Peacock Top Movies, a list by Keith Stewart

91

/52073/

87

/29511/

4.6

/2443744/

89

/146/

98

/53477/

82

/22/

3.5

age 15+

Imprisoned 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.

85

8.3

/65742/

80

/4195/

75

/1103/

3.9

/146937/

100

/28/

94

/91/

age 4+

Bitter and hateful, the Grinch is irritated at the thought of a nearby village having a happy time celebrating Christmas. Disguised as Santa Claus, with his dog made to look like a reindeer, he decides to raid the village to steal all the Christmas things.

85

7.9

/799742/

79

/36865/

78

/18271/

4.1

/2392470/

88

/212/

90

/84689/

84

/34/

4.0

age 6+

It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a mission to retrieve a gorgeous princess from the clutches of a fire-breathing dragon, Shrek teams up with an unlikely compatriot -- a wisecracking donkey.

84

8.4

/1209251/

81

/29593/

82

/18472/

4.2

/2841750/

84

/111/

93

/28528/

68

/26/

4.0

age 15+

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.

83

7.5

/132707/

74

/5431/

75

/2632/

4.0

/566468/

92

/399/

83

/727/

85

/65/

4.0

age 13+

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.

82

8.6

/1538826/

86

/31998/

85

/18705/

4.3

/1132476/

78

/134/

94

/31674/

61

/36/

3.5

age 16+

A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.

82

7.8

/218928/

80

/14021/

82

/8568/

4.1

/1655028/

95

/196/

94

/1882/

73

/29/

3.0

age 8+

Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll: He has burned through eight of his nine lives, leaving him with only one life left. Puss sets out on an epic journey to find the mythical Last Wish and restore his nine lives.

82

8.3

/963131/

81

/18461/

80

/10662/

4.1

/1460947/

80

/182/

93

/28635/

71

/32/

3.5

age 18+

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.

82

8.1

/879428/

82

/34257/

78

/14005/

4.1

/1615147/

99

/211/

91

/18190/

75

/37/

3.0

age 6+

As the son of a Viking leader on the cusp of manhood, shy Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III faces a rite of passage: he must kill a dragon to prove his warrior mettle. But after downing a feared dragon, he realizes that he no longer wants to destroy it, and instead befriends the beast – which he names Toothless – much to the chagrin of his warrior father.

81

7.4

/108103/

72

/3939/

70

/1450/

3.9

/602172/

91

/361/

74

/222/

93

/60/

4.0

age 15+

As celebrated conductor Lydia Tár starts rehearsals for a career-defining symphony, the consequences of her past choices begin to echo in the present.

81

7.6

/348729/

75

/7776/

72

/3888/

3.8

/181745/

89

/225/

86

/32470/

76

/37/

4.0

age 15+

In Arizona in the late 1800s, infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans, struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, volunteers to deliver him alive to the "3:10 to Yuma", a train that will take the killer to trial.

81

7.7

/7490/

76

/293/

74

/82/

3.9

/3919/

96

/100/

89

/213/

71

/29/

3.5

age 11+

Set against the backdrop of a high school football season, Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin’s documentary UNDEFEATED is an intimate chronicle of three underprivileged student-athletes from inner-city Memphis and the volunteer coach trying to help them beat the odds on and off the field. For players and coaches alike, the season will be not only about winning games — it will be about how they grapple with the unforeseeable events that are part of football and part of life.

81

7.8

/396065/

79

/22199/

76

/10189/

3.8

/849118/

92

/186/

90

/5311/

77

/48/

3.5

age 7+

Five years have passed since Hiccup and Toothless united the dragons and Vikings of Berk. Now, they spend their time charting unmapped territories. During one of their adventures, the pair discover a secret cave that houses hundreds of wild dragons -- and a mysterious dragon rider. Now, Hiccup and Toothless find themselves at the center of a battle to protect Berk from a power-hungry warrior.

80

7.3

/15344/

75

/1052/

72

/184/

4.0

/273354/

96

/134/

91

/96/

78

/38/

3.0

age 14+

In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can't teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.

80

7.8

/261343/

78

/7924/

77

/5036/

4.0

/543097/

91

/80/

90

/6656/

75

/23/

3.0

age 17+

After an accident, acclaimed novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued by a nurse who claims to be his biggest fan. Her obsession takes a dark turn when she holds him captive in her remote Colorado home and forces him to write back to life the popular literary character he killed off.

80

7.7

/527552/

76

/27922/

74

/9261/

4.0

/847169/

91

/280/

85

/3628/

82

/48/

3.0

age 17+

An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.

79

7.6

/351544/

75

/8654/

71

/3981/

3.6

/280420/

93

/194/

88

/7159/

72

/42/

3.5

age 17+

Inspired by a true story, a comedy centered on a 27-year-old guy who learns of his cancer diagnosis and his subsequent struggle to beat the disease.

79

7.4

/174916/

78

/14247/

77

/6918/

3.7

/572414/

90

/272/

87

/2132/

71

/42/

3.5

age 7+

As Hiccup fulfills his dream of creating a peaceful dragon utopia, Toothless’ discovery of an untamed, elusive mate draws the Night Fury away. When danger mounts at home and Hiccup’s reign as village chief is tested, both dragon and rider must make impossible decisions to save their kind.

78

7.3

/48809/

72

/1942/

71

/678/

3.6

/109798/

88

/279/

91

/177/

74

/51/

3.5

age 15+

New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation — a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.

78

8.1

/484/

72

/27/

73

/6/

3.7

/598/

90

/10/

86

/2/

80

/5/

3.0

A documentary following JR's artwork giving a global voice to everyday people.

78

7.6

/304968/

76

/12294/

73

/5535/

3.9

/379606/

92

/88/

84

/7598/

70

/17/

3.0

age 17+

In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy into an armed confrontation with crime lord Boddicker so they can use his body to support their untested RoboCop prototype. But when RoboCop learns of the company's nefarious plans, he turns on his masters.

78

7.4

/29465/

73

/1229/

71

/560/

4.0

/105865/

99

/245/

55

/117/

92

/38/

3.5

age 13+

A pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an unintended pregnancy.

79

78

7.8

/4438/

74

/416/

68

/84/

3.8

/2679/

100

The aim: to select the ideal mode of transport for each leg of a pilgrimage from Venice, Italy to Pau in France – home to a legendary street circuit and the origins of Grand Prix racing. On the way we prepare by taking to the track at Monza – the home of Italian Formula One. We try to get noticed on the road course in Monaco in a Bugatti, a Lamborghini and a Model T Ford. After cruising the canals in Venice we take to the tarmac and things look good - thanks to the Ferrari F12 Berlinetta and Mercedes SLS Black. Throw in a Pagani Huayra, Porsche Cayman S and a GT3 as well as the Aston Martin Vanquish centenary edition, Bentley V8 convertible, Rolls Royce Phantom coupe and the face-bending BAC Mono all seems pretty perfect to us.

78

7.7

/20069/

76

/1003/

70

/243/

3.6

/37351/

93

/14/

82

/491/

A postman, S.D. Kluger, decides to answer some of the most common questions about Santa Claus, and tells us about a baby named Kris who is raised by a family of elf toymakers named Kringle. When Kris grows up, he wants to deliver toys to the children of Sombertown. But its Mayor is too mean to let that happen. And to make things worse, the Winter Warlock lives between the Kringles and Sombertown.

80

77

7.4

/2855/

74

/438/

77

/226/

3.6

/4381/

93

/513/

91

/6024/

Explore how one man's relentless drive and invention of the atomic bomb changed the nature of war forever, led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and unleashed mass hysteria.

77

6.9

/9005/

68

/498/

66

/142/

3.8

/35117/

97

/129/

85

/141/

81

/30/

3.0

age 15+

Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable to leave him again, she kidnaps him so they can build their life together. As the years go by, their family grows and Terry becomes a smart yet quiet teenager, but the secret that has defined their lives threatens to destroy the home they have so improbably built.

77

7.3

/7914/

73

/902/

70

/138/

3.5

/10488/

85

/13/

92

/85/

age 13+

After Santa Barbara Police Chief Carlton Lassiter is ambushed and left for dead, Shawn and Gus return to help him and find themselves embroiled in a case involving the personal, the professional – and even the supernatural.

77

7.5

/56376/

72

/1049/

73

/906/

3.6

/53305/

74

/43/

85

/1219/

68

/9/

4.0

age 16+

Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.

77

7.7

/464644/

78

/13989/

75

/7096/

3.8

/557749/

77

/64/

84

/5320/

63

/19/

3.5

age 16+

In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad: a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nary a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.

76

6.9

/254888/

70

/13013/

75

/5594/

3.3

/1336738/

81

/272/

88

/1722/

65

/38/

4.0

age 16+

Finney Blake, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.

76

7.4

/547646/

75

/25199/

73

/13122/

4.1

/1771865/

89

/238/

69

/1892530/

75

/40/

3.0

age 6+

Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey set off to Far, Far Away to meet Fiona's mother and father, the Queen and King. But not everyone is happily ever after, as Shrek and the King find it difficult to get along. But when the Fairy Godmother discovers that Fiona has married Shrek instead of her son Prince Charming as King Harold had promised, she plots to destroy their marriage and replace the ogre with her son Charming.

76

7.4

/9363/

73

/475/

69

/165/

3.7

/21716/

87

/94/

97

/39/

61

/22/

3.0

age 14+

Journalist Michael Ausiello embarks on a rollercoaster ride of emotions when Kit Cowan, his partner of 14 years, is diagnosed with terminal cancer.

76

6.8

/384785/

70

/18758/

70

/7858/

3.6

/2122416/

93

/553/

61

/5322/

81

/56/

4.0

age 16+

Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited.

75

6.8

/908/

71

/67/

64

/5/

3.4

/891/

81

/26/

98

/143/

3.0

Philadelphia. 1969. British physician, Dr. Audrey Evans, is newly recruited to a world-renowned children’s hospital and battles sexism, medical conventions, and the subterfuge of her peers to develop revolutionary treatments, purchase the first Ronald McDonald House for families of patients and, ultimately, impact the lives of millions of children around the world. Based on a true story.

75

6.8

/248112/

70

/16163/

69

/3435/

3.4

/998545/

82

/376/

84

/740/

73

/57/

3.5

age 13+

Fresh off an almost career-ending accident, stuntman Colt Seavers has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life while still doing his day job.

75

IMDb 9

7.4

/105037/

72

/5023/

73

/1137/

3.9

/1010167/

88

/320/

84

/389/

72

/61/

2.5

age 15+

Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.

75

7.5

/243931/

75

/6498/

73

/2442/

3.6

/167029/

73

/176/

85

/29388/

67

/35/

3.5

age 13+

Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious voice narrating his life.

74

7.8

/117900/

79

/9424/

79

/2419/

3.8

/917369/

77

/260/

97

/4378/

61

/43/

2.0

age 9+

On the rugged isle of Berk, where Vikings and dragons have been bitter enemies for generations, Hiccup stands apart, defying centuries of tradition when he befriends Toothless, a feared Night Fury dragon. Their unlikely bond reveals the true nature of dragons, challenging the very foundations of Viking society.

74

6.8

/310858/

68

/16272/

68

/4658/

3.7

/1949398/

83

/479/

69

/3550/

77

/64/

3.5

age 16+

Residents in a lonely gulch of inland California bear witness to an uncanny, chilling discovery.

74

7.3

/37684/

74

/1147/

71

/629/

3.5

/13857/

82

/95/

83

/820/

64

/28/

3.0

age 14+

When his son dies while hiking the famed Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route in the Pyrenees, Tom flies to France to claim the remains. Looking for insights into his estranged child’s life, he decides to complete the 500-mile mountain trek to Spain. Tom soon joins up with other travelers and realizes they’re all searching for something.

74

7.1

/3428/

68

/88/

67

/46/

3.7

/1812/

84

/93/

85

/618/

74

/29/

3.0

age 15+

A documentary film that highlights two street derived dance styles, Clowning and Krumping, that came out of the low income neighborhoods of L.A.. Director David LaChapelle interviews each dance crew about how their unique dances evolved. A new and positive activity away from the drugs, guns, and gangs that ruled their neighborhood. A raw film about a growing sub-culture movements in America.

74

7.7

/273692/

75

/5792/

75

/4382/

3.7

/107246/

61

/207/

82

/11286/

63

/38/

3.5

age 17+

Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mother and son. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, her quest for truth exposes a world of corruption.

75

73

7.5

/5737/

71

/600/

68

/130/

3.6

/8054/

89

/36/

In preparation for a shotgun wedding before the birth of Baby Guster, Shawn and Gus go rogue in an attempt to track down Selene’s estranged husband, as Lassiter grapples with the future of his career.

73

7.1

/76320/

73

/3489/

71

/1216/

3.7

/110280/

78

/50/

81

/7963/

66

/13/

age 10+

On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal and restore order to his world, before the grotesque race of Skeksis find and use the crystal for evil.

73

6.2

/23443/

62

/1408/

65

/603/

3.5

/249842/

95

/113/

61

/155/

82

/27/

3.5

A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, with deadly consequences.

73

7.3

/221482/

73

/7131/

71

/3839/

3.8

/352251/

68

/82/

79

/5221/

60

/21/

3.5

age 17+

In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers who call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. Believing that the members of the gang could be surfers, the F.B.I. sends young agent Johnny Utah to the beach undercover to mix with the surfers and gather information.

73

7.0

/183438/

69

/7453/

66

/3400/

3.3

/191819/

91

/199/

75

/2192/

77

/31/