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 6.912 on TMDB.
2. 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 8.154 on TMDB.
3. 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 6.401 on TMDB.
4. 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 6.657 on TMDB.
5. Sleuth
On his sprawling country estate, an aging writer matches wits with the struggling actor who has stolen his wife's heart.
It has an average vote of 6.2 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 6.3 on TMDB.
7. 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 6.086 on TMDB.
8. Closer
Two couples disintegrate when they begin destructive adulterous affairs with each other.
It has an average vote of 6.8 on TMDB.
9. Syriana
The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty. Meanwhile, veteran CIA agent Bob Barnes uncovers an assassination plot with unsettling origins.
It has an average vote of 6.42 on TMDB.
10. Pieces of a Woman
When a young mother's home birth ends in unfathomable tragedy, she begins a year-long odyssey of mourning that fractures relationships with loved ones in this deeply personal story of a woman learning to live alongside her loss.
It has an average vote of 7.03 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 6.919 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 7.4 on TMDB.
13. Black Sea
A rogue submarine captain pulls together a misfit crew to go after a sunken treasure rumored to be lost in the depths of the Black Sea. As greed and desperation take control on-board their claustrophobic vessel, the increasing uncertainty of the mission causes the men to turn on each other to fight for their own survival.
It has an average vote of 6.254 on TMDB.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. 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 7.027 on TMDB.
17. 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 6.521 on TMDB.
18. 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 7.434 on TMDB.
19. 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.
20. 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 6.561 on TMDB.
