Critically Acclaimed Masterpieces

All-time highest rated cinema and timeless masterpieces

Page 147 of Active Index
7.2

Village of the Damned

1960 Movie

In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child bearing age is pregnant. The resulting children have the same strange blond hair, eyes and a strong connection to each other.

Watch Now
7.2

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

1927 Movie

London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.

Watch Now
7.2

The Last Castle

2001 Movie

A court-martialed general rallies together 1200 inmates to rise against the system that put him away.

Watch Now
7.2

Seven Years in Tibet

1997 Movie

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war. He escapes with a fellow detainee and makes his way to Lhasa, Tibet, where he meets the 14-year-old Dalai Lama, whose friendship ultimately transforms his outlook on life.

Watch Now
7.2

A History of Violence

2005 Movie

An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.

Watch Now
7.2

Nomadland

2021 Movie

A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

Watch Now
7.2

The King

2019 Movie

England, 15th century. Hal, a capricious prince who lives among the populace far from court, is forced by circumstances to reluctantly accept the throne and become Henry V.

Watch Now
7.2

Carnage

2011 Movie

Two pairs of parents hold a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a fight, though as their time together progresses, increasingly childish behavior throws the discussion into chaos.

Watch Now
7.2

Wall Street

1987 Movie

A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider, who takes the youth under his wing.

Watch Now
7.2

Living in Oblivion

1995 Movie

Low-budget independent filmmaker Nick Reve tries to keep everything together as his production is plagued with an insecure actress, a megalomaniac star, a pretentious beret-wearing director of photography, and lousy catering.

Watch Now
7.2

Irreversible

2002 Movie

A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Because man is an animal. Because the desire for vengeance is a natural impulse. Because most crimes remain unpunished.

Watch Now
7.2

Superman/Batman: Apocalypse

2010 Movie

Batman discovers a mysterious teen-aged girl with superhuman powers and a connection to Superman. When the girl comes to the attention of Darkseid, the evil overlord of Apokolips, events take a decidedly dangerous turn.

Watch Now
7.2

Destino

2003 Movie

Short film to a song of love lost and rediscovered, a woman sees and undergoes surreal transformations. Her lover's face melts off, she dons a dress from the shadow of a bell and becomes a dandelion, ants crawl out of a hand and become Frenchmen riding bicycles. Not to mention the turtles with faces on their backs that collide to form a ballerina, or the bizarre baseball game.

Watch Now
7.2

The Dark Crystal

1982 Movie

On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal and restore order to his world, before the grotesque race of Skeksis find and use the crystal for evil.

Watch Now
7.2

Quills

2000 Movie

In early 19th-century France, the Marquis de Sade is confined to an asylum where his forbidden writings continue to circulate beyond its walls. As the authorities tighten control, a clash unfolds between the Marquis’ unyielding imagination, the reformist ideals of the Abbé in charge, and the repressive measures of a doctor sent to silence him. Desire, power, and censorship collide in a battle over freedom of expression.

Watch Now
7.2

Speed

1994 Movie

Tensions run high when a crazed bomber rigs a Los Angeles bus with a device that will kill everyone on board if the vehicle's speed dips below fifty miles per hour.

Watch Now
7.2

The Edukators

2004 Movie

Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.

Watch Now
7.2

Ciao, Professore!

1992 Movie

A bureaucratic snafu sends Marco Tullio Sperelli, a portly, middle-aged northern Italian, to teach third grade in a poor town outside Naples

Watch Now
7.2

The Defiant Ones

1958 Movie

Two convicts—one white, one black—escape while chained to each other.

Watch Now
7.2

The Man Who Knew Infinity

2016 Movie

Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.

Watch Now