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| Frankenstein |
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Frankenstein is a 1931 horror film from Universal Pictures directed by James Whale and very loosely based on the novel of the same name by Mary Shelley as well as the play adapted from it by Peggy Webling. The film stars Colin Clive, Mae Clarke,...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 87 | |
| A Streetcar Named Desire |
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A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1951 film adaptation of the play of the same name by Tennessee Williams. It was directed by Elia Kazan, who had also directed the original stage production, and stars Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter and Karl...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 45 | |
| It Happened One Night |
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It Happened One Night is an 1934 American comedy with elements of screwball comedy directed by Frank Capra, in which a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) tries to get out from under her father's thumb, and falls in love with a roguish reporter ...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 35 | |
| The Bridge on the River Kwai |
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The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 British World War II film by David Lean based on the novel The Bridge over the River Kwai by French writer Pierre Boulle. The film is a work of fiction but borrows the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 13 | |
| The French Connection |
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The French Connection is a 1971 American crime film directed by William Friedkin. The film was adapted and fictionalized by Ernest Tidyman from the non-fiction book by Robin Moore. It tells the story of New York Police Department detectives named ...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 70 | |
| The Silence of the Lambs |
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The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 psychological crime/horror thriller directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine, Anthony Heald and Brooke Smith. It is based on the novel of the same name by...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 65 | |
| The Godfather |
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The Godfather is a 1972 American thriller film based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Mario Puzo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a screenplay by Puzo, Coppola, and Robert Towne (uncredited). It stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 3 | |
| The Graduate |
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The Graduate is a 1967 American comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols, based on the 1963 novel The Graduate by Charles Webb, who wrote it shortly after graduating from Williams College. The screenplay is by Calder Willingham and Buck Henry, who...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 7 | |
| Lawrence of Arabia |
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Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 British epic film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. It was directed by David Lean and produced by Austrian Sam Spiegel (through his British company, Horizon Pictures), from a script by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson. ...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 5 | |
| Guess Who's Coming to Dinner |
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner is a 1967 drama film starring Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn, and featuring Hepburn's niece Katharine Houghton. It was produced and directed by Stanley Kramer, and written by William Rose. The movie...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 99 | |
| Singin' in the Rain |
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Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 comedy musical film starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, and Debbie Reynolds and directed by Kelly and Stanley Donen, with Kelly also providing the choreography. It offers a comic depiction of Hollywood, and its...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 10 | |
| Jaws |
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Jaws is a 1975 American horror/thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's novel Jaws. The police chief of Amity Island, a fictional summer resort town, tries to protect beachgoers from a giant great white shark by...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 48 | |
| The Searchers |
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The Searchers is a 1956 epic Western film directed by John Ford, based on the 1954 novel by Alan Le May. It is the story of Ethan Edwards, a middle-aged Civil War veteran portrayed by John Wayne, who spends years looking for his abducted niece with...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 96 | |
| West Side Story |
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West Side Story is a 1961 American film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. It is an adaptation of the Broadway musical of the same name, which itself was adapted from Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. It stars Natalie Wood, Richard...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 41 | |
| The Manchurian Candidate |
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The Manchurian Candidate is a 1962 Cold War political thriller film starring Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey and Janet Leigh and Angela Lansbury and featuring Henry Silva, James Gregory, Leslie Parrish and John McGiver. It was directed by John...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 67 | |
| From Here to Eternity |
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From Here to Eternity is a 1953 drama film based on the novel of the same name by James Jones. It deals with the troubles of soldiers, played by Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra, and Ernest Borgnine stationed on Hawaii in the months...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 52 | |
| To Kill a Mockingbird |
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To Kill A Mockingbird is a 1962 American drama film adaptation of Harper Lee's novel of the same name. It was directed by Robert Mulligan and stars Mary Badham in the role of Scout and Gregory Peck in the role of Atticus Finch.
In 1995, the film was...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 34 | |
| The Apartment |
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The Apartment is a 1960 American comedy-drama film produced and directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray. It was Wilder's follow up to the enormously popular Some Like It Hot and was an equal...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 93 | |
| Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope |
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Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, originally released simply as Star Wars, is an American 1977 space opera film, written and directed by George Lucas. It was the first of six films released in the Star Wars saga: two subsequent films continue the...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 15 | |
| The Gold Rush |
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The Gold Rush is a 1925 silent film comedy written, produced, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin in his Little Tramp role. The film also stars Georgia Hale, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Henry Bergman, Malcolm Waite. Chaplin declared several times...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 74 | |
| Apocalypse Now |
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Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film set during the Vietnam War. The plot revolves around two US Army special operations officers, one of whom, Captain Benjamin L. Willard (Martin Sheen) of MACV-SOG, is sent into the jungle to assassinate...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 28 | |
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 American drama film directed by Miloš Forman. The film is an adaptation of the 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. The movie was the first to win all five major Academy Awards (Best...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 20 | |
| Taxi Driver |
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Taxi Driver is a 1976 film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. The movie is set in New York City, soon after the Vietnam War. The film stars Robert De Niro and features Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Leonard Harris, Peter Boyle,...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 47 | |
| MASH |
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MASH is a 1970 American Academy Award-winning satirical dark comedy film directed by Robert Altman and written by Ring Lardner, Jr. based on the novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker. It is the only feature film in the M*A*S...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 56 | |
| Patton |
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Patton (UK: Patton: Lust for Glory) is a 1970 biographical war film about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II. It stars George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates, and Karl Michael Vogler. It was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner from...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 89 | |
| American Graffiti |
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American Graffiti is a 1973 coming of age comedy-drama film co-written/directed by George Lucas, and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat, Charles Martin Smith, Cindy Williams, Candy Clark, Mackenzie Phillips and Harrison Ford. Set in...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 77 | |
| The Godfather Part II |
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The Godfather Part II is a 1974 American thriller film directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a script co-written with Mario Puzo. The film is both a sequel and a prequel to The Godfather, chronicling the story of the Corleone family following the...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 32 | |
| E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial |
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 American science fiction film co-produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Melissa Mathison and starring Henry Thomas, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore, and Dee Wallace. It tells the story of...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 25 | |
| Easy Rider |
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Easy Rider is a 1969 American road movie written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda and directed by Hopper. It tells the story of two bikers (played by Fonda and Hopper) who travel through the...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 88 | |
| Midnight Cowboy |
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Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 drama film based on the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy. It was written by Waldo Salt, directed by John Schlesinger, and stars Dustin Hoffman and then-newcomer Jon Voight in the title role. Notable smaller...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 36 | |
| Mr. Smith Goes to Washington |
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is an American 1939 comedy/drama film starring James Stewart and Jean Arthur, about one man's effect on American politics. It was directed by Frank Capra – his last film for Columbia Pictures, the studio where he made...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 29 | |
| Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western film that tells the story of bank robbers Butch Cassidy (played by Paul Newman) and his partner The Sundance Kid (played by Robert Redford), based loosely on historical fact.
The film was...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 50 | |
| Some Like It Hot |
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Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American comedy film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon. The supporting cast includes George Raft, Joe E. Brown, Pat O'Brien and Nehemiah Persoff. The film was adapted by...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 14 | |
| City Lights |
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City Lights is a 1931 American silent romantic comedy film starring, written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. It also stars Virginia Cherrill and Harry Myers. Despite the fact that the production of silent films had dwindled with the rise of ...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 76 | |
| Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb |
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (commonly known as Dr. Strangelove) is a 1964 American/British black comedy film directed by Stanley Kubrick, starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott, and featuring Sterling...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 26 | |
| A Place in the Sun |
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A Place in the Sun is a 1951 American drama film based on the novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and the play of the same name adapted from it by Patrick Kearney. It tells the story of a working class young man who is entangled with two...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 92 | |
| Network |
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Network is a 1976 satirical film about a fictional television network, Union Broadcasting System (UBS), and its struggle with poor ratings. It was written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet, and stars Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 66 | |
| High Noon |
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High Noon is an American 1952 western film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly. The film tells in real time the story of a town marshal forced to face a gang of killers by himself. The screenplay was written by Carl...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 33 | |
| Fargo |
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Fargo is a 1996 American dark comedy, crime film produced, directed and written by brothers Joel and Ethan Coen. The film is about a car salesman who hires two men to kidnap his wife for $80,000. The crime leads to a series of murders that Marge...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 84 | |
| Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a 1937 American animated feature based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Snow White. It was the first full-length cel-animated feature in motion picture history, as well as the first animated feature film produced...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 49 | |
| A Clockwork Orange |
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A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 British/American satirical futuristic film adaptation of Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel of the same name. The film concerns Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell), a charismatic, psychopathic delinquent whose pleasures are...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 46 | |
| Unforgiven |
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Unforgiven is a 1992 Western film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood with a screenplay written by David Webb Peoples. The film tells the story of William Munny, an aging and retired gunslinger who takes on one more job years after he had hung...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 98 | |
| Wuthering Heights |
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Wuthering Heights is a 1939 black and white film, directed by William Wyler and produced by Samuel Goldwyn. It is based on the celebrated novel, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. The film only depicts sixteen of the novel's thirty-four chapters,...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 73 | |
| All Quiet on the Western Front |
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All Quiet on the Western Front is a 1930 war film set on the Erich Maria Remarque novel of the same name. It was directed by Lewis Milestone, and stars Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy and Ben Alexander.
All Quiet on the Western...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 54 | |
| The Third Man |
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The Third Man also spelled The 3rd Man, is a 1949 British film noir directed by Carol Reed and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard. The screenplay was written by novelist Graham Greene. Greene's novella of the same...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 57 | |
| The Birth of a Nation |
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The Birth of a Nation (premiered with the title The Clansman) is a 1915 silent film directed by D. W. Griffith. Set during and after the American Civil War, the film was based on Thomas Dixon's The Clansman, a novel and play. The Birth of a Nation...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 44 | |
| Doctor Zhivago |
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Doctor Zhivago (Russian: До́ктор Жива́го) is a 1965 epic or drama-romance-war film directed by David Lean and loosely based on the famous novel of the same name by Boris Pasternak.
The film takes place for the most part during the tumultuous period...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 39 | |
| All About Eve |
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All About Eve is a 1950 American drama film, written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on the short story "The Wisdom of Eve," by Mary Orr.
The film stars Bette Davis as Margo Channing, a highly regarded but aging Broadway star. Anne...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 16 | |
| Double Indemnity |
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Double Indemnity (1944) is an American film noir starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson. The film was directed by Billy Wilder and adapted by Wilder and Raymond Chandler from the novella of the same title by James M. Cain...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 38 | |
| Giant |
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Giant is a 1956 drama film directed by George Stevens from a screenplay adapted by Fred Guiol and Ivan Moffat from the novel by Edna Ferber. The movie stars Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean and features Carroll Baker, Jane Withers, Chill...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 82 | |
| The Jazz Singer |
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The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American musical film. The first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialogue sequences, its release heralded the commercial ascendance of the "talkies" and the decline of the silent film era. Produced by Warner...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 90 | |
| Bringing up Baby |
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Bringing Up Baby is a 1938 screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. The movie tells the story of a scientist winding up in various predicaments involving a woman with a unique sense of logic and a...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 97 | |
| Stagecoach |
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Stagecoach is a 1939 western film directed by John Ford, starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne in his breakthrough role. The screenplay, written by Dudley Nichols and Ben Hecht, is an adaptation of "The Stage to Lordsburg", a 1937 short story by...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 63 | |
| It's a Wonderful Life |
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It's a Wonderful Life (1946) is an American drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra and loosely based on the short story "The Greatest Gift" written by Philip Van Doren Stern.
The film takes place in the fictional town of Bedford Falls...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 11 | |
| Forrest Gump |
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Forrest Gump is a 1994 American comedy-drama film based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom. The film, directed by Robert Zemeckis, stars Tom Hanks, Robin Wright Penn, and Gary Sinise. The story is of Forrest Gump, a simple man...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 71 | |
| The Wizard of Oz |
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The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical / fantasy film directed mainly by Victor Fleming from a script by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf, and others and based on the 1900 children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 6 | |
| Rear Window |
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Rear Window is a 1954 suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by John Michael Hayes based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder", and starring James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Wendell Corey and Raymond...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 42 | |
| Amadeus |
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Peter Shaffer's Amadeus is a 1984 musical film directed by Miloš Forman and written by Peter Shaffer. Adapted from Shaffer's stage play Amadeus, the story is based loosely on the lives of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, two composers...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 53 | |
| King Kong |
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King Kong is a 1933 landmark black-and-white monster film about a gigantic gorilla named "Kong" and how he is captured from a remote lost prehistoric island and brought to civilization against his will. The film was made by RKO and was originally...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 43 | |
| Mutiny on the Bounty |
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Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1935 film starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable, and directed by Frank Lloyd based on the Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall novel Mutiny on the Bounty.
The film was one of the biggest hits of its time and remains a...
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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies | 86 | |
