August 29th, 2016 | Updated on February 21st, 2024
1. The Chaos Class (1975)
Lazy, uneducated students share a very close bond. They live together in the dormitory, where they plan their latest pranks. When a new headmaster arrives, the students naturally try to overthrow him. A comic war of nitwits follows.
2. Forrest Gump (1994)
Image Forrest Gump, while not intelligent, has accidentally been present at many historic moments, but his true love, Jenny Curran, eludes him.
3. Andaz Apna Apna (1994)
Image Two slackers competing for the affections of an heiress, inadvertently become her protectors from an evil criminal.
4. The Intouchables (2011)
Image After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the projects to be his caregiver.
5. Life Is Beautiful (1997)
When an open-minded Jewish librarian and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.
6. Modern Times (1936)
Image The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
7. City Lights (1931)
Image With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.
8. Hera Pheri (2000)
Image Three unemployed men find the answer to all their money problems when they receive a call from a kidnapper. However, things do not go as planned.
9. Back to the Future (1985)
Image Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.
10. Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964)
An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a war room full of politicians and generals frantically try to stop.
11. The Great Dictator (1940)
Image Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel’s regime.
12. Sholay (1975)
Image After his family is murdered by a notorious and ruthless bandit, a former police officer enlists the services of two outlaws to capture him.
13. Amelie (2001)
Image Amelie is an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decides to help those around her and, along the way, discovers love.
14. 3 Idiots (2009)
Image Two friends are searching for their long lost companion. They revisit their college days and recall the memories of their friend who inspired them to think differently, even as the rest of the world called them “idiots”.
15. Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. (2003)
Image A gangster sets out to fulfill his father’s dream of becoming a doctor.
16. Rang De Basanti (2006)
Image The story of six young Indians who assist an English Woman to film a documentary on the extremist freedom fighters from their past, and the events that lead them to relive the long forgotten saga of freedom.
17. Queen (2013)
A Delhi girl from a traditional family sets out on a solo honeymoon after her marriage gets cancelled.
18. Inside Out (I) (2015)
Image After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions – Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness – conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school.
19. Snatch (2000)
Image Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewelers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.
20. Up (2009)
Seventy-eight year old Carl Fredricksen travels to Paradise Falls in his home equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway. Source
21. The Godfather (1972)
An organized crime dynasty’s aging patriarch transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son. Widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, this mob drama, based on Mario Puzo’s novel of the same name, focuses on the powerful Italian-American crime family of Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando). When the don’s youngest son, Michael (Al Pacino), reluctantly joins the Mafia, he becomes involved in the inevitable cycle of violence and betrayal. Although Michael tries to maintain a normal relationship with his wife, Kay (Diane Keaton), he is drawn deeper into the family business.
22. The Dark Knight (2008)
When the menace known as the Joker wreaks havoc and chaos on the people of Gotham, Batman must accept one of the greatest psychological and physical tests of his ability to fight injustice.
23. 12 Angry Men (1957)
A jury holdout attempts to prevent a miscarriage of justice by forcing his colleagues to reconsider the evidence. Its 1950s classic, bias and group-think influence the deliberations of a dozen jury members. Initially, one of the jurors (Jack Lemmon) is the only roadblock between the panel and unanimous conviction of the Latino alleged murderer they’ve been called to judge. But the all-male jury’s negotiations prove fluid, and as the hours pass, more and more of the dissenter’s peers come over to his side. Before long, the trial of an oppressed youth becomes a meditation on social justice.
24. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron’s army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.
25. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption through acts of common decency.
