Must watch movies before you die list contains following top 25 all-time best movies,
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| Top 25 All-time Favorite Movies You Must Watch Before You Die (2019) |
1. Interstellar (2014)
12A | 169 min | Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
8.6 Rated in IMDB
A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in
space in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Matthew
McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Mackenzie Foy
2. Gran Torino (2008)
15 | 116 min | Drama
8.1 Rated in IMDB
Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski
sets out to reform his neighbor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's
prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint
Eastwood, Bee Vang, Christopher Carley, Ahney Her
3. The Green Mile (1999)
18 | 189 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
8.6 Rated in IMDB
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.
Director: Frank Darabont | Stars: Tom Hanks,
Michael Clarke Duncan, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt
4. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
15 | 142 min | Drama
9.3 Rated in IMDB 80
Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years,
finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.
Director: Frank Darabont | Stars: Tim Robbins,
Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler
5. Braveheart (1995)
15 | 178 min | Biography, Drama, History
8.4 Rated in IMDB 68
When his secret bride is executed for assaulting
an English soldier who tried to rape her, William Wallace begins a revolt
against King Edward I of England.
Director: Mel Gibson | Stars: Mel Gibson, Sophie
Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Angus Macfadyen
6. Titanic (1997)
12 | 194 min | Drama, Romance
7.8 Rated in IMDB 75
A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love
with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio,
Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates
7. 12 Angry Men (1957)
U | 96 min | Drama
8.9 Rated in IMDB 96
A jury holdout attempts to prevent a miscarriage
of justice by forcing his colleagues to reconsider the evidence.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Henry Fonda, Lee
J. Cobb, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler
8. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
15 | 120 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
8.1 Rated in IMDB 90
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a woman rebels
against a tyrannical ruler in search for her homeland with the aid of a group
of female prisoners, a psychotic worshiper, and a drifter named Max.
Director: George Miller | Stars: Tom Hardy,
Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Zoë Kravitz
9. The Dark Knight (2008)
12A | 152 min | Action, Crime, Drama
9 Rated in IMDB
When the menace known as The Joker emerges from
his mysterious past, he wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham. The
Dark Knight must accept one of the greatest psychological and physical tests of
his ability to fight injustice.
Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Christian
Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine
10. Rear Window (1954)
A | 112 min | Mystery, Thriller
8.5 Rated in IMDB 100
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his
neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has
committed murder.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James
Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter
11. The Godfather (1972)
X | 175 min | Crime, Drama
9.2 Rated in IMDB 100
The aging patriarch of an organized crime
dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Marlon Brando,
Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton
12. The Godfather: Part II (1974)
X | 202 min | Crime, Drama
9 Rated in IMDB 90
The early life and career of Vito Corleone in
1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens
his grip on the family crime syndicate.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Al
Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton
13. Scarface (1983)
18 | 170 min | Crime, Drama
8.3 Rated in IMDB
In Miami in 1980, a determined Cuban immigrant
takes over a drug cartel and succumbs to greed.
Director: Brian De Palma | Stars: Al Pacino,
Michelle Pfeiffer, Steven Bauer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
14. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
X | 148 min | Western
8.8 Rated in IMDB 90
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.
Director: Sergio Leone | Stars: Clint Eastwood,
Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Aldo Giuffrè
15. Apocalypse Now (1979)
X | 147 min | Drama, War
8.5 Rated in IMDB
A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked
with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Martin
Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest
16. The Missouri Breaks (1976)
AA | 126 min | Drama, Western
6.6 Rated in IMDB
Tom Logan is a horse thief. Rancher David
Braxton has horses, and a daughter, worth stealing. But Braxton has just hired
Lee Clayton, an infamous "regulator", to hunt down the horse thieves;
one at a time.
Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Marlon Brando,
Jack Nicholson, Randy Quaid, Kathleen Lloyd
17. Gladiator (2000)
15 | 155 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
8.5 Rated in IMDB
A former Roman General sets out to exact
vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into
slavery.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Russell Crowe,
Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed
18. Face/Off (1997)
R | 138 min | Action,
Crime, Sci-Fi
7.3 Rated
in IMDB 82
In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent
undergoes a facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity and physical
appearance of a terrorist, but the plan turns from bad to worse when the same
terrorist impersonates the FBI agent.
Director: John Woo | Stars: John Travolta, Nicolas
Cage, Joan Allen, Alessandro Nivola
19. There Will Be Blood (2007)
12A | 158 min | Drama
8.2 Rated in IMDB 93
A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and
madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the
business.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Daniel
Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Ciarán Hinds, Martin Stringer
20. No Country for Old Men (2007)
15 | 122 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
8.1 Rated in IMDB 91
Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter
stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash
near the Rio Grande.
Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Stars: Tommy
Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson
21. Gangs of New York (2002)
18 | 167 min | Crime, Drama
7.6 Rated in IMDB 72
In 1862, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five
Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher, his
father's killer.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo
DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jim Broadbent
22. Serpico (1973)
X | 130 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
7.8 Rated in IMDB 87
An honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows
the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn
against him.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Al Pacino, John
Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire
23. The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
15 | 126 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
7.8 Rated in IMDB 75
The dramatization of a motorcycle road trip Che
Guevara went on in his youth that showed him his life's calling.
Director: Walter Salles | Stars: Gael García
Bernal, Rodrigo De la Serna, Mía Maestro, Mercedes Morán
24. Forrest Gump (1994)
12 | 142 min | Drama, Romance
8.8 Rated in IMDB
The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, the
events of Vietnam, Watergate, and other history unfold through the perspective
of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Tom Hanks,
Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field
25. The Notebook (2004)
12A | 123 min | Drama, Romance
7.9 Rated in IMDB 53
A poor yet passionate young man falls in love
with a rich young woman, giving her a sense of freedom, but they are soon sepaRated
in IMDBd because of their social differences.
Director: Nick Cassavetes | Stars: Gena
Rowlands, James Garner, Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling