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7.8
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99 Metascore
A chronicle of the childhood, adolescence and burgeoning adulthood of a young black man
growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami.
Director: Barry Jenkins | Stars: Mahershala Ali, Shariff Earp, Duan Sanderson, Alex R.
Hibbert
8.1
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93 Metascore
The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation
and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its
core.
Director: Tom McCarthy | Stars: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev
Schreiber
7.8
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88 Metascore
Illustrated upon the progress of his latest Broadway play, a former popular actor's struggle to
cope with his current life as a wasted actor is shown.
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu | Stars: Michael Keaton, Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton,
Andrea Riseborough
8.1
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96 Metascore
In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York,
is abducted and sold into slavery.
Director: Steve McQueen | Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael
Fassbender, Brad Pitt
7.7
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86 Metascore
Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction
film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during
the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1980.
Director: Ben Affleck | Stars: Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, John Goodman, Alan Arkin
7.9
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89 Metascore
A silent movie star meets a young dancer, but the arrival of talking pictures sends their
careers in opposite directions.
Director: Michel Hazanavicius | Stars: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman, James
Cromwell
8.0
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88 Metascore
The story of King George VI of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland,
his impromptu ascension to the throne and the speech therapist who helped the unsure
monarch become worthy of it.
Director: Tom Hooper | Stars: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Derek
Jacobi
8.0
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86 Metascore
A Mumbai teen reflects on his upbringing in the slums when he is accused of cheating on the
Indian Version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?"
Directors: Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan | Stars: Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Saurabh Shukla,
Anil Kapoor
7.6
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94 Metascore
During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with
his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his work.
Director: Kathryn Bigelow | Stars: Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Guy
Pearce
8.1
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91 Metascore
Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong and more
than two million dollars in cash near the Rio Grande.
Directors: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin,
Woody Harrelson
8.5
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85 Metascore
An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating
an Irish gang in South Boston.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark
Wahlberg
Votes: 920,666 | Gross: $132.37M
7.8
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69 Metascore
Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss
and redemption.
Director: Paul Haggis | Stars: Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Thandie Newton, Karina
Arroyave
8.1
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86 Metascore
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Hilary Swank, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Jay
Baruchel
8.9
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94 Metascore
Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from
Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.
Director: Peter Jackson | Stars: Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Ian McKellen, Orlando
Bloom
7.2
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82 Metascore
Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for
the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.
Director: Rob Marshall | Stars: Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Taye
Diggs
8.2
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72 Metascore
After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography,
his life takes a turn for the nightmarish.
Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Russell Crowe, Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher
Plummer
8.5
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64 Metascore
When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son, he
comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed
8.4
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86 Metascore
A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his
daughter's best friend.
Director: Sam Mendes | Stars: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley
7.2
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87 Metascore
A young Shakespeare, out of ideas and short of cash, meets his ideal woman and is inspired
to write one of his most famous plays.
Director: John Madden | Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Tom
Wilkinson
7.7
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74 Metascore
A seventeen-year-old aristocrat falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard the luxurious,
ill-fated R.M.S. Titanic.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Billy Zane, Kathy Bates
Votes: 829,882 | Gross: $658.67M
7.4
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87 Metascore
At the close of WWII, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim. His past is
shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.
Director: Anthony Minghella | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Kristin
Scott Thomas
8.4
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68 Metascore
When his secret bride is executed for assaulting an English soldier who tried to rape her, Sir
William Wallace begins a revolt against King Edward I of England.
Director: Mel Gibson | Stars: Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Angus
Macfadyen
8.8
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82 Metascore
Forrest Gump, while not intelligent, has accidentally been present at many historic moments,
but his true love, Jenny Curran, eludes him.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field
8.9
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93 Metascore
In German-occupied Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes
concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazi Germans.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline
Goodall
8.3
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82 Metascore
Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job, with the help
of his old partner and a young man.
Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, Richard
Harris
8.6
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84 Metascore
A young F.B.I. cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his
help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims.
Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Lawrence A. Bonney,
Kasi Lemmons
8.0
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72 Metascore
Lt. John Dunbar, exiled to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians,
making him an intolerable aberration in the military.
Director: Kevin Costner | Stars: Kevin Costner, Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene, Rodney
A. Grant
PG | 99 min | Drama
7.4
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81 Metascore
An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a
relationship that grows and improves over the years.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd, Patti
LuPone
8.0
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65 Metascore
Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a
pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.
Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Gerald R.
Molen
7.8
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76 Metascore
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci | Stars: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ruocheng Ying
8.1
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A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and
the duality of man.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Charlie Sheen, Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Keith David
7.2
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Director: Sydney Pollack | Stars: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer,
Michael Kitchen
8.3
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93 Metascore
The incredible story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told by his peer and secret rival Antonio
Salieri - now confined to an insane asylum.
Director: Milos Forman | Stars: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy
Dotrice
7.4
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79 Metascore
Follows hard-to-please Aurora looking for love and her daughter's family problems.
Director: James L. Brooks | Stars: Shirley MacLaine, Debra Winger, Jack Nicholson, Danny
DeVito
8.1
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Director: Richard Attenborough | Stars: Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Candice Bergen,
Edward Fox
Votes: 180,067
7.2
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Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew and the other a devout Christian, compete in
the 1924 Olympics.
Director: Hugh Hudson | Stars: Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nicholas Farrell, Nigel Havers
7.8
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85 Metascore
The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships
among the bitter mother, the good-natured father, and the guilt-ridden younger son.
Director: Robert Redford | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch,
Timothy Hutton
7.8
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77 Metascore
Ted Kramer's wife leaves her husband, allowing for a lost bond to be rediscovered between
Ted and his son, Billy. But a heated custody battle ensues over the divorced couple's son,
deepening the wounds left by the separation.
Director: Robert Benton | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander, Justin Henry
Votes: 102,136 | Gross: $106.30M
8.2
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73 Metascore
An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts
the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.
Director: Michael Cimino | Stars: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale, John
Savage
Votes: 243,972
8.1
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Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditzy Annie Hall.
Director: Woody Allen | Stars: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane
8.1
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Rocky Balboa, a small-time boxer, gets a supremely rare chance to fight heavy-weight
champion Apollo Creed in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.
Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl
Weathers
8.7
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79 Metascore
A criminal pleads insanity after getting into trouble again and once in the mental institution
rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.
Director: Milos Forman | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, Michael Berryman, Peter
Brocco
9.0
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80 Metascore
The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York is portrayed while his son,
Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Diane
Keaton
8.3
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In Chicago in September 1936, a young con man seeking revenge for his murdered partner
teams up with a master of the big con to win a fortune from a criminal banker.
Director: George Roy Hill | Stars: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles
Durning
9.2
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100 Metascore
The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire
to his reluctant son.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane
Keaton
7.8
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96 Metascore
A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a
French connection.
Director: William Friedkin | Stars: Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey, Tony Lo
Bianco
Votes: 86,106
8.0
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91 Metascore
The World War II phase of the career of the controversial American general, George S.
Patton.
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner | Stars: George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Stephen Young,
Michael Strong
Votes: 79,090
48. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
7.9
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A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York to seek personal fortune but, in the process,
finds himself a new friend.
Director: John Schlesinger | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver
Votes: 79,433
7.5
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Young Oliver Twist runs away from an orphanage and meets a group of boys trained to be
pickpockets by an elderly mentor.
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Mark Lester, Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Oliver Reed
8.0
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Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates, Lee Grant
Votes: 51,889
7.9
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The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the
Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw, Leo McKern
Votes: 24,584
8.0
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7.9
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A misogynistic and snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower
girl and make her presentable in high society.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid
Hyde-White
6.7
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The romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th century
England.
Director: Tony Richardson | Stars: Albert Finney, Susannah York, George Devine, Rachel
Kempson
Votes: 8,825
55. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
8.3
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100 Metascore
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse,
often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins
7.6
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Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their
respective friends build toward tragedy.
Directors: Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise | Stars: Natalie Wood, George Chakiris, Richard
Beymer, Russ Tamblyn
8.3
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A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but
complications and a romance of his own ensue.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray
Walston
Votes: 115,614
8.1
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90 Metascore
When a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his
freedom and comes back for revenge.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd, Haya
Harareet
6.9
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Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-
training enjoy a platonic friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long.
Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan,
Hermione Gingold
Votes: 15,389
8.2
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After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp commander, a British colonel co-
operates to oversee his men's construction of a railway bridge for their captors - while
oblivious to a plan by the Allies to destroy it.
Director: David Lean | Stars: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Sessue
Hayakawa
6.8
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A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can
circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.
Directors: Michael Anderson, John Farrow | Stars: David Niven, Cantinflas, Shirley
MacLaine, Robert Newton
Votes: 18,877 | Gross: $42.00M
7.7
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A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love meet at a
dance and fall for each other.
Director: Delbert Mann | Stars: Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Esther Minciotti, Augusta
Ciolli
Votes: 16,252
8.2
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88 Metascore
An ex-prize fighter turned longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger
7.7
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In Hawaii in 1941, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his
captain's wife and second-in-command are falling in love.
Director: Fred Zinnemann | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna
Reed
Votes: 35,187
6.7
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The dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer are told against a
background of circus spectacle.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: James Stewart, Charlton Heston, Betty Hutton, Cornel
Wilde
7.2
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Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things become more complicated when two of
them fall in love with the same woman.
Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges
Guétary
8.3
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An ingenue insinuates herself into the company of an established but aging stage actress and
her circle of theater friends.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste
Holm
7.6
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The rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by
dint of a populist appeal.
Director: Robert Rossen | Stars: Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru, John Derek
Votes: 10,237
69. Hamlet (1948)
7.8
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Prince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has
murdered his father, the former king.
Director: Laurence Olivier | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, John Laurie, Esmond
Knight
Votes: 12,249
7.4
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Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, John Garfield, Celeste Holm
Votes: 11,476
8.1
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Three World War II veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and
their families have been irreparably changed.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Fredric March, Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy, Teresa Wright
8.0
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The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry, Howard Da Silva
Votes: 26,209
7.2
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Youthful Father Chuck O'Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before
joining the Roman Catholic clergy, but his level gaze and twinkling eyes make it clear that he
knows ... See full summary »
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Frank McHugh, James Brown
Votes: 7,904
8.6
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Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude
Rains
Votes: 406,077
7.6
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A British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright, Dame May
Whitty
Votes: 11,977
76. How Green Was My Valley (1941)
7.8
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At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise
coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp
Votes: 16,501
8.2
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A self-conscious bride is tormented by the memory of her husband's dead first wife.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith
Anderson
Votes: 91,821
8.2
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A manipulative Southern belle carries on a turbulent affair with a blockade runner during the
American Civil War.
Directors: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood | Stars: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh,
Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O'Neil
8.0
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A man from a family of rich snobs becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but
decidedly eccentric family.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore, Edward Arnold
Votes: 18,485
7.3
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The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the
injustice of the Dreyfuss Affair.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut, Gloria
Holden
Votes: 5,273
81. The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
6.8
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The ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., famed producer of extravagant stage revues, are
portrayed.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer, Frank
Morgan
Votes: 5,357
7.8
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Midshipman Roger Byam joins Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian aboard HMS Bounty for
a voyage to Tahiti. Bligh proves to be a brutal tyrant and, after six pleasant months on Tahiti,
... See full summary »
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Herbert
Mundin
Votes: 16,757
83. It Happened One Night (1934)
8.2
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A spoiled heiress running away from her family is helped by a man who is actually a reporter
in need of a story.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe
Karns
Votes: 68,697
6.0
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A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 seen through the eyes of
well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are the
Boer War,... See full summary »
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O'Connor, Herbert Mundin
Votes: 3,244
7.6
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A group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of
their respective dramas.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace
Beery
Votes: 13,486
6.0
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A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of
the nineteenth century.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, Estelle Taylor, Nance O'Neil
Votes: 3,905
8.1
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A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray, Arnold Lucy
Votes: 48,325
88. The Broadway Melody (1929)
6.3
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A pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters
of the heart complicate the attempt.
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Bessie Love, Anita Page, Charles King, The Angeles
Twins
8.3
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An allegorical tale about a man fighting the good and evil within him. Both sides are made
flesh - one a sophisticated woman he is attracted to and the other his wife.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil
Rosing
Votes: 31,594
7.8
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Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become
fighter pilots in World War I.
Directors: William A. Wellman, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast | Stars: Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy'
Rogers, Richard Arlen, Jobyna Ralston
Votes: 8,343
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