Best Movies List of 2013

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

Aggregate Rating: 257 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 75 | Earnings: $116.87M

Lead Role: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey, | Director: Martin Scorsese,

Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government.

Gravity (2013)

Aggregate Rating: 245 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 96 | Earnings: $274.08M

Lead Role: Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Ed Harris, Orto Ignatiussen, | Director: Alfonso Cuarón,

Two astronauts work together to survive after an accident which leaves them alone in space.

12 Years a Slave (2013)

Aggregate Rating: 233 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 96 | Earnings: $56.67M

Lead Role: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt, | Director: Steve McQueen,

In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

Her (2013)

Aggregate Rating: 215 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 90 | Earnings: $25.56M

Lead Role: Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams, Scarlett Johansson, Rooney Mara, | Director: Spike Jonze,

A lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with an operating system designed to meet his every need.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

Aggregate Rating: 212 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 76 | Earnings: $424.65M

Lead Role: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Philip Seymour Hoffman, | Director: Francis Lawrence,

Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark become targets of the Capitol after their victory in the 74th Hunger Games sparks a rebellion in the Districts of Panem.

American Hustle (2013)

Aggregate Rating: 206 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 90 | Earnings: $150.12M

Lead Role: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, | Director: David O. Russell,

A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia.

Prisoners (2013)

Aggregate Rating: 205 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 74 | Earnings: $60.96M

Lead Role: Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Melissa Leo, | Director: Denis Villeneuve,

When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

Aggregate Rating: 204 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 66 | Earnings: $258.36M

Lead Role: Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Ken Stott, | Director: Peter Jackson,

The dwarves, along with Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf the Grey, continue their quest to reclaim Erebor, their homeland, from Smaug. Bilbo Baggins is in possession of a mysterious and magical ring.

Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

Aggregate Rating: 204 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 84 | Earnings: $27.30M

Lead Role: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto, Steve Zahn, | Director: Jean-Marc Vallée,

In 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is diagnosed with the disease.

Iron Man Three (2013)

Aggregate Rating: 202 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 62 | Earnings: $408.99M

Lead Role: Robert Downey Jr., Guy Pearce, Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, | Director: Shane Black,

When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.

Captain Phillips (2013)

Aggregate Rating: 201 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 83 | Earnings: $107.10M

Lead Role: Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Barkhad Abdirahman, Catherine Keener, | Director: Paul Greengrass,

The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the U.S.-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.

Frozen (2013)

Aggregate Rating: 201 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 74 | Earnings: $400.74M

Lead Role: Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, | Director:

When the newly crowned Queen Elsa accidentally uses her power to turn things into ice to curse her home in infinite winter, her sister, Anna, teams up with a mountain man, his playful reindeer, and a snowman to change the weather condition.

Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

Aggregate Rating: 197 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 72 | Earnings: $228.76M

Lead Role: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Benedict Cumberbatch, | Director: J.J. Abrams,

After the crew of the Enterprise find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one-man weapon of mass destruction.

Rush (2013)

Aggregate Rating: 195 | Imdb: 8 | Metascore: 75 | Earnings: $26.90M

Lead Role: Daniel Brühl, Chris Hemsworth, Olivia Wilde, Alexandra Maria Lara, | Director: Ron Howard,

The merciless 1970s rivalry between Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda.

Man of Steel (2013)

Aggregate Rating: 192 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 55 | Earnings: $291.02M

Lead Role: Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Diane Lane, | Director: Zack Snyder,

Clark Kent, one of the last of an extinguished race disguised as an unremarkable human, is forced to reveal his identity when Earth is invaded by an army of survivors who threaten to bring the planet to the brink of destruction.

World War Z (2013)

Aggregate Rating: 190 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 63 | Earnings: $202.35M

Lead Role: Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Daniella Kertesz, James Badge Dale, | Director: Marc Forster,

Former United Nations employee Gerry Lane traverses the world in a race against time to stop the Zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments, and threatening to destroy humanity itself.

Before Midnight (2013)

Aggregate Rating: 185 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 94 | Earnings: $8.11M

Lead Role: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Ariane Labed, | Director: Richard Linklater,

We meet Jesse and Celine nine years on in Greece. Almost two decades have passed since their first meeting on that train bound for Vienna.

The Conjuring (2013)

Aggregate Rating: 181 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 68 | Earnings: $137.39M

Lead Role: Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Ron Livingston, Lili Taylor, | Director: James Wan,

Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse.

Pacific Rim (2013)

Aggregate Rating: 180 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 64 | Earnings: $101.79M

Lead Role: Idris Elba, Charlie Hunnam, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day, | Director: Guillermo del Toro,

As a war between humankind and monstrous sea creatures wages on, a former pilot and a trainee are paired up to drive a seemingly obsolete special weapon in a desperate effort to save the world from the apocalypse.

Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)

Aggregate Rating: 179 | Imdb: 7 | Metascore: 93 | Earnings: $13.21M

Lead Role: Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, John Goodman, Garrett Hedlund, | Director:

A week in the life of a young singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961.