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  • Elevator to the Gallows (1958)

    1. Elevator to the Gallows

    19581h 31mNot Rated94Metascore
    7.9 (30K)
    A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
    DirectorLouis MalleStarsJeanne MoreauMaurice RonetGeorges Poujouly
  • Orson Welles, Dorothy Comingore, and Ruth Warrick in Citizen Kane (1941)

    2. Citizen Kane

    19411h 59mPG100Metascore
    8.3 (481K)
    Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'
    DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenDorothy Comingore
  • Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Virginia Mayo, and Teresa Wright in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

    3. The Best Years of Our Lives

    19462h 50mApproved93Metascore
    8.1 (74K)
    Three World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
    DirectorWilliam WylerStarsMyrna LoyDana AndrewsFredric March
  • The Grand Illusion (1937)

    4. The Grand Illusion

    19371h 53mNot Rated
    8.1 (40K)
    During WWI, two French soldiers are captured and imprisoned in a German P.O.W. camp. Several escape attempts follow until they are eventually sent to a seemingly inescapable fortress.
    DirectorJean RenoirStarsJean GabinDita ParloPierre Fresnay
  • Anthony Perkins, John Gavin, Janet Leigh, and Heather Dawn May in Psycho (1960)

    5. Psycho

    19601h 49mR97Metascore
    8.5 (753K)
    A secretary on the run for embezzlement takes refuge at a secluded California motel owned by a repressed man and his overbearing mother.
    DirectorAlfred HitchcockStarsAnthony PerkinsJanet LeighVera Miles
  • Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, and Phillip Alford in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

    6. To Kill a Mockingbird

    19622h 9mApproved88Metascore
    8.3 (343K)
    A widowed lawyer in Depression-era Alabama defends a black man against a false rape charge while teaching his young children about the sad reality of prejudice.
    DirectorRobert MulliganStarsGregory PeckJohn MegnaFrank Overton
  • Humphrey Bogart, Tim Holt, and Walter Huston in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

    7. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    19482h 6mApproved98Metascore
    8.2 (137K)
    Two down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.
    DirectorJohn HustonStarsHumphrey BogartWalter HustonTim Holt
  • William Holden, Nancy Olson, and Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard (1950)

    8. Sunset Boulevard

    19501h 50mApproved94Metascore
    8.4 (249K)
    A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.
    DirectorBilly WilderStarsWilliam HoldenGloria SwansonErich von Stroheim
  • La Strada (1954)

    9. La Strada

    19541h 48mNot Rated
    8.0 (68K)
    A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.
    DirectorFederico FelliniStarsAnthony QuinnGiulietta MasinaRichard Basehart
  • Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Paul Henreid, and Conrad Veidt in Casablanca (1942)

    10. Casablanca

    19421h 42mPG100Metascore
    8.5 (631K)
    A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
    DirectorMichael CurtizStarsHumphrey BogartIngrid BergmanPaul Henreid
  • Ronald Colman in Lost Horizon (1937)

    11. Lost Horizon

    19372h 12mApproved
    7.6 (15K)
    When a revered diplomat's plane is diverted and crashes in the peaks of Tibet, he and the other survivors are guided to an isolated monastery at Shangri-La, where they wrestle with the invitation to stay.
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsRonald ColmanJane WyattEdward Everett Horton
  • All About Eve (1950)

    12. All About Eve

    19502h 18mApproved98Metascore
    8.2 (145K)
    A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.
    DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsBette DavisAnne BaxterGeorge Sanders
  • Toshirô Mifune and Machiko Kyô in Rashomon (1950)

    13. Rashomon

    19501h 28mNot Rated98Metascore
    8.2 (189K)
    The rape of a bride and the murder of her samurai husband are recalled from the perspectives of a bandit, the bride, the samurai's ghost and a woodcutter.
    DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsToshirô MifuneMachiko KyôMasayuki Mori
  • Manhattan (1979)

    14. Manhattan

    19791h 36mR83Metascore
    7.8 (151K)
    The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
    DirectorWoody AllenStarsWoody AllenDiane KeatonMariel Hemingway
  • Charles Laughton, Brenda de Banzie, and John Mills in Hobson's Choice (1954)

    15. Hobson's Choice

    19541h 48mNot Rated
    7.7 (9.5K)
    Widower Henry Hobson refuses to let his three daughters get married because he doesn't want to pay settlements, so they'll just have to outsmart him.
    DirectorDavid LeanStarsCharles LaughtonJohn MillsBrenda de Banzie
  • The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

    16. The Manchurian Candidate

    19622h 6mPG-1394Metascore
    7.9 (83K)
    An American POW in the Korean War is brainwashed as an unwitting assassin for an international Communist conspiracy.
    DirectorJohn FrankenheimerStarsFrank SinatraLaurence HarveyJanet Leigh
  • Veronica Lake in Sullivan's Travels (1941)

    17. Sullivan's Travels

    19411h 30mApproved89Metascore
    7.9 (30K)
    Hollywood director John L. Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.
    DirectorPreston SturgesStarsJoel McCreaVeronica LakeRobert Warwick
  • Errol Flynn and Brenda Marshall in The Sea Hawk (1940)

    18. The Sea Hawk

    19402h 7mApproved
    7.6 (11K)
    Geoffrey Thorpe, a buccaneer, is hired by Queen Elizabeth I to nag the Spanish Armada. The Armada is waiting for an attack on England and Thorpe surprises them with attacks on their galleons where he shows his skills with the sword.
    DirectorMichael CurtizStarsErrol FlynnBrenda MarshallClaude Rains
  • Henry Fonda, John Carradine, Jane Darwell, Dorris Bowdon, Frank Darien, and Russell Simpson in The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

    19. The Grapes of Wrath

    19402h 9mApproved96Metascore
    8.1 (105K)
    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
  • Jennifer Jones in The Song of Bernadette (1943)

    20. The Song of Bernadette

    19432h 36mApproved
    7.6 (8K)
    14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous, living in a small town in the south of 1850s France, claims to have seen a divine vision, prompting extreme skepticism, concern from her family, and religious and political turmoil.
    DirectorHenry KingStarsJennifer JonesCharles BickfordWilliam Eythe
  • Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke in The Miracle Worker (1962)

    21. The Miracle Worker

    19621h 46mApproved83Metascore
    8.1 (21K)
    The story of Anne Sullivan's struggle to teach the blind, deaf and mute child Helen Keller how to understand and communicate.
    DirectorArthur PennStarsAnne BancroftPatty DukeVictor Jory
  • Alec Guinness in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

    22. Kind Hearts and Coronets

    19491h 46mApproved
    8.0 (41K)
    A distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.
    DirectorRobert HamerStarsDennis PriceAlec GuinnessValerie Hobson
  • Mark Wahlberg in The Gambler (2014)

    23. The Gambler

    20141h 51mR55Metascore
    6.0 (76K)
    Literature professor and gambler Jim Bennett's debt causes him to borrow money from his mother and a loan shark. Further complicating his situation, is his relationship with one of his students. Will Bennett risk his life for a second chance?
    DirectorRupert WyattStarsMark WahlbergJessica LangeJohn Goodman
  • Edward Norton, Zach Galifianakis, Amy Ryan, Naomi Watts, Emma Stone, and Andrea Riseborough in Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

    24. Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

    20141h 59mR87Metascore
    7.7 (682K)
    A washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway production.
    DirectorAlejandro G. IñárrituStarsMichael KeatonZach GalifianakisEdward Norton
  • Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne in The Theory of Everything (2014)

    25. The Theory of Everything

    20142h 3mPG-1371Metascore
    7.7 (497K)
    Stephen Hawking gets unprecedented success in the field of physics despite being diagnosed with motor neuron disease at the age of 21. He defeats awful odds as his first wife Jane aids him loyally.
    DirectorJames MarshStarsEddie RedmayneFelicity JonesTom Prior

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