Clever Movies, a list by dave Miller

7.0

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62

/101/

3.5

/2726/

83

/113/

71

/307/

74

/26/

4.0

In New York City, the lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a house-cleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life's cold unpredictability.

74

7.0

/275397/

71

/10513/

68

/5578/

3.5

/300027/

85

/187/

72

/9461/

69

/31/

3.5

age 15+

Three high school students make an incredible discovery, leading to their developing uncanny powers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities and use them to their advantage, their lives start to spin out of control, and their darker sides begin to take over.

65

6.3

/258747/

69

/18590/

69

/8634/

3.4

/880079/

69

/361/

47

/2014/

61

/50/

3.0

age 13+

Debbie Ocean, a criminal mastermind, gathers a crew of female thieves to pull off the heist of the century at New York's annual Met Gala.

76

7.4

/330601/

75

/16590/

74

/6869/

3.6

/238956/

84

/108/

75

/1460/

69

/28/

3.5

age 16+

Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.

79

7.8

/523994/

77

/15703/

73

/7411/

3.9

/598220/

86

/256/

86

/10426/

71

/41/

3.5

age 18+

Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.

71

6.8

/42036/

67

/1436/

66

/634/

3.4

/27918/

88

/117/

67

/2254/

69

/24/

3.0

age 17+

In the wake of a freak accident, Lance suffers the worst tragedy and the greatest opportunity of his life. He is suddenly faced with the possibility of fame, fortune and popularity, if he can only live with the knowledge of how he got there.

71

7.3

/167301/

74

/3858/

70

/1849/

3.6

/108531/

64

/80/

87

/4553/

53

/32/

3.0

age 16+

Poker addict Mike McDermott knows the game inside out, but loses his money one night in a game to Russian-American gangster Teddy KGB. Promising his partner Jo he'll give up, he meets up with best friend Lester 'Worm' Murphy, just out of prison and owing lots of money to the wrong kind of people. McDermott becomes his co-guarantor and now there's only one way to raise the money, the pair have to get back into the game.

82

8.1

/1211797/

81

/32889/

80

/16647/

4.0

/2057081/

96

/203/

89

/19221/

75

/39/

3.0

age 12+

A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.

66

6.4

/164901/

67

/3770/

65

/2810/

3.2

/304450/

74

/62/

73

/11992/

51

/23/

3.0

age 13+

When she receives word that her longtime platonic pal Michael O'Neal is getting married to debutante Kimberly Wallace, food critic Julianne Potter realizes her true feelings for Michael -- and sets out to sabotage the wedding.

53

6.0

/14851/

60

/284/

59

/214/

3.0

/9914/

45

/44/

51

/355/

41

/14/

2.0

Jake and Kristy Briggs are newlyweds. Being young, they are perhaps a bit unprepared for the full reality of marriage and all that it (and their parents) expect from them. Do they want babies? Their parents certainly want them to. Is married life all that there is? Things certainly aren't helped by Jake's friend Davis, who always seems to turn up just in time to put a spanner in the works.

59

6.1

/62318/

62

/2586/

59

/851/

3.1

/47742/

84

/118/

49

/902/

71

/32/

1.0

age 17+

Weekend trips, office parties, late night conversations, drinking on the job, marriage pressure, biological clocks, holding eye contact a second too long… you know what makes the line between “friends” and “more than friends” really blurry? Beer.

68

7.3

/171339/

75

/15402/

71

/4538/

3.3

/128704/

61

/261/

70

/878/

58

/43/

3.0

age 16+

CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.

80

8.0

/731588/

79

/21621/

76

/8594/

3.8

/810957/

94

/144/

88

/14897/

72

/14/

3.0

age 11+

A narcissistic TV weatherman, along with his attractive-but-distant producer, and his mawkish cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.

65

57

6.4

/3682/

63

/92/

60

/119/

3.5

/8912/

83

/30/

48

/36/

69

/13/

A young woman and her mother run away to the seaside town of Mohang to escape their mounting debt. The young woman begins writing a script for a short film in order to calm her nerves: There are three women named Anne, and each woman consecutively visits the seaside town of Mohang. A young woman tends to the small hotel by the Mohang foreshore owned by her parents. A certain lifeguard can be seen restlessly wandering up and down the beach that lies nearby. Each Anne stays at this small hotel, receives some assistance from the owner's daughter, and ventures onto the beach where they meet the lifeguard.

57

6.4

/6065/

64

/199/

60

/109/

3.2

/2317/

49

/43/

65

/129/

47

/22/

2.0

When Paula leaves her mate Pedro, he misses her and looks for comfort with his best friends, Javier and Sonia. Paula is having an affair with Javier. Pedro tries to find who is the secret lover of Paula, and hires a private eye. Meanwhile, while comforting Pedro, Sonia has a one night stand with him and Javier thinks she is cheating on him with her lesbian friend Luzia.

58

6.7

/478806/

71

/20068/

69

/11911/

3.0

/452132/

36

/173/

51

/6297/

53

/36/

age 14+

In the not-too-distant future, the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest struggle to negotiate for their immortality. A poor young man who suddenly comes into a fortune of time finds himself on the run from a corrupt police force known as the "time keepers".

59

6.2

/186295/

65

/6912/

64

/4010/

3.4

/546423/

61

/190/

57

/7155/

52

/32/

2.0

age 17+

Ten years after the original Woodsboro murders, one of the survivors returns home to promote their new book about surviving trauma, only for a new Ghostface killer to emerge, targeting a new group of teens.

47

6.0

/36810/

63

/1199/

60

/842/

2.7

/4631/

17

/6/

33

/767/

A master thief recruits a notorious thief to help him steal two famous Faberge eggs from an impenetrable vault in an effort to pull off one final job and repay his debt to the Russian mob.

72

6.7

/6632/

67

/210/

61

/110/

3.5

/2710/

86

/85/

69

/383/

75

/24/

3.5

Ray, a construction worker trapped in an unhappy marriage, pursues an affair with his neighbor, Carla. Carla's husband, Greg, is a mobster who keeps large sums of drug money in their home. With this in mind, Carla comes up with a plan: She and Ray will steal Greg's money, burn down her house, convince Greg the money was lost in the fire and then run away together. Carla's scheme, however, doesn't go off as planned.

74

6.9

/96447/

69

/2712/

64

/1168/

3.5

/65660/

89

/57/

70

/1408/

81

/22/

3.5

age 17+

Chili Palmer is a Miami mobster who gets sent to L.A. to collect a bad debt from Harry Zimm, a Hollywood producer who specializes in cheesy horror films. When Chili meets Harry's leading lady, the romantic sparks fly. After pitching his own life story as a movie idea, Chili learns that being a mobster and being a Hollywood producer really aren't all that different.

89

IMDb 47

9.3

/3144126/

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.

77

41

7.8

/4126/

80

/63/

68

/25/

3.8

/1704/

83

/1/

1989 is an important year in the political history of Hungary. However, Petya and his friends couldn't care less. They are about to graduate high school. The only important things to them are the parties, girls, making some easy cash. And of course, passing the upcoming exam with the leaked questions.

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.

69

7.2

/195988/

71

/5347/

68

/2501/

3.2

/41144/

79

/142/

74

/11906/

69

/32/

2.5

age 17+

Terry is a small-time car dealer trying to leave his shady past behind and start a family. Martine is a beautiful model from Terry's old neighbourhood who knows that Terry is no angel. When Martine proposes a foolproof plan to rob a bank, Terry recognises the danger but realises this may be the opportunity of a lifetime.

73

7.0

/55396/

69

/1412/

69

/1072/

3.6

/112995/

83

/60/

74

/578/

74

/16/

3.0

After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police thinks she is the murderer, the real killer is intent on silencing her only witness.

56

54

6.4

/14693/

65

/303/

64

/180/

3.0

/3500/

37

/81/

50

/606/

53

/29/

Fleeing 1930s New York and leaving behind a chequered past, the giltzy divorcee Mrs Stella Erlynne travels to Italy's sun-dappled Amalfi coast. Mrs Erlynne's appearance causes a stir amongst the visiting aristocracy. Based on the Oscar Wilde play "Lady Windemere's Fan."

45

5.8

/32179/

64

/1012/

58

/636/

2.9

/9937/

12

/17/

35

/423/

33

/13/

Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for local villagers. After losing his pilot's license, Billy Covington is recruited, and ends up in the middle of a bunch of lunatic pilots, gun-running by his friend Gene Ryack, and opium smuggling by his own superiors.

57

5.7

/42548/

60

/1947/

59

/1087/

2.9

/71322/

66

/88/

46

/1613/

59

/21/

In the California desert, the adventures of a telepathic killer-tire, mysteriously attracted by a very pretty girl, as witnessed by incredulous onlookers.

80

7.8

/391777/

78

/15115/

75

/6071/

3.8

/301124/

90

/194/

89

/9664/

67

/29/

3.5

age 14+

With only three weeks left in his three-year contract, Sam Bell is eager to return to Earth. Stationed alone at a Moon-based facility with his computer assistant GERTY, an unexpected accident sets off a series of unsettling events that shake his isolation.

55

6.4

/34967/

59

/906/

58

/398/

3.0

/2532/

38

/39/

Four friends become stranded in Eastern Europe and have to become hit men, prostitutes, corrupt cops, smugglers and more to make it home.

85

7.8

/810272/

75

/26453/

73

/12831/

3.9

/2429599/

96

/335/

87

/19738/

95

/42/

4.0

age 15+

In 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programmer Mark Zuckerberg begins work on a new concept that eventually turns into the global social network known as Facebook. Six years later, Mark is one of the youngest billionaires ever, but his unprecedented success leads to both personal and legal complications when he ends up on the receiving end of two lawsuits, one involving his former friend.

83

8.1

/480087/

80

/11038/

78

/6287/

4.2

/1035399/

92

/66/

94

/13407/

75

/20/

age 14+

After learning that a boy their age has been accidentally killed near their rural homes, four boys decide to go see the body. Gordie, Vern, Chris, and Teddy encounter a mean junk man and a marsh full of leeches, but they also learn more about one another and their very different home lives. Just a lark at first, the boys' adventure evolves into a defining event in their lives.

65

6.7

/28357/

67

/871/

66

/1388/

3.3

/26975/

68

/77/

66

/621/

59

/22/

Alex and his sister run a business designed to break up relationships. They are hired by a rich man to break up the wedding of his daughter. The only problem is that they only have one week to do so.

78

7.2

/182462/

71

/3842/

67

/1892/

3.8

/132649/

90

/203/

69

/21689/

82

/36/

4.0

age 17+

A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit.

58

6.1

/238469/

65

/7716/

59

/3763/

2.6

/131889/

56

/227/

41

/12228/

56

/43/

3.0

age 15+

James Bond is sent to investigate the connection between a North Korean terrorist and a diamond mogul, who is funding the development of an international space weapon.

76

6.8

/267415/

67

/10730/

65

/6274/

3.3

/718686/

98

/249/

72

/3277/

86

/34/

3.5

age 15+

A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.

87

7.9

/122439/

78

/3479/

77

/1922/

4.4

/477967/

92

/150/

89

/3366/

93

/26/

4.0

age 16+

Salvatore "Sal" Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin' Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzeria's Wall of Fame exhibits only Italian actors. Buggin' Out believes a pizzeria in a black neighborhood should showcase black actors, but Sal disagrees. The wall becomes a symbol of racism and hate to Buggin' Out and to other people in the neighborhood, and tensions rise.

75

7.5

/377464/

76

/14522/

73

/6240/

3.8

/322372/

81

/78/

79

/7871/

60

/17/

3.5

age 17+

Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Recall, a company that manufactures memories. When his memory implant goes wrong, Doug can no longer be sure what is and isn't reality.

77

7.3

/423149/

73

/11488/

70

/5711/

3.6

/294278/

93

/97/

82

/15956/

82

/26/

3.0

age 17+

In order to foil a terrorist plot, an FBI agent undergoes facial transplant surgery and assumes the identity of a criminal mastermind. The plan turns sour when the criminal wakes up prematurely and seeks revenge.

78

7.5

/462669/

74

/12583/

72

/6059/

3.9

/474711/

86

/238/

84

/13668/

71

/41/

3.5

age 17+

Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin.

60

6.6

/57761/

69

/2801/

63

/882/

3.2

/44434/

65

/130/

61

/1258/

57

/36/

1.5

age 17+

Forty-year-old misanthrope, Guy Trilby, enters the National Golden Quill Spelling Bee through a loophole in the rules.

70

7.1

/119860/

72

/2931/

69

/1477/

3.4

/62173/

73

/159/

75

/2107/

61

/38/

3.0

age 14+

After a workplace shooting in New Orleans, a trial against the gun manufacturer pits lawyer Wendell Rohr against shady jury consultant Rankin Fitch, who uses illegal means to stack the jury with people sympathetic to the defense. But when juror Nicholas Easter and his girlfriend Marlee reveal their ability to sway the jury into delivering any verdict they want, a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game begins.

81

8.2

/842172/

82

/18835/

81

/11159/

4.2

/949357/

90

/87/

94

/18513/

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.

48

6.0

/267321/

64

/7362/

61

/5647/

2.6

/165227/

21

/170/

42

/7302/

37

/37/

2.0

age 14+

American tourist Frank meets mysterious British woman Elise on the train to Venice. Romance seems to bud, but there's more to her than meets the eye.

53

5.7

/180177/

61

/6972/

60

/3880/

2.9

/525755/

45

/164/

38

/7357/

56

/32/

2.0

age 16+

As bodies begin dropping around the Hollywood set of STAB 3, the third film based on the gruesome Woodsboro killings, Sidney and other survivors are once again terrorized by another Ghostface killer.

81

7.4

/442129/

75

/23393/

72

/9461/

3.8

/555604/

94

/325/

87

/5000/

75

/46/

4.0

age 13+

Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet—eradicating 'The Syndicate', an International and highly-skilled rogue organization committed to destroying the IMF.

64

7.3

/106479/

71

/1983/

69

/1101/

3.4

/22799/

41

/130/

79

/5227/

41

/30/

3.0

age 18+

A low-ranking thug is entrusted by his boss to dispose of a gun that killed corrupt cops, but things spiral out of control when the gun ends up in wrong hands.

73

7.2

/76156/

71

/1053/

68

/804/

3.5

/45627/

85

/110/

84

/9941/