The Shawshank Redemption
Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton
A banker convicted of uxoricide forms a friendship over a quarter century with a hardened convict, while maintaining his innocence and trying to remain hopeful through simple compassion.
Why you'll love it
A powerful drama about hope, friendship, and survival inside a maximum-security prison.
The Godfather
Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
Why you'll love it
An epic tale of a mafia family, power struggles, and loyalty.
Schindler's List
Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley
In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
Why you'll love it
A harrowing drama about the Holocaust and one man's efforts to save Jewish refugees.
Forrest Gump
Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise
The history of the United States from the 1950s to the '70s unfolds from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, who yearns to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.
Why you'll love it
The story of a man with a low IQ who witnesses and unwittingly influences several historical events in the 20th century.
12 Years a Slave
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
Why you'll love it
A powerful, true story of a free black man kidnapped and sold into slavery in the pre-Civil War United States.