2020

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#1
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The Father (2020)

🎬 Nominee⭐ Top-rated🏛️ All-time great

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Dir. Florian Zeller · Anthony Hopkins · Olivia Colman · Mark Gatiss · Olivia Williams

IMDb 8.2 (246,240 votes) · TMDB 8.1

A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.

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Soul (2020)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Pete Docter · Jamie Foxx · Tina Fey · Graham Norton · Rachel House

IMDb 8.0 (450,993 votes) · TMDB 8.1

Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.

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Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train (2020)

⭐ Top-rated💰 Box office #1

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Dir. Haruo Sotozaki · Natsuki Hanae · Akari Kito · Hiro Shimono · Yoshitsugu Matsuoka

IMDb 8.2 (101,398 votes) · TMDB 8.214

Tanjiro Kamado, joined with Inosuke Hashibira, a boy raised by boars who wears a boar's head, and Zenitsu Agatsuma, a scared boy who reveals his true power when he sleeps, boards the Infinity Train on a new mission with the Fire Hashira, Kyojuro Rengoku, to defeat a demon who has been tormenting the people and killing the demon slayers who oppose it!

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Hamilton (2020)

⭐ Top-rated🏛️ All-time great

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Dir. Thomas Kail · Lin-Manuel Miranda · Leslie Odom Jr. · Renée Elise Goldsberry · Phillipa Soo

IMDb 8.3 (140,089 votes) · TMDB 7.7

Presenting the tale of American founding father Alexander Hamilton, this filmed version of the original Broadway smash hit is the story of America then, told by America now.

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Wolfwalkers (2020)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Tomm Moore · Honor Kneafsey · Eva Whittaker · Sean Bean · Simon McBurney

IMDb 8.0 (45,362 votes) · TMDB 8.185

In a time of superstition and magic, when wolves are seen as demonic and nature an evil to be tamed, a young apprentice hunter comes to Ireland with her father to wipe out the last pack. But when she saves a wild native girl, their friendship leads her to discover the world of the Wolfwalkers and transform her into the very thing her father is tasked to destroy.

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Sound of Metal (2020)

🎬 Nominee

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Dir. Darius Marder · Riz Ahmed · Olivia Cooke · Paul Raci · Lauren Ridloff

IMDb 7.7 (186,777 votes) · TMDB 7.701

Metal drummer Ruben begins to lose his hearing. When a doctor tells him his condition will worsen, he thinks his career and life is over. His girlfriend Lou checks the former addict into a rehab for the deaf hoping it will prevent a relapse and help him adapt to his new life. After being welcomed and accepted just as he is, Ruben must choose between his new normal and the life he once knew.

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Another Round (2020)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Thomas Vinterberg · Mads Mikkelsen · Thomas Bo Larsen · Magnus Millang · Lars Ranthe

IMDb 7.7 (227,594 votes) · TMDB 7.627

Four stagnant high school teachers decide to test out a theory that maintaining a constant level of intoxication will improve their overall lives.

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The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)

🎬 Nominee⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Aaron Sorkin · Eddie Redmayne · Sacha Baron Cohen · Mark Rylance · Joseph Gordon-Levitt

IMDb 7.7 (205,782 votes) · TMDB 7.657

What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.

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Dara of Jasenovac (2020)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Predrag Antonijević · Biljana Čekić · Marko Janketić · Vuk Kostić · Igor Đorđević

IMDb 8.0 (82,401 votes) · TMDB 7.527

During the Nazi-occupied Ustasha regime "NDH" in former Yugoslavia during WWII, little girl Dara is sent to the concentration camp complex Jasenovac in Croatia also known as "Balkan's Auschwitz".

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Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Jasmila Žbanić · Jasna Đuričić · Izudin Bajrović · Boris Ler · Dino Bajrović

IMDb 8.0 (41,973 votes) · TMDB 7.648

Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. As an insider to the negotiations Aida has access to crucial information that she needs to interpret. What is at the horizon for her family and people – rescue or death? Which move should she take?

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Promising Young Woman (2020)

🎬 Nominee⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Emerald Fennell · Carey Mulligan · Bo Burnham · Alison Brie · Clancy Brown

IMDb 7.5 (256,623 votes) · TMDB 7.385

A young woman, traumatized by a tragic event in her past, seeks out vengeance against those who crossed her path.

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Onward (2020)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Dan Scanlon · Tom Holland · Chris Pratt · Julia Louis-Dreyfus · Octavia Spencer

IMDb 7.4 (186,836 votes) · TMDB 7.639

In a suburban fantasy world, two teenage elf brothers embark on an extraordinary quest to discover if there is still a little magic left out there.

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Palm Springs (2020)

⭐ Top-rated

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Dir. Max Barbakow · Andy Samberg · Cristin Milioti · J.K. Simmons · Peter Gallagher

IMDb 7.4 (215,444 votes) · TMDB 7.339

When carefree Nyles and reluctant maid of honor Sarah have a chance encounter at a Palm Springs wedding, things get complicated when they find themselves unable to escape the venue, themselves, or each other.

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Tenet (2020)

⭐ Top-rated💰 Box office #4

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Dir. Christopher Nolan · John David Washington · Robert Pattinson · Elizabeth Debicki · Kenneth Branagh

IMDb 7.3 (688,608 votes) · TMDB 7.175

Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.

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Minari (2020)

🎬 Nominee

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Dir. Lee Isaac Chung · Steven Yeun · Han Ye-ri · Youn Yuh-jung · Will Patton

IMDb 7.4 (126,397 votes) · TMDB 7.329

A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.

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Judas and the Black Messiah (2020)

🎬 Nominee

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Dir. Shaka King · Daniel Kaluuya · LaKeith Stanfield · Jesse Plemons · Dominique Fishback

IMDb 7.4 (115,465 votes) · TMDB 7.294

Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionary en route—a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.

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Nomadland (2020)

🏆 Winner

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Dir. Chloé Zhao · Frances McDormand · David Strathairn · Linda May · Swankie

IMDb 7.3 (219,800 votes) · TMDB 7.17

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.

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The Croods: A New Age (2020)

💰 Box office #9

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Dir. Joel Crawford · Nicolas Cage · Emma Stone · Ryan Reynolds · Catherine Keener

IMDb 6.9 (61,760 votes) · TMDB 7.4

Searching for a safer habitat, the prehistoric Crood family discovers an idyllic, walled-in paradise that meets all of its needs. Unfortunately, they must also learn to live with the Bettermans -- a family that's a couple of steps above the Croods on the evolutionary ladder. As tensions between the new neighbors start to rise, a new threat soon propels both clans on an epic adventure that forces them to embrace their differences, draw strength from one another, and survive together.

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Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)

💰 Box office #5

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Dir. Jeff Fowler · Ben Schwartz · James Marsden · Tika Sumpter · Jim Carrey

IMDb 6.5 (193,753 votes) · TMDB 7.282

Powered with incredible speed, Sonic The Hedgehog embraces his new home on Earth. That is, until Sonic sparks the attention of super-uncool evil genius Dr. Robotnik. Now it’s super-villain vs. super-sonic in an all-out race across the globe to stop Robotnik from using Sonic’s unique power for world domination.

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Mank (2020)

🎬 Nominee

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Dir. David Fincher · Gary Oldman · Amanda Seyfried · Lily Collins · Arliss Howard

IMDb 6.8 (105,171 votes) · TMDB 6.669

1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.

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Bad Boys for Life (2020)

💰 Box office #3

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Dir. Bilall Fallah · Will Smith · Martin Lawrence · Vanessa Hudgens · Alexander Ludwig

IMDb 6.5 (197,682 votes) · TMDB 7.112

Marcus and Mike are forced to confront new threats, career changes, and midlife crises as they join the newly created elite team AMMO of the Miami police department to take down the ruthless Armando Armas, the vicious leader of a Miami drug cartel.

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Jiang Ziya (2020)

💰 Box office #7

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Dir. Cheng Teng · Zheng Xi · Jiang Guangtao · Ji Guanlin · Sheng Feng

IMDb 6.6 (2,939 votes) · TMDB 7.3

Atop the ruins of war, top commander Jiang Ziya is given the task to banish the Nine-tailed Fox Demon who threatens all mortals' very existence. When he discovers the Nine-tailed Fox's life linked to the soul of an innocent girl, he is faced with a challenging decision: follow the will of heaven or find his own path to righteousness.

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The Eight Hundred (2020)

💰 Box office #2

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Dir. Guan Hu · Wang Qianyuan · Zhang Yi · Huang Zhizhong · Jiang Wu

IMDb 6.7 (8,452 votes) · TMDB 7.034

In 1937, eight hundred Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army.

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Shock Wave 2 (2020)

💰 Box office #8

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Dir. Herman Yau · Andy Lau · Lau Ching-Wan · Ni Ni · Gardner Tse Kwan-Ho

IMDb 6.5 (3,312 votes) · TMDB 7.1

After suffering life changing injuries in the line of duty, bomb disposal officer Fung turns his back on the police. But when a devastating series of bombings sweep Hong Kong, the police suspect their former ally may be involved after he is found unconscious at a crime scene. Now faced with memory loss and recalling only fragments of his former life, Fung sets out to uncover the truth and find out who he really is.

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Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)

💰 Box office #10

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Dir. Cathy Yan · Margot Robbie · Rosie Perez · Mary Elizabeth Winstead · Jurnee Smollett

IMDb 6.1 (283,050 votes) · TMDB 6.9

Harley Quinn joins forces with a singer, an assassin and a police detective to help a young girl who had a hit placed on her after she stole a rare diamond from a crime lord.

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Dolittle (2020)

💰 Box office #6

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Dir. Stephen Gaghan · Robert Downey Jr. · Harry Collett · Michael Sheen · Jim Broadbent

IMDb 5.6 (79,304 votes) · TMDB 6.581

After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria’s England, hermits himself away behind the high walls of Dolittle Manor with only his menagerie of exotic animals for company. But when the young queen falls gravely ill, a reluctant Dolittle is forced to set sail on an epic adventure to a mythical island in search of a cure, regaining his wit and courage as he crosses old adversaries and discovers wondrous creatures.

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