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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
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9.3
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80 Metascore
Two imprisoned men bond over a number of years, finding solace and eventual redemption
through acts of common decency.
Director: Frank Darabont | Stars: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, William
Sadler
8.9
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94 Metascore
In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually
becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline
Goodall
8.2
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89 Metascore
The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring
destroyed his life outside of it.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent
8.5
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100 Metascore
A cynical American expatriate struggles to decide whether or not he should help his former
lover and her fugitive husband escape French Morocco.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude
Rains
Oscars: 3 Oscar Nominations: 8 BAFTA Awards: N/A BAFTA Nominations: N/A Golden
Globes: N/A Golden Globe Nominations: N/A
8.3
Rate
100 Metascore
Following the death of publishing tycoon, Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover
the meaning of his final utterance; 'Rosebud'.
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes
Moorehead
Votes: 368,790 | Gross: $1.59M
Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 9 BAFTA Awards: N/A BAFTA Nominations: N/A Golden
Globes: N/A Golden Globe Nominations: N/A
8.1
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97 Metascore
A manipulative woman and a roguish man conduct a turbulent romance during the American
Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
Directors: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood | Stars: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh,
Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O'Neil
Oscars: 8 Oscar Nominations: 13 BAFTA Awards: N/A BAFTA Nominations: N/A Golden
Globes: N/A Golden Globe Nominations: N/A
8. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
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100 Metascore
Dorothy Gale is swept away from a farm in Kansas to a magical land of Oz in a tornado and
embarks on a quest with her new friends to see the Wizard who can help her return home to
Kansas and help her friends as well.
Directors: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Mervyn LeRoy, Norman Taurog, Richard Thorpe,
King Vidor | Stars: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr
Oscars: 2 Oscar Nominations: 6 BAFTA Awards: N/A BAFTA Nominations: N/A Golden
Globes: N/A Golden Globe Nominations: N/A
8.7
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83 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, Will Sampson, Michael
Berryman
8.3
Rate
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
8.3
Rate
100 Metascore
A former police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed
with a hauntingly beautiful woman.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom
Helmore
8.5
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97 Metascore
A Phoenix secretary embezzles forty thousand dollars from her employer's client, goes on the
run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Rate
90 Metascore
The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City 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
8.1
Rate
91 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
8.4
Rate
A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a
triumphant return.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy
Olson
Votes: 182,895
Rate
82 Metascore
The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, the events of Vietnam, Watergate, and other
history unfold through the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Sally Field
Rate
63 Metascore
A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer
widower.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard
Haydn
8.9
Rate
96 Metascore
Director: Sidney Lumet | Stars: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam, John Fiedler
7.5
Rate
86 Metascore
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
***** Actors: 4.9 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 4.8 Stars
8.6
Rate
90 Metascore
Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to
save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to
rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.
Director: George Lucas | Stars: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness
8.3
Rate
82 Metascore
After discovering a mysterious artifact buried beneath the Lunar surface, mankind sets off on
a quest to find its origins with help from intelligent supercomputer H.A.L. 9000.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel
Richter
7.8
Rate
91 Metascore
A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his
home world.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote, Dee
Wallace
***** Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 4.9 Stars
Rate
85 Metascore
A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer
to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.
Director: Jonathan Demme | Stars: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Lawrence A. Bonney,
Kasi Lemmons
8.2
Rate
92 Metascore
A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit,
corruption, and murder.
Director: Roman Polanski | Stars: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez
***** Actors: 4.8 Stars Direction: 4.8 Stars Screenplay: 4.8 Stars
Oscars: 1 Oscar Nominations: 11 BAFTA Awards: 3 BAFTA Nominations: 10 Golden
Globes: 4 Golden Globe Nominations: 7
8.1
Rate
87 Metascore
After settling his differences with a Japanese P.O.W. 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
8.3
Rate
99 Metascore
A silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.
Directors: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | Stars: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie
Reynolds, Jean Hagen
8.6
Rate
89 Metascore
An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him
what life would have been like if he had never existed.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas
Mitchell
Votes: 363,127
***** Actors: 5 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 4.9 Stars
28. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
(1964)
PG | 95 min | Comedy
8.4
Rate
97 Metascore
An insane general triggers a path to nuclear holocaust that a War Room full of politicians and
generals frantically tries to stop.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan
Wynn
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8.2
Rate
97 Metascore
When two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band
disguised as women, but further complications set in.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, George Raft
Rate
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
8.4
Rate
94 Metascore
A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special
Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall,
Frederic Forrest
8.3
Rate
88 Metascore
The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the
contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have
murdered him.
Director: Milos Forman | Stars: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy
Dotrice
8.9
Rate
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
8.5
Rate
67 Metascore
A former Roman General sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who
murdered his family and sent him into slavery.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed
7.8
Rate
75 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
***** Actors: 4.7 Stars Direction: 4.9 Stars Screenplay: 4.5 Stars
7.6
Rate
85 Metascore
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
Rate
91 Metascore
Following the Normandy Landings, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve
a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns
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8.2
Rate
85 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
8.4
Rate
85 Metascore
In 1936, archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find
the Ark of the Covenant before Adolf Hitler's Nazis can obtain its awesome powers.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, John Rhys-
Davies
8.1
Rate
70 Metascore
A small-time boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight a heavy-weight champion 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
Rate
96 Metascore
Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her
brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.
Director: Elia Kazan | Stars: Vivien Leigh, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter, Karl Malden
7.9
Rate
96 Metascore
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned
remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey
Votes: 59,231
Oscars: 2 Oscar Nominations: 6 BAFTA Awards: N/A BAFTA Nominations: N/A Golden
Globes: N/A Golden Globe Nominations: N/A
43. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
8.3
Rate
88 Metascore
Atticus Finch, a lawyer in the Depression-era South, defends a black man against an
undeserved rape charge, and his children against prejudice.
Director: Robert Mulligan | Stars: Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton, Rosemary
Murphy
Votes: 276,134
Rate
84 Metascore
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
Rate
92 Metascore
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: Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Fredric March, Teresa Wright
7.8
Rate
95 Metascore
Snobbish phonetics Professor Henry Higgins (Sir Rex Harrison) agrees to a wager that he can
make flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) presentable in high society.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid
Hyde-White
Rate
80 Metascore
In the future, a sadistic gang leader is imprisoned and volunteers for a conduct-aversion
experiment, but it doesn't go as planned.
Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren
Clarke
Votes: 700,718
Rate
69 Metascore
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a
political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October
Revolution.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger
7.9
Rate
94 Metascore
An American Civil War veteran embarks on a journey to rescue his niece from the
Comanches.
Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond
Votes: 74,143
Rate
87 Metascore
When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine
biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine
Gary
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