1. Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (भाग मिल्खा भाग)
The true story of the "Flying Sikh" world champion runner and Olympian Milkha Singh who overcame the massacre of his family, civil war during the India-Pakistan partition, and homelessness to become one of India's most iconic athletes.
It has an average vote of 7.424 on TMDB.
2. Kumbalangi Nights (കുമ്പളങ്ങി നൈറ്റ്സ്)
Four brothers living in the fishing hamlet of Kumbalangi share a love-hate relationship with each other. Their relationship progresses to another level when Saji, Boney and Franky decide to help Bobby stand by his love.
It has an average vote of 8.033 on TMDB.
3. Pattanapravesham (പട്ടണപ്രവേശം)
CID officers Ramdas and Vijayan go to Kerala to find the murderer of a police officer. While doing so, they face a dangerous crime syndicate that deals in drug trafficking.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
4. Kireedam (കിരീടം)
Sethu aspires to become a police officer to fulfil his father's dream. However, his life turns upside down when he intervenes in a scuffle with a criminal to save his father's life.
It has an average vote of 7.7 on TMDB.
5. Punjabi House (പഞ്ചാബി ഹൗസ്)
Unni has many debts and no way to repay them. He decides to commit suicide so that his parents can use the insurance money to repay the debts, but he is saved by a fisherman named Gangadharan and his employee Ramanan . When they notice Unni drowning, Unni pretends to be deaf and mute so that he can fake his death and the insurance money reaches his family. Gangadharan however has a debt of his own, to a Punjabi family of money lenders who have settled in Kerala. He is forced to make Unni and Ramanan to work at their home until he can repay it. A series of interesting events follow after Unni meets Pooja at the house, who is deaf and mute.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
6. Kakkothikkavile Appooppan Thadikal (കാക്കോത്തിക്കാവിലെ അപ്പൂപ്പൻ താടികൾ)
The lives of two sisters separated in childhood look set to intersect dramatically again. Two sisters are separated when a beggar kidnaps the younger of them one day. Murali doesn’t want to study and runs away with some gypsies, making friends with a gypsy girl, Kakkothi . Unlike Murali, Kakkothi wants to study. Where will this ambition take her?
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
7. Citizen Kane
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
It has an average vote of 8.009 on TMDB.
8. Gandhi
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of 'passive resistance', endeavouring to win freedom for his people without resorting to bloodshed.
It has an average vote of 7.556 on TMDB.
9. Parasite (기생충)
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.
It has an average vote of 8.5 on TMDB.
10. The Handmaiden (아가씨)
In 1930s Korea, a swindler and a young woman pose as a Japanese count and a handmaiden to seduce a Japanese heiress and steal her fortune.
It has an average vote of 8.224 on TMDB.
11. The Shape of Water
An other-worldly story, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962, where a mute janitor working at a lab falls in love with an amphibious man being held captive there and devises a plan to help him escape.
It has an average vote of 7.246 on TMDB.
12. Nomadland
A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
It has an average vote of 7.21 on TMDB.
13. Good Morning, Vietnam
A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes popular among the troops, his superiors disapprove of his humour.
It has an average vote of 7.313 on TMDB.
14. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.
It has an average vote of 8.072 on TMDB.
15. The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot
Decades after serving in WWII and assassinating Adolf Hitler, a legendary American war veteran must now hunt down the fabled Bigfoot.
It has an average vote of 5.4 on TMDB.
16. Lost in Translation
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America.
It has an average vote of 7.394 on TMDB.
17. The Specials (Hors Normes)
For twenty years, Bruno and Malik have lived in a different world—the world of autistic children and teens. In charge of two separate nonprofit organizations , they train young people from underprivileged areas to be caregivers for extreme cases that have been refused by all other institutions. It’s an exceptional partnership, outside of traditional settings, for some quite extraordinary characters.
It has an average vote of 7.845 on TMDB.
18. Doctor Sleep
Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance faces the ghosts of the past when he meets Abra, a courageous teen who desperately needs his help -- and who possesses a powerful extrasensory ability called the "shine".
It has an average vote of 7.149 on TMDB.
19. El Dorado
Cole Thornton, a gunfighter for hire, joins forces with an old friend, Sheriff J.P. Harrah. Together with a fighter and a gambler, they help a rancher and his family fight a rival rancher that is trying to steal their water.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
20. Ida (Ida)
Anna, a young novitiate in 1960s Poland, is on the verge of taking her vows when she discovers a family secret dating back to the years of the German occupation.
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.