31. Rocky
Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Sport/Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John G. Avildsen
Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Carl Weathers, Burt Young, Talia Shire, Burgess Meredith, Joe Spinell
Plot: A undersized and underfunded heavyweight challenges the long time heavyweight to a fight after being the underdog in many of his fights. He struggles to balance his training with his personal life and confidence.
32. Requiem for a Dream
Year of Release: 2000
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Actors: Jared Leto, Ellen Burstyn, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans, Christopher McDonald, Louise Lasser
Plot: Four normal people are addicted to drugs in different ways. When it comes down to it, they struggle to survive after their once great high.
33. Stand by Me
Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Rob Reiner
Actors: River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Kiefer Sutherland, Wil Wheaton, Casey Siemaszko, Jerry O'Connell
Plot: A group of young friends go on a journey from their home town to try to discover the missing body of a young boy as they encounter real life problems - they put their maturity to the test.
34. Reservoir Dogs
Year of Release: 1992
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Actors: Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen, Steve Buscemi, Tim Roth, Chris Penn, Kirk Baltz
Plot: Strangers, who don't know each other's name, team up to commit a heist, while one of them is rat. They struggle to figure out who it is, while they argue and almost kill the wrong men.
35. Killers of the Flower Moon
Year of Release: 2023
Overall Rating: 3.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Crime/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Martin Scorsese
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal, John Lithgow
Plot: In the 1920s, the Osage Nation in Oklahoma are among the richest in the US, sitting atop a goldmine of oil fields. But then they begin to die one after another, murdered under mysterious circumstances. The young bureau of the FBI, led by J. Edgar Hoover, enlists the help of a former Texas Ranger to investigate, uncovering a chilling conspiracy.
36. All About Eve
Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Actors: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Marilyn Monroe, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill
Plot: A young lady begins working for an aging stage actress in which she eventually becomes the star.
37. Full Metal Jacket
Year of Release: 1987
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: War/Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Actors: Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio, Adam Baldwin, Kevyn Major Howard, Dorian Harewood
Plot: The transformation of a young recruit from boot camp - where he witnesses a fellow recruit snap - to Vietnam, where he witnesses the brutaliy of war.
38. The Sixth Sense
Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Thriller
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Actors: Bruce Willis, Haley Joel Osment, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams, Donnie Wahlberg, Mischa Barton
Plot: A child psychologist helps a boy who unbelievably communicates with
spirits while it tears his mother apart.
39. Django Unchained
Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Western
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Actors: Jaime Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington, Don Johnson
Plot: Once a slave, Django is now a free man working as a bounty hunter. After assisting a German bounty hunter, the two join forces to take down the wicked Plantation owner Calvin Candie - who has Django's wife and wants him back as a slave.
40. 12 Years a Slave
Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Steve McQueen
Actors: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Lupita Nyong'o, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti
Plot: Follows the true story of Solomon Northup, an upstate free black man who, years before the civil war broke out, was abducted and sold into slavery. Facing both extreme cruelty and incredible kind deeds, he struggles to maintain his dignity while fighting to survive. In the twelfth year of his ordeal a chance meeting with a Canadian abolitionist will change his life forever.
