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Back to the Future
A 1985 American science fiction comedy about a teenager accidentally transported from 1985 to 1955 in his eccentric friend's DeLorean time machine.
Below are movies that contain the letter H anywhere in the name. Each of the 48 movies below opens to a full profile.
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List of Movies That Contain H
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Ben-Hur
A 1959 American epic about a Jewish prince in Roman-occupied Judea who is sold into slavery and returns years later to confront the friend who betrayed him.
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Braveheart
A 1995 American epic historical drama directed by and starring Mel Gibson as the 13th-century Scottish warrior William Wallace, who led a revolt against the English king Edward I.
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
A 1982 American science fiction film about a suburban California boy who befriends a stranded alien and helps him return to his home planet.
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Fight Club
A 1999 American drama about an alienated office worker who, with a charismatic soap salesman, founds a secret bare-knuckle club that escalates into something larger.
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Gone with the Wind
A 1939 American historical romance about a Southern plantation heiress whose life is upended by the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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Hamlet
A 1948 British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier as the Prince of Denmark seeking revenge for his father's murder.
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Hawaii
A 1966 American epic drama directed by George Roy Hill adapting James A. Michener's 1959 novel about Calvinist missionaries arriving in the Hawaiian Islands in 1820.
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Heat
A 1995 American crime epic written and directed by Michael Mann about a Los Angeles homicide detective tracking a professional thief who plans one final score.
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Heidi
A 1937 American family drama directed by Allan Dwan adapting Johanna Spyri's novel about a Swiss orphan sent to live with her grandfather in the Alps.
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Her
A 2013 American science-fiction romantic drama written and directed by Spike Jonze about a lonely writer who falls in love with an artificially intelligent operating system.
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Hugo
A 2011 American 3D adventure film directed by Martin Scorsese about an orphan living in a Paris train station and his quest to repair a mechanical automaton.
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Macbeth
A 1971 British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy directed by Roman Polanski, in which a Scottish nobleman murders the king after a witches' prophecy.
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North by Northwest
A 1959 American spy thriller about a Madison Avenue advertising executive mistaken for a government agent and pursued across the country.
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On the Waterfront
A 1954 American crime drama about a former boxer turned dockworker who must decide whether to testify against the mob-tied union running his New Jersey waterfront.
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Oppenheimer
A 2023 American biographical thriller written and directed by Christopher Nolan about J. Robert Oppenheimer, the theoretical physicist who led the Manhattan Project.
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Psycho
A 1960 American horror thriller about a secretary on the run who stops at an isolated motel run by a disturbed young man and his mother.
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Quiz Show
A 1994 American historical drama directed by Robert Redford about the 1950s television quiz show scandals, focusing on the rigged NBC program Twenty-One.
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
A 1981 American adventure about an archaeologist hired by US intelligence to recover the Ark of the Covenant before Nazi expeditions can find it first.
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Rebel Without a Cause
A 1955 American drama about a troubled high-school transfer student navigating one volatile night with two equally unmoored classmates in suburban Los Angeles.
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Sansho Dayu
A 1954 Japanese period drama directed by Kenji Mizoguchi, often released abroad as Sansho the Bailiff, about a Heian-era family torn apart and sold into slavery.
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Schindler's List
A 1993 American historical drama about Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who used his Krakow factories to protect more than a thousand Jewish workers from Nazi extermination.
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Singin' in the Rain
A 1952 American musical comedy about a silent-film studio scrambling to adapt to the sudden arrival of talking pictures in 1927 Hollywood.
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Sleepy Hollow
A 1999 American gothic horror film directed by Tim Burton, very loosely adapting Washington Irving's 1820 short story about a New York town haunted by a headless horseman.
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Sleuth
A 1972 British mystery thriller directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz adapting Anthony Shaffer's stage play, in which a successful mystery writer invites his wife's lover to his English country house.
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Some Like It Hot
A 1959 American comedy about two Chicago musicians who witness a mob killing and flee disguised as women in a touring all-female band.
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The Apartment
A 1960 American comedy-drama about an insurance-company office worker who lends out his apartment to executives for their affairs in exchange for advancement.
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The Avengers
A 2012 American superhero film bringing together six Marvel heroes to repel an alien army led by Thor's adopted brother Loki against New York.
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The Box
A 2009 American psychological science fiction thriller written and directed by Richard Kelly about a 1970s Virginia couple who receive a wooden box that promises a million dollars in exchange for a stranger's death.
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The Crow
A 1994 American supernatural action film directed by Alex Proyas about a musician resurrected from the dead to avenge the murder of his fiancee on Devil's Night in Detroit.
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The Dark Knight
A 2008 American superhero film in which Batman, the Gotham district attorney, and the police commissioner together face a chaos-driven criminal called the Joker.
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The Empire Strikes Back
A 1980 American space-opera sequel in which the Rebel Alliance scatters under Imperial pursuit while a young Jedi trains under an ancient master.
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The Godfather
A 1972 American crime epic about the Corleone family's struggle to maintain control of a New York organized crime dynasty across the post-war decade.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
A 2001 New Zealand-American fantasy epic about a hobbit who inherits a dangerous magical ring and joins a quest to destroy it in the fires of its making.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
A 2003 New Zealand-American fantasy epic concluding the quest as the armies of the West confront Sauron while the ring approaches Mount Doom.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
A 2002 New Zealand-American fantasy epic following the splintered fellowship as armies of Saruman threaten the kingdom of Rohan and the journey east continues.
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The Maltese Falcon
A 1941 American film noir about a San Francisco private detective drawn into a hunt for a jewel-encrusted statuette of legendary value.
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The Matrix
A 1999 American science fiction film about a hacker who learns that his reality is a computer simulation built to harvest energy from sedated human bodies.
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The Queen
A 2006 British historical drama directed by Stephen Frears about Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during the week following the death of Princess Diana in 1997.
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The Shawshank Redemption
A 1994 American prison drama about a wrongfully convicted banker who endures two decades inside a Maine penitentiary while quietly engineering an escape.
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The Silence of the Lambs
A 1991 American psychological thriller about a young FBI trainee consulting an imprisoned cannibalistic psychiatrist to catch a serial killer on the run.
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The Sound of Music
A 1965 American musical about a young Austrian postulant who becomes governess to a naval officer's seven children on the eve of the Nazi annexation.
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The Stuff
A 1985 American satirical horror film written and directed by Larry Cohen about a creamy, sugar-free dessert that turns out to be a parasitic organism consuming its consumers.
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The Witch
A 2015 American historical horror film written and directed by Robert Eggers about a Puritan family exiled from a New England colony in 1630 and tormented by supernatural forces.
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The Wiz
A 1978 American musical fantasy film directed by Sidney Lumet, an African-American retelling of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz with the action transposed to New York City.
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The Wizard of Oz
A 1939 American musical fantasy about a Kansas farm girl transported to a magical land where she must find the way home.
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Whiplash
A 2014 American drama written and directed by Damien Chazelle about an ambitious jazz drummer at an elite New York conservatory and his abusive bandleader.
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Zorba the Greek
A 1964 drama directed by Michael Cacoyannis, in which a young Anglo-Greek writer travels to Crete and is transformed by his friendship with the exuberant peasant Alexis Zorba.
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