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List of the best movies on HBO Max, from singing in the rain, that Casablanca.
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These are the HBO Max movies with the highest combined Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic scores.
no. 1: Singing In The Rain (1952)
Rotten Tomatoes: 100% | Metacritic: 99% (99)
American dancer and actor Gene Kelly as Don Lockwood and Debbie Reynolds as Kathy Seldon in ‘Singin’ … [+]
This 1952 musical was directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Done. That stars Kelly as Don Lockwood, Debbie Reynolds as Kathy Seldon, Donald O’Connor as Cosmo Brown and Jean Hagen as Lina Lamont. In the film, Lockwood and Lamont are movie stars making the difficult transition from silent films to “talkies”. Their new film requires singing, which Lamont is terrible at, so Seldon is hired to record over her singing parts. Lockwood begins to develop feelings for Seldon, which makes Lamont very jealous. The movie grossed over $7.2 million at the box office on a production budget of $2.5 million. O’Connor won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Comedy or Musical. Singing in the rain has influenced culture in several ways, including inspiring award-winning film from 2016. La La Land. It is number 83 on IMBd list of the highest rated films of all time.
no. 2: “Casablanca” (1942)
Rotten Tomatoes: 99% | Metacritic: 100% (99)
American actor Humphrey Bogart and Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman on the set of Casablanca.
Casablanca is a romantic drama directed by a Hungarian-American film director Michael Curtiz and it is based on an unproduced play, Everyone comes to Rick’s. 1942 film stars Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine, Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund, Paul Henreid as Victor Laszlo and Claude Rains as Captain Louis Renault. Filmed and set during World War II, it follows the story of Blaine, an exiled American who runs a popular nightclub in Casablanca, and his struggle over whether to help his ex-lover (Lund) and her fugitive husband (Laszlo) escape the Nazis. The movie won many awards, such as Oscars for best film, best director and best screenplay, screenplay. Casablanca is IMBd’s 43rd highest rated film of all time.
no. 3: “The Maltese Falcon” (1941)
Rotten Tomatoes: 99% | Metacritic: 97% (98)
A scene from The Maltese Falcon. Film released in 1941.
This noir crime film was directed by John Huston and based on the novel of the same name. Humphrey Bogart the game Samuel Sade, Mary Astor plays Brigid O’Shaughnessy, Gladys George plays Iva Archer, and Peter Lorre plays Joel Cairo. The film follows Detective Spade as he takes on a case brought to him by O’Shaughnessy. Spade gets caught up in a murderous pursuit of an ornate statue of the Maltese Falcon. Maltese Falcon is marked as influential in film noir genre, a term given to American thrillers and detective films with subdued lights and tragic tones produced by the French between 1944 and 1954. Was nominated for the 1942 Academy Award for Best Picture, but lost to How green was my valley. It’s a movie Budget was $381,000 and grossed $1.7 worldwide.
no. 4: “Hop Dreams” (1994)
Rotten Tomatoes: 98% | Metacritic: 98% (98)
The subject of the documentary film Hoop Dreams, William Gates, w. wife Catherine and 6-year-old daughter Alicia … [+]
American film director and producer Steve James he directed a sports documentary from 1994. Hoop Dreams. The movie stars William Gates as himself, Arthur Agee as himself, Emma Gates as herself (William’s mother) and Sheila Agee as herself (Arthur’s mother). Set in the 1990s, it follows the lives of William and Arthur, two inner-city Chicago boys with aspirations of playing professional basketball. The couple travels 90 minutes to a predominantly white school known for its excellent basketball program. Although both went on to play college basketball, neither ended up in the NBA. However, they reconnected to form Agee and Gates podcast. Hoop Dreams’ Budget it was estimated at $700,000 and grossed $11,830,611 worldwide. The movie was nominated for the 1995 Academy Award for Best Editing, but lost to Forrest Gump.
no. 5: The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Rotten Tomatoes: 98% | Metacritic: 98% (98%)
Poster for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1938 comedy ‘The Lady Vanishes’ starring Margaret Lockwood.
The lady disappears is considered one of the British directors Alfred Hitchcock of the early classics. That stars Margaret Lockwood as Iris Matilda Henderson, Michael Redgrave as Gilbert Redman, Paul Lukas as Dr. Egon Hartz and May Whitty as Miss Froy. It’s a movie based on the 1926 novel Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White. It follows Henderson as her train to England is delayed by an avalanche in a fictional European country. While waiting, she befriends the older Froy, but when Henderson wakes up from his unconscious attack, he discovers that Froy never existed. So she goes on a quest to find Froy along with love interest Redman. Hitchcock won 1939 New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director for a Motion Picture.
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“The Good Guys” (1990)
Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Paul Sorvino and Joe Pesci publicist portrait for the film … [+]
Good guys was released in 1990 and is directed by him Martin Scorsese. movie about mobsters, based about the book “Wiseguy”, stars Robert De Niro as James Conway, Ray Liotta as Henry Hill and Joe Pesci as Tommy DeVito. It follows Hill and his journey as he rises through the ranks of the mob as he battles battles such as drug addiction, his relationship with his wife, and the horrors the New York mob has wreaked on the community. Pesci won Academy Award 1991 for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. The film reportedly had a $25 million budget Budget and grossed $47 million worldwide. The film is IMBd’s 17th highest rated film of all time.
“The Dark Knight” (2008)
A still from The Dark Knight with Heath Ledger as the Joker.
The Dark Knight is an action and adventure film released in 2008 directed by Christopher Nolan. There are many plots of the film based on the 1988 graphic novel killing joke, written by Alan Moore. Based on Batman, the DC Comics superhero, The Dark Knight is a sequel to the 2005 film Batman returns. Batman forms an alliance with District Attorney Harvey Dent and Police Lieutenant James Gordon to destroy organized crime in Gotham City, but the Joker complicates their plans, forcing Batman to teeter on the line between hero and vigilante. The movie stars Christian Bale as Batman (or Bruce Wayne), Heather Ledger as the Joker, Aaron Eckhart as Dent and Gary Oldman as Gordon. The movie won awards such as the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Ledger) and the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture (Ledger). It was a box office hit, grossing $1.006 billion on a budget of $185 million. This film is IMBd’s third highest rated film of all time – its sequel, The Dark Knight Rises, is 69
“The Beginning” (2010)
Actors Elliot Page, Leonardo DiCaprio and Marion Cotillard arrive at “Inception” Los Angeles … [+]
The beginning was released in 2010, an award-winning film The beginning also directed by British-American director Christopher Nolan. The movie follows Don Cobb, a thief who has the ability to steal people’s secrets from their dreams, who has the difficult task of planting an idea in the CEO’s mind, but the enemy follows his every move. The movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Cobb, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Arthur, Elliot Page as Ariadne and Tim Hardy as Eames. The beginning won awards like the Oscar for Best Cinematography (Wally Pfister). It did well at the box office, acquisition $826 million worldwide on a $160 million budget. The sci-fi drama is IMBd’s 14th biggest film of all time.
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