
25 Movies Better Than The Shawshank Redemption

25. 12 Years a Slave
Kidnappers abduct Solomon Northup, a free black man from New York, and sell him into slavery in the antebellum United States. | © 20th Century Studios

24. Django Unchained
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal plantation owner in Mississippi. | © Columbia Pictures

23. Inception
A thief who uses dream-sharing technology to steal secrets is tasked with planting an idea in a CEO's mind, but his tragic past threatens the mission. | © Warner Bros. Pictures

22. Reservoir Dogs
When a simple jewellery heist goes wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant. | © Miramax Films

21. Oppenheimer
A dramatization of J. Robert Oppenheimer's life, the physicist who played a key role in developing the atomic bomb that ended World War II. | © Universal Pictures

20. The Revenant
In the 1820s, a frontiersman on a fur trading expedition fights to survive after a bear mauls him and his hunting team abandons him for dead. | © 20th Century Studios

19. Interstellar
As Earth faces devastation, former NASA pilot Joseph Cooper leads a team of researchers on a mission through space to find a new home for humanity. | © Paramount Pictures

18. For a Few Dollars More
Two bounty killers with similar intentions but different motivations team up to track down a psychotic Mexican outlaw before he and his gang can carry out an audacious bank robbery. | © United Artists

17. The Big Lebowski
Mistaken for a wealthy of the same name, Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski sets out to reclaim compensation for his ruined rug, dragging his bowling buddies into the chaos. | © Gramercy Pictures

16. Shaun of the Dead
The mundane lives of a London electronics salesman and his slacker roommate take a chaotic turn when the zombie apocalypse starts. | © Universal Pictures

15. Parasite
Greed and class discrimination threaten the fragile bond between the affluent Park family and the struggling Kim clan, leading to a gripping tale of deception, ambition, and social disparity. | © CJ Entertainment

14. The Matrix
Guided by a mysterious stranger, hacker Neo uncovers a mind-bending truth: the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence. | © Warner Bros. Pictures

13. The Social Network
Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg creates Facebook while battling lawsuits from former collaborators and a betrayed co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business. | © Sony Pictures Releasing

12. Garden State
A quietly troubled young man returns home for his mother's funeral after being estranged from his family for a decade. | © 20th Century Studios

11. Dune
Paul Atreides faces betrayal and rising conflict on Arrakis as rival forces battle for control of the precious spice melange. | © Warner Bros. Pictures

10. Inglourious Basterds
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a bold plot by Jewish-American soldiers to assassinate Nazi leaders coincides with the same vengeful plans of the theatre owner. | © The Weinstein Company

9. There Will Be Blood
A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business. | © Paramount Pictures

8. V for Vendetta
In a dystopian future in Britain, a masked vigilante known as V runs a rebellion against a totalitarian regime with the aid of a young woman. | © Warner Bros. Pictures

7. Oldboy
After 15 years of captivity, Oh Dae-Su is abruptly released, setting him on a desperate five-day mission to uncover his captor's identity and the reason behind his imprisonment. | © Medusa Film

6. 13 Assassins
A band of samurai unites for a suicide mission to assassinate a sadistic lord whose reign of terror threatens Japan’s future. | © Toho

5. Fight Club
An insomniac office worker and a devil-may-care soap maker form an underground fight club that evolves into much more. | © 20th Century Studios

4. Memories of Murder
In 1986, two detectives in a rural Korean province investigate a series of rapes and murders, desperately hunting an unidentified killer. | © CJ Entertainment

3. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
After waking from a four-year coma, a betrayed assassin The Bride embarks on a violent quest to eliminate her former team, starting with the killers who left her for dead. | © Miramax Films

2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Two bounty hunters form a shaky partnership to outsmart a third man as they race to find gold hidden in a remote cemetery. | © United Artists

1. Pulp Fiction
The lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption. | © Miramax Films
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