One more movie on this list directed by Danny Boyle, 127 Hours is a biographical drama that tells a true story about mountain climber Aron Ralston (James Franco) who becomes trapped under a boulder and must resort to desperate measures to survive. Directed by Steve McQueen ( Widows, Shame), 12 Years a Slave earned overwhelmingly positive reviews and nine Academy Award nominations, winning three in the end – for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actress. Northup worked on plantations in Louisiana for 12 years before he was set free. ![]() This brutal look at slavery is an adaptation of the memoirs Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, who was a free African-American man born in New York State and kidnapped and sold into slavery. 12 Angry Men (1957)ġ2 Angry Men, Sidney Lumet’s ( Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, Network) big-screen directorial debut is a 1957 American courtroom drama about a jury of 12 men who must decide if a young man is guilty of murdering his own father. Although a box office disappointment at the time of the release, the movie received critical acclaim and it is considered as a modern classic, both by critics and audience. It was nominated for three Oscars but lost in all categories to The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). Also, as it was hard to compare and rank all these really different movies, this is the list of best movies with numbers in the title in alphabetical order. 30 Greatest Movies With Numbers In The Titleīefore starting with this list let’s make one thing clear – sequels don’t count. But there is much more as you’ll see in the rest of the article. There are more than 100 movies that have numbers in the title and a lot of them are actually pretty good or even great like David Fincher’s 1995 dark thriller Seven, Terry Gilliam’s time travel SF Twelve Monkeys, Sidney Lumet’s classic 12 Angry men, Neill Blomkamp’s SF allegory District 9, Guy Ritchie’s crime comedy Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, Stanley Kubrick’s influential SF classic 2001: A Space Odyssey, or Kurosawa’s masterpiece Seven Samurai. So I started wondering how many movies are there with numbers in the title? And what are the greatest movies with numbers in the title? Seven, Twelve Monkeys, District 9, they were all excellent movies and had the number in the title. In the last two weeks, I rewatched a couple of older movies and noticed one interesting thing a couple of them had in common.
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