Release Date: 1998-06-24

Overview: In a remote fishing island in the 50's, Pepito grows up learning the trade of his mother, Rosa, the only midwife capable of delivering the newborn babies of their community. At first, the young son doesn't mind the unusual arrangement, but as he grows older, he begins to resist the role traditionally meant only for women. In time, Pepito's coming of age intersects with the lives of the other islanders, whose beliefs and struggles become critical impetus to his maturity.

Rating: 4.5 (8 votes)

Release Date: 1994-09-23

Overview: Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.

Rating: 8.714 (29367 votes)

Release Date: 2008-07-16

Overview: Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker.

Rating: 8.524 (34833 votes)

Release Date: 1927-02-06

Overview: In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

Rating: 8.102 (2976 votes)

Release Date: 1990-12-25

Overview: In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.

Rating: 7.417 (6618 votes)

Release Date: 2019-10-01

Overview: During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

Rating: 8.13 (27058 votes)

Release Date: 1985-01-18

Overview: The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.

Rating: 7.251 (1555 votes)

Release Date: 1955-12-24

Overview: A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against a usurper who has overthrown the rightful king of England.

Rating: 7.25 (208 votes)

Release Date: 2006-03-23

Overview: In 1984 East Berlin, dedicated Stasi officer Gerd Wiesler begins spying on a famous playwright and his actress-lover Christa-Maria. Wiesler becomes unexpectedly sympathetic to the couple, and faces conflicting loyalties when his superior takes a liking to Christa-Maria.

Rating: 8.039 (3948 votes)

Release Date: 1997-12-20

Overview: A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.

Rating: 8.44 (13673 votes)

Release Date: 1964-12-01

Overview: A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

Rating: 7.501 (1383 votes)

Release Date: 1988-12-21

Overview: In this luminous tale set in the former Yugoslavia, Perhan, an engaging young Romany with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime that threatens to destroy him and those he loves.

Rating: 7.6 (414 votes)

Release Date: 1974-12-20

Overview: In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

Rating: 8.571 (13396 votes)

Release Date: 1958-04-01

Overview: A rugged city editor poses as a journalism student and flirts with the professor.

Rating: 6.778 (97 votes)

Release Date: 1993-12-15

Overview: 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.

Rating: 8.566 (16909 votes)

Release Date: 1942-10-22

Overview: A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.

Rating: 7.354 (219 votes)

Release Date: 1948-02-01

Overview: Two young men attempt to prove they committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party for the family of a classmate they just strangled to death.

Rating: 7.943 (2899 votes)

Release Date: 2001-09-12

Overview: Obsessive scientist Nathan and his lover, the naturalist Lila, discover Puff: a man born and raised in the wild. As Nathan trains the wild man in the civilized ways of the world, Lila fights to preserve the man’s natural state. In the power struggle that ensues, an unusual love triangle emerges.

Rating: 6.007 (281 votes)

Release Date: 1951-07-28

Overview: On a golden afternoon, wildly curious young Alice tumbles into the burrow and enters the merry, madcap world of Wonderland full of whimsical escapades.

Rating: 7.188 (6121 votes)

Release Date: 1940-03-15

Overview: Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully.

Rating: 7.816 (1058 votes)