| 1. |  | The Shawshank Redemption (1994) | 215.2 |
| Genre: Crime, Drama. Director: Frank Darabont. |
| Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency. |
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| 2. |  | The Dark Knight (2008) | 198.9 |
| Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller. Director: Christopher Nolan. |
| Batman, Gordon and Harvey Dent are forced to deal with the chaos unleashed by an anarchist mastermind known only as the Joker, as it drives each of them to their limits. |
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| 3. |  | The Godfather (1972) | 190.6 |
| Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller. Director: Francis Ford Coppola. |
| The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son. |
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| 4. |  | Pulp Fiction (1994) | 188.9 |
| Genre: Crime, Drama. Director: Quentin Tarantino. |
| 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. |
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| 5. |  | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) | 181.4 |
| Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy. Director: Peter Jackson. |
| In a small village in the Shire a young Hobbit named Frodo has been entrusted with an ancient Ring. Now he must embark on an Epic quest to the Cracks of Doom in order to destroy it. |
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| 6. |  | Fight Club (1999) | 179.1 |
| Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller. Director: David Fincher. |
| An office employee and a soap salesman build a global organization to help vent male aggression. |
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| 7. |  | The Matrix (1999) | 178.3 |
| Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi. Director: Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski. |
| A computer hacker learns from mysterious rebels about the true nature of his reality and his role in the war against the controllers of it. |
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| 8. |  | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) | 175.3 |
| Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy. Director: Peter Jackson. |
| The former Fellowship of the Ring prepare for the final battle for Middle Earth, while Frodo & Sam approach Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring. |
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| 9. |  | Star Wars (1977) | 165.8 |
| Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi. Director: George Lucas. |
| Luke Skywalker leaves his home planet, teams up with other rebels, and tries to save Princess Leia from the evil clutches of Darth Vader. |
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| 10. |  | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) | 165.6 |
| Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy. Director: Peter Jackson. |
| Frodo and Sam continue on to Mordor in their mission to destroy the One Ring. Whilst their former companions make new allies and launch an assault on Isengard. |
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| 11. |  | Forrest Gump (1994) | 157.5 |
| Genre: Drama, Romance. Director: Robert Zemeckis. |
| Forrest Gump, while not intelligent, has accidentally been present at many historic moments, but his true love, Jenny, eludes him. |
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| 12. |  | American Beauty (1999) | 156.5 |
| Genre: Drama. Director: Sam Mendes. |
| 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. |
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| 13. |  | Schindler's List (1993) | 155 |
| Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War. Director: Steven Spielberg. |
| Oskar Schindler uses Jews to start a factory in Poland during the war. He witnesses the horrors endured by the Jews, and starts to save them. |
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| 14. |  | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) | 154.8 |
| Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi. Director: Irvin Kershner. |
| While Luke takes advanced Jedi training from Yoda, his friends are relentlessly pursued by Darth Vader as part of his plan to capture Luke. |
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| 15. |  | Se7en (1995) | 152.4 |
| Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller. Director: David Fincher. |
| Police drama about two cops, one new and one about to retire, after a serial killer using the seven deadly sins as his MO. |
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| 16. |  | The Usual Suspects (1995) | 151.3 |
| Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller. Director: Bryan Singer. |
| A boat has been destroyed, criminals are dead, and the key to this mystery lies with the only survivor and his twisted, convoluted story beginning with five career crooks in a seemingly random police lineup. |
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| 17. |  | Memento (2000) | 150.7 |
| Genre: Mystery, Thriller. Director: Christopher Nolan. |
| A man, suffering from short-term memory loss, uses notes and tattoos to hunt for the man he thinks killed his wife. |
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| 18. |  | Saving Private Ryan (1998) | 150.2 |
| Genre: Action, Drama, War. Director: Steven Spielberg. |
| Following the Normandy Landings, a group of US soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action. |
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| 19. |  | Gladiator (2000) | 150 |
| Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama. Director: Ridley Scott. |
| When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by a corrupt prince, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge. |
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| 20. |  | The Godfather: Part II (1974) | 148.4 |
| Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller. Director: Francis Ford Coppola. |
| The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York is portrayed while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on his crime syndicate stretching from Lake Tahoe, Nevada to pre-revolution 1958 Cuba. |
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| 21. |  | The Departed (2006) | 147.7 |
| Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller. Director: Martin Scorsese. |
| Two men from opposite sides of the law are undercover within the Massachusetts State Police and the Irish mafia, but violence and bloodshed boil when discoveries are made, and the moles are dispatched to find out their enemy's identities. |
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| 22. |  | Batman Begins (2005) | 147.6 |
| Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller. Director: Christopher Nolan. |
| The story of how Bruce Wayne became what he was destined to be: Batman. |
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| 23. |  | Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) | 145.7 |
| Genre: Action, Adventure. Director: Steven Spielberg. |
| Archeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the US government to find the Ark of the Covenant before the Nazis. |
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| 24. |  | The Silence of the Lambs (1991) | 145.6 |
| Genre: Crime, Thriller. Director: Jonathan Demme. |
| 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. |
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| 25. |  | Sin City (2005) | 144.5 |
| Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller. Director: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez. |
| A film that explores the dark and miserable town Basin City and tells the story of three different people, all caught up in the violent corruption of the city. |
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| 26. |  | Avatar (2009) | 142.9 |
| Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi. Director: James Cameron. |
| A paraplegic marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home. |
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| 27. |  | Goodfellas (1990) | 142.8 |
| Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama. Director: Martin Scorsese. |
| Henry Hill and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy. |
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| 28. |  | Braveheart (1995) | 141.9 |
| Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War. Director: Mel Gibson. |
| William Wallace, a commoner, unites the 13th Century Scots in their battle to overthrow English rule. |
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| 29. |  | Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) | 141.8 |
| Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller. Director: James Cameron. |
| The cyborg who once tried to kill Sarah Connor must now protect her teenager son, John Connor, from an even more powerful and advanced cyborg. |
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| 30. |  | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) | 140.1 |
| Genre: Drama. Director: Milos Forman. |
| Upon arrival at a mental institution, a brash rebel rallies the patients together to take on the oppressive Nurse Ratched, a woman more a dictator than a nurse. |
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| 31. |  | American History X (1998) | 139.6 |
| Genre: Crime, Drama. Director: Tony Kaye. |
| A former neo-nazi skinhead tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the same wrong path that he did. |
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| 32. |  | The Sixth Sense (1999) | 139.4 |
| Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Director: M. Night Shyamalan. |
| A boy who communicates with spirits that don't know they're dead seeks the help of a disheartened child psychologist. |
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| 33. |  | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) | 137.6 |
| Genre: Drama, Romance. Director: Michel Gondry. |
| 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. |
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| 34. |  | Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) | 137.5 |
| Genre: Action, Crime. Director: Quentin Tarantino. |
| The Bride wakes up after a long coma. The baby that she carried before entering the coma is gone. The only thing on her mind is to have revenge on the assassination team that betrayed her - a team she was once part of. |
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| 35. |  | Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) | 135.9 |
| Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance. Director: Gore Verbinski. |
| Blacksmith Will Turner teams up with eccentric pirate "Captain" Jack Sparrow to save his love, the governor's daughter, from Jack's former pirate allies, who are now undead. |
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| 36. |  | V for Vendetta (2005) | 135.5 |
| Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller. Director: James McTeigue. |
| A shadowy freedom fighter known only as "V" uses terrorist tactics to fight against his totalitarian society. Upon rescuing a girl from the secret police, he also finds his best chance at having an ally. |
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| 37. |  | 300 (2006) | 135.4 |
| Genre: Action, Fantasy, War. Director: Zack Snyder. |
| King Leonidas and a force of 300 men fight the Persians at Thermopylae in 480 B.C. |
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| 38. |  | Reservoir Dogs (1992) | 135.1 |
| Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller. Director: Quentin Tarantino. |
| After a simple jewelery heist goes terribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant. |
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| 39. |  | Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) | 133.9 |
| Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller. Director: Richard Marquand. |
| After rescuing Han Solo from the palace of Jabba the Hutt, the Rebels attempt to destroy the Second Death Star, while Luke Skywalker tries to bring his father back to the Light Side of the Force. |
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| 40. |  | Léon (1994) | 133.6 |
| Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller. Director: Luc Besson. |
| Professional assassin Leon reluctantly takes care of 12-year-old Mathilda, a neighbor whose parents are killed, and teaches her his trade. |
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