The 30 Best Films of 2015 showcase a thrillingly diverse year in cinema, where genre boundaries were pushed, underrepresented voices emerged, and stories were told with both daring flair and emotional depth. It was a year when filmmakers balanced spectacle with substance, offering audiences experiences that were as intellectually stirring as they were visually stunning.
From the high-octane brilliance of Mad Max: Fury Road, a furious symphony of chaos and craft, to the emotional intelligence of Inside Out, which turned childhood feelings into a dazzling odyssey of the mind, 2015 was a celebration of storytelling in all its forms. The Lobster skewered modern romance with deadpan absurdity, while The Martian reminded us that even in the vast loneliness of space, human resilience and humor can thrive. Meanwhile, Happy Hour delivered a nuanced, deeply human exploration of friendship and the complexities of everyday life. So, where will your favorite film of 2015 land?
These rankings reflect a thoughtful blend of critical acclaim, audience impact, and cultural resonance. They spotlight films that broke new ground, sparked meaningful conversation, and left a lasting impression on viewers. Together, they represent the 30 films that defined 2015, year when cinema dared to be bold, weird, heartfelt, and unforgettable.
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Top10nerScore70.895 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Bi Gan
WRITERS: Bi Gan
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Tianxing Wang
STARRING: Chen Yongzhong, Guo Yue, Daqing Zhao, Lixun Xie, Feiyang Luo
GENRE: Drama, Mystery
Chen Sheng goes off in search of his nephew who has been abandoned by his father. Along the way, he encounters numerous people from his past and also those from his future.
Kaili Blues is a quietly groundbreaking debut that bends time into lyrical form, transforming memory into cinematic language. With a 41-minute single take and echoes of Tarkovsky and Wong Kar-wai, Bi Gan crafts a poetic meditation on regret, impermanence, and the hidden rhythms of everyday life in a forgotten town.
Top10nerScore71.067 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Hannes Holm
WRITERS: Hannes Holm
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Göran Hallberg
STARRING: Rolf Lassgård, Bahar Pars, Filip Berg, Ida Engvoll
GENRE: Comedy, Drama
Despite being deposed as president of his condominium association, grumpy 59-year-old Ove continues to watch over his neighbourhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family move into the terraced house opposite Ove and she accidentally back into Ove’s mailbox, it sets off a series of unexpected changes in his life.
A Man Called Ove transforms Nordic grumpiness into cinematic gold, weaving dry humor and quiet grief into a deeply touching tale of unlikely connection and redemption. With Rolf Lassgård’s tender performance and Hannes Holm’s warm, understated direction, it’s a Swedish gem that finds beauty in broken routines and second chances.
Top10nerScore71.163 / 100
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DIRECTOR: F. Gary Gray
WRITERS: Andrea Berloff, Jonathan Herman
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Matthew Libatique
STARRING: O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Neil Brown Jr., Aldis Hodge, Paul Giamatti, LaKeith Stanfield, Marlon Yates Jr.
GENRE: Drama
SUB-GENRE: Biopic
THEME: Music
The group NWA emerges from the streets of Compton, California in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes pop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood.
Straight Outta Compton, born from the block, spittin’ raw truth that the charts couldn’t mock. Dre with the sound, Cube with the pen, Eazy-E’s hustle makin’ history again. Shots of the struggle, framed tight and bold, turning rage into rhythm and pain into gold. Cinema with swagger, defiance, and soul. Compton’s young legends taking full control.
Top10nerScore71.742 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
WRITERS: Jesse Andrews
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Chung Chung-hoon
STARRING: Thomas Mann, Olivia Cooke, RJ Cyler, Connie Britton, Nick Offerman
GENRE: Drama, Comedy
THEME: Coming-of-Age, Teen Movie
Greg is coasting through senior year of high school as anonymously as possible, avoiding social interactions like the plague while secretly making spirited, bizarre films with Earl, his only friend. But both his anonymity and friendship threaten to unravel when his mother forces him to befriend a classmate with leukemia.
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl flips the teen cancer drama on its head with cinematic bravado and aching sincerity. Through handcrafted mini-movies, sharp wit, and surprising emotional depth, it captures the messy, tender beauty of adolescence and grief, earning every laugh and tear with authenticity and style.
Top10nerScore71.820 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Martin Zandvliet
WRITERS: Martin Zandvliet
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Camilla Hjelm Knudsen
STARRING: Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Joel Basman, Laura Bro, Oskar Bökelmann, Emil Belton
GENRE: Drama
SUB-GENRE: Period Drama
THEME: War
As World War II comes to an end, a group of German POWs—boys rather than men—are captured by the Danish army and forced to engage in a deadly task: to defuse and clear land mines from the Danish coastline. With little or no training, the boys soon discover that the war is far from over.
Land of Mine is a tense, haunting postwar drama that unearths buried guilt and fragile humanity as teenage German POWs are forced to defuse Nazi-laid mines on Danish shores. Grounded in harrowing realism and layered with moral complexity, it’s a gripping tale of vengeance, remorse, and unexpected grace.
Top10nerScore72.061 / 100
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DIRECTOR: John Crowley
WRITERS: Nick Hornby
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Yves Bélanger
STARRING: Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Emory Cohen, Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters
GENRE: Romance, Drama
Young Irish immigrant Eilis is lured by the promise of America, and she departs Ireland and the comfort of her mother’s home for the sores of New York City. The initial homesickness quickly diminishes as a romance sweeps Eilis into the charm of love. But soon, her past disrupts her new vivacity.
Brooklyn glows with warmth, melancholy, and wistful charm, telling a richly felt story of self-discovery that spans oceans and hearts. Saoirse Ronan brings soul and subtle strength to Eilis’s journey, while vivid 1950s period detail and a swelling emotional current make this a rare period romance that feels both timeless and deeply personal.
Top10nerScore72.666 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Ridley Scott
WRITERS: Drew Goddard
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Dariusz Wolski
STARRING: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jeff Daniels, Michael Peña, Sean Bean, Kate Mara, Sebastian Stan
GENRE: Science Fiction, Drama, Adventure
THEME: Survival, Space Exploration
During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, wit and spirit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive.
The Martian is a thrilling survival story grounded in real science, where Ridley Scott turns isolation into inspiration. Matt Damon’s charismatic botanist grows potatoes on Mars and hope in our hearts, blending NASA-level accuracy with humor, resilience, and a rousing ode to human ingenuity that feels both epic and deeply personal.
Top10nerScore72.780 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Sebastian Schipper
WRITERS: Olivia Neergaard-Holm, Eike Frederik Schulz, Sebastian Schipper
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Sturla Brandth Grøvlen
STARRING: Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski, Burak Yigit, Max Mauff, André Hennicke
GENRE: Drama, Romance, Crime, Thriller
SUB-GENRE: Heist Film
A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret.
Victoria unfolds in one audacious take, turning a Berlin night into a ticking time bomb of desperation and consequence. Laia Costa delivers raw magnetism, and the real-time pacing pulls viewers into a nerve-shredding spiral where chance encounters spark irreversible choices. It is not a gimmick; it is pure cinematic immersion.
Top10nerScore72.889 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Cary Joji Fukunaga
WRITERS: Cary Joji Fukunaga
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Cary Joji Fukunaga
STARRING: Abraham Attah, Idris Elba, Emmanuel Nii Adom Quaye, Opeyemi Fagbohungbe, Emmanuel Affadzi
GENRE: Drama
THEME: War
Based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of an unnamed, fictional West African country. Follows Agu’s journey as he’s forced to join a group of soldiers. While he fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he is at first torn between conflicting revulsion and fascination.
Beasts of No Nation confronts the horrors of child soldiery with harrowing intimacy, anchored by Abraham Attah’s raw, soulful performance and Idris Elba’s terrifying charisma. Fukunaga unflinchingly captures the lush beauty and devastating brutality of war, crafting a haunting, necessary portrait of innocence lost to chaos.
Top10nerScore73.263 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson
WRITERS: Charlie Kaufman
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Joe Passarelli
STARRING: David Thewlis, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tom Noonan
GENRE: Drama, Animation, Romance
SUB-GENRE: Psychological Drama, Stop-Motion, Puppet Animation
An inspirational speaker becomes reinvigorated after meeting a lively woman who shakes up his mundane existence.
Anomalisa transforms mundane hotel rooms and awkward small talk into aching poetry. Its uncanny animation and affecting voice work tap into the quiet tragedy of adult disconnection, offering a surreal yet painfully honest look at identity, routine, and the desperate beauty of fleeting human connection.
Top10nerScore73.397 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Hirokazu Kore-eda
WRITERS: Hirokazu Kore-eda
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Mikiya Takimoto
STARRING: Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Kaho, Suzu Hirose, Ryo Kase, Ryohei Suzuki
GENRE: Drama
SUB-GENRE: Family Drama
THEME: Slice of Life
After the death of their estranged father, 3 adult sisters invite their teenaged half-sister to live with them.
Our Little Sister is a quiet marvel of intimacy, capturing life’s tender rhythms through seasonal beauty, everyday rituals, and unspoken bonds. Hirokazu Kore-eda crafts a luminous tale of sisterhood, where food, memory, and forgiveness gently intertwine into a portrait of found family as delicate as cherry blossoms in bloom.
Top10nerScore73.496 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Sean Baker
WRITERS: Sean Baker, Chris Bergoch
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Sean Baker, Radium Cheung
STARRING: Kitana Kiki Rodriguez, Mya Taylor, Karren Karagulian, Mickey O’Hagan
GENRE: Comedy, Drama
THEME: LGBTQ+, Hood Film
It’s Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn’t been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles, including an Armenian family dealing with their own repercussions of infidelity.
Tangerine bursts off the screen with raw energy and neon-lit authenticity, following two trans sex workers through a wild, whirlwind Christmas Eve in L.A. Shot entirely on iPhones, Sean Baker’s film is both groundbreaking and grounded, capturing friendship, fury, and resilience with unmatched street-level style and cinematic bite.
Top10nerScore73.791 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Robert Eggers
WRITERS: Robert Eggers
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Jarin Blaschke
STARRING: Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger, Lucas Dawson
GENRE: Horror, Drama
SUB-GENRE: Supernatural Horror, Folk Horror, Psychological Horror, Family Drama
In 1630s New England, William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life with five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness, exiled from their settlement when William defies the local church. When their newborn son vanishes and crops mysteriously fail, the family turns on one another.
The Witch conjures dread with Puritan precision, weaving 17th-century folklore into a slow-burn descent that feels both intimate and mythic. Robert Eggers’ debut is a chilling study of repression, faith, and female agency, told through eerie naturalism and whispered terror that lingers like a curse long after the screen fades to black.
Top10nerScore73.821 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Ryan Coogler
WRITERS: Aaron Covington, Ryan Coogler
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Maryse Alberti
STARRING: Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashād, Tony Bellew
GENRE: Drama
THEME: Sports, Boxing
The former World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa serves as a trainer and mentor to Adonis Johnson, the son of his late friend and former rival Apollo Creed.
Creed punches through expectations with raw emotion and kinetic energy, reviving the Rocky legacy through Adonis Creed’s fierce quest for identity. Michael B. Jordan delivers a powerhouse performance, while the film’s gritty training scenes and soulful soundtrack make this underdog story a knockout tribute to legacy and self-discovery.
Top10nerScore74.045 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Yorgos Lanthimos
WRITERS: Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthymis Filippou
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Thimios Bakatakis
STARRING: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Olivia Colman, Léa Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, John C. Reilly, Angeliki Papoulia
GENRE: Satire, Black Comedy, Drama, Romance
THEME: Dystopian
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into animals and sent off into The Woods.
The Lobster skewers modern romance with deadpan absurdity and surgical precision, placing Colin Farrell in a dystopia where singlehood is illegal and transformation into animals awaits the lonely. Yorgos Lanthimos crafts a darkly comic parable about love, conformity, and human desperation that’s as unsettling as it is strangely tender.
Top10nerScore75.031 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Adam McKay
WRITERS: Adam McKay, Charles Randolph
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Barry Ackroyd
STARRING: Steve Carell, Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt, John Magaro, Finn Wittrock, Jeremy Strong, Hamish Linklater, Rafe Spall, Marisa Tomei
GENRE: Drama, Comedy
SUB-GENRE: Political Drama
THEME: Hyperlink Cinema
When four outsiders saw what the big banks, media, and government refused to see—the global collapse of the economy—they had an idea: The Big Short. Their bold investment leads them into the dark underbelly of modern banking where they must question everyone and everything.
The Big Short turns financial collapse into razor-sharp commentary, using fourth-wall breaks, star-powered performances, and chaotic clarity to expose Wall Street greed and ignorance. Adam McKay’s bold direction makes credit default swaps as thrilling as heists, with absurdity, tragedy, and outrage dancing in every frame.
Top10nerScore75.703 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Deniz Gamze Ergüven
WRITERS: Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Alice Winocour
CINEMATOGRAPHY: David Chizallet, Ersin Gök
STARRING: Güneş Nezihe Şensoy, Doğa Zeynep Doğuşlu, Elit İşcan, Tuğba Sunguroğlu, Ilayda Akdoğan, Ayberk Pekcan
GENRE: Drama
THEME: Coming-of-Age
In a Turkish village, five orphaned sisters are kept under strict lock and key by their aunt and uncle after an entirely innocent encounter with a group of boys. As marriages start being arranged, the sisters, driven by the same desire for freedom, rebel against the limitations imposed upon them.
Mustang is a quietly searing portrait of five sisters bound by blood and defiance, trapped in a world that fears their joy. With luminous cinematography and raw, naturalistic performances, it channels the urgency of youth against the confines of tradition, turning domestic spaces into battlegrounds of quiet, unwavering revolution.
Top10nerScore75.830 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Quentin Tarantino
WRITERS: Quentin Tarantino
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Robert Richardson
STARRING: Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Demián Bichir, Bruce Dern
GENRE: Western, Mystery
SUB-GENRE: Revisionist Western
THEME: Chamber Film
In snowy Wyoming, bounty hunter John Ruth is traveling to Red Rock to bring his fugitive captive Daisy Domergue to justice. On the way, fellow bounty hunter Major Warren joins them. Seeking refuge from a blizzard, they end up in a roadhouse, where they encounter a number of suspicious travelers.
The Hateful Eight is a snowbound symphony of suspicion and deceit, where Tarantino stretches tension like a taut wire in a single-room mystery dripping with blood and bile. Shot in glorious 70mm and driven by razor-sharp dialogue and Ennio Morricone’s haunting, Oscar-winning score, it’s a claustrophobic epic of paranoia and betrayal.
Top10nerScore75.832 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Anna Muylaert
WRITERS: Anna Muylaert
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Bárbara Álvarez
STARRING: Regina Casé, Camila Márdila, Karine Teles, Lourenço Mutarelli, Michel Joelsas
GENRE: Drama
Having left her daughter Jessica to be raised by relatives, Val works as a loving nanny in São Paulo. When Jessica visits 13 years later to take her college entrance exams, her confident presence upsets the unspoken power balance in the household. Soon, Val must decide where her allegiances lie.
In The Second Mother, Anna Muylaert crafts a delicate yet incisive portrait of generational tension and domestic inequality. Through Val’s evolving role as both maid and mother, the film unpacks class boundaries not with anger but with grace, highlighting quiet acts of resistance that challenge Brazil’s entrenched social order.
Top10nerScore76.437 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Denis Villeneuve
WRITERS: Taylor Sheridan
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Roger Deakins
STARRING: Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro, Josh Brolin, Daniel Kaluuya
GENRE: Thriller, Crime, Drama, Action
THEME: Police Procedural
An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico.
Sicario is a nerve-fraying descent into the moral grey zones of the drug war, elevated by Roger Deakins’ stark cinematography and Jóhann Jóhannsson’s ominous score. Denis Villeneuve crafts a slow-burn thriller where every silence screams, and every shadow threatens to collapse the line between justice and vengeance.
Top10nerScore77.232 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Alejandro González Iñárritu
WRITERS: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mark L. Smith
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Emmanuel Lubezki
STARRING: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter
GENRE: Western, Drama, Adventure
SUB-GENRE: Revisionist Western, Period Drama, Northern
THEME: Survival
In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
The Revenant is a feral, frostbitten odyssey of vengeance and survival, captured entirely in haunting natural light by Emmanuel Lubezki. Leonardo DiCaprio grunts, bleeds, and crawls through icy purgatory, while Iñárritu sculpts every breath into cinematic poetry. Nature is both muse and menace in this brutal, elemental epic.
Top10nerScore77.649 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Ryusuke Hamaguchi
WRITERS: Tomoyuki Takahashi, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Tadashi Nohara
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Yoshio Kitagawa
STARRING: Sachie Tanaka, Hazuki Kikuchi, Maiko Mihara, Rira Kawamura, Yoshio Shin
GENRE: Drama
THEME: Slice of Life
Four women in their thirties reevaluate their relationships, both shared and private, after a startling revelation concerning one’s marriage forces each of them to ask one of life’s biggest questions: “Am I who I want to be?”
Happy Hour patiently unfolds the inner lives of four women in Kobe, exploring divorce, desire, and dignity with poetic restraint. Its novelistic structure and immersive realism create a cinematic space where silence speaks volumes and vulnerability becomes a quiet act of rebellion, offering rare intimacy with every unfolding scene.
Top10nerScore78.718 / 100
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DIRECTOR: László Nemes
WRITERS: László Nemes, Clara Royer
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Mátyás Erdély
STARRING: Géza Röhrig, Levente Molnár, Urs Rechn
GENRE: Drama
SUB-GENRE: Period Drama
THEME: War, Prison Film
Son of Saul is an immersive and harrowing cinematic experience that captivates with its unflinching portrayal of the Holocaust. Nemes’s meticulous research and innovative storytelling create an unforgettable and emotionally resonant narrative.
Son of Saul is a harrowing plunge into the abyss, using tight framing and real-time urgency to trap us in the suffocating horror of Auschwitz. With its unflinching soundscape and moral ambiguity, this haunting Hungarian masterpiece redefines Holocaust cinema through visceral immersion and desperate human focus.
Top10nerScore78.858 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Alex Garland
WRITERS: Alex Garland
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Rob Hardy
STARRING: Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac, Alicia Vikander
GENRE: Science Fiction, Drama, Thriller
SUB-GENRE: Psychological Drama, Psychological Thriller
THEME: Artificial Intelligence
A young programmer arrives at his reclusive CEO’s private retreat, and learns that he will be a key player in a breakthrough artificial intelligence experiment. The subject is a breathtaking A.I. whose intelligence proves more sophisticated—and more deceptive—than the two men could have imagined.
Ex Machina fuses minimalist sci-fi with slow-burn psychological tension, as programmer Caleb evaluates the enigmatic Ava under the watch of her mercurial creator. With hypnotic visuals, razor-sharp dialogue, and unsettling questions about consciousness, Garland delivers a futuristic fable as mesmerizing as it is chilling.
Top10nerScore78.986 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Tom McCarthy
WRITERS: Tom McCarthy, Josh Singer
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Masanobu Takayanagi
STARRING: Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Michael Keaton, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Brian d’Arcy James, Stanley Tucci
GENRE: Drama
SUB-GENRE: Biopic
The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
Spotlight is a gripping, quietly devastating procedural that honors journalism’s power without resorting to melodrama. With restrained direction, an airtight script, and a pitch-perfect ensemble, it transforms investigative persistence into cinematic suspense, exposing institutional rot with clarity, gravity, and moral precision.
Top10nerScore79.116 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Ciro Guerra
WRITERS: Ciro Guerra, Jacques Toulemonde
CINEMATOGRAPHY: David Gallego
STARRING: Nilbio Torres, Antonio Bolívar, Jan Bijvoet, Brionne Davis, Yauenkü Miguee
GENRE: Adventure, Drama
SUB-GENRE: Period Drama
Karamakate is a warrior shaman and the last of his tribe who lives alone in the Colombian Amazon. Only he knows how to find the Yakruna—a rare, psychedelic plant. Two scientists—at two different times, with very different agendas—enlist Karamakate on their quests to find this mythical plant.
Embrace of the Serpent is a hypnotic river journey through memory, myth, and colonial scars, guided by a shaman’s fading world and the ghosts of lost knowledge. Shot in haunting black-and-white and inspired by real Amazonian diaries, it flows between timelines with lyrical precision, confronting erasure with deep spiritual resonance.
Top10nerScore79.650 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Lenny Abrahamson
WRITERS: Emma Donoghue
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Danny Cohen
STARRING: Brie Larson, Jacob Tremblay, Joan Allen, Sean Bridgers, William H. Macy
GENRE: Drama, Thriller
SUB-GENRE: Psychological Drama
Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.
Room is an intimate, heart-wrenching portrait of resilience and motherly love, told through Jack’s innocent eyes. Brie Larson’s raw, grounded performance anchors a claustrophobic setting that blossoms into a powerful exploration of trauma and hope, making confinement feel both suffocating and deeply human.
Top10nerScore80.625 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Todd Haynes
WRITERS: Phyllis Nagy
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Edward Lachman
STARRING: Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchett, Kyle Chandler, Sarah Paulson
GENRE: Romance, Drama
THEME: LGBTQ+
In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
Carol unfolds a delicate romance wrapped in 1950s glamour, where Todd Haynes crafts every frame like a whispered secret. Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara ignite a slow-burning passion filled with longing and restraint, capturing the bittersweet ache of forbidden love with sumptuous visuals and haunting grace.
Top10nerScore82.473 / 100
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DIRECTOR: Pete Docter
WRITERS: Pete Docter, Josh Cooley, Meg LeFauve
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Patrick Lin
STARRING: Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Richard Kind, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling
GENRE: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
SUB-GENRE: Computer Animation, Low Fantasy
THEME: Family, Coming-of-Age
When 11-year-old Riley moves to a new city, her Emotions team up to help her through the transition. Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness work together, but when Joy and Sadness get lost, they must journey through unfamiliar places to get back home.
Inside Out turns the mind of an 11-year-old into a vibrant emotional battleground, capturing the bittersweet beauty of growing up with astonishing clarity. Pixar’s inventive storytelling, combined with heartfelt psychology and visual ingenuity, creates a journey that’s emotionally intelligent, deeply moving, and endlessly rewatchable.
Top10nerScore87.930 / 100
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DIRECTOR: George Miller
WRITERS: George Miller, Nick Lathouris, Brendan McCarthy
CINEMATOGRAPHY: John Seale
STARRING: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne
GENRE: Action, Exploitation, Adventure, Science Fiction
SUB-GENRE: Carsploitation
THEME: Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian
In a post-apocalyptic dystopia, a wayward drifter named Max comes to the aid of a rebellious lieutenant named Furiosa as they flee the corrupt, tyrannical rule of Immortal Joe with his five young wives.
Mad Max: Fury Road explodes across the desert with relentless velocity, crafting a thunderous ballet of metal, sand, and fire. George Miller revives his wasteland with visionary world-building, practical effects wizardry, and a feminist edge that turns a high-octane chase into operatic, post-apocalyptic myth, standing tall as…
The Best Film of 2015
| Bāhubali: The Beginning | 2015 |
| Bone Tomahawk | 2015 |
| Bridge of Spies | 2015 |
| Cemetery of Splendor | 2015 |
| Dope | 2015 |
| Drishyam | 2015 |
| Green Room | 2015 |
| Ivy | 2015 |
| Masaan | 2015 |
| Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation | 2015 |
| Right Now, Wrong Then | 2015 |
| Shaun the Sheep Movie | 2015 |
| Star Wars: The Force Awakens | 2015 |
| Steve Jobs | 2015 |
| Sweet Bean | 2015 |
| Taxi | 2015 |
| The Boy and the Beast | 2015 |
| The End of the Tour | 2015 |
| The Little Prince | 2015 |
| Youth | 2015 |
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