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  • Anne Baxter, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins, Dolores Costello, and Tim Holt in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)

    1. The Magnificent Ambersons

    19421h 28mApproved93Metascore
    7.6 (28K)
    The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved.
    DirectorsOrson WellesFred FleckRobert WiseStarsTim HoltJoseph CottenDolores Costello
  • The Magnificent Ambersons (2001)

    2. The Magnificent Ambersons

    20012h 30mTV Movie
    5.9 (951)
    The spoiled rotten and utterly unlikable rich kid George Amberson becomes horrified when his recently widowed mother rekindles her relationship with the wealthy Eugene Morgan, who she left decades earlier in order to marry George's father. As George struggles to sabotage his mother's new romance, he must deal with his own romantic feelings for Morgan's daughter and the consequences of his meddling as his once great family falls into ruin due to his machinations...
    DirectorAlfonso ArauStarsMadeleine StoweBruce GreenwoodJonathan Rhys Meyers
  • Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder, and Daniel Day-Lewis in The Age of Innocence (1993)

    3. The Age of Innocence

    19932h 19mPG90Metascore
    7.2 (71K)
    A tale of nineteenth-century New York high society in which a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.
    DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsDaniel Day-LewisMichelle PfeifferWinona Ryder
  • Katharine Hepburn and Fred MacMurray in Alice Adams (1935)

    4. Alice Adams

    19351h 39mApproved
    6.8 (4.8K)
    A working-class girl is thwarted and embarrassed in her attempts to move up socially by her gauche family and unstable father.
    DirectorGeorge StevensStarsKatharine HepburnFred MacMurrayFred Stone
  • So Big (1953)

    5. So Big

    19531h 41mApproved
    6.7 (875)
    In the late 1890s, a young widow becomes a successful farmer and can send her son, nicknamed 'So Big', to college. After graduating, he finds a job as an architect, but forgoes his dream in favor of an immediate financial success.
    DirectorRobert WiseStarsJane WymanSterling HaydenNancy Olson
  • Ronald Colman and Helen Hayes in Arrowsmith (1931)

    6. Arrowsmith

    19311h 48mApproved
    6.2 (2.1K)
    A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
    DirectorJohn FordStarsRonald ColmanHelen HayesRichard Bennett
  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004)

    7. The Bridge of San Luis Rey

    20042hPG25Metascore
    5.0 (3.8K)
    In 1714 Peru, a friar is tried by the Inquisition for questioning God's intentions when five die in the collapse of an Andean rope bridge.
    DirectorMary McGuckianStarsGabriel ByrneRobert De NiroHarvey Keitel
  • Lynn Bari, Francis Lederer, and Alla Nazimova in The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944)

    8. The Bridge of San Luis Rey

    19441h 47mApproved
    5.5 (233)
    A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the life of each of the victims.
    DirectorRowland V. LeeStarsLynn BariAkim TamiroffFrancis Lederer
  • Laughing Boy (2000)

    9. Laughing Boy

    20001h 22mTV-14
    5.8 (154)
    Is having fun and saying what you really think politically incorrect? Or is it impossible to do both? Cody McKenzie thinks nobody has parties anymore. Maybe they do, but he just isn't invited to any. However, tonight, Cody and his wife Judy are going to a very special party. Elizabeth Sheridan, star of Cody's fantasies, is giving it for the engagement of his best friend. Elizabeth also happens to be a very important player where Cody works. Judy sees the party as a chance for Cody to advance; he sees it as a chance to impress the woman of his dreams. The fact that he bungles it horribly is perfectly natural. He couldn't do it any other way. The guests are all impossibly proper - preppies, yuppies, culturally elite - which are simply trendy labels for snobbish bores. His reputation precedes him, and once Cody arrives, he trips all over it. The harder he tries to be one of them, the more he fails. From his first bizarre comment to his outrageous exit, Cody alienates almost every guest, disrupts the party and turns it into chaos. ...and there's a love story in here somewhere as well.
    DirectorJoe GrisaffiStarsJoe GrisaffiAnne QuackenbushTherese Kotara
  • Paul Muni and Luise Rainer in The Good Earth (1937)

    10. The Good Earth

    19372h 18mApproved
    7.5 (5.6K)
    Although married Chinese farmers Wang and O-Lan initially experience success, their lives are complicated by declining fortunes and lean times, as well as the arrival of the beautiful young Lotus.
    DirectorsSidney FranklinVictor FlemingGustav MachatýStarsPaul MuniLuise RainerWalter Connolly
  • Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind (1939)

    11. Gone with the Wind

    19393h 58mG97Metascore
    8.2 (348K)
    A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
    DirectorVictor FlemingStarsClark GableVivien LeighThomas Mitchell
  • Gregory Peck, Claude Jarman Jr., and Jane Wyman in The Yearling (1946)

    12. The Yearling

    19462h 8mApproved89Metascore
    7.2 (6.8K)
    A boy persuades his parents to allow him to adopt a young deer, but what will happen if the deer misbehaves?
    DirectorClarence BrownStarsGregory PeckJane WymanClaude Jarman Jr.
  • The Yearling (1994)

    13. The Yearling

    19941h 30mNot RatedTV Movie
    6.2 (365)
    A pet deer changes Florida farm family.
    DirectorRod HardyStarsPeter StraussJean SmartWil Horneff
  • Henry Fonda, John Carradine, Jane Darwell, Dorris Bowdon, Frank Darien, and Russell Simpson in The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

    14. The Grapes of Wrath

    19402h 9mApproved96Metascore
    8.1 (106K)
    An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
    DirectorJohn FordStarsHenry FondaJane DarwellJohn Carradine
  • Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, George Brent, and Dennis Morgan in In This Our Life (1942)

    15. In This Our Life

    19421h 37mApproved
    7.3 (5.5K)
    The day before her wedding, a pampered young woman absconds with her sister's husband. Her sister begins seeing the woman's former fiancé.
    DirectorsJohn HustonRaoul WalshStarsBette DavisOlivia de HavillandGeorge Brent
  • John Derek, Broderick Crawford, Joanne Dru, John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge, and Shepperd Strudwick in All the King's Men (1949)

    16. All the King's Men

    19491h 50mApproved
    7.4 (18K)
    The rise and fall of a grass-roots rural politician who eventually becomes mired in the sort of political corruption he vehemently railed against on his way to the governor's mansion.
    DirectorRobert RossenStarsBroderick CrawfordJohn IrelandJoanne Dru
  • Sean Penn in All the King's Men (2006)

    17. All the King's Men

    20062h 8mPG-1337Metascore
    6.1 (26K)
    Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist Southerner Willie Stark, a political creature loosely based on Governor Huey Long of Louisiana.
    DirectorSteven ZaillianStarsSean PennJude LawKate Winslet
  • Rossano Brazzi and Mitzi Gaynor in South Pacific (1958)

    18. South Pacific

    19582h 37mApproved
    6.8 (11K)
    On a South Pacific island during World War II, love blooms between a young nurse and a secretive Frenchman who's being courted for a dangerous military mission.
    DirectorJoshua LoganStarsRossano BrazziMitzi GaynorJohn Kerr
  • The Way West (1967)

    19. The Way West

    19672h 2mApproved42Metascore
    6.2 (4K)
    In 1843, a former U.S. Senator leads a wagon train of settlers to Oregon, but his megalomania leads to growing dissatisfaction with his leadership.
    DirectorAndrew V. McLaglenStarsKirk DouglasRobert MitchumRichard Widmark
  • Humphrey Bogart, José Ferrer, Van Johnson, and Fred MacMurray in The Caine Mutiny (1954)

    20. The Caine Mutiny

    19542h 4mApproved63Metascore
    7.7 (31K)
    When a U.S. Naval captain shows signs of mental instability that jeopardises the ship, the first officer is urged to consider relieving him of command.
    DirectorEdward DmytrykStarsHumphrey BogartJosé FerrerVan Johnson
  • The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1988)

    21. The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

    19881h 40mPGTV Movie
    6.8 (804)
    A full-length adaptation, originally staged as a play, of the court-martial segment from the novel "The Caine Mutiny".
    DirectorRobert AltmanStarsEric BogosianJeff DanielsBrad Davis
  • The Old Man and the Sea (1958)

    22. The Old Man and the Sea

    19581h 26mNot Rated49Metascore
    6.9 (9K)
    An old Cuban fisherman's dry spell is broken when he hooks a gigantic fish that drags him out to sea.
    DirectorsJohn SturgesFred ZinnemannStarsSpencer TracyFelipe PazosHarry Bellaver
  • The Old Man and the Sea (1990)

    23. The Old Man and the Sea

    19901h 33mNot RatedTV Movie
    6.7 (1.8K)
    Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway. Santiago goes out on his usual fishing trip and makes a huge catch, the biggest of his life. Then a shark attacks and tries to steal his catch. Santiago battles with the shark for days. He returns to the shore beaten, tattered and torn, and his catch consisting now of mostly bones.
    DirectorJud TaylorStarsAnthony QuinnGary ColePatricia Clarkson
  • The Old Man and the Sea (1999)

    24. The Old Man and the Sea

    199920mShort
    8.0 (4.8K)
    An old fisherman goes out on his fishing trip and makes a huge catch, the biggest of his life.
    DirectorAleksandr PetrovStarsGordon PinsentKevin DuhaneyYôji Matsuda
  • Andersonville (1996)

    25. Andersonville

    19962 epsNot RatedTV Mini Series
    7.3 (2.2K)
    The story of the most notorious Confederate prisoner of war camp in the American Civil War.
    StarsPaul Andre GibbonsJarrod EmickFrederic Forrest

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