Scarface
1983 · TMDB 8.2/10 · 13,236 votes
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
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Top Rated Movies
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
How we chose these titles
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.
Capernaum
2018 · TMDB 8.2/10 · 2,008 votes
After running away from his negligent parents, committing a violent crime and being sentenced to five years in jail, a hardened, streetwise 12-year-old Lebanese boy sues his parents in protest of the life they have given him. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Tokyo Story
1953 · TMDB 8.1/10 · 1,240 votes
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Piper
2016 · TMDB 8.1/10 · 1,753 votes
A mother bird tries to teach her little one how to find food by herself. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
The Seventh Seal
1957 · TMDB 8.1/10 · 3,396 votes
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Togo
2019 · TMDB 8.1/10 · 2,333 votes
The untold true story set in the winter of 1925 that takes you across the treacherous terrain of the Alaskan tundra for an exhilarating and uplifting adventure that will test the strength, courage and determination of one man, Leonhard Seppala, and his lead sled dog, Togo. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Casablanca
1943 · TMDB 8.1/10 · 6,128 votes
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
The Kid
1921 · TMDB 8.1/10 · 2,413 votes
A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Vertigo
1958 · TMDB 8.1/10 · 6,414 votes
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising
2019 · TMDB 8.1/10 · 1,305 votes
Class 1-A visits Nabu Island where they finally get to do some real hero work. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Singin' in the Rain
1952 · TMDB 8.1/10 · 3,554 votes
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Dune: Part Two
2024 · TMDB 8.1/10 · 8,280 votes
Follow the mythic journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a path of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Central Station
1998 · TMDB 8.1/10 · 1,061 votes
An emotional journey of a former school teacher, who writes letters for illiterate people, and a young boy, whose mother has just died, as they search for the father he never knew. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Taxi Driver
1976 · TMDB 8.1/10 · 13,609 votes
Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Joker
2019 · TMDB 8.1/10 · 28,002 votes
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964 · TMDB 8.1/10 · 6,233 votes
After the insane General Jack D. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Persona
1966 · TMDB 8.1/10 · 2,441 votes
A young nurse, Alma, is put in charge of Elisabeth Vogler: an actress who is seemingly healthy in all respects, but will not talk. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Palmer
2021 · TMDB 8.1/10 · 1,943 votes
After 12 years in prison, former high school football star Eddie Palmer returns home to put his life back together—and forms an unlikely bond with Sam, an outcast boy from a troubled home. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
WALL·E
2008 · TMDB 8.1/10 · 20,569 votes
After hundreds of years doing what he was built for, WALL•E— a robot designed to clean up the earth—discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
Full Metal Jacket
1987 · TMDB 8.1/10 · 11,601 votes
A pragmatic U.S. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.