Movies everyone should watch at least once during their lifetime

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Coming to America (1988)
Coming to America
★ 6.9 23 ratings
John Landis actor: Eddie Murphy / 阿瑟尼奥·豪尔 …
other title: 구혼 작전 / 星の王子 ニューヨークへ行く …
An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess... and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. In disguise as an impoverished immigrant, the pampered prince quickly finds himself a new job, new friends, new digs, new enemies and lots of trouble.

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Pretty Woman (1990)
Pretty Woman
★ 7.4 351 ratings
other title: 漂亮女人 / 风月俏佳人(港) …
While on a business trip in Los Angeles, Edward Lewis, a millionaire entrepreneur who makes a living buying and breaking up companies, picks up a prostitute, Vivian, while asking for directions; after, Edward hires Vivian to stay with him for the weekend to accompany him to a few social events, and the two get closer only to discover there are significant hurdles to overcome as they try to bridge the gap between their very different worlds.

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Blood Diamond (2006)
Blood Diamond
★ 8.1 689 ratings
other title: 血钻 / 血钻石(台) …
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed countrywide.

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Green Book (2018)
Green Book
★ 8.5 2686 ratings
other title: Green Book : Sur les routes du Sud / Green Book - Eine besondere Freundschaft …
Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.

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(500) Days of Summer (2009)
(500) Days of Summer
★ 7.8 1243 ratings
other title: 和莎莫的500天 / 500 Days of Summer …
Tom, greeting-card writer and hopeless romantic, is caught completely off-guard when his girlfriend, Summer, suddenly dumps him. He reflects on their 500 days together to try to figure out where their love affair went sour, and in doing so, Tom rediscovers his true passions in life.

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Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
★ 7.9 328 ratings
other title: 春天不是读书天 / 跷课天才(台) …
After high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip school for the day, he goes on a series of adventures throughout Chicago with his girlfriend Sloane and best friend Cameron, all the while trying to outwit his wily school principal and fed-up sister.

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The Hangover (2009)
The Hangover
★ 7.3 639 ratings
other title: 宿醉 / 醉后大丈夫(台) …
When three friends finally come to after a raucous night of bachelor-party revelry, they find a baby in the closet and a tiger in the bathroom. But they can't seem to locate their best friend, Doug – who's supposed to be tying the knot. Launching a frantic search for Doug, the trio perseveres through a nasty hangover to try to make it to the church on time.

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The Mummy (1999)
The Mummy
★ 7.2 492 ratings
other title: 木乃伊 / 盗墓迷城(港) …
Dashing legionnaire Rick O'Connell stumbles upon the hidden ruins of Hamunaptra while in the midst of a battle to claim the area in 1920s Egypt. It has been over three thousand years since former High Priest Imhotep suffered a fate worse than death as a punishment for a forbidden love—along with a curse that guarantees eternal doom upon the world if he is ever awoken.

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About Time (2013)
About Time
★ 8.2 1361 ratings
other title: 时空恋旅人 / 回到最爱的一天(港) …
The night after another unsatisfactory New Year's party, Tim's father tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. They can't change history, but they can change what happens and has happened in their own lives. Thus begins the start of a lesson in learning to appreciate life itself as it is, as it comes, and most importantly, the people living alongside us.
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