Top 100 Movies of 2021

1: Bridesmaids (Unrated)
ComedyMay 13, 2011
“Gut-bustingly funny. Bridesmaids gets an A!!!” (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly) From the producer of Superbad, Knocked Up and The 40-Year-Old Virgin...

2: A Quiet Place
ThrillerApril 6, 2018
If they hear you, they hunt you. In this critically acclaimed, worldwide box office hit, a family must navigate their lives in silence to avoid mysterious creat...

3: A Quiet Place Part II
ThrillerMarch 20, 2020
Following the deadly events at home, the Abbott family (Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe) must now face the terrors of the outside world as they conti...

4: The Color of Money
DramaOctober 17, 1986
Academy Award(R)-winner Paul Newman and Academy Award(R)-nominee Tom Cruise ignite the screen in this powerful drama. Brilliantly directed by Martin Scorsese, N...

5: 8 Mile
DramaNovember 8, 2002
"Eminem wins by a knockout!" raves Rolling Stone, as the Grammy Award-winning phenomenon makes his feature film debut in this gripping story about the boundarie...

6: Witness
DramaJune 29, 1999
When a young Amish woman and her son get caught up in the murder of an undercover narcotics agent, their savior turns out to be hardened Philadelphia detective ...

7: The Truman Show
DramaJanuary 26, 1999
He's the star of the show--but he doesn't know. Jim Carrey wowed critics and audiences alike as unwitting Truman Burbank in this marvel of a movie from director...

8: The Prestige
DramaOctober 17, 2006
Award-winning actors Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Michael Caine and Scarlett Johansson star in The Prestige, the twisting, turning story that, like all great m...

9: Time Bandits
Action & AdventureNovember 6, 1981
In this fantastic voyage through time and space from Terry Gilliam, a boy named Kevin (Craig Warnock) escapes his gadget-obsessed parents to join a band of time...

10: How to Train Your Dragon
Kids & FamilyMarch 26, 2010
This Academy Award®-nominated DreamWorks Animation film rolls fire-breathing action, epic adventure and big laughs into a captivating, fun and original story. ...

11: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
DramaDecember 25, 2008
"I was born under unusual circumstances." And so begins "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man w...

12: High Plains Drifter
WesternApril 19, 1973
Clint Eastwood's second film as a director finds the celebrated action star returning to his familiar Old West stomping grounds and his internationally acclaime...

13: Catch Me If You Can
DramaMay 6, 2003
Frank W. Abagnale Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a 16-year-old high school student who finds himself emotionally cut adrift when his mother, Paula (Nathalie Baye), ...

14: Space Jam
Kids & FamilyFebruary 7, 1997
Basketball superstar Michael Jordan and cartoon favorite Bugs Bunny team up with other basketball greats and Looney Tunes characters in this combination animate...

15: Out of Death
ThrillerJuly 16, 2021
When Shannon (Jaime King) sets out on a hike to spread her deceased father’s ashes, she witnesses a corrupt sheriff’s deputy, Billie (Lala Kent) brutally mu...

16: Downfall
DramaJanuary 1, 2018
Featuring an indelible performance by Bruno Ganz (Nosferatu The Vampyre) as history's most notorious despot, Downfall gives a gripping insight into the madness ...

17: The Great Dictator
ComedyOctober 15, 1940
In his controversial masterpiece The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic pers...

18: Erin Brockovich
DramaMarch 17, 2000
A real woman. A real story. A real triumph. In her Oscar-winning role, Julia Roberts stars as Erin Brockovich, a feisty young mother who fought for justice any ...

19: Wrath of Man
Action & AdventureMay 7, 2021
A mysterious and wild-eyed new cash truck security guard (Jason Statham) surprises his coworkers during a heist in which he unexpectedly unleashes precision ski...

20: A Hard Day's Night
Music Feature FilmsAugust 11, 1964
Meet the Beatles! Just one month after they exploded onto the U.S. scene with their Ed Sullivan Show appearance, John, Paul, George, and Ringo began working on ...

21: Yojimbo
Action & AdventureApril 25, 1961
The incomparable Toshiro Mifune stars in Akira Kurosawa’s visually stunning and darkly comic Yojimbo. To rid a terror-stricken village of corruption, wily mas...

22: Minari
DramaFebruary 12, 2021
A tender and sweeping story about what roots us, Minari follows a Korean-American family that moves to an Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. T...

23: Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas
ComedyJanuary 1, 1998
When a writing assignment lands journalist Raoul Duke (Johnny Depp) and sidekick Dr. Gonzo (Benicio Del Toro) in Las Vegas, they decide to make it the ultimate ...

24: The Vault
Action & AdventureMarch 26, 2021
Freddie Highmore (“The Good Doctor”) and Famke Janssen (X-Men) star in this globe-trotting, action-packed thriller following a high-risk heist. When an engi...

25: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
ComedyDecember 28, 2004
There was a time before cable when the local anchorman reigned supreme… Enter the hard-hitting world of 1970’s local TV news, where Ron Burgundy ( Will Ferr...

26: Field of Dreams
DramaApril 21, 1989
"If you build it, he will come." With these words, Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) is inspired by a voice he can't ignore to pursue a dream he can hard...

27: The Dry
ThrillerMay 21, 2021
Federal Agent Aaron Falk returns to his home town after an absence of over twenty years to attend the funeral of his childhood friend, Luke, who allegedly kille...

28: Apollo 13
DramaJune 22, 1995
Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell (Hanks), Fred Haise (Paxton) and Jack Swigert (Bacon) fight a desperate battle...

29: Almost Famous
DramaSeptember 13, 2000
A coming-of-age story about a 15-year-old boy hitting the road with an up-and-coming rock band in the early 1970s. Elaine Miller is a bright, loving, but strict...

30: Venom
Action & AdventureOctober 5, 2018
Tom Hardy stars as the lethal protector and anti-hero Venom - one of Marvel’s most enigmatic and complex characters.

31: The Warriors
ClassicsSeptember 15, 1979
A battle of gigantic proportions is looming in the neon underground of New York City. The armies of the night number 100,000; they outnumber the police 5 to 1; ...

32: Spiral: From the Book of Saw
ThrillerMay 14, 2021
A criminal mastermind unleashes a twisted form of justice in Spiral, the terrifying new chapter from the book of SAW. Working in the shadow of his father, an es...

33: Desperado
Action & AdventureAugust 25, 1995
Antonio Banderas, Joaquim De Almeida, Salma Hayek, Steve Buscemi, Cheech Marin and Quentin Tarantino star in this stylish shoot-'em-up described as a south-of-t...

34: Memento
ThrillerSeptember 5, 2000
A man is determined to find justice after the loss of a loved one, even though he is incapable of fully remembering the crime, in this offbeat thriller. Leonard...

35: Demon Slayer - Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train
AnimeApril 23, 2021
Falling forever into an endless dream... Tanjiro and the group have completed their rehabilitation training at the Butterfly Mansion, and they arrive to their n...

36: Gangs of New York (2002)
DramaDecember 9, 2002
After years of incarceration, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon (DiCaprio) returns to lower Manhattan's lawless, corrupt Five Points section seeking revenge agai...

37: Lansky
ThrillerJune 25, 2021
When the aging Meyer Lansky is investigated one last time by the Feds who suspect he has stashed away millions of dollars over half a century, the retired gangs...

38: The Hunt for Red October
ThrillerMarch 2, 1990
The hunt is on! A new technologically-superior Soviet nuclear sub, the Red October, is heading for the U.S. coast under the command of Captain Marko Ramius (Con...

39: Till Death
ThrillerJuly 2, 2021
Emma (Megan Fox) is stuck in a stale marriage to Mark and is surprised when he whisks her away to their secluded lake house for a romantic evening on their 10th...

40: Big Fish
DramaDecember 10, 2003
Throughout his life Edward Bloom (Ewan McGregor) has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, portrayed by five...

41: Speed
Action & AdventureJune 10, 1994
Jack Traven (Keanu Reeves), an LAPD cop on SWAT detail, has a fearless nature and a keen understanding of the criminal mind. That, and some luck have kept him a...

42: Gattaca
Sci-Fi & FantasyOctober 24, 1997
Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, Alan Arkin and Jude Law star in this engrossing sci-fi thriller about an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with ge...

43: The Hidden Fortress
Action & AdventureDecember 28, 1958
A grand-scale adventure as only Akira Kurosawa could make one, The Hidden Fortress stars the inimitable Toshiro Mifune as a general charged with guarding his de...

44: The Untouchables
Action & AdventureJune 3, 1987
The critics and public agree. Brian De Palma's The Untouchables is a must-see masterpiece - glorious, fierce, larger-than-life depiction of the mob warlord who ...

45: Big
ComedyJune 3, 1988
At a carnival, young Josh Baskin (Tom Hanks) wishes he was big – only to awake the next morning and discover he is! With the help of his friend Billy, Josh la...

46: Godzilla vs. Kong
Action & AdventureMarch 25, 2021
Legends collide as Godzilla and Kong, the two most powerful forces of nature, clash in a spectacular battle for the ages. As Monarch embarks on a perilous missi...

47: City of Lies
ThrillerApril 9, 2021
Disgraced L.A.P.D. detective, Russell Poole (Depp), is a beaten man, unable to solve his biggest case - the murders of music icons Tupac Shakur and The Notoriou...

48: No Country for Old Men
DramaNovember 21, 2007
Acclaimed filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen deliver their most gripping and ambitious film yet in this sizzling and supercharged actionthriller. When a man stumble...

49: Escape Room
ThrillerJanuary 4, 2019
Escape Room is a psychological thriller about six strangers who find themselves in circumstances beyond their control and must use their wits to find the clues ...

50: The Terminator
Sci-Fi & FantasyOctober 26, 1984
A cyborg (part man, part machine) is sent from the 21st century to present-day Los Angeles to assassinate a seemingly innocent women whose child will play an im...

51: City Lights
ComedyJanuary 1, 1931
The Tramp falls in love with a beautiful, blind flower girl who is in financial trouble. Directed by Charles Chaplin.

52: Django Unchained
Action & AdventureDecember 25, 2012
Set in the South two years before the Civil War, DJANGO UNCHAINED stars Academy Award®-winner Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave whose brutal history with his forme...

53: Resurgence
DocumentaryJuly 30, 2021
To be called the Fittest on Earth, one would have to be capable of conquering a number of both physical and mental challenges. In the year of 2020, those challe...

54: Good Will Hunting
DramaJanuary 9, 1998
A true motion picture phenomenon, this triumphant story was nominated for 9 Academy Awards® -- winning Oscars for Robin Williams (Best Supporting Actor) and ho...

55: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
DramaMarch 19, 2004
From acclaimed writer Charlie Kaufman and visionary director Michel Gondry comes Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. An all-star ensemble cast shines in this...

56: Casino
DramaNovember 22, 1995
Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci star in director Martin Scorsese's riveting look at how blind ambition, white-hot passion and 24-karat greed toppled ...

57: E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Kids & FamilyJune 11, 1982
Journey back to the magic and adventure with E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, the beloved masterpiece from Academy Award®-winning director Steven Spielberg. Henry ...

58: From Dusk Till Dawn
HorrorJanuary 19, 1996
It's nonstop thrills when George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino star as the Gecko brothers - two dangerous outlaws on a wild crime spree! After kidnapping a fath...

59: We're the Millers (2013)
ComedyAugust 9, 2013
David Clark is a small-time pot dealer who likes to keep a low profile. His clientele includes chefs and soccer moms, but no kids. He learns the hard way that n...

60: Here Today
ComedyMay 7, 2021
Veteran comedy writer Charlie Burnz (Billy Crystal) forms an unlikely yet hilarious and touching friendship with New York lounge singer Emma Payge (Tiffany Hadd...

61: Collateral
DramaJanuary 1, 2004
Max (Jamie Foxx) is a cab driver who hopes to some day open his own limo company; one night behind the wheel begins promisingly when he picks up Annie (Jada Pin...

62: Nobody
Action & AdventureMarch 26, 2021
Hutch is a nobody. As an overlooked and underestimated father and husband, he takes life's indignities on the chin and never rocks the boat. But when his daught...

63: The Last Emperor
DramaNovember 18, 1987
Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor won nine Academy Awards, unexpectedly sweeping every category in which it was nominated, quite a feat for a challenging...

64: Ferris Bueller's Day Off
ComedyJune 11, 1986
Larger than life, and blessed with a magical sense of serendipity, Ferris Bueller is a model for all those who take themselves too seriously. One spring day, to...

65: Planes, Trains and Automobiles
ComedyNovember 25, 1987
Neal Page is an advertising executive who just wants to fly home to Chicago to spend Thanksgiving with his family. But all Neal Page gets is misery. Misery name...

66: Clerks
ComedyOctober 19, 1994
From director Kevin Smith comes CLERKS - one wild day in the life of a pair of overworked counter jockeys whose razor-sharp wit and on-the-job antics give a who...

67: Pulp Fiction
DramaOctober 14, 1994
Critics and audiences worldwide hailed PULP FICTION as the star-studded picture that redefined cinema in the 20th Century. Writer/director Quentin Tarantino (Ac...

68: Cruella
Action & AdventureMay 28, 2021
Emma Stone (LA LA LAND) stars in Disney’s CRUELLA, a live-action feature film about the rebellious early days of one of cinema’s most notorious – and noto...

69: The Misfits
Action & AdventureJune 15, 2021
A band of modern-day Robin Hoods known as "The Misfits", recruit renowned thief Richard Pace (Pierce Brosnan) to help them pull off the heist of the century. Th...

70: Great White
Action & AdventureJuly 16, 2021
A blissful tourist trip turns into a nightmare when five seaplane passengers are stranded miles from shore. In a desperate bid for survival, the group try to ma...

71: Fast Times At Ridgemont High
ComedyAugust 13, 1982
Academy Award®-winner Sean Penn leads an all-star cast (Jennifer Jason Leigh, Phoebe Cates, Judge Reinhold, Ray Walston) in this hilarious portrayal of a group...

72: True Grit (2010)
WesternDecember 22, 2010
Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughes...

73: Beverly Hills Cop
Action & AdventureDecember 1, 1984
The heat is on in this fast paced action-comedy starring Eddie Murphy as Axel Foley, a street smart Detroit cop tracking down his best friend's killer in Beverl...

74: Modern Times
ComedyJanuary 1, 1936
Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin’s last outing as the Little Tramp, puts the iconic character to work as a giddily inept factory employee who becomes smitten wi...

75: Apocalypse Now (Final Cut)
Action & AdventureAugust 15, 1979
Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Academy Award®-winning director Francis Ford Coppola's visionary Vietnam War epic starring Martin Sheen and Marlon Brando wit...

76: Stagecoach
WesternJanuary 1, 1939
This is where it all started. John Ford’s smash hit and enduring masterpiece Stagecoach revolutionized the western, elevating it from B movie to the A-list an...

77: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
WesternOctober 4, 1969
Paul Newman and Robert Redford set the standard for the buddy film with this western classic. Sundance (Redford) is a mighty quick draw, and his partner Butch (...

78: The Sleepless Unrest
HorrorJuly 13, 2021
The world-famous haunted house that inspired the Conjuring films has recently been sold and is now open to paranormal investigations. A small group of close fri...

79: Kung Fu Panda
Kids & FamilyJune 6, 2008
Prepare for awesomeness with this delightful Academy Award®-nominated DreamWorks Animation film. Jack Black is the voice of PO, a noodle slurping dreamer who m...

80: Grease
MusicalsJune 16, 1978
John Travolta solidified his position as the most versatile and magnetic screen presence of the decade in this film version of the smash hit play Grease. Record...

81: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: 40th Anniversary
HorrorJune 21, 2014
40 years ago, five youths on a weekend getaway in the Texas countryside fell prey to a butcher in a mask made of human skin and his cannibalistic family, and ho...

82: Independence Day
Sci-Fi & FantasyAugust 9, 1996
On July 2nd, communications systems worldwide are sent into chaos by a strange atmospheric interference. First thought to be meteors, they are later revealed to...

83: Jaws
ThrillerJune 20, 1975
Directed by Academy Award® winner Steven Spielberg, Jaws set the standard for edge-of-your seat suspense, quickly becoming a cultural phenomenon and forever ch...

84: Seven Samurai
Action & AdventureJanuary 1, 1954
One of the most thrilling movie epics of all time, Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabita...

85: Spider-Man: Homecoming
Action & AdventureJuly 7, 2017
Spider-Man [Tom Holland] begins to navigate his new identity as the web-slinging super hero under the watchful eye of his mentor Tony Stark.

86: Heat (1995)
Action & AdventureDecember 15, 1995
Academy Award-winners Robert DeNiro ('Showtime,' 'Analyze This') and Al Pacino ('Insomnia,' 'Any Given Sunday') -- together for the first time since 'The Godfat...

87: Throne of Blood
Action & AdventureJanuary 1, 1957
A vivid, visceral Macbeth adaptation, Throne of Blood, directed by Akira Kurosawa, sets Shakespeare’s definitive tale of ambition and duplicity in a ghostly, ...

88: Kill Bill: Volume 2
Action & AdventureApril 16, 2004
In this thrilling sequel, acclaimed writer-director Quentin Tarantino complete the quest for revenge begun by The Bride (Uma Thurman) in KILL BILL, VOL. 1. Havi...

89: The Sixth Sense
DramaAugust 6, 1999
Hollywood superstar Bruce Willis brings a powerful presence to an edge-of-your-seat thriller from writer-director M. Night Shyamalan (Oscar**-nominee for Best O...

90: Die in a Gunfight
Action & AdventureJuly 16, 2021
A visually stunning movie with an exciting mix of action, humor, and heart, DIE IN A GUNFIGHT follows Mary (Alexandra Daddario) and Ben (Diego Boneta), the star...

91: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Sci-Fi & FantasyNovember 16, 1977
Richard Dreyfuss stars as cable worker Roy Neary, who along with several other stunned bystanders experience a close encounter of the first kind - witnessing UF...

92: The Courier (2021)
DramaMarch 19, 2021
In this true-life Cold War spy thriller, unassuming British businessman Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) becomes entangled in one of the greatest internati...

93: Eastern Promises
ThrillerSeptember 21, 2007
Viggo Mortensen and Academy Award® nominee Naomi Watts star in this electrifying thriller from critically acclaimed director David Cronenberg. Criminal masterm...

94: The Princess Bride
Sci-Fi & FantasySeptember 25, 1987
Return to a time when men were men and swamps were swamps. Fire swamps, that is. Full of quicksand and Rodents of Unusual Size. Lagoons were inhabited by shriek...

95: Blood Simple
ThrillerJanuary 18, 1985
Joel and Ethan Coen’s career-long darkly comic road trip through misfit America began with this razor-sharp, hard-boiled neonoir set somewhere in Texas, where...

96: The Marksman (2021)
Action & AdventureApril 20, 2021
Ex-Marine and hardened Arizona rancher Jim Hanson (Liam Neeson) simply wants to be left alone as he tries to make a living on an isolated stretch of borderland....

97: Reservoir Dogs
Action & AdventureOctober 23, 1992
Four Perfect Killers. One Perfect Crime. Critically acclaimed for its raw power and breathtaking ferocity, Reservoir Dogs is the brilliant American gangster mov...

98: Mortal Kombat (2021)
Action & AdventureApril 23, 2021
MMA fighter Cole Young, accustomed to taking a beating for money, is unaware of his heritage—or why Outworld's Emperor Shang Tsung has sent his best warrior, ...

99: Pretty Woman
ComedyMarch 23, 1990
Academy Award(R) winner Julia Roberts and Golden Globe winner Richard Gere will leave you breathless in PRETTY WOMAN. Vivian (Roberts) is a spirited, streetwise...

100: The Kid
ComedyJanuary 1, 1921
Charlie Chaplin was sitting atop the movie world in 1921 when he decided (against heavy studio resistance) to make THE KID, his first dramatic comedy -- a tale ...

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