Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

7.3

Drama
1962
Movie

Lolita

7.3
1962

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.

7.5

Drama
1999
Movie

Eyes Wide Shut

7.5
1999

After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.

Science Fiction
1968
Movie

2001: A Space Odyssey

8.1
1968

Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.

Genre : Science Fiction

Drama
1975
Movie

Barry Lyndon

8
1975

An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century England, transforming himself from the humble Redmond Barry into the noble Barry Lyndon.

7.5

History
1960
Movie

Spartacus

7.5
1960

The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.

Genre : History

7.9

Thriller
1949
Movie

The Third Man

7.9
1949

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.

Genre : Thriller

Drama
1987
Movie

Full Metal Jacket

8.1
1987

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

8.2

Drama
1943
Movie

Casablanca

8.2
1943

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Mystery
1941
Movie

Citizen Kane

8
1941

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

Genre : Mystery

Thriller
1959
Movie

North by Northwest

8
1959

Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.

Genre : Thriller

8.2

Comedy
1960
Movie

The Apartment

8.2
1960

Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.

Genre : Comedy

8.4

Horror
1960
Movie

Psycho

8.4
1960

When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.

Genre : Horror

7.6

Drama
1967
Movie

The Graduate

7.6
1967

Benjamin, a recent college graduate very worried about his future, finds himself in a love triangle with an older woman and her daughter.

8.2

Science Fiction
1971
Movie

A Clockwork Orange

8.2
1971

In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?

Genre : Science Fiction

Crime
1944
Movie

Double Indemnity

8.1
1944

A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy.

Genre : Crime

7.6

Comedy
1953
Movie

I Vitelloni

7.6
1953

Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.

Genre : Comedy

Drama
1981
Movie

Das Boot

8.1
1981

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. The crew tries to survive below the surface, while stretching both the boat and themselves to their limits.