Highest Rated Movies of 2014: Watching movies is a great way to enjoy your time, but of course not every movie is worth-watching, which makes a list of the highest rated movies of 2014 extremely valuable, as time is money after all, and who wants to waste either on a terrible movie whose three best parts you already saw during the commercials?
2014 has been a great year for movies thus far, meaning the cream of the crop, the highest rated movies of 2014, are bound to be tremendous flicks. But with all the releases both big and small surrounding them, it’s easy for some of those to get lost in the shuffle, replaced by over-hyped, mass marketed fare. As you’ll see from our list, many of the highest rated movies of the year eschew that categorization, and fall on the small budget, artsy side of the movie making divide.
So how did we determine which movies are the most highly rated? IMDb is the world’s most accepted and trustworthy source for movies, TV, and celebrity content, and also feature a robust ranking system that accrues thousands of user votes and reviews for even the most obscure of movies. This makes their ratings one of the premier ways to attain the feeling of the movie watching masses and movie buffs alike.
Based on those IMDb ratings, reviews, and critics, we present to here the ten highest rated movies of 2014, as of June 7. We recommend you also check out our cover story on The 20 Highest Rated Movies of All Time when you’re done here, giving you scores of great movies to fill your screen in the days and weeks to come.
No.10: Ulidavaru Kandante
Rating: 8.6/10
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama and Thriller
Country: India
Release Date: 28 March 2014 (India)
Story: A journalist makes up his mind to reveal the fact behind a recent happening, through the views and help of different people, and how they and their lives are tangled with it.
No.9: The Way He Looks
Rating: 8.6/10
Genres: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Release Date: 10 April 2014 (Brazil)
Story: A blind teenager named Leonardo is looking for freedom. His life, relationships and interactions with Giovana, his best friend, and the way he observes the entire change of the world as Gabriel arrives are the crux of this poignant film.
No.8: Montevideo, vidimo se!
Rating: 8.6/10
Genres: Adventure, Comedy and Sport
Country: Serbia
Release Date: 15 January 2014 (Serbia)
Story: During the former Republic of Yugoslavia, a football team in Belgrade gets the grand chance to go to the First World Football Championship, though things get difficult as time goes by.
No.7: The Fault in Our Stars
Rating: 8.7/10
Genres: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Release Date: 6 June 2014 (USA)
Story: Two teenagers, Hazel and Gus both have a great sense of humor, which can be even considered as unacceptable to the norm. Their relationship is very amazing and they love each other a lot. On the other hand, Hazel is always in need of an oxygen tank and Gus has a prosthetic leg. Still, they are happy as they are together in a cancer support group where they met for the first time and fell in love with each other.
No.6: How to Train Your Dragon 2
Rating: 8.7/10
Genres: Animation, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Release Date: 13 June 2014 (USA)
Story: The two friends, Hiccup and Toothless discover the strange Dragon Rider and an ice cave where hundreds of new wild dragons live. They ultimately find themselves in the middle of a fight to defend the peace.
No.5: Queen
Rating: 8.8/10
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Release Date: 7 March 2014 (India)
Story: A traditional family girl from Delhi goes out on a single honeymoon as her marriage gets cancelled.
No.4: The Raid 2
Rating: 8.8/10
Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Indonesia, USA
Release Date: 11 April 2014 (USA)
Story: Within a short time after the first raid, Rama goes secretly with the thugs of Jakarta, leads the syndicate and exposes the corruption among his police force.
No.3: 1 (1 – Nenokkadine)
Rating: 8.9/10
Genres: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Release Date: 10 January 2014 (USA)
Story: Gautham, who goes by the name Mahesh Babu, is trying to find the identity of his parents who were killed. He faces a mental disorder which makes the investigation even harder. With Sameera (Kriti)’s help, he tries to find out ways to know what really happened when his parents were killed.
No.2: Redirected
Rating: 9.1/10
Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Lithuania
Release Date: 10 January 2014 (Lithuania)
Story: John, Ben, Tim and Michael; the four friends become robbers for the first time and get trapped in Eastern Europe by some serious misadventures. Now, they have to return to home. To do that, they’ll have to win over the likes of hit men, whores, corrupt cops, smugglers and more. While doing all this, they start reinventing their friendship.
Highest Rated Movie of 2014: Winter Sleep
Rating: 9.7/10
Genres: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany, France
Release Date: 13 June 2014 (Turkey)
Story: A former actor named Aydin, owner of a small hotel lives with his youthful wife Nihal and his sister Necla in Anatolia. He has a violent relationship with his wife, and his sister is in misery from her recent divorce. As the snow begins to fall in winter, the hotel is used as a protection, though it also becomes an unavoidable place that fuels their suffering.