MRQE Ranks: MRQE's 100 Best Ranked Films!

1

Modern Times (1936)

Cast: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Chester Conklin, Tiny Sandford

Director: Charles Chaplin

Synopsis: This episodic satire of the Machine Age is considered Charles Chaplin's last "silent" film, although Chaplin uses sound, vocal, and musical effects... [MORE]

2

Citizen Kane (1941)

Cast: Orson Welles, Dorothy Comingore, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, George Coulouris

Director: Orson Welles

Synopsis: Orson Welles first feature film -- which he directed, produced, and co-wrote, as well as playing the title role -- proved to be his most important ... [MORE]

3

Rear Window (1954)

Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Wendell Corey, Raymond Burr

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Synopsis: Laid up with a broken leg, photojournalist L.B. Jeffries (James Stewart) is confined to his tiny, sweltering courtyard apartment. To pass the time ... [MORE]

4

Do the Right Thing (1989)

Cast: Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson

Director: Spike Lee

Synopsis: Director Spike Lee dives head-first into a maelstrom of racial and social ills, using as his springboard the hottest day of the year on one block i... [MORE]

5

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Cast: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Wolf Kahler, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey

Director: Steven Spielberg

Writer: Lawrence Kasdan, Philip Kaufman, George Lucas, Willard Huyck

Synopsis: Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is no ordinary archeologist. When we first see him, he is somewhere in the Peruvian jungle in 1936, running a booby-t... [MORE]

6

Casablanca (1942)

Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Paul Henreid, Conrad Veidt

Director: Michael Curtiz

Synopsis: One of the most beloved American films, this captivating wartime adventure of romance and intrigue from director Michael Curtiz defies standard cat... [MORE]

7

The Godfather (1972)

Cast: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard Castellano, Robert Duvall

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Synopsis: Popularly viewed as one of the best American films ever made, the multi-generational crime saga The Godfather is a touchstone of cinema: one of the... [MORE]

8

Sunset Blvd. (1950)

Cast: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark

Director: Billy Wilder

Synopsis: Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard ranks among the most scathing satires of Hollywood and the cruel fickleness of movie fandom. The story begins at th... [MORE]

9

Seven Samurai (1954)

Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi, Minoru Chiaki

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Synopsis: Akira Kurosawa's epic tale concerns honor and duty during a time when the old traditional order is breaking down. The film opens with master samura... [MORE]

10

Paths of Glory (1957)

Cast: Kirk Douglas, Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Meeker, George Macready, Wayne Morris

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Synopsis: Adapting Humphrey Cobb's novel to the screen, director Stanley Kubrick and his collaborators Calder Willingham and Jim Thompson set out to make a d... [MORE]

11

Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Cast: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell

Director: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly

Synopsis: Hollywood, 1927: the silent-film romantic team of Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) and Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen) is the toast of Tinseltown. While Lockwood... [MORE]

12

Army of Shadows (1969)

Cast: Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville

Synopsis: In this war drama set during the French Resistance of WW II, a courageous fighter escapes Gestapo headquarters and returns to Marseille. There he a... [MORE]

13

The 400 Blows (1959)

Cast: Jean-Pierre Leaud, Patrick Auffay, Claire Maurier, Albert Remy, Guy Decombie

Director: Francois Truffaut

Synopsis: For his feature-film debut, critic-turned-director François Truffaut drew inspiration from his own troubled childhood. The 400 Blows stars Jean-Pie... [MORE]

14

All About Eve (1950)

Cast: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, Gary Merrill, George Sanders, Celeste Holm

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Synopsis: Based on the story The Wisdom of Eve by Mary Orr, All About Eve is an elegantly bitchy backstage story revolving around aspiring actress Eve Harrin... [MORE]

15

To Live (1994)

Cast: Ge You, Gong Li, Niu Ben, Guo Tao, Jiang Wu

Director: Zhang Yimou

Synopsis: Zhang Yimou, often regarded as China's leading contemporary filmmaker, directed this drama chronicling the ebb and flow of one family's fortunes, s... [MORE]

16

City Lights (1931)

Cast: Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Harry Myers, Florence Lee, Allan Garcia

Director: Charlie Chaplin

Synopsis: Charles Chaplin was deep into production of his silent City Lights when Hollywood was overwhelmed by the talkie revolution. After months of anguish... [MORE]

17

Days of Heaven (1978)

Cast: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz, Robert J. Wilke

Director: Terrence Malick

Synopsis: Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven, the long-awaited follow-up to his 1973 debut Badlands, confirmed his reputation as a visual poet and narrative ic... [MORE]

18

Paris, Texas (1984)

Cast: Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Aurore Clement, Hunter Carson

Director: Wim Wenders

Synopsis: Travis (Harry Dean Stanton) is wandering through the Texas desert, a bit shaky and in desperate need of water, when he stumbles into a bar and coll... [MORE]

19

The General (1926)

Cast: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Charles Smith, Frank Barnes, Glen Cavender

Director: Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton

Synopsis: Buster Keaton plays Johnny Gray, a Southern railroad engineer who loves his train engine, The General, almost as much as he loves Annabelle Lee (Ma... [MORE]

20

Jules and Jim (1962)

Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Marie Dubois, Vanna Urbino

Director: Francois Truffaut

Synopsis: Acclaimed French director François Truffaut's third and, for many viewers, best film is an adaptation of a semi-autobiographical novel by Henri-Pie... [MORE]

21

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

Cast: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Synopsis: In 1964, with the Cuban Missile Crisis fresh in viewers' minds, the Cold War at its frostiest, and the hydrogen bomb relatively new and frightening... [MORE]

22

Killer of Sheep (1981)

Cast: Henry G. Sanders, Angela Burnett, Charles Bracy, Kaycee Moore, Eugene Cherry

Director: Charles Burnett

Synopsis: The first feature film from acclaimed independent African American filmmaker Charles Burnett, this intensely emotional drama concerns a man who mak... [MORE]

23

The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Cast: Judy Garland, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Margaret Hamilton

Director: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Richard Thorpe, King Vidor

Writer: L. Frank Baum

Synopsis: The third and definitive film adaptation of L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's fantasy, this musical adventure is a genuine family classic that made J... [MORE]

24

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Eugene Pallette

Director: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley

Synopsis: In order to avoid the material copyrighted by Douglas Fairbanks Sr. for his 1922 Robin Hood, the scripters of this Flynn version relied on several ... [MORE]

25

M (1931)

Cast: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Gustav Grundgens

Director: Fritz Lang

Synopsis: Fritz Lang's classic early talkie crime melodrama is set in 1931 Berlin. The police are anxious to capture an elusive child murderer (Peter Lorre),... [MORE]

26

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre, Sydney Greenstreet, Gladys George

Director: John Huston

Synopsis: After two previous film versions of Dashiell Hammett's detective classic The Maltese Falcon, Warner Bros. finally got it right in 1941--or, rather,... [MORE]

27

Taxi Driver (1976)

Cast: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Peter Boyle, Leonard Harris

Director: Martin Scorsese

Synopsis: "All the animals come out at night" -- and one of them is a cabby about to snap. In Martin Scorsese's classic 1970s drama, insomniac ex-Marine Trav... [MORE]

28

Fanny and Alexander (1982)

Cast: Pernilla Allwin, Bertil Guve, Borje Ahlstedt, Gunn Wallgren, Christina Schollin

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Synopsis: Though he made allusions to his own life in all of his films, Fanny and Alexander was the first overtly autobiographical film by Ingmar Bergman. Ta... [MORE]

29

The Godfather: Part II (1974)

Cast: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Synopsis: Francis Ford Coppola's legendary continuation and sequel to his landmark 1972 film, The Godfather, parallels the young Vito Corleone's rise with hi... [MORE]

30

Rashômon (1950)

Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Synopsis: This landmark film is a brilliant exploration of truth and human weakness. It opens with a priest, a woodcutter, and a peasant taking refuge from a... [MORE]

31

Metropolis (1927)

Cast: Alfred Abel, Gustav Froelich, Brigitte Helm, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Theodor Loos

Director: Fritz Lang

Synopsis: The biggest-budgeted movie ever produced at Germany's UFA, Fritz Lang's gargantuan Metropolis consumed resources that would have yielded upwards of... [MORE]

32

La Dolce vita (1960)

Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimee, Yvonne Furneaux, Nadia Gray

Director: Federico Fellini

Synopsis: In one of the most widely seen and acclaimed European movies of the 1960s, Federico Fellini featured Marcello Mastrioanni as gossip columnist Marce... [MORE]

33

Wings of Desire (1987)

Cast: Bruno Ganz, Otto Sander, Solveig Dommartin, Curt Bois, Peter Falk

Director: Wim Wenders

Synopsis: Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander) are angels who watch over the city of Berlin. They don't have harps or wings (well, they usually don'... [MORE]

34

The Big Sleep (1946)

Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Martha Vickers, Dorothy Malone, John Ridgely

Director: Howard Hawks

Synopsis: The definitive Humphrey Bogart/Lauren Bacall vehicle, The Big Sleep casts Bogart as Raymond Chandler's cynical private eye Philip Marlowe. Summoned... [MORE]

35

Gone with the Wind (1939)

Cast: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland, Leslie Howard, Hattie McDaniel

Director: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood

Synopsis: Gone With the Wind boils down to a story about a spoiled Southern girl's hopeless love for a married man. Producer David O. Selznick managed to exp... [MORE]

36

High Noon (1952)

Cast: Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Ian MacDonald

Director: Fred Zinnemann

Synopsis: This Western classic stars Gary Cooper as Hadleyville marshal Will Kane, about to retire from office and go on his honeymoon with his new Quaker br... [MORE]

37

All the President's Men (1976)

Cast: Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Robards, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam

Director: Alan J. Pakula

Synopsis: Conspiracy film specialist Alan J. Pakula turned journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's best-selling account of their Watergate investigatio... [MORE]

38

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)

Cast: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef

Director: Sergio Leone

Synopsis: In the last and the best installment of his so-called "Dollars" trilogy of Sergio Leone-directed "spaghetti westerns," Clint Eastwood reprised the ... [MORE]

39

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Cast: Henry Thomas, Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton, Drew Barrymore

Director: Steven Spielberg

Synopsis: Both a classic movie for kids and a remarkable portrait of childhood, E.T. is a sci-fi adventure that captures that strange moment in youth when th... [MORE]

40

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness, Billy Dee Williams

Director: Irvin Kershner

Synopsis: The second entry in George Lucas' Star Wars trilogy finds Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), the green-as-grass hero from the first film, now a seasoned... [MORE]

41

The Battle of Algiers (1966)

Cast: Yacef Saadi, Jean Martin, Brahim Haggiag, Tommaso Neri, Samia Kerbash

Director: Gillo Pontecorvo

Synopsis: This highly political film about the Algerian struggle for independence from France took "Best Film" honors at the 1966 Venice Film Festival. The b... [MORE]

42

My Man Godfrey (1936)

Cast: William Powell, Carole Lombard, Eugene Pallette, Alice Brady, Gail Patrick

Director: Gregory La Cava

Synopsis: One of the landmark "screwball" comedies of the 1930s, My Man Godfrey offers the radiant Carole Lombard in her definitive performance as flighty yo... [MORE]

43

Toy Story (1995)

Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn

Director: John Lasseter

Synopsis: Toy Story was the first feature-length film animated entirely by computer. If this seems to be a sterile, mechanical means of moviemaking, be assur... [MORE]

44

The Third Man (1949)

Cast: Joseph Cotten, Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard, Paul Hoerbiger

Director: Carol Reed

Synopsis: In this Cold War spy classic, Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten), a third-rate American pulp novelist, arrives in postwar Vienna, where he has been prom... [MORE]

45

Play Time (1967)

Cast: Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Georges Montant, John Abbey, Billy Kearns

Director: Jacques Tati

Synopsis: Arriving nearly a decade after Mon Oncle, Playtime continues the adventures of M. Hulot. More than a decade seems to have passed since its predeces... [MORE]

46

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Cast: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins

Director: David Lean

Synopsis: This sweeping, highly literate historical epic covers the Allies' mideastern campaign during World War I as seen through the eyes of the enigmatic ... [MORE]

47

Tokyo Story (1953)

Cast: Chishu Ryu, Hieko Higashiyama, So Yamamura, Kuniko Miyake, Haruko Sugimura

Director: Yasujiro Ozu

Synopsis: As with much of director Yasujiro Ozu's work, a plot summary of this film does not do justice to the emotional power that Ozu lends to this sad, un... [MORE]

48

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Cast: William Holden, Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa, Jack Hawkins, James Donald

Director: David Lean

Synopsis: The Bridge on the River Kwai opens in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Burma in 1943, where a battle of wills rages between camp commander Colone... [MORE]

49

Children of Paradise (1945)

Cast: Jean-Louis Barrault, Arletty, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir, María Casares

Director: Marcel Carné

Writer: Jacques Prévert

Synopsis: Even in 1945, Marcel Carné's Children of Paradise was regarded as an old-fashioned film. Set in the Parisian theatrical world of the 1840s, Jacques... [MORE]

50

Eraserhead (1977)

Cast: John Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allan Joseph, Jack Nance, Jeanne Bates

Director: David Lynch

Synopsis: Filmed intermittently over the course of a five-year period, David Lynch's radical feature debut stars Jack Nance as Henry Spencer, a man living in... [MORE]

51

A Hard Day's Night (1964)

Cast: Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, Wilfrid Brambell

Director: Richard Lester

Synopsis: During the first worldwide flush of Beatlemania in 1964, United Artists wanted to ship out a movie with The Beatles before their vogue was over. Wo... [MORE]

52

Frankenstein (1931)

Cast: Colin Clive, Boris Karloff, Mae Clarke, John Boles, Edward Van Sloan

Director: James Whale

Synopsis: Still regarded as the definitive film version of Mary Shelley's classic tale of tragedy and horror, Frankenstein made unknown character actor Boris... [MORE]

53

Hoop Dreams (1994)

Cast: William Gates, Arthur Agee, Emma Gates, Curtis Gates, Sheila Agee

Director: Steve James

Synopsis: This documentary about the aspirations of high-school basketball players from inner city Chicago won awards from the Sundance film festival, the Ne... [MORE]

54

Jaws (1975)

Cast: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton

Director: Steven Spielberg

Synopsis: Based on Peter Benchley's best-selling novel, Steven Spielberg's 1975 shark saga set the standard for the New Hollywood popcorn blockbuster while f... [MORE]

55

On the Waterfront (1954)

Cast: Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger

Director: Elia Kazan

Synopsis: This classic story of Mob informers was based on a number of true stories and filmed on location in and around the docks of New York and New Jersey... [MORE]

56

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Cast: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Synopsis: Outrageously violent, time-twisting, and in love with language, Pulp Fiction was widely considered the most influential American movie of the 1990s... [MORE]

57

Star Wars (1977)

Cast: Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Alec Guinness, David Prowse, Harrison Ford

Director: George Lucas

Writer: George Lucas

Synopsis: George Lucas' mythological popcorn movie is a two-hour roller-coaster ride that has passed into movie legend. The story, for the tiny number of peo... [MORE]

58

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Tim Holt, Walter Huston, Alfonso Bedoya, Bruce Bennett

Director: John Huston

Synopsis: John Huston's 1948 treasure-hunt classic begins as drifter Fred C. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart), down and out in Tampico, Mexico, impulsively spends his... [MORE]

59

Vampyr (1932)

Cast: Henriette Gerard, Rena Mandel, Julian West, Jan Hieronimko

Director: Carl-Theodor Dreyer

Synopsis: Vampyr ranks in many circles as one of the greatest horror films of all time. Inspired by Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla, the story concerns a mysteri... [MORE]

60

Back to the Future (1985)

Cast: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Crispin Glover, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson

Director: Robert Zemeckis

Synopsis: Contemporary high schooler Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) doesn't have the most pleasant of lives. Browbeaten by his principal at school, Marty must ... [MORE]

61

North by Northwest (1959)

Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Leo G. Carroll, Jessie Royce Landis

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Synopsis: While having lunch at the Plaza Hotel in New York, advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) has the bad luck to call for a messenger j... [MORE]

62

Double Indemnity (1944)

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Edward G. Robinson, Porter Hall, Jean Heather

Director: Billy Wilder

Synopsis: Directed by Billy Wilder and adapted from a James M. Cain novel by Wilder and Raymond Chandler, Double Indemnity represents the high-water mark of ... [MORE]

63

Network (1976)

Cast: Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Robert Duvall, Wesley Addy

Director: Sidney Lumet

Synopsis: A trenchant satire of "trash TV," Network seems to grow only more relevant with each passing year. Howard Beale (Peter Finch), the dean of newscast... [MORE]

64

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

Cast: Lucille La Verne, Harry Stockwell, Otis Harlan, Eddie Collins, Stuart Buchanan

Director: David Hand, William Cottrell, Wilfred Jackson, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, Ben Sharpsteen

Synopsis: It was called "Disney's Folly." Who on earth would want to sit still for 90 minutes to watch an animated cartoon? And why pick a well-worn Grimm's ... [MORE]

65

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Leonard Rossiter

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Synopsis: A mind-bending sci-fi symphony, Stanley Kubrick's landmark 1968 epic pushed the limits of narrative and special effects toward a meditation on tech... [MORE]

66

4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)

Cast: Anamaria Marinca, Laura Vasiliu, Vlad Ivanov, Alex Protcean, Luminita Gheorghiu

Director: Cristian Mungiu

Synopsis: Director Cristian Mungiu's drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days unfolds in Romania in the late '80s, during the last waning days of Communist rule. A... [MORE]

67

Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

Cast: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Treat Williams, Tuesday Weld

Director: Sergio Leone

Synopsis: Though some viewers might be put off by its length, graphic violence, and absence of likable characters, Sergio Leone's final film is also a cinema... [MORE]

68

Persona (1966)

Cast: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Jorgen Lindstrom

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Synopsis: Persona is difficult to characterize in simple terms, but it may be helpful to describe this complex film as being an exploration of identity that ... [MORE]

69

Ran (1985)

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryu, Mieko Harada

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Synopsis: Ran is Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's reinterpretation of William Shakespeare's +King Lear. The Lear counterpart is an elderly 16th-century wa... [MORE]

70

Vertigo (1958)

Cast: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore, Ellen Corby

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Synopsis: Dismissed when first released, later heralded as one of director Alfred Hitchcock's finest films (and, according to Hitchcock, his most personal on... [MORE]

71

Das Boot (1981)

Cast: Jurgen Prochnow, Herbert Gronemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch, Martin Semmelrogge

Director: Wolfgang Petersen

Synopsis: Das Boot is one of the most gripping and authentic war movies ever made. Based on an autobiographical novel by German World War II photographer Lot... [MORE]

72

Goodfellas (1990)

Cast: Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino

Director: Martin Scorsese

Synopsis: Martin Scorsese explores the life of organized crime with his gritty, kinetic adaptation of Nicolas Pileggi's best-selling Wiseguy, the true-life a... [MORE]

73

Psycho (1960)

Cast: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

Synopsis: In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was already famous as the screen's master of suspense (and perhaps the best-known film director in the world) when he rel... [MORE]

74

Raging Bull (1980)

Cast: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent, Nicholas Colasanto

Director: Martin Scorsese

Synopsis: Martin Scorsese's brutal character study incisively portrays the true rise and fall and redemption of middleweight boxer Jake La Motta, a violent m... [MORE]

75

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)

Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Marc Michel, Ellen Farner, Anne Vernon

Director: Jacques Demy

Synopsis: Jacques Demy's 1964 masterpiece is a pop-art opera, or, to borrow the director's own description, a film in song. This simple romantic tragedy begi... [MORE]

76

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

Cast: Jack Nicholson, Louise Fletcher, William Redfield, Will Sampson, Danny DeVito

Director: Milos Forman

Synopsis: With an insane asylum standing in for everyday society, Milos Forman's 1975 film adaptation of Ken Kesey's novel is a comically sharp indictment of... [MORE]

77

Sullivan's Travels (1941)

Cast: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, Franklin Pangborn

Director: Preston Sturges

Synopsis: In Preston Sturges' classic comedy of Depression-era America, filmmaker John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea), fed up with directing profitable comedies l... [MORE]

78

Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

Cast: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Martin Milner, Sam Levene

Director: Alexander Mackendrick

Synopsis: Ernest Lehman drew upon his experiences as a Broadway press agent to write the devastating a clef short story "Tell Me About Tomorrow." This... [MORE]

79

Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1953)

Cast: Jacques Tati, Nathalie Pascaud, Michelle Rolla, Louis Perrault, Andre Dubois

Director: Jacques Tati

Synopsis: Already familiar to many, especially following his acclaimed directorial debut Jour De Fete, Jacques Tati came into his own and reached new levels ... [MORE]

80

Toy Story 3 (2010)

Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Ned Beatty, Don Rickles

Director: Lee Unkrich

Synopsis: Pixar returns to their first success with Toy Story 3. The movie begins with Andy leaving for college and donating his beloved toys -- including Wo... [MORE]

81

Schindler's List (1993)

Cast: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan Sagalle

Director: Steven Spielberg

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List stars Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler, a German businessman in Poland who sees an opportu... [MORE]

82

The Dark Knight (2008)

Cast: Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gary Oldman

Director: Christopher Nolan

Synopsis: Christopher Nolan steps back into the director's chair for this sequel to Batman Begins, which finds the titular superhero coming face to face with... [MORE]

83

Bambi (1942)

Director: David Hand

Synopsis: The classic Felix Salter story Bambi provides the basis for this near-perfect Disney animated feature. We follow the male deer Bambi from birth, th... [MORE]

84

Up (2009)

Cast: Edward Asner, Christopher Plummer, Jordan Nagai, Bob Peterson, Delroy Lindo

Director: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson

Synopsis: A feisty septuagenarian teams with a fearless wilderness ranger to do battle with a vicious band of beasts and villains in this computer-animated a... [MORE]

85

Amadeus (1984)

Cast: Tom Hulce, F. Murray Abraham, Elizabeth Berridge, Simon Callow, Roy Dotrice

Director: Milos Forman

Synopsis: For this film adaptation of Peter Shaffer's Broadway hit, director Milos Forman returned to the city of Prague that he'd left behind during the Cze... [MORE]

86

Toy Story 2 (1999)

Cast: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Don Rickles

Director: Ash Brannon, John Lasseter, Lee Unkrich

Writer: Ash Brannon, John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton

Synopsis: Woody the Cowboy, Buzz Lightyear, and the rest of their friends from the toy box return in this computer-animated sequel to the 1995 hit Toy Story.... [MORE]

87

The French Connection (1971)

Cast: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider, Marcel Bozzuffi, Tony Lo Bianco

Director: William Friedkin

Synopsis: This gritty, fast-paced, and innovative police drama earned five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay (written by Ernest... [MORE]

89

Chinatown (1974)

Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston, Perry Lopez, Diane Ladd

Director: Roman Polanski

Synopsis: "You may think you know what you're dealing with, but believe me, you don't," warns water baron Noah Cross (John Huston), when smooth cop-turned-pr... [MORE]

90

His Girl Friday (1940)

Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Gene Lockhart, Helen Mack, Ralph Bellamy

Director: Howard Hawks

Synopsis: The second screen version of the Ben Hecht/Charles MacArthur play +The Front Page, His Girl Friday changed hard-driving newspaper reporter Hildy Jo... [MORE]

91

Manhattan (1979)

Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Michael Murphy, Mariel Hemingway, Meryl Streep

Director: Woody Allen

Synopsis: On the heels of Annie Hall, the Oscar-winning romantic comedy that rocketed Woody Allen to the front ranks of American filmmakers, Manhattan contin... [MORE]

92

That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)

Cast: Fernando Rey, Carole Bouquet, Angela Molina, Julien Bertheau, Milena Vukotic

Director: Luis Bunuel

Synopsis: Adapted from Pierre Louys' 1898 novel La Femme et le Pantin, That Obscure Object of Desire is the 30th and final film from the great Luis Buñuel. R... [MORE]

93

Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

Director: Isao Takahata

Synopsis: Grave of the Fireflies opens on an evening in 1945, after Japan's surrender at the end of World War II; and in a train station, the young Seita die... [MORE]

94

WALL·E (2008)

Cast: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, John Ratzenberger, Kathy Najimy

Director: Andrew Stanton

Writer: Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton

Synopsis: Disney and Pixar join forces for this computer-animated tale about a wide-eyed robot who travels to the deepest reaches of outer space in search of... [MORE]

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Spirited Away (2002)

Director: Hayao Miyazaki, Kirk Wise

Synopsis: Master animation director Hayao Miyazaki follows up on his record-breaking 1997 opus Princess Mononoke with this surreal Alice in Wonderland-like t... [MORE]

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Annie Hall (1977)

Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Paul Simon, Carol Kane

Director: Woody Allen

Synopsis: Woody Allen's romantic comedy of the Me Decade follows the up and down relationship of two mismatched New York neurotics. Jewish comedy writer Alvy... [MORE]

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Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

Cast: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Charles Durning, James Broderick, Chris Sarandon

Director: Sidney Lumet

Synopsis: Based on a true 1972 story, Sidney Lumet's 1975 drama chronicles a unique bank robbery on a hot summer afternoon in New York City. Shortly before c... [MORE]

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King Kong (1933)

Cast: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Sam Hardy, Frank Reicher

Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack, Merian C. Cooper

Synopsis: "How would you like to star opposite the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood?" Enticed by these words, brunette leading lady Fay Wray dyed he... [MORE]

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The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Cast: Laurence Harvey, Frank Sinatra, Angela Lansbury, James Gregory, Janet Leigh

Director: John Frankenheimer

Synopsis: An unusually tense and intelligent political thriller, The Manchurian Candidate was a film far ahead of its time. Its themes of thought control, po... [MORE]

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Throne of Blood (1957)

Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki, Akira Kubo

Director: Akira Kurosawa

Synopsis: Macbeth is reimagined as a samurai in feudal Japan in director Akira Kurosawa's classic adaptation of the Shakespearean tragedy. Familiar with Orso... [MORE]