Ihsaan Recommends, a list by Riz

7.9

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79

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77

/1433/

3.8

/30333/

84

/45/

Audience

87

/60378/

age 9+

Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal quest to reclaim his destiny as the leader and liberator of the Hebrew people.

94

9.2

/2011552/

88

/27000/

87

/19331/

4.6

/1134540/

97

Audience

98

/736053/

100

/16/

4.0

age 16+

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.

79

7.6

/847316/

73

/24564/

74

/12871/

3.8

/1716366/

86

/580/

Audience

70

/6406/

84

/62/

4.0

age 17+

Los Angeles, 1969. TV star Rick Dalton, a struggling actor specializing in westerns, and stuntman Cliff Booth, his best friend, try to survive in a constantly changing movie industry. Dalton is the neighbor of the young and promising actress and model Sharon Tate, who has just married the prestigious Polish director Roman Polanski…

91

9.3

/2887541/

91

/41444/

87

/25841/

4.5

/1250677/

89

/140/

Audience

98

/890157/

82

/21/

4.0

age 15+

Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.

91

8.9

/2219173/

86

/42389/

84

/26827/

4.3

/2061836/

92

/181/

Audience

96

/1130802/

95

/27/

4.0

age 18+

A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.

87

8.2

/696006/

82

/24263/

82

/8527/

4.0

/1167721/

96

/476/

Audience

99

/29699/

78

/63/

4.0

age 12+

After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of TOP GUN graduates for a specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen.

10

86

8.8

/2549806/

86

/70377/

83

/35471/

4.2

/2058865/

87

/372/

Audience

91

/574212/

74

/42/

4.0

age 14+

Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.

86

8.1

/1085729/

79

/44948/

75

/21589/

4.2

/1198542/

97

/439/

Audience

86

/130441/

90

/51/

4.0

age 16+

An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order.

10

81

8.2

/1582409/

81

/48458/

80

/23166/

4.0

/1982838/

80

/288/

Audience

83

/182633/

75

/47/

3.5

age 18+

A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.

10

77

8.5

/1619448/

85

/31827/

82

/17695/

4.1

/707187/

79

/258/

Audience

87

/34128168/

67

/46/

2.0

age 16+

In the year 180, the death of emperor Marcus Aurelius throws the Roman Empire into chaos. Maximus is one of the Roman army's most capable and trusted generals and a key advisor to the emperor. As Marcus' devious son Commodus ascends to the throne, Maximus is set to be executed. He escapes, but is captured by slave traders. Renamed Spaniard and forced to become a gladiator, Maximus must battle to the death with other men for the amusement of paying audiences.

10

79

8.8

/2322704/

87

/48148/

84

/28188/

4.3

/2360366/

80

/185/

Audience

96

/1096497/

67

/36/

2.0

age 17+

A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.

91

8.5

/958605/

85

/33259/

85

/17440/

4.6

/2771042/

99

/482/

Audience

90

/7296/

97

/56/

4.0

age 16+

All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.

75

7.1

/402748/

71

/13327/

71

/6695/

3.8

/2030063/

83

/405/

Audience

63

/1156/

72

/54/

4.0

age 17+

Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.

10

85

8.4

/1583299/

82

/36050/

82

/21477/

4.3

/1696865/

89

/336/

Audience

88

/777733/

69

/36/

4.0

age 17+

In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.

92

9.0

/1450105/

88

/20464/

85

/15241/

4.5

/678482/

98

/137/

Audience

97

/413306/

95

/30/

4.0

age 15+

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

91

8.7

/1256872/

85

/19785/

84

/12189/

4.5

/991492/

95

/164/

Audience

97

/431430/

92

/21/

4.0

age 18+

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.

87

8.2

/1059759/

79

/19013/

79

/11457/

4.3

/1045055/

93

/291/

Audience

86

/400790/

92

/39/

4.0

age 17+

Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.

87

8.2

/920239/

79

/13846/

81

/11443/

4.2

/1091535/

89

/159/

Audience

93

/262011/

94

/23/

4.0

age 17+

A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feed his urge for violent action.

9

85

8.6

/1798296/

85

/33378/

83

/20127/

4.3

/1497108/

83

/88/

Audience

95

/470290/

65

/22/

4.0

age 18+

Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Sommerset researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer's mind, while his novice partner, Mills, scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case.

89

8.6

/1547654/

85

/28150/

83

/15694/

4.3

/1421408/

95

/153/

Audience

95

/848620/

86

/20/

4.0

age 17+

Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and that Starling, as an attractive young woman, may be just the bait to draw him out.

80

7.6

/199376/

76

/4197/

73

/1923/

3.9

/315297/

93

/68/

Audience

90

/236765/

82

/21/

3.0

age 16+

The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners, jocks and geeks. Floyd is a star athlete, but he also likes smoking weed, which presents a conundrum when his football coach demands he sign a "no drugs" pledge.

78

8.5

/1245260/

84

/24228/

83

/14195/

4.0

/754084/

74

/66/

Audience

95

/275164/

64

/12/

2.5

age 16+

Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda. Before long, Mathilda's thoughts turn to revenge, and she considers following in Léon's footsteps.

89

8.7

/1072051/

84

/12340/

84

/9913/

4.4

/497075/

93

/120/

Audience

96

/280411/

84

/20/

4.0

age 16+

A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.

88

8.5

/1421761/

83

/24816/

81

/14357/

4.3

/821406/

91

/287/

Audience

94

/739340/

85

/39/

4.0

age 17+

To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.

10

85

8.5

/1694318/

84

/43856/

81

/25480/

4.3

/1632095/

87

/299/

Audience

92

/431277/

81

/42/

age 18+

With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.

83

8.3

/719082/

81

/13051/

79

/6880/

4.3

/495142/

83

/151/

Audience

94

/223047/

76

/23/

3.5

age 16+

Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest. Each man recognizes and respects the ability and the dedication of the other even though they are aware their cat-and-mouse game may end in violence.

91

9.0

/1363704/

87

/17096/

85

/11661/

4.6

/612475/

96

Audience

97

/412766/

90

/18/

age 16+

In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

74

7.6

/714996/

76

/17806/

74

/10303/

3.9

/1689129/

68

/154/

Audience

85

/306372/

64

/35/

3.0

age 18+

A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.

85

8.3

/1210562/

80

/18658/

80

/11647/

4.0

/705563/

87

/192/

Audience

93

/661460/

84

/34/

4.0

age 17+

Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.

87

8.1

/726411/

80

/14175/

78

/7621/

4.2

/693241/

94

/108/

Audience

92

/235133/

88

/26/

4.0

age 16+

Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to be a snap and nobody's going to get hurt... until people start dying. Enter Police Chief Marge, a coffee-drinking, parka-wearing - and extremely pregnant - investigator who'll stop at nothing to get her man. And if you think her small-time investigative skills will give the crooks a run for their ransom... you betcha!

74

7.5

/374958/

72

/7513/

75

/5874/

4.0

/551800/

76

/160/

Audience

74

/6998/

69

/34/

age 18+

After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.

81

8.3

/790145/

82

/14964/

81

/9945/

4.2

/524186/

90

/86/

Audience

94

/325376/

78

/20/

2.5

age 17+

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

83

8.1

/860089/

80

/19936/

78

/10727/

4.1

/730614/

80

/192/

Audience

93

/357341/

71

/46/

4.0

age 17+

Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money.

86

7.8

/315449/

79

/10135/

81

/11697/

3.9

/1381769/

94

/369/

Audience

86

/17275/

94

/53/

4.0

age 16+

In 1980s Italy, a relationship begins between seventeen-year-old teenage Elio and the older adult man hired as his father's research assistant.

10

77

8.2

/1455856/

81

/31901/

82

/23171/

4.1

/1540722/

69

/266/

Audience

77

/2375990/

63

/37/

3.5

age 18+

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.

10

86

8.3

/635495/

83

/12960/

82

/8166/

4.4

/684309/

83

/160/

Audience

94

/134400/

78

/33/

4.0

age 17+

With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors.

10

81

8.3

/898373/

81

/14413/

80

/9493/

4.1

/724793/

78

/139/

Audience

93

/329103/

71

/32/

3.5

age 18+

The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.

84

8.4

/1106129/

81

/23201/

82

/16724/

4.2

/1556802/

83

/106/

Audience

93

/483832/

68

/26/

4.0

age 16+

Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.

93

9.0

/864616/

88

/11941/

85

/7964/

4.6

/542253/

100

/61/

Audience

97

/106198/

97

/18/

4.0

age 12+

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.

89

8.6

/1449170/

85

/40743/

82

/19721/

4.2

/1253902/

93

/140/

Audience

96

/865491/

90

/24/

4.0

age 7+

Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess and restore peace and justice in the Empire.

79

8.3

/881062/

80

/14700/

82

/12336/

4.1

/792160/

87

/82/

Audience

93

/437803/

77

/22/

2.0

age 17+

In a near-future Britain, young Alexander DeLarge and his pals get their kicks beating and raping anyone they please. When not destroying the lives of others, Alex swoons to the music of Beethoven. The state, eager to crack down on juvenile crime, gives an incarcerated Alex the option to undergo an invasive procedure that'll rob him of all personal agency. In a time when conscience is a commodity, can Alex change his tune?

90

8.4

/709915/

82

/10419/

82

/7800/

4.4

/515007/

97

/96/

Audience

94

/286885/

94

/15/

4.0

age 17+

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

85

8.6

/1173608/

85

/24897/

81

/12313/

4.3

/524525/

91

/87/

Audience

95

/750532/

75

/22/

3.5

age 15+

Set ten years after the events of the original, James Cameron’s classic sci-fi action flick tells the story of a second attempt to get the rid of rebellion leader John Connor, this time targeting the boy himself. However, the rebellion has sent a reprogrammed terminator to protect Connor.

91

8.6

/848905/

86

/23037/

85

/15608/

4.5

/1650360/

96

/222/

Audience

96

/338574/

96

/41/

MAL

8.7

/1288333/

4.0

age 9+

A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.

86

8.3

/719228/

80

/15433/

80

/11030/

4.3

/816051/

92

/118/

Audience

89

/300434/

84

/25/

4.0

age 12+

Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.

9

74

7.0

/253444/

68

/10815/

71

/3993/

3.8

/588553/

90

/384/

Audience

64

/1277/

82

/60/

3.0

age 16+

Prince Amleth is on the verge of becoming a man when his father is brutally murdered by his uncle, who kidnaps the boy's mother. Two decades later, Amleth is now a Viking who's on a mission to save his mother, kill his uncle and avenge his father.

81

7.7

/598112/

76

/15722/

75

/9998/

4.0

/946220/

90

/265/

Audience

77

/495228/

79

/40/

4.0

age 18+

A cartoonist teams up with an ace reporter and a law enforcement officer to track down an elusive serial killer.

10

80

7.8

/704238/

77

/19161/

75

/12125/

3.9

/1098919/

93

/277/

Audience

79

/120210/

79

/43/