1. Cold Mountain
In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind to tend their farm. As Inman makes his perilous journey home, Ada struggles to keep their home intact with the assistance of Ruby, a mysterious drifter sent to help her by a kindly neighbor.
It has an average vote of 6.917 on TMDB.
2. My Blueberry Nights (藍莓之夜)
Elizabeth has just been through a particularly nasty breakup, and now she's ready to leave her friends and memories behind as she chases her dreams across the country. In order to support herself on her journey, Elizabeth picks up a series of waitress jobs along the way. As Elizabeth crosses paths with a series of lost souls whose yearnings are even greater than her own, their emotional turmoil ultimately helps her gain a greater understanding of her own problems...
It has an average vote of 6.405 on TMDB.
3. Good Will Hunting
When professors discover that an aimless janitor is also a math genius, a therapist helps the young man confront the demons that are holding him back.
It has an average vote of 8.155 on TMDB.
4. Pushing Tin
Two air traffic controllers who thrive on living dangerously compete to outdo each other on several levels.
It has an average vote of 5.876 on TMDB.
5. Bowling for Columbine
This is not a film about gun control. It is a film about the fearful heart and soul of the United States, and the 280 million Americans lucky enough to have the right to a constitutionally protected Uzi. From a look at the Columbine High School security camera tapes to the home of Oscar-winning NRA President Charlton Heston, from a young man who makes homemade napalm with The Anarchist's Cookbook to the murder of a six-year-old girl by another six-year-old. Bowling for Columbine is a journey through the US, through our past, hoping to discover why our pursuit of happiness is so riddled with violence.
It has an average vote of 7.533 on TMDB.
6. Ripley's Game
Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. Ripley - ever a student of human nature - initiates a game to turn a mild and innocent local picture framer into a hit man. The artisan, Jonathan Trevanny, who's dying of cancer, has a wife, young son, and little to leave them. If Ripley draws Jonathan into the game, can Ripley maintain control? Does it stop at one killing? What if Ripley develops a conscience?
It has an average vote of 6.327 on TMDB.
7. Sliding Doors
London publicist Helen, effortlessly slides between parallel storylines that show what happens when she does or does not catch a train back to her apartment. Love. Romantic entanglements. Deception. Trust. Friendship. Comedy. All come into focus as the two stories shift back and forth, overlap and surprisingly converge.
It has an average vote of 6.563 on TMDB.
8. Closer
Two couples disintegrate when they begin destructive adulterous affairs with each other.
It has an average vote of 6.84 on TMDB.
9. Behind the Candelabra
Based on the autobiographical novel, the tempestuous 6-year relationship between Liberace and his lover, Scott Thorson, is recounted.
It has an average vote of 6.651 on TMDB.
10. The Goddess of Fortune (La dea fortuna)
Alessandro and Arturo have been together for over 15 years and, despite the feeling they still have for each other, their relationship is now at crisis. When Alessandro’s best friend, out of the blue, asks them to take care of her two kids for a few days, something changes in their daily routine and love will drive them to a crazy and unexpected turn in their life.
It has an average vote of 7.13 on TMDB.
11. Dogma
The latest battle in the eternal war between Good and Evil has come to New Jersey in the late, late 20th Century. Angels, demons, apostles and prophets walk among the cynics and innocents of America and duke it out for the fate of humankind.
It has an average vote of 6.918 on TMDB.
12. Enemy at the Gates
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
It has an average vote of 7.416 on TMDB.
13. Michael Clayton
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.
It has an average vote of 6.781 on TMDB.
14. The Thirteenth Floor
Los Angeles. A wealthy man, known as Mr. Fuller, discovers a shocking secret about the world he lives in. Fearing for his life, he leaves a desperate message for a friend of his in the most unexpected place.
It has an average vote of 7.026 on TMDB.
15. Invictus
Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his people together through the universal language of sport, Mandela rallies South Africa's rugby union team as they make their historic run to the 1995 Rugby World Cup Championship match.
It has an average vote of 7.19 on TMDB.
16. A Perfect Murder
Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his most treasured acquisition. But she needs more than simply the role of dazzling accessory.
It has an average vote of 6.52 on TMDB.
17. Shakespeare in Love
Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," before it's even written. When a lovely noblewoman auditions for a role, they fall into forbidden love -- and his play finds a new life . As their relationship progresses, Shakespeare's comedy soon transforms into tragedy.
It has an average vote of 6.868 on TMDB.
18. Hereafter
Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.
It has an average vote of 6.087 on TMDB.
19. Boys Don't Cry
A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
20. Rounders
A young reformed gambler must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
