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Best Movies of 2013

The highest-rated films released in 2013, ranked by TMDB user score among titles with at least 500 votes.

📊 A century of movies in numbers 284 titlesavg ★ 6.54 avg 106 min Drama Thriller Comedy Action

Most watched in 2013

The Wolf of Wall Street2013 · ★ 8.0 · 3h 0m

Iron Man 32013 · ★ 6.9 · 2h 10m

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire2013 · ★ 7.4 · 2h 26m

Thor: The Dark World2013 · ★ 6.5 · 1h 52m

Frozen2013 · ★ 7.2 · 1h 42m

Now You See Me2013 · ★ 7.3 · 1h 56m

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#1 Hope (2013) · ★ 8.4 · 919 votes · 2h 2m · drama
After 8-year-old So-won narrowly survives a brutal sexual assault, her family labors to help her heal while coping with their own rage and grief.…
#2 One Direction: This Is Us (2013) · ★ 8.2 · 1,074 votes · 1h 32m · music, documentary
"One Direction: This Is Us" is a captivating and intimate all-access look at life on the road for the global music phenomenon. Weaved with stunning live concert footage, this inspi…
#3 Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (2013) · ★ 8.2 · 788 votes · 1h 17m · adventure, science-fiction
In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in space an ancient battle reaches i…
#4 Prisoners (2013) · ★ 8.1 · 13,565 votes · 2h 33m · thriller, drama, crime
After his six-year-old daughter is abducted, a desperate father takes justice into his own hands when he loses faith in the detective leading the investigation, setting both men on…
#5 The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013) · ★ 8.1 · 2,057 votes · 2h 17m · fantasy, drama, animation
Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious young princess enthrals all who…
#6 The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) · ★ 8.0 · 26,084 votes · 3h 0m · comedy, drama, crime
A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belf…
#7 We Are the Nobles (2013) · ★ 8.0 · 560 votes · 1h 48m · comedy
Tells the "riches to rags" story of the Nobles, three upper-class twenty-somethings that appear to have no limits to their checkbooks, and no direction in their lives. Until one da…
#8 12 Years a Slave (2013) · ★ 7.9 · 12,250 votes · 2h 14m · drama, history
In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solo…
#9 About Time (2013) · ★ 7.9 · 9,533 votes · 2h 3m · fantasy, romance, drama
The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father reveals to him that the men in their family have the ability to travel through time. They can't change history…
#10 Dallas Buyers Club (2013) · ★ 7.9 · 9,297 votes · 1h 57m · drama, history
Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.…
#11 Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox (2013) · ★ 7.9 · 1,995 votes · 1h 21m · action, fantasy, adventure
The Flash finds himself in a war-torn alternate timeline and teams up with alternate versions of his fellow heroes to restore the timeline.…
#12 Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 2 (2013) · ★ 7.9 · 1,640 votes · 1h 18m · action, science-fiction, animation
Batman has stopped the reign of terror that The Mutants had cast upon his city. Now an old foe wants a reunion and the government wants The Man of Steel to put a stop to Batman.…
#13 Blackfish (2013) · ★ 7.9 · 1,217 votes · 1h 23m · documentary
Notorious killer whale Tilikum is responsible for the deaths of three individuals, including a top killer whale trainer. Blackfish shows the sometimes devastating consequences of k…
#14 Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2013) · ★ 7.9 · 510 votes · 2h 8m · comedy, drama
A story about a mentally ill man wrongfully imprisoned for murder and his relationship with his 6 year old daughter.…
#15 Her (2013) · ★ 7.8 · 15,646 votes · 2h 6m · romance, drama, science-fiction
In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer, purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every need. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic rel…
#16 The Wind Rises (2013) · ★ 7.8 · 3,502 votes · 2h 6m · romance, drama, animation
A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.…
#17 The Best Offer (2013) · ★ 7.8 · 3,144 votes · 2h 11m · romance, drama, crime
Virgil Oldman is a world renowned antiques expert and auctioneer. An eccentric genius, he leads a solitary life, going to extreme lengths to keep his distance from the messiness of…
#18 The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex (2013) · ★ 7.8 · 1,092 votes · 1h 0m · comedy, fantasy, tv-movie
While trying to prove to her family she can be mature and responsible, teen wizard Alex Russo conjures up a spell to rid herself of her bad qualities, unintentionally creating a Go…
#19 Jodorowsky's Dune (2013) · ★ 7.8 · 781 votes · 1h 27m · documentary
In 1974, Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky embarked on the quixotic project of adapting Frank Herbert's influential novel Dune (1969) for the big screen. After investing…
#20 Rush (2013) · ★ 7.7 · 8,046 votes · 2h 3m · action, drama
In the 1970s, a rivalry propels race car drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt to fame and glory — until a horrible accident threatens to end it all.…
#21 Short Term 12 (2013) · ★ 7.7 · 1,460 votes · 1h 36m · drama
Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, helps at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior b…
#22 Instructions Not Included (2013) · ★ 7.7 · 956 votes · 2h 2m · comedy, drama
Valentin is Acapulco's resident playboy, until a former fling leaves a baby on his doorstep and him heading with her out of Mexico.…
#23 Free Fall (2013) · ★ 7.7 · 856 votes · 1h 37m · romance, drama
A promising career with the police, a baby on the way... Marc's life seems to be right on track. Then he meets fellow policeman Kay and during their regular jogs Marc experiences a…
#24 Like Father, Like Son (2013) · ★ 7.7 · 819 votes · 2h 0m · drama
Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must make a life-changing decision and…
#25 My Mom Is a Character (2013) · ★ 7.7 · 685 votes · 1h 24m · comedy
After another spat with her kids, Dona Hermínia decides to take some time off from them and hides away in her aunt's house, where she reminisces about her kids in an age when they…
#26 Tangerines (2013) · ★ 7.7 · 620 votes · 1h 27m · drama, war
War in Abkhazia, 1992. An Estonian man Ivo has stayed behind to harvest his crops of tangerines. In a bloody conflict at his door, a wounded man is left behind, and Ivo is forced t…
#27 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) · ★ 7.6 · 14,385 votes · 2h 41m · action, fantasy, adventure
The Dwarves, Bilbo and Gandalf have successfully escaped the Misty Mountains, and Bilbo has gained the One Ring. They all continue their journey to get their gold back from the Dra…
#28 The Garden of Words (2013) · ★ 7.6 · 2,286 votes · 0h 46m · romance, drama, animation
Takao, who is training to become a shoemaker, skipped school and is sketching shoes in a Japanese-style garden. He meets a mysterious woman, Yukino, who is older than him. Then, wi…
#29 The Conjuring (2013) · ★ 7.5 · 13,034 votes · 1h 52m · thriller, horror
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find thems…
#30 Captain Phillips (2013) · ★ 7.5 · 7,713 votes · 2h 14m · action, thriller, drama
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred…
#31 The Book Thief (2013) · ★ 7.5 · 4,585 votes · 2h 11m · drama
While subjected to the horrors of WWII Germany, young Liesel finds solace by stealing books and sharing them with others. Under the stairs in her home, a Jewish refugee is being sh…
#32 The Great Beauty (2013) · ★ 7.5 · 3,362 votes · 2h 22m · drama
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parti…
#33 Before Midnight (2013) · ★ 7.5 · 2,779 votes · 1h 49m · romance, drama
It has been nine years since we last met Jesse and Celine, the French-American couple who once met on a train in Vienna. They now live in Paris with twin daughters but have spent a…
#34 The Flu (2013) · ★ 7.5 · 1,298 votes · 2h 2m · action, adventure, thriller
A case of the flu quickly morphs into a pandemic. As the death toll mounts and the living panic, the government plans extreme measures to contain it.…
#35 The Blue Umbrella (2013) · ★ 7.5 · 597 votes · 0h 7m · romance, animation
It is just another evening commute until the rain starts to fall, and the city comes alive to the sound of dripping rain pipes, whistling awnings and gurgling gutters.…
#36 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) · ★ 7.4 · 18,740 votes · 2h 26m · action, adventure, science-fiction
After surviving the Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta struggle with the consequences of their victory as unrest spreads across Panem. Forced back into the spotlight, they become symb…
#37 Lone Survivor (2013) · ★ 7.4 · 4,862 votes · 2h 1m · action, drama, war
Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of Afghanistan that leads them into an enem…
#38 Stuck in Love (2013) · ★ 7.4 · 2,049 votes · 1h 37m · comedy, romance, drama
An acclaimed writer, his ex-wife, and their teenaged children come to terms with the complexities of love in all its forms over the course of one tumultuous year.…
#39 Nebraska (2013) · ★ 7.4 · 1,969 votes · 1h 55m · adventure, drama
An aging, booze-addled father takes a trip from Montana to Nebraska with his estranged son in order to claim what he believes to be a million-dollar sweepstakes prize.…
#40 Fruitvale Station (2013) · ★ 7.4 · 1,493 votes · 1h 25m · drama
Oakland, California. Young Afro-American Oscar Grant crosses paths with family members, friends, enemies and strangers before facing his fate on the platform at Fruitvale Station,…