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  • Greed (1924)

    1. Greed

    19242h 20mNot Rated
    8.0 (11K)
    The sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.
    DirectorErich von StroheimStarsGibson GowlandZasu PittsJean Hersholt
  • Eleanor Boardman and James Murray in The Crowd (1928)

    2. 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
  • The Wind (1928)

    3. The Wind

    19281h 35mNot Rated
    8.0 (7.6K)
    A frail young woman from the East moves in with her cousin in the West, where she causes tension within the family and is slowly driven mad.
    DirectorVictor SjöströmStarsLillian GishLars HansonMontagu Love
  • Judy Garland, Tom Drake, and Margaret O'Brien in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

    4. Meet Me in St. Louis

    19441h 53mApproved94Metascore
    7.5 (30K)
    Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.
    DirectorVincente MinnelliStarsJudy GarlandMargaret O'BrienMary Astor
  • Day of Wrath (1943)

    5. Day of Wrath

    19431h 37mNot Rated
    8.1 (12K)
    The young wife of an aging priest falls in love with his son amidst the horror of a merciless witch hunt in 17th-century Denmark.
    DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsThorkild RooseLisbeth MovinSigrid Neiiendam
  • Delphine Seyrig in Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)

    6. Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

    19753h 22mNot Rated94Metascore
    7.5 (16K)
    A lonely widowed housewife does her daily chores, takes care of her apartment where she lives with her teenage son, and turns the occasional trick to make ends meet, but something happens that changes her safe routine.
    DirectorChantal AkermanStarsDelphine SeyrigJan DecorteHenri Storck
  • The Devil, Probably (1977)

    7. The Devil, Probably

    19771h 35mNot Rated
    7.1 (5.2K)
    Charles drifts through politics, religion and psychoanalysis, rejecting them all. Once he realises the depth of his disgust with the moral and physical decline of the society he lives in, he decides that suicide is the only option...
    DirectorRobert BressonStarsAntoine MonnierTina IrissariHenri de Maublanc
  • Robert De Niro, James Woods, William Forsythe, Brian Bloom, Adrian Curran, James Hayden, Rusty Jacobs, and Scott Tiler in Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

    8. Once Upon a Time in America

    19843h 49mR75Metascore
    8.3 (398K)
    A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan 35 years later, where he must once again confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
    DirectorSergio LeoneStarsRobert De NiroJames WoodsElizabeth McGovern
  • Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman, and Richard Harris in Unforgiven (1992)

    9. Unforgiven

    19922h 10mR85Metascore
    8.2 (458K)
    Retired Old West gunslinger Will Munny reluctantly takes on one last job to avenge an injustice with the help of his old partner and a young would-be gunman calling himself "The Schofield Kid".
    DirectorClint EastwoodStarsClint EastwoodGene HackmanMorgan Freeman
  • The Flower of My Secret (1995)

    10. The Flower of My Secret

    19951h 43mR75Metascore
    7.0 (13K)
    Leo writes trashy romance novels under a pseudonym but as she struggles in her relationship with her husband, she finds her output becoming darker.
    DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsMarisa ParedesJuan EchanoveCarme Elias
  • The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

    11. The Devil Wears Prada

    20061h 49mPG-1362Metascore
    7.0 (506K)
    With an aspiration to become a journalist, Andy, a smart but sensible young graduate, travels to New York. She starts working as an assistant to one of the city's biggest high fashion magazine editors, the cynical Miranda Priestly.
    DirectorDavid FrankelStarsAnne HathawayMeryl StreepAdrian Grenier
  • Blue Ruin (2013)

    12. Blue Ruin

    20131h 30mR78Metascore
    7.1 (84K)
    A mysterious outsider's quiet life is turned upside down when he returns to his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance. Proving himself an amateur assassin, he winds up in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.
    DirectorJeremy SaulnierStarsMacon BlairDevin RatrayAmy Hargreaves
  • Babylon Berlin (2017)

    13. Babylon Berlin

    2017–202548 epsTV-MATV Series
    8.4 (32K)
    Colognian commissioner Gereon Rath moves to Berlin, the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.
    CreatorsHenk HandloegtenTom TykwerAchim von BorriesStarsVolker BruchLiv Lisa FriesLars Eidinger
  • Hopper/Welles (2020)

    14. Hopper/Welles

    20202h 10m71Metascore
    7.2 (255)
    An intimate and revelatory 1970 conversation between two film giants, Dennis Hopper, then riding high on the massive success of Easy Rider (1969), and Orson Welles, ever the iconoclast and an offscreen interviewer of probing authority.
    DirectorOrson WellesStarsDennis HopperOrson WellesJanice Pennington
  • Sophia Loren in The Life Ahead (2020)

    15. The Life Ahead

    20201h 34mPG-1366Metascore
    6.8 (16K)
    In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who recently robbed her.
    DirectorEdoardo PontiStarsSophia LorenIbrahima GueyeRenato Carpentieri
  • Allison Janney, Marc Maron, Stephen Root, Andre Royo, Arabella Grant, Andrea Riseborough, James Landry Hébert, Catfish Jean, and Owen Teague in To Leslie (2022)

    16. To Leslie

    20221h 59mR84Metascore
    7.1 (19K)
    A single mother tries to reclaim her life and connection with her son after winning the lottery and spending all her money on parties and alcohol.
    DirectorMichael MorrisStarsAndrea RiseboroughDrew YoungbloodTom Virtue
  • How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022)

    17. How to Blow Up a Pipeline

    20221h 44mR76Metascore
    6.9 (12K)
    A crew of environmental activists plot a daring plan to disrupt an oil pipeline.
    DirectorDaniel GoldhaberStarsAriela BarerKristine FrosethLukas Gage
  • The Saddest Music in the World (2003)

    18. The Saddest Music in the World

    20031h 40mR78Metascore
    7.0 (6.5K)
    A musical of sorts set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, where a beer baroness organizes a contest to find the saddest music in the world. Musicians from around the world descend on the city to try and win the $25,000 prize.
    DirectorGuy MaddinStarsIsabella RosselliniMark McKinneyMaria de Medeiros
  • Kirsten Dunst, Edward Herrmann, and Eddie Izzard in The Cat's Meow (2001)

    19. The Cat's Meow

    20011h 54mPG-1363Metascore
    6.4 (9.4K)
    Semi-true story of the Hollywood murder that occurred at a star-studded gathering aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924.
    DirectorPeter BogdanovichStarsKirsten DunstCary ElwesEdward Herrmann
  • Mary Astor, Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, and Rudy Vallee in The Palm Beach Story (1942)

    20. The Palm Beach Story

    19421h 28mApproved
    7.4 (14K)
    A New York inventor needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire with a capricious high-society sister.
    DirectorPreston SturgesStarsClaudette ColbertJoel McCreaMary Astor
  • Elliott Gould in The Long Goodbye (1973)

    21. The Long Goodbye

    19731h 52mR87Metascore
    7.5 (41K)
    Private eye Philip Marlowe helps friend Terry Lennox out of a jam and is implicated in his wife Sylvia's murder. He also is hired by Eileen Wade to locate her dipsomaniac husband Roger, who frequently disappears when he wants to dry out.
    DirectorRobert AltmanStarsElliott GouldNina van PallandtSterling Hayden
  • Pat O'Brien, Mary Brian, and Adolphe Menjou in The Front Page (1931)

    22. The Front Page

    19311h 41mApproved76Metascore
    6.7 (3.7K)
    A crusading newspaper editor tricks his retiring star reporter into covering one last case.
    DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsAdolphe MenjouPat O'BrienMary Brian
  • John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, and Fred MacMurray in True Confession (1937)

    23. True Confession

    19371h 25mApproved73Metascore
    6.6 (1.8K)
    A lawyer defends his wife, a pathological liar, in a murder trial.
    DirectorWesley RugglesStarsCarole LombardFred MacMurrayJohn Barrymore
  • Lana Turner and John Garfield in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

    24. The Postman Always Rings Twice

    19461h 53mApproved84Metascore
    7.4 (24K)
    A married woman and a drifter fall in love and plot to murder her husband.
    DirectorTay GarnettStarsLana TurnerJohn GarfieldCecil Kellaway
  • Bud Abbott, Laverne Andrews, Maxene Andrews, Patty Andrews, Evelyn Ankers, Mischa Auer, Richard Carlson, Lou Costello, Joan Davis, Ted Lewis, and The Andrews Sisters in Hold That Ghost (1941)

    25. Hold That Ghost

    19411h 26mApproved
    7.2 (4.5K)
    After inheriting a fortune from a gangster, two dim-witted service station attendants find themselves stranded in a haunted house.
    DirectorArthur LubinStarsBud AbbottLou CostelloRichard Carlson

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