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by e-65977 • Created 7 months ago • Modified 7 months ago
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  • Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, and Frances Fisher in Titanic (1997)

    1. Titanic

    19973h 14mPG-1375Metascore
    7.9 (1.4M)
    A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious, ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.
    DirectorJames CameronStarsLeonardo DiCaprioKate WinsletBilly Zane
  • James Franco in 127 Hours (2010)

    2. 127 Hours

    20101h 34mR82Metascore
    7.5 (418K)
    A mountain climber becomes trapped under a boulder while canyoneering alone near Moab, Utah and resorts to desperate measures in order to survive.
    DirectorDanny BoyleStarsJames FrancoAmber TamblynKate Mara
  • Cillian Murphy in Oppenheimer (2023)

    3. Oppenheimer

    20233hR90Metascore
    8.3 (934K)
    A dramatization of the life story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who had a large hand in the development of the atomic bombs that brought an end to World War II.
    DirectorChristopher NolanStarsCillian MurphyEmily BluntMatt Damon
  • Chiwetel Ejiofor in 12 Years a Slave (2013)

    4. 12 Years a Slave

    20132h 14mR96Metascore
    8.1 (771K)
    In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
    DirectorSteve McQueenStarsChiwetel EjioforMichael Kenneth WilliamsMichael Fassbender

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