Curated by SceneIt · United States
This SceneIt list helps you quickly choose engaging favorites worth making time for this weekend. Results are selected for the United States and balance audience response with practical watchability.
Updated 2026-08-04 · 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.
2003 · TMDB 7.1/10 · 6,273 votes
Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his straight-A students the finer points of rock 'n' roll and the power of sticking it to the man. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2013 · TMDB 7.9/10 · 12,104 votes
In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2012 · TMDB 7.3/10 · 6,937 votes
College student Beca knows she does not want to be part of a clique, but that's exactly where she finds herself after arriving at her new school. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1984 · TMDB 7.2/10 · 4,660 votes
Fast-talking, quick-thinking Detroit street cop Axel Foley has bent more than a few rules and regs in his time, but when his best friend is murdered, he heads to sunny Beverly Hills to work the case like only he can. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2015 · TMDB 7.0/10 · 6,982 votes
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into animals and sent off into The Woods. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2012 · TMDB 8.1/10 · 4,873 votes
A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2001 · TMDB 7.3/10 · 1,304 votes
Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2003 · TMDB 7.4/10 · 8,203 votes
Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie star shooting a TV commercial -- find an odd solace and pensive freedom to be real in each other's company, away from their lives in America. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1984 · TMDB 7.9/10 · 4,135 votes
After a global war, the seaside kingdom known as the Valley of the Wind remains one of the last strongholds on Earth untouched by a poisonous jungle and the powerful insects that guard it. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2020 · TMDB 7.3/10 · 6,700 votes
A hardened gun-for-hire's latest mission becomes a soul-searching race to survive when he's sent into Bangladesh to rescue a drug lord's kidnapped son. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1987 · TMDB 7.8/10 · 6,247 votes
Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1973 · TMDB 8.0/10 · 3,032 votes
A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1987 · TMDB 7.6/10 · 1,945 votes
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1978 · TMDB 8.0/10 · 4,316 votes
Three steelworkers enlist in the army and are sent to Vietnam, one leaving behind a rushed marriage, the others a shared love. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2009 · TMDB 7.0/10 · 4,348 votes
A father and his son walk alone through burned America. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1991 · TMDB 7.1/10 · 5,112 votes
When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1995 · TMDB 8.1/10 · 4,619 votes
After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously injured when confronting the police. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1996 · TMDB 7.5/10 · 877 votes
Karl Childers, a mentally disabled man, has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for killing his mother and her lover. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1941 · TMDB 8.0/10 · 6,132 votes
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2024 · TMDB 7.3/10 · 1,550 votes
When a Delta Force special ops mission goes terribly wrong, Air Force drone pilot Reaper has 48 hours to remedy what has devolved into a wild rescue operation. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.