins.)
Director: Peter Jackson
26.
Bruce Almighty
(2003)
A guy who complains about God too often is given almighty powers to teach him how difficult it is to run the world. (101 mins.)
Director: Tom Shadyac
28.
The Transporter
(2002)
This film is about a man whose job is to deliver packages without asking any questions. Complications arise when he breaks those rules. (92 mins.)
Director: Louis Leterrier, Cory Yuen
29.
Lilya 4-Ever
(2002)
Lilja is 16 years old. Her only friend is the young boy Volodja. They live in Estonia, fantasizing about a better life. One day, Lilja falls in love with Andrej. He is going to Sweden, and invites Lilja to come along and start a new life. (109 mins.)
Director: Lukas Moodysson
30.
Philanthropy
(2002)
Ovidiu, a high-school teacher looking for an extra buck, finds an unexpected way to earn easy money. (110 mins.)
Director: Nae Caranfil
31.
Talk to Her
(2002)
Two men share an odd friendship while they care for their girlfriends who are both in deep comas. (112 mins.)
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
32.
Minority Report
(2002)
In a future where a special police unit is able to arrest murderers before they commit their crimes, an officer from that unit is himself accused of a future murder. (145 mins.)
Director: Steven Spielberg
33.
K-PAX
(2001)
Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away Planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations. (120 mins.)
Director: Iain Softley
34.
Enemy at the Gates
(2001)
Two Russian and German snipers play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad. (131 mins.)
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
35.
Sex and Lucia
(2001)
Various lives converge on an isolated island, all connected by an author whose novel has become inextricably entwined with his own life. (128 mins.)
Director: Julio Medem
36.
Iris
(2001)
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease. (91 mins.)
Director: Richard Eyre
37.
Donnie Darko
(2001)
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. (113 mins.)
Director: Richard Kelly
38.
The Last Castle
(2001)
A Court Martialed general rallies together 1200 inmates to rise against the system that put him away. (131 mins.)
Director: Rod Lurie
39.
Hearts in Atlantis
(2001)
A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives. (101 mins.)
Director: Scott Hicks
40.
The Pledge
(2001)
A retiring police chief pledges to catch the killer of a young child. (124 mins.)
Director: Sean Penn
41.
Requiem for a Dream
(2000)
The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island individuals are shattered when their addictions become stronger. (102 mins.)
Director: Darren Aronofsky
42.
Men of Honor
(2000)
The story of Carl Brashear, the first African American, then also the first amputee, US Navy Diver and the man who trained him. (129 mins.)
Director: George Tillman Jr.
43.
Amores Perros
(2000)
A horrific car accident connects three stories, each involving characters dealing with loss, regret, and life's harsh realities, all in the name of love. (154 mins.)
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
44.
Chocolat
(2000)
A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community. (121 mins.)
Director: Lasse Hallström
45.
Pay It Forward
(2000)
A young boy attempts to make the world a better place after his teacher gives him that chance. (123 mins.)
Director: Mimi Leder
46.
Gladiator
(2000)
When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge. (155 mins.)
Director: Ridley Scott
47.
The Straight Story
(1999)
An old man makes a long journey by tractor to mend his relationship with an ill brother. (112 mins.)
Director: David Lynch
48.
The Green Mile
(1999)
The lives of guards on Death Row are affected by one of their charges: a black man accused of child murder and rape, yet who has a mysterious gift. (189 mins.)
Director: Frank Darabont
49.
The Matrix
(1999)
A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against its controllers. (136 mins.)
Director: The Wachowski Brothers, The Wachowski Brothers
50.
Man on the Moon
(1999)
A film about the life and career of the eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman. (118 mins.)
Director: Milos Forman
51.
The Sixth Sense
(1999)
A boy who communicates with spirits that don't know they're dead seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist. (107 mins.)
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
52.
American Beauty
(1999)
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation for his daughter's attractive friend. (122 mins.)
Director: Sam Mendes
53.
The Virgin Suicides
(1999)
A group of male friends become obsessed with a group of mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents after one of them commits suicide. (97 mins.)
Director: Sofia Coppola
54.
Eyes Wide Shut
(1999)
A New York City doctor, who is married to an art curator, pushes himself on a harrowing and dangerous night-long odyssey of sexual and moral discovery after his wife admits that she once almost cheated on him. (159 mins.)
Director: Stanley Kubrick
55.
City of Angels
(1998)
Inspired by the modern classic, Wings of Desire, City involves an angel (Cage) who is spotted by a doctor in an operating room. Franz plays Cage's buddy who somehow knows a lot about angels. (114 mins.)
Director: Brad Silberling
56.
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
(1998)
Four London working class stiffs pool their money to put one in a high stakes card game, but things go wrong and they end up owing half a million pounds and having one week to come up with the cash. (107 mins.)
Director: Guy Ritchie
57.
Ronin
(1998)
A freelancing former US intelligence agent tries to track down a mysterious package that is wanted by both the Irish and the Russians. (122 mins.)
Director: John Frankenheimer
58.
Meet Joe Black
(1998)
A media mogul acts as a guide to Death, who takes the form of a young man to learn about life on Earth and in the process, fall in love with his guide's daughter. (178 mins.)
Director: Martin Brest
59.
Run Lola Run
(1998)
A young woman in Germany has twenty minutes to find and bring 100,000 Deutschmarks to her boyfriend before he robs a supermarket. (81 mins.)
Director: Tom Tykwer
60.
American History X
(1998)
A former neo-nazi skinhead tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the same wrong path that he did. (119 mins.)
Director: Tony Kaye
61.
Gattaca
(1997)
A genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel. (106 mins.)
Director: Andrew Niccol
62.
The Game
(1997)
Wealthy financier Nicholas Van Orton gets a strange birthday present from wayward brother Conrad: a live-action game that consumes his life. (129 mins.)
Director: David Fincher
63.
Good Will Hunting
(1997)
Will Hunting, a janitor at MIT, has a gift for mathematics but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life. (126 mins.)
Director: Gus Van Sant
64.
As Good as It Gets
(1997)
A single mother/waitress, a misanthropic author, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship (139 mins.)
Director: James L. Brooks
65.
Life Is Beautiful
(1997)
A Jewish man has a wonderful romance with the help of his humour, but must use that same quality to protect his son in a Nazi death camp. (116 mins.)
Director: Roberto Benigni
66.
The Full Monty
(1997)
Six unemployed steel workers form a male striptease act. The women cheer them on to go for "the full monty" - total nudity. (91 mins.)
Director: Peter Cattaneo
67.
The Devil's Advocate
(1997)
A hotshot lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he learns his new boss is Lucifer himself. (144 mins.)
Director: Taylor Hackford
68.
Looking for Richard
(1996 Documentary)
Al Pacino's deeply-felt rumination on Shakespeare's significance and relevance to the modern world through interviews and an in-depth analysis of "Richard III." (112 mins.)
Director: Al Pacino
69.
Sling Blade
(1996)
Karl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town. (135 mins.)
Director: Billy Bob Thornton
70.
Jerry Maguire
(1996)
When a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent with the only athlete who stays with him. (139 mins.)
Director: Cameron Crowe
71.
Star Trek: First Contact
(1996)
Captain Picard and his crew pursue the Borg back in time to stop them from preventing Earth from initiating first contact with alien life. (111 mins.)
Director: Jonathan Frakes
72.
The Rock
(1996)
A renegade general and his group of U.S. Marines take over Alcatraz and threaten San Francisco Bay with biological weapons. A chemical weapons specialist and the only man to have ever escaped from the Rock attempt to prevent chaos. (136 mins.)
Director: Michael Bay
73.
Lumière and Company
(1995 Documentary)
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers... (88 mins.)
Director: Theo Angelopoulos, Vicente Aranda
74.
Sense and Sensibility
(1995)
Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. Two daughters are the titular opposites. (136 mins.)
Director: Ang Lee
75.
The Bridges of Madison County
(1995)
Photographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson, for four days in the 1960s. (135 mins.)
Director: Clint Eastwood
76.
Braveheart
(1995)
William Wallace, a commoner, unites the 13th Century Scots in their battle to overthrow English rule. (177 mins.)
Director: Mel Gibson
77.
Heat
(1995)
Two men on opposite sides of the law - one a detective; the other a thief. (170 mins.)
Director: Michael Mann
78.
Nixon
(1995)
A biographical story of former U.S. president Richard Milhous Nixon, from his days as a young boy to his eventual presidency which ended in shame. (192 mins.)
Director: Oliver Stone
79.
Casino
(1995)
Greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two mobster best friends and a trophy wife over a gambling empire. (178 mins.)
Director: Martin Scorsese
80.
The Shawshank Redemption
(1994)
Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency. (142 mins.)
Director: Frank Darabont
81.
I.Q.
(1994)
Albert Einstein helps a young man who's in love with Einstein's niece to catch her attention by pretending temporarily to be a great physicist. (100 mins.)
Director: Fred Schepisi
82.
Speed
(1994)
A young cop must prevent a bomb exploding aboard a city bus by keeping its speed above 50 mph. (116 mins.)
Director: Jan de Bont
83.
Wyatt Earp
(1994)
Wyatt Earp is a movie about a man and his family. The movie shows us the good times and the bad times of one of the West's most famous individuals. (191 mins.)
Director: Lawrence Kasdan
84.
Leon: The Professional
(1994)
A professional assassin rescues a teenage girl whose parents were killed in a police raid. (110 mins.)
Director: Luc Besson
85.
Wolf
(1994)
Publisher Will Randall becomes a werewolf and has to fight to keep his job. (125 mins.)
Director: Mike Nichols
86.
Pulp Fiction
(1994)
The lives of two mob hit men, a boxer, a gangster's wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption. (154 mins.)
Director: Quentin Tarantino
87.
Forrest Gump
(1994)
Forrest Gump, while not intelligent, has accidentally been present at many historic moments, but his true love, Jenny, eludes him. (142 mins.)
Director: Robert Zemeckis
88.
In the Name of the Father
(1993)
Man's coerced confession to an IRA bombing he didn't do imprisons his father as well; a British lawyer helps fight for their freedom. (133 mins.)
Director: Jim Sheridan
89.
Philadelphia
(1993)
When a man with AIDS is fired by a conservative law firm because of his condition, he hires a homophobic small time lawyer as the only willing advocate for a wrongful dismissal suit. (125 mins.)
Director: Jonathan Demme
90.
Schindler's List
(1993)
In Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis. (195 mins.)
Director: Steven Spielberg
91.
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
(1992)
A young FBI agent disappears while investigating a murder miles from Twin Peaks that may be related to the future murder of Laura Palmer; the last week of the life of Laura Palmer is chronicled. (135 mins.)
Director: David Lynch
92.
Damage
(1992)
A member of Parliament falls passionately in love with his son's fiancée despite the dangers of discovery. (111 mins.)
Director: Louis Malle
93.
Scent of a Woman
(1992)
A prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated. (157 mins.)
Director: Martin Brest
94.
Basic Instinct
(1992)
A police detective is in charge of the investigation of a brutal murder, in which a beautiful and seductive woman could be involved. (127 mins.)
Director: Paul Verhoeven
95.
A Few Good Men
(1992)
Neo military lawyer Kaffee defends Marines accused of murder; they contend they were acting under orders. (138 mins.)
Director: Rob Reiner
96.
The Addams Family
(1991)
Con artists plan to fleece the eccentric family using an accomplice who claims to be their long lost Uncle Fester. (99 mins.)
Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
97.
Mediterraneo
(1991)
Greek Sea, World War II. An Italian ship leaves a handful of soldiers in a little island; their mission... (96 mins.)
Director: Gabriele Salvatores
98.
Frankie and Johnny
(1991)
Johnny has just been released from prison, and gets a job in a cafe beside waitress Frankie. Frankie is a bit of a loner... (118 mins.)
Director: Garry Marshall
99.
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
(1991)
The cyborg who once tried to kill Sarah Connor must now protect her teenage son, John Connor, from an even more powerful and advanced Terminator. (137 mins.)
Director: James Cameron
100.
The Silence of the Lambs
(1991)
A young FBI cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims. (118 mins.)
Director: Jonathan Demme
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