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by andybolg • Created 12 years ago • Modified 1 month ago
(Presumably) great movies that I haven't seen yet, in no particular order. Most of them were featured in the documentary "The Story of Film: An Oddysey".
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  • Sue Lyon in Lolita (1962)

    1. Lolita

    19622h 33mApproved79Metascore
    7.5 (113K)
    A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a 14-year-old girl.
    DirectorStanley KubrickStarsJames MasonShelley WintersSue Lyon
  • Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Michael Wincott, Toni Collette, Jessica Biel, James D'Arcy, Danny Huston, and Scarlett Johansson in Hitchcock (2012)

    2. Hitchcock

    20121h 38mPG-1355Metascore
    6.8 (82K)
    The relationship between Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the filming of Psycho (1960) in 1959 is explored.
    DirectorSacha GervasiStarsAnthony HopkinsHelen MirrenScarlett Johansson
  • The Birth of a Nation (1915)

    3. The Birth of a Nation

    19153h 15mTV-PG
    6.1 (28K)
    The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.
    DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsLillian GishMae MarshHenry B. Walthall
  • Buster Keaton in Cops (1922)

    4. Cops

    192218mUnratedShort
    7.6 (7.3K)
    A series of mishaps leads to a young man being chased by a big city's entire police force.
    DirectorsEdward F. ClineBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonEdward F. ClineVirginia Fox
  • Buster Keaton in Neighbors (1920)

    5. Neighbors

    192018mShort
    7.5 (4.9K)
    A young couple who live next to each other in tenement apartments do everything they can to be together despite of their feuding families.
    DirectorsEdward F. ClineBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonEdward F. ClineJack Duffy
  • Jenny Agutter, Farrah Fawcett, Michael York, Roscoe Lee Browne, and Richard Jordan in Logan's Run (1976)

    6. Logan's Run

    19761h 59mPG53Metascore
    6.8 (64K)
    A police officer in the future uncovers the deadly secret behind a society that worships youth.
    DirectorMichael AndersonStarsMichael YorkJenny AgutterRichard Jordan
  • Brenden Jefferson, Shia LaBeouf, Miguel Castro, Byron Cotton, Khleo Thomas, and Jake M. Smith in Holes (2003)

    7. Holes

    20031h 57mPG71Metascore
    7.0 (106K)
    A wrongfully convicted boy is sent to a brutal desert detention camp where he joins the job of digging holes for some mysterious reason.
    DirectorAndrew DavisStarsShia LaBeoufSigourney WeaverJon Voight
  • Fury (1936)

    8. Fury

    19361h 32mApproved
    7.8 (14K)
    When a wrongly-accused prisoner barely survives a lynch-mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to fake his death and frame the mob for his supposed murder.
    DirectorFritz LangStarsSylvia SidneySpencer TracyWalter Abel
  • Viktor Satori in The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)

    9. The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

    19332h 2mNot Rated
    7.9 (14K)
    A criminal mastermind uses hypnosis to rule the rackets after death.
    DirectorFritz LangStarsRudolf Klein-RoggeOtto WernickeThomy Bourdelle
  • Glenn Ford and Gloria Grahame in The Big Heat (1953)

    10. The Big Heat

    19531h 29mApproved
    7.9 (31K)
    Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.
    DirectorFritz LangStarsGlenn FordGloria GrahameJocelyn Brando
  • Robert Donat and Elissa Landi in The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)

    11. The Count of Monte Cristo

    19341h 53mApproved
    7.4 (3.6K)
    After greedy men have Edmond Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him, he escapes to get his revenge on them.
    DirectorRowland V. LeeStarsRobert DonatElissa LandiLouis Calhern
  • Dan Aykroyd, John Goodman, J. Evan Bonifant, Joe Morton, and Blues Brothers Band in Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)

    12. Blues Brothers 2000

    19982h 3mPG-1348Metascore
    4.9 (36K)
    Elwood must reunite the old band, with a few new members, and go on another "Mission from God."
    DirectorJohn LandisStarsDan AykroydJohn GoodmanWalter Levine
  • Louise Brooks and József Bottlik in Pandora's Box (1929)

    13. Pandora's Box

    19291h 49mNot Rated
    7.7 (13K)
    The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
    DirectorGeorg Wilhelm PabstStarsLouise BrooksFritz KortnerFrancis Lederer
  • Napoleon (1927)

    14. Napoleon

    19275h 30m
    8.2 (9.5K)
    A film about the French general's youth and early military career.
    DirectorAbel GanceStarsAlbert DieudonnéNicolas RoudenkoEdmond Van Daële
  • Constance Bennett, Louise Dresser, and Jack Pickford in The Goose Woman (1925)

    15. The Goose Woman

    19251h 20m
    7.0 (211)
    A famous opera singer lost her voice when her son was born, and has drowned her sorrows in drink. When a murder is committed near her house, she invents a story to get herself back in front of the public again. However, the story she comes up with results in her son being arrested for the murder.
    DirectorClarence BrownStarsJack PickfordLouise DresserConstance Bennett
  • Nicolas Cage, Catherine Keener, Cloris Leachman, Ryan Reynolds, Clark Duke, Chris Sanders, Randy Thom, and Emma Stone in The Croods (2013)

    16. The Croods

    20131h 38mPG55Metascore
    7.1 (245K)
    In the primeval era, Grug and his family risk the dangers of their surroundings to find a new dwelling place. Along the way, they meet a modern boy who woos them with his adventurous ways.
    DirectorsKirk DeMiccoChris SandersStarsNicolas CageRyan ReynoldsEmma Stone
  • Ossi Oswalda in The Oyster Princess (1919)

    17. The Oyster Princess

    19191hNot Rated
    7.1 (2.3K)
    An American heiress seeks the hand of an impoverished German prince.
    DirectorErnst LubitschStarsVictor JansonOssi OswaldaHarry Liedtke
  • Pola Negri in The Wildcat (1921)

    18. The Wildcat

    19211h 19mNot Rated
    6.8 (1.4K)
    A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, thus setting in motion a madcap farce that is Lubitsch at his most unrestrained.
    DirectorErnst LubitschStarsPola NegriVictor JansonPaul Heidemann
  • Creighton Hale and Florence Vidor in The Marriage Circle (1924)

    19. The Marriage Circle

    19241h 25mNot Rated
    7.0 (1.6K)
    Professor Stock and his wife Mizzi are always bickering. Mizzi tries to seduce Dr. Franz Braun, the new husband of her good friend Charlotte.
    DirectorErnst LubitschStarsFlorence VidorMonte BlueMarie Prevost
  • The Wheel (1923)

    20. The Wheel

    19236h 57mNot Rated
    7.5 (2.7K)
    A railway engineer adopts a young girl orphaned by a train crash. Years later when she starts getting suitors, he grapples with whether or not to tell her the truth about her parentage.
    DirectorAbel GanceStarsGabriel de GravonePierre MagnierGeorges Térof
  • A Page of Madness (1926)

    21. A Page of Madness

    19261h 10mNot Rated
    7.3 (5.1K)
    A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.
    DirectorTeinosuke KinugasaStarsMasuo InoueAyako IijimaYoshie Nakagawa
  • Eleanor Boardman and James Murray in The Crowd (1928)

    22. The Crowd

    19281h 38mNot Rated
    8.0 (9.7K)
    The life of a man and woman together in a large, impersonal metropolis through their hopes, struggles, and downfalls.
    DirectorKing VidorStarsEleanor BoardmanJames MurrayBert Roach
  • F.W. Murnau, Gösta Ekman, Yvette Guilbert, Gerhart Hauptmann, Camilla Horn, Emil Jannings, and Hans Kyser in Faust (1926)

    23. Faust

    19261h 47mNot Rated
    8.1 (18K)
    The demon Mephisto wagers with God that he can corrupt a mortal man's soul.
    DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsGösta EkmanEmil JanningsCamilla Horn
  • Nothing But Time (1926)

    24. Nothing But Time

    192645m
    7.1 (616)
    The life of a great city (Paris) from dawn until dusk, including the beautiful and the ragged, the rich and the poor, with little or no comment (intertitles) from the director, Cavalcanti (whose first film this was).
    DirectorAlberto CavalcantiStarsBlanche BernisNina ChousvalowaPhilippe Hériat
  • Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck in Spellbound (1945)

    25. Spellbound

    19451h 51mApproved78Metascore
    7.5 (55K)
    A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.
    DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsIngrid BergmanGregory PeckMichael Chekhov

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