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30 Coolest Movies of All-Time

30 Coolest Movies of All-Time

The Wolf of Wall Street

Release Date 2013
Rating : 8.2 Production Companies: Paramount, Appian Way Director: Adam Somner, Julie A. Bloom, Don H. Julien Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie

Summary: A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.

Pulp Fiction

Release Date 1994
Rating : 8.9 Production Companies: Miramax, A Band Apart Director: Quentin Tarantino, Kelly Kiernan, Francis R. Mahony III Stars: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman

Summary: A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.

Casablanca

Release Date 1943
Rating : 8.5 Production Companies: Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Pictures Director: Michael Curtiz, Lee Katz Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid

Summary: In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Ocean's Eleven

Release Date 2001
Rating : 7.7 Production Companies: Village Roadshow Pictures, Section Eight Director: Steven Soderbergh, Natalie Van Doren, Trey Batchelor Stars: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Andy García

Summary: Less than 24 hours into his parole, charismatic thief Danny Ocean is already rolling out his next plan: In one night, Danny's hand-picked crew of specialists will attempt to steal more than $150 million from three Las Vegas casinos. But to score the cash, Danny risks his chances of reconciling with ex-wife, Tess.

Reservoir Dogs

Release Date 1992
Rating : 8.3 Production Companies: Lionsgate, Live Entertainment Director: Quentin Tarantino, Andy Spilkoman, Kelly Kiernan Stars: Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen

Summary: A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White, newcomer Mr. Orange, psychopathic parolee Mr. Blonde, bickering weasel Mr. Pink and Nice Guy Eddie -- unravel.

Dazed and Confused

Release Date 1993
Rating : 7.6 Production Companies: Gramercy Pictures, Alphaville Productions Director: Richard Linklater Stars: Jason London, Joey Lauren Adams, Matthew McConaughey

Summary: The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners, jocks and geeks. Floyd is a star athlete, but he also likes smoking weed, which presents a conundrum when his football coach demands he sign a "no drugs" pledge.

GoodFellas

Release Date 1990
Rating : 8.7 Production Companies: Winkler Films, Warner Bros. Director: Martin Scorsese, Sheila Paige, Joseph P. Reidy Stars: Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci

Summary: The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.

True Romance

Release Date 1993
Rating : 7.9 Production Companies: Davis Films, August Entertainment Director: Tony Scott, P.R. Tooke, P.R. Tooke Stars: Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Michael Rapaport

Summary: 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.

Rio Bravo

Release Date 1959
Rating : 8 Production Companies: Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Pictures Director: Howard Hawks, Paul Helmick Stars: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Angie Dickinson

Summary: The sheriff of a small town in southwest Texas must keep custody of a murderer whose brother, a powerful rancher, is trying to help him escape. After a friend is killed trying to muster support for him, he and his deputies must find a way to hold out against the rancher's hired guns until the marshal arrives. In the meantime, matters are complicated by the presence of a young gunslinger - and a mysterious beauty who just came in on the last stagecoach.

The Killer

Release Date 1989
Rating : 7.8 Production Companies: Film Workshop, Golden Princess Film Production Limited Director: John Woo Stars: Chow Yun-fat, Danny Lee Sau-Yin, Sally Yeh

Summary: Mob assassin Jeffrey is no ordinary hired gun; the best in his business, he views his chosen profession as a calling rather than simply a job. So, when beautiful nightclub chanteuse Jennie is blinded in the crossfire of his most recent hit, Jeffrey chooses to retire after one last job to pay for his unintended victim's sight-restoring operation. But when Jeffrey is double-crossed, he reluctantly joins forces with a rogue policeman to make things right.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Release Date 1969
Rating : 8 Production Companies: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Campanile Productions Director: Steven Bernhardt, Michael D. Moore, George Roy Hill Stars: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross

Summary: In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever and talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion is the laconic dead-shot Sundance Kid. As the west rapidly becomes civilized, the law finally catches up to Butch, Sundance and their gang. Chased doggedly by a special posse, the two decide to make their way to South America in hopes of evading their pursuers once and for all. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 1998.

Chungking Express

Release Date 1996
Rating : 8 Production Companies: Jet Tone Production, Miramax Director: Wong Kar-wai, Johnnie Kong Stars: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Brigitte Lin, Tony Leung Chiu-wai

Summary: Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.

Boogie Nights

Release Date 1997
Rating : 7.9 Production Companies: New Line Cinema, Ghoulardi Film Company Director: John Wildermuth, Jayne-Ann Tenggren, Paul Thomas Anderson Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Julianne Moore, Burt Reynolds

Summary: Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy in a nightclub, and welcomes him into the extended family of movie-makers, misfits and hangers-on that are always around. Adams' rise from nobody to a celebrity adult entertainer is meteoric, and soon the whole world seems to know his porn alter ego, "Dirk Diggler". Now, when disco and drugs are in vogue, fashion is in flux and the party never seems to stop, Adams' dreams of turning sex into stardom are about to collide with cold, hard reality.

Enter the Dragon

Release Date 1973
Rating : 7.6 Production Companies: Orange Sky Golden Harvest, Concord Productions Director: Robert Clouse Stars: Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Jim Kelly

Summary: A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover.

Out of Sight

Release Date 1998
Rating : 7 Production Companies: Universal Pictures, Jersey Films Director: Steven Soderbergh, Gregory Jacobs, Michael Risoli Stars: George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames

Summary: Meet Jack Foley, a smooth criminal who bends the law and is determined to make one last heist. Karen Sisco is a federal marshal who chooses all the right moves … and all the wrong guys. Now they're willing to risk it all to find out if there's more between them than just the law.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Release Date 1967
Rating : 8.8 Production Companies: United Artists, Constantin Film Director: Serena Canevari, Giancarlo Santi, Sergio Leone Stars: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef

Summary: While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.

Drive

Release Date 2011
Rating : 7.8 Production Companies: Bold Films, Marc Platt Productions Director: Nicolas Winding Refn, Jane Goldsmith, Dieter Busch Stars: Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Bryan Cranston

Summary: Driver is a skilled Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a getaway driver for criminals. Though he projects an icy exterior, lately he's been warming up to a pretty neighbor named Irene and her young son, Benicio. When Irene's husband gets out of jail, he enlists Driver's help in a million-dollar heist. The job goes horribly wrong, and Driver must risk his life to protect Irene and Benicio from the vengeful masterminds behind the robbery.

The Warriors

Release Date 1979
Rating : 7.5 Production Companies: Paramount, Lawrence Gordon Productions Director: Walter Hill, David Sosna Stars: Michael Beck, James Remar, David Patrick Kelly

Summary: Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.

Y Tu Mamá También

Release Date 2002
Rating : 7.7 Production Companies: Bésame Mucho Pictures, Producciones Anhelo Director: Alfonso Cuarón, Fernanda Arce, Berenice Manjarrez Vericat Stars: Diego Luna, Gael García Bernal, Maribel Verdú

Summary: In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or two about life, friendship, sex, and each other.

The Big Lebowski

Release Date 1998
Rating : 8.1 Production Companies: Gramercy Pictures, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment Director: T. Kukovinski, Jeff Rafner, Donald Murphy Stars: Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore

Summary: Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money.

The Usual Suspects

Release Date 1995
Rating : 8.5 Production Companies: Blue Parrot Productions, Bad Hat Harry Productions Director: Bryan Singer, Kenneth Kokin, James D. Deck Stars: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Stephen Baldwin

Summary: Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess.

Le Samouraï

Release Date 1972
Rating : 8 Production Companies: TC Productions, Compagnie Industrielle et Commerciale Cinématographique (CICC) Director: Jean-Pierre Melville, Georges Pellegrin Stars: Alain Delon, François Périer, Nathalie Delon

Summary: After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts, finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him.

Back to the Future

Release Date 2023
Rating : 8.5 Production Companies: Universal Pictures, Amblin Entertainment Director: Nancy Hansen, David McGiffert, Robert Zemeckis Stars: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Crispin Glover

Summary: Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty must repair the damage to history by rekindling his parents' romance and - with the help of his eccentric inventor friend Doc Brown - return to 1985.

Get Carter

Release Date 1971
Rating : 7.3 Production Companies: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Director: Mike Hodges Stars: Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland

Summary: Jack Carter is a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brother's death, he travels to Newcastle to attend the funeral. Refusing to accept the police report of suicide, Carter seeks out his brother’s friends and acquaintances to learn who murdered his sibling and why.

Jackie Brown

Release Date 1997
Rating : 7.5 Production Companies: Miramax, A Band Apart Director: Quentin Tarantino, Pilar Savone, Martin Kitrosser Stars: Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert De Niro

Summary: Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan — with help from a bail bondsman — to keep the money for herself.

The Long Goodbye

Release Date 1973
Rating : 7.5 Production Companies: Lions Gate Films, E-K-Corporation Director: Adell Aldrich, Alan Rudolph, Robert Altman Stars: Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden

Summary: In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.

Rushmore

Release Date 1998
Rating : 7.6 Production Companies: Touchstone Pictures, American Empirical Pictures Director: Scott Peterson, Michael Cedar, Donald Murphy Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Olivia Williams

Summary: When a beautiful first-grade teacher arrives at a prep school, she soon attracts the attention of an ambitious teenager named Max, who quickly falls in love with her. Max turns to the father of two of his schoolmates for advice on how to woo the teacher. However, the situation soon gets complicated when Max's new friend becomes involved with her, setting the two pals against one another in a war for her attention.

Apocalypse Now

Release Date 2001
Rating : 8.4 Production Companies: Zoetrope Studios, United Artists Director: Jerry Ziesmer, Larry J. Franco, Tony Brandt Stars: Martin Sheen, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall

Summary: At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.