The film, which features six stories spread across two centuries, stars Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and Hugh Grant.

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Liam Neeson's action film Taken 2 came fifth, while Cloud Atlas, in which Tom Hanks and Halle Berry play six different roles across 500 years, was ranked sixth.

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Based on the novel by David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas tells six different stories spanning the past and the future with big-name actors like Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and Hugh Grant playing multiple roles.

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