Curated by SceneIt · United States
This SceneIt list helps you quickly choose highly rated favorites backed by a meaningful number of TMDB votes. Results are selected for the United States and balance audience response with practical watchability.
Updated 2026-08-03 · Ratings from TMDB
We rank eligible titles using TMDB audience ratings, vote confidence, relevance to the theme, and current popularity. Ratings can change as new votes are added.
2018 · TMDB 8.2/10 · 1,813 votes
After his classmate and crush is diagnosed with a pancreatic disease, an average high schooler sets out to make the most of her final days. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1998 · TMDB 8.2/10 · 17,521 votes
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2000 · TMDB 8.2/10 · 21,184 votes
After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his devious son takes power and demotes Maximus, one of Rome's most capable generals who Marcus preferred. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2018 · TMDB 8.2/10 · 13,052 votes
Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2020 · TMDB 8.2/10 · 4,610 votes
Tanjiro Kamado, joined with Inosuke Hashibira, a boy raised by boars who wears a boar's head, and Zenitsu Agatsuma, a scared boy who reveals his true power when he sleeps, boards the Infinity Train on a new mission with the Fire Hashira, Kyojuro Rengoku, to defeat a demon who has been tormenting the people and killing the demon slayers who oppose it! This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2020 · TMDB 8.2/10 · 1,994 votes
A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2019 · TMDB 8.2/10 · 4,745 votes
A selfish postman and a reclusive toymaker form an unlikely friendship, delivering joy to a cold, dark town that desperately needs it. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2012 · TMDB 8.2/10 · 2,509 votes
After her werewolf lover unexpectedly dies in an accident, a woman must find a way to raise the son and daughter that she had with him. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2009 · TMDB 8.2/10 · 24,486 votes
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2019 · TMDB 8.2/10 · 5,964 votes
Seventeen-year-old Stella spends most of her time in the hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2013 · TMDB 8.2/10 · 1,074 votes
"One Direction: This Is Us" is a captivating and intimate all-access look at life on the road for the global music phenomenon. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2022 · TMDB 8.2/10 · 9,072 votes
Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll: He has burned through eight of his nine lives, leaving him with only one life left. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2006 · TMDB 8.2/10 · 17,848 votes
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1957 · TMDB 8.2/10 · 1,731 votes
An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a socialite. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1977 · TMDB 8.2/10 · 22,582 votes
Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2011 · TMDB 8.2/10 · 9,159 votes
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1985 · TMDB 8.2/10 · 1,890 votes
The invasion of a village in Belarus by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1980 · TMDB 8.2/10 · 19,139 votes
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2014 · TMDB 8.2/10 · 2,872 votes
A peculiar neighbor offers hope to a recent widow who is struggling to raise a teenager who is unpredictable and, sometimes, violent. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2017 · TMDB 8.2/10 · 21,191 votes
Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.