IMDb Top 5 Highest Rating Movies Of All Time, And One Superhero Movie Is In The List

Welcome December, the last month of 2022! December is the time for most people to clear their annual leave. Let’s spare some time to reminisce about some good movies, reminding us of the past before moving forward to 2023. Here are the top 5 IMDb highest rating movies of all time. Have you watched all of them? If you have not, then you shall choose them for your movie time.

Top 5: 12 Angry Men

12 Angry Men is presented in black and white movie form which brings you back to an American jury room in the 1950s. After the defence and prosecution have rested, the jury is filling into the jury room to decide if a young man is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open-and-shut case of murder soon becomes a detective story that presents a succession of clues creating doubt, and mini-drama of each of the jurors’ prejudices and preconception about the trail, the accused, and the other.

The story happen when the jury in a New York City murder trial is frustrated by a single member who is sceptical caution forces them to more carefully consider the evidence before jumping to a hasty verdict. 12 Angry Men explores many techniques of consensus-building and the difficulties encountered in the process among this group of men whose range of personalities adds to the intensity and conflict. The jurors are identified only by number; no names are revealed until an exchange of dialogue at the very end.

The film forces the audience to evaluate their own self-image through observing the personalities, experience, and actions of the jurors. The film is also notable for its almost exclusive use of one set, where all but three minutes of the film takes place. If you are a fan of detective movies, you must watch this film.

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Top 4: The Godfather Part 2

The Godfather Part 2 is a 1974 American epic crime film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. It’s partially based on the 1969 novel The Godfather by Mario Puzo, who co-wrote the screenplay with Coppola. Part 2 serves as both a sequel and prequel to the 1972 film The Godfather, presenting parallel dramas.

As the continuation of the Godfather saga, it focuses on the ongoing story of the Corleone family, and Michael in particular, and Vito’s Corleone’s (Michael’s father) backstory. Regarding the ongoing Michael Corleone story, it is about seven years since the events that concluded the Godfather. With the murders of the heads of the other four New York/ New Jersey families, the Corleone family has unassailable control in New York.

The move to Nevada went smoothly and Michael Corleone controls several hotels and casinos in the state. Frank Pentageli, the man who runs Michael’s interests in New York, comes to Michael, asking if he can take out the Rosato Brothers as they are infringing on Pentageli’s turf and business interests. However, the Rosatos are backed by Hyman Roth, a business partner of Michael’s and a long- time ally of Michael’s father, Vito Corleone, and Michael refuses.

An attempted assassination attempt is then carried out on Michael’s life, in his own home. Michael investigates who is trying to kill him, and suspects that there is a traitor in his family. Meanwhile, Michael and Hyman Roth fly to Cuba to finalise some business deals there. The Cuban trip reveals all. In a story interwoven with the present day, we see the backstory to Vito Corleone.

From how his parents and brother were murdered by a Don in their home town of Corleone in Sicily, to his escaping, as a boy, to New York, his adult life and his rise to Don Corleone. In short, The Godfather Part 2 tells the story of the early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.

The film was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, and became the first sequel to win Best Picture. Its 6 Oscar wins also included Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay.

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Top 3: The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight is a 2008 superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan from a screenplay he co-wrote with his brother. Set within one year after the events of Batman Begins (2005), Batman, Lieutenant James Gordon, and new District Attorney Harvey Dent successfully begin to round up the criminals that plague Gotham City, until a mysterious and sadistic criminal mastermind known only as “The Joker” appears in Gotham, creating a new wave of chaos.

The Joker aims to take Gotham out from under Harvey Dent’s iron fist and stages a masterfully planned bank robbery and robs the Gotham mob blind. He uses this money to stage a series of horrific and strategic attacks against the city and its people, each one carefully planned and aimed at Dent and Batman, while causing the rest of the city to enter panic mode.
Meanwhile, Batman thinks he might have found a lead to The Joker thanks to Wayne Enterprises’ dealings with a shady Chinese banker, and that takes Batman and Alfred to Hong Kong. The Joker has no rules, but Batman has only one, and the Joker aims to make Batman break his only rule.

Since its release, The Dark Knight has been assessed as one of the greatest superhero films ever made, one of the best films of the 2000s, and one of the best films ever made. The Dark Knight received acclaim for its mature tone and themes, visual style, and performances—particularly that of Ledger, who received many posthumous awards including Academy, BAFTA, and Golden Globe awards for Best Supporting Actor, making The Dark Knight the first comic-book film to receive major industry awards. It broke several box-office records and became the highest-grossing 2008 film, the fourth-highest-grossing film of its time, and the highest-grossing superhero film.

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Top 2: The Godfather

The Godfather is a 1972 American crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo, based on Puzo’s best-selling 1969 novel of the same title. This is a movie about the aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty in postwar New York City transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant youngest son. The Godfather “Don” Vito Corleone is the head of the Corleone mafia family in New York. He is at the event of his daughter’s wedding. Michael, Vito’s youngest son and a decorated World War II Marine is also present at the wedding.

Michael seems to be uninterested in being a part of the family business. Vito is a powerful man, and is kind to all those who give him respect but is ruthless against those who do not. But when a powerful and treacherous rival wants to sell drugs and needs the Don’s influence for the same, Vito refuses to do it. What follows is a clash between Vito’s fading old values and the new ways which may cause Michael to do the thing he was most reluctant in doing and wage a mob war against all the other mafia families which could tear the Corleone family apart.

The storyline of this movie tells the transformation of the youngest son, Michael Corleone, from reluctant family outsider to ruthless mafia boss. The Godfather is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made, as well as a landmark of the gangster genre. It was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 1990, belongs deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” and is ranked the second-greatest film in American Cinema by American Film Institute.

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Top 1: The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American drama film telling the story of two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency. This movie plot is based on the short novel “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption” written by Stephen King in 1982.
The Shawshank Redemption is the story telling about the life of Andy Dufresne and Ellis “Red” Redding in Shawshank State Prison. Bank Merchant Andy Dufresne is convicted of the murder of his wife and her lover, and sentenced to life imprisonment at Shawshank prison. Life seems to have taken a turn for the worse, but fortunately Andy befriends some of the other inmates, in particular a character known only as Red.
Over time Andy finds ways to live out life with relative ease as one can in a prison, leaving a message for all that while the body may be locked away in a cell, the spirit can never be truly imprisoned. At the end of the movie, Red violated his parole by travelling to Fort Hancock, Texas, and crossing the border into Mexico, admitting that he finally feels hope. He finds Andy on a beach in Zihuatanejo, and the two reunited friends happily embrace.
This movie received multiple award nominations, including 7 Academy Awards nomination, and a theatrical re-release that, combined with international takings. Decades after its release, the film was still broadcast regularly, and is popular in several countries, with audience members and celebrities citing it as a source of inspiration and even naming it a favourite in various surveys, leading to its recognition as one of the most “beloved” films ever.
In 2015, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.

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Top grading old movies will never let you down no matter how many times you have been watching it. You will receive encouraging messages or even life messages by watching them. If you have time, trust me, it is worth spending some time watching. People used to have snacks during movie time.
Please have healthy snacks such as nuts or fruits for your movie time. At the same time, remember to go for a stroll after sitting for a long time, watching a great movie. Good movies can be life inspiration.