8 Movies to Show Someone Who Says They Don't Like Movies

Your friend says movies are boring. Your friend has been watching the wrong ones. Every pick here is short, loved by audiences and impossible to look away from.

Number one is the one they'll text you about at midnight.

1. 8
   Whiplash (2014)9.5

   It's basically a sports movie, and the sport is drumming.

   A young drummer and a teacher who will not let up, and 106 minutes fly by. 89 on Metacritic, made for a reported $3.3 million.
2. 7
   Parasite (2019)9.6

   Subtitles scare them. This one makes them forget they're reading.

   A broke family talks its way into a rich family's house, and Bong Joon Ho never lets you guess the next move. 8.5 on IMDb from 1.2 million votes.
3. 6
   Alien (1979)9.5

   Even people who hate sci-fi lean forward for this one.

   It's a haunted house on a spaceship, and skeptics go quiet once the crew lands somewhere they shouldn't. 117 minutes, 8.4 on IMDb.
4. 5
   Memento (2000)9.5

   Non-movie people walk out of this one as theory people.

   A man with no short-term memory hunts his wife's killer, and the story runs backwards, so they'll be solving it with you. 113 minutes, 94% on Rotten Tomatoes.
5. 4
   Rear Window (1954)9.7

   The old movie to start with. It's basically reality TV.

   James Stewart, a camera with a long lens and way too much free time. Grace Kelly brings the style. 112 minutes, 8.4 on IMDb from 575,557 votes.
6. 3
   It's a Wonderful Life (1946)9.6

   The movie that makes cynics call their parents.

   James Stewart takes every bad break a small town can throw at him, and the last act gets everybody. Critics rank it above 96% of notable movies.
7. 2
   12 Angry Men (1957)9.8

   Hand them this and watch them start yelling at jurors.

   Henry Fonda is the one juror who won't go along, and every other juror gets a real personality. Critics rank it above 99% of notable movies.
8. 1
   City of God (2002)9.3

   The fastest 130 minutes you'll ever sit through, subtitles and all.

   Fernando Meirelles follows kids growing up in a Rio favela, cut together with the speed of a heist movie. 8.6 on IMDb from 884,992 votes.

$5,007 says your friend asks for a second movie the same night and pretends it was their idea.

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