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23 films on FilmAbouts return to this idea.
The Matrix
1999 · Sci-Fi / Action · Lana & Lilly Wachowski
“An allegory about awakening from an artificial reality and questioning the systems that control us.”
The Shining
1980 · Horror / Drama · Stanley Kubrick
“A haunted-house film in which the haunting is a family already broken before it arrives.”
The Godfather
1972 · Crime / Drama · Francis Ford Coppola
“The youngest son of a crime dynasty is drawn into the family business and slowly becomes the very thing he once rejected.”
Get Out
2017 · Horror / Thriller / Mystery · Jordan Peele
“A young Black man visits his white girlfriend's parents and discovers a conspiracy that turns visitors into prisoners of their own bodies.”
A Clockwork Orange
1971 · Crime / Sci-Fi / Satire · Stanley Kubrick
“A charismatic young thug is 'cured' of violence by the state — and loses the one thing that made him human: the ability to choose.”
The Godfather Part II
1974 · Crime / Drama · Francis Ford Coppola
“Michael consolidates his empire while his father's rise is told in parallel — two stories about what it costs to protect a family.”
Chinatown
1974 · Neo-noir / Mystery · Roman Polanski
“A private eye hired for an adultery case uncovers a conspiracy over Los Angeles' water — and a crime too deep to fix.”
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1975 · Drama · Miloš Forman
“A rebel fakes insanity to avoid prison work and starts a war of nerves with the ward's quiet tyrant.”
Star Wars
1977 · Sci-Fi / Adventure · George Lucas
“A farm boy leaves home to rescue a princess and discovers the myth he was born into.”
Apocalypse Now
1979 · War / Drama · Francis Ford Coppola
“A captain travels upriver to assassinate a colonel who has gone beyond the war's rules.”
The Empire Strikes Back
1980 · Sci-Fi / Adventure · Irvin Kershner
“The rebels scatter, Luke trains with Yoda, and a confession changes everything.”
Raiders of the Lost Ark
1981 · Adventure / Action · Steven Spielberg
“An archaeologist races Nazis to find the Ark of the Covenant.”
Brazil
1985 · Sci-Fi / Satire · Terry Gilliam
“A clerk in a bureaucratic dystopia chases a woman from his dreams.”
Full Metal Jacket
1987 · War / Drama · Stanley Kubrick
“Marines are built in boot camp and tested in the ruins of Huế.”
Akira
1988 · Animation / Sci-Fi · Katsuhiro Otomo
“In Neo-Tokyo, a biker gang member gains psychic powers he cannot control.”
Do the Right Thing
1989 · Drama / Comedy · Spike Lee
“On the hottest day of the year, a Brooklyn block reaches boiling point.”
Goodfellas
1990 · Crime / Drama · Martin Scorsese
“Henry Hill always wanted to be a gangster — and the film lets us feel why, until it doesn't.”
The Silence of the Lambs
1991 · Thriller / Horror / Crime · Jonathan Demme
“An FBI trainee asks one monster to help her catch another.”
Schindler's List
1993 · Drama / History / War · Steven Spielberg
“A profiteer who came to Kraków for money ends up saving more than a thousand lives.”
Se7en
1995 · Crime / Thriller / Mystery · David Fincher
“Two detectives track a killer staging the seven deadly sins.”
The Truman Show
1998 · Comedy / Drama / Sci-Fi · Peter Weir
“A man discovers his entire life is a television show.”
The Dark Knight
2008 · Action / Crime / Drama · Christopher Nolan
“Batman faces a criminal who wants to prove anyone can be corrupted.”
Mad Max: Fury Road
2015 · Action / Sci-Fi / Adventure · George Miller
“A warrior helps enslaved wives escape a tyrant in a two-hour chase.”
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