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Rating
Rank
No
Title
Year
Director
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
2.5 Stars
2706
2670
The Flowers of War
2011
Yimou Zhang
Christian Bale, Paul Schneider, Shigeo Kobayashi, Atsurô Watabe
Drama / History / War
China / Hong Kong
Mandarin
NR
-
The Great Wall
2016
Yimou Zhang
Matt Damon, Tian Jing, Willem Dafoe, Andy Lau, Pedro Pascal, Hanyu Zhang
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Thriller / Period Film / Epic
China / USA
English
2.5 Stars
2704
2668
Seventeen Years
1999
Yuan Zhang
Lin Liu, Bingbing Li, Yeding Li, Song Liang, Yun Li
Drama / Crime
Italy / China
Mandarin
5 Stars
467
457
Nomadland
2020
Chloé Zhao
Frances McDormand, Gay DeForest, Patricia Grier, Linda May, Angela Reyes
Drama / Adventure
USA / Germany
English
3 Stars
2070
2038
The Rider
2017
Chloé Zhao
Brady Jandreau, Tim Jandreau, Lilly Jandreau, Cat Clifford, Terri Dawn Pourier
Drama / Western
USA
English
3 Stars
2121
2089
Hamnet
2025
Chloé Zhao
Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Zac Wishart, James Lintern, Joe Alwyn
Biography / Drama / History / Romance
UK
English
2.5 Stars
2704
2668
Behemoth
2015
Liang Zhao
Documentary
China / France
Mandarin
2.5 Stars
2785
2749
Crows and Sparrows
1949
Junli Zheng
Dan Zhao, Yinyan Wu, Daolin Sun, Yunzhu Shangguan
Drama
China
Mandarin
2.5 Stars
2238
2206
Ermo
1994
Xiaowen Zhou
Liya Ai, Peiqi Liu, Zhijun Ge, Haiyan Zhang, Zhenguo Yan, Xiao Yang
Drama / Comedy
Hong Kong / China
Mandarin
2.5 Stars
2339
2306
Hearts of the West
1975
Howard Zieff
Jeff Bridges, Andy Griffith, Donald Pleasence, Blythe Danner
Western / Comedy / Drama
USA
English
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Rating
Rank
No
Title
Year
Director
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
2.5 Stars
2593
2559
House Calls
1978
Howard Zieff
Walter Matthau, Glenda Jackson, Art Carney, Richard Benjamin, Candice Azzara
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2632
2597
Private Benjamin
1980
Howard Zieff
Goldie Hawn, Eileen Brennan, Armand Assante, Robert Webber, Sam Wanamaker
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2720
2684
My Girl
1991
Howard Zieff
Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis, Macaulay Culkin, Anna Chlumsky, Richard Masur
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Family
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2773
2737
Fun
1994
Rafal Zielinski
Renée Humphrey, Alicia Witt, William R. Moses, Leslie Hope, Ania Suli
Drama / Crime
Canada
English
3.5 Stars
1811
1782
Flow
2024
Gints Zilbalodis
Animation / Adventure / Family / Fantasy / Action
Latvia / Belgium / France
French (No Dialogue)
2.5 Stars
2572
2538
A Late Quartet
2012
Yaron Zilberman
Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Imogen Poots, Catherine Keener
Drama / Music
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2727
2691
Watermarks
2004
Yaron Zilberman
Judith Haspel, Trude Hirschler, Anni Lampl, Hanni Lux, Ann Marie Pisker
Documentary / History / Sports / Biography
France / Israel / USA
English
2.5 Stars
2694
2658
Early Works
1969
Zelimir Zilnik
Milja Vujanovic, Bogdan Tirnanic, Cedomir Radovic, Marko Nikolic
Comedy / Drama
Yugoslavia
Serbo-Croatian
2.5 Stars
2774
2738
Marble Ass
1995
Zelimir Zilnik
Vjeran Miladinovic, Nenad Rackovic, Milja Milenkovic, Milan Mumin
Comedy / Drama / War
Fed Rep of Yugoslavia
Serbian
5 Stars
117
115
High Noon
1952
Fred Zinnemann
Gary Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Katy Jurado, Grace Kelly
Thriller / Western
USA
English
5 Stars
247
241
From Here to Eternity
1953
Fred Zinnemann
Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English
5 Stars
361
354
A Man for All Seasons
1966
Fred Zinnemann
Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern, Robert Shaw, Orson Welles
Drama / History / Period Film
UK
English
4.5 Stars
549
538
The Nun's Story
1959
Fred Zinnemann
Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch
Drama / Religion
USA
English
4.5 Stars
758
743
The Day of the Jackal
1973
Fred Zinnemann
Edward Fox, Michel Lonsdale, Alan Badel, Michel Auclair
Thriller
UK / France
English
4.5 Stars
834
819
Julia
1977
Fred Zinnemann
Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Jason Robards
Drama / Biography
USA
English
4.5 Stars
861
844
The Men
1950
Fred Zinnemann
Marlon Brando, Teresa Wright, Everett Sloane, Jack Webb
Drama
USA
English
4 Stars
1080
1062
The Sundowners
1960
Fred Zinnemann
Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, Peter Ustinov
Drama / Adventure
UK / Australia
English
4 Stars
1087
1069
The Search
1948
Fred Zinnemann
Montgomery Clift, Aline MacMahon, Jarmila Novotna, Wendell Corey
Drama / War
Switzerland / USA
English
4 Stars
1380
1356
A Hatful of Rain
1957
Fred Zinnemann
Don Murray, Eva Marie Saint, Anthony Franciosa, Lloyd Nolan
Drama
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1760
1732
Oklahoma!
1955
Fred Zinnemann
Gordon MacRae, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson, Charlotte Greenwood
Musical / Romance / Western
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2350
2317
Act of Violence
1948
Fred Zinnemann
Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh, Mary Astor, Phyllis Thaxter
Thriller / Film-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2454
2420
The Member of the Wedding
1952
Fred Zinnemann
Ethel Waters, Julie Harris, Brandon De Wilde, Arthur Franz, Nancy Gates
Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2632
2597
The Seventh Cross
1944
Fred Zinnemann
Spencer Tracy, Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy, Agnes Moorehead
Drama / War
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2704
2668
Teresa
1951
Fred Zinnemann
Pier Angeli, John Ericson, Patricia Collinge, Richard Bishop
Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2704
2668
Other People's Children
2022
Rebecca Zlotowski
Virginie Efira, Roschdy Zem, Chiara Mastroianni, Callie Ferreira-Goncalves
Drama / Comedy
France
French
2.5 Stars
2777
2741
Compliance
2012
Craig Zobel
Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker, Pat Healy, Bill Camp, Philip Ettinger, James McCaffrey
Drama / Thriller
USA
English
4.5 Stars
943
925
The Dreamlife of Angels
1998
Erick Zonca
Élodie Bouchez, Natacha Régnier, Grégoire Colin
Drama
France
French
2.5 Stars
2332
2299
Julia
2008
Erick Zonca
Tilda Swinton, Saul Rubinek, Kate del Castillo, Aidan Gould, Jude Ciccolella
Drama / Thriller / Crime
France / USA / Mexico / Belgium
English
4 Stars
1460
1435
The Naked Gun
1988
David Zucker
Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, Ricardo Montalban
Comedy / Crime / Thriller / Detective
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1743
1716
Ghost
1990
Jerry Zucker
Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn
Romance / Thriller / Drama / Fantasy
USA
English
NR
-
First Knight
1995
Jerry Zucker
Sean Connery, Richard Gere, Julia Ormond, Ben Cross, Liam Cunningham
Adventure / Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2677
2641
Confessions of an Opium Eater
1962
Albert Zugsmith
Vincent Price, Linda Ho, Richard Loo, June Kyoto Lu
Drama / Action / Adventure
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2607
2573
Possession
1981
Andrzej Zulawski
Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neil, Margit Carstensen, Heinz Bennent, Johanna Hofer
Drama / Horror / Experimental
France / West Germany
English
2.5 Stars
2774
2738
On the Silver Globe
1988
Andrzej Zulawski
Andrzej Seweryn, Jerzy Trela, Grazyna Dylag, Waldemar Kownacki, Iwona Bielska
Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Action / Epic
Poland
Polish
2.5 Stars
2750
2714
Rapture
1979
Iván Zulueta
Eusebio Poncela, Cecilia Roth, Will More, Marta Fernández Muro
Drama / Horror
Spain
Spanish
3 Stars
2124
2092
Girl with a Suitcase
1961
Valerio Zurlini
Claudia Cardinale, Jacques Perrin, Luciana Angiolillo
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Italy / France
French
2.5 Stars
2686
2650
Cronaca familiare
1962
Valerio Zurlini
Marcello Mastroianni, Jacques Perrin, Salvo Randone, Sylvie
Drama
France / Italy
French
3.5 Stars
1817
1788
The Return
2003
Andrei Zvyagintsev
Vladimir Garin, Ivan Dobronravov, Konstantin Lavronenko
Drama
Russia
Russian
4.5 Stars
731
716
Leviathan
2014
Andrey Zvyagintsev
Elena Lyadova, Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Aleksey Serebryakov, Roman Madyanov
Drama / Documentary
Russia
Russian
4 Stars
1195
1175
Loveless
2017
Andrey Zvyagintsev
Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, Yanina Hope, Matvey Novikov
Drama
Russia / France
Russian
NR
-
Elena
2011
Andrey Zvyagintsev
Nadezhda Markina, Andrey Smirnov, Elena Lyadova, Aleksey Rozin, Evgeniya Konushkina
Drama
Russia
Russian
2.5 Stars
2394
2361
The Karate Kid
2010
Harald Zwart
Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan, Taraji P. Henson, Rongguang Yu, Zhensu Wu, Zhiheng Wang
Action / Drama / Family / Sports
USA / China
English
2.5 Stars
2708
2672
Hurt
2015
Alan Zweig
Steve Fonyo
Documentary / Biography / Sports / Crime
Canada
English
2.5 Stars
2732
2696
When Jews Were Funny
2013
Alan Zweig
Aaron Berg, Rodney Dangerfield, Gilbert Gottfried, Howie Mandel, Marc Maron
Documentary / Comedy / Religion
Canada
English
2.5 Stars
2486
2452
Thelonious Monk:
Straight, No Chaser
1988
Charlotte Zwerin
Jimmy Cleveland, Harry Colomby, John Coltrane, Ray Copeland
Documentary / Biography / Music
USA
English
4.5 Stars
999
981
Glory
1989
Edward Zwick
Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes
Drama / War / Action / History / Epic
USA
English
4 Stars
1476
1451
The Last Samurai
2003
Edward Zwick
Ken Watanabe, Tom Cruise, William Atherton, Chad Lindberg
Action / Adventure / Drama / War / Period Film / Epic
USA / New Zealand / Japan
English
3 Stars
2095
2063
Blood Diamond
2006
Edward Zwick
Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, Djimon Hounsou, Michael Sheen, Arnold Vosloo
Adventure / Drama / Thriller
USA
English
3 Stars
2101
2069
Courage Under Fire
1996
Edward Zwick
Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips, Michael Moriarty, Matt Damon
Action / Drama / War / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2418
2384
About Last Night...
1986
Edward Zwick
Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, James Belushi, Elizabeth Perkins, George DiCenzo
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2483
2449
Defiance
2008
Edward Zwick
Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, George MacKay, Alexa Davalos
Drama / War
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2659
2624
Legends of the Fall
1994
Edward Zwick
Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn, Julia Ormond, Henry Thomas
Drama / Romance / Epic / Period Film
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2681
2645
Love and Other Drugs
2010
Edward Zwick
Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Oliver Platt, Hank Azaria, Josh Gad, Gabriel Macht
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2777
2741
The Siege
1998
Edward Zwick
Denzel Washington, Annette Bening, Bruce Willis, Tony Shalhoub, Sami Bouajila
Action / Thriller / Drama
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2368
2335
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
2002
Joel Zwick
Nia Vardalos, John Corbett, Michael Constantine
Comedy / Romance
USA / Canada
English
4.5 Stars
569
557
Crumb
1994
Terry Zwigoff
Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky, Charles Crumb, Maxon Crumb, Robert Hughes
Documentary / Biography
USA
English
4 Stars
1051
1033
Ghost World
2001
Terry Zwigoff
Thora Birch, Steve Buscemi, Scarlett Johansson, Brad Renfro
Comedy / Drama
USA / UK / Germany
English
2.5 Stars
2481
2447
Bad Santa
2003
Terry Zwigoff
Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Brett Kelly, Lauren Graham, Lauren Tom, Bernie Mac
Comedy / Crime / Detective
USA / Germany
English
2.5 Stars
2720
2684
Louie Bluie
1986
Terry Zwigoff
Howard Armstrong, Ted Bogan, Cab Calloway, Les Blank, Alan Governar
Documentary / Music / Biography
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2727
2691
Art School Confidential
2006
Terry Zwigoff
Max Minghella, Sophia Myles, John Malkovich, Jim Broadbent, Matt Keeslar
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
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