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200 movies to watch in isolation

by LocrianGray • Created 5 years ago • Modified 5 years ago
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  • Isabelle Adjani and Klaus Kinski in Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

    1. Nosferatu the Vampyre

    19791h 47mPG79Metascore
    7.4 (48K)
    Count Dracula moves from Transylvania to Wismar, spreading the Black Plague across the land. Only a woman pure of heart can bring an end to his reign of horror.
    DirectorWerner HerzogStarsKlaus KinskiIsabelle AdjaniBruno Ganz
  • Soylent Green (1973)

    2. Soylent Green

    19731h 37mPG66Metascore
    7.0 (74K)
    A nightmarish futuristic fantasy about the controlling power of big corporations and an innocent cop who stumbles on the truth.
    DirectorRichard FleischerStarsCharlton HestonEdward G. RobinsonLeigh Taylor-Young
  • Vertigo (1958)

    3. Vertigo

    19582h 8mPG100Metascore
    8.2 (451K)
    A former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.
    DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsJames StewartKim NovakBarbara Bel Geddes
  • Orson Welles, Dorothy Comingore, and Ruth Warrick in Citizen Kane (1941)

    4. Citizen Kane

    19411h 59mPG100Metascore
    8.2 (487K)
    Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'
    DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenDorothy Comingore
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Terminator (1984)

    5. The Terminator

    19841h 47mR84Metascore
    8.1 (980K)
    A cyborg assassin from the future attempts to find and kill a young woman who is destined to give birth to a warrior that will lead a resistance to save humankind from extinction.
    DirectorJames CameronStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerLinda HamiltonMichael Biehn
  • Nancy Allen, Peter Weller, Miguel Ferrer, and Kurtwood Smith in RoboCop (1987)

    6. RoboCop

    19871h 42mR70Metascore
    7.6 (302K)
    In a violent future in Old Detroit, murdered police officer Alex Murphy is resurrected as RoboCop, a powerful cyborg law enforcer. As he fights crime, he begins to recover memories of his past and seeks revenge on the gang who killed him.
    DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsPeter WellerNancy AllenDan O'Herlihy
  • Harrison Ford, Anthony Daniels, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, James Earl Jones, David Prowse, Kenny Baker, and Peter Mayhew in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

    7. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

    19802h 4mPG82Metascore
    8.7 (1.5M)
    After the Empire overpowers the Rebel Alliance, Luke Skywalker begins training with Jedi Master Yoda, while Darth Vader and bounty hunter Boba Fett pursue his friends across the galaxy.
    DirectorIrvin KershnerStarsMark HamillHarrison FordCarrie Fisher
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

    8. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

    19641h 35mPG97Metascore
    8.3 (544K)
    A mentally unstable American general orders a hydrogen bomb attack on the Soviet Union, triggering a path to global nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.
    DirectorStanley KubrickStarsPeter SellersGeorge C. ScottSterling Hayden
  • The Shining (1980)

    9. The Shining

    19802h 26mR68Metascore
    8.4 (1.2M)
    A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter, where a sinister presence influences the father into violence. At the same time, his psychic son sees horrifying forebodings from both the past and the future.
    DirectorStanley KubrickStarsJack NicholsonShelley DuvallDanny Lloyd
  • Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

    10. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    19752h 13mR84Metascore
    8.7 (1.1M)
    A rebellious convict is sent to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation in 1963 Oregon, and encourages his docile companions to take more control of their lives and defy the tyrannical head nurse.
    DirectorMilos FormanStarsJack NicholsonLouise FletcherMichael Berryman
  • The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

    11. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

    19662h 58mR90Metascore
    8.8 (870K)
    A bounty-hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
    DirectorSergio LeoneStarsClint EastwoodEli WallachLee Van Cleef
  • Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, and Joe Pesci in Goodfellas (1990)

    12. Goodfellas

    19902h 25mR92Metascore
    8.7 (1.4M)
    The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.
    DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsRobert De NiroRay LiottaJoe Pesci
  • Jodie Foster in The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

    13. The Silence of the Lambs

    19911h 58mR86Metascore
    8.6 (1.7M)
    A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.
    DirectorJonathan DemmeStarsJodie FosterAnthony HopkinsScott Glenn
  • Anthony Perkins, John Gavin, Janet Leigh, and Heather Dawn May in Psycho (1960)

    14. Psycho

    19601h 49mR97Metascore
    8.5 (765K)
    A secretary on the run for embezzlement takes refuge at a secluded California motel owned by a repressed man and his overbearing mother.
    DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsAnthony PerkinsJanet LeighVera Miles
  • Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

    15. Once Upon a Time in the West

    19682h 46mPG-1382Metascore
    8.5 (375K)
    A mysterious stranger with a harmonica teams up with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow and her land from a ruthless assassin in the employ of a railroad tycoon.
    DirectorSergio LeoneStarsHenry FondaCharles BronsonClaudia Cardinale
  • Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Paul Henreid, and Conrad Veidt in Casablanca (1942)

    16. Casablanca

    19421h 42mPG100Metascore
    8.5 (641K)
    A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
    DirectorMichael CurtizStarsHumphrey BogartIngrid BergmanPaul Henreid
  • Alien (1979)

    17. Alien

    19791h 57mR89Metascore
    8.5 (1M)
    After investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin, the crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform.
    DirectorRidley ScottStarsSigourney WeaverTom SkerrittJohn Hurt
  • The Thing (1982)

    18. The Thing

    19821h 49mR57Metascore
    8.2 (509K)
    A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
    DirectorJohn CarpenterStarsKurt RussellWilford BrimleyKeith David
  • Marlon Brando and Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now (1979)

    19. Apocalypse Now

    19792h 27mR94Metascore
    8.4 (753K)
    A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
    DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsMartin SheenMarlon BrandoRobert Duvall
  • Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Wolf Kahler, Ronald Lacey, and Terry Richards in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

    20. Raiders of the Lost Ark

    19811h 55mPG86Metascore
    8.4 (1.1M)
    In 1936, archaeologist Indiana Jones is tasked by Army Intelligence to help locate a legendary ancient power, the Ark of Covenant, before the Nazis get it first.
    DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsHarrison FordKaren AllenPaul Freeman
  • Susan Backlinie and Bruce in Jaws (1975)

    21. Jaws

    19752h 4mPG87Metascore
    8.1 (718K)
    When a massive killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community off Long Island, it's up to the local police chief, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
    DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsRoy ScheiderRobert ShawRichard Dreyfuss
  • Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange (1971)

    22. A Clockwork Orange

    19712h 16mR77Metascore
    8.2 (922K)
    Alex DeLarge and his droogs barbarize a decaying near-future.
    DirectorStanley KubrickStarsMalcolm McDowellPatrick MageeMichael Bates
  • Al Pacino in Scarface (1983)

    23. Scarface

    19832h 50mR65Metascore
    8.3 (987K)
    In the 1980s, a determined criminal-minded Cuban immigrant becomes the biggest drug smuggler in Miami, and is eventually undone by his own drug addiction.
    DirectorBrian De PalmaStarsAl PacinoMichelle PfeifferSteven Bauer
  • John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Monty Python in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

    24. Monty Python and the Holy Grail

    19751h 31mPG91Metascore
    8.2 (595K)
    King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table embark on a surreal, low-budget search for the Holy Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles.
    DirectorsTerry GilliamTerry JonesStarsGraham ChapmanJohn CleeseEric Idle
  • John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Monty Python in Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979)

    25. Monty Python's Life of Brian

    19791h 34mR77Metascore
    8.0 (431K)
    Born on the original Christmas in the stable next door to Jesus Christ, Brian of Nazareth spends his life being mistaken for a messiah.
    DirectorTerry JonesStarsGraham ChapmanJohn CleeseMichael Palin

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