Best of 2020
The films that defined 2020 — ranked by IMDb score.
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David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
2020·Dir. Keith Scholey·83 min·★ 8.9The story of life on our planet by the man who has seen more of the natural world than any other. In more than 90 years, Attenborough has visited every continent on the globe, exploring the wild places of our planet and documenting the living world in all its variety and wonder. Addressing the biggest challenges facing life on our planet, the film offers a powerful message of hope for future generations.
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Soorarai Pottru
2020·Dir. Sudha Kongara Prasad·149 min·★ 8.6Nedumaaran Rajangam "Maara" sets out to make the common man fly and in the process takes on the world's most capital intensive industry and several enemies who stand in his way.
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Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions
2020·Dir. Taylor Swift·106 min·★ 8.4An intimate concert film, in which Taylor Swift performs each song from her album 'folklore' in order, as she reveals the meaning and the stories behind all 17 tracks for the very first time.
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Violet Evergarden: The Movie
2020·Dir. Taichi Ishidate·140 min·★ 8.3As the world moves on from the war and technological advances bring changes to her life, Violet still hopes to see her lost commanding officer again.
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Dil Bechara
2020·Dir. Mukesh Chhabra·101 min·★ 8.3Kizie and Manny, two ordinary people brought together by a tragic twist, embark on a bittersweet and extraordinary journey into the heart of that crazy little thing called 'life'.
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David Byrne's American Utopia
2020·Dir. Spike Lee·105 min·★ 8.2A filmed version of David Byrne's Broadway show, a unifying musical celebration that inspires audiences to connect to each other and to the global community.
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The Mole: Undercover in North Korea
2020·Dir. Mads Brügger·123 min·★ 8.2A real-life undercover thriller about two ordinary men who embark on an outrageously dangerous ten-year mission to penetrate the world's most secretive and brutal dictatorship: North Korea.
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Uncle Tom
2020·Dir. Justin Malone·106 min·★ 8.2In a collection of intimate interviews with some of America's most provocative black conservative thinkers, Uncle Tom takes a different look at being black in America.
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Derek DelGaudio's In & of Itself
2020·Dir. Frank Oz·90 min·★ 8.2Storyteller and Conceptual Magician Derek DelGaudio attempts to understand the illusory nature of identity and answer the deceptively simple question 'Who am I?'
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The Father
2020·Dir. Florian Zeller·97 min·★ 8.2A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.
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Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
2020·Dir. Haruo Sotozaki·117 min·★ 8.2Tanjiro Kamado, joined with Inosuke Hashibira, a boy raised by boars who wears a boar's head, and Zenitsu Agatsuma, a scared boy who reveals his true power when he sleeps, boards the Infinity Train on a new mission with the Fire Hashira, Kyojuro Rengoku, to defeat a demon who has been tormenting the people and killing the demon slayers who oppose it!
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Colour Photo
2020·Dir. Sandeep Raj·141 min·★ 8.1Jayakrishna is a dark-skinned guy who falls head over heels on Deepu but keeps his feelings to himself. As time passes by, a gang in his college beats him up and this issue brings Deepu closer to him. Slowly the friendship turns into love and this does not go well with Deepu’s brother Rama Raju. The rest of the story is as to how the couple reunites after facing several problems.
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My Octopus Teacher
2020·Dir. Philippa Ehrlich·85 min·★ 8.1After years of swimming every day in the freezing ocean at the tip of Africa, Craig Foster meets an unlikely teacher: a young octopus who displays remarkable curiosity. Visiting her den and tracking her movements for months on end he eventually wins the animal’s trust and they develop a never-before-seen bond between human and wild animal.
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Kiss the Ground
2020·Dir. Josh Tickell·85 min·★ 8.1Sheds light on an alternative approach to farming called “regenerative agriculture” that could balance our climate, replenish our vast water supplies, and feed the world.
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Disclosure
2020·Dir. Sam Feder·108 min·★ 8.1An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about transgender people, and how transgender people have been taught to feel about themselves.
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The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
2020·Dir. Frank Marshall·111 min·★ 8.1The story of the triumphs and hurdles of brothers Barry, Maurice, and Robin Gibb, otherwise known as the Bee Gees. The iconic trio, who found early fame in the 1960s, went on to write over 1,000 songs and have 20 No. 1 hits throughout their career, transcending more than five decades of changing tastes and styles.
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Dara of Jasenovac
2020·Dir. Predrag Antonijević·130 min·★ 8.0During the Nazi-occupied Ustasha regime "NDH" in former Yugoslavia during WWII, little girl Dara is sent to the concentration camp complex Jasenovac in Croatia also known as "Balkan's Auschwitz".
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Ayyappanum Koshiyum
2020·Dir. Sachy·177 min·★ 8.0Ayyappan, a police officer, is an upright man who always strives to do the right thing. However, things change when a retired army havildar, Koshy, settles in his village and the two egos clash.
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Made in Abyss: Dawn of the Deep Soul
2020·Dir. Masayuki Kojima·105 min·★ 8.0A continuation of the epic adventure of plucky Riko and Reg who are joined by their new friend Nanachi. Together they descend into the Abyss' treacherous fifth layer, the Sea of Corpses, and encounter the mysterious Bondrewd, a legendary White Whistle whose shadow looms over Nanachi's troubled past. Bondrewd is ingratiatingly hospitable, but the brave adventurers know things are not always as they seem in the enigmatic Abyss.
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Wolfwalkers
2020·Dir. Tomm Moore·102 min·★ 8.0In a time of superstition and magic, when wolves are seen as demonic and nature an evil to be tamed, a young apprentice hunter comes to Ireland with her father to wipe out the last pack. But when she saves a wild native girl, their friendship leads her to discover the world of the Wolfwalkers and transform her into the very thing her father is tasked to destroy.
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Oh My Kadavule
2020·Dir. Ashwath Marimuthu·154 min·★ 8.0Arjun is conveniently married to his best friend Anu and their marriage turns out to be a nightmare since he is not really in love with her. When things get tough Arjun gets a second chance in life that could change his path and perspective altogether.
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Soul
2020·Dir. Pete Docter·101 min·★ 8.0Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.
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The Book of Sun
2020·Dir. Faris Godus·130 min·★ 7.9In 2010, at the peak of the Saudi YouTube movement, high school senior Husam finds himself drawn into the world of video production. He’s joined in his pursuit by his best friend Maan, their one-time foe Ibrahim, and Orabi a teacher with a passion for filmmaking. In the middle of their senior year, they set out to produce a no-budget horror movie – a wild adventure that will put their futures at risk.
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A Secret Love
2020·Dir. Chris Bolan·82 min·★ 7.8Amid shifting times, two women kept their decades-long love a secret. But coming out later in life comes with its own set of challenges.
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If Anything Happens I Love You
2020·Dir. Will McCormack·12 min·★ 7.8In this Oscar-winning short film, grieving parents journey through an emotional void as they mourn the loss of a child after a tragic school shooting.
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The Dissident
2020·Dir. Bryan Fogel·119 min·★ 7.8When Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappears after entering Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, his fiancée and dissidents around the world are left to piece together the clues to a brutal murder and expose a global cover up perpetrated by the very country he loved.
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Two Ways Home
2020·Dir. Ron Vignone·92 min·★ 7.8Soul-touching and moving, TWO WAYS HOME compassionately follows Kathy (Tanna Frederick), a woman newly diagnosed with bipolar disorder who is released from prison on good behavior and returns to her country home in Iowa to reconnect with her estranged 12-year-old daughter (Rylie Behr) and her cantankerous elderly grandfather (Tom Bower). Her return home is turbulent and a rough, unwelcome transition in which Kathy must come to terms with her diagnosis and its implications on her identity, while also realizing that her family was happier when she was gone. Conflict with her family intensifies as she struggles to keep her head above water, putting her self-worth and well-being to the ultimate test.
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The Gentlemen
2020·Dir. Guy Ritchie·113 min·★ 7.8American expat Mickey Pearson has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the business forever it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.
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Another Round
2020·Dir. Thomas Vinterberg·117 min·★ 7.7Four stagnant high school teachers decide to test out a theory that maintaining a constant level of intoxication will improve their overall lives.
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Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
2020·Dir. Matt Peters·90 min·★ 7.7Earth is decimated after intergalactic tyrant Darkseid has devastated the Justice League in a poorly executed war by the DC Super Heroes. Now the remaining bastions of good – the Justice League, Teen Titans, Suicide Squad and assorted others – must regroup, strategize and take the war to Darkseid in order to save the planet and its surviving inhabitants.
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Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
2020·Dir. Jim LeBrecht·107 min·★ 7.7Down the road from Woodstock in the early 1970s, a revolution blossomed in a ramshackle summer camp for disabled teenagers, transforming their young lives and igniting a landmark movement.
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Josee, the Tiger and the Fish
2020·Dir. Kotaro Tamura·98 min·★ 7.7With dreams of diving abroad, Tsuneo gets a job assisting Josee, an artist whose imagination takes her far beyond her wheelchair. But when the tide turns against them, they push each other to places they never thought possible, and inspire a love fit for a storybook.
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Beastie Boys Story
2020·Dir. Spike Jonze·120 min·★ 7.7Here's a little story they're about to tell... Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz share the story of their band and 40 years of friendship in a live documentary experience directed by friend, collaborator, and their former grandfather, Spike Jonze.
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Sound of Metal
2020·Dir. Darius Marder·121 min·★ 7.7Metal drummer Ruben begins to lose his hearing. When a doctor tells him his condition will worsen, he thinks his career and life is over. His girlfriend Lou checks the former addict into a rehab for the deaf hoping it will prevent a relapse and help him adapt to his new life. After being welcomed and accepted just as he is, Ruben must choose between his new normal and the life he once knew.
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The Trial of the Chicago 7
2020·Dir. Aaron Sorkin·130 min·★ 7.7What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.
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HIT: The First Case
2020·Dir. Sailesh Kolanu·126 min·★ 7.6Vikram Rudraraju is a 30-year-old cop working for the Telangana State Police. While Vikram is battling with his own traumatic past, the stakes get high when a girl called Preethi mysteriously disappears in Hyderabad and Vikram has to solve the case at any cost.
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Kannum Kannum Kollaiyadithaal
2020·Dir. Desingh Periyasamy·162 min·★ 7.6Two wily online scammers mend their fraudulent ways after meeting the girls of their dreams — until a deceitful discovery throws their world for a loop.
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The Social Dilemma
2020·Dir. Jeff Orlowski·94 min·★ 7.6This documentary-drama hybrid explores the dangerous human impact of social networking, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations.
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Ludo
2020·Dir. Anurag Basu·150 min·★ 7.6Ludo is about the butterfly effect and how, despite all the chaos and crowd of the world, all our lives are inextricably connected. From a resurfaced sex tape to a rogue suitcase of money, four wildly different stories overlap at the whims of fate, chance and one eccentric criminal.
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Athlete A
2020·Dir. Jon Shenk·105 min·★ 7.6Follow the Indianapolis Star reporters that broke the story about USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar's abuse and hear from gymnasts.
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