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Where to Stream 50 Great Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen
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Even the most zealous movie-lover has probably missed a lot of great movies. Some were highly acclaimed when they were released and enjoyed long theatrical releases – but that might have been decades ago, before many of today’s cinephiles would have appreciated them. Others were the work of avant-garde directors or were foreign films that might never have been widely available to see. Still others, judged to have little commercial potential, went straight to video or were banished to late-night TV. (Here are the 50 best movies you’ve never seen.)
The advent of streaming has rescued many of these films from modern-day obscurity and brought them new audiences.
To determine the best movies available to stream you’ve probably never seen, 24/7 Tempo developed an index using average ratings on IMDb, an online movie database owned by Amazon, and a combination of audience scores and Tomatometer scores on Rotten Tomatoes, an online movie and TV review aggregator, as of January 2022. (All ratings were weighted equally.)
We considered only movies that had at least 10,000 audience votes on IMDb but no more than 50,000 (suggesting that they haven’t been widely seen in recent times). All entries on our list are currently streaming on platforms (sometimes more that one) including Netflix, Disney+, Tubi, HBO Max, Hulu Plus, Peacock, Fubo TV, IMDb TV, Amazon Prime, Criterion Channel, Peacock Free, Showtime, Roku Channel, Apple TV+, Pluto TV, Cinemax, Starz, Plex Free, Vudu Free, Crackle, Mubi, and Discovery+. Documentary films were excluded. (Data on streaming availability came from Reelgood and was up-to-date as of January 2022.)
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Of the 50 films on the list, three starred Burt Lancaster, all of them released at the height of his career in the 1950s and ’60s. Henry Fonda and Gregory Peck have two films on the list apiece. Other acting luminaries represented include Jane Fonda, John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, and Charlie Chaplin.
Independent filmmakers John Cassavetes and Jim Jarmusch are included on the list with two films each, as is Woody Allen, and mainstream directors of an earlier era like John Ford, Sidney Lumet, and Stanley Kramer are represented as well. (These are the best comedy movies available to stream right now.)
Among foreign films, there are a few Japanese animated offerings, a Spanish-language movie, and a film about a headstrong Saudi girl who won’t be dissuaded from her quest to buy a bicycle.
Though the big-screen effect is lost on the small screen, streaming gives filmgoers an opportunity to view these overlooked movies.
50. My Dinner with Andre (1981)
> IMDb user rating: 7.8/10 (19,925 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 85% (7,146 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 92% (24 reviews)
> Directed by: Louis Malle
> Streaming on: HBO Max, Criterion Channel
Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory co-wrote and co-starred in this film about two friends who meet for dinner and discover their differences over issues.
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49. The Defiant Ones (1958)
> IMDb user rating: 7.6/10 (14,424 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 88% (5,165 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 92% (53 reviews)
> Directed by: Stanley Kramer
> Streaming on: Amazon Prime, Pluto TV
Filmed as the civil rights movement was gaining momentum, this Stanley Kramer-directed cinematic metaphor for race relations is about two escaped prisoners, one white and one Black, chained together, who must forge a bond to survive. Co-star Sidney Poitier was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his role – the first black to gain that recognition.
48. On Golden Pond (1981)
> IMDb user rating: 7.6/10 (29,427 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 87% (20,585 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 93% (43 reviews)
> Directed by: Mark Rydell
> Streaming on: Tubi, Fubo TV, Amazon Prime, Crackle
“On Golden Pond” was Henry Fonda’s final full-length film before he died in 1982. It dealt with people from various generations looking to reconcile before senior members of the family pass away. The film is graced not only by Fonda but also by his fellow Academy Award winners Katharine Hepburn and (his daughter) Jane Fonda.
47. When Marnie Was There (2014)
> IMDb user rating: 7.7/10 (36,384 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 88% (6,308 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 91% (99 reviews)
> Directed by: James Simone, Hiromasa Yonebayashi
> Streaming on: HBO Max
The Japanese animated film focuses on a young, asthmatic Japanese girl sent to stay with relatives of her guardian in the countryside, where she befriends an enigmatic blonde girl named Marnie. The movie is based on a novel by Joan G. Robinson.
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46. The Long Goodbye (1973)
> IMDb user rating: 7.6/10 (28,665 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 87% (10,334 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 94% (47 reviews)
> Directed by: Robert Altman
> Streaming on: Criterion Channel
Based on the Raymond Chandler novel of the same name, “The Long Goodbye” starred Elliott Gould as private investigator Philip Marlowe, who helps a friend in a fix and gets into his own jam when his friend’s wife is found dead.
45. What’s Love Got to Do With It (1993)
> IMDb user rating: 7.3/10 (19,816 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 88% (52,290 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 97% (58 reviews)
> Directed by: Brian Gibson
> Streaming on: Fubo TV, Amazon Prime, Roku Channel
Angela Bassett played singer Tina Turner in this biopic about her rise to stardom and the ordeal of being married to an abusive husband. Bassett and Laurence Fishburne received Oscar nominations for Best Actress and Best Actor, respectively.
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44. Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
> IMDb user rating: 7.3/10 (35,682 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 85% (22,934 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 100% (28 reviews)
> Directed by: Gus Van Sant
> Streaming on: Tubi, Roku Channel
Matt Dillon played drug addict Bob Hughes, who runs a “family” of addicts that rob drug stores across the country. A tragedy in the group causes Hughes to try and break free of his addiction. Independent filmmaker Gus Van Sant (“My Own Private Idaho”) directed the film.
43. The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
> IMDb user rating: 7.7/10 (49,994 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 88% (20,373 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 92% (38 reviews)
> Directed by: Woody Allen
> Streaming on: HBO Max
Woody Allen’s whimsical tale of a poor Depression-era waitress (Mia Farrow) whose life becomes complicated when an actor playing an archeologist in a movie she’s watching steps out of the screen into her life.
42. Maria Full of Grace (2004)
> IMDb user rating: 7.4/10 (34,635 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 87% (39,744 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 97% (146 reviews)
> Directed by: Joshua Marston
> Streaming on: HBO Max
“Maria Full of Grace” is about a poor, pregnant Colombian teenager who loses her job and becomes a drug mule to make money to support herself and her large family. Catalina Sandino Moreno was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar in 2005, the first actress ever to be nominated for a role spoken only in Spanish.
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41. The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (2019)
> IMDb user rating: 6.9/10 (10,470 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 94% (18 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 97% (34 reviews)
> Directed by: Won-Tae Lee
> Streaming on: Tubi, Pluto TV, Plex Free, Vudu Free
This Japanese action film with a slight comic twist is about a policeman and a gangster who unite to try and stop a serial killer.
40. Pickup on South Street (1953)
> IMDb user rating: 7.7/10 (13,750 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 89% (4,425 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 92% (36 reviews)
> Directed by: Samuel Fuller
> Streaming on: Criterion Channel
“Pickup on South Street” is a hard-boiled noir with a Cold War theme. It starred Richard Widmark as a pickpocket who unknowingly lifts a wallet carrying classified secrets sought by the communists.
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39. Honey Boy (2019)
> IMDb user rating: 7.3/10 (32,827 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 92% (560 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 94% (231 reviews)
> Directed by: Alma Har’el
> Streaming on: Amazon Prime
Shia LaBeouf wrote and starred in this well-received film about a boy whose abusive father returns to his life just as his television career is taking off. The movie tracks their combative relationship over the next 10 years and explores themes such as reconciliation and understanding.
38. Down by Law (1986)
> IMDb user rating: 7.7/10 (49,905 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 94% (22,383 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 87% (31 reviews)
> Directed by: Jim Jarmusch
> Streaming on: HBO Max, Criterion Channel
The downbeat movie filmed in black and white and directed and written by indie filmmaker Jim Jarmusch is about two men framed for a crime who escape with the help of an imprisoned murderer. The cast includes singer Tom Waits and Italian actor Roberto Benigni.
37. The Band’s Visit (2007)
> IMDb user rating: 7.5/10 (13,268 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 86% (13,563 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 98% (119 reviews)
> Directed by: Eran Kolirin
> Streaming on: Amazon Prime
A musical group of Egyptian police head to an Israeli town to help launch an Arab arts center and end up in the wrong place. The film was lauded for showing Arabs and Israelis surmounting ethnic barriers.
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36. Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
> IMDb user rating: 7.5/10 (36,300 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 88% (15,648 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 96% (26 reviews)
> Directed by: Jim Jarmusch
> Streaming on: HBO Max, Criterion Channel
Independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch garnered critical acclaim for the motion picture about a New Yorker whose life is disrupted when his cousin from Budapest visits him.
35. The Swimmer (1968)
> IMDb user rating: 7.6/10 (10,838 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 83% (3,124 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 100% (23 reviews)
> Directed by: Frank Perry, Sydney Pollack
> Streaming on: Criterion Channel
“The Swimmer” is not one of Burt Lancaster’s best-known films, but it is no less interesting. He plays an ad executive obsessed with swimming in pools in his friend’s suburban neighborhood, though each pool he swims in triggers memories of his past failures.
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34. The Wedding Banquet (1993)
> IMDb user rating: 7.6/10 (14,831 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 87% (1,685 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 96% (28 reviews)
> Directed by: Ang Lee
> Streaming on: Tubi, Amazon Prime, Pluto TV
Ang Lee’s comedy of manners that harks back to the screwball comedies of the 1930s. “The Wedding Banquet” is about a gay Taiwanese man who accedes to his parents’ wishes of having a traditional wedding by marrying a young artist who needs the nuptials to get a green card to stay in the U.S.
33. Only Yesterday (1991)
> IMDb user rating: 7.6/10 (29,563 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 83% (218 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 100% (58 reviews)
> Directed by: Isao Takahata
> Streaming on: HBO Max
This is an animated drama from Japan about an office worker in her 20s who reminisces about her youth in Tokyo and what might have been.
32. Little Big Man (1970)
> IMDb user rating: 7.6/10 (34,080 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 87% (17,453 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 96% (26 reviews)
> Directed by: Arthur Penn
> Streaming on: Amazon Prime
“Little Big Man” is a sometimes satirical Western about a 121-year-old man (Dustin Hoffman) who in the telling of his life story to an oral historian, and claims to be the lone white survivor of the Little Bighorn Massacre. The film was hailed as a new look at the culture clash between white settlers and Native Americans.
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31. Cape Fear (1962)
> IMDb user rating: 7.7/10 (27,788 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 86% (17,757 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 96% (23 reviews)
> Directed by: J. Lee Thompson
> Streaming on: Criterion Channel
This is the original “Cape Fear,” starring Robert Mitchum as a menacing criminal out to exact revenge on the attorney (Gregory Peck) who put him in jail and his family. The movie was remade in 1991 with Robert De Niro in Mitchum’s role.
30. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
> IMDb user rating: 7.7/10 (47,052 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 85% (19,223 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 98% (57 reviews)
> Directed by: Don Siegel
> Streaming on: Pluto TV
Considered an allegory for communist fear-mongering, this classic sci-fi-horror flick starred Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter confronting aliens that replicate human beings. It was remade in 1978 to critical acclaim.
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29. The Train (1964)
> IMDb user rating: 7.8/10 (15,508 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 89% (4,310 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 93% (15 reviews)
> Directed by: John Frankenheimer, Arthur Penn
> Streaming on: Tubi, Pluto TV
Burt Lancaster was reunited with director John Frankenheimer (they had earlier collaborated on “Birdman of Alcatraz”) in “The Train.” Lancaster plays a French Resistance fighter who tries to stop the Nazis from transporting works of art out of Paris ahead of the Allied advance. A strong cast of international actors included Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, and Wolfgang Preiss.
28. The Quiet Man (1952)
> IMDb user rating: 7.8/10 (36,647 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 91% (30,453 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 91% (45 reviews)
> Directed by: John Ford
> Streaming on: Hulu Plus
“The Quiet Man” is John Ford’s Valentine to his ancestral home of Ireland, which does little to debunk Irish stereotypes. The story is about an Irish-American boxer (John Wayne) who returns to Ireland hoping to reclaim his family’s home and falls in love with a high-spirited redhead (Maureen O’Hara).
27. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
> IMDb user rating: 8/10 (10,517 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 91% (3,235 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 89% (28 reviews)
> Directed by: Paul Schrader
> Streaming on: Criterion Channel
Paul Schrader’s critically acclaimed film is a fictionalized telling of the life of controversial author-militarist Yukio Mishima.
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26. Kagemusha (1980)
> IMDb user rating: 8/10 (34,189 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 92% (12,421 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 88% (26 reviews)
> Directed by: Akira Kurosawa
> Streaming on: Criterion Channel
Renowned filmmaker Akira Kurosawa (“The Seven Samurai”) made a triumphant return to the samurai theme with “Kagemusha,” about a petty thief who impersonates a warlord and must take over when the real warlord dies.
25. Wadjda (2012)
> IMDb user rating: 7.5/10 (19,766 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 88% (13,494 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 99% (122 reviews)
> Directed by: Haifaa Al-Mansour
> Streaming on: Netflix
A strong-willed young Saudi girl (Waad Mohammed) joins a competition to recite passages from the Koran to win enough money to purchase a bicycle. The film was directed by Haifaa Al-Mansour, a prominent female Saudi filmmaker.
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24. Marty (1955)
> IMDb user rating: 7.7/10 (23,015 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 87% (6,787 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 98% (42 reviews)
> Directed by: Delbert Mann
> Streaming on: Amazon Prime
Scriptwriter Pаddy Chayefsky’s insightful look at working-class New Yorkers starred Ernest Borgnine as a big-hearted Italian-American butcher. The movie won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Director (Delbert Mann), Best Actor (Borgnine), and Best Screenplay (Chayefsky).
23. A Little Princess (1995)
> IMDb user rating: 7.7/10 (33,377 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 88% (240,459 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 97% (35 reviews)
> Directed by: Alfonso Cuarón
> Streaming on: Tubi
Helmed by the Oscar-winning Alfonso Cuarón (“Gravity,” “Roma”), “A Little Princess” tells the story of a young girl sent to boarding school by her father during World War I who uses her imagination to entertain friends in the face of adversity.
22. Weathering with You (2019)
> IMDb user rating: 7.5/10 (30,999 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 96% (247 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 92% (95 reviews)
> Directed by: Makoto Shinkai
> Streaming on: HBO Max
This is an animated story about a schoolboy who runs away from his remote island to Tokyo, has financial difficulties, and encounters a girl who can apparently alter the weather.
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21. The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
> IMDb user rating: 7.9/10 (25,351 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 87% (7,131 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 97% (35 reviews)
> Directed by: John Huston
> Streaming on: Criterion Channel
Criminals weave a web of deceit and greed after their jewelry heist goes wrong and one of their gang dies from a gunshot wound. John Huston directed the noir thriller, which also featured an early film appearance by Marilyn Monroe.
20. The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977)
> IMDb user rating: 7.6/10 (34,410 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 88% (31,376 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 100% (17 reviews)
> Directed by: John Lounsbery, Wolfgang Reitherman
> Streaming on: Disney+
Warmly received by critics, “The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh,” the animated film based on A.A. Milne’s timeless characters featured the voices of Sebastian Cabot, Sterling Holloway, and John Fieldler.
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19. A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
> IMDb user rating: 8.2/10 (23,726 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 91% (8,243 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 90% (31 reviews)
> Directed by: John Cassavetes
> Streaming on: HBO Max, Criterion Channel
John Cassavetes wrote and directed his wife Gena Rowlands in this drama about a woman’s mental illness and the strain it puts on her marriage. The film was one of several critically acclaimed movies made by the independent filmmaker Cassavetes.
18. Fail Safe (1964)
> IMDb user rating: 8/10 (21,121 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 91% (7,162 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 93% (27 reviews)
> Directed by: Sidney Lumet
> Streaming on: Fubo TV, Plex Free, Crackle
“Fail Safe” is a grim Cold War thriller about a system malfunction that sends American bombers on a mission to drop nuclear bombs on the Soviet Union, and the frantic attempt to recall the planes. In an interesting coincidence, that same year a send-up of the same theme, ‘Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb,” was released. “Fail Safe” was remade in 2000 with George Clooney and Richard Dreyfuss.
17. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
> IMDb user rating: 7.7/10 (28,840 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 88% (9,478 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 100% (42 reviews)
> Directed by: Joseph Sargent
> Streaming on: Tubi, Pluto TV
The original “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three,” reprised by John Travolta and Denzel Washington in 1998, is a minute-by-minute, white-knuckle thriller about a New York gang that hijacks a subway car and demands $1 million in cash or they will start killing the passengers. The taut drama was a window into the crime-ridden streets of New York in the 1970s. It starred Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, and Martin Balsam.
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16. Inherit the Wind (1960)
> IMDb user rating: 8.1/10 (29,012 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 91% (9,656 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 92% (26 reviews)
> Directed by: Stanley Kramer
> Streaming on: Amazon Prime
The Scopes Monkey Trial from 1925 came to the big screen in 1960, with Spencer Tracy portraying defense attorney Henry Drummond (based on Clarence Darrow) and Frederic March playing prosecutor Matthew Harrison Brady (a stand-in for William Jennings Bryan).
15. A Face in the Crowd (1957)
> IMDb user rating: 8.2/10 (14,899 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 94% (5,039 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 88% (33 reviews)
> Directed by: Elia Kazan
> Streaming on: Criterion Channel
The pitfalls of instant fame were put under the microscope by director Elia Kazan in this film about a country singer who becomes a star through the efforts of an ambitious female radio producer (Patricia Neal)l. Andy Griffith, who would later gain television immortality, was the singer.
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14. The Gunfighter (1950)
> IMDb user rating: 7.7/10 (10,510 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 89% (1,321 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 100% (14 reviews)
> Directed by: Henry King
> Streaming on: Tubi, Roku Channel, Starz
Gregory Peck starred as Jimmy Ringo, whose gunslinging fame brings on challengers when all he wants to do is settle down with his wife.
13. The Miracle Worker (1962)
> IMDb user rating: 8.1/10 (16,204 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 88% (8,844 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 96% (25 reviews)
> Directed by: Arthur Penn
> Streaming on: Tubi, Pluto TV
Arthur Penn directed this story about Helen Keller, born deaf and and blind, who learns to communicate because of the untiring efforts of her teacher, Annie Sullivan. Oscars went to Anne Bancroft (Best Actress) and Patty Duke (Best Supporting Actress).
12. Ace in the Hole (1951)
> IMDb user rating: 8.1/10 (33,886 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 92% (6,223 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 92% (38 reviews)
> Directed by: Billy Wilder
> Streaming on: Criterion Channel, Pluto TV
The 1950s were a golden era for director Billy WIlder, and with “Ace in the Hole,” he was at his cynical best. Kirk Douglas played an ambitious reporter working for a newspaper in New Mexico who exploits a mine-shaft tragedy for his own unscrupulous ends.
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11. Opening Night (1977)
> IMDb user rating: 8/10 (10,093 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 90% (4,369 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 96% (27 reviews)
> Directed by: John Cassavetes
> Streaming on: HBO Max, Criterion Channel
Independent filmmaker John Cassavetes directed this movie about an alcoholic fraught with anxiety about aging as the opening night of her play nears. Her world is further complicated when one of her fans is killed chasing her limousine, causing her to question why incidents like that happen.
10. Love and Death (1975)
> IMDb user rating: 7.7/10 (37,440 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 90% (19,082 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 100% (21 reviews)
> Directed by: Woody Allen
> Streaming on: HBO Max
Woody Allen’s send-up of Russian literature finds America’s favorite neurotic comedian in 19th-century Russia involved in a plot to assassinate Napoleon. Diane Keaton appears as Allen’s cousin and another conspirator.
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9. In a Lonely Place (1950)
> IMDb user rating: 8/10 (29,058 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 89% (6,327 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 98% (47 reviews)
> Directed by: Nicholas Ray
> Streaming on: Amazon Prime, Plex Free, Crackle
Internet Movie Database described “In a Lonely Place” as a “classic example of both film noir and existential, heartbreaking romance.” The film starred Humphrey Bogart as a volatile screenwriter accused of murder helped by a woman who is beginning to have her doubts about his innocence. It was an early effort by director Nicholas Ray, who went on to helm such classics as “Johnny Guitar” and “Rebel Without a Cause.”
8. Togo (2019)
> IMDb user rating: 8/10 (43,098 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 95% (1,073 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 92% (39 reviews)
> Directed by: Ericson Core
> Streaming on: Disney+
“Togo” starred Willem Dafoe in this film based on a true story about a dog sled trainer and his lead sled dog, Togo, who in 1925 transported diphtheria medicine across the snowy landscape to a small Alaskan town. (The same story was told in “Balto,” a live-action/animated film from 1995.)
7. Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
> IMDb user rating: 7.9/10 (12,179 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 89% (2,569 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 100% (14 reviews)
> Directed by: Blake Edwards
> Streaming on: HBO Max
Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick portrayed husband and wife alcoholics whose marriage falls apart and whose lives descend into disaster.
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6. Limelight (1952)
> IMDb user rating: 8.1/10 (19,395 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 90% (7,303 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 97% (35 reviews)
> Directed by: Charles Chaplin
> Streaming on: HBO Max, Criterion Channel
Charlie Chaplin wrote, directed, produced, and starred in the film about a once-famous stage clown who saves a distraught dancer from committing suiсide and in the process regains his self-esteem. “Limelight” is considered one of the greatest triumphs in Chaplin’s storied career.
5. Paper Moon (1973)
> IMDb user rating: 8.1/10 (44,587 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 94% (11,421 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 93% (41 reviews)
> Directed by: Peter Bogdanovich
> Streaming on: Amazon Prime, Showtime
Tatum O’Neal and her father Ryan played an unlikely pair of con artists, swindling people out of money in the Depression-era Midwest. At age 10, Tatum O’Neal was the youngest actress to win an Oscar (for Best Supporting Actress) in a competitive category.
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4. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
> IMDb user rating: 8/10 (47,356 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 92% (4,853 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 97% (37 reviews)
> Directed by: Richard Brooks
> Streaming on: HBO Max
The film “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” is based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tennessee Williams focusing on a dysfunctional Southern family. The star-studded cast is led by Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor, and Burl Ives. It was nominated for six Oscars, but did not win any.
3. The Court Jester (1955)
> IMDb user rating: 7.9/10 (12,327 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 94% (9,213 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 97% (30 reviews)
> Directed by: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
> Streaming on: Pluto TV
“The Court Jester” is known for its lampooning of medieval swashbuckler films as well as for a tongue-twisting segment made famous by the multi-talented Danny Kaye. The comedy-musical also features Basil Rathbone, Glynis Johns, and Angela Lansbury. The romp was co-written, co-produced, and co-directed by Melvin Frank and Norman Panama
2. Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
> IMDb user rating: 8/10 (30,043 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 92% (6,974 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 98% (53 reviews)
> Directed by: Alexander Mackendrick
> Streaming on: Tubi, Criterion Channel
Alexander Mackendrick’s “Sweet Smell of Success” oozes with cynicism. Tony Curtis played an amoral public relations man hired by a powerful syndicated columnist (Burt Lancaster) to break up a romance between his sister and a musician.
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1. The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013)
> IMDb user rating: 8/10 (42,434 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 90% (14,047 votes)
> Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score: 100% (96 reviews)
> Directed by: Isao Takahata
> Streaming on: HBO Max
“The Tale of The Princess Kaguya” is a Japanese animated film about a nymph discovered inside a bamboo stalk who grows into a young woman. She is sought by various suitors and demands that they perform difficult tasks to prove their love for her. The film features the voices of Chloe Grace Moretz, Lucy Liu, and James Caan.
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