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The Academy and the numbers agree.
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Dir. Steven Spielberg · Liam Neeson · Ben Kingsley · Ralph Fiennes · Caroline Goodall
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
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Dir. Steven Spielberg · Sam Neill · Laura Dern · Jeff Goldblum · Richard Attenborough
A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening day, he invites a team of experts and his two eager grandchildren to experience the park and help calm anxious investors. However, the park is anything but amusing as the security systems go off-line and the dinosaurs escape.
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Dir. Jim Sheridan · Daniel Day-Lewis · Pete Postlethwaite · Emma Thompson · John Lynch
A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along with his father and friends, and spends 15 years in prison fighting to prove his innocence.
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Dir. Harold Ramis · Bill Murray · Andie MacDowell · Chris Elliott · Stephen Tobolowsky
A cynical TV weatherman, along with his idealistic producer and his sardonic cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.
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Dir. Henry Selick · Danny Elfman · Chris Sarandon · Catherine O'Hara · William Hickey
Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to children on Christmas morning. But as Christmas approaches, Jack's rag-doll girlfriend, Sally, tries to foil his misguided plans.
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Dir. Brian De Palma · Al Pacino · Sean Penn · Penelope Ann Miller · John Leguizamo
Free after years in prison, Carlito Brigante intends to give up his criminal ways, but it's not long before the ex-con is sucked back into the New York City underworld.
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Dir. Robert De Niro · Robert De Niro · Chazz Palminteri · Lillo Brancato · Francis Capra
Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his neighborhood - for a beautiful black girl.
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Dir. Tony Scott · Christian Slater · Patricia Arquette · Dennis Hopper · Val Kilmer
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
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Dir. Andrew Davis · Harrison Ford · Tommy Lee Jones · Joe Pantoliano · Jeroen Krabbé
Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes from the law in an attempt to find the real killer and clear his name.
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Dir. Jonathan Demme · Tom Hanks · Denzel Washington · Jason Robards · Mary Steenburgen
Two competing lawyers join forces to sue a prestigious law firm for AIDS discrimination. As their unlikely friendship develops, their courage overcomes the prejudice and corruption of their powerful adversaries.
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Dir. George P. Cosmatos · Kurt Russell · Val Kilmer · Michael Biehn · Powers Boothe
Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help from his notorious pal Doc Holliday when a gang of renegade brigands and rustlers begins terrorizing the town.
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Dir. Lasse Hallström · Johnny Depp · Leonardo DiCaprio · Juliette Lewis · Mary Steenburgen
Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother, who is so overweight that she can't leave the house, and his mentally impaired younger brother, Arnie, who has a knack for finding trouble. Settled into a job at a grocery store and an ongoing affair with local woman Betty Carver, Gilbert finally has his life shaken up by the free-spirited Becky.
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Dir. Krzysztof Kieślowski · Juliette Binoche · Benoît Régent · Florence Pernel · Charlotte Véry
The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone, she shakes off her old identity and explores her newfound freedom but finds that she is unbreakably bound to other humans, including her husband’s mistress, whose existence she never suspected.
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Dir. David Mickey Evans · Tom Guiry · Mike Vitar · Patrick Renna · Chauncey Leopardi
During a summer of friendship and adventure, one boy becomes a part of the gang, nine boys become a team and their leader becomes a legend by confronting the terrifying mystery beyond the right field wall.
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Dir. James Ivory · Anthony Hopkins · Emma Thompson · James Fox · Christopher Reeve
A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.
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Dir. Jane Campion · Holly Hunter · Harvey Keitel · Sam Neill · Anna Paquin
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-century New Zealand, she finds herself locked in a battle of wills with both her controlling husband and a rugged frontiersman to whom she develops a forbidden attraction.
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Dir. Chris Columbus · Robin Williams · Sally Field · Lisa Jakub · Matthew Lawrence
Loving but irresponsible dad Daniel Hillard, estranged from his exasperated spouse, is crushed by a court order allowing only weekly visits with his kids. When Daniel learns his ex needs a housekeeper, he gets the job -- disguised as a British nanny. Soon he becomes not only his children's best pal but the kind of parent he should have been from the start.
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Dir. Sydney Pollack · Tom Cruise · Jeanne Tripplehorn · Gene Hackman · Hal Holbrook
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the more sinister side of his company. Then, two Associates are murdered. The FBI contact him, asking him for information and suddenly his life is ruined. He has a choice - work with the FBI, or stay with the Firm. Either way he will lose his life as he knows it. Mitch figures the only way out is to follow his own plan...
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Dir. Nora Ephron · Meg Ryan · Tom Hanks · Ross Malinger · Bill Pullman
After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up on a date. Across the country, an engaged woman becomes convinced that they belong together, despite their never having met. Will their paths collide despite the odds?
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Dir. Alan J. Pakula · Julia Roberts · Denzel Washington · Sam Shepard · John Heard
A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.
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Dir. Renny Harlin · Sylvester Stallone · John Lithgow · Michael Rooker · Janine Turner
A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partner, Hal, are called to return to the same peak to rescue a group of stranded climbers, only to learn the climbers are actually thieving hijackers who are looking for boxes full of money.
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Dir. Adrian Lyne · Robert Redford · Demi Moore · Woody Harrelson · Seymour Cassel
John Gage offers a down-on-his-luck yuppie husband $1 million for the opportunity to spend the night with the man's wife.
How scoring works: films are ranked by a composite of a weighted (Bayesian) IMDb rating — the same method as the IMDb Top 250, so a high score from few voters can't outrank a strong score from many — blended with TMDB. Box office is a tiebreaker and a badge, never part of the score. Raw IMDb ratings and vote counts are shown on each card.