20 TOP RATED MOVIES YOU MUST WATCH BEFORE YOU DIE

20 TOP RATED MOVIES YOU MUST WATCH BEFORE YOU DIE

#1
MEMENTO(2000)
8.5/10

A man juggles searching for his wife's murderer and keeping his short-term memory loss from being an obstacle. (113 mins.)

Director: Christopher Nolan

Stars: Guy Pearce, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, Mark Boone Junior

#2.
INCEPTION (2010)
8.8/10

A thief, who steals corporate secrets through use of dream-sharing technology, is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a CEO. (148 mins.)

Director: Christopher Nolan

Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Ken Watanabe

#3

3-IRON

8.1/10

transient young man breaks into empty homes to partake of the vacationing residents' lives for a few days. (88 mins.)

Director: Ki-duk Kim

Stars: Seung-yeon Lee, Hyun-kyoon Lee, Hyuk-ho Kwon, Jeong-ho Choi

#4.

Oldboy (2003)

  8.4/10 

After being kidnapped and imprisoned for fifteen years, Oh Dae-Su is released, only to find that he must find his captor in five days. (120 mins.)

Director: Chan-wook Park

Stars: Min-sik Choi, Ji-tae Yu, Hye-jeong Kang, Dae-han Ji

#5.

The Dark Knight (2008)

9.0/10 

When the menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, the caped crusader must come to terms with one of the greatest psychological tests of his ability to fight injustice. (152 mins.)

Director: Christopher Nolan

Stars: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine

#6.City of God (2002)  8.7/10 

Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer. (130 mins.)

Director: Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund

Stars: Alexandre Rodrigues, Matheus Nachtergaele, Leandro Firmino, Phellipe Haagensen

 #7.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
  8.8/10 

A meek Hobbit from the Shire and eight companions set out on a journey to destroy the powerful One Ring and save Middle Earth from the Dark Lord Sauron. (178 mins.)

Director: Peter Jackson

Stars: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom, Sean Bean

#8.

The Lord oF THE RING :THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (2001)

8.7/10 

While Frodo and Sam edge closer to Mordor with the help of the shifty Gollum, the divided fellowship makes a stand against Sauron's new ally, Saruman, and his hordes of Isengard. (179 mins.)

Director: Peter Jackson

Stars: Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Orlando Bloom

#9

THE LORD OF THE RING: THE TWO TOWER (2000)   8.9/10 

Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring. (201 mins.)

Director: Peter Jackson

Stars: Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom

#10.

Spirited Away (2001)

  8.6/10 

During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts. (125 mins.)

Director: Hayao Miyazaki

Stars: Daveigh Chase, Suzanne Pleshette, Miyu Irino, Rumi Hiiragi

#11.

Black Swan (2010)

  8.0/10 

A committed dancer wins the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" only to find herself struggling to maintain her sanity. (108 mins.)

Director: Darren Aronofsky

Stars: Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder

#12.

The Lives of Others (2006)

  8.5/10 

In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives. (137 mins.)

Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Stars: Ulrich Mühe, Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Tukur 

#13.

The Departed (2006)

  8.5/10 

An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston. (151 mins.)

Director: Martin Scorsese

Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg

#14.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

  8.3/10 

When their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a procedure to have each other erased from their memories. But it is only through the process of loss that they discover what they had to begin with. (108 mins.)

Director: Michel Gondry

Stars: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Tom Wilkinson, Gerry Robert Byrne

#15.

Requiem for a Dream (2000)

  8.4/10 

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island people are shattered when their addictions run deep. (102 mins.)

Director: Darren Aronofsky

Stars: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans

#16.

The Pianist (2002)

  8.5/10 

A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II. (150 mins.)

Director: Roman Polanski

Stars: Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Emilia Fox 

#17.
ELITE SQUAD (2007)
8.1/10

1997, Captain Nascimento has to find a substitute for his occupation while trying to take down drug dealers and criminals before the Pope comes to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (115 mins.)

Director: José Padilha

Stars: Wagner Moura, André Ramiro, Caio Junqueira, Milhem Cortaz 

#18
ELITE  SQUAD : THE ENEMY WITHIN
8.1/10

After a prison riot, former-Captain Nascimento, now a high ranking security officer in Rio de Janeiro, is swept into a bloody political dispute that involves government officials and paramilitary groups. (115 mins.)

Director: José Padilha

Stars: Wagner Moura, Irandhir Santos, André Ramiro, Milhem Cortaz

#19.
PAN'S LABYRINTH

8.2/10

In the falangist Spain of 1944, the bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world. (118 mins.)

Director: Guillermo del Toro

Stars: Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú 

#20
GLADIATOR (2000)
8.5/10

When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge. (155 mins.)

Director: Ridley Scott

Stars: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed