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| Citizen Kane |
Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film, directed by and starring Orson Welles. It was released by RKO Pictures, and was Welles's first feature film. The film was nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories; it won an Academy Award for Best...
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Orson Welles | May 1, 1941 | 2 | 7.0 | ||
| The Godfather |
The Godfather is a 1972 American epic crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a screenplay by Mario Puzo, Coppola and an uncredited Robert Towne in a production of Albert S. Ruddy. Based on Puzo's 1969 novel of the same name, the film stars...
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Francis Ford Coppola | Mar 15, 1972 | 3 | 7.0 | ||
| The Wizard of Oz |
The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed primarily by Victor Fleming. Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf received credit for the screenplay, but there were uncredited...
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Victor Fleming | Aug 12, 1939 | 4 | 7.0 | ||
| King Vidor | |||||||
| Mervyn LeRoy | |||||||
| Lawrence of Arabia |
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 Sam Spiegel through his British company, Horizon Pictures, with the screenplay by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson. The...
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David Lean | Dec 10, 1962 | 5 | 7.0 | ||
| It's a Wonderful Life |
It's a Wonderful Life is an American Christmas drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra, that was based on the short story "The Greatest Gift", written by Philip Van Doren Stern.
Released in 1946, the film stars James Stewart as George Bailey...
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Frank Capra | Dec 20, 1946 | 6 | 7.0 | ||
| Schindler's List |
Schindler's List is a 1993 film about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories. The film was directed by Steven Spielberg,...
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Steven Spielberg | Nov 30, 1993 | 7 | 7.0 | ||
| Singin' in the Rain |
Singin' in the Rain is a 1952 American musical comedy film starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds and directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, with Kelly also providing the choreography. It offers a lighthearted depiction of...
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Stanley Donen | 1952 | 8 | 7.0 | ||
| Gene Kelly | |||||||
| Gone with the Wind |
Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American historical epic film adapted from Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer-winning 1936 novel of the same name. It was produced by David O. Selznick and directed by Victor Fleming from a screenplay by Sidney Howard. Set in...
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George Cukor | Dec 15, 1939 | 9 | 7.0 | ||
| Victor Fleming | |||||||
| Sam Wood | |||||||
| One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 American drama film directed by Miloš Forman and based on the 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.
The film was the second to win all five major Academy Awards (Best Picture, Actor in...
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Miloš Forman | Nov 19, 1975 | 10 | 7.0 | ||
| On the Waterfront |
On the Waterfront is a 1954 American crime drama film about union violence and corruption among longshoremen. The film was directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg. It stars Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb and Eva Marie Saint....
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Elia Kazan | Jun 24, 1954 | 11 | 7.0 | ||
| The Grapes of Wrath |
The Grapes of Wrath is a 1940 drama film directed by John Ford. It was based on John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Nunnally Johnson and the executive producer was Darryl F. Zanuck.
The film...
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John Ford | Jan 24, 1940 | 12 | 7.0 | ||
| Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb |
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, commonly known as Dr. Strangelove, is a 1964 black comedy film which satirizes the nuclear scare. It was directed, produced, and co-written by Stanley Kubrick, starring Peter...
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Stanley Kubrick | Jan 29, 1964 | 13 | 7.0 | ||
| All About Eve |
All About Eve is a 1950 American drama film written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on the 1946 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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Joseph L. Mankiewicz | 1950 | 14 | 7.0 | ||
| The Treasure of the Sierra Madre |
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a 1948 American film written and directed by John Huston, a feature film adaptation of B. Traven's 1927 novel of the same name, in which two impecunious Americans Fred C. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart) and Bob Curtin ...
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John Huston | 1948 | 15 | 7.0 | ||
| Sunset Boulevard |
Sunset Boulevard (also known as Sunset Blvd.) is a 1950 American film noir directed and co-written by Billy Wilder, and produced and co-written by Charles Brackett. It was named after the boulevard that runs through Los Angeles and Beverly Hills,...
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Billy Wilder | Aug 10, 1950 | 16 | 7.0 | ||
| Chinatown |
Chinatown is a 1974 American neo-noir film, directed by Roman Polanski from a screenplay by Robert Towne and starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway and John Huston. The film features many elements of the film noir genre, particularly a multi-layered...
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Roman Polanski | Jun 20, 1974 | 17 | 7.0 | ||
| The Third Man |
The Third Man is a 1949 British film noir, directed by Carol Reed and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles and Trevor Howard. Some critics rank it as a masterpiece, particularly remembered for its atmospheric cinematography,...
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Carol Reed | Aug 31, 1949 | 18 | 7.0 | ||
| Ben-Hur |
Ben-Hur is a 1959 American epic film in Technicolor, directed by William Wyler and starring Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Hugh Griffith and Haya Harareet. It won a record 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, an accomplishment...
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William Wyler | Nov 18, 1959 | 19 | 7.0 | ||
| The Godfather Part II |
The Godfather Part II is a 1974 American epic crime film directed by Francis Ford Coppola and partially based on Mario Puzo's 1969 novel, The Godfather. The screenplay was once again written by Coppola and Puzo. The film stars Al Pacino, Robert...
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Francis Ford Coppola | Dec 12, 1974 | 20 | 7.0 | ||
| The Bridge on the River Kwai |
The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 British World War II film by David Lean based on 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 1942–43 for its...
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David Lean | Oct 2, 1957 | 21 | 7.0 | ||
| How Green Was My Valley |
How Green Was My Valley is a 1941 drama film directed by John Ford. The film, based on the 1939 Richard Llewellyn novel, was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and written by Philip Dunne. The film stars Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald...
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John Ford | 1941 | 22 | 7.0 | ||
| The French Connection |
The French Connection is a 1971 American dramatic thriller film directed by William Friedkin and produced by Philip D'Antoni. It starred Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey and Roy Scheider. The film was adapted and fictionalized by Ernest Tidyman from the...
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William Friedkin | Oct 7, 1971 | 23 | 7.0 | ||
| The Best Years of Our Lives |
The Best Years of Our Lives is a 1946 American drama film directed by William Wyler and starring Fredric March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Teresa Wright, Virginia Mayo, and Harold Russell. The film is about three United States servicemen trying to...
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William Wyler | 1946 | 24 | 7.0 | ||
| West Side Story |
West Side Story is a 1961 musical film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. The film is an adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was adapted from William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. It stars Natalie...
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Jerome Robbins | Oct 18, 1961 | 25 | 7.0 | ||
| Robert Wise | |||||||
| 2001: A Space Odyssey |
2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. The screenplay was co-written by Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, and was partially inspired by Clarke's short story "The Sentinel". Clarke later adapted the...
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Stanley Kubrick | Apr 6, 1968 | 26 | 7.0 | ||
| A Man for All Seasons |
A Man for All Seasons is a 1966 film based on Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons about Sir Thomas More. It was released on 12 December 1966. Paul Scofield, who had played More in the West End stage premiere, also took the role in the film. It...
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Fred Zinnemann | Dec 12, 1966 | 27 | 7.0 | ||
| Jaws |
Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name. The prototypical summer blockbuster, its release is regarded as a watershed moment in motion picture history. In the story, a...
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Steven Spielberg | Jun 20, 1975 | 28 | 7.0 | ||
| The Wild Bunch |
The Wild Bunch is a 1969 American Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah about an aging outlaw gang on the Texas-Mexico border, trying to exist in the changing "modern" world of 1913. The film was controversial because of its graphic violence and...
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Sam Peckinpah | Jun 18, 1969 | 29 | 7.0 | ||
| A Streetcar Named Desire |
A Streetcar Named Desire is a 1951 film adaptation of the 1947 play of the same name by Tennessee Williams, who also wrote the screenplay with Oscar Saul. The film, a romantic drama, was directed by Elia Kazan, who had also directed the original...
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Elia Kazan | Dec 1, 1951 | 30 | 7.0 | ||
| Some Like It Hot |
Some Like It Hot is an American romantic screwball comedy film, made in 1958 and released in 1959, which was directed by Billy Wilder and starred Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and George Raft. The supporting cast includes Joe E. Brown,...
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Billy Wilder | Mar 29, 1959 | 31 | 7.0 | ||
| The Sound of Music |
Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical film directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. The film is based on the Broadway musical The Sound of Music, with songs written by Richard...
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Robert Wise | Mar 2, 1965 | 32 | 7.0 | ||
| Network |
Network is a 1976 American satirical film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and United Artists about a fictional television network, UBS, and its struggle with poor ratings. The film was written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet. It...
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Sidney Lumet | Nov 14, 1976 | 33 | 7.0 | ||
| The Exorcist |
The Exorcist is a 1973 horror film directed by William Friedkin, adapted by William Peter Blatty from his 1971 novel of the same name. The book was inspired by the 1949 exorcism case of Robbie Mannheim, dealing with the demonic possession of a young...
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Wong Kar-wai | Dec 26, 1973 | 34 | 7.0 | ||
| William Friedkin | |||||||
| Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope |
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, originally released as Star Wars, is a 1977 American epic space opera film, written and directed by George Lucas. It is the first of six films released in the Star Wars saga: two subsequent films complete the...
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George Lucas | May 25, 1977 | 35 | 7.0 | ||
| Amadeus |
Amadeus - Directors Cut is a 1984 biography drama film written by Peter Shaffer and directed by Milos Forman.
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Miloš Forman | Sep 6, 1984 | 36 | 7.0 | ||
| Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a 1966 film adaptation of the play of the same name by Edward Albee. It was the first film directed by Mike Nichols, and starred Elizabeth Taylor as Martha and Richard Burton as George, with George Segal as Nick...
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Mike Nichols | Jun 22, 1966 | 37 | 7.0 | ||
| Cabaret |
Cabaret is a 1972 musical film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Joel Grey. The film is set in Berlin during the Weimar Republic in 1931, under the ominous presence of the growing National Socialist Party.
The film...
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Bob Fosse | Feb 13, 1972 | 38 | 7.0 | ||
| Raging Bull |
Raging Bull is a 1980 American biographical sports drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, and adapted by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin from Jake LaMotta's memoir Raging Bull: My Story. It stars Robert De Niro as Jake LaMotta, a middleweight boxer...
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Martin Scorsese | Nov 14, 1980 | 39 | 7.0 | ||
| The Searchers |
The Searchers is a 1956 American Western film directed by John Ford, based on the 1954 novel by Alan Le May, and set during the Texas–Indian Wars. The picture stars John Wayne as a middle-aged Civil War veteran who spends years looking for his...
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John Ford | Mar 13, 1956 | 40 | 7.0 | ||
| Psycho |
Psycho is a 1960 American suspense/horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, and Janet Leigh. The screenplay by Joseph Stefano is based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch. The...
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Alfred Hitchcock | Jun 16, 1960 | 41 | 7.0 | ||
| Annie Hall |
Annie Hall is a 1977 American romantic comedy directed by Woody Allen from a screenplay co-written with Marshall Brickman and co-starring Diane Keaton.
Allen has described the film as "a major turning point", as it introduced a level of seriousness...
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Woody Allen | Apr 20, 1977 | 42 | 7.0 | ||
| The Maltese Falcon |
The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 Warner Bros. film based on the novel of the same name by Dashiell Hammett. Written for the screen and directed by John Huston, the film stars Humphrey Bogart as private investigator Sam Spade; Mary Astor as his femme...
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John Huston | 1941 | 43 | 7.0 | ||
| All Quiet on the Western Front |
All Quiet on the Western Front is a 1930 American war film based 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...
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Lewis Milestone | Apr 21, 1930 | 44 | 7.0 | ||
| Oliver! |
Oliver! is a 1968 British musical film directed by Carol Reed. The film is based on the stage musical Oliver!, with book, music and lyrics written by Lionel Bart. The screenplay was written by Vernon Harris.
Both the film and play are based on...
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Carol Reed | Sep 26, 1968 | 45 | 7.0 | ||
| The Adventures of Robin Hood |
The Adventures of Robin Hood is a 1938 American swashbuckler film directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley. Filmed in Technicolor, the picture stars Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, and Claude Rains.
When Richard the...
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Michael Curtiz | 1938 | 46 | 7.0 | ||
| William Keighley | |||||||
| Hamlet |
Hamlet is a 1948 British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, adapted and directed by and starring Sir Laurence Olivier. Hamlet was Olivier's second film as director, and also the second of the three Shakespeare films that he...
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Laurence Olivier | 1948 | 47 | 7.0 | ||
| Double Indemnity |
Double Indemnity is a 1944 American film noir, directed by Billy Wilder, co-written by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, and produced by Buddy DeSylva and Joseph Sistrom. The script was based on James M. Cain's 1935 novella of the same title which...
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Billy Wilder | Apr 24, 1944 | 48 | 7.0 | ||
| The Graduate |
The Graduate is a 1967 American comedy-drama motion picture directed by Mike Nichols. It is based on the 1963 novel The Graduate by Charles Webb, who wrote it shortly after graduating from Williams College. The screenplay was by Buck Henry, who...
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Mike Nichols | Dec 21, 1967 | 49 | 7.0 | ||
| Mr. Smith Goes to Washington |
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is a 1939 American drama film starring Jean Arthur and James Stewart about one man's effect on American politics. It was directed by Frank Capra and written by Sidney Buchman, based on Lewis R. Foster's unpublished story...
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Frank Capra | 1939 | 50 | 7.0 | ||
| The Sting |
The Sting is a 1973 American caper film set in September 1936 that involves a complicated plot by two professional grifters (Paul Newman and Robert Redford) to con a mob boss (Robert Shaw). The film was directed by George Roy Hill, who previously...
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George Roy Hill | Dec 25, 1973 | 51 | 7.0 | ||
| Touch of Evil |
Touch of Evil is a 1958 American crime thriller film, written, directed by, and co-starring Orson Welles. The screenplay was loosely based on the novel Badge of Evil by Whit Masterson. Along with Welles, the cast includes Charlton Heston, Janet...
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Orson Welles | Apr 23, 1958 | 52 | 7.0 | ||
| The Red Shoes |
The Red Shoes (1948) is a British feature film about a ballet dancer, written, directed and produced by the team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, known collectively as The Archers. The movie employs the story within a story device, being...
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Michael Powell | 1948 | 53 | 7.0 | ||
| Emeric Pressburger | |||||||
| It Happened One Night |
It Happened One Night is a 1934 American romantic comedy film 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...
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Frank Capra | Feb 22, 1934 | 54 | 7.0 | ||
| Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman (who won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film). Based loosely on fact, the film tells the story of...
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George Roy Hill | Sep 23, 1969 | 55 | 7.0 | ||
| Wuthering Heights |
Wuthering Heights is a 1939 American black-and-white film directed by William Wyler and produced by Samuel Goldwyn. It is based on the novel, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. The film depicts only sixteen of the novel's thirty-four chapters,...
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William Wyler | 1939 | 56 | 7.0 | ||
| Dances with Wolves |
Dances with Wolves is a 1990 epic western film directed by and starring Kevin Costner. It is a film adaptation of the 1988 book of the same name by Michael Blake and tells the story of a Union Army Lieutenant who travels to the American frontier to...
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Kevin Costner | Oct 19, 1990 | 57 | 7.0 | ||
| An American in Paris |
An American in Paris is a 1951 MGM musical film inspired by the 1928 orchestral composition by George Gershwin. Starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guetary, and Nina Foch, the film is set in Paris, and was directed by Vincente...
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Vincente Minnelli | Aug 26, 1951 | 58 | 7.0 | ||
| Rear Window |
Rear Window is a 1954 American suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by John Michael Hayes and based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder". Originally released by Paramount Pictures, the film stars James Stewart,...
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Alfred Hitchcock | Aug 1, 1954 | 59 | 7.0 | ||
| Duck Soup |
Duck Soup is a 1933 Marx Brothers anarchic comedy film written by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, with additional dialogue by Arthur Sheekman and Nat Perrin, and directed by Leo McCarey. First released theatrically by Paramount Pictures on November 17,...
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Leo McCarey | 1933 | 60 | 7.0 | ||
| Great Expectations |
Great Expectations is a 1946 British film based on Charles Dicken's novel Great Expectations It was directed by David Lean, based on the novel by Charles Dickens and stars John Mills, Bernard Miles, Finlay Currie, Jean Simmons, Martita Hunt, Alec...
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David Lean | 1946 | 61 | 7.0 | ||
