Best Top250 Ever

Two drunks live in the same hotel. One beats his wife, the other is beaten by his. They go off and get drunk together. They try to sleep in a restaurant using tables as beds and are thrown out. They lie down in a rowboat which fills with water, drowning them--a fate apparently better than going home to their wives.

The beach front house, where Fatty and Mabel live, has been "launched" out to sea by the villains. When Fatty and Mabel arise, they find the beds floating in a sea of water.

A boy leaves his small country town and heads to the big city to get a job. As soon as he makes it big his sweetheart will join him and marry him. His enthusiasm to get ahead leads to some interesting adventures.

Two spoiled rich people find themselves trapped on an empty passenger ship.

The effete son of a cantankerous riverboat captain comes to join his father's crew.

When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured.

A cabaret singer takes up with a millionaire to pay for her gravely-ill husband's operation.

A sly business manager and the wacky friends of two opera singers in Italy help them achieve success in America while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.

Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'

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.

Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail--and what might be love.

A drifter visits the family hotel of a war buddy who was killed in action only to find that a Chicago mobster and his gang have taken over the place. As a hurricane approaches, a confrontation ensues.

In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.

Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime.

A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.

A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.

A major heist goes off as planned, but then double crosses, bad luck and solid police work cause everything to unravel.

A beautiful, ambitious young woman joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises.

A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.

During a day of their honeymoon, newlyweds are separated by the city's lust and the desires it produces.

A tough young man who helps to evict poor people from their houses falls in love with a girl who lives with her father in a building that's about to be demolished.

A character study of five young men at crucial turning points in their lives in a small town in Italy.

A pair of teenagers meet one summer day, start a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.

A London playboy plots the perfect murder of his rich, unfaithful Wife.

A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.