8. 12 Years a Slave (2013)
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Directed by Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave is an emotional movie based on the famous memoirs of African-American Solomon Northup. Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon, the film follows Solomon as he is kidnapped by conmen and sold into slavery. The movie has extreme scenes of torture as Solomon is cruelly treated at a Louisiana plantation for 12 years. Co-starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Lupita Nyong’o, the movie was a critical and commercial success, bringing back the dark past of slavery.
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