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Best Movies
Popular Movies: Beastly(2011) , The Santa Clause(1994) , Kingdom of Heaven(2005) , Big Fish(2003) , The Imitation Game(2014) , Interstellar(2014) , Finestkind(2023) , The Iron Claw(2023) , Pearl(2022) , PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie(2023) , The Walk(2015) , Joy(2015) , Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her(2000) , Girl, Interrupted(1999) , Panic Room(2002) , Miracles from Heaven(2016) , The Shack(2017) , Lovisa och Carl Michael(2005) , Imagine That(2009) , American Dreamz(2006) , My Sister's Keeper(2009) , Skydog(2020) , Creed(2015) , Little Wing(2024) , Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1(2024) , I Saw the TV Glow(2024) , Transcendence(2014) , The Revenant(2015) , American Star(2024) , Before Night Falls(2022)

List of Best Movies

Beastly
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Beastly (2011)

5.5 PG-13
Release Date: 2011-03-04
Duration: 86min
Country: US
Plot: At Buxton Academy High School, the wealthy and arrogant Kyle Kingson invites Kendra to a party and humiliates her in front of her classmates, but he doesn't know that Kendra is a witch. After the prank, Kendra curses him with a spell that makes Kyle's appearance as ugly as his soul and tells him that if he doesn't find anyone who loves him within a year, he will be doomed to stay that way forever. When Kyle sees his partner Lindy on the street, he saves her from a dangerous drug dealer and takes her to his apartment to protect her. His only hope is that Lindy will fall in love with him.
Director: Daniel Barnz
Cast: Alex Pettyfer, Vanessa Hudgens, Mary-Kate Olsen, LisaGay Hamilton, Neil Patrick Harris
The Santa Clause
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Release Date: 1994-11-11
Duration: 97min
Country: US
Plot: After the divorce, Scott's son Charlie lived with his mother. Just as he was about to visit his son, he found a man sneaking on the roof of his house. Scott shouted and scared the man on the roof to fall. At this time, Scott is shocked to find that the man is Santa Claus. Santa Claus, who fell from the ceiling, could not continue to work, so Scott had to replace him as the new Santa Claus. Scott and Charlie came to Santa Claus's base camp, where Scott had to learn how to become a qualified Santa Claus.
Director: John Pasquin
Cast: Tim Allen, Judge Reinhold, Wendy Crewson, Eric Lloyd, David Krumholtz
Kingdom of Heaven
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Release Date: 2005-05-06
Duration: 144min
Country: US
Plot: In the 12th century, the young French blacksmith Balian followed his father to join the Crusades and came to Jerusalem, where the strange and unique culture deeply attracted him. At that time, Jerusalem maintained a fragile peace between the Second and Third Crusades, but King Batvin's days were numbered, and the peace was shaky. The Saracen Knights, led by Saladin, soon arrived, vowing to take back the holy land in their hearts. A thrilling, brutal, and cruel war was about to begin. Knight Balian and King Batvin had the same vision of protecting the helpless, defending peace, working for cultural and religious harmony, and creating a paradise empire like the Kingdom of Heaven.
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons, David Thewlis, Edward Norton
Big Fish
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Big Fish (2003)

8 PG-13
Release Date: 2003-12-25
Duration: 125min
Country: US
Plot: When Edward was young, he loved telling his son about his legendary experiences. He claimed he had experienced many bizarre, magical, and absurd things. Will did not believe it and thought his father was vain and boastful. The relationship between father and son gradually became alienated. Until his father got cancer and died soon, the son decided to go back to see his father for the last time. When the son faced his father on the sickbed, his father began to talk about his legendary experiences in his early years. From his father's weak breath, Will seemed to understand feelings he had never had. When William, a reporter, began to investigate his father's story, he began to understand his father and his love of storytelling.
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Albert Finney, Billy Crudup, Jessica Lange, Helena Bonham Carter
The Imitation Game
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Release Date: 2014-11-28
Duration: 113min
Country: US
Plot: During World War II, the British government recruited many scientists, including mathematical genius Alan Turing, to crack Germany's famous Enigma cipher system. However, there were millions of combinations to crack the Enigma cipher machine. Turing's decryption machine shortened the decryption time and turned the tide of World War II. Turing and his team eventually became unsung heroes, but in 1952, his gay partner and an accomplice broke into Turing's house to steal. Turing called the police for this. But the police investigation convicted Turing. In the end, Turing died from eating an apple soaked in cyanide solution.
Director: Morten Tyldum
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Rory Kinnear, Allen Leech
Interstellar
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Release Date: 2014-11-05
Duration: 169min
Country: US
Plot: As the earth's climate change becomes increasingly serious, no creature can live on the planet, so NASA took the opportunity to send several astronauts to distant galaxies to find habitable planets. They found three planets around black holes that may be suitable for survival. At the professor's plea, astronaut Cooper, who once performed a space flight mission, reluctantly bid farewell to his daughter and took a spacecraft with three other experts to investigate the three most promising planets known so far.
Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine, Jessica Chastain, Casey Affleck
Finestkind
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Release Date: 2023-09-08
Duration: 126min
Country: US
Plot: Charlie and Tom are half-brothers who live in different places and have different life experiences. Tom lives by the sea with his biological father, Ray, an ordinary fisherman. Charlie lives with his wealthy adoptive father and is now a college student. Summer is coming, and Charlie and Tom reunite at the seaside to spend the summer vacation. Charlie hates his unchanging life and wants to go fishing with his brother this summer. Tom's elderly father, Ray, commissions Tom to drive his boat, Finestkind, on a dredging trip on his behalf, so the two brothers take the boat out to sea.
Director: Brian Helgeland
Cast: Ben Foster, Toby Wallace, Jenna Ortega, Tommy Lee Jones, Ismael Cruz Cordova
The Iron Claw
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Genre: Drama, History
Release Date: 2023-12-22
Duration: 132min
Country: US
Plot: Professional wrestler Fritz von Erich dreamed of winning the NWA World Heavyweight Championship but never did. After marrying his wife Doris, they had four sons. In pursuit of the glory of the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, Fritz asked his children to become wrestlers to train a wrestler who could win it. However, misfortunes knocked on the four sons' doors.
Director: Sean Durkin
Cast: Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson, Stanley Simons, Holt McCallany
Pearl
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Release Date: 2022-09-16
Duration: 102min
Country: US
Plot: Pearl is an ambitious young farm girl obsessed with dance and the film industry. She can't wait to leave home and pursue her dreams. She married Howard, an upper-class member, thinking that this would give her freedom. Unexpectedly, Howard enlisted in the army not long after the marriage and went to the front line to fight. As time went by, the correspondence between them was cut off. So Pearl still lived with her father and mother. Every day, she had to deal with countless farm chores on the farm and take care of her paralyzed father, who could not take care of himself. Long-term frustration, violent tendencies, and repressed emotions began to emerge.
Director: Ti West
Cast: Mia Goth, David Corenswet, Tandi Wright, Matthew Sunderland, Emma Jenkins-Purro
PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie
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Release Date: 2023-09-29
Duration: 92min
Country: US
Plot: At the abandoned observatory, Vance's new meteor magnet causes a meteor to crash into Adventure City. That night, Skye, the team's youngest member, is awakened by a strange light from the meteor. The meteor breaks apart, revealing seven crystals, one of which is attached to Skye's pup tag, granting her flight and super strength. When the Pups' nemesis, Sam Stinger, breaks out of prison and teams up with a mad scientist to steal the remaining crystals, Skye uses her superpowers to track him down, only to lose her crystal. Skye must understand that even the tiniest pups may have a significant impact.
Director: Cal Brunker
Cast: Mckenna Grace, Christian Convery, Taraji P. Henson, Kristen Bell, Lil Rel Howery
The Walk
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Release Date: 2015-10-02
Duration: 123min
Country: US
Plot: Philip Pat has had a talent for acrobatics since he was a child. By chance, Philip learned that the World Trade Center Twin Towers in New York were about to be completed. From then on, Philip desired to walk a tightrope between the two skyscrapers. However, this crazy "art crime" was met with a series of doubts and misunderstandings, but this did not defeat Philip's firm belief that his in-depth investigation and careful deployment had been the tightrope walking experience of Rudy's father directed, as well as Jean-Louis and Jeff and other people's help. Philip began his tightrope walk in 110 layers of 412 meters of cloud.
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ben Kingsley, Charlotte Le Bon, James Badge Dale, Clément Sibony
Joy
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Joy (2015)

6.6 PG-13
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Release Date: 2015-12-25
Duration: 124min
Country: US
Plot: Joy Mangano was an Eastern Airlines reservations worker and a divorced mother of two in 1990. She resides with her two young children, her ex-husband Tony and her grandma Mimi. Every time Joy's father, Rudy, visited her home, her divorced parents would quarrel. The only people who support Joey in following her creative goals are Mimi and her best friend, Jackie. Joy decided to improve her life by creating a new item she designed—a self-wringing mop. She eventually became the mop queen and made a fortune selling miracle mops.
Director: David O. Russell
Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Edgar Ramírez, Diane Ladd
Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Release Date: 2000-05-27
Duration: 109min
Country: US
Plot: The film consists of five seemingly unrelated stories: Doctor Elaine Keener's mother is frail and sick, and her health is getting worse day by day; professional bank manager Rebecca is unexpectedly pregnant and faces challenges at work; Rose is a single mother who is struggling with whether to start a relationship with a dwarf who moved into the house across the street from her; Christine Taylor's lesbian partner has cancer and is dying; Kathy Faber is a detective who lives with her blind sister. They originally faced the challenges of life alone until a suicide occurred. The girl who committed suicide appeared in five different stories, and these five strange stories had a surprising intersection.
Director: Rodrigo García
Cast: Glenn Close, Calista Flockhart, Holly Hunter, Cameron Diaz, Kathy Baker
Girl, Interrupted
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Genre: Drama
Release Date: 1999-12-21
Duration: 127min
Country: US
Plot: Though Susanna was an ordinary girl in her prime, her diagnosis of borderline insanity led to her being committed to a mental hospital, where she suffered greatly from being deeply trapped in the mental pressure of the outside world. She made a group of unusual but perverse friends who always made the hospital administrators laugh with their antics. Susanna gradually became integrated into the activities of the other girls, and her wild and rebellious adventures led her on a spiritual quest to discover who she was.
Director: James Mangold
Cast: Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea DuVall, Brittany Murphy, Elisabeth Moss
Panic Room
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Release Date: 2002-03-29
Duration: 111min
Country: US
Plot: Meg Altman has just divorced her husband. She and her 11-year-old daughter Sarah have just moved into a strange house with a hidden secret room. There are 16 cameras, eight monitors, a telephone line not connected to the outside line, and an indestructible door. The mother and daughter, who never expected to use this secret room one day, encountered uninvited guests on the first night - Burnham, the builder of the house; Junior, the grandson of the previous owner; and Raoul, his helper. They wanted the large inheritance of Junior's grandfather, so they broke into the house while Meg was sleeping at night to find and take away the inheritance. Meg took her daughter to hide in the secret room. As they approached the secret room where Meg was hiding, a game of wits and courage began. Can Sarah, who has asthma, survive this struggle?
Director: David Fincher
Cast: Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam, Jared Leto
Miracles from Heaven
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Genre: Drama, Family
Release Date: 2016-03-18
Duration: 119min
Country: US
Plot: The Beam family is a devout believer who often attends church on Sundays to listen to the pastor's teachings on keeping faith at all times. Their 10-year-old daughter Anna has been suffering from an unknown disease in the past few weeks, causing her to vomit constantly and be unable to eat. After several examinations, Anna was diagnosed with an incurable digestive disease that is gradually endangering her life. But Anna suffered an accident. After being rescued, she miraculously recovered her health.
Director: Patricia Riggen
Cast: Jennifer Garner, Kylie Rogers, Martin Henderson, Brighton Sharbino, Courtney Fansler
The Shack
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The Shack (2017)

6.3 PG-13
Genre: Fantasy, Drama
Release Date: 2017-03-03
Duration: 132min
Country: US
Plot: Mack Phillips is happily married to Nan, and they have three children: Kate, Josh, and Missy Phillips. Mike's life is turned upside down when Missy is kidnapped and murdered while camping with her family over the weekend. Her body is later found in a remote hamlet. Years later, Mack receives a note from God asking him to visit the cabin where his daughter was killed. After reading the message, the man returns to the cabin, and what he finds there will change his life forever.
Director: Stuart Hazeldine
Cast: Sam Worthington, Octavia Spencer, Tim McGraw, Aviv Alush, Sumire Matsubara
Lovisa och Carl Michael
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Release Date: 2005-12-24
Duration: 120min
Country: SE
Plot: Bellman is a sensitive artist amid a disintegrating society. He is regarded as an entertainer who performs as a "stand-up" artist, usually without payment. Wine and spirits are always free, which makes him addicted to alcohol and exhausted. Although happily married, he and his wife, Lovisa, live in extreme poverty. They struggle to support their family, and Lovisa tries to convince Bellman to perform to earn a living. Meanwhile, Bellman is trying to publish the "Collection of the Friedman Letters," but in vain.
Director: Leif Magnusson
Cast: Tomas von Brömssen, Tanja Lorentzon, Gunilla Abrahamsson, Morgan Alling, Anna Björk
Imagine That
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Release Date: 2009-06-19
Duration: 107min
Country: US
Plot: Due to years of neglect of the family, his wife, Lori, who could no longer bear it, chose to leave. Evan repeatedly promised to take time out daily to care for the family, saving the custody of his daughter, Oliva. However, Evan's recent unstable work and the reduction of the company's income have doubled Evan's pressure. By chance, Oliva opened a magical door to a quiet and mysterious realm, where Evan found the meaning of life and was freed from the pressure of work and life.
Director: Karey Kirkpatrick
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Thomas Haden Church, Yara Shahidi, Ronny Cox, Stephen Rannazzisi
American Dreamz
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Genre: Drama, Comedy
Release Date: 2006-03-04
Duration: 107min
Country: US
Plot: The negative news depressed President Staton and his behavior became increasingly strange. As Staton's right-hand man, Sutter was very anxious. With the election coming up, Sutter had no choice but to get Staton to be a special judge on the most popular reality show, "American Dreamz," to save his support rate. After layers of selection, two contestants, Omer and Sally, stood in front of Staton, and one of them turned out to be a dangerous terrorist. Who will win? The decision is in Staton's hands and will directly affect the country's safety.
Director: Paul Weitz
Cast: Hugh Grant, Dennis Quaid, Mandy Moore, Willem Dafoe, Chris Klein
My Sister's Keeper
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Genre: Drama
Release Date: 2009-06-26
Duration: 109min
Country: US
Plot: To keep Kate, who was suffering from blood cancer, alive, her parents used genetic technology to have a little daughter, Anna, who was a perfect match with Kate's genes. For 11 years, whenever Kate needed it, she had to provide Kate with umbilical cord blood, white blood cells, and bone marrow. However, Kate's condition was getting worse and worse, and her kidney failure required Anna, who was only 11 years old, to donate one of her kidneys. This time, Anna refuses and finds lawyer Campbell to sue her mother in court. She wanted to defend her body. In court, her brother Jesse revealed another truth.
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Cast: Cameron Diaz, Abigail Breslin, Sofia Vassilieva, Alec Baldwin, Jason Patric
Skydog
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Release Date: 2020-10-20
Duration: 109min
Country: US
Plot: When Colt Lifestone, a high school student studying for his pilot's license, saves a stray dog named Oreo, the two immediately become closest friends. However, his calm life is upended when he realizes his mother is an undercover CIA agent working for Director Neil Glasswell. When she is kidnapped and held captive, it is up to him to work with Oreo and his new friend Alice to locate his mother, expose the CIA's double agent, and rescue the day.
Director: Daniel Knudsen
Cast: Dean Cain, Mimi Sagadin, Tim Kaiser, Jeannine Thompson, Tiffany Burns
Creed
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Creed (2015)

7.6 PG-13
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Genre: Drama, Action
Release Date: 2015-11-25
Duration: 133min
Country: US
Plot: The father of Adonis Johnson, the boxing champion Apollo Creed, lost his life in a fight. Adonis wanted to box like his father, even though he was born after his father passed away. Retired heavyweight boxing champion and friend of Apollo Creed, Rocky Balboa, was the guru he was looking for. Finally, Loki consented to coach Adonis. He goes up against a rival more lethal than his father for the crown with Rocky's assistance. However, nobody knows if he is a real fighter.
Director: Ryan Coogler
Cast: Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashād, Andre Ward
Little Wing
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Genre: Drama
Release Date: 2024-03-13
Duration: 100min
Country: US
Plot: Kaitlyn wants to help her mother financially. When she and her friend discovered a local pigeon breeder had a valuable racing pigeon, they began studying pigeon racing. Finally, they stole the pigeon and sold it to the Russian Pigeon Mafia. However, the pigeon's owner found her bag on his roof and used it to locate her. Surprisingly, the owner decided to assist Kaitlyn in retrieving the pigeon instead of giving her over to the authorities. The three people start to establish a special bond.
Director: Dean Israelite
Cast: Brooklynn Prince, Che Tafari, Brian Cox, Kelly Reilly, Trinity Bliss
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
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Genre: Drama, Western
Release Date: 2024-06-28
Duration: 181min
Country: US
Plot: The film Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 recounts the complex story of the American West's colonization and growth in the fifteen years preceding and following the Civil War. Many people view this history as dangerous and mysterious because of the relentless weather, contacts with the local indigenous population, and the tenacity and brutality of those attempting to find a solution.
Director: Kevin Costner
Cast: Kevin Costner, Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Giovanni Ribisi, Jena Malone
I Saw the TV Glow
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Release Date: 2024-05-03
Duration: 100min
Country: US
Plot: I Saw the TV Glow focuses on two teenagers, Owen and Maddy. When Maddy exposes Owen to a mystery late-night television program—a glimpse of a supernatural world—he attempts to make sense of his life in the suburbs. Owen feels his sense of reality disintegrating in the twilight of the television. The two youngsters who like TV shows get together and start comprehending their hazy world.
Director: Jane Schoenbrun
Cast: Justice Smith, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Ian Foreman, Helena Howard, Lindsey Jordan
Transcendence
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Release Date: 2014-04-17
Duration: 119min
Country: US
Plot: As a leading expert in artificial intelligence research, Dr. Will Custer is attempting to build the most compassionate, sentient robot ever made. However, he became a source of irritation for anti-tech activists, who started trying to stop him. They didn't anticipate that by unintentionally ruining Will, they contributed to his "transcendence" and helped his artificial intelligence experiment succeed.
Director: Wally Pfister
Cast: Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany, Cillian Murphy, Kate Mara
The Revenant
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Release Date: 2015-12-25
Duration: 157min
Country: US
Plot: The narrative describes a 19th-century fur hunter who suffered injuries at the hands of a bear. His ship's captain attempted to return him to civilization, but the circumstances made it impossible. As a result, he was compelled to pay two men to stay to allow them to send the hunter on his final voyage. These two men, though, were greedy with money. After robbing the poor injured man, they left him to perish by himself in the icy woods. But by some miracle, the hunter lived and started looking for the two guys to get revenge.
Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter, Forrest Goodluck
American Star
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Release Date: 2024-01-26
Duration: 107min
Country: US
Plot: Wilson is a veteran assassin who just got to Fuerteventura. Going on a final assignment, he kills a man he has never met by traveling to the island. He presumably chooses to stay and unwind until his target returns after learning that the target has left the island. Wilson makes friends with Gloria, the bartender, while he is waiting and aimlessly strolling around. He also has bonded with Max, a small child who stays at his resort. He is pulled to the island, its residents, and an eerie shipwreck.
Director: Gonzalo López-Gallego
Cast: Ian McShane, Nora Arnezeder, Adam Nagaitis, Thomas Kretschmann, Fanny Ardant
Before Night Falls
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Release Date: 2022-03-31
Duration: 102min
Country: ID
Plot: Talia, Erlan, and Ahmad, psychology students, encountered Nina, a patient with mental illness when they were doing research for their thesis. The students produced a documentary about her. Three phases of psychological development occur in Nina. In the morning and afternoon, she continued to seem chilly and unsettling. Nina started experiencing emotional outbursts throughout the second part of the night. It is the third stage when Nina no longer recognizes her own body. Nina's ancient ghost from hundreds of years ago has taken possession of her. Thalia's investigation team has to cope with mysteries that defy common sense.
Director: Helfi C.H. Kardit
Cast: Annette Edoarda