#15. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
April 4, 2021
– Director: Jonathan Demme
– Stacker score: 93.4
– Metascore: 85
– IMDb user rating: 8.6
– Runtime: 118 minutes
“The Silence of the Lambs” dominated the Oscars with awards in most of the major categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Actor and Actress. Jodie Foster stars as an FBI agent-in-training assigned to interrogate a cannibal serial killer (Anthony Hopkins), who claims to have information about a murderer still at large. This is the second cinematic appearance of Hopkins’ character Dr. Hannibal Lecter; he originally appeared in the Thomas Harris book “Red Dragon,” which was turned into a 1986 film “Manhunter” with Brian Cox playing the murderous doctor.