With 837,404 votes, Catch Me If You Can has a vote of 8.1 from IMDb’s userbase. Barely 21 yet, Frank is a skilled forger who has passed as a doctor, lawyer and pilot. FBI agent Carl becomes obsessed with tracking down the con man, who only revels in the pursuit. Based on a true story, … More #233 – Catch Me If You Can (2002)
From 859,288 votes, No Country for Old Men has a rating of 8.1 on IMDb. Spoilers inclusive as the spoilers definitely affected what I thought of the movie. Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande. Of … More #234 – No Country for Old Men (2007)
From 600,576 votes, Prisoners has an 8.1/10 rating from the users of IMDb. When Keller Dover’s daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. I can’t really say that Prisoners is up there in my list of greatest films of … More #237 – Prisoners (2013)
Platform: PC – Developer: ZA/UM Disco Elysium is one of those rare games that pulls you kicking and screaming into a huge, complex world that is both alien and familiar. It puts you in the shoes of a man who appears to be a cop, in a world where the police are self-organised and operate … More Disco Elysium: A feast for the senses
From 696,528 votes, Gone Girl has an 8.1/10 rating from the users of IMDb. With his wife’s disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it’s suspected that he may not be innocent. Hoo boy. This one was intense. As always this will be … More #239 – Gone Girl (2014)
From 243,710 votes, Baby Driver has a 7.7/10 rating from the users of IMDb, a number that was higher prior to the Kevin Spacey revelations of late 2017. After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail. This is a movie … More #243 – Baby Driver (2017)
From 199,265 votes, Dog Day Afternoon has an 8.0/10 rating from the users of IMDb. A man robs a bank to pay for his lover’s operation; it turns into a hostage situation and a media circus. Dog Day Afternoon is quite possibly the quintessential bank robbery movie with many tropes put to effect that can be recognised in any … More #244 – Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
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