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12 Angry Men
A 1957 American courtroom drama in which a single juror's doubts about a homicide case slowly turn the room toward acquittal across one summer afternoon.
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List of Movies That Contain R
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Avatar
A 2009 American science fiction film about a paraplegic marine inhabiting a remotely controlled alien body on a moon whose ecosystem is targeted for mining.
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Back to the Future
A 1985 American science fiction comedy about a teenager accidentally transported from 1985 to 1955 in his eccentric friend's DeLorean time machine.
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Ben-Hur
A 1959 American epic about a Jewish prince in Roman-occupied Judea who is sold into slavery and returns years later to confront the friend who betrayed him.
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Braveheart
A 1995 American epic historical drama directed by and starring Mel Gibson as the 13th-century Scottish warrior William Wallace, who led a revolt against the English king Edward I.
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Cabaret
A 1972 American musical drama directed by Bob Fosse about an American singer at a seedy Berlin nightclub in 1931 as the Nazi Party rises to power.
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Crumb
A 1994 American documentary directed by Terry Zwigoff about the underground comix artist Robert Crumb and his troubled brothers Charles and Maxon.
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Drive
A 2011 American neo-noir crime film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn about a Hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver and is drawn into a violent heist gone wrong.
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Dunkirk
A 2017 war film written and directed by Christopher Nolan dramatizing the May and June 1940 evacuation of British and Allied troops from the French coast.
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
A 1982 American science fiction film about a suburban California boy who befriends a stranded alien and helps him return to his home planet.
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Edge of Tomorrow
A 2014 American science fiction action film directed by Doug Liman about a public relations officer caught in a time loop during an alien invasion of Europe.
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Fargo
A 1996 American black comedy crime film written and directed by the Coen brothers about a kidnapping plot in Minnesota that escalates into a string of murders.
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Forrest Gump
A 1994 American comedy-drama following a slow-witted but kind-hearted Alabama man whose life intersects with several decades of American historical events.
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Frozen
A 2013 American computer-animated musical fantasy film from Walt Disney Animation Studios, loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Snow Queen.
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Gladiator
A 2000 epic historical drama directed by Ridley Scott about a Roman general betrayed by the new emperor Commodus and forced into the arena as a gladiator seeking revenge.
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Gravity
A 2013 science fiction thriller directed by Alfonso Cuaron about two astronauts stranded in low Earth orbit after debris destroys their space shuttle.
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Her
A 2013 American science-fiction romantic drama written and directed by Spike Jonze about a lonely writer who falls in love with an artificially intelligent operating system.
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Interstellar
A 2014 American science fiction film about a former NASA pilot leading an expedition through a wormhole in search of a habitable replacement for Earth.
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It's a Wonderful Life
A 1946 American Christmas fantasy about a despairing small-town banker shown by a guardian angel what the world would have been without him.
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Joker
A 2019 American psychological drama directed by Todd Phillips about a struggling stand-up comedian in Gotham City whose life unravels into violence and revolt.
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Jurassic Park
A 1993 American science fiction film about a tropical-island theme park stocked with cloned dinosaurs that escape containment during a preview visit.
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Lawrence of Arabia
A 1962 British epic drama about T. E. Lawrence, a British army officer whose role in the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans transformed his identity and reputation.
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Mary Poppins
A 1964 American musical fantasy about a magical English nanny who arrives at a strained Edwardian London household and rearranges its priorities.
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Network
A 1976 American satirical drama directed by Sidney Lumet about a fading television news anchor who becomes a ranting prophet and is exploited for ratings by his network.
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North by Northwest
A 1959 American spy thriller about a Madison Avenue advertising executive mistaken for a government agent and pursued across the country.
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On the Waterfront
A 1954 American crime drama about a former boxer turned dockworker who must decide whether to testify against the mob-tied union running his New Jersey waterfront.
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Oppenheimer
A 2023 American biographical thriller written and directed by Christopher Nolan about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who led the Manhattan Project.
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
A 1981 American adventure about an archaeologist hired by US intelligence to recover the Ark of the Covenant before Nazi expeditions can find it first.
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Rear Window
A 1954 American thriller about a photographer immobilized by a broken leg who becomes convinced his neighbor across the courtyard has committed murder.
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Rebel Without a Cause
A 1955 American drama about a troubled high-school transfer student navigating one volatile night with two equally unmoored classmates in suburban Los Angeles.
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Saving Private Ryan
A 1998 American war film following an Army Ranger unit ordered to find and bring home a paratrooper whose three brothers have been killed in action.
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Schindler's List
A 1993 American historical drama about Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who used his Krakow factories to protect more than a thousand Jewish workers from Nazi extermination.
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Singin' in the Rain
A 1952 American musical comedy about a silent-film studio scrambling to adapt to the sudden arrival of talking pictures in 1927 Hollywood.
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Star Wars
A 1977 American space-opera adventure about a farm boy, a smuggler, and a princess fighting to deliver stolen battle-station plans to a galactic rebellion.
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Sunset Boulevard
A 1950 American film noir about a failed Hollywood screenwriter who becomes entangled with a forgotten silent-film star living in faded grandeur.
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The Apartment
A 1960 American comedy-drama about an insurance-company office worker who lends out his apartment to executives for their affairs in exchange for advancement.
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The Avengers
A 2012 American superhero film bringing together six Marvel heroes to repel an alien army led by Thor's adopted brother Loki against New York.
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The Crow
A 1994 American supernatural action film directed by Alex Proyas about a musician resurrected from the dead to avenge the murder of his fiancee on Devil's Night in Detroit.
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The Dark Knight
A 2008 American superhero film in which Batman, the Gotham district attorney, and the police commissioner together face a chaos-driven criminal called the Joker.
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The Empire Strikes Back
A 1980 American space-opera sequel in which the Rebel Alliance scatters under Imperial pursuit while a young Jedi trains under an ancient master.
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The Godfather
A 1972 American crime epic about the Corleone family's struggle to maintain control of a New York organized crime dynasty across the post-war decade.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
A 2001 New Zealand-American fantasy epic about a hobbit who inherits a dangerous magical ring and joins a quest to destroy it in the fires of its making.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
A 2003 New Zealand-American fantasy epic concluding the quest as the armies of the West confront Sauron while the ring approaches Mount Doom.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
A 2002 New Zealand-American fantasy epic following the splintered fellowship as armies of Saruman threaten the kingdom of Rohan and the journey east continues.
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The Matrix
A 1999 American science fiction film about a hacker who learns that his reality is a computer simulation built to harvest energy from sedated human bodies.
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The Shawshank Redemption
A 1994 American prison drama about a wrongfully convicted banker who endures two decades inside a Maine penitentiary while quietly engineering an escape.
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The Wizard of Oz
A 1939 American musical fantasy about a Kansas farm girl transported to a magical land where she must find the way home.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
A 1962 American legal drama set in Depression-era Alabama, where a small-town lawyer defends a Black man falsely accused of raping a white woman.
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Underworld
A 2003 action horror film directed by Len Wiseman about a centuries-old war between vampires and werewolves, told through the perspective of a vampire warrior named Selene.
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Unforgiven
A 1992 American revisionist Western directed by and starring Clint Eastwood as a retired outlaw who takes one last job to track down two cowboys who maimed a prostitute.
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V for Vendetta
A 2005 dystopian political thriller directed by James McTeigue based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore, set in a future Britain ruled by a fascist regime.
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Vertigo
A 1958 American psychological thriller about a retired San Francisco detective hired to follow a friend's wife, and the obsession that follows.
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West Side Story
A 1961 American musical updating Romeo and Juliet to 1950s Manhattan, where rival white and Puerto Rican street gangs collide around a love affair.
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Zorba the Greek
A 1964 drama directed by Michael Cacoyannis, in which a young Anglo-Greek writer travels to Crete and is transformed by his friendship with the exuberant peasant Alexis Zorba.
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