Movies By highest critic rating on Showtime

BITCHIN': The Sound and Fury of Rick James (2021)

tmdb-822101
Gone: 2022-03-01RT: 100/57 IMDB: 7.2 chan: Showtime
Directors: Sacha Jenkins Genres: Documentary
Stars: Rick James
A raw look at the wildly colorful life of legendary funk artist Rick James.

Hitsville: The Making of Motown (2019)

tmdb-616815
Gone: 2022-03-01RT: 100/78 IMDB: 7.9 chan: Showtime
Directors: Benjamin Turner Genres: Documentary, Music
Stars: Berry Gordy, Smokey Robinson, Martha Reeves
Documentary film that focuses on the period beginning with the birth of Motown in Detroit in 1958 until its relocation to Los Angeles in the early 1970s.

The One and Only Dick Gregory (2021)

tmdb-821968
Gone: 2022-03-01RT: 100 IMDB: 7.8 chan: Showtime
Directors: Andre Gaines Genres: Documentary
Stars:
Documentary examining activist and pop-culture icon Dick Gregory, whose work as a self-described ‘agitator’ shaped a generation demanding justice. Featuring Gregory’s personal reflections, archival footage and interviews with the artists he influenced.

The Last Picture Show (1971)

tmdb-25188
Gone: RT: 100/90 IMDB: 8.0 Revenue: 29.1M Budget: 1.3M chan: Showtime
Directors: Peter Bogdanovich Genres: Drama
Stars: Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges, Ellen Burstyn
Timothy Bottoms, Jeff Bridges and Cybill Shepherd star in this portrait of small-town Texas life during the 1950s.

Sophie Jones (2021)

tmdb-683591
Gone: RT: 100/76 IMDB: nan chan: Showtime
Directors: Jessie Barr Genres: Drama
Stars: Jessica Barr, Skyler Verity, Clair Manning
A teen girl processes her newfound sexual awakening as she simultaneously grieves for her late mother, trying everything to feel something again and hold her life together.

Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee (2016)

tmdb-413834
Gone: RT: 100/77 IMDB: 6.7 chan: Showtime
Directors: Not Specified Genres: Documentary, Drama
Stars:
The Dangerous Life of John McAfee: Included with Prime until 1/11. Documentary about the bizarre and scandalous life of tech millionaire John McAfee - famed inventor of anti-virus software - who goes off the grid to live in Belize, building a compound and harem and becoming a drug lord.

Burn Motherf**ker, Burn! (2017)

tmdb-449253
Gone: RT: 100/50 IMDB: 6.5 chan: Showtime
Directors: Sacha Jenkins Genres: Documentary
Stars:
A provocative documentary look at how decades of racial tensions, injustice and a troubled relationship between the LAPD and the African-American community led to the 1992 Los Angeles uprising.

Ellie and Abbie (& Ellie's Dead Aunt) (2021)

tmdb-662541
Gone: RT: 100/38 IMDB: 5.9 Revenue: 0.0M chan: Showtime
Directors: Monica Zanetti Genres: Comedy, Romance
Stars: Sophie Hawkshaw, Zoe Terakes, Marta Dusseldorp
Ellie is struggling to find the courage to ask her classmate, Abbie, to the formal. Luckily her aunt, a lesbian who died in the 80's, has shown up as a "Fairy Godmother" to dish out advice, whether Ellie wants it or not.

Under the Volcano (2021)

tmdb-804013
Gone: RT: 100/100 IMDB: 7.7 chan: Showtime
Directors: Gracie Otto Genres: Documentary, Music
Stars: George Martin, Sting, Jimmy Buffett
Personal accounts, never before seen footage and a blistering soundtrack reveal how Beatles producer Sir George Martin made a remote Caribbean recording studio explode into a musical juggernaut.

Downeast (2021)

tmdb-802194
Gone: RT: 100/56 IMDB: nan chan: Showtime
Directors: Joe Raffa Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller
Stars: Greg Finley, Dylan Silver, Judson Mills
When Emma returns to her hometown of Maine, she rekindles a romantic flame with Tommy, a local lobster fisherman. The two are forced to confront their past after a local drug lord reemerges.

Sid & Judy (2019)

tmdb-599950
Gone: RT: 100/95 IMDB: 6.2 chan: Showtime
Directors: --- Genres: Documentary
Stars: George Schlatter, Norman Jewison, Albert Poland
A revealing new look at Judy Garland fifty years after her tragic, untimely death. Fusing the unpublished recollections of producer, manager and third husband, Sid Luft, with film clips, rare concert footage and Judy's own inimitable words.

Scarborough (2021)

tmdb-855136
Gone: RT: 100 IMDB: nan chan: Showtime
Directors: Not Specified Genres: Drama
Stars: Jessica Barden, Jordan Bolger, Edward Hogg
Two student-teacher couples take a weekend trip to a small seaside town to explore their illicit relationships.

Slalom (2021)

tmdb-585744
Gone: RT: 100/70 IMDB: 6.7 Budget: 0.9M chan: Showtime
Directors: Charlène Favier Genres: Drama
Stars: Noée Abita, Jérémie Renier, Marie Denarnaud
When a teenage skiing prodigy is taken under the wing of an abusive champion-turned-coach, she is challenged with summoning the determination to escape their exploitative relationship.

American Jihad (2017)

tmdb-445068
Gone: RT: 100/55 IMDB: 7.0 chan: Showtime
Directors: Alison Ellwood Genres: Documentary
Stars:
Documentary probe into the phenomenon of home-grown Jihadism, analyzing the strategic outreach and tactics employed by terrorists in order to reach susceptible members of society and what can be done to prevent it.

The Longest War (2020)

tmdb-691066
Gone: RT: 100 IMDB: 6.8 chan: Showtime
Directors: Greg Barker Genres: Documentary, War
Stars: Lisa Maddox, Breshna Musaza
This documentary feature unpacks the human stories and drama behind America's involvement in Afghanistan, now the longest war in U.S. history. First-hand witnesses bring their experiences to life through emotional interviews.

Love Means Zero (2018)

tmdb-469071
Gone: RT: 100/60 IMDB: 7.2 chan: Showtime
Directors: --- Genres: Documentary
Stars:
This documentary explores Nick Bollettieri, who coached a generation of champions at his tennis academy. His marriages, finances and relationships all suffered however, including the one with his most cherished student, Andre Agassi.

Colewell (2019)

tmdb-589861
Gone: RT: 100/50 IMDB: 6.4 chan: Showtime
Directors: Tom Quinn Genres: Drama
Stars: Karen Allen, Kevin J. O'Connor, Hannah Gross
For thirty-five years, Nora Pancowski (Karen Allen) has been the postmaster of Colewell, Pennsylvania. When the USPS decides to close her office, she must choose whether to relocate for a new position or face retirement in Colewell.

Antiquities (2019)

tmdb-530624
Gone: RT: 100/84 IMDB: 5.8 chan: Showtime
Directors: Daniel Campbell Genres: Comedy
Stars: Andrew J. West, Michaela Watkins, Michael Gladis
After his father’s death, Walt moves to his dad’s hometown to discover more about him. He accepts a job at a local antique mall and is introduced to the quirky world in which his father grew up, learning about him, but also himself.

International Falls (2020)

tmdb-597049
Gone: RT: 100/72 IMDB: 5.7 chan: Showtime
Directors: Amber McGinnis Genres: Comedy
Stars: Rachel Harris, Rob Huebel, Matthew Glave
Stuck in a snowbound border town, Dee harbors a secret dream of a stand-up career. When she forms a friendship with a burned out touring comedian, these two lost souls are forced to face the harsh but funny truths of their lives.

My Tender Matador (2021)

tmdb-651170
Gone: RT: 100/78 IMDB: nan chan: Showtime
Directors: Rodrigo Sepúlveda Urzúla Genres: Drama, Romance
Stars: Alfredo Castro, Leonardo Ortizgris, Julieta Zylberberg
Amidst the political turmoil of Pinochet’s regime in 1980s Chile, a lonely transwoman agrees to participate in a clandestine operation with her lover, a guerrilla fighter.

The Gasoline Thieves (2020)

tmdb-586069
Gone: RT: 100 IMDB: 6.7 chan: Showtime
Directors: Not Specified Genres: Drama, Crime
Stars:
An innocent crush propels fourteen-year-old Lalo's descent into the criminal underworld of illegal gasoline extraction. What begins as a fast track for the latest smartphone quickly veers into a deadly fight for his life.

Knuckle City (2019)

tmdb-622966
Gone: RT: 100/71 IMDB: 7.3 chan: Showtime
Directors: Not Specified Genres: Action, Drama, Crime
Stars:
In South Africa's Mdantsane township, known as the boxing mecca of South Africa, Dudu Nyakama, a down and out aging boxer, struggles to attain the one fight that he believes will uplift his fractured family.

ATTICA (2021)

tmdb-858059
Gone: 2022-03-01RT: 98/83 IMDB: 7.5 chan: Showtime
Directors: Stanley Nelson Genres: Documentary
Stars:
This unnervingly vivid dive into the 1971 uprising from Emmy® winning director Stanley Nelson sheds new light on the enduring violence and racism of the prison system and highlights the urgent, ongoing need for reform 50 years later.

Alien (1979)

tmdb-348
Gone: RT: 98/94 IMDB: 8.4 Revenue: 104.9M Budget: 11.0M chan: Showtime
Directors: Ridley Scott Genres: Horror, Science Fiction
Stars: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright
The crew of the spaceship Nostromo discovers a mysterious life form on a barren planet and unknowingly brings it aboard. As the deadly creature hunts down the crew one by one, Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) fights to stay alive.

Drunk Bus (2021)

tmdb-659360
Gone: RT: 98/70 IMDB: nan chan: Showtime
Directors: John Carlucci Genres: Comedy, Drama
Stars: Charlie Tahan, Kara Hayward, Pineapple Tangaroa
A directionless college grad working as a campus bus driver forms an unlikely friendship with the bus’s night shift security guard — a heavily tattooed, 300-lb man named Pineapple.

Let the Right One In (English Subtitled) (2008)

tmdb-13310
Gone: 2022-03-01RT: 98/90 IMDB: 7.9 Revenue: 10.8M Budget: 4.0M chan: Showtime
Directors: Tomas Alfredson Genres: Horror, Drama
Stars: Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar
A 12-year-old boy befriends an eccentric neighbor girl whose recent appearance in town coincides with a rash of suspicious deaths in this Swedish supernatural thriller. Kare Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson and Per Ragnar costar.

Minari (2021)

tmdb-615643
Gone: RT: 98/87 IMDB: 7.5 Revenue: 12.9M Budget: 2.0M chan: Showtime
Directors: Lee Isaac Chung Genres: Drama
Stars: Steven Yeun, Yeri Han, Alan Kim
A Korean-American family weathers the challenges that come with starting a new life when they move to an Arkansas farm in search of the American dream.

Extra Ordinary (2020)

tmdb-538227
Gone: 2022-02-25RT: 98/77 IMDB: 6.5 chan: Showtime
Directors: Mike Ahern, Enda Loughman Genres: Fantasy, Comedy, Horror
Stars: Maeve Higgins, Barry Ward, Will Forte
Rose, a mostly sweet & lonely small-town driving instructor, must use her supernatural talents to save the daughter of Martin (also mostly sweet & lonely) from a washed-up rock star who is using her in a Satanic pact to re-ignite his fame. Grand Jury Award finalist at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival!

The Go-Go's (2020)

tmdb-653748
Gone: RT: 98/95 IMDB: 7.4 chan: Showtime
Directors: Alison Ellwood Genres: Documentary, Music
Stars: The Go-Go's, Charlotte Caffey, Belinda Carlisle
The Go-Go's are the most successful female rock band of all time. This documentary chronicles the meteoric rise of a band born of the LA punk scene that not only captured but created a zeitgeist.

Hoop Dreams (1994)

tmdb-14275
Gone: RT: 98/92 IMDB: 8.3 Revenue: 7.8M Budget: 0.7M chan: Showtime
Directors: Steve James Genres: Documentary
Stars: Arthur Agee, William Gates
Over a five-year period, two inner-city kids navigate the competitive world of scholastic basketball while overcoming the intense pressures of family life and the realities of their Chicago streets.

Make Up (2020)

tmdb-584583
Gone: RT: 98 IMDB: 6.0 chan: Showtime
Directors: Not Specified Genres: Drama, Thriller
Stars:
Once Ruth moves in with her boyfriend Tom in a remote coastal holiday park, her mind starts to play tricks on her as she navigates life on the windy cliffs. Suspecting Tom has cheated on her she becomes drawn into a mysterious obsession.

My Left Foot (1989)

tmdb-10161
Gone: RT: 98/92 IMDB: 7.9 Revenue: 14.7M Budget: 0.6M chan: Showtime
Directors: Jim Sheridan Genres: Drama
Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan
Cinematic masterpiece about legendary Irishman Christy Brown (Daniel Day-Lewis) who, despite crippling cerebral palsy, learned to use his one controllable extremity - his left foot - to become an accomplished artist and writer.

The Last Tree (2021)

tmdb-565386
Gone: RT: 98/65 IMDB: 6.5 Revenue: 0.2M chan: Showtime
Directors: Shola Amoo Genres: Drama
Stars: Samuel Adewunmi, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Denise Black
Femi, a British teen of Nigerian heritage, moves from rural Lincolnshire to inner-city London. In his new urban environment, Femi struggles with his cultural identity and must forge his own path to adulthood.

The Kingmaker (2020)

tmdb-618265
Gone: RT: 97/90 IMDB: 7.6 chan: Showtime
Directors: Lauren Greenfield Genres: Documentary
Stars:
An extraordinary look into the controversial political career of Imelda Marcos, this documentary tells a cautionary tale of a powerful female leader whose questionable sense of reality divided a nation.

Sisters With Transistors (2021)

tmdb-682757
Gone: RT: 97/60 IMDB: 8.1 chan: Showtime
Directors: Lisa Rovner Genres: Documentary, Music
Stars: Maryanne Amacher, Bebe Barron, Suzanne Ciani
The story of electronic music's female pioneers, who embraced technology to transform how we produce and listen to music today. More than just the history of a music genre: it's the story of how we hear, and the critical role women play in that story.

The Farewell (2019)

tmdb-565310
Gone: RT: 97/87 IMDB: 7.6 Revenue: 22.1M Budget: 0.3M chan: Showtime
Directors: Lulu Wang Genres: Comedy, Drama
Stars: Awkwafina, Tzi Ma, Diana Lin
Billi (Awkwafina) returns home to China to see her grandmother, who only has weeks to live. However, Billi’s family insists that they keep this information from their beloved matriarch, a secret that Billi struggles to hold in.

The Real Charlie Chaplin (2021)

tmdb-788396
Gone: RT: 96 IMDB: 7.3 chan: Showtime
Directors: Peter Middleton Genres: Documentary
Stars: Pearl Mackie
Charlie Chaplin was once the most famous man in the world – but his stage persona and his public fall from grace defined how he was perceived. Exclusive footage and never-before-heard recordings reveal a side to Chaplin that the world never got to see.

Big Night (1996)

tmdb-18203
Gone: RT: 96/84 IMDB: 7.3 chan: Showtime
Directors: Stanley Tucci Genres: Drama, Romance
Stars: Minnie Driver, Ian Holm, Isabella Rossellini
In a late 1950s beach town, two brothers (Stanley Tucci and Tony Shalhoub) battle over how to run their Italian restaurant. When jazz great Louis Prima comes to dinner, the two must work together for the success of the family business.

Sex, Lies And Videotape (1989)

tmdb-1412
Gone: 2022-03-01RT: 96/79 IMDB: 7.2 Budget: 1.2M chan: Showtime
Directors: Steven Soderbergh Genres: Drama
Stars: James Spader, Andie MacDowell, Peter Gallagher
James Spader stars as a college pal who reveals the low-down on lust in his friend's high-infidelity marriage. Andie MacDowell co-stars.

First Cow (2020)

tmdb-558582
Gone: RT: 96/63 IMDB: 7.2 Revenue: 0.1M chan: Showtime
Directors: Not Specified Genres: Drama, Western
Stars:
Two travelers in the 1820s American Northwest try to make money through selling baked goods. But in order to make their business work, they have to steal milk from a wealthy landowner, the keeper of the region’s only cow.

The Fits (2016)

tmdb-358807
Gone: RT: 96/54 IMDB: 6.6 Revenue: 0.2M Budget: 0.2M chan: Showtime
Directors: Anna Rose Holmer Genres: Drama
Stars: Royalty Hightower, Alexis Neblett, Da'Sean Minor
While training at the gym 11-year-old tomboy Toni becomes entranced with a dance troupe. As she struggles to fit in she finds herself caught up in danger as the group begins to suffer from fainting spells and other violent seizures.

Menashe (2017)

tmdb-428584
Gone: RT: 96/64 IMDB: 6.5 chan: Showtime
Directors: Joshua Z. Weinstein Genres: Drama
Stars: Menashe Lustig, Ruben Niborski, Yoel Weisshaus
After his wife passes away, Menashe, a Hasidic clerk living in Brooklyn, is told he must give up custody of his young son. With only one week left together, they form an emotional bond and challenge the parental norms of their traditional community.

Amy (2015)

tmdb-331781
Gone: RT: 95/87 IMDB: 7.8 Revenue: 8.4M chan: Showtime
Directors: Asif Kapadia Genres: Documentary, Music
Stars: Amy Winehouse, Tony Bennett, Mark Ronson
From BAFTA award-winning director Asif Kapadia (Senna), AMY tells the incredible story of six-time Grammy-winner Amy Winehouse—in her own words. Featuring extensive unseen archive footage and previously unheard tracks, this strikingly modern, moving and vital film shines a light on the world we live in, in a way that very few can.

Croupier (1999)

tmdb-12706
Gone: RT: 95/79 IMDB: 7.1 Revenue: 7.1M chan: Showtime
Directors: Mike Hodges Genres: Drama, Thriller
Stars: Clive Owen, Gina McKee
An aspiring writer is hired as a croupier at a casino, where he realizes that his life as a croupier would make a great novel.

Marley (2012)

tmdb-90125
Gone: RT: 95/90 IMDB: 7.9 chan: Showtime
Directors: Kevin MacDonald Genres: Music, Documentary
Stars: Bob Marley, Ziggy Marley, Jimmy Cliff
Bob Marley’s impact on music history, and role as a social and political prophet. Film features rare footage, never before seen performances, unreleased music, and revelatory interviews with the people that knew him best.

Listen To Me Marlon (2015)

tmdb-319076
Gone: RT: 95/88 IMDB: 8.2 chan: Showtime
Directors: Stevan Riley Genres: Documentary
Stars: Marlon Brando
Documentary that reveals Hollywood legend Marlon Brando entirely in his own words -- through exclusive access to the actor's extraordinary personal archive of unseen film footage and unheard audio recordings.

Lucky Grandma (2020)

tmdb-597588
Gone: RT: 95/72 IMDB: 6.4 chan: Showtime
Directors: Sasie Sealy Genres: Drama, Comedy, Crime
Stars: Tsai Chin, Corey Ha, Michael Tow
Set in New York City, an ornery, chain smoking Chinese Grandma goes all in at the casino, landing herself on the wrong side of luck and in the middle of a Chinatown gang war.

Krisha (2016)

tmdb-323929
Gone: RT: 95/77 IMDB: 7.1 Revenue: 0.1M chan: Showtime
Directors: Trey Edward Shults Genres: Drama
Stars: Krisha Fairchild, Trey Edward Shults, Olivia Grace Applegate
Winner of the Grand Jury and Audience Awards at the 2015 South-by-Southwest Film Festival, and official selection of Critics’ Week at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, Krisha is the story of a woman’s return to the family she abandoned years before, set entirely over the course of one turbulent Thanksgiving.

You Can Count on Me (2000)

tmdb-14295
Gone: RT: 95/88 IMDB: 7.5 chan: Showtime
Directors: Kenneth Lonergan Genres: Drama, Family
Stars: Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo, Matthew Broderick
A single mom's ordered life is disrupted by a visit from the irresponsible younger brother with whom she weathered tragedy as a kid in this acclaimed comedy-drama starring Laura Linney, Mark Ruffalo and Matthew Broderick.

Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)

tmdb-17814
Gone: RT: 95/80 IMDB: 7.4 Budget: 0.1M chan: Showtime
Directors: Jean-Francois Richet Genres: Thriller, Action, Crime
Stars: Ethan Hawke, Laurence Fishburne, John Leguizamo
Isolated and cut off from the city inside a soon-to-be-closed L.A. police station, a group of police officers and convicts join forces to defend themselves against a gang who wants to kill someone trapped inside the precinct.