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  • Claire Danes, Leonardo DiCaprio, John Leguizamo, Jamie Kennedy, Dash Mihok, and Harold Perrineau in Romeo + Juliet (1996)

    1. Romeo + Juliet

    19962hPG-1360Metascore
    6.7 (253K)
    Shakespeare's famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona still retaining its original dialogue.
    DirectorBaz LuhrmannStarsLeonardo DiCaprioClaire DanesJohn Leguizamo
  • Ran (1985)

    2. Ran

    19852h 40mR97Metascore
    8.2 (146K)
    In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.
    DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsTatsuya NakadaiAkira TeraoJinpachi Nezu
  • Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce in The Two Popes (2019)

    3. The Two Popes

    20192h 5mPG-1375Metascore
    7.6 (143K)
    Behind Vatican walls, the conservative Pope Benedict XVI and the liberal future Pope Francis must find common ground to forge a new path for the Catholic Church.
    DirectorFernando MeirellesStarsJonathan PryceAnthony HopkinsJuan Minujín
  • Zhao shi gu er an (2013)

    4. Zhao shi gu er an

    2013– TV Series
    7.3 (16)
    StarsXiubo WuChun SunCherrie Ying
  • Jeremy Irons, Ben Whishaw, and Tom Hiddleston in The Hollow Crown (2012)

    5. The Hollow Crown

    2012–201617 epsTV-14TV Series
    8.2 (7.7K)
    A mini-series of adaptations of Shakespeare's history plays: Richard II, Henry IV: Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V.
    StarsAnton LesserSimon Russell BealeTom Georgeson
  • Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman in The Father (2020)

    6. The Father

    20201h 37mPG-1388Metascore
    8.2 (217K)
    A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages. When he tries to understand what is happening around him, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.
    DirectorFlorian ZellerStarsAnthony HopkinsOlivia ColmanMark Gatiss
  • My Fair Lady (1964)

    7. My Fair Lady

    19642h 50mG95Metascore
    7.7 (106K)
    In 1910s London, snobbish phonetics professor Henry Higgins agrees to a wager that he can make a crude flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, presentable in high society.
    DirectorGeorge CukorStarsAudrey HepburnRex HarrisonStanley Holloway
  • Leonardo DiCaprio, David Thewlis, and Romane Bohringer in Total Eclipse (1995)

    8. Total Eclipse

    19951h 51mR42Metascore
    6.4 (17K)
    Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.
    DirectorAgnieszka HollandStarsLeonardo DiCaprioDavid ThewlisRomane Bohringer
  • Lin-Manuel Miranda in Hamilton (2020)

    9. Hamilton

    20202h 40mPG-1388Metascore
    8.3 (130K)
    The real life of one of America's foremost founding fathers and first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. Captured live on Broadway from the Richard Rodgers Theater with the original Broadway cast.
    DirectorThomas KailStarsLin-Manuel MirandaPhillipa SooLeslie Odom Jr.

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