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Best Movies of 2022

The highest-rated films released in 2022, ranked by TMDB user score among titles with at least 500 votes.

📊 A century of movies in numbers 226 titlesavg ★ 6.85 avg 113 min Drama Comedy Thriller Action

Most watched in 2022

Avatar: The Way of Water2022 · ★ 7.6 · 3h 12m

The Batman2022 · ★ 7.7 · 2h 57m

Top Gun: Maverick2022 · ★ 8.2 · 2h 11m

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness2022 · ★ 7.2 · 2h 6m

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish2022 · ★ 8.2 · 1h 43m

Thor: Love and Thunder2022 · ★ 6.4 · 1h 59m

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#1 Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me (2022) · ★ 8.5 · 620 votes · 1h 35m · music, documentary
After years in the limelight, Selena Gomez achieves unimaginable stardom. But just as she reaches a new peak, an unexpected turn pulls her into darkness. This uniquely raw and inti…
#2 Top Gun: Maverick (2022) · ★ 8.2 · 11,636 votes · 2h 11m · action, drama
After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell finds himself trainin…
#3 Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022) · ★ 8.2 · 8,970 votes · 1h 43m · action, comedy, fantasy
Puss in Boots discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll: He has burned through eight of his nine lives, leaving him with only one life left. Puss sets out on an e…
#4 20th Century Girl (2022) · ★ 8.2 · 861 votes · 1h 59m · romance, drama
In 1999, a teen girl keeps close tabs on a boy in school on behalf of her deeply smitten best friend – then she gets swept up in a love story of her own.…
#5 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (2022) · ★ 8.2 · 777 votes · 0h 35m · fantasy, adventure, drama
The unlikely friendship of a boy, a mole, a fox and a horse traveling together in the boy's search for home.…
#6 Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022) · ★ 8.0 · 3,478 votes · 1h 57m · fantasy, adventure, drama
During the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, a wooden boy brought magically to life struggles to live up to his father's expectations.…
#7 Purple Hearts (2022) · ★ 8.0 · 2,950 votes · 2h 2m · romance, drama
An aspiring musician agrees to a marriage of convenience with a soon-to-deploy Marine, but a tragedy soon turns their fake relationship all too real.…
#8 Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero (2022) · ★ 7.9 · 3,080 votes · 1h 40m · action, science-fiction, animation
The Red Ribbon Army, an evil organization that was once destroyed by Goku in the past, has been reformed by a group of people who have created new and mightier Androids, Gamma 1 an…
#9 Suzume (2022) · ★ 7.9 · 1,853 votes · 2h 2m · fantasy, adventure, drama
Suzume, 17, lost her mother as a little girl. On her way to school, she meets a mysterious young man. But her curiosity unleashes a calamity that endangers the entire population of…
#10 Redeeming Love (2022) · ★ 7.9 · 777 votes · 2h 14m · romance, drama, western
A young couple's relationship clashes with the harsh realities of the California Gold Rush of 1850. Angel, experiencing love for the first time and facing demons unsurmountable, ru…
#11 The Whale (2022) · ★ 7.8 · 4,919 votes · 1h 57m · drama
A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.…
#12 Luck (2022) · ★ 7.8 · 2,121 votes · 1h 45m · comedy, fantasy, adventure
Suddenly finding herself in the never-before-seen Land of Luck, the unluckiest person in the world must unite with the magical creatures there to turn her luck around.…
#13 Thirteen Lives (2022) · ★ 7.8 · 1,581 votes · 2h 27m · thriller, drama, history
Based on the true nail-biting mission that captivated the world. Twelve boys and the coach of a Thai soccer team explore the Tham Luang cave when an unexpected rainstorm traps them…
#14 Close (2022) · ★ 7.8 · 1,076 votes · 1h 44m · drama
Two 13-year-old boys spend an idyllic summer together, but their connection is put to the test when they become the subject of speculation at school.…
#15 Argentina 1985 (2022) · ★ 7.8 · 769 votes · 2h 21m · drama, history, crime
In the 1980s, a team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship in a battle against odds and a race against time.…
#16 The First Slam Dunk (2022) · ★ 7.8 · 571 votes · 2h 5m · comedy, drama, animation
Shohoku's “speedster” and point guard, Ryota Miyagi, always plays with brains and lightning speed, running circles around his opponents while feigning composure. In his second year…
#17 The Batman (2022) · ★ 7.7 · 12,582 votes · 2h 57m · thriller, crime, mystery
In his second year of fighting crime, Batman uncovers corruption in Gotham City that connects to his own family while facing a serial killer known as the Riddler.…
#18 Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) · ★ 7.7 · 8,470 votes · 2h 20m · action, adventure, science-fiction
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.…
#19 All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) · ★ 7.7 · 4,959 votes · 2h 27m · action, drama, war
Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys ent…
#20 A Man Called Otto (2022) · ★ 7.7 · 3,792 votes · 2h 6m · comedy, drama
When a lively young family moves in next door, grumpy widower Otto Anderson meets his match in a quick-witted, pregnant woman named Marisol, leading to an unlikely friendship that…
#21 Hustle (2022) · ★ 7.7 · 2,944 votes · 1h 57m · comedy, drama
After discovering a once-in-a-lifetime player with a rocky past abroad, a down on his luck basketball scout takes it upon himself to bring the phenom to the States without his team…
#22 Aftersun (2022) · ★ 7.7 · 1,997 votes · 1h 41m · drama
Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories fill the gaps between camcorder footages as she tries…
#23 RRR (2022) · ★ 7.7 · 1,709 votes · 3h 7m · action, adventure, drama
A fictional history of two legendary revolutionaries' journey away from home before they began fighting for their country in the 1920s.…
#24 Emancipation (2022) · ★ 7.7 · 1,308 votes · 2h 12m · drama, history, war
Inspired by the gripping true story of a man who would do anything for his family—and for freedom. When Peter, an enslaved man, risks his life to escape and return to his family, h…
#25 Sniper: The White Raven (2022) · ★ 7.7 · 949 votes · 2h 0m · action, drama, war
Mykola is an eccentric pacifist who wants to be useful to humanity. When the war begins in Donbas, Mykola’s naive world is collapsing as the militants kill his pregnant wife and bu…
#26 Entergalactic (2022) · ★ 7.7 · 532 votes · 1h 33m · comedy, romance, animation
Ambitious artist Jabari attempts to balance success and love when he moves into his dream Manhattan apartment and falls for his next-door neighbor.…
#27 Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) · ★ 7.6 · 14,644 votes · 3h 12m · action, adventure, science-fiction
Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, learn the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go t…
#28 Prey (2022) · ★ 7.6 · 8,025 votes · 1h 40m · action, thriller, science-fiction
When danger threatens her camp, the fierce and highly skilled Comanche warrior Naru sets out to protect her people. But the prey she stalks turns out to be a highly evolved alien p…
#29 The Fabelmans (2022) · ★ 7.6 · 2,803 votes · 2h 31m · drama
Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shattering family secret and explore…
#30 The Woman King (2022) · ★ 7.6 · 2,429 votes · 2h 15m · action, drama, history
The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever s…
#31 The Eight Mountains (2022) · ★ 7.6 · 867 votes · 2h 27m · drama
An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains follows over four decades the profound, complex relationship between Piet…
#32 Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2022) · ★ 7.6 · 744 votes · 1h 30m · comedy, fantasy, drama
Marcel is an adorable one-inch-tall shell who ekes out a colorful existence with his grandmother Connie and their pet lint, Alan. Once part of a sprawling community of shells, they…
#33 The Black Phone (2022) · ★ 7.5 · 6,117 votes · 1h 43m · thriller, drama, horror
Finney Blake, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on…
#34 The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) · ★ 7.5 · 3,568 votes · 1h 54m · comedy, drama
Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.…
#35 The Bad Guys (2022) · ★ 7.5 · 2,688 votes · 1h 40m · action, comedy, adventure
When the Bad Guys, a crew of criminal animals, are finally caught after years of heists and being the world’s most-wanted villains, Mr. Wolf brokers a deal to save them all from pr…
#36 Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) · ★ 7.5 · 2,339 votes · 2h 6m · romance, drama, mystery
Abandoned by her family, Kya raises herself all alone in the marshes outside of her small town. When her former boyfriend is found dead, Kya is instantly branded by the local towns…
#37 The Beasts (2022) · ★ 7.5 · 976 votes · 2h 18m · thriller, drama
Antoine and Olga, a French couple, have been living in a small village in Galicia for a long time. They practice eco-responsible agriculture and restore abandoned houses to facilit…
#38 The Greatest Beer Run Ever (2022) · ★ 7.5 · 949 votes · 2h 7m · comedy, drama, war
Chickie wants to support his friends fighting in Vietnam, so he does something wild—personally bring them American beer. What starts as a well-meaning journey quickly changes Chick…
#39 My Policeman (2022) · ★ 7.5 · 792 votes · 1h 53m · romance, drama
In the late 1990s, the arrival of elderly invalid Patrick into Marion and Tom’s home triggers the exploration of seismic events from 40 years previous: the passionate relationship…
#40 The Quiet Girl (2022) · ★ 7.5 · 595 votes · 1h 35m · drama
A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be…