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086 All The King’s Men (1949)
The rise and fall of a corrupt politician.
Duration: 110 Minutes
Director: Robert Rossen
Personal Grade: 3/10
IMDB » (7.6/10)
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085 A Man for All Seasons (1966)
The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII.
Duration: 120 Minutes
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Personal Grade: 3.5/10
IMDB » (8.0/10)
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084 Million Dollar Baby (2004)
A determined woman works with a hardened boxing trainer to become a professional.
Duration: 132 Minutes
Director: Clint Eastwood
Personal Grade: 4/10
IMDB » (8.1/10)
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083 My Fair Lady (1964)
A professor tries to bring a flower girl in high society.
Duration: 170 Minutes
Director: George Cukor
Personal Grade: 4/10
IMDB » (7.9/10)
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082 The Lost Weekend (1945)
The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic.
Duration: 101 Minutes
Director: Billy Wilder
Personal Grade: 4/10
IMDB » (8.1/10)
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081 Chicago (2002)
Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows.
Duration: 113 Minutes
Director: Rob Marshall
Personal Grade: 4/10
IMDB » (7.2/10)
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080 Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships he can travel around the world.
Duration: 167 Minutes
Director: Michael Anderson
Personal Grade: 4.5/10
IMDB » (6.8/10)
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079 Terms of Endearment (1983)
Mother and daughter who march to different drummers.
Duration: 132 Minutes
Director: James L. Brooks
Personal Grade: 5/10
IMDB » (7.4/10)
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078 The French Connection (1971)
A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job.
Duration: 104 Minutes
Director: William Friedkin
Personal Grade: 5/10
IMDB » (7.8/10)
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077 A Beautiful Mind (2001)
A brilliant but asocial mathematician accepts secret work in cryptography.
Duration: 135 Minutes
Director: Ron Howard
Personal Grade: 5/10
IMDB » (8.2/10)
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076 How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Life is hard in a Welsh mining town and no less so for the Morgan family.
Duration: 118 Minutes
Director: John Ford
Personal Grade: 5/10
IMDB » (7.9/10)
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075 Argo (2012)
A CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran.
Duration: 120 Minutes
Director: Ben Affleck
Personal Grade: 5/10
IMDB » (7.8/10)
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074 You Can’t Take It with You (1938)
A man from a rich family becomes engaged to a woman from an eccentric family.
Duration: 126 Minutes
Director: Frank Capra
Personal Grade: 5.5/10
IMDB » (8.1/10)
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073 Marty (1955)
Two lonely people have almost resigned themselves to never being truly loved.
Duration: 90 Minutes
Director: Delbert Mann
Personal Grade: 5.5/10
IMDB » (7.8/10)
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072 Cavalcade (1933)
A cavalcade of English life from New Year’s Eve 1899 until 1933.
Duration: 101 Minutes
Director: Frank Lloyd
Personal Grade: 5.5/10
IMDB » (6.2/10)
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071 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with One Ring.
Duration: 201 Minutes
Director: Peter Jackson
Personal Grade: 5.5/10
IMDB » (8.9/10)
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070 Ordinary People (1980)
The accidental death of the older son of an affluent family deeply strains the relationships among them.
Duration: 118 Minutes
Director: John Badham
Personal Grade: 5.5/10
IMDB » (7.9/10)
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069 Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
A flamboyant and controversial British military figure and his conflicted loyalties.
Duration: 216 Minutes
Director: David Lean
Personal Grade: 6/10
IMDB » (8.4/10)
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068 Gigi (1958)
A rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship.
Duration: 115 Minutes
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Personal Grade: 6/10
IMDB » (6.9/10)
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067 Mrs. Miniver (1942)
An English “middle-class” family experience life in the first months of World War II.
Duration: 113 Minutes
Director: William Wyler
Personal Grade: 6/10
IMDB » (7.7/10)
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066 Grand Hotel (1932)
A group of different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel.
Duration: 112 Minutes
Director: Edmund Goulding
Personal Grade: 6/10
IMDB » (7.6/10)
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065 Patton (1970)
The World War II phase of the controversial American general’s career is depicted.
Duration: 172 Minutes
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Personal Grade: 6/10
IMDB » (8.0/10)
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064 Hamlet (1948)
William Shakespeare’s tale of tragedy of murder and revenge.
Duration: 155 Minutes
Director: Laurence Olivier
Personal Grade: 6/10
IMDB » (7.9/10)
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063 No Country for Old Men (2007)
Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon a drug deal gone wrong.
Duration: 104 Minutes
Director: Ethan Coen
Personal Grade: 6/10
IMDB » (8.2/10)
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062 West Side Story (1961)
Musical about two youngsters from rival NYC gangs who fall in love.
Duration: 152 Minutes
Director: Jerome Robbins
Personal Grade: 6/10
IMDB » (7.7/10)
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061 The Broadway Melody (1929)
Harriet and Queenie Mahoney, a vaudeville act, come to Broadway.
Duration: 100 Minutes
Director: Harry Beaumont
Personal Grade: 6.5/10
IMDB » (6.6/10)
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060 The Apartment (1960)
A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts.
Duration: 125 Minutes
Director: Billy Wilder
Personal Grade: 6.5/10
IMDB » (8.4/10)
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059 The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer.
Duration: 116 Minutes
Director: William Dieterle
Personal Grade: 6.5/10
IMDB » (7.4/10)
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058 Braveheart (1995)
A commoner unites the 13th Century Scots in their battle to overthrow English rule.
Duration: 177 Minutes
Director: Mel Gibson
Personal Grade: 6.5/10
IMDB » (8.4/10)
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057 Platoon (1986)
A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
Duration: 120 Minutes
Director: Oliver Stone
Personal Grade: 6.5/10
IMDB » (8.2/10)
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056 Out of Africa (1985)
A Danish plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-sprited hunter.
Duration: 161 Minutes
Director: Sydney Pollack
Personal Grade: 6.5/10
IMDB » (7.2/10)
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055 Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeu have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.
Duration: 99 Minutes
Director: Bruce Beresford
Personal Grade: 7/10
IMDB » (7.4/10)
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054 Rocky (1976)
A small time boxer gets a once in a lifetime chance to fight the heavyweight champ.
Duration: 119 Minutes
Director: John G. Avildsen
Personal Grade: 7/10
IMDB » (8.1/10)
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053 The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America.
Duration: 172 Minutes
Director: William Wyler
Personal Grade: 7/10
IMDB » (8.3/10)
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052 Going My Way (1944)
Youthful Father Chuck O’Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance.
Duration: 126 Minutes
Director: Leo McCarey
Personal Grade: 7/10
IMDB » (7.4/10)
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051 The Sting (1973)
In 1930s Chicago, a young con man is seeking revenge for his murdered partner.
Duration: 129 Minutes
Director: George Roy Hill
Personal Grade: 7/10
IMDB » (8.4/10)
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050 Tom Jones (1963)
Tom Jones, the adopted son of a British country squire, is a love-’em-and-leave-’em lady charmer.
Duration: 128 Minutes
Director: Tony Richardson
Personal Grade: 7/10
IMDB » (6.8/10)
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049 The King’s Speech (2010)
The story of King George VI of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Duration: 118 Minutes
Director: Tom Hooper
Personal Grade: 7/10
IMDB » (8.1/10)
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048 The Last Emperor (1987)
The story of the final Emperor of China.
Duration: 163 Minutes
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Personal Grade: 7/10
IMDB » (7.8/10)
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047 The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
A British colonel co-operates to oversee his men’s construction of a railway bridge for their captors.
Duration: 161 Minutes
Director: David Lean
Personal Grade: 7/10
IMDB » (8.3/10)
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046 The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
The ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld, famed producer of extravagant stage revues.
Duration: 176 Minutes
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Personal Grade: 7/10
IMDB » (6.9/10)
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045 Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
A just-divorced man must learn to care for his son on his own.
Duration: 105 Minutes
Director: Robert Benton
Personal Grade: 7.5/10
IMDB » (7.8/10)
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044 The Artist (2011)
A silent movie star meets a young dancer, but the arrival of talking pictures sends their careers in opposite directions.
Duration: 100 Minutes
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Personal Grade: 7.5/10
IMDB » (8.0/10)
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043 From Here to Eternity (1953)
In 1941 Hawaii, a captain’s wife and second in command are falling in love.
Duration: 118 Minutes
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Personal Grade: 7.5/10
IMDB » (7.8/10)
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042 Unforgiven (1992)
Retired Old West gunslinger William Munny reluctantly takes on one last job.
Duration: 131 Minutes
Director: Clint Eastwood
Personal Grade: 7.5/10
IMDB » (8.3/10)
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041 Cimarron (1931)
A newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town.
Duration: 123 Minutes
Director: Wesley Ruggles
Personal Grade: 7.5/10
IMDB » (6.1/10)
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040 Chariots of Fire (1981)
One a determined Jew, and the other a devout Christian who compete in the 1924 Olympics.
Duration: 124 Minutes
Director: Hugh Hudson
Personal Grade: 7.5/10
IMDB » (7.3/10)
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039 The Departed (2006)
An undercover state cop realizes that their office has a rat.
Duration: 151 Minutes
Director: Martin Scorsese
Personal Grade: 7.5/10
IMDB » (8.5/10)
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038 The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
A young FBI cadet must confide in a manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims.
Duration: 118 Minutes
Director: Jonathan Demme
Personal Grade: 7.5/10
IMDB » (8.6/10)
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037 It Happened One Night (1934)
A reporter looking for a story meets a hairess running from her family.
Duration: 105 Minutes
Director: Frank Capra
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (8.3/10)
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036 The Hurt Locker (2008)
An elite Army bomb squad unit must come together in a city where everyone is a potential enemy and every object could be a deadly bomb.
Duration: 131 Minutes
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (7.6/10)
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035 The Godfather (1972)
An outspoken priest and a group of sexually repressed nuns in 17th-century France.
Duration: 175 Minutes
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (9.2/10)
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034 The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
The dramatic lives of trapeze artists, a clown, and an elephant trainer.
Duration: 152 Minutes
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (6.7/10)
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033 On The Waterfront (1954)
An ex-prize fighter struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses.
Duration: 108 Minutes
Director: Elia Kazan
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (8.3/10)
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032 In the Heat of the Night (1967)
An African American detective is asked to investigate a murder in a racist southern town.
Duration: 109 Minutes
Director: Norman Jewison
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (8.0/10)
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031 Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
A Mumbai teen who grew up in the slums, becomes a contestant on the Indian version of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?”
Duration: 120 Minutes
Director: Danny Boyle
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (8.1/10)
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030 Gladiator (2000)
A Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by an emperor’s corrupt son.
Duration: 155 Minutes
Director: Ridley Scott
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (8.5/10)
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029 Rain Man (1988)
Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt’s father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie.
Duration: 133 Minutes
Director: Barry Levinson
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (8.0/10)
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028 Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need.
Duration: 117 Minutes
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (8.0/10)
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027 The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Michael, expands and tightens his grip on his crime syndicate stretching from Lake Tahoe.
Duration: 200 Minutes
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (9.1/10)
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026 The Sound of Music (1965)
A woman leaves an Austrian convent to become a governess to the children of a Naval officer widower.
Duration: 174 Minutes
Director: Robert Wise
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (8.0/10)
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025 Casablanca (1942)
In unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover.
Duration: 102 Minutes
Director: Michael Curtiz
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (8.6/10)
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024 An American in Paris (1951)
An ingenue insinuates herself in to the company of an established but aging stage actress.
Duration: 113 Minutes
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (7.3/10)
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023 Crash (2004)
Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.
Duration: 112 Minutes
Director: Paul Haggis
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (7.9/10)
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022 Gentleman’s Agreement (1947)
A reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism.
Duration: 118 Minutes
Director: Elia Kazan
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (7.4/10)
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021 Shakespeare in Love (1998)
A young Shakespeare, out of ideas and short of cash, meets his ideal woman.
Duration: 123 Minutes
Director: John Madden
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (7.2/10)
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020 Oliver! (1968)
An orphan who runs away from an orphanage and hooks up with a group of boys trained to be pickpockets.
Duration: 153 Minutes
Director: Carol Reed
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (7.5/10)
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019 The Deer Hunter (1978)
An in-depth examination of the way that the Vietnam war affects the lives of people in a small industrial town in the USA.
Duration: 182 Minutes
Director: Michael Cimino
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (8.2/10)
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018 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
Upon arrival at a mental institution, a brash rebel rallies the patients together.
Duration: 133 Minutes
Director: Milos Forman
Personal Grade: 8/10
IMDB » (8.8/10)
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017 Titanic (1997)
A boy and girl from differing social backgrounds meet during the ill-fated maiden voyage of RMS Titanic.
Duration: 194 Minutes
Director: James Cameron
Personal Grade: 8.5/10
IMDB » (7.7/10)
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016 Annie Hall (1977)
Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.
Duration: 93 Minutes
Director: Woody Allen
Personal Grade: 8.5/10
IMDB » (8.2/10)
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015 Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh.
Duration: 132 Minutes
Director: Frank Lloyd
Personal Grade: 8.5/10
IMDB » (7.9/10)
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014 Forrest Gump (1994)
Forrest Gump, while not intelligent, has accidentally been present at many historic moments.
Duration: 142 Minutes
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Personal Grade: 8.5/10
IMDB » (8.8/10)
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013 Gandhi (1982)
Mahatma Gandhi, the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British through non-violence.
Duration: 191 Minutes
Director: Richard Attenborough
Personal Grade: 8.5/10
IMDB » (8.1/10)
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012 Amadeus (1984)
The incredible story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Duration: 160 Minutes
Director: Milos Forman
Personal Grade: 8.5/10
IMDB » (8.4/10)
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011 Wings (1927)
Two young men become fighter pilots in World War I.
Duration: 144 Minutes
Director: William A. Wellman
Personal Grade: 9/10
IMDB » (7.9/10)
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010 Ben-Hur (1959)
A Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend.
Duration: 212 Minutes
Director: William Wyler
Personal Grade: 9.5/10
IMDB » (8.2/10)
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009 Rebecca (1940)
A naive woman marries a rich widower but soon finds the memory of the first wife haunting her.
Duration: 130 Minutes
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Personal Grade: 9.5/10
IMDB » (8.3/10)
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008 Dances With Wolves (1990)
A lieutenant during the Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.
Duration: 181 Minutes
Director: Kevin Costner
Personal Grade: 9.5/10
IMDB » (8.0/10)
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007 All About Eve (1950)
An ingenue insinuates herself in to the company of an established but aging stage actress.
Duration: 138 Minutes
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Personal Grade: 9.5/10
IMDB » (8.4/10)
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006 Schindler’s List (1993)
During World War II, Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
Duration: 195 Minutes
Director: Steven Spielberg
Personal Grade: 10/10
IMDB » (8.9/10)
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005 All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Young soldiers face the soul-destroying horror of World War I.
Duration: 145 Minutes
Director: Lewis Milestone
Personal Grade: 10/10
IMDB » (8.1/10)
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004 Gone With The Wind (1939)
A manipulative woman and a roguish man have a love affair during the Civil War.
Duration: 238 Minutes
Director: Victor Fleming
Personal Grade: 10/10
IMDB » (8.2/10)
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003 The English Patient (1996)
At the close of WWII, a young nurse tends to a badly-burned plane crash victim.
Duration: 162 Minutes
Director: Anthony Minghella
Personal Grade: 10/10
IMDB » (7.4/10)
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002 American Beauty (1999)
A depressed suburban father decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation for his daughter’s attractive friend.
Duration: 122 Minutes
Director: Sam Mendes
Personal Grade: 10/10
IMDB » (8.5/10)
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001 Midnight Cowboy (1969)
A naive male prostitute and his sickly friend struggle to survive on the streets of New York City.
Duration: 113 Minutes
Director: John Schlesinger
Personal Grade: 10/10
IMDB » (8.0/10)
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