The best of 2020
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1.
Small Axe (2020)
Episode:
Mangrove
(2020)
TV-MA | 127 min | Drama, History
Mangrove tells this true story of The Mangrove Nine, who clashed with London police in 1970. The trial that followed was the first judicial acknowledgment of behavior motivated by racial hatred within the Metropolitan Police.
Director: Steve McQueen | Stars: Gary Beadle, Darren Braithwaite, Richie Campbell, Ben Caplan
Votes: 5,894
2. Bad Education (2019)
TV-MA | 108 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime
The beloved superintendent of New York's Roslyn school district and his staff, friends and relatives become the prime suspects in the unfolding of the single largest public school embezzlement scandal in American history.
Director: Cory Finley | Stars: Hugh Jackman, Ray Romano, Welker White, Allison Janney
Votes: 43,522
3. Vitalina Varela (2019)
124 min | Drama
A Cape Verdean woman navigates her way through Lisbon, following the scanty physical traces her deceased husband left behind and discovering his secret, illicit life.
Director: Pedro Costa | Stars: Vitalina Varela, Ventura, Manuel Tavares Almeida, Francisco Brito
Votes: 2,472
4.
Small Axe (2020)
Episode:
Red, White and Blue
(2020)
TV-MA | 80 min | Drama, History
Spotlights the true story of Leroy Logan, who at a young age saw his father assaulted by two policemen, motivating him to join the Metropolitan Police and change their racist attitudes from within.
Director: Steve McQueen | Stars: Neal Barry, Jack Bence, Stephen Boxer, John Boyega
Votes: 3,345
5.
Small Axe (2020)
Episode:
Lovers Rock
(2020)
TV-MA | 70 min | Drama, History
A single evening at a house party in 1980s West London sets the scene, developing intertwined relationships against a background of violence, romance and music.
Director: Steve McQueen | Stars: Dennis Bovell, Saffron Coomber, Frankie Fox, Daniel Francis-Swaby
Votes: 5,302
6. Bakolo Music International (II) (2020)
86 min | Documentary
"Bakolo Music International" has just celebrated the group's 70th anniversary. This year they are setting off on a new international tour. Whatever awaits them on their travels, the ... See full summary »
Directors: Tom Vantorre, Benjamin Viré
7. The Painter and the Thief (2020)
106 min | Documentary
An artist befriends the thief who stole her paintings. She becomes his closest ally when he is severely hurt in a car crash and needs full time care, even if her paintings are not found. But then the tables turn.
Director: Benjamin Ree | Stars: Karl Bertil-Nordland, Barbora Kysilkova, Øystein Stene
Votes: 4,314
8. Hi My Name Is Jonny Polonsky (2020)
69 min | Documentary, Music
Documentary about a rock star who just doesn't make it. And his last remaining fan.
Directors: Otto-Jan Ham, Sjoerd Tanghe | Stars: Otto-Jan Ham, Jonny Polonsky
Votes: 35
9. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)
R | 94 min | Drama, Music
Tensions rise when trailblazing blues singer Ma Rainey and her band gather at a recording studio in Chicago in 1927.
Director: George C. Wolfe | Stars: Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman, Glynn Turman, Colman Domingo
Votes: 57,962
10. The Mole: Undercover in North Korea (2020)
123 min | Documentary, Thriller
A real-life undercover thriller about two ordinary men who embark on an outrageously dangerous ten-year mission to penetrate the world's most secretive and brutal dictatorship: North Korea.
Director: Mads Brügger | Stars: Ulrich Løvenskjold Larsen, Mads Brügger, Alejandro Cao de Benos de Les y Pérez, Jim Latrache-Qvortrup
Votes: 5,414
11. Mank (2020)
R | 131 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
1930s Hollywood is re-evaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane (1941).
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Tom Pelphrey
Votes: 82,782
12. Babyteeth (2019)
MA-17 | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Milla, a seriously ill teenager, falls in love with a drug dealer, Moses, her parents' worst nightmare.
Director: Shannon Murphy | Stars: Eliza Scanlen, Michelle Lotters, Toby Wallace, Sora Wakaki
Votes: 19,080
13. Corpus Christi (2019)
Unrated | 115 min | Drama
Daniel experiences a spiritual transformation in a detention center. Although his criminal record prevents him from applying to the seminary, he has no intention of giving up his dream and decides to minister a small-town parish.
Director: Jan Komasa | Stars: Bartosz Bielenia, Aleksandra Konieczna, Eliza Rycembel, Tomasz Zietek
Votes: 21,910
14. The Climb (2019)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Drama
A look at the friendship between two guys that spans over many years.
Director: Michael Angelo Covino | Stars: Kyle Marvin, Michael Angelo Covino, Gayle Rankin, Talia Balsam
Votes: 5,155
15. The Mole Agent (2020)
Not Rated | 84 min | Documentary
A private investigator in Chile hires someone to work as a mole at a retirement home where a client of his suspects the caretakers of elder abuse.
Director: Maite Alberdi | Stars: Sergio Chamy, Romulo Aitken, Marta Olivares, Berta Ureta
Votes: 9,505
16. Adoration (2019)
98 min | Drama, Thriller
Love and mental illness know no bounds.
Director: Fabrice du Welz | Stars: Thomas Gioria, Fantine Harduin, Benoît Poelvoorde, Anaël Snoek
Votes: 1,285
17. Swallow (I) (2019)
R | 94 min | Drama, Thriller
Hunter, a newly pregnant housewife, finds herself increasingly compelled to consume dangerous objects. As her husband and his family tighten their control over her life, she must confront the dark secret behind her new obsession.
Director: Carlo Mirabella-Davis | Stars: Haley Bennett, Austin Stowell, Denis O'Hare, Elizabeth Marvel
Votes: 28,325
18. Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020)
PG-13 | 89 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
A daughter helps her father prepare for the end of his life.
Director: Kirsten Johnson | Stars: Michael Hilow, Ana Hoffman, Dick Johnson, Kirsten Johnson
Votes: 7,240
19. Hope (2019)
125 min | Drama, Romance
The relationship between artist-partners Tomas and Anja is put to the test after Anja gets a life-threatening diagnosis.
Director: Maria Sødahl | Stars: Andrea Bræin Hovig, Stellan Skarsgård, Elli Rhiannon Müller Osborne, Alfred Vatne
Votes: 2,576
20.
Small Axe (2020)
Episode:
Education
(2020)
TV-MA | 63 min | Drama, History
12 year-old Kingsley is held back by the unofficial segregation policies at his school.
Director: Steve McQueen | Stars: Naomi Ackie, Jade Anouka, Temirlan Blaev, Nigel Boyle
Votes: 2,442
21. Jumbo (2020)
Unrated | 93 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Jeanne, a shy young woman, works in an amusement park. Fascinated with carousels, she still lives at home with her mother. That's when Jeanne meets Jumbo, the park's new flagship attraction.
Director: Zoé Wittock | Stars: Noémie Merlant, Emmanuelle Bercot, Bastien Bouillon, Sam Louwyck
Votes: 1,293
22. Two of Us (2019)
Not Rated | 99 min | Drama, Romance
Pensioners Nina and Madeleine have hidden their deep and passionate love for many decades, but their bond is put to the test when they are suddenly unable to move freely between each other's apartments.
Director: Filippo Meneghetti | Stars: Barbara Sukowa, Martine Chevallier, Léa Drucker, Jérôme Varanfrain
Votes: 3,732
23. Tench (2019)
99 min | Drama
A kindhearted twenty-something struggling with his pedophile urges is put to the test when a young girl moves in next door.
Director: Patrice Toye | Stars: Tijmen Govaerts, Julia Brown, Ina Geerts, Greet Verstraete
Votes: 865
24. Goldie (II) (2019)
TV-MA | 88 min | Drama
A teenager in a family shelter wages war against the system to keep her sisters together while she pursues her dreams of being a dancer. A story about displaced youth, ambition. and strength.
Director: Sam de Jong | Stars: Slick Woods, George Sample III, Danny Hoch, Marsha Stephanie Blake
Votes: 1,211
25. Crip Camp (2020)
R | 106 min | Documentary, History
Down the road from Woodstock, a revolution blossomed at a ramshackle summer camp for teenagers with disabilities, transforming their lives and igniting a landmark movement.
Directors: James Lebrecht, Nicole Newnham | Stars: James Lebrecht, Lionel Je'Woodyard, Joseph O'Conor, Ann Cupolo Freeman
Votes: 8,239
26. Summer of 85 (2020)
Not Rated | 101 min | Drama, Romance
When 16-year-old Alexis capsizes off the coast of Normandy, 18-year-old David heroically saves him. Alexis has just met the friend of his dreams, who opens his eyes to a new horizon of friendship, art and sexual bliss.
Director: François Ozon | Stars: Félix Lefebvre, Benjamin Voisin, Philippine Velge, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Votes: 13,368
27. The King of Staten Island (2020)
R | 136 min | Comedy, Drama
Scott has been a case of arrested development since his firefighter dad died. He spends his days smoking weed and dreaming of being a tattoo artist until events force him to grapple with his grief and take his first steps forward in life.
Director: Judd Apatow | Stars: Pete Davidson, Bel Powley, Ricky Velez, Lou Wilson
Votes: 76,874
28. Shirley (2020)
R | 107 min | Biography, Drama, Mystery
A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.
Director: Josephine Decker | Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Odessa Young, Michael Stuhlbarg, Logan Lerman
Votes: 13,342
29. Madly in Life (2020)
87 min | Comedy, Drama
Alex and Noémie, in their thirties, would like to have a child. But their plans are turned upside down when Alex's mother, Suzanne, starts doing crazy stuff. It's because she has contracted... See full summary »
Directors: Raphaël Balboni, Ann Sirot | Stars: Jo Deseure, Jean Le Peltier, Lucie Debay, Gilles Remiche
Votes: 588
30. Ammonite (2020)
R | 117 min | Drama, History, Romance
1840s England, acclaimed but overlooked fossil hunter Mary Anning and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.
Director: Francis Lee | Stars: Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Jones, James McArdle
Votes: 23,389
31. Enormous (2019)
Not Rated | 98 min | Comedy
A world traveling pianist and her husband have decided not to have a baby, but then he sees a surprise childbirth on a flight and tampers with her pill.
Director: Sophie Letourneur | Stars: Marina Foïs, Jonathan Cohen, Jacqueline Kakou, Ayala Cousteau
Votes: 1,701
32. Onward (I) (2020)
PG | 102 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
In a magical world full of technological advances, elven brothers Ian and Barley Lightfoot set out on an adventure to resurrect their late father for a day.
Director: Dan Scanlon | Stars: Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Octavia Spencer
Votes: 170,173 | Gross: $61.56M
33. Let Them All Talk (2020)
R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama
A famous author goes on a cruise trip with her friends and nephew in an effort to find fun and happiness while she comes to terms with her troubled past.
Director: Steven Soderbergh | Stars: Meryl Streep, Gemma Chan, Dianne Wiest, Christopher Fitzgerald
Votes: 12,978
34. Wander Darkly (2020)
R | 97 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
New parents Adrienne and Matteo are forced to reckon with trauma amidst their troubled relationship. They must revisit the memories of their past and unravel haunting truths in order to face their uncertain future.
Director: Tara Miele | Stars: Sienna Miller, Diego Luna, Beth Grant, Brett Rice
Votes: 1,949
35. Greenland (2020)
PG-13 | 119 min | Action, Thriller
A family struggles for survival in the face of a cataclysmic natural disaster.
Director: Ric Roman Waugh | Stars: Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, Roger Dale Floyd, Scott Glenn
Votes: 134,789
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