Release Date: 1960-10-13

Overview: The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.

Rating: 7.541 (2240 votes)

Release Date: 1962-06-13

Overview: Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.

Rating: 7.3 (2133 votes)

Release Date: 1956-06-06

Overview: Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.

Rating: 7.7 (1594 votes)

Release Date: 1953-03-31

Overview: After their airplane crashes behind enemy lines, four soldiers must survive and try to find a way back to their battalion. However, when they come across a local peasant girl the horrors of war quickly become apparent.

Rating: 5.4 (521 votes)

Release Date: 1957-10-25

Overview: A commanding officer defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.

Rating: 8.258 (3060 votes)

Release Date: 1964-01-29

Overview: After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop the nuclear strike.

Rating: 8.122 (5829 votes)

Release Date: 1971-12-20

Overview: Scotland, 11th century. Driven by the twisted prophecy of three witches and the ruthless ambition of his wife, warlord Macbeth, bold and brave, but also weak and hesitant, betrays his good king and his brothers in arms and sinks into the bloody mud of a path with no return, sown with crime and suspicion.

Rating: 7.102 (289 votes)

Release Date: 1955-10-01

Overview: Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo, who has eyes for Gloria. The two decide to skip town, but before they can, Vincent and his thugs abduct Gloria, and Davey is forced to search for her among the most squalid corners of the city, with his enemy hiding in the shadows.

Rating: 6.348 (562 votes)

Release Date: 1999-07-16

Overview: After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.

Rating: 7.5 (6490 votes)

Release Date: 1971-12-19

Overview: In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?

Rating: 8.186 (13239 votes)

Release Date: 1987-06-26

Overview: A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

Rating: 8.122 (10881 votes)

Release Date: 2008-02-08

Overview: Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previous assignment. When the mission is revealed to Ken, it is not what he expected.

Rating: 7.493 (5370 votes)

Release Date: 1980-05-23

Overview: Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.

Rating: 8.211 (18036 votes)

Release Date: 1986-05-09

Overview: Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.

Rating: 7.705 (562 votes)

Release Date: 1998-04-28

Overview: A mix of home-video and documentary styles about a group of young people who have decided to get to know their “inner-idiots” and thus not only facing and breaking their outer appearance but also their inner.

Rating: 6.485 (612 votes)

Release Date: 1970-12-20

Overview: A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry her father.

Rating: 7.2 (525 votes)

Release Date: 2001-12-26

Overview: In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, each one of these interesting characters becomes a suspect.

Rating: 6.829 (1137 votes)

Release Date: 1968-04-02

Overview: Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.

Rating: 8.065 (11925 votes)

Release Date: 2007-09-21

Overview: After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity, and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness.

Rating: 7.798 (9729 votes)

Release Date: 1975-10-24

Overview: Four inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them.

Rating: 8.142 (712 votes)