1. Moonlight
The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
It has an average vote of 7.391 on TMDB.
2. Nocturnal Animals
Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.
It has an average vote of 7.4 on TMDB.
3. Lion
A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.
It has an average vote of 8.073 on TMDB.
4. Hell or High Water
A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas.
It has an average vote of 7.299 on TMDB.
5. Arrival
Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
It has an average vote of 7.602 on TMDB.
6. Fences
In 1950s Pittsburgh, a frustrated African-American father struggles with the constraints of poverty, racism, and his own inner demons as he tries to raise a family.
It has an average vote of 6.873 on TMDB.
7. Silence
Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.
It has an average vote of 7.124 on TMDB.
8. La La Land
Mia, an aspiring actress, serves lattes to movie stars in between auditions and Sebastian, a jazz musician, scrapes by playing cocktail party gigs in dingy bars, but as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart.
It has an average vote of 7.902 on TMDB.
9. Allied
In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
It has an average vote of 6.79 on TMDB.
10. Loving
The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court.
It has an average vote of 6.698 on TMDB.
11. I, Daniel Blake
A middle aged carpenter, who requires state welfare after injuring himself, is joined by a single mother in a similar scenario.
It has an average vote of 7.742 on TMDB.
12. Hacksaw Ridge
WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
It has an average vote of 8.194 on TMDB.
13. Hidden Figures
The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.
It has an average vote of 8.058 on TMDB.
14. Captain Fantastic
A father living in the forests of the Pacific Northwest with his six young kids tries to assimilate back into society.
It has an average vote of 7.912 on TMDB.
15. Sing Street
A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.
It has an average vote of 7.869 on TMDB.
16. Money Monster
Financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor takes over their studio.
It has an average vote of 6.44 on TMDB.
17. The Founder
The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.
It has an average vote of 7.118 on TMDB.
18. Jackie
An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.
It has an average vote of 6.4 on TMDB.
19. Elle (Elle)
When Michèle, the CEO of a gaming software company, is attacked in her home by an unknown assailant, she refuses to let it alter her precisely ordered life. She manages crises involving family, all the while becoming engaged in a game of cat and mouse with her stalker.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
20. Split
Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him — as well as everyone around him — as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.
It has an average vote of 7.3 on TMDB.
