October 3, 2011

Top 10 Stanley Kubrick Films

Ranking by IMDb user ratings.



1. Paths of Glory (1957) - 8.6/10

When soldiers in WW1 refuse to continue with an impossible attack, their superiors decide to make an example of them.

1. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying 

and Love the Bomb (1964) - 8.6/10

An insane general starts a process to nuclear holocaust that a war room of politicians and generals frantically try to stop.

3. The Shining (1980) - 8.5/10

A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.

3. A Clockwork Orange (1971) - 8.5/10

In future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society's crime problem... but not all goes to plan.


5. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - 8.4/10

Mankind finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, artifact buried on the moon and, with the intelligent computer HAL, sets off on a quest.

5. Full Metal Jacket (1987) - 8.4/10

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow Marine recruits from their brutal basic training to the bloody street fighting set in 1968 Hue, Vietnam.


7. The Killing (1956) - 8.2/10

Crooks plan and execute a daring racetrack robbery.


8. Barry Lyndon (1975) - 8.1/10

An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's position in 18th Century aristocracy.


9. Spartacus (1960) - 8.0/10

The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman empire.


10. Lolita (1962) - 7.7/10

A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a 14-year-old nymphet.


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