List of the best Stanley Kubrick movies: The Shining(1980), Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb(1964), Paths of Glory(1957), 2001: A Space Odyssey(1968), A Clockwork Orange(1971), Full Metal Jacket(1987), Barry Lyndon(1975), The Killing(1956), Spartacus(1960), Lolita(1962), Eyes Wide Shut(1999), Killer's Kiss(1955) ... ...
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
UK|USA
1980
142 Minutes
Director
Jack Nicholson Shelley Duvall Danny Lloyd Scatman Crothers Barry Nelson Philip Stone Joe Turkel Anne Jackson Tony Burton Lia Beldam Billie Gibson
wife bartender psychic jack torrance chef caretaker chilling suspenseful disturbing creepy overlook hotel colorado violence axe insanity writer's block cabin fever extrasensory perception escape pursuit
A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.
Comedy
UK|USA
1964
93 Minutes
Director
Peter Sellers George C. Scott Keenan Wynn Slim Pickens Peter Bull Tracy Reed James Earl Jones Jack Creley Frank Berry Glenn Beck Shane Rimmer
military officer russian general president pilot scientist witty creative airplane white house washington, d.c. diplomacy politics suicide communism nuclear attack cold war pursuit fall 1950s
An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a War Room full of politicians and generals frantically tries to stop.
War, Drama
USA
1957
86 Minutes
Director
Kirk Douglas Ralph Meeker Adolphe Menjou George Macready Wayne Morris Richard Anderson Timothy Agoglia Carey Christiane Kubrick Bert Freed
military officer soldier bleak gutsy passionate france battlefield military base horrors of war world war i battle fatigue wretched excess sacrifice fall 1910s
After refusing to attack an enemy position, a general accuses the soldiers of cowardice and their commanding officer must defend them.
Sci-Fi
UK|USA
1968
139 Minutes
Director
Keir Dullea Gary Lockwood William Sylvester Daniel Richter Leonard Rossiter Margaret Tyzack Robert Beatty
astronaut scientist fascinating profound somber spaceship space station outer space computers man vs. machine expedition technology metamorphosis discovery quest 21st century
After discovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, mankind sets off on a quest to find its origins with help from intelligent supercomputer H.A.L. 9000.
Comedy, Drama
UK|USA
1971
137 Minutes
Director
Malcolm McDowell Patrick Magee Michael Bates Warren Clarke John Clive Adrienne Corri Carl Duering Paul Farrell Clive Francis Michael Gover Miriam Karlin
juvenile delinquents politician writer chaplain social worker brutal disturbing intense prison apartment countryside household hospital aimless youth violence retribution politics dystopia transformation growing up
In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.
War, Drama, History
UK|USA
1987
116 Minutes
Director
Matthew Modine Adam Baldwin Vincent D'Onofrio R. Lee Ermey Dorian Harewood Arliss Howard Kevyn Major Howard Ed O'Ross
marine journalist drill instructor sergeant photographer prostitute dark disturbing raw gripping frightening sad barracks parris island, s.c. vietnam city boot camp war zone war violence
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
Drama
UK|USA
1975
184 Minutes
Director
Ryan O'Neal Marisa Berenson Patrick Magee Hardy Kruger Steven Berkoff Gay Hamilton Leonard Rossiter Godfrey Quigley Arthur O'Sullivan Diana Koerner Marie Kean
soldier spy wealthy woman gambler love interest maid engaging emotional village ireland farm england romance infidelity war marriage suicide wealth fall rise
An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.
Crime, Drama
USA
1956
83 Minutes
Director
Sterling Hayden Coleen Gray Vince Edwards Jay C. Flippen Marie Windsor Joe Sawyer Ted de Corsia Elisha Cook Jr. Timothy Agoglia Carey
criminal police officer wrestler sharpshooter wife bleak suspenseful gripping racetrack california airport robbery conspiracy betrayal horse racing police corruption pursuit fall 1950s
Crook Johnny Clay assembles a five man team to plan and execute a daring race-track robbery.
Action, Drama, History
USA
1960
184 Minutes
Director
Kirk Douglas Laurence Olivier Jean Simmons Tony Curtis Charles Laughton Peter Ustinov John Gavin Nina Foch Herbert Lom John Dall Charles McGraw
gladiator slave rebel sexy woman inspiring engaging rome rebellion freedom showdown murder hand-to-hand combat suicide escape rise revenge 1st century b.c.
The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic.
Comedy, Drama
UK|USA
1962
152 Minutes
Director
James Mason Shelley Winters Sue Lyon Peter Sellers Marianne Stone Diana Decker Gary Cockrell Jerry Stovin
professor teen girl widow impostor witty uneasy disturbing suburbia new hampshire ohio hotel car obsessive love sexual taboo jealousy betrayal murder road trip forbidden love wretched excess
A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a fourteen-year-old nymphet.
Drama
UK|USA
1999
159 Minutes
Director
Tom Cruise Nicole Kidman Sydney Pollack Marie Richardson Rade Serbedzija Todd Field Vinessa Shaw Alan Cumming Sky Dumont Fay Masterson Leelee Sobieski
doctor curator husband wife sexy man sexy woman chilling sultry tense shocking new york city apartment mansion city apartment bedroom street husband/wife relationship sex cult sadomasochism
A New York City doctor embarks on a harrowing, night-long odyssey of sexual and moral discovery after his wife reveals a painful secret to him.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
1955
67 Minutes
Director
Frank Silvera Jamie Smith Irene Kane Jerry Jarrett Mike Dana Felice Orlandi Shaun O'Brien Barbara Brand
boxer dancer boss manager thug landlord dark gritty melodramatic gripping new york city boxing ring roof apartment warehouse nightclub kidnapping doomed romance jealousy murder
Ready to catch a train to his hometown, a washed-up boxer tells us about the strange and twisty events that happened to him the past couple of days.
War, Drama
USA
1953
68 Minutes
Director
Frank Silvera Paul Mazursky Kenneth Harp Stephen Coit Virginia Leith
soldiers peasant woman general bleak dark gripping intense profound tense uneasy forest river military base war psychology trauma murder escape fall 1950s
Four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines must confront their fears and desires.