Movies I watched in 2020
by cjr1279 | created - 21 Apr 2020 | updated - 21 Mar 2021 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. Bottled Up: The Battle Over Dublin Dr Pepper (2013)
Not Rated | 76 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
'Bottled Up: The Battle Over Dublin Dr Pepper' is a new documentary 120 years in the making. Our story details the small town of Dublin, Texas, which was the first place to ever bottle the ... See full summary »
Director: Drew Rist | Star: Danny Balis
Votes: 223
2. Casino (1995)
R | 178 min | Crime, Drama
In Las Vegas, two best friends - a casino executive and a mafia enforcer - compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods
Votes: 563,160 | Gross: $42.44M
3. The Irishman (2019)
R | 209 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
An illustration of Frank Sheeran's life, from W.W.II veteran to hit-man for the Bufalino crime family and his alleged assassination of his close friend Jimmy Hoffa.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel
Votes: 430,485 | Gross: $7.00M
4. Inglourious Basterds (2009)
R | 153 min | Adventure, Drama, War
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.
Director: Quentin Tarantino | Stars: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth, Mélanie Laurent
Votes: 1,581,536 | Gross: $120.54M
5. I Heart Huckabees (2004)
R | 107 min | Comedy
A husband-and-wife team play detective, but not in the traditional sense. Instead, the happy duo helps others solve their existential issues, the kind that keep you up at night, wondering what it all means.
Director: David O. Russell | Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Jude Law, Naomi Watts, Mark Wahlberg
Votes: 66,253 | Gross: $12.78M
6. Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
PG | 99 min | Comedy, Drama
An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd, Patti LuPone
Votes: 117,464 | Gross: $106.59M
7. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
R | 142 min | Drama
Over the course of several years, two convicts form a friendship, seeking consolation and, eventually, redemption through basic compassion.
Director: Frank Darabont | Stars: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William Sadler
Votes: 2,884,603 | Gross: $28.34M
8. Lost in Translation (2003)
R | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
A faded movie star and a neglected young woman form an unlikely bond after crossing paths in Tokyo.
Director: Sofia Coppola | Stars: Bill Murray, Scarlett Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris
Votes: 487,868 | Gross: $44.59M
9. #cats_the_mewvie (2020)
TV-14 | 90 min | Documentary
It's a 2020 documentary about how cats went from cute text memes to iconic celebrities on YouTube.
Director: Michael Margolis | Stars: Kevin Allocca, Phaedra Barratt, Amanda Brennan, Mike Bridavsky
Votes: 473
10. The Killing (1956)
Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Crook Johnny Clay assembles a five-man team to plan and execute a daring racetrack robbery.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen
Votes: 97,370
11. Goodfellas (1990)
R | 145 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mafia, covering his relationship with his wife Karen and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco
Votes: 1,255,593 | Gross: $46.84M
12. Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
R | 93 min | Comedy, Drama
A Chicago advertising man must struggle to travel home from New York for Thanksgiving, with a lovable oaf of a shower-curtain-ring salesman as his only companion.
Director: John Hughes | Stars: Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins, Michael McKean
Votes: 160,056 | Gross: $49.53M
13. Groundhog Day (1993)
PG | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A narcissistic, self-centered weatherman finds himself in a time loop on Groundhog Day.
Director: Harold Ramis | Stars: Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, Chris Elliott, Stephen Tobolowsky
Votes: 684,120 | Gross: $70.91M
14. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
PG-13 | 85 min | Comedy, Crime
Incompetent police Detective Frank Drebin must foil an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.
Director: David Zucker | Stars: Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, O.J. Simpson, Ricardo Montalban
Votes: 184,581 | Gross: $78.76M
15. Patriot Games (1992)
R | 117 min | Action, Thriller
When CIA analyst Jack Ryan interferes with an IRA assassination, a renegade faction targets him and his family for revenge.
Director: Phillip Noyce | Stars: Harrison Ford, Sean Bean, Anne Archer, Patrick Bergin
Votes: 120,295 | Gross: $83.29M
16. The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)
PG-13 | 85 min | Comedy, Crime
Lieutenant Frank Drebin discovers that his ex-girlfriend's new beau is involved in a plot to kidnap a scientist who advocates solar energy.
Director: David Zucker | Stars: Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, O.J. Simpson
Votes: 122,030 | Gross: $86.93M
17. Police Academy (1984)
R | 96 min | Comedy
A group of good-hearted, but incompetent misfits enter the police academy, but the instructors there are not going to put up with their pranks.
Director: Hugh Wilson | Stars: Steve Guttenberg, G.W. Bailey, Kim Cattrall, Bubba Smith
Votes: 137,238 | Gross: $81.20M
18. North by Northwest (1959)
Approved | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis
Votes: 345,739 | Gross: $13.28M
19. Frenzy (1972)
R | 116 min | Thriller
A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Anna Massey
Votes: 49,350 | Gross: $12.60M
20. Family Plot (1976)
PG | 120 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/actor boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris, William Devane
Votes: 24,802
21. Dial M for Murder (1954)
PG | 105 min | Crime, Thriller
A former tennis star arranges the murder of his adulterous wife.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings, John Williams
Votes: 188,593 | Gross: $0.01M
22. The Getaway (1972)
PG | 123 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A recently-released ex-con and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes awry.
Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Sally Struthers
Votes: 35,645 | Gross: $36.73M
23. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Passed | 126 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Two down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett
Votes: 132,325 | Gross: $5.01M
24. The AristoCats (1970)
G | 78 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
With the help of a smooth talking tomcat, a family of Parisian felines set to inherit a fortune from their owner try to make it back home after a jealous butler kidnaps them and leaves them in the country.
Director: Wolfgang Reitherman | Stars: Phil Harris, Eva Gabor, Sterling Holloway, Scatman Crothers
Votes: 114,583 | Gross: $37.68M
25. Lethal Weapon (1987)
R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Two newly paired cops who are complete opposites must put aside their differences in order to catch a gang of drug smugglers.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Mitchell Ryan
Votes: 276,080 | Gross: $65.21M
26. The Death of Stalin (2017)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Moscow, 1953. After being in power for nearly 30 years, Soviet dictator, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, takes ill and quickly dies. Now the members of the Council of Ministers scramble for power.
Director: Armando Iannucci | Stars: Steve Buscemi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeffrey Tambor, Andrea Riseborough
Votes: 113,276 | Gross: $8.05M
27. Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)
R | 114 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Riggs and Murtaugh are on the trail of South African diplomats who are using their immunity to engage in criminal activities.
Director: Richard Donner | Stars: Mel Gibson, Danny Glover, Joe Pesci, Patsy Kensit
Votes: 188,603 | Gross: $147.25M
28. The Breaking Point (1950)
Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An otherwise moral captain of a charter boat becomes financially strapped and is drawn into illegal activities in order to keep up payments on his boat.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: John Garfield, Patricia Neal, Phyllis Thaxter, Juano Hernandez
Votes: 4,345
29. Cognitio (2018)
20 min | Short, Drama
Tobias makes friends with Emil during a spell in psychiatric hospital.
Director: Rebecca Emcken | Stars: Lasse Steen, Lior Cohen, Mikkel Rishøj, Sanne Kristensen
Votes: 395
30. Prora (2012)
Not Rated | 23 min | Short, Drama, Romance
Prora, on the Baltic Sea. Mysterious, endless. In this deserted former Nazi holiday camp and communist military complex, teenagers Jan and Matthieu embark on an adventure that puts their friendship at risk.
Director: Stéphane Riethauser | Stars: Tom Gramenz, Swen Gippa
Votes: 1,334
31. We Are Okay Now (2017)
21 min | Short, Drama
Jonnah a troubled gay teen hangs out with his straight best mate Demitri after a party.
Directors: Andy Deshaun, Rebecca Emcken | Stars: Rasmus Skaarup Johansen, Peter Ousager, Lasse Steen
Votes: 278
32. Grotto (2013)
7 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A 20-year-old boy returns to his hometown after a year of big changes away at school.
Director: David Scala | Stars: Ben Getz, Adam Jepsen, Lian Amado, JC Casely
Votes: 154
33. Hold My Hand (II) (2017)
Not Rated | 12 min | Short, Drama
A jumbled timeline of the moments in which Billy, a 17 year-old boy in a seemingly perfect relationship, grapples with his feelings towards an older male tattoo artist.
Director: Isabella Walsh | Stars: Ryan Farrell, Morgan McKenzie Moore, Jordi Rea
Votes: 89
34. The Boy Next Door (I) (2008)
14 min | Short, Drama, Romance
A closeted male travels and hires male prostitutes while away. Upon arrival, the hustler is nervous and uncomfortable and takes Valium to cope. The host suddenly gets a call and must leave;... See full summary »
Director: Gregor Schmidinger | Stars: Michael W Ellison, Truman Chambers, Damon Preston
Votes: 830
35. Heavy Metal Parking Lot (1986 Video)
Not Rated | 17 min | Documentary, Short, Music
A look at the wild scene outside a Judas Priest concert.
Directors: John Heyn, Jeff Krulik | Stars: John Cloud Jr., Judas Priest
Votes: 1,545
36. The Tell-Tale Heart (1941)
Approved | 20 min | Crime, Mystery, Short
In this classic Edgar Allan Poe story, a man commits a murder, but afterward the victim's beating heart torments the murderer's mind.
Director: Jules Dassin | Stars: Joseph Schildkraut, Roman Bohnen, Oscar O'Shea, Will Wright
Votes: 985
37. Two Men in Manhattan (1959)
Not Rated | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A French UN delegate has disappeared into thin air, sending reporter Moreau (Jean-Pierre Melville) and hard drinking photographer Delmas (Pierre Grasset) on an assignment to find him. Their only lead is a picture of three women.
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville | Stars: Jean-Pierre Melville, Pierre Grasset, Christiane Eudes, Ginger Hall
Votes: 2,273
38. Food Fight: Inside the Battle for Market Basket (2016)
110 min | Documentary
In the summer of 2014, a firestorm within a New England supermarket chain sparked a corporate drama that Esquire called "the last stand for the middle class". Food Fight is the story of the... See full summary »
Director: Jay Childs | Star: Bernadette Beck
Votes: 37
39. Thelma & Louise (1991)
R | 130 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Two best friends set out on an adventure, but it soon turns around to a terrifying escape from being hunted by the police, as these two women escape for the crimes they committed.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel, Michael Madsen
Votes: 172,714 | Gross: $45.36M
40. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Not Rated | 161 min | Drama, Mystery
An upstate Michigan lawyer defends a soldier who claims he killed an innkeeper due to temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth, and will he win his case?
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Arthur O'Connell
Votes: 71,261 | Gross: $11.90M
41. Untamed Romania (2018)
92 min | Documentary
In Romania, ancient forests and expansive wetlands provide habitats to some of Europe's most iconic creatures. Focusing on the Carpathian Mountains and the Danube Delta, this documentary is... See full summary »
Director: Tom Barton-Humphreys | Stars: Victor Rebengiuc, Mark Strong
Votes: 1,929
42. Tremors (2018)
22 min | Short, Drama, Mystery
Imagine that you are in a forest which is dark, quiet and empty. You do not know why you are here. Suddenly you hear a howl. You feel you do not want to be here. You are afraid. You see a ... See full summary »
Director: Dawid Bodzak | Stars: Natan Berkowicz, Tomasz Haladaj, Sara Celler-Jezierska, Olexi Chubun
Votes: 81
43. On Putin's Blacklist (2017)
Not Rated | 73 min | Documentary
Defenseless orphans were among the first to suffer from Putin's anti-Western rhetoric. The Kremlin's hit list then expanded to include the LGTBQ community. This ripped-from-the-headlines documentary explores all those on Putin's blacklist.
Director: Boris Ivanov
Votes: 56
44. Dark Passage (1947)
Passed | 106 min | Film-Noir, Thriller
A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try to prove his innocence.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Bruce Bennett, Agnes Moorehead
Votes: 21,938
45. Fail Safe (1964)
Approved | 112 min | Drama, Thriller
A technical malfunction sends American planes to Moscow to deliver a nuclear attack. Can all-out war be averted?
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Fritz Weaver, Dan O'Herlihy
Votes: 24,379
46. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
R | 125 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Penelope Allen, Sully Boyar
Votes: 272,823 | Gross: $50.00M
47. The Russian Five (2018)
Not Rated | 102 min | Documentary, Sport
In the late 1980s, the Detroit Red Wings worked to finally break their decades long Stanley Cup drought by extracting players from the Soviet Union, and in the process, changed the way North American hockey is played.
Director: Joshua Riehl | Stars: Scotty Bowman, Don Cherry, Michael Chovich, Jeff Daniels
Votes: 1,420 | Gross: $0.49M
48. The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement (2011)
25 min | Documentary, Short, History
The film features 85-year-old Mr. Armstrong, an African American barber in Birmingham, Alabama, as he experiences the manifestation of an unimaginable dream: the election of the first ... See full summary »
Directors: Gail Dolgin, Robin Fryday | Star: James Armstrong
Votes: 105
49. To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar (1995)
PG-13 | 109 min | Comedy, Drama
Three drag queens travel cross-country until their car breaks down, leaving them stranded in a small town.
Director: Beeban Kidron | Stars: Wesley Snipes, Patrick Swayze, John Leguizamo, Stockard Channing
Votes: 36,483 | Gross: $36.47M
50. Murder! (1930)
TV-PG | 92 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A juror in a murder trial, after voting to convict, has second thoughts and begins to investigate on his own before the execution.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring, Phyllis Konstam, Edward Chapman
Votes: 6,909
51. The American (2010)
R | 105 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An assassin hides out in Italy for one last assignment.
Director: Anton Corbijn | Stars: George Clooney, Paolo Bonacelli, Violante Placido, Irina Björklund
Votes: 102,003 | Gross: $35.61M
52. Sudden Fear (1952)
Approved | 110 min | Film-Noir, Thriller
After an ambitious actor insinuates himself into the life of a wealthy middle-aged playwright and marries her, he plots with his mistress to murder her.
Director: David Miller | Stars: Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame, Bruce Bennett
Votes: 7,324
53. LA 92 (2017)
R | 114 min | Documentary, Crime, History
Twenty-five years after the verdict in the Rodney King trial sparked several days of protests, violence and looting in Los Angeles, filmmakers examine that tumultuous period through rarely seen archival footage.
Directors: Daniel Lindsay, T.J. Martin | Stars: Henry Alfaro, Danny Bakewell, John D. Barnett, Bart Bartholomew
Votes: 6,897
54. Cher... and Other Fantasies (1979 TV Movie)
60 min | Comedy, Music
Cher finds herself trapped in a strange building, where various fantasies await her behind each door.
Director: Art Fisher | Stars: Cher, Andy Kaufman, Shelley Winters, Lucille Ball
Votes: 79
55. Framing John DeLorean (2019)
Unrated | 109 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Who was the real John DeLorean? To some, he was a renegade visionary who revolutionized the automobile industry. To others, he was the ultimate con man.
Directors: Don Argott, Sheena M. Joyce | Stars: John DeLorean, Alec Baldwin, Josh Charles, Morena Baccarin
Votes: 2,547 | Gross: $0.15M
56. Scotch: A Golden Dream (2018)
Not Rated | 89 min | Documentary
An impressive bottle of fine Scotch is in your hand. From barley to barrel, who made it and how did they do it?
Director: Andrew Peat
Votes: 489
57. Crazy About Tiffany's (2016)
Not Rated | 86 min | Documentary
A past to present fully authorized documentary of Tiffany & Co.
Director: Matthew Miele | Stars: Jessica Biel, Katie Couric, Amy Fine-Collins, Fran Lebowitz
Votes: 310
58. Crocodile Dreaming (2007)
25 min | Short, Drama
Crocodile Dreaming is a project developed by Darlene Johnson and the legendary Australian actorand winner of AFFs inaugural Don Dustan AwardDavid Gulpilil. It tells the story of two ... See full synopsis »
Director: Darlene Johnson | Stars: David Gulpilil, Tommy Lewis, Richard Birrinbirrin, Mary Dhapalany
Votes: 34
59. Madonna and the Breakfast Club (2019)
Not Rated | 105 min | Documentary, Drama
The documentary story of Madonna 's struggling days in New York with her first band "Breakfast Club," leading up to her first solo record deal.
Director: Guy Guido | Stars: Jamie Auld, Calvin Knie, James David Larson, Daniel Davison Leonard
Votes: 535
60. His Girl Friday (1940)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 63,095 | Gross: $0.30M
61. The Bishop's Wife (1947)
G | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A debonair angel comes to Earth to help an Episcopalian bishop and his wife in their quest to raise money for the new church.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven, Monty Woolley
Votes: 20,887
62. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
PG | 130 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 498,678
63. Terms of Endearment (1983)
PG | 132 min | Comedy, Drama
Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughter's family problems.
Director: James L. Brooks | Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito
Votes: 65,387 | Gross: $108.42M
64. Steel Magnolias (1989)
PG | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship, and welcome her into the fold.
Director: Herbert Ross | Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Olympia Dukakis, Sally Field, Julia Roberts
Votes: 62,956 | Gross: $83.76M
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