Witness(1985)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 38

A young Amish boy is sole witness to a murder; policeman John Book goes into hiding in Amish country to protect him until the trial.



Cape Fear(1991)

Combined Rating:
56
Combined Critics Rating: 37

A convicted rapist, released from prison after serving a fourteen-year sentence, stalks the family of the lawyer who originally defended him.



West Side Story(1961)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 36

Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.



In Cold Blood(1967)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 45

After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.



RoboCop(1987)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 34

In a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories.



Salaam Bombay!(1988)

Combined Rating:
55
Combined Critics Rating: 57

The boy Krishna is abandoned by his mother at the Apollo Circus and she tells him that he can only return home when he can afford 500 rupees to pay for the bicycle of his brother that he ...



Blue Thunder(1983)

Combined Rating:
54
Combined Critics Rating: 48

The cop test pilot for an experimental police helicopter learns the sinister implications of the new vehicle.



Changeling(2008)

Combined Rating:
53
Combined Critics Rating: 32

A grief-stricken mother takes on the LAPD to her own detriment when it tries to pass off an obvious impostor as her missing child.



To Kill a Mockingbird(1962)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 29

Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice.



Hoffa(1992)

Combined Rating:
52
Combined Critics Rating: 41

The story of the notorious American labor union figure Jimmy Hoffa, who organizes a bitter strike, makes deals with members of the organized crime syndicate, and mysteriously disappears in 1975.



In the Heat of the Night(1967)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 33

An African American police detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racially hostile southern town.



Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid(1969)

Combined Rating:
51
Combined Critics Rating: 29

Two Western bank/train robbers flee to Bolivia when the law gets too close.



Brubaker(1980)

Combined Rating:
50
Combined Critics Rating: 43

The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.



Dog Day Afternoon(1975)

Combined Rating:
49
Combined Critics Rating: 25

A man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation; it turns into a hostage situation and a media circus.



Primal Fear(1996)

Combined Rating:
48
Combined Critics Rating: 24

An altar boy is accused of murdering a priest, and the truth is buried several layers deep.



Beverly Hills Cop II(1987)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 24

Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills to help Taggart and Rosewood investigate Chief Bogomil's near-fatal shooting and the series of "alphabet crimes" associated with it.



Heavenly Creatures(1994)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 27

Two girls have an intense fantasy life; their parents, concerned the fantasy is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge.



12(2007)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 36

Twelve jurors must decide the fate of a Chechen adolescent charged with murdering his stepfather.



Bullets Over Broadway(1994)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 28

In New York in 1928, a struggling playwright is forced to cast a mobster's talentless girlfriend in his latest drama in order to get it produced.



Straw Dogs(1971)

Combined Rating:
45
Combined Critics Rating: 23

A young American and his English wife come to rural England and face increasingly vicious local harassment.




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