Steven Spielberg

Close Encounters of the Third Kind 1977

Roy Neary, an Indiana electric lineman, finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches.

Category: Drama, Sci-Fi

Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr

7.6 IMDB Rating 617 Views
Hook 1991

When Captain James Hook kidnaps his children, an adult Peter Pan must return to Neverland and reclaim his youthful spirit in order to challenge his old enemy.

Category: Adventure, Comedy, Family

Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts

6.8 IMDB Rating 690 Views
The Fabelmans 2022

Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explores how the power of films can help him see the truth.

Category: Drama

Stars: Michelle Williams, Gabriel LaBelle, Paul Dano

7.5 IMDB Rating 3,314 Views
West Side Story 2021

An adaptation of the 1957 musical, West Side Story explores forbidden love and the rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks, two teenage street gangs of different ethnic backgrounds.

Category: Drama, Musical

Stars: Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Ariana DeBose

7.8 IMDB Rating 1,861 Views
The Color Purple 1985

A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades.

Category: Drama

Stars: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey

7.8 IMDB Rating 1,250 Views
Bridge of Spies 2015

In the cold war, a lawyer, James B. Donovan is recruited by the CIA and involved in an intense negotiation mission to release and exchange a CIA U-2 spy-plane pilot, Francis G. Powers. The pilot was arrested alive after his plane was shot down by the Soviet Union during a mission and stays in the company of a KGB intelligence officer, Rudolf Abel, who was arrested for espionage in the US.

Category: Drama, History, Thriller

Stars: Mark Rylance,Domenick Lombardozzi,Victor Verhaeghe,Mark Fichera

7.6 IMDB Rating 8,270 Views
Jaws 1975

When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.

Category: Adventure, Thriller

Stars: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary

8.0 IMDB Rating 9,827 Views
Duel 1971

A business commuter is pursued and terrorized by the malevolent driver of a massive tractor-trailer.

Category: Action, Thriller

Stars: Dennis Weaver, Jacqueline Scott, Eddie Firestone

7.6 IMDB Rating 3,995 Views
Munich 2005

After Black September's assassination of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, Prime Minister Golda Meir okays a black-box operation to hunt down and kill all involved. A team of five gathers in Switzerland led by Avner, a low-level Mossad techie whose father was a war hero and whose wife is pregnant. It's an expendable team, but relying on paid informants, they track and kill several in Europe and Lebanon. They must constantly look over their shoulders for the CIA, KGB, PLO, and their own sources. As the body count mounts -- with retribution following retribution -- so do questions, doubts, and sleepless nights. Loyalties blur. What does it mean to be a Jew?

Category: Drama, Thriller

Stars: Eric Bana,Daniel Craig,Ciarán Hinds,Mathieu Kassovitz

7.6 IMDB Rating 5,908 Views
War of the Worlds 2005

Ray Ferrier (Cruise) is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. When his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son Robbie and young daughter Rachel for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm suddenly touches down. What follows is the extraordinary battle for the future of humankind through the eyes of one American family fighting to survive it in this contemporary retelling of H.G. Wells seminal classic sci-fi thriller.

Category: Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Stars: Tom Cruise, Dakota Fanning, Miranda Otto, Justin Chatwin

6.5 IMDB Rating 11,505 Views
Minority Report 2002

In the year 2054 A.D. crime is virtually eliminated from Washington D.C. thanks to an elite law enforcing squad "Precrime". They use three gifted humans (called "Pre-Cogs") with special powers to see into the future and predict crimes beforehand. John Anderton heads Precrime and believes the system's flawlessness steadfastly. However one day the Pre-Cogs predict that Anderton will commit a murder himself in the next 36 hours. Worse, Anderton doesn't even know the victim. He decides to get to the mystery's core by finding out the 'minority report' which means the prediction of the female Pre-Cog Agatha that "might" tell a different story and prove Anderton innocent.

Category: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi

Stars: Tom Cruise, Max von Sydow, Steve Harris, Neal McDonough

7.6 IMDB Rating 9,854 Views
Lincoln 2012

In 1865, as the American Civil War winds inexorably toward conclusion, U.S. president Abraham Lincoln endeavors to achieve passage of the landmark constitutional amendment which will forever ban slavery from the United States. However, his task is a race against time, for peace may come at any time, and if it comes before the amendment is passed, the returning southern states will stop it before it can become law. Lincoln must, by almost any means possible, obtain enough votes from a recalcitrant Congress before peace arrives and it is too late. Yet the president is torn, as an early peace would save thousands of lives. As the nation confronts its conscience over the freedom of its entire population, Lincoln faces his own crisis of conscience -- end slavery or end the war.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis,Sally Field,David Strathairn,Joseph Gordon-Levitt

7.4 IMDB Rating 6,776 Views
Empire of the Sun 1987

Based on J. G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, tells the story of a boy, James Graham, whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, December 8, 1941. Separated from his parents, he is eventually captured, and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp, next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp, Jim attempts to reconstruct his former life, all the while bringing spirit and dignity to those around him.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers

7.8 IMDB Rating 7,120 Views
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982

A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape from Earth and return to his home planet.

Category: Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi

Stars: Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote

7.9 IMDB Rating 596 Views
Saving Private Ryan 1998

Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.

Category: Drama, War

Stars: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore

8.6 IMDB Rating 17,964 Views
The Terminal 2004

An Eastern European tourist unexpectedly finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.

Category: Comedy, Drama, Romantic

Stars: Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Chi McBride

7.4 IMDB Rating 10,787 Views
Catch Me If You Can 2002

Barely 21 yet, Frank is a skilled forger who has passed as a doctor, lawyer and pilot. FBI agent Carl becomes obsessed with tracking down the con man, who only revels in the pursuit.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama

Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken

8.1 IMDB Rating 16,855 Views
Amistad 1997

In 1839, the revolt of Mende captives aboard a Spanish owned ship causes a major controversy in the United States when the ship is captured off the coast of Long Island. The courts must decide whether the Mende are slaves or legal...

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Djimon Hounsou, Matthew McConaughey, Anthony Hopkins

7.3 IMDB Rating 6,669 Views
The Lost World: Jurassic Park 1997

A research team is sent to the Jurassic Park Site B island to study the dinosaurs there, while an InGen team approaches with another agenda.

Category: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite

6.5 IMDB Rating 14,298 Views
Jurassic Park 1993

A pragmatic paleontologist touring an almost complete theme park on an island in Central America is tasked with protecting a couple of kids after a power failure causes the park's cloned dinosaurs to run loose.

Category: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Stars: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum

8.2 IMDB Rating 13,194 Views