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  • Casablanca
    United States - 1942
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    Humphrey Bogart plays Richard "Rick" Blaine, a cynical but good-hearted American whose café is the gathering place for everyone from the French Police to the black market ...
  • Citizen Kane
    United States - 1941
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    The story charts the rise and fall of a newpaper publisher whose wealth and power ultimately isolate him in his castle-like refuge. The last word he utters before his ...
  • From Here to Eternity
    United States - 1953
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    When Private Prewitt (Montgomery Clift) is transferred to Hawaii, Captain Holmes (Philip Ober) finds out about Prewitt’s boxing abilities and tries to coax him to join ...
  • Vertigo
    United States - 1958
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    San Francisco police detective Scottie Fergusson (James Stewart) develops a fear of heights and is forced to retire when a colleague falls to his death during a chase. An ...
  • The Bad and the Beautiful
    United States - 1952
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    An egotistical producer, Jonathan Shields (Douglas), determined to prove himself the finest filmmaker of all, gladly steps all over those who helped him when he was ...
  • Bringing Up Baby
    United States - 1938
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    David Huxley (Grant) is an absent-minded paleontologist who needs to finish the reconstruction of a dinosaur for an exhibit that can provide good money for the museum. At ...
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
    United States - 1962
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    The lawyer Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck), decides to defend a black man (Brock Peters) undeservedly charged with raping a poor white woman. The bigoted townspeople would ...
  • To Be or Not to Be
    United States - 1942
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    Joseph Tura and his wife Maria top the bill at a Warsaw theatre company. Young aviator Lieutenant Sobinski is madly in love with the girl and the two arrange to meet in ...
  • They Died with their Boots On
    United States - 1941
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    The film follows the life of George Armstrong Custer (Errol Flynn) from attending West Point, wooing of Elizabeth Bacon (Olivia de Havilland), the American Civil War, and ...
  • Some Like It Hot
    United States - 1959
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    Two men (Lemmon and Curtis) hide from the mafia in an all girls band after they witness a murder, and find it hard to keep their cover as women when they meet Sugar Kane (Marilyn).
  • The Sound of Music
    United States - 1965
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    'The Sound of Music' is based on the true story of the Trapp Family Singers. Maria (Julie Andrews) is a young nun in an Austrian convent who regularly misses her morning ...
  • The Quiet Man
    United States - 1952
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    John Wayne stars as Sean Thornton, a retired American boxing champion trying to put tragedy behind him by returning to Innisfree, the bucolic Irish village of his birth. ...
  • The Philadelphia Story
    United States - 1940
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    Tracy Lord (Katharine Hepburn) is a wealthy Main Line Philadelphia socialite who had divorced C.K. Dexter Haven (Cary Grant) and is about to marry nouveau riche George ...
  • The Hustler
    United States - 1961
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    "Fast" Eddie Felson (Paul Newman) is a self-assured upstart pool shark who frequents the local halls to get a crack at bringing down the legendary Minnesota Fats (Jackie ...
  • The Great Dictator
    United States - 1940
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    In the 1930s, Tomania falls under the control of dictator Adenoid Hynkel, who dreams of world domination. In the Jewish district of the capital lives a barber who looks ...
  • The General
    United States - 1926
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    Johnny Gray is the engineer for the Western and Atlantic Flyer, and his engine is named "The General." There are two loves in Johnny's life, "The General" and Annabelle ...
  • The African Queen
    United States - 1951
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    Based on the 1935 novel by C.S. Forester. The boozing, smoking, cussing captain of a tramp steamer, Charlie Allnut (Bogart), saves prim, sober, and proper missionary Rose ...
  • Laura
    United States - 1944
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    Beautiful Laura Hunt (Gene Tierney) is found shot to death in her apartment. Hard nosed Lieutenant Mark McPherson (Dana Andrews) is assigned as the lead investigator for ...
  • It's a Wonderful Life
    United States - 1946
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    A good but slightly ineffectual man tries to off himself after an error that really wasnt his fault. In Christmas carol fashion, his crusty-but-lovable guardian angel ...
  • All About Eve
    United States - 1950
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    Margo Channing (Bette Davis), leading dame of the New York stage, is pushed aside by a fresh-faced fan who becomes her understudy, the duplicitous Eve (Anne Baxter). ...
  • War and Peace
    United States - 1956
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    Set against the backdrop of Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia, King Vidor's adaptation of the Tolstoy sprawling classic stars Henry Fonda as Pierre Bezhukov. Despite the ...
  • Out of Africa
    United States - 1985
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    Based on the book "Out of Africa" by Danish writer Isak Dinesen (her real name was Karen Blixen). Karen Blixen, a Danish woman, marries a friend for the title of Baroness ...
  • Ben-Hur
    United States - 1959
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    Anno Domini: the seventh year of Augustus Caesar's reign. In the Roman province of Judea, Jews return to the city of their birth for the census. A bright star in the ...
  • Dersu Uzala
    Soviet Union (USSR) - 1975
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    It is the story of an elderly guide and Goldi hunter (Maxim Munzuk), who, at the turn of the century, agrees to shepherd a Russian explorer (Yuri Solomin) and a troop of ...
  • The Third Man
    United Kingdom - 1949
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    Holly Martins, a pulp novelist who has come to post-WWII Vienna with the promise of work from his friend, Harry Lime. When he finds that Lime has just been killed in a ...
  • A Place in the Sun
    United States - 1951
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    George Eastman (Montgomery Clift), the poor nephew of rich industrialist Charles Eastman (Herbert Heyes), takes a job in his uncle's factory. Despite his family ...
  • Jaws
    United States - 1975
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    A giant great white shark arrives on the shores of a New England beach resort and wreaks havoc with bloody attacks on swimmers until a part-time sheriff teams up with a ...
  • Lawrence of Arabia
    United Kingdom - 1962
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    While working on the staff of the British Intelligence in Cairo in 1916, Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) is sent to a mission to establish contact with Prince Feisal (Alec ...
  • Nosferatu
    Germany - 1922
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    It follows the familiar story of Count Orlok moving from his ruined castle to the city of Wisborg, after the visit of one Thomas Hutter. Once there he becomes involved ...
  • Giant
    United States - 1956
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    Texan rancher Bick Benedict (Rock Hudson) visits a Maryland farm to buy a prize horse. Whilst there he meets and falls in love with the owner's daughter Leslie Benedict ...
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
    United States - 1939
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    Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed on a lark by the spineless governor of his state. He is reunited with the state's senior ...
  • Duel in the Sun
    United States - 1946
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    Orphaned half-breed Pearl Chavez (Jennifer Jones) comes to Spanish Bit, a Ponderosa-like cattle ranch run by despotic McCandless (Lionel Barrymore). There she finds ...
  • Gilda
    United States - 1946
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    Just arrived in Argentina, small-time crooked gambler Johnny Farrell is saved from a gunman by sinister Ballin Mundson, who later makes Johnny his right-hand man. But ...
  • Mary Poppins
    United States - 1964
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    London, early twentieth century. The life of an English family made up of a banker father, a suffragette mother and two rebellious children -who try to get their parents' ...
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
    United States - 1951
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    After her husband's suicide, Blanche, helpless and disoriented, takes refuge in New Orleans at the home of her young sister Stella, married to the brutish Stanley ...
  • Imitation of Life
    United States - 1959
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    Aspiring actress Lora Meredith meets Annie Johnson a homeless black woman at Coney Island and soon they share a tiny apartment. Each woman has an intolerable daughter, ...
  • The Sting
    United States - 1973
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    When small-time con man Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford) and his partner, Luther (Robert Earl Jones), unwittingly con a numbers runner courier, they find themselves in ...
  • West Side Story
    United States - 1961
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    This romantic musical update of 'Romeo and Juliet' won ten Oscars. The tale of a turf war between rival teenage gangs in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen and the two lovers who ...
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    United States - 1975
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    A misbehaved con named McMurphy (Jack Nicholson), who shirks authority, finds himself in an asylum after faking insanity to get out of work detail in prison. The ...
  • North by Northwest
    United States - 1959
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    Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Suddenly, the hapless businessman is targeted as an American intelligence agent and set ...
Movies from this Rating List. (Click on a movie to rate it)
  • Casablanca
  • Citizen Kane
  • From Here to Eternity
  • Vertigo
  • The Bad and the Beautiful
  • Bringing Up Baby
  • To Kill a Mockingbird
  • To Be or Not to Be
  • They Died with their Boots On
  • Some Like It Hot
  • The Sound of Music
  • The Quiet Man
  • The Philadelphia Story
  • The Hustler
  • The Great Dictator
  • The General
  • The African Queen
  • Laura
  • It's a Wonderful Life
  • All About Eve
  • War and Peace
  • Out of Africa
  • Ben-Hur
  • Dersu Uzala
  • The Third Man
  • A Place in the Sun
  • Jaws
  • Lawrence of Arabia
  • Nosferatu
  • Giant
  • Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
  • Duel in the Sun
  • Gilda
  • Mary Poppins
  • A Streetcar Named Desire
  • Imitation of Life
  • The Sting
  • West Side Story
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
  • North by Northwest
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